A terrifying taxi ride. Well break down what led to the frightening ordeal. The news at 10 00 starts now. You know who your kids are talking to . Predators are hoping you arent paying attention. A sting in Northern Virginia is catching predators before they get to kids. Thanks for joining im shawn yancy im tony perkins. Police arrested eight men accused of trying to range sex with children online. Little did they know those kids were actually Police Officers. Local police and the fbi Work Together in the operation. Lindsey watts is live in fairfax with the latest on how this went down. Lindsey . Reporter shawn and tony, i asked police today, what parents would be most surprised to to know about these kind of operations . And the response was, parents need to know just how easy it is for predators to make contact on the internet. When kids are playing out in public, doing sports, it can be obvious when approaches, but online, much harder to know exactly who is reaching out. Its easy to
Reporter guidelines intended to protect have meant reporting and suspicions. Some feel its reached a breaking point. Its definitely an overrack, we have hundreds of innocent people that we placed out on administrative leave. Im not confident theyre going to me back to Prince Georges County Public Schools School Board Members met with teachers and Union Representative his week to talk about solution it was productive. Those are the types of conversations and collaborations we need to have because it is a massive issue. Reporter looking at ways to keep kid safe from abuse without unnecessary rely pulling teachers from classrooms i believe that principals and assistant principals and people from the Central Office should have the intellect and the ability to use common sense on judging these cases, so that we dont have hundreds of employees out at one time. In his first interview on this issue, we want to keep our children schools ceo Kevin Maxwell is looking at adjustments to practices b
To come back to Prince Georges County public schools. Reporter members met with teachers and Union Representatives this week to talk about solutions. It was productive and i feel like those are the types of conversations and collaborations we need to have, it is a massive issue. Reporter theyre looking at ways to keep kids safe from abuse without unnecessary rely pulling teachers from classrooms i believe that principals and assistant principals and people from the Central Office should have the intellect and the ability to use common sense on judging these cases so that we dont have hundreds of employees out at one time. Reporter in his first interview on this issue we wanted to keep our children safe. Reporter schools ceo dr. Kevin maxwell is look i want to go adjustment to current practices but stood by overall standards. How we conduct ourselves professionally will not change. Reporter hes heard of praise despite his critics i get many people saying thanks for what you do and keepi
Never, ever give up. The president giving his first commencement speech as commander in chief, more words to the graduates. A major cyber attack threatening millions of computers around the world. Fox 5 local news starts now. Thanks so much for joining us im matt ackland im lauren demarco. We begin with the massive cyber attack potentially affecting millions it was unleashed yesterday, and dozens of countries including the u. S. Are scrambling to fix the problem. The ransom wear attack affected tens of thousands of computers around the globe were told it could have been a lot worse if not for the actions of a 22yearold british researcher who accidently activated a socalled kill switch. Reporter hackers using a Microsoft Windows what friday. The leaked flaw was one secretly used as a cyber weapon by the u. S. National security agency. Hackers exploiting the software to affect computers with ransom wear. They must pay a ransom or their data will be deleted. This is the screen shot with w
Encouraging them most of all to be bold and to be themselves. Nothing is easier or more pathetic than being a critic. Theyre people that cant get the job done. But the future belongs to the dreamers. Not to the critics. Reporter in addition to saying congratulations, about 50,000 people were in the stadium and around the stadium for president s remarks he tried to remind them to be thankful for the respectable people in their lives, moms and veterans and tried to remind everyone to be confident even if they call you the outsider. Carry yourself with dignity and pride. Demand the best from yourself and be totally unafraid to challenge entrench. Interest and failed power structures. Does that sound familiar way . The more people tell you its not possible, that it cant be done the more you should be absolutely determined to prove them wrong. Developing tonight, Police Officers are recovering with minor injuries after the patrol cars collided responding to a call. It happened just after 6