Shooter. All right. Some s point theres very disturbing information about this shooter. Ou allison and holly, goodol morning to you. Long is believed to have actedct alone but the quigg question remains why did he target lawetw enforcement outside of a baton rouge gas station. S long was from kansas missouri. Ir he was a former marinene sergeant who served in iraqraq receiving several medals. Edals. He had no official ties to any extremist groups but we do buted know through his social media s posting that long was angry ang about the recent killings of alton sterling, the black man, shot to death by white policehip officers in baton rouge. Rs now heres what long wrote on his Facebook Page on july 8thly i swear to god, io gd love this city but i wonder ifof this city loves me he. In uniform i get nasty hateful f looks and out of uniform somerms consider me a threat. E at. Ive experienced so much in my short life and these last las the core. And then theres these youtube videos that are reportedly repoe linked to long. To they are posted on a pseudonym cosmo. The most recent is posted july 10th supposedly in aly i a dallas hotel room where long lon talks about fighting back against bullies witht bullies wh bloodshed. He added in the video if anything happens to me, dont d affiliate me with anybody. Dy Court Records show long gotot divorced from his wife in 2011. 2011. No criminal activity comes up a in a searccth under his name. Am. So, again, this is all new information thats coming out, t very disturbing allegations ifao all of this is true about this man. Its just a sad time were in anyway. Its so everything aboutgt everything is so scary. Its just near a bad b period right now in this countrys history where wererew talking about violence. Iole its just sometimes youre and even more so for ann answer. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks whiz. Thank baton rouge killings dallas a ambush killings of black mens of at the hands of policef ce officers all playing in the t ongoing debate over guner gun rights. Righ that issue playing out in out Cleveland Ohio ahead of ahead o todays official beginning ofcii the Republican Nationalional convention, a gathering thats bringing a renewed focus on security and party unity. U doug luzader joins us livesiv from cleveland with more. Nd wh m good morning, doug. Morning, do. Reporter good morning. Oo mor relatively quiet here on theeren convention floor. Tion f of course thats going to goi t change through the course ofougc the day as thious convention cot kicks off early thisly afternoon. Republicans trying to unitenite behind donald trump andon ultimatelyal defeat Hillary Clinton. This may be the calm before cale the storm here in cleveland. This place is going to get packed today as republicans try to unite behind donaldte trump and defeat hillar by clinton. Ton. The final touches for thena conventions kickoff today, Trumps Campaign slogan given g prominence here as the trumppence ticket hopes to hops unite a fractured party. Hes going to make a difference because hes going to bringe b focus purpose and change to washington. Ton. Reporter just thrivingt th into the secure zone shows you y how he extensive security secur cautions are police preparingrei for protests and no doubt onbt edge after yesterdays attacks t on Police Officers in batonffic rouge. I havent felt like a bige bg target is on your back. Bac i have never felt like this. Lik reporter now despite allpite of the drama in getting here,er in a lot of ways this is going i to play out like a conventional convention. Vent balloons ready to drop fromfr the ceiling and of course ag main stage with a whole hostle t of speakers. Saker now, tonight there are going g to be certain themes, one oftaie which will be the benghazii libya attacks and hillaryla clintons role as well as well s Donald Trumps family and hisnds positioning as a law and order candidate Melania Trump willml speak and so will former neworme york mayor Rudy Giuliani but notably absent two forthe president s and the two mostmt recent nominees. Still gop chairman reinceeinc priebus says thats his outsider status. Surrounding Hillary Clintoniy with all these politicians iic dont know what that gets her. H reporter now you take a now look at the polls heading intong this convention and they haveheh narrowed recently. Wedecentl but Hillary Clinton still has a lead over donald trump. Ru republicans hope that this hopti convention will give them a big bounce in the polls. E in ths well see. The clinton team is going tooi o say the same thing about theirhe Convention Next week. K. Back to you guys. O you all right, ducks thank you. ,h our Tom Fitzgerald will ben. In cleveland reporting live r all week from the rnc and and thats not just on the air. He a you can interact with tom on Facebook Live at noon, 3 00 3 0 and 8 00 p. M. 8 00 p. Also we want for our new show the five at 6 30 covering politics with ah twist. That begins tonight at 6 30. 0. Right now, though, it ish, s weather time. T Tucker Barnes with us. H us. First look at 7 00. 0. Hello. Fall apart and reorganizerganiz itself midafternoon. Afternoo between about 3 oclock and and 6 oclock look for somek for soe scattered thunderstorms. Re 95 degrees at 4 00 p. M. With a few scattered storms around. Te in just a moment ill be breacke with a look at the sevendayay forecast. We have one very pleasant daneda lots of heat on the seven day. Y maybe a triple digit number. Wow. W all right. Thank you. Stay hydrated, stay cool. Yeah. All week long. Good luck on doing both oft those things. Thoshing i can do hydration, thats what i can control. What i c good morning,an erin. E youre always cool. Ays love it. Right now skyfox is over skys the virginia side of the t beltway and 66. 6 66 on the eastbound sidend sid cruising in. Cruising inner loop also moving alongingg just fine. E. Keep in mind 66 is very slower s through manassas on thehe eastbound side. Std s you jam again as you pass p sudly road and then through thru west falls church. C well switch it over from this t view, show you what elsels youre up against for this thi monday morning commute. Ay still dealing with a signal problealm outside of stadiumarmory camp delays on the orange blue and silver lines in both directions. Mosh residual delays on the redayon d line because of earlier unscheduled track work causingca single tracking between b bethesda and van ness. And v that back to normal. Nor we also have surge four, Shuttle Service replaces railcel service between blue and b yellow between national reportot and pentagon. Entago slow roads like 395 northboundrd next. Allison and holly. New this morning, a man isinm dead after being hit by a car overnight on the suitlandnightl parkway. Now this happened just after aft midnight on the parkwayhe par between alabama avenue and naylor road. The driver that hit the man t mn stayed on the scene. Ne no word right now on whether whe that driver faces any charges. G in other news this morning,ei we are following a developingeln story out of montgomeryout county. Police say a man died at an t under aged pool party in pty derwood. Fox5s Anjali Hemphill is i live with the latest. Anjali, what can you tell us. C reporter Montgomery CountyPolice Identified this man that diedore as 25yearold Diego Padilla of behind me here at this home thats where that under agednd e Drinking Party happened overty h the weekend off wine grovein court. Now, police say they got a call at this house just beforee 3 oclock in the morning on t mr sunday. They arrived to find padilla unresponsive in the pool. Poo he was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. Er ny h officers say they saw several intoxicated people at this t moment and large quantities ofie alcohol were also found on the t back deck of the house. House they charged 10 underage0 un adults and one juvenile withilet possession of alcohol and police say the party wasay tarty hosted by two adult males who m live at that home. Ve at that they could also be facingcing charges and as we know k Montgomery County under agedound drinking has been a big issueeei in this county and theres a been a large effort to crackto a down on it ever since last summer when two high schoolhighs students were can killed in a a drunk driving crash after leaving an under aged Drinking Party and it seems we havend yet again another unfortunate incident happened at a under und aged Drinking Party here in Montgomery County. Y. Live in montgomery Anjali Hemphill. Emphl. The person that died was not underage, right. Reporter no, they were a a 25yearold man but apparently n there were several under agednde folks at this house drinking d with those people, so just really unfortunate what happened. Sure. So the discovery of someone seo led to the discan cover reof anothediscovery of aseparate prm also in Montgomery Countymou Police Investigating a deadly da crash that involved a man on a bicycle. This happened around 1 30 1 yesterday afternoon at veirs atr mill road and Turkey Branch parkway in Silver Spring. A car collided with the bike. The man stayed at the scene. The cyclist oscar osorio ofsorio Silver Spring later died. Die Police Continue toontinu to investigate a deadly deadl pedestrian accident in langley park. This happened aroundey 2 30 3 yesterday morning. Police say the officialsffics rather say a struck and killed a pedestrianen on university boulevard. Rs the officer stopped to helpertop the man but he died at theat scene. Early reports indicate the t pedestrian was not in an crosswalk when he was hit. K en. Unless maryland a hostagemald situation inside a baltimore bto burger king came to a peacefuleu end thankfully. Fully. Police say an accused rapistedas took a little girl and some employees hostage yesterday. It began after the policehe polc spotted the suspect driving in i an area and tried to pull himull over for an outstandingutan warrant. Instead he took off and went ine the fast food chain. Heating up once again. Again why a snapchat video sparkedpaed it all. A snap chat. First, though, were on wero verdict watch in baltimore. Hey, bob. Reporter hey, holly. H, h there will be a verdict thisdics morning in the late of the Baltimore Police officer trial related to the death ofeath o freddie gray. Y. Well tell you all about it when fox news morning continues. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. So we wired the wagners house with 100 meg internet. Which means that in the time it takes mr. Wagner to pour a 20 oz. Cup of coffee, tommy can download 30 songs, and jan can upload 120 photos. 12 seconds. Thats the power of fiber optics. And right now you can get 100 meg internet with equal upload and dowloads speeds, tv and phone for just 69. 99 per month online. Cable cant offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good. Only fios can. Woman i have a masurprise for you. Are you . Man you have a surprise for me . Narrator at dominion, 1 in 5 new hires is a veteran. And when theyre away, they miss out on a lot. But they wont miss out on financial support. Because we cover any difference between their military pay and their dominion salary, and continue benefits for them and their families. Why do we do it . Because our vets sacrifice enough. Dominion. Depend on us for more than energy. A tough monday morning forgh the nats and for m holly who waw there following a marathonat sunday. The nats hosting the the Pittsburgh Pirates for aes f whopping 18 innings yesterday. Ed that makes it the longest gamegg in nationals history. To the loss also cuts the natshe n lead in the nl east to sixo games over miami and new york. Or that is a marathon. M you stayed for the whole thing. Stayed for all 18 innings. Fo want the know why. He k had nothing to do with the withh game. Had everything to do with the opportunity for kids to run the bases on sunday. Unthe okay. And my little fouryearoldye by god he wanted to run those rt bases. Bases. How did he do for eighto for hours, though, all day. Ugh,ll we got there 12 45, we left l at 8 oclock last night. Im telling you we kept saying hey you want to go h nope, want to run the bases. Un s twenty three get to run they bases. He d they were reallythey wer great. They came out in like the 16thht inning because we were in line line. Ne we werent even in the park. They sent screech out toreech visit. Then they sent out everyone eve still in line got jayson werth garden gnomes. Ga so we got those and then the big one we finally got it. T. After every inning morein m parents were like no, kids no, were going home. Right. Right. So, a trooper. Oper. While we were walking to wngo the car he said can we do this i again sometime even after 18meme innings. He got to be with dad and mom. Mom. And a lot of kids. Kid going to be a little ltl player. Pl were going say we knew him when. If youre running basesunni later today, lots of water. Right. R out for any period of time, summer camp, mid 90s with our h heat index getting close to a a hundred later this afternoon. 78 now in washington. Ashington. Dulles 73. Up in baltimore 74. Re looking at our radar wereadar w nice and quiet for the moment although see the thunderstorm activity out into ohio, some of that will move into our region mid to Late Afternoon aer between about three he clockhre and 6 oclock. And 6 oclock could be a strong storm orr two. Theres a cold front that will f push our numbers down a little bit tomorrow and make for a nice wednesday before the heat h dome comes back. This will be a very memorable mr wave of heat not just for thet r midatlantic but for much ofantim the country well be baking byg the end of the week and im weei going to be honest it looks it o like my sevenday forecast fec here at fox5, our sevendayevdy forecast might be a little a ltl conservative on the numbersn t there friday, saturday and sunday. We could get close to alose to hundred is the bottom line. Okay. Okay. I know its real when hee says 97 is conservative. On what to do on the weekend. Td thats a good segment. Ood segme what do we do when its thats t hot on the weekend . Well have to flesh that out. At nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Yeah. Nothing in air conditioning. Lets do traffic with erin. E its not a bad idea to wearo w cool summer clothes and bringndi your work outfitter and change so youre not feeling all sweaty this morning. G. 395 northbound crash out by the hov lanes northbound ator the 14th street bridge. Big backups leading to theo 14th street bridge because oft r that. Jammed edsall to king streetinge with delays. Dels. Seems like right now the bottom of the beltway inthe alexandria all the way to the 14th street bridge northboundhb delays are beginning to joininnj together. He across the bottom of the t beltway the inner loop youreooy jammed up in oxon hill becauseis of congestion as you try toas yy get into virginia. V a crash reported freewayay westbound near south capitol cat street. Re look at that red line right there. Big delays there. Here. 295 has been basically aly parking lot for the past 15 pas minutes because of congestion. Ot 295 southbound from north ofth 50 all the way down past pas pennsylvania we slow acrosscros the 11th street 202 to 295 on 50 inbound jams. Nj dealing with a few minutesew mit added to your commute there. He. Drive times basically tripled from eastern to pennsylvania. Pa thats where the majority ofhe the can congestion s your secondaries in the districtinhet jamming as well new york by bladensburg suitland parkwayur past alabama youre jammed jam across the douglas bridge. Ri memorial rows vet bridgesri dealing with heavy trafficalth h including the gw parkway areakwe as you try to get from rosslynsl into georgetown via key bridgere jamming up as well. Wel allison and holly. Thanks erin. We have a correction too note about the report we juste ran regarding the suspect in sus the shootings of several s Police Officers in baton rouge. We incorrectly attributed attrie Facebook Post to the shooter. So gavin long. Gavin instead it was post written by y officer Montrell Jackson one j of the officers killedille yesterday. We sincerely apologize for the confusion. Happening tax we are todaye awaiting a verdict out ofti baltimore. The judge expected to issueectei his decision in the bench the bh trial of Police Lieutenant lut brian rice hes one of sixe of officers charged in the death of freddiech grays bob barnard is live from the courthousismoum good morning. Morni you would expect maybe greater anticipation in light of allht l thats been going on around a the country lately butely b considering how the other the trials decided by the judgeheud here have gone, theres not a great sense of anticipationicipt that i can feel here in baltimore this morning. Mor it is the verdict coming doneg e at 10 oclock this morning, mori the trial of lieutenant brian b rice 42 years old, the senior2 d of the six, officers, seniorenir ranking of the six officers who were involved in the arrest and subsequent death of freddie gray last april, april a year ago. Ago brian rice is charged withit Involuntary Manslaughter,auter, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment. Angermen two other charges wereo othe dropped, one by the judge, onenj we are expecting the verdicthe at 10 oclock this morning. Orni. Judge Barry Williams will hand down the verdict. He he has already acquitted acqi two other officers edward nerode and Caesar Good