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Transcripts For WTTG Fox 5 News 5 20160420

People in the community dond cooperate or wont talk with thh police or wont help us, itsp not the case. The we do get a lot of help from our community, and i think we owe i to them to come back out and publicly let everybody know whee we make an arrest in these t cases. Gets a lot of coverage when it happens we need to make sure iti gets the same coverage when aneh arrest is made. Reporter this morning he moh was moved from the d. C. Jail toi the Homicide Branch so theyanch could be charged in connectionen with this second murder. Ur he is now being charged for thit crime as an adult. Alt back to you guys. Jenny, thank you. Breaking news out of theng Montgomery County right now. Rig. You are looking at a two alarm duplex fire in the glennlenn montgomery area of silver sve spring. Spri firefighters responded to thisro just about andn hour ago. Ago this is at a home on berryry street. St we are told that there have beeb no reports of injuries and thatt all of the occupants of this t house have made it out safely. S we will bring all the updates at they become available. To Fairfax County now wherew there are new developments mittendorff, the 31yearoldaro firefighter missing in northernn virginia. Virgia fox5s marina march raqqa liveal from her fire station tonightht family and friends will father e for a vigil. Ig whats happening with this case . Reporter a lot is comings cn out especial daal. Aa new information laura and wend just learned that federal moneyn has been given to the searchea effort so now the urban searchra and rescue team is out at Shenandoah National park theyvr added some of their people aseil well as five additional dogs ans that trail where nicoles cars c was found the white oaks countyu jail as well as adjacent trailsa there have been shut down andee will remain shut down until thah search finally ends. It will go through dusk and the it will start back up at dayp dy break. Br now arc lot of key informationon coming out today from this firee station. Stat we want to put out nicole mittendorffs picture because b that is picture her familyeram members want out there especially if someone rememberse seeing her face late last week. Now, today we learned that thehe family believes thatn downloaded some sort of file f from her cell phone. P they had asked the phone carrier to provide that file. Il the phone carrier, however, hevr initially had said no becauseece this was not a criminal case. However, legal teams gotms got involved and just hours ago we learned the phone carrier willil now be giving those downloaded files providing them to laww enforcement in hopes that itesha will share some clues twos hers whereabouts. Now earlier today, the fire fire chief here at fairfax firee station 32 saying that wednesdad morning nicole called out sick c for her shift, and she did so about the same time at aboutbout 11 00 in the morning. Orning the last time she had any sort s of communication with anyoneh an which was via text message withw her family members. S. Wednesday of last week was ww the last type of contact thatcta anyone had with nicole. Nol so wednesday of last week is really a critical period or a again we ask the media for youry help getting the word out. If, again, anybody in the public any of the communities heardeard anything, saw anything wednesdae in particular, thursday or friday or any time between nowwn and last wednesday, we need your help. Fairfax fire sources tellingel fox5 just recently nicole was reassigned from station 30 to here station 32. On the Fire Department so far not confirming that information, ano if so, why she was reassign. But it will be right her at station 32 on berk centerrk c parkway at 7 30 where family ana friends as well as coworkers will gather again at anotherno prayer vigil in hopes that that nicole returns home safely. Live tonight in Fairfax County,t fox5 local news. D. C. Council member says s police have arrest add group ofp young people who have bee h robberies. One of the victims was a high wh school student. Nt. Last night win 10 minutes ofo each other, two people wereeople robbed by a group at knifet kni point. Int. Fox5s matt ackland joins us from the scene of one of thosese robberies with how this grouphio could be connected to another ao crime. Crim matt . Reporter hi, laura. Lau yeah one of the 95 robberieses happened right here. Her if we walk over here, just aboua three blocks away across wisconsin avenue the tenley toww area. Not long after the first one, there was another 95 robbery. Ob well, i want to show where youwh we are right now. We are r you see that building right there . Thats wilson highilsonh school. School the largest high school in d. C. Council mary cheh talked to me today and she told me that shehe believes that one of the victims was a Wilson High Schooll student, also, she decided too call the commander of this areaa because we cannot get in toucheu with d. C. Police today, and shee was able to tell me that policel was a teenager, and that the there are two other peoplee possibly involved in this. S. That one person and then herer sister and that persons boyfriend apparently they didy y this one, they did one acrosss wisconsin avenue in mary chehyhe the commander also told her thit group could be connected tonectt another crime. Er c. When police sent out that crime alert yesterday, they were loo looking for two females and one male. We asked Council Member cheh me about the suspect did she have v any information she said the s only thing the commander wouldha tell her is that the suspectsuse did not go to school here. H they were not Wilson High School students. Stud she says that she believes onee of the victims was a high schooh student here at wilson highh school. Ho but once again, one person was arrested and cheh says accordinr to the commander, they know who the other two are. Ty two as well. Wel life in northwest, matt acklandd fox5 local news. Final farewell now to a t Prince Georges countyy firefighter. Family, friends and fellow fel firefighters attended a tune a n yall roar John Ulmshneider joh today. He was shot and killed lastna friday while responding to ato call for help at a home inom i temple hills. Ulmshneider was prayed forrayed hisself lessness and rememberede with love. We lived our worst nightmaree this is a situation fire ens never expects to find themselved n we prepare for it. I we train for it but we never really expect were going to beo there. This county is for the second time in five weeks grieving thee loss of a member of our publiclc safety family. Amil doing what they do every dayd these men and women put theirnut lives on the anybody knows skillet would w understand or would know thatnow hes only here to help. Always was. Willing to lend a helping hand. D skillet was the most, um,ostu down to earth, um, person ivenv he have met. Met hes the guy always found a wayy to make you smile. His family was his priorityy without doubt. His family is doing as wellsw as can be expected i know ittedi will be a long, hard process, and the one good thing is were a family. All of us. Skillet often said that whenw he laid down at night that if hf couldnt think of at least one person he had helped during theu course of the day he was unablel to sleep. Sle i believe that is the motivatioo that he had. Kids he came here from rocky married 27 years. Raised 6 kids. Including 5 boys. He had grandpa move in with us. Glenn we loved having him as part of the family. Its what you do. Kids in congress, dad will protect president obamas legacy. Hell fight for jobs and protect glenn ivey will never quit on you; and we should know, were his kids. Glenn im glenn ivey and i approve this message. Ill take on the republicans for all of us. We are learning new information tonight the arrest of Anne Arundel County sheriffff Ronald Bateman much Police Release the the 911 call to lead to ace her aft on Second Degreeg assault charge. Ha he denied assaulting hising wife. Fox5s ronica cleary here withet new details on this thi investigation. Veion. Ronica, what is going on with i this . Reporter it is is unbelievable. The amount of informationnt of n released today was tremendous. U one thing i want to stress wers doing our best to share with yoy what we can in this short amouno of time. Of te keep in mind theres still a lot more out there that was obtain t in the investigation. Released this information infma obtained during a investigation into the alleged incident of inc Domestic Violence that occurredr between sheriff Ronald Bateman e and his wife elsie. The 911 call was made on sunday, april 10th by elsie and here are some excerpts from the call. Whats going on there . Hes drunk and he punched med in the eye. Are you injured, maam . Do you need an ambulance . Ce no. But, hooks hit you . Hit did he, yes. Who is he . Is this your husband . Who ii it . Yes, he is. Has anybody been drinking oro doing any drinks. Dri he went to some place toda today ing. Anybody have any weapons . Wps he used his hand. Is h he has guns everywhere, yeah. Ery we also obtained a coach the Police Report which described ad argument between the two. T it included elsies comments ini her own handwriting which werehh very difficult to fully deciphep parts included her admittng slapping him in the face afterat he grabbed her. Him responding and some physical way then her hitting the floorlo and then her son intervening toi get her husband off of her. H. Now, finally, we obtained accesc to a series of Text Messages between elsie and a detectiveec from the Domestic Violence unitu in the texts, the detective adda advises elsie not to talk to thk media texts quote you need not feed the beast. Ea the detective later says quote s you are not going to change anyones opinion and it will wil only take make things worse r believe me i have seen it. Elsie replies, i love this man so much this is killing me. Killg i want this all to get better b and go away. An he was supposed to go to counseling on wednesday. Edneay now the long series of Text Messages ends with the following text from elsie. This elsie bateman, i am not amn pursuing charges against myy husband ron bateman. Bat. He never struck me or hit me and i truly am not sure how i was injured because it all happenede so fas contact me any more. M thank you for your help. Ou help. We are going to work this out through counseling. The an a run done dell county police completed their investigation this case and cas turned over the information to the prosecutors office. Offic county executive steve shoe s released a statement todayment calling for bateman to resign. Back to you ladies. Lie very sad. Ad wow new tonight a judge Ina Judi Baltimore has ruled one of theef two officers who arrestedes freddie gray last year can be forced to testify against theirs fellow officers. Fficers. Fox5s paul wagner is live ie baltimore with more tonight. Ht. Paul . Reporter officer garrett gre miller had absolutely nobsy n reaction to the judges rulingul today in a proceeding thatceg lasted just about five minutes. N heres the issue. Ss the states highest court ruled last month that an officer canic be compelled with limited wh l immunity to testify againstn ht fellow officers even though he himself is facing c so today gary william the judgee said he will have to testify iny a trial next month. On thats officer Garrett Miller ir the navy blue suit. Ui the man in the middle. Mide. Hes one of two officers whoersw arrested freddie gray in westt baltimore last april, is chargeg the with Second Degree assault, Reckless Endangerment and two at counts of misconduct. City prosecutors now want him tt testify against edward nero. Er the officer who made the arrestt with him as well as against lieutenant brian rice whorian ro scheduled to go on trial in july. In the only trial to take placep so far, a jury in december coulc not reach a verdict againstst officer william porter. P since then, the states highestt court has ruled city prosecutoro can compel officer porter to por testify against the otheraithe officers in the case and now judge Barry Williams following that courts ruling says, officer Garrett Miller can be compelled as well. Well that the prosecution moved to grant immunity and the judge is saying that that motion will be grantea and then the prosecution will decide whether or not to call cl officer miller. Milr but hes an important hes an important part of what happeneda to freddie gray from the momentt that the apprehension began. Egan reporter as you all know, k this city erupted in file violence, rioting and looting li after grays death. Death 15 Police Officers were hurt. 235 people were arrested, and 60 buildings were burned. Officer neros trial will beginb on may tenth. Ten live in baltimore, paul wagner, fox5 local news. The death toll continues toe rise from devastating flooding d down in texas. Devastating to say the leave. Officials say an eighth persontp has died in the floo flooding an the houston area. Re. Storm dumped more than a foot ot the flooding drove thousands ofo people from their homes andomes commit shut down major highwaysw and closed schools. More than 1,000 water rescuesesu have now been carried out in thn houston suburbs alone. Another Flash Flood Watch is non in effect through tonight. All right. R nothing but sunny skies here in the d. C. Region as we take ae te look outside you can see sun isn just beating down there on the pavement as everybody is makingk their way home from rush hour. U its just glorious out theres so sue, how long can this go . I mean its a little bit chillierr but it seems maybe im wrong youre absolutely right. Its gorgeous. Its gorgeo you know honestly laura i waw thinking about as i came in toei work today and was running run errands around the neighborhoodh earlier today. Earlier i think its one of the mostt ot beautiful days weve had thisdas year. I agree. I a no humidity. Just perfect. Just pct just perfect. T pe close to 70 degrees, upper 60sp6 for some and right significantlt cooler than yesterday when we hit 84 degrees. 84 very comfortable and youou contrast our weather whats w going on in houston, and you realize just how fortunate wetue are although we a little bit of dry weather, too,t were running a deficit aboutita 3inches or so, but i think idk take that over the situationhe n theyre having down there fromnr that stubborn and slowmoving so weather system. Ste want to do also mention that our daily allergy report is loadeddd with high numbers from trees. Te tree pollen very high. Er h we can hear the symphony snowsoo through the newsroom today. Grasses, weeds and mold on theon low side. Low side a little water would do a good g job to wash out some of that oft tree pollen. Olle we have a little bit in the forecast in about 48 hours or ss but temperatures tonight, so pleasant. Pleasant most places have been near 70 oo either degree or two above it oo blow it. Blow very comfortable. Omfoable not too hot, not too cool asoo lauer are mentioned very littlel humidity. And very little cloud cover. Ud v you have to you really cant find anything along the east eas coast but we begin to see littlt bit of cloud cover out to the oe west. West there is that stubborn lownow pressure system and the approa approaching front. Appr its been blocked out of our area by High Pressure and factst that its moving very slowly. S it will continue to be blockedld although as High Pressure movesv a night but we will notice a fewew clouds increasing tomorroworro afternoon and then a bit of rain will be on our doorstep as wes w get close story friday. Fda for this evening, though, should be absolutely delightful. Ful. 66 degrees at 7 00 oclock. Ock were 69 now. Ow. By 9 00 oclock, 61 and by 11 00 oclock, 58 degrees. So you can go ahead and crackahc those windows open just a littlt bit and enjoy the sounds of thef birds in the Early Morning youru weather headline, yes, a littlel bit of rain returns friday thatt should be a relief for pollen sufferers and for gardeners. Gar well talk about the typing forp that rain with the seven dayhe n forecast coming up in just ain little bit. It lauer remark sarah, back to you. Thanks, sue. Oh my gosh gos her boyfriend or whoever witw her is filming it all. Oh, gosh s she stupid . Shes totally antagonizing it. It dangerous encounter thererous Yellowstone National park. Par a woman walked up to a giant g bison just started perking it on saturday. Sa you know apparently. Ly. Hell hello. The whole thing was recordasc beside outraged on lookers. Park officials warned thed th animals can attack withouthout warning. Luckily the woman walk awayway unhurt but she can get a finehet for doing that. Doin t dont pet the bison bis she just goes on about hern h day. Day right. Hello little bison. Like a cow or something. No. No bison, be careful. L. Coming up, move over andrewd jackson. Son Harriet Tubman is coming to the 20 bill. Push to change dc licensec ln plates. Wee lawmakers want the slogan ta Say Something different. Differ. Smart mattress that will outo your lying, cheating spouse. Sus and target taking a stand onn the transgender bathroomatoo controversy. How it could affect you ahead. He and how you can get freee tickets to be on sold out concert its possible apparentln much well tell you how when wew come back. Coac in entertainment newsment nw tonight beyonce inn firing here fans to pay it forward. She sewer s queen b using heg um coming formation tour to t raise awareness and money for f charity. Ity the singer says she plans tohe s team up with three differentif charities as part of her be good initiative. Itiative. If you donate to united way, chime for change or globale citizen you may have a chance te win tickets to her show. 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