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Transcripts For WTTG Fox 5 News 5 20160517

Substance there to be concernedc with. But at this stage we just dont know the answers. Still a lot of questions here. Back here life, police tell us l that the man and every officer who came into contact with him has to be decontaminated before they can leave this scene. Scen thats just as a precaution. A as you can see, the situation is causing just a mess for traffic just in time for rush hour. Police say that roads here around the National Mall will be shutdown for at least a few more hours. Were life in northwest, Lindsay Watts, fox5 local news. D. C. Police say detectives are investigating a connection between two murders thatders happened just hours apart inin southeast. So a man was shot dead just before 1 00 p. M. Yesterday in an alley off of benning road. Less than three hours later aate woman was kill as she walkedwa toward her front door on 49th street just a few blocks away. A murder some think was carried out to send a message. Fox5s paul wagner joins us life from the scene tonight with the story. Reporter when Tracey Cooper walked up the front stepsro yesterday afternoon she likelye had no idea what was coming. As many as six bullets fired in what may have been revenge for the murder of trayvon cummingsui just a few hours earlier. A few can d. C. Police believe it may also be connected to a double murder that occurred oncu this block just a year ago. The flowers being taken to the front door of Tracey Coopers home are being delivered by aby long time friend, a man who didd not want his face shown or name used, but told us he thinks thik wass a murder with a message carried out to punish someone else. Whoever went in there, if theyif couldnt get him they would gett somebody else. Shes Collateral Damage in an ongoing fight somewhere. Yeah, she and it it. She and it see it coming an ambush in a war that has now recorded 20 homicides this year compared to gestate last year. Yr since last night friends on social media have been posting rest in piece messages forte son cummings that include this photo. When he was shot yesterdayhot afternoon cummings was on his knees firing at someone else. After he was shot someone picked up the gun that dropped from his hand and took off much the shooting attracted a large crowd to the bang could he Shopping Center across benning road where wave after wave of friends and family arrived after hearing the news. Some collapsed in tears. Others had to be held back from running across the street. Its terrible. The cooper and cummings murdersm were two of five victims shot within four hours in the city which then brought the mayor and the police chief across the river. And although the violence may be shocking, the chief says overall Violent Crime is down. Last year this overall crime reduction. Im they had a 16 percent reduction in Violent Crime and theyrehey already down in vial ingredientl crime 3 percent this h year. This its a little bit of a continuation of what we saw in certain areas last year and tha the overall guns are down. Chief lanier was so concerned with what happened hereapp yesterday she ordered reinforcements in from otherro district for a higher policeigh presence. And weve seen a very high Police Presence here in the sixe district since we got hereere earlier today. Toda theres a police car sitting here in front of the house, onee of them thats been in thishis neighborhood for the last seriai hours, d. C. Police are now looking into a possible connection b between two murdero that took place on this blockhis over here, the 4900 block of b street last august. Ust. Thats when johnson and jamesnd were involved in what police saw the it was a gun battle in which police say they killed each other. Ot theyre everything thats happened heroin Tracey Cooper andnd cummings. Paul wagner, fox5 local news. Now to an emotional gathering in rockville this afternoon. Funeral services were held for a Silver Springs woman killed nearly two weeks ago during that shooting spree in montgomery county. Claw dina mar remember a was a killed when she was shot on may 6. Police say suspected gunman Eulalio Tordil attempted to car jack me lean a. was immigrated to the unitedgt states decades ago and raised her two children here. Family and friends say she was a kind, gentle and hard working woman. She was a hard working woman. Shes very press servant and she always, always love every single patient she had. She always care about every pennsylvania lien a was one ofne four people shot that day. Malcolm winfield was alsoo killed. The other victims are stilltill recovering from their woundsr tonight. Were going to Fairfax County cu where police are trying to find two teenagers who have been missing for nearly a week. 13 year old lima and 14 year old rudy to sedan oh were last seen on wednesday. Police believe the pair ran away from their homes and took a cab to a truck stop in jessup, maryland. Today friends and family are at that truck stop handing outandi flyers hoping someone can track the teens down. People tell percent werell p running high at the Wilson Building today over plans too shutdown d. C. s largest home shelter by opening Smaller Councils across the city. City under the new plan, some shelter locations would bec changed. The city would buy or use Eminent Domain to acquire properties and the from the counts chairman says that it would safe taxpayers 165 million. But its not a plan the Mayors Office supports and two reporters heard her let the Council Chairman have it. H matt ackland is lifeav at the wilson billing with more on this one. Reporter first of all we should athat all leaders arere very passionate about this issue. They have one goal in mind and that is closing d. C. General justs as soon as possible. The way to do it, many of themhm disagree. This conversation that youreaty talking about, boy, it is theis talk of the Wilson Building. Two reporters were in the presse room and apparently right outside the press room in the hallway near the Chairmans Office there was a conversatione between the mayor and the chairman. It got quite heated. I want to show you a tweet. This was given by a wamuamu reporter who heard the conversation and then asked thee chairman to confirm it. According to the wamu reporterep and a Washington Times reportero also there, mayor bowser calledd chairman mendelson an expletive liar. Going onto say it cant close by 2018. They were talking about the shelter. Just a few minutes ago we talkee to mayor bowser about this and we also talked to chairman mendelson. Take a listen to the mayor first. Believe me, ive heard worse anh it whats a private conversation. Well, what i can say to the chairman and ill convey too everybody that the council iss going to make its own plan whicl they voted on today. But they have to tell the people the truth and you cant tell people that we can close d. C. General in 2018. Some of your thoughts on that . I think ill only say thiss and thats that the mayor was upset over some of the legs before the council. Do you appreciate of language. I think ill just leave it at that. Now, its important tell you that the chairman believes justa the opposite ofn the mayor. He believes that his plan can be implemented right away and that they can close d. C. General dowo by 2018. By 2 you heard the mayor say no, it would take her plan. N. How do they meet in the middle . Well, thats still the question. They do want to get d. C. Genera. Closed down, but this new plannw it adjusts the mayors plan. Some of the shelters will be ine place. Some of them have been changed. We should tell you by the wayy this is not the first time thatt weve heard leaders get pretty upset at each other here at the Wilson Building. Ldin often you would hear mayor onbarrier and former mayor bear and david catania, they wouldy often get into riffs and sometimes that would take placed in public, in front of the cameras. Both of them said, listen, were passionate about these issues. Sometimes we fight a little bit. Life at the Wilson Building, matt ackland, fox5 local news. Coming up, social media, how one candidates porn searches turned up on his facebook post. Ronica. Weve got a story for you about a Muslim American who backs donald trump. While the d. C. Lawyer says thaty the donald trump, hes got his vote. 9 11 victims to sue said yeah arabia. A local man who lost his wifewie that fatal day explains what this legislation could mean. And olympic officials may bar 31 the lease from the olympics after testing positive. Were going to tell you whatyou they tested positive for. Or. Ive just decided to embrace the gray so im going with my grayry winter dress and im excited too show off my umbrella. Maybe this is the way we need to proceed this may which has beene so soggy, gray and rainy. Umbrellas away . Well let you know when fox5 local news comes right back. This just in right now, a grandd jury has indicted two specialwo Police Officers in the death off a patient at medicine star Washington Hospital need. Clifton montgomery and Charles A Brown are charged manslaughter in the death of james mack braid. He got into a skull with the officers while trying to leave the officer still in his gown. The medical examiner says he broke died from a broken neck caused by brunt force trauma. Social media is helping change the landscape of some campaigns, but if youre notot careful social media can also trigger a backlash. Case in point. Mike web is a republican running as an understood in virginias eighth congressional district. T. Well, he posted a screen grab of a google post ons facebook. Except theres one problem. Blem the screen grab showed some of webs previous browser searches and they included some porn sites. Si webs post went viral and it got about 200,000 hits. 000 not exactly the publicity webpul was looking for. A little embracing, im sure. Washington d. C. Bas immigration and trial lawyer, a Muslim American immigrant. He convinced his wife ande friends to vote for his favorito candidate and its probably notb who you would expect. No wash is a donald trump supporter and fox5s reporterrer ronica cleary saturday down with no wash to discuss his support for republican nominee trump. Omn she joins us now with more. Reporter no mash loves politics more than practicingor law. Hes passionate about donaldbout trump. Tr i saturday down with him for an indepth look al his support for the candidate as a number Line American immigrant. Mmig i judge him based on what he actually says. He is simply the most reasonable candidate that we have going for us right now. No wash believes trump is the most reasonable candidate inda raisin it was trumps views onvw Foreign Policy that made him most passionate about thehe candidates. The fact that he came outame opposed to the war, which ich thought was a disaster, i really got my attention because among republicans saying thosehe words are absolutely tab boo. But even with the passionate belief in trumps Foreign Policy, no wash is a number Line American. To be sunnetting or problematicl does your family i say this s with reference. Do they think youre crazy tocrz vote for donald trump . Has anyone said that to you of a muslim background . Yeah. I have had that said. No ash defenses his supportee for the presumptive nominee because he feels that donald f trumps words and policies have been distorted by the media. Ia. So i had him read some of the Donald Trumps statement on preventing muslim immigrationli brma december 7, 2015. Representatives can figurentt out whats going on. On when i first heard this, i didnt think he was sayingas anything that all the other candidates were not saying. Sayi so obviously ive become desensitized to people sayingyig negative things about muslimusli because ive been hearing it for like 15 years. Li i just want to figure this out. I just want to figure out do weo have a problem or not . No washh further explained that he believes donald trump has said things he might not always belief in order to win the republican primary raise. He saw there was a terrorist attack in loss angels. He figured out people were scared, people were pissed and either someone told him or he figured out on his own that making this statement would geto him a lot of publicity and willd get him a lot of favor with w people who are scared. So is he right, no. On this part, no. The danger of it, of what he said, it will amplify or enhance a hostile perception of muslims when that. But i still think this is the policy he the United States for the last 15 years. Ears research to care, thats the council on islamic relations. Ela cares Communications Director said any american is free to supportive any candidate theyd like. However, they feel hes nothe event arive of the muslimslim community. Care completed a survey of muslim voters and found 7 and a7 half percent of those supported support donald trump and 52 percent hillary clinton. He suspects support from the Muslim Community might actually be higher for donald trump. Back to you. Tonight, fox news is making kelly sits down in an exclusive interview with donald trump. Its kellys first sit down interview with the republicanubi nominee. A war of words began from kelly antrum p stemming from the debate. Trump talks as being bullied as well as his attacks throughouttt theac campaign. You can catch the full interest and more on Meaghan Kelly presents. Lets take a look on the outside, 55degrees. Another chillry, rainy days. Weve had so am of these. Its getting way too repetitive. I had to wear my yellow because i needed something a little bitl bright to make me feel like theres some sun. Me i think that is a great idea. My coping mechanism is im he embraceing l gray today. Im in dark colors, too. I thought maybe we should atu least have an umbrella contest. I really love mine because its mow anyway themed. Them this guy was walking by and i said, stop, i want to see your umbrella. He said hes a long sufferingg s caps man. Ca the team and your umbrella looks great. Gr i just put a picture up on facebook. Thanks for popping by and letting us see your umbrella. Show us your umbrella on facebook. We will need it top. D at the moment we just have the latest of rain and drizzle left in northwestc washington. The last dregs passing through. Clouds and drizzle l as we go forward. The showers again mostly east oe the bay at this point but yourt still getting some rain down inw Southern Maryland and the umbrellas are still getting a workout. Our current temperature 55. That is 2 degrees blow averagw for this time of year. And now were up to 3. 6 inches. I of rainfall, 3. 21 is the total we had in march and april. So only three of 17 days haveave been completely dry here so thats why our coping mechanisms are getting a workout today. For tonight we still have this boundary down to the south thatt has stalled areas of lowas pressure will continue to rideut along it. While for the evening well only have clouds, drizzle or showerse there will be a little bit moreb that comes into the picture early tomorrow. So wednesday will still be a little bit on the wet side. In the meantime, it is chilly out here. Ou i tried to go without the coat, but my hands were freezing after the first 10 minutes and 55degrees is our temperature, well blow average. Average is 76 for this time of year. Were really getting a breakin that airconditionerville. R and your car icos getting washew for free. Maybe this is a good thing. Hing ill starting to convince myself. All right, 7 00 a couple ofcoup showers still around, 54degrees. By 9 00 were back to drizzle and 53. And by 11 00 also drizzly. Last stop our headline for tomorrow will look worse than it will actually be. Wiper wednesday. Edne i dont think the wipers will be going all day. We may even break for a little bit of clearing. I promise you theres somesome better days on the seven dayhe forecast. Fo well talk about that a littleau bit later. Ate back into the warm and bright studio. Get in here, sue. Laura is bringing in the sunshine today. Trying. Coming up today in tonights health h watch. Ch. A random condition you may have. Am people say they developed it out of the blue as an adult. When it comes to staying healtht as you get older, age may be just a number. 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