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Transcripts For WTTG Fox 5 News Edge 6 20170420

Under attack at prominent locations around the city including the Louvre Museum in february and orely. A garage collapse at the reagan building. Take a look at that. You can see the damage there. You can see the electrical wiring. Pretty serious. This happened about an hour ago. Officials say a portion of that ceiling fell damaged that car right there. The good news is no one was hurt. Theres no word yet what caused that portion of the ceiling to collapse. Tonight at 6 00 there is video right now thats getting all sorts of attention on social media. Metro Transit Police tried to handcuff man while he was holding his daughter in his arms. Take a look. You cant hold him against his will. Go ahead, man, go ahead. You cant hold him against his will, man what the bleep is you doing. Investigators say the man refused to pay his fare and threatened an officer we talked to the father. He told us thats not what happened. Fox5s matt ackland joins us live with more on this story. Matt what happened. Reporter shawn that father youre talking about leon borum. The judge telling him not to return to the Congress Heights metro stop. Thats where this all happened yesterday. He tells us he was there with his oneyearold daughter, they were coming here actually to the courthouse f for another hearing on a separate issue and thats when he said he came in contact with that metro police officer. Now, lets first tell you well show you the video and tell you what police and authorities are saying. According to Court Documents the officer says borum was attempting to evade paying the fare. It goes on to say borum entered an emergency gate not paying and the officer said he was going to write him a citation. In court papers the officer claims when he was given false information none identification he told times and when he refused, the officer escorted him out. Now, according to Court Documents, the officer said borum told him to come outside and fight me, im going to blank you up. But outside court, borum says that wasnt exactly what took place. He claims the station manager knew him and allowed him to pass through that gate freely. He also claims that he did not threaten the officer. Take a listen to the interview we had with him not long ago. I told him to get if the bleep up off me, yeah, but i didnt tell him all that. I just told the man get up off me. Reporter did you tell him you were going to get him upstairs. No, cause he told me to go upstairs. I said im already going upstairs. Its know point of me going upstairs if you grab me. If you grabbing me how im going to go up the steps . I said man look you can ask the station manager. She told me i can go through the gate but you never asked her h you never once asked her. She even came be asking about that oneyearold girl, her grandfather, leons father was here in court dan i asked him and he said that she was doing okay, she wasnt injured, she slept well last night. He said. The charges in this case three of them here shawn and tony tits fare evasion Disorderly Conduct and unlawful entry. There was another case that he was involved in back on november 14th, mr. Borum was arrested for assault. Apparently he was coming back here yesterday as part of a deferred sentencing hearing in that case, just a progress report. By the way metro says that they were taking a look at this and they are reviewing the situation to make sure that all policies and procedures were followed according to how they should be. Live now at the courthouse, matt ackland fox5 local news. We have a disturbing story out of Prince Georges County. A substitute teacher and youth basketball coach is under arrest accused of child pornography charges. Authorities say they found engaged in Sexual Conduct with each other and with adults. Fox5s Marina Marraco is live in Capitol Heights maryland with more. Marina. Reporter yeah, tony, this man had been a substitute teacher here at Bradbury Heights Elementary School for the past nine years. He was also a local basketball coach. He was a coach at south county sports academy. This is 34yearold Christopher Speights. The investigation began back in december of last year when the online Cloud Service drop box notified Maryland State Police of the content of his particular server. Investigators say speights drop box account was saturated with child pornography. Now, weve poured through the arrest warrant and the descriptions of the video simply too graphic and explicit to share here but Prince Georges County Public Schools releasing a statement in the last hour saying pgcps is teacher Christopher Speights has been arrested. We will that cooperate fully with Law Enforcement in its investigation. Due to the nature of the claims, Christopher Speights will no longer serve the school district. Any behavior that brings harm to a child will not be tolerated in any way in pgcps over the past year we have made significant changes to increase student safety and remain committed to ensuring a quality education in a safe environment for all students. Now, this arrest warrant i was served at Christopher Speights home earlier this morning here in Capitol Heights. He was arrested there. His electronics including his ipad his cell phone as well as his computer were confiscated and he has yet to go before a judge but hes already facing three counts of distribution of child pornography as well as six counts of possession of child pornography. Live tonight in Prince Georges County Marina Marraco fox5 local news. Were going to make things right. Right and i want everyone to feel comfortable and know that these kids are safe. That this is all an act. These kids are safe and i swear to god that we continue making videos you will see changes. The maryland couple at the center of the controversial Youtube Video pranking their kids deleted all the videos on their Youtube Channel except for what you saw there. Their apology. Michael and Heather Martin uploaded the apology yesterday. People worldwide were outraged by this video they posted pranking their son. He was visibly distraught began crying hysterically in the video. The martins deny abusing their kids. They claim the pranks were i was planned and scripted and that their kids were just acting. Today is 4 20 on the calendar but its also recognized as an unofficial holiday for marijuana enthusiasts and to celebrate a group called dcmj decided to hand out free joints near the capi congress and hill staffers. But as you can imagine, the event did not go as smoothly as planned. Fox5s alexandria limon system live. Alex. Reporter thats right, and this free pot give away actually wall supposed to still be going on right now but it came to an abrupt end when u. S. Capitol Police Officers confiscated the marijuana that the activists were giving away for free. Now, that group, dcmj specifically picked this street and this corner right here because it is d. C. Land but its very close as you can see to the u. S. Capitol. Now, under d. C. Law, it is actually legal to possess less than 2 ounces of marijuana and give away less than 1 ounce if youre over the age of 21 and thats what they were doing. Still, though, seven people were arrested by u. S. Capitol police. You can see our cameras were rolling when some of these arrests happened. We also from a spokesperson at the agency that said three people were arrested and charged with possession with intent to distribute and four and people were charged with possession. Capitol police also said that under federal law it is unlawful to possess marijuana. Now, federal agencies can, of course, enforce federal law in d. C. Or other states if they choose to. And some of the activists that are with dcmj says today makes them worry about the future of recreational and medical marijuana laws in states around the country. I ask people across america if you care about legalization, now is the time to put pressure on your congressman. Even consider going to their office and bringing marijuana there and saying i use this, are you going to arrest me right now. Cannabis is a schedule one substance meaning it has no accepted medical use and high potential for abuse and ironically theres 29 states in america that have medical marijuana that we have a law thats in place the controlled substances act needs to be changed and thats one of the reasons why were here today is to highlight the fact that cannabis is safer than alcohol. Reporter now, the group was calling todays event a joint session and the idea was to give away free joints at high noon to staffers on the hill on Congress Members if they came to the event because they want to push for the federal legalization of Recreational Marijuana use. Now, they say on monday, they plan to again show up, but this time on the Capitol Grounds to light up and actually smoke joints. They say todays arrests will not deter them. Reporting live on capitol hill alexandria limon. Metro needs money and plenty of it to keep running. The odds the general manager says hes facing to get the Transit Agency back on ronica cleary here. We are approaching the hundred day marker for President Trump. How do you think hes doing . Give him a grade. Let me know. Use that 5at630. Well be talking about it live at old ebbett coming up. How do you like your 20degree warmup . Amazing isnt it . Although i have to say in the warm weather were tracking some showers and storms primarily the stronger ones are south of interstate 66 right now. These are moving slowly from west to east. Some of them are also dropping some heavy rain. So, do we have to do this things looking as we arere getting ready to begin the weekend . Ill have a look at all of that coming up in just a few minutes. Fox5 local news at 6 00 will be right back. A. M. Memorial service is set for tomorrow for the soldier killed earlier this week when that blackhawk helicopter went down in leonardtown virginia. The chopper was on a routine training flight when it crashed on a golf course. Specialist Jeremy Tomlin was killed. Two other soldiers were hurt. A tomlin will be held tomorrow at 10 30 at fort belvoir. The cause of the crash remains under investigation. Fire investors say a treadmill sparked a fire at a house in reston. Everyone inside in the house got out safely. Crews had the fire under control within about 10 minutes. Investigators say the fire was an accident. Metro general manager Paul Wiedefeld has a new plan on the table to save the troubled Transit Agency. The price tag is a whopper. Wiedefeld wants local governments to create 500 million a year in dedicated regional funding for capitol projects for memorial day he also wants to bid out some of the jobs currently done by metros unions. The plan also calls for changing Service Schedules to respond to ridership levels. The general manager says any delay would reverse the progress thats been made with safe track repairs. Heres what were working on tonight for 5 at 6 30. I promise. Im tom fitzgerald. Just after the election President Trump talked a lot about what he said was voter fraud. One Judicial Group is that claiming it happened in montgomery county. Well look into that story on the 5 at 6 30. But first a family whose painful past is deeply rooted in a maryland plantation shares their story right here on fox5. Heres a look at our top five stories at 6 00 in paris france one officer is dead. A police officer. And another is wounded after a gunman opened fire in the citys shopping district. The gunman was shot and killed by police. French officials believe the incident could be terror related. bleep you better call the police. This video making the rounds on social media. Metro police tried to handcuff man while he was holding his investigators say the man refused to pay his fare. The man claimed a. M. Metro station manager allowed him to walk through the gate. Prince georges county teacher and coach facing child porn charges. Police say 34yearold Christopher Speights has been employed as a substitute teacher and basketball coach at Bradbury Heights Elementary School and south county sports academy. The brain of former nfl star and convicted murderer Aaron Hernandez will be studied for possible brain trauma. The announcement came after a medical examiner ruled hernandezs death a suicide. And in honor of 4 20. A d. C. Based promarijuana group handed out free joints near the capitol. Capitol Police Arrested at least seven people during that event. Now lets get an update on whats happening with our forecast for today. A very warm and Beautiful Day today, sue. You know what, it really is tony t i dont k prefer the 63degree cloudy day we had yesterday or the 82degree sunny day although you know what happens when we get this much warmer, we can also fire up a few showers and thunderstorms and thats what we are seeing at this hour. Nothing in the immediate d. C. Area but as we get out to interstate 66 and then south, between 66 and interstate 64, we do have a line of thunderstorms. This is moving from west to east at about 10 to 20 miles an hour and it will likely drop some heavy rain especially as it gets closer to that 95 corridor. A lot of lightning with it and again, possibility of a gust to 30 or 40 maybe even some mall hail. This is the more intense line. Let me give you an idea as were watching this get ready to push across Fauquier County and maybe even into Prince William as well as spotsylvania. These are some of the communities that may be in the path including heartwood, gainsville you may see it, stevensville about 6 16. If it holds together fredericksburg could be there a little bit before 7 00 and may graze dale city at about although it certainly is the more intense line as we head to the north, this is also trying to fill in a little bit some storms around the hagerstown area, this may hit in you frederick, this is going to be crossing interstate 70 if it hasnt already, it certainly is up around the hagerstown area. Seems to be getting its act together so those are also going to be watched as they continue moving west to east and our futurecast sees the rest of the line behind it getting a little bit weaker but what we think will happen is that most of this is out of here by about 8 00 or 8 30 maybe 9 oclock. At 6 oclock still has more intense showers and storms where they are now, south of 66. Also sees that activity getting stronger up here across some of our Northern Counties and into the d. C. Area maybe around 8 oclock or so. So, if you have plans tonight, keep our weather app handy our fox5 weather app is free. You can download it. By 10 oclock looks like most everything is beginning to clear out. We could have some fog. If you have rain today you could have fog later tonight and we may start with fog and clouds tomorro warm day and after these morning clouds burn off for some sun in the afternoon, we could cook up a few more showers and storms very similar to today. These are the high temperatures today t wow. Were going to be there again tomorrow. And our temperatures are certainly very comfortable this evening so enjoy the evening and again, keep an eye out on the sky. 80 degrees right now at dulles. Its 81 at manassas. 78 in d. C. One more warm day and then we get a little bit unsettled heading into the weekend. Weve been saying we need rain. Well, it looks were going to get not just rain but cooler temperatures for the weekend. A quick look at the temperature trend because average high is 68. Were headed for 83 tomorrow and then to 65 on saturday with showers developing in the afternoon. They continue saturday night into at least the first half of sunday. Sunday only about 60 degrees and monday 65. Now, im going to take you to the fox5 accuweather 7day forecast and if you have plans on sunday, i want you to know that this amount of rain may change. Right now we think it could be an inch or so but if the storm that is bringing the rain be less and it could end earlier so were still watching sundays timing. But it looks like temperatures will stay in the 60s monday, tuesday as we warm up again wednesday and thursday. Back to 82 degrees. Dont go anywhere. Were coming right back. Welcome back. A maryland woman whose who is descendants from slaves from a maryland plantation is being honored for her efforts to maintain the plantation. They were slaves in hollywood maryland in Saint Marys County. Cal lum what instrumental in archiving and preserving the memorabilia of the slaves. She started working on it about 20 years ago. She passed about 20 years ago. Here to share her story are her daughter agnes light foot. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having us. Before we get to the special ceremony thats going to honor your mom tomorrow, martin tell me a little bit about how your mom went about preserving all the historic information and these artifacts but also how she helped save the plantation itself. Well, it was in the 70s when we didnt have the computers and things we have today. My mom got a lot

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