Transcripts For WTTG Fox 5 News Edge 6 20170505 : compareme

Transcripts For WTTG Fox 5 News Edge 6 20170505

The suspected gunman has been apprehended. He was apprehended on the scene and also questioned i want to say by police. Take a look at this video, this was the scene earlier tonight. All of this unfolding on the 6400 block of caslo court. Family members did not want to talk on camera or off camera. Were told Police Responding to a dispute turned to a shooting. The victims transported the suspect remained at the scene and is being interviewed in custody. Police say theyre not searching for any additional suspects. The family who is initially outside when we arrived now inside the home urging their neighbors not to discuss the incident with media. Tisha lewis fox 5 local news. Developing at american university, a student protest on campus is now over. Were told students were reportedly blocking bender tunnel earlier, this appears to be video that was of that this is the main under pass next to the parking garage at bender arena on campus. As you can see there were a number of students who were standing out there. You could see University Police out there. You could see students there talking with administrators. The students are demanding the University Take a look at its policies and see if they need to do more to prevent future hate crimes. Were calling for a revamp of the curriculum of whats going on in the school, of racial training going on from administration to faculty to students that are coming in. Someone left bananas marked with words targeting Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority hanging from nooses at various locations around the campus. The fbi is now helping the university investigate. Developing tonight, a Huge Development in the alleged Rockville High School rape case. Prosecutors announced theyre dropping rape charges and 18yearolds accused of the crime. Alexandra limon was in the courtroom when the decision was made joins us with more on why those charges were dropped. Alex . Reporter the Montgomery County states attorney said they decided to drop the charges after a lengthy investigation talking to many witnesses and reviewing security footage from Rockville High School. Defense attorney representing jose montano one of the suspects said that video shows the 14yearold girl in question making out with mr. Montano in the schools hallway and willingly walking into the bathroom this blew up because they immediately assumed there were immigrants and as a result, they immediately assumed they were rapists. Reporter the case drew National Attention it is cause for concern. Reporter White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer weighed in after two Rockville High School teenagers who were also undocumented immigrants were accused of girl on campus. Defense attorneys called the case a circus and always maintained the sex in the School Bathroom was consensual. The montgomery said this is what happened we have concluded the facts do not support the original charges filed. Reporter rape and Sexual Assault charges against 17yearold jose montano were dropped, and prosecutors are in the process of dropping those charges against 18yearold Henry Sanchez. After a complete and thorough assessment. Our duty is to determine whether sufficient evidence exists to support criminal violations in violation of maryland law regardless of Public Opinion or political pressure. Reporter mccarthy said the decision was made due to a lack of corroboration. Substantial inconsistencies and a review of footage from School Security cameras witness but now theyre leading to child pornography charges against both defendants. Something montanos attorney calls outrageous she was the one that took footage of herself, video and pictures, nude pictures and also video. And she send these to mr. Montano, not the other way around. Reporter there are questions about whether the teens will be deported. Yes, hes in deportation proceedings at the moment. Reporter now, we also wanted to get reaction from parents of Rockville High School students today, but most didnt want to speak on camera. However, a couple did share their thoughts with us. Im not happy at all. Reporter why i just feel like it doesnt matter what anybody does, like a girl can send texts and from what i hear, she was consenting to even if she consented to it, it went all wrong. My heart goes out to the girl and to the family. Reporter what about to these boys who now seems perhaps were unjustly charged . Well, i dont know. Pwhen youu dont come in the right way, what can i say . I do feel they should be deported back right away. Reporter today in court, the judge ordered montano to be released immediately. However, because of these new child porn charges, that hes now facing in the juvenile system, his attorney told me a few minutes ago hes being held until at least monday. Thats when he has a Court Appearance for those charges in juvenile court. Meanwhile, the other defendant, Henry Sanchez is also scheduled to be in court next week, Alexandra Limon fox 5 local rape charges had been dropped, we sat down with School Superintendent jack smith to talk about this development. Since this incident at rockville high, he launched a countwide review of safety and protocol procedures a the schools weve completed six high schools and using internal and external people both to do those reviews with the principals and the staff of that school. And well continue those, complete all 25 by the end of may. So all the high schools will be done. Were looking at facilities, operations, protocols, how we use our resource officers and our security teams there as well as all of the staff and so well be reporting back to the community as you know these rape charges not only made news here locally they were also discussed on a national level. Dr. Smith had this message following the dismissal of the rape charges. I think what we have to do especially when were working with other peoples children, so whether level, state level, local level, we always have to resist in our lives from jumping to conclusions and filling in gaps where we dont know the whole story and thats more true for me than anyone else but its true for everyone. I would hope everyone use as little more restraint across our society in many, many areas. Some raises the question, could the two teenagers return to school in the future . Dr. Smith they will be provided an appropriate education but it will not be in a regular school building. We have an update on the battle over Police Body Camera footage in the district and the publics right to see it. Since last summer, fox 5 asked to see footage used in court to conflict drunk drivers but the attorney general refused to turn it over until now. Fox 5 paul wagner has this fox 5 exclusive. Reporter our interest in the videos came last summer when a defense attorney told us camera video in court to conflict drunking drivers and in his opinion, they were Game Changers meaning the old way was over and judge could see exactly how a defendant was behaving. But when we asked to see the videos, attorney general carl racine said we we dont have to get them from the dc police department. The statute as written he says says so. And so we asked. And this is what we received. Redacted videos that obscured faces in conversations in effect nothing close to the way they were presented in court. Our stories caught the attention of the dc open Government Coalition, which sent this threepage letter to carl racine in march. Cited case law and a detailed account of fox 5s request. After meeting with the attorney general, he changed had us mind i took the position listening to my good council that we were not able to release that even camera statute only allows npd to do so. Ive tried to justify that on the basis of the law and candidly i thought you had the better argument on common sense. Because the videos had been enter i do not the Public Domain in court. Reporter as part of our series, we asked the Us Attorneys Office for video used to convict a man accused possessing a firearm. It was turned to her fox 5 unredacted and featured in a story last november after seeing it. The attorney general was not swayed and stuck to his position. That is, until the open Government Coalition presented our case. Once they came in and presented a clear argument to us, i asked a Different Team to take a look at this anew. A team had no history. We werent invested in our position and they came back and said look, we think the statute is ambiguous. We can interpret it any way we sense, candidly youre right. We shall initially wrong. Reporter evidence presented in court will be released to the public as long as it is not under a protective order, Paul Wagner Fox 5 local news. It passed the house by the narrowest of margins, and the white house is one step closer to repeal and replace obamacare. Foxs joel waldman has more. Reporter without a score card, gop house lawmakers forged ahead anyway thursday passing the revise the American Healthcare act by only four votes. The white house continuing to tout its first significant Legislature Win the one thing you can be sure is to never under estimate this president. Hes shown time and time again when hes committed its done. Reporter its unclear if the Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell will take it up Many Republican like democrats fear does not go far enough to help the old and poor while lining the pockets of the powerful insurance companies. Fulfills President Trumps pledge of lowering premiums but caring for those of preexisting conditions and maintaining coverage. If we accomplish that, weve done our job. Reporter Vice President candidate tim kaine worries democrats in the Upper Chamber could be shut out if the republicans put the bill in committees that will show theyre interested in the process. But if they wont, if they try to force it to the floor, that shows its not about healthcare, its about politics. Reporter President Trump turning to twitter today saying it was a bill win in the house and very exciting, adding that well have truly great healthcare. In washington, joel waldman, fox news. Of course, fox 5 is your station for politics, on 5at630, much more on healthcare, well take a closer look as the president prepares for his first overseas visit since taking office. Use 5at630 then look for your tweet on our political show coming up next at 6 30. Coming up, are you celebrating Cinco De Mayo . Well take a look at how the day was created and also all the business that goes into the celebration. Well take a look at some damage from todays storms. First lets check in with gwen to get a check on the weather. Gwen is the sun still out we have rain showers moving in. Into the south were keeping a close eye on another line of storms. Were looking at weather as well for saturday. Ill have the details coming up in just a bit. Well be back. Well be back. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Maybe thats why weve been ranked highest in Customer Satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. And now you can love fios too. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone. All for 79. 99 per month online, for the first year with a twoyear agreement. Its the only internet with equal upload and download speeds. Cable only offers upload speeds that are a fraction of their download speeds. Plus get hbo for a year and free multiroom dvr service for two years. And Verizon Wireless customers can stream tv on the fios mobile app, datafree. Get the best. Go to getfios. Com can were cleaning up after the power line rain storms. The heavy rain left the mark triggered flooding in some places. The driver of this rescued when the vehicle got stuck in high standing water on lawyers road in vienna. I know i saw the sun a little while ago but you said the rain isnt finished its not. And the problem with the sun is that weve got a frontal system coming through. So we get instability that starts to build up and warms up the atmosphere little more what we want. That means we could see a couple of storms firing up. We have a little bit of action going on now to the South Southwest of us were keeping a close eye on but you know, that picture we just saw is a pretty good indication of why were saying turn around, dont drown. You never know when we have heavy rain fall like this, just how high the water really is on roads and streets as youre trying to maneuver your way through, its not worth it. Plenty of moisture along the coast. We got the spin of this low pressure system with all the rain continuing to move its heading up to the north and west. Keeping an eye on this little piece of action. We got another piece of energy, this is starting to move its way closer. I cant rule out maybe a rumble of thunder or you know, more of the rainfall as we are anticipating but chance of a popup storm is possible. We still have flood watches warnings and advisories coastal flood advisories in effect. This is where well see some of that heavier rainfall pretty much of an impact. As the cold front moves through. Were under a marginal risk of seeing Severe Weather and as i said cant rule out the night is not over. Take a look at the numbers from today. Almost an inch and a half at Reagan National airport. Over an inch at dulles. And an inch. 39 at bwi thorough good marshal. Broke a record at martinsberg. Most of the area saw awh quarters on average. Wind is an issue gusting from 21 to 24. Were talking light wind as we move overnight into tomorrow it will be more on the breezy side. Current temperatures going to be cooler than today. Highs going to be in the 60s overnight tonight, temperatures into the 50s. Once we get into the sevenday forecast. Well have a dip for nighttime lows into the 40s. Can you believe it . I cant believe seems like were going backwards in terms of our temperatures are concerned. Tomorrow is the day we were going to have showers off and on, not a total washout. Temperatures will be into the 60s. 66 degrees were forecasting for the dc corridor. Heres a look at futurecast. You can see where the breaks come in. This is in the overnight hours, we pick up some rain by about 8. , 9 00, 10 00 in the morning, by midday were dealing with it but few dry slots in the afternoon, b seeing rain, it will be kind of off and on. Your planner for tomorrow. By 11 00, about 60, by 5 00, around 64 degrees. Wrapping it up, 58 for overnight low, once again, chance of rain and thunderstorms in the forecast still. Your sevenday forecast showing you by the time we get to the beginning of the week, still dealing with few showers, sundays are much drier. And then temperatures into the 60s. Low 70s, well be back trafter the break z2ay2z z16fz barbel diwi marshal did he have we do business where you do business. Hey allergy muddlers are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool . Try zyrtec® its starts working hard at hour one and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. Stick with zyrtec® and muddle no more®. Tonight, twin sister baby aaron and they decided to have their labors induced after the identical due dates passed. The twins say they plan to hold joint birthday parties for their sons and dress them in matching out fits. I think its cute and i was like wow, really . You know, they kind of helped it along a little bit there. I love the matching out fits. 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