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Transcripts For WTTG Fox 5 News Edge At 6 20130203

Yet. More snow could be on the way. Fox 5 gwen tolbart is in the Weather Center with the first look at the forecast. You are right, its bone chilling outside. Temperatures are going to rise but a little later in the week. We have to deal with manage longer as well as more snow. We have light snow activity stretching from hagerstown to leesburg and toward the i70 crow door. Its a corridor. Its a little bit of that system that pushes its way in the last few days, a series of clippers actually. Clouds are in full force. You can see once again we are getting a burst that will be heading through. We will get a bit of a break but then back to it once again as we head into the beginning of the week. We do have a Winter Weather advisory in effect as well as a winter storm watch for highland, allegany and pendleton in effect from monday to tuesday. Temperatures right now in the low 30s pretty much everywhere. It will be a chilly overnight. 24 degrees only. Mostly clear skies before its said and done in the overnight hours. It will be cold. Bundle up. The good news is that we have warmer weather heading our way and a look at the forecast in new orleans where they are getting warmer weather than we are. Super bowl sunday usually brings friends and family together for the big game but one bar is lending a helping hand to a manned who lost his mother and sister in a fire in falls church. Karen gray houston is live with the latest. Reporter Jimmy Gardner lost everything in that fire on january 23rd. He and some of his friends like to hang out here at sullys northwest tavern. The friends are hosting a ralph and fundraiser while they watch the super bowl to help him get back on his feet. 48yearold Laura Snyder Gardner died in the fire. She taught math at gallo death gallaudet university. Her daughter who was a student there was killed. The fire raced through the home around 3 25 in the morning january 23rd. Firefighters discovered their body after bringing the fire under control. A Memorial Service was held for the mother and daughter last sunday. Jimmy is deaf. We spoke a few minutes ago through an interpreter with one of his friends who helped organize the fundraiser. We hope we can raise enough funds to support jimmy and get him back on his feet and that the we can get full support for jimmy to get stable again. Reporter now, they have got some great prizes in the raffle tonight including tickets to wizards and caps game. Hailey says she doesnt care who wins the super bowl. Live in northwest, karen gray houston, fox 5 news. Back to you guys. Thank you, karen. Glad to see people coming together. Laura . Big story we are following at 6 00 an American Hero is dead. His suspected killer is in custody. Authorities say former Navy Seal Chris kyle was gunned down with another man at a texas gun rang in texas. Reporter the loss of chris kyles known as the u. S. Militarys most lethal sniper to a fatal gunshot wound stunned the community where he was reveered for his skill and heroic service. He wrote the best selling autobiography american sniper. The story details the 150 plus kills of insurgents. Kyle and another man were killed at the rough creek lodge, roughly 50 miles west of fort worth techs a as yesterday afternoon. The accused shooter is believed to be a former troubled soldier in custody. Texas Authorities Say Eddy Ray Ruth of lancaster is believed to have shot the victims, fleeing the lodge area in a pickup truck. A 911 call reporting the deaths didnt come in until hours later. A motive remains unclear. Wfaa channel 8 is reporting that ruth suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder. Kyle and chad littlefield had taken ruth to the rage in an effort to cope and he turned on the two men shooting them in the back. Approximately 8 00 p. M. He arrived at his residents and police took him into custody after a brief pursuit. Kyle was a true American Patriot and it he appeared multiple times on the fox news channel. You have to show respect. That flag is red, white and blue. It stands for the red that is the blood that was spilled. Not just afghanistan but throughout history. You are going out to save americans. Reporter ruth faces two counts of capital murder. Chris kyle leaves behind a wife and two kids. Police are investigating a fatal stable in northwest. Police identified the man as 68 yearold howard benibal junior. A reward is being offered for information that leads to an arrest. The hostage situation in alabama stretches into its 6th day. Investigators continue to work with the man they say shot a bus driver then took a 5year old child inside his homemade bunker. Craig boswell joins us with the latest tonight. Craig . Reporter maureen, good evening. While this community watches and waits for any word from the on going negotiations to try to free the 5yearold boy being held hostage in the bunker, they are remembering the bus driver they call a hero. Today will be a tough day for our family and please give them the peace to be able to do what they need to do and their time of mourning. Reporter friends, family and an entire community are getting together to say good buy to charles pollen junior. He was shot to death last tuesday after police say he attempted to protect a bus load of children. He is a hero but he is gone. People have a broken heart. Reporter prayer vigils will be held almost every day since last tuesday. Its the only thing we can do in this community. We cant physically do anything. All we can do is meet up and pray here. Reporter investigators say they are continually negotiating with jimmy lee dykes, the man that they say shot pollen. They are showing that they have the patients necessary. Reporter the remainder of midland city hoping and praying for the safe return of a 5year old boy dykes is holding hostage. He is coming out. We dont know when and we wont ever know why we were faced with this as a community, as a whole. Reporter negotiators say the suspect is continually allowing these investigators, the fbi negotiators to delivery temperatures to the little boy including toys, food and much needed medicine. Maureen . Do you know anything more about jimmy lee dykes background . Anything about what may have triggered him to shoot the bus driver then take the boy hostage. Right, the motive, those are the questions we dont have answers to. We are learning more about the history, where he was in the service. He was decorated. Since had runins with the law and people here describe him in negative terms as paranoid a survivalist, antigovernment type. No motive at this point. I spoke to the sheriff a little while ago and dont know if he has made demands yet. Hope the boy is safe in the hands of jimmy lee dykes. Thank you. President obama heads to minnesota to push for new gun measures. Tonight Controversial Television ad is about to air in the d. C. Region. Lauren demarco has more. Reporter a group of mayors lead by Michael Bloomberg is out with a brief but clear message for congress. A call for background checks on all gun sales delivered in the form of a Television Commercial airing during the super bowl. We have to do everything we can to get the guns off the streets. Reporter vincent gray among the 850 members of mayors against illegal guns. According to the group, 82 of gun owners including 74 of National Rifle Association Members support requiring background checks for anyone purchasing a gun. The 30 second Super Bowl Ad airing in the d. C. Market features a clip of nra Vice President wayne lapeer another testifying before congress in 1999. We believe its reasonable to provide criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere for any one. Reporter on fox news he was quick to point out that he was referencing gun shows only. He said background checks for all gun owners as recommended by president obama would lead to gun registry. It wont be universal. The criminals wont comply with it. They could careless. You wont computer rise rise the computer rise the Mental Health records. How do we know that. Lets start the effort. Reporter mayors against illegal guns is calling for background checks and a ban on assault weapons. We historical had Police Officers in our schools. I see nothing wrong with that. I think its a good idea. Reporter retired astronaut and Navy Captain Mark kelly is speaking out. During a Fox News Sunday exclusive, he said he and his wife, gabrielle giffords, who was injured in a mass shooting are both gun owners themselves but this isnt about the second amendment. This is about public safety. We had 20 first graders die in their classrooms because we dont have sufficient gun violence legislation in this country. Reporter wayne lay pierre said enforcing existing laws would go a long way. The ad will air in d. C. Only to grab the attention of lawmakers. After today it will be used in an Online Campaign targeting the d. C. Region. Lauren, thank you. A former d. C. School superintendent has died. 66yearold Arlene Ackerman passed away at her home in new mexico after a battle with pancreatic cancer. She was the superintendent of the citys Public Schools from 1998 to 2000. During her tenure she is credited with raising test scores. Still ahead, pain at the pump. Consumer alert for drivers. How much has gas gone up in the past week . We will tell you coming up next.  Turkish Police say a new york woman found dead in istanbul suffered a fatal blow to the head. It is clear the head injury caused her death. She was last heard from january 21st the day she was scheduled to fly home. Her body was discovered saturday evening near the remnants of ancient city walls. 34 people are injured after a bus crashes into an overpass. The accident happened saturday night in boston. The bus was carrying 42 people including High School Students and adults on their way home from a visit to harvard university. Some people made it out unharmed. Others say it was chaotic. Many had a hard time describing what happened because they were in shock. Officials say the driver may not have seen a sign indicating that the bus wouldnt fit under the overpass. Virginia state lawmakers hope a new bill will keep drones on the ground. A bill was approved prohibiting state and local Law Enforcement from flying drones in the commonwealth until 2014. The idea toys give lawmakers time to draw up legislation on drone use across the state. Blimp like aircrafts called air stats are making their bay to washington, d. C. Filled with helium. The aero states will fly 10,000 feet above sea level teeth they ared to mobile stations on the ground. They are scheduled to arrive in september and will be tested in an undisclosed location for up to three years. Secretary of state john kerry is waiting no time to get to work. He has been making calls to several officials including palestine, israel, turkey and mexico. Stepped down over for hillary friday. Kerry was sworn in shortly thereafter. A consumer alert, rising gas prices in the dmv area. The spike in gas prices can be blamed on international tensions. The average price of gas went up to 3. 55 a gallon compared to last weeks 3. 41. The district saw a jump to 3. 69 from 3. 57. We are all paying more than the National Average of 3. 51 a gallon. Still ahead, a twist on golfing that involves guns. We will take a look at the controversial sport. And a reminder if you have a story idea call the tip line.  golf carts are typically used to hold clubs. But they are unveiling the golfing with guns excursion. Pete griffin has the story. Reporter the gorgeous views would lead you to believe you are at a golf course but one major difference. What is different here, instead of having places in the golf cart we have gun racks put in and a place for ammunition. Reporter they call it golfing with guns since you can ride around in a golf cart to 30 different shooting stations across 75 acres of land. Its a 25 minute trip from the las vegas strip. Every station offers different shooting challenge. The target launchers are different. Reporter my first time shooting a gun. That wasnt a bad attempt. You dont have to be an experienced shooter to try it. I have excellent range masters and people that are glad to come out and spend time with yo reporter the course is open sunday to wednesday. All right, miss gwen. More snow falling today . Bundle up. Better than yesterday. It was reasonable. It was. We will have a warm up later in the week. A little snow. A few passing flurries we have to contend with and in a day or two ahead. Beautiful shot outside. Take a look. We have a lot of clouds that are starting to scott out. We will have a little of a clearing trend. You can see this moving its way through across the area and it is going to continue to do that through the course of the evening but we get a break. A quick look at radar and show you what is happening, we have a series of low pressure system, clippers that have been quickly moving away across the area. They move quickly. Not a whole lot in their path more or less but they cause a little bit of precipitation. You can see a little bit of that pushing toward the i70 corridor frederick as well as hagerstown and to the east a little of that activity. Back to the weather maps. Cold outside. Thats another issue. Advisories, Winter Weather advisory as well as a storm watch in effect. This is for areas of the west including the allegany front, pendleton, garrett, tucker encased in this. This is through monday, especially into tuesday when we see another clipper coming through. That will be the last clipper for a while as we head into that period of monday afternoon, monday night. Temperatures 34 at reagan. 30 gaithersburg. 30 manassas. A cold day. Tonight temperatures will be kicking in by the time we hit the 10 00 hour, 2 degrees. We wont warm up too much into the overnight hours as well. The winds will pick up a little bit. We have to deal with a little bit of a windchill tonight. Be prepared for that. I know everybody is excited about the game even though we are in the 30s here, to the south in new orleans, 64 degrees right now. When they get ready for the kick off, we will talk 61 degrees. A few clouds, light wind. Wish we had that kind of weather here. We have warmer days ahead im happy to say. You will see that in the seven day forecast. I think you will like those temperatures getting back to seasonal. All right. Looking forward to that. Thanks very much. It was a chilly weekend but folks in new york stripped down and jumped into the freezing Atlantic Ocean for a good cause. The rockaway plunge is held every year in queens to raise money for cystic fibrosis. This year they are raising money for the Sandy Relief Fund and victims of hurricane sand. Proceeds helped support the presee point relief fund. Legendary nightclub where rock, pop, blues and jazz lived for decades. Bruise spring stein played there. It closed in 1998 after Holding Thousands of shows. Now four filmmakers put together a 90minute documentary that takes you back. Paul wagner has the story. Reporter the bayou was underneath the freeway in georgetown. It began hosting dixieland jazz bands in the 50s. By the 60s it was packing in music fans eager to hear rock and roll, the blues and country. It way like no other place. You couldnt have built a place with this sort of ambiance. It was dark, it was cavernous. Reporter bill scanlon, a former d. C. Loved it there and when he heard the place was closing, he got inside with a camera. I think that the film captures a piece of washington Music History that is little known and certainly isnt spot lighted and yet was pretty vibrant. Brought in national acts as well as very, very strong local players. Reporter the bayou is long gone torn down years ago. In its place is the lows theater where the documentary will have its premier. In the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s if you wanted to see an upcoming rock and roll band the bayou was the place to go. You could have seen duran duran for 3. 50. The british band dire straits played as sultan of swings was running up the charts packing fans in for a two night run. U2 opened for the slick can i boys slicky boys. They were nice guys. Young irish guys, hard to understand. Reporter mark yoon in the bow tie loved playing here. The stage was comfortable, big, great. Reporter springsteen played the bayou once. A surprise appearance with robin thompson. From that one no, video threw but there are great photographs. Reporter the film is a labor of love for scanlon that put it together over the last 14 years or so. The funding coming from mainly donations. Very proud that we stuck with it. Happy so many people supported us. Our kick start of supporters came in with over 30,000 in funding and made it possible. Reporter the bayou may be gone but it lives on in film and the memory of rock bands that made the trek to the doors on k street a destination. Paul wagner, fox 5 news. Along with the performers, the filmmakers interviewed many of the people that worked at the bayou as sponsors and bar tenders. The public will get the first look at the film monday, february 25th when it airs on maryland public television. Still ahead at the bottom of the hour, post office accused of breaking traffic laws is refusing to pay their fines. Why they claim they can get away with breaking the law.  the big story is the hostage situation in alabama reaching day number 6. Investigators work with jimmy lee dykes who they say shot a bus driver and took a 5year old child inside his bunker. The little boy is being well taken care of with a new delivery of food, toys and medicine made today. The prayer vigils have been held every day since last tuesday. The gun control debate continues in washington. President obama will travel to minnesota tomorrow to speak on gun violence. If universal background checks became law, everyone who purchase a gun will be subject to a full mental a

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