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Transcripts For WTTG Fox 5 News Edge At 6 20130616



we have a little bit of the wet weather pushing through. some of it moves quickly.ui right now there's a little bit of storm activity, mainly to the north and northwest but otherwe thanst that, not much happening but that could definitely changh as we head into the course of tonight as there is a potential for us seeing storms that couldd have strong winds.. right now temperature-wise, 84ra at reagan national, 81 for baltimore, 93 in frederiksberg,f 893 at dulles. so it's warm outside. ltion humid.lt so the problem is, of course, ww get that hot, sticky atmosphere. we have had a lot of clouds and that could help in capping us so we won't see anything too much in the form of storms. right now stained winds from 3 to 14 miles per hour but a few wind gusts.usts look at this wind gusts up to 28 miles per hour.es p so in the course of tonight, then, mostly cloudy skies. your overnight lows, 71, your full forecast is just ahead. back to you. we are tipping to follow a developing story out of coloradr as the battle against a massive wildfire continues. crews encouraged by their progress and say the fire is 65% contained. will car has more. >> reporter: more than 1100 firefighters making headway against colorado's black forest fire. incident commander rich harvey says crews continue to make gain. >> they're going house to houseu smoke toes smoke. they'll what i call technical terms search and destroy. d they see smoke, they get smoke. >> reporter: 14,000 acres charged since tuesday.uesd in an effort, it's been a fight on the air and on the ground, battling the most destructive d wildfire in the state's historyy firefighters knocking down flames, controlling flair-ups by hand and hose. >> they're doing a good job of hutting the hot spots. they're starting to engage in what they call creating hash marks, walking each property, putting out stumps. >> reporter: at a communityt a meeting saturday, frustration is bubbling up as people struggle s for clarity. >> we want to know information, when we can get back in. the real things. >> reporter: investigators believe this is a zeroing on a a crime scene. at the same time the el paso county sheriff says there's a long road ahead. >> we have a crime scene, fire, downed power lines, trees falling, each time there's a gust of wind that are badly damaged. we have heavy equipment, fire trucks, water tankers constantly moving through those roads. so we're not even close to ready. >> reporter: round the clock fire fighting doesn't cost cheap, it's cost $5.2 million. and a news alert in maryland, police are searching for a suspect in connection with two attempted robberies. the first was early this morning near west church street in frederick. while officers were talking tokg the victim in that case, they t got a heads up about another incident nearby. similar incident suspect. no injuries reported. president obama is ready to address security foreign policy and economic agenda at the ga g submit. it begins tomorrow in northernth ireland where the heads of the leading industrial nations will mee. the president is set to lead dc tonight. tensions continue in turkeyt as police continue to clash with protests. demonstrators are still not n willing to leave. fox's lee lbd visiter has more.. >> reporter: the battle for this park has begun.pa we saw ark stream of people running in with gas masks. they know what they're going up against. pushed back but undeter thriewdt the night, dem strawters fowt. police closed ferries in street so thousands streamed across the river on foot, preflting against the government. this morning the protesters aret tired from a long nietle of n battle with the police.olic you see remnants, overturned fences. imagine the power it took to pull out all of the concrete posts. that's what was happening as this battle was going on, a couple hundred yards is taxem square and there are thousands of people trying to get here. the reasons the streets are so calm is if you look over here, there are hundreds of riot police now ringing this whole area, pre-vepting the protesterp from coming in or taking ref new jersey in the buildings around the square. the protesters for their partt say they will continue to try and come in here no matter how much violence there is. and it looks like either tonighe or tomorrow it could possibly be another violent and bloody confrontation as there's been a large national strike call by one of the main labor unions tot protest the police tactics. here at home on this father's day same-sex marriage-sex couple in silver spring is grateful to facebookab for their aadopted son. karen gray sat down with the two dad's who coincidently are both named brad. >> reporter: how about that. father's day is somethingethi special for brad benson and le it tson. now that kyleer is in their lives, they got frustrated with the adoption process that th starred in january of 2009 that started to an ad on facebook to find a mother. >> what if you try to put thomas up there, maybe? >> reporter: the two brads, a same-sex color and kyleer, who is almost three. t >> it's normal for us. us. i mean, it should end. i think the thing is we don't want it to be something ub charc terred or new. n >> reporter: big brad is brad wentton and so what does kyleer call them? >> i'm da-da. >> and i'm pop. >> reporter: kyleer iss precocious for his age.ge >> that doesn't happen any more. >> look at me, no more. >> ok. >> reporter: the adoption didn't happen overnight. they want through an agency, gog into a waiting pool, waited nine months, got the idea to go social media from tv. >> just saw a segment on another news cast in the morning about a couple that actually did an entire adoption through the internet. >> reporter: big brad has arad background in marketing. so the couple put an ad on facebook and within six hours got a response from sasha. >> she was in a position where she was pregnant and didn't really know what she was going to do. >> reporter: they talked onlinek theyed clicked and agreed to ana open adoption. sasha is a single mom with otheo children who says in touch. >> we're lucky that the mother wanted an open adoption and wanted to be part of his life. >> reporter: in some traditional adoptions, that can be tricky, kids cut off from their birth mothers and other siblings search for them.hem. >> it's an extended family. we can't deny the fact he has other siblings and we have embraced them and his mother tor be a part of her family. >> reporter: kyler seemed well adjusted and happy. the two dad's have not encountered any negativity so far but expect challenges aheade and are trying to adopt anotherr child again using facebook. >> this hasn't been all smooth saling. the dads and sasha traveled to new mexico for kyler to be deliver because it wasn't legalt for same-sex couples to adopt this florida.rida the two dad's have a website. you can go on it, twdads.com and they are newly engaged and plan to be married in november.ovem >> i interviewed them many years ago when they first adopted kyler and the story all about aa love for a child so it's a nicec satisfactory. karen, thanks. coming up, the obama administration is now laying out some of its plans for arming syrian rebels. the united states will provide military assistance.e. the landslide elections. we'll be right back.  i always wanted to design a bike that honored those who serve our country. and geico gave me that opportunity. now naturally, we wanted it to be powerful, innovative and we built this bike as a tribute to those who are serving, those who have served and their families. and i think we nailed it. geico. proudly serving the military for over 75 years. >> new development assed cystev war in syriael continues. the u.s. will now arm and train rebels.ls. and keep fighter jets and patriot mists on the border. there are new reports iran may be sending traps in to help the syrian government. peter ducey has more.or >> reporter: rebels won't be able r to take down bashar al hd with small arms. gram says if president obama wants asadz gone he must do more. >> i think our goal should be in the short term, is to balancealn the military power and providing small alarms won't do it so we need to create a new-fly zone to neutralize the air power. >> reporter: senator marco rubio says things are soat bad in syra today, because president obamadt took too long to make a decision about what it do. >> russia fully arming syria and iran engaged, i think that the fact it's taken this and this president so long to get a clear and con sightshts policy on syria has left us with the worst the possible scenarios >> reporter: the white house says they will notr: put any american boots on the ground in syria but chief of staff promised additional aids to theo relates with a caveat scwhr weet have to be very discerning aboun what is in our interesting and what the outcome is best for us and the prices that we're willing to pay to get to that place. we've rushed to war in this region if the past and won't do it here rmp the white house whi wants to be cautious and someome lawmakers on both sides of theis aisle are ok with that.h >> we have to protect the syrian people and above all, make sure that al kay da and other terrorists groups don't takeon't root in syria. >> reporter: tomorrow night inoo northern ireland, presidentnd, obama will sit down with rush shan penalty throughout thehe civil war and bashir al-assadr has found a friendly ally in fear by rash sha. russia. it's been a del past fewt months in iraq. nearly two thousand people havev died since april, including 170 this month alone. there is concern that unrest ise being fanned by the civil war in raving syria. a british policeman afterftr being stabbed. the officer's name has not been released but he is reportedly having injuries in his stomach and chest. he was attempting to arrest a spupt believed to be involved in a knife attack.k. police have blocked off the area around the mosque. the nearly elected presidene of iran says he will bring change to the country. he will also hep to improve the ongoing conflict regarding iran's nuclear program.gram >> reporter: before friday's election, they was an unlikely winner but many see him as the best candidate to ease tensions between iran and the west over iran's nuclear ambitions. he was the loan clearic in the race and one was the support of young iran unions for change. he described it as a try usm for wisdom. rohani appears to be offering a more approach than the presented ser that is known for provocative statements. today, the white house ushed a statement, saying he see the election as a quote, potential helpful sign. still, as positive a sign as the election may be he remains a strong supporter of the supreme leader ite iotola. so the open real change may be in tone, not substance. in jerusalem, conner powell. to california, where a dwriewp of nuns are rallying fof immigration reform. they're debating it under a bill craft known as the gang of eight. it would create a pathway for roughly 11 million undocumentedd imgrants but only after security improvements are made. >> they have got to make sure the 11 million in our nation have an earned path to citizenship because it's the only way we'll be whole as a nation. it is a moral issue so as a person of faith i have to say we're here to lift up the dignity of everyone. >> the nuns and supporters marched to a supporters officefc to make a plea for support. coming up, an update on a horrific deck collapse at a popular florida residents wheres of people were hurt. plus a fear's data one day won't forget. a kidney transplant. call the tip line (202)895-3000 or send us an e-mail. all the chicken in yoyour grocery store is inspected by the usda before it's packaged. but perdue asked the usda to go further...a lot further. in our hatcheries, feedmills and the family farms where our chickens are raised. they verify that 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[ male announcer ] but we still need your signature. volkswagen sign then drive is back. and it's never been easier to get a jetta. that's the power of german engineering. get $0 down, $0 due at signing, $0 deposit, and $0 first month's payment on any new volkswagen. visit vwdealer.com today. >> the world's most advancedost solar powered air plane was onn display today in virginia. krouted gathered to see the solarred umpulse. it's the first to fly day andnd night powered by the sun. it has a wing span of a jumbo jet but as lights a small car and holds five world records, including a 26-hour nonstop night. pretty incredible. >> yesterday, we talking about the weather and we thought ithog would be bad but i have to say, it was actually really beautiful. >> it wasn't bad. >> we went from a forecast off scottered thunderstorms to isolated ones. the reason that is because of the amount of clouds we had. >> no complaints. com >> it was great. >> and you know, not so bad. we have a few sprinkles out o there, a little bit, but not quite bad. we still are anticipating a chance of an isolated stormm popping up so we're keeping our eyes to the skies on that but i'm glad the majority of the day has been great pretty much everywhere. but some of you are seeing someg of this.his. this is some light rainfall that's pushing through quantico and frederick, they're seeing light rainfall but overall, nota too bad. we're kind of so far dodging the bullet but i don't want to tello you nothing is going to happen because woor not out of thehe clear just yet. the forecast is still calling for a chance of isolated thunderstorms to pop up.op many of you may not see anything but some of you may and some of you may deal with light showers so at least mother's nature hasr been fairly kind but this ishis what's happening now across the area. the big picture, talk a look at what's happening to the west ans you can see there is a lane of storms through the south of ohio that is still moving through and this is all associated with ait couple of things, a trough as well as a cold front but the cold b front is fairly weak and close clouds did us a favor by keeping us capped. here is a look at the highs, 87 at reagan national, above seasonal, dulles at 84, bwi, 85, pretty much where we should be testify-wise and mild and warm right now. 84 in dc, 61 in baltimore, 84 in frederiksberg and 81 at dulles. the winds, kind of gusty in a few plays, subsided somewhat. we had 28 mile-an-hour wind gusts and anywhere from 16 to 1261 mails across the area. overall they're not doing too bad. the jet stream will open us upp for a soath westerly flee willll head in tonight as well as tomorrow. we'll employed up getting a loti of this moisture from the gulf and this warm are air, pushing through the way up the mid-atlantic. it's going to be warm but humidity. we'll be dealing with that and that humidity is something thatt we don't like to deal with too t often. here is a look at the overnightg lows.lows anywhere from the low 60s to the low 70s pretty much everywhere.. 67 at manasis, 61 at dulles. your planner, by the time wellie hit about the 8:00, 9:00 hourour web a chance of seeing a few f showers and could see an isolated storm popping up in thn course of the overnight hours. can't rule it out. monday and tuesday, we start the week, it looks act tuf so we'll have details on what to expect there and the accuweather seven-day forecast forecast.st >> not such a good day. >> that depends on how youhow define it, relative. >> ok. [laughter] >> hear a is a dash for dad as part of the zero prostate cancen challenge with races scheduled in '03 dozens challenges. all funds go to provide free testing and education. and just in time for father's day, one new york dad gets a life-saving kidney transplant. >> but you will never guess who it is from. >> this is probably going to be one of the guest gifts i'll get. >> reporter: 32-year-old len ind order berks knows how lucky heky is. this is his second kidney transplant surgery. his wife doe thoughted one of hers three years ago but it failed. so last week, his dad, ronald, donated his and it was a success. the surgery was performed at the north shore university hospital transplant center in manasis. >> it gave of gives you ann opportunity in life to be around. it's wonderful.onde >> reporter: the whole berks'hoe family lives in a two-family home in queens. now ronald can be home to celebrate. he and his wife have an 18 month old daughter, isabel. >> not too many have theave opportunity to get a donor in such is quick time. we've met a lot of people along the way and we've seen, youou know, the struggles that they have to get a donor so we're fortunate. >> reporter: dr. ernesto is then surgical director at the trans-manhunt center and says often times people who need a kidney are afraid to ask parents, fearing that it could u be dangerous for someone over the age of 50. 50. but the doctor says, there is no need to worry. >> it's so wonderful to see how we can transform someone's life within minutes by performing the surgery. we provide the person with a better survival and a better quality of life.ife. >> reporter: so what are the berks doing for father's day. >> i'm happy with this gift. gif i don't need anything else. >> coming up tonight, a they'll park ride that is sending a bad message to kids about how the ride depicts sexual violence toward women. will have details coming up. ♪ for a store near you go to benjaminmoore.com/dcmetro. i'm going to dream about that steak. i'm going to dream about that tiramisu. what a night, huh? but, um, can the test drive be over now? head back to the dealership? oh, yeah. 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