This is fox5 local news at 10. Right now at 10, symbols of hate, words meant to do harm. M. Spread around a neighborhood in arlington. Tonight the search for the vandals. Developing tonight two firefighters rushed to shock trauma of a an ambulance collided with a tractortrailer what weve learned about their condition. And not guilty of all counts. The Police Officer facing the most serious charges in the death of fred did i gray is a freeman tonight. An unaddressed Police Brutality problem. Were life in baltimore. And we thank you for joining us, im tony peukins and im shawn yancy. Police found an assault rival in a d. C. Teenagers home. Hes accused much threatening to kill her girlfriend and shoot uo her high the police chief is crediting her department for stoppingstop could have been another massmass shooting in our area. A. Sarah simmons is life with theth details. Tony and shawn, this 17 year old facing some serious charges and when you look at these courtthes documents you will u
That news coming on one of the deadliest days of this pandemic. Get this. More than 3,300 americans, thousand three hundred americans died on this day alone. And set to be sworn in dies of covid leaving behind a wife and two very young children. Our hearts go out to them right now. Good news overnight, believing a gamechanger for developing countries, because the vaccine is cheaper to make and doesnt actually require cold, complicated storage from astrazeneca. Other good news, second stimulus checks on their way to americans and should continue to roll out late other than this week, but the fight to direct those payments up to 2,000 still playing out. Not far from over and were covering it all. But we want to start with this breaking news on the coronavirus and our team are roste erreport covering every angels it. Kerry sanders, good to see you on this. A lot more questions about this new variant than there are answers. Its really worrisome for in americans. Talk us through what we kno
A group of senators Just Announced a call to ease delays in washington. You know, there has been partisan disagreement, bitter disagreement over how to fix the problems. Whats changed. An agreement it should be fix, come up with something, neither of us love this, or happy with it, and we think it will make changes. Frankly he has lost trust of veterans groups. Saying that they should have been more upset after secretary sheenski and president obama for problems with the v. A. So the fact that sanders and mccain were able to come together and introduce this was very significant. Now of course it has to pass the senate and the house. So what exactly would the bill do . We are talking about a backlog, talking about patients. Veterans not being able to get appointments long delays so what exactly would it do. These are problems that have been long in the making. This is not something that happened overnight. Senate sanderred talks about some elements it including upgrading 26 facilities i
In france. Hello. Armed separatists in the eastern ukrainian city of luhansk have reportedly been making fresh advances. Six separatists and 11 ukranian soldiers are known to have died. Many civilians are leaving. They are in control of a guard base and border guard post which ukranian forces were forced to abandon. Western leaders are threatening russia with more sanctions. David chater has this update from luhansk. Reporter the fact that the separatist fighters overran this border base after a fierce firefight is not just a humiliating defeat for kiev and their antiterror operation, it has strategic consequences. This is the base, the headquarters where they control and coordinate the russian border crossings, where they communicate with the border posts, which are emptying, and have no way of communicating with the border guards. That means a large blind spot is opening up on the russian border. It means the people in kiev, the government in kiev, the Security Services no longer hav
Step today toward trying to fix issues that have plagued the Veterans Affair health care system. Announce add plan to help ease delays libby casey joins us now, and lib we, as you know, there has been sharp disagreement over how to fix the problems at the v. A. , what has changed . Thats right. And senator john mccain, who is of course himself a decorated war veteran. He said neither side gets everything they want, but they get enough to feel good about it, so now they have the task of trying to convince the rest of congress to get onboard. What exactly would this bill do . So, everyone got a little bit of something they wanted. Democrats wanted to make sure there was more money put towards doctors. That would happen under this bill. Not have to get in a van and ride for two or three hours for a routine medical care. Republicans also wanted to make it easier to clean house at the v. A. But there are some protections in place, to make sure these are merit base. Or for other agendas, so