tom fitzgerald is live on the hill. up like the show down under president obama gop controls both houses of coming gress aunt white house. tom. >> well, tony, are you right about that. and the other thing is these democrats these republicans cannot agree on a lot these days but they can agree with this. if they don't come one something by april 28 the government will run out of money and government will shut down. at issue here you think the reps controlling all the forms of government here right now and would be able to get this through. however the fly on ointment is white house and this requests that they include about million to start construction on the me. can border wall and some democrats like chris van holland are not in favor of this wall at all and they're asking the president to follow through on campaign promise to have mexico pay for that wall. >> it's a very sgrukttive budget and not just for the region but whole country. what we're trying to do now is just get through the remainder of this fiscal year be

we're live in leonardtown tonight, tom fitzgerald, "fox5 local news". >> we'll have much more this incredible video online. you can head to the web site "fox5" d.c. com it is stop story there on the >> well there was a disturbance on ride on bus in montgomery county and as you can see there the whole thing caught on camera. disabled passenger got into a confrontation with bus driver. incident was posted on facebook last month. we reached out to county officials. department of transportation spokesperson says county worker involved is not driving now but is still being paid. we'll have more on the story coming up "fox 5 news" at 10. >> metro transit police need your help to identify four people suspected of robing a passenger on red line train. take a look the incident happened as the train was approaching the wheaton glenmont station and several men got on board and asked the man for his phone. when he refused to give it to them the men began punching the victim in the head and face. investigators say the men also stole some of the victim's credit and debit cards and got off at the wheaton st

. >> >> a new resource for victims of crimes committed by illegal grants >> tom fitzgerald is on that story. >> reporter: on the heels of that news, a decision across the country could have some communities in maryland looking a the declaring themselves sanctuary cities. more on that >>> controversy ignited over the netflix why, local schools are sending a warning to parents about the message they say the series sends. >>> dividers and local park benches may be aiming to keep the homeless from sleeping in parks >> we've got quite the to her range across the area, from 63 to nearly 80, and it has everything to do with whether or not the sun is popped out in your area. it's clearing from west to east. it's been a slow process, just now, dc was able to touch 70 and welcome back to the sun. we got a lot more sun in the forecast. we'll talk about the big warmup still on track with a first look at your forecast coming up next. st coming up next. you >>> tonight the sanctuary city movement may now have new live in maryland after a federal court blocked the trump administration's efforts to s

fox 5 news at 7:00 starts now >>> good morning, i'm annie yu >> i'm tom fitzgerald. it is sunday, april 16th, it is easter sunday. of you. it will be beautiful out there have not >> good morning to both of you >> love the pink. >> thank you. getting in the spirit of it. long sleeves might be a bit much, because it is very warm. records still pretty far away. i don't know why that was in there, we are going to be hitting a record. the record, 92. that's tough. as we take a live look on sunday, april 16th, it almost looks hazy out there. that summer type humidity is creeping back in and temperatures will warm well into the 80's. as advertised a very welcome easter sunday, it's already very mild and feels kind of muggy out there. you'll notice that. 69 in the quantico, 68 me leonardtown, 64 in cambridge maryland. we had a few thunderstorms that came through around 9:00, 10:00 last night north of washington. maybe you heard the rumbles of crossed your area. we have a few clouds out there this morning, there are showers waiting in the wings and we could see thunderstorm l

live in montgomery county, tom fitzgerald fox 5 local news. >>> let's take it outside right now. and kind of a gloomy day, not to great after what we saw the last few days, as walking in didn't have a an umbrella >> did you get a little rain >> it made me want to wear dark colors >> you're reflecting the weather mood of the day >> i'm springy y >> we had vigorous showers as i was driving into work. they've been hit or miss, as you can see on radar now, not much is left at this hour. they have been passing on through. we had a few rounds of showers early this morning, scattering out as you can see and while we're still dealing with a lot of cloud cover and the gloom, we are not seeing much in the way of rain, which is too bad if it's going to be cloudy let's get decent pollen washing rain. one things those clouds have done is kept our temperatures on the cooler side, this is the first day we've been above average in awhile. 62 is our current temperature in dc. dulles is 60. it's a little bit brighter as you ged toward cumberland. they've had breaks and you can see they've jumped u

we're live tonight on the hill, tom fitzgerald, local news". >> all right. let's take it outside now. it feels a little more like fall than i would say. what are we in? spring still? i have no idea anymore. >> is there a fifth season that fills time between march and june. sue is here with a look at what is coming in the next couple days we knew it was coming but it was a bummer. >> t. s. elliot said april is cruelest month. >> how poetic. >> right. >> read more. >> realms of rain and bit end of the week summer heat and maybe first 90-degree temperatures. tonight we're dealing with rain and you know what? we can't explain about it department, i remind you we're in moderate drought. this is nice rain. i know it's annoying because it's dreary and saturday was a washout. we had dry hours yesterday and early yesterday morning and now we're in the thick of it i think there will be breaks in which it does not rain heavily tonight or gets really light. >>> but it will pick up overnight. and we've had a few spots coming through more moderate rain. fortunately becaus

fox5's tom fitzgerald on capital. there's been a lot going on, but this extends to whether the first 100 days is as important as at all. >>reporter: president trump himself as times has sent differing signals about what all of this means. during the campaign he was often here to tell his crowd to tell his crowd that he would accomplish very big things in the first # hyundais. just on friday he tweeted out that the 100 day mark was what he called a ridiculous standard. the white house this morning unveiling unveiling a new section of the white house. gof homepage this detailing as the greatest hit of the first 100 days of the trump administration. let's take a look at the site is divided up into three main sections. what will you find on there. of course will the list and the nomination and confirmation of the us supreme court of justice neil gorsuch. there is sections of the air strike on syria, the effort to crack down on illegal border crossings. 61 percent in the first few months of this administration. they also l

live in northwest at the headquarters of the university of california in d.c., tom fitzgerald, fox5 >> all right, coming up, closure tonight for a maryland family who lost their three-year-old after she was killed by a stray bullet on her front porch. >> i just screamed. i screamed and thanked god, i just cried and screamed and i -- i just really just had a time. >> we'll tell you how police were able to find mackenzie elliott's killer nearly three years after her death. >> and a fireworks explosion inside an elevator. hours later, the same virginia office building receives a bomb threat. what crews discovered when they arrived on the scene. alex. >> reporter: and i'll tell you what parents can expect at a meeting tonight after students reportedly take xanax at a loudoun county school. >> thanks alex. sunshine today and temperatures responded. most locations up into the 80's. rain on the way and then some real hot stuff. we'll take a look at the forecast coming up in just a bit. stay with us p the news will continue. >> ♪ in my future, i'm twice as likely to have a stroke. i'm at hi

tom fitzgerald was in the room when it happened. tom, i understand that he came with a laundry list of facts to back up his words today. >>reporter: this was a really remarkable event, shawn and jim because so much of the attention that has been given to the homeland security and terrorism policies of the trump administration comes directly off of president trump's tweeter feed. we get back to the old saying, the signal in the north in a lot of ways, twitter feed is the noise. what we heard today was the signal. what are these policies actually focused on and aiming at? it's no secret this administration has stumbled badly at times in enacting some of these policies the travel ban, for example, was dashed in two different federal courts. they faced opposition on the border wall despite the fact that they stind r continued to want to go ahead and build that. they wanted to be very strong about wanting to crack they criticized thisnistration.- administration despite the fact that there has been a ground swell of people lately who sayi

last day of the month >> i can't believe it, tom, i'm ronica cleary. >> tom fitzgerald. welcome to fox 5 news on the busy sunday morning, this morning, because saturday night was a very busy saturday night and a whole lot of levels. >> i'm appreciatetive of the magic of concealer and dry shampoo or i don't know if i'd be standing next to you. >> i don't know what that means but i'll go with it. the white house correspondence dinner are on your right. on the left, president of the united states headed up to harrisburg, pennsylvania for a competing event, kind of a campaign rally style event where the president pulled no punches when it came to going after the media and talking about what he says are the highlights of his first 100 days >> when manage made that joke at the top of the show, it's the elephant not in the room, it brought me back to the iowa debate that donald trump didn't show up at and megyn kelly said the same awards, how many times will we say that about president trump? let's listen to a little bit. >> there's another big gathering taking place tonight in

. >> tom fitzgerald is live tonight in leonardtown in the latest on this one, fixts. >> good evening, jim, shawn when that plane went down two weeks going we were lucky no one got killed in the incident. we were not lucky today. tonight a win personnel on board that black hawk helicopter is confirmed dead and two others seriously injured. we have video and pictures of the scene as this unfoldeded this afternoon here in s st. mary county. in leonardtown maryland. we're told this is uh 60 plaque hawk stationed at davidson air field over for the belvar as you know at the time of the incident we were told this black hawk and several others were doing this routine training flight. both are at the university of maryland shock trauma in baltimore. right now the cause of this investigation is the question right now. jim, shawn i can tell you we do not have a cause of crash because of team of the army combat readiness out of for the rock alabama they're still on the way right now to takeover this investigation. and now what we can tell you about what happened on the ground was this was a beaut

. >> tom fitzgerald has more on this one tonight, fitz you talked to larry hogan in relation to this >> this comes down to the two side of this coin, him talk about the concerns in the immigrant community about enforcement and how the federal government is now handling this. on the federal government side, you have the attorney general jeff sessions coming out and saying the main focus from here on in is going to be enforcing and this part is important. laws that are already on the books, he is not saying they're going out and whole cloth making up new things, sessions is saying that they're going to use what already is on the books, but up until this point has not been effectively enforced. case in point, the catch and release program where there were apprehending people who had crossed over the u.s. border, detaining them and once they established they have a place to go in the united states releasing them asking them to come back for a court date which many times was never set. that is different now, so we went to governor hogan and asked him what he had thought about what the att

fox5's tom fitzgerald took a look at the plan. he's live now with more. >> reporter: jim any time you're talking about half a billion dollars that's real money to a lot of folks and remember, it's know secret since he took this job as general manager, paul wiedefeld has said time and time again that metro needs to get rid of its inefficient ways of doing business. he's come up with a new plan, with new ideas. one of them, maybe met only concentrates on running buses and trains. but private contractors run bus and rail stations. that's just one of the ideas. here's a look at some of the highlights. the main thing here is funding. what wiedefeld is asking local governments to do is to create a regular steady flow of funding, d.c. t-maryland, virginia, all sending metro an annual $500 million form wmata's long term infrastructure and maintenance needs. now, does that mean a new tax? does it mean some sort of just regular payment? that's not exactly put down in paper just yet. he's left that up to the local governments month. he also

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good to have you with us i'm tom fitzgerald >> i'm ronica cleary >> fox 5 news on the hill. a beautiful day, you see a beautiful picture of st. peters basilica >> tens of thousands of the faithful are celebrating easter at the vatican >> alexandra limon has been out there all morning, she went way up high in the bell tower, you're down back on the ground this morning, alex. i'm sure everybody is looking fantastic and please be out there on this sunday morning. >> reporter: yes. everybody is enjoying this beautiful day, beautiful weather. mass is now underway inside the national cathedral here and as you mentioned just awhile ago we were up in the bell tower, take a look at what we were looking at as kevin joins me to talk about the instrument, tell me what it is and the significance of it >> it's carolon, each note is connected to a different bell. we use it to call people into worship but it's the instrument that you can hear outside of the cathedral. the organ you can only hear inside. the bells you can hear for couple mile also around. >> reporter: this isn't the only set

say say the plan will benefit billionaires and worrying about soaring deficits >> tom fitzgerald is live tonight in takoma park with more on what the tax plan means for us regular every day folks >> you hit it at the top. you called this the biggest tax cut in the history, the secretary of treasure added that it is the biggest tax reform in history. it's reform this is and how much more it isn't a cut because when you go through this one page today, you see these tax rates dropping. now, this was essential campaign promise that he had made on the campaign trail. essentially this is nothing new. a lot goes back 30 years ago to the reagan bush administration back in 1980. back then, it was called trickle down economics during their republican primary campaign in 1980. george hw bush called it voodo economics. if you lessen the tax burned on the corporate level, well, then those companies will essentially have more money to invest in the businesses, have more money to invest in hiring employees, good for the economy, the employees have more money in their pockets and then if they have jobs,

i'm tom fitzgerald live. secretary of home land department telling lawmakers to shut up if they disagree with trump administration policy. why did he say that. we'll tell you at five at s loving seeing those blue skies behind tomorrow tonight as he's showing us around gw. we're going to continue to have a beautiful evening, but the blue skies are going to take aic hoo i'll let you know when and if there are any showers to go along with it. we'll be right back. >> the jokers jinx ride at six flags america is back open tonight just days after riders got stuck on the high speed roller coaster. it took firefighters several hours to rescue the two dozen riders. park officials tell us engineers figured out what went wrong with the ride. apparently there was a problem with one of the train's wheels. it has now been fixed. state inspectors have examined the jokers jinx and it is again safe to ride. >> last night on fox5 news at ten and 11 we told you about the continuing problem of illegal atvs on city streets and si

i'm tom fitzgerald we'll have the story at 5at630 >>> i'm sue palka. fasten your seatbelts, these are the high temperatures today, little bit below average but we may see some areas at least 20 degrees warmer to especially as we head toward the weekend. we'll talk about what you can expect coming up with your full forecast. we'll be right back. >>> supposed to make the load safer, some believe they may be doing the opposite and are killing people. the guardrails in question are called lindsey x lightened terminals and they're being used in our area, a tennessee man said his 17-year-old daughter was killed in a car crash in november involving that type of guardrail. this week, he travel to the nation's capitol to deliver a letter to the transportation department, asking them to rescind the approval of the guardrails. >> what i have found is several failures where the guardrail penetrated the vehicle. also where the guardrail will flip the vehicle. >> each families experienced the devastating loss of a loved one due to the to dangerous lindsey guardrail

tom fitzgerald joins us. when it comes to this 100 day stuff it's a little bit like the weather in london. if you don't like the answer, wait a few minutes it might change. the reason being is during the campaign then candidate trump was often telling crowds that they would be doing very big things in the first 100 days. that seemed to change as soon as they got into office. as recently last friday the president tweeting the 100 day mark is what he called quota ridiculous standard to live up to. now it's tuesday, apparently things have changed because when you turn on the white house. golf website there's a brand new page highlighting the greatest hits of the first 100 days. neil gorsuch was there, yes, nominee forth us supreme court that went through the confirmation process and was sworn in there in the rose garden a couple of days ago. there was also the air strike listed on syria that really shot up some of the president's approval ratings in the days after that took place. there was also news on immigrat

. >> ♪ >> i'm 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. we'll 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. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> here's 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 city's 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 george's county teacher and coach facing child porn charges. police say 34-y

fitzgerald the university of california building in d.c. is free speech under assault on college and university campusesly? the latest controversy over ann coulter's canceled appearance has some people asking that question t we'll dive into it on 5 at 6:30. >> listen we have showers in our forecast maybe tonight and there could be a rumble of thunder. we'll look at radar plus the setup for the weekend especially on sunday is tricky, tricky, tricky. forecast coming up in about 15 minutes or so. tony. >> thank you, gary. >>> if you have a story idea, call the fox5 tip line. that number is (202) 895-3000. you can also e-mail your tips to fox5tips@wttg.com. we'll be right back. >> ♪ >> frightening moments for dozens of employees at a falls church office building. police say a bomb threat came the office is located in the 900 block of south washington street. it also houses an abortion clinic. authorities say witness bound to sheets of paper near building's entrance with the word bomb written on it. the building was evacuated and fire crews la

. >> "fox5" tom fitzgerald is live tonight with more on the story. fits, do you think they'll work out a deal own this one. >> that says it all. >> you feeling deja vue right now. >> maybe. >> how many times have we heard this. >> i'll tell you how many times. this is the second congress now jim and shawn where we are come twelve times within five days of government shutdown. that is remarkable number when you consider the fact that you know the congress is supposed to come up here and do one thing run the government and systemically now we have a problem where no matter who is in charge they cannot seem to do that on regular basis. the situation here now is we face. this fight is not over obamacare like some of the recent arguments up here. this is about mexican border wall. here's a situation, folks, we hav until april 28, four days from now, to get a continuing resolution which basically pays the bills for government. the white house now is asking for three billion dollars added to that continuing resolution to help start construction on the mexic

. >> let's go to our smoking man fox5's tom fitzgerald. fitz. >> reporter: i feel like i should produce an alien some form of extraterrestrial. >> we toniwe don't know who is running your camera. >> reporter: good point. conservative legal watchdog group decided to look into the voter rolls in montgomery county and what they found is this. the state of maryland is listing montgomery county with about 650,000 voters on the rolls. why did they raise their eyebrows about that? well, it turns out that's about 23,000 people away from what the census bureau says that that number should off a letter to the maryland board of elections asking them to at least explain and resolve this somehow because the two numbers do not match. now, they are not outright accusing montgomery county of any voter fraud but what they are saying is that these numbers don't jive. well, then you might leave yourself open to that because the rolls need to be as accurate as possible and if you've got upwards of possibly 23,000 names on those rolls that are not supposed to

tom fitzgerald is working on that story tonight. hey, fits. >>reporter: jim, sarah, an eyebrow raising speech here the at george washington university coming up we will tell you why secretary of home land secretary john kill told his critics to shut up. ronica. how, fits, well this building right here is the bender jcc of greater washington, just one of the private religious centers that will receive taxpayer dollars to improve safety measures. we're going to take a deeper look after the break. >> we have an update from six flags in upper marlboro about the jokers jinx ride, remember it stranded 24 passengers last week. we'll tell you what the latest is on that. gut >> this is fox5 a local news at five. coming up at five:30 if you're getting home right mow here's what we're following today, in the district, a maintenance worker is dead after a large tree fell on him. this happened at nine at the corner of independent and first southeast. capital grounds officials say matthew mcclellan was working on an irrigation pipe. independent avenue will

mary county, tom fitzgerald, >> all right. thank you. meanwhile, two men walking a loan in columbia heights say they were attacked and knocked unconscious. their sell is she phone cause taken as well. and "fox5" paul wagner live tonight in columbia heights with the story on this one, paul. >> jim, sarah, we've been out all day and talked to a number of people. that was their bigist concern these attacks came without warning and knocking these two men unconscious. first attack taking place high at place northwest right next to a soccer stadium that belongs to bell and lincoln and just to give you perspective it's right behind the target on 14 street if you know where that s the 57-year-old manziel he was on cellphone when suddenly attacked from behind. that was saturday in the afternoon. the very next day also in the afternoon the second attack took place. rights over there where you're looking now in an alley high at place. >> anthony figueroa and hung neugen are recovering from the beatings they took saturday and sunday average. figuero

. >> and i'm megan fitzgerald. and it looks like it's going to be a beautiful the sunday morning show, tom. >> yeah. >> hey tom. >> good morning. it's anything but a regular sunday morning. it's sultry when you head out the door this morning. you'll be comfortable in short sleeves. we've got balmy breezes coming in out of the south and west. everything has gone green. it's a live view overlooking spring valley. you'll be comfortable just in the long sleeves or short lea sleeves now and shorts, sleeves, sunglasses during the afternoon. it'll feel like summer time climbing well into the 70s. reagan national is now up to 74, look the leesburg, 79 degrees. hovering in the mid-80s through the afternoon. look at rain chances for the next ten days. that's coming up this half hour. >> tom, thank you. >>> a child is spending easter morning recovering after being involved in a bad crash. maryland state police say two people were killed after the suv, the child was riding in slammed into another car. this happened just before