Research in the new vaccines and n. Ih Just Announced the first Clinical Trials in humans. That costs money. Thats why my more urgent request for money back in february. Not only did the Republicanled Congress not pass our request, they worked to cut it, and then they left for summer recess without passing any new funds for the fight against zika. Meanwhile, our pets at the n. H. And on the front lines have been doing their best and making due by moving funds from other areas, but now the money we need to fight zika is rapidly running out. The situation is getting critical. For instance, without sufficient funding, nih critical trials Clinical Trials and the possibilities of a vaccine, which is well within reach, could be delayed. So this is not the time for politics. More than 40 u. S. Service members have now contracted zika in 50 u. S. States, we know of more than 1800 cases of zika connected to travel to affected areas and that includes nearly 500 pregnant women. Zika is now present in almost every part of puerto rico and now we have the first local transmission in florida and there will certainly be more. And meanwhile, congress is on a summer recess. A lot of folks talk about protecting america f zika is a threat to americans, especially babies, right now. So right now, i want to surge the American People to call their members of congress and tell them to do their job. Deal with this threat, help protect the American People from zika. With that, i am going to take some questions, and im going to start the president speaking right now live from the pentagon. Hes about to take questions as you heard, but hes been focused on zika for the last few minutes, but large i focused it. That does it for us at 4 00 p. M. We want to kick it over to ock and lily. Vanessa were in the middle of one of our worst droughts ever. The damage it is causing and when we could see rain. The reporter a Police Officer attacked while doing a detail. We talked to one of the obstruction workers who saw the whole thing happen. Mark a Police Officers arrested for aiding isis. Only on fox 25, the local company that helped train that officer, and what its owner remembers about him before he went rogue. Mark right now at 5 00 p. M. , lawns all over new england look a lot like this one right here. Its the sixth driest year ever in boston and there are no signs of this drought ending any time soon. Good evening everyone. Im mark ockerbloom. Elizabeth im Elizabeth Hopkins in for vanessa welch. Sarah wroblewski is tracking a who are really tired of looking at that, but here we are at the Westwood Dedham water district. If you look on your screen, you look around, you see nothing but brown grass. It looks like its dead. People say theyre fed up looking at it, but we are in a serious, serious drought right now. The saying goes, the grass is greener on the other side. No rain, no green. Is not the case here in massachusetts. Driving around town in westwood and dedham, grass is brown, and just dry. This map clearly shows you, in the orange, we are in a drought, its the worst we have seen across the state in 14 years. Its been pretty bad. The reporter in this household, watering their plants and taking care of their lawn is their livelihood. Its good for your health, bushes, water them, mow the lawn. The reporter for the last ten days or so, folks living in thean only water their lawn one day a week. It is serious, we take it seriously. The reporter its so serious, the last time the oneday rule was implemented was 15 years ago. And we have a stream trigger that affects one of our wells when it hits a low point of 12 cubic feet per second. We are mandated by permit to shut that well the reporter the severe Drought Conditions are across 62 of massachusetts. Thats up 20 in just a oneweek span. And on nights like this, you just have to accept it. And hope in the fall. The reporter so, if you dont follow that restriction where you can water your lawn, just one day a week, you could get a fine of up to 100. It depends on each and every town. Even though were getting rain on saturday, thats not going to we need a lot more rain than well tell you how this couple is saving water the smart way. We are live in dedham tonight. Malini basu, fox 25 news. Mark we need the rain and there is some in meteorologist h wroblewski is here. Kevin we have a huge deficit, ock, as were looking at the current rainfall deficit across the region. We are below seven inches in boston, worcester, concord, and this is just a severe drought situation that is going to have longer because our lawns are brown, but for those with agricultural interests and farmers really going to feel the effects of this significant loss of rainfall that we really do need and also this morning, the moderate drought has been extended to the south coast, as well as the cape and island, so everybody seeing really dry conditions, even though we did pick up some rain earlier this week and we do have some more rain on the way. Its from this cold front out to the west, but its got a ways to head our way, so that means tomorrow, High Pressure still in control and were going to have dry conditions. It is beautiful out there today. Temperatures in the 70s and 80s with very comfortable humidity too, so hourbyhour, were going to take you through the evening hours. Temperatures fall back into the low 70s in boston, 60s whether you wake up, but inland locations, a few spots in to the 50s, so a comfortable night for sleeping. Open up those windows, but it gets hot by the afternoon. Im going to show you where we could near 90 degrees and also time out that chance of rain for the weekend coming up. Vanessa sarah, tha president obama talk about the zika virus in the United States. Experts dont expect a widespread outbreak in the United States. But there are eight confirmed cases of the virus in pregnant women in illinois. In the meantime, the head of the centers for Disease Control spent the day in florida, where there are now 15 confirmed cases of zika and at a News Conference a short time ago, he said the state is taking all the right steps to prevent an epidemic. He also said that even though small area, pregnant women across the United States need to be on alert. Understand, as long as there is zika spreading any are with, pregnant women should take steps to protect themselves from mosquito bites. Vanessa now the infected area in florida is very small, just 500 square mimes. And right now, officials are working to create a buffer zone to keep the virus from spreading. Later on at 5 00 p. M. , well tell you how several airlines are adjusting their policies to give people refunds if they cancel a trip to a place thats affected by zika. You can do whatever you want. Go ahead, do whatever you want. Do whatever you want. Elizabeth donald trump was greeted with boos and protesters holding up copies of the u. S. Constitution at a rally in maine. That rally just wrapped up within the hour and political reporter Sharman Sachetti was there. And sharman, trump was interrupted several times during his speech. The reporter he sure was. Happened in a while and he missed the protesters. Donald trump is. Coming off one of the roughest weeks of his campaign. Today, he called paul ryan a good guy, he doubled down on now discredited claims of seeing an american shipment of cash to iran and he says, hell cut your taxes in half. Now, during theal were holding up copies of the constitution. Even though his campaign had couldnt dicked it, donald trump doubled down on his claim that he saw video of a plane coming in, and american money coming off, and going to go iran. He says, that video was given to us by the iranians to embarrass the president , something thats been discredited. Now he generator calls Hillary Clinton corrupt, says she doesnt care and cant be trusted when it comes to National Security and he actually tried to appeal to he did sell out. By the way, in all fairness, i know we have some Bernie Sanders people here actually. Do we have Bernie Sanders people here . I hear we do. So were going to get a lot of Bernie Sanders because of trade. Because Bernie Sanders was right about one thing, that i really believe not i believe in, its a fact. We are dying with our trade deals. Our trade deals are a disaster. The reporter its worth pointing out, Hillary Clinton has bolted ahead of trump in points, 7 in New Hampshire. He also made mention of the Boston Marathon bombers. Why is that . Ill tell you at 6 00 p. M. Live in portland, maine, Sharman Sachetti, fox 25. Elizabeth speaking of Hillary Clinton, today shes campaigning in las vegas. Clinton and her running mate, tim kaine are riding the postconvention polling high that sharman just mentioned. In New Hampshire, the lead is even greater. Supporters, 57 to 32 . Mark a man who tried to gauge a mans eye out remains in jail. It happened yesterday on country club boulevard in worcester. Robert goulston is live in worcester where the suspect appeared in court. You talked exclusively to one of the construction workers who saw the whole thing happen. The reporter mark, that construction crew is working right here. Theyre repaving the road yesterday morning. They had the whole area blocked off, and when one driver tried to go into the supermarket here, police say the t around and thats when they say, he went ballistic. The worcester Police Officer was working a road job along lincoln street with a driver tried getting in to all these super mark parking lots. He wants to make a left and your a machine here, you cant. The reporter that driver, 30yearold, was in court today, charged with what happened next. Police say apia started swearing when the officer told him to drive around to the other entrance. Supermarket from the other side, police say he did a uturn and went up this road in the wrong direction. When he turned around and did the uturn, absolutely, he spun his tires and went right against traffic. The reporter then he drove around from the other direction and thats when police say it got physical. It was violent. The Reporter Police say apia first started pushing a supermarket Security Guard down officer who tried pepper spraying him two times. At one point apia tackled the officer and police say he scratched his face and started sticking his finger in the officers it out. The officer was finally able to make the arrest. We kind of had his back. We were watching. If he needed assistance, boy, we were right there. The reporter and the officer was cents over to the hospital, treated for eye injuries, was expected to make a full recovery. Straight ahead at 6 00 p. M. , what we found out about the suspect involving another attack he allegedly made on a Police Officer. We are live in worcester, robert goulston, fox 25 news. Mark youve heard about the casino in everett for years now, breaking ground on the new wynn casino. The timeline for that project and when you can place your bets. Sarah im tracking warmer weather as we head into the end. When we could hit 90 tomorrow and when our next chance of storms arrive. Mark ahead at 5 00 p. M. , a transit officer was arrested in washington, d. C. For conspiring to help isis. Intersection and only on, insight from the local organization that trained him to fios is not cable. Were wired differently, which means we can fix things differently. Thanks for calling fios. This is ryan. I know its in. Its in, but its not working. Im sending you a link to the my fios app that going to let me see what youre seeing. Really . Yes, mr. Mcenroe. See that cord . Just plug it into the connector on the right. So you can clearly see whats in and whats out . Oh absolutely. I like that. Tech support that lets your technician see the problem over your smartphone. Marco. polo marco. polo marco. polo marco. polo marco. polo scusa . Ma io sono marco polo, ma. Marco. with marco polo . Surprising. Ragazzini, io sono marco polo. S . , sono qui. Whats not surprising . 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The reporter for 13 years, Nicholas Young was paid to protect and serve washington, d. C. s metro system, but now looking at 20 years in a federal prison as hes charged with trying to help the Terror Organization isis. The feds arrested young wednesday morning and searched his home for evidence, trying to learn more about his past. Fox 25 has learned a local Security Firm had contact with in 2012, nick young signed this sheet after a training session. Four years later, a massachusetts Security Firm remembers the man who signed this piece of paper. Its really close to home. The reporter todd mcgee is president of the Security Firm, protecting the homeland innovations. Shortly after youngs arrest, one of mcgees instructors called mcgee, telling him, nick young took one of the companys counterterrorism classes. This is youngs completion certificate for a 16hour course. Mcgee tells me the clearly remembers young, because his views on middle east terror stood out. Heres a guy that demonstrated his passion, demonstrated his conviction, his ideology for a radical group. At the time isis really wasnt part of the conversation, but certainly, al qaeda was still a part of the direct conversation when we started talking about antigovernment, radical islam, in different aspects that the course brings out. The reporter now, mcgee is concerned about the information in what we teach . And who that information go to. The reporter questions that may be answered as this investigation continues. Im bob ward, fox 25 news. Vanessa tonight, boston residents will have a chance to give their opinion on the citys plan to put body cameras on officers. The city council is holding a hearing at the Mildred Community center. The Police Department wants to provide 100 cameras to officers for a sixmonth trial. Last month, the Department Said it reached an agreement with the police union to start a program. Boston is among the largest departments in the country that doesnt use cameras. Sarah were on track to have one of the driest years on record in boston, and taking a look at the conditions that we are experiencing now, with a lack of rainfall, were at number six for driest years to date, so pretty impressive looking at some of these dates, from the top there too, so we have to really watch this dry pattern that weve been experiencing, and thats why we have to be really watching how quickly were going to see some improvement, but it doesnt look like we will see improvement any time soon. The next several days are going to be fairly dry, except for one chance of showers, in my sevenday forecast and ill show you that coming up. As for the amount of rainfall this month so far, not too much in boston. Worcester definitely picked up a bimo both boston and worcester. Thats why we have a severe drought for boston to worcester, up in to parts just southeast of bostoke the dry co. 82, that was our high in boston today. We actually did tomorrow, perhas temperatures a couple degrees warmer, because take a look at this. It is all ahead of a cold front that will be pushing eastward, and bring in much drier air, but also spark some showers and thunderstorms that will be heading to the early part of the weekend. So until then, its the big blue h which brought us sunshine. Well stay dry in the overnight hours. 78 in boston, a beautiful evening out there. Dew point, rising just a little bit. It was in the 50s, we will see that dew point rise into the 60s tomorrow, but still quite comfortable, so over the next 12 hours, sunset, rht 60s by the time you wake up, and away from the coast, thats where im anticipate to go see the temperatures in the 50s. Its going to be a comfortable night for sleeping. May see a few areas of fog, the areas we typically see to the north and west, as well as southwest of boston, that wind will be quite light though, really limiting that factor. Come tomorrow, mostly sunny skies, temperatures will warm into the 80s, near 90 degrees. Cooler form the cape and islands with that wind out of the expecting to see temperatures near 90 through the merrimack valley, into parts of New Hampshire. 80s along the coast, perhaps a little cooler for places like rockport and down across the southeast, well go with the low to middle 80s and cape and island, wind off the water, temperature in the 70s. Getting an early start to your weekend, fantastic day all across new england, but come saturday, we will be watching for the