Settled. Coming up at 5, well go back to the west coast and tmz with some more information including some information about the womanbo involved in theut alleged altercation. New tonight, George Washington university is feeling the heat after hiring a former self proclaimed islamic extreme is. He spent three years in prison for advocating for al qaeda after making threats and denouncing the United States. Now George Washington University Says hes renounced his former self and will be a key to helping them stop others from being radicalized. Tom fitzgerald is life gw a more reporter Al Banas Muhammad these days goes by the name of Jessie Morton much make no mistaken, George Washington University Officials told us today they are fully how risky this is, not only in terms of Public Relations but also potential blow back, blow c back from students t and blow back st from any of their big my dough donors. Johan as was sentenced to threee years in federal prison. He got out. By mr. Haythorn y but he also was there because he advocated the down fall the United States and reason a website. Whats changed in well, he said in an online video posted about a year ago after he got out of jail that prison changed him. That is why he is now ready to turn over a new leaf and join the fight against islamic extremists. To this. Having the courage to admit when one is wrong and cultivate a it is the heart that bumps to the beat of a man who is constantly working to improveve his condition. That was him now. This is highman, joe i morton. He has been fired by George Washington university. Rsit their mission is to prevent people from being radicalized by islamic extremists. Trem morton is used to being, Officials Say being one of those people. They consulted with both the fbi who morton has over the past year and spoke with University Officials who vouched that morton has served his time, reformed himself and is no longer a threat. We sat down with the very man who hired Jessie Morton. He is a former senate home land Counter Terrorism adviso. Streamism here. We asked him why bring on Jessie Morton and someone who was in the clutches of streamism turn themselves around and now help others escape from it. He wants to make amends for with he did in his prior life. Why higher him, what does he bring to you. U. Jessie brings unique perspective. He has his master from colombia. He was a radical and he got out. To have that perspective its very interesting when it comes to Understanding Research on this. Also, it helps us give a window of how to prevent other peopler from joining these groups. University Officials Say they hr very attuned to the reactions oi all of this. In addition to speaking with the fbi before making this higherher official shame as hews says they also reached prosecutor who convicted jessiee they say they got the green light from that prosecutor. George Washington University will notgeor tell us what his sy is, how much he is being paid, but they did confirm that this will be his first week on the job. Were life at George Washingtont university, fox5. X5. I have a quick question for you. Often times we see former criminals who change their wayss and then they become trainers in how not to be a victim of crime. In this case how does the d University Plan to try to make sure that they are safe, that their students are safe . Just to make sure. Are they going to be trackingcki his phone . Do they track his computer . Is there anything that will kind of monitoring that will happen now . Well, to be clear again, he has worked with the fbi over thr past year. It is the fbi who has signed ofd on him being i a federal prosecutor who put hit behind bars had signed off on this conversion. Nver so top levels of the us Counter Terrorism arms have now said that jessie is no longer a danger to anyone. In fact, in their view could be a major asset. Set. This is a commonplace practice in parts of europe, the fbi here domestically here in the uned states often will bring in former hackers when they are trying to get to the bottom oftm how people are hacking into computer systems. This no doubt is an evolution ai to how were dealing with Counter Terrorism measures. One of the things the experts are saying is that if you hope to prevent this kind of activity, if you hope to stop this kind of activity having somebody on board who has actually walked that walk and gone from there and back again could be an immesh racial asset in trying to stop others of going down the extremists. Thank you so much we appreciate it. A great idea. Ide of a 99 1 outage in d. C. This weekend were asking whatkg is being done now to make sureke you get the help you need in an emergency . The outage was caused by a Maintenance Contractor who accidentally flipped the wrong switch or hit the wrong button . On . Its ridiculous whatever happened and calls should have been rerouted to backup center. But that system failed and to make matters worse this also impacted commission by policey o and fire. And this is being covered by Lindsay Watts and shes life in the district with more today. Reporter this is not thet first time we have been talkingn about 9 issues in the dmv this summer. You may remember last month montgomery countyr systems wens down and then earlier this month sprint was having trouble with its service preventing customers from calling for help. P. So it does make you think about how reliable is could be technical issues withes your phone or with the system overall like what we saw this weekend. We have been asking district officials what they are doing now to make sure nothing likee this ever happens again. Hap and for one they are now staffing two 911 distich centers. This center near Howard University is not typically staffed with dispatchers and used only as a backup center. But for now there are call takes inside this building around theb clock. As we evenings innedui ar when e main 911 center went down on sat, this center that youre looking at in the video calls were not rerouted to the backupp center like it should have beene and its still unknown why thaty system failed. The system is now working to test a new fail safe program and in the meantime d. C. Will havelh two working 911 cities. Some cities always have two centers working but not the case here. We caught up with mayor bowser and i asked her w can you give residents on 911 . This was her response. We are obviously concernedios about any systems that arent working. We are investigating the rootat cause ofin the equipment failure ive ordered our team to do a stop to bottom review of the Technology Problem and were actually going to have our chief Technology Officer lead that effort. I also asked the mayor about the outrage factor here, that a contractor would have the power to shutdown 911 1 in thee Nations Capital in the middle of the night. We know that Contracting Company is stillctin working for the ci, but that specific employee nowye is not allow to enter any city billings. The mayor says that there are t now conversations underway about what kind of access contractors should have. Frankly were looking to see if there should only be distri employees that have access toccs that room. Thats my kind of first opinionn so well have to see if that is work that is appropriate for a contractor. And going back to that question now of can you rely on 911, most of the time the systems are working. Rare that we would see an outrage like what happened this weekend. His from what weve seen this summer there is no doubt outrages cangs happen and this is a Good Opportunity to look up the phone numbers for your local police and fire stations. Save those in your phone so you can have them potentially as a backup. Also know where those physicalsp building locations are. Another tip, connect with your local government, police andnm fire onen twitter and facebook. Over the weekend when this 911 outage happened, the district was using twitter and social media pages to let people know p what was going and to give them the alternate number to call for help. Were life in northwest, lindsay wa metro wants to connect its riders but only for a limited time. Hey, matt. Reporter a lot of people are happy at this, six stations into the downtown d. C. Area now have free wifi, but whats got a lot of people scratching their heads is that its only for 45 days and then its going to be shut o off again. Well have more on that including the cost and other aspects of the story coming upmn when we return. Rn. And your weekday commute aboutmu to get a lot more congested. Top is the start of september shock. How you can prepare for that next. And is summer too short . Marylands governor might thinkt so and that could be big changes for the school calendar. What do you think . Were going to find it on. It i think i agree that upper is too short and here we are in our second to last day of august than and its another warm one. Weve tied the record for the most days at or above 90 the at 22. Will we break it tomorrow . Row weve got one more day new information in on the topics, especially that tropicac depression in the south earnrn gulf of mexico. O. Hurricane launches Tropical Storm watches are up for floridas golf coast. Gol well let you know if its going to effect us in my way. Fox5 local news is coming right back. Back. Metro was listening. Thats the message from general manager paul whether it field as wifi is turned on in several metro stations this week. Many customers have been asking for wifi in the stations and just yesterday metro started aae test project. The hope is to have wifi at all stations one day. Matt ackland is life at gallery place metro with more on how much this cost and why this program is just temporary fororr now. Now. Matt, i think everybody wants to have it full full. Reporter no am people are talking about that laura and the reason it hasnt cost anything yet is because the six stations basically in downtown d. C. The wifi was already in place. E. What they did yesterday is simply flick a switch and now the public can use the wifi for free. One thing thats got so amm people con fused is that this is only a 45day trial period. And then metro is going to shut it off. It theyre saying in the futureure theyd like it opened back up iu these six stationsan across the metro system. Stem with just a few clicks youre connected. Six stations in the core of the district offering free wifi, but dont expect it to work thek same as the wifi you get at home. Its not going to be a smooth so process if if youre streaming a video or trying to watch something on the netflix app. Thats not probably the ideal situation for h this. This will be better3c for someone who is a secondary email. Another interesting part of this wifi its prompted when youn turn on the service. Just push this button and in realtime you can watch yourur train approach. Click on the name of the station and that will give you what is normally seen on the platform. Even though were not on the on platform yet we can get the information thats already been displayed, when the next trains are coming, what their destination. Alice from maryland is cheering the move by metro. Ro. She says with so much troubling news coming out of metro thisro will help the riding experience a about it. A we do have other pro deal with, but i think if they can do something, you know, give the people a little bit to make them happy it will make a little bit easier to deal with other problems. You have to wait down there for 18 minutes for a train its ats least nice to be able to be on your wifi. Metro made it clear today this theyrema not going to be tracking your phone once you get inside the station and as you leave. This is just about providing wifi service. So what about this 45day trial period . Were told that they want to evaluate the program afterwards. In fact, there is a questionnaire that they want you to fill out as you use the free wifi. They want to see if its working and then they say that the hope is, the plan is to spend the money and make sure that its available in all of the train stations system wide. Sarah . Lines here matt there have been a lot of talk about providin tunnels. Where does that stand. Wouldnt that be nice if you go down in the system and use your phone anywhere, includingdg as you ride through the tunnel. There is a plan, but right now metro says the earliest possible date for that is 2020 and2020 theyre not making any promises that it will happen then. Pe it takes a lot of Technology Gym it takes a lot of money and as you well know there are a lot of other issues that metro has to take care of before it focuses on that. There certainly are every day. Matt ackland, thank you so much. Traffic here, traffic there. I thought this was sarahs, but its mine. Now the school hits back in session across most of the dmv. You may have noticed more cars on the rode especially in the mornings. The end of the summer and the transition to fall can be jolting to drivers. Joining us martin decar a, thank you so much much for being here. E. Did you have trouble getting here yesterday . It was on metro rail. It was pretty trouble treatment thepret elevators took long to t up, but the rail got here fast. Thats kind of par for the course. When i was taking the kids to school, i was thinking, gosh, its not bad, but then i remembered it was the day after labor day. The National Capital region Transportation Planning board that is one of the longer titles we have around hearing the regions transportation planninr board put together this forecast today. We always talk about terribleut traffic tuesday, the day after labor day. Y. Is it all that terrible . Lastbe year they found that traffic on that tuesday after labor day was worse than any day in the previous month, however, the traffic will also be bad ond wednesday and thursday. Ursd there are other holidays like the day before which traffic is worse in our region. More people will be on the row. We know that. At. Its sort of back to the grind. Its the real thing. People are back from vacation f for the mostro part. Is it the new school . Is it people are back to their regular program in. Its all about the morningers, what the planners sound in their forecast when they crunched the numbers and looked at travel times, its all about the morning. Rnin afternoon rush hour trafficaffi doesnt get that much worse. In september, how do you get in. Do you drive . The highways that are bad now and whatever highways you use probably will still be bad in september next month and in the mornings when you have less flexibility you have to drop kids off, you havee to do whatever errands, everyone is leaving for work at the same time. They found travel delay, the amount of time youre sittingttn behind the wheel gets increased bias much as 45 percent. Traffic will be worse next month. I read a recent survey its not what are the best apps, do you know . For someone who hardly drivey without a car. There ray of traffic apps. Waz. Typical smart phones now willll tell you. The typical map app on a smartphone will give you not where to go. I think people use the same way to get to work every day. If youre moving on 66 towards6 the beltway in the morning, theres not many options once youre stuck. Uck. The point is be prepared. P if you can tell he work, now is the time to do it. The rice of tell he work has actually helped reduce thee increase of traffic in our region. If you look at vehicle milesicle traveled, which is total number of miles for the entire region for a year, it peaked in 2008, it has been slightly decliningng since. Thank you so much. Maybe sarah will have to do the newscast from home. Walk or bike. Want to come to my houseouse and do it together. Totally. I would love to do that. Im going to skateboard over. Will that be okay . Maybe take my segue. Ill tell you what, by then iten will be cooper. Oper weve had a run of who the days as you know in here in august. Today was day 22 7 and over 90. That day the record here in d. C. For the highest number of 90degree days in all. You hadou to go back to august 1980 beatt it. I think well beat it tomorrow because we have one more day in the pipeline. Northern suburbs not quite as toasty although a few spots like cumberland are at 90. While were going to have one more warm day i also wanted to talk about the topics becausehet important updates come in right at 5 00 and we know we have a tropical depression off the the coast of hat russ. Were really paying attention to this. Still not named storm, but the deal is its expected to become either a Tropical Storm later tonight or strong one moving some more on shore in florida late thursday maybe between tampa and tallahassee. The track did shift a little bii closer to the coast. The 5 00 does have parts of Coastal Carolina in uncertaintya its a little closer even to virginia beach. Certainly most of the models are still keeping it off the coast. Lets watch that trend and make sure it doesnt have any impactt especially for anybody who may be headed to the beaches this weekend. It will likely get a name later tonight or tomorrow and that name will be herman. There are two spotty storms around south and east. 87degree, by 9 00, 82 and by 11 00, 79. 11 0 it looks like again one more day in the 90s before some cooler weather in here and well talk more about that and the implications of this new track changes of the weekend. Dont go anywhere. Wet have a lot more to talk abt on the news at 5, including should schools start later in mod and what Governor Hogan has to say about that. Well be right back. More students in h maryland are back in school now. Some returned to class sc yesterday, but others kicked off the school year last week. Was terrorist the only county ht the statehe when students startn school after labor day, but that could be changing. Mayor governor larry hogan is proposing to push back the school year until after labor day. Fran coast supports the idea as well. Extending the summer vacationmm will be an increase to familyly time and boost the states economy. It would be nice in everybody started at the same people who walk to school can feel a little safer in fairfax county. This morning they held ribbonbon cutting ceremony for a new pedestrian signal. Gna heres how it works. If a wearing wants to cross the street he or she is to alert the signal that will yield to pedestrians. A red light will flash to tell people to stop. This available in some areas around town in d. C. As well. The pta at line Brook Elementary School helped launched that idea. Fairfax county students will be back in School Next Week and many of them want to look good for the first day of school of course. Co so many went out to get their haircut. The fairfax fire and police sponsored the event. About 100 kids got their haircut for free today. Theres another candidate in the raise for the white t hou. Hey, ronica. Reporter have you heard his name before musclen. If you havent we had an an interview with him today and he thinks he has a chance. Everyone has been weighing in the colin calf think conversation. How donald trump has advice for the nflf thald quarterback. Back after this. this is fox5 local news at 5. Prince georges county, a 12 year old boy is in Critical Condition after a piece of woodd from a shed being renovated fell on his head. This happened in the 3900 block of 74th avenue in landoverver hills. The victim went to the hospitali with head trauma. A. D. C. Police are investigating a deadly shooting in northeast. Police say 24 year old tony gates was shot multiple timestip last night. It happened on the 1,000 block of rhode island avenue. Gates was taken t where he later died. At this point detectives havetie not identified a suspect or a motive here. Theres currently a 25,000 reward for any information thatm leads to an arrest. If you know initial give police a call. A youth pastor accused of Sexual Misconduct is facing additional charges this evening. A second victim has now come forward and accused george barrack of touching her inappropriate and exposing himself. It happened in 2013. 3. Barrett was arrested earlier this month for a similar crime. Donald trump poses a true threae to our republic. He must be stopped. He must not bet be our presiden. That was evan mack musclen there. He is running an independent for president. Ronica cleary spoke with mack musclen about his candidacy. Interesting. Thanks, laura and sarah. H. The question is have you even heard his name mack musclen he is running asen independent candidate. He is reallyent running as a pat of this never trump movement. But there is no doubt maximummen late to the game. Right now he is d working on get on as many ballots as possibless and he just got enough signatures to get on a ballot here in virginia. Ihere asked him why should voten virginia put their faith and their vote in him. Take a listen. Sten im the only one in h raise whoo has Credible National security experience. The only one whoo understands how to get this economy up and running again and im definitely the only one who understands what kinds of reforms we need to make this in this government so that the people finally feel like their voices are being heard, so their voices are heard. Right now we have a government thats unaccountable to the American People and i think Hillary Clinton demonstrates that. And i think donald trump would demodona well as president. So to be clea candidacy is an unlikely one. Am say that for him to win its going to be contingent on whats called whats called a contingent election. Its when neither of the majoror Party Candidates get to that minimum required 270 votes in the electoral college. Then the decision for president , it actually goes to the house of representatives and that may be a scenario that mack musclen relies on. So coming this late in the gamee i said to him, you know, was there a gop candidate out theree that if that person won thatt primary would you maybe have decided not to do this. Take a listen. Was there a gop candidate,date including if you had 17 to choose from maybe you wouldnt have felt self compelled to do this. Any of them would have been better than donald trump. Again, reinforcing that never trump m mack musclen at 6 30. If you would like to learn a little bit more about the man behind the candidacy, check out my facebook page. Book we asked him some more personaln questions. Reporting life at the capital, im ronica cleary with fox5 local news. Meanwhile Republican Donald Trump is speaking out tonight. But it is not about politics. Now, hes weighing on an nfll stars decision to sit duringri the national anthem. Youve heard all about it. Over the weekend, 8 00 columnen cap nick refused to stand during the star spangle led banner. He called it a terrible thing. The quarterback made it clearar that he isnt a fan of trump or Hillary Clinton. Into a lot of fallout from thisom for him as well. It is. Car ream abdul gentleman bardu said its about free speech. Eech its going to continue going on for a while. Colin his career would be over after this. Suspension. Susp nothing. There was rumors that the 49 estimate cut him. Hes getting the go ahead against the chargers. Arge theres a about it off controversy and it comes from nbcs analyst Rodney Harrison who said this. His im a black man, colin capperper nick, hes not black. He cannot understand what i face and what other black men and black people face. Ople his heart is in the right place, but with what hes doing heg he still doesnt not understandsta what we face as people of color. He apologized later objection to the form i should have never called capper nicks raise into question. It was a mistake and i apologize. The last point i want people to know i never even knew he was mixed. It shouldnt matter. No, it shouldnt. That was a littlee irresponsible spouting out of the mouth. Th just a little bit. Ttle lets talk about tom brady right now hes going to begin deflate gait. Defl after what, two years. Rs. Things he cannot do during the suspension or else. Attend or watch practice. Wat show up at the patriots facility. Fac engage in footballrelatedot activities or discussions with teammates. Have any contact with teameam personnel and he cant go to the stadium as a spectator or travel to any road games. However, he can go home and live with his super model wife. Oh say. Poor him. Cant talk to the media, sa either. I know they hate that in new england. Finally, time tebow, hess taking swings today from 27 major league bates balm teams. Hes still in great shape. Theres conflicting informationt but the nats were indeed there on hand. He tried to breakin to my knowledgor League Baseball after his football career came to an end. En baseball since high school which was more than years ago. Ars im just trying to draw someme conclusions here. Hes wearing black. Notice the orange sock. I think he wants to play forth San Francisco giants. Nts. Im sure he would love to play for the 49ers. I think theres some hints there. Or orange for the orioles. Thats a good one. Or maybe the marlins in his home state of florida. We like to speculate on that. Its fun to much what. Were talking about a quarterback, no controversy, just does and the want to play football. O coming up, lapd beginsin searching the home of of Singer Chris Brown. N. Were going back to the west coast. What the woman at the center of the altercation is saying tonight. A two year old version of the abc song that will leave you stunned. That viral video is next [000 56 42;00] i found her wandering miles from home. When the phone rang at 5am, i knew it was about mom. I see how hard its been on her at work and i want to help. For the 5 million americans living with alzheimers, lets walk together to make an even bigger impact and end alzheimers for good. Find your walk near you at alz. Org walk. Test test singing. You know what, you could beld looking at a future broadway star here. Thats a two year old industryns yet oh guy a taking her abcs to a new level. Belting out the abcs with a broadway twist, of course. It has 4. 5 million views. Apparently she sings every song this way. Ingsy. She has the arm movements. Ove very dramatic. You wonder if she comes from dramatic parents. Pare i think shes shes up and coming. Fox5 local news a right now. This is fox5 local news at 6 we6 want to essentially make amends for what he did in his prioror life. Right now at 6 one of the nations premier University Made a controversial higher. A former islamic extremist who served time in federal prison. The system is down. Fox5 a has a citywide 9111 outage. What is being done to make suree you get the help you need in an emergency. Em Singer Chris Brown involved inin an hourlong stand off outside his home in la. What investigators found duringu the raid. T the news at 6 starts right now. Thanks for joining us, im shawn yancy and im tony perkins. Tonight, George Washington the heaty is feeling after hiring a former selfproclaimed islamic extremist. He spent three years behind bars for advocating for al qaeda. The University Says the man has denounced his former role ande will be a key others from being radicalized. Fox5s Tom Fitzgerald is life at gw tonight with more. Reporter good evening. Abdullah muhammad these day he goes by the name of jessie mort objection to the form well, who is he . He spent three and and half years in prison because he once ran a radical islamic website that advocates violencec and he also issued threats aboue people that he felt at the time had made insults against islam. But that was then. Hen. This is now. George Washington University tonight says, look, we are very aware of the reaction to all of this both from the student bodyy here and from am of the big money donors that contribute tor this university. So what was the big change inn
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