Then h himself. At this h stage of thef investigation theres nothing to indicate a that they were linkee to one on. Although police donl have a link between thethou sust and the victim, this couple who lives nearby knew them bothth well. They say one was an all tar boy, the other would come sell them girl scout cookies. If youre on the same bus withbs the same kids from howardfrom everyday you you would know whow they are, dont you think . Theres Motor Vehicle the gur that was used in the crime, police say it was taken in theae burglary. They blepharitisser burglarized two homes in the weeks beforeks the shooting. The seriema what family release a statement. Thea family is very greatful too the community for their outeir powering of support. Are overwhelmed by many prayers, tributes and thoughts that havee been sent our way as we hour the sudden loss of a caring andcari loving young woman. Police who may have known these two individuals. Theyre going through computermt records, phone records. Theyre trying to figure out ift there is a link between the victim and the suspect were going to have more for you coming up tonight at 6. Tonight, as you can imaginean the somber mood continues at Howard County where bothere students attended high school. Co erier today we talked with some students who knew charlotte. She was a great person. She seemed to have her life together she worked in ain hospital. She wanted to be a nurse. She definitely knew what she was dog and she was nice to everyone its sickening to think that somebody could do something likh that her, especially being whoeg she was. She was funny. Strike up conversations thanthan aregret not knowing more. Group counselors have been at the school helping students and teachers deal with the death. Well have much more at fox5 at 6. Sky fox is in Fairfax County where we have more informationre about a man and woman shot toto together win hours and two miles apart. The murders are connected. Nnec a search affidavit filed inle court, a Family Member toldr police the male victim is a drug dealer. Paul wagner joins us live from Police Headquarters with more on this story. Stor paul. Reporter hey there, goodd evening. We dont have anything new onav the motive at this point, butnt, what we can tell you you is whas we found in this search warranth filedis in Fairfax County today and he has a history of dealing drugs, mainly marijuana. When the police searched his home on barney stone court meme found a backpack with plantk material as well as a w scale. A. They also found several spent shell casings as well as bullets. On thursday, search warrant affidavit says a Family Member went to the home on barney stone court after the victim yeah neck hannah failednh to show for a 7 00 meeting. In the warrant, he was dead ondd the floor obviously murdered surrounded by shell casings. Police took several items fromra the thel house, including a save and a cellphone. The body of 22 year old cadet saw men a was found slumped behind a tree in burke. Urke she had also been shot to death. Police say both saw men a and you hand as knew each other. The motive was unknown, but they were following solid leads. At a vigil for you haas hand as, friends said they were malfed by his death. De its really sad that Something Like that would happen to twoto young individuals, 22 years old. They have a whole life ahead of them. That knock would not get violent with anyone. One. I dont think i ever meta more positive person in highly. Im sure if you talked to everybody out there theyd all have similar things to say. Imil this is a reallyar good person. Once again, Fairfax Countyfa police say theyre followinglowi solid leads in this case. Theyre working with the commonwealths attorneysths office. They did confirm the information that was wherein in the affidavit, but again at this point, theres no motive in thii case and no arrests. Live in Fairfax County, paul wagner, fox5 local news. Ews. Fox5 is in montgomery countyn where two people were m hurt ina car crash in tacoma a park. This happened around 10679. 30 along hill top road and mable avenue. The suv collided with car and flipped over. The person had to be extricated. Two people were taken to the hospital with non lifen threatening injuries. A Police Officer isr recovering after he was hit tractortrailer. It happened just before 11 00 this morning at Suburban Hospital in bethesda. A Police Officer was sitting ins his cruiser at the entrance to the hospital when a tractortrailers brakes gaveai way and backed right into thleee cruiser. The officer suffered minor injuries. In the district, a man arrested and charged with stealing a car and then hitting several othersl as he attempted to get away. Michael about your well stole al mere saidest suv on new years eve. The car was spotted on benning road in northeast early this h, month. When Police Officers tried tofi stop the car andce the driver oh street he had four Police Cruisers and several parked cars. He eventually crashed into acras traffic signal on 17th street. Hes charged with assault on Police Officers, unauthorized use oficer a vehicle as well as resisting arrest. Et cetera mr. take it outside than a get a look at the weather out there, which is another drizzly day, as you said yesterday, rinse and repeat. Its the exact same way a as its was yesterday. We wont make it through another were back where we wereere yesterday at this time with most the measurable rain over. In yesterday i was picked up under an inch of rain in many areas. Some places got closer to an inch. What were left with is drizzlef ant d fog. An you saw it on the live camera that we pulled up just a little bit ago. Light showers here and there, but the bulk of the measurable rain is over. Ill take you you to ray car car and you can see it pug away. Fog will be around for a little while tonight, a mile and three quarter visibility, one mile ate manassas. This isnt the worst fog weve ever seen but its definitelys something that might slow youlo down just a little bit as your traveling around a little bititl and this will probably get aly little bit worse before it gets better because its going to be closer to morning before we have considerable drying out of 9 atmosphere to get rid all the a low clouds, the fog and the drizzle. At least the temperatures are t helping usem out. It is 46degrees, a littleit warmer than it was yesterday. Es martinsburg, 4 in win chesser t. Once again tonight, temperaturem should stay above freezing soeei were not expecting any iciness with a refreeze of some moisturr that we had around today. At 7 00, 46degrees, fog will still be around at 9 00 and 11 00 with temperatures in the e mid 40s and overnight we should stay near the upper to 40. About 44degrees in the district. Our headline that were watchingre later this week, thursday nighta the possibility of some snow showers that may linger intoger friday morning. Could have an impact on your on era. Well be giving you the 411 onon that coming up a little bit later. Back to you. The 115th congress now inn session. Members were sworn in earlier today. Of course republicans control both chambers and the white house for the first time in a decade. On the senate side seven neweven members joined those who won reelection in november. Vemb the new members include maryland senator c on the house side, 55 new freshman are now serving. The gop caucus reelected paul ryan to serve as speaker. Eake Charles Schumer takes over aser state minority leader from a retired harry reid. For all of our arguments and ald of our differences we are all united by a deep abiding love of our country. We will hold president elect trump accountable for the values that truly make america great. The first day wasnt without controversy, the gop scrapped a plan of independents after president elect trump. Wants House Republicans to expand her voting powers. Right now she can vote in committees but she cant vote on the house floor. Or. Norton granted the floor vote ie the committee as a whole when the democrats controlled the house. Speaker ryan to restore thetore vote. We in the District Of Columbia have always regarded this vote as a down payment on full Voting Rights for the 680,000 district0 residents who pay the highest federal taxes due understand thisue figure. The highest federal taxes per capita in the United States. The least that reasonable peopln can do right now is to make sure that our delegate has a vote in High Temperature committee of the whole. And theres no indicationdica that House Speaker ryan will honor nortons request. Eq a controversial statute got thee boot from a local College Campus after many said a questionable art project went too far. Meaghan kelly of fox news heading to a new network. Etwo well tell you which one when we come back. Z27mkz z16fz y27mky y16fy i was another project thatten raged Law Enforcement supporters. They removed a statuteat of an fbi killer. At issue, a nine foot statute of leonard pellet yea. He was convicted of killing not one, but two fbi agents. Reporter leonard pellet yea is not just any controversialovr gu a bit of history, folks. Pellet yea was involved in a shooting way back in 1975. That shooting took the lives ofs not one, but two fbi agents. Two years rater pellet yea waset convicted in that the shing andd is currently serving two live terms. With that as a back drop you can imagine the controversy that sprung up here in the Nations Capital when this showed up right on massachusetts and nebraska avenue on the the campus of american university. A nine foot statute. Te. There was a good deal of complaints of the statute of pellet p yea that was put up depicting the killer of the two fbi agent. Many Law Enforcement official said they viewed this as an i insult. It was dismantled today. Au said they support the mission to be thought provoking, education statue was they believed thatt the university had taken a political position as an advocate for clemancy for pellee yea. While this had been going on, we also learned that this might non be the end of that statue. Atue also in that statement tonight, word from au that the museum there will be working with the artists to possibly relocate it to another location. The fbi agents associationiati roundly criticized when thisis went up the other day. We spoke with them tonight. They say they are pleased withad the decision to remove the leonard pellet yea statue. They are also tonight calling ot president obama to deny pellet yeas longstanding claim for clemancy thats currently beforn the white house. Live on the h hill tonight, tom fitzgerald, fox5 local news. New tonight, 40 ford is scrap its plans to build a plant in mexico. Michigan. They plan to invest 700 millios to transform the assembly plant. The move will create 700 new jobs. Many of those workers will be building high Tech Electric and selfdriving cars. Self and the reason that were cancelling the plant down in mexico is primarily due to theto fact that we were going to buili our next generation focus there. Were now going to build it in an existing plant in mexico because weve seen decreasing demand in north america forca small cars and we simply dont need the capacity anymore. More today president elect called out General Motors on twitter saying General Motors mexican made to chevy cruisers tax crews across the border only a small number m of mexican chevy crews hatch bags are sold in the us. A big announcement from meaghan po her publish cyst confirmed the position. They rolls hosting a daytime news, anchoring a sunday nightly news show and becoming part of the team. Shes worked for fox news for 12 years. The 21 First Century fox which is the Parent Company of our station issued a statement which says we thank Meaghan Kelly for 12 years at fox news. We hopes she enjoys success andu wish her and her family succeed. A look down memory lane. Look at the old graphics. Is that film . Yes. Have a story idea, call the fox5 tip line, the number right there on your screen 2028953000 or you can email your tips to fox5tips wttg. Com. So if you have a flat tire, dead battery, need a tow or lock your keys in the car, geicos emergency roadside assistance is there 24 7. Oh dear, i got a flat tire. Hmmm. Uh. Yeah, can you find a take where its a bit more dramatic on that last line, yeah . Yeah i got it right here. Someone help me i have a flat tire well its good. Good for me. What do you think . Geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. That means incredibly fast 150 meg internet. Beat the local sled jump record fly, gary, fly. His friend can download 13 different versions of the perfect song. His sister can live stream it. While his mom downloads how to set a dislocated shoulder, get 150 meg internet, tv and phone for just 79. 99 per month online for the first year. Hurry offer ends january 21st. Only from fios. Happy birthday to you. Ap happy birthdaypy b sarah. I wasnt here 70 years ago. But we are taking a trip bacp in time. In all the way to the year 1947. That was the year englandx metro media 5. Saturday, july 12, 1980. This is the 10 00 newses weekend edition, washington late night. This is channel 5 with moray provide videotape and james andt in. They are now tryingaps and to cp with anything they can at thehe national zoo to make link linklk go into heat. Shes about t get a shot of fertility drugs. Rtil clouds more than sun and it wilt be cool, too. Too. Hope for the weekend. Kend this is channel 5, foxville vision, washington, d. C. Americas number one prime time newscast. From Fox Television in washington d. C. , this is fox5 news at 10. King crabs coming into season now. No ahead in was cooking. Oo a look at whats ahead. We are now joined by antonio perkins. Im going to go with toe mean owe. I like that. This really is the life. Life i think we need a little bit of weather and well be in good shape. Another Beautiful Day for boating. Now thats real v. Very good. Thank you so much. Happy new year. Year we love you. Se that is a very short, short, short snippet of the 70 years. There were a lot more people in there. Now just to give epa id a hereia we want to he that you back to the time machine to the averagee person watching. Wtttg back in 1947 they earned about 149ed a year. They paid 1,300 for a new car and 15 cents for a gallon for the gas to fill it. A new home would have set you back 6,600 in 1947 and the groceries for that house, 13 cents for a loaf of bread andbra two cans of soup went for less f than a quarter, if you canuart believe that. Wow, inflation. Wttg, thomas till veer goldschmidt who is the engineer who independent zoo the station on 70 years, thats where theere call letters come from. Cool to be a part the history. And where else are you going to hear about murray povih talking about pandas in heat. Im sure sue can tell us stories a well. Id love to hear from her. I saw you murray. Videotape and said i told tony im looking a at the guy who had your job and my job. Ob. Interesting. Well be talking about it later on tonight, weve been lookinglo at your hashtags 5 at 70. A virginia man who lost he lost everything in a house fire had a discovery after dig asking through the rubble. Plus the president elect continues to cast doubt about the election hacking, but is hee taking sides in the wake of the russian cyber attacks. Fox5 news at 5 coming right back this is fox5 local news at 5. More heart breakin elect trumpt cot cot city tonight. A 5 year old boy accused of shotting a classmate and shooting her mother. Sean crews irsay. Police still believe crizer had broken into two homes in the week before that shooting. New information tonight in theg murders of a man and woman shot to death win hours of each other in Fairfax County. That nook was found shot in his springfield home on december 22e the next morning they found cadet found shot in the head two miles away. Way that nook had a history ofof dealing drugs and found plantla material and spent shell inside his home. The victims knew each other. New efforts to find the gunman who kill a young staffery to was shot to dea for the dnc. A billboard and bus benches wilc go up later this month in thethe northwest neighborhood where he was murdered. Rder rich was guindoned after a botched robbery. Today would have help his 28th birthday. So far there are no leads in this case. Russia hacking into a Vermont UtilityCompany Along withlong president elects open speculation with russia. Fox5s political reporter ronica cleary live tonight at the Russian Embassy to take a deeper look at all of this. Reporter those reports, theo broke on friday that Russian Hackers had tapped into this Vermont Utility company. Well, now it seems that thoset reports are no longer true. Its been reported that russia wa that hacking scandal. And then on monday, julian ahsan sat down with foxs sean anti for an interview where hewher doubled down on the fact that h says russia was not involved in the hacking of those dnc emails. Take a listen. We can say, we have said repeatedly over the last few months that our source is not the russian government and it is not states parties. Well, couple these findingsii with president elect trumps open speculation about whether or not russia was involved in meddling with novembers election. I think its unfair if theyif dont know and i know a lot about hacking and hacking is a very hard thing to prove so it could be somebody else. Se. I also know things that other people dont know and so they cannot be situ