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WTTG Fox 5 News 5 January 18, 2017

Marrow was in the line of fire. And then vanishes down thevanisn road without looking back. Bk. Vivian marrow was a fixture inun her neighborhood where she has s lived for the past 30 years. Ye. Residents knew her as miss m vivian or the candy lady. Ca she had three children and 11an1 randchildrenn. Although police dont have a motive tresidents believe its all part ofnt an ongoing on beef between two rival neighborhoods. Elvins road has been a be troubled neighborhood for someeh time. Some been multipleltie murders and d. C. Police have hve at times kept fixed post thereoe is with officers sitting onit the street around the clock. The theres now a 25,000 reward rew for information into theon intoe identity of that gunman. Gum paul wagner, fox5 local news. N and police in the districthet tonight also need your help top identify people in connection with two separate robberies atep the very same arlocation inionin southeast. The first happened january 4th at a subway oann alabama avenue youve seen this video before. Br the Surveillance Video showingds people a then moments later one of them pulling out a gun and demanding money all the while wl another jumped the counterd ther then took the money from the register. Gister. The second incident took placeee just two days later and later a surveillance cameras in thatme queso a person wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt entered theteh store with a gun and jumpednd over the counter before takingot off with cash from thesh from register and as of now policece have no suspects. Developing tonight, formero george h. W. Bush and his wife we former first lady barbara bushbr have both been admitted to theeo hospital in houston. The 92yearold formerer president s spokesman saysman sy doctors are happy how a procedure went to help clear cea his airway. His airw hes being treated for pneumonia in the intensiveit care unit. The former first lady decided dd to go to the same hospital as ht a precaution aftercaution af experiencing extreme fatigueme e and coughing. A range of groups are planning protests in supportstss of various causes ons on Inauguration Day includin organization of pro marijuana activists. Activist they plan to show theirey support of mari pjuanalamar legalization by handing outu free weed and lighting uping during the inauguration. Fox5s alexandria limb shownandi live inmb northwest where wh protest organizers are gettinggt ready for this big day. Day. Hey, alex. A reporter hey, guys, guy thats right, we are at d. C. C. Mjs home office where take ataa look, you can see they are rolling hundreds of jointsfoint getting ready for inaugurationan day. Now, i am joined by nicholasnich schiller one of theschi cofounders of d. C. Mj. Mj. Youre obviously trying to make a blunt point if you lint what is it . T our blunt point that we arenp trying to make is that cannabis reform needs toeform ne happen now. We want the Trump Trump Administration to fully legalize cannabis throughout the United States and the c district of columbia. Were afanraidunit thedaditstrit week all the states could havedv their doors broken down, we do could have states liketates like colorado and california have he all their industries be shut down stores raided homestores re destroyed and we dont wantntwa that to happen. Reporter so, what morning on friday . Riy . Gathering on the west sidengh of dupont e circle alongong massachusetts avenue and at around 8 00 a. M. Well start art handing out some joints toso joi people. Were asking everyone to bringig their i. T. Because we dontauset want to give out cannabis to people underage. Ndrag from 8 00 a. M. To pen a. M. To p well be handing them out. O four minutes, 20 seconds into trumps speech lighting up at ua four minutes and 20 seconds s into the speech. T some people are going takeoig te their joints home and watch itto on telemevision abut this event is not a protest againstagains trump. Were welcoming people fromg pem across the United States andhed we want people know theres a lot of people that votednow forr trump that support cannabis reform and its not a partisan n issue its a marijuana issue. Is a lot of people republicans you mentioned some of the s yo cabinet picks pea that could pose a problem for f what you want which isich i legalization on a federal for those who think maybe, you know, pot is a gateway drug orer a number of other issues theysss might bring up. Ght brin. Well, over the years wevearv discovered that pot isnt necessarily a gateway drug andtd thanks to the opioid epidemicep weve seen cannabis is an exitnx drug that people have beenle able to use cannabis as a ways y to get off heavy and hard drug like heroin. Reporter andli just tou wrap up here i do want to show you theyve separated thesesepat into little bags that contain ct a certain amount of joints to jo ensurewhat, what, that peopletpe who are handing them out areut e not in violation of the d. C. Th. Law, right. La right. Right. Law allows adults toows adu carry up to 2 ounces outside2unt their home. Their home they all weigh under an ouncedr each bag so we want people toeo be able to hand them out without having to worry about at breaking any local laws. O reporter although it isorte legal to have it in d. Cr . , itdt is not legal to smoke it in public which is why he mentioned if people do it, it, i would be civil back to you in the studio. Sd they are certainly they e t preparing. Ai my goodness. Od machines. Look at them go. K at them o thanks alex. Some of you may already be feeling the direct impact of of fridays president ials presinta inauguration on the roads. Ratino parking restrictions beganris is afternonoon. Thats just the beginningone beg though of traffic troubles infii d. C. This week. Already were seeing alreadya significant number of roadmber o closures and bridge and bridge tunnels feeding the d. C. Willhel be closed as well. Sed as wl. This right here is the map and this shows all of the shutdowns its split up by up color. Some of the main street the t closures there are listed inre a the red zone, pennsylvania avenue, lincoln memorial,memria, constitution avenue betweenutioe 23rd b and 17th and union station, also capitol hill. Hill. But if youre heading downa to the National Mall youll you notice so much activity goingcty on people getting ready forea the big swearing in ceremonyswea and the parade. Ackland out onkla the road for us. What do we need to know beforeoe we head out matt. Reporter hey,we guys imgusm right next to capitol hill. Apith in fact w to my right here, youll see se the dome and if i have one bitht of advice for you, if you planyu to head down here tonight ort or tomorrow, theres no parking. Ar theres been no parking sincerki noon today. Noon toa thats when they reallylly started to enact the parkinging restrictions here. H there are some that start at 6 oclock tomorrow morning but t im telling from you capitollin hill all the way up to thep to e chinatown area verizon centerc theres no parking at all. All. So, keep that in mind ifmind i youre headed to work today. Y. Also, so much activity taking place. Theyre testing the jumbotrons. Jumbotrons you see police everywhere. Rywh these huge barriers to keepo k the public, you know, away away from some of the dignitariesig have been placed along a pennsylvania avenue here nearer capitol hill. Toh so much going on. On it looks beautiful. Eauiful. Theres a lot still to do but it appears severing going to be ready. Rs s it takes so much eawork to prepare for an inauguration. Ugu. Flags are in place alongce barriers have been erected and even tow trucks are out. Rucks au many parking restrictions wentit into place at noon. Noon. And the visitors have begun toeg arrive. It was easy to spot theset donald Trump Supporters withterh their signature red hats. Red ha do you think the countryk thc will finally ocome together andd celebrate this transition of power. I think we better. I we have no t choice. C we have to. We cant stay divided any y dividny longer. Inaugurations can bring in aing lot of money for area a restaurants and hotels. Tel but they also benefit smallfit l vendors. We met these two men on thethe street today. Day. 10 for this donald trump shirt. Vendors think theyll sells thi well. Se theyve got history to look ok back on. George w. Bushs inaugurationugn was profitable. Then say the obama tshirtstts just like this, well, they they sold like. Like hot cakes. Reporter like hot cakes. Lik they sure d he said that hesha been here to sell things forhin the george w. Bush bsh inauguration, bh then also barack obama, hema, h says hes going to be here. Things are kind of slow right now but he believes thingses will pick up in the near future. Once again it bears repeatingrep that this area were right att third street and independencedee avenue, you might have noticedno some of the fire trucks trucks passing by here. Passing byere. It really, really is gridlockli at this point. S p if you hold on just a moment we are just mturning down thirdd street and youre going to beg e able to see a lot of white barriers. Side camera right righ now these barriers are inein place along third street and then once again in many spots they have these high barriers that you can actually seeou can through but tachey actually keep the public in place. Plce. No parking keep that in mind. M if you usually drive downtowndon to work, keep in mind theresths just no parking all the way to w chinatown we saw it, up the National Mall to the the Washington Monument and of and course here on capitol hillll forget about it, youre justre t not going to be able to talk. Ta as they a transit metro take a bus, grab your bike, but your car isntr going to do you much good around here finding parkinging spot. All right. All ri live on the National Mall justml passing capitol hill againhill n right now matt ackland fox5 fx5 local news. L n all right. Rig i was just down there earlier er today, matt, and i saw all thehe barriers up. I was actually glad i could coul get up 17th street so i wasntes quite sure when i was heading hi into town today whether or not i was going to be able to. Todagt good to see there are stille stl some streets that are opened. Ha reporter some. Ar moving slowly though, movingougv very slowly. Absolutely. Rd the sirenshe did you think matt was gettinggg pull over. O my photographer will gethoto the ticket. You heard matt talk abou tlkab taking metouro. Taki good news for people who plan to use public transportationan for the womens march on wo saturday. Today metro announced railnounca service will run on an enhanced saturday schedule. Ay d. Stations open up at 5 00 a. M. Two hours earlier with the enhanced scheduleschule Train Service is expectedexected every four to six minutes atmine all stations in downtown d. C. All right. Straight ahead at 5 00 a new ae warning for g mail users. Use there is a new phishing attack making the rounds. This is fooling even the most technically savvy security se conscious users. Made a direct threat to thert president elect donald trump. Tr. And donald trump deathath threat. One mans alleged plan ofn of attack against thei t president elect at fridaysfrid swearing in ceremony. Erony. And rainbows flags and a a lot of glitter theres a there parking off in mike pencespen neighborhood tonight and the group is not celebrating thele Vice President elect orb his is views on lgbt rights. Sue. You would wonder if this was the month of january based on todays weather. W it got up touo 6ld0nt h degrees beautiful shot of the capitol ol tonight. You can see the sunlightsunght reflecting on it as the sun as n goes down now at 5 14. 14 so, how long can we keep these very mild temperatures . Canes . N we get through the weekend . W well let you know. Another beautiful picture ofturf the sun setting now in thetin next couple minutes. Next fox5 local news at 5 00 is coming right back with a first look at your forecast. Orecast. Got a warning tonight to americans in the resort a war cy of cancun mexico. Xico the u. S. Consulate is urging u. S. Tourists to be extra out at several downtowndow locates yesterday. Ca three people weretes killed. The latest attack comes a daya y after a deadly shooting at a Music Festival a nearby town. To. An american was among five victims of that attack. Tack. The consulate is tellingulate it american travelers in cancunin to follow warnings from local fl police and consult with theirltr hotels before leaving theng t premises. The man accused of killing an Orlando Police sergeant has beenic captured. Markeith loyd was taken intoak custody last night. Nig officers found loyd inside of an abandoned home. An a hes accused ofba gunning downnn Master Sergeant debra claytonran outside a walmart. Al hes also suspected in the in th murder of his pregnantis pgnant exgirlfriend. A florida man arexrested fr tweeting a death threat tothr president elect donald trumptel went before a judge today. According to police he postef add videoorng t threat on mondao on janua 16th, the defendant mr. Pupolo made a direct threat to thehre president elect donald trump. The defendant signaled gn excuse me, the defendant signed into his twitterhs account and stated on video v this is the 16th of january,jan 2017. I will be at the reviewevie inauguration and i will killll president trump. President elect trump today. Tel police say the suspect confessed to dents hes now t being held on a million mllion dollars bond to undergo a undera Mental Health evaluation. Vaio a group of protestors are planning to dance their wayeir y through Vice President electvi mike pences neighborhood tonight in support ofce pence lt rights. They are promising plenty of dancing, rainbow colors and biodegradable glitter outsideda of home pence iglsitte renting g chevy chase. Y chase. The protestors are concernedon about pences records on lgbt issues. As governor of indiana heana he signed a controversial lawsial w that critics say left the doorer opened to discrimination basedio on sexual orientation. Ientation the law was amended. The dance protest starts atnce 6 00 at the friendship heightsis metro sto. Little bit about the weather. Aa we saw some gorgeous shots of s the capitol and you are seeingrg another one right there today. Et sue we got some sun and its s nice because we havent seent in it a couple of days. It a oh, yeah, i knowco. Up know ill take the sun and even even cooler temperatures than wetempt had today but got to have thatvh sun. Today we got a little bit ofot e both. We got the sunshine and thendthe mild temperatures and jim and an sarah got up to 60 degrees60egrs today. Thats more typical of where whe we would be say towards theards end of march. Of mar youre getting a very early erl spring preview today and the the news flash, we get another one,t tomorrow t it looks like as lika Beautiful Day tomorrow asl day s well. These are the highs that wet w hit today. Hit toy. Reagan at 60, dulles and bwii coming in at 57. 7. Average high is 43 degrees soego definitely in bonus territoryte here in the middle of januaryay and were still 56 in the56 inte district. Cooler spots north and west. Es. Winchester youre 45, westminster 46. Stminste46. Its 57 in fredericksburg. E 54 in annapolis and 54 inn leonardtown. Autiful evening. Eveing it has been a little bit gustygu this afternoon but that ist that even settling down quite a bit. And these temperatures aree tem anywhere from three to as many y as seven or 8 degrees warmerwaer even 11 degrees warmer in in annapolis than it was 24 hoursss ago. So, checking on those gustss that have been picking up outkig of the northwest, theyre generally between about 17 and 7 25 miles an hour. Theyll get a li mttlile bitbit better as the sun sets heres re and things settle down anddown were not even really looking lg at much in the way of cloudhe wy cover tonight. Had a few sprinkles and lightd showers here and there as a frontal boundary moved onoved through but our next chance of f seeing increased cloud cover cov comes about 24 hours from now thursday night well begin seelb those clouds rolling in. So, ate cl7 oclock still mayba little bit breezy but a slow descent, 54 degrees with the54 breezes around. Round. By 9 oclock 48 degrees andees d cool but not cold. Col by 11 oclock, 46 degrees. 6 gre. We are headed do unto about untt 40 degrees and when you and w consider that 43 is averageage high, that is not bad. Ot b so, whats ahead for thursday . Y a greatday. Nice thursday forecast forfort r people rolling into town. They are really going to be treated to a gorgeous day withda a lot of sunshin temperatures well into the mid50s all around thes l aroe region. Now, we do have to talk aboutk t the inauguration. Naration making a couple changes to thesh forecast and one of them is it looks like very light rain very gets in here ali little sooner r than we expected so wereso going to be taking you hour by y hour through Inauguration Dayti and let you know what to expect. You cant take umbrellas so think ahead and maybe grabnt t Something Else to keepmaybe yo u if youll be heading down to do the swearing in. Inauguratin the inauguration forecast as well as therecast ah weather for the womens march wm on washington on saturdayashingo coming up a littlen bit later. Jim, sarah, back to you. A great raincoat with aainco hood. Oh, yeah, or a poncho. A onc. Thanks. Ahead at 5 00 hypnosis on on hidden camera. Sleep, youre going to go deeper and deeper, one, two, three, sleep. Three, s this is crazy. S is cra a lawyer is caught hypnotizingg his female clients for his ownsn sexual pleasure. Sure what one woman says shee noticed after their meetingsmt that sparked her to set up this sting. 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