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WTTG Fox 5 News Edge 6 October 24, 2016

I think that some people were motivated to get in touch with Law Enforcement maybe maiden investigate ms and wondered where they had gone. Now third person we mentioned greneta else walsz coo of the company that they had formed. But indictment says that miss else previously was convicted of Money Laundering and spent time prison. Now today at the aarraignment here in federal court two of them were held without bond until a hearing on wednesday. The pastor terri mellinder was held and his wife was free to go and the judge also held greneta else and those two will be back in Court Wednesday for another hearing. Live outside the federal courthouse in alexandria, paul wagner, fox5 local news. A new synthetic drug has been moving across the country and now blamed for death of the drug is scald u 47 and police often refer to it as pink. It was recently placed under same classification as heroin and hall us againic drug piote. What makes pink so dangerous, what are local officials doing to combat it and most importantly what you should know as parent. Loudoun county sheriff joined us on good day d. C. This morning. 7 times more powerful than morphine and addictive. Were trying to make sure people are aware of it. Its a deadly drug. Pink heroin or u 47 sold online for 40 a bag. It is stronger than heroin and so far responsible for 50 deaths nationwide. A virginia taxi driver pled guilty to helping a friend join isis they helped him after a government sting operation. Isis with someone to turned out to be an informant. Has an admitted he drove farouk to the airport where he planned to go to syria. He planned to join him at a whiter date and pled guilty to one terror represented charge and could face trial on another. The White House Obama Administration says if youry lie on obamacare expect to see premiums increase sharply next the white house says premiums will rise average of 25 in the 39 states that use federally run program and were learning Consumer Choices will be limited in some cases to Just One Health insurer. Republicans say the new number shows obamacare is a failing program. It is day three of early voting in the district and for now the only polling place in d. C. Is Judiciary Square. Hundred of people waited in our own ronica cleary is there tonight in northwest with anxious voters. Ronica cleary how are those lines looking. Its looking so much better today. Let me tell you shawn im in the midst of all these chairs and on saturday they tell me every one of these chairs were full and people had to wait. If you got out here today and if you can make it on a weekday the lines are moving quickly. Ive seen people in and out all day very quickly fall all lines we talked about theyre telling me thats with a record for first day early voting in person absent tee voting in the disstrkt. Thats why you probably saw those kinds of lines. Wereed in the voting location we actually cannot show you voting that is going on back there and we cannot zoom in on what is going on behind me but you can get a femor how quickly things are moving here to actually interview voteers we had to take them outside of the voting location and we spoke take a listen. I dont want to stand in cold, ice and rain and do it at a time best for me not best for country. Its convene. Im right downtown. I thought it would be good to get it done early. I was informed on work i would be swevl hour shifts day of voting it was now or probably never. Wonderful, no liens. I recommend everyone vote. Every vote counts. Why did you decide to vote early. For dont worry being in long lines. Well there you have it for convenience. Reports from not just our area but from across the country are showing record numbers of people vote early. Were seeing it in arlington and fairfax counties. We dont have information yet floor maryland. Prince jourjp county begins this thursday october 27. Were certainly going to keep back at 6 30. Well talk to voters live and gvr you the pulse of the people. Roring live in Judiciary Square im ronica cleary with fox5 local news. Thank you ronica. Your headquarters for the race to the whilt house, will you vote early . We want to hear from you. Tweet us now use that 5 at 630 and look for tweets on political show next at 6 30. Ef have sad news to share with you about a very special little girl. Edan loyola passed away after a long battle with brain cancer. Her story is close to us at fox5. You may recall we helped to make her wish to ride a un corn true during a day long celebration in september she passed away thursday she was 6 woman Barbara Comstock is too rightwing to represent me. Man or me. Woman or me. Woman Barbara Comstock would overturn roe vs. Wade. Barbara comstock i think roe vs. Wade should be overturned. Woman Barbara Comstock voted to defund planned parenthood. Man five times. Ality. Man she even voted to let federal contractors discriminate against gay employees. Man twice. Woman Barbara Comstock. Too rightwing for northern virginia. Narrator House Majority pac Pierre Garcon was helping people tackle Childhood Obesity. Our bob barnard was also there. We were inside the gymnasium at Kelly Miller Middle School in northeast d. C. Dozens of 7th graders are on their feet and getting their heart rates going. I mean, you can be fit in so many leading the charge today Washington Redskins wide receiver Pierre Garcon. How important is it for to you see young people moving. Is that what its about. Get up and do something. Theyre kids and have a lot of energy they should be burning it instead of playing on xbox s and ipads. Part of the redskins community out reach to get young people to exercise and eat healthy. So this is one of our program a brand new curriculum in partnership with d. C. Schools. Every single 7th grader will learn to create their own fitness program. Government experts say childhood owe bosty is a problem with 12. 7 million kids under age 19 obese. Thats one in six children in adolescence. According to to cdc obesity rots grow as children age. Its 8. 9 20. 5 of 12 to 19 years. Merriam kebian is director of health and physical education for d. C. P. S. Its a huge issue. D. C. Is number two with Childhood Obesity in the country. Were one of the lowest he piecety nraits ra sdults. Theres a problem there. Its not just washington in the area. Working with our youth to get them in shape. Sign their box. Get them spread out. Washington capitals are working outfitting schools with street hockey equipment. Were learning how to play hockey. Hoping to grow their fan base and getting kids moving. So its been awesome. Because its made you know this idea of creating fitness plan sure looks like it in northeast, bob barnard, fox5 local news. Whoa thats a lot of energy. Did you see Pierre Garcon. I love it. Apparently got. Looks good out there. Smithsonian institution reached its fundraising goal toe get dornlys famous red slippers from the wizard of oz. The support poured in all over the world. 5300 supporters from six the slippers can be seen right here in d. C. Theyre one of of the most be loved items at the National Museum of american history. Theres talk about why they asked public for money. They dont have the money for that sort of project. I believe they said there were 16 different fabrics of materials within the shoes that had to be restored. Took a week its protest take mazeing. Fast fundraising. A new name with the same mission. Two groups merged to form hugh main rescue alliance. Washington umain society and rescue leagued on february together they now offered services ranging from animal control and Group Members decided on name hugh main rescue alliance to bring attention to the fact they serve people as well as animals. This is is they is that the more transient than other work really hard to put Shelter Animals front of mind for people and we are starting to make a dent in over population through our efforts. But i think the other thing we see is neglect for people who just dont realize you cannot leave a dog in a car for more than 20 minutes. D. C. Is only major urban area in the country with Animal Protection programs and Services Unified in one organization. Cute puppy. All right washington newest smith sewn jan still basking in star power. Kevin mccarthy is live on the big carpet where big names are coming through. Hey, kevin. Hey, tony im at the nationality mu seal of africanamerican history. Well have more stay tuned. If you have a story idea call the fox5 tip line tip a lot of folks are calling this a powerful movie. It is called loving. Its true storey of richard and Mildred Loving an interracial couple snntsed to prison in 1958 because they got married. Kevin mccarthy is live at the museum tonight with more. Kevin. Heysh tony and shawn. Yes, absolutely an honor to to be in the museum this is the first theatrical premiere. It opens november 11. For people unfamiliar with the story its incredible back june 2 of 1958 richard and mildred he trove to washington d. C. To get married because at that time 24 states including virginia did not allow inter racial marriage. Now they lived in virginia so wept back to sure vir as married couple and happy married and they were arrested because they were married and sentenced to a 5 year ban that could not step foot in state of virginia together at the so they moved to washington d. C. To live and raise their children but mildred did not want this. So the case went to the Supreme Court and in 1967 it was ruled in lovings favor at the Supreme Court and changed marriage forever. Takes monumental case land narcotic Supreme Court and to culture for premiere of this film with cast tonight its something beyond historic for me as film journalist and also as a person to be here in general. Kalingt will be here and red carpet is set up now. All the outlets here as well. Joel and ruth will be here also director jeff nickels. I believe we have a photo of real couple laying on couch watching television and one of the cool things jeff nickels did with the movie he took the photographs that appeared in life magazine and recreated moments exactly like they are in the move actually get to see these real moments. Its a beautiful story. I saw it a month and a after ago im talking to the cast stay tuned 10 p. M. Tonight ill have joel and ruth and jeff nickels on the show. Stay tuned for that. Its a historic night. Honored to be here. Back to you guys in the studio. Incredible film. I cannot wait to see it. Incredible story. Have fun down there, kevin. Hey, sglik hello shawn. For folks headed down there winds kicking up a bit. Before we get to weather i have to practice my evil laugh [ laugh ]. Show me [ laugh ]. That is good. [ laugh ]. I have to learn from the best here. First snow of the year. This is evil . Yes. Okay. Its evil because people dont want snow. I understand. Its not evil to me. I feel like evil weapon man. Thats spectacular. Where is this. V im sorry i called you kevin a meant mike [ laugh ]. Look at the puppy. The snow. And ohh, please, tone, please. Hey, so were not far off from snow season. Snow falling off to the north here. Guess what, more in the forecast. Check this out. Where is the snow so far. Here we are as we head into later on this week. We have a storm system moving in this is the european model most of this probably wont end up sticking just a few nrikz. Were getting closer and closer to the snow season. Our winter forecast coming your way thursday something to look forward to end this year. Broozy, chilly this evening. If you head do you remember town d. C. Make sure you pack the jacket. Pleasant out there now. Once the sun goes down things will get chilly rather quickly. Cooler tomorrow. Much cooler than today. 10 degrees cooler that we were this afternoon. No 70s tomorrow in fa suburbs still saying in the 60s. Wednesday morning looks especially cold as we head into the middle of week. Frost potentially here in d. C. Keep our eye on that. But they been for those who are worpding about the rainfall forecast thursday its next good chance of any shower activity around our region. 71 d. C. With daytime high and pleasant fall day and 70 dulles and 68 at bwi and satellite and radar again ralingly clear. Some high, thin clouds out there now. Theyre starting to break up d. C. Weve been kind of spoil the last few days with how pleasant its been. Not the case coming up tomorrow and during the evening hours as well. 66 current number here washington. Gaithersburg already dropping to autos. 58 haagers down and 57 westminster and 55 at this hour couple better land. It mentioned wind giingts starting to kick up. Hagerstown 30 miles an hour and here in district guts of 24 and 20 annapolis for the next few hours that continues and winds subside. Saturday night. Check out overnight lows tonight. Updated number hagerstown 38, frederick 39, washington 46 and i have an update here. Frost advisory in purple. Freeze washing there in blue. West of d. C. Nothing in metro d. C. If you watched at 5 you saw me mention freeze watch. Thats for tomorrow not tonight. All areas in blue here are freeze watches overnight tuesday into wednesday morning. Looks likes coldest morning so far this fall. Breezy and chilly. We work our way into the day tomorrow. We have 61 degrees mostly sunny skies and cooler than today, breeze from time to time. But for the most part it looks like again ralingly a pleasant day. Lets get to that fox5 accuweather 7day forecast. Here we are 61 for daytime high tomorrow for wednesday only in the 50s though. 57 degrees and 60 thursday with chance of showers. Weekend right now saturday chance of shower but doesnt look like wash i would not cancel plans for that. Sunday looks better, 64, l, partly cloudy skies. Okay. Ill work on that. Please [ laugh ter ]. You can do better. Im youngin. What are you imflying. That [ laughter ]. Yoga pants, yes. The yoga pants debate took hundred of women to the streets this weekend in rhode island to it was eye protest sparked by a local newspaper writing it is bizarre and disturbing to see how widespread the casual attire has become for adult women and the man suggested women should dress in, nice pair of tailored slacks or jeans instead. Theres your mistake. His words upset plenty of woman show you can see they protested. Yoing an pants were welcome that event. The man insists it was a joke. Sure he does now. But its serious his received Death Threats because of. It theres men walking there. Theres men in shorts walking a throng take part or observation maybe. I will say this. They replaced jeans pretty much. They have. Theyre all over the place, you see them quite a bit. Its how you wear them. How you wear them im sure theyre comfortable. Theyre comfortable but yoga pants at work maybe a longer shirt. Maybe not a work depending where you work. Social settings like on the weekends and stuff like that. Yes if you run to target maybe its okay. Yeah. Tweet us let us know. Where would you wants to wear them . Im in favor. Tweet us. I like yoga pants. If you love eating Girl Scout Cookies and cereal thin minutes and carmel crunch. Mike is dhaik shaking his head. Be available in january for a limbed time. People are having a field day on media with this. They are making scout cookies cereal. What is life . I dont know. Heres my opinion. Theres so much youry cereal out there already loaded with sugar and blah, blah, blah. Im opposed to candy cereals and cookie cereals. Cookie crisp as a kid, thumbs up. Its cookies in a bowl of milk. Thin minutes. The koument down heard around the district were not counting towards halloween or christmas were counting down to election day. 15 and counting and donald trump and through the swing state. On the side of your screen this is one of the top stories tonight on 5 60 we want to know what youre thinking of us tweet us at 5 630. Right out of the gate tonight donald trump is still talking about a rigged election system. This morning, yep, he was tweeting. He tweeted we are winning and press is refusing to report. It dont let them fool you. Get out and vote. During the swamp never 8 and

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