Transcripts For WTTG Fox 5 News Edge At 6 20131011 : vimarsa

Transcripts For WTTG Fox 5 News Edge At 6 20131011

Reporter in washington im shannon travis. Weve got no update to our list of lawmakers choosing to donate, refuse or hold their paychecks in escrow during the shutdown. So we stay at 248 of the 541 members of congress on that list and that includes nine members of our local delegation. You can see what members of congress are tweeting about regarding the shutdown and just about Everything Else at tellwusa9. Com. Utah National Parks will be back open tomorrow despite the federal shutdown as part of a deal offered by the interior secretary to provide 166,000 a day in funding. The state will use its own money to staff the parks at a cost of 50,000 for each one. While those parks are on the verge of reopening were learning more about local services on the verge of shutting down. Reporter im surae chinn in northeast washington. One of the unintended consequences of a prolonged Government Shutdown, rape kits may no longer be administered. I was still saying no. Reporter i talked by phone with a 22yearold woman who says she was raped. She says the horrible incident happened this past august in the district. Eventually it got to a place where like my nose didnt matter. Reporter a forensic nurse immediately went to the hospital to administer a rape kit. Basically prove without a shadow of a doubt that he did have sex with me and i mean his dna is there. Reporter d. C. s Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program or s. A. N. E. Helped this woman after one of the worst days of her life. The program sees on average one victim a day and at least 400 rape victims a year. Their opportunity for justice could be greatly affected by the shutdown and their ability to get the closure that they potentially need to continue living their life with a new normal after a Sexual Assault happens. Reporter in northeast surae chinn, wusa9. There were just so many stories about the scope of the shutdown and we try to bring you as many of them as we can to show you just how many people are being impacted. One story that caught our eye today is about a nevada teen who was supposed to get a bone Marrow Transplant as part of a Clinical Trial at nih next month. As we hear the report, now hes in limbo when time is of the essence. Im a really big fan of art. Reporter 17yearold Austin Trowbridge of reno loves art and drawing cartoons. Youd never know he suffers from a rare genetic disorder called mylodysplastic syndrome. Right now the disease i have hasnt progressed too far yet. Its still early in its stage. Reporter its hoped science can keep the disease at bay through an experimental protocol involving a critical bone Marrow Transplant offered into the National Institutes of health, a treatment delayed until the government reopens. Its really upsetting to hear because its just a lot less risky. It has a procedure done earlier rather than later. Reporter the disorder claimed the life of austins brother eric five years ago. At the time eric was 15 years old. Less than a year after eric died there were red flags raised with austins blood results. Reporter austins mother says every day austins treatment is delayed his risk grows. Hes been at an evolving point that can only go more critical from this point forward. Reporter like the fantasy cartoons austin draws, the family calls their situation surreal and frustrating. This is not something that should be made political fodder. Austins mother points out nih is the last resort for many families facing grave illnesses. Shes asking politicians to ask themselves what they would do if this was their child. Rallies are planned here in d. C. And around the country sunday to call for the citys War Memorials to reopen. Its being called the million vet march on the memorials. Organizers tell the examiner that theyre fed up with the memorials being closed for political purposes. Its still unclear how many people may come to the area for the protest, but you can consider this your heads up. Another protest rolled into the area today with the goal of bringing traffic on the beltway to a halt, but as bruce leshan reports, so far the aim of shutting down d. C. Could be falling a little short. Reporter im bruce leshan on the outer loop approaching i 66 here. We were looking for these truckers who promised to shut down america, but d. C. s rain and traffic seems to have shut down most of the protest. We actually circled the beltway for over two hours this afternoon and saw no sign of them. We did find them this morning, about a half dozen in all, going across three lanes, trying to slow down traffic going as slow as 15 miles an hour. There were also some supporters up on an overpass and they are concerned not just about these trucking issues, but there also is a kind of far right position against president obama. Our rights are being taken away at record pace. Were on a downhill truck no brakes straight to communism. Reporter approaching 50 at this point, still no sign of them on the outer loop, but these guys promise they will be here all weekend. Well keep an eye out. Along the outer loop bruce leshan, wusa9. We dont need hundreds of truckers to cause a problem. The rain would have done it enough on the beltway alone. The question for you, erica, is we may have to deal with this into tomorrow, right . Yeah. Unfortunately, lesli, well see more rain tomorrow, a yellow alert in effect again tomorrow. Thats because if you had any outdoor plans tomorrow, im afraid youll have to cancel them. Lets look at what we have out there right now, flood alerts in effect. The dark green is flood watches. That means there is not active flood being, but it could happen and that is until flooding, but it could happen and that is until midnight. The light green is for warnings for urban and small stream flooding and also the Flood Warning in montgomery county. That is for the seneca creek and that goes until 10 30 a. M. Tomorrow morning. The Flood Warning for Loudoun County and Fairfax County goes until 11 15 p. M. Tonight. Thats the urban and small stream flood. Theres a few different Flood Warnings up in frederick and carroll county, too many to name. If you want a look at everything, go to our website www. Wusa9. Com and theres a detailed lists of what each of the Flood Warnings is in reference to. On satellite and radar or just radar, im sorry, doppler 9,000 you can see the stream of moisture continuing to push just south of the beltway. Ill tell you how long this will last coming up in the first alert sevenday forecast. Still ahead tonight another sports team getting pulled into the debate about the redskins name. Well take you to atlanta for that story. Virginia governor Bob Mcdonnell says construction of the i95 express lanes project is halfway complete on schedule to be finished late next year set to open to traffic early 2015. The express lanes corridor runs from i395 in Fairfax County to i95 in stafford county. While you hit the road, it wont cost as much to fill up as your summer travel. According to aaa, the National Average for a gallon of regular unleaded is 3. 35, down 21 cents from a month ago and the d. C. Metro area is lower with an average of 3. 31 a gallon. Aaa says it doesnt see any signs of prices heading back up any time soon. If you think Human Trafficking doesnt happen in your neighborhood, think again. Im peggy fox in fairfax. Coming up what police are doing to combat this growing trend. Reporter millions of americans visited the website for obamacare, but how many are signing up . Well explain why Insurance Companies are worried im terry mcauliffe, candidate for governor, and i sponsored this ad. These are Birth Control pills. More than half of american women use them at some point in their lives but Ken Cuccinelli sponsored a bill that could have made common forms of Birth Control illegal, including the pill. Cuccinelli was one of only five senators to support this potentially radical intrusion into domestic, family and individual decisionmaking why is Ken Cuccinelli interfering in our private lives . Hes focused on his own agenda. Not us. Youre running out of time in who has a say to take the road to richmond. Tuesday is your deadline if youre a virginiaian registered to vote next month. Youll be able to vote for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and several state delegate seats. Over the past two years about 400 people were forced into prostitution in Northern Virginia. 38 were children. Now a Regional Task force is getting a boost to help combat Human Trafficking. Reporter im peggy fox in fairfax. If you think Human Trafficking doesnt happen in your neighborhood, think again. Today local Police Departments announced the new federal effort to combat this growing trend. Prostitution or Human Trafficking doesnt always look like this. It may be going on in your neighborhood with local High School Girls being sold. Ive seen victims from several high schools throughout Northern Virginia. I would say that our kids in each and every high so are vulnerable at a certain time school are vulnerable at a certain time. Reporter they target teen age girls with low selfesteem, no self identity, dont participate in sports or other activities and kids who dont have Strong Family connections. Traffickers often trick girls using the boyfriend method says detective wolfe. Its not appropriate for a 26yearold boy to date a 14 yearold girl. Its not appropriate for him to buy her things because this might be him grooming her for some sort of exploitation. Reporter told the Northern Virginia task force today the Northern Virginia task force received a 1 million grant from the Justice Department to combat Human Trafficking. In fairfax peggy fox, wusa9. The debate over whether to change the name of our Washington Football Team seems to be striking a nerve across the country. The redskins were the front page of usa today this morning right there and the question is whether or not the word redskins is offensive. Now atlantas mayor is being asked about how he peoples about that citys baseball team, the braves feels about that citys baseball team, the braves. I think the name the Atlanta Braves is a name we should keep. I have a number of friends who are indian and they havent shared any offense with me about it. Redskins owner dan snyder said the a name is a badge said the name is a badge of honor and he will never change it, but with Media Outlets across the country dropping the coverage the tide may be turning. That is the big debate on tellwusa9. Com. The question is do you think the teams name will change in the next five years . Log on to cast your vote and leave your comments. This is a yellow alert day. Now heres wusa9 first alert weather. A lot of us tired of this rain, but its not going to let up any time soon. No. At least one more day of these dreary conditions and then starting to see some improvement later on in the weekend. I wish i could bring up Better Weather for the weekend. Its not going to be the case. I feel like weve been in a washing machine for a couple days now. Lets get it started with a look at our doppler 9000. This is a live radar sweep to show you whats happening right now. You can see that strip of heavy rain basically parallel with 66 there. That extends all the way out toward front royal. The heaviest rainfall has not been into the mountains. Its been east of the blue ridge, but we also have some pockets of spotty heavy rainfall in southern maryland. This is all streaming in from that coastal low and we have had some pretty heavy rainfall totals, 2. 4 inches just near martinsburg, west virginia, and 4. 1 inches down there in southern portions of st. Marys and charles counties. We have that heavy rainfall for most of montgomery county, all that filtering into the seneca creek now which is why its under a Flood Warning until 10 30 tomorrow morning. Here is a look outside with the michael and son weather cam at Reagan National airport where its very dreary, still light rain, 64 degrees, winds out of north at 8 Miles Per Hour. That dew point at 61 means well see fog develop overnight tonight. 61 in leesburg, frederick, westminster, york, manassas and fredericksburg, 57 in winchester, 60 up with in luray. On satellite and radar this is a 12 hour loop, rain continuing to stream in with this storm system that isnt budging because the jet stream isnt hooking up with it. So its not steering it out of our area. It will finally start to diminish in intensity heading through the weekend. Looking at 9 futurecasts on you tune in tonight futurecast to tune in tonight well still have pockets of heavy rain in places like woodbridge, dale city, manassas, lighter rainfall tomorrow morning. However, we could see that light rainfall continuing over and over again on and off during the day saturday. You can see scattered showers continuing to stream in, so places like warrenton, manassas continuing to stay unsettled. Sunday some breaks in the clouds may finally move in. We could see small peeks of sunshine late in the day saturday. Patchy fog overnight, light rain and drizzle, 56 to 60 with north winds at 5 to 10 Miles Per Hour and that persistent wind will become northeasterly tomorrow morning. That will keep the drizzle in place, scattered showers. Low 60s on saturday morning and in the afternoon well only get up between 65 and 69 which is still an improvement on where we were today, northeast Winds Continuing 10 to 15 Miles Per Hour. Over the next three days slow improvement here, a leftover shower sunday, finally dry monday, high 72 and take a look at the first alert sevenday forecast. Mid70s return to our forecast and the dry weather will be with us as well. So tuesday and wednesday look great before our next storm system arrives and that could bring us some thunderstorms, ladies. It looks a little unsettled. Yeah. Lets settle things, please. Thanks. Just ahead a big Hollywood Star is bringing his story to life, but we have the real captain phillips. At aetna, we wanna know, whats your healthy . Man its staying fit. Its staying motivated. Its. Staying on track. No matter what your healthy is, we have the tools to help you get there. Aetna whats your healthy . 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Clearly inappropriate virginias newspapers on revelations that. Ken cuccinellis office secretly helped an outofstate. Energy company that ripped off virginia landowners. But gave a hundred thousand to his campaign. A federal judge called it shocking. The Inspector General launched an investigation. And now cuccinelli has been questioned by. The fbi about the Star Scientific scandal. Investigations, gifts, scandals Ken Cuccinellis not for us. Nextgen Climate Action committee sponsored this ad. If youve seen a guy in the boat fishing in the rain smoking an upside down pipe, please call new york city police. They are looking for him because hes worth a bunch of money, more than 1 million. Thats what this Norman Rockwell painting recently sold for. The painting titled sport has disappeared from an art Storage Facility in queens stolen maybe or perhaps someone came in to collect their velvet elvis and left with the wrong crate. Who knows . Doubt it. Yeah, million bucks there. Not into rockwell . How about van gogh . Tomorrow the phillips collection will open a major exhibition of van goghs art work called repetitions including more than 30 paintings. It offers a look at how the artist repeated certain compositions during his time in the netherlands and france. A new movie is getting rave recrews from critics. The film is called captain phillips. It documents the 2009 hijacking of the u. S. Flag marist alabama by somali rights. We did it. I told you it wasnt going to be if. Its going to be. When.

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