Noose left dangling for students and teachers to see. In this case, police have photographs of the two suspects. Im bob barnard in crofton, maryland, well have live re report. And later, washingtons last chance for a championship. The wizards taking on celtics in do or die game six down three games to two. Good day at 9a starts now. Whole little theme song and everything. Big night for the wizards. Do or die. Go home. This is do or die. Umhmm. Great way to start the weekend though. Come on wizards. Start the weekend right now at 9 00 oclock on good day. It is friday, may 12th im steve alongside allison, maureen and wisdom. Holly has the morning off. Also ahead this morning, the countdown to the new crown. This morning were getting an early look at the miss usa2017 competition. Coming up later d. C. s own joining us live alongside back stage host and sports illu illustrated swimsuit model the Ashley Graham g very cool. First at 9 00 mothers day weekend wash out. Oh, no. Right now were waking up to another day of gray, gloomy skies more rain on the way but there are bright spots on the seven day and for details were turning to Tucker Barnes for for check of the forecast. Good morning. Your headlines scare me. Why. Your weather headlines much whoa this is going to be really awful. Theres glimmer of hope. Sunday will be beautiful. Not gorgeous day today. It wont rain all day today either. Thats good news. Are we going to go to me or there we go. [ laughter ] its all good tucker just role with it. Go with your radio show. Its awesome. Were imag imagining youre handsome. Usually the best part of the forecast seeing you. Thank you wisdom. Brother, i understand. Sixty five now in washington. Just play along maureen, okay . Winds out of the east at a lot of cloud cover. Look at rain showers off to the south and west. Well get an area of low pressure out here which is going to roll newspaper our region later tonight. After clouds and, ya, it will be gloomy day with temperatures in the 50s. Rain moving back in tonight. Soaking rain overnight tonight into early tomorrow. But by tomorrow afternoon, we should start to dry things out and by sunday, more than a glimmer of hope it should be absolutely beautiful with sunshine and temps in the mid 70s. Ill show you the seven day and then ill come back in a will it again. We will enjoy it. But more of you. Whats. But more of you. Oh, yes, if necessary. Rain tonight. If youre going to the nats game i know weve got the bobble head. It will rain. Sorry its friday im losing it. Its all right. Well give you some time. Im unhinging, steve. Let me have more coffee. Its okay. Tucer. In the news this morning first up the morning briefing new source of tension between the United States and russia overnight we learned between u. S. Navy surveillance plane and a russian fighter jet over the black sea. Now it happened earlier this week. Apparently the two aircraft came win 20 feet of each other. Us Officials Say the plan was conducting a routine Operation International air space when it happened. Next up a crime crack down from the department of justice. Attorney general Jeff Sessions telling the nations federal prosecutor pursue the most serious charges possible against most suspects. The move undoes on obama era policy that was aim at easing prison overcrowding sessions made fighting Violent Crime a priority for the doj. James comey drama getting new yorker treatment. Check out the cover of the new issue called ejected and it shows a drawing of the former fbi director getting dragged down an aisle by attorney general sessions while President Trump looks on reminiscent of that united passenger getting philly thrown off a plane. Now, in the meantime presidet trump now offering his fullest explanation yet for the firing of fbi director james comey it came down sit down with nbc news. The same day comers temporarily pl annie yu live in the newsroom with more from that interview. Annie . Reporter good morning, guys. The white house has been scrambling to keep up with the president on this. And its evident now that the president s decision to fire james comey had been in the works for while. Just very hurt to see take place. Hes a showboat. Hes a grand stander. President trump in an interview with nbc news made his dislike for former fbi director james comey critical clear but he also offered a new explanation for his decision to fire comey. It was at least in part because of russia. In fact when i decided to just do it i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. Its an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election. Reporter that may feed democratic claims that trump was trying to quash the fbi investigation into possible connections between the Trump Campaign and the kremlin. That the president asked comey for his loyalty during a private white house dinner and comey declined. But acting fbi director Andrew Mccabe told congress yesterday theres been no interference. So there has been no effort to impede our investigation to date. Reporter still democrats keeping up the drum beat for independent prosecutor. Its hard to avoid the conclusion that the president s decision to remove director comey was related to this investigation. And that is truly unacceptable. Reporter the president meantime says he wants answers. Too. Ill tell you this. If russia or anybody else is trying to interfere with our elections, i think its a horrible thing and i want to get to the bottom of it and make sure it will never ever happen. Reporter President Trump very busy on twitter this morning firing off a series of tweets over the past hour seemingly directed toward what he calls quote fake media in response to reports that interview contra dicked white house statement as a very active president with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stan at podium with perfect accuracy he says maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future press briefings and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy and heres most recent tweet directed at james comey. James comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. Meantime the acting director of the fbi Andrew Mccabe says that the investigation into possible ties between the Trump Campaign and russia will continue. He also added that comey had broad support win the bureau. Back up to you guys. Lots happening this morning. Annie, thank you for that. Developing in maryland, more question surrounding reports the fbi raided an annapolis based campaign culling firm. Lawsuit file against the Strategic Campaign group claims the firm raised more than 2 million for political candidates but dumped donors. The by former virginia gubernatorial candidate and former Virginia Attorney ken huge nellie he spoke only to us at fox5. He had harsh words for the Group Calling them a scam pack. They raised all this money on my name, my campaign and my picture, you know they used all these pieces. A lot of people who donated thought they were donating to the campaign. They spend single digit percentages on politics donating to candidates, doing a, b or c that might actually move the political ball forward and all the rest of it is just to run the system. To raise the money and to pay themselves and vendors and so forth. The groups president says he believes the investigation will clear his name. News found hanging noose found hanging outside a maryland middle school. Police released photos who they believe did this. Bob barnard with more on the photos and the morning. Reporter this noose was found around 11 00 oclock yesterday morning discovered by a teacher who look out her classroom window. Apparently the noose was dangling from an exterior light outside the classroom window inside the courtyard of the school. Custodian was call and took that noose down. The Principals Office called Anne Arundel County police they came out here collected that. Looked through the schools Security Surveillance system and found some images of two young men who they believe were here the night before wednesday night into thursday morning. We can show i was couple of the screen grabs here of these guys who according to police and the video scaled the roof of the building. Sometime overnight wednesday night into thursday. Scaled the roof went down into the courtyard. Hanged the noose and then left. Just spoke to someone here leaving the school. Clearly a parent who says, she recognized one of the teens and actually called police this morning. Apparently one of the two 18yearold from this crofton area she says and has alerted police to his identity. Well see the images are fairly clear. You got to believe theyll resolve this case pretty qu quickly. Speaking of parents here this morning, about the incident itself, heres some of the reaction. We were very hurt. We were just very hurt to see such a thing could take place. We not only attend crofton middle. We live in crofton. I run my business in crofton. So its very important to us that things are handled such a way where we can feel more comfortable. Where we can operate day to day, you know, whether its my daughter in school or my business or even feeling safe at home. So we do appreciate the fact that, um, the community has stepped forth and definitely kept the parents, um, well informed. I just always felt comfortable here in crofton and stuff and then its really disturbing that these things happen. But its everywhere. It happens everywhere. Like im not surprised living here. Ju more comfortable, you know, always that this wasnt happening in my community. You know, but i guess it doesnt matter where you go. Reporter now, in a letter to the Crofton Middle School community, principal williams writes this. This incident is clearly disturbing on many levels. We cannot ignore the intolerant message this act couldnt vase. We pride ourselves on being an inclusive and Supportive School community. We will not let this incident change that. And what make this all the more troubling it seems like its a copycat type of incident because weve reported just recently about the incident at american university. Weve heard of these kinds of acts being committed around our region. And other parents are telling us that, yeah, they wish maybe that this hadnt made the news. That the police with the photographs would have somehow been able to find these two young men out. They put Anne Arundel County police put this out on their facebook page. Important that it gets out there to maybe stop it from happening and further poisoning the minds of young people like the middle schoolers here at crofton. Guys . And the conversation that needs to be had on what exactly this is. Absolutely. The message it sends. Bob, thank you very much. 9 12 is the time. Lets talk about this. Big game six for the wizards tonight at the verizon center. If the celtics within washington is done. Best of seven series. One thing that every matchup has in common so far the home team winning. So far the celtic lead this series threetwo. Might be feeling pretty good about where things stand. Even if they lose tonight, they get to host game seven on monday. Tip off tonight set for 8 00 oclock. Thats what home Core Advantage is supposed to do. Yes. I remember you saying earlier they havent won a second round series since 82. Its been like 30 some years. Jeff malone, jeff ruling were on that team. All right. That goes back a ways. That goes back a long way. How old are they right now theyre right. That puts it iner have. Yeah. A long time ago. Wishing them the best. I think the wizards win. Theyve been dominant on the home court. Hopefully that trend continues. Yea. President trump after hours. Coming up later this morning inside look what the white house is like when the president is running the show. Plus, some of the changes he has brought to 1600 pennsylvania avenue. Mel . Reporter Prince Georges County schools flooded with allegations of abuse and misconduct. Is it an over reaction or a sign of something more serious . The school ceo an board member talking exclusive toll fox5 when good day d. C. Returns. gasp shoulders . I thought it was just for, like, dandruff new head shoulders. Cleans, protects and moisturizes to. 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Melanie alnwick shes live in Upper Marlboro with more. Mel . Reporter good morning guys. We really wanted to try to get some perspective on these numbers which seem to be high on the surface. This time last year, the school board the School System was still reeling from a coupe of high profile abuse involving deonte car apps away and sexual abuse of students he was in charge of another with humiliating discipline handed out by some head start teachers. So they looked at the School Safety. They had a School Safety task force and then they changed some administrative procedures. And reminded employees, contractors, volunteers that they have a legal requirement to report suspicions of a abuse or misconduct. Now we find 788 reported cases of abuse or misconduct. This school year. Which began last august. More than 150 reports made last month. In the majority of these cases were told the accused Staff Members are accept home on paid leave. Most are eventually cleared to return to work but sometime its days, other times its months. On one hand, the numbers show the staff is taking their responsibilities seriously. But some teachers told fox5 they feel this is going too far. That good employees are being falsely accused and classrooms are suffering. When we caught up with superintendent dr. Kevin maxwell last night he policies and says he has been personally thanked for keeping kids safe. We are mandatory reporters under state law. I will never tell an employee in Prince Georges County that if they believe a child has been abused that they should not report that. Yes. So that standard will be there because it is the law. Reporter now last july the school board approved the changes in the language and a new administrative resolution that clarified those reporting requirements and also that additional training. But earlier this morning, on fox5 School Board Member ed bureau said this is not working and it needs changes. Its not that people that criticize the policies dont believe cases should not be reported. We all agree. Report any suspicion of child abuse to cps. But once cps has cleared someone, it does no good to keep them out on administrative le leave. Reporter right now, were told there are 128 cases that in comparison Montgomery County toll us last month they only have 20 active cases. So you can see that there does seem to be a great difference when it comes to how these things are handled different School Systems. Now, also last night dr. Maxwell toll us that he does believe there can be some adjustments made in the training happening over this summer and in his opinion he believes those reporting numbers will even eventually settle down. Live in Upper Marlboro, Melanie Alnwick fox live local news. I think the big question the superintendent taking the approach it seems that once they get everything figured out and streamed lined the numbers will work themselves down the member of the board education we need to change the way that were looking at this from the top down. Right. Longterm substitutes and paying the teachers financial aspect comes through. Right. Okay. Time right now in 9 19. Coming up well check in with kevin whos hanging out with local students to talk about careers in tv news. Plus, hes got his with director guy ritchie. Very cool. First though erin what are you working on. Steve more details on that amber alert in virginia that may have popped up on your phone overnight plus few good men. Marines making a major change in their latest recruiting video, and later, how scandanavian prince stole the show at an event for his grandparents and how his older sister came him in check. Weve got a check on what else is paying headlines up next. 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