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We understand that i wall pinne the worker from the torso down. Officials say the man isis conscious and alert. No one else was hurt. We are told the building is under construction during the time of the collapse. So far no word yet on whatf caused that wall trdo come down. Right now a news alert out of egypt tonight. The death toll in clashes across the country today has risen to 60. The violence broke out after afr protesters hit the streets. Today the Muslim Brotherhood is calling a day of rage. Ra. Pry an boltebrian bolter is fol, from the newsroom. Reporter on wednesday, more than 600 people were killed when the Egyptian Military used bulldozers, and snipers ton snatch two promorsi sitten sitn cairo. They commanded his reinstatement since a coup forced him out ofof the power six weeks ago. They forced the first free election after a Popular Uprising forced new bar ic toic stenew bar ic. But he lost favore economy stagnated and he pushed toward strict islamic law. Neither the Muslim Brotherhood nor the military will back down the United States has condemnedd the military action, will, back upstairs. Upai brian, i know you will have more on this tonight at 6 00. Theres more issues for the nsa the Washington Post reveals new evidence that the agency way spying on more americans. Americ the agency admits to breaking privacy rules, they say its all a mistake. Craig boswell has the latest. Reporter after receiving an n audit from the nsa from admitted leaker edward snowden, the Washington Post reports, the spy agency overstepped the legal bounds thousands of times. The audit turned up fe 380000 incidents in a year. A that is what happened in washington d. C. As the type graphical errotypograph cal led, 202, instead of 20, which is the International Dialing code of egypt. Reporter theres those whoth say the illegally gatherey communication is a tiny fraction of the possible numbers. Yeah, 2007, yeah, that ish, something to be concerned abouto and we should be, but was that a potential, the 100 billion cases. Reporter the nsa directoror of compliance wrote a statementt to fox news saying we take eachh report seriously. Investigate the matter, addresss the issue, constantly look forlo trends and address them as welll all as a part of nsa internal over cite anoversight and compl efforts. Reporter todays report comes after president obamaent a calls for more transparency. Trp its ignited the privacy debate. A poll found that 47 to 41 margmargin, more voters found tt the surveillance does more to hurt americans, than it does to help track down terrorists. After this report, the judiciary chairman plans to hold another hearing on the nsa surveillancel program. Three weeks after thethe Lincoln Memorial was vandalizedd with that green paint, the cleal is now complete. Crews washed off the rest of tho pain this morning. A woman charged with defacingng chapels at the National Cathedral with green paint ispat also a suspect in the vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial andal other sites. R we still havent heard about any motive behind the vandalism. Preliminary tests result show bluegreen algae is to blame for the fish kill on theko national mall. About 1,000 fish were found dead. Experts say the algae only posey a threat to fish, not to people, not to animals, the nationalim park service is working toal cot up with a solution. The pond is at the top of the list for construction upgrades. A little controversy at two local universities. Un they joined more than 1,000 other colleges in banning smoking both indoors and out. The widespread smoking ban isban now in effect at George Washington university, and American University, fox 5 John Henrehan as a look at the new ruleslo on smoking and reaction from students. Reporter according to theth center for des Disease Control only 19 of adult americans nowadays Smoke Tobacco products, but when kids depo away to college, go away to college,o they sometimes like to a experimentom with new things. New its my object servation that students often smoke, and theyen get here, and s we are enabling them by allowing them to smoke, even though they dont smokesmoe inside, they smoke outside. Reporter the rules at American University have change except for three outdoor areasth on campus, smoking is no longere permitted anywhere on au grounds. When you look at the research of Secondhand Smoke, we feelwe that we have a commitment to the health anding with man and wellr community. Reporter in january, anyone who wants to light up at the American University will u have to go to the public sidewalks on nebraska orni massachusetts avenues. Avue graduate student Darnell Valentine loves the new ban on outdoor smoking. R im not a smoker, i hate having to walk through peoplethg who are smoke, and rush throughg people, to get to class, andcla, those people who have asthma, i feel sorry for them. El reporter s the traditionalr smoking zones should remain in effect, the whole academic year. We are still in transition,l and i think itsin really difficult to just kind of alienate students or faculty or staff who happen to smoke. To reporter administrators at George Washington university have got cold turkey. No smoking indoors or out, no transitional smoking zones and using d. C. Law, no smoking on sidewalks within 25 feet of buildings. That is pretty much the whole campus park of d. C. s foggy bottom neighborhood. Ne the new antismoking rules at gwu prompted Maggie Taylor to quit using tobacco this week. I can smell better, i can, i taste better, i can breathe bree better already after 5 days,r 5 when you start to feel the positive effects so quickly, itu helps you stay motivated. Reporter both gwu and ua are offering programs to help students stop smoking. G. MackeMaggie Taylor is using 1 of those programs. Lalazaro wrote, they have should places where student cana smoke so they dont feel discriminated against. Ri it ismi discrimination, sincc you areri smoking outside, the likelihood of someone being exposed to Secondhand Smoke is minimal. Mini lynn posed the question. Esti. Fair, do you think its fair to have the smoke, and the stinking cigarette, and choke on the smoke when its near you. And deborah wrote as long asw smokers are located in an areaca where they do not expose others to Secondhand Smoke, they should be allowed to live their lives and doze the do as they wish. Drivers may notice somethino different. Fferent. The transportation departmentor tweeted thista picture, take ate look, it shows two 50foot treelike structures forming a gateway over the bridge. It looks pretty at night. The artwork is an effort to lynch up a less than scenic t life enup a less than scenic drive in and out of city. A man fights back after getting a speed camera ticketmea that he says he did not deservev we will tell you about a stretch of road that has some drivers a bit confused. Ed. The 50th anniversary of thean the marchni on washington is jut days away, will work on the Martin Luther king memorial be completed on time . Tonight the National Park services gives us an update on the repairs. All of those people working hard every day, sacrificing themselves. And Oprah Winfrey returns too the big screen in a movie about a white house butler who works for eight u. S. President s. Tonight fox 5 sits down withn the man of the man who inspired the film. Fi its been so, so nice thece last few days, will this extends right on through the weekend . We will take a first look at forecast, its for sure that thh evening looks real, real nice, thats a bit of a hint for you. The news will continue, stay with us.  the controversiale co inscription from the Martin Mari Luther King memorial is complete. The National Park service wasna sure it would be finished in time for the 50th anniversary oh the march on a washington which, by the way, is august 28th. Carol johnson spokesperson forrf the National Park service, joins from right in front the memorial. Carol, thank you for joining uso reporter my pleasure. Beautiful day at the mall. When did crews actually wrapy up the work . We brought in our Historic Preservation Training Center anr they came in on wednesday night, they experimented with blastingg medium, that night, they found something good, bunt perfect, and then they sided to try something else. Se let me ask you, when you sayy you guys came n i know at one point there was a concern because the original contractorg didnt have the insurance to don job. Su you put a team to come in and finish it up, so finish your story. Reporter our preservationtion Training Center, these are skilledilled professionals that work on monuments all over the country. We knew they were going to be a great crew. They came in and when they triey it on thursday with the medium e that they got the night before. They were happy with the resulte so they continued, and theyey finished up last night. We have been looking at videt of the crews putting the final touches today. Touche we cant wait to see what it wh looks like. Were going to show the video in a just a second. Youre down there, and youre in person, when you look down, what is your take on what thee finished job looks like . Reporter i would not know n that theres anything done to it. I think it looks terrific. They were able to come in, and remove the inscription and make everything match up, so it looks like it was built this kay. Ka for folks who had not seen it, there was an inscription in the actual stone of the monument, and that has been be since removed, not replaced witi another inscription, butscript describe what it looks like now. Reporter you will see if you can see behind me, theres striations, lines, grooves inli the memorial, and theyrene supposed to represent the stonee of hope being ripped from the mountain of despair. Se and what they did, is theypp o k out the words, etched them out and turned them into some of those striations. I cant wait to see what it looks like. I know its going to bein beautiful. I know everybody is looking ilo forward to be down there for the 50th anniversary of the march on washington. Carol johnson, thank you for, fo and thank you to the folks who o worked to put it back together. Were happy about it, thank you. Im cecil, im the new brother. You hear nothing, you see nothing. Lee daniels the butler hits theaters today. Today. The movie is loosely based on a white house butler that worked for eight president s, the star for rest whitaker, and Oprah Winfrey, among other big namesbg that are taking for this. It shows the perspective frompes the inside and outside of theofe white house. Use. Everything that generation, freedom writers, my father, my mother, the generation before bo them, all of those people stood for working hard every day,g sacrificinhag themselves in the face of people who, you know, thought that they were literally, one 5th human. It was so extraordinary that that is a part of the fabric and tapestry of our history. O the butler is already gettin early oscaear buzz. I cant wait to see this. The drama was inspired by a man named ugenera u18 eugene allen n in 2009. He talked about mr. Eisenhower, because things, would come toutbe and about mr. Eisenhower, he said mr. Eisenhower might not haveer been fully m in line with what s going on, but he did his job and so far as protecting the rightsi of those young people. He did his job as the president. We are about out of time, but will haywood wrote a nice storyy when your father passed about pt the funeral, and you shared a ad moment about first time you saw your dad write. Yes. You mind sharing that with us. W it was after president t kennedy had been shot, and i haa just we went to school a half a day. I had just gotten home. Ho im sitting there with my mom watching it and we were veryry numb. We didnt say anything, and my father came about an hour later we sat there all the way up toan the time whenhe they were leavin love field and coming to an triewz, and the driewz, andandre plane would be back at andrews. At that time my father got up m and said i got to go back toy o work. He got up and put his coat on, and he was in the hallway and he went against the wall and broke down. That was the first time i sawmei him cry. Y. People of his generation, theyni just didnt do that. You heard from tony, that waa the tail end of the interview, you can watch the whole thing ah our website atol myfoxdc. Com. Just click on the morning newsgs tab, right at the top of the th home page. All right, were checking in with gary mcgrady to find out what the rest of this evening is going to be like. Gary, today was beautiful. Wa yeah, it sure was. And yesterday was beautiful, ani the day before authat, too the question is, shawn, and l how long, and todays evening is great. Will this carry through the evening. That is what everybody wants, bring it on, bring it on. It tunt look like it does not g to. We had clouds come up from the south this afternoon, so were mostly cloudy at times this afternoon here in the city, but, north and west, its been pretty sunny all day long. The rain has stayed well down to the south of us. You see these clouds thisis afternoon, and this evening, kind of coming on across, theres no rain in them, but if i pull this back out, you can see where all the rain is downra to the south. And that is t really is going to be what were going to contendnd with this weekend and its drys out to the north and west righth now. This weekend, it looks likeoks were going to have some showere this evening, it looks great at 7 00, clouds around at 9 00 and 11 00, too. Overnight tonight as well. Ll. We will be dry, coming up in the full forecast, i will tell you w when i think the rain will come in for the weekend;ai okay, sha. We have had a string of great days to a little bit of rain, i dont think we will be too upse with it. It doesnt look hot at alll this weekend. Indeed, thank you. As we continue on the 5 00, a woman darts out in traffic to get away from the cops, why they were trying to get to her. Scott. First and Training Camp in richmond is in the books. Lindsay murphy has a camp wrap.  its a wrap from rich moppe, this afternoon, the redskins yapped up their skin twrapped t. Do they have a total of how manw people showed up there this year, because every day itca seemed like the crowds were pretty big . Big . They were averaging 10,000 every day per practice. Prac wow. They were hoping to do 100,000 fans when they went in there, but they blew away past that. 536,000 redskins fans, poured, and the bruce allen said he he thought richmond provided the te right environment for his teamtm as they get set for the season. E with more on the final day ofof camp, here is lindsay murphy. Y reporter today the redskins would depo on the red skins, Training Camp in richmond, minus a bumpy start, camp ran pretty smooth. Reporter Robert Griffin iii glue wit proved with every e that he is ready for the week one. Injuries were kept to a minimum. Year one in richmond has received rave reviews from thete players. We got coach and one of the great things about being away from for training is it forces you to spend more time getting to know your teammates, and getting to know the staff, and k the support staff asno well. Its a great city. Grea we had a great time. Reporter at this point most players are happy to see camp come to an end, no one aon freeze with that more than the rookies who by all account havet had it easy so far. Have you experienced any of e the rookie hazing yet . I think the biggest thing wan the rookie skit and we did pretty well in that. Besides carrying pads off of ths field or so, but if you get booed during a rookie skitie theyre beyond you. Reporter they said if you had a good skit, then are you cleared. We had a good skit, i think we had the best skit. I think we had the best one overall. I mean, they did it. D we got to do it. Reporter as the skins move their act back to ash burnt the fans here in r bichmond wil see them off the only way they y know how, and the driven family will find their seat at fedexfex field. In richmond, lindsay murphy, fox 5 sports. And he also gave a sample o the Economic Impact for richmonc alone, 4400 Hotel Room Nights were booked and 15,000 meals were served and that is just th Redskins Organization alone. They head back to ash burn with they will notice redskins park has under gone a little bit of a face lift there. And the preseason game will beml here at our sister station. Lets go redskins. I was going to ask you about the skins. E im imagining theyre happyin to be there, and happy to getto out of their homes. A lot of these guys, i talked to most of them throughout theth time. They have families there and thr that is tough. Some of their family doesnt have time to come down, anddown, theyre not staying in the team hotel with them, im sure they missed the family. All right, thanks, scott. The big paychecks. More trouble for yankees third base man alex rodriguez. They are reporting members of his inner circle leakedle documents that implicated several players that usedral performance enhancing drugs. A lawyer for rodriguez hasue denied the allegations. He was suspended for 211 games2 through the 2014 season but hee0 is allowed to play until a t ruling is issued by an arbitrator after the season. A man got a ticket by going the speed limit. They are questioning theg the fairness of the speed camerad that got the first man fined. D. Find out where police are on the hunt for a man wanted in and a whole bunch of kea

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