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. ♪ >> goodel morning andcome to er >> i'm tom fitzgerald, gre to see yo we welcome you in. good morning on this sunday and as always we're going to start off with a look outside. it is september 15th. erin, erin, we're half way through t month already. >> i can't believe it. g 're creepinto october already. look at wcreeengpi the big wheel down there at national harbor, your wilson bridge out then the background, gary mcgrady standing by, how you doing? >> i love how they leave it on for our shot for 7:00 a.m. and they turn it off in a fews. minute >> they're niceik oe somehow, not sure how. sunny and dry sunshine today wt have much sterday, we'll get a lot today,showers, sprinkles, a couple of thunderstorms yesterday but we are' all dry today. we're transitioning into a fairly dry period it looks like as we head off into theek work and it looks like we're going to heat up, too. 73 in n town,ow they're 60s, notice upper 50s back out to the west. what's important about that? that means d air is coming in. so even thoh we'reoing to be pretty hot today, mid to upper 80s, the h

il investigations.abid anthrax fox5's tom fitzgerald live with more. what's u there fitz? >> reporter: jim, this involves the usarmy's medical reseah institute of infections diseases at fort dietrich.ulba he cenckters for inspectiason of that facility a it er issued aea cndsehe a a cv laboratories.ie the reason? well, cdc found what they called iufficient systems in place to decontaminate the water in those high security labs. facility, local officials say weeks later pple still nearby should have health concerns oven eres.rkafy s widespread is this ve a l of questions. >> reporter: well, those questi es beganly today whenle tter went out from us senator chris vanollen to the acting secretary of the army, chris ryan mccarthy.now, he is into all of this and wrote that several activ project are underway for biological research inside for van nollen says he is concerned y t righ the security aspects of this but yssa to curing m in lt out in all of this, the e scoays his office now is launching a qe w the surrounding thorities, including legation, that these high security labs

. >> fox5's tom fitzgerald is live in rockville tonight. tom, montgomery county we know a sanctuary county. break down exactly what happened here and why people are fired up about th, if you will. >> yeah, shawn, we shld tell you that was caroline sturgis, she is onef the top aidsou to montgomenty executive marc elrich. now elrich over the summer issued an executive order. it code fied the fact, put it ia writint montgomery county were not going to work with immigration and customs enforcement when it comes to customs ement. this anen old argument from montgomery county politi cians. they say immigration enforcement is not their job, so they do not cooperate wi the federal government when it comes to immigration enforcement. th also oppose the trump administration's policy when it comes toig immtion enforcement. so that's there baseline he. what's gone on in the last couple of days though, is that you have four very high profile individuals, who are all illegal immigrants, who are allha ced with sexual assaultn this county, andhere are very

s fox 5 tom fitzgerald ive at the wilson building tonight. tom, i was surprised t hear this was a legal defense. have other states or cities enacted laws to do away with this act? >> you knhe, i'm right t with you, shawn. reading rst started out this, you know, you shake your head. how could that be? how cld that be a criminal defense? but turns out, in fact, in several ways, defendants across the country used what's beens termed a gay panic as way to defend themselves in court. pretty much shawn, what this almost turns blame around to the vi tims inhese cases, which is justsh astonig, that somebody could be the victim of an assaulto but yet into court to have your due process and then somehow, y know, have the person who assau you, you know, claim they were somehow excused from in behavior because of the g panic, it's something that many states across the country are a lookingt right now. some haveha move w dc is ants to be the first one in bit our area to gethis on the isbooks. is not a way somebody could use to defend themselves in court i