Pictures using the hashtag wusa 9. I just got off the phone, the victims brother tells me a short time ago cadaver dogs located butlers remains by search crews tell him construction overtime may have damaged them. They fear the remains that are left may have washed up in a drainage ditch. Im standing. It wasnt the best view by Derrick Butler had to be here for his sister. Im hoping for the best. Due to traffic noise he says im hoping for the best, the best that we can get. You see, Derrick Butler has been waiting for this day almost eight years. He hasnt seen his sister pamela since her exboyfriend killed her in 2009. He confessed tot deal with prosecutors. That brings us here to these woods off 95 and stafford. The express lane shut down canine and crews searching Derrick Butler praying. I wonder whether he told us that just so we would make the deal and he would get less time. I mean even when we get the remains it will probably be closure for my mother. For me theres going to always be some things in the back of your head as to what really happened. As a brother what could i have done different. Again, i just got off the phone with Derrick Butler. He is not happy. His sisters killer you may remember got a lighter 12 year sentence in exchange for leading police to the body and thats why they were searching the woods in stafford today off 95. Butler says since they did not recover remains were still waiting on word as to what prosecutors believe is the next step. Well see what happens. Two bus drivers had been arguing for a long time and today that feud exploded into violence and to death. Gunfire stopped traffic on Georgia Avenue in northwest dc today. Gone for a street injury avenue. The worried calls for shots fired started flooding into 911. Around 8 00 a. M. In a parking lot on the other side of the guard post at the old Walter Reed Army hospital. Two shuttle bus drivers had started fighting. Then one pulled a gun and opened fire. There was multiple ones. Opened fire. Bang bang and then bang bang bang. Yeah. There was like six or seven shots. Theres a man laying in the parking lot south of the building. Construction worker michael heard the gunshots and turned to see something he will never forget. And he was just right here on this road and turned around and looked back there where i was coming from and you seen the guy drop and that was it. You didnt see the other guy he was gone. Police say that the shooter did not try to escape. He simply surrendered to officers as they arrived and he is cooperating. Investigators are still trying to figure out how a simmering dispute blew up and left one of the bus drivers, a man in his 20s dead. The police chief says the other driver is in his 50s. He says detectives are still not sure who started it but it was a vicious fight. They apparently know each other and did not get along. The shuttle buses have universal bus charters written on the side. But the company is not responding to phone calls. At last report, detectives were still questioning the older man and tryingo to charge him. In d. C. Bruce lashanw wusa 9. Police say the shuttle bus drivers were bringing construction workers onto the site. Right now more fires if you can imagine are erupting across southern california. This is video. Heart breaking video of homes destroyed in San Diego County today. This fire you see here started yesterday making it the sixth wild fire in the state burning 41,000 acres of land. So far 190,000 people have been evacuated. One family returns to see their home and whats left of it. Probably the hardest thing ive done ever but i needed to see it. I needed to know what was going to happen and i feel like we needed the same thing. The heart break from those fires spread to a horse training ce hundreds of thoroughbreds had to be set free. You see them running for the burning barns. Trainers say about 25 of those horses died trying to escape. Authorities dont seem to know the cause of the fire but they say theyre spreading so quickly because of a dangerous combination. Powerful winds, low humidity and years of drought. Californias hills also create challenges. The rugged hillsides make it pretty hard for firefighters to get to the wild fires. Check out these images of those wild fires seen from the International Space station. Heavy clouds of smoke from the fires can be seen drifting over the Pacific Ocean astronaut Randy Bresnick shared the images on social media and of course he thanks all the First Responders fighting the fires. And if youre looking to help those impacted by the wild fires in southern california, here are some groups supporting the victims. The american red cross, the united way of ventura county, and the Los Angeles Fire Department foundation. Now some individuals have also started gofundme campaigns online but remember you should check with the folks at gofundme to make sure those campaigns are legit. Still ahead three resignations in congress in one week all over Sexual Misconduct allegations. One senator explains what needs to happen next. And if a 40 toll to drive on i66 isnt your thing, a virginia man has an alternative plan to save you time and money. Plus. How much do you credit your mother with where you are today . About 110 of it. Yeah. [ laughter ] a local woman is making history at west point. Simone asque is the first black woman to lead the army corps of cadets. Coming up at 5 30. The House Ethics Committee is launching an investigation into yet another lawmaker. The Committee Says it has new evidence in the case against congressman blake farronthol accused of sexually harassing an aid and then retaliating when she complained. Minnesota senator al franken and trent franks from arizona. Frank said he and his wife faced fertility issues and his requests from staffers to carry his child may have made them feel uncomfortable. What happened yesterday is unfortunate in the senate but i think on capitol hill the discussion wre is that action is needed. And Alabama Republican Roy Moore is likely to face an etszices investigation of his own if he reaches next weeks senate race. Two palestinians were killed today during the socalled day of rage from president trumps decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital. Israeli war planes also hit targets after militants fired rockets into israel. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets. There were protests in egypt, jordan and turkey as well. Signs read jerusalem belongs to islam. In pakistan flags of both israel and the United States were set on fire. Next tolls on i66 are improving but the number of people on the road isnt. See one way drivers can improve their commute but it requires a pretty big change in driving habits. And century in the making. See the dome finally completed at the national shrine. A celebration today of work that began nearly a century ago. The national strive of the emaculate conception marks the completion of the trinity dome mosaic. It has more than 1 4000000 pieces of venecian glass. One of the largest in the world. Its been a work in in progress since the laying of its Foundation Stone back in 1920. Two congressmen are pushing plans that would use public dollars for private institutions. Introducing the educational freedom account act. The district of columbia would be forced to get parents to opt out of public show voters back home that lawmakers ideology is important even if the measures have no chance of passing. Total changes and a rush hour expansion on i66 caused a lot of headaches for you this week. A wood bridge man says he has a Ride Sharing Program designed to make you money and the drive easier. Its called slugging. Think of it as glorified hitchhiking. The hearing is all professionals coming to one place, a predetermined location and they move there and move forward from there. So if im a driver and i dont feel like paying the i66 tolls, i can go to a designated spot and pick up these sluggers. Right. And save myself the money. You save a lot of money. So you go to vienna south parking lot and there will be people waiting for you. The rides the only thick is youve got to tell them what location youre going to and the riders will confirm the location and theyll go on from there. How much money as a driver will i say in tolls. Grass of today it looks like 25 to 50 today. Thats great. It is big money. And whats the benefit to the rider . So for the rider they save their train fare. Or bus fare. Theres even an active slug line community. Its on facebook. When a driver or a rider comes to the location, they check in and wait for the rider or the driver and the driver sees that and they see more people in one particular location, they come there and pick them up. There are even rules to slugging. You cant eat or drink in you cant force conversation. Vienna stephanie galehard. So if youve been around here you know slugging is nothing new. But it is gaining some traction thanks to help from social media. For the first time in decades accumulating snow fell in parts of station and College Station texas anm students made impressive snowmen and of course they had snow ball fights. Commuters had an icy commute in houston. More than 2. 5 of snow was reported in san antonio. The first significant snowfall in the alamo city since 1985. And heres whats even more weird snow near the texasmexico border for the First Time Since 2004 and parts of new york are digging out from heavy lake effect snow. And it could get up to more than a foot before i dont worry this town is next to lake erie and theyre all used to coping with this kind of snow. Go to social media ive got a lot of friends in atlanta posting videos of snow there. School out early. Roads shut down. Were not going to do that here. Were not going to freak out tomorrow. I dont think so. And the good news it is coming in on a saturday for us. It is a little more robust. So lets start first with the warnings. We have Winter Weather advisories. Theyve been expanded since noon. Theyve been expanded almost to i81. Leesburg all the way back to winchester and laray. And also we have in white those are winter storm warnings. Kind of unusual for the first storm of the season. The bulls eyes southeast of town. Usually you lack the cold air but youre going to be the bulls eye this time so impact meter. This is how it affects you and us. Well on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the carmagedden. Well were going to give it about a 4. 5. And i think some of the snowfall rates i mentioned this earlier will be heavy enough to overcome some of the melting. Some slush is possible even on roads like 301 and route 5 in maryland. Were taking the 3 band on monday and the 3 to 5 band just a little bit west of i95 just a little bit up to the spur and maybe into portions of fair fax county and down into Prince William county and folkner county as well. I still feel most of it is going to be on the grassy surfaces. Timeline critical. Date night should be okay. 1 to 5 total snows on and then some slick spots especially saturday night. Even in Southern Maryland youre going to make it to 31, 32 saturday night. Thats going to be the real night to watch out for. Yellow weather alert saturday for the snow. Live look outside. Its 41 right now. Dew points 20. Pretty dry air mass. So whats going to happen is we start to see the moisture fall through the collum of air. So were going to see some cooling. Look at the big picture. Look at the snow. Extending all the way back into almost the gulf of mexico into new orleans and all the way up to d. C. 1300 miles and pretty heavy snow is falling now in north georgia hills and also into the mountains of north carolina. As far as were concerned our snow is still south of us into st. Marys county. Until the atmosphere is saturated. I dont think thats really going to happen until midnight. It is snowing here. Nothing is accumulating. And again we want pictures future cast tonight theres the snow. By 10 00 still hanging around south of town. Fredricksberg and snow up to gatorsberg and leesberg and by lunchtime its snowing everywhere. Hovering low to mid 30s and by 6 00 most of the snow moves across the bay. We still have clouds and snow showers or flurries and they can kind of roll through tomorrow night as the second batch of arctic air rolls in on sunday. So on the day planner. 35, 35, hut. Snow. Across the board. Light wind. North northeast at about 6. Now on sunday well keep a flurry in at 43 and chilly on monday 45. Actually not a bad day. Next seven days. Tuesday a flurry possible. Late 46. More arctic air tuesday night. 28 for a high on wednesday. 40 on thursday. 42 on friday. Dont freak out but days. Dont freak out. Im freaking out. Well wusa 9 has partnered with Childrens National to get toys, gifts and especially hope to children in the district of maryland and virginia who will be spending the holidays in the hospital. The best news is that you dont have to stand in line, do any gift wrapping or drive anywhere. We do all of that for you. All you have to do is visit wusa9. Com hope. Now after you choose a gift you make your purchase as you would normally do any Purchase Online and then the toys will be delivered directly to the kids at the hospital. Again, visit wusa9. Com givehope and thank you so much for your help in giving the gift of hope to children at Childrens National. Well up next, a holiday viral minute. See how a mom saved her familys elf on the shelf. Plus we are bombarded with sales throughout the year how do you know if youre getting a good sale. And she is the highest ranking cadet and first black women to command the brigade. We will talk with simon from fair fax virginia. Dear suswe get it. Ackers, we know it can be a texture thing, and there are lots of brands to choose from. But its time for you to pick up your big spoon and try new hood cottage cheese. Its the brand people have trusted for more than 170 years. A whole world of sweet, and savory combinations, like pineapple, cucumber dill or classic country style. And since its packed with satisfying protein, youll want to try all of hoods amazing flavors. Dont miss out on delicious. New to your local dairy aisle when youre clocking out. Im the one clocking in. Sensing your every move and automatically adjusting to help you stay effortlessly comfortable. I can even help with a silent night. Does your bed do that . 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Most of these deals will go away in january. And luxury cars, sedans, hybrids and electric vehicles. For a limited time you can get a Christmas Tree inspired frappuccino. Whats in it . Its made with peppermint mocha. And its topped with caramel drizzle. And candied ornaments. And youll go into sugar shock. Thats a whole lot. Thats a whole lot going on. And maybe appropriate going into the weekend with snow on the way. Well you might need it. I know. Take the edge its it for wusa 9 news at 5 00. We are under a yellow weather alert tomorrow. Some areas of the dmz could get up to three inches or more. Ill tell you what you step outside. My dad taught me this you can actually smell snow it smells much differentain. We have expanded Winter Weather advisories now see the white there thats a winter storm warning into Southern Maryland. Down into the northern neck. Kind of unusual but you folks are going to be the bulls eye with this particular system. Notice how were kind of running from southwest to northeast. Were looking at most precipitation on the east side of populations will creep north ward as we go through the nighttime hours and really youre okay in terms of date night until about midnight and then i would get inside. We have a little bit of video for you and again, the snows getting closer to us. This is down into Southern Maryland and lenardtown and you can see the roads look wet but, you know, okay. I want to emphasize a couple of things. The snow bands tomorrow will be heavy enough to overcome the melting. Especially well come back and talk about tomorrow night and just how cold it will be in the wake of the storm. The wusa 9 weather team is on top of this and were constantly providing updates online. Get the latest Weather Information on wusa9 and you can send us your pictures tomorrow one of
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