good evening, i m audrey barnes in for lesli foster. tonight, we have the story of lost ambulance. completely unable to find a senior s apartment building where firefighters were standing by with an injured woman. so lost, they never got to the scene after 40 minutes of looking and another ambulance had to be sent. 9news now, dave stadard has this story. the people who live at the avondale park apartments will tell you most people have trouble finding them. do a lot of people get lost coming here? yes, they do. > tucked back on a portion of eastern avenue that is separated from the rest of the road, most people need guidance the first time. children don t hang up, we ll talk on your way here. fire trucks and ambulances respond here frequently. yes, they come here a lot. the crews usually know how to get to 4915 eastern. it is marked clearly. the firefighters arrived within five minutes after an injured woman called for help tuesday night, but that was not the
we begin tonight with news out of virginia where police surrounded a car that crashed. at this hour, they are looking for a man with a handgun who abducted a woman in a metro station garage. this began tonight when a woman was carjacked at gunpoint in the parking garage at the metro station about 7:00. the search is underway for the suspect in lorton. reporter: it is a very active search trying to find the armed gunman. officers are spread out all over the area. it s hard to see in the dark, but what the squad cars are surrounding is the victim s car. the car is suspect crashed and fled from a short while ago. for the female victim, it was a terrifying hour long ordeal. the good news, she emerged in the ordeal uninjured. it started when she was in the parking garage just before 7:00. that s when a man approached her with a gun and forced her into the trunk of her camaro. he drove around for about an hour before releasing her in a residential area. the woman ran to a near
at sea for more than a week. good evening, everybody. governor arnold schwarzenegger has issued a state of emergency for several counties. i m jim handly. i m wendy rieger. there are at least eight fires burning throughout california. jay gray is in southern california with more. jay? reporter: hey there, wendy, jim. yeah, and you talked about the state of emergency declared by governor arnold schwarzenegger. at this point even the firefighters saying this is far more than an emergency. conditions here are dire. and they re only getting worse right now. the attack continues from the air and on the ground. it s like a war zone. reporter: but after six days the army of firefighters working around the clock is still losing the war against mother nature. there s really no opportunities to go in there and draw a line to stop this fire so we re trying to contain it best we can but we re really this fire is burning wherever it wants to go. reporter: some of the most
from the first local station with news in high 1d definition, this is 9news now. while our nation lost a great senator, my brothers and sisters and i have lost a loving father. senator ted kennedy s son, patrick in boston today. hello, i m bruce johnson and thanks for joining us this saturday. we ll bring you a report on the funeral shortly. but first, this. senator kennedy s casket arrived at arlington national cemetery. the motorcade is stopping on capitol hill for colleagues and staff members to give final good-byes. a huge owd has gathered on the steps of the capitol this afternoon. he did seem like a really nice man and wanted to come and be a part of history with everybody else and feel their spirit everywhere, you know. not just here, the kennedy center. i grew up in the kennedy era. ted kennedy became senator when i was 2. he has been senator my whole life and my family has been admiring of the kennedy family. as a government teacher, i keep an eye on things t
a career-ening drunk-driving crash. critics are glad he s not getting special attention. karen gray houston is live with more on the sentence. reporter: hey, brian. david baker dodged our cameras today and in a statement and through his lawyer, he said there is no excuse for bad behavior and stepped up to the plate and took his punishment. after a sterling 19 years with the police department, baker has had an embarrassing fall from grace. the judge accepted his guilty plea sentencing him to five days behind bars, a $300 fine, participation in an alcohol safety program and she suspended his license for 12 months. i think the way dave sees this is that he is supposed to be a role modet, supposed to be an mold, supposed to be an example, made a mistake and should pay the appropriate price for it. reporter: he was charged with driving and entookicated after the city-owned vehicle he was in hit another car he merged on to i-66 at fairfax drive. a criminal complaint said