The suspect stood up about 20 minutes into the showing of trainwreck and then began firing into the crowd before turning the gun on himself. Now, within seconds a teacher inside the Movie Theater was able to pull the fire alarm. Governor jindal says that move and the quick thinking of Police Officers saved lives. The first officers heard the gunshots and they still rang through that theater. They do an amazing job of protecting us every single day. Im grateful for their heroism. Three people died including the gunman, nine others were injured. Some of the victims are in Critical Condition right now. Now the writer and star of trainwreck, the movie condemns the shooting. Amy schumer sent out a tweet saying my heart is broken, all my thoughts and prayers are with everyone in louisiana. It is 5 01. Im aaron gilchrist. Im erika gonzalez. Welcome to news4 today. It should be a beautiful friday. Just happy that the weekend is here. Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein has the weather headl
Looks good. Lets keep it this way. Not so hot on 15 shut down at lucketts road still because of the fire. Your alternate, new Valley Church road is the best way around that. Looking at 270 a little slow southbound as youre headed to 80. Had some debris in the roadway. Remember to listen to our friends on wtop 103. 5 f. M. Beltway, no problems. Aaron . Thank you. 6 01. Now to the developing story out of louisiana. Police are checking out suspicious packages found inside that louisiana Movie Theater. Police say that they found a backpack and a few other items inside the gunmans car. Now overnight the bomb squad blew up the trunk of the car. Were still working to figure out what was inside. We know that the gunman stood up about 20 minutes into last nights screening of the movie trainwreck and began firing into that crowd in lafayette louisiana before he turned the gun on himself. Two other people died, nine people hurt in addition. Some of those victims are in Critical Condition right no
Already 70 in manassas. Upper 80s for highs today. Highest rain chance today will be west of the immediate metro area to the Shenandoah Valley. About a 40 chance of rain at 2 00 this afternoon. Then drying out again towards this evening. Everyones rain chances are higher for tomorrow. That part of the forecast is just ahead. All right, chuck. Thanks. New this morning, police in Prince Georges County trying to figure out what caused a deadly crash. Happened around 1 00 this morning on indian head highway and route 210. Police say the man was driving southbound when he was hit by a car that was heading northbound. The woman in the other vehicle expected to be okay. We can tell you the northbound lanes of indian head highway are closed. Were working to find out when that roads going to reopen. In decision 2016 today, Martin Omalley is expected to announce he is running for president. The Omalley Campaign releasing this video overnight showing the former governor tuning up. Well that is ha
To lounge into as you go through the course of your afternoon. Maybe the neighborhood pool which is certainly open now that were past memorial day. Pool water temperatures should have come up quite a bit since memorial day weekend courtesy of all the warm weather weve been having. Not much of a rain threat around washington today, but there are a couple of lonesome sprinkles out here on the blue ridge. These are drifting. Nothing heavy, just a sprinkle or two before lunchtime. Not much around town. Maybe few lonesome rain drops. Temperatures are on the mild side. Low to mid70s. Already 77 in washington. Later on this afternoon, temperatures up near 90 degrees once again. Highest rain chances will be right along i81 today. Everyones rain chances go up starting late tomorrow afternoon into monday. Show you the sevenday coming up. All right. New this morning, police in Prince Georges County trying to figure out what caused a deadly crash in accokeek. It happened on indian head highway. Th
We are looking at video right now of a story that we have coming up for you, seray. Live at the casting call of house of cards. Supercool. That is a phenomenal show. I was thinking maybe i will go to the casting call at some point this weekend. I believe they are in baltimore tomorrow. They are in annapolis today. You looked it up, didnt you . I did. We are going to look for that threat for thunderstorms in parts of the area today, but over your neighborhood, its more likely that you stay completely dry today rather than seeing any rain and ill explain why coming up. Right now lets get it started with a look outside with the weather cam and our day planner. You can see there is a good amount of cloud cover at the moment but that will burst through for sunshine very quickly, that strong sun this time of year, kind of evaporating that low cloud cover and that will make for a humid afternoon but notice the strength of those winds, out of the south at about 15 Miles Per Hour at worst in th