This outtaj at the Atlanta Delta canceled many, many flights yesterday and even today theres some 300 Flights Canceled but thats because delta has its hub there atlanta and when the power went out really everybody was at a standstill for most of the day. Lets take you to video from yesterday when the airport was just plunged into■c darkness. [inpuible] multiple Power Systems and then were told toxic fumes kept Georgia Power crews from accessing the site for hours so every■c single plane was stopped there on the tarmac and in the terminals passengers were stranded. Atlantas airport, the busiest in the world so what happens there has a Ripple Effect all over the country. National told us■c theyre having to do a lot of changing to get home. Not going as planned retty much. Sad how you wake up with so much joy ready to go and you, working out. Heartbreaking. Reporter and■c [inaudible] all right, so, sorry about the technical difficulties were having out there. They got atlantas not
Alexandria will remain closed. All activities also cancelled, again, Georgia Washington School alexandria closed today. Working hard as always, mike thomas and erin como. We did melting yesterday with temperatures in the 50s around dc, we fallen back below freezing in a lot of suburb this morning, watch for a couple slick spots this afternoon had, as you mentioned big warmup starts tomorrow. Well talk about that coming up. Breaking news out of maryland right now. We have a crash involving an overturned vehicle on the ramp from university boulevard to the outer loop. Well take a look at that. If youre just waking up with us as 5 00, weve been following several breaking news stories and first from the district, a person has critical injuries after jumping from their apartment to escape an Early Morning fire, a short time ago, were told the fire started on the second floor of the building, firefighters were will the put it out. Investigators are trying to figure out how the fire developin
Commute. Traffic etsell road heavy volume bristol to mannasas and also closed with over turned vehicle by 234. Sky fox headed there and well get you full work around next. Airport thanks very much. Lets get to the top story this morning. Students American University reacting to acts of racism on campus targeting black students. There will be a Community Meeting to discuss this issue coming after bananas were found hang around several place on campus. Melanie alnwick is live in northwest with more on how students at the cool are responding. And good morning, steve, allison. This definitely has just riled up the campus community. Even though today is a quieter day on campus study day as students prepare for final exams. American University President called this a despicable cowardly act. Now youre looking at pictures that were published in the Student Newspaper here of bananas found hanging on campus. They were fou strings that resembles nooses in three locations, word harambii and aka o
And because it had incidents in sment and now incidents in may. And today is not a regular day of class here. Its actually a study day. Students are preparing for final scams and many that we talked to said that this incident is hurt pull full and unwelcome. University officials confirming that these bananas hangingy strings in the shape of nooses were found in at least three locations on campus. And the words harambi and aka written on them aka referring to alpha, kappa alpha these published in the Student Newspaper and happened on a day when the University First he black female sga president took office and she is also a member of aka. And there was a meeting last night at the black Student Alliance media not allowed to be con campus to attend that. Students provided us with pictures it was very well attended. Many we talked to feel more could have been done after the prior ips dmept s were trying to come up with a list and letter to accepted to 5d mrtion letting them know all studen
Commute. Traffic etsell road heavy volume bristol to mannasas and also closed with over turned vehicle by 234. Sky fox headed there and well get you full work around next. Airport thanks very much. Lets get to the top story this morning. Students American University reacting to acts of racism on campus targeting black students. There will be a Community Meeting to discuss this issue coming after bananas were found hang around several place on campus. Melanie alnwick is live in northwest with more on how students at the cool are responding. And good morning, steve, allison. This definitely has just riled up the campus community. Even though today is a quieter day on campus study day as students prepare for final exams. American University President called this a despicable cowardly act. Now youre looking at pictures that were published in the Student Newspaper here of bananas found hanging on campus. They were fou strings that resembles nooses in three locations, word harambii and aka o