Confederate flag. And one person in jail under serious charges and what a suspect did during a local festival. Tonight a petition is gaining momentum to take Jefferon Davis name off route one in Northern Virginia and a lot of you are sharing this story on our Facebook Page and making it clear how you feel. It goes from Prince George spotsylvania counties. You spoke with the man who started all of this jackie . Reporter well we can tell you this petition was started several months ago. It is such a part of the daily existence for month commuters that most people dont register the official name of a significant part of route 1 as it threads through Northern Virginia. It bears the name of the man who served as president of the confederacy Jefferson Davis. I started on may 2nd six weeks before the charleston massacre, the dreaded charleston massacre. The reaction to the petition . 3000 people have signed it so far, the last time i looked. But ive had this negative reactions to it as well w
Learned in the past hour one of the victims has died. News 4 Jackie Benson is live at the scene, good evening, jackie. Reporter megan, were told that this began as some type of fight or dispute on the sidewalk just up the street. Now, the man who was killed is said to be in his late 40s. It is not clear at this time if he is related to the less seriouslilily victim in his late 20s, people heard sounds of a fight out on the streets. It is not clear how many people were involved but it resulted in the stabbing. Police shut down several blocks of the road which remain closed down at this time. As well as part of third street. There was some information that an assailant may have gone into one of these houses. We have pretty much discounted that. We think that it miscommunication. Indeed it was a victim going in there trying to help. However, to ensure our absolute safety of everybody were going to clear the house. But that is where youre seeing that activity. Reporter now, as you mentione
No real worry. That is great news temperatures overnight will stay near steady or even slowly warming. But there are concerns for fog in the forecast here is the hour by hour forecast as we work our way to midnight. Notice in the beltway temperatures are in the mid40s, in the subway in the midtoupper 30s. I am tracking fog fredericksburg and gaithersburg. And fog will continue to be a concern until about midnight tonight and then after that any fog should break up. In addition to that chris, showers at times tonight but rain in the forecast tomorrow. All the law on that coming up in about ten minute. All right, thank you, amelia right now students are looking for a place to live after a fire gutted their place in maryland. The fire gutted their place so quickly they are lucky to be alive with smoke alarms going off early this morning at 4 00 a. M. And firefighters had a very tough time one of them had to be rushed to the burn unit. Reporter a ball of fire lit up the night. Flames took
Ill let you know how warm it will get in your neighborhood coming up in ten minutes. For now, the latest check of the roads with melissa. Good morning. Good morning. Taking a look right now at chopper 4 over 270 at the spur you can see all the folks headed inbound. No major problems here right now. Looking pretty good. A wider look at things inner loop and outer loop flowing nicely. 66 west of 29 near gainesville looking good. 95 in virginia slowest spot in town northbound through dale city and it will be the problem child of the morning here. Prince georges county here no problems as you head into or out of town. Branch avenue and pennsylvania avenue indian head highway, things are looking good. Nutley street and hermosa drive, we have a lane blocked. Unsure of the direction but theres a car blocking one of the lanes. Ill have more in ten minutes. We are staying on top of breaking news in indonesia this morning. Overnight crews found bodies and debris from the missing airasia plane. T
Us the main concern is ice. Youre right. The time frame in the midday afternoon and evening hours tomorrow. Heres the latest. Winter weather adviseory for everybody tomorrow throughout the day and its going to run until 3 00 a. M. On monday. Everybody here in purple under this Winter Weather advisory. So as snow arrives, mainly around the midmorning hours, it will stick immediately because temperatures will be in the 20s. But the bigger concern with this system will be ice, especially freezing rain leading to slick roads and maybe Power Outages. A good idea to avoid travel tomorrow around the lunchtime, afternoon and evening hours, especially secondary roads lightly covered in ice. Because of this moderate to high impact on the sunday. Weather alert day and chuck will be in in the morning with updates. Future weather at 10 00 a. M. Potentially some sleet, as well. By noon tracking a wintry mix of snow sleet and freezing rain and then the afternoon hours we are looking at mainly freezin