Circles. And smashed into two police cars a light pole, and a tree. He just hit my car. Reporter the Ford Explorer finally stopped. The driver jumped out and confronted the cops. The cops opened fire after they say they saw him with what turned out to be a realistic looking pb gun. You can hear the teenager after being shot on the radio call. [ inaudible ] reporter inside the explorer a 15yearold girl a runaway who was not hurt and is now back with her family. And then stunning information from the wireless carrier through the phone used in that very first call to 911. The Network Provider for the cell phone is stating that cell phone that called the shots fired in is hellwick park. Reporter the phone was here in hellwick park because it was the teens phone. He was the one who called 911 with a fake story about someone shooting at him. It never happened. Why he would lawyer the police to his car and lure the police to his car and lead them on a terrifying chase, that is still a mystery
For news at noon. Im andrea roane. And we are under the yellow weather alert again and awaiting another round of showers and storms this afternoon. Meteorologist Howard Bernstein joins me. I tweeted a picture that maybe one day i can wear my sunglasses. You can wear them a little bit before the afternoon showers. Some on and off showers, may be a break. On the afternoon, i will show you big picture, the rain last night and i passed this on river road coming in soggy ground and rain from this morning has lifted all the way up for lake ontario. The problem is this one spinning here through charleston, that will throw energy toward the east with daytime heating that will pop up showers and storms and we have some well south of the area, south of lynchburg with sprinkles west of charlotte and into virginia. We have some time but midafternoon, 2 30, upper 60s and low 70s and into the later part of the afternoon, showers and storms scatter for the ride home, and we have showers and storms th
Most local governments also closed. Emergency personnel, though, are still asked to report. Every major Public Transportation agency is closed today, including metro transit and vre. Pretty much every flight into and out of our region has been canceled. Youre advised to call your Airline First if you have any questions about getting in or out of town. Marc is shut down today. Amtrak canceled most of its northeast corridor trains. Again its pret much a quiet day. Today is also the third day of an extended weekend for most School Systems in our region, and we have all of this information on our website. Its wusa9. Com. We keep it updated 24 7. Very little traffic out there, but that doesnt mean we dont have problems and road closures. So lets go to Monika Samtani whos going to tell us about that. If youre planning to head around town, let me take you to a graphic. Here at the bay bridge, level one wind restrictions. That means winds are 40 to 49 miles an hour. No empty box trailers are h
Theres one at 8 45 and 9 00 p. M. Tonight. Those will be the critical times because we have coastal flood warnings 1 to 3 feet above normal high tides. A full an also. Thats exacerbating things a little bit. This storm is not going up the west side of the chesapeake. If it were going up the west side of the chesapeake like isabel, it would be a lot worse than that. Well give you the day planner and get into Everything Else thats going on with this Severe Weather alert 567891 by noon alert. 51 by noon. Winds north, northwest 20 to 40. By later this afternoon theyll be gusting in the 50 to 60 mile range. Right now its still relatively calm. Youve got a little bit of time to take some precautions still. Maybe clear any leaves out of the drains. Warnings up and down from the virginianorth carolina coast all the way up to maine. Hurricane force wind warnings, marine storm warnings. Consider them the same as Tropical Storm and hurricane warnings at this point. You can see whats going on from
System usually to be in play this far north. We only have a week or two window of opportunity every year to get this. This is rare. I dont remember anything like this. You may never see this again. Lets hope so. Just an extreme, extreme weather event. Kudos for everybody for taking it seriously, for canceling schools, work, transit. I think thats easily the right call and calling the evacuations. Lets get you going with a look at our day plan other this monday morning. Weve got rain which has picked up. Moderate rain right now. By noon heavy rains and wind going on there. Temperature steady if not falling. Right now 53 degrees with moderate rain. Weve got Hurricane Force Wind Warnings from the midatlantic to the northeast. This is where i think the Hurricane Center blew it. They thought, you know, past cape hatteras, we wont issue hurricane or Tropical Storm warnings because we think its going to be an extra Tropical Storm. Well confuse everybody by going to another warning system. Thi