Happy new year, right . Yeah, thanks a lot. Well, as you get back into your routine, remember you can get the power of storm team4 any time anywhere. Open up the nbc washington app on your phone. The bitter fold is keeping firefighters in our region busy tonight. Thats right. We have had a rash of house fires, many of them the result of people just trying to stay warm overnight. D. C. Fire crews battled the flames at a row house in northwest and at an Apartment Building in southeast. In virginia, firefighters were called to homes in annandale and in arlington, and in maryland there were 12 fires in Montgomery County alone this weekend. And there was a tragic end to a fire in annandale, a 94yearold world war ii veteran wasnt able to make it out in time. News4s amee cho has been talking to folks who knew him and joins us live from the neighborhood. Amee . Reporter meagan, his name was louis they called him mr. Lou. He loved to have fun and used a walker and maybe thats why he wasnt able
Targeted in half a dozen armed robberies in less than an hour. Why it could be the last straw for some neighbors. Chemotherapy overdose, how a typo put a 1yearold already battling a rare form of cancer in intensive care. That breaking news in Montgomery County tonight, one person dead in this crash in takoma park and two others injured. The big mystery tonight, how this all happened. There were no other cars involved. Shomari stone live with the latest on that crash and two other people inside that car. Shomari. Reporter good evening, right now. Montgomery county accident reconstruction officers are trying to determine what caused this crash. The weather was fine. Nothing on the roadway, looking to see if alcohol was possibly a factor. Theyre taking pictures of the scene. This is carroll avenue. Move to the right, you see bl k blinking lights, a Police Cruiser making sure people dont come down carroll avenue Near Long Branch parkway. The car was driving and for some reason the driver l
Youre thinking about changing policy right now . Yeah. You just did it . Yeah. Plus two d. C. Restaurants temporarily shut down sparked by a wusa9 investigation. Pretty cool start tuesday morning. Well talk about whether or not thkie ds need a sweatshirt at the bus stop and look ahead to the Holiday Weekend weekend. But we begin tonight with breaking news. A manhunt is underway now after a shooting in a mcdonalds parking lot followed by a carjacking. Im derek mcginty. Im jan jeffcoat. The search tonight is in woodbridge where gunshots out in the 2800 block of dale boulevard before 7 00. Jim osman is at the scene. Reporter two men at this mcdonalds parking lot behind me on dale boulevard in woodbridge got into an altercation. 1 man was shot in the face. The other got away. It was a possible drug deal gone wrong. We spoke with Prince William county police. When we arrived, the victim was being transmitted to an area hospital and we began our extensive search for the shooter. Reporter the
Coldest wind is only in the mid 20s. We can handle that. In the clear clouds the northwest. If you more clouds may drift in during the day but overall mainly sunny today. Mild with a high near 50. Increasing clouds towards the evening. Maybe a sprinkle later. We could see some snow late saturday into sunday. Maybe up to 1 in. In some areas but overall fairly quiet. Would drop into the 20s and for a high on sunday. So far so good no major delays on the expressways or the tollways. We do have a closure on the south side because of a police chase. 87 is blocked off right by the dan ryan. Keep that in mind we will have more information on that. Nancy will have more coming up. We are following breaking news on chiagos south side where a police chase has ended in the death of an offDuty Police Officer. Nancy loo is live at the scene just off the dan ryan expressway with the details. Detectives have marked this as a crime scene in what is clearly a tragic investigation. Off Duty Police Office
captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org live and in hd, this is abc 7 breaking news. we have learned about the potential bomb threats in airport parking garage. police are working to track down the source of this potential threat. what is the latest? i still active investigation, at dozens of officers standing by. not a lot of information. let s go to the tape and show you what our team found a woman got here. we found explosives detection teams, k-9 units during a floor by floor search of to parking garages. dale the garage of one and two it just west of the terminal. as for the terminal itself, it is fairly business as usual right now. passengers coming and going flights coming and going. that investigation continues. we were told about 7:30 tonight. they led a group of people go walking into one of the garages. again, we believe they are looking for potential explosive device. we have a k-9 units and the explosive teams going through those gar