An hour and a half after the first collapse, more of the huge tree fell into independence avenue. That time police had everyone away from the tree and no one was hit. Workers then spent the rest of the afternoon taking down what is left of the big tree. Many of the tourists and others stopped to watch. There is no rain or wind, ice or anything like that to cause it to fall. Something like this is unusual. Sam and as you can see, what you can see back there are the remnants of the work they are doing. They are right there in front of the Longworth House Office building. They have basically taken the tree down. They have taken it down and i guess they are clearing the debris from the street. Obviously, rush hour has started now. No traffic is moving along independence avenue. Speaker paul ryan issued a statement of the family of the worker. He has a wife and two children. Reporting live from the u. S. Capitol, im sam ford, abc7 news. Nancy sam, thank you. Also breaking this afternoon, th
Caught on camera here at kipp d. C. Spring academy is hard to watch. The sevenyearold is hoping to will be in arrest now that d. C. Police are investigating. Cameras rolling inside kipp d. C. Spring academy caught a parent acting inappropriately wednesday morning. Lena mclean requested the video from the School Hallway after her sevenyearold son john told her he was assaulted by stomach. Annalysa it caused him to slump over. While he held his stomach, the adult walked out of the building. It was painful. You watched my son on the ground and did not say anything, and all you can say is you are playing . Annalysa she does not understand why he would hurt her child. I would not do that to none of your kids. Annalysa in a letter sent to parents friday, the school said the health and safety of our students, teachers, and staff remains our number one priority and we will continue to work closely with the police to ensure that students and staff are safe at school. Yall should of had the lett
Now the search is on for the gunman. Good monday morning, everyone. Hillary clinton starting this new week riding high as in the polls as the race for the white house heads into the final two week stretch. Donald trump is now trailing clinton by 12 points, dragged down by broad disaprooifl. Hes repeating claims that the system is rigged. Angelica spanos is more. Reporter with little time left to campaign, Donald Trumps team is acknowledging hes down in the polls, so hes hunkering down in florida. One of the swing states that polls show is still competitive. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton spent sunday in North Carolina, which she hopes to have in her column come election day. In race against time and still fighting allegations of Sexual Misconduct, hes looking forward in the mustwin state of there with females than males. Ill tell you what, were doing well in the pols. But you know, i really think those polls are very inaccurate when it comes to women. I think were doing better with women t
Your phone. Go to wjla. Com text to sign up. Michelle the storm watch 7 team is keeping an close eye on something we need in the area. Rain. We are tracking the signing of what is coming our way. Steve it will be eight hours before we see the first rain drops across the meet metro area. If you have plans, maybe shopping and the temperatures will be in the 40s. Clouds will increase and the sun has now set for the day. For the overnight. Temperatures will fall to the 40s. Look what happens later to the evening hours and early, early tomorrow morning. Temperatures will increase because a warm front will move overhead. With the warm front we are looking at rain. No worries out there now. Lets widen the view out a little bit. This is on the way for the day today. Its a wet rush hour commute for tomorrow morning. Midday rain, once again and driving home tomorrow evening we talk about another round of rain on wednesday and the highs near 70 degrees. More on that coming up in a few minutes. La
She was pushed back when pressed on why this wasnt a more public process and why victims families in the caraway case were not debriefed. She said people need to be able to speak freely. The process had to be somewhat private. And this is not an investigation in the caraway case. That is going to be handled by Law Enforcement authorities. Also, a lot of focus on training in this report. The report found a lot of the focus on training is on stranger danger sex abuse, when the reality is, it is most often committed by people who know the victim. Maxwell said, you can expect that to change. Reporting live in upper marlboro, scott broom, wusa 9. Looks like theyve got a ways to go there, scott. Thank you. Arlington police are looking for a man trying to lure children into his pickup truck. Its happened four times now. So take a look at this map. This is where the man has be different intersections in the last month. Police are now asking parents and children to be on the lookout. What do we