Li offerbout accountable and restoring public trust. The video is graphic and disturbihe. It shows t Montgomery County Police Officer kneeing a dr handcuffe suspect who was face down on the ground. That officer, kevin morris, is now facing criminal charges. Officer morris actually slamming the videos head to the pavement jut gave me grave concern. Morris has been charged with conddegree assault, a misdemeanor that carries up to ten years in prison and misconduct in office. Morse has been on the force for roughly seven y rs. It sad day when marcus and i stand here having to charge the Montgomery County Police Officer. The video shows the officer slamming the suspects head to the ground after he hallucinogeo an undercover officer at a mcdonalds in aspen hill. According to charging documenes, th suspect ronaldo posoa spit on the officer. They put their lives on the line every aingle day, they do some phenomenal police work, but there are sometimes good people do bad things. Reporter now i
Showers are moving away from the Washington Area and Washington Capitol region. Great friday morning to all of you. If youre hereor the week, we say welcome and we are enjoying rather a muggy start to the day. But we wont be starting out on the wet note. We have some fog in some area, patchy fog, particularly where the rain showers have fallen across the area. So we are going to keep an eye on that the next couple of hours. Take a good look at the teeratures across the area. 75 degrees across the bridge in cambridge. 77 in town. Montgome county, in the 70s. Well to our west, cumberland, maryland, usually they are cool but they are looking at temperatures in the seventh as well. For us, 89 degrees and humid. For traffic, jack, what do you have for us . Clay, still dealing with the investigation ongoing in Prince Georges County. Ongoing accident investigation. Activity in anan list southbound maryland 2 and ramp is blocked it sound like now and all travel lanes have been reopened on that
Muggy air and continues across the region. I95 north and east rain showers have moved from baltimore to the north. For us, its not a rainy start to our friday which is good for those of us that are vcationing with us here in the washington area. If you want to make that early joor walk, you will not need the umbrella but you will need probably to wipe your brow because the temperures are close to 80 in annapolis. How warm will we reach today . Few minutes. In we are following breaking news off the coast of south lorida seven americans, including a West Virginia billionaire, were killed in a Helicopter Crash in the bahamas. West Virginia Governor jim justice says coal executive and philanthropist chr cline was killed in that car. The plane was traveling to ft. Lauderdale. No word what caused the crash. Fire ripped through a house in the district. Firefightersay flames shot through the atsc of thi home am on barnhtreet on northwest. Four people are searching for place to stay and no one
Heres the latest on storm team 4 radar, a few olated showers firing up into parts of Montgomery County, Frederick County as well and keeping a close eye on this line of s. Storm this is where were going to to pull most of our Storm Chances from tonight as it slowly moves towards the east at 15 miles an hour based on the latest track. Winchester can anticipate rain at about 5 30,uray at 6 sock and leesburg 7 45. However, i do suspect it will increase in speed as it continues to move to the east. Were at 90 degrees right now with a southerly wind and high humidity levels though. Its feeling more like 98 out there. 98 is the heat index in frederick and f 1ling about down in quantico. Pat . So, amelia, are you thinking thes storm tomorrow could be severe . I am thinking that storms tomorrow have a better chance of being severe compared to tonight. Th the biggest at tomorrow is going to be heavy rain as well as strong gusty winds. Tonightce more con about more heavy rainfall out there. Much
Stay ahead of the possibilities of storms on the 4th. Download the nbc washington app. Set your home page to weather. Now to that fourth of july and the show of military might such as weve not seenn decades. Yeah. Bring in the tanks. They arrived in the district today at the request ofid prest trump, and they are being transported by train to the National Mall for the salute to americaju this is one part of the president s grand vision, to makes the 4th a much bigger celebration this year, bt a of these changes mean its going to be a much biggerpa one ryone traveling through the area. Dont you know it. Were working for you with Team Coverage tonight. Adam tuss has new details on why the celebrations will impact air travel. Corey smith and new details on t tanks. Cory . Reporter well, wendy, we knew before today that the salute to america was going to be big. Military flyovers, a president ial speech and these tanks make it huge t just way President Trump likes it, but after talking wit