You draw the recommend be om pence of the bullet. And i pray for the person who did this. I pray for them. Reporter so far there have been no arrests in connection with the shooting. Derrick ward, news4. Coming up is the aix, well hear from the editor at sharniece miltons newspaper. Her boss describes her as a fearless reporter. Now to a major highway in our area transformed into a crime scene today. Right now police still looking for whoever opened fire right in the middle of the mourn commute. One person is dead, another injured after that shooting along the anacostia freeway or 295. News4s Megan Fitzgerald has been talking to drivers today, live now at the scene. Megan . Reporter jim, frankly a lot of drivers we spoke with say theres shock that somebody would be so brazen enough to open fire during a rush hour commute with people all around. Now, police do say that they received a lot of 911 calls but so far no arrests. The morning commute on 295 can be stressful. Its slow. There ar
Dmv. A Severe Thunderstorm Warning was issued and what followed was a cluster of rapid fire lightning strikes. Doug are we done with this . Yeah we are just about done with severe thunderstorms. We have a couple of stronger storms out there, still some showers. But the severe part is out of here. Well go from red to blue here. Take a look at the radar, showing you whats happening. We saw the showers and the thunderstorms. Watch this fire up with all that lightning, Severe Thunderstorm Warnings for every county along the potomac and Southern Maryland including the d. C. Metro area. We have some thunder and lightning up towards the chesapeake, but were watching this area here winchester still some showers, the heaviest of which around hagerstown and frederick, maryland seeing the lightning and thunder, too. Well continue to watch as they continue through the hour. Then Something Different moving in towards the end of the week. Thanks doug. Jackie bensen did you get wet . Reporter jim, th
Police say jerome hunt used a bicycle rack to get over the white house fence around 10 30 last night. This afternoon, he pled not guilty to one charge of unlawful entry. Leaving the courthouse hunt answered some questions, including whether his birthday had anything to do with jumping the fence. No no. I dont i dont celebrate birthdays like that. Reporter when asked if he intended to get inside the white house or hurt anyone hunt said no. No. Oh never. Never. I do never do anything like that. Reporter how easy to get over the fence . I better not talk about anything because my lawyer told me not to. Reporter how long were on the grounds before you were taken into custody . They they have a good protective system for the president. They reacted real fast. Thats all ill say. Reporter now, hunt says that he does not intend to ever do this again but does not regret what he did. At 6 00 hear more from hunt. He was released today on his own recog any dance and back in the court next month. B
Severe weather potential. Tornado threat is low. But its still there. High wind hail and heavy rain in many areas. Slowing down the evening rush. You know that. Freddie gray is the name of a man who died in Police Custody in baltimore. But tonight even though Baltimore Police cannot explain how that 25yearold young man suffered the injury that led to his death. Pat lawson muse with developments of a case leading to anger and frustration. Pat . Jim, the Police Commissioner and mayor trying to calm tensions but unable the provide many answers about this case. Police did release a detailed time line of grays arrest all the way up until the time ambulances were called to transport him to shock trauma. We did learn that after the initial arrest he was taken out of the van and placed in leg irons and learned that gray asked for an inhaler several times and at this point no explanation for how his spinal cord wound up severed. What we dont know and need to get to is how that injury occurred.
Lets tell everyone at the same time. Lets Tell Congress if its okay to tell the white house, whew isnt it okay to tell the peoples house . The white house is not going to do what the ways and Means Committee did with the information with gave them piecemeal, theyre not going to make a big issue until the facts are out. Maybe because the white house is the same party . Right . Could that have anything to do with it. I have no idea but i stress again the facts are the facts. The facts treasury knew, white house knew in april, we didnt know until late june. No one at the irs talked to the white house. How did they find out . Pardon. How did they find out . Im told by the people who read the white house letter, the white house found out from treasury. Nobody from the irs talked to the white house. Someone from the irs talked to treasury, then. Thats what i understand. As i said before, wed like to know who that person is. I hope youll find out. Can you make a commitment you will find out w