A child had to be rescued from a pool at the rockville swim and fitness center. The child is now at the hospital. Tom roussey is live with the breaking details. We just heard molts ago that moments ago that that girl is being stabilized at the local hospital for transport to Childrens Hospital. Let me show you what happened at the swim center at 2 40 this afternoon, they believe she jumped off the low dive and went in the water and everything seemed fine. She swam towards the ladder on the side and they believe she touched the ladder. At some point something went wrong. One witness described it almost as a medical condition and she fell back in the water. And it was after that lifeguards rescued her. This is from our chopper this afternoon after this happened. According to the superintendent lifeguards got the girl out of the pool and an ambulance showed up not longer after that and she was taken to a local hospital. One witness who saw her in the pool said the little girls head never
Where the fire was quickly knocked down and then the laws Mennonite Church. The fires there were multiple areas of fire origin, that is separate areas that were started on fire, there were no accidental causes for the fires, the damage at the manship chapel is estimated at 1,000 and it will cost 10,000 to fix the Mennonite Church and the Healing Hands church is gone. The pastor says that while they destroyed a building, the church is still intact. I will forgive them. If he see them today, if they were hungry i would feed them and if they needed somewhere to stay i would give them somewhere to stay. We are knocked down but well get up again gl so once again this was a tiny Church Building so damage estimates stand at 75,000. And they are already fielding officers from churches and individuals to help them rebuild, meanwhile anyone with information about these fires are asked to call delaware state police. Walter perez, channel 6 action news. Walter, thank you. Breaking news now, a gran
Thats right. Its going to be a wet weekend. Lets check in with meteorologist chuck bell. Its going to take me a little while to unpack the warmer air from florida. Youll appreciate it tomorrow. For now rain drops and sleet pellets first thing. We have a Winter Weather advisory that will carry us through the late morning and afternoon hours. Out until the blue ridge. Into the metro until about 1 00 this afternoon. All these areas in the counties mostly north and west. Little light icing to a glaze out there. Use caution. Most of the area roads should be all right. If you see any sleet pellets or have a good picture of it tweet it in to me chuckbell4. I heard sleet pellets on my window on the drive in. Organized sleet out toward the blue ridge, maryland and West Virginia. Well be keeping a close eye on that. Lot closer to the freezing mark in Northern Maryland martinsburg, West Virginia. It will have a moderate impact on your plans to get outside and enjoy today. Sleet turning to a cold
8501. D. C. s new mayor Muriel Bowser celebrating tonight at her inaugural ball. News4 at 11 00 starts now. First tonight, officials have Winter Weather advisoryoubun for parts of our area this weekend. And even d. C. Could see some sleet falling saturday. Lets go to storm team chief meteorologist doug cameron to find out what were going to wake up tomorrow. Many of us will wake up to sleet falling around the region around the time around 6 00, 7 00 it 8 00, 9 00 in the morning. Many of us seeing freezing rain. No rain or no freezing rain out there right now. We have nothing across our area. We continue to be on the dry side. But weve cooled quicker than expected. That is going to have concerns for tomorrow morning. Rain down to the south. This is whats moving our way and this whole area right in here will start to fill in as it moves our way because of that we do have that Winter Weather advisory. Not for d. C. , even though they could see sleet. Back to the west we could see accumula
To alexandria. When they heard he was grave lie injured they made a Bold Decision to land in a very tight spot right on a school playground. Just a half block from laboy. Im sitting in the aircraft and saying to myself i need somebody to keep that tail clipper. Had enough room. Reporter the landing and pick up was successful and laboy was rushed to med star. Only later did the crew learn laboy had been shot in the head. He says seeing laboy today was a great feeling. I was a little worried because we dont get to see folks that are back on their feet so it was greet. Makes you feel warm inside. Reporter now you notice officer laboys arm was in a sling. He had surgery on tuesday to repair another left over injury from a year ago when he hit the ground. But se on the mend with that. Coming up on news4 at 6 00 more details about the teamwork it took to put that chopper down on this playground that day. From old town, alexandria, im julie carey, news4. Right now attorney general eric holder