Three people were taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. Jouk you can there from sky force 10 just how lengthy that back up is. Also tonight a racial slur sparks violence at a school. Students tell us this followed a week of hateful messages. Nbc 10s drew smith is live at Washington High School township tonight. Reporter it was a conversation inside the auditorium here that just wrapped up. As you can see on the outside of the school, theyve got these banners advertising how great of a district they are in terms of academics. This is the moment anger over racist Text Messages boiled over in the halls of Washington High School. Several students punished because of what youre seeing in this video posted to twitter. Administrators say some kids were taking matters into their own hands after identifying one of their classmates texting racial slurs. They went a different route today, taking part in a peaceful sit in protest with nearly 100 others not attending any classes.
Any leads or Surveillance Video that would give you any indication of who is doing this . We are hoping the public can help us with exactly that. A lot of places and people have their cameras that they have around their homes, you know, and people are getting up early for work because of the long commutes and that sort of thing so we are hoping that maybe people have seen something or saw a car that did not belong in the neighborhood or may have Surveillance Video that we have not seen or that we dont know that is even out there, and so if they have that information were asking them to contact us on our arson tip line at 1866arson. These are fires you are tracking to the beginning of the year as well, they may be linked to this . Yes, we have the seven you are obviously reporting on but we know there are over ten back to the beginning of this year. We are starting to look back into previous years as well into 2016 to see if there are other fires that may meet the same common threads. S
In a pattern of northwest wind. Up into the mid 70s. As our winds turn back to the southwest tomorrow, a bigtime warmup. Out the door you go, 46 in winchester, virginia. 52 in manassas, 56 in arlington. Highs today 71 in gaithersburg, 77 in fredericksburg. As we mentioned, theres a warming trend coming. Back into the 80s, probably going to be in the 90s two days a week. Coming up in a few. Chuck, thank you. A digital extorsion scheme is playing out. News 4s angie goff is in the newsroom with more on the developing story. Angie . Reporter that is the big update this morning as you mentioned that massive cyber attack, it hit computers around the world. More than 150 countries. Officials now say that could spread even further today. Already there have been a 200,000 victims across more than 150 countries. This morning were learning nissan said it has also been targeted but it has not had a major impact on the car companys business so far. Security experts say that they have never seen any
Happened. Heres what they know so far. The shooting happened in front of the outlet mall in vacaville. The suspect was killed. It started at 12 30 this morning. Officers were following a car and ran the plates and discovered the car was stolen. They attempted to make a car stop on that stolen vehicle, and a pursuit began. The suspect took the i80 offramp at leisure town road and the officers performed a pit maneuver and shortly after that pit maneuver they indicated that shots were fired. Reporter that pit maneuver you heard him mention, thats when the officers use the front of their car to tap the bumper of the car they are chasing causing it to spin out, and they are working to identify who was killed and one officer was hurt and taken to the hospital, and not shot and not sure what happened to him but he is expected to be okay, and officers will be here investigating for several more hours. Amy hollyfield, abc7 news. Thank you. The Highway Patrol on the scene of a deadly cash on eas
Worldwide exchange. It is Throwback Thursday and we are throwing it back with repr rep replay so that is what youre listening to and also a very positive day for markets to reflect upon yesterday. Lets have a look at the futures. Of course this comes off a day where we did see futures before the open respond very positively indeed to Janet Yellens prepared remarks we had over 1 gain for the nasdaq which led the way higher. About 0. 6 for the dow and s p. Tech was best performing sector up 1. 3 . All sectors were positive but financials were the least impressive and that was in part because yields did slip in response to the dovish comments from janet yellen the dow up 32 this morning, nasdaq 30, s p 5 so that positivity is continuing lets have a look at the ten year treasury note because we did see the yields slip back down towards 2. 3 on the expectation of more gradual rate hikes, and more importantly that the peak of the rate hike cycle may be lower than past worth noting that weve