To get away from the fire and the smoke that was coming. One of the guys back there had burns all over his face. Kevin so in total four men that were trapped inside the stairwell of the utility room below three taken to the hospital. Two critical injuries. One with serious injuries. We have since learned all four men work for the d. C. Department of general services. Unclear why they were out at this former school that is now under deep renovations. For now we are live in northwest, im kevin lewis abc7 news. Kimberly happening now in Montgomery County cleanup from a crash involving adults and children. News chopper 7 over the scene this afternoon on spencerville road in burtonsville. A vehicle flipped over knocking down power lines. No details on the extent of the injury there but spencerville road is closed between old columbia pike. Jonathan developing near charleston, South Carolina the investigation into how an f16 fighter jet and a small plane collided in midair sending plane part
Over the last week or so, Prince William county, fairfax county, the district and prince georges county, Flash Flood Watch 2 a. M. Tomorrow morning through 3 p. M. Tomorrow afternoon. Heres a look at the radar over the past hour or so. You can see the heaviest testimony down toward culpeper, but still we talked about light showers moving in. The heavy stuff comes in overnight. Well zoom in a little bit. This has got some rainfall rates over an inch per hour around gold vein moving essentially off to the east, southeast. This will duck in between quantico and stafford in the next 40 minutes. So let me show you futurecast. Were looking at 5 a. M. , look at all the heavy rain culpeper to fredericksburg, the yellow and orange, heavy stuff. A lot of it ducks off to the south. You might not see anything in hagerstown. I think it will be a little further north than futurecast is showing here. 9 a. M. Showers essentially i66 and 50 south. By 11 00 most of the heavy activity is south of town in
Breaking news. An officer in the freddie gray chase has chosen a bench trial rather than a trial by jury. Baltimore Police Officer edward nero faces Assault Charges in the death of freddie gray. Officer nero was one of the first baltimore Police Officers to arrest gray last year. Investigators say gray died from injuries he sustained after officers put him in the back of a police van. Six baltimore Police Officers face charges in his death. Neros trial is expected to begin thursday and last about five days. New today Fairfax County police making changes after an officer shot and killed a man. In the last hour they spoke about increasing transparency and news 4 ice Kristin Wright was there. Shes now live at police headquarters. Reporter the Fairfax County Police Department has been working with this group on the use of force and also on how to deescalate situations, so that is the discussion going on inside morning. This is a very important discussion. The chief started out by talking a
Good. Looks weird to see a problem on the inner loop this time of day. River road still shut down at partnership road. All lanes blocked because of that pole being down. That is a crash from overnight, but still going to see some delays through that area. Red line single tracking between grosvenor and Friendship Heights because of a track problem at medical center. Well take a look at travel times coming up. 6 01. Federal lawmakers plan to give metro the funding its been asking for. Today the u. S. House Appropriations Committee will formally propose 150 million for the agency. Last year the same Committee Recommended slashing funding this half. Metros general manager Paul Wiedefeld will have to explain on the hill today how the agency will use that money to fix save i problems. Personal safety on metro also a big question today as we learn that an armed and violent attack on a moving train. This happened about a month ago gee and metro made no public announcement John Prentice hicks.
Frantic search continues this morning for 2yearold boy dragged into the water by alligator. This happened disney grand floridian resort. Holly joins us when what we know about the ser. And officials again and again there is no other word use. And heartbreaking. Tramingic story. Florida officials just releasing new details moments ago and say they have not yet found the bo boy. But they are olding out hope. The boy was visiting the park from nebraska with parents and siblings and it happened and its at the grand Floridian Hotel 9 rbg looingt night and this resort on monorail not far at all from Magic Kingdom and more search and rescue crews expected to arrive on scene today. Sovls say so far and no sivrpz the boys. And alligators were pulled from the area then he to be euthanized in order to be examined. The boy was wading in a foot of water when the alligator grabbed him the boys parents were nearby and tried unsuccessfully to rescue their son from the gators grip. The gator is believe