The sister station in nashville reporting there is at least one person dead. The one person has not been identified. We do not know if its a pilot or somebody on ground. This is what we know. The u. S. Navy blue angels jet crashed shortly after takeoff. 3 00 this afternoon. Practice flight for a show they have coming up this weekend in nashville, tennessee. Here is nashville, a few miles southeast. Airport for that location. Quickly we want to show you a video that somebody took. Shortly after this plane crashed. The person took this video. Giant plume of smoke rising eerily up in the sky. You can see how big of a crash it was. How significant it was. Off of that video with the person saying, pray for the pilot. Hopefully that person is safe. One person has been confirmed dead from the abc7 news affiliate in nashville. For now, live in the newsroom, chris papst. Jonathan another developing story. Air force thunderbird jet on the opposite side of the coun a flyover at the air force Acad
At the ceremony today. We were told that the pilot ejected safely from the f16. He is okay. This is video from the graduation just before the jets went back to land. The thunderbirds perform on behalf of the u. S. Air force, much like the blue angels do for the navy. Michelle breaking from the campaign trail. House Speaker Paul Ryan says he will vote for donald trump. This is the first public backing that ryan has given the Presumptive Republican president ial nominee. He writes that trump, would help us turn this agenda into laws to help improve peoples lives. Alison this afternoon we also have new information about the death of pop icon prince. The Associated Press is now reporting it was an opioid overdose. Jonathan remember, prince was found dead at his paisley park compound ady before he a day before he was supposed to meet with a doctor specializing the painkiller addiction. Michelle he had seen a doctor in minnesota the day bere results of the autopsy. Alison updating yesterdays
Any minute. A lot of her staff has already shown up, waiting to hear what she has to say. You can see one of the posters here. She will be surrounded hereby the department of transportation and the district and also the d. C. Cap commission, expected to lay out plans such as modifying signals for traffic lights, easing parking restrictions, and also creating temporary bike lanes here in the district. Safe track, expected to begin, in under 36 hours on the orange in northernines virginia. They will be single tracking from boston to east falls church, but that will make trains run only every 18 minutes, even during the rush hour commute. We caught up with some of the writers who use metro daily. Can do to work at home more days out of the week. Federal government does a lot of that lately, so she is going to take it vantage of that. Im going. It is what it is. Have to get it fixed. It will just add more time to my commute. I plan to drive. Sam metro is on a media blitz about safetrack. T
24 website. 5 01. Good morning. Im aaron gilchrist. And im eun yang. We want to talk about this nice weather were having. I want to say warm before it gets hot. Chuck bell will tell you if that will be the reality. Whats that . Stay warm before it gets hot. Sorry, i had an eyelash stuck in my eye. You lost one of those long pretty eyelashes . I know, can you believe it . Keep an eye out for thick fog especially Northern Maryland. Best chances for rain will be in the Shenandoah Valley. More worried about how much rain we may be getting on sunday, as well. But for now, visibility only a quarter mile at the frederick airport, half mile in maenassas. So there are areas of thick fog out there. Be on the lookout for that. Temperatures mid60s to get your day started. Well be up near 80 for a high today. Rumbles of thunder could be though most of the metro should be dry. Rain chances creeping up soon. More on that soon. Leesburg, an accident 7 eastbound right after you get past route 9. In the
Yeah, were fine. Were fine. Got on the boat never said a word. I dont know if they were in shock. But when we were sailing home. They were siting there, like they were enjoying the breeze on the boat. Like they were enjoying the boat ride. He got this picture of the rescuers at wingate maryland. About 25 miles south of cambridge. And today, some of the teachers and chaperones who did not want to speak to reporters, came to speak to them. Seen in a School Instagram post before their threeday environmental adventure on the bay. Posted by the Noonan Center in dorchester county. Im just glad everybody made it safe. It wasntad bad wasnt as bad as it could have been. Shockley was there. He said its clear to him that this education boat had struck an Old Army Tank that sits on the bottom out at this ar its an area that used to be on land. Bloodsworth island used to be a navy target practice range. And theres all kinds of debris out there. Boat suggest allowed. But it is in a restricted zone t