Are you happy, chief . Its tough to say. I love this place. Ive been here my whole adult life. Key lanier will move to new york to serve as security chief for the nfl. The League Reached out to her and she decided to take the job just yesterday. Her last day will be on september 17th. Some of chief laniers harshist critics are inside her department. Wusa 9 aioli son barber. Reporter the d. C. Chief is one of the chief laniers biggest critics. over 1,000 officers or members of this union said they had no confidence if her ability to lead the department and keep the city safe. Unsurprisingly the union says a lot of their members here down. She ran this department how she felt was best to one this department. And a lot of times that clashed with the officers. Reporter still Union Secretary jimmy white says the news is a shock. We got the email today. And were just as surprised as everybody else. Reporter every officer is handling it differently. There is a mixed bag of reactions that i
Lindsay. Reporter shawn and tony sprint customers should definitely know that this is still ongoing right now. I was just talking to firefighters here chevy chase who say this issue has meant someone has had to man the phones at the station instead of relying on 911 dispatchers. Throughout the day this has been a major problem and tonight some sprint customers are furious with the way the company has handled it but it took hours and hours for them to put out an alert. It started last night with an underground transformer fire on 18th and l streets. Sprint says this is what impacted cell service today. Causing some customers to get a busy signal when they dialed out, including to 911. Law enforcement took to social media to warn people. As for sprint, at around noon the Company Posted on facebook and twitter that there may be landline issues but said nothing abou hours went by. I. E. Mailed sprint and posted to their facebook asking why there was no update and only after that, about an
Lenghi has more from the news room on what happened here. Reporter this is what it looks like when a tree falls on a car. The man driving the car was traveling north on rock creek parkway and exited on beach drive, a heavily wooded area when out of nowhere this tree crashed down on his sedan. The officer tells me at least 30 people helped him lift the tree up and slide the car backwards fromunder the tree. Reporter the 30 or so people were bystanders who were in the area. It was critical those people stopped and helped. Three or four people could not have done it. It would have taken an army, and it did. Reporter before the army moved the massive tree, it crushed the roof of the car on top of the driver. The First Responders finally peeled off the roof to extra to he remains to in the hospital tonight with lifethreatening injuries. Adam, back to you. Thank you. That stretch of beach drive is expected to be reopened by the morning rush. You can download our app for the latest developmen
And featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove miley steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy oh, welcome, everybody. Welcome [ cheers and applause ] welcome, welcome, welcome. Thank you so much for being here. Welcome to the tonight show. This is it. Thank you very much for being here. [ cheers and applause ] hot crowd. Heres what people are talking about. Big election news today. For the first time ever, donald trump admitted that president obama was born in the United States. [ light laughter ] yeah jimmy trump said, its true, obama was born in hawaii in 1961, exactly eight years before the u. S. Faked the moon landing. [ laughter and applause ] its true. Thats what people are saying. Get this, trump is now even claiming that it was Hillary Clinton who started the rumor that obama wasnt born in the u. S. [ laughter ] when asked why hillary would do that, trump was like, who knows . I mean, this is a woman who wants to build a big wall with mexico. [ l
About the new school year. Prince georges county, the start comes after the program lost millions in federal funding amid allegations of abuse and neglect. The countys Head Start Program will continue with improved oversight. 4 things we need to know about the weather. Chuck bell is in the weather center. Its going to be a pretty nice day. Back to School Almost always seems to be a blazing hot time of the year. The heat goes on around here at least today, tomorrow, maybe on into wednesday, all look to be 90 degrees or warmer. Ahead of some mid week rain chances. Most likely, i think its going to be wednesday night into thursday going to be your best chance for some showers. Thats ahead of a cool change that arrives in time for labor day weekend, and were going to keep a v tropics. Tropical depression is moving through the florida straits and will be in the gulf of mexico and may become Tropical Storm hermine before this all wraps up. 270 at montrose road, northbound, southbound, all mo