Theres new information about the investigation and a new account of the moments inside that police van. And its up to prosecutors now to sort it all out as the people of baltimore try to clean up the mess and preserve the peace. We have Team Coverage beginning with Scott Macfarlane whos been working with Pat Lawson Muse and producers in our newsroom to sort things out best question. Scott in. Jim, good evening. A lot of reports out there today. Heres what we have at this hour were growing certain of. Were told the investigation into the death of freddie gray appears to be focusing on the Police Transport van and reporter jane miller from wbal in baltimore, sources tell her the report turned over to prosecutors say whatever lapped to freddie gray happened inside the van and not during the arrest. Were just fold a second stop was made about a mile away and police just discovered it on surveillance cameras and say they dont know why the van stopped. From there, the van made a third stop a
What will be different this time. A new report on sri lankas civil war says the government may have covered up human rights violations. The military covered up a vast majority of war crimes and is calling on the u. N. To launch investigations in the final month of the 25year civil war, there was a push by Government Forces against the tamil tigers in the north of the country, away from the gaze of the International Media and ngos. They were prevented from witnessing the fight in which 40,000 are believed to have died. The International Team said it has found evidence that found evidence that they were deliberately bombarded. Violations of International Law were committed by both sides. The investigation found evidence that Sri Lankan Security forces were responsible for seeing the vast majority. Investigators describe such established command and control structures but charges of crimes against humanity could be levelled against commanders, officials and members of the tamil tyingers.
They are getting heavy downpours and into Montgomery County and Prince William. A look at how much longer this will last and the threat for that Severe Weather. The sevenday outlook in a few minutes. As tom reported, we are getting reports of flooding. Richard jordan has the latest. The storm this morning did pack a punch and we are starting to see the impact. The first report from the loud on county sheriffs office. They say there is flooding on route 7 between the dulles greenway to east market street. Flooding on route 7. This is the area of concern. Thats where you see the standing water build up. Drivers are urged to use caution. The rule of is if you come across the flooded street and cant tell how deep the water is, its best to turn around. We will keep monitoring them. Im richard jordan. A Group Pushing for the redskins to change their name is bringing their fight to the district. Members of the Indian Nation are in georgetown as the owners will gather later today for the annua
Something between scenario four and three. Well keep you posted. Its only friday and it is kind of an evolving system. The reason why hurricanes are so hard to track is theres very little in terms of the steering currents. In the fall and summer its not so strong. We have to watch it and see if it makes this extreme left turn as we get into monday and tuesday. The time frame is the same, monday night into tuesday bringing us the highest winds and heaviest rains. Well come back, talk about some preps you can do and the weekend. Youll be able to do some stuff over the weekend. Its not chamber of commerce, but its not a washout. Pepco says its already put out the call to bring in 2,500 repairmen from other parts of the country in addition to an extra 400 tree trimmers. Ken molestina is live in potomac maryland. The utility made these announcements today, right . Reporter thats right. Heres whats so concerning. There are so many scenarios that could happen with this storm. You just heard t
Were seeing all the right ingredients to make it just that. Weve got a hurricane moving up the coast, possibly becoming a Tropical Storm by the time it gets near us. We have High Pressure up across new england that will block that storm and push it inland. Then weve got a weather front coming in from the west. All interacting, giving us a whole lot of rain throughout the area. The winds are at 75 miles per hour, sitting just off the coast of florida. Watch it as it makes its way northward. A category 1, perhaps even weakening before it makes landfall. So whats changed now from the last time we hit air, and from some of the new guidance that comes out, is the fact that its going to be lagging by about 12 hours. So the brunt of the storm, the worst of the storm now probably late monday through tueay morning or at least midday. And coming inland somewhere perhaps around the southern shore of new jersey on tuesday. All right. You can see the radar there. The spin, showers already hitting a