Voted not to indict the Police Officer who shot and killed michael brown. Earlier in the day, at howard university, about a dozen students left class to attend a discussion on knowing their rights. Back at the department of justice, dozens of protesters showed up for what they called a diein to reenact the death of michael brown. After staging the diein, they made their demands clear. Now organizers say theyre going to plan a demonstration to be held in front of department of justice every monday afternoon until they get change. In fact, another demonstration is planned any minute. Reporting from the department of justice on pennsylvania avenue, Mark Segraves, news4. It took just 20 protesters to shut down rush hour traffic in d. C. This morning. Take a look. They delayed the commute for thousands today on this monday back to work. They held signs and chanted against the decision not to indict Darren Wilson. Cars were stopped coming into the city on the 14th street bridge. Protesters a
Administration is now saying that they will be done tonight. Too much of a hassle. Reporter how has it been . For thousands of drivers getting into the city, a big time bottleneck. Tough enough with the rain and the closure ofhe southbound lanes of the gw parkway. Reporter and there is more likely to come. I dont know where to go and my gps is acting up. Reporter the sinkhole opened up the pavement in this southbound lane just the other side of the bridge over windy run in arlington. Road crews closed all the inbound lanes starting at 123 and then pushed cars even farther back to the beltway. Its very unfortunate. It points out how important the gw parkway is as a commuter route into the district. Reporter northbound is open. And the president at one point breezed right past the sinkhole heading for bethesda. But southbound will stay closed until crews can fill the hole. Were hopeful that its going to be done by the morning, but Mother Nature has to cooperate. Reporter the hole doesnt
We caught up with one man from out of town headed this way and now says hes staying put in town. So im going to duck into my sons house for the night and lay over one more night. Ive been with friends in d. C. Yes, my son is one of your local residents, and homeowners over in great falls. Tell him to put something good on for dinner, right . Absolutely roll out the red carpet. Reporter we are going to have to deal with this for a little longer, but again, crews ar making quick work out here. They expect the contractor out here just told me not long ago he expects the lanes here on the southbound parkway near spout run could reopen by 7 00 tonight. By tomorrow morning, this should definitely be an option for you. Send it back into you guys. Todays weather sure isnt helping that situation. Its been wet and dreary all day. And now there is more rain, even some sleet en route. Lets get straight to storm team 4 meteorologist Veronica Johnson with your storm cast. Not much in the way of sha
Shot a few moments ago here. This is all one week after the grand jury declined to indict officer Darren Wilson in the death of mike brown. We have the protests here at the Justice Department last week and the last week protests at the white house on hughes street. Of course the blocking of traffic on 395 that weve seen the last few days. There certainly is a lot of anger and frustration as we heard from one protester here. Lets listen in. Bottom line is you can fool some of the people some of the time you can fool some of the people all of the time but you cant fool all of the people all of the time. Were not going to be hoodwinked by the sure charade that took place in ferguson. The skies opened up and it started pouring here in downtown dc but it doesnt appear have to affected the protesters. It looks like a Pretty Healthy crowd. The protests a half a block from our location here. Well update you later on the activities here. Reporting live in downtown dc. Protests in our area start
Opened up this southbound lane. Road crews closed all the inbound lanes starting at 123 and pushed cars even farther back to the beltway. Well, its very unfortunate. It points out how important the gw parkway is as a commuter route into the district. Reporter southbound will stay closed until crews can fill the hole. Workers have been able to stabilize the hole, and they have started filling it back up. They have all kinds of equipment standing by for repaving. They are hoping they get it all fixed up and patched up before the morning inbound rush. Several alternate routes may be needed for the morning. You can find this listed with the story on our app. Were slowly getting to dry out right now. In most places, were actually warming up a bit. Tracking whether drivers could come across any slick spots tonight. I think were in good shape across the metro area. Temperatures will go as low as theyre going to go through. You can see last couple of hours, the precipitation rolling in mostly