Right now on news 4 this week, Response Time problems. D. C. s fire chief lays out his plans on to make sure you get help when you call 911. Out of options. The city manager paints a bleak financial picture and says things wont get better any time soon. And baseballs soon. Sitting down with skipper dusty to talk about the season. Im chris lawrence. When you call 911 you expect someone to show up. D. C. s fire chief says his department is struggling with Response Times to some of the most critical 911 calls in the district. This week the chief and mayor laid out their plans to fix that. News 4s Mark Seagraves has the story you saw first on news said his crews spent too much time transporting people who are not having an emergency but wanted a ride to a doctors appointment. One way hes proposing to reduce those calls is place a nurse at the 911 call center who can screen calls and the determine what is actually needed. The departments medical director led the team that came up with the p
Beloved and really the most enchanted times of the year here in washington. When the Cherry Blossoms bloom on the national mall. But this year the fragile blooms just cannot take this bitter cold. This unusual snap has experts wondering if youre going to be able to enjoy their beauty at all. News 4 Christian Wright live at the basin with more information from the National Park service. Any hope . Well, wendy, it is really cold out here. And, clearly, the Cherry Blossoms, you know, they feel it, too. Well, the National Park service is doing an experiment right now to see if there is any hope for some of those blooms, those blossoms that are still kind of closed up and maybe havent been as exposed to the elements. Its so bitterly cold. And icy in washington. That few people can even bear to walk around, stop and look at the Cherry Blossoms at the tidal basin. And fact is, so far this year, theres not much to see. The family from texas is realizing that now. I saw like maybe two. Yesterda
5 00 a. M. Right now at 5 00, a desperate search after an alligator attack drags a toddler off near disneys grand floridian resort. More on that story in a moment. First, good morning to you. Im eun yang. Im erika gonzalez. Well start with the story we just told you about with the information from molette green at the live desk. This frantic night search in orlando for a toddler snatched by an alligator and dragged into a lake. We just heard from the Orange County sheriff who says more than 50 Law Enforcement officers will stay on this search for the 2yearold. We are going to hope for the best in these circumstances, but based upon my 35 years of Law Enforcement experience, we know that we have some challenges ahead of us. Now this attack happened near an upscale Disney Resort in an area where the family of five from nebraska was wading in a lake when the 4 to 7foot alligator just went off and took off with that little boy. Back to you. Right now starting off with a lot of clouds aroun
That will change soon. Heres 495 near connecticut avenue. We are clearing the work zone. The cones have been set up along the right side of the roadway. Now they have all travel lanes open on 95 in virginia headed to the Prince William parkway. A little heavy traffic but nothing so far. Im hearing callers from the overnight work zone that may have gravel still in the roadway. Well have more coming up. Aaron and eun, back to you. Developing right now, Prince Georges County are investigating a homicide in Capitol Heights that happened last night at 9 00 on kayak avenue. Here you are looking at new evidence showing the scene overnight. One man was dead on the scene. No word on the suspect. Opening statements will continue today in a Prince Georges County courtroom. In a murder trial involving a victim who blinked to identify his shooter. Jermaine hails is accused of shooting before he died he identified hails by blinking at a photo lineup. The court ruled that video of pates blinking was
In dec. A firefighter recovering right now northeast. We went up in flames this morning. Krist kristen, what did he have to say . Reporter we talked to her and she got the call on her way to work there was a fire in her building. We talked with sources who had inside knowledge of whats inside the building here. We understand they restored historic items, possibly from the u. S. Capitol building. Of course, serious concerns about this fire over night but we understand that everything that they were working on was saved. We are just very thankful. Thankful because it could have been a lot worse if firefighters did not get here the minute they did. We got a lot of wood in there. Northeast dc was on fire with all kinds of flammable things inside. There is a lot of fire trucks. Firefighters battled this one for an hour and a half. They had a hard time getting to the fire because of metal bars and shutters then they have to find the fire. It is an expansive building. They needed to extend th