It is of a Correctional Institute or the prisoner was being held. He somehow escaped from Clifton Perkins hospital center. He got away and Howard County police are pulling out all the stops trying to find him. They pulled over a big rig and searched it. ,fficers are suited and booted carrying highpowered rifles and searching vehicles. They say he got away in a wooded area near the hospital. This is the picture of the guy they are looking for. His name is david watson, 28 years old described as five feet eight inches tall and a hundred 40 pounds. He was last seen in the area of dorsey run road which is near the hospital in a very heavily what it serving time for the attempted murder of several police officers. If you see him, call police. Do not approach him. A breaking news situation and we will do best to bring you the latest details on the search throughout the day and this newscast. Stay with us. Back to you. Lindsey day 99 of 100 and on the hill, the house passed a spending deal to
Quiet. And then for a couple of hours its going to get stormy. Temperature wise its having a very warm weekend. 91 was the record on saturday. Temperatures will start coming down, 81 as the high for today, dropping into the 60 pasta maybe 70 degrees at midweek. Most of this week will be rather cool. The front, as mentioned, slicing through areas of alabama come into georgia, a number of deep southor to the yesterday. For us, we could see an isolated tornado or two this evening. We will talk about that in a moment. Fog by 95, baltimore, a bit of patchy fog this morning currently, iolis, think it will burn off by late this morning. Temperatures from the upper 60 pasta the low 70s 81 is the high. We will talk about the big weather makers, coming up in about 10 minutes. Keeping track 7, the fog keeping things on the ground, but i dont think it will hinder your take off this. Orning it is definitely something to watch out for north of town. Outer loop of the beltway making your way past rou
A cowardly and despicable act. Thats how the president of American University describes the images that started circulating around that campus today. The racist messages targeted an africanamerican sorority, and they were found in more than one location. News4s Jackie Bensen has more for us with more reaction from the universitys students and leaders. Jackie . Reporter it is planned for tomorrow, but the set here tomorrow is thats not going to be enough. While students were cramming for to a hatefilled incident that may have occurred in more than three locations, according to officials. We found out today that the people who committed the incident last fall were expelled. However, its ten months later, so there are still people on this campus thinking that they go here or that theyre in another hall, and it just builds a level of fear. Reporter other students we spoke to called the incident disheartening. I dont know why they do that, but its unfortunate. Reporter they confirmed the ba
Of his neck. Somebody in the vicinity of the clifton to perkins hospital center, the place from where he escaped, spotted an individual matching that description. Police have been flooding the scene. The state Police Helicopter is up. Special teams have fanned out across the woods. They were looking at a series of small tunnels in the area. There are streams. It is a densely wooded area. Now they have dogs federal, state, local authorities are all on scene trying to track down this person, hoping it is in fact david watson. This man serving 106 years for writing the guild Police Officers for trying to kill Police Officers. He was being brought here for psychiatric evaluation last week. Ran into on a guard, somehow got out of his shackles. You can see the road remains closed. Traffic iscommercial coming out, but no one is being allowed in as the search is underway. We will bring you the very latest as news comes in. Lindsey thank you. Fbi director james comey is back on capitol hill tes
Im ain gilchrist. Im eun yang. Shenna, its shaping up to be a nice day. Its a fantastic day outside. Its a little breezy and cooler than yesterday. 64 degrees in the direct. Plenty of sunshine will be around 66 degrees by noon today. Beautiful weather if you want to get outside. By 4 00 p. M. , breezy, temperatures in the upper 60s and we go into the evening, by 7 00 p. M. Very nice outside. In the mid 60s. Enjoy today. Because were watching two areas now of a lot of heavy rain towards the louisiana gulf coast and up into parties of st. Louis. Both weather systems will come together. Theyre heading in our direction so by friday morning, were looking at some heavy rain in the forecast. We have a weather alert out for that time frame too. Coming up in a bit a close look at the timing and what you can expect as well as your weekend forecast straight ahead. Thank you. We have breaking news right now. Chopper 4 is liv right now. Take a look Howard County Police Received a report of an unkno