S lawyer confirms that the governor has said all along, he had actually no prior knowledge of the lane closures. Information on this is going to be coming out in the next few days. We will be watching this very carefully. Live in the newsroom, jeff goldberg, abc 7 news. The other potential scandal involving governor christies administration. Zimmers to do with don who has offered her journal as proof that the Chris Christie administration threatened her for not backing his deal. There is ever denied keeping any notes about daytoday activity. They say that that has been taken out of context. Mansfirestorm over a death. And lieutenant who is retiring. She is the person abc 7 learned responsible for the decision not mills whenyearold he collapsed across from the fire station. He later died. Theyre looking for answers tonight. Sam is outside with the latest. Iscaught up in the firestorm the 51yearold lieutenant colleen davis. She decided to call it quits. She has more than 25 years on. A m
Attacking his wife with some type of sharp instrument, observed some type of stabbing motion. In an effort to stop this attack the officer discharged the handgun and shot his son. Reporter the son dead at the scene. Doctors declared denise dead soon after she arrived at the hospital. Police commanders have put sergeant stirkens on routine administrative leave until they figure this all out. Determine whether theres a Mental Health component, a Substance Abuse component. Reporter christopher stirkens was busted for Marijuana Possession and paraphernalia. A neighbor says he was terrified of his friends and says police have been to the house before. I never saw him. Makes you wonder what kind of a person he was. Did something happen to make him snap . Reporter the final post on denise stirkens Facebook Page was for Mental Health awareness week. Depression, anxiety and panic attacks are not a sign of weakness she wrote. They are signs of having tried to remain strong for too long. The stir
The cloud cover rolled in overnight. Cant see the moon, cant see the stars. A little moisture trying to stick its way into western maryland, nothing that we think will get together and hold together for the d. C. Area but the clouds in the overnight hours means temperatures are good. No Single Digits. We are well into the double digits. 28 degrees at reagan national, 25 at martinsburg and 26 degrees in fredericksburg. We will see near average temperatures today. It is seasonal for a change. Even warmer temperatures are on the way for the weekend. We do have some rain and snow coming in our seven day forecast. All good things must come to an end. More details on that in just another few minutes. Lets get the traffic now. Amanda, happy friday. Happy friday. We have smooth rolling on major interstates but we were just talking about that water main break on massachusetts avenue. On the southeast section of the city, just north of 295, you can expect massachusetts avenue to be closed down f
To mid 30s. Above freezing, mid 30s in prince georges county, much of Fairfax County, all across Northern Virginia. Shenandoah valley, around the bay, it is above freezing in the mid 30s. Storm team 4 radar showing scattered sprinkles of light rain in southern virginia. Now getting just west of fredericksburg and up in some of the Higher Elevations. Farther to the north and west. That is where there is a possibility of a little bit of light icing. These are temperatures by late morning and around noontime. Thats when there could still be a little light icing occurring along the blue ridge. And perhaps along catoctin mountain. Otherwise, the rest of the area will stay above freezing. Rain arriving later today. A look at the timing on that, next weather traffic on the 1s at 6 11. Danella, how are we rolling this morning . Well, on 66, tom, rolling without any delays. Well head out there now. Waking up in haymarket, no delays just yet. As you continue toward the bypass, again, no delays y
Drizzle. This goes till 11 00 unless canceled earlier. The cool spot is harrisonburg at 33. We are looking at maybe another degree or two. Wed have to cool off before having trouble. Were not seeing that right now. Temps in the mid40s. Want to show you whats happening on the doppler. We have the moisture trying to come up the blue ridge in southwestern virginia with a couple of spotty areas from culpeper toward berryville with the rain. Lets bring monika in now with a first look at timesaver traffic in the 5 00 hour. The first look at 5 00 looks really, really good. Of course you have volume building right now especially in the usual spots 95 from dale city and the beltway on the north side of town, 270 in from frederick. There is one spot that you want to be aware of, a crash southbound on 395 on the ramp to edsall road. That should clear up shortly. I dont think its anything major there. Lets take a live look outside and here is 66 coming in from nutley street to the beltway. All lan