It is about time. We could use resources in better places. Many we spoke to were either indifferent or excited. If alcohol is legal, why should marijuana be legal . It is less harmful. It means people caught with the drug will not be arrested or face jail time, just a fine that is less than a parking ticket. Yesterday, the same offense meant a 1000 fine or six months behind bars. Opponents are worried the new policy means more children might start using the drug. Uthmy concern is that more yo get into it. This park is federal jurisdiction in dupont circle, which means you can be arrested and charged with a misdemeanor, but behind me, right across the street, it is just a civil penalty with a 25 fine. They will have to make sure they communicate that to people because to me that seems like it could be setting people up for more trouble. Another cause for confusion from Law Enforcement they cannot take action, even if they smell the order odor of the drug. The metropolitan Police Departm
Why . You know you cant pause the tv here and play it in another room. Why . Its time for fios quantum tv. Store up to 200 hours in hd. Record up to 12 shows at once. Pause and play live tv, room to room. Plus, watch live tv on the go with the fios mobile app. Redefining what tv can be. All right. Lets take another look at the weekend forecast. And the rest of it, yeah, it is nice. Tomorrow will be pretty similar to today. Morning clouds and a few peaks of sun through the afternoon. Most of us will stay dry but cant rule out a shower. Monday well get kind of cloudy. Storm chances likely on thursday. Theres more ahead for us on saturday news extra live next. Live from the abc7 broadcast center, this is abc7 news, saturday news extra. Right now were getting some new information in the shootdown of Malaysia Airline 17. We are being told that a u. S. Official says that the yirtse has confirmed that russia supplied missile launchers to especial raitieses in eastern ukraine. Attempts were ma
Day and temperatures warm to the mid50s. Thats an improvement from yesterday with the help of some southeasterly winds. But tomorrow were talking mid 70s. Thats a 20degree jump. That will come with some rain. Well talk about that coming up. What have you got going on . Quiet . It is quiet. I think well take it. We certainly had our experience we should say. For those of you hopping on metro, going to let you know the trains and buses running on time. Certainly so far so good. A look at the beltway shows you everything is free and clear. No major issues right now. 295 clear. Bw parkway smooth as well. Thats where we find sky 9 over in college park showing us how things are shaping up on the outer loop of the beltway. 95 free and clear as well. So cars are moving. Things moving smoothly this morning so certainly so far so good. We can take a trafficland camera and show you how things ever shaping up in the are shaping up in the district. Today is the start of pothole palooza. A lot of th
Up. Hello, im bruce johnson. Thanks for joining us. A severe thunderstorm watch for our area has just expired but more Severe Weather appears to be on the way for monday. First alert meteorologist erica grow is here with more on our yellow alert. Erica. Bruce, were watching the last line of thunderstorms push toward the Eastern Shore of maryland and off into the delmarva peninsula. Theyre still under a severe thunderstorm watch in portions of maryland and delaware but our severe thunderstorm watch, as you mentioned has been allowed to expire. This is a threehour loop. Those thunderstorms moved through very quickly at 40 to 50 miles per hour, and they left quite a bit of damage. Just south of hagerstown, look at all these storm reports. Trees and wires down. Theres a lot of folks what do not have power right now in the hagerstown area, in the martinsburg, West Virginia area. So especially berkeley county, Mineral County getting hit hard by this complex of thunderstorms that moved throug
Patients were minors which is certainly possible and probable if not certain, that can be a violation of federal law with very stiff penalties. Yesterday, we told you that hopkins hospital had set up a hot line for victims. Today, Baltimore City police have set up to hot lines. First four victims to think they may have been a patient and what to report that and if you are a victim and would like to seek counseling, Baltimore City police s provided counseling through a turnaround inc. We will have all of the information on our web site, wbaltv. Com. Earlier today, 18 admitted his guilt in court. 15year old robert gladden jr. To keep the deal today, admitting to the shooting of a perry hall classmate of the first day of class as. We have more from the circuit court. This happened shortly before the jury selection started. Jury selection was just about to get underway. Weve been in court for a couple hours and it seemed like federal jurors were about to walk into the courtroom and thats w