The redskins from released Robert Griffin iii. What went wrong . What happens next. Your news starts right now. We begin tonight with a story you saw first here on fox 5. Two firefighters are now back on the job. They were placed on leave after they used a fire truck to save a little girl. Thanks for joining us at 10 00. Im shawn yancy. And im tony perkins. Officials say the firefighters broke policy when they transported the girl to the hospital in the fire truck instead of waiting for an ambulance. A public outcry followed and today they were placed back on the job. It is my desire to conclude this matter with the leadership at falmouth and get these leaders back. I believe they feel they did the absolute right thing given the circumstances. Marina marraco to one of the firefighters tonight as he went back to work. Good evening, marina. Reporter finally some good news for thesetw firefighters. Theyve finally been reinstated after roughly two days away from the job on being on, quote,
Say they will ask a judge to send him to prison for 25 years. For one family, that does not mean a whole lot. One week before christmas, this familys life was turned upside down. It was shocking. As the story unfolded how can this possibly happen. Police say it happened because of sebastian isaac. On december 14 he was drunk and crashed his car on the beltway. Police say an ambulance crew stopped to help him but instead, they were met with his fists. He attacked them and stole their ambulance and headed to greenbelt road. Today, we sat in court and listened as he fled guilty but it did not change much. Our family suffers a tremendous loss. Mike harbor spent christmas without his father and this christmas will be the same. People will say they have meant a lot of things to a lot of people. He always brought a smile to everyone around. He never really got upset over anything and that is tough to do. To his five grandchildren, he was grandpa out all. And the best person to spend a saturda
Stories downtown dc where an elderly man in Critical Condition after being struck by a police cruiser. What youre looking at right now is cell phone video taken by the witness moments after that collision. Police say that the man was in that crosswalk at the intersection of connecticut and l street northwest when he was hit. Now according to a witness and police on the scene, that the cruiser hit that divider after he tried to avoid that man. And one witness told wusa9 that the cruiser seemed to be going more than 89 miles an hour. As they say they believe that the officer was responding to a call. He was taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. We have new information on wusa9. Com. One of the investigations. A crash report repaired by Dc Police Say that it might have caused last weeks collision between that fire engine and a dc police car as the police car and the firefighter suffered. The fire personnel reported an air leak and a faulty valve bracket on the fire engi
Showers and storms rolling through when theyll roll out and look ahead to next sports cast. Be hello, im bruce johnson, we gin at the white house, ground patrols around the white house have been beefed up and the director of the secret service ordered a review of last nights security breach. A man caught on camera running across the white house lawn and through a front door of the white house before he was tackled byce. He had jumped the white house fence. There was a second separate incident today, more on the fall outs. Reporter bruce, i want to stress that at no time was president obama or the first family in any danger during either of these two incidents. And we begin with a most serious one, it happened yesterday. Youre going to have to go out 17th street, please. Reporter the unprecedented breach happened around 7 20 friday night, thats when Omar Gonzalez jumped a security fence, through locked doors in to the mansion. The president and his daughters had left for camp david, thi
Say if this was an accident or not but one person is confirmed dead today after their vehicle went in to what metropolitan police described to be 10 feet of water in the potomac. Reporter emergency crews are seen trying to revive the victim but it was apparently too late. Police tell us the person who saw this happen was a dc duck operator. The witness called in and basically stated that he saw a vehicle in the water 3 4ths of the way submerged and one person was seen, the silhouette of a person. Reporter a k9 unit surrounded the area to make sure there wasnt a second person who maybe jumped or fell out of the vehicle. We have Violent Crimes unit detectives respond to the seen as well as our major crash unit responding just to determine what we got, what likely happened. Based on what we know that had happened. Police tell us nobody actually called in saying they saw the vehicle go in to the water but they dont believe the victim was underneath for a very long time. Off the parkway, im