He was trying to turn off an alarm indicating weather leaking in the building. But flipped the wrong switch Marina Marraco is digging into radio transmissions but we begin with Sarah Simmons and the timeline of that outage bear with me as i make a comparison, is this command central for our newscast. Keeping us on the air as we speak, if this goes down, our news will go off the air, it is you are life line. 911 went out for an hour and a half. Here is what the timeline looks like here. 11 35 p. M. Saturday, 911 goes out. 11 39, the backup facility, they discover a also not working. Then at midnight, public is notified an alternative numbers are given out. 12 25 a. M. , limited 911 service is restore was fully restored and back up and running. How could Something Like this happen . Today, city officials didnt seem to have any answers. Late saturday, the worst possible scenario for Emergency Services in the district. The 911 system completely shut down. Dcs Homeland Security and Emergenc
Ago, seemed pretty upset, did not want to speak to the media, went inside, is now there with his parents. But, police are asking anyone else who may have witnessed anything, again, they believe these men took off on foot. They were mask at the time, wearing reportedly dark clothing, and again, remain on the loose. So, anyone with information is asked to contact Montgomery County police. Live in rockville, Lauren Demarco, fox5 local news. He received a bronze star for valor in the iraq war. But tonight he is recovering from an attack that happened last friday night. Christopher marquez was eating dinner at a mcdonalds in pen quarter when he said he was attack by a group of teens. He believes, because of what the group said to him, that he was targeted because of the color of his skin. Fox5s matt ac clinic talked with chris today, live with more on the story, matt . Reporter he l tells me that he was inside this mcdonalds, just having something to eat, friday night, when a group of young
Handy. Not quite as cold tonight as last night, and right now our temperatures, 54 degrees at mannasas, 52 at dc, 47 at annapolis. Weve got 54 at fredricksburg to south and 50 at gaithersburg. Winds are not as brisk or strong either and overnight lows are expected to be in the 40s. Thats a far cry from last night and those overnight lows really brought the chill on in some of our area they ended up seeing freezing in some of the areas as well. Winds currently are anywhere 6 to 16 Miles Per Hour sustained. Not a lot happening in terms of wind gusts. However, once we get into tomorrow, were going to see some gusty winds all over again. The good news is those winds will pull in some warmer air from the south. In the meantime, 41 degrees for tonight, increasing clouds, showers in the overnight hours with a light southerly windflow from 5 to 10 the good news is the spring warmth will be returning and ill have the details exactly when we can expect that a little bit later. Back to you. There
I like to dare. March mayhem. Millions of brackets busted after a night of stunning upsets in the ncaa tournament. Yale just one of the stunners in a day of surprises. We do say, good morning, america. I dont know about yall. I was up late. Oh, some great games last night. Great night of upsets, the big dance went wild. Only are you ready for this 0. 1 of those 13 million brackets are still unbroken. You got it. No, im one of the im not one of the 0. 13. I think some of the coaches can breathe some relief, as well. Hopefully sean miller brought a backup shirt. A little tense out there and virginia coach tony bennett, actually passed out on the sidelines but he did make it back to the court and even better, his team won the game. A scare there. The pressure is mounting. It is. Well have all the highlights coming up. We begin with extreme weather. Violent storms in the south and spring snow about to pound the northeast, say it aint so, ginger. Oh, im so sorry. It is so. On a beautiful mo
Quite a sight today. Yeah. It was very memorable. Just very scary. Didnt know what to think. One second were taking selfies, and the next second were running for our lives. What were they telling you to do . Run to eighth street . Just run to h street. What was this like for you . The first time to dc . I came when i was little so i dont remember much. But it was scary. So they just told us to run to h street and me and my friends were standing right next to the guy that was next to the fence and he looked like a normal guy. Reporter what did they do to the guy . They subdued him and they started screaming for him to get on the ground and put his hands behind his head so everyone said theres a big mob of people running. A big day for these students who are actually here for a choir competition from tennessee. So were going to you guys. Reporter megan dice with the latest. Two volunteer firefighters suspended are back on the job tonight. Fox 5 was first to bring you their story and we w