For the week ahead. Thats coming up in a few minutes. Thank you, tom. A man is accused of rape. This morning, new evidence of missed opportunities to put him behind bars. 21yearold antoine pitt made his First Court Appearance on friday. That was more than two months after police say he attacked a young mother in d. C. s east hill neighborhood. We now know part of what helped police catch him were his distinctive shoelaces. Jackie bensen has the details youll hear only on news 4. 21yearold antoine pitt was arrested september 30th in a bathroom at the Martin Luther king jr. Library, suspected of selling synthetic drugs and with a tempered gps monitoring ankle bracelet in his backpack. News 4 has learned that at a court hearing, a prosecutor asked the judge to keep pitt behind bars but was released and ordered to commit no further crimes. A Court Supervision services official tells news 4 efforts were made to locate pitt, two weeks later in the 1800 block of a street southeast, a young mo
What caused this crash. So far already its been a busy morning and we do want to thank you for waking up with us and starting your saturday off with us. Im angie goff. Im david culver. Makec no mistake of it, december is back. Lets check in with tom. Shut the barn door did you shut the barn door, angie . I hope you did. First thing did i this morning, tom. Or the door to your luxury penthouse. Were starting off early this morning with these winds that have been gusting to around 30 miles an hour. Yes, were talking wind chills down into the 20s. Look at the temperatures right now, its 28 at dulles. Gaithersburg down to 28 degrees. Clinton is at 3. Reagan national 33. Near freezing by the bay and west of it, its just near 30 degrees. Panhandle of West Virginia into the shenandoah valley, way out in western maryland, only 19 degrees right now. Thats not the wind chill. Thats out in oakland, way out in garrett county. For today youll need a warm coat, warm hat, sunglasses because of brigh
They were destroyed. Now residents are telling me that they smelled a natural gas leak earlier in the day earlier this evening and then suddenly the unthinkable happened. The flames spread quickly. Residents shared this cell phone video of the blaze with us. Devonte sewell was walking down the street toward the townhome. The flames started coming from the middle of the building. Like every building caught on fire like three buildings. They all just collapsed in. Reporter two people were taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. One was a resident suffering from respiratory problems, the other a baltimore gas and electric employee who was working in the complex. We believe he was working on a potential concern of a natural gas leak or order of a leak and he was investigating and evidently there was an explosion subsequent to that investigation. Reporter its still not clear what caused the leak or explosion. Residents say they could smell the gas before disaster struck. Em
Very often. It is groundhogs day. Guess what . This dude did not see his shadow this morning, meaning spring is right around the corner. That is according to the fork will the fork low. The folklore. While the u. S. And below average temperatures in the february temps went above average in march, and the great news is this time the groundhog didnt bite the year off remember . Hes like, let me hear what youve to say. When you think to get him think to not put a groundhog up to your ear . We got meteorologist tim studebaker. Good morning. A lot of time its east coast centric, so keep in mind when we have a warm up on the east coast, that often leads to a cooldown on the west coast. If hes right on the east coast, well see what happens in the west. 34 degrees for the high in renosparks. Probably not very high impact. In nature. Better chance tomorrow. 19 degrees in town right now. Partly cloudy skies. Call winds and 74 percent humidity. Air quality in a moment in the moderate category. No
The army reserve responded within 24 hours and had forces moving to the east coast. I provided dewatering units, Aviation Assets to help the National Guard and it worked just fine. Break. Go to d. O. D. , fema, eplows. 100 provided by the army reserve embedded in your fema regions. 50 it shall over 50 of the d. O. D. Are provided by the army reserve which is utilized routinely to defend the homeland in terms of complex catastrophes to support the Guard Brothers and sisters. That all happened in the National Defense act of 2012. Paul, before we go to you, judd, can you talk that from a National Guard angle . Yes, sir. In addition to what general talley mentioned about authorities in place a unique aspect of the air National Guard is our ability to operate under state active duty underneath the funding and control of the governors. The response capability exists. We saw it time and again across the 54. The Additional Authority that general talley mentioned, i might add in terms of contro