Offices will be open two hours late today. Essential personnel must report on time. There are a number of private schools, also local governments and businesses that have changed their status today. You can see those along bottom of your screen and also on our web site, myfoxdc. Com. Im Sarah Simmons. Im wisdom martin. Lets get a quick check of the weather. Sitting in for tucker barnes, gwen is here. Some of you not seeing very much or anything at all. Some of you to the south and west of d. C. Are in the thick of it. Here is a look at our fox aaccu weather radar and you can see the wide area in the pink here. That is a mixture of sleet and freezing rain a and a little bit of light rain to the north of fredericksburg. All of this is moving its way to the east. To our weather maps. Here is a look at the area under a Winter Weather advisory right now. This is in effect through until 10 00 this morning. Garrett county, maryland is under a winter storm warning. Temperatures right now into
Symbol of hate embroiled for decades but the racist massacre last month by a mass murderer, that has caused this controversy. And last night, after many many hours of debate in south carolinas house of representatives on the floor, republican senator jenny horn from charleston specifically she stepped up to the podium herself a descendent of the president of the confederacy, her emotional words bringing a shift in the deeply divided debate. If we amend this bill we are telling people of charleston we dont care about you. We do not care that someone used this symbol of hate to slay eight innocent people who are worshipping their god. Last night was the threeweek anniversary of the massacre in charleston and it was noted on the floor after my remarks. And i have to tell you that its the least we can do as a body. If you would have asked me last year if we would ever remove the flag from the statehouse grounds in my lifetime i would have said theres no way. What a statement there. Nick va
The suspect is dead. He appeared to be carrying a rifle, an assault type rifle and a handgun, and had some type of device on him. The incident started around 2 00 this morning eastern time, shortly after the nightclub posted this message on its Facebook Page everyone get out of pulse and keep running. Pulse is the name of the nightclub. Police now say an officer responded and there was a shootout outside the club. The gunman then ran inside and a hostage situation began. About three hours later about 5 00 a. M. Eastern police used an Armored Vehicle to knock down the door and enter the club. They shot and killed the gunman. Throughout the ordeal ambulances and emergency vehicles surrounded the club. We saw one person being loaded onto a pickup truck, three local hospitals began handling victims its not far around at one point this morning all were put on lockdown. Police are calling this a terror incident. I would say at this time were looking into all angles right now. We do have sugg
Nightclub to res view hostages. One Police Officer was wounded in that attack but is expected to recover. Police in Central Florida and the fbi are calling this an act of terror, but the investigation is continuing into the specific motive. Fox news can confirm at this hour the identity of the shooter, omar mateen, he is a 29yearold muslim from port st. Lucie, florida. An american citizen born to afghan parents. Theres much we do not know at this hour, but Authorities Say the gunman had boasted of his interest in radical islamic terrorism. Im bret baier in washington. Mediabuzz will return next week. With all of this breaking news the violence began to unfold at 2 00 this morning eastern time and we begin our coverage with fox news correspondent peter doocy who is on the scene in orlando. Peter. Reporter breath, we found out the vehicle that omar mateen drove to pulse on orange avenue in orlando. It was a van that we understand still parked outside. The information is changing so rapid
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