a live look at the metro area at 6:00 straight up. we are happy to be with you today. more happen y that you are waking up with us. more happy that you are waking up with us. we are calling this a working wednesday. okay. air not feeling that. i didn t feel it either. you guys aren t feeling. working wednesday. we got work to do. we do have work to do. there you go. i got work to do right now. you got work to do right now. i probably should shut up and let you get to your work. working wednesday. i ve got 15 seconds left to do my work. 41 degrees out in washington. there is humidity, 55%. winds will pick up again today out of the west and northwest gusting to about 30 so the combination of cool temperatures and wind is going to make a chilly feel for your working wednesday. so you will want to bring along a jacket later today. it will feel chilly out there. might be a shower or two later this afternoon. definitely more cloud cover than yesterday.
robberies. news4 s tracee wilkins joins us live from the wilson building in northwest washington with more on the initiative. tracee, i think a lot of folks will be happy to hear if this goes through. reporter: absolutely. especially the chief of police, as you know, barbara, she s been working on this for some time, trying to make it a law not only here in the district, but across the country, helping to protect folks who have their smartphones stolen. it appears that her efforts are successful. in a few months she s gotten the fcc and the wireless association to work with her to help change laws to protect your cell phones. the chief stood with mayor vincent gray, chief charles ramsey, u.s. senator charles schumer and the fcc chair to announce the major change in smartphone protection. they say the goal is to take the profit out of selling stolen smartphones on the black market. the various police chiefs reported robberies escalating from eight and 10% to 30% to 40% since
thank you, scott thuman. abc 7 news is your political station and we will have much more at 6:00 including a look at what this means for the other candidates. will anyone else drop out? plus what mitt romney is now selling about santorum dock all of that at 6:00. war breaking news about the trayvon martin shooting case. the members of george zimmerman s legal team just announced they are dropping his case. there describing their client as having gone rogue. he stopped responding to text messages coming emails come and phone calls. he is talking to the media without counsel. in a press conference going on as we speak, his two attorneys say they feel obligated to step away because they have been taken out of the loop. take a listen. we are withdrawing as counsel for mr. zimmerman. we lost contact with him. up to this point we have had contact every day. he has gone off on his own. i m not sure what he is doing or who he is talking to. the has reached out to members of t
school bus after the driver suffers an apparent heart attack. we re going to hear from that young hero today, tuesday, we re going to hear from that young hero today, tuesday, april 10th, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this tuesday morning. i m ann curry. and i m david gregory. matt is off again this morning. we don t often think about this tinder box conditions here in the west. but emergency crews dealing with fast-moving wild fires all across the east, including this one that drove people out of their homes on long island here in new york. that s right. and this is the scene in manorville, long island this morning. dry and windy conditions have red flag warnings extending from new york all the way to the deep south. to al is going to have the new warnings straight ahead this morning. also ahead, we could learn as early as today if charges will be filed against george zimmerman in the shooting of trayvon martin. thi
you see why essentially the republican race for the white house ended today. steve, what happens to delegates committed to santorum now? that s a good question. i don t know what the actual delegate rules are. but we know that he never would have made it. the way it works at the convention, they cast their votes, then they re free. i don t think it has a whole lot of bearing on exactly what they do in their first ballot. jim, it looks like mitt romney, it will be a lot easier for him now, is going to finally get those 11,044 sometime in june. we are also following breaking news involving george zimmerman. he s the florida neighborhood watch volunteer accused of shooting trayvon martin. zimmerman s attorney, craig sonner, just announced he has withdrawn from the case because they have lost contact with zimmerman. we ve also learned that zimmerman contacted the special prosecutor who will decide on charges against the advice of his lawyer. this development comes as we are