Brookland ended after a more than 30hour standoff. Tonight were learning more about the 63yearold woman whose murder led to the barricade. News 4s derrick ward joins us live. Reporter it ended about ten minutes after 5 00. We saw emergency vehicles start to leave. Still a pris presence on this street and folks breathing a sigh of relief. Some saying, weve got our neighborhood back. By all accounts, the woman who was a beloved member of this community is gone. It appears to have ended peacefully after a nearly 30hour standoff. A suspect handcuffed is placed into an ambulance. It began violently. It started with a shooting, 63yearold Loretta Carswell is shot dead in the street, killed by a cousin. He calls her outside. She goes outside. He shoots her. The suspect then runs back up the block to the house, fires off a couple more shots and the standoff begins. Police intact cal gear set up around the house. The entire block, a large slab of this d. C. Neighborhood is cordoned off. Charmain
It will be a gorgeous day. We have more humidity and warmer and heading toward a warm upstarting our workweek but nice one for your sunday. Lets look live at the Neighborhood Network and see temperatures around our region. Sixteen bensalem. Birdboro69. Bethlehem 70. Sixtytwo in cinnaminson. The wind vice calm. It sets us up for a nice day. Temperatures looking wider here 52 mount pocono. Fiftynine in wilmington and wildwood coming in at 61 degrees. The the shore will be gorgeous today. Look at storm scan three it is all cleared just waiting for to you come out and enjoy your fantastic sunday, i think it is another day to make outdoor plans. More sunshine, humidity will pick up. We will feel slightly warmer temperatures and partly cloudy evening. I will be back in a few minutes with your seven day forecast and we will talk about the possibility of rain monday night and some heat on monday, talking upper 80s, we will have details on that, when i come back. Back to you. New this Morning P
7 00 oclock. Lets send you over to kyla for more on the forecast. We had a nice day yesterday. You say more is on the way. Yesterday i think was pretty close to perfect. Pretty close today will be spot on for average temperatures in the mid 80s. We will see more humidity in there. It might feel warmer. We are ram pink up to a steamy monday. Okay. So some weather is on the way but still a gorgeous sunday. Lets enjoy it. This is a great day to do it. Certainly, were having a very nice week ahead of us too, everybody. Just a little bit of heat. Lets start with today and beautiful sunrise happening right now at middletown ship high school in the cape may courthouse. 62 degrees there. Look at that sun just peeking up and beautiful blue skies, just a few clouds but it is perfect. Temperatures right now in philadelphia about 66 degrees. Fiftyseven in reading. Sixty down in atlantic city. We are off to a good start. Taking a look at storm scan three you can see clear skies will be here. High c
Discussion, but not one of concern. I got a couple of emails. Reporter the first day of school, students have been talking about more than their course load. Legionnaires concerns on campus after the bacteria was detected this summer. The school said it was safe to open for the first day. Its scary to think about im confident in the school itself. Everybody seems to be either you know putting it aside and everything and heading to class. Reporter last month a School Employee tested positive for the bacteria that causes the disease. Remediation followed at cooling towers, the university has been engaging in voluntary testing, last week trails levels were discovered in the hot Water Systems of nine buildings. As a precaution the hot water was shut off to sanitize the systems and kill the bacteria. I got emails all summer long, so i wasnt that nervous about it. Reporter water was turned back on last night. The schooling has been working with the county Health Department to provide informa
I watched hillary today. Pathetic. New barriers less than a week after that tragic encounter at the cincinnati zoo reramping its enclosure, pushing back reopening of the exhibit. And going country. Superstar luke bryant swings by as we welcome the entertainer of the year for a special concert today friday, june 3, 2016. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning everyone. Welcome to today on friday morning. Weve been talking about this awful weather down in texas. Now were having a story that is so terrible consequences of this weather. It is our top story. The tragic deaths of five ft. Hood soldiers swept away in flooding in texas. Three others were injured when the soldiers got caught during a Training Exercise. The search is on for four more soldiers missing. Gabe gutierrez is in texas with the latest. What can you tell us . Reporter good morning. Earlier this year this unit returned from a ninemo