Blaze sparngd during an Electronic Music Party at a warehouse home of an artist collective. Its a makeshift Artist Studio and its like individuals came in and set up their own little petitions. This say very tragic event. Our hearts go out to not only the families but community. Firefighters arriving late friday night to find the warehouse filled with heavy smoke and flames. It took roughly five hours to put out the blaze in a building which reportedly did the roop collapsed making it difficult to get crewsed in the build sfwling right now were making the scene stave and make it secure and let us do our jobs and the roof is collapsed down on to the second floor, so, we have to literally go in there piece by piece and move wood and timbers and debris to get assessment. Authorities launched drones with thermal images capability to hip officials find 50 people were believed inside the building at the time of the blaze and officials fear the death toll could rise. Theres a lot of the build
From overnight the search is on for a suspect involved in a hit and run. It happened near capitol and atkinson around 1 30 this morning. Maroon or red four door vehicle. The man is being treated for nonlife threatening injuries. Well continue to monitor this story throughout the day. A student is injured. After a bullet grazes her in the middle of the school day. Now police are trying to figure out how an officers gun went off at thoreau elementary. It happened yesterday afternoon. Police say the supervisor of the schools resource officers was trying to speak with the 13yearold female student about an incident that occurred thats when the girl became physically combative. His firearm, while still in the holster discharged. It appears to be some sort of accident. Were still working on, just a freak occurrence. The girl was hospitalized for nonlifethreatening injuries. Police say the incident took place in the basement of the school away from other students and staff members. Since polic
City right now in maryland. Has not ruined your Holiday Plans around here. Caitlin roth is keeping an eye on all this. Good morning, caitlin, how are you . Good morning to you both. Hermine is still offshore and had little to no impact to us here in d. C. We had clouds yesterday. It was breezy. Overall nice. And i saw some peeks of sunshine out there in ocean city as rain stopped noon yesterday. Beach erosion and storm surge still an issue with Tropical Storm hermine now far off to sea. Winds still us is stained at 65 miles an hour. Its considered strong Tropical Storm but they call it post tropical once it transitions away from a warm storm to a regular one. Winds east, northeast, 12 miles an hour. Its expected to move north, northeast ward through the day into tomorrow. Watch it me here and eventually taking a job to the northeast. Not before bringing high winds and surf to places like long island, cape cod, massachusetts, theyre not exempt from the affects of hermine. It will batter
With a quick look at the fox 5 weather 247 forecast. Triple digit temperatures return the next few days as a ridge holds on bringing us quiet weather until sunday afternoon. A low meandering off the california coast will shift creating breezy conditions by the afternoon. A trough from the Pacific Northwest starts to slide down the coastline overnight sunday and that will usher in much cooler temperatures for our area beginning monday. The uv index for friday is 8 or very high. students names called out students names called out Emergency Response teams are working around the clock to clear away a mercury spill at Walter Johnson junior high school. Classes are cancelled again for a second day. This scene started after a teacher alerted School Administrators that a student was playing with the substance. Thats when things got serious. The school was placed on lockdown. With more than a thousand students still inside. 9 students and 3 administrators were initally exposed to the substance.
Friday is 9 or very high. Good morning. Heres a look at your fox5 Traffic Solutions lets begin with your drive here are the accidents to watch out and alternate routes you can use listed on our maps here are the construction areas alternate routes listed on our maps back to the news desk well start this morning with metro investigating three separate shootings. Two of which ended deadly. The first one happened on lake mead near mlk. We got information that a shot was fired, there was a victim down and that an unknown suspect very brief description, tall thin black male had fled the scene on foot. A helicopter and additional ground brought in to look for the suspect. That search was unsuccessful. According to metro. A young man was found lying outside of a vehicle in a parking lot around 8 last night. He had a gunshot wound to the chest. The victim died about a half an hour later at u mc. Police say they are investigating three witnesses right now. Around the same time. Shots were fired