The Police Department at the corner of Georgia Avenue and a peabody street. Officers quickly evacuated nearby businesses including a walmart. News 4s Darcy Spencer is live at the scene in northwest. Good evening, meagan. It also prompted the evacuation of the Police Station any this is it behind me. The Fourth District Police Headquarters in washington had to be temporarily evacuated because of this incident. Its important to note that police have now told us that this was not a live grenade. It did not pose a safety hazard, but at that point they really didnt know what they were dealing with. So these evacuations were ordered out of an abundance of caution. Police tell us that someone brought the device, this grenade to the Fourth District about 10 30 this morning to turn it over to police. The device, important to note, did not go inside the building and it stayed in the persons car. There is a lot of concern here given whats going on nationally and internationally. So evacuations we
Maneuver around noell saunders, wdbj7. Carilion is in the more training with their workers. Theyre also reachinig out to more drone operator and emergency help with the campaign. Advocates for Domestic Violence victims in virginia are praising a bill that keeps guns out of the hands of accused abusers. It prevents anyone under a permanent protective order from having a firearm. The house bill now moves to the full floor for a vote. The move is a rare compromise for lawmakers from both parties in richmond. Some critics though, still arent satisfied because the bill still allows those barred to keep a gun for 24 hours after being served. An escaped inmate from Henrico County has been caught in florida, three days after running away. Police say james booth took off his gps monitoring device to leave the state. He was found hiding in a shed in palm coast yesterday afternoon. Officers were able to find him after witnesses say he left the scene of a crash booth pleaded guilty to manufacturin
But should you be made aware if you are consuming them. Thats next on consider this. The reason for this is throughout the consequences throughout the middle east that could affect transportation and petroleum products. Is it Crystal Clear that the impact of a u. S. Strike on syria will mean higher gas prices . So far, we are seeing that to be the case. Syria is not a big oil producer. Its not a big shipment zone either. But at the same time, anything that takes place in the middle east that could cause continued turmoil or violence in other countries, you know, thats something that concerns the petroleum markets and as a result you see the future prices rise. On wednesday, we saw the price of west Texas Intermediate Crude Oil go up 6 per barrel in comparison to the week previous and gasoline futures went up 15. And so those are some pretty huge price jumps. We have seen the petroleum markets drop a little bit since then. Theres a lot of concern and prices at the pump have been going u