That crash. Otherwise, bellway looking good. A look at metro and travel times coming up. More on that breaking news melissa just mentioned near Dupont Circle this morning. One man is dead after a hitandrun accident. Molette green is live on the latest with the investigation. Good morning. Reporter good morning. A man lost his life here early this morning and d. C. Police want to find the hitandrun driver. Take a look at the scene. Very much active as investigators pick up every clue they can get. You can see much of this area blocked off around New Hampshire avenue, along m street at 21st street. Cars coming up m street are forced to make a left turn on to 21st. Not exactly sure where this happened, but you can see where investigators are focusing their attention right now. We know the man hit was on foot. Unclear exactly where it happened, aga unfolded in the 3 00 a. M. Hour. The man was pronounced dead after an ambulance took him away. We dont know a whole lot at this moment about th
Jumped cover fbi agent buy automatic weapons. Prosecute verse recommended an eightyear sentence. The defense hopes for five years and three months. Also set to be sentenced today, political consultant Keith Jackson who worked with yee on a couple of campaigns. He pleaded guilty to racketeering. It was jackson who Led Authority to yee a bay area man is behind bars for testing out a red corvette and killing a salesman in a wild crash. Kpix 5s anne makovec joins us in the newsroom with more on the test drive that ended tragically. Anne. Reporter that driver is from union city. Now under arrest in ontario down in southern california. Heres his picture. Police say 28yearold alex demetro took out a car on a test drive from a carmax car dealership. They say he was high on drugs and crashed into a tree. This man died in the crash. A carmax employee who came with demetro on that test drive named warren smale. Police say he was riding in the passenger seat of the red corvette when demetro sped a
The Superstorm Sandy results are starting to put the super tuesday results are starting to put both races in a clearer light. Here to talk about it is kpix 5 political analyst melissa caen. Good morning. Good morning. So aside from clinton and trump obviously the big winners, is it over for everyone else . Um, not necessarily. Right . Everyone has an idea of how they are going to win even ben carson it will take divine intervention but there is a path for him to win. At this point nobody has a majority of delegates but technically its not over for everyone but trump and clinton. But for things to move forward for candidates like ted cruz, marco rubio, Bernie Sanders, there would have to be a dramatic shift in the way the public, the voting public, is viewing these candidates. Thats not probable. But it is possible. Cruz and rubio have been attacking trump but are they going to just really gang up on him now . Because i mean, in a week he may have the nomination. Just one of the crazies
The front part of the train. The engine was actually in the back of the series of railcars pushing the train so the engine was not in the front. So Union Pacific now says that their preliminary report says that the front of the train hit a mud slide, not a tree like that was initially reported. It then derailed and then slid off down into Alameda Creek where its submerged. You can hear heavy equipment up the tracks. They are slowly removing the engine and then the rear railcars one by one transporting them away. It will take much of the day to get to this dackelling railcar here. Once they do, crews will have to drag the car back up the hill, set it back on tracks or flatbed and remove it. This is the ace train number 10 that was heading from san jose to stockton. This line is closed today and here is up spokesman Francisco Castillo to talk about the mess they have to clean up. I dont think any derailment is easy to clean up. I think every derailment has its variables to determine whet
Trains propulsion system. Now, this happened last month, you may remember, in the transbay tube taking 80 train cars out of service and repairing them is not easy. Bart is having to take part from other cars in order to repair some damaged cars. Commuters are obviously frustrated. This delay in bart. I live [ indiscernible ] bay point way more convenient than all the way here. Just rushing so im like i got to get there i got to get there reporter now, bart commuters will be boarding shorter trains so they will be more crowded with record ridership numbers. Bart is throwing passengers a bone this morning. Anybody take a trip from here at the North Concord station anywhere else, its free. Parking here at North Concord is also free this morning. Live in concord, anne makevoc, kpix 5. Well, thats nice. One saving grace. Bart may be more packed today and the roads may be, too. Yeah. A lot of folks might drive into work this morning so that means highway 4 could get extra busy this morning.