Afternoon. Some of the windy conditions coupled with the saturated ground there all the rain that weve had likely caused the tree to fall. Between n good news is mnobody was hurt, but power was knocked out. Everything has been restored. Police are investigating a robbery at an off campus home on potomac avenue. A male student says he heard a knock at the door and he answered it and three men, one armed with a knife, came into the home and assaulted the resident. The thieves got the away with property from inside. If you know anything that could help identified suspects, call police. A little boy is recovering after he was shot in southeast d. C. Now neighbors are calling for change saying that they are just fed up with the reckless gunfire. Derrick ward is live in southeast where the shooting happened. And he has some new details for us. Good morning, derrick. We are here in the 3100 block of bruce place in southeast. And police are still out here, actually out here canvassing knocking
Closed right now. Use the alternate routes park street or high street bridge. Michelle . All right rocky. Right now crews are working tirelessly to crush the clayton fire which is scorched more than 3,000 acres. The anytimes are spreading in an area flames are spreading in an area thats seen damage from wildfires. You can see the other blazes struck nearby. Now locals in lake county are hearing just what they did during those massive wildfires. You have to leave home to stay safe. So far the clayton fire has sparked more than 4,000 evacuations and crews said that high temperatures and erratic winds caused the fire to jump containment lines very quickly after it broke out saturday afternoon. And cal fire says the blaze a destroying everything that gets in its way. Were seeing everything unfortunately burn right now. Grass, vegetation, structures, homes, cars. Were experiencing propane tank explosions so were throwing everything we have at it. The flames moved very quickly toward the tow
System of parks. In 1933, the chief concern of the American Government was break the back of the bad depression. Among the conditions to be remedied were to that president roosevelt recognized it will. Employment for hundreds of men and war young veterans was imperative. Has a crocs havoc by soil erosion. One solution for both problems, the organization and work of the civilian corps was undertaken. Within two years, both problems were well on their way to solution. Resources of natural with conservation, pure and simple. One important phase of this was more than that, the making of a nationwide system of recreational areas, smaller more numerous state parks closer to the men and war veterans people, mark festival r their use. Work in all its many phases is being done in the state park areas from one end of the country to the other. Better facilities for forest firefighting are being provided. Speed is imperative in fighting forest fires. The trees and dry undergrowth are being cleared
And there is breaking news out of lorton here virginia ths morning where police are on o the scene of the overnightvernit murder of a teenager. Nar. The investigation in the 9700 block of hagel circle. Melanie alnwick is there livehev with new developments for uss this hour. Ou mel. Reporter steve and allison, Fairfax County police c a short time ago identifieddeie the victim as maurice andersonno berger. They tell us he was just 17ust 7 years old. Now, neighbors here at the terrace townhomes of gunston oft say that he did live in thein neighborhood. Ig they think he lived just upus the street a little bit and and they remember seeing him ing i the neighborhood riding hisiding bike or sometimes at his place p of work. Of wk. Now, it was 10 36 last nightht when some folks here in thein neighborhood told me they heard a series of loud deep ld p booms that initially they thought may have been thundern n but they didnt see any seeny flashing so they realized it re was gun shots. S gunho po
Attraction in one of marylands state parks. It is a most interesting veteran of three wars. The french and indian, the war for independence, and the war between the states. On bold banks near morehead city, north carolina, the civilian conservation corps is doing another job of repairing the ravages of time. At fort mikan, the sea and wind have been destroying one of the early masterpieces of fortification. On this site for 200 years, forts of one kind or another protrekted this Strategic Point from invasion from the sea. The present fort required 12 years to build. When completed, sometime after 1824, it was considered the last word in Coastal Defense and cost the then amazing sum of 463,700. An active commission during the war between the states, it was seized by the confederates in 1861 and recaptured by the union forces the following year. The walls are of brick and mortar, four feet thick, and theyre rock solid after more than 100 years. Arches, garrison rooms and ammunition magaz