Building. The Prince Georges County fire investigators are trying to figure out exactly what caused this fire. Cant believe it. First of the year. Reporter when the members of the church of oxon hill saw what was left of their building, all they could do was pray. There was no electricity. We left, locked up, and went home. When they called me, 7 30 this morning, they say the church is on fire. Reporter the small church of 80 or so members was built in 1963. And has been a church home for generations of family. My children have grown up in the church. And just that. We learned that the power not only here to the church but the entire neighborhood went out last night shortly after their services. Reporter fire investigators looking into the possibility that the power outage may have somehow ignited the fire. Once electricity came back on in the church. Very real possibility that when the power was reenergized something could have happened. Something could have been left on. Something co
By africanamerican troops. This is just over an hour. Good morning, and welcome to fort stevens. My name is kim elder and im the Program Manager for the National Park service for the civil war defenses of washington. Id like to welcome and thank each of you all for joining us this morning for the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the battle of fort stevens. Ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the presentation of colors and the singing of the National Anthem by anita frasier. O say, can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming . And the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh, say, does that starspangled banner yet wave oer the land of the free and the home of the brave [ applause ] you may take your seats. The invocation will be delivered by
Friday, turning much less humid. Right now were in the mid70s around the bay. Low 70s elsewhere. And later today, with the morning clouds and a few passing showers, well hold steady in the 70s. By noontime, clouds lingering. Mid to Late Afternoon, sun breaks out up near 80 degrees. Melissa, any fenderbenders . We have one well tell you about in a second. Want to first show you chopper over the beltway at 66. Moving right along. Can we keep it like this for the rest of the morning, please . 95 northbound at prince will criminal pa william rke a crash. And slow downs leading into that. Bw parkway a little slow headed into town. Top of the beltway looking good. Beltway at old georgetown, no problems there. A look at the Prince Georges County side of things coming up. New developments this morning in the israel gaza conflict just hours after the faa reversed its decision to allow u. S. Carriers to resume flights in and out of tel aviv. C news has learned at least five rockets from gaza wer
That hit the campground, we turn to storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein. Hey, tom. Yeah, there were some very strong thunderstorms that rolled across southern virginia earlier this morning, and one of them did get very intense as it approached Virginia Beach and the norfolk area. Take a look at the radar. Going back as we take a look right now around our region, we have just a lingering clouds here and some showers just to our south, but as we go back in time, you can see this is the strong line of storms that came right through norfolk. Ill let this repeat again. You can see a lot of lightning, a very fastmoving storm. And this is the one that came right on through there, very intense, very strong winds. At the least it had very strong, over 60mileperhour Straight Line winds. There may have been some rotation with it. But you can see as it repeats again, it just came right through, was moving very quickly. Its offshore and has a lot of lightning with it. We have some other showers
Officers investigated for craft activities of one of them committing suicide. More on the prescribed to dc later in the show. Its wednesday december eleven fight here in washington dc on same and youre watching art it. Today on capitol hill that sheep of the nsa general Keith Alexander fielded questions from lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary committee. The focus of an era is continued oversight of U S Government surveillance up gordons its hearings like this one of a common staple in capitol hill since june since edwards thirty million spilling us these secrets out on to newspapers around the world. The latest accra published today the Washington Post reveals that the nsa is using the same techniques that corporate online advertisers use to pinpoint surveillance targets in to gather intelligence on peoples locations. Essentially the essays using google cookies. No cookies or little packets of data and allow Online Outdoor advertisers to uniquely track you and me and what web sites we v