In a live stream of a phone conversation, the occupiers said they would surrender this morning but only if theyre escorted by nevada politician and the reverend franklin graham, the son of famed evan jlest, billy graham. The fbi then swarmed the refuge, block all entrances and exits and leading to hours of tense negotiations. Ammon bundyti and others were arrested a couple weeks ago. Ammon bundys father was arrested by the fbi late last night and taken into federal custody. So far no word on what charges clive faces. To politics, where the republican president ial field is shrinking after some poor performances in New Hampshire. Both announced theyre suspending their campaigns and donald trump is taking his momentum to South Carolina. Where he declared quote youre next and a win would propel him to run the tables the rest of the primary season. He over pushed his general electability saying he could even win states like new york and michigan. Peter alexander spoke with john kasich fres
To survive. Police are searching for the shooting suspect patel is they do not believe this was a. Random crime will keep you updated as we learn more information. Another developing story. Smoke filling a red line train this morning. Eens set up smoke bombs and a fire extent which are before running off. John gonzalez is covering metro with the details. Reporter it was a most 9 00 this morning during rushhour when a red line train picked up for passengers four passengers right here at this metro station. Karsayung men and so the minutes later those young men set off several smoke bombs inside the car and also discharged of fire extinction. We want to show you so the wereres that riders putting on social media showing the smokefilled car. They said they were coughing. The vandals took off running your the rhode island avenue station. This is where weve been talking to customers about this morning toident and smoked spoke one man who says he worked for the citys youth. It needs to be ad
Temperatures are poised to drop even more with whipping winds making it that much worse. Chief meteorologist doug hill is here with the forecast. Doug, we are talking about dangerously cold temperatures outside. Doug as we get through the weekend. Temperatures are much colder than this time yesterday. The first batch of arctic air in place. Reinforcement. The coldest air of the season will move in here saturday morn. Its 25 in frederick. 21 in hagerstown. Its 28 in annapolis. 29 in the capital. These are the sustained winds speeds between 17 to 22 Miles Per Hour in the area. That is Strong Enough to produce wind chills from the single digit to the teens. It feels like 6 in hagerstown. It feels like 13 in frederick and 17 in washington. We will find clear skies but the next push of the arctic air is on the way. We will get a few flurries ahead of it tomorrow an. When the front comes through you will feel it with the strong winds developing here on saturday. Brutally cold temperatures al
Reported. We saw someone come out and then go back in the house. Police are asking if they saw anything around the day. If you saw anything to call the police. Brianne carter, abc7 news. Leon thank you. Only on 7, a neighborhood plagued by the odor of natural gas. The area around the Elementary School reached out to us for help. You Montgomery County reporter kevin lewis is live there. What is going on . They are just out here to fix an issue on the street. You can see the fresh black top on the roadway here. The smell of through her neighborhood. After i started noticing we had problems i kept walking and going am i getting crazy here . But its not just me. She crafted this map. 19 in total marked a spot where someone complained about the natural gas. This is a problem not only because every once in a while something blows up but this is releasing methane in the air which gets involved with Global Warming issue. Washington gas says it is aware of the matter but stresses there is a big
The rain came in, temperatures starting to rise. Look at the melting. Through the day, sunshine, melting. Parts of southern maryland, pretty much all the snow is gone. A look at the flood watch remains in effect. Effect. Ood watch in the quicker the rain gets out of here, it is almost off to the east. The temperatures. Cold air hanging tough. Getting to the 50 degree mark and higher, along with the gusty wind. The area picked up close to an inch and a half of rain. 50, downtown washington. Sunshine through the afternoon. Degrees by 9 00 tonight because the system moves out and High Pressure builds in. Southwestern virginia. Heavy rain pushing to the north. Getill be good to go as we through the next three or four hours. Satellite shows the break and the clouds from the west. Overnight, there could the light refreezing possible. Have had so much rain, early tomorrow morning, it could be a concern. We will keep an eye on things for you. On town to have a bit of spring in the air. Jummy t