Structural damage but because of the massive amounts of water that have been pumped into the building. Yesterday i taikd to two construction workers who were in the building when the fire broke out. They gave me some pictures and video of what it looked like. Rigt about 9 35. That was 9 36ish when Prince George countsy Fire Department got a call and responded to the scene. Theres a fire house here literally around the block. And you can see theyre saying it started like right near the 6th floor elevator shaft on sixth floor but despite best efforts firefighters, 60 minute later, the video speaks for itself. You can see what it looked like. Aalarms were sound todd pull all of the firefighters out of the building and crews could do nothing more than to attack it from the outside. The building is a city block long. Its called the fuse 47 project. 250 apartments, retail scores, parking garage. Threequarters of the way completed and that is also some of what contributed to it took a massive
Real life drama for former reality star. Bachelor contestant chris souls under arrest accused of hitting and killing a neighbor. Then fleeing the scene. Well go live to tmz for all the details. Heres a cycle for tray turner. And later, a record day for tray turner. The nationals infielder driving in seven runs and hitting just the third cycle in team history. Well have all the highlights from his epic game. Good day at 9a starts now. I want to ride my bicycle wonderful day to ride your bike at least i hope so. Good day d. C. Its 9 01 on this wednesday april 26th. Hopefully the weather is clearing up from the earlier rain we had. Im maureen alongside allison seymour, Steve Chenevey and wisdom martin. Holly morris has the morning off. That is great song. Bicycle. Im shocked you actuall okay. Wisdom coming alive. Also ahead this morning remember those muddy jeans that we showed you yesterday . This morning theres a new denim disaster that everyone is talking about online. Well show it to
Alternative minimum tax. Lawmakers are wondering how the cuts will be paid for and some democrats say at plan favors the well though. It is clear that trump is leaving the details to the Treasury Department and members of congress and tax reform is never easy. We will be attacked from the left and we will be attacked from the right but one thing is certain. I would never, ever bet against this president. He will get this done for the reporter treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin says there will be new taxs on overseas profits and he believes people will put their tax savings back into the economy with increased spending. Now a group of democrat lawmakers is still calling on President Trump to release his tax returns before theyll consider any of trumps tax overhaul plan. Yesterday secretary mnuchin says the president has no intention of making his tax returns public. Maureen and wisdom. Mel thank you. Time is 4 31. President trump is taking a major step to undo an Obama Administration envi
And later, home Court Continues to be lucky for the wizards and now lets hope the luck carries over for the caps as they continue their request for a stanley cup tonight. Good day at 9a starts right now. All right. So we got the caps, we got the wizards trying to do their thing, we got the nfl draft. We the got the nats keeping on keeping on. So its all interesting right now who redskins going to pick much a lot going on. Empty meantime 9 01. Good day d. C. Thursday, april 23 are, wisdom martin, holly morris, maureen umeh, steve chenevey. Were all here. The caps take on the pittsburgh penguins. If you want to be there to cheer them listen closely and keep your twitter closer starting now like right now 9 00 oclock the team is kicking off another rock the you can win play off tickets. Mike thomas down near the Verizon Center looking for clues. Well check in with him a little bit later on. First though we want to talk about the weather. Because when those clouds burn off this morning, it
And rail employees. Metro says they have denied all of those requests, so they expect to offer normal schedule today so thats the good news for the riders. But it was a bit of a mess here yesterday on metro center. Old equipment was sort of the issue to blame for the delays and the issues here but things are back to normal. I want to show you some video from yesterday as things got tense right after this incident at metro center there was a board meeting. Metro and its Largest Workers Union theyre currently locked in a very contentious contract dispute then protested yesterday according to this board meeting. Workers wants their voices heard. They are upset about the hard line approach by management. Theyre criticizing this new absenteeism policy which requires workers to file absence requests three days in advance and metro says, look, this is necessary. We need to crack down on excessive absenteeism going on and increase the productivity but during the protest workers dropped protest