They patrol the tunnels and the brims and the highway bridges and highway. We dont know the name of the knifewielding man. We are also unaware of his alleged motives. We are live in derwood, im kevin lewis, abc7 news. Alison thank you. Meanwhile we have new developments tonight out of joint base andrews. Which was locked down for about an hour and a half this morning. This is after reports of an active shooter at the Malcolm Grow Medical Center on base. Brad bell was there as the situation unfolded this morning and he is live there now. What have we learned about all of this . Brad what we learned is there is a tremendous coincidence here. A planned drill. Just as it was getting ready to start, somebody called in from real concern. From beyond the perimeter fencing we can see the tense situation unfolding. Heavily armed military personnel. Clearing the base hospital, the Malcolm Grow Medical Center. People walking out the front door. Hands in the air. Being led away from the building.
One student was killed at the flagstaff campus. Three others were shot and they are in the hospital. We do not know how they are doing. What weve learned is that the shooting happened in a parking outside of a greek life dorm at 1 20 their time. Campus police say the shooter is a student. Two separate student groups got into a confrontation. The confrontation turned physical. One of our students, steven jones, 18, produced a handgun and shot four of our other students. The student who died has not yet been named. Jones was taken into custody right after the shooting. Right now president obama is on a plane to roseburg, oregon. He left joint base andrews more than an hour ago. He will meet privately with the victims families of those killed in the umpqua shooting. President obama is seriously considering executive action that would put stricter background checks in place for gun buyers. Tracking light rain impacting the baltimore area. A few sprinkles in Montgomery County and keeping a
Strikes south of town in the game of the week has been just delayed for a while. Just the good news is they will move through in about an hour but safety first. You cant play with all this lighting. Old town, just north of Upper Marlboro a Straight Line of storms all the way to culpepper. Brief heavy rain but strong winds possible as well. Look at all the rain. Itll be a slow go with heavy rain and gusty winds. Again the good news is they are moving east southeast at 45. Old town heavy rain. This is headed over toward brandywine and the Storm Tracker at 7 05. So, again the good news is everything is moving fast bad news its increasing in strength. In terms of lying any lighting. Any time you hear thunder get the kids inside lighting from there back to old town. Look, northwest out to route 7 and out to 495. Its quiet right now. We will come back and see if the front will leave us alone for the weekend. Now to the top story. The shooting at Northern Arizona. One person is dead. Three hu
The news at noon. Im mike hydeck on what is next for this pilot. Delia . Reporter the pilots name, Howard Solomon iii of southeast washington. Hes 50 years old. Hes not happy. He bought this drone online for 60. He said he had no idea it was illegal to fly a drone here in washington. He learned his lesson around 1 30 in the morning. He was here on the mall practicing and flying his drop. He lost control and it crossed over constitution avenue and crash landed. Park police wrapped up a News Conference and told us the white house was never in any danger. He didnt have malicious intent but still it is a crime so he was slapped with a citation. To give you perspective about the drone, its rather small. 6 inches by 6 inches were told about the size of a bird. Thats coming from Sergeant Anna rose by park police who reached us moments ago. She says now they really need to get the word out that its illegal to fly these drones anywhere in the washington area, especially by the mall or the white
We have one line to the north and another line back to the west and this one has had lightning and thunder with it. We think it will be these storms right here that will drift on through our region. Just how strong will they get . Thats the big question once again. We do expect to see strong storms throughout the evening hours and that will bring the brief, heavy rain and as veronica said 35, 45 miles an hour. We will continue to keep you posted. We have Storm Team Radar all evening long. A college is on lockdown after a shooting broke out in a Student Housing complex. One student has been killed and another wounded on the end of Texas Southern university. A suspect has been detained. All classes are cancelled and right now no word on what triggered it. And we are tracking the president s movements at the live desk. He arrived in roseburg, oregon, within the past half hour landing in the towns airport in marine one and was taken by motorcade to meet with the families of those nine stud