Interrupted the mayor at a city council meeting. Today the mayor caused reporters in and showed us video of what happened on Christmas Day. The video shows what happened the moments before javon hall was kill and the mayor released transcript of the 911 calls that hall was beating his girlfriend. My sister is locked in the house. Her boyfriend is crazy. He got a knife. He turned on the gas. Im locked out. When police arrive, the scene was chaotic but the girlfriend coming out, sitting on the step. The boyfriend in the doorway with a knife. [gunshot ] no, no, no. Move, move. Sam an officer retrieved the knife and r another ran to get first aid. Mayor bowser met with reporters who viewed the video afterwards. Its our decision that this is in the interest of Public Safety to make any and all information we have available. The regulars today does it make you feel you made the right decision in insisting all Police Officers have those cameras . Absolutely. Sam afterward the officers are hea
Online at wjla. Com. Social media and the stormwatch7 app. You can get alert and School Closings sent to your phone. Go to wjla. Com text to sign up. Jonathan now to breaking news we are following this everything. D. C. Police released body cam video showing the moment that an officer shot and killed javon hall on christmas day. We should warn you, the video is graphic. No, no, no. No. The moment the shots were fired is difficult to see what is going on. When you slow the video down you plainly see that hall is holding a large knife. He appears to lung moments before being shot. The family members said that the video didnt know any knife at all but bowser said this is released in the interest of transparency. Maureen now to the showdown on capitol hill. President obama squaring mike pence. They have not met face to face. But the battle they are waging in the halls of congress will effect every american. Q mccray is following the controversy centered on whether to repeal what is known a
A case is in the public interest. This has proven to be in the public interest. There have been protests and halls family has spoken out saying they did not believe he was armed. The Mayors Office released not just the two seven minute body camera videos of the two responding officers but also the 911 call transcripts that sent those officers back to that home on christmas day. The Mayors Office trying to paint as complete a picture as possible of what led to that split second decision on christmas day. Went inside the house. The video shows a fast moving, chaotic scene as a pair of mpd officers return to a house in northeast washington for the second time in an hour. Reports of some kind of domestic incident. As they approach the home a woman warns the man inside has a knife. One officer gets up the back staircase and orders a neighbor out of the way. Through the open door we and the responding officer see javon hall ar inch knife. The officer orders hall to drop the knife three times
Affordable care act. Look out for the American People. Reporter the president advised lawmakers to share Success Stories and to keep up the fight against republicans determined to repeal and replace the healthcare law. The new Senate Minority leader says that consequences could be grim. Were here today to warn the American People that the republican plan to cut medicare, medicaid, repeal the aca will make america sick again. Vice president elect mike pence led his own strategy session with republicans on capitol hill. Obamacare has failed. All the promises of obamacare have been shown to be false and broken promises. Reporter senators quickly passed a measure to put the repeal of obamacare on the fast track. Coming up with replacement legislation could take months or years. Republicans say the 20 million americans already enrolled will have help during the process. We have plenty of ea replace it and youll see as the weeks and months unfold what were talking about replacing it. A cbs n
Even before the sun goes down. Likely to get our first inch especially in the western and northern suburbs. Lots. Lots of cold coming our way not on just for todayed, but the weekend looks bitter cold. The tenday forecast comes up at 4 51. Youll see milder air coming next week. How much snow do you think were going to get . Chuck, we have the snow in the forecast for early, early tomorrow morning and were talking about totals that are pretty low, but the problem here is going to be the timing of the snow. If we go into the Early Morning hours tomorrow, lets start the clock here. As we go into noon today, were not going to see the snow around, but then we go into the afternoon and we could even see some snow before sunset. Good morning, sheena. So happy to have you here. Northbound 295 near benning road work zone, thats the one i was talking about a few minut this morning in the northeast. Beltway, at the sprungfield interchange, major problems there. That overturned box there in freder