Standing in front of you tonight. Now a rough road ahead to balance the budget. And burning out of control, 400 people out of their homes as a massive Fire Destroys an apartment complex. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] potentially bombshell news tonight from all makers about the metro smoke incident. Ventilation fans inside of a metro train did not function properly during the fatal incident last week. The first top story tonight a new Winter Weather advisory for the region in the form of freezing fog. Some concerns at this hour that the freezing fog could create icy roadways. Its get over to devin lucy to see with the morning commute might be like. That seems like a bad combination. You hear that, it is fog a cloud on the ground comprised of small water droplets from the air. Freezing temperatures on the bridges and overpasses, the water droplets freeze. A little bit of ice, you s
Christopher lee cornell in cincinnati, ohio for a plot against the u. S. Capitol and members of congress. In the newsroom reporting live Horace Holmes abc 7 news. All right, thank you, horace. Now, we turn to an explosion that rattled the eden center in falls church. What weve learned in the past hour is that three people are being treated for injuries from this. This after an explosion left glass shattered everywhere prompted an evacuation of this popular Shopping Center. Joce sterman has been live on the scene since minutes after that explosion. So joce what have you found out . Well alison they just moments ago strung up this crime scene tape. And pulled this fire vehicle into place so they can shine a light inside of princess diamonds where weve just confirmed this explosion originated this afternoon. As you mentioned, it left shattered glass all over the Shopping Center and blew out the front of that store as well as the mall entrance. Injured three people who were near and the af
Do still have the problem in hyattsville. This is route 1 between van about your reason and albion road two lanes blocked because of the water main break. They are doing utility repairs there. Otherwise just around town generally speaking were looking pretty good. Of course keeping a very close eye on Prince Georges County county and right near the wood bridge area. Storm team 4 has you covered this morning. And and virginia. Lets begin where were expecting the most trouble east of d. C. Darcy spencer is live in District Heights with more. Is it still snowing . Looks like it is. Reporter yes i talked to you right about 4 00 we were getting that light wintry mix. Then we were getting a little more though. It was coming down at a pretty good clip. Now its gone back to that wint were along pennsylvania avenue in the District Heights area of the county. Traffic is beginning to pick up. At 4 00 there was hardly anyone on the roadway, but now it is starting to pick up with a few cars. And yo
Maryland Northern Neck and the bay. Dont turn your back on a ravena rain chance. Temperatures are just cold enough on the northwestern edge of this where we could get a sleek pellet or two, but the ground is relatively warm. So no Winter Weather advisories of any kind but you do need to be on the lookout for raindrops, southern Calvert County into st. Marys county. Temperatures as i mentioned, were generally above freezing. Colder air towards manassas and ft. Belvoir. No big deal expected. For today youll need your rain jacket your hat and umbrella as temperatures climb from the 30s into the mid 40s later this afternoon. A little chance to dry out later today. More on that coming up as well as a midweek snow chance perhaps. Thanks chuck. This morning metro is ap pom jazzing to you, the riders for last weeks deadly incident t. Transit agency took out a full page ad in the Washington Post, an apology to all riders and particularly the family of carol glover. Her death connected to the sm
The following breaking news from falls church where an explosion rocked a busy strip mall. Three people have been hurt in a blast at the eden center on wilson boulevard. Tom roussey is there live tonight. Tom, what have you learned about where the explosions originated . Maureen, witnesses and a spokesperson for the city of falls church all say it originated inside this princess Diamond Store behind me. Right now, you can see firefighters in and around the store. If you take a look inside what used to be windows there, you can see nothing but destruction inside. Taking a look at that. It is amazing that more people werent hurt and fortunately, the three that were, its nonlifethreatening injuries. I heard the noise, boom he owns a deli that sits just feet from the princess diamonds store where the explosion happened this afternoon. I run in and i dont want to take a look. I just turn straight back. He was ok but his cell phone video shows several others were injured in the explosion. Th