And remembering a political icon. I want when its over for people to say, now, there was an honest person. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] good evening, everybody. Morris jones. The restaurant is closed after a fire on wisconsin avenue about three blocks north of the national cathedral. Tom roussey has the latest on the investigation. Crews have arrived to try to get the district two bar and grill open at some time tonight. Officials believe the fire started at the kitchen in the restaurant. A lot of work to do after what was a very quick moving fire. After dark, firefighters remained on the scene of what had been a two alarm higher. Folks at the district two bar and grill figured out how to move forward after a chaotic scene. I started smelling smoke. I then look out the window and noticed smoke pouring from the roof of the bar and grill. He then started shooting this video of the
Im sorry for her, you know, and her familiar. Its terrible. Reporter police say that John Sherwood has no fixed address. A magistrate ordered him held for now with no bond. In woodbridge bruce leshan, wusa9. New years eve violence also happening in prince georges county. Police say a man was found dead early this morning in a college park parking garage. As Hank Silverberg explains, it appears the incident began with a shootout. Reporter this is Hank Silverberg in college park where a shootout in the Early Morning hours on the fifth story of a parking garage at the cam dell apartments here in college park Camden Apartments left one man dead. Two men opened fire on each other sometime after 2 a. M. , one of them 22yearold stefon powell of district heights, was killeds, his gun still on the scene and killed, his gun still on the scene and a nearby car riddled with bullets. Both cars were taken away by police. Its not clear what it was about. The other man is still on the loose. Residents
Convention center amid all the pomp and circumstance this noon. John . Good afternoon from North Michigan Park in northeast d. C. To the office of d. C. Mayor. Muriel bowser was just sworn in 20 minutes ago. She had just left the stage. You can see the ballroom here at the Convention Center is still packed this afternoon. Now, reverend Sylvia Sumner who gave the invocation today for this swearingin ceremony called this an auspicious day. Definitely a historic day with many new faces in d. C. Politics after the citys first elected attorney general and seven Council Members were sworn in. Three of them brand new. It was Muriel Bowsers turn. The 42yearold who grew up in ward five graduated from Seton High School in bladensburg, maryland and started her political career as an a. N. C. In 2004 and most recently has been a Council Member since 2007 and this afternoon, she is now the citys seventh elected mayor in modern history. The second female to hold the post here in the district of colu
Here with my dad. Love being here chicago fans were in the house as well. Here come the hawks the mighty blackhawks and they were loving this washington weather. This is like miami for us. No snow its great. This is almost tropical to us from the food to the fans. This game is a new years tradition that caps fans have passionately embraced. Caps, caps, caps caps its been a long day for a lot of people. Gates opened at 1 00 but there was a fanfest across the street that started much earlier today. So a lot of people came out making an entire day of it. Fortunately, the temperature got up into the mid 40s so it was a great day to be outside and obviously, a fantastic finish to washington, d. C. s first winter classic. Reporting live in Nationals Park suzanne kennedy, abc 7 news. And the day is not over for those fans yet right, suzanne . Thank you very much. Prior to the game the big discussion was whether the glare off the ice would cause a problem. But once the puck dropped, it became
Were starting a new tradition with the fresh start 5k. The mayorelect packed them in at Oyster School as she launched what she said will be an annual new years day race. Despite the chill, hundreds showed up. Included, newly elected members of the d. C. Council. Very exciting. I think were going to be able to move forward on a lot of important issues like Affordable Housing and education. And shadow representative, the first latino elected in d. C. Since the 1970s. Its been a long, long time. Not for lack of trying. They will all join bowser and thousands of others here in the a. M. B. Halls of the Convention Center tomorrow. Bowsers inauguration chair bet televisions deborah lee said the themes are fresh start and d. C. Proud. So its a new day. And i think its exciting. And i hope all washingtonians are ready to celebrate. Bowser finished the 5k race. No one was keeping track of the at the time. Shes got a busy weekend ahead. Very excited, you know, this is a tremendous opportunity. I