To directly answer your questions. Well check in with them a little later to hear about whats going on now. Hard at work as usual. Folks are changing their travel plans to get ahead of tomorrows storm. People are changing flights and leaving a day early. Some airlines are offering flight changes free of charge. You should check on line first. Aaa predicted that tomorrow would be the busiest day of the week, and thats before the predicted storm. Suzanne kennedy has the traffic. Much of the state traveling up and down this roadway on i95 and i395. Typically its the southbound lanes that are busy. Right now its the northbound lanes. Want to take you further south. As you lookt the Traffic Camera shot you can see that i95 at ohka kwon, it is bumper to bumper traffic there. Everybodys got the same idea. Theyre trying to get out ahead of the storm. The threat of a thanksgiving eve storm is jamming area interstates. Thats the reason we left a day early. Allison barnett and her family, they ar
First, stormwatch tonight. We are tracking a Winter Weather system heading our way, expected to arrive on one of the busiest travel days of the entire year. Dependsuch snow you get on where you live. Steve rudin has a look at the timeline for us now. It might be a whole lot less than you originally thought. Take a look at what is outside. The National Weather service issued a Winter Weather advisory for montgomery, fairfax, prince william, culpeper counties. Pink, that is the winter storm warning. We are looking at the development of this storm of the coast of south carolina. It will lift off to the north and east as we move through the overnight hours and into tomorrow. What that means for us, a mixture of rain and possibly snow, with higher amounts of the chelating snow to the what accumulating snow to the west of d. C. We talk about the exact timing, coming up. We will take a closer look at how this is impacting travel in our area. Stay with abc 7 and wjla. Com for uptodate informat
Then it will be added to the case file. And just today, police announced that they found that the van with freddie gray inside made a stop that police hadnt been aware of before. Hear someone walking behind us and give a sense of what they believe in the city. Shes yelling they killed freddie gray. That remains to be determined. The state attorney will be going through this and deciding whether or not any charges will be filed and that could take days or even weeks. In baltimore, brad bell, abc 7 news. Alison ok. Thank you very much for that breaking news. Riot stemming from frustration over this case led to a strict curfew, of course, in the city of baltimore and now there are questions about how this citywide bedtime could hurt businesses on whats expected to be a busy weekend there. Kevin lewis live in baltimore with reaction from Business Owners today. Kevin . Kevin hi there, alison. Hull street cafe here in baltimore on locust point certainly feeling the financial pinch here. The
That their file is now over with the states attorney. The states Attorney Says the investigation from her end is now under way and a decision will be made down the road as to whether or not the officers involved will be charged. Clearly, the focus is on the Police Officer who was driving the van that day. Now, were near the new Shilo Baptist church where the funeral was held for freddie gray. A little while ago there was a summit. Reverend al sharpton and stephanie rawlingsblake. She says whatever happens, justice will be done. We will get justice for freddie gray. Believe you me were going to get justice. Were going to do it because were going to work together. Brad theyre going to work together. I want to give you a live scene. West baltimore is a pretty night, cooled down a little bit and we see absolutely no sign of any problems. A very peaceful very normal evening in baltimore. Back to you. Alison thats good to hear, brad. Protesters are on the streets of baltimore again peacefull
First, we will hear from the representative of the gray family. Who has remarks to make and then ill make these remarks and then well take a handful of questions. My name is richard. Im one of freddies two fathers. We are satisfied with todays charges. These charges are an important step in getting justice for freddie. We ask whoever comes to our city, a city that we love a city that we live in come in peace. And if you are not coming in peace, please dont come at all because this city needs to get back to work. The last thing that freddie would want is to see the hard working people of baltimore lose their jobs and businesses because of his death. You all know that would totally defeat the purpose of what we are trying to work towards. Remember, without justice, there is no peace. But let us have peace and the pursuit of justice. Thank you. Today is a momentous step on the road to justice for freddie. In losing freddie the gray family has been put through real hell. One can only imagi