Arlington county firefighters were called here to the clarendon station for the report of smoke. Suspended between boston and roslen. Just outside of the clarendon was burning debris on the track bed. Not a power cable issue. We arrived and we found smoke in the Clarendon Metro and evacuated the station. Units shut down power to the third rail. They went down with metro Emergency Response teams. They found no active fire. Ahead at 5 00, how passengers are dealing with the second fire to affect Service Lines in the past two weeks. Thats the latest live in claredon. Chris gordon, thank you. Now to the tributeto fallen prince georges. Joined Law Enforcement at the memorial service. Chopper 4 flew over as the procession of police followed his body on the beltway. Tracee wilkins is live where the service took place. Tracee . The service wrapped oplittle while ago, but i have to tell you it was amazing outside of this church and even more amazing on the inside. There were points during the s
Ashley, let me start with you. Child sexual abuse, how bad is it . We hear about it on the news. We know about it happening in our communities. What do the numbers say . Unfortunately, pat, child sexual abuse is something happening to children before their 18th birthday, affecting one in ten children nationwide. D. C. Specifically has a really staggering rate of child mall treatment, the second highest rate in the nation. Child sex abuse and trafficking, are they related . Absolutely. One thing we do know about children who are affected by child sex trafficking is oftentimes theyve already experienced child sexual abuse at some point prior to being trafficked. Adrian, you treat children. Most of us think its the most horrible thing that can possibly that we can possibly imagine. Most of us cant imagine how it is that an adult abuses a child. How does it affect a child to be violated this way at such an early age, at an age when theyre still developing physically, mentally, spiritually
Change in the forecast track for Hurricane Joaquin. Still a great deal of uncertainty, but it keeps the center of the circulation offshore. Either way, it means wind and rain continuing on into your sunday as well. So its a wet start this morning. Temperatures are in the 50s. It will be a cloudy and wet day. Take your umbrella and your raincoat out the door this morning. Temperatures will struggle to get back near 60 degrees. Angie, back to you. Thank you so much, chuck. Right now storm team 4 is keeping an eye on two weather systems heading our way. Hurricane joaquin could make landfall sunday or monday and the track of that hurricane could change depending on the noreaster. Rain expected to bring a lot of rain to the area. News4s Megan Mcgrath with a look at one area that we know is very prone to flooding. Reporter this is definitely a spot prone to flooding. Were getting light rate right now in old towne, alexandria. Im standing right at the base here. Typically what we have when we
Was shot in baltimore a couple of years ago. That he moved here because he thought it would be safer. Coming up at 5 00, more about the murder, more details about what happened here in the courtyard. Now back to you. Developing now, a child infected with measles may have exposed others to the virus. Fairfax county Health Official say the child visited several locations last week while still contagious. The patient has since been treated at innova fairfax hospital. Measles is spread through coughing and sneezing. Go to the nbc washington app. Now to the shocker on capitol hill, just hours after saying he planned to run and Kevin Mccarthy dropped his bid for house speaker. It surprised his colleagues who thought he had the best chance to win. Its clear republicans are divided in the house and needed a candidate who can unite them. Ill stay on as majority leader, but the one thing i found in talking to everybody, if we are going to unite and be strong we need a new face to help do that. W
At the live desk, were staying on top of crippling flooding in Southern California. The 5 freeway out there is shut down. Theyre trying to remove tons of mud from this main artery connecting l. A. To the central valley. Look at all the mud here. Hundreds of cars this on the highway and trucks got stuck in the mudslide. People even trying to dig out from the interstate overnight. Camping out. Several feet of mud there and torrential rain caused a big mess. Hailstorms made it even worse. A cell phone video showing golf ballsized hail. Guess what . Its not over. More Stormy Weather is coming to the l. A. Area today. Back to you. Im Megan Mcgrath live in gaithersburg where police are searching for a kill who are shot a man to death in the alley between the two Shopping Centers that you see behind me here in thegate urs berg area. The victim is 21yearold deondre smith. Police are working on a number of leads and dont feel theres a threat to the larger community. But they wont say much more