City honors his legacy. Good morning, everyone, im aaron gilchrest. Im angie goff. News of a man facing Domestic Violence charges after a s. W. A. T. Team was called to a home in montgomery county. Police say a woman left a house on valley bend drive in germantown and headed to a neighbors after an argument with her boyfriend. Her two Young Children stayed in the house with him. Police tell news4 he took the kids to a house in Prince Georges County, and thats where he was arrested around 2 30 this morning. No one was hurt. 5 01. Lets check in with meteorologist tom kierein with your wednesday weather headlines. Tom . Good morning. Starting off, another morning of thick humidity in the air. Temperatures in the low to mid 70s around the metro area, around the bay. Parts of Northern Virginia and maryland, near 70 including Shenandoah Valley. In the mountains, 60s, more pleasant there. Still quite humid, too. You see the city lights lighting up the humidity over washington. Live view from
Reporter good evening. Right now im here at 10th street northwest and constitution avenue. You look here, these Police Officers are directing traffic blocking off the area to make sure no one drives down constitution avenue en route to the washington monument. Come with me over here before i show you some video. You can see this fire truck here. The area right down there, which is 13th, that is blocked off. So a lot of folks are packing their patience trying to avoid the irs building. Lets roll some video right now. Here is what happened. A transformer fire sparked in the basement. Now, a d. C. Fire and em s representative told us that he doesnt know if anyone was injured. Well, i have an update right now from the irs spokesperson, and he tolells me no one was injure. This is the Internal Revenue Service Headquarters building here and all of the employees inside were evacuated. Many of them decided to go home. Others i presume are standing around here because they have work to do, tryi
Wounded in the incident as he was with the firefighters coming to the door. Reporter we know the man who lives here and who is home at this hour owned his handgun legally. The commitment to having a grand jury review the case is an indication the prosecutors have made no decisions about which way they will go on this. They are moving forward cautiously and deliberately and promise a transparent investigation. For more on the emotional reactions to the death of firefighter, John Ulmschneider and the heroic efforts of his colleagues, here is my colleague, stephanie ramirez. Reporter we are hearing firefighter kevin swain is up and talking at the hospital and there were two other firefighters injured in this. The fire chief said they were more than fleeing the scene, they were trying to drag the body of the injured firefighter away from the gunfire. Hurt and devastation, its painful. Reporter the pain of what happens continues to bring firefighters to the boston area. It is one big sister
About changing plans for a new d. C. Soccer stadium. And our cameras look at training for local firefighters. Also breaking news, police blocked off a large crime scene at a double shooting. News 4 at 11 00 begins with breaking news. Heres that shooting scene in northeast d. C. Spreads from West Virginia avenu simms it is in the same Police District as we told you about last night. In that district the crime rate isg faster than any other part of the city. Whats going on right now. Were in the fifth Police District in northeast d. C. This crime scene takes up nearly three blocks, condensed down to this area right now. People in this area ducked when they heard shots fired here on the 1200 block mt. Olivet road. Two they are conscious and breathing. They are trying to get information and a description on the suspects. Let video from a Public Safety meeting with police last year the Fifth District had the biggest reduction in crime city wide and this year it is on trace the big increase.
And you can see the volume really building up as we approach that crash. So if you have an aler nat you might want to take it. Wider look, no major problems. 66 slow through manassas. And then it opens up. Dale city getting typically slow. And Prince Georges County overall looking quite good. Well have much more on this crash outer alone coming up. New developments from frederick this morning. A high school is closed today after a shooting outside of the school gym. Chopper 4 was over the scene as this scary situation unfolded last night. This Morning Police are also continuing the search for suspects after that shooting. News 4s Megan Mcgrath is live in presented rickfrederick with what weve learned. Reporter just moments ago, we heard from police and they say that West Frederick Middle School is also going to be closed today to aid with the search for suspects in the shooting. So West Frederick Middle School also closed today in addition to Frederick High School where the shooting to