An hour and a half after the first collapse, more of the huge tree fell into independence avenue. That time police had everyone away from the tree and no one was hit. Workers then spent the rest of the afternoon taking down what is left of the big tree. Many of the tourists and others stopped to watch. There is no rain or wind, ice or anything like that to cause it to fall. Something like this is unusual. Sam and as you can see, what you can see back there are the remnants of the work they are doing. They are right there in front of the Longworth House Office building. They have basically taken the tree down. They have taken it down and i guess they are clearing the debris from the street. Obviously, rush hour has started now. No traffic is moving along independence avenue. Speaker paul ryan issued a statement of the family of the worker. He has a wife and two children. Reporting live from the u. S. Capitol, im sam ford, abc7 news. Nancy sam, thank you. Also breaking this afternoon, th
Kill his wife for money. Reporter that tipster set up a meeting between manejwala and an undercover cop. Police say they met three times and talked about how it would get done, how it would be made to look like a botchedni burgla or robbery. As soon as he began to offer money and information, that made it very evident that he was serious about this homicide. We began pursuing it that way. So now there will be additional investigation, but we dont know the motive at this point. Reporter police say he offered 15,000 but said hed have to make small payments so he wouldnt raise suspicion. When asked if he wanted his wife to suffer, he allegedly said, just end it. Hes being held on solicitation for murder and attempted murder charges. He took the officer to his home so that he could see the exact house. He also shared with him pictures of his wife and also showed him a video of the interior of the residence so he would know how to get around reporter there were three meetings allegedly thro
We cant do anything. I said can you write my name, date of birth, appointment time down and fax this to the internal Medicine Department . No, we cant even do that. Reporter ahead on news4 at 35 5 00, you will hear the message med star left on that patients phone which he says indicates the challenges still being faced in patient care. Thats coming up at 5 00. Pat, back to you. Chris gordon. Thank you, chris. Right now we are already seeing some street closures and sidewalks sealed off before the Nuclear Security summit here in washington. Over the next few days World Leaders will be gathering in downtown at the Convention Center. News4s pat collins is live. Hes in the area with what its going to mean for all of us. Pat . Reporter these are some of the security fences lining streets around the washington theyre about eight feet tall. Pretty imposing, huh . For the next couple days this area is going to be airtight securitywise. Why people who live near the Convention Center will have t
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Time, but look at the temperatures for the north. 19, frederick. 31, andrews. At midday, we are struggling to get out of the 30s in most areas. Temperatures and very dry air. 34, a high in washington today. 43, a high in washington today. More sunshine, lakeeffect snow in the great lakes. Tomorrow, pretty good weather traveling. The weather will to tear your rate over the next several days. We will have breezy conditions. There is a warm up inside for the rest of the week. Ok, doug. We will see you then. Police are looking for the suspect in a robbery and sex assault in northwest d. C. A man with a knife demanded a woman get into his van. He drove her and sexually assaulted and robbed her. He is believed to be driving a white minivan. This noon, we are learning new details about a deadly crash that killed a Loudoun Valley high school student. The victim, only 15 years old, apparently died while trying to Outrun Police officers. Sam sweeney has new information that we have learned about