The Wicomico County jail director telling us that the incident is under investigation. He had not made his way to the facility yet. The search zone is massive and it includes kavnous warehouses and the windy railroad tracks. We dont believe he is armed. The guards from the Detention Center due do carry weapons but they secured them in the lock boxes inside the van before opening the door. There are a lot of Unanswered Questions about policy. He weighs 180 pounds and 58. He has a tear drop watson was transferred for psychiatric evaluation bull he is serving more than 100cheer sentence in delaware for firing into a Police Officer home. He is facing charges for a similar crime in maryland. But that trial was reportedly delayed because of the questions over watson competency. Police are warning, good to repeat this. This is considered dangerous. If you see him, call 911. You can help by going to the abc7 Facebook Page to share his photo and get it out to see his face. Abc7michelle break ne
Students, staff and alumni, packed into a town hall meeting at American University today. Coming together for a common goal, to fight racism. The Student Government organized the meeting after racist displays were found on the campus. Kristin wright talked to students. Did they feel like this meeting was productive . Reporter yeah, students told us they felt like the twohour town hall was productive. The Student Government association said it will not be the last. I believe this was a Tipping Point that officially caused everyone to say, enough is enough. The outcry at American University. Reporte i never imagined i would become the president or the target of a hate crime. Reporter Taylor Dumpson called this town hall meeting, students want stronger defined campus protocols on hate crimes and other biasrelated incidents. They want au police to track the number of hate crimes and they want to know what happens during and after an investigation. Im really glad that we had this open forum
It was stopped by a 22yearold british computer expert. Theres fear a continuing attack could come as people turn to work today and turn on their computers. Weve seen the rise of ransom wear becoming the principle cyber threat but this is something we havent seen before p the global reach is unprecedented. The ransom wear virus threatened to keep usersers electronics locked until they paid a bit coin ransom. Search fonts for a new fbi director. Eight people were interviewed for that position. There are 14 total candidates. A decision could come this week but questions continue over the firing of james comey while republicans and democrats remain divided on the president s decision. Some say sit feels like american institutions are under siege right now. In many ways, our institutions are under assault both externally and thats at russian interference in our election system. And i think as well our institutions are under assault internally. Internally from the president . Exactly. Chuck
Up 30s to near 40 degrees. I have new hour by hour timing on when this is tapering off and raining. We are following breaking news out of northeast d. C. This morning. Come door Joshua Barney drive northeast back open after being shut down for a car fire. And justin finch joins us live from the scene with the latest. Good morning, justin. Angie, good morning. The road here has reopened. Perhaps you can see theres still smoke rising from the inside cabin of this car. You will see this car is completely gutted inside. We have just gotten close to this car. If you look at it pushing babb, you can see the sides of the car are melted. I want to show you some jid xwroe as fire crews got to this scene here, attacking these flames from inside and underneath car. The it took some time to knock out and control. Police were here controlling the traffic flow closing traffic on both sides of com com commadore drive. You can see the damage done by this fire. At this point, we are fought clear on how
Education, and infrastructure investment. This is 25 minutes. Mr. Speaker, mr. President , members of the General Assembly, distinguished guests, and my fellow marylanders. To appear before this 447th session of the General Assembly and give a report on the state of our great state. It was on a snowy day just two years ago when i stood before spot, in thisry beautiful Historic Chamber to take the oath of office as maryland posh new governor. I was deeply grateful for the opportunity to serve my fellow marylanders. Hope for our state, hope for a people. I was fully aware that our state was facing some difficult challenges. With an opportunity in new beginning. We pledge to put maryland on a new with a revitalized spirit, with bipartisan cooperations. See, and solutions to our problems, regardless of which side of the aisle those ideas came from. The work began immediately on day one to set a new course of economic growth, security, and prosperity. For two years now we have been doing ex