We have chopp 4eeping an eye on the fire fight from above and our leon harris is at the live desk with what we know right now. Leon. Erica and jim, we have been watching it for the better partt of an hour b the flames were just tearing through the home on Clarks Branch avenue tonight. I take you now live to the scene. Chopper 4, as you said, flying gh above the home. Look at these stunning pictures. The fire is so intense the crews inside had to actually leave tha house fight the flames from the outside. Fairfax county called in units from other departments to come give a hand. Fortunately, we are told everyone inside the home at the time of the fire was able to get out safely. No word though on how it broke out. We will continue to follow the breaking stories. You can also look for up dates onhiur nbc waston app and, of course, here tomorrow on news 4 today. Back to you. We have been watching it with you. That thing has just taken off in rapid fashion. Nk leon, thayou. A child hospita
Washed today, do it. Were dry until thursday. Thats the big change. By thursday, more rain. Big story about today besides the sunshine breezy conditions. Thats all weve got going. Well talk about the rain on le thursday, buts talk about the roads with melissa. Good morning. Good morning, right now the bd,tway looking goo outer loop, outer loop, we dont have anything. No roadwork, nothing like that. 66 at 123 eastbound, westbound, everything is rolling along well. Nothing in your way. In fairfax, northbound Fairfax County parkway, crash reported northbound. Southbound lanes not impacted. Southbound 295, the ramp to the inbound 11th Street Bridge hadt e left side blocked by a crash. Thats on the shoulder. A second crash in the same area also on the shoulder at this point. As youook here northbound, southbound on bw parkway, route 1, 95, 29, everything northbound and southbound nice and green and moving. All right. Thank you. 5 02. New this morning, d. C. Police say someone used a b. B. G
Good morning, everyone. So glad youre with us. It is a tuesday, full of news. Victor blackwell by my side. Good morning. Good to be back. Good to have you. Here all week. Five things to know for this tuesday, august 8th. New this morning, the east coast cleaning up after deadly storms, trees are down, roads are blocked. Hundreds of thousands of people without power. Already more than 300 flights cancelled. Happening today, the police chief in montgomery, alabama, is expected to reveal more information about that brawl that broke out on the citys river front. It started after a black dock worker was attacked by a group of white people. So far no arrests. But four warrants have been issued. Right now, Los Angeles City workers are on a 24hour strike. 11,000 workers including Sanitation Workers, engineers, life guards, all headed for the picket lines. They say its a fight for fair contracts. This hour, polls open in ohio as Voters Decide whether to make it harder to amend their state const
Now. I am writing myself a note. Its worth just put the 20 bucks in. Buy lottery ticket. Its tonight, right . Yeah. To do. I will do that. Maybe ill see you back here tomorrow morning. Would you come back if you won . Yes. Oh, okay. You not . No. A billion and a half dollars . Yes, i would. I like what i do. I like it too. But not when im a billionaire. I hear you, my friend, victor. Lets get to the powerful storms ripping across the east coast. Theyve been deadly. We know this morning at least two people have died, Hundreds Of Thousands of people, though, waking up to Power Outages this morning. Oh my god. That is a tree snapped in half in north carolina. While indiana residents are digging out after a tornado touched down there. Maryland state police say 47 people were rescued after being trapped in their vehicles for hours. Look at this. This is the people who were trapped between these power lines. Today already nearly 900 flights have been delayed. More than 300 cancelled. Here is
Adding on from the last class is lecture right. So last time we talked a little our Public Health so we said today were going a little bit about now the build of ems. Now todays lecture i will say a little bit a hodgepodge of Different Things coming at you. Right. So were going to talk not only about obviously the upbringing and start of, but were going to really talk about also advances in medicine a little bit. And of talk about some of those other things to really kind of set the picture in regards to what that Public Health issue right because we said the Public Health issue essentially last class was what when it came to ems creation, remember what we said. Yeah, i thats okay. So we get like accidents on the road and stuff like that. Exactly right. So again, were going to build on that, talk a little bit more about, you know, essentially how all that stuff started. And so a few things i want to talk about today, right . So obviously going to define ems. What is actual emergency me