You think on our facebook page. New details on a disturbing shooting last night. We know that a father killed himself moments after he shot his two daughters and his wife. His wife is still in the hospital. Ileana diaz is live at the home where the horrific shooting took place. What can you tell us . Reporter its definitely one of the most disturbing and really one of the saddest stories i have personally had to cover. We are talking about a father who shot and killed his daughters and then shot his wife. Shes the only one that survived. Shes still in the hospital. Today neighbors are asking how did this all happen . I just heard screaming and somebody saying somebody got shot. I opened my window and looked and i saw somebody bleeding. That somebody is her neighbor tree in a good win. Trina is fighting for her life after losing her entire family in a shooting that woke up nearly every neighbor. Whats going on . Somebody got shot. I was relieved when they said it wasnt a random thing. R
Terrorist to obtain firearms and calling for expanded background checks. The democratic senators, Barbara Mikulski and tim kaine have joined the house members on the floor. Many of whom have been giving speeches about how the gun violence impacted the Community Back home. Now in the time to get in the way, the time to act is now. We will be silent no more. Conspiracy of silence against tackling gun violence. We are not silent anymore. We are not bystanders anymore. That is what last week was about in the senate and today is about in the house. Jeff House Republicans have no appetite to appease the democrats. Not only calling the house to recess but many republicans say they have no interest in holding vote on the gun control legislation bills. The democra about. We are in the sixth hour of the sitin. No signs at any point it will be stopping anytime soon. Live on capitol hill, jeff goldberg, abc7 news. Leon all right. Thank you, jeff. See what plays out there. In the meantime we are fo
Developing right now a mess in northeast washington. Some of the cars from that csx train that derailed are still lying under the rhode island avenue metro. The crash spilled chemicals all over the track. The metro station is back open, but mark trains are restricted. Crews have a lot of work to do today to get the rails back to normal again. News 4 is live in northeast washington now with how theyre making progress on the repairs. Derek joins us now live with the latest. Derrick. Reporter good morning. Well, they are doing a pretty good job and doing a fast job. You see that area over there where that yellow piece of equipment is . There was a tanker there just a few minutes ago, one of the last ones to be removed from the scene. But if you look in the foreground, this parking lot where we are, most of these cars that you see in fact all of those cars belong to the responders now. All of this heavy response was out of an abundance of caution because if the problem, if the threat had b
Coating on the road. Low extra time getting home. By 5 00, gaithersburg, rockville, good news, 39 leesburg and 42 downtown, it can snow with surface temperature s low 40s. By 6 00, still snow showers in leesburg and cullpeller, i think by 6 00 we will be east of i hp 95. We have left over snow showers 7 00. Staechls still above freezing or at freezing in gaithersburg or fredericks, if you have a problem driving tomorrow t will be gath gag north. If you go across the divide, Winter Weather advisories are posted there. We will talk about how cold it will be behind the front and a perfect time to download our app, you can track hour by hour with this radar, download it t is free, search for wusa 9. Snow clearing machines are ready for whatever falls, mayor bowser said 15 plows will hit the road, focusing on bridges, overpasses and freeways and we will spread the salt if necessary. We learned details in the hannah gram murder investigation, jesse mathsue is charge would killing the uva stu
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