Go out to every family that lost a loved one here and everyone thats fighting for their lives. The commissioner added its too early to determine what sparked the fire. The investigation is ongoing. Here in maryland fire crews responded to the scene of a two alarm fire in aspen hill that started in the lower floor of an Apartment Building. Were told dozens of people have been evacuated from that building along georgia avenue. About six to eight units in all were affected. Right now no word on any injuries. In fredericksburg, virginia, this morning, charges are pending against a man accused of shooting and killing his wife. He then led authorities on a high speed chase even shooting at police as they attempted to pull him over. Now, police say his bullets narrowly missed two officers. The chase ended on i95 when the suspects vehicle crashed into a guardrail and flipped. Authorities are still investigating a motive behind the violent day but say they are thankful that things didnt turn ou
Temperatures. Now many barefoot and without coats. I dont know i just woke up to a bunch of smoke and thats it, man. The whole building was on fire. New york city hit with its deadliest fire in deck wades with wind fueled flames ripping through a five story Apartment Building in the bronx built back in 1916. This is the worst fire tragedy we have seen in this city in at least a quarter century. People were screaming fire, help. We knew it was trouble. 12 dead already. We may lose others as well. Among the dead a oneyearold child. Others injured were left fighting for their lives. In a department thats certainly no stranger to tragedy, were shocked by this loss. People died on various floors. Fire Officials Say their first call came in just before 7 00 p. M. Thursday and fire crews arrived with therein three minutes. Fire started on the first floor quickly spread upstairs. They started to get on the fire escape already trying to get down on their own. Thats how fast it was moving. At le
Details about the man who is the suspect. He was arrested a short time after the attack according to police. Yes, there were several other people in the house and investigators are talking to them now. The Domestic Violence issue, it doesnt discriminate. Reporter the brentwood mayor was stunned that the year began with a murder in a county where Domestic Violence attacks are viewed by authorities as an epidemic but the mayor of this 50 Latino Community said few latino women break a code of silence even when family troubles could be deadly. They try to manage it themselves with family and friends but there is no place where they can go to get help. There are agencies but they are so small and the community is so large so it is hard to keep up with that. Co reporter prince georges the Police Department and many other agencies here provide bilingual support to people, but there is no indication in this case that the victim reached out for help of any kind. Live in brentwood, scott broom,
Are gearing up to go back to school after the holidays. Chief meteorologist bill kelly has how low we can expect the temperature to be. Bill very low. Today was the seventh coldest new years day ever recorded around here, that translates into a bitter cold start. Lets talk about these numbers come 16 degrees d. C. , manassas 12, 14 warrenton. We still have a breeze anywhere miles per hour, so we have windchills below zero. In the district we are at two degrees, andrews minus three. We do not have any snow, but we do have a few clouds floating by, one of the reasons we are so cold because of the clear skies. The bus stop forecast, 15 or so around 8 a. M. , 23 at noon. Layers tomorrow. The forecast coming up. Jonathan stay connected with the forecast no matter where you go. Download the free stormwatch 7 weather app. Impacting bitter cold First Responders, fire crews seeing a busy start to the new year, battling fires. Jay korff is live in arlington with what the First Responders are up
Trying to restore the situation. Plus a 92yearold war veteran dead after his house caught fire this morning. And tonight we hear from his family. And President Trump returns to washington facing a new crisis overseas in the new year. Well, where else do we begin tonight but with the cold blast of arctic air still gripping all of us in this new year . If you can believe it, doug said its going to get even worse in the tenday forecast. So lets get right to him in the storm center with more on tomorrow morning. Its going to get worse before it gets better. Kind of hard to believe, leon. I think we may get above freezing on wednesday, but then we come crashing back down, and boy, it gets even colder. Right now its just frigid. The big deal, its still the wind. The wind. Take a look at the flag blowing out there in the wind. Weve got winds that are gusting over 20 Miles Per Hour at this hour. Take a look at the current wind gusts. 22 Miles Per Hour in d. C. , 18 every once in a while the gu