Potomac phil . Potomac phil dont is he real . Hes real. Hey, pal, how are you . Im good. Im doing well. Not your normal pairing at 11 00. You have to take it today, right . We begin with new information on a developing story out of delaware. One of four people taken hostage at the massive prison complex is dead. Thats right. There was a standoff with inmates at the james t. Vaughn correctional center. They took over a building and took those workers hostage yesterday. After 18 hours, police ended it this morning. And in just the last half hour, prison Officials Say a corrections officer, steven floyd had died. Prayers all day yesterday was that this event would end with a but it didnt. So today all of us mourn the family of sergeant floyd. The inmates told the local paper they did this because they had problems with their treatment and with President Trump. Floyd was the 16 year veteran of the Delaware Department of corrections. Also developing, in Silver Spring, police just arrested a
In violence in the district as police try to figure out whats behind the spree of shootings yesterday. A man and woman gunned down just a few blocks away from each other and a few hours apart. Those two murders among five shootings we saw across the city yesterday. Lets go right to pat collins. Hes live in southeast with more on the story. Pat . Jim, Police Believe that secondchance criminals with the history of violence and access to guns are responsible for the spike in violence in our city. What is with all of the broad daylight violence in our city . What is driving it . You know, i wish i could tell you. Its a small number of people that have no regard for other people. It was noon that tayvon companyings was shot ask killed. Cummings has been picked up on a number of gun charges in the lth when he was killed yesterday. Four hours later, five blocks away, tracy cooper shot and killed outside her home on 49th street southeast. She was a good person. Would do anything for anybody an
Wusa 9. Hopefully its much ado about nothing. Ellen, thank you. Like a driver who misses his exit on the beltway, the engineer on that deadly amtrak derailment that happened a year ago, near philadelphia, lost track of where he was. Thought he was farther down the rail line, where the speed limit was 110 miles an hour. Thats the conclusion today, at the National Transportation safety board, which also warned more people are likely to die, until all railroads implement automatic Safety Systems. Wusa 9s bruce leshan is live with details on this. Good evening, bruce. Hey, adam. Here is something i didnt know. There are no posted speed limit signs on the rails. Amtrak engineers pride themselves on knowing exactly where they are and exactly how fast they are allowed to go. But in this case, the ntsb says Brandon Bostian was distracted by reports of someone throwing trcks at trains and simply lost ack of where he was. Reporter bostian hit the throttle just before the crash. Accelerating the
Roads. We have a crash slowing things down quite a bit. A 2 1 2 mile backup as you are headed northbound on crain highway at branch avenue. The left lane is blocked and those backups are building here. Really have increased quite a bit in the last couple of minutes. In Silver Spring now, chopper 4 over this problem, a pedestrian struck northbound Georgia Avenue at dennis avenue. Another shot from the ground there for you this morning. Also outbound 11th street bridge, still have the two left lanes blocked, overturned truck on the bridge. Thank you, melissa. A developing story now in prince georges county. Police are searching for the man responsible for a deadly shooting at a gas station. Police say surveillance cameras may have caught the shooting around 7 15 last night at the bp station on walters lane near chavez lane in forestville. Officers say this attack was not random and did not happen during a robbery. They hope any other customers inside at the time can help them to a suspec
To last for many months. Theyre reviewing maintenance records, previous events Emergency Response and evacuation plans and conducting interviews with personnel involved. The d. C. Governmentreport, an internal report with First Responders is expected to be released as soon as tomorrow. The funeral for carol glover is set for monday. Roaring live in southwest washington, mike conneen, abc 7 news. Thank you. Count on abc 7 and the 7 on your side Investigative Team to keep pushing for answers on that tragic day on the metro. We will continue pouring through this just released report and bring you new details as soon as we learn them. Leon . No doubt theres lessons to learn there. Commuters in the district will have to wait a bit longer for the citys Streetcar Service to begin. Former mayor vincent gray had said before leaving office that the service would begin next week. All right. Now, however, the acting director says pump the brak. No official launch date yet. Coming up at 6 00 tonigh