shortly before the crash. surae chinn has more. it exploded like bow, boom boom. they were going so fast and it was scary. reporter: tasha madison saw the horrific crash that mangled and bent the car in half. it seemed like it lifted off the ground a little bit because it was going so fast. just blaze past. they were speeding. i was two cars and one of the cars just i mean they just left the people there. reporter: the car is unrecognizable. multiple witnesses we talked with say the two car went speeding down this way on southern avenue, came back down and came racing back before one of the cars hit two poles and burst into flames. nothing could be done, just burned up. reporter: on southern avenue and 13th street southeast, but there was nothing nurses and the staff could do for the two women inside. such a sad thing and there was somebody hanging out of the car and nobody could get to them. reporter: witnesses say there was a police cruiser nearby bu
while under the influence of alcohol, driving in a reckless amanner and driving while impaired by alcohol. city police and college security located the driver a few blocks away. he was not arrested until indicted by grand jury. students tell us they have noticed the recklessness of drivers and pedestrians at the crossing. i pay attention. i try to be alert. i try to use the crosswalk. the university and community have worked for years to find ways to improve safety for our students, faculty, and staff. changes are under consideration. possibly some traffic slowing devices and speed enforcement devices may help reduce some of the accidents that may occur there. thomas green will make a court appearance before a court commissioner. reporting live from the campus of johns hopkins university, barry sims for wbal-tv 11 news. there is. news about the officer knocked over the jfx. her condition has been upgraded from critical to serious. rigby fell almost 25 feet from th
didn t exactly hurt. closures are a reality of budget cuts and the department credits agreements it has with surrounding areas to help extinguish yesterday s fierce flames. as we struck out additional alarm assignments, they came in and engaged in firefighting as well. so it worked as the system should. reporter: a system the union insists is broken, without rotating foreclosures, they say closures, they say, four more baltimore fire companies would have been on shift last night and there would be no need to depend on crews from as far away as hartford county and d.c., a move iaf says endangered the citizens of baltimore city. when i went to bed last night, when they went to bed last night, they weren t necessarily as safe as they should have been. reporter: meanwhile, fire investigators still do not have a cause for yesterday s fires. brian kuebler, abc2 news. thanks, brian. a barricade situation in baltimore city. it happened around 8:45 this morning in the 16
internal problems in the building with the sand pipes. what those are, it is basically when the firefighters respond to a scene like this with a multistory commercial building. they can run upstairs and roll up their hose. and basically, plug into various outlets on each level of the buildings. in this case when they attempted to do that, it didn t work. so what they had to do was to bring ladders up to the scene, and to fight the fire that way. thankfully, no injuries, but again, a major traffic tieup in the circle area. on 19th street, south all the way to m street. and of course, all of the surrounding streets are now affected. reporting live, andrea mckaren, nine news now. not what you need during the rush hour. thank you. fairfax county police they closed the book on the woman s one-way crime spree. reporter: it happened right in front of the apple federal credit union. the woman who has been on the relentless bank robbery since late last month walked into the door