Outside to find the smoke unbearably thick. This is suffocating to me. Getting down in your lungs. Brad that is exactly what the feeling was. We experienced it firsthand as well. It was a burning in the throat, in the lungs. The eyes watering. A terrible thick acrid smoke. The building has been on the upper floors, gutted. There were no injuries to people in the building. The construction workers got out. There were minor firefighter issues. At this hour the smoke eased up. It is making the way up above the ground. Earlier today you couldnt get under it in this area. For the cause, well, just talked to fire investigator. He says that it will be a while before they can get in the building because now they say it is just unsafe. Brad bell, abc7 news. Jonathan will they have to raise it and start over . What will they do here . Brad you know, the meaners are going to get the engineers will get in the building to make the decisions. One of the things that is going on, each fire truck and t
Caught on camera here at kipp d. C. Spring academy is hard to watch. The sevenyearold is hoping to will be in arrest now that d. C. Police are investigating. Cameras rolling inside kipp d. C. Spring academy caught a parent acting inappropriately wednesday morning. Lena mclean requested the video from the School Hallway after her sevenyearold son john told her he was assaulted by stomach. Annalysa it caused him to slump over. While he held his stomach, the adult walked out of the building. It was painful. You watched my son on the ground and did not say anything, and all you can say is you are playing . Annalysa she does not understand why he would hurt her child. I would not do that to none of your kids. Annalysa in a letter sent to parents friday, the school said the health and safety of our students, teachers, and staff remains our number one priority and we will continue to work closely with the police to ensure that students and staff are safe at school. Yall should of had the lett
Cooler than this afternoon. Ill be walking you through your forecast hour by hour, coming up. A woman is accused of poisoning her coworkers. Im shomari stone. Ill tell you all about it, at 11 00. Announcer news4 at 11 00 starts now. Only on news4, a dc judge makes a surprising ruling in a jail rape case. A transgender woman claims dc correction officers deliberately placed her in a cell with he sexually assaulted her. Her efforts to get justice went nowhere for nearly four years. But now a big development. News4s Jackie Bensen is outside the dc federal courthouse with the exclusive story. Jackie . Reporter doreen, this new ruling is from a federal judge, and it allows the victim to sue the district and two Corrections Officers for placing her in a cell with an inmate who had previously been investigated for because every day i think about, i was traumatized. I was raped. I cant i cant deal with it. Reporter those are the words of the victim, known only as jane doe, when she spoke to ne
Riff an armed d. C. Library officer who was carrying a service weapon, a block handgun. Youll see just behind that cop car there, thread pickup truck, thats where that d. C. Library officer was going as he was heading out of this Benning Neighborhood Library locking down for the day. What is about 9 30 just a half hour after closing this library he was walking out and as we arrived on the scene we heard him h tell the detectives that the suspect who was armed approach gun as well as his radio. Youll see some video here as we arrived on the scene, the k9s underway tracking scent of that suspect. Mpd helicopter in the air looking for that suspect as well. As of right now still no arrests. This library right here is also an early voting site here in ward 7 in d. C. Its open every day from 8 30 to of elections, still have not heard backs as to whether any of the ballots were compromised or stolen in this entire or deal. We did see some crime scene technicians walking outside from the libra
Riff an armed d. C. Library officer who was carrying a service weapon, a block handgun. Youll see just behind that cop car there, thread pickup truck, thats where that d. C. Library officer was going as he was heading out of this Benning Neighborhood Library locking down for the day. What is about 9 30 just a half hour after closing this library he was walking out and as we arrived on the scene we heard him h tell the detectives that the suspect who was armed approach gun as well as his radio. Youll see some video here as we arrived on the scene, the k9s underway tracking scent of that suspect. Mpd helicopter in the air looking for that suspect as well. As of right now still no arrests. This library right here is also an early voting site here in ward 7 in d. C. Its open every day from 8 30 to of elections, still have not heard backs as to whether any of the ballots were compromised or stolen in this entire or deal. We did see some crime scene technicians walking outside from the libra