From the air Traffic Control tower tonight. News4s Chris Lawrence tracking it all for us from the live desk. The plane was this close to take off on a 5,000 to 6,000 mile flight to london, and the pilot told passengers there was a catastrophic engine failure. 2276 heavy, we are evacuating on the runway. We have the fire i repeat. We are evacuating. 2276, roger. People on board other planes shot video of the passengers evacuating on to the runway with black smoke pouring out of the plane and one of its engines engulfed in fire. The British Airways flight was about to lift off for the uk when it suddenly deployed evacuation. Crewmembers and passengers had to evacuate down the emergency slide. Passengers say they were crashing into each other in the thick smoke. The airport says 13 of them went to the hospital with minor injuries. Firefighters had to douse the 777 with fire retardant. Two faa inspectors are on the scene right now. And we just learned the ntsb is sending a go team to look
Georges Clinton Police officers about their race against time to save a mans life. Police on alert tonight for possible Gang Activity after a Loudoun County teenager was shot and killed on the way to school. What were learning about the victim. And you can see its pretty windy over at Union Station tonight. Doug says the temperatures are starting to cool down. Hell tell us about the changes coming this Holiday Weekend. News4 at 11 starts now. We start tonight with that shooting that left a 17yearold dead. The suspect still on the loose. And right now police are out in force, trying to prevent more violence. News4s Jackie Bensen is live in the sterling neighborhood where all this happened. Jackie . Reporter doreen, this neighborhood is in shock tonight. There is a heavy Police Presence tonight in the pembroke town house complex there is concern that Gang Activity may have played a role in the broad daylight shooting of a High School Sophomore walking to a School Bus Stop this morning. L
Center and van ness. New a new track problem outside of bethesda causing delays in both directions. 355 at old hundred, 109, all lanes are blocked on 355. They should be there for us in the next couple of minutes. Inner and outer loop, everything looking quite good here, nice and green. Little slow 295 as you head past 50. Dale boulevard at cloverdale, still have the lanes blocked. Thank you, melissa. Buses on the roads and big changes happening today. Summer vacation is officially over as students in fairfax, spotsylvania and arlington and stafford counties and alexandria and Falls Church City all head back to school. We have Team Coverage in Northern Virginia this morning. We start with Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter david culver who is live at hay Field Secondary School in fairfax with more on the changes. Good morning. Reporter hi, there, eun, good morning to you. More than 188,000 students here in Fairfax County getting ready to go back to school. And staff here more than 25,00
Good morning. We have a mostly clear sky and it is fresh and cool. The humidity has dropped overnight and well stay with lower humidity throughout much of the day ahead. We have a turquoise and tangerine sky here at dawn this morning. Sunrise, though, is still about 40 minutes away. Thats going to be coming up at 6 41. And by then will be in the upper 60s through 7 00 to 8 00 and then jumping into the 70s by mid morning and hitting the low 80s by noontime. Then midafternoon in the upper 80s with lower humidity, just a few clouds floating through the sky this morning and the storm team 4 radar not showing any rain anywhere in the vicinity. Look at the temperatures. Theyve dipped down into the upper 50s to near 60 further north and west. The metro area in the fresh and cool low 60s. A look at the rest of the Labor Day Weekend into next week coming up. Tom, thank you so very much. New this morning, suitland parkway just reopened after being shut down for hours in both directions. There wa
Good morning. We have a mostly clear sky and it is fresh and cool. The humidity has dropped overnight and well stay with lower humidity throughout much of the day ahead. We have a turquoise and tangerine sky here at dawn this morning. Sunrise, though, is still about 40 minutes away. Thats going to be coming up at 6 41. And by then will be in the upper 60s through 7 00 to 8 00 and then jumping into the 70s by mid morning and hitting the low 80s by noontime. Then midafternoon in the upper 80s with lower humidity, just a few clouds floating through the sky this morning and the storm team 4 radar not showing any rain anywhere in the vicinity. Look at the temperatures. Theyve dipped down into the upper 50s to near 60 further north and west. The metro area in the fresh and cool low 60s. A look at the rest of the Labor Day Weekend into next week coming up. Tom, thank you so very much. New this morning, suitland parkway just reopened after being shut down for hours in both directions. There wa