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
A teen gunned down at 8 30 in the morning his way to school a community and schools locked down as search for suspects begins. That was friday. A day later suspects were in custody. Police believe the shooting was gangrelated but not a lot regarding details. Having a suspect in custody should allay any fears out there. A juvenile 17 years old has been arrested. Hes been charged with Second Degree murder and a gun charge. Police have arrested two others, 18yearold juan salais and Henry Vasquez both from the sterling area. The biggest concern among people who live here this happened yards way from a school bus stop. The concern goes beyond this park lot whit comes to young people and schools. Immediately after the shooting local schools were locked down or lock out. Part of the reason was safety of students but there was more than one reason for that at park view where the victim was a sophomore. Some initial information we may have other students, active students. They know some student
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
Almost time to fire up the barbecue. Im mike hydeck and shes erica grow and the humidity is starting to get better. You can see where the less humid air is moving in. But we are looking at cooler temperatures to start the workweek so good news there. We want to start with breaking news. The breaking news a shooting in northeast d. C. Before midnight. Three people were hit not far from along don park. One of the victims is listed in Critical Condition and well continue to follow the story. First alert weather time. Its a big Holiday Weekend and when are we going to start to notice things changing . You can feel the humidity moving just a little bit. Well see a big improvement this afternoon so very nice weather. It was oppressive yesterday. We had temperatures well in the 90s, not just 91 or 92 but we had a legitimate heat wave and now the weekend is bringing cooler, drier weather. It still looks a little bit hazy right now. You can see that were [ no captioner audio ] [ no captioner au