People inside the buildingild told me that they heard a very e large boom around 4 oclock ino the morning when this happenedhn and of course then they were forced out of their ti apartments, but as you can seece there folks are able to gete abe back in right now. N right no were going to try to talk tolko them in just a little bit. B. But definitely some concern co because of the smell of gasof t that really permeatheed all ofof these apartment buildingst bu here. He now,re d. C. Police also told uss that there was more than one one vehicle involved in thisinvolv s incident. We dont know where that other r vehicle was but apparentlypareny some kind of hitandruntrun accident or chase going on, not exactly clear on the details there but police do have one person in custody. N c live in southeast, im melaniem alnwick fox5 local news. New this morning, a silverr alert from d. C. Police. P theyre looking for this man ma 76yearold george heinz. Rol he went missing ond sunday. Un he was last
Im melissa mollett. Im pat lawson muse. First lets get to the fraforec. And were talking about rain for today and the chance of snow comes as we go into the weekend. So that is something well be watching very closely. It is currently 65 degrees already in the district. We are warming up very quickly despite the cloud cover out there. We have a breezy south wind that is keeping the warm air here. But the closest rain is in West Virginia. And we are mostly just seeing the cloudy skies at the moment. You can expect the rain to be steadier through the afternoon. So for the rest of the day today, the rain starts to approach. So by the evening drive, we expect scattered showers around. Temperatures in the upper 60s. Tomorrow morning the rain quickly moves to the south and it will get sunny and breezy. Well talk about the weekend forecast with the chant of snow straight ahead. New developments just in. We know that someone shot at four people in the district with a paint ball gun. No one has
Authorities are also now offering a reward of up to 10,000. Live in rockville, kevin lewis. Alison thank you. We are following a developing story out of hagerstown now where 33yearold devon ethan arrested for allegedly beating his son so badly he sent him to the hospital. They say when the boy couldnt pronounce the number four. He left him with bruises and hair missing from his scalp. He sein jail facing child abuse and assault charges. Covering metro tonight. The Committee Vote signals a rate hike is coming for the metro riders. Brianne carter has more on how much more you will be paying and when. Brianne next time you take metrorail you could pay 10 to 25 cents more on the fy13 presented a herculean challenge for metro. Brianne after months of debate and revised budget it looks like the metro riders will be paying more for less. The process of arriving where we are today is to try to mitigate the pain in ways that are sensible for the Transit Agency to operate. Brianne today they pre
A Dominos Pizza Delivery Driver was carjacked today during the lunch hour along wisconsin avenue in upper northwest. The victim was not hurt, but we are told the thief did not show a weapon. Police say the stolen vehicle is a purple toyota contrwith maryl tag. There is a brush fire along the capital crescent trail deep in the woods. There is no threat to any homes. That is in fact one of selfbrush fires weve seen in recent days. The dry conditions here helping fuel those flames. Doug now with that story and some really dramatic changes. It really is quite amazing what were going to be dealing with over the next 24 hours and today its all about the warmer temperatures. We saw winds gusting to 30 miles an hour, helping to fan those flames. We are now in a severe drought around our region. Thats why weve seen all these wildfires. We may continue to see more. Temperatures today, 74 degrees today, 20 degrees above average. Some incredible warmth across the area. Were talking 74 today. Look
That 95 southbound onrampboun would be closed through the cloo rest of the morning rush. E morn. So, as for now, even thougheveno were seeing that scene beinge g cleared, i would just use 644us4 westbound as your workaround. Rod as go to maps ill show that s you to get around the issue. I here it is, again vdot sayingay were going keep that closed for the morning rush so maybema for at least another hour,our that being said sai tractortrailer has been towed away. If you are in the springfieldrid area maybe avoid getting onto o 95 southbound by using 644. Otherwise, we havent seen tooet many delays building as aelay result of that and no lanes on the beltway are blocked s soat thats good news. s good ws. Thats a look at the outerat t loop crash. Will i have much more on metroeo and some other issues on thesuee majors this morning coming uprng at about 6 05. 6 05. Steve. All right, also developing overnight out of princegh georges county polt icepolce investigating a homicide inatin Capi