Filibuster that. It would spare the president from having to meeto anything. Now to baltimore, a pivotal day in the freddie gray case. Gray died in april from a severe spinal cord injury he suffered in police custody. Now, a judge has made several keel rulings key rulings, he ordered separate trials. He rejected a bid by Defense Attorneys to get states attorney Marilyn Mosby thrown off the case. The defense said she tainted the jury pool when she announced the charges earlier this year. Here is jay windle gordon. I thought that was condescending, disrespectful to the attorneys office. The judge is expected to consider a request by the defense to move the trials out of baltimore. Protesters return to the streets there as the freddie gray case moved toward trial, another round of demonstrations is expected around 6 30 this evening and Garrett Haake is live at Baltimore City hall around the corner from the court house. What are we expecting to see . Reporter the demonstrators from the bla
Her boyfriend worked for the capitol police. 4 31 your time right now. A check on weather and traffic on the 1s. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell tells us about more on the heat. Relief in sight . Yes, there is relief in sight. Its here in time for your holiday weekend. Between now and then, we have to keep on sweating it out. Weather impact on the day today, relatively low. Not everyone will get rained on. It will be hot and humid again. Rain chances are in the 25 to 30 range. Youll get a shower or two. 66 gaithersburg. 64 up in charlestown, west virginia. But 76 in washington. So what to wear for your thursday . Well, id have your umbrella ready to go just to play it on the safe side. Again, not everyone is going to get showers today. But otherwise its not going to rain. It will be hot. Theres your hour by hour planner. Like the last couple of mornings, we have areas of fog around first thing in the morning. Temperatures near 90 by 1 00. Todays high near 93. Showers and thunders
The latest. We remain under a severe thunderstorm watch in so much of the area. The worst came through between 2 00 and 4 00 p. M. Today. A handful of Power Outages. A report out of king georges county of a waterspout in the state park. Now, look at the area that remains under a severe thunderstorm watch from frederick, maryland to winchester, charlottesville and everywhere east of the blue ridge still could get high winds and isolated hail. With the other storm that is come through ahead of the weather front, we could see flash flooding. Yeah, there were some flooded roads that i saw. Part of the issue, of course, is we have so much debris from the storms earlier this week. Flash flood watch to Prince Williams county, fairfax until 10 00 p. M. The area is under a severe thunderstorm warning. All the heavy rain that was once over the area headed to marylands eastern shore. Seeing the worst of it. Still some lightning here and heavy rain. What we are waiting on is whats off to the west.
Maryland bureau chief brad bell is live with the plans to reduce that backlog. Brad . Brad this has been a problem for years. What happens is a woman suffers a rape. She goes to police and then is sent to the hospital where a specially trained forensic nurse looks for d. N. A. Evidence. The womans body actually becomes a crime scene. When they find evidence its put in something called a rape kit. Now, the problem is that in many cases, across the country, those rape kits sit for years so thats why today, the Vice President of the United States along with senator Barbara Mikulski toured the Maryland State Police crime lab in pikesville to see what is going on there in the way of work but also to announce that they have secured 41 million out of the federal budget that can be used by jurisdictions across the country to improve their faculty to test to eliminate that backlog. Senator mikulski says it is vital. Senator mikulski various jurisdictions have more resources than others. Thats w
Right now millionaire real estate heir robert durst is in court after arrest this weekend for murder. The hearing is hatching in new orleans. According to his lawyer hes expectedo waive extradition and get to l. A. To answer the charges. T comes from one of the most successful real estate families new york city and suspected of killing several people. Filming an hbo special he was caught on ap open mike saying what the heck did i do . Killed them all, of course. Quote unqu ill break in with an upda. Barbara. Finding out why Daniel Rossen is already accused soliciti sex from an under age teen. He had a series of online exchanges with a detective in their Child Exploitation unit. Police arrested him in february. Hes been out on bond though rossen security clearance suspend and hes now on administ leave. The u. S. Hit the debt ceiling. The temporary suspension passed last year was up at midnight. The nations Borrowing Limit is stuck at roughly 18 trillion. The problem is the government is