7488000. If you live in the mountain or pacific time zones, it is 202 7488001. A special line this morning for minneapolis and st. Paul residents. That number is 202 7488002. You can also send us a text. That number is 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. You can start calling and now as we show this headline from the Minneapolis Tribune overnight. Many as Police Station set on fire, protesters marched downtown. Thousands gathered downtown yesterday to express anger with restraint at a peaceful gathering but later, the third precinct station became a target. You can see many of those pictures this morning of the violence in minnesota and protest overnight. We want to show you tweets from Governor Tim Walz of minnesota when he announced the National Guard was being deployed to handle some of the violence. A series of tweets saying it is time t
We have counted at least eight times since may of 2015, that the Washington Monument elevator has malfunctioned. Ive stood out here approximately four times reporting on this over and over again. Hopefully technicians can figure out what exactly is going on. So when all of these tourists come to town and the group comes to check this thing out they can go up, have a great time and come down on the elevator. Live in northwest d. C. , im shomari stone, back to you. Thank you. Teenager is in Police Custody this evening, charged as an adult with murder. Hes accused of killing another teen on a metro platform as the victims family watched it all happen. News4s pat collins live at d. C. Superior court where the suspect made his first appearance. Pat . Wendy, they didnt know each other. They had no history. So whats the mote i have been for this murder . You wont believe the when they led Maurice Bellamy into the courtroom, he was shackled, under heavy guard. When they led Maurice Bellamy int
Resigned, including a track inspector, who failed to report a critical flaw on that track. Metro released a report today on the cause of the derailment. News4s Mark Segraves is at the smithsonian station with details on that. Mark . Reporter yeah this is one of the stations that was shut down during that deraiment. Luckily, nobody was injured, cause there were no passengers on that train, but it led to widespread delays that day and has now further eroded the publics confidence in the transit system. They told us that somebody had just overlooked it. It turns out to be more complicateded than that. Reporter august 6th derailment was caused by a broken fastener that holds the rail in place. A month before the derailment, a track inspector discovered the faulty fastener but mistakenly delete it had from the inspection report, so it was never fixed. I really dont know what to say, like i use it every day and i pay a lot for it, so, it is very hard to hear about. Reporter metro officials d
Point turn. Hit two men one that was injured critically before fleeing. Eventually going through this fence and taking off. Turning into an all night man hunt. Heres a photo of the suspect, taken into custody early this morning charged with multiple crimes including hit and run and driving with a suspended license. Youll look at Surveillance Video right now showing her video striking two other cars before leaving this lot. Police say 40yearold Noormustafa Shaikh who owns this lot stood in front and she ran over him. A crowd gathered to try to stop her. At which point mendez stepped on the gas ran off the foot of one man and ran over shaika who was laying on the ground. Witnesses could not believe what they have seen. Just lost conscious. Just lost human decency to do that to somebody else. Police say that mendez had no affiliation with anyone at this lot. So no explanation as to why this happened. They are certainly looking into the possibility as to whether or not she was under the in
Imagine youre on your way to work you pull onto the highway. You come to an abrupt stop and all you can see is a sea of brake lights. So you sit there. And you sit there. And you sit there. Thats what it was like for drivers here on southbound 95. This man said he missed three meetings. What was it like down here . It was brutal. Brutal. About two hours and i finally got off and i dont know where the heck im going right now. Thats why i got my gps. Reporter this man was running on empty. What did you do . I had to make a uturn to, you know take another road and im running out of gas. Without gas i cant do anything. Reporter and this man had a twohour bonding experience with his car. It was unbearable sitting in traffic for a couple hours. My first thought of course was when i saw a gas tanker sideways was, i mean whats going to happen. Reporter all three drivers caught in the middle of this humongous traffic backup on 95 in laurel. The cause, this 7,500gallon tanker truck overturned an