Weeks ago. Reporter police say the man who opened fire on them. Vester lee flanagan also knew them. He was recently fired from the wdbj. The gentleman thinks that things tran spired and spiraling out of control. Reporter after the shooting flanagan fled the scene. In the aftermath he posted a video of the shooting. Police found his car at the roanoke airport. Flanagan then left the airport in a Chevrolet Sonic that he rented earlier in the month. Reporter flanagan fled north on i81 and then onto i 66 where a state trooper located him in Northern Virginia Fauquier County through a license plate reader. In your view how instrumental were the license plate readers in catching the suspect . License plate preceders are a great tool. The state police threw several others throughout the state and it helps. Reporter and that is what identified flanagans vehicle. When a state trooper tried to pull him over, he refused and police say he shot himself right there on i66. Now as far as the other pe
Haiti. There are some big mountains there where the storm could be visibly interrupted. You can almost see a little circulation right there. The storm itself, winds 50 miles an hour, that may be generous, but if it goes across haiti and cuba, its likely going to weaken to maybe a depression, might fall apart completely, so could be in the gulf of mexico, could be florida, could be nothing. Well watch this, but right now not looking like a big threat at this time. Ill be back with our weekend forecast for you in a few minutes. Former president george w. Bush returned to new orleans today to mark the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. He was criticized for his administrations response to the catastrophic storm, but as weigia jiang reports, his visit did draw some mixed emotions. Reporter former president george w. Bush swayed and danced to the music in new orleans as the band played at Warren Easton charter high. He returned to the School Friday after marking the First Anniversary of
To the morning. Will we have rain this weekend . We will ask meteorologist tim williams. That is coming up in first warning weather forecast. Eyewitness news saturday morning starts now. Good morning. Welcome to Eyewitness News saturday morning. Im gigi barnett. Im meteorologist tim williams. Temperatures are in the 50s and some 60s across the area. Pretty chilly this morning. Chilly . Yeah. It was to me. Clammy, too. I need like five coats. Yeah. It is damp as well. Moisture out there. You go out, you have to clear off your car window. Right. A lot of moisture because the dew points are high. The clouds are out as you mentioned. Not rain in the forecast, but we never broke the clouds from yesterday, they will start us off for today and then well see sunshine. Right now, you can not see there is cloud cover over there, the temperatures are mild as a result. Like putting a blanket or the atmosphere. 65 in ocean city. 58 in elkton. Our forecast high today goes into the 70s. We will call
Flight. A pilot suffer as fatal heart attack on a plane packed with passengers. What they are saying about the moments onboard. Good morning, the ravens face a rookie quarterback on sunday. Im sports director mark viviano. What they are saying coming up . And looking outside at baltimore. The clouds are giving away to sunshine this morning. So how will the rest of the weekend shape up . Meteorologist tim williams tells us in first warning weather forecast. Eyewitness news saturday morning is seconds away. Good morning. Welcome to Eyewitness News saturday morning. Im gigi barnett. Im meteorologist tim williams temperatures are in the 50s and 60s across the area. A breezy morning, but calm so far. And damp so far. The dew point is up, but no rain in the region. So a little bit of a transition. A lot of cloud cover. Never broke the clouds. We got to 73 degrees. The same range today. But well have a little bit more sun in the forecast. You see, of course, the flag on top of federal hill bl
Joe flacco at the podium. [ inaudible question ] youve seen those guys do it. They have the ability to score and score quickly. And thats kind of what they did there. You know, we got it 286 and they were able to go the length of the field and put a good drive together. Then we kind of, you know, we didnt get anywhere and punted away and next thing you know we turn the ball over. So games can go like that. Thats why youve got to take care of the football and get first downs. But we have a team that were going to overcome it to the best of our ability. Its fitting that we won it like that today. Joe flacco gets his first super bowl. Ray lewis, his second in his final game. He rides off into the sunset with a story book ending. He joins some of the greats to get a title. Well hear from number 52 coming up in sports. For ravens fans, a roller coaster ride tonight. But in the end, well, all of baltimore was able to take a collective sigh of relief. Celebrations under way, fans crowding int