Trying to come to grips with what happened. Deborah . Reporter were in the glen cove neighborhood and in front of the vegas home, you can see a small arrangement of candles and flowers. This is where the veteran officer and his wife raised their family and where he died before dawn. Police officers assembled and saluted, as the body of 58year old gus vegas was escorted to a corner with the presentation of an honor flag. Vegas had 15 years with richmond police. It was great they sowed such respect for him. Neighbors were struck by the senseless loss. Still have so many years left of giving to the community, to his family, to the children he took care of. Now its all gone. I heard the shots this morning. Pop, pop, pop. Reporter those closest heard shots just before 5 00 a. M. But to link them to this household, always peaceful or their neighbor, offduty. He always smiled. He was always, a common neighbor. A solid guy. And you could talk to him about anything. This is a huge blow for us.
Our first speaker this morning comes to us from the macarthur memorial in a norfolk, virginia. When i was there visiting this spring. It was my first opportunity to get it down and visit. He said the only thing that is equitable for the type of thing he is overseeing would be a president ial library. That stunned me a little bit. That is a significant thing. If you think about what Douglas Macarthur did during world war ii, afterwards in korea, he really shaped the face of the pacific in a way that no one else has. That repository of documents and memorabilia and artifacts is really a significant component of the 20thcentury. Chris kolakowski is the caretaker of that. It was really quite a remarkable shift for me, as i understood what chris is up to down there. But thats his day job. By night, he is still in love with the american civil war. He got started in fredericksburg in spotsylvania. He has since gone on to perryville, where he was in charge of the battlefield out there. He has
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Bit more to the north of us. Well track the hourbyhour forecast, how its going to impact your rush hour commute tomorrow morning and what we can expect for the rush hour commute home tomorrow night. All that coming up in a few minutes. Maureen . Thank you steve. As the weather changes the abc 7 weather team will keep you updated on wjla. Com as well as on facebook and twitter. Join us for good morning washington starting at 4 00 tomorrow morning. Under an intense amount of security, jury selection began today in the trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Attorney for the 21yearold wanted to move the trial in hopes of finding a different pool of potential jurors. But the judge refused. Scott is live in the newsroom. Scott . Yeah maureen lets first talk about some of the numbers here. E if youve got 1,200 potential jurors. Thats going to be narrowed down to 12 plus six alternates the defendant Dzhokhar Tsarnaev faces 30 charges and one more number for you here. The wi
And you can see right here New Hampshire avenue. This is one of the real bottlenecks this morning. Its free and clear tonight. We cant say that the pavement is dry. It is still wet and doug has been saying it does have the potential to refreeze. You said there were several accidents. Oh, my gosh. There were hundreds of accidents. We can show you some video of just how bad it was this morning. Real confluence of events. Snow coming right at the start of rush hour falling very, very heavily. The temperatures were in the 20s. Every little bit of snow that fell stuck to the ground. Now, people have described this as one of the worst morning commutes that weve seen in years so we asked the maryland state highway administration, theyre responsible for keeping these roads clear how it was possible that it was like this and they say it was basically just bad timing. Everything was ready to go. Actually perfect. Came out in rush hour traffic, roads really got bad when our fleet couldnt move. Th