Night. The thick smoke enveloping all of college park. We do now know how much damage was done for the under construction building. This video taken by the county assistant fire chief pans across the roof. Destroyed by the still burning blaze. The roof has burned and collapsed to the floor. The building is in the 40 million range for the damage just to that wing of the building. Fire damage in the 15 million range for the fire damage to the upper level. Brad so decisions still need to be make, how much will be demolished for the rebuild. What you are looking live is the 2 x 4. One upthere on the seventh floor. When we come back, we will tell you how that is the subject of debate out here. Would construction in an aparen lightweight construction and the firefighters just dont like it. Brad bell, abc7 news. Alison thank you. Stay with abc7 for updates from college park if you have to step away log on to wjla. Com text. Sign up for the instant updates right on your phone. All right. Now t
Nobody will ever find you. That woman is still alive and likely witness at the industrial. Fultons discovery, they reopened the investigation into rodriguez disappearance. They got a warrant to search her apartment last friday. Denying bail today, judge said the defendant knows the witnesses, knows where they live and knows how to make bodies disappearance. Reporting live, im sam ford. Larry thank you. The smoke can be seen for miles. Today People Living near the massive fire say they could smell it. Brad bell was out there all day monday. What did the investigators learn today, brad . Brad they are not telling us they learned anything. I dont think they learned much at all. They did go to the area of origin. Where the ladder is set up. They looked at it from the outside. One of the problems here the firefighters say is the way that the people was built. They are expected to be on scene for another night. Commanders insisted that the crews remained outside directing water on the hot sp
Sickout. He has more on whats behind all of this and how it will impact you. Thats right, wendy. Metro and its Largest Union are locked in a heated and contentious contract dispute, thats where all of this is coming from. Metro workers have been telling their supervisors theyre not coming into work on friday. That is what our sources are telling us. An email has been going around telling supervisors theyre going to have to staff up and be ready to work 12hour shifts this entire weekend, just in case metro front line workers, like train operators and Bus Operators dont show up. What does that mean . Really, it comes down to the nasty blood that is just going on now between metro and its Largest Union, as these contract disputes go out. A spokesperson for metro said there have been an unusually high number of absentee requests for this weekend. Thats why they are taking this action. A says he doesnt believe a sickout will happen, but its a tactic that they are using to try to get the gen
Saturday and sunday. I dont have that today. We better stay tuned, thank you, doug. You can download the nbc washington app and set weather at your home screen. Developing now, the man responsible for killing two people outside of two different Shopping Centers in Montgomery County last year, has pled guilty to those murders. Chris gordon was in the courtroom today when prosecutors outlined a motive and played his confession for the first time. This was a man who knew there would be innocent lives lost, even wrote in his musings, he was apologizing to his potential victims before they were their victims. Reporter prosecutor John Mccarthy laid out the evidence against 63yearold eulalio tordil, who was arrested when police surrounded his rental car in aspen hill. The prosecutor said the gun police found inside the car matches the bullets and shell casings from all three shootings. Tordils shooting he shot his wife gladys and wounded a good samaritan. Her daughter saw it and called 911. T
In santa rosa where we have clear skies. Look at the stratus back off the north bay this morning but marching locally inland 60 miles toward the trivalley. We are saturated in overcast conditions all the way south to morgan hill. Calm winds now in san jose. 6 in oakland. And onshore pushhhh in San Francisco. Thats a westerly at 7. 11 antioch. Breezy fairfield at 17. 60 to 81, 82 degrees today. Warmer than yesterday. But not as warm it will be on friday. We have even the weekend outbreak coming up at 5 18. But right now lets say good morning to jaclyn dunn. Good morning. And right now, we are starting off with a crash. This is along the eastshore freeway right near golden gate field. This is at gilman and its involving a big rig couple of other vehicles got into it there. It may be blocking some lanes. Chp heading to the scene but it looks like it is possibly has the two lanes blocked. Well have more on that coming up in the next traffic report but for now be prepared for some slowdowns