Feels to be free. Peter greste, freed after a year in an egyptian prison and calling for release of two other al jazeera journalists. And we begin with a Major Development in the crisis in ukraine. Its not coming from kiev or the kremlin. Its coming from washington. What could be a seismic change the white house may be ready to arm forces in the monthslong battle that could have profound consequences in the fighting. Rebel leader says he needs 100,000 more fighters. Jamie mcintire is live in washington with more. Jamie. The chairman of the joint chiefs is giving president obama his best advice of the best way to aid the government of ukraine but what theyre saying privately those pentagon officials is that the worry is that pouring more arms into the conflict wont make the political solution come any sooner. Officials say in the recent months russia has been moving are more equipment into ukraine and its increasingly apparent that the 100 million in nonlethal aid to ukraine is no match
Gaithersburg, 21 winchester. The windchill factor, what it feels like, single digits. Feels like five degrees at dulles international. The immediate metro, once the windchill warnings come down the temperatures will fall to about 20 degrees, waking up early in the morning. The rest of the weekend, we are talking about the potential of snow, rain, sleet, and ice late sunday night. Stay with abc 7 and wjla. Com through the weekend for updates on the developing weather situation. We will also bring uptotheminute information on facebook and twitter. This just in from the district wtop is confirming there is a confirmed case of the measles and washington, d. C. The age and gender of the patient has not been released. Wtop reports there were two cases of the measles in Northern Virginia last year. The last case of measles in maryland was in Montgomery County in 2013. We dont know if that case was connected with the out break at disneyland in california. Today the cdc said the outbreak probab
Information. Students showing support for a virginia coed attacked by a police dog. The police chief admitted his officers crossed the line but some people are demanding more. News 4 at 11 00 starts now. There is new information tonight about a confrontation with the police that took the life of an unarmed man in virginia. Good evening, im jim vance. Im doreen gentzler. Fairfax county police just tonight released 11,000 pages of documents related to the case. News 4s jackie bensens been poring over the paperwork and shows us what shes uncovered. Reporter hundreds and hundreds of pages of documents from the august 29th shooting of john gere reveal the two people closest to him were adam torres who is identified as firing the fatal shot and another severe Rodney Barnes ha has hostage negotiation training and was speaking directly to gere. In an interview after the shooting with detectives officer Rodney Barnes say he and officer torres encountered gone gere in the doorway of the house on
200,000 plus salary through june 30th when his contract was supposed to end and the board wants larry bowers, a 37 year employee and current chief operating officer to serve as interim superintendent. They will start a nationwide search and expect to have a replacement in place by july 1st, but it is not clear at this point exactly what kindful candidate the board is looking kind of candidate the board is looking for or as one critic said, whether that candidate even exists. Back to you. The Fairfax County Police Officer who shot john geer was under investigation for an out of control outburst in which he cursed at a Commonwealth Attorney in court, but the report about that investigation is still a secret. Peggy fox joins us from the Fairfax County Government Center where supervisors discussed the geer case. Reporter thats right. They met in a closed door session about the geer case. However, none of them would tell me exactly what was discussed. I can tell you that this friday the gee
I told you today was a yellow alert because of trouble getting back home from your super bowl parties or celebrations. The rain is now slicing through Montgomery County, bethesda, potomac, Silver Spring picking up snow in the past hour. Going further north it is mostly to all snow, though i have gotten some reports and thank you so much for sending me messages on facebook and twitter letting me know what you have in your backyard that we have a little changeover to rain in frederick county, also a mixture of rain and snow in leesburg, but light snow falling in germantown and the panhandle of west virginia. This is a mostly snow event at the moment. This is moving up to the north and east and down to the south and west we are looking at just rain. Thats what moves into the metro area next. Thats why it is a mostly wet commute throughout the entire dmv. Well continue to track this and detail when you can expect tomorrow morning coming up in the first alert sevenday forecast. You can stay