a terrifying attack on a local local playground. a 15-year-old charged as the rapist. lots of people are talking about this tonight, the preps are finished for the inspection of the washington monument. we begin with the carbon monoxide poisoning. i m shawn yancy. i m brian bolter. more than 40 people rushed to the hospital after a boiler malfunctioned. will thomas is live with more. reporter: just a short time ago i spoke with the ceo of second genesis. it is a treatment facility for people with addictions. it s located just behind me on harvard between 13th and 14th. this is where it all played out today. he told me everyone has now been treated and released from local hospitals, and he told me they now know the definitive cause for this carbon monoxide leak. i want to first show you how this chaotic scene played out today. early footage shot at the scene shows firefighters entering second genesis in columbia heights. their job, get everyone out and fast. came up
fox 5 is working several big stories tonight. a campus unites in tragedy. helpeds gather to honor a local college student whose life was cut short. a drug store turns crime spree. an armored car heist in broad daylight. and fox 5 investigates what is the strange smell wafting through dozens of communities? we ll tell you what is being done. but we begin with an emotional service on a college campus. hundreds turned out to remember and celebrate the life of dominique frazier killed in her bowie state university dorm room. her roommate stabbed her during a fight over music. roz slater has more. reporter: in a room to designed to hold 250, there was standing room only. they called this a celebration of life, but there was plenty of tears. with tram dee still on their minds and the grief still fresh, bowie state university students packed a seshes for one of their own, the classmate they called domo. i wake up every morning and tell myself she s not gone. but when she
killers. we re going to begin tonight with devastating new developments in japan. good evening, everyone. i m brian bolter. and i m shawn yancy. we re in the news room now monitoring those constant changes in japan. laura evans is with me with what s unfolding at the fukushima plant. if this couldn t get worse, a fire at one of the reactors, they believe is causing the release of radioactivity. how is the government responding? they re increasing the radius. they re telling anyone within 20 miles of the plant to seal themselves indoors to try to avoid any exposure. this means everybody that was already nervous is even more on edge. not only are they dealing with the radiation scare, they re also still dealing with trying to find their loved ones. reporter: they have already survived the fifth largest earthquake in modern history and the tsunami that devoured everything in its past and they face health dangers that may not appear for years. 11,000 parts of rad