Before training. As we first reported, sources say it was after the lunch break when someone present confused his Service Weapon with the training weapon. They reportedly look similar, except training weapons do not have live ammunition. The bullet hit the officer who works for the university of maryland baltimore in the head. Police identified the instructor who fired the weapon as William Scott kern, whose work for Baltimore City police for 18 years. State police will complete a criminal investigation and forward that to the states attorney. We will sit back and wait for the investigation to be completed. And once that is done, we am review it and determine what if any charges need to be brought. Reporter the state still owns rosewood. Baltimore county police have used it for training for years. But this is the first time the city used it for training. State police say the investigation could take weeks, telling wjz, investigators are continuing to conduct interviews with persons who
Ill have more on that coming up in just a bit. Lynette, off to a chilly start, right . Were not as cold as yesterday, in the 30s instead of the 20s, so thats something to smile about. Reporter exactly, still warm. Lets check out whats going on in hickory, 28 degrees right now. The bigger story, though, besides the cold is that we do have patchy fog out there this morning and you can tell because, well, the humidity is at 100 , that dewpoint, that temperature the exact same, so that air is saturated and with that we are dealing with some fog across the area. Now, we look at marylands most powerful radar and this is whats going on this morning, not a whole lot, right . We did have a few flurries roll in here overnight, the afternoon yesterday, but things are going to be dry today and we will begin to get some sunshine in the forecast as well. So no need to grab the rain gear, you dont need the snow boots for today, but we look at the planner for today and we will start you out with those
Ive been told that the new monopoly token is a bust of our director kurt nielsen. Move him to park place. Now, had morning, were starting off with a lot of cloudiness. Were at or below freezing if you step outside. Its around 30 prince georges county. Montgomery, arlington, fairfax. Much of Northern Virginia below freezing. Shenandoah valley, out of the mountains, closer to washington around the beltway, inside the beltway, were a little above freezing. Wrenly in the low 30s including the district of columbia. Heres how were looking for the next hours. Cloudiness through sun breaking out, ought to be a little above freezing. 7 09 is the sunrise. Sunset at 5 36. Before then, by noontime ought to be around 40 degrees. Im back in ten minutes with another hometown forecast. A look at first 4 traffic now with danella. Good morning. Good morning. Well head over now to the dulles toll road. Earlier we saw construction as you headed eastbound on the dulles toll road between spring hill road an
You that when he went inside the school, this man had no weapons. He made no threats and no one was hurt. The suspect has been identified as Justin Matthew beaumont. Hes undergoing a mental evaluation tonight. Live, pat collins, news 4. Keeping children safe was a major part of the push for tighter gun laws on capitol hill today. Victims calling for better tracking of gun sales. Stars chris rock and tony bennett pledge d their support for gun control measures and promoted the website demandaplan. Org. It supports criminal background checks for every gun sale. Speakers backed restrictions on assault weapons supported by the white house. The president and the first lady are like the mom and the dad of the country. When your dad says something, you listen. Assault weapons, they were invented for war. They shouldnt be on our streets here. To the people who say it would have happened any way or we wont catch everybody, i say doing nothing has failed. Todays event was organized by mayors aga
Everything else is on the table. The gets want higher taxes. The gop deeper entitlement cuts. The president is commander in chief and he is very concerned and that is why he has put forward compromise proposals again and again. The president signed it into law. Didnt have to sign it into law. He did. And for over a year from august 2011 through the end of last year, the president did nothing to stop it. The sequestration splits the cuts evenly between defense and nondefense programs. It calls for a total 1. 2 trillion in cuts over the next eight years. Yesterday, president obama called House Speaker john boehner and Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell to discuss the pending sequestration. Mcconnells office says it is the first he has heard from the president since new years eve. Thank you. The former director of d. C. s Homeland Security agency has been charged with tax fraud. Millicent west is expected in court today to plead guilty to one felony count of attempting to incident fea