Well see you then, melissa. Thank you. 6 01 now. New this morning the governor of South Carolina expected to sign a bill today that will remove the Confederate Flag from the state capital grounds there. The South Carolina house of representatives passed a bill, that was after hours of emotional, sometimes tearful debate. Once Governor Haley signs the bill, the flag should come down within 24 hours. Haley and a lot of her fellow lawmakers are responding to calls from across the country to remove that flag after the racially motivated killing of black worshipers in charleston. At 1 30 this morning after a vote there, haley tweeted its a new day in South Carolina. Now a lot of folks seem to agree with her, there was a cartoon posted showing the flag and it said, going, going gone on that cartoon. Another person tweeted finally. One state, one flag. Efforts here on capitol hill to ban the Confederate Flag in federal cemeteries is proving controversial as well. The measure was added as an a
The pilot was forced to abort that takeoff. Passengers say they feel lucky their plane wasnt in the air yet. They described some pretty tense moments. We looked out to the right and the engine was actually catching on fire. Eve safely. Passengers were booked on to another plane to boston. Melissa . A popular tv show gets ready for a hilarious trumptas tick voyage. You have to see this one. We are waiting to hear if big changes get the light you will want to save the day for this fight between two huge robots. An American Robot Company challenged a Japanese Company to a giant robot battle. The Japanese Company accepted. So far they havent decided on a time quite yet. Trending today, a Police Department now investigating a video from tmz. Lets have a look at it. It shows Ariana Grande at a doughnut shop in california. You may have seen it on tmz on their website the singer since has apologized. But, lets have a look at this. The sho he has filed a complaint with the police because it app
Live in wheaton bruce leshan, wusa9. Very Long Time Coming bruce, thank you. So we heard the word closure, but it comes with a push qualifier. A conviction of Lloyd Lee Welch and details that will likely be revealed in a virginia trial will help, but only the discovery of the girls remains will ultimately put an emotional end to this for some people here. So now question get reactions from the community that was changed forever by this case. Our scott broom is at the Oakland Terrace Elementary School where the kids who went there 40 years ago with the lyon girls have all grown up and where many are still living in that same neighborhood. Scott . Reporter yeah, this is the school the lyon sisters attended and there are still a lot of people around here like me about my age, theyre in their 50s and went to this school with the lyon sisters and remember all this vividly and always bruce just reported, we hear again that word repeatedly as we talk to people, closure. It feels like theres s
Were filled to the max. Ge we are going to go to megan mcgrath. Tell us how things are out there right now. Getting back to normal yet. Reporter they are. Seeing the trains go by they were not too crowded. Things are returning to normal. For a lot of people riding the red line this morning, it was a tough rushhour. It is an amazing thing. They just cant get it right. They ought to tear it down and rebuild it. Reporter frustration on the red line. It began as the system opened. A foam spill on the tracks that caused big delays yesterday was still a problem early this morning. With single tracking between the grosve stations. Im very upset. I have to be at work at 6 30. Now, im probably going to be late. Later came power issues. Lauren at brownie curls tweeted out this picture of a dark train. James is the trogs lost power too and airconditioning for about ten minutes. There were still lights inside the tunnel itself. That was fine. It was getting very warm on the train. Reporter as rush
Reporter and as you just heard the guards are regularly armed. We dont know though whether there was any exchange of gun fire between the gunmen and those Security Guards. We just dont have that detail at this point. Police dont have a lot that theyre sharing. No word on a possible motive here or a lookout for any suspects. For a while we had a closure down on Central Avenue as well. 214. They had some evidence markers there. That has reopened. And traffic is now moving through the area but here at the apartment complex, theyre going to be here for a while yet. Now, well toss it over to Melissa Mollet with more on traffic. Good morning, megan. So as megan just said, Central Avenue is now open. We were shut down, about a mile worth shut down for some time. Overall, Prince Georges County looking good road wise. Dont have any major problems. Big look at the beltway here. Also inner and outer look. Had the disabled loop, top of the beltway, thats out of the way. Tom . Another pleasant summ