Southbound and allentown road. Not too terrible this morning. 95 into town, northbound and southbound youre fine. Remember to listen to our friend friends from wtop. Nothing in your way at this point. 270 looking good here. Northbound and southbound there at 55 mile per hour youre on time. Beltway at landover road is looking quite good. We had some trucks that pulled up, not sure what theyre doing. At doesnt like any construction is scheduled. The might be some guys just hanging on there this morning. See you at 5 11. Breaking news in Prince Georges County. Police investigating a mans death on reed street. Megan mcgrath is there where that road is shut down this morning. Megan . Reporter well aaron, yeah we have a couple of road closures a stretch of reedet has closed as well as a portion of Martin Luther king avenue in glenarden area. You can see the Police Activity we have on the scene, investigators are trying to piece together what happened here. Now, it was about 2 30 in the morni
Georges county, a man found dead on reed street off Martin Luther king, jr. Highway in glen arden. It started as an accident investigation now its a homicide investigation. Megan mcgrath is live with what were learning. Good morning. Reporter barbara, what i can tell you at this point is that the driver was going eastbound on Martin Luther king, jr. Highway when someone opened fire on his car. That bulletriddled bmw crossed over the other lanes of traffic, went off the road. The driver didnt make it. The 911 call came in for an accident but when police looked inside the car they found a man dead. Delonte brown works as a Security Guard in the area. Around 2 30 in the morning, he heard rapid gunfire. Oh man, had to be about seven, eight shots. Lot of shots. Reporter then what . Then i saw smoke coming from the parking lot area. Investigators spent the morning taking photos and piecing together the sequence of events. Evidence markers could be seen along Martin Luther king highway near r
Reporter obstacles that would shut down the rapists right to appeal for custody after the rape. If you want to have a baby we support you and the rapist wont have rights. Reporter many werent aware they did. Pretty terrible. Yeah. I mean ive never really heard about this loophole before. America is to contend with. Reporter and a public shaming from the daily show recently shined a light on the public that the maryland republican candidate has long been aware of. Shes proposed a bill to limit rapists custody rights seven times. Weve bent over backwards with amendments trying to make it work for those that have concerns. Reporter among them the delegate who is the chairman of the house judiciary. He wouldnt answer our questions. You havent voted on it. Thats why taken up the last bill. Can we chat about your concerns about it . Dont want to talk about that. Reporter supporters want to talk about what stalled the bill. Some women simply cry rape to keep someone out of their childs life.
Suzanne it was the sound that woke many residents and forced them to flee this high rise early this morning. 100 Montgomery County firefighters were brought in to fight the blaze that started at 7 00 a. M. On east wayne street. It was a huge fire. It was really red. And that was not too much smoke come out of it. But it was really red and intense. Suzanne residents reported hearing an explosion. The window frame had blown out before firefighters arrived on the scene. So thats a little unusual. Again, some people described to me that there was an explosion. Suzanne all of the tenants were evacuated safely. There were no injuries. Still, a frightening situation for residents especially those on the eighth floor. Spraying separating the fire from our main bedroom and i was concerned about our staff, you know typically, we work you know. Suzanne most of the fire damage is contained to one apartment but others received smoke and water damage meaning several people wont be able to return to
Im kevin lewis, abc 7 news. Alison wow, what a special day. Absolutely. Lets switch to the weather now. Beautiful thing to talk about. What a great day especially compared to the night that we had last night. Anchor the question is whats ahead for tonight . Lets go to doug hill in the stormwatch 7 Weather Center with that first look at the forecast. Doug . Doug hey, scott and alison. Looks really nice out there. Lots of sunshine and no memory of 24 hours ago how gnarly it was out there. Live look from the rooftop here in rosslyn across the island beautiful, few clouds. Temperatures in the 60s and a bit of a breeze. 69 now at Reagan National airport. Very comfortable. 66 in frederick. 69 degrees in fredricksburg. 65 at this moment in annapolis. Breezes still up there. These are sustained winds, not gusts. Sustained at 20 miles an hour in martinsburg in the Higher Elevations a bit stronger. But locally, 16mileperhour wind at Reagan National. For the nats tonight, clear to partly cloudy f