tonight they gather to remember a mother and son known for their kindness. they also gathered to ask why it happened. good sunday, i m craig melvin. brenda ashcraft and her son billy were well-known in their manassas community. friends say brenda was nice to everyone, always willing to help. she was helping jose o farrell, opening her home to him. something went horribly wrong. darcy spencer attended a vigil outside the home tonight. amazing grace reporter: outside the manassas home where a mother and son lost their lives in a shooting rampage last thursday night, relatives, friends and neighbors gather for a candlelight vigil. they re remembering 56-year-old brenda ashcraft and her son, 37-year-old billy ashcraft. we need this community. we need all of y all here. we can t get through this without all y all. god knows what he s doing. we re going too go on with life. we re going to still have our memories and our love. even though they might be gone right now, i stil
homes and businesses without power right now crews restored service to about 13 thousand customers overnight dominion virginia power has about 245 outages. and bge has about 200 customers without service pep coco s president came to discuss it. our plan started on tuesday we started to hold back our contractors. at that point, we were right in the middle of a shift change we kept those employees on the property so we would be able to use them in an event a major event did hit that evening, wednesday evening, we made a call. we were on a call with baltimore gas and electric. so you are saying you called and pepco called for outside resources at the same time as the other utilities did contrary to the report in the post today that they called earlier and you guys waited until 8:30 at night? i have to tell you, the post got it wrong i am here to set the record straight we participated on the very same call at baltimore gas and electric and every other utility seeking mutua
look at the big break though to the south and west. we re going to get in a lull here in another couple of hours and this afternoon is when things go downhill. live doppler 9000 hd and we will show you that we ve got an area of snow to the north, rain to the south and a little bit of light rain, sleet, freezing rain mixed right in the middle across the district. this is some moderate rain or sleet mixed in there and then some snows up to the north there and to western montgomery, loudoun counties, we see the really heavy stuff pull away. back on the weather computer, want to talk about temperatures right now which are in the low to mid-30s. they re not going to get much higher than that. winter storm warnings north and west. winter weather advisories, south and east on our day planner today. look for mid-30s with a lull this midday and then heavy snow returns later. monika? we do have an accident now to tell you about. we re going to start off with the yellow light not only
shington area. sinesses flooded. ca strewn everywhe. and water for miles. words hard to describe. this is it right he. now boilingater is a must. hundreds of thousands of people. plus schools will turn to bottled water tomorrow. goodevening, i m jim vance. and m doreen gentzler. we ve seen our share of water main breaks this winter but nothg quite like this. the -inch main burst just before 4:00 a.mn capitol heights, maryland, leading to exosion of water. 50 million gallons spewed out beforerews were able to turn the water off 8 1/2 hours later. part of the beltway had to be shut down. and tonight the impact is still being felt, and the majority of houses in prince george s county. darcy spencer joins us live where that breakhappened. darcy? reporte doreen, wsse crews ha stopped work for the night. ey have completely shut off that pipe. and water fully restored to customers in this area. those repairs will continuin the morning. take a look. the flooding caused major
way up, still going all toward the windows and the walls collapsed from the pressure of a 54-inch water main that runs alongside the parking lot outside their building collapsed. the water main break created quite a sight, a geyser 9 feet tall that sent a torrent of water rushing onto the beltway. it iced up in minutes shutting off this major commuting artery nearly 10 hours. the washington suburban sanitary commission said four valves had to be located and shut down to stop the water. problems with water pressure disappeared once that was done. they issued a boil water advisory as a precaution. there are no issues with contamination in the system. however, what you lose pressure for an extended period of time it, can cause the possibility for contamination. that s why we need folks to boil their water until we lift the advisory. you have an aging system and every year, every couple of months or so we experience something like this. reporter: and now it s happened again