Health police, atf, fbi, secret service and department of homeland defense. Reporter security teams began a systemic search of building one, 20 floors had to be cleared, every square foot searched. Nearly five hours later, another siren, another announcement, this one much more welcome than the first. It was the allclear. Allclear. Allclear. Resume. Reporter and of course, the best possible outcome in the situation and no one is criticizing the person who reported what they thought was a gunshot. This is exactly what authorities want people to do. They want to be able to sort this all out. Jim, back to you. Derrick ward, thank you. A better look at the Walter Reed National military Medical Center. This map gives you an idea why it took so long for police to search that campus, 243 acres. Todays scare happened in building one. Thats the tower in the front of the complex. Its a prominent building that can be seen as you drive by on Rockville Pike. For three hours, workers inside the comp
And ems, even though this is a medical facility. Even though there was one specific is threat thatfully turned out not to be real there was more than one specific threat prepared for and what we might say, this is an example of the emerging science of safety. Attention. Attention. All personnel are directed to shelter in place. Reporter the siren and the recorded message was clear, something was up. An employee at this facility heard what sounded like a gunshot. An employee did what was expected, reported it First Responders did what they are trained do here. A systemic search floor by floor of the 20story tower that is building one. Theirs was just the first phase of the sweep. Then dogs trained in the detection of explosive devices will enter those floors and look for explosive devices. Reporter this, even though the initial report, the call to 911 was for a gunshot. And there was no indication that there was an explosive device. We are here. We will do a complete job. Reporter a job
University alum on the platform yesterday. Derek joins us live from that know ma metro station. Garrett what have you learned . Reporter well, debra tonight the man that police are looking for was in their custody just a few days ago. According to court documents, jasper spire was charged in an unresulted assault late last week. But was released after his arraignment on friday to await trial which means the suspect in this case was back on the street for just 24 hours before this murder was committed. D. C. Police say this is the face of a coldblooded killer. Tonight, mpd has a warrant out for jasper spires arrest on the charge of first degree murder while armed. He stabbed 24yearold Kevin Sutherland to death in the know ma gala debt metro station. Then fled. The broad daylight murder shut down the station for hours on one of the busiest days to have year for public transit. The latest killing in an ongoing summer homicide spike. We actually were going to ride here and we werent able t
To todays outage suffered by the wall street journal site and by united airlines. More on both of those in a bit. Sources tell cnbc that the New York Stock Exchange problem may have been the result of an overnight Software Upgrade and traders got a little bit of warning because before the exchange opened this morning there was a bulletin sent out, we have got some kind of a technical problem. So, when it actually struck about 11 30 there wasnt panic there wasnt a big selloff, because there still was trading. These stocks that couldnt be traded on the New York Stock Exchange could be traded on the internet on something called bats. So, in summary, problem fixed, not a hack attack and no official word on what caused the worst technical outage ever to strike the New York Stock Exchange. Steve handelsman, thanks steve. Now to the other big computer glitch thats still causing a Summer Travel nightmare for thousands of people. United airlines was forced to ground some 3500 flights across the
Was hit by a car on i95. We have learned that he has been on the force for about three years and was just doing a traffic stop when he was hit. Now, this happened just before 4 00 on 95 south near the exit for route 32 in jessup. Right now, there is one lane getting by but the backups are almost all the way back to the baltimore beltway. Thats about 13 miles away. Theres also Traffic Building on the northbound side and on 295, as drivers try to take some alternate routes to avoid that area. Now, you can see the ripple affect there the there were was medevaced to a hospital in baltimore. No update yet on his condition. We are going to stay on top of this at the live desk, chris lawrence. Thank you, chris. Now to breaking news here in the district, a big announcement just in the last hour about a man found murdered in a trash can. News4s derrick ward is live outside police headquarters. Derrick . Reporter it was the police chief and the mayor that held this joint announcement here inside