Reese is a member of the North Kensington community has lived in the area his entire life he lost family members and friends in the tower and the fire at the tower hes obviously upset about that because of the lack of support that has been in the area in terms of health and social care and you know just basic structural support for anyone a toll hes feeling rather upset basically unfortunately his anger got the better of him and one point he was jailed for strangling. Yeah he basically he had an altercation with a member of staff who manages the ground fall site because the plastic covering that theyve put on it keeps coming off despite repeated assurances that theyve fixed it now and it didnt matter how strong the winds got that it would stay on this keeps happening and frankly you know its like ripping a plaster of an open wound it leaves this is along the. After the fire the actual top all ins and so on on the building a full hour comes off all the time it comes off all the time and
Chance for a scattered storms thunderstorms later on this afternoon but not for everybody. We will talk about who could see those coming up. Good morning. Championship 4 over to check this out westbound 45 hearing it was shut down at washington boulevard because after tree across the roadway. Crews are on the scene and it c has notared out of the way so youll see that on the ride of the roadway. No major lay. Green belt is looking better after nasa goddard. That backup has disappeared. Aaron . Melissa, thank you. We have been staying on top of the breaking news. An early moing house fire in arlington. One person was rushed to the hospital for a burn. This person is in serious condition. Frefighters tweeted picture from the scene a hours ago. This happened on hayes street. That is near the crystal city area. The fire destroyed a detached garage and an apartment. It did not spread to the main how. Fire official say one firefighter is being treated for dehydration. Fire investigators are
And because the flights cant be that close they have to be delayed. The flyovers and fireworks shutting down the flights at Reagan National airport. Between 6 15 and 745 p. M. And between now and 45 p. M. On the fourth of july there will be no Flight Operations at dca at all. The faa making that announcement on social media today. Hopefully they will divert them to dulles or something which is not enjoyable. Joseph bishop henchman. The flight was atan log national and 9 21 on the fourth. Onhe other hand, why is this all being done at the last minute. Air traffic has been stopped in the past for the flyovers. It has never been stopped before because of theireworks. The reason the fireworks are affecting the flight this year is because theti loca where they are being launched has changed to west potomac park and thats now closer to the flight path. And the Airport Authority couldnt tell us exactly how many flights will be affectedse becof this change but dozens of flights do usually come
Stay ahead of the possibilities of storms on the 4th. Download the nbc washington app. Set your home page to weather. Now to that fourth of july and the show of military might such as weve not seenn decades. Yeah. Bring in the tanks. They arrived in the district today at the request ofid prest trump, and they are being transported by train to the National Mall for the salute to americaju this is one part of the president s grand vision, to makes the 4th a much bigger celebration this year, bt a of these changes mean its going to be a much biggerpa one ryone traveling through the area. Dont you know it. Were working for you with Team Coverage tonight. Adam tuss has new details on why the celebrations will impact air travel. Corey smith and new details on t tanks. Cory . Reporter well, wendy, we knew before today that the salute to america was going to be big. Military flyovers, a president ial speech and these tanks make it huge t just way President Trump likes it, but after talking wit
A likelihood of strong to severe storms. The storms arnd 6 00 this evening. We will keep you posted here and download our app. By 6 00 tonight, there is that likelihood of strong to severe storms. Be weather ready today, you guys. Lets get to our Traffic Alert now. Fiery crash has shut down the outer loop of 66. Megan mcgrath is live on the scene with the latest. Is what oing on now . Reporter we have seen a stttle bit of an improvement here within la few minutes. They have been able to reopen the express lanes. You can see the traffic going by here. They are traveling in the express lane. That is all that has reopened at this particular time. The l outerop is completely shut down at westbound 66. They have maneuvered cones and moved all of the response crews off to the righthand side of the road. So they are o trying ton those two left lanes and we are expecting that to happen any time now. But it just hasnt happened yet. For the time being, all of the lanes on the outer loop still sh