Good morning. Fire forces several people from their homes overnight. Investigators are trying to find out if it was a firework that caused this. The race to the finish in the police and fire world games as they will come to a close and we will have a live report. Its a foggy soupy start throughout the metro area but temperatures are warming up and its going to be a lot drier than it was yesterday. Good morning. Thank you so much for waking up with us, best place for sunday morning television, wusa. Its hard to get out of the door in some spots with the visibility close to zero. Last night it was so thick, a firework would go off, the smoke would hang there. The same kind of thing happened for the display on the National Mall. We did take pictures. I have them posted on facebook and twitter accounts if you want to look. You really see the effect mike was talking about with the smoke hanging in the balance. Lets look outside and get things started. You see how the fog is hanging on out h
The gunshots killed 21yearold amare jenkins. Three men were in that van and they want to talk to those men. A spike in murders have the police chief, d. C. , communities of community d. C. Leaders and Community Members ask how do we stop the killings . A meeting going on inside southeast thats addressing d. C. s violent summer. Reporter this Community Meeting about the spike in Violent Crime particularly homicides has been going on for about an hour now and as expected we are hearing from both the community and the Police Department about what has worked to combat this rise in homicide now at 98 and what has not, particularly Community Members here are saying to us that while the police are doing their job, they want to see more Additional Resources brought in from federal partners from the outside and, yes, from the community itself to step up and help. Youre saying the police are doing their job, we need to see more of an effort from the community and some of these other partners . T
Breaking news alert. News fromking brandywine, where two people are dead after a crash at branch avenue Ander Crenshaw drive. The police are trying to determine how this happened. Earnshaw avenue and drive. Tom roussey is on the scene. Tom this is branch avenue, route 5 in southern prince georges county. Maryland state police are on the scene, looking into this. It appears to have been a two vehicle crash. One of the vehicles is over to the left. The other vehicle is to left of that one that you can barely see. We are to this point that two people have died. We are not sure how a people total were involved in the accident, very Little Information from the state police so far. Branch avenue, as you can see from the chopper video, the accident happening at 9 30 tonight. Few details, but we know that two people died. Ive, branch avenue is open southbound but it is shut down northbound and will be quite some time. This is branch avenue, between brandywine and clinton. Tom roussey, abc 7 ne
Good morning, everybody. Im aaron gilchrist. Im e. Rerika gonzalez. Change of plans this weekend, well tell you the handful of metro stations closing starting tonight. And the honor students are preparing to give for a beloved principal after his death. A man arrested four times for threatening to assassinate u. S. President s. Who local lawmakers say dropped the ball. But first, lets check in with tom kierein. With pleasure this morning. We have got beautiful weather moving in. This flag at Union Station on capitol hill is flapping a little bit, a bit of a breeze coming in out of the north and west. That is bringing in the lower humidity. Your friday headlines, a mild morning. Much less humid afternoon. Beautiful summer weather coming in and then a dry pattern is going to be setting up here for the next seven days. Temperatures getting much more comfortable now. Metro area, right in washington, eastern southern suburbs, low 70s. Still humid around the bay. Were down into the 60s, most
Setting up here. It will be in place for the next seven days. A look at your drive time forecast at 6 11. Melissa, chopper 4 up over the beltway. Up over the top of the beltway. Right there at university boulevard you can see the inner and outer loop, moving fine for us. Dont have any real volume at least at this point to complain about like we like to do. Inner and outer loop, rest looks good. 66, 95 into and out of town, looking good as well. 270 at old hundred road, with etimcally we typically see volume at this point, but it looks good. Travel times in ten minutes. See you then. 6 01. Some major track work happening on metro this weekend. Four stations are set to close tonight. News4s Zachary Kiesch live with what we need to know. Zachary . Reporter yes, good morning, aaron. The closure will start at 12 01 saturday. Stay that way through metro closing on sunday. So if youre out late tonight you could be impacted. Buses are going to replace trains between Eastern Market on the orang