Said he first heard somethingrdm coming and then looked out thedt window of his second flooror bedroom. Beoo i just seen like a walle a wl come through. As soon as i seen the wall i i knew i was going to theng t basement. Ment reporter you mean a wallr of clouds. Clouds, rain, it was heavy rain. Rain it was weird. As w it was weird feeling in the wei house. I knew it. I went right downstairs. Ownsta reporter you went to the wee basement . Seme yeah, uhhuh. U reporter not a bad move. Yeah, smart move. Mart reporter borgia was luck l cowinds struck withwds struc tremendous force neck doorce nk knocking down a huge tree inree his neighbors yard andrs yardd telling a portion of a roofg a o off the house. E hou it felt like the house was hw like shaking. Like s reporter wow. Yeah. H. Reporter around the backte of the house you can seeee shingles flew off the roof andl theres reason why the W National Weather Service calls w theseae Straight Line winds as a if a path was cleared skimmingg along route 27 as it made itse way through damascus. By sunrise Tree Companies had descended on the branches and cutting what they could. Fortunately the number ofer of badly damaged homes could be cou countered ocounted on just one. This reminded me he a lot as a t we were driving around up here for the last couple of hours of the derecho from 2012. M 2 the damage then was extensivextn down in the district and distric maryland but there is quite auti bit of damage. Of we tried to show you as muchyouc as we could of what was done wae up here but as you drive dri around you see more and more me of it but very, veryy fortunately nobody hurt and i did check with montgomerymo county fire just a few minutesjm ago to make sure that that wasat the case. E case its just amazing that nobodyhat was harmed. Live in damascus, paul wagner, fox5 local news. Everythings destroyed. Unbelievable. I mean, unbelievable. Iebl absolutely unbelievable. Va the damage is widespre people in waverly, virginia, vir are countering up their losseshe after an ef1 tornado ripped through that town. Town. This twister turned deadlywistee killing at least three people po at a mobile home site. At mike thomas joining us now as js with more on this unusual unu winter twister, mike. Nt what else have we found outut today . Reporter hey, sarah. S very surprising for february. Eb. These types of scenarios dont d happen very often this time of the year. The pictures have been pouringeo in nonstop on social mediasoci a since yesterday afternoon and the images are absolutelyutely heartbreaking. Tb you can see some behind mesesomb here and some of the strongest n storms of the day tour through t the town of waverly, virginia. I a small town just about 50 miles to the southeast of richmond at about 2 30 p. M. 2 3 wednesday afternoon. Now, the National Weather service storm assessment teamt t did visit the town early this et morning and did confirm that a tornado touched down at about 2 31 p. M. It remained on thene n ground for approximately 10ly0 minutes and the tornado itself l left a 9mile long instruction and that peak tha strength was as wide as about a three football fields. Unfortunately three people didee lose their lives when the when e tornado struck their mobileheirl home with eight additional aio injuries being reported. Virginia Governor Terry mcauliffe did tore the damaged area today. Tod during his walking tore he met a man named tim. Tim. He lives near the mobile homeob destroyed during the tornadoye and as thed tornado barreled down on waverly tim was testim s driving a new vehicle that his t friend had just bought. T ht he tried to get out of the vehicle but couldnt. Ou when i closed the doors on ds the car, and i seen the wind t coming i tried to open theon door back. Door b the doors wouldnt open backk up. All of a sudden the wind just picked usde up off the ground d d slammed us back down onme the ground. Reporter the whole car. R w the whole car lifted up off f the ground. The the wind and debris brokeebs the windows off. Ws o we laid on the floor of thed or car until the wind just everything stopped. Reporter . Its almost hard to believe until you see it and when you see it from flying iitn on a helicopter the extent of theentf damage and the power, i thinkerk what is just amazing as youou fly miles and miles of trees just clipped in half likeike little match sticks broken ins n half and it was one of thet wao most Amazing Things to me, the shear power of this tornado. S to reporter now, this stormr s was actually part of a groupof that was out ahead of the mainhi system that brought us ourur Severe Weather later during latr the afternoon. The this is that grouping you see. Again theres waverly,er wav virginia down to the south. S lets take you minute by minute here zooming in. Te here we go out to 2 31. This is when the tornado was on the ground. Onhe g kind of a classic radar signal. You can see a lot of heavy of h rain, lots of lightning. Ht the tornado lifted off thed o t ground at about 4 41. 4 4 the good news for waverly isavey this was the worst storm of the day. Conditions did improve oncerove that storm moved on. Now the National Weather service again did make it outai there early this morning to do o some assessments and they assessed that winds were 100 to 110 Miles Per Hour with u that particular tornado so ittin was on the upper end of the en1 scale which ione ef1 scas there were two strongertr tornadoes reported in virginia i yesterday and to give you theou latest on that, sue palka is p standing by down in thein weather center. Hey, sue, what do you have foro us. Mike, its crazy to thinke,to that were talking about tornado outbreak in february but to find two reports of ef3 e tornadoes going back to that scale that mike just showedhowe you Even Stronger symptoms andpt one of them not too far fromo f the washington, d. C. Area. Gton an ef3 has winds of 136 to 165 miles an hour and theres ann were two reports of those. T one of the most damaging in damn the tappahannock virginia areaaa then did go survey the damagee g there. E. Thats on the middle peninsulamn in northern neck. In n we were really worried aboutbo this storm yesterday betweenay b 6 05 and 7 05 we were worried w it was going voss crowes intocro saint marys county. Sain it cetera signals on radar. Signa it had a very long track, tra, 38 miles. Mil around king road in essexn es county it may have been an ef3 with winds of 140 miles perles hour. Ur numerous injuries and threend modular homes destroyed theres as that storm was movingde on by. Another storm that youveot heard about, this one also producing a fatality in thea town of evergreen which is about 20 miles east of lynchburg virginia. G this one we got pictures of. F. Also an ef3 tornado. Tor that passed by the town andasby had winds of 136 to 165 mileso an hour. It was a 13mile path with manih that was missing and thensing later found last night. Ig seven injuries. Nj we have amazing drone video of that one which we want to show s you as tonight were just weret looking at a couple of showers o in our region. Our r nothing to worry about locallyly but this drone video shows you the extent of the damage and we tweeted this picture outur yesterday of that tornado from evergreen and we were just in jt shock that it was you can see all the wind w damage there. Ge the a lot of Straight Line winde damage as well when you see you the trees all going in theoing i same direction but obviouslyti t we saw the big huge storm, the pictures and the home damage dag tell the story that there were r multiple things going on. S going in this picture you can evenve see trees going one direction dc and some going the otherng the r direction so you know thereio was rotation in thisn storm srm around evergreen, virginia. Gini. Crazy, crazy day and now wend n turn around after yesterdayte and its chilly again. Ll aga some of you have seen some seen snow flurries around theow region very cold, its v fery windy and right in the matterhem of just a few hours weve gone g right back to february. Oeb so, laura, sarah, an unusual unu day for sure. Likely historic tornado t outbreak for the commonwealthor of virginia as well. W glad its behind us. Bd hope we dont have too manyave o more of these days in our future. Fu youll like what i have on thean sevenday forecast. Ven thats coming up in a little ltl while. Back to you. O you. Pretty incredible. Preincr quite the roller coaster. Coastr t the storms causedd widespread damage acrossage Montgomery County includingmery one man who was trapped in hispp basement when a wallal collapsed. Colld. Take a look. K. I heard a tremendous crash and my landlord, my roommateoo he is downstairs thes lyinghg there. I cant get in because the wall is blocking it. It. Okay, are you in the samey, house hes in . Houss yes. You just cant get into thece room. Room hes in the basemently. Asentl frightening moments there. Tei the victim suffered minor legorl injuries and was taken to the te hospital. Hoit fire Officials Say if you hear any unknown noises, unfamiliar a noises in your home or youreyom unsure of the stack o stabilityy your home get out and contact ac them immediately. Sarah. A row house divided into three apartments is just tooap dangerous to enterar and its tenants are now living in hotels. Five people were living inside the units when a crack formedckr and a wall began to give way. The owner says a nearby N Construction project andtion prd yesterdays heavy rains caused the wall t fox5s matt ackland joins us live from northwest with more. Matt, good evening. Reporter hi, sarah, goodter evening to you. What a mess this is. At mes just to give you an idea, this is q and first northwest behind me. You can see d. C. Police, they still have q street blocked off for a block. F fo they want to make sure that no one drives through there orhe walks through because theh be house is so unstable. Ta well show you the front of theo the house in just a second. Int but we want to give you the the best view right here from thefre alley. Take a look at the side of theif row house right there. W ho you can see some of the wallthew has come down. S con. Let me tell you what we arewe told from the owner of theer o house as well as some tenantsna that apparently lets takee you to video and give you aeo av better idea. Er this is was see right here. Two buildings side by side. Gse s theres a vacant spot in the t middle where they wereherehey building a house. They basically had to dig outo the basement, dig down below. El well, couple that with all the rain that we had last nht and the owner believes that it simply became unstable. E utabl we talked to amy hutchinsonch who went into her room last night. She noticed a big crack in the wall. She was concerned and she warned her neighbors. We caught up with her today ati her hotel where she is now staying. We want you to listen to what she had to say. Noticed a huge crack in myacn bedroom and it went all theent way down into my window andindow when i went over to investigate more closely i heard a noise and it freakednd me out. So, when i called thed landlord, and then i kind of o just he is it escalatedsc from there. I couldnt explain it. Uldnt e but it put enough fear into meo that i wanted to get out ofetut the house as soon as possible. Reporter by the with ite talked to a d. C. Policed. C. Po officer not long ago and he ande said that she may have saved sav her neighbors lives becausese once that crack formed, then a little bit later the walls t w she was telling us thats her t room right there. You might be able to see a little bit of furniture in the side room, hard to see but it is coming down. Do officials arent sure if its s going to come down allll together but no one is stayingsa in that house tonight. Ton heres another issue, sarah sar and laura. We were talking to amy and she s said that this place is very affordable. Af theyre staying in hotelsre right now, the landlord isanlor paying for that, but if they ify have to move theres simply no affordable places in this in thi neighborhood for what theyre wa paying right there, so theyre t really in a predicamentdica because they like this lik neighborhood they want to stay a here but finding anotherding ano apartment could be reallyen difficult. By the way, we checked in with w district officials today. They have launched anhed a investigation to find out exactly what has happenedappene here. Here and they say they he havee investigators on the scene andsd they should be able to give us s more information in theor future. For now the d. C. Police say polc theyre going to continue to coe cordon off this block untillocku they get fencing has been put in so no one can walk in the front or thf back here just in case the house does fail and more thats d of wall actually comes down. Ow so, a big mess for sure. S live in northwest, mattst, m ackland fox5 local news. Well, tonight new details det about the zika virus. T the zikar why infected moms are beingrb told to continue breastfeedingae their babies. Eir and a gut wrenching video showing adhd from a kids perspective is going viral and v how its giving a glimpse into e the struggles some children chid are faced with every day. And if youre stuck at thet airport you can learn how to save a life. L find out what local airport is introducing these cpr training kiosks. And donald causing divorces . Do you think youru ti relationship would last if one of you supported donald trumprtl and the other didnt . . Id we want you to weigh in onign this. Thats a very interestingerting question. Qution its caused some discussion indi our morning meeting. Our mog meet head to our twitter page fox5 d. C. And take our twitter t poll and well have the results straight ahead. Raighthe in tonights health watchs women in countries hit by the zika virus arees being told tood continue breastfeeding the babies. The world health hlt organization recommendsti against mothers switching tos formula due to fears about the e virus. Viru they say while the virus has vas been detected in breast milk mik of two mothers, there is no is proof that zika can be transmitted through breastfeeding. Edg. Zika has been declared aecred a Global Health emergency. H the virus isea linked to a spiks in babies born with rare birth defects in brazil. B a lot of people arelot of talking about an emotionaltion video that is surfacingfaci online. Online. The video gives viewers a glimpse into the dailyinto the d struggles of kids with adhd. Dh now the animated short film is s called falling letters and it ad depicts a day in the life of aef young student with adhd. Adh everything from the boys classroom challenges andenge distractions to social issues ti with his peers. Rs whats really gotten to some som people is the ending of thiss animated video. It shows how much a supportive e parent or caregiver can or actually enhance the lives off these kids with these kinds of disorders. Sos. Travelers they can learn life saving skills now whileskii killing some time before a bor blight actually. Htctua who knew what you could dooud during a layover. Layover instructional cpr kiosks are debuting in five airports around the country including bwi. Take a look. K. Each cpr kiosk givesiosk g viewers video to walk youalkyou through the instructions. Then there is a practice session and a test with a cpr dummy. The kiosks are paid for by the t american heart association. It says immediate cpr is key k to surviving cardiac arrest which is a leading cause ofng cf death here in the unitedhere states. Stes the kiosks will be availableil for use at bwi by mid march. Mar you can learn more about themutt at fox5d. C. Com. Really is a great idea. Grea. Yeah. Eah. 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Donald trump hasep se i won thf four primary races and somery rs are saying hes like to getiktot the nomination. Io. Ronica cleary with an update. Npd donald trump has dominated dn the median the polls from thatma very first day he announced. Aod now that we have the debate,ebat we want to give you a recap of p some of donald trumpsnald tmp headlines you may have missed me n a recent fox new interview ier mitt romney said there is like l al bombshell in donaldna trumps taxes. Tes romney went on to say that s t trump is either not anywhere ah near as wealthy as he says hee is or he hasnt been paying beey the kind of taxes we would we expect him to pay or perhapsr pr he hasnt been giving money to o the vets or the disabled likeled hes been telling us hes been doing. G. Now, donald trump responded. Espo he said wit said mitt romney who was one of the dumbest and worst worst candidates in the history off republican politics is nowow pushing me on tax returns. Et dope donald trump. 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