School, apple ridge road at watkins hill road. Were learning to know exactly what is blocked. Still piney branch parkway, that crash, 270 at old hundred. Showing you this camera, we are slower than typically would be at this part of the morning. Inbound suitland crash right lane blocked. Well take a look at travel times in ten minutes. Today, for the first time, the d. C. Fire chief will answer questions about the resignation of his medical director in a scathing letter dr. Juliette saussy described the department as having a toxic culture. News4s molette green is there with what else theyre facing. Reporter good morning, this is about Council Members reassured from chief dean that the agency is still moving in the right direction, that a. M. The medical director dr. Saussy left after ten months blasting the agency, pointing to issues such as the response time. She even faced some pushback over the time to measure the paramed paramedics competency. And chief dean intending to make clea
Z. C. Council will hit a citys over fight. The city is try to teing the medical response system. They will bring in a company top help with low priority calls. A group of suspects attacked an iraq war veteran at mcdonalds restaurant. Christopher marquez awarded brown star when time for wings and nunt russ interviews sent app mebling treelingts ever treejs and one of the young people hit him in the head with a gun and stole his wallet. Marquez is a student at american university. D. C. Family oak looking for answers after their dog was electrocuted monday night outside their apartment complex. Annie yu is liver where the incident happened. Sad story for sure, annie. Receive. Let show you a picture of 8 30. She was the owners tell us we spoke to them last night monday night the owner pam kelly brought the dog out for a walk an she actually walks her in the court rart i believe thats where at some point she noticed la. Some here at the apartment complex say they have been going back and f
Boosting americans economic ties with africa. Yesterday he announced 33 billion in Economic Development money headed to that continent. 14 billion from the private sector. Waiting on the president , and theres going to be a News Conference. Hell be taking questions from the press. Could be anything we hear from the president. Youll want to stay tuned for that. After todays press conference, president pax up for a twoweek long Vacation Getaway in marthas vineyard, obama is leaving behind a public that is none too happy. Approval rating plummeting to alltime low as americans blame washington for a punk economy. Plus a damning new report is out showing promise to be transparent, broken again were getting to outrage with rich lowry editor of the national review, and moodys economist john lonsky, economic anxiety at a high john, why is that . Not good jobs, very high Unemployment Rate given the july was the 61st month the current economic recovery. We just had a very severe recession, and w
May not know you are eating. Tonight, a lobbying Group Calling on the federal government to block chinese process chicken from reaching your dinner table of move comes after a major scandal involving fastfood restaurants, is supplyed by chinese plants, patty la berra with food and water watch, they are asking for this change. Patty, tell us, it has been a year since the government said it would be okay for the chinese plants to process chicken for the u. S. Marcet, why are you market, why are you writing letters now asking for change . Usda has not let chicken come in yet from china, but they are poiseed. To we dont want it to start, a lot of folks heard the news reports, about a scandal happening in china, with processed chicken products that were going to fastfood restaurants in china, when the usda went to china, they went to check out the food safety system, they went to the planning, said it was run properly they said it was okay. They said it was okay, as i understand, you correc
Why google could be turning into movers competitive competitor. Welcome. Will get a chance to see the impact of lower crude prices. Bp reports earnings. The earnings are due in under an hour with the backdrop of the employee pay freeze. The central bank became the latest to cut the Interest Rate overnight in response to the deflationary impact of the tumbling oil prices. We will have more on that. Lets go to Ryan Chilcote in london. I believe that it is snowing outside. You can tell us in a moment. Capital expenditure and dividends. Yeah. What is falling faster . The oil price or the snow. Perhaps it is the oil price. Look, we have seen the earnings and we will be looking at the oil prices and the expectation on fourthquarter profits dropping. Nothing particularly surprising about that. They all reported profit declines and the oil price fell. They have a unique problem with exposure to russia and it will be interesting to see how the ruble the valuation affected profits there. We will