Prosecute you to the full extent of the law. Thank you for joining us, three massive wildfires are burning across the bay area. They have scorched over 1100 square miles nearly 7 times the size of san jose. Flames are forcing new evacuation orders this evening. Right now firefighters are bracing for dry lightning and gusty winds that could ignite new fires. The biggest fire is the l and you lightning complex burning in the north bay. More than 500 square miles have been scorched, and containment is at 17 . Katie nielsen is in the Dry Creek Valley area and what are ns l this is actually the calm before the storm, literally and figuratively. The winds have not really picked up yet, we are not seeing any of those thunderheads but we are seeing a lot of these helicopters, this is the national guard, a blackhawk helicopter with what they call a bambi bucket. A 600 60 gallon bucket pulling water out of this pond in the dry creek area then taking off, headed back into the fire lines on the ot
Ill have all the details on owe all right. Guys, back to you. As we talk about extreme cold its impacting schools in greater d. C. Region. Couple closures. Arch bish ol carol in d. C. Closed today because of plumbing problems caused by cold and barnaby manner Elementary School oxon hill close because of water main break. Delays in virginia clark county schools delay one hour. Page county schools and Frederick County virginia schools on a two hour delay. In West Virginia, berkley, grant, hardy and Jefferson Country schools youre on hour delay and western maryland, alleghany and Garrett County schools both delayed two hours. For the kids going to school on time there were several chmerkovskiys several chmerkovskiys inclouding good morning, allison, steve, when its cold liking this and theres certain schools in montgomery country without heat and here in Montgomery County buses are affected by the cold. What happened, over the last two weeks kids were on lengthy winter break and none of t
In about 15 minutes. Right now, things are running smoothly on the red line after a bizarre mishap. A metro train hit a powerline between grosvenor and medical center. Metro Officials Say a public works employee hit a pole with a lawnmower and that caused a penn coe wire to hang in the trains path. Nobody was hurt but they had to single track between the two stations for a while and about 1400 people lost power. A plea deal rejected. The pilot that landed that gyro couldnter on the u. S. Capitol turned down another deal today, this one would have sent him to jail for ten months. An attorney for Douglas Hughes says he believes federal guidelines call for a sentence of zero to six months. Hughes says his light back in april was meant to call attention to the influence of big money in politics a new hearing is now set for the first week of august. First at 4, president ial politics, donald trump is heading to texas to tour the u. S. mexico border. Trump is still drawing fire for character
Where metro officials will give us an update today on the work that is expected to come. Medical . Good morning, i would say that in these last few weeks or so, virginia commuters are certainly bearing their share of the disruption from the safetrack surge here at braddock road. Weve had impacts on the blue line and the yellow line during surge two and yes, summits, surge 3 and 4 both about to begin. Its all going to start after the jewel 4th holiday. The shut down will include parts of the blue and yellow line, so surge 3 not be able to get to National Airport except by shuttle bus. Then, surge 4 begins jewel 12th to 18th. Theres the segment shutdown is going to be to between Pentagon City and National Airport. Here people in the southern part of the line will be able to access National Airport but commuters coming from the rest of the metro system, if they were planning on taking trains to National Airport will have to then take a shuttle bus to get there. This comes as we said as Me
The top. You got detectives. This steven two garden style apartment communities. We understand that police court officered someone with a gun last night. That person was told to drop the gun. We understand that person did not then shots were fired. A woman who lives in the neighborhood says she and her husband were startled by the sound of gunfire last night. We heard what we saw were fireworks and didnt pay any attention until we heard all of the sirens and the helicopter flying over. This morning when i came out. I saw the streets blocked off, i figured it must have been another shooting. What do you believe, of that. Enough is enough. Barn that. Reporter that ladys name is chris till. She thought she and her husband heard five gunshots. We heard conflicting reports about the condition of the person shot you see investigators have this one00 block of the street blocked and they have investigators coming and going between the different buildings in this apartment community. Well stay