Insertion and extraction missions. That means bringing teams in by helicopter, lowering them into small boats trying to get them into target areas. Thats the latest live in navarro beach, florida. Just in from ferguson, missouri. The citys Police Department announcing the chief has resigned. After that Justice Department investigation found widespread racial bias in his department, chief Thomas Jackson submitted his Resignation Letter this afternoon. Hes expected to speak any minute. These are live pictures. Jackson says it was a mutual decision between him and the City Administration and he told nbc news, quote im confident the city will pull through these trying times. The people are committed to ferguson. The chief will receive a severance payment and Health Insurance for one year. Tonight we have not heard much from the d. C. Fire department about two firefighters accused of breaking the law. Mark segraves broke the story just a short time ago. Hes in the newsroom with more. Jim, o
Virginia tech student fell over board from a cruise ship. And a controversial alcoholic drink that will soon hit store shelves but you wont find it in virginia. The secret service may have yet another embarrassing situation on it is hands. Good evening. Two senior agents are under investigation tonight for a crash on white house grounds after what may have been a night of drinking. Jackie benson is live outside of the white house tonight with some details. Jackie . Reporter tonight weve been told that president obama has been made aware of these allegations. The two agents are said to be senior members of the Law Enforcement agency that protects the president of the United States and his family. As first reported by the washington post, the march 4th incident happened after a gathering at a downtown d. C. Bar to mark the retirement of a secret Service Spokesman ed donovan. They activated the flashing lights on a government car and showed their badges to get through an area that had bee
Embarrassing security lapse for the secret service in the last few years, but the first audio difficulties ] hes been on the job a month. Joseph clancy was tapped by the president last month to head up and clean up the secret service after a handful of embarrassments. Being a teacher myself i hold myself to higher stanleys and i would expect the same from anybody standards and i would expect the same from anybody working with the secret service. Reporter two secret Service Agents crashed into a white house barricade last week after a night of drinking. Officers on duty reportedly wanted to arrest the agents until a supervisor let them go home. That seems a little suspect to let it go. I understand theyre trying to keep it out of the publics eyes but kind of got to take care of public safety. D. C. Is unique because we have so many Police Organizations and people are always looking after one another. Give people the benefit of the doubt, but protect the public. Protect the president. Pr
Across the area 39 for gaithersburg. Manassas, youre at 36 degrees. So thats where larry was mentioning maybe some of those leftover big snow piles are not gone yet. 3 for fredricksburg. 42 for waldorf and 45 for luray. High pressure is moving on no. Were not going to have any weather components to deal with this afternoon except for sup shine. Well deal with for sunshine. Well deal with rain tomorrow evening. Stay tuned for the your planner. 56 by 3 00. Good morning, larry. Whats going on . Good morning. If youre going to be stepping out making your way traveling up north in virginia from areas like woodbridge toward the beltway, no major issues. Want to let you know that lorton road between highway 123 and furnace road is closed this morning trying to get more information in terms of why exactly that area is closed. But once we get more information on that, well be sure to pass it along you to. Lets step outside and show you live how things are shaping up on the roads as you make tha
A new rim. Its a couple hundred dollars to get one from mazda. I feel sorry for those folks there. Coming up at 6 00 Bruce Johnson shows us some nasty potholes in the district. So if you want a pothole for our Pothole Patrol Team to get fixed, go to www. Wusa9. Com and give us the location. Please include a cross street or block number. Sky9 flew over this sinkhole on garden city drive in New Carrollton a short time ago. The state Highway Administration closes the ramp from garden city drive to u. S. 50. Traffic detours will be in place until repairs can be made. These detours will impact metro riders using the New Carrollton metro station. Breaking news out of ferguson, missouri, Ferguson Police chief Thomas Jackson resigned in the wake of a report by the Justice Department that concluded fergusons police force exhibited racial bias. That review was conducted after the controversial shooting of Michael Brown by former Police Officer darren wilson. Fergusons city manager stepped down j