Right now at 10 00, concern in dc schools as some parents learn their children have been exposed to lead. Thats definitely a Health Concern. How 3w5d is the problem and what will it take to remove the toxins from our schools . Little red corvette. Just one day of princes tragic passing. What its now revealing about the popeye cons final moments. Plus rain is in the forecast for the early part of your weekend. When we can expect a change. The news starts now. Troubling levels of lead found in the krinking water at several dc schools have parents on high alert. The lead problem in these schools could be linked to places beyond schools in the district. Tisha lewis joins us tonight with that side of the story. Older buildings and home across the dmv could be at risk for potentially Dangerous Levels of Drinking Water. A dozen schools have elevated lead levels. Definitely want to make sure your kids are safe, especially my babies. Thats a Health Concern for anyone. That water is very importa
So that could be the rain showing folks down. Outer loop at kenilworth, report of a crash, but its on the shoulder and you can tell its not impacting traffic the all right now. To which top of the beltway at colesville, rolling along just fine. West bound southeast southwest freeway before the 3rd street tunnel, still have that crash off to the right side of the roadway. Well have travel times for you in ten minutes. Right now police are still on the scene of a barricade situation in alexandria. Its been going on for hours this is happening on east reed avenue and evans lane. Megan mcgrath has been on the scene all morning and shes live thousand with the latest. Reporter you can see behind me here, the road low sure closure. The barricade situation is midway down the block. There are further down reed avenue. Around 10 00 last night, police say a man inside one of the duplexes fired shots at a relative who was outside the home. The relative was not injured. It was an adult male. He ran
Reporter beyond schools, older buildings and homes across the dmv could be at risk for potentially Dangerous Levels of lead. In this case dc Public Schools says a does skwools have elevated lead levels. Definitely want to make sure yu kids are safe especially your babies. Thats a Health Condition for anyone. Water is very important. Ma are cuss has four daughters who attend Minor Elementary School in northeast. Its one of 12 schools across the district with lead levels above the Environmental Protection agency standards. Im sure whatever it is theyre taking care of it. Reporter homes and biltdings across the dmv could be at risk. Since the incident in flint we do get weve definitely had an increase in calls of people krnd about their water filtration. And if schools issues protecting the water, is there home for you at home. Actually, they have a resinbased water system because that can remove all the lead. If youre concerned about it, the best thing to do is take a water sample and se
Hockey, pressure is on now. Much more on that coming up, but it is so far, you can tell outside, a cloudy start, but the sun, it promises to be back. Good morning, everyone. Im angie goff. And welcome on this saturday. You might need a rain jacket this morning, but not much longer. Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein tracking when the showers move out. Good morning. Starting this saturday morning, overnight showers a blessing for allergy sufferers. That did wash out a lot of the pollen in the air the last several days. Looking at storm team 4 radar, showers north and west of the metro area. These pockets of yellow, coming down harder here. Showers, Northern Shenandoah Valley along 81 up to hagerstown tracking off to the south and east. Closer to the metro area by later this morning. Showers coming right through the metro area. Heading out the door, grab the umbrella. A drying pattern on the way returning, in just a few minutes. Tom, check in with you then. Thank you. 6 02 is your ti
Posing some air Traffic Control towers and smaller cities. Lawmakers have until march 1 until automatic spending cuts spending cuts are expected to take effect. This is a little less than an hour. I remember all of you from roll call. [laughter]you asked me all the3se dumb questions. [laughter] i just want to say that it is my pleasure, and clearly yours, to have with me today the secretary of transportation, ray lahood, who is here to speak with you about the impacts of sequester, if it comes to pass, on the American Travel industry. And as weve talked about a lot, the indiscriminate, deep cuts will affect everyone, really, in america, and industries. And secretary lahood is here to discuss one aspect of that with you and to take some questions. And afterwards, ill be here to take questions on other issues. I just want to remind you that were on a slightly constrained time schedule. We have the president s meeting with National Governors democratic governors, and then also the pool sp