Night. The thick smoke enveloping all of college park. We do now know how much damage was done for the under construction building. This video taken by the county assistant fire chief pans across the roof. Destroyed by the still burning blaze. The roof has burned and collapsed to the floor. The building is in the 40 million range for the damage just to that wing of the building. Fire damage in the 15 million range for the fire damage to the upper level. Brad so decisions still need to be make, how much will be demolished for the rebuild. What you are looking live is the 2 x 4. One upthere on the seventh floor. When we come back, we will tell you how that is the subject of debate out here. Would construction in an aparen lightweight construction and the firefighters just dont like it. Brad bell, abc7 news. Alison thank you. Stay with abc7 for updates from college park if you have to step away log on to wjla. Com text. Sign up for the instant updates right on your phone. All right. Now t
Nobody will ever find you. That woman is still alive and likely witness at the industrial. Fultons discovery, they reopened the investigation into rodriguez disappearance. They got a warrant to search her apartment last friday. Denying bail today, judge said the defendant knows the witnesses, knows where they live and knows how to make bodies disappearance. Reporting live, im sam ford. Larry thank you. The smoke can be seen for miles. Today People Living near the massive fire say they could smell it. Brad bell was out there all day monday. What did the investigators learn today, brad . Brad they are not telling us they learned anything. I dont think they learned much at all. They did go to the area of origin. Where the ladder is set up. They looked at it from the outside. One of the problems here the firefighters say is the way that the people was built. They are expected to be on scene for another night. Commanders insisted that the crews remained outside directing water on the hot sp
S. U. V. At the corner of arctic avenue and aspen hill road. Montgomery county schools confirm that the children on board were from veer mill Road Elementary School and we are told they are checked out but just as a precaution. Michelle the man who terrorized two counties pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murders. We were there last year as 63yearold Eulalio Tordil was captured. Prosecutors say his crime spree started when he shot and killed a wife gladys in a School Parking lot in prince georges county. He shot people at random outside the montgomery mall. The lot of his job and a looming child sex investigation plagued tordil prior to the shooting spree. He faces possibility of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Jonathan there are details emerging in the 8yearold disappearance of pamela butter. Today detective fulton said a woman claimed to be jose wasnt. It was an imposter. Then he realized that no one had heard from his real wife in 28 years. Fulton said that co
Shoring up before the building is safe enough to go inside and start working on it to try to get it repaired. Advocates of wood frame construction say its perfectly safe and very economical when it is combined with modern sprinkler systems which is why its a legal construction type but this building was under construction and not occupied yet so the sprinklers were not working yesterday, thus the disaster we witnessed. It is entirely possible depending what the engineers say they have to take down about two thirds of this building and start all over again. And college park, scott broom wusa9. s 4 the complex is a development by the Wood Partners of atlanta which is a National Development firm that is yes to comment. A gray and rainy day with showers just hanging around. First alert meteorologist er terrace and what are you seeing on live doppler . We see a couple of showers and nothing heavy tonight. Bad news is roads are still wet from todays drizzle and showers. Heres the radar and o
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