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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 don t 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 ....
your screen. we want to get your reaction to the white house proposal. with presidentin trump s economic council director, gary cohen, in the briefing room yesterday on what this means for individuals. [video clip] taxes andgoing to cut signify the tax for by taking the current seven tax brackets we have today and reducing them to only three brackets. a 10% bracket, a 25% bracket, and a 35% bracket. we are going to double the standard eduction so that a married couple won t pay any taxes on the first $24,000 of income they earn. so, in essence we are creating a zero tax rate for the first $24,000 that a couple earns. the larger standard deduction needs to simplification, because far fewer taxpayers will need to itemize. was the top economic adviser for the president yesterday outlining what it means for individuals. of worse, there is the business side of this as well. we want to know your thoughts this morning. start tiling and so we can get your phone calls. return to ....
one person on the bus were hurt. two people in the home were hurt. we re told six residents to live at the home had to stay somewhere else last night. no word on what caused the crash. more movement on the korean peninsula. angie goff has more. that s right, aaron. the u.s. beginning to move parts of its anti-missile defense system to south korea. take a look. this is happening actually faster than it was expected. you can see military trailers carrying what appears to be launched canisters. they re going to take them 155 miles south of seoul. and sparks protests by hundreds of residents. the front-runners of korea s presidential election is also opposed to the controversial system moving in. last year the u.s. and south korea agreed to deploy the defense system that counter the threats by the north. and the pentagon is saying this is a south korea and its allies. angie goff, thank you. it s 4:31, it will be a busy day as president trump enters his first 100 day ....
into a dryer afternoon. most areas back in the low 70s for afternoon temperatures. so considerably milder than we ve been the last few days. way warmer weather comes our way for tomorrow and friday. the weekend, well, a little chance of a shower on the weekend. we ll be detailing that a little later. again, first thing this morning just a couple rain drops as sheena said pretty much running along the bay. and those showers are going southbound. and eventually, they ll be moving out of here. good riddance to the clouds as well. let s go to melissa to check on track. how s the outer loop? not so hot, chuck. a problem here on the right side of the roadway and one on the left side. really slowing things down as you head through the outer loop. a two or three-mile backup this morning. innerlooper, 270 at georgetown. that has cleared out of the way. 395 north north of penalty gone, that crash. and ramp. county parkway between 123 and burks centre parkway. and a new crash re ....
and i m erika gonzalez. we have breaking news beginning on this midday. it is now over almost an entire day after corporal steven ballard was killed in delaware. the suspect was killed by police. that happened only an hour and a half ago. the man was holed up inside the house after shooting ballard, a delaware state trooper, yesterday. this all started at a wawa. ballard was investigating two men. the other man was taken into custody, but the one accused of shooting ballard took off. ballard is from bowie, maryland. he was 32 years old. the red line is a mess this morning. megan mcgrath is at the metro center station with this story. here s red line reporter: this downtown ambassador did her best to direct riders to shuttle buses. metro need to pay me. reporter: in what was a frustrating and confusing rush hour on the red line. both exiting at metro center thought they could grab a bus on the corner of 12th, but they say nothing ever came. they eventually ....