Tom roussey arrived a short time ago. Tom, what did you find out . ,twosuch a sad situation days before christmas, a man was hit and killed. The car that was fleeing the police was coming over the hill on east capitol street. Then it slammed into that vehicle. Neighbors say that a man was taken out and given cpr by the police, but later pronounced dead at the hospital. The car that was fleeing the police did not stop. Here is video of other cars that it hit further down east capitol street, near the intersection of benning road hitting two other cars. One person had to be taken to the hospital from that accident, but their injuries are not lifethreatening. The car that was fleeing the police wou juvenile taken into custody. The police say they cannot tell me if they are looking for anybody else. This all started when Police Officers saw a vehicle that had been carjacked recently and started chasing it. The Police Officer lost the vehicle for a time but eventually while it was trying to
Two people were killed in the county in a span of 24 hours. And were working to get more information about Carrie Fisher, actress best known for her role in star wars films had a heart attack on a flight to los angeles. News 4 at 11 00 begins with breaking news. We are following several breaking news stories on the night before Christmas Eve. We begin with a deadly crash in northeast washington that happened after police started chasing a stolen car. News 4s Jackie Benson got to the scene. Jackie, what can you tell us . Reporter doreen, just a terrible situation. Take a look over here at what is left of that vehicle. Now, that car was being driven by a man who was taken from this scene and pronounced dead. This all started earlier this evening. Police were pursuing a vehicle that they suspected of being carjacked a few days earlier. Broke off the pursuit, but the vehicle continued speeding throughout this area. Hitting three other vehicles, the last one being that wrecked vehicle you s
A little bit wet out there. Not too cold. Not too bad. Lauren is tracking it all. A week ago it was freezing rain coming down. Not so much this morning. Definitely not this morning. Those temperatures are well above freezing at this point so that is good news for anybody headed on the roadways. Youre not necessarily dealing with icy conditions, maybe just wet conditions out there as we have rain throughout the region spreading through the Greater Washington area. Its continuing to stream up as a frontal system, a weak one, but its moving through the area and it will cross through mid day. In fact were going to have a dry afternoon. So all day its not going to be wet, but were going to time that out for you and let you know exactly when this rain will end in case you need to do any lastminute shopping. Well let you know when its going to be dry coming up. One man is dend crash in the district involving four vehicles. Police started chasing a vehicle they thought was stolen. The officer
Region, and temperatures steady. A wet start to saturday, and a yellow weather alert for saturday morning, and mid morning, west of the blueridge, you are drying out, and dc should be dry, maybe Southern Maryland hanging on to showers, and better in the afternoon. Summing up, day planner in the metro, low 40s, wet weather in the morning, and partial clearing in the afternoon, and high temperatures 51. All right, live pictures of an accident in the 42 block of east capital in northeast, and we are told one person has died in the crash, and it started with Police Chasing a stolen car, and police took a juvenile into custody, and we are told it may stem from a carjacking incident that happened earlier this week. Now lets look across the area as the Holiday Travel weekend is in full swing. Traffic is moving pretty good on i95 near the springfield, virginia, exit, and also good at the eisenhower connector, and smooth sailing across the American Legion bridge and randolph road intersection.
Youve got last minute shopping trying to get to where your family is for the holidays you dont want to deal with a big storm. Luckily this time were warming up to where were not dealing with a mess on the roads of wintery weather like we did last saturday at this time. This time its just rain. Nonetheless theres quite a bit of it. It is going to be meaning that you need to give yourself a couple of extra minutes to get where you need to go this morning. Theres a look at first alert live doppler. You can see green blanketing the entire area. It started to develop and move in overnight. We as we look back to the west, this is where were starting to see some clearing in parts of western pennsylvania and West Virginia and arrives here later this morning. By noontime today, we do start to see things drying out and even by the end of the afternoon some spots get some sunshine. Right now 40 degrees in town. Weve got rain and temperatures stuck in the 30s to around 40 across the region. Rain s