Tragedy of historic proportions. Also tonight a fire closer to home for some firefighters dealing with the cold. Keeping themselves warm with evacuations tonight. And a highway shooting, this time on the maryland d. C. Line. The possibility that he was dumped along the side of the road. Flames tore through that apartment building, killing 12 people, including a baby. Good evening, everyone. Im leon harris. Several others are injured, four critically right now. This fire raged through a fivestory walkup this evening. About 700 firefighters raged through the bronx zoo. Helping people stranded outside on a frigid night is the red cross. The fire had already escalated from one apartment to two, two almost to all i see is a bunch of kids in the fire escape cold, with no jacket, no pajamas, no nothing. Search of the building continues, so we know that even though its horrible to report that 12 are dead already, we may lose others as well. And with that being the case, obviously a lot still t
Volumes this morning. Nothing in the way on the beltway. The springfield interchange. Been keeping a close eye on the afternoon as people hit the roads. On route 27 in damascus, a crash near the northern oak drive intersection under Police Direction at the scene. Light traffic getting to it and a brief delay getting past it. Thats the latest. Aaron and susan, back to you. Dave, thank you. 6 01. A terrifying scene after an Apartment Fire kills at least a dozen people. Tracie strahan from our new york sister station is live on the scene with the latest for us. Reporter good morning from belmont section of the bronx where 12 people were killed from that fastmoving fire. This morning, weve learned that four are children. Thick smoke shot out of a top floor apartment before 7 00 last night on prospect avenue. According to fire officials, it started in a ground floor apartment and shot all the way up like a chimney. There was a scramble from safety. 15 of them were rescued by fire officials.
Bombagenesis . Bill bomb cyclone. I retreated stuff from the satellite that showed it wound up and lookedded like a hurricane out there. That is the deep drop of pressure we talked about last night. Its pushing up to new england. For the most part out of our area in terms of what is going on with the snowfall. Now we have driving winds out of the northwest. That moves us forward to the next story. Its a big story. Wind chill advisory posted for the entire region. Of course, it includes d. C. Metro. That goes all the way up out of our region as well. The wind gusts right now, if youve been outside you know this and you might hear this. The tree flowing around. We have a wind gust of 40 in winchester. 36 Miles Per Hour is the wind gust around d. C. 38 in gaithersburg, frederick, the same thing. If you look at the temperatures now the big chill begins. 26 in d. C. 22 in gaithersburg. The feels like temperature is what you need to prepare for if you are going outside now is in the Single D
Outside it is very mild and muggy. 71 in annapolis, lets go west where its shy of 80 manassas 77 at dulles, cooler along the mountains, temperatures there in the 60s. But the due point map its back. We had to retire it probably last fall and now its time to look at them again. Any time you got due points in the 60s, means the humid. When you start to see the 70s, its oppressive. A lot of humidity on this night. Will stay muggy. Satellite and radar, quiet evening, no thunderstorms sterilized. A couple of showers across central portions of west virinia, otherwise nice and pretty quiet again tomorrow, low temperatures overnight falling back to the 60, you need the air conditioner to sleep cmfortably. Falling to 64 in annapolis, 68 dc, 66 in dulles. Heres your 70 its humid, a little bit of sunshine but battling the clouds. 82 for the High Temperature in dc, ten degrees cooler but it is still kind of muggy, theres a slight chance of showers and a they dont remember and increasing into the w
Not nearly as star studied but goes on as planned, but the president not in the room, it took a serious turn this year. Good morning, im annie yu im Tom Fitzgerald. Great to see you. Sunday april 30th, last day of april. May day tomorrow already. Caitlin roth, how are you . Good morning to you both and foles like we rushed into summer with the weather. Tied a record at washington. Felt like it outside. It was 91 degrees but with the humidity warmer, felt like the middle of summer and still humid. First steps outdoors, grab a sunday paper, its sticky and cloudy, a lot like yesterday morning as we take a live view of the white house. Its last day of april and ending on a warm note, warm days throughout the month. 72 outside, mostly cloudy, winds out of the northeast and that will be a key difference i todays forecast compared to yesterday, winds out of the northeast off the atlantic relatively cooler waters. Not for everyone, we got a warm front set up, and even though were starting off