Safe. Lights out at a local highrise tonight. No power no air conditioning. The red cross working to help up to a thousand people. And the cosby controversy hits home at a smithsonian museum. New tonight, why its not ending a local art display. News4 at 11 starts now. First tonight, a mothers voice still shaking hours after gunshots in a playground full of children. Parents ran for cover this morning scooping up children along the way at the Columbia Heights Community Center on gerard street. Police are still looking for the guy who started shooting. News4s Jackie Bensen is live in northwest with reaction. Jackie . Reporter doreen, nothing describes the terror of this better than the woman youre about to hear from. She was at this playground with her 1yearold and her 3yearold. Were not showing her face. This is somewhere happy place, not somewhere where youre running, shielding children from bullets. Reporter it was just before noon and the newly remodelled playground at the Columbia H
As we heat up this afternoon, well see scattered showers and thunderstorms redevelop by the afternoon and into the evening. So temperatures will be a little bit lower today in the upper 80s. Still warm and sticky through the afternoon. Well talk about more thunderstorms for tomorrow. Larry, over to you. Thanks, allyson. Everything still running on schedule. Buses and trains, good news there. Its 395, the northbound side that we have some trouble. For those of you going through that area, want to let you know two thru lanes on the northbound side of i395 are closed as a result of an accident. One of our web producers is actually making her way up this area. She took a picture for us that she posted on twitter to show us the situation there. So you can see not only emergency crews, tow trucks but the situation. Were seeing delays all the way from shirlington circle. Heres a live look from our camera now. You can see all lanes pretty much crawling for the most part. You can account for th
Athlete who was almost swept away. Its not worth the risk. Its not definitely not worth what happened to me. And lights out at nats park tonight. Long delays for players and fans back from the allstar break. u we start the 11 00 news in storm center 4, the weekend bringing us the beginning of a heatwave. Its going to feel like more than 100 degrees. So how quickly are we going to feel that when we step out the door tomorrow morning doug . I tell you guys, today High Temperatures only in the low to mid80s. Tomorrow, however, a much different story as the heat really gets turned up quickly. Take a look, as youre making your way out and about the heat comes quick. 76 degrees at 7 00 a. M. Up to 85 by 11 00. Up to 94 degrees by 3 00. And its not just hot, it will be extremely humid during the day tomorrow too. And not just tomorrow, the heatwave, well, its here for a while. Look at the feelslike temperatures. These will be the heat index temperatures. 101 on saturday. Sunday, 105. Some are
Shot. All three were rushed to the hospital. That is where they are right now. Their conditions have not yet been released. I can tell you that the metropolitan Police Department homicide unit was notified and a mobile crime unit arrived on scene about 20 minutes ago but again at this point details very limited. We do not know anything about motives or a suspect at this point. We are waiting for more information to come through the metropolitan Police Department. Live in northeast im mola lenghi for wusa9. Violent start to the weekend over there, mola, thank you. A man exposes himself in broad daylight and we want to warn you some of the details in this story are pretty graphic. It happened yesterday afternoon at stanton park in the Capitol Hill Area and parents say this is becoming a more common problem than you might think. Reporter what started off as a fun day at this local playground here in capital hill quickly changed after mothers tell us they looked over and saw a man doing so
Oh, my god she lift the gun. Reporter troy scott, he was here. Please moved in. They shut this whole block down. Couldnt go past. Reporter did you hear them yell for her to drop the gun . Yeah. Reporter and she didnt, did she . No. Reporter police chief said the cops had working body cameras. The officers did have their body camera activated at the time and we did recover the suspects weapon which was a black semiautomatic pistol. Reporter the suspect has been identified at 41yearold Isabelle Duvall she was taken from the scene to a hospital where she died a short time later. They say shes from the winchester, virginia. What brought her here to washington and why did she have that gun and what did she plan to do with it . A lot of questions unanswered, a done. Live in southwest, pat collins, news4. Here at the live desk were seeing traffic backed up for up to three miles in each direction after a deadly wrong way crash on route 50. That is the word were getting right now from our siste