the police department at the corner of georgia avenue and a peabody street. officers quickly evacuated nearby businesses including a walmart. news 4 s darcy spencer is live at the scene in northwest. good evening, meagan. it also prompted the evacuation of the police station any this is it behind me. the fourth district police headquarters in washington had to be temporarily evacuated because of this incident. it s important to note that police have now told us that this was not a live grenade. it did not pose a safety hazard, but at that point they really didn t know what they were dealing with. so these evacuations were ordered out of an abundance of caution. police tell us that someone brought the device, this grenade to the fourth district about 10:30 this morning to turn it over to police. the device, important to note, did not go inside the building and it stayed in the person s car. there is a lot of concern here given what s going on nationally and internationally.
al: volkswagen postgame report following the game, with the stars of the game. quite a few to choose from. amigos no se pierdan el analisis bob, tony and mike breaking it down and we ll take a preview look at next sunday night s game between the patriots and the texans. colts love playing in their division, the afc south. you go back to week 17 of 2012, 16-0. you get them out of the division and they re 13-15. going on 13-16 after tonight s game. huge difference. the good news for the colts is that three of their remaining four games will be in the division. at jacksonville, houston at home and wrap up the season with tennessee at home. one road game at miami in week 16. cris: it s hard to envision a scenario where that game against houston doesn t basically decide it, right? al: the way it looks right now, because at the moment cris: hat trick. al: harrison, wow. 13th year in the league. the two sacks coming into the game. trio tonight. cris: joe reitz flipping
both cases as we get them. right now at 11:00 a lot of questions about this viral video. police in fairfax county say it was the appropriate use of force when an officer had to tase a suspect. thanks for joining us. i m jan jeffcoat. i m bruce johnson. tonight the family of the man in that video said he s disabled, but police stand by their officer and say the suspect was resisting arrest. let s go to ellison barber who tells us both sides have video to support their claims. reporter: fairfax police say their officer used an appropriate amount of force. the family of the man in that video elton cansler disagrees and now they have an attorney. it does not seem clear from the video that the suspect did anything to warrant the tasering. reporter: dr. robert wiseberg does not represent cansler s family, but he specializes in criminal procedure at stanford law. after hiwatcelng conl phe video of a fairfax county police officer using a stun gun to subdue 35-year-old elton
up. some republicans in congress are trying to get d.c. s law overturned, and if they succeed, along d.c. s border in maryland, which adopted a similar law, marijuana use can be a ticket offense on one side of the street and a jail offense on the other. tieesha told us she can t spoke because she s on probation. republicans say they have pushed this law they say they have pushed the law because young black males have been locked up for marijuana possession. but if they if people keep smoking in cars and public places, potentially nothing will change. sam ford abc~7 news. and getting caught with small amount of marijuana in maryland will soon be met with a fine instead of an arrest. starting october 1, a new law, anyone caught with less than 10 grams of marijuana will be given a citation. people caught smoking marijuana and those found with paraphernalia, would still face criminal charges. as sam ford mentioned the d.c. decriminalization law may go up in smoke. t
appears to be in good health. just hoursely born before she was discovered. anyone who has information regarding the mother s whereabouts is asked to call police. just in from northwest washington, chaos during rush hour. the police tell us a woman is in custody, accused of stabbing a man. the incident appears to have been domestic. story haver big political races across the country and in our area. we go live to fairfax with a big surprise will how close this still is. i am here and at the fairfax where government center election officials spent the day going through ballots. everything has been so much faster, our reporting was faster than we have ever had. it was a day to react to what happened. the incumbent democrat had to sweat out a long night of returns before emerging just before midnight to claim victory over his republican opponent. the race is still too close to call and over. i don t normally trust of the polls. his is a bigger margin. the other shock