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 dont 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 phone. All right. Now t
Nobody will ever find you. That woman is still alive and likely witness at the industrial. Fultons discovery, they reopened the investigation into rodriguez disappearance. They got a warrant to search her apartment last friday. Denying bail today, judge said the defendant knows the witnesses, knows where they live and knows how to make bodies disappearance. Reporting live, im sam ford. Larry thank you. The smoke can be seen for miles. Today People Living near the massive fire say they could smell it. Brad bell was out there all day monday. What did the investigators learn today, brad . Brad they are not telling us they learned anything. I dont think they learned much at all. They did go to the area of origin. Where the ladder is set up. They looked at it from the outside. One of the problems here the firefighters say is the way that the people was built. They are expected to be on scene for another night. Commanders insisted that the crews remained outside directing water on the hot sp
And is special ceremony for a Fallen Police officer. How you can still take part this weekend. It came through fast and didnt hit all of us but the storms we saw this afternoon did hit hard in parts of montgomery county. Reports of marble and quarter size hail and dozens of trees came down. Amelia draper will have our forecast in a minute. First, Jackie Bensen is live in a hard hit section of tacoma park. Jackie . Reporter crews are here trying to repair the damage from when a utility pole snapped in half after a tree fell on it. There are lights out at this intersection and repairs are going to take some time. That tree came just crashing down. Reporter people in takoma park say they have not seen thunderstorm damage like this in years. This store was left in tatters by what witnesses describe as marblesize hail. We just hear like an amber alert sound and then we see big flashes of light. The whole street just lit up. At r. K. Automotive, by standers were pulled in as hail and wind cr
Alcohol to school this morning. Purple rain, purple rain remembering prince, one year after his untimely death. How music fans are honoring his leg sixt your news starts now. I love that song. Well play more for you later on. We begin tonight with the wild weather. Not only todays storms that knocked over trees and power lines but also the changes in store for this weekend. We have stream coverage ton. Tisha lewis is live on storm damageage control. Lets start with sue palka. Is all this behind us now . It depends what you mean. And yes, not done with rain and more on that in a moment. And all of the activities started after 4 00 Loudoun County and then Montgomery County and grays the district to Prince George to Anne Arrundel and reports that the reports of large hail anywhere from the size of d dimes to quarters to half dollars to even pingpong balls and golf balls. Large hail is a sign of a severe storm. And this hail was seen in bethesda. So, we thank all of you who september in pi
Able to get out there so far and there are some dry patches in this shower activity so far today. So, its not going to be a total complete washout but there is a good chance that, yes, well be dealing with cooler temperatures and occasional showers throughout the day today. So, not the best weekend. Heres Storm Tracker radar. You can see scattered showers about through Prince Georges County, Southern Maryland, through the Northern Neck of virginia down towards fredericksburg. Very very light this morning. Then kind of a second batch out towards front royal that extends up towards hagerstown through the maryland and West Virginia panhandles there. Very light very scattered this morning. Unfortunately this is going to be the case throughout the day today where were going to continue to see these showers kind of streaming in from the south and from the west. Check out your Bigger Picture. You can see it all kind of extending through West Virginia and look back towards kentucky you see a h