Friends on wtop 103. 5 when you hop in your car. 5 01. A neighborhood is on high alerpt after a possible bear attack. And news4s Megan Mcgrath is in great falls this morning. Reporter good morning. There have been several bear sightings in the great falls area including behind the firehouse. Take a look at this still photo that was taken. A bear is walking around. Actually, the back side of the bear going behind that stone structure. It is also believed that a bear attacked a dog on river park lane earlier this week. Well now later on today, trail cameras are going to be installed in the area near that attack. Animal control officials trying to gather more information get a handle on exactly what theyre dealing with here and try and track the bears movements and see if maybe theres more than one bear thats in the area. Now, on tuesday, 6yearold a 6yearold lab named blue was found with claw marks on her side. Her owner initially thought that she was attacked by a raccoon and when the ve
Attack earlier this week. Now, neighbors are taking action too. News4s Megan Mcgrath live with more on this. Megan . Reporter well, aaron, a number of bear sightings in the great falls area including one right behind me here behind the firehouse. Now, take a look at this picture that someone snapped of a one of the bears in the area. Its a decent sized bear Walking Around. You see the back section of the animal as it goes around a stone wall. It is also believed that a bear attacked a dog on river park lane earlier this week. Later today, trail cameras will be installed in the area near where the dog was attacked. The animal control officials are trying to figure out exactly what theyre dealing with and try and track this bear. On tuesday, 6yearold lab named blue was found with claw marks on her side. Her owner at first thought that she was attack by a raccoon but the vet said no, she was likely attacked by a bear. Now, blues family of course very concerned, this happened in their yard
Across the district as High Pressure moves across the state. A modest cooling trend will start on thursday as an upper level trough approaches the coast. The cooling trend continues friday into saturday when a slight chance of showers is forecast as an upper low approaches the region. Locally windy conditions can also be expected over the weekend. No major hot weekend. The weekend. No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. San mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. Richmond bridge drive less than 20 min from the toll to 101 james breaking news. At least 3 us soldiers are injured and nearly a dozen afghan civilians are dead following a suicide bombing near the us embassy in afghanistan. These are some of the pictures from kabul. The blast hit just before 8 00 in the morning there. Were told the soldiers are expected to survive their injuries. Isis has claimed responsibility for the attack. james a man on an evening walk in the east bay is stab
mark thanks will. We will check back through out darya now to our top story this morning. The heat hitting the bay area. mark we have Team Coverage as temperatures are expected to hit the 90s in many areas again today. Lets start with James Fletcher and your neighborhood forecast. James . james were looking for another hot day today and this will be the final day of our mini heat wave. Lets go outside and check out our 4zone camera network. Its clear and mild this morning with temperatures in the mid 60s and 70s for most locations. Your daypart forecast calls for temperatures to warm to the low 70s by mid morning. By noon well expect mid 80s inland and by the bay. Later in the afternoon well reach our peak temperatures for today, ranging from the low 70s at the coast to the mid 80s along the bay shoreline and low 90s for the inland valleys. Temps will begin to cool starting on thursday and continue to fall as we head into the weekend. There is a slight chance of light sprinkles on sund
Reporter aaron, good morning. The northbound lanes are closed. We did see Prince Georges County Police Remove a piece of rolling luggage found near that victim. As for that victim, she was removed from the scene just a short time ago. She was lying on the side of the road just past the shoulder where those officers are now standing. We can tell you that police are telling us this all happened close to 12 45 this morning. They believe that woman was walking along northbound 210 when she was struck by a passing vehicle. That passing vehicle in this case did not stop. It just kept going. At this point we dont have a make or model of that vehicle from police. The southbound lanes are remaining open. As for the lanes here, theres very much still being blocked at this time as they continue to measure the lanes here. The point of impact, where that victim was lying and also they are removing evidence, such as rolling luggage we just saw a short time ago. That is the latest here. Im justin fin