Doctors say they like what they see so far. Some are stoned with how fast this happen. Mei xiang went into labor at 10 00 this morning, her water broke at about 4 30, and tonight we have a panda. Birth to a giant panda cub never gets old. It does not matter if you are a veteran im so happy, thrilled roz or your very first time. Ive waited years for this. Happenedmagic moment this evening, and so far so good. They are showing all signs of being happy and healthy. Mom is being a great mother. Roz panda watchers began converging saturday morning after word that mei xiang was in labor. They crowded around the camera, evaluating her every move. Likes tos where she be, in the corner, with the contractions. Was inseminated twice, back in april, then earlier this month she began showing signs of a possible pregnancy. Ultrasound wednesday confirmed it, and now she is bonding with her brandnew cub. I want to emphasize, we are very excited but we are very cautious. We will keep our fingers crosse
Maryland. Northwest winds today. So chilly forup, juu june. 55 at 7 00. 73 tonight at 7 00. Beach forecast coming up along with travel weather. Speaking of travel, lets go over to wtop, our traffic partner. 91 north up about into wood br bridge, septembaccident on the shoulder causing a slowdown. Also very slow traffic in manassas, chopper 4 is headed to the scene northbound 28 after main ra maplewood drive. Southbound we believe is good. But northbound, we dont need anything else going wrong. So be aware north 28 blocked after maplewood drive. Right is their best shot at finding a person of interest in a quadruple shooting. It happened right outside of Big Ben Liquor store in northwest. Megan mcgrath is live at the scene where police are asking the public for help. Reporter police is been outside Big Ben Liquor since early this morning before the sun came up, theyre handing out flyers. You can see an officer talking to someone who lives in the air. The fryer lyer is announcing an Emer
They need to be replaced. We dont know what shape they are in overtime. Brianne a number of questions remain. What is leading up to this . Did it have to do with the inspections or does it have to do with procedures happening or is it deterioration . Still questions we are waiting to get answers to. Waiting to hear later this evening from the metro general manager from Paul Wiedefeld regarding service tomorrow morning. Reporting live, brianne carter, abc7 news. Jonathan thank you. The trickledown on this is huge. Its everywhere. Think about it. Metrorail system funnels from Northern Virginia, prince georges and Montgomery County to d. C. Michelle the heart of the subway beneath d. C. Streets is above where we are seeing the significant impact. D. C. Bureau chief sam ford continues the Team Coverage from southwest washington. Sam . Sam Something Else that numbers in here is traffic. We are at the southwest freeway where there is a lot of traffic in every moving slowly out of the city. F
Jackson is staying, the occupants of the apartment called police on us and said we were suspicious people. Police came back, realized we were with channel 7 and said everything was fine. Indianapolis colts tell us theyre aware of the arrest but had no further comment. No comment from jackson. Reporting live im jennifer donaldon, back to you in studio. All right. Thanks, jen. Uhhuh. Temperatures topped the 50degree mark outside today but dont get used to it. Yeah nice and pleasant out there. Chief meteorologist doug hill in the stormwatch 7 Weather Center with a look, of course of the changes headed our way. Hi, doug. Hi there. We should be used to this roller coaster pattern weve had. Warmer colder warmer colder. Were in the warmer phase. 53 right now outside of the belfort furniture center. Live look at Bell Haven Country Club in alexandria. Gorgeous afternoon. Somebody on the golf path there, on the cart path. Beautiful day to golf with temperatures in the 50s. 53 at dulles. 58 degre
Suspected gunman right now. The streets there are closed in that area. News4s Jackie Bensen is headed to the scene and will bring you a live report straight ahead. Well, the feds are now taking an interest in the damage that was done to a local mosque. Vandals have now targeted this ivy city mosque twice in a matter of days. News4s Mark Segraves is live in northeast d. C. At the mos tock show us how investigators and leaders there are now handling this. Reporter the ivy city mosque has been in this neighborhood just off new york avenue for nearly 20 years. But after two recent incidents of vandalism, the fbi has now taken notice. The fbi came and visit and they just wanted to make sure that were okay and, you know they looked around they took pictures and they gave me their card in case we need their help. Reporter at first police told those who worship at this mosque the vanld lism was randalism was random and not linked to hate. They thought it was linked to other disturbances in the