Trouble at 9th and water street southwest. At 3 22 heavy smoke was reported at the upper level. At 3 32 the first call for an ambulance. And nearly an hour later, 4 25 the first person taken to the ho. That time line from d. C. Leaders seems to closely match a time line assembled by one of the passengers jonathan rogers. He says he took this photo a few minutes after smoke started pouring in. His iphone time stamped the photo at 3 20 p. M. Rogers said this photo is when evacuations began, time stamped 4 01. At 4 20 an hour after the first photo, rogers took a picture of what he says is the first firefighter he saw. Finally, about two minutes later, rogers is in the tunnel and walking to safe. Now just days after the incident and with the investigation still ongoing, the first lawsuits have been filed against metro. One of the passengers trapped inside the smoky train spoke about the tragedy, and his lawyers explaining why the lawsuit is being filed so quickly. News4s adam tuss has more
At 6 00 reaction from one of andreas closest friends. Youll hear some of that very chilling confession and find out what caleb crew had to say in the courtroom today directly to the victims family. Reporting live from Fairfax County im julie carey, news4. Just a few days ago, when we saw driving winds and snow and ice too, now its all melting. But there is some real concern about whats next for us tonight. Storm team 4 meteorologist Veronica Johnson joins us now from the Weather Center to explain. Vj . That is guys. And we had a lot of melting take place today, easy to do. We stopped out at 42 our warmest since monday. In fact look at the temperatures now. Theyre Still Holding mid and upper 30s across the area from manassas at 34. 37 in town. Already at freezing and just below, around sandy spring. Hanging on to 40 around fredericksburg and down south around quantico. Here is the deal. By around 8 00 to 9 00 this evening, our temperatures in many neighborhoods will hit that freezing ma
Johnson as gallmon was inside buying these fluorescent zip ties those say thai say she was going to use to scare the robbery victim. When police found messerschmitts body in the hotel, they say there were zip ties around his fingers fixed together into makeshift hand cutchs. Hed been stabbed seven times. Johnson told police that she waited outside while gallmon went into the Donovan Hotel and up to David Messerschmitts room. When she came out, johnson says she and gallmon walked south on 14th Street Holding hands. She asked gallmon how it went but gallmon didnt say a word. They got on a metro bus to ride home and on that bus johnson said gallmon told her, it went bad. According to Court Documents David Messerschmitt went online soliciting moern. Police say that gallmon posed as a imagine and went to meet messerschmitt at the Donovan Hotel. They say that robbery turned into a case of murder. And this murder for what . 40 in cash and a metro fare card. What did Dominique Johnson get out
A look at your bus stop forecast coming up and what to wear. Melissa, whats happening on the the issue on the inner loop of the Woodrow Wilson bridge. Looks like things may have cleared out of the way. We did have a Police Response here perhaps moved out of the way at this point this morning. Well check on that and let you know in a couple of minutes. Looking at 95 in maryland no major problems. North bound or southbound, everything is moving along nicely. 66 head into and out of town looking nice. 270 north and south moving along nicely. Same thing as you head over to the east, into and out of town, no issues. At this hour on this morning 150 years ago, doctors were fighting to save the life of president abraham lincoln. At the same time a massive manhunt was underway for his assassin who was hiding out at a home in maryland. Right now, fords theatre is marking the anniversary with around the clock tribute. News4s Megan Mcgrath has details. Good morning. Reporter well good morning. Th
Horsepower, which sounds kind of weird. That was the best way i could come up with the separate these topics out, but youre gonna hear three really excellent talks on that theme tonight. Each speaker is gonna speak for about 15 minutes so felly short presentations and thats gonna leave us plenty of time for questions and discussion at the end and you can type your questions into the q a box at any time throughout the evening and we will respond to those later after all. He talks have taken place. So were looking forward to hearing your questions and feedback very much. Thats part of the excitement for us going into this evening. Our first speaker tonight is going to be dr. Caroline wood newhall, and shes very well known around here because she works as the postdoctoral fellow at the Virginia Center for civil war studies here at Virginia Tech before that. She earned her phd at unc chapel hill. Shes working on a book about black pow w experiences in the confederacy. And by the way, she g