on in the parking lot a stu students come out to their parents. it has been a day of great anxiety and a day of a lot of confusion. was just about an hour ago when the lockdown was lifted and students were finally allowed to start leaving school. they re joining their worried parents who have been waiting r hours in the parking lot. their fears finally relieved when the chief came out around 5:00 to tell them that the gu e gun that had discharged in a classroom around noon, had finally been locat the news is we have the firearm, a firearm. where was the gun found? t was found in a classroom. wherein that classroom? was it concealed? i need to learn more about that and i will share that with you. now, at an early news conference, about 30 minutre befothat, parent pressed the chief with questions when they found out for the first time that gun was still missing. uey had beener the impression all along it had been recovered hours earlier. here s what we learned about
finals and graduation are now grieving, trying to understand why. we ll get through this. reporter: a shaken campus community wakingp to a new reality. the suspect faces a multitude of charges to ilude two counts of murder, sand four counts of atmpted murder. chris clackum, nbc news, charlotte. mean while herin our ea, students are back in class at hilton high school in prince william county after a gun went off in a classroom so they have security this morning. justin finch was tre eaking to parents about how they felt dropping their kids off one day after this happened? reporter: the 16-year-old male student at the center of this will not be in class today. instead he is now facing at leas a charge of having a gunl on sch property. this morning we saw this an enhanced policepresence. prince william countries police here on the ground showing themselves here in an effort to calm the nerves of studentsstnd f and parents after an agonizing wait yesterday for answ
jae julie carey. the parents had some strong words for the police. reporter: for what could have happened to their students, then it went to anger a while ago around 4:30 when police came out and held a news conference. the police ching telli parents that the gun that had discharged in an art school art classroom earlier today hadot been located. parents had been under the impression that the student had be detained. the gun had been found. police were doing a routine sweep of the building. frustrationed their to the chief of police and as you said, he just returned here to the microphones a few minutes ago to reassure a parent they do have the gun now and the school superintendent told parents they are going to start dismissing students shortly. in fact, you see behind e right now the buses starting to pull in. hundreds of students in that school very anxious to go home. now, let me tell you about the new details we ve lutrned this gunfire, this one gunshot that happened i
we have a winter weather advisory, but in pink we have a weather warning for the areas in pink. butcharlotte s county, staffordg county g down to southern fauquier county and back off towards the southwestern portions of virginia we ha a warning. but the snow line is starting to reach portions of central virginia. you can see t sharpcutoff right here. we ll havore talking about the snow in just a bit. guys. in the meantime, i want to woman s about a young life cut short at 20 years old. now her family is left to wonder what she may have become and why her life was taken. diamond moore s family may learn more about the circumstances leading up to her death now that alexandria police h e made a quick arrest. darcy spencer has the story. eporter: this is diamond moore in her cap and ground on her graduationay at tc williams family in analia. the family thought she was full of limitless possibilities, but now they re trying to ihegine life without her. do i want to talk? ye
we have more now on how the fix will affect thousands of riders. this morning, metro discovered a broken cable that is more than 40 years old. installed with the original track. the cable is integral to the system because it supports [inaudible] to eliminate risk of a collision, metro is only allowing trains on each track between brooklyn and takoma at any given time. in other words there will be congestion. there will be delays through friday. then this weekend, the metro will install new communication table. shuttle buses replacing trains between sul ver spring and rhode island avenue on saturday and sunday. the line service at fort fort to then is not metro is telling us this setback is not connected to the recent work that added a new track transfer device along the red line. live in northeast, i m kevin lewis. abc7 news. we are following a developing story in maryland where an investigation underway after the three police officers were hurt when the cars collided