Recovering after a man burst into the childs home and shot him. This evening the man that pulled that trigger is still out there. This happened just before midnight along foot street in northeast d. C. Near the maryland line. Lets get the latest now from news 4s pat collins. Highs a social boy. Hes fun. He makes your day. Hes a smart boy, a good boy alt that. So i dont understand how this happened to him. Thats danesha green. She knows the victim. In fact, just about everybody on the block knows the little boy. His nickname is phatphat. He is not fat at all. Se a likely 6yearold that often plays outside his home. Last night he was shot and wounded inside his mothers apartment. Police tell the story this way. They say it happened about 11 45 last night. That two men forced their way into that upstairs apartment. Shots were the little boys hit not once, but twice in his arm t. Gunman, he runs away. Police say there was no random act. They say it appears to be the result of a neighbor dis
Showers and what that means for monday. A 44 minute delay led to the death of a metro passenger. Thanks for joining us. Im jan jeffcoat. Im lesli foster. The ntsb is just out with a plum report on that trapped smoke preliminary report on that trapped smoke filled train for monday. It says ventilation fans came on in minutes, but details, a 44 minute long wait to shut off that third rail. There was a crisis years ago this should have perhaps put metro on notice it was unprepared for this type of emergency. Reporter this preliminary report helps us make some more sense of the timeline of this tragedy that killed 1 woman and sent 86 people thats a new number 86 people to hospitals. We also got our first look at the damage the arcing that caused all the smoke. These are pictures of the electrical arcing damage on the third rail. The ntsb says a breaker at one end of the third rail tripped at 3 06 p. M. Monday, but the breaker at the other end stayed on until it was shut off by Metro Contro
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The D.C. region received over an inch of snow in nearly two years, enough to close schools and federal government offices, creating the perfect snow day.