secret service fled a traffic stop and fatally struck a 75-year-old man just blocks away from the white house. nbc s tom costello is following this for us. tom, what s the latest? in fact, they are still looking for the suspect and the vehicle. it is described as a 2006 blue honda. it was last seen fleeing the scene. to recap what happened, it was 1:30 yesterday afternoon when the uniformed division of the secret service attempted a traffic stop right there at 17th and constitution, right at the national mall, right across the street from the ellipse and the white house. the driver indicated that he would comply with the traffic stop, and then instead suddenly took off. went through a crosswalk, hitting three people, witnesses say that a 75-year-old man was thrown up in the air, came back and landed on the hood, and then the driver after the man rolled off the hood, the driver backed up and ran over him again. that according to witnesses. that 75-year-old man died. two others in the
by. the chair of the committee, tammy baldwin, failed in egregious lapses in judgment. the coast guard has quite a bit of work to do to win back the trust of congress. new details about the moments before larry nassar was stabbed in prison. the inmate suspected of the attack was set off after nassar made a lewd comment while watching a wimbledon women s match on television. he was stabbed ten times inside his cell, away from witnesses and surveillance cameras. the federal bureau of prisons declined to comment citing a pending investigation. nassar was sentenced to decades in prison for sexually abusing hundreds of young women, many members of the u.s. women s national gymnastics team. police today are searching for a person responsible for a deadly hit-and-run by the national mall on wednesday. the person trying to evade the
injured, including a 13-year-old girl, but they were treated on the scene and released. here s something else we have learned today, and that is that this car has racked up $720 in d.c. speeding tickets over the last two years. so they are really urgently looking for this car and this driver. there is no indication that this was any attempt on anybody at the white house, the president of course was out of town. he was in europe. the vice president was not there. this appears to be a case of a violent action right at the height of the summer tourist season. you know, we get 32 million people a year coming down the national mall, 440,000 cars a day, and this is the height of tourist season with the national mall, the washington monument, and the white house, the top attractions. chris. you hate to see it, it could have been worse. another strike looming, this time involving some of the
blossoms. how is it going? this is lovely. have you been here before? we have never been to the cherry blossoms. it s gorgeous, it s breathtaking. norah: 3,700 japanese cherry trees dot the national mall, originally get from japan, offered in 1912, as a symbol of friendship. how many of them are original? there might be around ten trees in our park here that are some of the original trees. norah: keith arborist matthew morrison s full-time job is keeping the majestic trees alive. how many arborists and caretakers are there for the trees? well, and one time, there was maybe 15, and now we are down to three. norah: you have three arborists taking care of more than 3,000 trees? yes, well, 3,000 cherry trees. we have 20,000 trees in the park. norah: with more than 1.5 million people coming to see the blossoms, these caretakers have had to work harder in the face of climate change. what are some of the issues that