Yeah, cold weather. Wisdom, maureen, good morning. Maureen, great advice. Extra layers this morning. It feels like Single Digits here in d. C. Even feels like below zero in a few of our suburbs. Well go through those. Well let you know how long the cold lasts coming up. Hey, erin. Right now roads are quiet but i cant stress enough, mike, it is cold out there. You need the boots, the layers, the scarves, the gloves. Whew. Backback to you guys. If youre just getting up were following a developing story from afghanistan. At least 35 people are dead after an attack on a news agency in kabul. 56 more people have been wounded. Local media reporting that the blast happened early this morning at the office of afghan voice news agency. Officials say a suicide bomber was likely behind the attack. Afghan journalism groups condemn the bombing. Recent reports show a surge in attacks against reporters in afghanistan. Former u. S. Senate candidate from alabama roy moore is taking his case to court. M
A child answered that door. He assaulted the child and then left that house in a stolen vehicle. He then crashed into a man nearby driving a pickup truck. He assaulted that man, carjacked his truck and then fled the scene. Officers responding to the child assault call spotted him on the road and after a short pursuit, the suspect crashed into a van carrying several people. Were told seven people near centreville road here. And officers finally arrested him at this intersection and that suspect is in the hospital this morning facing multiple charges. Police still have no information about the condition of the child and exactly why he assaulted him, why he went to this home and so the motive is still unclear at this point. Take a listen. This is a multifacted investigation. We have several scenes, crime scenes. The crash is quite a a bad crash and we have called out multiple resources. Our command bus is on scene. Things together and find out motive for the initial call, what led to this
Trying to elevate things to another level as we do every day on good day dc. Today its flat out freezing up there. Need to warm it up a level. And send blankets asap. Thursday december 28th, 2017. If you have any goals you set at the beginning of the year you best to get them done. Four days. Hurry up. Also ahead this morning the mad dash to pre pay next years property tax before those new tax laws kick in and as if its not already confusing enough, the irs may have just added some extra drama. Well tell you why coming up in a live report. Try to sort it all out. Very confusing. Good luck. It is confusing. I dont even really understand all the different rules. I dont think irss does either to be honest with you. First we got to talk about the weather were in store for the coldest december day. Really a decade when the ball drops in times square for details tuck, tell us to bundle up and stay in and watch the ball drop on tv this year. Distracted by the g. J giles band in my ear. Freeze
Including a van carrying seven people and multiple people were taken to the hospital. Our annie yu is lie on the scene in herndon now. She has the latest. Annie. Reporter maureen and steve, that crash happened at this intersection behind me. This is centreville road and frying pan proceed here in herndon, virginia. It was shut down to traffic for hours and it reopened early this morning. But police say it all started around 8 oclock last night when this man, em knocked on n the door of a home on autumn drive which is not too far from here. They say a young child answered the door. The man assaulted that child, then fled in a stolen vehicle. He then crashed into a man at a nearby shopping center, carjacked that guy, assaulted him and then he left the scene. Now, officers responding to the child assault call spotted him on the road and after a pursuit, the suspect crashed into a van carrying seven people near this major intersection. He then got out of the car, ran into the woods and tha
Fox5s annie yu is following the story for us this morning. Shes live with the latest. Annie. Reporter well, erin and wisdom, police are still working to identify the person found inside this burned car. You can see behind me that d. C. Police still guarding this crime scene that happened about 10 hours ago now. We also have this incredible video that a viewer shared with us. Its cell phone video and it really shows how this alley behind these homes were lit up by this fire. Its on ridge road and g street. Inside this car police found a body. Theyre not clear whether the body found was that of a woman or a man and neighbors tell us that they heard a blast of gunfire just after 7 30 followed by a big explosion and that is when they saw the flames engulfing the vehicle. The viewer hoop sent us this video says she was here visiting family. Take a listen. Sound like big gunshots, like four or five gunshots and we all hit the floor for a moment. Then my son ventured out and it was a car in t