2020. Teachers will remain on active duty and are working out plans for distancelearning with their School Districts. It is going to be a hardship on the families. I think. Is it a right decision. Im not sure . You have to stay on, you cant go out. You will make do somehow. Health officials in the measures can only slow the spread of the virus, which is now active in the community, and by time thomas all providers arent overwhelmed caring for the sick. The outbreak of covid19 in our county will continue to spread and we anticipate many, many more cases in the days and weeks to come. Those numbers have just gone up this week, there are now 79 confirmed cases in santa clara county, that is up from 36 on monday. You have an idea how many people of actually been tested i talked to the county executive jeff smith today, he is also medical doctors was interested very keen in this area. She suburban 622 tessa been given up to people, mostly to sick people and some cases one person was given m
Gonzalez. Tens of thousands of customers lost power. News4s Darcy Spencer is live oi u street more on the folks affected and what areas. Darcy . Reporter there is never a good day to lose power, but you defily dont want to lose it on a day like today. It is extremely hot out here. And you cant help but think about the people who are stuck inside without air conditioning. We are here on Georgia Avenue in n wthwest where power just restored to this intersection. There are many intersectionsfe afed by the power outage where there are no lights, and you have to treat that as a fourway stop. We want to show you a photo. This was a moment during the pou r outage. Yocan imagine how frightening it would be to be inside an elevator when the power goes out. D. C. Fire a ems were able to rescue numerous people who got trapped inde elevators when the lights went out earlier this afternoon. The outage is affecting also Washington Hospital center and Howard University hospital. D. C. Fire and ems sa
Dead. We have a crew on the way and well bring you updates just as soon as possible. Also tonight we are following a developing story in the dwts. A toddler was shot inside a southeast apartment billing today. Police say the victim was shot in the leg. She is in the hospital and is expected to survive. This happened around 3 00 this afternoon on pam roy road. Thats in southeast near the berry farm neighborhood. D. C. Police are giving few details but will say no one was arrested. Sources tell fox5 tonight the child may have been playing with a gun. This his the same apartment complex where a 16 year old was shot and killed last september and last year a six year old boy was injured by a stray bullet on the playground there. To Prince Georges County now where the search is on tonight for the person who shot and killed a man in upper marlboro. Officers were called to van diver court around 11 00 last night. When they arrived they already dead. Investigators say the man had several gunsho
Good morning. Fire forces several people from their homes overnight. Investigators are trying to find out if it was a firework that caused this. The race to the finish in the police and fire world games as they will come to a close and we will have a live report. Its a foggy soupy start throughout the metro area but temperatures are warming up and its going to be a lot drier than it was yesterday. Good morning. Thank you so much for waking up with us, best place for sunday morning television, wusa. Its hard to get out of the door in some spots with the visibility close to zero. Last night it was so thick, a firework would go off, the smoke would hang there. The same kind of thing happened for the display on the National Mall. We did take pictures. I have them posted on facebook and twitter accounts if you want to look. You really see the effect mike was talking about with the smoke hanging in the balance. Lets look outside and get things started. You see how the fog is hanging on out h
Gop frontrunner in alabama. Im erica grow. More of the great weather we had yesterday lies haze in the first alert 7day forecast. Im mike hydeck. And im erica grow. We want to start with the breaking news. The total number of homicides in the district is now 101. The first occurred in northeast dc in the 300 block of 54th street. And the second in the 1300 block of stevens road in southeast d. C. , both victims are male and died from multiple gunshot wounds. Another man is in serious condition in the hospital. And 20 hours plus after a man barricaded himself inside a northeast d. C. Home he is is keeping police at bay. A woman was shot and killed outside the home. This happened after a dispute with a relative and surae chinn has the story. Reporter residents are waking up with the ongoing situation as they are sheltering in place. Police are maintaining a Large Police Presence. I want to show you folks in Tactical Gear and a lot of police on the block. Theyre using this as a staging ar