if that s what the manufacturer wants to do, i have no interest in personally flying a drone. despite this move one man who spent years chairing a terrorism commission believes the technology behind drones still is a concern. that was use of the modern technology by a medieval way of thinking. it is called mandatory firmware but it is up to the owners of these drones to install it. to keep those machines away from sensitive areas. reporting live stephen tschida, abc 7 news. thank you. the man who crashed that drone at the white house worked for the national geospatial intelligence agency. the new york times reports the man had been drinking before that incident. the secret service it doesn t believe the pilot meant to cause any harm and didn t mean for that drone to fly where it did. chilly outside today. but there s a warmup heading our way tomorrow. you may have to pay for it though, with a little rain. abc 7 chief meteorologist doug hill with the first look at th
not have a sprinkler system. asked if the sprinkler would have made a difference, a county fire marshal said without a doubt. officials tell news4 that done pyle was found in the great room, his wife sandy and the grandkids on the second floor in the bedrooms. can you say whether there was any evidence that mr. pyle tried to put the fire out? and if there was any evidence to show that some of the victims tried to get out? i think that would be circumstantial at this point. if in respect of the family, we won t go into details. reporter: there were a number of questions that went unanswered today because they said they wanted to be sensitive to the family. that includes exactly where some of these bodies were found. now, the atf plans to conduct this testing again to re-create what happened using christmas trees at their facility in beltsville in prince george s county in the next few weeks. in anne arundel county, darcy spencer. just last month, the university of mary
keystone pipeline. the white house sent notice of the veto to the gnatsenate shortly after it was received today. they may try to override the president s veto but unlikely they ll get the 2/3 majority in both chambers that they need to do that. it s getting cold when we re looking forward to temperatures in the 30 s or near 30 s. chief meteorologist doug hill now in the storm watch weather center. when can we get a warmup here? we ll get it tomorrow. one day deal. one day warmup and then back to the cold weather by thursday. we re on our potomac river ice watch again today and it hasn t changed much. we have single day here and there that gets above freezing for the bulk of the day. that hasn t changed much. overnight temperatures are so cold. that trend will continue. 27 in gaithersburg. 26 for quantico. average high this time of the day this time of the year is 49. a good 20 degrees colder below that. we ll continue to drop through the 20 s with partly cloudy skies and
it s 8:30, on sunday august 11th. i m anne makovec. i m phil. there is no deal on the bat contract negotiations. the governor had is heading to the court in less than a half an hour and anything a 60-day cooling off period that would stop union workers from walking off the job tomorrow morning and located preview how we got to this point. first both sides messed the contract deadline. the workers went on strike the next day and that left hundreds of thousands stuck in massive traffic for four days. a 30-day contract extension brought a suggest second deadline. a cooling off period might be around the corner. and we re here to get a deal. that is why we re here. and things are happening. i think the unions want to look at things and see costing of proposal. we ll see why where it goes. reporter: b.a.r.t. and union negotiators took a break before midnight. the governor steps in with his big push to block the fight. the statement, the san francisco superior county cour