Reporter many of the victims families were at the statehouse and so were thousands of others who came to witness a day many thought would never come. For the first time in my life the state has said we are one, all the lives matter. If it offends us we will take it down. The flag that came down today will now have a new home. In the states Confederate Relic Museum as part of the deal that the lawmakers in South Carolina agreed to. Marry bruce abc7 news. Jonathan a Southern Heritage group will be going to federal court later this month in an attempt to keep the Confederate Flag on the virginia specialty license plates. Virginia governor called the Confederate Flag divisive and hurtful and said he wanted to phase out the image on the silence plate. In the lawsuit, the sons of the confederate veterans said the Charleston Church shooting was not caused by the confederate battle flag and a ban on the Confederate Flag would not have prevented it. Kimberly now to a major shakeup at the office
Here when the front two cars snapped off the trailing six. Around 40 passengers had to be taken off the 7000 series train. Thankfully, no one was injured. One woman recorded this video as metro employees escorted her down the rocky rail bed. Her trek about the length of a football field. Metro has not said if it cut power to the third rail before evacuating passengers. It also isnt sure just how fast the train was going when the cars dislodged. Red line trains single tracked for an hour as crews worked to fix things. We did check our archives and we found this isnt the first time something to this effect has happened. In january, a green line train disconnected near the Navy Yard Ballpark station. Metro customers contend this is merely the latest black eye for the mass transit agency. Constantly its been stuff happening on metro. Whether a new train or older train, stuff like that shouldnt be happening. Metro needs to step up its game to operate properly. There are precious lives on th
At the hospital and was released and is expected to be okay considering what happened to her. Coming up on news4 at 6 00, were going to tell you how the suspect was able to get inside the victims apartment. Were reporting live from fairfax county, darcy spencer. Jim, back to you. Thank you. Now to storm team4 coverage, folks. Get ready, were going to see rain and plenty of it starting tomorrow. It could turn into a stormy week here in the dmv. Doug . A couple days of rain here, guys, talking about tomorrow and the bigger day we think on wednesday. Some of that rain falling fairly heavily during the afternoon and overnight on wednesday. Falk abo talk about that in a second. Today a praetty nice afternoon. 52 backwards west virginia. The midatlantic dealing with nice weather today. Not much going on right now in our region, about you just down to the south we are watching this first batch of rain. You can see some heavier rain towards parts of the southeast around alabama moving into geo
Some snow to the north and west. The ground too warm for any kind of accumulation and it will be all rain anyway for everyone by the time we get to late morning. Well put your forecast in motion here. While we expect a chilly night in a couple of spots maybe close to 33 tomorrow morning far to the north and west. Primarily a rain storm you can see our future cast painting just a little bit of snow on the far Northern Edge of that rain that will be moving into town by sunrise. Who would get any accumulation out of this . Maybe there would be a very small dusting, our model just updated. It took out a little bit of the light dusting it was showing in the mountains. Maybe a little bit up towards new york. This next one is a rainy system. It will likely produce about half an inch of rain for most areas. Well talk about wednesdays storm and when we can change all of this soggy mess into something more pleasurable a little bit later. Shawn, back to you. Thank you, sue. A highranking dc Polic
Battled Mental Health issues. And today, a Montgomery County judge ruled a mother charged in the disappearance of her two children still is not mentally fit to stand trial. Mikea turner joins frus u. S. District court from rockville, maryland, with what happens next to Catherine Hoggle. Reporter good afternoon, andrea. Still no progress made in this case. 18 months since it started. The question remains, where are these missing children . And it is a question that Catherine Hoggle did not and still will not answer. Today, the competency hearing was held. And with the judges permission, a sixth hearing will be april 25th in cour at 9 00. Hoggle is charged with abduction and neglect and accused of hindering the investigation to the disappearance of her then 2 yearold son jacob and her then 4yearold daughter sara. The childrens father, troy turner, says he has spoken with her several times and she maintains she handed the kids much more. The childrens grandmother and the childrens father