Is not the first one to die. Today we learned Baltimore Police have a history of being accused of roughing up handcuffed suspects. People on the street call it the cowboy ride. Reporter im scott broom in baltimore where Court Records show freddie gray is not the first person to come out of a police van critically injured. His name was jeffrey alston. He ended up with a critical worse by an allegedly intentional rough ride in a police van after a Boston Marathon arrest. A jury awarded him 39 after a baltimore arrest. A jury awarded him 39 million. Same type of scenarioful theyre thrown into the back of the scenario. Theyre thrown into the back of paddy wagon. Theyre unbelted. The inside of the wagons are not padded. They cant protect themselves and they get thrown to one side or the other usually striking her head fracturing their neck. Reporter this woman claims to be an intentional victim of a socalled rough ride in 2012. Scott broom, wusa9. So much attention on the freddie gray inves
At the top of the hour thats a live look at Spaghetti Junction downtown. No problems there. South of there on the baltimore washington parkway lots of problems. Sharon will details those after martys first warning weather. 56 degrees right now. Thats going to be 8 degrees above normal. That 56 is going to also be 6 warmer than this time yesterday. Theres a fall feel to the morning. Theres first warning doppler weather radar. Theres a slow moving low thats spreading clouds into the area now. Clouds in the forecast until early sunday morning. Not a ton of rain but showers around. 65 at lunch will be your daytime high with showers beginning in the afternoon. Call it state route 295 or the bw parkway, here is Sharon Gibala at wjz traffic control. Good morning. 295 definitely the big issue at the moment. 295 southbound just after 175 an accident there still blocking all lanes. Traffic is being diverted off onto 175. An accident in aberdeen on route 40 at carroll avenue. That water main brea
It was over the carolinas yesterday. It has slowly drifted a bit farther north and east, and its producing a few sprinkles right now. A lot of it not quite reaching the ground, but the areas in the green just a little bit of sprinkle activity, maybe reaching the ground prince georges, calcalvert, charles, marys, and the Northern Neck and eastern shore. Certainly in this area of yellow and orange, its one little moderate shower. Its going to be tracking to Cambridge East over the next half hour. Farther west and north, its cloudy. There might be an isolated sprinkle trying to reach the ground. The chill in the air again this morning. Temperatures all around the region are above freezing except parts of the Shenandoah Valley to Frederick West and the Mountain Region where the cloud cover has thinned out. In the metro area, upper 30s to near 40. Heres your hour by hour forecast. Maybe a few isolated sprinkles. 7 00 in the upper 30s. By noontime a little sun breaking out, and during the af
Were tracking showers and the possibility of freezing rain out to the west. And military families bracing for a sharp hike in their grocery bill. How a defense plan to balance the budget could cost military families thousands. With the possibility of an indictment hanging over d. C. Mayor vincent gray all the candidates take the debate stage here at the historic ame church in northwest. Plus hundreds of teenage victims in 39 states and five foreign countries. A secret child pornography website busted by the feds. My message to them that is Law Enforcement is going to get you. Good evening. Im derek mcginty. Im jan jeffcoat. If you can believe it, a Winter Weather advisory is going to be in effect within the hour west of town. But this time its not snow. Topper is tracking freezing rain, maybe showers, whatever, top. That means in the morning an umbrella is required equipment. Do not leave home without it. Heres where the Winter Weather advisories have been posted, Loudoun County west,
The unrelenting lake effect snow that dropped visibility in that neighborhood to a couple of blocks. Cold snowy weather in chicago can be blamed for much of the problem. There were more than 2,000 Flight Cancellations in the united states. Mother nature is starting the new year showing us who is really in charge. New yorkers bundled up bracing for the winter storm thats bearing down to the region. Sanitation crews loaded up on salt and sand in the morning and sent trucks out to pretreat the roads in all five boroughs. A spokesman for marylands department of Veterans Affairs says the department is looking into allegations brought to light by wusa9 and a whistle blower and that any problems will be corrected. We do sincerely care. We are concerned. Ive been the best mayor that this city has ever had. My record speaks for itself. Despite the scandal, the admission of drug use, the alleged ties to gang members, yes, rob ford is back on the ballot as candidate for mayor in 2014. Its a helic