But you can see what happened afterwards. T 2 40 this afternoon. It had been going for about two hours. You can see the charred area. Firefighters say the b b b been squish been extinguished. Thanks for joining us. Now to our other story. Todays earthquakes. I felt this jolt. My front door started shaking. My dog went crazy. The hills in Contra Costa County came alive today. A pair of earthquakes hit. They were felt all over the bay area. This is a closer look where the earthquakes were is there centered on this map near blackhawk and livermore. Our Team Coverage with abc News Reporter lesley brinkley. Reporter well, dan, life goes on for californians who pauseded for an earthquake and then kept right ongoing. Proof is local authorities here in the blackhawk area say they got zero calls from the community about this pair of quakes. We felt a pretty good jolt. We followed our pro cocal and opened up our apparatus bay doors and pull the engines out to make sure they dont get stuck inside
50 degrees in leesburg. Bus stop forecast looking good. Kids will want a jacket because it is a little bit chilly in some spots. Through the afternoon cooler than yesterday. Well be around 50 degrees. More clouds. Nice and dry. The wet weather is down to the south. If youre doing your Holiday Travel anywhere from louisiana to tennessee to the carolinas, thats going to be wet. Where im heading, melissa, all the way down to florida, thats nice and dry. Bring back sand and shells and all of that. In waterford a brand new problem, 9 at Hamilton Station. All lanes blocked. Sounds like we have a vehicle on its roof here. In bound 66 at fairfax drive, also have a crash. That one is on the right shoulder. Northbound 270 at middlebrook road and germantown, do have a crash blocking the right lane. When youre looking at prince gorges county, no problems into town and out of town. The beltway is looking quite good. Were on the problem in waterford coming up. Tax cuts and jobs act is passed. Breaki
Carolinas today may see a delay because of that. Our rain chance our next rain chance is going to be clear through the weekend. Good and dry as we go through your wednesday. Temperatures will be only around 50 degrees to top out this afternoon. Cooler day. Those clouds will hang around. No rain in our forecast right now. We do have milder air for the weekend with that rain and a big cooldown as we go into next week. Wait until you see these numbers. Well take a look at that coming up. Lets check your commute. Melissa mollet is here. Eastbound 66 before centerville. Very, very slow here. Have a crash. Everything blocked except the right shoulder at this point this morning. That really is going to slow folks down through centerville this morning. In weatherford, lanes blocked because of a car on its roof here this morning. Careful out there as well. Northbound 295 near nannie helen more on that problem on 66. With further amendment, the tax cuts and jobs act is passed. Breaking news righ
Its unbelievable how many on 70 degree days were going to start up in the month of february. Really mild stuff. Weve already had four sefts this month and we have a couple more headed our way. The first one coming up later this afternoon. So right now, there are a lot of clouds around this morning. And there have been a few spripgels down across southern maryland. Otherwise, sort of a damp feeling to the morning. Clouds will gradually scatter away late this morning into the afternoon. Afternoon highs today, up into the low and mid 70s and even warmer tomorrow. Tomorrow may be an emergency call out sick to work day. Were still dealing with breaking news in news 4 traffic. Breaking news as youre headed into d. C. This morning. Take a look at the problem. Northbound 295 shut down at malcolm x avenue. All traffic being pushed on to malcolm x. Southbound sunf maryland, suitland parkway may be your best bet. It is under investigation which means it could be some time. Megan mcgrath has more
Miles from desmoines. Desmoin officers responded to report ofo shots fired at 70th street and aurora avenue. Ve that is where an Police Officerr was discovered shot dead inead patrol car. Ar more officers from urban dale and desmoines saturated theatede area. At 1 26am at meryl hey road and sheraton drive a little waystle from there, right, desmoines dmo officer was also found shot inht his or her patrol car. Car police are calling the killingsg ambush style attack. Aac were told that suspectct but Nothing Police are ready toy share with the public yet. Police press officers were veryr emotional during an early e morning press conference. Theres always danger ifdang youre a Police Officer. These guys were gunned down gunn sitting in their car doingaroi nothing wrong. G wrong theres somebody out there shooting Police Officers. We hope he find him beforee anybody else gets hurt. H we dont want anybody in the Int Community to get hurt. Hurt police in the area are hahnrh high alert doublin