Confederate flag. And one person in jail under serious charges and what a suspect did during a local festival. Tonight a petition is gaining momentum to take Jefferon Davis name off route one in Northern Virginia and a lot of you are sharing this story on our Facebook Page and making it clear how you feel. It goes from Prince George spotsylvania counties. You spoke with the man who started all of this jackie . Reporter well we can tell you this petition was started several months ago. It is such a part of the daily existence for month commuters that most people dont register the official name of a significant part of route 1 as it threads through Northern Virginia. It bears the name of the man who served as president of the confederacy Jefferson Davis. I started on may 2nd six weeks before the charleston massacre, the dreaded charleston massacre. The reaction to the petition . 3000 people have signed it so far, the last time i looked. But ive had this negative reactions to it as well w
And you can see now there are dozens of units on this scene. Yeah, we just learned the fire is going to 2 alarms and the crews trying to fight it include foam and hazmat units. We want to bring in ashley, Public Information officer for the Fairfax County fire department. Ashley, what can you tell us about this facility thats on fire and what youre doing to get the fire under control right now . So, around 9 00 p. M. This evening our units responded for reports of a fire at a Fairfax County recycling and Disposal Facility and the 9800 block of furnace road in the lorton area. We immediately began an aggressive attack on the fire. Due to the size of the facility and the amount of fire that was showing, it went to a second alarm that has brought approximately 60 Fire Fighters to the scene and were still actively working to bring the fire under control. Ashley, this is impressive from the air. Is there any concern about whats burning tonight and any air . I mean, obviously with the type of
The evidence that justifies the total shutdown. The conditions were very similar to what we experienced at the le plan plaza. Right now, all six lines and 91 stations will be tomorrow at 5 00 a. M. Metro crews have now finished their inspections. Now theyre trying to beat the clock. And finish those repairs. News 4 shomari stone has more with the updates. Reporter were hearing the red, yellow and green lines have been inspected, they are ready to go tomorrow morning at 5 00. However, the blue, orange and silver lines are still being worked on at the foggy bottom station. That is the main issue right now, the foggy bottom station. The commuters tell it was a huge inconvenience, a lot of frustration for their rush hour commute home. But they say it is well worth it to make sur this is a picture of what metro calls a showstopper, a torn underground jumper cable, one of the defects crews found in the shutdown. Theyre working through the night to check the last of 600 cables. 295 was packed
an inch which puts a nice big dent in our rainfall deficit. the good news is, most of these storms tonight haven t been severe. but they are putting down wind gusts to 25, maybe 30 miles an hour, and they are bringing lightning with them, which, of course, is always dangerous. let s head right to the maps and see what s going on. cloudy skies over the capitol. the bone-dry humidity the last few days? it is long gone. look what we have in return. the latest round of strong thunderstorms is up across baltimore right now. this was down across the northern d.c. area, about an hour ago. and most of us getting a little break from the action. but you folks up there, savage, over to lake shore, seeing the tail end of this. we have lighter rain between clarksburg and rockville. another batch of storms is moving north and east around 20 to 30 miles an hour off in the west. middleburg, virginia, washington and front royal right now in virginia. off to the south, moving away from frederi
had a surf like this. it s really scary. i don t want to get hurt on vacation. i m staying awith a. reporter: delgado s loves ones won t leave without him. until we find him. reporter: derrick ward, news 4. the dangerous current presented by hurricane danielle could be replaced by a new threat, hurricane earl. it is barreling towards several islands in the eastern caribbean with winds of 100 miles per hour, it is expected to hit the british virgin islands later today. there is another storm that looks like it could become the next tropical depression if it becomes a named storm, it will be become fiona. dangerous surf, right, tom? it s going to be dangerous today too. they have the strong rip current from danielle. but now we have earl to be concerned with but that won t be until later in the week for us. and right now, here we ve got another beautiful morning with a clear sky, 74 at national airport. 60s in the suburbs in rural areas. 50s on this monday morni