Holiday week. Your news starts now. And we begin with a Winter Weather alert. Temperatures as you know if you stepped outside plummeted below freezing as we head into the new year holiday weekend. And theres also a possibility some areas see snow tonight. Road crews are getting ready and the Virginia Department of transportation says crews will be out this evening to treat the roads. Since roads are cold and any snow will likely stick and drivers license should Pay Attention to ice that may development on wet pavement that will create slick conditions. Vdot is urging drivers to stay off the roads altogether ft. Weather takes a turn. Are we talking significant snow . The districts snow team is going into action. 200 trucks will hit the road and pretreating major highways and primary and secondary and neighborhood routes. Maryland sends out trucks and pretreats corrodes. Person to answer your question is gwen. Gwen, how serious is this. Were not getting a major snowstorm this is a klirp
It was another theatrical moment. Hastily called poet owe on to reveal President Trump pick for National Security advisor h. R. Mcmaster who fought in both iraq wars. His job was to predict future threats on americas capability to meet them and wrote a book that called out the u. S. Government for lies that led toe vietnam war. General mcmaster will remain on active duty while heading the National Security council. I want to say what a privilege it is to serve our nation and im grateful to you for that opportunity. There has been also some action with Homeland Security the white house signing off on new order that would hire 10,000 more ice agents and put 5,000 more boarder patrol agents in the field and top priority dhs says removal of criminal aliens focusing on incompetent vd of crimes accused of abusing benefit programs. The visit to the africanamerican museum and culture is supposed to happen 8 0 this morning and theres been reports that President Trump or then president elect tru
Privately with the families of the victims. Thousands meantime gather at a vij toil remember the five officers killed in dallas. And this vigil happened last night. Portraits of the officers were propped up in front of speaker platform and Dallas Police chief and head of Transit Police saying attacks would not tear city apart and three officers will be laid to rest this week. Meanwhile, police are still trying to figure out what drove the gunman 25yearold mic after johnson to extreme violence. And investigators are coming through more than 170 hours of body camera video and Surveillance Video from the scene of shooting and its unknown why johnson wrote the letters rv on a wall before he was killed. And meantime interview with the blaze say they watched sun transform to hermit after military service. He he was very disappointed. It may be that the ideal that he thought our government of what he thought the military represented fit his expectations. Johnsons parent also said they had no
Ours. We were trying to save his life. A neighbor sees it differently. He called it heroes. The man suffers serious burns and he is expected to recover from the injuries. I it is clear from the video that another few seconds in that car the outcome would have likely been very different. Watch the officers go up and try to save the guys life. It was remarkable. Brad remarkable indeed. They dont know what caused the accident on a residential street. At this point they dont care. They just know that a mans life needed to be saved. Prince georges county, brad bell, abc7 news. Maureen midday crash taken the lay of a Montgomery County man. The view from news chopper 7 as they investigated norbeck road in rockville. Jared harmon died after the motorcycle collided with a car while making a turn. The driver of the car was not hurt. We are keeping watch on the roadways as we head to the Holiday Weekend. In is a live look at the Chesapeake Bay bridge. We saw a flood of cars across the brim for th