Noisy as i could. Oh, no, lets go they are talking about the super bowl concert purple rain, purple rain purple rain of music and the movie won an a Academy Award for best score. Medical paisley park. Deputies were called to the paisley park estate after his body was discovered. No cause of death as of yet. Prince appeared at his own party at the estate this past weekend but opal for five minutes because he was battling the flu according to associates. Tonight the white house has issued a statement. President obama said in part michelle and i join millions of fans around the world in mourning the sudden death of prince. Instrumentalist and electrifying performer. Quincy jones tweeted a true artist in every sense of the word gone too soon. And owner of the 9 30 club said prince, when performing, he was unmatched live. He was so much bigger than just the music. He was very socially conscious. One of his more recent concerts was in this area in baltimore after the freddie gray case. He he
Alongside holly morris and. A person has died in Early Morning fire Near American University saidwick street northwest. And annie yu arrived on the the scene give us the latest own that story, annie what can you tell us. Good morning wisdom and all of you. This fire happened before 3 00 this morning. This is 4400 block of saidwick street in northwest d. C. As you mentioned by American University were arriving on the scene and what were told now is that its up clear right now where this fire began and what caused. It but looking at the home you really dont see much of the exterior of this home damaged or burned. Theres a couple of windows busted here and there. We also see a ladder reaching up to the upper level there where perhaps victim was aslee asleep. We know from police that the victim was adult male and pulled from the fire and transported to the hospital but sadly did not make. It investigators will be out here determine a cause. The battalion chief is out here and mayor of d. C
Police in uniform and plain clothes were watching. Near the metro station today a mother was in mourning for her 15yearold son John Rufus Evans iii, police say stabbed to death yesterday by 18yearold javonte hall. I did know the boys name coming up in a conversation with him and his friends trying to attack my daughter a few weeks ago. Throwing juice cartons at her. Saying they were going to jump my son. Sam at a News Conference today the police said the public helped i. D. And close the case in ten hours and mayor bowser emphasized camera and media. There are cameras all over the system. Any incident like this will be caught on tape. The perpetrators of those incidents will be brought to justice. Sam Police Believe social media played a role. They fight, somebody records. They post, they want to get a lot of hits. A lot social media and they go back and forth. Even with this situation, you know, the young people are talking about retaliating on social media. John evans was a student a
Been following with a mix of fascination and shame for the last week and a half. Over the last decade, two trends conspired to reduce our privacy. First, theres technology. Social media allowed us to share every detail of our lives intentionally and unintensely. The photo tagged on facebook, the wayward strike to reply to all button. You get the picture. We now leave a digital trail traced by anyone who buys access to it. This week, the Obama Campaign knew what tv shows the targeted voters watched. Theres the massive explosion of the surveillance in the wake of 9 11. Thanks to the petri at act and continued under the obama administration. The government has more access to info about us than at anytime in history. A small example of what this looks like. Check out this graph of u. S. Government from google. These are requests that dont require warrants and this doesnt include the security related requests not disclosed. For awhile, i thought the combination of these trends, the u bik wi
Ice desk. Good ening, were coming to you from the wusa 9 ice desk. Temps have been holding very steady. The freeze on the top of the stories tonight. We are setting all kinds of records tonight, folks. Schools are closed and some on a twoour delay. What can we talk about overnight. Its record high record low maximums, we said at all three airports, national got off to 19. Our average high had 42 and 26. When your high is way below your average low, things are topsy turvy. We had the cloud cover, 17 downtown, and 12 in gaithersburg. 13 downtown, maybe 10 in bethesda. Highs tomorrow, not much better, a little better, maybe 22 downtown, 21 in bethesda, 21 in fairfax, 23 in springfield and also down to woodbridge. We will talk about the arctic blast. Well come back and talk about actually another clipper and, yes, we might see some more flakes fly tomorrow, but well tell you when. No, its not over yet, and were going to talk a little bit about this bad boy we have here, this ice desk thats