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Brian. The dream of civilians soaring into space as paying passengers could be on hold tonight after the deadly crash of a Virgin Galactic space plane over the california desert today. Its the second accident involving a commercial spacecraft in this country this week. One crew member is dead, another was badly injured in todays crash which occurred during a test flight over the mojave desert. The still images captures what appears to be an explosion and then pieces of debris tumbling to earth. ...

The ground who describe a sound wave that came seconds after the explosion. A pilot posted this video on he captured the explosion from 3,000 feet in the air. And the plume of smoke that followed was so huge, it was even picked up on storm team 4 radar. Od im doreen gentzler. And im jim vance. That rocket was supposed to go to the International Space jim handly has new details just in. Reporter right now, the fires up and down the beach caused by that explosion are just burning out as crews mark...

Wet roads. In the low 60s. Next weather and traffic on the roads as the storm team 4 x 4. Melissa checking with breaking news. Breaking news, Prince Georges County. Martin luther king blocked. Two lanes inbound. Just tweeted pictures of this motorcycle crash fro from first4traffic. No major problems. Wider look at things. Inner and outer loop moving along. You can see 395, just a little bit slow as i was mentioning there. No major problems otherwise looking pretty good. Trying the get chopper ov...

Wallops island are used to watching rocket launches but last nights explosion they000 could never happen. We knew something was wrong. You heard the explosion and the fire spread everywhere. Reporter you can look over my shoulder here and you can see Wallops Island and the launch site. Good news, you can see that water tower and gantry and lightning rods still all intact. Nasa engineers tell us thats good news for future launches here at Wallops Island. Coming up at 6 00, you will hear from resi...

Reporter were on perry place west of 14th street. Were few blocks north of the theater. Heres what we know. Police believe the stabbing happened on perry place about 7 15 p. M. We know the victim of that fatal stabbing is a man. Police have not released his name or his age. It is believed he was walking along the street when he was stabbed. At this time police say there is no apparent motive. No one is in custody and there is no lookout for the suspects. That lack of details is strikingly simila...

Prince georges county, 66 and 95. Overall looking pretty good. Theres a little bit of red there northbound on 95 as you head through dale city. 66 into town, youre a little bit slow here just past 15 as you come on from 29. Then it gets a little. It opens up a little bit there. 270 on the montrose, moving along. A little bit of volume there. 95 in maryland, in and out, no major problems. Back in 10 minutes. Thank you, melissa. Following a developing story out of california this morning. The faa ...

Home. She was in sierra leone working with doctors without borders. When she arrived back to the u. S. , now hickox says she is not a risk to the public. She doesnt have any symptoms of ebola. She tested negative for ebola. She believes being forced into quarantine would violate her civil rights. Theres no legal action against me so im free to go on a bike ride in my hometown. What is the s court order . I dont know. The issue with that court order is a judge would have to determine that hickox ...

Over. We have all that and more tonight on nightly Business Report for wednesday, october 29th. Good evening, everyone, tyler is off tonight. They say all good things must come to an end, and today the Federal Reserve announced the end of its latest bond buying Stimulus Program known as qe3, the decision ends a sixyear stretch where the central bank expanded its holdings of Mortgage Securities to an unprecedented 4. 5 trillion. In a statement, the policymakers gave an upbeat report on the econom...

Either of those poles. Ifill plus, private contractors, nasa and the f. A. A. Investigate what caused a space station supply rocket to explode seconds after take off. Woodruff those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. Mo...

What we can say is nobody was. Rt this is the manager of the facility where the explosion happened nasa hired a local private company to the build that rocket and tonight something went horribly wrong with it. Everything seemed normal, but then about six seconds after the launch, disaster the rocket fell back to the earth. The impact the ground causing a bigger explosion. No one was hurt but a lot of cargo for the International Space station was lost along with a most of science experiments that...