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Injuries for 99 adventures for 99 and even shoot out of helicopters and its legal. They are even open for business after this event and we stopped by to check it out. Its an open venue. Anything goes. When youre in an open venue like that, its wild. Anything can happen. Jeff boss was at the concert the night a barrage of bullets were fired into the crowd. It was unnecessary. It was all unnecessary. I just think its a Mental Health issue. Its not so much a gun issue. He is a regiments terd gun own registered gun owner. We met him going into target practice and gave us this video of him at the range. There were no guns allowed it made me feel more safe knowing that i had a gun not on me, but the fact that i have one. Nevada has some of the most relaxed gun laws in the country. In fact, just down the street from mandalay bay is a shooting range. It offers tourists the ultimate shooting experience and there are a lot of these ranges in las vegas. While they are still open today, they would
On now that isis claims responsibility. And a young violinist born without a hand but a lot of determination. The one of a kind gift she is getting from students at George Mason University. The storms that just rolled through our area forced some families to evacuate their high rise apartment building. This video is just off New Hampshire avenue. Prince georges county fire Officials Say the storms caused minor damage to the building and knocked out power. The storms brought lightning and heavy rain at times. It had moved out but doug is there more on the way in the next few days . We are tracking another shower possibility during the day tomorrow and possibly more storms tomorrow afternoon before the bigger event moves in for the weekend. Take a look at what we were looking at. Not a lot early on during the day. Plenty of sunshine. That gave the moisture ahe develop. Storms came together right here, came right on through, Severe Thunderstorm Warning for d. C. That is where we saw the d
Waiver from a 1947 law that requires the defense secretary to be out of the military for seven years. News4s tracie potts will have an update in just a few minutes. Its once again time to check our storm team 4 forecast. Tom kierein to tell our way. Still some lingering sprinkles in our Washington County as well as far Southern Maryland and on the Eastern Shore still getting the moderate showers. Temperatures in the next several hours climbing into the upper 40s. Beginning to climb into the 50s at the sunshine breaks out. More rain tomorrow could get up turning colder by the end of the week. Melissa has an update on the Early Morning crash. Again, we still have the ramp to the inner loom of the belts way shut down and have the crash blocking part of the right lane there this morning. Thats not causing too much of a slowdown. Im hoping it gets out of the way soon. Otherwise actually looking quite good. 66 from Fairfax County to the beltway, youre on time. Its going to minutes. Well take
Mid to Late Afternoon well start to hit the low 50s by early afternoon as we get that sunshine breaking up. And your headlines here for the week ahead, well have more rain likely tomorrow and maybe even up to an inch of rain during the day on tuesday. And then that ends tuesday night. Then turning much colder by friday. Now melissa is checking in this morning. Whats going on with our roads and metro . Breaking news on the roads. Take a look at southbound 95 after want co. Were still shut down. Its now a 2 1 2mile backup with all lanes blocked. Virginia state police now pushing traffic on russell row and then over to route one to get folks away from this problem. Southbound b. W. Parkway, i should move this back to show you. We have this red headed southbound because of that. The 70 at 28 there, westmont gonery avenue, it looks okay. Westbound 50 at kenilworth, we have the crash slowing things a bit. Well have travel times and an update on the breaking news in ten minutes. All right, me