Above. Good morning to you. Im erin coleman. Dogs in a grooms facility were killed by the smoke and flames. We are live where firefighters are still dumping water on the building some ten hours after the fire started, steven. Reporter there is a restaurant on the first floofrmt every story is damaged. You can see the destruction from this fire very early this morning. I also want to show you we mentioned it is a three story building. It has attic space. Every window in this building was blown out by this fire. If you think that looks bad take a look. You can see heavy flames and smoke pouring out. Two firefighters did suffer minor injuries. Im told they are expected to be okay. The owners did not want to go on the air. Some of them have a lot of regulars here on south street. There is no word if the building the salvageable. 11 people who live near by, they have to be evacuated by their homes. It has been nonstop smoke. And from sky force 10 you can see more of the damage. You can see
Desk, its another rejection on the merger of pepco and exelon, that Decision Just came toup t. This was supposed to be a final regulatory hurdle for the merger deal that would create the Largest Electric utility. The Washington Post reporting the deal fell apart after regulators said there was no evidence after pepco said if coopera kooch couldnt perform adequately. They are considering a motion to revise the merger. P it looks as though the provisions laid out in the revision will allow the deal to actually happen. You meet remember the pfc rejected the deal once before. The mayor stepped in, negotiated a big settlement, 78 million. It was supposed to benefit the community. Now here again today, we hear about a rejection and more revisions on the way. Keep an eye on the nbc washington app, tom sherwood on twitter as well to see how this all pans were learning what may have caused a man to kill his coworkers. Cedric ford shot more than a dozen yesterday and killed three of them p. This
Sinkhole . We have it listed at a pothole sinkhole 395 inbound just before the 14 strooth stre bridge. And suitland parkway theyre silver hill, a crash in the right lane. Westbound 50 near bw parkway, a car fire still slowing things there. Wind warnings in effect on the bay bridge and governor harry nice bridge, but no vehicle restrictions. 66 and 95 pretty normal right now. 95 south through quantico, just a tad slow. The mtv star, kidd cole, appeared on catfish and Court Records show that he made about 300 calls to 911 a year ago it on make threats. At his sentencing this morning, he faces up to ten years in prison, butpl threats like that one and recent attacks involving metro passengers have led to major safety changes. Metro is stepping up security. Megan mcgrath is live at the gallonry place station with the new measures being put into action. Reporter eun, thats right. Metro wants people to feel safe, that everything is being done to keep them safe while using the system. So some
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