girls were trapped inside. manuel gallegus has more. reporter: flowers lay outside a connecticut home where three children and their grandparents died in a christmas morning fire. flames gutted the victorian style home that sits along the long island sound. the fire started just before 5:00 sunday morning and quickly spread. first units on the scene attempted rescues within the structure that were pushed back by intense flame and heat. a well-known advertising executive owns the house and escaped along with a male contractor who was helping renovate the million dollar home. but madonna badger s three daughters, a 10-year-old and twin 7-year-olds and her parents couldn t get out. there probably has not been a worse christmas day in the city of stanford. badger s father died in the fire after working as santa claus at saks fifth avenue in new york city. the home is so badly damaged, it could be days before investigators can gather enough evidence to figure out what sp
let s take a live look at route 7. no problems to report. on 66 inside the beltway to the roosevelt bridge, you will be just fine. back over to the maps, this time, we ll head all the way to the east side. bw parkway, no problems as you head in from baltimore. no problems on route 50. you have a bit of the yellow here right around the beltway. no big deal. rest assured you will be absolutely fine. let s take a live look at route 50 if you re coming in from the bay bridge near the beltway and through cheverly, the lanes are open. no incidents to deal with this morning. coming up, we ll take a look into virginia at 6:11. mike? all right, monika, thank you. it is a holiday today for a lot of people but for those people who are off from their traditional jobs, it still could be work because it is time to head to the mall and return the gifts and find some new deals. jessica doyle is live in chevy chase where she is ready to shop. good morning, jess. i would love to shop! i
teresa, a veteran prince georges county bus driver arrested after police say she purposely rammed her bus into this building. three of her coworkers who were inside were injured and taken to the hospital. so what prompted this rage? sources say douglas went to her supervisor wednesday to report she was being harassed by one of her coworkers. management and the school system had a meeting with her friday. during that meeting, management informed her that they did an investigation, but they didn t find any evidence of any harassment. so monday, douglas went to court to get a peace order against the coworker. but the judge dismissed the case. it s our understanding that she was upset about that decision. while she was in court, the coworker she was mad with was transferred to another location. then wednesday morning at 5:45 when douglas came to work. she got into her bus and drove that bus into a trailer. that trailer is like a portable building, a makeshift trailer, a
it is able to get by, but that is a tight exit ramp. southbound 95, the exit from maryland route 32. we change our traffic camera and take you to germantown. 270 southbound. see the flashing lights at the top left? that is southbound between father hurley boulevard and 118. reports of a person hit by an automobile on the interstate. two right lanes are closed. we have no other details right now. so stick around. keep us posted on that. we want to take a look at the day ahead. this man, the man accused of trying to kill the president will be in court for a preliminary hearing. the 21-year-old fired nine rounds at the white house last month, hitting it at least one time. a priori hearings, the judge ordered him to undergo a series of psychological evaluations but he has been found competent to stand trial. , president obama heading to fort bragg, north carolina, this morning. there he will address the end of the nine year occupation of iraq. the visit comes days after the c
reporter: this fatal pedestrian accident happened before 6:00 a.m., but the affects of it lasted well into the morning rush. a man was running across i-270 in the southbound lanes this morning when he was struck by a tractor trailer in the third lane and killed. the man seen here is the driver of the truck and said he did not wanted to talk on camera since an investigation was pending, and he told us the pedestrian was running from the shoulder of the southbound lanes heading towards the northbound direction. before he could stop, he hit him. the truck driver stayed on the scene. police are not identifying the pedestrian at this time, but they say they know he was coming from his residents located a few miles away on 355, but they don t know why he was attempting to cross an eight-lane highway in the dark. the man who struck the man will not face charges. they say the accident was unavoidab unavoidab unavoidable. the investigation to the crash had a major impact in traffic.