Southbound and allentown road. Not too terrible this morning. 95 into town, northbound and southbound youre fine. Remember to listen to our friend friends from wtop. Nothing in your way at this point. 270 looking good here. Northbound and southbound there at 55 mile per hour youre on time. Beltway at landover road is looking quite good. We had some trucks that pulled up, not sure what theyre doing. At doesnt like any construction is scheduled. The might be some guys just hanging on there this morning. See you at 5 11. Breaking news in Prince Georges County. Police investigating a mans death on reed street. Megan mcgrath is there where that road is shut down this morning. Megan . Reporter well aaron, yeah we have a couple of road closures a stretch of reedet has closed as well as a portion of Martin Luther king avenue in glenarden area. You can see the Police Activity we have on the scene, investigators are trying to piece together what happened here. Now, it was about 2 30 in the morni
Im not worried about strangers. Its this c. P. S. And the police that im worried about now. Diane police tell us they continue to investigate this case and c. P. S. Released a statement earlier today saying they are following up on this case as well and of course well have much more on this developing story starting tonight at 5 00. Were live in gaithersburg diane cho, abc 7 news. Alison this case is getting a lot of reaction today on social media. And on our abc 7 facebook page. Bonnie miller wrote this is crazy. So many kids are taken every day. Let something happen to these little ones and see how the parents feel. Safety always comes first. Tina meyers wrote, granted times have changed but we used to run all over town at their age. Let them be kids you can join the conversation by commenting on our abc 7 facebook page. Leon get back to that breaking news that we started off this hour with and downtown Silver Spring firefighters just gained control of a natural gas leak there. Aliso
Weather. Good morning. Good morning. Air, fresh and cool. Pavement dry. Storm team 4 tower camera overlooking northwest washington. Theres nebraska avenue. Everything dry this morning under a mostly clear sky. A few high clouds around. Well have a mild morning in the 50s and 60s. Another warm afternoon, similar to yesterday in the low to mid 80s. We have a rain chance moving in on mothers day and turning more humid. Highs this afternoon, around the metro area low to mid 80s. Farther to our south, the temperatures will likely be mid 80s most of Prince William and fauquier and culpepper counties a few clouds around. Around the Chesapeake Bay it will be cooler. Right around 80 degrees to the north and west and 80s in the Shenandoah Valley and the mountains. Whats going on melissa . We have some construction around town but i have one item that just cleared. This is the one i was talking about a couple of minutes ago. Southbound Georgia Avenue between layhill and randolph road there. Thats
Loop. Georgia avenue is our biggest potential issue at this point this morning. 66 headed through manassas slow there, going at about 45 miles per hour. Volume quite light. Looking good here. 95 northbound through dale city 18 miles per hour. Thats your slow spot. And north at duke street lateclearing road work. More on this crash coming up. A violent attack is unfolding right now at a college in nigeria. Suspected boko haram extremists opened fire at the Business School. Five students were shot. Suicide bomber blew himself up in a parking lot and a second bomb exploded in a dorm. Most students living in this dorm were already in class. People were jumping out of windows and over walls to escape. Many were hurt trying to get away. Boko haram is the same group that kidnapped hundreds of school girls last year. There was an on going push to drive these extremists out. At the live desk im Kristin Wright. Thank you. Its 6 02 now. A developing story out of baltimore. Today the Justice Depar
Last year in a fight over music. The jury found her not guilty on all counts late tonight. Fox 5s maureen umeh has the details. From the start the defense argued this was a case of self defense and after three hours of deliberation the jury believed it. Thank god. Reporter relief and joy from alexis simpsons friends and family just minutes after hearing a jurys verdict. The jury found simpson not guilty on all seven counts she faced in the stabbing death of her Bowie State University suite mate domonique frazier, simpsons lawyers saying the jury made the right call. This was a is of defense case. Alexis, theres no question in my mind acted in selfdefense and so we are very gratified by the verdict. Reporter during the trial simpson testified she was being bulliedly frazier and said she bullied by frazier. She said she complained to officials and wanted to move out but was told there were no rooms available. On september 15th, 2011, simpson and frazier fought after simpson turned off mu