from pennsylvania avenue northwest to madison all of the way to independence. the u.s. capitol police is advising people to avoid this area. again, the man drove up on the national mall and, believed he was exposed to anthrax and those tests came back negative. a robot was deployed and it s inspecting the pickup truck and the area around third street between jefferson and madison is blocked to vehicles and pedestrians. very popular area here even on a rainy day like today. a lot of folks like to take pictures of the capitol especially from the national mall. that s not happening right now because it is completely blocked off and as of now, police also tell us that this man has not made any threats to anyone and that public is not in danger in any way. they re just trying to deal with this situation and ascerta but again, that test for anthrax came back negative. live here on the national mall. i m shomari stone, news 4. now we turn to our weather which has turned wet again
in violence in the district as police try to figure out what s behind the spree of shootings yesterday. a man and woman gunned down just a few blocks away from each other and a few hours apart. those two murders among five shootings we saw across the city yesterday. let s go right to pat collins. he s live in southeast with more on the story. pat? jim, police believe that second-chance criminals with the history of violence and access to guns are responsible for the spike in violence in our city. what is with all of the broad daylight violence in our city? what is driving it? you know, i wish i could tell you. it s a small number of people that have no regard for other people. it was noon that tayvon companyings was shot ask killed. cummings has been picked up on a number of gun charges in the lth when he was killed yesterday. four hours later, five blocks away, tracy cooper shot and killed outside her home on 49th street southeast. she was a good person. would do a
you saw that video. very tense moments for students on the ucla campus. 43,000 undergrads getting ready for finals next week. they re put in lockdown. they got emergency text alerts telling them to barricade the doors and don t let anybody in. that all happened this morning and two hours later we were told by lapd that the suspect was one of the two dead in the initial shooting, that it was a murder-suicide, and the shooting scene was contained in one small office in the engineering building. that information came along with the news that there was a note and a gun also in that room. what the note says we don t know. we don t know the relationship or the identities of the two men who were killed in this murder-suicide this morning who died, but that s the situation here. now, we should tell you that they did spend several more hours aftr campus safe just sweeping through the building to make sure all the students had the word that they were okay and also looking for evidence
down for the sounds of gunshots. 24 year old man was taken to tho hospital where he was pronounceo dead. police say a black male late teens shoulder length dread likes was seen running from then scene after the shooting.otin elected officials to the scene that is become king all toooo common. police spent hours onhr mount view placing evidence markers inert strew around thest clothing on the ground and a hummer parked at the curve. white also came to the scene. he s running for the ward eight seat on the dc city council. i think dc state of emergency as it relates to crime and our city.ci it s too casual, to common people need to be outraged, the police the community, mayor city council everybody got to geto ge involved. there s a solution to thistos problem but it takes more people to get involved, man. and it s too much fighting going on in the street, man. violence is becoming into. reporter: those two murder that ihose mention that were cad out on monday one of the vi
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