Damage. Fox5 local news at 10 starts right now. Thanks for joining us tonight, im shawn yancy and id tony perkins. We begin with a heartbroken d. C. Family demanding answers afterfr the death of their belovedoved doing. The doing was electrocuted laste night and they are blaming an electrical issue at their northwest apartment complex. Marina maracco is life on the scene to explain. Reporter just a very sad story every way you look at it. Before i get to a, ill show you here, the sidewalk just near this building here. He you wont see a Single Person and thats because the dog walkers will walk their dogs ons the other side of the lobby thats just behind me here one the actual property of the building where they live. They dont come outside onto public property to walk theirir dogs. I want you to look at this doing that were talking about. This is eight year old lie key had been living with this family since she was a puppy. Icy and slippery that at some point she said i need to walk mm
Effect, but you need to know that they are at bankful and caitlyn roth is standing. Yes, sue, actually i dont want to be too dramatic, i think it was much of more of a site earlier this morning. Behind me this is probably theb part of the creek where we can see where the water was running the highest and running the fastest much it is coming outom overin its banks and earlier thr when we were at the height of the melting of the snow and the pouring rain thats when we had flooding reports come throughors for this portion of flag owe creek. Earlier today they had water come over into the parking lots and out onto the parkway itself. For any of you who live in the silver springs, toe comb owe park area maybe you were traveling through here and they saw a couple of inches of snow and they also saw the ice, in fact inch of ice and then following that the rapid snow melt. Elt. Here just like about every where in the area, the exception probably being southern maryland. You dont even see much
I have not. Why . Im still in the process of thinking things through. And im probably not as involved in politics as i should be. Reporter this is the bethesda phone bank for Anthony Brown. With volunteers for the democratic ticket, calling, canvassing and singled out Campaign Literature to be distributed at the polls. Ariana kelly predicts brown will win by a larger margin than expected. I think its going to be close. Thats why its important we get people out tvote. But the early vote indicators are telling us brown will do very well. Democrats have been going out to the polls. Reporter this afternoon i was at Leisure World in silver springs. The biggest and most politically active precinct in the whole state of maryland. Usually heavily democratic. Today one man told me im a lifelong democrat and im voting republican for larry hogan. Im voting republican for the irs man for the job, but i want a change. Some voters feel that by voting for Anthony Brown theyre voting for a thurd team
Two people were struck by a car on lockwood drive. We just noticed paramedics taking patients into an ambulance there. Were told they suffered some minor injuries. The screak stayed on the the vehicle stayed on the scene after the accident. We dont know if weather played a father a factor but well keep you posted. This tree toppled into a home on woodmore drive in Silver Spring. And there are similar scenes all over the area. Horace holmes is live in bethesda where a tree went down across a busy road. Were here on bradley boulevard and you can see with those heavy winds and the strong rain, what it did to this tree right here. It just snapped late this afternoon. It came down, all of bradley boulevard, closing it down for a short period of time. The county crew came up and they were able to move most of it to the side and they just reopened bradley boulevard. Now were going to talk more about the;yn problems that we he here, just a couple miles from here, another big problem on river r
Has started to spread in the overnight hours, and condolence sense come in, plans are underway far city wide remembrance and, we have Team Coverage of his career, in politics, and how he transformed the district. We begin, with sam, im standing in front of the big chair, a landmark, in his ward and, you can hear the noise, a number of people, gathered at his house, and took a march down Martin Luther king avenue to this spot, in his memory. He was loved by. In, dc, and we saw some of his closest friends and, several had talked had to berry by phone, after he was released from the hospital,. Strong, and optimistic and, upbeat. He went to the bar and grill, for dinner and, when his driver brought him home, he just collapsed here on the steps, and, he was nonresponsive. His driver and, a passenger by, called an ambulance, which took him to medical center, and he died, at 1 46, they couldnt believe he didnt make it. She donated her kidney. Im shocked. Unbelievable. You thought a lot of him