It did. It left us very, very drenched. Lets give you a look. We found one woman walking through high water to safety in Fairfax County. Her car getting stuck on woodburn road in Fairfax County. It came down in the district. Our region has been abnormally dry for the last several weeks. This rain will help us make it up. He has more on who and what kind of rain were going to see later today. The good news is we did pick up needed rainfall. The bad news, it came down fast and furious. Theres still high and standing water. Flood warnings until 8 00 in the morning for portions of central and northern loudoun county. Weather headlines, a cloudy and wet start. Watch out for the high water. Theres a chance we may be dealing with more heavy rain from Tropical Storm potentially Hurricane Joaquin by the weekend. More in a couple minutes. Heres the next batch of light rain coming out of central virginia. That will impact the second part of the morning commute and leave us with off and on rain ch
Time as mayor. He represented the eighth ward until the time of his death. Is Memorial Service scheduled to get underway at 11 00 this morning eastern time. We understand that it is running a bit behind schedule. Thel then, discussion on job numbers from washington journal. We are joined by the wall street journal economics reporter. , you talked about the data points beyond the topline numbers. The key one was wage growth. Lets start with that. Guest there was a lot of attention to the headline , 321,000n the report new jobs created. The most significant number in the report is nine. Muchcents, thats how earnings went up. It is twice the average the we have seen per month over the last year. On au look at it yearoveryear basis, it is not as impressive. Increase. Om a 2. 1 economists have been watching for any sign that wages are going to pick up. They have been so slow to grow over this recovery. We have different measures that show that they may be picking up. This is the first time
Still, a lot of activity here. A number of these triage stations set up around me in the blocks around here and theres Fire Equipment down here at water street just ahead of us here a couple of blocks. What we dont know so far is the origin of all of this and what started it. But again, a number of fire and e. M. S. Folks here paramedics mass casualty buses here. So take the folks on to the hospital. We talked to some of them who have gone to the hospital. Difficulty breathing again and the nausea. And again the soot around their faces where they had been breathing in this thick dark smoke from whatever that incident was that started in the metro tunnel. Again, a number of triage stations here and we dont know a total number of folks treated but a significant amount we should say. Ok. Roz, thank you so much. And as she mentioned, folks with the soot on their faces, Horace Holmes just a short time ago talked with some people who had been through just that and what a remarkable story you
Now the final check of the forecast . Despite the rain tomorrow afternoon clearing. A look at the Martin Luther king jr. Parade forecast at 11 00 downtown, partly cloudy, seasonal conditions, really nice as we honor and celebrate dr. Martin luther king. Showers moving in early tomorrow. We have 30 minutes of news [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] on alert, a series of raids on terror targets in europe is raising security concerns. Chuck sieverts and has more on the crackdown and what it means for security in the u. S. Hundreds of soldiers in belgium standing guard with machine guns. Their mission, protect the people and preserve their freedoms. They will be here to protect the people. Soldiers being deployed for the first time in 30 years, in athens brussels, watching over foreign embassies and national institutions. Their activity comes 48 hours after dozens of terror suspects were
Jackie bensen is live at the bank. What are you hearing . Reporter sources tell news 4 the two men were arrested after a warrant was served at a location in southwest washington late this evening. This may be a big break for detectives and federal agents who have been doggedly pursuing the socalled black hat bandits. The heavy Law Enforcement presence more than a dozen investigat from the secret service, the fbi and d. C. Police was prompted in part by the description of the man armed with a gun who had robbed the Wells Fargo Bank in the 3300 block of rk krk avenue northwest. Ethan spalding had just walked out of the golds gym next door a little after 2 30. I saw a guy with his face covered, a poncho really dark blue breathing superduper hard. I put two and two very quickly. Wells fargo, guy with a mask a bag, you know cops chasing him. I guess he robbebank. Police officers were very close to the bank at the time of the robbery and gave chase. Upstairs there was a car, i guess, waiting