Project. The push was so successful, the price per share dropped dramatically. Kcrg tv nines Dave Franzman joins us live from prairie lake park in cedar falls where construction of the solar farm starts soon. Dave, why is this Solar Project unique . Bruce, most Solar Energy Projects either involved people or businesses buying the equipment to turn sunlight into electricity or large projects financed by a utility. But this will be a True Community project with more than a thousand people buying shares of the output in exchange for utility bill credits running as long as 20 years. The city of cedar falls donated eight acres of land in the park for the Community Solar garden. The utility began selling the idea this summer and with more than enough people units work begins this fall. Crews will prepare the ground this fall and begin installing solar panels this winter. The idea is the one point five megawatt plant, thats enough to power 275 homes for a year, is up and running in the spring
Grab your coat this morning. Day two is coming up for today. Tomorrow will be in the 70ed. Friday might set a record high temperature. Yes, indeed, a bit of a chill in the air. Generally on the way outside. Frederick, maryland, 45 out the door. 71 at lunchtime, 64 at 7 00 this evening. Toms back with the impacts the weather will have on your walk around town coming up in ten minutes. Thank you, chuck. A scary situation for students at Woodson High School in fairfax on friday. Students finished the day on the football field after an explosion inside a classroom as they head back to school today, news 4s Kristen Wright is live with the investigation underway. Kristen, good morning. Reporter hey, good morning. We believe one student is still in the hospital this morning. Students here at woodson were scheduled off the School Calendar monday and tuesday. In just a little while they come back to school here for the First Time Since that chemistry fire. On friday, this as we learned that fed
Police. Right now we have a disabled fire truck on the right side of the roadway. With lanes are blocked. Folks trying to squeeze around that. We see the volume inbound near Fairfax County parkway. Other problems, brandywine at branch avenue, still have a crash being reported there. Follow police direction. Inner loop and outer loop looking good now. Dont have any major problems. And 270, were now clear southbound at Montgomery Village avenue, no problems northbound or southbound on 270. Thanks, melissa. Montgomery county police are looking for the driver who hit a pedestrian and took off. We saw more crashes last night as drivers deal with darker visibility. Kristin wright is live in bethesda where officials are pleading with drivers to be more careful. Good morning. Good morning. Well, recently a bicyclist drove through here along mass avenue and recently as well 95yearold woman as you may remember was killed trying to cross river road. As mentioned, last night there was a person who
Getting up,running around. Opening the door of the ambulance, jumping in the cab. He traveling only a few miles before he slams into a mercedes to kill the driver 77yearold alin hargrave. Our family lost a great grandfather. Mike reacted after seeing the man who killed his father plead guilty to the crime. This is a terrible loss for us. Taken too early. They witnessed an ambulance on the builtway and they stopped to help. The person jumped in the cab, assaulted both medics and pulled off. The dash cam showing him in the crash. Isaksen repeat offender facing up to 25 years behind bars. We belie hat serious time is warranted ithis case. Isaksen cant hurt anybody else. His ther was a retired High School Math teacher. He was full of life. That is the w he died. Full of life. He will be sentenced in january. In college park, brad bell, abc7 news. Maureen thank you. We have the unedited dash cam story available to you on wjla. Com. Leon a judge sentenced the former state Department Official
Charles severance was found that hen all 10 counts was facing in a case that has spanned over a decade including a capital murder charge of ronald kirby and nancy dunning. The sentencing phase will begin at noon. He is facing life in prison. We know that severance will not face the Death Penalty in this case. Dunning was killed and 2003. Lodato was another one of his victims. Defense argued that authorities jump to conclusions because of his mental illness. Jeff goldberg is upstairs in the courtroom right now for the sentencing phase. We will have more information as soon as that develops. Back to you. Jummy our Team Coverage continues with Brianne Carter live in the neighborhood where these murders took place. That is del ray. She has reaction to the guilty verdict. What are people saying . Im talking to people who have lived in the community for the past decade saying they were waiting to hear exactly what the word would be in this case. Many of them finding out as we told them this