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Dead. >> reporter: nellie didnt get the message until the next day, so 9:30, thursday morning, nellie says figueroas husband showed up at the house. this wife never stayed overnight with the family before. nellie says her husband pounded on the doors, going to the back of the house. no one answered but then his phone rang, a call from mr. savopoulos apparently inside the house. >> told him i forgot to call you last night, but var ras okay. im here in front of your house can i talk to my wife? he...

Evacuated. so the white house took a hit and the state department took a hit, i think we have the shot inside the white house briefing room. yep, where josh earnest will be coming out shortly. we know the outages according to wrc may have been caused by a stitching station in charles county maryland. there are about five or six stations that have been affected by this almost -- about a dozen excuse me stations that have been experiencing issues with the power outages and university of maryland e...

This thursday may mark the first day of spring, but from st. louis to the midatlantic, well, it looks like winter may be lingering longer. heavy snowfall in d.c. closed federal offices and most schools in the area. it also caused massive delays for travellers and commuters who had to go to work. call it the st. patricks day storm. one well never forget. the snow system dumped over several is en inches in washington making this the third biggest snowstorm on record to occur so late in the season ...

Seeing the isolated tornado will be until 2:00, but you can see that the line of rain, just starting to enter into washington, and so it is very concentrated and very intense and maybe going to the last an hour as it makes its way through, but we cant rule out the isolated what i would say weak tornado this afternoon, betty. >> all right. wrcs amelia seigel thank you for that. developing right now, president obama making yet another pitch to raise minimum wage. i want to give you this new video ...

That journal. we are also learning that the shotgun used in this was bought legally about a month ago. now over the weekend, police used canine units to sweep the mall. no other explosives were found, so the all-clear was given and the mall decided to open at 1:00 this afternoon. there are two memorials to the victims set up here at the mall, and grief counselors will be on site to help anyone who may need to talk about what they saw or how they are feeling. we are expecting a large police prese...

We are being kept far back. i couldnt tell you for sure. i know that you did have some chopper footage earlier. that possibly may be in a better position from the chopper to see exactly if anyone is being taken out en masse. there were several buses here when we arrived. i dont see them here anymore. generally, when the weather is like this, theyll put this outside where folks could get warm and composure. also authorities need to interview people, get all of the information they can from witnes...

When ronald reagan was president, everyone looked like this. >> and finally, john boehner made a public stink while signing up for the affordable care act on the d.c. exchange last week. in a blog post titled my attempt to sign up for health care, the speaker complained that he had difficulty enrolling and that his call to the help desk wasnt returned for hours after he reached out for assistance. as it turns out, it was the speakers office that held up the help desk, not the other way around. s...

Emergency death benefits because of the government shutdown. the outrage spread to the white house. wednesday president obama told doreen gentzler of nbcs wrc. >> when i heard this story i told the. department of defense we should able to get that fixed. >> at a press conference in late september several days before the shutdown the pentagon warned this would happen. >> we would be required to do some other pad things to our people. we couldnt immediately pay death gratuities. >> wednesday as th...

He and a colleague got into the elevator but was shot in the back and killed. three other people were shot but are expected to survive. among them, d.c. police officer scott williams, a 23 year veteran of the force, who is said to be in good spirits. aaron alexis family members apologized to those apparently caught in his path. >> this was something that nobody expected to happen. so i just want to let everybody know that whoever got hurt, the families and victims, the alexis family, our hearts ...

A rooftop because of satellites and other equipment that they have up there, so it would be -- it would be very challenging to get past the security to get onto a rooftop. >> all right, donna from "usa today," well let you get back to reporting. ive just been told we are expecting to have a d.c. police press conference coming up here shortly as well as an 11:30 briefing from one of the hospitals that has been taking in some of the injured from on scene there. our clint van zandt who was with chr...