The labs were working on a pentagon project to come up with new tests to detect biological threats. In at least one of the lab one in maryland. We dont know exactly where yet. The sample contains live anthrax spores. Among the other eight states mentioned to receive samples that now need to be tested is virginia. There is a lot to look into. C. D. C. Sent officials to the other labs to conduct on site investigation. At this point, centers for Disease Control saying, at this time we do not suspect any risk to the general public. We will stay on top of it. Alison keep us posted scott. Thank you. Meanwhile, this is just in to the abc7 newsroom. Work is set to begin tomorrow on new security measures for the white house. The temporary security enhaser have a new officer on con constitution avenue. Mobile steel barrier plates. The work should be finished in july. Leon now to a developing story out of Montgomery County. Where a Rockville High School is confirming a case of tuberculosis. Sam s
Coming down in some locations. Well take a look at when you can expect the cooler trend to stick around. Thats all in a couple minutes. Thanks. Developing first at 4 00 a local man featured on the popular mtv show catfish is accused of making terror threats against metro. Now he is in a d. C. Jail facing some serious charges. And wentdy . Better known as kid cole. He appeared on catfish last year posing as a rapper to allegedly scam a fan online. Metro transit officers arrested him this morning and he is accused of making threats against stations buses, trains for the past five months. All of those threats turned out to be false but some had some big impacts. January he called 911 calling people from france saying he planted bombs around the potomac metro station. The station had to be shut down and was swept for bombs. Two days later, police say he called again, threatening to take hostages on a metrobus. Kill them if he wasnt paid a 15 million ransom. And according to police in his m
Police in new york believe the man wanted for killing four people in a northwest mansion last week may be hiding out in new york city. The suspect 34yearold daron wint. Our Delia Goncalves spoke to the neighbors of the suspects family in lanham. Reporter tables tell us that daron wint did not live in this lanham neighborhood but came to visit his father. They found it unusual that he spent a lot of time here in the past few weeks. Our partners at wnew snapping this photo of dennis wint running into an unmarked d. C. Police car. It was a coodz natured pickup coordinated pickup that surprised us all. Jerry brooks didnt want to show his face but saw daron wint at his Fathers House a day or two after he killed the savopoulos family and their house keep Near Northwest d. C. Its hard to believe that this has happened to sufficiently a beautiful family, a church going family. Its really, really heartbreaking. Reporter police raided the westview lane home just hours after neighbors say the fam
To track wint through a small bit of dna he left behind on a pizza crust like this and now police, his family, his girl friend are all pleading with him to turn himself in. Americas most wanted man, daron dylon wint, 34 from lanham, maryland, but on facebook he lists his home now as new york. We believe mr. Wint is currently in the brooklyn, new york area. Reporter he has a long history of crime but nothing that remotely compares with the accusations he is now facing. Investigators suspect he held his captives for hours, that he tortured, doused with gasoline and set fire to 10yearold phillip savopoulos, that he murdered savvas and Amy Savopoulos and their housekeeper and stole 40,000 cash and the family porsche before burning their nearly 5 million mansion. One former fbi profiler said the killer must be a psychopath. Thrill seeking. These individuals who carried this off were probably having fun inside that home. Reporter wints whereabouts at this point clearly a mystery. His girl fr