He was currently out on bond awaiting sentencing in a drug case and had been rearrested in october for leading police on a car chase. Crashing that car and then tossing a handgun in the grass. Prince georges county Police Posted photos on twitter showing the handgun and rifle they found inside of thomas lexus this morning. As for his front seat passenger, he ran away in the shooting. The police later caught and arrested that man in his 30s. So far, he isnt facing any charges. But that could very well change. The vehicle does match a transcription for a vehicle believe to be involved a robbery and shootings in this vicinity. That is not for southern but its one of the investigative leads were actively working on for you. Kevin its worth noting that the two men were camped out in where someone murdered a 23yearold man just last month. There are a lot of moving pieces to this policeinvolved shooting. Investigators still putting them all together this afternoon. Live in Capitol Heights im
snow, sleet, freezing rain few showers for mlk day early look at inauguration dry; mid 50s today partly to mostly cloudy. Unseasonably mild and breezy. Highs 6267 winds sw 1015 g 25 mph tonight mostly cloudy. Stray shower. Lows 4250 winds sw to nw 510 mph friday mostly cloudy. More seasonable. Highs 4550 winds n 515 mph breaking news from capitol hill this morning. Sleeping, lawmakers take the First Step Towards dismantling the Affordable Care act. After an overnight marathon, the Senate Approved a budget measure that would allow a repeal vote to take place with a simple majority. That legislation to repeal obamacare could come to a vote next month. But its still unclear what will replace the Affordable Care act. The house is expected to vote on the budget tomorrow. New developments in the deadly stabbing inside the Westfield Wheaton mall. This morning Montgomery County police say they have a suspect in custody abc seven was first to report the arrest last night at eleven. Suzanne kenn
Morning. Cold rain to get you out the door. Temperatures in the 40s with light rain. Strong storms to finish up the day. Severe weather possibilities run from 2 00 this afternoon to 9 00 or 10 00 tonight. Theres just enough rain on top of yesterdays, there say flood threat as well. Keep a careful look on the sky. Have your storm team 4 app fired up, or your nbc washington app fired up. Predawn storms. Thats the energy lifting our way. That first wave of energy could be in here around noon or 2 00. The next 24 hours, 30s to near 40s with cold rain this morning. 60s by late this afternoon and evening. Heavy rain and thunder possible. Wet and windy in the 40s by tomorrow morning. Toms got the impact on your news and travel in ten minutes. Breaking news4 traffic. Breaking news. We have a jackknifed tractor trailer. Onle on the outer loop at Georgia Avenue. On the inner loop, we have reports of multiple vehicles damaged box of the debris into the inner loop lanes because of this crash. We a
Beefing up the police force in the system to deter these kind of incidents and riders are happy. Just knowing how easy it is for any of those things to happen, its nice to see were taking a stand against these types of activities. Reporter metro is paying over 1 million bucks to bring in private Security Officers who will be responsible for looking over metros revenue collections. That will free up the current Metro Transit Police officers performing that revenue work to then be out in the system. Does metro have enough officers . We probably would never have enough. Probably no one ever does. Reporter more on the way though and riders should start noticing. And metro says officers are now going to start overlapping shifts so they can have higher visibility in late afternoons and evenings, jim. Back to you. Thanks, adam. As it regards that shooting on metros green line this week, we have learned that the suspect, a teenager, has a criminal past. Hes 16 years old. Hes being charged as a
After a series of explosions rocked the citys airport and subway in what appeared to be coordinated attack. Everyone was in panic. We have to run. Just because the situation was such yeah. Just everyone was scared. So everybody run. We felt a small blast of air and we heard some thudding in the distance. The metro immediately stopped. The lights turned off, the engine turned off and a message came over the intercom saying there had been a disturbance on the line. Officials raise the Terror Threat level, shut down all public transport in the belgian capital and advised locals to stay indoors after the blast. Belgiums federal prosecutor said one of the two explosions at the airport was likely caused by a suicide bomber and that all three blasts were acts of terrorism. The Prime Minister called today a dark moment for the country and World Leaders pledged solidarity with counterterrorism activity in brussels, a raid on friday captured europes most wanted man. Salah abdeslam in connection