Very serious legal trouble in the span of two years. How did you go about covering Jeffrey Thompson . Well, that began with i the mayor. Er i used to cover the mayors office. Mayoral ered the 2010 campaign. Assigned to ually cover the daytoday, the campaign and that was the at the time. And he was the main opponent of vincent gray who was chairman at the time. So, you know, covered the mall campaign. I was most interested in watching kind of downfalls ecause, you know, everyone saw it coming. And that was my job. Shortly after the after won, iok off, because he eard from Sulaiman Brown would run for mayor. It ended up he had a job in the odd. Istration which was and then the next thing you knew, he was fired and then he do you ing me and said want to talk . And i was like, sure. We knew, he thing described some serious orruption about being paid in the campaign to disparage on the campaign trail. Another. G led to a big investigation, a federal investigation. And, you know, the federal
neighborhood. you will need to be patient during your morning commute. terrible is known as traffic tuesday if. the democratic national off today incks charlotte. what to expect in the days .head washington at 5:00 a.m. begins now. live and in hd, this is good morning washington, on your side. rise and shine, washington. it s tuesday, september 4. i am cynne simpson. i am steve chenevey. glad to be with you. the big problem is what s happening outside. chance of more rain on the way. residents stocking up sandbags. team coverage begins with in northwest with latest. not only has this been an enormous financial burden for residents in northwest d.c., but very painful. people were trapped in their cars during the latest flood. say they cannot take much more. this cell phone video captured by and inundated residents chose rhode island avenue swallowed up after rainfall. it has become a tired event for hood.hbor prone now feel we could always get flooded. residen
county will have a little longer to drain. we could have a few isolated issues in terms of the rainfall this afternoon mainly in prince william and loudoun county is where we got the heaviest rain yesterday. there s a live look down the potomac, g.w. parkway, reagan national on the right side of the screen. an ugly start, but i expect a few sunny breaks later this midday and afternoon. a few sprinkles around bowie and about 50 in prince george s county, 95 as well, and montgomery county ron the beltway, a few sprinkles. also moving through leonardtown in southern maryland, sprinkles. blue mixed with gray, thundershowers likely widespread this afternoon and evening, near 80 degrees and humid. more of the same tomorrow. back to you. thank you. remember to log on to our weather page to check the forecast anytime. a two-year-old child survived a three-story fall from the building last night in the 800 block of to as a pick street. no word on the extent of the injuries or the
the height of the flood. we spoke with the minutes after he was rescued. kelly, on his way to work this morning, did not realize the water gushing onto piper lane in manassas was that threatening. i thought it was ok but it was mid door level once i got into it and the vehicle started floating. he no longer had control of his white pickup truck. they got to him in a matter of hours. there s not much you can do but hope it stops somewhere. challenged by the deluge of rain and the creek being overwhelmed, it took them several attempts to get to the trapped driver. we had about 10 incidents and of rescued four people. with the road turned into a river, crews were eventually able to safely reach the driver a driver who is that he is extremely embarrassed. i m all right. just a damaged ego. they are urging drivers to use more common sense. just a couple inches of water will flowat your vehicle. if there are high water signs steer clear of the area. this is the
things are dry and possible, but for now along the beltway and 270. more to come in less than 10 minutes. now to news. the search continues for those behind a deadly shooting in southeast washington press. it s happened after 1:00 this morning in the 1300 block of stevens wrote for. officers found a man with a gunshot wound to the debt. they don t know what led to the shooting. a two-year-old boy is recovering after falling three stories from a building. it happened last night in the 800 block of topeka street in southeast washington. he suffered head injuries but he was conscious when taken to hospital. police made an arrest in a chase that started in prince william county and ended in southeast d.c. investigators say officers in prince william county did not pursue the driver last night because it was on interstate 95 looks around and they considered it dangerous. other jurisdictions were alerted and picked up the chase through fairfax county in arlington before endin