County are investigating an assault on a running trail. Investigators said it happened around 7 00 this morning. It was on the washington and old dominion trail near sterling. A woman said an attacker knocked her to the ground and tacked her. Ronald reagans press secretary james brady died today at the age of 73. He was probably best known for the gun control group, the Brady Campaign that was named at him. Scott thuman is in the newsroom with a look at his life and legacy. James brady was is a driving force and had become the face of the gun control movement. So in those respects, especially a tremendous loss. So much was formulated by what happened in 1981 when he was shot in the head outside of the hilton hotel at the assassination of president reagan. It later sparked his push for background checks on all gun sales from licensed dealers. It became an 11year fight but was eventually signed into law by president clinton. Known as the brady bill. The press conference was underway this
Between 13th and 14th is shut down. Kenyon street is your alternate. This will be one heck of a problem for those who use columbia road. Reporter yeah, a lot of people going through Columbia Heights use columbia road to 14th street, but as you can see its not going to happen today with the road completely shut down at 13th street. So its a oneblock stretch from 13th to 14th closed. You can see over there on the lefthand side of the roadway they have things all dug up and are doing emergency repairs. The closure will be in place through rush hour and perhaps longer. And we are also told when they reopen things there will be an impact as they expect to have partial lane closures and restrictions, even when they get some of the work done. So this will linger for a couple days in the Columbia Heights area. Its a popular cutthrough so folks just have to give themselves extra time to take a little detour through the neighborhood. Reporting live in northwest, Megan Mcgrath, news4. Back to you
News 4 Megan Mcgrath is live for us now. Reporter the candy is professionally wrapped and packaged. It looks innocent enough but is laced with marijuana. These still pictures were taken by police after they seized the candy. They say it came from colorado. There was tafy and banana walnut chocolate bars. Police say its the first time theyve seen potlaced candy in. They say the person who had it planned, they believe, to sell it, but theres no indication that person who had it had plans to sell it to children. But given the fact it is halloween and the children will be out trick or treating, they wanted parents to know about this sort of thing, that this sort of potlaced candy is out there. If you raid your kids halloween candy and pull out the peppermint patties or whatever you like and youre not paying any attention, you could easily a kid could easily open one of these up and eat it. If it were to get within the stream of candy, its relatively innocuous. And police want to remind par
Grandmother of the three kids, along with a family friend decided to check on the family. Around 10 00 they showed up at the house. Doors were bolted locked. She went in there a window, found all five Family Members shot to death. The gun used also found inside the house, according to the sheriff. Theres been a domestic situation between the husband and wife. Our investigation up to this point would lead us to believe that the crime was committed by one of the adults. Right now that focuses mainly on mr. Washington himself. Such a violent end to those young lives. Its leaving Family Members with a lot of questions tonight. The biggest, just why did this happen . We are just beginning our coverage in culpeper tonight. Were piecing together the timeline for you. How things added up to where we are now. Well introduce you to a Family Member who is extremely close to the situation. She will explain some of the stresses she thinks might have contributed to what folks here are calling a trag
A witness says that virgin one person was dead. It is dropped by High Altitude and ignites a rocket to carry it up into the upper reaches of the atmosphere. It is typically flown by two pilots, california Highway Patrol says at least one person is dead. Virgin galactic has not released details other than confirming the crash. This comes after the rocket exploded just after liftoff again from Wallops Island in virginia this week. It was heading into space from the space station on a resupply mission. Now, to the weather. Everyone wants to know if the conditions tonight will be a trick or a treat. What about it, veronica . I think well all get a nice treat this evening. But a trick it will be for the remainder of the weekend. Take a look outside right now. We have again scary clouds, lowering, not producing any rain just a couple of bats and witches there flying by. Meanwhile, the temperatures across the area are on the cool side. One of the cool locations, 52 around gaithersburg, and ge