Reporter the first accused Alison Parker of making racist comments. Then that he had filed a complaint. Then questioned her hiring. Reporter they were followed by a similar accusation against her photographer. And most chilling. I filmed the killing. See facebook. A short time later, flanagans car was spotted on an Interstate West of washington, d c. Reporter the killer ended up crashing the car and when police approached, he shot himself. Flanagan was flown to a nova Fairfax Hospital where he died at approximately 1 30 pm today. Reporter this afternoon. The family of the gunman. Vester flanagan. Made this statement quote pam it is with heavy hearts. And deep sadness. That we express our deepest condolences to the families of Alison Parker and adam ward. Pam we are also praying for the recovery of Vicki Gardner. Our thoughts and prayers at this time are with the victims families. And the wbdj7 news family. Pam words cannot express the hurt that we feel for the victtims. Our family is a
Snow. We drop further south and same deal as we move into parts of cape may county, corbin city and Sea Isle City. This is quick moving but when it does pass through visibility plum mets down to a quarter mile or lower briefly as it passes. You look at areas like atlantic city, though. We saw a pocket of snow passing now thats out. Going to be tracking the tchz that are also falling with this and the next round of snow for tomorrow morning coming up in a few minutes. Right now at 5 00 the battle over President Trumps immigration ban has led to new protests, legislation and lawsuits today. In the next hour we expect several developments from washington, d. C. At 5 15, senator schumer will call on republicans in the senate to oppose President Trumps executive order then at six, democratic lawmakers will host a rally at the Supreme Court. Also today the council on islamic relations argues its unconstitutional. Late this afternoon we heard from former president obama a spokesperson release
Well. Some of the northern sbeshs will see light snow this morning. Not everybody is going to get snow. Thats this morning. This afternoon, we can see snowflakes and rain drops. Again, mainly north of the city. Right now look at the cold. 25 in new jersey. 27 in philadelphia. And 25 degrees in Lehigh Valley with clouds over delaware. Sunshine on hold to start with. Snow showers at 9 00. Still a chance of snow showers at 32 degrees at noontime. Not a heavy snow. Temperatures able to climb. Will be above freezing this afternoon. Not going to be an all day snowfall either. Will be light in the Lehigh Valley and suburbs. Mostly cloudy slight chance of shower this afternoon for philadelphia and Lehigh Valley will see some rain drops and snowflakes mixed in. Going to be dry at the shore. 46 degrees this afternoon. Ill break the forecast down hour by hour when im back in ten minutes. See how the traffic is looking. Jessica boyington with an update. Starting in Lehigh Valley this morning. Righ
North korea announced it conducted a higher Level Nuclear warhead test explosion. Its pyongyang fifth atomic test and second in a few months. Its called an act of recklessness. Some shot a student in the head outside a utah high school. Faculty members heard a gunshot and squealing tires around 9 00 last night. Students condition or if any arrests have been made. A 14yearold girl shot a female classmate before shooting and killing herself. The victim is expected to survive. The Sheriffs Office said the girl who brought the gun to school move into the area six months ago. Votes for campaign 2016 could begin as early as today. It will be the first their boat. Beairshelle edme has more on if you plan to vote early. Reporter mail carrier could have a heavier load with ball lolls ballots across the nation. Things are moving fairly quickly. It means youre typically voting by mail and can send it in via email and fax. The first requirement to vote by absentee ballot is to be a be registered t
Residents are. Loued to go home. The file started sunday afternoon and now is 70 percent contained. Abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield joins us from clayton. Sign of confidence, they are letting firefighters go home. As they leave clayton, they are seeing several signs of gratitude. A couple of finally returning home and are feeling very relieved to have a home to return to. We are blessed everything came out the way it did and there was no damage. We are just glad for the fire department. We released some of the resources to the region and making them available to their home unit or other fires and we are in the mopup phase. The fire is now out leaving behind 3,133 scorched acres of land around mt. Diablo and near the town clayton. Crews ahead Good Progress last night getting 70 percent of the fire area surrounded with the safety zone and they hoped to finish digging out that fire line by friday. A woman stayed with her daughter during the fire and got her family thinking. My children