there in the center is police chief cathy lanier. this is on southern area southeast near pennsylvania avenue. we're told the officer was conscious when he went to the hospital. again, officers on the scene investigating. >>> and this just one t b crime scenes active because of this shooting. the second one is in northeast at division avenue and hey street where policere certaining frtai g in shi for suspects. we're following it there both scenes. florida and we're f > and near st. louis, one person was shotpo overnight about a mile away from where protests have been happening in ferguson. the shooting happened at 1:00 this morning and pole y th spotted four masked men carryin police and that's when they fired. the other three got away. right now no word whether that shooting is related in any way to these row tests in ferguson. take a look at the scene. for three days now, hundreds of people have turned out for demonstrations. they're upset eref to release the name of officer who shot michael brown jr.. the officer is getting death

understanding that to get that endorsement, a candidate would have to agree to fire popular police chief, cathy lanier. >> she's flat out wrong. i have no idea where she got that information from. >> he said any talk of staffing if he should win is premature. the democratic council candidate said she looks forward to working with chief lanier. >> organizers said the goal was to improve relationships between law enforcement and the community. metro branch trail gave riders a chance to interact and get to know one another. >> participants said that they are hoping that there will be future bike rides with fellow police officers. >> and speaking of police, alexandria police officers are going to a new way to teach people to protect and educate themselves about crime in their neighborhoods. >> this is a neighborhood hub. >> the scoop here is about more than coffee. it's about sharing the news that customers may not know about and how there's a new tool to find it. he's reacting to a map showing every crime in alexander dating back two years. it's a tool alexander police use to analyze crime stats to deter

police chief cathy lanier said club security had interfered with the police after the attack.e alcoholic beverage control board voted to suspend their liquor license. d.c. police need your help findingtwo man tied to another nightclub stabbing on 14th street northwest. officers say a man was stabbed after five people got into a fight outside the club last weekend. if you recognize any of the men in the video, please call police. the top two candidates to be maryland's next governor have agreed to their next televised debate. the tenant governor anthony brown and republican larry hogan will debate october 7. the debates will air one month before voters go to the polls. more indications maryland's current governor martin o'malley may run for president in 2016. he sat down with jorge ramos. ramos asked if he would endorse former secretary of state hillary clinton for president if she decided to run. he responded, i am seriously considering running in 2016, but the most important politics of all is to govern well. anyone an alert for near the chesapeake bay. the danger in the wate

cathy lanier criticized club security, saying it interfered with the police and the crime scene afterthe attack. tonight, the alcohol beverage control board voted to suspend ther liquor license if owner chooses to reopen after closure.ur >> horace holmes has more on the comments made by kicker mark moseley. >> the comments have been raising eyebrows, but mostly he stands by the redskins name and is working hard to defend it. >> to everyone that said anything to me has been a white man or a black man, no red man. >> former kicker mark moseley is one of the most revered players to ever suit up on a football field in washington. he came on news channel 8 to explain why he accepted daniel snyder's invitation to defend the redskins name. >> we as alumni feel it is important to have the redskins continue to be called the redskins, and we wanted to mature and mr. snyder wanted to make sure that nobody gets hurt. mark moseley and other former players travel to reservations across the country for snyder's new foundation to improve conditions in the native american community. mark moseley said

understanding to get that endorsement, a person would have to agree to fire police chief kathy cathy lanier. >> i don't know where she got that idea. >> murial bouser says she continues to look forward to working with chief lanier. >> it is very wet out there. we dropped one warning and gained a new warning south of d.c. so ups and downs as we move through the next few hours or so and the trend unfortunately will continue into tomorrow. abc7 live super doppler radar. orange, madison and culpeper counties where you see the box at the bottom of your screen, that's the newest severe thunderstorm warning until 7:00 this evening. it's not moving very fast. the cell moving toward the south and east at just around 10 miles per hour but capable of producing gusty winds up to 60 miles per hour. we had another severe thunderstorm warning now canceled for stafford counties, but these storms still capable of producing gusty winds. it is wet out there and we're going to look for the showers to continue, at least across the district. if you have plans for the nationals game, y another round of storms for

police chief cathy lanier says her department knows how and when on to use those weapons. >> it's how the equipment is used. in jurisdictions where we deal with protests all the time, i wouldn't think of bringing k-9 dogs out to the protests. i wouldn't bring an armored personnel carrier out as a show of force for a protest. >> reporter: this crowd is marching from in front of the justice department to busboys and ports restaurant which is several blocks over that way. a lot of people in this crowd support president barack obama's call for review of the program that allowed local police departments to purchase military equipment from the defense department at reduced rates. this is bruce johnson reporting for wusa9 from downtown washington. >>> today the defense finished presenting its case to the jury in the corruption trial against former virginia governor bob mcdonnell and his wife maureen. peggy fox has been following this case and joins us now live from richmond where closing arguments could begin tomorrow, right, peg? >> reporter: we'll see them friday we just learned, but yes,

today police chief cathy lanier declined to talk to wusa9 about the problem, but d.c. residents gave voice to their concerns. >> it makes me just don't even want to come outside now. >> i react to it with nervousness, fear, anxiety because a bullet doesn't have direction. >> we asked for an interview with paul quander, deputy mayor for public safety, and were today he like chief lanier was not available. >>> this man is in custody for the shooting death of a 3-year- old landover girl. investigators say prince george's county police -- actually i should say prince george's county say that brian ray campbell helped suspected killer davon wallace before the shooting. wallace is still on the loose. investigators do not believe 3- year-old knijah bibb was the intended target. if you have any information, call crime solvers at 1-866-411- tips. you can remain anonymous. >>> you've heard of elected officials voted out of office, but evicted from office? as kristin fisher reports, it's happening right now in seat pleasant, maryland. >> i'm going to put a tent right there on mon

. >> reporter: cathy lanier at the scene. >> they tried to carjack him and in response he tried to pull his vehicle away and they pursued him. >> reporter: gloria bland witnessed the ending here at hunt terrace northeast after another 4 miles of pursuit briefly in and out of prince george's county. bland's parked car was hit, too. >> they ran across to my neighbor's yard across the street and they were like trying to get over the fence. >> we have the nissan altima in our possession but we don't have all the people that were in it. >> reporter: one suspect that has not been named was captured at the scene, but one or two others is on the loose and metro police are extremely concerned about this. these are guys who are carjackers willing to fire on an officer in at least two locations even though they probably didn't know they were firing at officers, so these are crazy dangerous suspects. we're here at police headquarters in anticipation of a potential briefing and update from police. scott broom, wusa9. >>> right now parts of prince george's county are under a boil water advisory for t

police chief cathy lanier plans to redeploy many detectives on the street. the order says that as of september 14th, detectives who investigate crimes including burglaries, car thefts, break-ins, even chd abuse, will spend one puig a month on street duty. detectives from the homicide and sex assault units are not included. >>> right now drivers are getting a little traffic relief on route 50 in northern virginia. this morning aic lanh opened from ples answa valley road to stone cross boulevard. tomorrow the rest of the project will open. megan mcgrath has more. >> reporter: this stretch of route 50 in chantilly has been a choke point for quite a while, only two lanes of traffic and things got even worse once they started on the widening project. well, there was se good news this morning just a little bit before 5:30, they opened the new third lane of traffic. and as you can see, things are slowing very, very well here this morning. this is just phase one. they will open another section, another piece of the third lane, in time for tomorrow morning's rush hou

police chief cathy lanier and deputy mayor for public safety paul quander telling wusa9 today they are not available to accommodate interview requests. a lot of the neighbors i talked to today had basic questions like are any of these shootings connected? are there common denominators? is there some kind of beef between gangs that's gotten out of control. these are the questions people want answered, but asi just reported, top public safety officials are declining to be interviewed now about this. scott broom, wusa9. >>> earlier today our wusa9 social media team tweeted out retweet this if you want this madness to stop and so far more than 100 of you have retweeted that message. >>> an arrest in the shooting death of the 3-year-old girl in landover. today prince george's county police announced the release of brian ray campbell of landover. investigators say he helped suspected killer davon wallace before the shooting. wallace is still on the loose tonight. campbell has been charged with first degree murder and a slew of other charges. investigators do not believe the 3-year-old knijah

today police chief cathy lanier declined to talk to wusa9 about the problem. >>> a shenandoah river keeperis promising a lawsuit against the environmental protection agency, claiming that the agency is moving too slowly to clean up the i. expert river. clean-- up the river. >> by the end of this month we should see large quantities of this all up and down this stretch here. >> programs to protec are cutting nutrient flow into the shenandoah. the agency is studying whether it needs to do more. >>> a local restaurant is racking up new health inspection violates. russ ptacek gets you up to speed in tonight's restaurant alert. >> here are numbers. we will come back and talk about how cool it will be tonight and tomorrow night. >>> hi, it's howard bernstein. remember the thrill of a fresh box of crayons when the school year started? this crayola supply pack is one of dozens of school items on the back to school wish list of dozens of kids who deserve that same thrill. you can send these crayons and lots of other great school supplies to those children with >>> in today's restaurant alert a free