d.c. fire ems. t has made progress but is still struggling when it comes to advance life support calls. response times have not improved nearly a year into the district's use of a private ambulance service. he made the statement in a letter to firefighters and paramedics. a spokesman released a statement countering that statement saying in part, quote, the bottom line is that we are responding faster to 911 calls adding that the department is aggressively hiring paramedics and adding three medic units. this comes as the mayor is scheduled to tout the department's improvements today and announce changes in the way the district bills insurance companies for ambulance services. we'll be at today's announcement. >>> as early as today the trump administration could roll back federal guidelines that allow

d.c. fire ems. the fire chief says the department has made progress but is still struggling when it comes to advance life support calls. response times have not improved nearly a year into the district's use of a private ambulance service. he made the statement in a letter to firefighters and paramedics. a spokesman released a statement countering that statement saying in part, quote, the bottom line is that we are responding faster to 911 calls adding that the department is aggressively hiring paramedics and adding three medic units. this comes as the mayor is scheduled to tout the department's improvements today and announce changes in the way the district bills insurance companies for ambulance services. we'll be at today's announcement. >>> as early as today the trump administration could roll back federal guidelines that allow them to use bathrooms with who they identify. president obama called on schools to revamp bathroom guidelines. that has quote, given rise to significant litigation and ne

d.c. fire and ems is now confirming with us that they transported at least one person from there. so they rushed one person to a hospital. we're not sure who it was, but again two officers shot. both conscious and breathing. a suspect also shot. all of this happening near morse and holbrook. this is where florida avenue and eighth street northeast all sort of come together. the first calls started coming in around 10:40, 10:45. we have mark segraves working his sources in the police department. shomari stone and jackie bensen headed to the scene. we'll continue to bring you any updates as we get them. >> chris lawree newsroom, thank you, chris. >>> doug is here with more about our weather. crazy warm temperatures again today. >> yeah, crazy really an understatement there. 77 today at dulles airport. shattering the old record of 73. the record tomorrow 78 degrees in d.c., and we could get there. if not, we'll get very, very close. 77 in gaithersburg. look at leesburg, 79. 79 in warrington. we could hit 80 tomorrow. 80 degrees in february. that's unheard of. 60 degrees. winds out of

they're asking anyone with >> an elderly woman is in serious condition after a fire broke out in southeast d.c., d.c. fire and ems said firefighters rescued 95-year-old virginia haskell after trapped inside a second floor bedroom at a hole on zenia street. it was ruled accidental and started in the kitchen when the woman's son was soaking he made it out unharmed. >> baltimore police department and fbi are looking for leads in murder of college student marcus edwards a student was walking off campus when fatally stabbed about a mile from the school last september. a 20,000 reward is offered by police and the fbi for information that leads to arrest and conviction. in the case. >> and if you decide to sleep in tomorrow morning to say 9:00 you'll miss the action because that's how fast this moves on through. we're tracking a snowstorm and also not really seeing this warm air departing yet. it will wait until the precipitation starts. there's air cold enough to make it snow. and it's out towards pittsburgh 31. columbus 30. that's coming with the storm system. i wanted to show you snow totals we're expecting. here in

d.c. fire and ems confirmed to news4 that that student ran naked down nebraska avenue in northwest d.c., then jumped the fence onto the homeland security campus. security at that facility in the past seven months. last summer there were two separate incidents of employees taking unauthorized guns into that facility. this most recent breach happened just after 10:00 on saturday night. a spokesperson for dhs confirmed that the naked man was not armed but he made it over the fence and onto the secured federal campus. he then climbed another fence and made it onto our campus here at nbc, which is right next door. his name is mark baker. he's 21 years old. he was able to over power an nbc security guard and gain access to the building here where he was there restrained by an nbc employee until the police arrived. baker was arrested and charged with assault and unlawful entry. he is scheduled to appear in court on february 27th. news4 has not been able to reach him >>> it's one of the most visible side effects of chemo. tonight the details on the device that's helping women keep their hair as they

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d.c.'s fire and ems chief says response times have not improved nearly a year after the city started usingrivate ambulance service, but they say things getting better. is actually going on and a story you'll only see on news 4. >> good morning. we're live outside engine 30 in northeast this morning because this is where we're expecting a press conference from the mayor in just a few hours. in the grand scheme of things, things have improved. response times are faster but we are zeroing in on something that chief gregory dean is calling out. specifically advanced life support calls. those are the ambulances staffed by paramedics who are supposed to respond to the most critical calls like cardiac arrest. so remember, for about the last year the district has been using a private ambulance service for cases just like that. last night the chief sent a message to firefighters and news 4 dot a copy of it. in it chief gregory dean says response times says response times has not improved despe ambulance service. this is a story that news 4 broke on twitter. a couple of hours after he put that out t