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derrick ward was at the verizon center. >> reporter: according to published reports on december 21st, wizards all-star guard gilbert arenas and teammate javaris crittenton were having a dust up over a gambling debt when worpds exchanged in the locker room before practice. it's alleged both drew guns. someans find i want hard to believe. >> i've been following the wizards game for 30 years. i hope it's not true. that's all. >> he's a nice guy and like you don't think that little kids would pull guns. >> it's a big joke. arenas is a jokester. >> reporter: the me from lie tan police are investigating. arenas said he did have guns in his locker in a lock box and guns were not load. even also said he turn them over to security because he no longer wanted them in his home around his children. >> they need protection, but i don't understand why they need to secure them in the stadium with other players on their team. >> reporter: if the allegations of some sort of armed faceoff prove true? >> hopefully that wasn't the case, because you get mad at each other and blow it off the next couple of

that's where news 4's derrick ward is live with the latest. derrick, any injuries here? >> reporter: we understand there was one injury to the driver of the vehicle. we're looking at this csx train now. a southbound csx train on these tracks that run parallel to route 1 here in beltsville. we understand this accident happened just after 6:00 a.m. a car somehow came in contact with this train. the car has been, since, cleared from the tracks, and as we said, the driver was taken away. we don't know the extent of his or her injuries. however, there was some concern, because this freight train has a few tanker cars on it, with hazardous materials. they have cleared that these tanker cars have not ruptured or anything, it so looks like this train is preparing to continue south on its way. we don't know the extent of the injuries to the driver. there was one person on board the ain, one operator. he was not injured. however, as we said, the driver of that car did sustain some injuries. again, we don't know the extent of those injuries. he has been hospitalized at this point.

derrick ward is live in northwest d.c. for more on that story. >> reporter: craig, we're on 23rd street. if you look behind me you see traffic on rock creek parkway. that's south of the ramp from p street. on this side of the park subway rock creek and that's where they found the car. the police identified the occupant of the car but want to know the time of the crash and the circumstances of the crash. >> rock creek runs fast and deceptively deep here, deep enough to submerge a car and police say that's what made it difficult to locate the crashed vehicle earlier today but someone spotted it. >> they stated that the vehicles can be hard to find because only one wheel was sticking up out of the water. >> we put people io wet suits, if you will and other protective gear so we have the resources available. we train for it but it is very adverse conditions. it's swift-moving water. it's rocky. it's unstable ground. you have a vehicle upside down. >> the victim has been identified as 22 year old joshua cole man, pulled from wa

derrick ward has more tonight on those who are used to intense heat, how they deal with the other extreme. >> reporter: we've all got that huddled hunkered down look in our face, with the arctic air refusing to relent, some of those most affected are the firefighters. and it's an issue of fire and ice. >> as far as putting the fire out, not too many problems but our clean-up and trying to go back in service sometimes can take extra time. >> reporter: and the water that's so vital to putting out the flames becomes a hazard as ice on the ground. >> a lot of times what we'll do is call for additional yun nilts that we may not call for when temperatures are not this cold. we'll call for extra help and rotate our firefighters to a rehab area where they can get warmed up and make sure that they stay safe. >> reporter: and one instance today the call didn't involve fire at all. a pipe supplying water to the sprinkler system burst at the hotel, possibly from the cold. it shut down the holiday inn in springfield. >> it was a massive amount of water that leaked down into the electricalystem and to

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derrick ward was there. >> reporter: according to published ports, on december 12st, wizard's all-star guard gilbert arenas and teammate javaris crittenton were having wordsover a gambling debt when words were exchanged. some fans find it hard to believe. >> i'veÑi been going to wizard' games for 30 years. i hope it's not true, that's all. >> seems like a nice guy andÑi hangs out with little kids. you don't think that a person who would hang out with little kids would pull a gun on somebody. >> i think it's a big joke. arenas is a jokester. and the whole team revolves around arenas. so if he's a joke -- i can'tÑi y it that it was serious. >> reporter: it's serious enough that the metropolitan police are investigating and working with the u.s. attorney's office. arenas said he indeed have guns in his locker in a lock box and those guns were not loaded. he also said he turned them over to security, because he no longer wanted them in his home around his children. >> they are stars, i understand they have protection, or need protection or whatever, but i don't understand why he would need