q: pepco just showed up on the scene, just a couple of technicians down the way.ey have a lot of work ahead of them. we have spoken to pepco officials over the phone and they tell us it will take that gentleman about two hours. to fixan to the right, this power pole over here. you will -- notice that it is missing its face, hanging by its wires. it was hit by a car. you will see the traffic to here is a mess as well. it will reportedly take two hours to get things back to normal. if you are looking to head south on minnesota avenue from arroughs, that's for there is problem if you a where you are going to have to make a detour. that's a live look at the scene and that's the latest from "good morning washington." we are always on your side for the morning commute. had to w it -- wjla.com/text. still: police in maryland have very few clues almost 72 hours after this man's escape. john gonzalez is live in jets up with more on the manhunt. john? john: autria, larry, good morning, this fugitive has a number of tattoos all over his body, including the world's -- the wor

luckily no injuries and pepco quickly deenergized that manhole. >> front door across the street there is this pile of bricks with black smoke coming out. >> burning power lines can produce carbon monoxide but pepco did not find any co. >>> two people are under arrest in the connection of a the infant was taken from the home christmas day. seven week old trinity jabore died of hyperthermia. both are charged with first degree murder. >>> a school bus ran into an mta bus in baltimore back in november of last year killing six people. both drivers and four adults were killed. no children were on board the school bus at the time. according to the baltimore sun, the survivors and family members are now seek more than $10 million. >>> a fairfax fire captain is under investigation tonight after what he allegedly said about bullying to families of new recruit. that story isment cooing up in a little bit. >>> we know you have a lot of questions about the health care bill passed by house republicans yesterday. there's the view. there's more to life than the climb. you've gotta stop and look aroun

there was a loss of the pepco power feed but pepco says it wasn't their issue.hatever it was, the problem was fixed. it took time to get the trains back on schedule. michelle: three people fired. that is the video. the "7 on your side" i-team brought you the video that appears to show the security guards dumping out of a wheelchair to the sidewalk outside of howard university hospital. three people have been fired and they are continuing the training efforts to ensure this never happens again. jonathan: new video from the pentagon. the moment in the u.s. successfully stopped a mach long range missile. this is in space. bah lostic missiles. in the middle of the pacific, the rocket took off. the launch from the air force base 4,000 miles away. it was described hitting a speeding bult with another speeding bullet. >> the difficulty with the icbm is it goes up into outer space. if the u.s. could shoot down a missile he shot at the united states, he would know there would be an immediate response. the test was done under the perfect conditions and it took planning th

pepco has not said what caused the blast. >> still ahead, how delta is reacting to the video that has plenty talking. alison: later, have you seen these? are your kids upset with them? fidget spinners. why they may not te school anymore. larry: one day after the first hurdle, what appeal the affordable care about for mean for folks with preexisting conditions. alison: but first, the national transportation safety investigators are on the ground right now and what we know about the deadly plane crash in west virginia. >> we are two infants. nowhere to stay. no more flights. are we supposed to sleep in the airport? larry: delta is apologizing to the family booted from the flight. they wanted to put a toddler in a seat, one they a ridgally purchased for their 18-year-old son. he went on an earlier flight. the flight attendant insisted they could don't that. so they were forced off the plane. >> two people were killed in a cargo plane crash. nancy chen has more. nancy: they were trying to land when it went off the runway. a wing was detach and that caused them to crash. the pilot and copi

pepco, the american red cross and the national weather service are collaborating with police, fire departmentsral an emergency. hurricane season by the way starts june 1st. >>> you think you've seen this story before. a woman stops to get gas, leaves her purse in the car. while she's pumping, someone tries to snatch the purse, and in some cases, the car. well, this week, a woman in milwaukee decided she wouldn't be a victim. this has to be seen to be believed. >> it's one of those holy [ bleep ] moments. >> reporter: melissa smith can't believe that's her. >> i think i'm tougher than i really am. >> she was checking e-mails in her car while filling up. >> i got out of my car to take the pump out and grab my receipt. and turned around and realized somebody's in my car. >> reporter: she had one th today. laughed at meremorse. >> reporter: smith thinks screaming at the top of her lungs is what got him out. i had to chase my car into the street and stop it before it hit somebody else. >> reporter: smith was told the car they were in was stolen. >> the police said mostly women run in the other dire

. -- pepco was called to look jonathan: a navy seal has been killed and two other special operators woundedin in somalia. it's a long time since we had anyone killed there. the troops came under fire yesterday. they are in somalia to train soldiers that are filing groups affiliated with al-qaeda. michelle: culture of abuse is the claim of the high school students near pittsburgh. a student thrown to the ground there by a school officer. we have the video and reports that more students are speaking up. >> this video recorded inside pittsburgh high school last month shows a 14-year-old student in school's office. then they take the teen in another room and come back with an injury on his hand. >> the student and his attorney says the officer punched him in knocking out his front tooth. there was an altercation with a teacher and the same officer puts williams in a choke hold before slamming him to ground. williams says the man holding him down while the officer appears to tase him is school principal kevin murray. >> i want them removed. >> they are now represented by the same attorney. >> he

have plenty of rain showers across the area right now. 59 in washington and leonardtown 59 and 60 pepco 60 fredericksburg and nice cool start to the day. warm front living through and here's rain shower activity extending from east of annapolis throughout the bay to stevensville and easton and as you get out west you can see if out to 81 there winchester and front royal. good rain shower activity or plenty of rain shower activity expected here over the near term and rain in the forecast for the morning hours. and then i think things get afternoon. warm front lifting through and high temperatures back in the 70s later today and keep the cloud cover around. not much sunshine expected later this afternoon. that warm front is north of us. warm fronts gets north and temporarily get temps in 70s and cold front later this afternoon around 2:00. poj showers as that moves in. and a little break later tonight. we'll have clouds around. and could get showers later tonight. future cast there we go 1:00. just turned cloudy. watch that cold front come in from west and brings us additional showers in

pepco is joining nissan north america to offer $10,000 rebate if you buy a new 2017 nissan leaf electric brings the cost of the car down to about $20,000 in part of an effort to advance clean transportation alternatives. the offer is available only alison: all right. earlier in the day, maryland regulators cleared the way for the largest offshore wind project in the country. so a company wants to build $368 -- 368 megawatt wind farm near ocean city. the project would create thousands of new jobs and contribute some $74 million to the state economy. larry: remarkable rescue in montana a hiker found safe after disappearing for a week. nancy chen has the story. nancy: incredible. 23-year-old madeline was visiting family in montana when she went for a hike with her dog. the pair ended up taking a wrong turn in the woods near glacier national park. they were lost in the wild earnest with no food. they launched full scale search by land and air that intensified when the grizzly tracks were found in the area. they finally found them and the helicopter called in to to safety because of the rugge

metro says there was a lot of pepco's power feed. this is in the eastern market substation.t created delays of up to 30 minutes on the blue, orange and the silver lines that led to packed platforms. larry: marc is among the system receiving federal grant that will go to positive train control that is designed to stop a train if needed. it will continue from union station to perryville, maryland. alison: a high school stude in st. louis was not going to let anything come between him and walking across the stage to get his diploma. not even a wheelchair. look at that. brad bowers walk. the captain suffered spine injuries in spring break dive. he jumped in the water not realizing a sand bar was underneath. injury or no injury he knew he was walking at the ceremony. >> i ain't staying in a wheelchair. i got to get up and get back to where i was. that's how it has to be. they are helping me do that. >> if he wants to do something he will do it. if anyone could have done it, it's him. i'm glad he is able to. >> the classmates helped with the teen medical expenses telling t-shirts

pepco is working to try to fik the problem. >>> this weekend, former president barack obama will receive kennedy courage award, in honor of someone who displayed political courage beliefs. >>> a path of destruction, hundreds of miles long, how the me stormsa narrator:to do time is what is right. ralph northam. army doctor during the gulf war. volunteer director of a pediatric hospice. progressive democrat. in the senate, he passed the smoking ban in restaurants, stopped the transvaginal ultrasound anti-choice law, and stood up to the nra. as lieutenant governor, dr. northam is fighting to expand access to affordable healthcare. ralph northam believes in making progress every day. and he won't let donald trump stop us. central virginia are in clean-up mode after a severe storm tore through that area. this family barn in dinwiddie is a total loss. you can see debris flung across the field, snapped trees and power lines brought down by that storm. we saw similar scenes in north carolina. businesses and homes in the western part of the state were completely destroyed. this isn't the only rai

court after peels is set to hear arguments by several organizations that want to halt the pepco exlop merger. they believe it will be bad for d.c. residents and would result in hire bills for residents. the group wants to overturn the public service commission approval for the murder. steve over to you. >> time to talk sports. keeping it simple. we're talking about playoff this morning and start with good news much needed win for capitols on the road in pittsburgh. this game ended 11:30 if you were up there then and now congratulations. fans were on the edge of the seats until the end. it was wild first period.. that's the play everybody is talking b sydney crosby getting stick to the face and goes down legs awkward trying to figure out what is wrong with him. that was all he would play last night. leaves the use and does not return. crosby across the upper body he slid awkwardly. stick was newspaper air. didn't look intentional and nultion you're penguins players they said it looked intentional. caps 2-0 lead. pen wings would not go away scored two goals in less than a miment both co

pepco is here right now. take about two hours to replant this pole and get minnesota avenue open and running again. in the meantime if we pan to the right, burrows avenue here, traffic is backed up. a lot of cars are struggling to make a detour around this problem. so we h on good morning my name is jenny doan i'm a quilter and i'm a mother and i'm a grandmother. 2008 was when all the markets crashed, we lost our retirement. hamilton was losing hope and my husband and i were losing hope. my sister and i we challenged ourselves to help figure out a way to help them. our kids bought us a quilt machine. it was very humble beginnings. we were just this cute little shop, just like everybody else. do tutorials and i was like "sure honey what's a tutorial?" i had not a clue. hi everybody i'm jenny from the missouri star quilt company. youtube gave us the opportunity to really differentiate, we got to a 1,000 subscribers year one and now we're at 300,000 subscribers. we started carrying all the fabrics that mom would

court of appeals is expectsed to hear a case to halt the pepco merger. the organization believes the merger will be bad for d.c. residents and merger will result in higher bills for the residents at well. >> 5:35 is the time right n now. you have to like it when it's going to be a near perfect tuesday. or at least that's the word. >> yesterday when i looked at it it was probably going to be warmest day of the next two weeks. i think the first day of may is more spring like than summerlike. >> really? >> little break. >> we'll have spring and spring. >> spring sean sgling after by the way the warmest april of all time. >> oh, wow. >> in d.c. history. >> nice. >> satellite and radar showing you a couple ever lingering showers here and there. maybe a light smrinkle out towards the that's about. it that's a cold front moving through this morning which will be dropping our temperatures to more se seasonable and comfortable levels. we'll be right back this afternoon to warmer weather. reagan national 71. bwi 71 as well and dulles in 6 owes. quick look at the f

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