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"The airplane are alive in pretty good condition. There were some minor injuries, but not life threatening injuries. Do you think that plane will be flyable again, Jeff? I don't know what you can see there. It looks pretty. It looks pretty total to me. I don't know, maybe somebody out there that has more experience with that kind of thing can let us know whether they believe that this thing is going to be fixable and flyable again, but it looks pretty bad shape to me. I think the whole engine was ripped off from the firewall on the airplane there. That's not good. But you can't really see in these pictures. No. And then let's play a little bit of the 9-1-1 call that the pilot. What's his name again? Patrick Merkel made to Montgomery county 9-1-1. What's the address of the emergency? I've flown into a tower to the northwest of Jesus bird airport. It's one of the electrical towers and believe it or not, the aircraft is pinned in the tower. And I don't know how long we're going to be able to stay here and I don't know. Yeah, I'm the pilot. Okay. Stay on the line with me. Okay. And you said it's the northwest part of the airport? That's correct. We're northwest of geckos Kurt. And you said that your ten, we are in the tower. We are still in the plane. And we are in a now we've got a light that's coming at us. And if they can get a ladder truck up here, I don't know if it can reach this high. I don't know. I'm very concerned about my passengers. He was hurt. How many people are on board? We have two people on board. I've got I think we got head injuries from being banged around in the cockpit. Okay. The other person awakened breathing? Yes. I'm just going to stay on the line with you in the meantime, okay? Well, that's fine. I'm just concerned about our articulation and the possibility that we could slip out of this tower and go tell first to the ground and that would not be a survivable business. And you do see the fire trucks in the police department, they're correct? Yes. They're working on everything and getting up to you guys, okay? I have a bloody nose and I have a I also have a little scrape on the left side of my head. Here's what I'm worried about. We're getting some serious wind. Are they doing anything yet? They're working on getting up to you guys. I know I keep on telling you that.
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"Desk. His wired by IBW local 26, where electrical contractors come to grow. Good morning, I'm Deborah Feinstein. And I'm more Lewis. My cicadas is our producer. The top story we're following for you today, a preliminary report, is out on that small plane crash into a power transmission tower in Montgomery county more than a week ago. The national transportation safety board finds that the pilot did not follow guidance from air traffic controllers. The report says the pilot Patrick Merkel preferred a different approach to the Montgomery air park than what the air traffic controllers were advising. In addition, the plane was flying too low with rainy foggy conditions and limited visibility. WTO's Dan Ronan is a transportation expert who also holds a commercial pilot's license. He says weather conditions that night required pilots to fly exclusively with the use of instruments. In an instrument conditions, as challenging as they were the other night, there's just no room for air. You've got to be at the altitude that the FAA wants you at. You don't have any other choice. Well, after that plane crashed into the tower, the pilot and passenger were trapped 100 feet above the ground and dangled there in that plane for nearly 7 hours until they were rescued. When you take a ride on metro rail, the train is driven by a rail operator. But the transit agency is hoping to bring back its automated system. Since the red line crash at fort Todd and in 2009 that killed 9 people, metro's train operators have manually stopped and started trains. If the Washington metro rail safety commission approves, metro would return to an automated system for train operation and the opening and closing of doors. Metro says it has addressed the safety concerns following that 2009 crash and automation would make things safer now. If approved metro plans to begin testing of the automated system on the red line, next fall. It is election day yet again in Georgia today in a runoff between incumbent democratic senator Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker. Here's
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"1 22 in the morning TLP welcome in. A miracle, that is what a D.C. pilot is now saying about his survival after being rescued recently from his plane that crashed into an electric transmission tower locally in Gaithersburg. He's unlike barilla was able to talk with at Merkel about the harrowing experience he went through. This pilot 65 year old Patrick Merkel, he was at the end of a day trip to New York with a friend, so he's heading back home as friend Jan Williams in the passenger seat. They were not far from Montgomery county air park. The airport there in Gaithersburg, when he says, while coming in using instrument landing, system on the plane, they're going through clouds, and they wound up flying too low. And then they first hit a set of transmission lines. They hit those and then became lodged in another tower holding another set of wires, Merkel telling me that when he was stuck up there, you remember the pictures when he was stuck up there. He remembers thinking. For the first couple hours, I wasn't sure that came on that tower was going to work very concerned that we might be sliding off the tower and to our deaths, actually. But with every passing hour, my confidence in the miraculous placement of the airplane in the tower was increased to the point that I no longer worried about whether we were going to come off the tower. Now, we heard him talking to 9-1-1 operators during now. We got those tapes the other day that you heard here on WTO. But more of what was going on in the cockpit at the time. He says they kicked out the front window of the plane, removed part of the dashboard. So if that plane started moving and going backwards, they could try to get out onto that transmission tower. He also said that he was reaching his hand out. If you remember the pictures, he had his hand out of one of the windows. He was touching the tower. So he could feel any movement so he could say, let's try to get out of here. This, of course, going on while an amazing rescue mission was unfolding below them. Mike at the time we learned that both the pilot and his passenger were seriously injured. How are they? Both had head injuries, Merkel, had a gash on his forehead lost about two pints of blood while up there. But he's okay. He's out of the hospital, and so is Williams. She had similar injuries, some broken ribs in addition to all that. But miraculous is how he describes that they both survive this and that he was able to talk to me about surviving this. He says he saw pictures of the live wires that they
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"News. We're also hearing from the pilot this week. Clouds and bam. We hit a tower. Early on after the crash 65 year old Patrick Merkel tells WTO he was concerned. We might be sliding off the tower and to our deaths. He says it's a miracle how they hit the tower. If we had touched live wires with the wings, we would have short circuited 40,000 volts and had an explosive eruption of the fuel tanks that never happened and in a precision operation that lasted several hours they were rescued. I'm very grateful that we were safe. Both he and his passenger Jane Williams had injuries to their head. She also had broken ribs, they were both out of the hospital and very thankful to all those who helped including. A huge swath of Montgomery county. Which went without power during their rescue, Mike Murillo WTO news. Double DT will be used time at 1223. There is a potential breakthrough this week for the millions of Americans affected by Alzheimer's disease, and experimental antibody treatment developed by Biogen and its Japanese partner has barely been shown to slow down the progression of cognitive decline in a study of nearly 1800 different people this morning. CBS News medical contributor doctor David Akers joins us with more on the findings and what they actually mean. It was a lot of hope placed on this drug because it is such a devastating disease. And so in this trial, half got placebo and half got an antibody infused every two weeks. And what it showed is that nobody improved, but the rate of decline slightly decreased in the people who got the antibody treatment, but a cost of significant side effects, including brain bleed and brain swelling in the individuals who got the treatment. And so minor benefit, so small that most of the doctors and the patients were the founders couldn't really tell that the rate of decline had changed. But there was that real benefit there. So a glimmer of hope, but certainly not going to change the course of this disease in a big schema. So ultimately, people hearing this, they want to know would this help my family member do the benefits outweigh the risks or is this the first step toward the next thing where the benefits may be greater than this one? You hit the key question in the beginning of January, the FDA will review this. My gut is, is that the benefits do not outweigh the risk, but this is a step toward trying to show that if you remove these plaques, which this drug clearly did and did well, that there may be some benefit if we could do it safer and better. So I do think it's a step, but it's not something that's going to dramatically change the course of the disease, unfortunately. Why is Alzheimer's such a difficult disease, much like cancer to come back? Why is it elusive for scientists? Well, we don't even know how the brain works, right? I can't tell you how your thoughts work, how your emotions work. And so to develop treatments for a system that we don't understand is very difficult. And then you couple that is that it's a very slow disease. And by the time people are symptomatic, many times there's a lot of pathology in the brain. So we're not hitting it early. And so, you know, and slow diseases, trials are hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars and require thousands of patients. So is there the reason for capital risk for companies to put a lot of the Alzheimer's? Historically, they've shied away from it because of the resources required. I think we as the federal government and the United States need to take a step here just like we have a cancer moonshot. I do think we're going to need to do an Alzheimer's moonshot to team up with researchers, investigators, companies around the country together to make an impact on this disease. We need it
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"Themselves. The judge has ordered hoggle to remain in a state psychiatric hospital. In Rockville, particularly on WTO P news. Also new this evening drivers in Maryland now have two more weeks to pay tolls without paying a penalty. The Maryland transportation authority is just approved an extension on the civil penalty grace period for video tolls. The new deadline is Wednesday, December 14th, the MD TA says it's offering the extension because of a last minute rush at their customer service centers this week on December 15th the agency will resume referring unpaid toll bills to the central collection unit or collections actions. Go to WTU P dot com to find out how to pay. So now 8 O 5 and it's a miracle. That is what a D.C. pilot is saying about his survival after he was rescued from his crash plane that struck an electrical transmission tower in Gaithersburg Sunday Night. There's no way I'd be here to talk to you. And that divine intervention. Speaking to WTO P 65 year old Patrick Merkel says right after the crash. For the first couple hours, I wasn't sure that paying on that tower was going to work. And if the plane fell, he believes they wouldn't have survived that. He's also thankful they avoided hitting any live wires that may have caused an explosion. So we were very fortunate to add him. Both he and his passenger out of the hospital he had some head injuries and lost blood is passenger Jan had similar injuries, but also broken ribs. We are eternally grateful for the sacrifices everybody may coming out on the last night of the holiday weekend to rescue us. Grateful to the medical teams and the thousands of people who went without power to save their lives. Mike Morello WTO news. Merkel says the crash happened as he flew too low in clouds and hit the tower naturally the NTSB is now doing a full investigation. Meantime, Montgomery county firefighters are talking about that incredible plane rescue. They call it delicate work. When we
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"The area at Silver Spring coming in at 48° McLean at 48. And down in Waldorf, 51. Alrighty, thank you so much Amelia Draper and we've got some other news now here at 6 41. Sean people are calling it a miracle. Yeah, that's what a D.C. pilot is saying about his survival after being rescued from his plane that crashed into an electric transmission tower in Gaithersburg on Sunday Night. Mike Murillo was able to talk with pilot pat Merkel about his harrowing experience, Mike, you know, it's really impossible for any of us to imagine what it was like dangling there for 7 hours. What are you hearing? I know. And this pilot 65 year old Patrick Merkel. He was at the end of a day trip to New York with a friend, so he's heading back home as friend Jan Williams in the passenger seat. They were not far from Montgomery county air park. The airport there in Gaithersburg when he says, while coming in using instrument landing system on the plane, they're going through clouds and they wound up flying too low. And then they first hit a set of transmission lines. They hit those and then became lodged in another tower holding another set of wires, Merkel telling me that when he was stuck up there, you remember the pictures when he was stuck up there. He remembers thinking. For the first couple hours, I wasn't sure that hanging on that tower was going to work. I was very concerned that we might be sliding off the tower and to our deaths actually. But with every passing now or my confidence in the miraculous placement of the airplane in the tower was increased to the point that I no longer worried about whether we were going to come off the tower. Now, we heard him talking to 9-1-1 operators during now. We got those tapes the other day that you heard here on WTO, but more of what was going on in the cockpit at the time. He says they kicked out the front window of the plane, removed part of the dashboard, so if that plane started moving and going backwards, they could try to get out onto that transmission tower. He also said that he was reaching his hand out. If you remember the pictures, he had his hand out of one of the windows. He was touching the tower, so he could feel any movement so he could say, let's try to get out of here. And this, of course, going on while an amazing rescue mission was unfolding below them. Mike, at the time, we learned that both the pilot and his passenger were seriously injured. How are they today? Okay, both had head injuries, Merkel, had a gash on his forehead lost about two pints of blood while up there. But he's okay. He's out of the hospital and so is Williams. She had similar injuries and broken ribs in addition to all that. But again, as you said in the lead here, miraculous is how he describes that they both survive this and that he was able to talk to me about surviving this. He says today he saw pictures of the live wires that they snapped when they were going in and he said it's amazing that that didn't cause the plane to explode. Hey, Mike, thank you so much. What an unbelievable story. WTO's Mike Morello with the story of the pilot who was rescued from that plane. Well, check on sports next 6 44. Don't wait. Get ready for the holidays now during court furniture outlets year in clearance of that, where everything is on sale at their lowest
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"Who disappeared with Catherine hoggle 8 years ago. Whenever someone can murder two children and then be treated as a regular patient, be given more rights than the kids or the survivors around them who they've affected. There's something really wrong. The judge has also committed Catherine hoggle to remain in a state psychiatric facility, as long as she remains a danger to herself on the community. In Rockville, particularly on WTO P news. Miracle, that is the word one D.C. pilot can not use enough of after he and passenger survived a crash into an electrical tower late this weekend in Gaithersburg. Mike Morello speaks with the pilot about the crash and the rescue of the man and his passenger. Got it really, really safe. The crash Patrick Merkel says happened after he was flying too low in cloud returning from New York, but he says. The placement in that tire was miraculous? Because the plane held in place in live wires didn't cause an explosion. This is a miraculous event for us to be able to look back on it and talk about it. Both units passenger Jan Williams were injured, but both have been released from the hospital. I heard in this way. But the important thing there is we're alive organic enjoy our grandchildren and our retirement. They both thank all the rescuers and medical teams that help them. Of course, what have taken everybody's hand if I could have known who's hand to shake. And also the thousands of people who went without power for their rescue, Mike Morello, WTO news. Well, a daring operation took 7 hours and now we're hearing new details of how Montgomery county firefighters pulled it off. We had come up with
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"Has been found incompetent to stand trial for 5 straight years, a state law requires the charges against her, be dropped. Outside Montgomery county circuit court, particularly on OW TOP news. Also knew this afternoon, we are hearing from the D.C. pilot whose small plane crashed into an electric transmission tower in Gaithersburg late in the weekend, and this WTO piece Mike Morello tells us the pilot and his passenger miraculously survived that crash. And bam. We hit a tower. Early on after the crash 65 year old Patrick Merkel tells WTO, he was concerned. We might be sliding off the tower and to our deaths. He says it's a miracle how they hit the tower. If we had touched live wires with the wings, we would have short circuited 40,000 volts and had an explosive eruption of the fuel tanks. That never happened and in a precision operation that lasted several hours, they were rescued. I'm very grateful that we were safe. Both he and his passenger Jane Williams had injuries to their head. She also had broken ribs, they were both out of the hospital and very thankful to all those who helped including. A huge swath of Montgomery county. Which went without power during their rescue. Mike Morello WTO news. You can imagine how difficult it was to free those people from the plane and get the plane out of the transmission wires. Sometimes firefighters are called to rescue people when they're trapped. Sometimes they have to stabilize things. Sunday Night, they did both. You just break those components down to their simplest form. You can get through it and not let it overwhelm you. Lieutenant John land
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"Two people that we transported to a local trauma center, both of those folks that condition has improved. One is still in the hospital. They were rescued just before 1 a.m. on Monday, about three hours later, Cruz removed the plane from the power lines. They stabilized the plane by the crane, then segmented the plane and the engine from S two pieces, lowered the plane to the ground. The plane remains unseen and will be inspected by the NTSB. Stetson Miller, WTU P news. To release a preliminary reports, we're told of their investigation into this crash in two to three weeks. Now the pilot and passenger in Sunday lights plane crash stayed calm as they talked my cell phone with a 9-1-1 call taker. Pilot Patrick Merkel telephoned Montgomery county 9-1-1 to say he had flown into a tower. Believe it or not, the aircraft is pinned in the tower. The pilot feared the plane could slip free from the tower's grasp and fall to earth. We can slide backwards and have absolutely nothing to protect us going down. Passenger Janet Williams pleaded for a swift rescue and the 9-1-1 call taker offered encouraging words. They're moving as fast as they can. Okay, they're going to get up to you guys. Emergency personnel checked with the crash victims by phone every 30 minutes. Particularly on a WTO P news. You'll be at three O 6 and other news this morning, Virginia congressman Donald mceachin we hear has died after a long battle with cancer. He was just 61, making a Democrat had just won reelection for a fourth term in Virginia's fourth district, his chief of staff says that McKeon was diagnosed with colorectal cancer that he's been battling since 2013. Money is being wasted in the district when it comes to fixing things at schools and other buildings. D.C. council chair Phil mendelson says the work order process is in his words a mess. The result is that it's costing the city. Millions of dollars. A D.C. auditor's report found all kinds of issues with the department of general services responsible for fixing stuff and tracking it. In some work orders before and after photos were not the actual project, but stock images found on the Internet. To me, I mean, why would one do that? Mendelsohn says the mayor is responsible for how the work gets done. Kyle Cooper, WTO P news. When prices go up, that has an impact on everything from the price of milk to building local schools. This is the time of year when Montgomery county lawmakers are talking to their colleagues in Annapolis about what they need and county council president KPop said inflation will affect requests for things like school construction money. He also talked about another priority when the General Assembly session starts in January. Pedestrian safety, as well as bicycle safety, because as we know, there have been too many tragedies here locally in Montgomery county and across the region. Among the bills it could be considered one that would take the fines drivers pay for blowing past stopped school buses and sending that money to the state to apply directly to improving safety at the site where the violation occurred. Kate Ryan, WTO P news. Moving on to the next holiday, this Tuesday morning and coming up on WTO P this half hour. Students from Calvert, Fredericksburg and D.C. make things festive at the national Christmas tree. I'm dick giuliano. Three O 8s on WTO welcome. Slower. Claude trains called Michael and son and get $100 off at trained cleaning today. Probably good weather all the 8s and when it breaks, good morning to rich under with this thing that I will do TLP traffic sign. Good morning dean right now traveling eastbound 66 between 29 and 28 in son of a single left lane gets by the work some beyond that between one 23 and not least street also down to a single left lane then as you approach and pass over the beltway that works on blocks a single ride lane. Westbound side as you approach one 23 works in the right lane between 50 and the fairfax county Parkway, single ride lane gets you by and then as you approach the route 28 in centerville there, you're also down to a single right lane getting by your empty south on 28 block as part of that work sound posted detour will take you to 29 to work your way back. Southbound 28 as you approach and pass over 66 eventually down to one single link that lets it work some but as of late delays have been brief, 95 north on the only act of work sound as you approach and pass through three Fredericksburg, that marks left lane that's where you get by without delay beyond that, nothing else anyway, headed up toward the beltway in Springfield express things available to you there as well. Three 95 north, between the development and the 14th street bridge also off to a good start express lanes available there as well. No issues as of late on George Washington Parkway in either direction. For over 65 years, giba, the government employees benefit association has been trusted by federal employees to provide dental vision and other insurance benefits, choose giba visit GEBA dot com, rich hundred WTO traffic. Tracking the next couple of days for you, your Tuesday, not too bad. High temperature in the low 50s is going 53 with a mixture of clouds and sun. Wednesday, all clouds, good chance for rain early in the day, high temperature of 60, sounds great, but once again, rain and wind, winds got 30 to 40 mph
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"The idea we still allow semi-automatic buckets to be purchased is sick. But Democrats don't have the votes in the Senate, and lawmakers need to make sure there's not a government shutdown when federal funds run out on December 16th. In addition to needing to come to an agreement on a spending bill, Congress needs to pass defense authorization legislation, and the president is seeking nearly $40 billion in aid for Ukraine. Supporters say that assistance needs to be passed soon before Republicans take over the house. Many GOP house members are skeptical of providing more money for Ukraine. On capital hill, Mitchell Miller WTO be news. We are awaiting an update from Montgomery county leaders in just a few minutes on the aftermath of last night's small plane crash into high power lines in Montgomery village. That crash knocking out electricity for about a 100,000 customers in the area before it was restored overnight, but it prompted county schools to call off classes for today. A pilot and a passenger who was stranded for nearly 7 hours in that plane were rescued hours later, the plane wreckage was safely removed. Luke Luger has been on the scene today. A crane lifting new glass insulators can be seen over goshen road here in Montgomery village, crews will then have to hang thousands of pounds of new power lines on the tall metal towers. It's a very different site than last night when 66 year old Patrick Merkel and jaina Williams were trapped in a mangled single prop plane for 7 hours and the cold and fog before they were rescued by Montgomery county fire crews. They used cranes and boom trucks
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"Investigators are looking into why a small plane crashed in Maryland on Sunday. The small plane had left White Plains New York and was near the Montgomery county, Maryland air park in Gaithersburg, when it crashed into live power lines trapping two people inside and knocking out power to thousands in the area. Before first responders could rescue the two, utility contractors had to disconnect the high tension wires. So it would be safe for the rescuers and responders had to stabilize the plane and then the rescue. Montgomery county fire chief Scott Goldstein. Both patients have been transported from the scene to local area trauma centers. With serious injuries. But both are expected to survive. He talked to W JLA TV, state police identify the two as pilot Patrick Merkel of Washington, D.C., and passenger Janet Williams of Louisiana, both in their 60s. I'm Rita foley
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"Buckets all around them making repairs. Comes after a busy night of rescues. The mangled single prompt plane was taken down at around 3 a.m., but before that Montgomery county fire and rescue crews were able to extract both the passenger and pilot from the plane just after midnight, the pilot, 61 year old Patrick Merkel of D.C., had taken off from White Plains, New York earlier yesterday. He was headed to the Montgomery county air park, which is just two miles from where he ultimately crashed, both he and the passenger were taken to the hospital with serious injuries. The cause of the crash is unknown at this time. In Montgomery village, Luke Luger WTO penus. Now the decision to close, public schools in Montgomery county was made last night when tens of thousands of Pepco customers were still without power. At 1 a.m. there were still 44 schools and 6 central office facilities without power. While power was restored about one 30 this morning, a school spokesman says necessary checks of all buildings were needed to assess essential systems for heat water and network connectivity. Ten 34 recent deadly mass shootings have President Biden renewing calls now for Congress to pass new gun control legislation. But even lawmakers who agree with him on those policies say it will be difficult. The latest from WTO's Mitchell Miller on Capitol Hill. Connecticut democratic senator Chris Murphy led an effort to pass earlier gun safety legislation, which had bipartisan support. Speaking on CNN's State of the Union, he praised the president for again pushing to pass an assault weapons ban, though he acknowledges getting enough Senate support is a challenge. Does it have 60 votes in the Senate right now? Probably not. But Murphy notes Democrats could add to their majority depending on what happens in the Georgia Senate runoff, and he believes they should keep trying. If we don't have the votes, then we'll talk to senator Schumer and maybe come back next year. For now, however, many Republicans believe the idea is a non starter. On Capitol Hill, Mitchell Miller WTO. A white gunman who targeted a Buffalo New York supermarket in a predominantly black neighborhood back in May plans to plead guilty today to killing ten people and wounding three others. 19 year old Payton, gender, as scheduled to appear in court for a hearing that was postponed because of last week's powerful snowstorm. The 25 count grand jury indictment includes charges of murder, murder as a hate crime and domestic terrorism motivated by hate, which carries an automatic life sentence upon conviction. He also faces charges for separate federal hate crimes that could result in a death sentence if convicted. Early voting is underway and at least two dozen Georgia counties. It's four of the runoff U.S. Senate election, which will decide who will represent Georgia in the U.S. Senate. The stakes are high in the race between democratic incumbent senator Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker. A Warnock victory would give Democrats an outright majority in the U.S. Senate. More now from W GCL TV reporter, Rachel Aragon. Several voters we spoke to right here in Fulton county say they are excited to make their voice heard once again as the state heads into another runoff election. Important to have your voice heard
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"Closed today, power was restored to everybody overnight. More now from the scene with WTO's Luke luker. Those towers now have cruising sky buckets all around them making repairs. Comes after a busy night of rescues, the mangled single prompt plane was taken down at around 3 a.m., but before that Montgomery county fire and rescue crews were able to extract both the passenger and pilot from the plane just after midnight, the pilot, 61 year old Patrick Merkel of D.C., had taken off from White Plains, New York earlier yesterday. He was headed to the Montgomery county air park, which is just two miles from where he ultimately crashed, both he and the passenger were taken to the hospital with serious injuries, the cause of the crash is unknown at this time. In Montgomery village, Luke Luger WTO news. Montgomery county public schools made the call to cancel classes today when thousands of Pepco customers were still without power from last night's crash. The school system says at 1 o'clock this morning there were still 44 schools and 6 central office facilities without power. Power was eventually restored for everyone who lost it in that incident around one 30 this morning. In a statement to WTO, school spokesman says after a widespread power outage, staff needs to assess all buildings and make sure they have heat, water and network connectivity. Kids who go to D.C. public schools need to make sure that they're COVID free before they walk into the classroom again today. Now, prior to the Thanksgiving break, the school system sent test gets home to students or for parents to test their kids with. And the results were to be uploaded by 9 o'clock last night. Staff also need to provide a COVID free test result to get back in the building. Well, today is cyber Monday. So are there really good deals to be had? Here are some ways to make sure you find them. Okay, with Amazon deals, get to know the camel. Guess what? Today is. It's hump day. Well, not that camel, but the website camel camel camel dot com. It allows you to post the link of an Amazon listing and see the price history of that product. They also have a Google Chrome add on called caramelize. You can also check out another add on called honey, which will help you drop the price of what you see on a retailer site by adding coupons. Also beware some products can have phony reviews. So to spot those try one of these browser extensions, fake spot or review meta they both analyze reviews and spot the phony ones for you. Mike Murillo, WTO news. Now that Thanksgiving is coming gone, you may be thinking about putting up a Christmas tree. Families in our region who want to cut down their own Christmas trees have several options. The country loving Christmas tree farm in Leesburg and milltown creek farms in lovettsville are just two places in loudoun
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"For steward overnight, and the plane was safely removed shortly after. WTO's Luke Luke has the latest from that scene. Crews are now at work repairing this power line tower just off gauche and road here Montgomery village. It comes after a busy and harrowing night just after midnight Montgomery county fire crews were able to rescue both the pilot and passenger who were then taken to the hospital. Then around an hour later, power was restored to around 80,000 customers who were in the dark when they went to bed, the small single prompt plane was then taken down from the tower at around 3 a.m.. 61 year old Patrick Merkel of D.C. was piloting the private plane. It was headed to the Montgomery county air park in gathersburg after taking off from White Plains, New York, Neil must arrived at his destination crashing just two miles from the airport. In Montgomery village, Luke Luger WTO pinus. Montgomery county public schools made the decision to cancel classes today when thousands of Pepco customers were still without power from last night's crash. The school system says in 1 a.m. there were 44 schools in 6 central office facilities that were in the dark, power was eventually restored for everyone around one 30 this morning. In a statement to WTO, a spokesperson for MCP as says that after a widespread power outage like that, staff needs to reassess all buildings and make sure that they have heat, water, and that we're connectivity. It's 8 O 5 now Stafford county sheriff's deputies shot and killed a man they described as suicidal last night. It happened at the intersection of garrisonville and Ripley roads about 8 p.m.. The sheriff's office says deputies were trying to help the man when he pulled out a handgun, deputies ordered him to drop the weapon, but when he refused, he was shot and pronounced dead shortly after that. No one else was hurt during the incident or the deputies involved are now on administrative leave. Cyber Monday is supposed to be a day full of deals, but if
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"This is WTO news. It's 6 52, and a small plane that was stuck for hours after crashing into a utility tower yesterday has been taken down. The pilot and passenger who were trapped inside were rescued last night. They were taken to a hospital with serious injuries. This all started around 5 30 yesterday afternoon in Montgomery village, near the intersection of rothbury drive and goshen road that incident caused widespread power outages throughout the county at one point Pepco reporting tens of thousands of customers without power, but it says that everyone's power has now been restored. Montgomery county public schools are closed today, along with all campuses of Montgomery college. That decision was made before the power situation was resolved. Maryland state police have identified the pilot as 65 year old Patrick Merkel of Washington, D.C., his passenger is 66 year old Jan Williams of Louisiana. The white gunman who targeted a buffalo supermarket in a predominantly black neighborhood last May plans to plead guilty today to killing ten people and wounding three others. 19 year old Peyton gendron is expected to appear in court for a hearing that was postponed by a week because of last week's huge snowstorm. The 25 count grand jury indictment includes charges of murder, murder as a hate crime, and domestic terrorism motivated by hate, which carries an automatic life sentence upon conviction. He also faces charges for separate federal hate crimes that could result in a death sentence of these convicted. University researchers have created a vaccine that could block the effects of the opioid fentanyl. A vaccine that could block the opioid fentanyl from entering the brain, thus eliminating the drug's high, has been developed by a university of Houston research team. Our vaccine generates antibodies against the chemical. And that chemical is fentanyl. Researcher, doctor Colin Hale, says initial tests and rats show the vaccine to be a game changer. We block deadly effects, decrease in blood oxygen, heart rate, respiration, and general activity. Clinical tests are soon planned in humans, Stephen Kauffman CBS News. Money news of 25 and 55, a new record for Black Friday, consumers spent more than $9 billion shopping online this year. Overall online sales for the day after Thanksgiving, we're up 2.3% compared to last year. Electronics were a major contributor as online sales surged 221% over an average day in October. Toys and exercise equipment were also top sellers this year. Hackers have been going after your passwords at a furious rate these days attempts up 75% this year in WTO's Jeff clay ball says that means you should probably change yours Nord passes annual list of the 200 most common passwords is out so many aren't only weak they are stupid. The most common password again this year is the infamously bad one password. The second most common is one, two, three, four, 5, 6. The word guest makes the top 5. 8 in ten Americans use the same password across different websites and apps. Coming up on WTO P, it's cyber Monday today and people are being advised to keep an eye out for scammers while bargain hunting and will have more on the two people rescued from that small plane crash that sent that plane into power lines in gathersburg at 6 56. Drivers who switch and save with progressive save over $700 on average and those savings add up. Imagine
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"patrick merkel" Discussed on WTOP
"WTO P news. 6 23 now, that small plane that was stuck for hours midair after crashing into a utility tower yesterday has finally been freed and brought down by Montgomery fire and rescue and work crews. The pilot and passenger who were trapped inside were also rescued. They were taken to a hospital with serious injuries. This happened about 5 30 yesterday afternoon in Montgomery village near the intersection of rothbury drive and goshen road because of that crash and the power outages that resulted from it, lingering into the early morning hours. Montgomery county public schools are closed today and all campuses of Montgomery college are also closed. The incident caused widespread power out of just throughout the Cuddy. A county at one point, Pepco reporting tens of thousands of customers in the dark by Pepco says everyone who lost power in that incident has now had it restored. Maryland state police identify the pilot a 65 year old Patrick Merkel of D.C. and the passenger as 66 year old Jan Williams of Louisiana. The Annapolis man accused of fatally shooting the mother of a naval academy midshipman last year is scheduled to go on trial today, police say 31 year old Angelo harad of Annapolis recklessly fired a gun 5 times at least killing 57 year old Michelle Cummings as she sat on a hotel patio along west street in downtown Annapolis last June. The Louisiana woman was in the city to watch her son's induction ceremony into the naval academy and was not the intended target. COVID, SARS, Ebola, all epidemics of the 21st century. 30 years ago, HIV aids was topping the headlines. So where are we today in the fight against HIV aids? Although age related deaths have declined dramatically over the past few decades, one Washington based aids organization wants you to know as we approach world aids day. There are some real issues around equity and justice that need to be addressed if we're going to effectively end this epidemic. Paul kawada executive director of the national minority aids council says he's also troubled by recent violence against the LGBTQ
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"patrick merkel" Discussed on WTOP
"Good morning. I'm Stephanie gaines Bryant, the top local stories we're following this hour. Montgomery county fire and rescue crews have rescued a pilot and a passenger who were trapped inside a small plane that was entangled in a utility tower in Montgomery village. The crash happened at around 5 30 Sunday near the intersection of rothbury drive and goshen road. Here's Montgomery county fire chief Scott Goldstein. Both patients have been transported from the scenes to local area trauma centers with serious injuries. Maryland state police have identified the pilot as 65 year old Patrick Merkel of Washington, D.C., and the passenger as 66 year old Jan Williams of Louisiana. They were rescued from the plane at around 1230 this morning. Crews are still working to remove the plane from the power lines. The incident caused widespread power outages throughout the county. Pepco says it's restored service to all customers, impacted by the crash this morning, but last night up to 120,000 people were without power. Meanwhile, Montgomery county public schools in offices are closed for today due to the outages, all Montgomery college campuses and locations are also closed for today. Last June, a woman was shot and killed in Annapolis on the weekend she was dropping her midshipman son off at the naval academy. Her accused killer's trial is scheduled for today. Angelo harrod of Annapolis is charged with first and second degree murder for the killing of Michelle Cummings of Houston, Texas. The trial was scheduled to last three weeks. She was in town for the induction ceremony of her son into the naval academy, she was sitting on a patio at the graduate hotel when police say stray bullet coming from harrod's gun hit her. She was not believed to be the target of the shooting and Herod also faces attempted murder charges for shooting at two other people coming sun, Trey is now a sophomore in place, offensive lineman on the midshipman football team. A slower growth rate in real estate is behind the possibility of higher taxes in Alexandria. Alexandria is facing a $17 million budget shortfall, and as a result, the city council will be considering raising taxes in the budget that will be worked out this coming year for 2024. According to Alexandria now, mere Justin Wilson hopes attacks increase won't happen, but the city manager has been asked to present the city council with two budget alternatives, one for a tax hike and one without. Jim Perez on tells that news outfit that city staff is expecting a shallow recession to impact the city this spring, mostly due to an increase in city operations. Sandy cosell, WTO news. There's a growing push around the country, including in our area to make marijuana fully legal, a new study backs that up. 59% of U.S. adults believe marijuana should be legal for both medical and recreational use for adults, while 30% say it needs to have a doctor's approval. Only 10% of American surveyed recently by the Pew Research Center think it should be illegal either way. There were differences too by political party affiliation. 45% of Republicans and Republican leaning voters are pro marijuana legalization, while 73% of Democrats and democratic leaning voters feel the same way. In November, voters in Maryland approved a ballot to make a small amount of recreational marijuana legal for adults over 21, medical marijuana, that's already legal. Shane as doolin, WTO P news. Coming up after traffic and weather will tell you how the best deals can be made on cyber Monday. It's four O 7. A story of
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"patrick merkel" Discussed on WTOP
"His wired by IBW local 26, where electrical contractors come to grow. Good morning, I'm Stephanie gains Bryant, Juan Herrera is our producer. The top stories that we're following for you today, a small private plane, has crashed into a utility tower in Montgomery village at the intersection of rothbury drive and goshen road. Montgomery county fire and rescue say the pilot and a passenger are suspended about 100 feet in the air and waiting to be rescued at this hour. The pilot is identified as Patrick Merkel 65 of Washington D.C.. The passenger is identified as Jan Williams, who's 66 of Louisiana. Crews are working to stabilize the plane before they can rescue the two people trapped inside. No injuries have been reported at this time. The incident has caused widespread power outages throughout Montgomery county, Pepco is now reporting less than 2000 customers without power this morning after 120,000 were in the dark last night. Meanwhile, Montgomery county public schools and offices are closed for today due to the outages. The school system is reporting that more than 40 schools in 6 central office facilities are without power. They say the outages are affecting a number of key services, including maintenance buses and food services, all Montgomery college campuses and locations are also closed for today. Meantime, about four and a half million Americans flew for Thanksgiving, and most travelers are flying back today, reporter Eileen la Palmer was at Laguardia airport in New York City. It's an unusual sight for sure, mostly smiles at Laguardia airport Sunday afternoon, as people may the return trek home from a Thanksgiving weekend. It was good, yeah, no delays, no trouble. It was actually pretty quick. Surprisingly so. Nina who flew in from midway airport has her theories about what's going on. I'm a manager, my guess is because lots of people worked remote during the weekend traveled earlier or later than usual. And Jackie says the only trouble she had was getting to the airport in Denver. The traffic was really bad. Eileen Lil Palmer, for CBS News at Laguardia airport. Congress returns this week from the brief holiday break, and President Biden wants lawmakers to renew gun control efforts, following recent deadly shootings. Mitchell Miller is on Capitol Hill. I'm glad that President Biden is going to be pushing us to take a vote on an assault weapons ban. The house has already passed it. Connecticut senator Chris Murphy, who led an earlier effort to pass gun safety legislation. An assault weapon was not used in the recent deadly shooting at the Chesapeake Virginia Walmart. Murphy, speaking on CNN's State of the Union, says a new band can't stop all shootings, and notes it wouldn't affect current gun owners. Nobody's talking about taking those weapons away from individuals. We're just talking about stopping new sales. But Republicans are critical of expanding gun restrictions and Murphy acknowledges Democrats currently don't have the 60 votes they'd need to move legislation forward. On Capitol Hill, Mitchell Miller, WTO, news. Over the weekend, there was unprecedented pushback in China against the government's COVID restrictions in several cities demonstrators gathered to protest a renewed round of lockdowns, following a spike in COVID infections. CBS News Elizabeth Palmer has the REIT has the latest from Tokyo. Some of the pushback against zero COVID may have its roots in Chinese viewers seeing crowds at the World Cup unmasked and unafraid. But by today it appeared, state TV was censoring images of those bare faced spectators. All part of Xi Jinping's plan to double down on his zero COVID policy. And the sight of citizens