Investigation. Washingtonat 5 00 begins now. Live and in hd, this is good morning washington, on your side. But glad youre with us. Wednesday, october 24. I am steve chenevey. I am cynne simpson. Lets get to meteorologist jeras. Are headline for today, and other warm wednesday. Do have a slow cooldown coming and a wild card for the weekend. Watching Tropical Storm sandy, which is almost a hurricane. Up to somewaking conditions, 61 at 54 at dulles. L, the express forecast, looking to be warminges up. 76 at noon, 81 at 5 00. We will have more on the seven day in a moment. Back to you. Thank you. We will take you to Stafford County, virginia. Part of interstate 95 northbound closed due to a fuel spill. Brianne carter has an update. Centreport parkway, the lanes of 95 starting to develop delays. Milemarker 138 is where the happened. A big backup starting already. We understand traffic is able to shoulder not much moving. They are asking drivers to come parkway andeport on northbound. K the tractorTrailer Crashed, involving other vehicles as well. Two people were taken to a hospital. Their conditions are not known. They are looking for a fuel cleanup. Crews have been on the scene for about an hourandahalf to off the road to get those lanes back open. Traffic only able to get by on shoulder. Major delays are starting to appear with a twomile backup. Exit, if possible. We are seeing a lot of people parkway to gett this. Back to you. Thank you. Ts 5 03 unexpected cleanup for kensington after a water main break. Also find out whats the roads and how situation on 95 is affecting everything. D morning. With everything we heard, it will be a lengthy clean up on ters. Unit rd county Stafford Airport exit, that area getting slow. Good3 would be a alternates or northbound 17, falmouth, your last exit the d be the centreport parkway. Beyond that, nothing to report northbound approaching lorton andn, newington looking good. Police have wrapped up the 270 ructionn southbound near rte. 80 urbana. Back to you. Thank you. About montgomery county. Theres cleanup underway in after water main break overnight. Burst and the 4400 block of glenridge street. It sent water into dozens of homes. John gonzalez is live in the area with more. 7 homes suffered severe flooding. After hours of work, crews were to fix the pipe and perhaps the road. President safpa domestically new this morning. Sixinch water main , forcing crews to for a fix and leaving a dozen basements submarines under murky water. It started as a babbling brook and ended up about the size of a volkswagen beetle. Water was gushing out of n the streetsdow tuesday evening into the houses. The power was shut off to at homes. Ine we are in my basement where the water main break outside in 6 inches of dirty water down here. The cause has not been determined, but the pipe was old. The 5,600arter of of water mains are at 50 years or older. Its a classic example of aging infrastructure. The water main was 72 years old. When temperatures fluctuated, main breaksf water become more and more common. Was not common was the r that ended up in the homes. The water pressure was extremely strong. John gonzalez reporting from kensington. Investigators trying to manassas, and a chaselice on a wild states. Two it started when the virginia tried to stop the woman speeding. At chase then moved into where police at Walter Reed Military Medical Center shot ather windows and she wasto try to stop after she crashed into a construction site in bethesda. And officers suffered minor injuries. Days until the election. The Republican Party dealing with another abortion controversy if. Comments made by Indiana RepublicanSenate Candidate mourdock. Tahman bradley has the latest. The candidates are storming battleground states in the final sprint to election day. Riding ay momentum that has hit a as another republican makes aandidate controversial comments about abortion. Was askedurdock during the debate whether allowed inould be incest . Rape or i believe life begins at conception. Begins in a rape, itsituation of something god intended to. Appen democrats painted him as extreme in a web video. Democrats point out that mitt romney is. Is amount is supporting him. Governor romney has said that senatorses with the views. I am fired up right now. The race is tight. Romney is leading president obama by one percentage point in an abc poll. Without romney up or down, the is even closer, the by adates separated fraction of a point. Schedules are not slowing down. Two states today for romney and obama. Tahman bradley , abc news. Donald trump says he will make a aboutnouncement today president obama. Has been critical of the president and says the announcement could impact the president ial race. The announcement is expected at noon. He says he will make the announcement on facebook and twitter. 9. 0 see how residence president obama im barack obama and i approve. This message. Anncr victims. Dependent. Thats what mitttt romney calld fortyseven percent. Of americans. Including people on medicare. But what aboutis plan for you . Romney would replace guarantd benefits with a voucher system seniors could pay six thousand dollars more a year. A plan aarp says would undermine medicare. Yore no victim. You earned your benefits. Dont let tt romney take them away. Captioned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicap. Org time for the forecast. Where is adam caskey this morning . At the New Carrollton metro end of the orange in maryland in prince georges county. Im wearing a Shirt Sleeves early this morning. Ts going to be a warm day lets look at the the current temperature. Degrees outside the metro station. Warm. Onably this will be the warmest day of the week. Around 80. Atures some locations in the low n today. Later o still pretty quiet out here today. And just one train moving along, going into the city. In woodstock, virginia, this is receivedhotograph i from my wonderful facebook jan, of the beautiful. All colors gorgeous picture. Lets talk temperatures. 61 at reagan national, 55 in manchester, 50 in frederick, 58 in hagerstown. In cumberland. Fairly want for this time of year. We have a good amount of expected with an isolated sprinkle in the potomac highlands to start. Around 80 degrees for the High Temperature. Off over theoling couple days. Now lets look at the commute on thisee whitten wednesday morning. Good morning. Virginia, a little busy. Prince William Police are with lane closures of the Prince William parkway. Westbound parkway before avenue, heading towards manassas. Theres a house fire in that area. We will keep an eye on that. Looking at a video, we are looking at a slow ride on 953 incident with a and overturned tractor trailer from last night. Getting byhoulder is 138, north of the centreport parkway. We are seeing delay starting to grow in that area. Think about that. Out of fredericksburg you might want to take route 3. Back to you. Thank you. 5 14, pin 59 degrees. Following several developments in the deadly meningitis outbreak. Ike leggett gaming generated one hundred and eighty. Million dollars for maryland schools. Question sevenill double it. Rushern baker question seven will add table games and. A new casino, generating mi. Every year, without raising taxes. Leggett and audits will ensure the money goes. Where its supposed to. More jobs, and millions for schools. Baker question seven will be good for our kids. Our teachers, and our schoolol. Leggett keep maryland money in maryland. Baker please vote for question seven. Leggett vote for question seven. Its a rainy morning becoming a caramel drizzle. With folgers gourmet selections, you can turn any day gourmet. New roasts, new flavors, and a new look. Olabanji is following. Evelopments in the middle east we have learned that gaza and between israel have been shut down due some violence in the area. Web site. Om the bbcs rockets and mortars from the gaza strip have been pummeling israel early this morning and an israeli air killed a palestinian militant. Schools on either side of the becauseave been closed of fears of further violence. This is a day after the leader qatar was the first foreign state to visit gaza took power in 2007. Both president obama and mitt some tough questions the debate and had to stances on the unrest in that area. Both said they suprt israel. We are keeping a close eye on story and we will have updates later in the newscast. Back to you. Thank you. Massachusetts state officials found unclean conditions at thedrug company linked to meningitis. Eak of the outbreak is blamed for more than 300 illnesses and 23 deaths so far. A number of suspected meningitis 4ses in virginia has risen to 1. 41. Two people in virginia have died. Residents in jamaica are wary about Tropical Storm sandy. People flocked to Grocery Stores up on food, batteries, and water. Become a hurricane by the time it crosses jamaica. The island has not sustained a from a hurricane since 1988 with gilbert. So this could be devastating. It will affect us one way or another. It could influence our weather. Late on the weekend a strong front is coming. To make a could see it 6 inches rain. A lot of flooding and mudslides possible. That will be the story for the Dominican Republic as well as hate. The storm system is moving north. Almost a hurricane with winds at 70 miles an hour. This is the forecast from the National Hurricane center. Its curving away. If the storm takes more westerly track, thats when we become concerned. Wind and rainng us. For a cold front approaches at the same time. Somecomputer models show tracks treks in that direction. Meantime, we have a great morning at 61 degrees of 54 withpoint wind at 3 miles an hour. Temperatures in the 50s for the part across the metro area. 55 in gaithersburg, the 54 at dulles. We have a weak upper level to passnce trying through. Aat could squeeze out sprinkle especially off to our west. Pressure for the most part is in charge. Our weatherminate today with a south windwarming things up this afternoon. Partly cloudy skies and 7782 degrees. Our record high is 84. We will stay shy of that. Partly cloudy tonight, 5360. A gradual slide in temperatures towards the weekend. Then a big drop into the 50s. There still could be changes in the weekend forecast because of the cold the timing of front. West a check on traffic and weather jamee whitten. Im happy to give you some progress in Stafford County. Vdot has only one lane blocked the overnightf crash. The 11 30 last night, this is video. Just the left lane is blocked. So that is an improvement. Northbound 95, delays before the parkway, Stafford Airport exit. You will be stuck in the back bailout prior to that. Fredericksburg you could take route 17 or route 3. No problems to report farther up over theyou head occoquan towards the beltway. 395 is open. The beltway in virginia and maryland, nothing to report. An easy ride in and out of virginia at the bridge. Apple yesterday finally offronts a smaller version e ipad. Most used passwords, in a new report. Paula faris has more. The ipad mini is coming next week. Unveiled this smaller,. Essexpensive tablet it is about 2 3 the size of the regular ipad. You can hold in one hand and up. Easy to hold it still runs the same software, dont have to compromise any features. Preorders begin friday with sales. Y and store theres a new windows 8 sis. Abook a the most common password is password. Have a great day. R. G. Iii continuing to dominate headlines. Hes getting a lot of attention nationwide. Brant. Tim the Pittsburgh Steelers sundays victory over cincinnati. All any of the players want to about is rg3. The redskins quarterback is a sensation, the most exciting player in all of football. Of thehe steelers favorites, rg3 is the favorite player. Not a lot of people have been successful thus far. Rusher inh rated nfc. At the same time, we can not be passive. We have to reduce what hes capable of doing it. The world series is all set. Starts tonight. The tigers and the giants. Game one of the best of seven at at t park in san francisco. Have a great day, everybody. The news continues at 5 30. And an update on a fuel l impacting interstate 95 northbound in Stafford County and. President obama is reaching out we were skipping stones and letting go over the river and down the road [ female announcer ] at Nature Valley, we know nature comes together in amazing ways. Thats why we bring together natural ingredients, like dark chocolate with toasted oats, or sweet golden honey. Perfect combinations of natures delicious ingredients, from Nature Valley. I was thinking that i hope this never ends [ female announcer ] Nature Valley granola bars, nature at its most delicious. Live and in hd, this is good morning washington, on your side. Fortraight ahead, a breeze commute on 95rmal northbound. Brianne carter and joins us with spill. Te on a fuel good morning, washington. Its wednesday, october 24. I am cynne simpson. I am steve chenevey. Lets get to meteorologist jacqui jeras. October . Elieve it feels like falllike august these temperatures. The humidity on the rise as well. Temperatures in the 50s and a few 60s. The average high is 66. 61 at reagan national. 54 at dulles. 55 in gaithersburg. The 58 in5 fredericksburgin0 in culpeper. Petersburg. We do have some clouds and we out a sprinkle off. O the west going to be a pleasant day most part and mostly dry. 64 and 9 00, 76 by noon. Pleasant and warm by 5 00 at 81 degrees. A record high of 84. Not a terrible sevenday forecast. Changes are ahead. First, back to you. Thank you. We want to find out whats happening with the big crash spill ina fuel county on interstate 95 crash and fule spill. Now to brianne carter. We are on interstate 95 northbound. These backups have grown over hour. Ast half we have some good news for drivers. Vdot has some lanes northbound opened after this tractor Trailer Crash that happened night. 1 30 last only the left lane remains blocked. Traffic is not moving quickly. There were many backups before o open thosele t lanes. Major delays. Theyre asking people to use alternate routes, if possible. Accident happened around 11 30 night. Crews arrived early this morning spill to clean up a fuel of this tractortrailer accident with other vehicles involved. Two people were taken to the hospital. Not known. Tions are again, still a major back up occurring. Usere asking people to off and geto get on pat corrales road. Back on at get courthouse rd. We want to get to the latest on the former uva lacrosse player convicted of murdering his exgirlfriend. George huguely is serving his in the prison sentence remote western corner of virginia. The area ofcted in the 2010gree murder in slaying of yeardley love. Turning to the president ial days we are just now 13 e election. H president obama and mitt romney making more visits to the swing states. The president in iowa and colorado and then to los for the tonight show with jay leno. Romney will be in nevada ottawa. Iowa. The race for the white house itsn its final stretch and close. Less than two weeks. Aboutndidates are talking their vision for america, hoping support of undecided voters. In delray beach, florida, obama said there are two clear sources. Can choose the top down policies that got us into this policies we are using to get us out of this mess. During a stop in henderson, romney talks about his experience in the business world. I understand Small Business. I did not read about Small Business. Lived Small Business and i grow. Elp Small Businesses today obama kicks off a two y Campaign Across six battleground states. They want, davenport, iowa. And california, iowa, and nevada. Polls show the candidates are neck with some key swing states favoring mitt romney and others president obama. Indiana Senate Candidate overrd mourdock under fire rape andhe made about pregnancy. Even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that god intended to happened. He made the comments during debate. Democrats including his quickly criticized his remarks. Mitt romneys Campaign Said the comments dont reflect views. S was a Republican Senate akin, criticized rape,mments he made about was repeatedly resting againstd in 1985 abortion. He said that he was only once. Ed viewers are invited to submit for the president on facebook page. A spokeswoman for mtv says it out to mitt romney for a similar special, but they have yet to receive a response. 5 37 on this wednesday morning. Still ahead, the search for a man accused of attacking a in broad daylight in fairfax county. Why welcomed to the haunted n dickerson, maryland than an ezed more pass to get through here. Good morning, washington. Its 5 40. Adam caskey is chasing storms well, not really, in county. Ry. Othing on the radar i am chasing storms away. Sleeves and its even 6 00 in the morning. Is a sign of whats to come for later on today. At the New Carrollton metro cloudy. Its fairly come on. One more time. Traffic is picking up a little. 60 degrees already this morning. On my the temperature whether blood display. That will climb this afternoon. Jump into the forecast. But first a beautiful picture in luray, virginia. My wonderful facebook friend kimberly posted this on my page. Ok beautiful picture of the fall colors out west. It is a warm start to the day. Elsewhere, members in the 50s nearly 60 degrees. 54 in martinsburg and cumberland. Manassas, 61 in annapolis national. Gan a mixture of sun and clouds today. Clouds early this morning in the highlands and they got a sprinkle. Cloudy and warm today with ties around 80. Will be the ones they all week. Terms of wild card in Tropical Storms standing for the weekend. Jeras will have next weather after this. First, jamee whitten. Good to see you. Short sleeves and no jacket this the same for me. A lot of activity in virginia fredericksburg and through stafford. They are making progress. In incident happened last night involving a tractortrailer that overturned and there was a fuel. Pill a long process of cleaning that up. 95, the left lane is mile marker 138 north of the centreport parkway. Plan extra time. If you bailout at route 1, in areas its only 35 miles an hour. That yuka exit at about three or about 17 falmouth. One left lane is blocked if you sticking with the interstate. 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Linda bell reporting for abc 7 news. Back to you. Thank you. I dont think that will work on old ipads. The weather is nice today. So good today. We had some big changes ahead about what could happen with sandy as well as a strong cold front approaching. Lets start by focusing on the. Ood adam caskey is out there in short sleeves this morning. Degrees, feeling good. Southwest wind at 3 miles an hour. In the 50s for the most part. 54 in dulles and 50 in manassas. 54 degrees in frederick and martinsburg. Be warming up this a wind out of the south. Disturbance in the upper atmosphere. Showers. Bring but we could get a sprinkle this morning. Will be a beautiful drive day. To our a warm front up north. Highpressure holding strong. Will be under the influence this for most of the rest of the week. Our wind will shift tomorrow, hard temperatures will drop a have more we will tomorrow as we get an influence off the ocean. We have to keep an eye on sandy. This is a Tropical Storm zande, nearing hurricane strength. 120 miles south of kingston, jamaica. D become a hurricane late thising landfall afternoon or this evening. It could affect us on the weekend. A strong cold front is approaching from the west. The timing of that could potentially coincide with sandy. Computer models, some of them have given us a doomsday scenario. The official forecast from the Hurricane Center has it offshore. So it is something to watch. Dont get freaked out over it, keep an eye on it and we will keep you uptodate. Around here today, looking great, garlic cloudy, High Temperature between 77 and 82. 5 54. The cost of air fare could up more than you are expecting if you are flying for thanksgiving. To the liveo get desk. More developments overseas, with jummy olabanji. The u. N. Envoy says that it government and some forces have agreed to a during the muslim holiday friday. Rts on Bashar Alassad will issue a statement either today or early tomorrow accepting this agreements. We have reported kofi annan and from the United Nations have been asking for this cease fire. The u. N. Has to formally accept this. A breaking news story. We are keeping a close eye on it. People have been killed in the ongoing violence in syria. Back to you. Thank you. Now. Right if youre planning to fly home thanksgiving, you will pay more than last year. Flights between november 17 the average 27, domestic contra costa 386, taxes. Ng almost 9 more than this time last year. Higher fuel prices and fewer flights are pushing the ticket. Rices higher a survey finds employees onlys the u. S. Are not stressed out from job and blow pay, the long thatlasting so suffering burnout. A Chicago Company conducted the survey. Many of the workers said that isir biggest work priority up. Showing more and more middleclass will postponethey their retirement until they are in their 80s. 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