Is considering a shortterm increase in the National Debt limit to avoid a default when the government runs out of money. That will be next week. Yesterday the white house said the president was willing to sign off on a shortterm deal to raise the debt ceiling. The president said he was open to a shortterm fix if thats what was needed to get House Speaker john boehner to corral House Republicans into reaching an agreement. Still difficult to reach an agreement. Were in day ten of the partial Government Shutdown with no end in sight and frustration among d. C. Leaders and residents has reached a boiling point as the city faces an end of all its financial resources. Top d. C. Leaders are confronting fellow democrats to demand they get a deal done soon. Delia goncalves is live at the Wilson Building with details on some harsh comments. Boy, the fireworks were flying. Reporter absolutely. Weve never seen a confrontation like this before between democrats here locally in the city and democrats on the hill but certain as you mentioned lots of fireworks yesterday during the discussion on the capitol steps. Republican congressmen daryl issa, the chair of the Government Oversight Committee and oversees d. C. s government issues on the hill, well, he has in the past put restricts on budget autonomy but now he seems to be on d. C. s side. The mayor demanding the citys 6 million budget be released from congressional control. Without it d. C. Will run out of reserve funds in about a weeks time were told. That means d. C. Schools cannot be paid. The mayor yesterday confronted senator Senate Majority leader harry reid after a News Conference on the capitol and heres how it all unfolded. Were not we have our own money. Were simply trying to spend our own money. Im on your side. Dont screw it up. This is not an appropriations bill. The bill the mayor is coming to talk about today simply unlocks the districts ability to spend their own locally derived money. This piecemeal sending over legislation makes no sense. Reporter senator reid, would you consider freeing up the d. C. Budget . Dont talk to us. Talk to the republicans. Theyre the ones rejecting it. I just want you to know and i want my friend eleanor to know that weve got to open up this government for all the good people in d. C. , maryland were not a department of the government. Were asking to spend our own money. Our own money. Reporter wow. Harsh words coming from the mayor and Senate Democrats inside that News Conference yesterday. To give you a little clarification, when the Senate Majority leader said im on your side, dont screw it up, were understanding that to mean listen, im on your side. Please stick to the National Agenda and not these piecemeal plans. What did delegate Eleanor Holmes norton have to say . Pretty harsh words herself. Well have details coming up in a halfhour. Back to you. All right, delia, thank you reporting live from the Wilson Building. No one seems to get were not a department of the federal government. Federal death benefits have been restored to the false of fallen u. S. Service member families of the fallen u. S. Service members. The families will each receive 100,000 in exen saying. The benefit was shut down with other Government Services last week. The Fisher House Foundation will now make those payments until the shutdown is over. The Agriculture Department is threatening to shut down three poultry producing facilities in california. The plants have been linked to a salmonella outbreak which has sickened nearly 300 people across the country. The owner of the three plants foster farms has until today to tell the usda how it plans to clean up the processing facility to reduce the chance of future contamination. Foster farms has not recalled any of its products. Today maryland Lieutenant GovernorAnthony Brown is exhibited to get another huge endorsement in his bid to be governor. House speaker michael bush plans to endorse browns campaign. Bush is expected to make the announcement in annapolis. Brown has alsoen endorsed by governor Martin Omalley and Senate President thomas mike miller. Brown is running against attorney general doug ganzler and delegate Heather Meisner for the democratic familiar nation. Nomination. Big pharmaceutical companies are said to be nervous about the upcoming retirement of an fda regulator. Dr. Janet woodcok is head of the center for drug evaluation and research. Shes scheduled to retire next year. This is the section of the fda which approves new medicines for american marks. Woodcock has a reputation for relaxing the guideline. This has been good for profits and bottom line of the big pharmaceutical companies. The same drug makers are said to be nervous about who would replace dr. Woodcock and the potential for profits on their product. The galaxy round has a 5. 7 inch display slated to go on sale today in korea. Samsung has not said how much the galaxy round costs and when it will be available in different countries. The announcement comes the same week rival company lg nowpsed it will saturday announced it will start producing a curved model. The average round trip domestic air, including tax will be about 415. Thats up nearly 7 from last year. Travelocity says 415 is the price to beat this year and consumers, youve got to use that as a gauge when shopping for your airfare. If you come in below, you know youve got a deal. I wonder how many travelers will even consider going given whats been happening in the economy and especially with the Government Shutdown . Yeah. Might force the airlines to bring the prices down. People are very nervous. Youre seeing it with the Consumer Spending numbers and on wall street. Might be the luxury to give up this year. Metro Police Released a list of the most dangerous stations in metros system. They were just out for some fun when they got stuck in the air for several hours aboard an Amusement Park ride in orlando. Well bring that you story. Wusa9 is rigyou did a great job. Ning 4 timesit looks good oints. No wonder hes fueling up. Enjoy our free hot breakfast options and up to 4 times the hhonors points on your next stay. Feel the hamptonality it is 6 12 on this soggy thursday morning. We have some rain out there. Some areas in a lull. Other areas the rain is coming down making it slick. Get ready for on and off rain all day long. Temperatures barely budging. The mid50s to upper 50s. Some 60s Southern Maryland and eastern shore. Lets go over to monika samtani. Another update on the difficult thursday morning traffic. Its really been difficult, especially in Prince Georges County. Youre looking live at the crash scene on the inner loop at route 450. All lanes have been closed for exactly two hours now. Two trucks and an suv involved. One serious injury as well. This cleanup i can assure you will take some time. Expect major delays on the beltway in Prince Georges County. More in a few minutes. Back to you guys. Its 6 13. Heres whats in the news right now. Investigators want to know what led a retired Police Officer to open fire on a federal courthouse in wheeling, west virginia. Authorities say Thomas Piccard let off more than a dozen shots in the building before officers returned fire. Piccard was killed in the exchange. Three other people were injured from flying debris. Metro police have release add list of the most dangerous train stations and the station reporting the greatest number of crimes this year is the brooklyn station in northeast. That is followed by dean woodz, minnesota avenue, gallery place and rhode island avenue. Metro police say overall crime reported in the Transit System is up nearly 10 . Ten people are back on the ground after being trapped high in the air on an orlando, florida roller coaster. Around 7 00 last night the rip ride rocket at Universal Studios theme park got stuck in a vertical position. Hours later firefighters used a rope to get the stranded riders to safety one person at a time. No one was injured. No word on what caused the coaster to get stuck. And even they had to get blankets to the people and keep them warm. The riled of their life. Unfortunately not the ride of their life they were counting on. I am afraid of heights n. Is my worst nightmare. I just dont go on roller coasters so theres no issue. Ive done it twice. Ive tried it, met the challenge and now i dont want to do it again. My wife was the adventurist one when we were younger. She wont do it now. Ride of your life maybe this morning on the beltway, on 270. Monika is coming up. Its raining and its wet and slow, going to be a tough day. If you have the option to telecommute, i would suggest that. Light rain in d. C. Were going to have the rain on and off all day long into the afternoon. Look at temperatures struggling to get into the upper 50s. Some 60plus readings down in extreme Southern Maryland on the eastern shore, but a raw day nonetheless with winds out of the north, northeast 10 to 15 gusting at times 20, even higher than take. Coastal storm sitting there, not moving much. A little bit of lightning and thunder near the center of low pressure. A nontropical low but clearly the moisture is coming in off the atlantic and giving us the wetness. 2. 3 inches of rain reported from jan in reedville. A lot of rain just since yesterday. Eight tenths in southern Fauquier County around bealeton. Thanks, joe, for that report. And also Prince Frederick a while ago at eighttenths. Its probably up to an inch now. Heavier showers from northwestern calvert, eastern charles county. Also seeing some of the yellows now well north of baltimore. That came through baltimore earlier. Were now seeing southwestern loudoun, northern Fauquier County, route 17 comes into 50, just east of that, heavier showers but its moving to the northwest this morning. Look at this. Just east of waldorf so this is coming in towards Prince Georges County and d. C. Here over the next couple of hours with a lull behind it where its just drizzling or a damp overcast, kind of frizz alert today. Monika will attest to that. She was temperaturing to me about the frizz factor. 512 in winchester and 52 in winchester. 58 to our south and east. Weve got the low clouds in d. C. Some of that light rain falling at national airport. Winds out of the north at 15, gusting to 23. Raw. It is raw out there and humidity at 87 . Nice in the middle of the country. Theres a storm in the rockies and the midatlantic but the storm in the midatlantic cant move much because of the blocking area of low pressure over maine and nova scotia bringing in the northerly winds, the warm southerly winds on the east side and on the delmarva, 70plus at ocean city. Well be stuck in the 50s with these waves of moisture coming n. You can see this on the futurecast. Definitely some lulls at time. Other times some moderate rain showers. Here we are at 5 00. So looks wet for the drive home. More rain tonight into tomorrow as well. And this rain will be on and off, i think even into the weekend the threat of showers, maybe not as intense as today and tonight and tomorrow but will still be with us both saturday and sunday as this storm will be slow to move. So yellow alerts today and tomorrow for the rain. Outdoor activities will be very difficult to get in. Could be a soggy flight for football tomorrow night. 59 degrees with periods of rain and drizzle today. 57 tonight. More on and off rain and drizzle, 64 tomorrow with more on and off rain and drizzle. By saturday more showers around. Probably not as many so well up the temperatures slowly toward 67. Maryland has homecoming and sunday ravens home game could be a few showers and 67. Monika samtani, weather gets better monday. When does traffic get better . I think this is going to be here for a while. Its not going to get better for a while. Two hours ago on the inner loop of the beltway, we had a major crash and all lanes remained blocked. The closure is at route 450. You can go no further than that in lanham. I subject you use the bw parkway suggest you use the bw parkway to route 410. In the meantime heres what happened. Again at 4 15 this morning, it was a mobile home across the roadway sideways. Another truck hit that and then an suv hit that as well. And we have a serious injury involved and a Major Investigation and cleanup under way. In the meantime again the inner loop is shut down at route 450. Well take a look at our maps so i can show you where it is and what you can do. Go ahead and take the bw parkway to route 410 over to route 50 as your alternate route. Lets take a quick look live at 270 on the southbound side. A crash at route 118 blocks the lane. Delays at least at father hurley boulevard. Back to you. Thank you, monika. Heres another look at the question of the morning. According to a survey, which characteristic did 25 of women say makes you a real woman . A, financially independent, br, successful career or c, attractive and being a great lover. Marissa wrote only balance can create a great woman or man. But you request go but you can go to the wusa9 Facebook Fan Page and post your answers. Well have the the correct an you ready to spend columbus day by going from store to store, Price Shopping appliances . Man i hope you said no. Just stop by this one columbus day sale. And save up to 25 percent on appliances, electronics, furniture, and more. Christopher columbus wants you to have an lg 60 inch hdtv for just 799. And samsung front load washers and dryers are just 699 each. If you ready to get in, get out and get on with. Whatever it is people do on columbus day, come to h. H. Gregg. We know the best deals, so you dont have to. Just about 6 23. Weve got periods of rain today. You can see at times lulls. At times moderate to heavy rains coming through from southeast to northwest with this coastal storm not moving much. By lunch time temperatures not moving much either. Mid to upper 50s. We may see a few 60s south and east of town. Were going to strug toll get to about 58 struggle to get to about 58, 59 this afternoon. With the bye week behind them, the redskins are preparing for a game sunday night against the cowboys, a team they played 107 times. The most recently . The last week of last season with the nfc title on the lining. That was then on the line. That was then, a redskins win to make the playoffs. This is now. Practice during dallas week. Runningback Alfred Morris is back at it after leaving early against oakland with a bruised rib. Im fine. If anybody wants to take shots at me, thats fine. Im not going to look forward to that but if they do as far as the game, im not worried about it. Reporter are you a hundred percent . I havent felt pain the last three times. I would say so. Reporter Robert Griffin iii is ready for his game under Center Following january knee surgery. Critics have said hes still shaking the rust off. Hell get to show where he is under the sunday night lights against their biggest rival. Coming off the bye it didnt matter who we would be playing. We know the magnitude of this game being the redskins cowboys. Theyll be pumped up and ready to go. It will be on sunday night. Everybody will be watching. Everyone is going to put their best foot forward. For us its not about the other team anymore. Its about us. Reporter griffin returns to his native texas and hopes to have a repeat performance of what washington did to the team last season. That is, they swept dallas. From redskins park, diane roberts, wusa9 sports. An update on a bad longstanding crash on the inner loop of the beltway at route 450. Two lanes just reopened on the inner loop southbound 495 at route 450 in lanham. This crash has been there for over two hours. Expect major delays on the beltway in Prince Georges County. Ill be back with more information coming up in about three good morning. Welcome back to wusa9 at 6 30. This is a live look at the capitol. Pretty dark out there. Also cold and rainy. Its thursday, october 10. Im andrea roane. Im jessica doyle. Monika samtani has your timesaver traffic in a moment. It is complicated today. Howard bernstein has your weather first and joins us live from the weather terrace with a rainy forecast. Howard . The weather is not complicated. Its going to be an ugly day with rain heavy at times. Lulls at times. Drizzle. Right now were down to moderate drizzle here in d. C. But a damp morning nonetheless with wet streets and some leaves adding to the slickness in many of the neighborhoods. Temperatures barely bunching today. Only going up a few degrees. Southern maryland, eastern shore, youll make it into the 60s as youre closer to the warmer air coming off the ocean along with all of the waves of moisture. You see that big lull in Southern Maryland, the Northern Neck . Theres been over two inches of rain across parts of the Northern Neck and delmarva since yesterday. Right now were seeing a lull in d. C. But look at this batch of rain now in senior Prince Georges County in southern Prince Georges County not far from brandywine and clinton tracking out of waldorf this morning in the northwest. That will be in d. C. In another 30 minutes or so. More moderate showers in northern, western Fauquier County. Scattered lighter showers from montgomery and fairfax at the moment. Theres the lull south of Prince Frederick toward Southern Maryland. Right now temps low to mid50s. Monika samtani, good morning. Not really a good horn at all in Prince Georges County unfortunately. Youre looking at the scene of a crash that happened at 4 15 this morning involving two trucks and an suv. Now, the good news is that after over two hours, two left lanes are now reopened on the inner loop. Thats subpoena 495 at route 450 in lanham. But its been there a long time. Traffic is at a standstill at the bw parkway which is where you can get off to route 410 as your alternate route. Were going to take a look at a couple of pictures sent to us from our sister radio station. This is a long shot of the suv involved that hit one ever the trucks involved in the crash. We have another picture of the suv. Can you imagine being on the beltway early in the morning, on the beltway where its very, very light and then you hit this accident here. So this is what you should expect to see on the inner loop of the beltway. The cleanup continues along the right side. Again major delays as you travel there on the beltway in Prince Georges County toward route 450. Back to you guys. Time now to see what our partners at cbs this morning are covering. Norah oh donnell is in new york Norah Odonnell is in new york. Good morning to you. Good morning. Were following the abduction of libyas Prime Minister. This is breaking news this morning. The people who took him are blaming john kerry, our secretary of state. Plus, first here on cbs this morning, Fortune Magazine will reveal its list of this years most powerful women. And the Government Shutdown is now affecting beer. The founder of sam adams will be in studio 57 to talk about its impact on craft breweries and his companys newest beer. The news is back in the morning so well see you at 7 00. We will be watching. Were going to follow up on the story norah has just been telling us about, the kidnapping of the Prime Minister of libya earlier this morning. We also reported the breaking news he had been freed after being abducted by a group of rebels. The rebels claim he seize the libyan Prime Minister alley owe minister ali zeidan because of last weeks capture. We have the latest. Reporter these are pictures of libyan Prime Minister ali zeidan surrounded by gunman. Thursday morning armed men abducted the Prime Minister from his hotel where he lived in tripoli. The abduction appears to be in retaliation for saturdays u. S. Raid that led to the seizure of former al qaeda member of abut anas allibi. Allibi was on the f. B. I. s most wanted terrorist list for his alleged role in a 1998 twin bombings of two u. S. Embassies in east africa. The capture reportedly came hours after he met with al libis family. A member of the group claiming responsibility for zee dans kidnapping was based on comments made by secretary of state john kerry the Libyan Government knew about the raid. Aspokesperson from the state Department Says they are looking into reports of the abduction and are in close communication with senior u. S. And libyan officials on the ground. The state Department Says the u. S. Embassy staff in tripoli is safe. We told you Something Like this was coming. Yesterday the Obama Administration cut off hundreds of millions of dollars of military aid to egypt. The move comes months after egypts first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi was removed in a coupe. The move means an immediate end to a crash transfer and end of military systems like apache helicopters and f16 aircraft being shipped to the country. Human tear aid to the country will continue, however. Day ten of the partial Government Shutdown is continuing with no end in sight and frustration building among d. C. Leaders and residents as the city faces an end of all its financial resources. Top d. C. Leaders are confronted fellow democrats to demand they get a deal done soon. Delia goncalves is live at the Wilson Building with details on their harsh comments being thrown back and forth. Delia, good morning. Reporter absolutely good morning, jessica, andrea. Lots of fireworks on capitol hill yesterday after this senate News Conference that the mayor interrupted. You can call this the latest and loudest battle in the ongoing fight for d. C. Budget autonomy because the district is now in dire straits. Without access to our local 6 million budget, the mayor says the district will have no more money to run the city in about a weeks time. The shutdown stalemate means d. C. s local budget locked up in congress. Senate majority leader telling mayor gray, quote, i support you. Im your side. Dont screw it up meaning stick with the National Democratic plan instead of piecemeal proposals. D. C. s nonvoting member of congress delegate Eleanor Holmes norton took her own fight straight to the top. I said to this president , mr. President , the district is running out of money to operate this city. What do we do then . And he stopped and he said, well, were not there yet. It demanded a conversation. It didnt demand me to ask a question and then be seated like a nice little delegate from the district of columbia. And i was not seated. And the president spoke back and forth to me peer to peer. He is not on high. He is a man i have known for some years and i spoke to him as the equal i think i am to the president of the united states. Reporter our own delegate here in d. C. , Eleanor Holmes norton pretty fired up about this issue. The conversation certainly will continue. The mayor will have his own conversation with d. C. Residents updating them on the effects of the shutdown tonight at 6 30 at friendship public Charter Schools chamberlain campus in the Eastern Market section of capitol hill. Back to you, andrea, jessica. Thank you, delia. Not a lot getting done but its certainly interesting to watch. In the meantime the partial Government Shutdown is taking a toll on the way the nation views the republican party. A new gallop poll shows the g. O. P. Favorable rate stands at 28 . Thats down 10 points from last month. The democrats are down as well but theyre fairing a little bit better. Their favorable rating stands at 43 . Thats down four points from last month. Redskins owner dan snyder has addressed the teams name change controversy. In a letter to season ticket holders, snyder hopes those offended by the name can try to respect what the name means to the team, its fans and even some native americans. Snyder says while he respects the opinions of those who want the name changed, the team cant ignore its history. After 81 years the Team Name Redskins continues to hold the memories and meaning of where we came from, who we are, and who we want to be in the years to come. A representative of the oneida issued a statement which reads, quote, the marking of this racial marketing of this racial slur has had and continues to have very serious cultural, political and Public Health consequences for my people and native americans everywhere. clear from mr. Snyders letter he doesnt know those consequences. Were inviting him to join the n. F. L. Delegation in its upcoming meeting at our homelands, end quote. Time 16 38. Im watching your money. Leaders in d. C. , Prince Georges County, and montgomery counties are moving forward with a regional effort to establish a higher minimum wage. Theyd like to see the minimum set at 11. 50 an hour in all three jurisdictions. Legislation calling for change has been introduced. New leaders think a higher minimum wage will scare away business. Based on all of the studies that i have read, that it really does not hurt business. And what they end up doing oftentimes is passing on the cost to the consumer anyway. Supporters say its tough to live and pay a familys basic needs under the current minimum wage. In d. C. Thats 8. 25 an hour. Maryland requires employers to pay 7. 25 which is the current federal minimum wage. The Government Shutdown has led starbucks to begin a pay it forward campaign. Now until friday, customers who buy a drink for a fellow patron will get a free tall brewed coffee. The campaign is meant to help fellow citizens support one another during this challenging time. Going to the Grocery Store may soon become a thing of the past. Some Grocery Store chains already deliver your food to your door. That Service Comes with an added price for convenience. This is still seen as a Luxury Service which many customers are reluctant to use but some stores like giant and saferway are now offering another option. You can order your groceries online. Then you go to a pickup location to get your groceries curbside. This removes shipping costs and you dont even have to get out of your car. The idea is to make the task of going to the store more like a pit stop, kind of like you make at a gas station. Forget the toy. Heres a book. For two weeks in november mcdonalds is replacing toys in its happy meals with books which carry a nutritional message. The books will show Ronald Mcdonald and his crew exercising and eating a balanced diet. Okay. All right. Well see. Lawyers for d. C. Sniper Lee Boyd Malvo says his sentenced should be reduced. Their argument is based on a recent Supreme Court ruling. Free french fries. Were going to talk about that all weekend long. Coming up, well tell you where you can get them. Dont forget. Were always on at wusa9. Com and the wusa9 app. Well be [ male announcer ] at northrop grumman, weve always been on the forefront of innovation. When the world called for speed. When the world called for stealth. Intelligence. Endurance. Affordability. Adaptability. And when the world asked for the future. Staying ahead in a constantly evolving world. Thats the value of performance. Northrop grumman. 6 44. It shouldnt come as a surprise. We have rain today. We might even have rain tomorrow. The question is how many showers will we see over the weekend. Yellow alert today and friday because of the wet weather. Outdoor plans are going to be difficult to get done and stay dry. I think if if you have to work outdoors, youre going to get wet. Just count on that. The Football Game is in dallas. They should be fine but sunday the ravens are home and they may have a shower. Saturday maryland has homecoming along with a few other schools. They may have some showers here. Lets talk about today. We have rain on and off. If its not raining its probably going to be drizzling lightly. 57 by noon. Temperatures barely budging into the upper 50s with some 6 on the Southern Maryland and eastern 60s the in Southern Maryland and the eastern shore. You can see a spin right here about Cape Hatteras coming north. A little lightning and thunder there. This storm is bringing all of this moisture in off the atlantic. Its combining with High Pressure up in nova scotia and the push from the east is bringing at love moisture. Weve had reports bringing a lot of moisture. Weve had reports and this morning rain looks like its picking up just southeast of d. C. Now. Watching this cluster of moderate to heavy rain in toward Prince Georges County, coming out of northwestern calvert and northern charles. Waldorf, youre seeing heavier rain and down toward white plains and la plata. This area route 5, clinton, its almost to Upper Marlboro but youre going to be on the Northern Edge of this. This is moving northwest towards alexanderia towards springfield, toward the district and eventually i think into more fairfax than montgomery counties. South of that area, look at the big lull from cambridge down toward rye and also down toward areas in farther Southern Maryland and Northern Neck. Theres some drizzle down there. Youre going to get a little wetter here unfortunately. Temps low to mid50s with 40s in the mountains and harrisonburg. Upper 50s here and 65 in salisbury. So theres some warm air to our southeast. Just not going to get here today. Cloudy skies on our michael son weather camera. Light rain, 56. North at 15. Gusting to 23 at the moment so a very brisk, damp, kind of an ugly morning. Its going to be an ugly day todays a the clouds will be with us. The rain will be on and off. Showing you the futurecast at noon, low pressure still spinning down here. Slow to move up throwing waves of moisture at us. So lulls at time. Other times moderate rain showers going on into tonight, tomorrow morning. Here we go through friday. More rain. I think the heavy stuff will be north of d. C. With more showery type stuff south of d. C. And even as we go into friday evening, friday night scattered showers around into saturday morning so with the high school Football Games and i know some of them dont play on the turf if its too wet, well have to see how things shape up by then. As far as how much rain were seeing this is one commuter model. Just a computer model but when youre talking about totals between this morning and saturday, over 4 inks in abbetter inches in aberdeen and southeastern pennsylvania, have a lot of areas in the two, two and a half inch range in frederick, gaithersburg. Even on the eastern shore. Theyve already had a couple of inches toward the Northern Neck. They can see another couple of inches out of this and almost 3 inches in salisbury. Again this is a computer model but it gives you an idea of how much rain we could be talking about over the next couple of days. The showers may linger into sunday. Today 59. Not everybody is going to make it. Tonight 57. Periods of rain and drizzle and a stiff north breeze. Yellow alert again on friday with more rain and drizzle. Potentially slightly milder. Im going to be optimistic with that 64. Then more showers saturday. Have not gone to a yellow alert yet but that may have to be changed. Sunday also has a chance of showers for the ravens home game. On monday and tuesday finally some nicer days. Temperatures up to the lower 70s. Rough is no other way to put it. Really rough. Very one more crash to tell you about. Its westbound on route 50 right before the severn river bridge. Two lanes are blocked there and delays begin at the boulevard. Once you get to the bet beltway, this to the beltway n. Is what you should expect. At 4 15 a major crash. Two trucks and an suv involved. Right now the two left lanes are getting through but traffic is at a standstill at the bw parkway, at least in greenbelt trying to head southbound to ran maam on the in to lanham on the inner loop of of the beltway. Let me show you where it is and what you should expect. East side of town, this is the delay to that accident where the two left lanes are getting by at route 450. Lets go over to another live picture on the southbound side of i270 at route 118. The crash was moved to the shoulder and it looks like this from clarksburg 121 past father hurley boulevard right through germantown because of that earlier crash. Well go to virginia on the northbound side of 95. A single vehicle accident on the northbound side near dumfries was cleared a while ago but set the tone for a tough one coming frup triangle. This is what it looks like basically norton, newington and springfield. Well be back with more news, weather and february, 2013. A landmark transportation bill is up for consideration. Even though its backed by republican governor mcdonnell. Ken cuccinelli joins Tea Party Republicans to block the plan. But Terry Mcauliffe believes its time to break through the gridlock in richmond. Mcauliffe presses democrats to support the bill. And the bill passes. Terry mcauliffe. Putting virginia first. Im Terry Mcauliffe, candidate for governor, and i sponsored this ad. 6 53. Periods of rain, drizzle, sometimes light, sometimes moderate to heavy. Just an ugly thursday coming our way. Be prepared for a cool damp day with periods of rain, highs between 55 and the lucky ones get to 60. In the news right now, a federal judge will decide if the d. C. Sniper Lee Boyd Malvo should have his sentenced reduced. Malvo is appealing his sentence of life in prison without parole. His lawyers base the appeal on a Supreme Court decision which said its illegal to sentence underage murder suspects to life in prison. Malvo was 17 in 2002 when he and John Allen Mohamed went on a shooting spree which killed ten people and wounded three others. New allegations have been raised about the d. C. Council. Yesterday during his sentencing hearing, keelie thompson indicated a male member of the council claiming that person took 50,000 in bribes. However, thompson never named anyone. He was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for wire fraud and misusing more than 200,000 in city grants for personal use. This weekend may be the best time to try burger kings new healthier french fries. The fast food chain will give away its new fries for free on saturday and sunday. No strings attached. Burger king expects to give away roughly ten million orders. The new tries have 40 less fat and 30 fewer calories than mcdonalds fries. At 6 54, time to answer the question of the morning. According to a survey, which characteristic does 25 of women say make you a real woman . Is it a, being financially independent, b, having a successful career or c, being attractive and a great lover. Just a small percentage of women who answered this one correctly but it was still close. The answer is c, being attractive and a great lover. 6 55. Well be right back. 6 58. Let me tell you, we have an ugly day ahead. You can see just how ugly it is out there. Cloudy and rainy. Big birthday shout out to sammy and the big ten birthday. Want to show you the sevenday forecast. Temperatures barely budging today. More rain and drizzle tomorrow and even a few showers this weekend. This has been one of those awful, awful traffic mornings, including the serious crash on the inner loop of the beltway near route 450 where the two left lanes now get by. A serious injury involved as well. Major delays. Cbs this morning is next with more on the Government Shutdown and the kidnapping and release of the Prime Minister in libya. And howard and i will be back in 25 minutes with a live update on traffic and weather. If you cant join us live, join us online 24 7 wusa9. Com. Of course were going to see you tomorrow morning 4 25. Howard is back at noon and so is andrea. You guys have a great day. Good morning. Its thursday, october 10th 20rks 13. Welcome to cbs this morning. Overnight the taliban kidnapped libyas Prime Minister. The first day. The closure causes more problems for millions including veterans. Plus we go inside alicia keys private studio. Shes got a new job title. Movie producer. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 secondses. The libyan Prime Minister ali zaidan has been freed several hours after being seized from a Tripoli Hotel by armed rebels. A kidnapping drama in libya. There are reports that it is retaliation for last weekends u. S. Led raid that