Good morning. A lot of the earlier construction has cleared out of the way. We still had road work hanging around 95 southbound at falmouth with the right lane blocked by the work zone. Its not slowing things too much this morning in the southbound lanes. Big look at the beltway. Overall, everything is rolling along quite nicely. You can see a little bit of a slowdown outbound for you there near the beltway. No report of anything but ill keep an eye on that one. 66 from Fairfax County parkway to the beltway, that takes you nine minutes. Listen to our friends on 103. 5 f. M. When you hop in your car. Since our last report, we got more information out of afghanistan on that suicide bomb attack. Were hearing that 11 people have now been killed in the capital city of kabul. The Afghan Taliban saying that this was a revenge killing after some taliban prisoners were the attack happened right before the group confirmed that their former leader, mullah Akhtar Mansour was killed in a u. S. Dron
That just popped up. Braddock road west of 123, remember that is near george mason. We have a crash reported there just a short time ago. And taking a look here at the beltway, the beltway is looking good. Southbound Georgia Avenue at eastern avenue, we have the debris still report in the center of the roadway. Well have travel times in ten minutes. Thank you, melissa. 6 01 and today d. C. s quest for statehood could hit a big road block in congress. The house will vote on a bill to take away the districts ability to spend local tax dollars without congressional approval. Erika gonzalez is live at Freedom Plaza with strong words coming from the white house with todays vote. Erika . Reporter Senior Advisers say this is fundament to a wellfunctioning democracy and would recommend the president veto the republican bill. So this is part of a Statement Released yesterday. The administration is disappointed that the congress has failed to provide elected the most basic authority to spend loc
Gri grilling on capitol hill. He will testify before the Committee Just days ahead of the big travel city. The agency is still dealing with long lines at the airports. On tuesday he admitted there were failings at multiple levels. I think it is the case that we have had an institutional failure and not a failure of any one individual. Among the changes the agency announced this week was the creation of a centralized command team at tsa headquarters. More people are signing up for tsa precheck. The agency has received twice the applications since april doubling from 8,000 to 16,000. The application can be completed online but you still need to go through a tsa Service Center for fingerprinting. All five Service Centers in the backups. And the applications can take a month to be approved. Four things to know about todays weather. Chuck, where do you want to start . I want to start with how amazing it was to be outside yesterday and yes, indeed, warm and dry again for today. Made it back
The folks who take metro. Todays major delays stem from track problems in Medical Center and woodly park ask it backed up the entire red line and big crowds started forming at the start of the morning rush. All of this is happening as metros top leaders were on their way to face lawmakers on capitol hill. Transportation reporter adam tuss is live at one of todays trouble spots in bethesda. Adam . Reporter thats right, pat. We asked the general manager why this started along the red line and he said basically it was a water issue. Of course, we have documented the water issues here at the Medical Center station and how every time it rains the water just goes into the station. Crews have cleared out of here right now. There are some maintenance personnel still lingering around here, but we are told that the single tracking is now gone. Nevertheless, it was an ugly morning commute for a lot of people frustrated by what they were finding as they were trying to make their ways to work. Dela
In this case following nearly ne three months of a criminal investigation into Alexia Springers death which wasch w deemed an accidental Drug Overdose and just last week 18 year old david efforts a seniora here at Centerville High School turned himself into police. He is now being charged with manufacturing, possessing, distributing and selling a prohibited controlled substance. 17 year old Alexia Springer wasr found unresponsive at her sen materialville home. Police initially saying the centerville high student died o a heroin overdose, somethingverd that was later retracted by investigators. Her mother, the entire duratione ofnt the investigation has denid those statements from police an the teens autopsy revealed that she had consumed a cocktail of c drugs which included morphine, ethanol and oxycodone which is of course an opioid. Pio tonight we reached out to the ot springer family in hopes of some sort of statement following david efforts arrest. They declined to make a statement