Where change begins to happen. A message. Not expected to be well received by republicans. sot ryan there is one thing blames the president s policies for the spread of terrorism and what he considers a weak economy. sot paul ryan we are less safe. And that is why the anxiety in america is so palpable. President obamas final state of the union address. Expected to be less aimed at swaying the lawmakers in attendance. Than American Voters already focusing on the race for their next president. There will be three president ial candidates in the audience tonight senators rubio, paul, and sanders. The event. Bazi kanani, abc news, washington. Thanks bazi if you want to watch the state of the union watch with your fellow americans, here are some if you are interested in attending the information is on your screen now. And we have it on our website. Ktnv. Com. And dont forgeair the president s address here on channel 13. Followed by a special edition of action news. And this just in our very
13th street is also closed. Melissa mollet has a look at the work around for people in this area this morning. Back to you. Thank you, kristin. North courthouse shut down and that one block of 13th street shut down between north courthouse and north troy. You can can take north barton street and north troy if you get north and south there this morning. Red line singletracking between farragut north. Northbound at 123, right lane blocked. Westbound 50 at 295 because of the right line blocked there with a crash, 50 westbound 13 miles per hour. We have a partly cloudy sky this morning. Clouds increase as we go through the remainder of the day today. Rain drops should stay away. There is some good news. Weather headline, no worries for today. Big weather in the midwest. Thats coming our way for thursday. Thursday will be a weather alert day around the washington metro area. Have our nbc washington app ready to go. Temperatures now in the 40s on in most neighborhoods. Hometown forecast, hay
For screening for Breast Cancer, a disease that kills 40,000 american women every year. It now says that women should get their first mammogram years later than previously recommended. We asked our dr. Jon lapook whats behind this change. Ready . Reporter ready or not, today 49yearold Kimberly Taylor finally got her first mammogram. I really took the advice of the doctor at first in consideration, but it was very confusing. Reporter in recent years medical groups have disagreed about when to start screening and how often to do it. A major test suggested mammography every other year starting at 50. The American Cancer Society previously recommended annual screenings beginning at 40. Todays new guidelines recommend women of average risk be screened annually starting at 45, then every two years starting at 55. Dr. Kevin oeffinger of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center chaired the guidelines panel. From 45 on we felt that annual mammography gave us our best chance of both reducing prema
For now commuter impact on traffic with the latest. Right now having a big impact on traffic as far as my computer not wanting to work at all for us this morning. Im not sure what is going on there. Lets try and move forward. There we go. New york avenue at montana avenue in the northeast. The right side blocked there this morning. That is because of a crash that just popped up. Outbound pennsylvania southern avenue, still have that one lane blocked there. Doesnt look like its really slowing things at least too much this morning. 270 southbound here, you can see were slow here headed out of frederick. Opens up once you head clarksburg area and then youre clear all the way down to the spur. Aaron. Melissa, thank you. 6 01. Developing story in Silver Springs this morning. Were working to find out what led to a crash here. Investigators say the car went into a tree around midnight. The driver died. This happened on ray drive fifth avenue off of tacoma avenue. News 4s molette green has mor
Targeted in half a dozen armed robberies in less than an hour. Why it could be the last straw for some neighbors. Chemotherapy overdose, how a typo put a 1yearold already battling a rare form of cancer in intensive care. That breaking news in Montgomery County tonight, one person dead in this crash in takoma park and two others injured. The big mystery tonight, how this all happened. There were no other cars involved. Shomari stone live with the latest on that crash and two other people inside that car. Shomari. Reporter good evening, right now. Montgomery county accident reconstruction officers are trying to determine what caused this crash. The weather was fine. Nothing on the roadway, looking to see if alcohol was possibly a factor. Theyre taking pictures of the scene. This is carroll avenue. Move to the right, you see bl k blinking lights, a Police Cruiser making sure people dont come down carroll avenue Near Long Branch parkway. The car was driving and for some reason the driver l