The difference is its much more stable. Its a combustible liquid instead of flammable and that doesnt cause some of the volatility issues that we would have with gasoline. Slippery . Yes it is. Is that big concern out here . Well, it certainly can burn. The temperatures are out today and it makes it more difficult to ignite. So its a very slim possibility if you have an ips dent like that. Well its not something they want people driving over. Thats why the cleanup, most of the spill was in the area where you see the work crews right now. What theyve been doing is putting down absorbent and trying to stop up as much of it as they can. That process will wrap up at some point fairly soon and theyre going to get all four lanes open. But at this point, this is still an area to avoid. In Laurel Brad Bell abc 7 news. All right. Thanks. And as you know this mornings accident really made trips around town a lot longer for many drivers who were stuck in that miles long backup. Our diane cho spok
Private emails. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] leon first, a driver cited after causing an eight mile backup. The driver of the car played a role. Alison and we are hearing from the man who said the i95 accident was not his fault. Tom roussey has the story. Tom alison, this accident caused a huge mess on 95 today but at this hour things are moving normally. The northbound lanes were shut down for hours, but the southbound lanes where this happened were shut down until early this evening. Check out this video of how bad it looked after the four vehicle crash. The tanker truck actually overturned. According to the maryland state police, chris rose of laurel was driving a ford focus when he abruptly changed lanes as he was merging onto 95 south, hitting a chevy malibu, starting the Chain Reaction. When we spoke with rose tonight, he said the reason he changed lane so fast was because
Imagine youre on your way to work you pull onto the highway. You come to an abrupt stop and all you can see is a sea of brake lights. So you sit there. And you sit there. And you sit there. Thats what it was like for drivers here on southbound 95. This man said he missed three meetings. What was it like down here . It was brutal. Brutal. About two hours and i finally got off and i dont know where the heck im going right now. Thats why i got my gps. Reporter this man was running on empty. What did you do . I had to make a uturn to, you know take another road and im running out of gas. Without gas i cant do anything. Reporter and this man had a twohour bonding experience with his car. It was unbearable sitting in traffic for a couple hours. My first thought of course was when i saw a gas tanker sideways was, i mean whats going to happen. Reporter all three drivers caught in the middle of this humongous traffic backup on 95 in laurel. The cause, this 7,500gallon tanker truck overturned an
The highend goods the thief got away with. An apology from one of the students in oklahoma who led that. News 4 at 11 00 starts now. We begin tonight with weather. You go outside tonight, and you think youre in the bass kerr vis. You can hear the rounds howling out there. Lets get right to doug. What are we in for tomorrow . A little bit in the way of rain out there right now. That rain will continue through much of the night tonight, then tomorrow i think we could see a little bit more. Lets show you whats happening. Storm team 4 radar picking it up very well coming through portions of Northern Virginia fairfax, prince william, then into south maryland some of the heaviest coming in through the district. Back to the west though a little bit of a reprieve from the weather. But notice where this moistures comeing from. All from the gulf coast. Look at all this moisture down to the south. Well see that moisture train moving right into our area through the day tomorrow. Something else wer
Funeral arrangements condolence notes to friends as well as yoga routines family vacations, the other things you typically find in ip boxes. Reporter thats unlikely to satisfy critics, including republicans who want her to turn over the server that hosted the private account. Thats something Hillary Clinton says she wont do. Republicans meanwhile say she cant be expected to decide on her own what should and shouldnt be kept public. Live on capitol hill brian mooar, news4. Just in news4 iteam reporter Scott Mcfarlane has obtained new information about the emails of mrs. Clinton. Scott . Yeah jim, good evening. The news4 iteam prepared to report former secretary of defense chuck hagel also used a private email address while corresponding with his white house during his time leading the pentagon. He used two separate blackberries, one which features a private g gmail account. Hagel ran the Defense Department from february 2013 until last month and on at least one occasion in october 2013