Washington red sinskins maim. The u. S. District court upholding the cancellation of the teams federal trademark registration. The Patent Office back in june of last year deciding that the name was, in fact, disparaging to native americans. The team filed suit after this in august of last year wanting that decision overturned but after this mornings ruling that is not happening, at least for now. The team can still appeal, though. The suit initially brought by five native americans. The team can still use the team but its not protected and certainly its a big blow to the team right now. Back to you. And we have more breaking news. Thousands of United Airlines flights are delayed from coast to coast because of a computer glitch. The ground stop has been lifted. We are live at dulles with more on whats happening there. Reporter barbara you can see how crowded the ticketing area for united here is here at Dulles International airport. They had a ground stoppage worldwide of all planes due
Was hit by a car on i95. We have learned that he has been on the force for about three years and was just doing a traffic stop when he was hit. Now, this happened just before 4 00 on 95 south near the exit for route 32 in jessup. Right now, there is one lane getting by but the backups are almost all the way back to the baltimore beltway. Thats about 13 miles away. Theres also Traffic Building on the northbound side and on 295, as drivers try to take some alternate routes to avoid that area. Now, you can see the ripple affect there the there were was medevaced to a hospital in baltimore. No update yet on his condition. We are going to stay on top of this at the live desk, chris lawrence. Thank you, chris. Now to breaking news here in the district, a big announcement just in the last hour about a man found murdered in a trash can. News4s derrick ward is live outside police headquarters. Derrick . Reporter it was the police chief and the mayor that held this joint announcement here inside
As we heat up this afternoon, well see scattered showers and thunderstorms redevelop by the afternoon and into the evening. So temperatures will be a little bit lower today in the upper 80s. Still warm and sticky through the afternoon. Well talk about more thunderstorms for tomorrow. Larry, over to you. Thanks, allyson. Everything still running on schedule. Buses and trains, good news there. Its 395, the northbound side that we have some trouble. For those of you going through that area, want to let you know two thru lanes on the northbound side of i395 are closed as a result of an accident. One of our web producers is actually making her way up this area. She took a picture for us that she posted on twitter to show us the situation there. So you can see not only emergency crews, tow trucks but the situation. Were seeing delays all the way from shirlington circle. Heres a live look from our camera now. You can see all lanes pretty much crawling for the most part. You can account for th
In the 90s for the next several days. Lets get it started with the heat alert. This is heat advisory in effect for the entire metro area. It goes into effect at 1 00. The heat index will be right around 105 for many of us. And actually in the immediate beltway region we could see heat index values above 105 as we head into the afternoon. Here is a look at that day planner. Already 87 degrees at 10 00. Thats before you factor in the humidity. 93 at 1 00. 94 degrees at 4. 88 even at 10 00. Right now it is 75 in leesburg and hagerstown. 73 gaithersburg. Its still 79 in downtown washington. We actually have a heat index value in d. C. Right now of 84 when you factor in the dewpoint of 74 degrees. We are going to keep it mostly dry as well. We dont have any rain in the forecast. Maybe a stray isolated storm from this weak disturbance thats trying to pass through. A cold front will arrive on tuesday. We will track that for you coming up with 9 futurecast and the first alert sevenday. Back to
Hottest night of the year. Pepco confirmed pour outages and the heat and humidity could be factors. Our Garrett Haake has been on the story all evening talked with affected residents and businesses. Hes live in northeast. Garrett . Reporter debra, thankfully the power is finally back on here in northeast for all but a few dozen people who might still be without it. For a while tonight, though, there were more than 4,000 people across the district without electricity. Pepco says the first outage tonight in northwest was not caused by the heat, but regardless of what caused it all these people had to deal with the high temperatures. At andre jones home in upper northwest the power went off just like that. The next thing we know, bam. You know, so i ran downstairs. I thought maybe it was a breaker. Reporter jones was one of more than 2,000 pepco customers in northwest to lose power around 7 p. M. He and his kids couldnt stay indoors after that. Very, very, very hot, extremely hot. Reporte