Obviously as it continues to come down and as topper mentioned, temperatures will continue to drop. That is all likely to change. Road conditions expected to get worse. You want to be careful if youre on them. If it looks best its best to assume and to approach as if it could be icy. D. O. T. Crews have been out all day pretreating roads in maryland and virginia. That should certainly help conditions. Plows are out and about right now. Weve seen several drive by us. Theyre all on stand by, ready to clear out the roads as conditions worsen tonight. At this point were all sort of on standby really waiting for the worst to come. A raw snowy night for those long range commuters heading home to communities as far out as interstate 81. Scott broom is in hagerstown tonight and the thermometer is dropping fast out there. Let me take you to the dashboard camera of my mobile news room. Im moving with that flow of commuters westbound on i70 right now right in to hagerstown, just about to intersec
Thursday. Its happened again. The socalled black hat bandits have robbed another bank. Today it was the wells fargo in falls church. Right now detectives are investigating an area right behind the wells fargo. Witnesses say that after robbing the wells fargo the suspects ran right through here so thats why this area is important to police. This wells fargo in falls church is the eighth bank in maryland in Northern Virginia that these so called black hat bandits have hit since january 2nd according to the fbi. Reporter todays robbery happened around 12 45 this afternoon. Authorities say three men are involved. Two armed men one black one white who enter the bank, and one who waits in a getaway car. Im told today they were in and out of the bank in roughly two minutes. While theyre inside the fbi says theyve gotten more brazen with each attempt threatening customers and tellers, at items pointing and holding guns to customers heads and jumping the teller counters as they make their deman
Now a lot of the attention is going toward the debt ceiling and raising that. The government is starting to default on its loans. Delia goncalves is live on capitol hill. Reporter we were here friday and were hopeful as talks condition over the weekend. We could see an end for this debate. The good news . The work will continue later today when the Senate Reconvenes at 2 00 this afternoon. Main republican senator Susan Collyns leading a group of bipartisan senators toward striking a deal that is acceptable to both sides. The Senate Majority leader collins plans to reopen the government as a quote concession. They are meeting with Top Republican leaders to fund the government and raise the debt ceiling before default october 17th. It is the height of irresponsibility to not pay our bills. Americans Want Congress to compromise. I think we finally have gotten to a pretty good place. I really do. And now, beth sides are a little bit at fault both sides are a little bit at fault. Now it is
Approaching. Showers not far from seven springs. Into Garrett County and west into oakland. The heaviest stuff south of i 68 there, moving over toward kiser and romney in a while. Temperatures comfortable north and west. It is very muggy from pax river over toward the eastern shore. Even toward la plata with temperatures in the low 70s. A diesel accept afternoon, sunshine, tem in the mid80s. Spotty showers, storms possible. It does look like we are in for each nicer weather tomorrow and wednesday. More on that in just a few minute. Right now though, over to Monika Samtani. She has timesaver traffic. Thank you howard, good morning everybody. We have our first accident of the morning and of course it is on 95 in virginia. Apparently two vehicles involved an suv and commuter bus. Watch for that activity. Ill give you lane information as soon as we have it. A live look outside, check on you the beltway and 270 coming down from democracy boulevard into tysons river bridge. Lets step out and
Out to reston now. Passed with flying colors. Hank boarded the train to and from the five new stations. Reporter everything seemed to work well. Through the rush hour like many days it picked up slowly. Heading to the five new stations, by 7 00 the trains were handling commuters and metro says there were only minor glitches. So far the people who rode the lane this morning are giving it good reviews. Whether it will stay that way when the crowds star coming back at the end of summer is a different story. It was great. Im here at the office doing the reverse commute, avoiding 66. It is great. Reporter how much time did it save you . Probably 10 minutes, not huge, but i was able to read and that was probably the more important thing. I heard it is a lot of people interested in a band donning cars. I like it. I love it, actually. Reporter there were complaints from people heading to dc about the connecting buses but still, the reviews were good. It actually decreases my commuting time, wh