smooth sailing. all we are dealing with is a little bit of rain and that spray out on the roadways. but overall so far so good. not causing problems. taking it over to virginia. 66 eastbound. we are doing great through manassas, centreville and beyond. beltway in virginia, happy to report the construction at telegraph is gone. and i can t recollect over to you. earlier this year, northrop grumman announced plans to move to our region and now we know the world s fourth largest defense contractor is moving the corporate headquarters to northern virginia. 9 news now reporter kristin fisher is live with more. good morning, kristin. good morning. both virginia and maryland have been courting northrop grumman since last january when the company announced it wanted to move to the washington area. the company made its decision. it will be moving its headquarters to one of two locations in northern virginia, it is either at a site out near dulles airport or right here in crystal c
evening this evening. highs reaching near 70 before then. things should settle down by late this evening and by dawn tomorrow maybe lingering light showers. after that we ought to get sunshine back by tomorrow afternoon with highs in the mid 60s. then the weather does settle down considerably midweek. we veal the shine back on wednesday. should be partly cloudy. morning lows near 40. afternoon highs into the mid 60s. then lots of sunshine for thursday with highs near 70. let s check traffic on this monday morning. jerry, how is it look sng. good morning to you. good morning everyone. looking good as we get under way. may still have scat tertd power outages from last night s storms. also debris may be in the roadway. 395 through landmark, shirlington, 14th street bridge off to an uneventful start. in maryland no worries. road spray, this is 270 southbound towards the interchange of route 28 in rockville. right now frederick all the way down looks like we re okay. be careful
message one high school is giving students a sobering two- day lesson. karen gray houston spent the day at olney to give us a look. back in the 90 someone in the united states died every 15 minutes because of a drunk driving accident. it is a sobering statistic. it is sobering then. it is now like every 40 minutes but they launched a front to. fire and ambulance. i need to report a car crash on in a school parking lot. reporter: it was a mock incident down to the principal s frantic 911 call. how many people are injured. i don t know. i see, maybe nine. reporter: the car crash had the look of a real thing with rescue crews and trapped victims yanked from the wreckage, emotional stuff. kind of creeped me out. so even being excited about getting a license and a permit, you have to be careful and obey all the rules and hope that doesn t happen to me. i didn t expect it to be like that. i thought at this time would be a bunch of cars and how the policeman and
residents in the parts of the south have a massive clean-up on their hands after a string of deadly tornadoes. dozen os people, including three children were killed. dozens more were injured. they carved a wide path of destruction in parts of mississippi where experts believe a severe f-4 twister touched down. winds are estimated to be around 170 miles an hour. homes and businesses were flattened. dozens of trees were uprooted. tornadoes were also spotted in louisiana, arkansas, alabama. in yazoo city, mississippi, survivors described how buildings literally crumbled around them. i run, went in the sanctuary, and we had a communion table at the front of the church. i got under that communion table. the windows started breaking out and blowing around. the furniture and then the building collapsed around me. the glass was flying. everything was just breaking, trees were breaking. and it s just unbelievable. it s something you don t want to ever experience. teams from the
for culpeper county, fauquier county, stafford county, until 4:45, a thunderstorm warning. it will be affecting areas. within the next couple of minutes, as well as richardsville by 4:10. it s moving east. it s eventually hitting areas of the rest of the stafford county and down through fredericksburg, with the possibility of some gusty winds and possibility of hail with some of these storms. all right, let s go ahead and show you what s happening throughout the rest of the area, too. we ve had quite a bit of lightning strikes down through the northern neck. those storms are ending and they will soon be out towards the open water. we have generally showers appear around hagerstown. where most of the lightning is right now is within that one cell headed into those counties around fredericksburg, orange, stafford and culpeper. that severe thunderstorm warning is up until around 4:45. back to you, jim and pat? thanks, veronica. there s damage from half a dozen other 20 state