Weather center with a look at what we can expect in the next 24 hours or so. Doug patches of rain this evening. We get through the night the rain will become steadier and heavier. At the moment outside the beltway Weather Center in arlington its cloudy. Its in patches. A lot is evaporating before it hits the ground. The storm center that used to be patricia is moving through louisiana, headed for the chicago area. We are in a perfect position to pick up Long Duration of rain that will be developing tonight with the steady temperatures in the upper 50s with increasing wind through the day tomorrow. Rain, heavy at times. Isolated thunderstorms in the an. 70 degrees. We will check out the weekend in detail in a couple of minutes. Leon we got it. Back to you in a bit. Stay a step ahead of the weather with the storm watch 7 team. Check out wjla. Com. Abc7 Facebook Page or the twitter feed. Download the storm watch app on your tablet or smart phone. Alison well, just a quarter of the distric
Celebrating in new jersey as ben carson backtracks, what hes saying about his own words right now. Rocket man from amazon to outer space, the race to bring tourists to outer space. Jeff Bezos Company doing something its never done before. The rocket man here live this morning with a big announcement. And good morning, america. Okay, who is ready to go to space . Not me. No. Maybe jeff bezos is. That rocket went up. It came down safely and the video is just coming in this morning. Ha could be the future of space travel. Theyre boasting of big windows, room for six astronauts and already starting the process of taking reservations for those window seats. I normally like a window seat. Just not on a rocket. How much for those window seats . A lot. Jeff bezos has a lot. Hes going to be here live later. We begin with that breaking news in the war against isis and a russian warplane has been shot down by turkey near the Syrian Border. America and its allies calling an emergency meeting to de
50s. By 7 the 50s. By 7 30, 8 00 the showers are approaching the beltway. Off to the north you see the rain last. Ill time it out for you on your futurecast to give you a better idea of when your area will see rain coming up in a bit. Lets send it over to beverly with a check on traffic. Good morning. Pretty good start on the roadways. A couple of issues to let you know about. Showing you the drive on route 50 as you head in from annapolis and into bowie, Traffic Volume and speed, slowdowns typical as you head past 2302 to merge on 202 to merge on to kenilworth. Virginia 95 the volume for you has been northbound heading into quantico. Then out of dale city into woodbridge. Complicating matters a crash on the shoulder on 123 that slows things down. Industrial road and Industrial Drive, police are out with an accident off of backlick road. Route 9 near Harpers Ferry road, loud down county word of a Loudoun County word of a crash that had police responding. Andrea, nick, back you to. We h
Live desk. Look at this flooding in charleston, South Carolina. Many roads are still shut down because of the flooding. Some drivers were stuck in traffic jams as the water rose on more popular roadways. Charleston streets start flooding when the tide goes above 7 feet. It was already over 8 feet by 8 00 a. M. Savannah, georgia has also seen a good amount of rising water. All of this in the aftermath of Hurricane Patricia. A coastal Flood Warning has been extended until noon. Conditions are expected to improve this afternoon. That flooding they had down south is mostly tidal flooding due to this onshore flow ahead of the remnants of patricia. Light to moderate showers there. Stretching down to florida the leading edge of that rain is across virginia, areas south of washington that stretches back into the midwest. Our local High Resolution radar showing the leading edge of this rain in green now coming up 95, just about coming into Prince William county and Fauquier County, the Shenando
301. 210 free and clear of any issues as well. Along the beltway, again no issues on either the inner or outer loop. Were good to go there. Your next traffic update coming up shortly. Well send it over to you. We are following breaking news from the turkishsyrian border a. Russian warplane was shot down by turkey today. This happened overnight. A Russian Military plane was on a Bombing Mission in syria and it crashed after it was hit by artillery fire. The pilots reportedly parachuted out of the plane but havent been heard from since. Turkey is a staunch critic of syrias russianbacked president assad. They say it issued repeated warnings against violations of its air space before todays shootdown. Were also following breaking news from the midz west. Police in minute midwest. Police in minneapolis say at least five people were shot at an overnight protest outside a police station. At least 11 people were injured when the shot rang out in the citys Fourth Police precinct. So far none of