Operation as part of the effort to avoid the genocide of religious minorities. And to protect u. S. Military and Embassy Personnel stationed in iraq. Tara mergener has the latest from the white house. Reporter a pair of fa18 fighter jets dropped bombs on artillery positions of the Islamic Extremist Group known as isis near the city. To stop the advaon the city, i directed the military to take targeted strikes against isis terrorist convoys should they move toward the city. Reporter about 150 u. S. Military advisers and an unknown number of diplomats are working out of the city. Kurdish fighters are being overwhelmed as sectarian violence escalates and americas Top Commander in iraq says isis is not just a violent terrorist organization. He says this is an army and it takes an army to defeat an army. While president obama has authorized air strikes humanitarian aid, he stopped short soft putting more boots on the ground. The u. S. Has also dropped food and water to thousands of people s
5r7b 4 00 5 00 6 00 p. M. Showers south of the area. Next weather and traffic on the ones are coming up at 5 11. A look at your drive time forecast. Roads are drying out at this point this morning. We do have some spots of flooding. Remember inbound massachusetts avenue at mccomb street do have some water in the roadway there and westbound 108 at olney mill road. 270 at montrose everything looking quite good there. 66 and 95 overall looking good as well. Big look at things beltway, a lot of the earlier road work is out the way. You might be a little bit delayed with the arlington Memorial Bridge this morning. If you use that bridge one westbound lane temporarily closed this morning. We have more from megan with how this is going to be affecting the traffic. I think we know the answer there. Reporter yeah its never good when you affect any of the bridges and this is a busy one and we have a temporary lane closure. Were not sure how long its going to be closed. This is going to impact pe
Little bit. More with melissa. Other spots with some standing water and issues massachusetts avenue in here at mccomb street. You can see the right lane is completely covered. Just a warning you are going to see some shots shut down because of this. This is one of them. Westbound 108 at olley mill road. They are closed there because of high water. Wide look overall beltway looking pretty good. Prince georges county moving along quite nicely. A little bit slow here inbound indian head highway. 13th and missouri westbound lane closed because of a crash. Those heavy showers that may have kept you up overnight moved out of the area but as chuck and melissa mentioned there are a number of problems lingering now. Tom kierein here with more on the flood concerns and the storms youll see later today. Heres the radar history over the last 12 hours. We had those heavy downpours with lots of lightning rolling right through the metro area overnight last night. It cleared the metro area. Now on the
Must week. We are hearing from the first time from the housekeepers husband. John gonzalez is live for the interview that you will only see on abc seven. John the children here and in el salvador are in a state of shock this afternoon. The husband granting abc 7 news the only exclusive interview saying that he wants people to know how much she loved the family and how badly he wants the killer caught. A lovely woman. John they became friends and much more. I fell in love with her. John 10 years after marrying his best friend, he took his wife to the bus stop the way that he did each day, she was on her way to her housekeeping job in d. C. His last words to her i love you, got bless you. He never heard from her again. I did not hear from her. I called her. Every time i called the home and went to voicemail. John he immediately felt that something was wrong. I saw it from the street. I was knocking knocking, ringing the bell. My feeling was that somebody was in sight. John not satisfied,
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