70s. monika? yesterday we were telling you that most of the road closures were in the upper marlboro and southern maryland area. but first of all in waldorf. upper marlboro, greater upper marlboro and even in la plata, in fact, mike and andrea spoken to charlie from maryland state highway and he said that northbound route 301 is being split so that you can go north and southbound on one side of the road. it s going to take you a lot of extra time to get around town today with all the closures. in anne arundel conety. we have a sinkhole between the river road and defense highway closed in two separate areas at davidsonville and house lee as well. over to kensington area. beech drive is closed at knolls and at east-west highway. so be aware of that. there s major thoroughfare and over to potomac and bethesda area where you ve got a close your right now as well in this area right here as well on seven locks road. down the alexandria. south of town where you ve got flooding and
this tropical connection s been going on for a few days although it doesn t look as impressive this morning. we still have a low spinning owl to indiana and ohio. we still have katia in the outer atlantic there. we re stuck in the middling and the pattern has changed too much. so this morning, light sprinkles and calvert, southern prince george s county into charles county. coming across the western district and up to leesburg. monika samtani, over to you. well, a live look straight up on the outer loop of the beltway at route 355 here and that s because there s another accident. it s been this way all week long on the outer loop. the live picture there where the accident there may be two accidents there on the outer loop. the backup already beginning at connecticut avenue. right now we re hearing from authorities that only it will left lane is getting the left lane is getting by and look at this, it s 5:00 in the morning and you ve got if backup at the backup at conn
before he was killed, officials say osama bin laden wanted to see an attack around this anniversary weekend. here in washington, you ll see more vehicle stops, unattended cars being towed, and police on the streets. we want everybody to know that we take these threats very seriously, as we do all threats to our city, and citizens should know that we re taking all the appropriate steps that are necessary to be able to ensure their safety. i assure you that there is no reason for anybody to consider canceling events, we are not canceling events, everything is going to go on as planned. we feel we have a very robust security plan here in the city. we have great support from our federal partners. reporter: security is especially tight in new york right now. all streets around ground zero will be shut down this weekend. there will be random bomb sweeps and bag searches as well. if you see something, say something. thank you, melissa. with the tenth anniversary of 9/11 ju
mean suspicious. we also understand from metro that they re going to be doing bag checks here and there and it may pop up at any time in any of their stations. there was a briefing here of police headquarters from chief lanier awhile ago. she said that there has been an increase in reported suspicious activity in the city and in that it s up by 20 to hitter%. to 30%. she advised you should go about your daily business, they have everything well in hand and don t change your pans. there are as many as 200 your plans. there are as many as 200 to 400 additional officers working the streets and how they re going to be deployed. what this allows us to do is have significant overlap, so, you know, it allows us to and we re going to have an increase in calls. obviously suspicious packages and suspicious reporting is going to roar more officers to respond. require more officers to respond. all the other officers deployed from other assignments out there are being deployed t
speaking heavy rain that we saw yesterday. i was in it yesterday afternoon. extraordinary rain. i haven t experienced rain like that, trying to drive through it and deal with it since isabel, some seven, eight years ago. it won t be a day like that. take a like at vipir. this goes back to yesterday, shows you all that rain and heavy rain that we had yesterday affect. much of that has pushed out and dissipated. we are seeing some shower activity off to the north and east around baltimore, eastern maryland and a a couple more showers filling in just to the south of washington, d.c. it will be kind. spotty pop-up showers, maybe a couple of thunderstorms later on today. nothing like what we had yesterday, at least we don t think so. let s go to the graphics. there are a wide variety of watches and warnings in effect this morning. i guess the main thing you need to know is that there is a flash flood watch in effect for much of the area this evening. there are some flood warning i