Chilly start to the day. Weather and traffic with tucker and erin. Overnight lows in the 30s there. Definitely chilly conditions and beautiful tuesday. Details on the weather, erin. Roads are in full swing. Lot of congestion 95 northbound crawl there thats not a only slow zone. 66 eastbound closer look at those and look at metro with first full look at traffic, allison an steve. Erin thanks very much a minute past the hour breaking over night we start with tram academy Northern Virginia violent crash. The car slammed into utility pole guardrail and free. Two other people in the car went to hospital in non lifethreatening injuries. Airport after chaos erupted over flight cancellation after Spirit Airlines cancelled in my opinion flight because of legal dispute. And video posted to switer showing angry passengers at the Spirit Airline Pilot Association over labor negotiations union says thats not the case and several were taken into custody, the white house reportedly considering expandi
Rehoboth. Take a look at some of the rainfall amounts weve gotten already. Upwards two and three inches of rain. Annapolis, over three. Baltimore, over three inches of rain. Close to four in pax river. Those inland locations, same story. Picking up the high rainfall totals. This system, again, so large, affecting a lot of people. Not just at the coast, but well inland. Were going to see this through the overnight period. As we get into the western locations of west virginia, where snowshoe already had six inches of snow. Theyre expecting about two to three feet of snowfall by the time they get to wednesday late. So flood warnings remain up through tomorrow. With five to ten inches of rain in the forecast. Through Loudoun County and sharpsburg, and little falls will have high water rising several feet above average, as we move through the rest of today and tomorrow. Again, all with sandy making its way ashore in the next couple of minutes, we think, around cape may, Southern Area of new
Recorded. And that goes back to the super storm of 93. Even beating the super storm of 93, that was the benchmark for many meteorologists. The one we all learn about in school. I guarantee you well all be learning about sandy. As we move through the next day or so, sandy just making its way north of new york. What will keep us in the wind. It will keep us in the rain, too the rain is slacking off around Atlantic City, toward philadelphia, Atlantic City coming in with winds of 70 to 75 Miles Per Hour. This is the eye wall, right in through portions of cape may county, new jersey. This is cape may county. This is where wildwood is, Rehoboth Beach right here starting to see some of the outer bands making their way through, too. Well start to see some of these bands, this one right in here, a strong band coming across the chesapeake bay. The winds are picking up very quickly. They will stay up all night long. Were seeing numerous trees down across the region. Were looking at a lot of Power
Washington state is en route to San Francisco now to evaluate the situation and figure out the next move. The main concern now is debris falling from the building and sliding off, the reason for the evacuations. The Fire Department says then the building is sound. The concern is on the top of the 30th floor. Well hear more from a news conference, coming up at 5 30. We can see the platform that the crane is sitting on definitely tilted like something happened. The supports gave way am im wondering do you there on the street, fremont street from chopper 5, its a mess, absolutely stopped. What can you tell us about traffic. Reporter there are many street closures in this area. My photographer and i were headed down here about 3 00 this afternoon. First street across Market Street was already backing up into battery. Traffic here in the soma area is a nightmare now. San francisco fire as well as the Police Department are saying if you dont need to be here, dont drive your car down here rig
Problems. Here is the San Francisco Fire Department while they were putting it in position for it to continue its operation, a strut that holds up one of the portions of the crane, a 30ton crane, failed and leaned the crane towards the northeast direction. Everybody is looking up. Reporter now, they are finding a Structural Engineer flying in a Structural Engineer from Washington State. We got some information from the Building Company behind the project at 41 tehama. They say it happened between levels 35 and 36. An interior forming system had a partial hydraulic failure while it was being raised to the next level. The system and the arm have been secured and are being evaluated by engineers. Now, we know that there are no injuries or damage reported from this incident at 41 tehama right now. [ loud noise in the background, another reporter ] reporter people were sent home early. Only the engineers necessary, veronica and allen, they are the only ones on site right now working on this