Security issues. This comes in the wake of a major breach of u. S. Intelligence by wikileaks, ongoing questions about russian interference, and president trumps unsubstantiated claims of wiretapping by president obama. Abcs lana zak has more from northwest. Meanwhile secretary of state Rex Tillerson has recused himself decisions regarding the keystone xl pipeline. Tillerson is the former ceo of exxonmobil. A company that is heavily invested in producing crude oil from canada and environmental groups say that poses a conflict of interest. The state Department Says tillerson has not worked on the matter since becoming we are following breaking news from overnight. Two people, including a child, are now hospitalized following a deadly crash in forrestville u. S. Park police say it happened on on suitland parkway and forestville road. One person was declared dead at the scene. Police say a child was rushed to the hospital with lifethreatening injuries. Another person was also hospitalized,
We do have a crew on the way. We can see it from here again. This is near a mobile home village in bay point and does not look good. We see black smoke rising on highway 4 coming to the bay point area. Now the Fire Department is on the scene but we are not sure if it is vegetation. We were told it was vegetation burning but it could be even more. You can see it from highway 4 people are going to be slowing, getting up to the area just because they can see what is going on. Remember highway 4 has had some crashes too. Lets go to the bay bridge toll plaza. It is backed up for at least a 1520 minute delay. No problems getting on to the actual span. In san jose northbound 280 that looks good sot south bay commute is off to a good start. 6 01 lets go back to the desk. We are following developing news out of texas. Severe storms have killed at least six people and left at least 12 more missing. This is new video from houston. You can see traffic as a standstill as the drivers get stranded in
Continueing to scope the river through air by boat wine land. Looking for any survivors. Looking for any potential bodies. Reporter president obama says he spoke with Governor Greg Abbott to express his condolences and assured the governor he can count on the federal government to help with requests for assistance. We will expedite those requests to make sure that both search and rescue operations where necessary but also recovery operations occur as efficiently and as quickly as possible. Disaster declarations in dozens of texas counties tonight. Forecasters are predict morgue wet weather. Very hard to pre hen the magnitude of this flooding flooding. It is historic. Chief meteorologist Scott Williams has that part of the story. Youve lived in texas and ive lived in texas and iain has lived in texas. We would agree this is some of the worst flooding not caused by a Tropical Storm or a hurricane in recent years. Take a look at the video. You can see people are still missing after this d
Starting off on our beautiful michael son camera. By this afternoon temperatures are going to warm up by 20 degrees. Another day with southerly winds at 13 Miles Per Hour right now. So breezy at times. High pressure to the east feeling the srl winds setting the stage for showers and storms this afternoon. Ill track them for you coming up. In the meantime grab the umbrella and your high today 88. Larry, over to you. Thanks. Metro riders off to a good start. The trains and buses running on schedule. Its in lanham where we have an issue this morning. Two lanes blocked on the outer loop of the beltway. Our Traffic Camera shows the delays in that area. That is the situation here. You see police on the scene traffic being able to get by. Looks like one lane closed at this point but still expect some delays out in that area. Sky 9 is over the scene of a fatal accident, this out in greenbelt where we have two right lanes blocked, traffic getting by on the lefthand side so were asking drivers t
She survived this shooting and her up born child, that pregnancy, also sur unborn child, that pregnancy also survived, the children in this case now residing with her family. Can onlyway and his mother are held without bail conway and his mother now are held without bail now. Chief mark magaw announced conways suspension. Well hear more from him at 6 00. How do you system rise the lives of four people summarize the lives of four people held captive and murdered for 40,000 . Members of the savopoulos family tried today in a heartwrenching obituary for savvas, amy and 10yearold phillip. Bruce leshan joins us live in the studio now with more. It is the memories of Young Phillip that are perhaps the most heartbreaking. He dreamed of becoming a race car driving, loved school, excelled at sports before he was allegedly tortured and killed by murderers for cash. Tenanted and fun loving says the talented and fun loving says the obituary, Phillip Savopoulos loved basketball and was a huge fan o