Giving him new hands and a new life. Wait until you hear the one thing he says he is fighting for right now. My fight song and good morning, america. Lets get right to that breaking news in the war on terror. Mullah omar, chief ally of Osama Bin Laden, forced underground when u. S. Forces invaded afghanistan. A 10 million bounty on his head now confirmed dead. Abcs chief investigative correspondent brian ross is here with the details coming in right now and, brian, this man right at the top of the worlds most wanted list. Reporter absolutely the case, george and good morning. Confirmation of the death of the oneeyed taliban leader came in the last few minutes to abc news from officials on the afghanistan government. A report u. S. Officials have been hoping to hear for more than a decade. The government spokesman told us mullah omar was killed in a u. S. Air strike more than two years ago with his death kept secret until this morning by the taliban. Omar, who lost his eye while fightin
News4 today continues at 5 00 a. M. It is 5 00 a. M. Good morning, im aaron gilchrist. And im eun yang. Were keeping an eye on a couple road closures that could really impact your drive into work today. Melissa mollet standing by with that. First, we do want to check in with tom as we enter day two of the heat . Siri do you hate heat and humidity . Ooh you didnt want to hear. Starting off with dense fog. Right now the counties in gray stratford, response veinia and Shenandoah Valley, watch out, visibility down to a quarter mile. And this dense fog is around here through 8 00 9 00 this morning. Right now, you can see a little bit of fog. Live view from the tower camera. By 7 00 a. M. Mid to upper 70s. Metro Area Temperatures will be near 80 by 8 00. Hazy sunshine through the morning. By 9 00 most of the fog will be gone. By 11 00, partly cloudy, temperatures jumping into the mid80s. Your drive time forecast coming up at 5 11. Aaron. Tom, thank you. Your first 4 traffic right now, you ma
Continuing to climb into the afternoon. Coming up next weather and traffic on the 1s. Your drive time forecast. Aaron. Tom thank you. Right now you can expect big delays if youre driving to work on interstate 66. Vdot crews are making repairs. Kristin wright is there. Kristin . Reporter it could be a slowgo for some of you coming from western virginia to d. C. This morning. We want to show you where, it does look like in the past minute or so they have started to open up part of the stretch that was closed. You can see traffics actually moving pretty good where we are. But its behind us between nutley street and the beltway and eastbound lanes of 66 where it is still slow because the x lane is closed. Parts of the x lane between nutley and beltway are closed for some road repairs. Traffic already bad, you know, this time of the morning in this area. So this morning, expect it to be even worse. Until they do completely open up that x lane. It was supposed to be throughout the morning ru
A look at your bus stop Weather Forecast in the next weather and traffic on the 1s. Whats happening now, melissa . Update on the 95 northbound situation. We are still quite slow. Getting a tiny bit better. 95 north at courthouse road, got the crash on the shoulder. It was a semi in the center lane. Still going pretty slowly as youre headed northbound. The problem is in fredericksburg, northbound here after stafford as you approach triangle. After that, its not so bad. The travel times are fairly good from quantico northbound. 70 south, to clarksburg and then some red line delays to shady grove from earlier delays. New this morning, d. C. Police investigating two shootings that happened hours ago. One on florida avenue in southeast d. C. , a man was shot on Frederick Douglas place. Molette green has more on the violent night. She is at police headquarters. Molette . Reporter yeah, aaron, two shootings as you mentioned coming just hours after the Police Chiefs latest appeal to the public
Into stafford, you will see an issue with the center lane blocked. This is the northbound side between exit 133 and Center Point Parkway right now. You get above that, close to quantico, into triangle, you should be good to go as you make your way to the capital beltway. If anything, we just have volume on the northbound side but you will see the slight delay once you get toward that accident in stafffords. Back to the maps. No major issues. Still fairly quiet on 395 and 295 both on the maryland and d. C. Side. Your next traffic update coming up in ten minutes. Well send it over to you. Right now police need your help to identify six men that they say are responsible for that deadly driveby shooting that happened right here outside of the shawhoward University Metro saturday afternoon. You may remember by now that killed an innocent bystander, 23yearold matthew shlonsky. He was an American University graduate. Lets get right to this video so you can take a close look. See if you rememb