In new york. Our road to the white house coverage of the president ial candidates continues live from the iowa state fair on cspan, cspan radio, and cspan. Org. As the candidates walk the fairgrounds and speak at the des moines registers candidate soap box. This morning at 11 00 a. M. Eastern, its senator ted cruz. On saturday, republican governors Chris Christie at noon and bobby jindal at 1 00. Join the twitter conversation at dmrsoapbox. Can al cspans campaign 2016, taking you on the road to the white house. Are we living in a society of entitlement today where everybody gets a trophy, or is there value in encouraging participation . And thats ourit discussion ite this first segment of the washington journal. This week, James Harrison of the Pittsburgh Steelers posted on instagram this message. Ing. I came home to find out that my boys received two trophies for y nothing. Participationer trophies. While i am very proud of my boyi for everything they do and will encourage them until
Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein. Good morning. Grab the umbrella before you head out the door. You wont need it immediately in the metro area, but if you live in anne arundel you will. Right now we are getting brief heavy downpours near annapolis and right along the western side of the bay, up toward baltimore. Thats moving off north and east. That line did come through an hour or so ago. So some of the pavement is wet around the beltway and all the major streets and roads so watch out, theyre still slick. And this is the Flash Flood Watch map. These areas in green including fairfax, all of prince georges, arlington, as well as anne arundel, southern howard, watch out for high water tonight. We could get one to two inches of rain in a short amount of time. Now melissa, whats happening . I have two brand new crashes in northern virginia. Lets look at the first one here. Fairfax county, that just popped up. As did this one. A warning on those two. 216 so we had that crash, sounds
Triggered by China Economic fears and also some Computer Trading and theres fear as well. But investment analysts are saying this is no time to panic or jump out of the market or anything like that. In fact, some, wendy, are saying this is the time to double down and find some investment opportunity. One analyst today was saying they only know two speeds on wall street, fear and greed. So i think we saw that in action today. Yeah. Great. Thanks, brian. This afternoon, we are also tracking a highflying plot that police uncovered using drones in an apparent tip attempt to smuggle drugs, porn and more into a prison in maryland. Reporter im derrick ward. Prison officials here in maryland are concerned about a plot they say they have uncovered not to get someone out of a facility like this, but to get something in, over the fence. Synthetic drugs, porn on dvds a cell phone and even more troubling, say police, a weapon. How were they to be delivered . By drone. This past saturday, Correction
From frederick down to the spur. You can see nice and clear, no issues at all. We had some earlier road work in the northern part of 270 thats out of the way. 66 into and out of town, looking good. Same thing on 95. Remember in upper marlboro, ritchiemarlboro road at the beltway, we have the eastbound lanes blocked and the left lane blocked. This is because of a construction issue from overnight. So hoping that gets out of the way for everybody. Kind of soon here before traffic picks up too much. Kids going back to school of course. B. W. Parkway, 95 and 29, everything rolling along nicely. Top of the beltway also looks good. See you back here at 5 11. New this morning, take a look at some new video of a smoldering, melted metro access bus. This happened in Silver Spring on New Hampshire avenue right near the beltway. We have some calls in to police right now. Working to find out how this happened. Well let you know as soon as we get more information. If you use the w8 bus in the distr
This morning. In Upper Marlboro, ritchiemarlboro road at the beltway, eastbound lanes are blocked because of the water main break. And wssc is out on the scene. 270 at old hundred road seeing a bit of volume headed southbound. When you look at the map, 270 looks yellow. But really moving, no major problems. 95 at 123, northbound and southbound rolling along nicely. Travel times in ten minutes. Thank you. Many of you are going back to school this morning. It is the first day of school in Prince Georges County. Yep. Parents as you finish packing the lunches, a lot of new things to know about. News4s molette green is live at the bladensburg for us with School Officials talking to them about the new changes. Molette . Reporter absolutely. Even without a big budget increase prince georges schools opened today with Great Expectations. 2,000 newly enrolled student, no 129,000 students, nearly 870 new teachers and six new literacy coaches to help the struggling students get ahead and get on tr