Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a Tuesday Morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. And im matt lauer. Well get to that severe flooding in northeast australia in a couple of minutes. More rescues there over the last 24 hours. Al will join us and tell us abt a powerful storm system right here at home that could be spawning some tornados in the coming days. Also ahead, strong signals from the boy scouts that it will end its nationwide exclusion of gay scouts and leaders. At least one major group is saying that may force it to move its support to other boys organizations. New questions this morning about the death of Country Singer Mindy Mcreadys boyfriend as she opens up about what happened the night he died. Well hear from her. Its an emotional and candid interview. First to that deadly flooding in australia. Sarah james is in brisbane for us this morning. S sarah, good
Today as he joins the host was e today show here at 7 00. We might be calling him mr. President , not just kid president in the future. Awesome. News4 today continues right now at 5 00 a. M. Take a look at this scene right now. This is a i live picture of the beltway near 50 Prince Georges County. Only one lane get by in each direction after an accident involving a fire station truck, a tractortrailer and an suv on the other side of the highway. Seven people were rushed to the hospital, including four firefighters. Melissa mollet is live on the scene gathering new information. Melissa . Thats right. Good morning. An unbelievable scene of wreck anl here. Im going to step out of the way so you can see whats happening. The cleanup is under way right now. You can see the wreckage in the distance. That is a crumpled fire truck. Fire station 828 were coming down the inner loop at 3 00 a. M. After responding to a call. They were hit from behind while they were moving by a tractortrailer. Both
Critical condition. No change in any other status. The rest were transported as traumas. Tell us what happened. All we know is that the fire truck was rear ended by the tractortrailer. We dont know about the circumstances of what was happening. We know that the fire truck had just cleared another accident. They were cleared by other units. The tractortrailer flipped, the suv a a third vehicle, flipped, and the fire truck flipped. As far as accidents in your years on the job, how does this compare . Its one of the most significant fire truck accidents that ive seen with a fire truck that was going down the road. I mean, a lot of times when we have accidents its because were blocking the scene and get struck by somebody ina tensive. This is one of the most severe ive seen with a fire truck traveling. The fire truck is literally in pieces. Were thinking about everybody involved. I know youre busy. Inner loop traffic is actually getting by now. We have two of four lanes on the inner loop n
The monocasee in frederick, at or above flood stage for the day. Watch out for that on the rural areas. Winds have been picking up. Gusts over 40 Miles Per Hour, frederick county, washington county, panhandle of west virginia, locally weve had gusts to around 30 Miles Per Hour. And theyre only going to be increasing as the day progresses. Now weve got a wide variety of temperatures, 60 in washington. Its dropped back to the 40s now. The shenandoah valley, panhandle of west virginia, up into western maryland. Hour by hour through the day, well have changes going on each hour. Well still be in the 50s by 6 00 a. M. Much of the metro area. By 8 00, down to near 50. Near 50 by 9 00 a. M. Sun breaking out. Well have gusts of wind to around 40 Miles Per Hour. Im back in ten minutes with yet another update. Now a look at traffic, your first 4 traffic this morning with danella. Good morning. Good morning. Checking a couple of incidents in our area. First well talk about the traffic lights. Its
Well. Down to less than 800. Bge holding steady, 350 outages in anne arundel and Prince Georges County. High water also a major issue on region roads. Megan mcgrath in annan dale, virginia, where streets are blocked from flooding. Megan . Reporter we are seeing trouble spots still, but we are also seeing quite a bit of improvement. We last spoke about a halfhour ago. And i was standing here in the northbound lanes of annandale road. As you see now, this is no longer under water. The water has receded to further down the roadway here. Frankly, its than deep. I think its not going to be too much longer that lanes will be closed. Right now for the moment at least, northbound annandale road closed near walnut hill lane. Now a few hours ago the entire road was closed in both directions. Even the southbound lanes because water was across the roadway. You see on the southbound side that has already receded. They opened those lanes up about a halfhour ago. And i dont think its going to be too