Tour de crash. This incredible video from the famous bike race in france. An elbow from a top rider causing a wild pileup on the course. One biker run over now seriously injured as both riders now out of the elite race. Good morning, america. Welcome back and, yeah, lets take a look at that incredible Tour De France video. The biker after elbowed was run over in that pileup. Well have much more on that. It was so close. So dangerous. Well begin with breaking news around the world. Tensions high over north korea. Overnight the u. S. And south korea responded to the north Korean Missile launch with a show of force launching our own missiles into the sea. It was a longrange Intercontinental Ballistic Missile that they launched. President trump leaves for his g20 summit. Hell stop in poland ahead of that and hell deliver a major speech there tomorrow. On friday his first meeting with Vladimir Putin. The big question, will trump confront putin over russian interference in our president ial
They are not deploying in earnest until 8 00 tonight. You can see in the distance, that is not snow. That is clear sky in the distance. We are not flurries at the moment. They have pretreated the roads heavily. They are ready when it starts. Pretreatment helps for a while but they will put the trucks out to keep roads moving well as the evening goes on. Reporting live, im tom roussey, abc7 news. Alison tom, thank you very much. We all know it doesnt take much during a commute to cause major problems. Look at this on 66. Although that is always tough this time of day. Lets check in with Jamie Sullivan for the latest. Jamie a lot of heavy traffic. 66 heading outbound bumper to bumper delays. This is not because of the weather. This is just the typical afternoon. Maybe a few people left early to try to avoid any of weather coming in. That is why we are seeing so much congestion. Around the capital beltway, both the givener loop and the outer loop heavy. Inner loop north from mcclain to Mo
Eastern shore. You can always download the nbc washington app. You could do that now from your phone. Our Team Coverage continues now with a look at how road crews are going to be going after this first snow of the season. News4s Mark Segraves is in montgomery county. Reporter take a look at i270 here in rockville. Things look great. We were seeing flurries here since about 3 00. About ten minutes ago the flurries and the wind completely died down. Now its just a clear, crisp evening. Crews have been working around the clock getting ready for whatever comes our way. Crews have been busy treating roads across our region all day. In the district, snow prep began yesterday. Weve been pretreating roads based on the current forecast from the National Weather its mostly been a hot mix of brine and beet juice. Reporter theyre getting ready in virginia as well where chopper 4 caught an aerial view of snow prep in action. Yesterday morning we were out brining all of our systems, the hot spots,
A little traffic. There was an accident here by exit 15. Southbound 15. Were a few miles on the north side of frederick. It is dry out there. Let me show you, as we look out the front of the shehe tracker storm. And what solution of salt and water soaks into the road, as opposed to using salt, which would bounce off. So they pretreat with this in anticipation of what is coming. We saw a few flurries earlier. Right now, reading a temperature, an even 32. Were going to maybe we have been seeing the echoes, a little bit more steady out that way. Right now, at least in frederick, dry at the moment. And a temperature of that. Im meteorologist howard bernstein. Back to you. And dont forget, our wake up Washington Team will be on air at 4 00 they will have updated traffic before you head out the door. And also the latest school closings, too. Testifying before the senate top foreign agency. Craig boswell reports tonight, much of the hearing focus was on russias meddling in the 2016 president
Storm team 4 weather alert day. There is chuck belg telling us what we can expect heading outside today. Spill some excitement around. What little bit of snow weve had will be rapidly ending aa cross the area here. Snow is likely again starting tomorrow, probably about the time you wake up. The big winners tomorrow lk south and east of the washington area. Could get up to 4 inches of snow across Southern Maryland and weve got at least five days in a row of cold weather coming our way. For now, the last of the snowflakes are down around st. Marys county and calbert. Send me a picture with one inch of snow on the ground in eastern west virginia. Temperatures right now, only in the 20s and thirds and well stay up into the low 30ser melissa, you might get a peek of sunshine. That would be nice. Crossing my fingers. 95 southbound before 175, left lane gets by the crash. Otherwise, were quite quiet early this morning. That, again, is going to take time because of the fuel spill and the big m