December 201st. Erin como watching the roads, seeing whats going on out there. Got you covered. And mike thomas talking about weather. Good morning. Good morning. The good news for those drivers is that the cold is all you have to worry about today. Other than that were expecting sunny skies and temperatures later on this afternoon in the 40s. Hey, erin. Huge problems in centreville. Downed power lines and an overturned tractortrailer. 28 at 66 all lanes blocked. We have your work arounds. If youre just waking up at 5 00 a. M. A lot of breaking news to talk about and we start with this. A vehicle rammed into a crowd in australia today injuring more than a dozen people. Police say this was not an accident and some suspects are in custody. Our Melanie Alnwick is monitoring the latest developments in our news room. Mel. Reporter good morning. Just a short time ago police told reporters on the ground they believe this was not this was a deliberate act. Two men have been arrested, one were
Police. People were Holiday Shopping and waiting at a cable car stop outside flinder straight. Witnesses say the white suzuki suv ran a red light crashed into the crowd without braking. Sky News Australia took this picture of a man they say is one of the suspects. He was handcuffed sitting on the ground and calmly talking to investigators. Police told reporters this may have been planned. At this time we believe it is a deliberate act. However, we do not know the motivation and it is still early stages for the investigation. Reporter 15 people were injured many in critical condition. One of those were told is a small child with serious head injuries. Prime minister Malcolm Turnbull called it a shocking incident and sent prayers for the victims and the first responders. Again, no motive determined yet. You may recall its been just one year since the berlin Christmas Market attack when a man in a stolen through Holiday Shoppers killing 12. Wisdom. This morning republicans are still baski
Lets check out today with the forecast Sheena Parveen standing by with everything you need to know, especially if you are trying to book it out the door. Sheena. Yes, erika, because we know today is a big travel day. Good news though the weather will be cooperating. But the roads will be very busy. 40 degrees right now. Chilly out there. Probably still want the warm jacket and through the day today i think you can use it. Sunny skies in the forecast all day long. Looking at nice dry conditions even as we end out the week. Look at the temperatures elsewhere. We saw upper 30s on the map. Clinton and kwau clinton. But in the afternoon mid40s. Chilly today. Nice weather through the end of the week for travel. But for the weekend we may have some issues developing depending where you are heading. And watching Christmas Day i have the updated forecast. Thats straight head, but for now you have a good travel forecast. In a matter of hours the roads will swell. News4 megan cmcgraph is working
Rules in virginia, they will now go to the random draw. Attorneys for the democrats refuse to comment but they did not say what they plan to do next although the attorney for the republican, the incumbent himself says hes glad Election Officials are being careful about this vote. Grateful for the justices for the time that they took to deliberate and im really grateful that every vote has been counted. Simons had a mark through the little bubble and mr. Delegate yancys had the bubble filled in. Reporter now fox5 reached out to the simons campaign tonight but we have not heard back. Yancy was declared the winner back in november by only 10 votes but this recount proved otherwise. Even after the random draw though as this turns out shawn and tony, whoever winds up losing can then ask for another recount so we could be right back to where we started. By the way i should mention david yancy no relation. Reporter but i will tell you that i did write both of these names on these who won. Rep
Latest. Well, hey erin, yeah we were live earlier right by the accident on the southbound lanes of 28 right on the overpass of 66, but then police came up to us, knocked on our window and told us we had to get out of there because they were going to try to land a chopper on the southbound lanes of route 28 to respond to this crash. Earlier we were reporting that there were no serious injuries in this crash. However, its unclear now exactly whats going on and if this chop chopper is respondingo possible injuries that they found later on after doing some investigating and clearing out of this crash but its a doozie. Right now northbound lanes of route 28 are moving. However, the southbound side, the far right two lanes are currently still blocked with Emergency Response vehicles. They are trying to upright and tow away at least two, possibly three trucks. They looked all of them looked large, maybe big rigs. We did see at least one overturned, two down an embankment. Another one with hea