Plus Christmas Gifts money, wallet house keys everything gone a desperate plea from a maryland man, hundreds of dollars worth of Christmas Gifts. Plus President Trump weighs in on the possibility of firing special Counsel Robert Mueller, a special homecoming for john mccain. Fox 5 news at 10 00 starts now. Off the top tonight at 10 00, imagine delays continue for thousands of air travelers. This after a power outage at atlantas Jackson International airport left the worlds Busiest Airport in a near blackout. Its caused widespread flight delays and cancelations krysten leon is live at reagan International Airport. How is it impacting travelers at such a busy time reporter this power outage has had a Ripple Effect on all airports across the country be including here at Reagan National and dulles. But before i go into details about how its impacted us, i want to show you video and point out what other passengers were doing at the time of that power outage in atlanta and how they spent the
Upper level disturbance bringing the midatlantic cloud cover. Clouds more numerous than yesterday. Partly to mostly cloudy. Were going to stay on the cool side for the remainder of the week. Currently washington, the temperature is 43. 30s out at dulles and bwi marshal. Forecast High Temperature about 10 degrees below average. Mid 40s north and west to about 50 here. A little cool for this time of year. Thats a look at weather. More details on a brighter looking weekend forecast coming up. Lets do traffic and get the latest from julie. On the roads right now got our hands full. Coming in from the west eastbound 66 down to 31 miles an hour. The pace doesnt improve much. A pattern going as were well below speed. Southbound 270 lanes are open but an hour commute coming southbound from 85 heading into german town. Traffic slows again. Youll find if you are traveling metros red line, this is where we have problems. They are single tracking because of an earlier issue. Now weve got delays ou
Raleigh 67, chicago 58. We are dealing with fog early in virginia. It is spreading further north. Dulles fog, cull pepper fog. Must of the activity will stay to the south. Well have risk of scattered showers in the our forecast. It will not rain all day like yesterday. Temperatures warmer than yesterday, 80 for daytime highs. Plenty of clouds. Back into the sunshine along with warmer temperatures. Details in just a few. All right. Thank you, tucker. Lets check in with julie wright. Prince george, faulkner, got to get back to the books. Southbound 270 good shape. No issues coming out of gaitersburg. All of our lanes are open. Accident involving single utility poll. Shut down portion of 227 at briarwood road. Roads in virginia, volume increasing eastbound on 66 coming in from business 234 minute nas cis coming in from centerville. I95 slowing continuing on through wood bridge. Thank you, julie. It is a school day for hundreds of thousands of students in maryland. Thats right. The school
ensuring the affection of millions of americans. a statement from dick clark s statement says the long time tv host died of a massive heart attack earlier today. an out of control car slammed into the building just before the lunchtime rush. and tonight, it is raising new concern about safety issues associated with elderly drivers. in this case, the driver was 91 and police tell 9news now they are examining driver competency as part of its investigation. scott broom is in front of jerry seafood with more on this. reporter: started across the street at the bbnt bank where the driver lost control of his car. the car came screaming across the road right to the parking lot here. if it had been me, he might have hit me. and slammed into jerry seafood right there. he came and rode right through our dining room. it s crazy. caught on tape inside the restaurant, the impact looked something like an explosion. you can see a waitress leaping out of her seat as the car crashes