Dont even yet have a handle on exactly who is affected and that means that no letters can go out, no notification go out. Remember, this covers people who got background checks over the last 15 years. Some of them never worked for the federal government. Some of them dont work for the federal government now. So first and foremost, they would have to track all those people down once they figure out exactly who they are. In the mean tame, what do you do for them you heard from Eleanor Holmes norton, she along with democratic senators, who have large numbers of federal workers in their district, are proposing that Lifetime Protection as well as 5 million in insurance, but there is no guess even at this point whether its the three years that opm is suggesting or if they do a Lifetime Protection what that would cost or how that would even work and all of this gives new urgency to what are known vulnerabilities, obviously not just at opm but talked about vulnerabilities from every agency, no
Over the last week or so, Prince William county, fairfax county, the district and prince georges county, Flash Flood Watch 2 a. M. Tomorrow morning through 3 p. M. Tomorrow afternoon. Heres a look at the radar over the past hour or so. You can see the heaviest testimony down toward culpeper, but still we talked about light showers moving in. The heavy stuff comes in overnight. Well zoom in a little bit. This has got some rainfall rates over an inch per hour around gold vein moving essentially off to the east, southeast. This will duck in between quantico and stafford in the next 40 minutes. So let me show you futurecast. Were looking at 5 a. M. , look at all the heavy rain culpeper to fredericksburg, the yellow and orange, heavy stuff. A lot of it ducks off to the south. You might not see anything in hagerstown. I think it will be a little further north than futurecast is showing here. 9 a. M. Showers essentially i66 and 50 south. By 11 00 most of the heavy activity is south of town in
Standard for police investigators. It is to end racial profiling by police. We dont know the exact details of the plan right now. The announcement comes four months after freddie grays day in police custody. And the subsequent rioting in baltimore. Well be watching froshs News Conference closely at 11 00 this morning. 4 31 our time right now. A look at weather and traffic on the 1s coming your way. It feels nice outside. Yeah, chuck bell here with a look at what we can expect today. Did the rain cool us down a bit . It cooled us down a smidgen, eun. Temperatures down into the 60s early this morning. More importantly, the drier and less humid air can start to move back into the region. 73 at national airport. 73 at the Naval Academy in annapolis. Out to the north and west, the cooler and drier air is spilling. In 59 in luray. 55 in petersburg, west virginia. Better still, the humidity still stickiness left in the air for now. But starting this afternoon and going into tomorrow and the n
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