Despite a dwindling inventory of profits to buy. New home sales rose more than 3 in september, to their secondhighest level of the recovery. Still, builders are struggling to keep pace with demand. Production is up, but not by enough. Diana olick has more now on housings big challenge. Reporter the autumn leaves are mostly changed, but the market for newly built homes is still in something of a holding pattern. Sales figures rose in september, but only after the readings from the summer were revised down sharply. The overall trend is higher, but not by much. Really struggled to take off. Theyre nowhere near where they need to be. If you think about a normal market, where supply is meeting demand, they presently probably need to be about 800,000 to 1 million so quite a bit higher. Reporter the supply of existing homes for sale is still very low, as millions of entrylevel properties were bought by investors during the housing crash, and now Service Still vibe rant rental markets. Buyers
Control advocacy groups, others say the tragedy in orlando compelled them to show up. Several democrats came out ontospeak to the crowd. And right now, police need your help finding a missing 9yearold girl. Sophia proctor was last seen tuesday afternoon on 14th street in northwest. Investigators believe shes with her mother, julia. The mother was seen driving a 1998 volvo with d. C. Tags. If youve seen them, please contact police. It is 4 31. It looks like we have more storms heading our way. Certainly very unusual to have this kind of wind and light anything and storm potential so early in the morning. So dont be caught off guard. Storms likely to be moving inside the beltway before 5 , so be ready, theyre coming in fast and furious. Could have another round of storms this evening, as well. Well have to wait and see how strong those will be. Risk of a few raindrops tomorrow. Not a big deal on your brinfrid. Weekend still looks good. But look at this lightning. This is racing toward th
Pace that its moving, it should be manassas before 6 00 a. M. , Downtown Washington before 7 00 a. M. This morning. Be ready for it. This could come with very heavy periods of gusty rain and winds. No active watches or warnings in the viewing area at all right now. That is likely to change within the next 30 to 40 minutes. Ill bring you the latest as soon as things start to change, but for now, thunder and lightning coming in very quickly from the west. Lets go over to wtop. We have an early crash on the baltimore washing parkway northbound just beyond the beltway headed up toward greenbelt road. Traffic literally zigzagging through. A couple more tow trucks have been requested. Work zone northbound up near 198, single line to the left. Also paving project between lucketts and leesburg on 15. Traffic causes a minor delay through the overnight hours. Back into you. Right now crews are still pumping water from a massive water main break in alexandria. The 12 inch water main broke and beg
Wow. First the boulder s. W. A. T. Team and an armored bear cat vehicle are in search for a man who fired shots late tuesday night. Foothills parkway is closed from u. S. 36 to arapahoe avenue. This is a live look at the scene right now at this closure. Here is what happened. At about 10 30, police checked out a suspicious motor home and they say this man, russ schedule daniels was inside Russell Daniels was inside and with the woman who had a protection order against him. The woman managed to get safely. At one point, daniels fired off four shots according to police. No officers were hit. But Police Believe daniels may have shot himself. Longmont police and Boulder County deputies and state police are looking for him right now. People in the neighborhood are told to stay inside their homes. So if you live there, stay inside. Lets talk to Amelia Earhart right now, for more on this situation, and how it is impacting the morning drive. It is a huge closure, amelia. It is a major closure,
This show right now, you knew that already. Were going to talk about what they show. One thing that is really clear from the New York Times which of course just broke this amazing, remarkable reporting over the weekend. Im still kind of in awe this happened. One of the big takeaways from this is there is a nontrivial chance if donald trump doesnt win the election that he ends up living out the rest of his days in prison. And that kind of calculus, the desperation that he must feel, well, that would make someone incredibly dangerous. Remember, it was just a week ago that the Manhattan District Attorney cy vance said there are grounds to investigate the president and his businesses for tax fraud. Michael cohen is on the record saying trump is engaged in it. Again, there is a lot in the times report to suggest they could have a very strong case. I mean, trumps taxes theyre a dirty secret he has been desperate to conceal for some reason. It exposes the president as either literally one of