A live look at fedex field and well be going there live for tonights big thursday night football matchup between the redskins and the new york giants. Thanks for joining us. Im jan jeffcoat. Im lesli foster. Well get to the rest of the days top stories in a minute, but first lets get right to Derek Mcginty who is live at the stadium. Reporter in about 2 1 2 hours the preparation, the anticipation and prognostication will be done with. It will be game on here as weve mentioned, the giants taking on our washington redskins, both teams very much in need of a 1 both sitting at 12. Both would like to go home with at least an even record and a real shot at post season action, very early in the year to be talking about that. A little later on ill have some of that conversation with former redskin dexter manly and also later well have mola lenghi who is outside the stadium where even 2 1 2 hours before game time the fans are tailgated excited packing the parking lot making their way through tr
From charlottesville has been able to speak with matthew, him whatlly to ask happened to Hannah Graham. He said, at least at this point, matthew is not talking. To they have not been able get any information from him. And they are convinced he has need. Formation that they live in charlottesville, im tom, abc 7 news. Tom. Ank you, so the question now is, whats next for the suspect, Jesse Matthew . Our Team Coverage continues with suzanna, who is in texas. Us on the phone with where the investigation stands from here. Theeve got matthew in Galveston County jail at this hour, where he has been held since yesterday evening. On our way to a beach, which is outside galveston. That is where he was picked up at 3 00 yesterday. Local Law Enforcement got a call on thatpicious person beach. When deputies got there, they parkedatthew, who had his car and pitched a tent there. Deputies recognized him as a wanted in connection to Hannah Grahams case. Today, in a second court this afternoon here in
Commute. It ought to be drying out a bit. A chance of spotty can drizzle as we hit the upper six. Im back in 10 minutes with a look at where all of this rain ends at 6 11. What are you finding, megan . Reporter well, we are seeing some problems out here on the road the rain itself has tapered off a little bit. A little light rain. 295 north towards benning road. We are told by a number of different sources that there is standing water in the area near benning road causing this traffic jam. We are barely moving. Were at a crawl on 295 because of that water. Back at mile marker 7. We saw a little standing water ourselves. Some spots are swamped, wet. Definitely make sure you bank a little extra time in your commute. With more on traffic, we send it over to melissa. How is it looking . Looking a little nasty. We can see where you are and see we have red in that area near in washington. Bw parkway, an earlier crash keeping things very slow. Otherwise, looking pretty typical. We are slow he
Tapering off to showers. Also notice that our temperatures arent really going to go anywhere today. 68 degrees by 4 00. As we head into the afternoon, it will just be clouds and a few patches of drizzle and light showers. Not the steady rainfall that we have right now. So temperatures are only going to go up about 10 degrees for most of us throughout the afternoon. Its 59 right now in fairfax and arlington. 59 in germantown and 60 in spring field. But a gorgeous weekend is on the way. Well talk about that coming up in the first alert sevenday forecast. Andrea, back to you. Tank you, erica. Heres whats in the news right now. The United States and its arab allies continue to strike isis targets in syria. Yesterday president obama delivered a speech before the United Nations General Assembly appealing for a united front in the effort to destroy the terror group. The u. N. Security council also unanimously approved a resolution to crack down on the recruitment and travel of terror fighters
Pelley good evening. Today, a man apparently bent on sued, showed us just how fragile the air Traffic Control system can be. A Regional Control Center outside chicago was evacuated when an employee of the harris corporation, a government subcontractor, started a fire. This is a live picture of a checkin counter at Ohare Airport tonight, where things are slowly getting back to normal, but more than 1700 flights were canceled today. Travelers tried to repook, but many wont get out until tomorrow. We have two reports beginning with correspondent dean reynolds. Reporter when firefighters arrived on the scene, they found a federal facility in the dark and a 36yearold man in the basement with burns and selfinflicted stab wound. Greg thomas is the aurora, illinois, police chief. At this time, we believe the injured man set the fire and used some type of accelerants. There was no explosion. Reporter Police Confirmed that this vehicle being towed from the lot at the f. A. A. Facility belongs to