To memorialize muhammad ali. Starting on stormwatch tonight, a line of powerful weather pushing through virginia and maryland right now. Lets go straight to steve rudin for a check of the forecast. Steve the strongest of the storms will south and west of d. C. , charlottesville, with a severe thunderstorm warning, but around the capital beltway a much different story. The storm slowly drifted the north and east, from fredericksburg in the early morning. A lot of thunder and lightning. Was slowly move off and more Severe Weather on the way tomorrow. It is quiet and dry around the capital beltway. If you have anywhere to go in the next few hours, metro closes at midnight, it should stay dry around the beltway. Different story. Futurecast, fredericksburg, leonardtown, 3 00 a. M. , heavier thunderstorms, shower over the district. ,omorrow, brighter skies limited sunshine, then the strong storms on the way. This is the futurecast, freshly updated. 6 p. M. Tomorrow, strong storms for Montgom
An npr photographer recognized as one of the best, killed in afghanistan. Get ready for a challenging morning commute. The first commute since metro safe track program began. It affects the orange and silver line. More than 70,000 trips. You are urged to consider alternate ways to get to work. News4s Darcy Spencer is live with a look at a few possibilities. Reporter we have been talking about this for weeks, trying to warn our viewers that this is coming. Like you said, its going to start tomorrow morning. Some commuters are telling me that theyre expecting their commute times to double. We simply dont know. We start our story tonight with one man trying to make a better commute. He places his sign at the vienna metro station. Drivers and way to avoid safetrack delays. The driver can drive on the extra space quicker, not sitting in the traffic, not taking the local roads, waiting in the traffic. That helps them reduce the time. Reporter monday will be the first weekday commute with saf
We declared this as a mass casualty incident. Reporter eastwest highway is very aptly named. It is especially on days when we have more traffic like we do. People not taking metro, people trying to avoid it, trying to get to the beltway. It is a shortcut to get from upper northwest, bethesda, chevy chase, to the Georgia Avenue exit on the beltway. Very popular with people who know their way around here and it is jammed going east right now. You definitely want to avoid this area. We also understand metro is in the process right now. You can see the officers inside the bus there behind me. They are reviewing the tapes from the buss cameras because we hear there is some type of discrepancy between the bus drivers account of what happened and the person who was driving the other vehicle that it collided with. What a mess out there. Thank you. Also new tonight, Team Coverage as metro rail riders deal with another rush hour of big delays because of that massive Safetrack Program. Metro says
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To the entire world. Reporter a big jump, though, this talk now about how to contain and ultimately and defeat isis as the lives of other american hostages hang in the balance, from january, when president obama referred to such groups in an interview as a jv team when compared to al qaeda. Would you still agree with his assessment of a few months ago . As theyve become better funded through various funding streams including what theyre able to sell in terms of oil and gas, the ransomes theyve been able to obtain, and that has developed their capacity in a way that has increased the threat and they pose a greater threat today than they did six months ago and were taking it very seriously. Reporter the administration does agree, though, that isis is still mainly involved in regional operations, not the 911level planning of al qaeda and today a bulletin was sent out to Law Enforcement across america saying, there is no credible Homeland Security threat linked to isis, but warns, isis is