Behind me at the accident investigation under way. And cleanup. A big tow truck now on the scene to try to load up this truck and get it out of here. This is, again, going to take some time, as this accident investigation moves through the morning rush. Its now finished up, brought here primarily to clean things up. The tractor trailer hit the jersey wall and possibly ruptured its tanks spilling some diesel. They needed to check that out. State highway says all clear on that. At some point, we can tell you, a big headsup, around 6 30, state highway tells me they are going to shut down lanes on the innerloop. Thats where debris from this broken jersey wall spilled and disabled multiple cars earlier when the impact ofis happened. 6 30 is a big headsup. Melissa mollet is following the impact of the terrible scene on the beltway. We can tell you one Person Injured and taken to the hospital. Melissa. Molette, we do have big backups because of it. This is beltway approaching Georgia Avenue.
Were the smartest people and most loyal people and you know what im happy about ive about saying it for a long time, 46 with hispanics, 46 . Number one with the hispanics [ cheers and applause ] im really happy about that. Now the republicans move on to super tuesday next week. Twelve states will cast ballots including virginia. And to prepare for virginia primary Hillary Clinton is sending her husband bill to campaign for her in the state. Today the former president will number alexandria and richmond reaching out to voters ahead of mr. Tuesday. Mr. Clip ton plans to under score whats at stake in the election and lay out why hillary is the only candidate for the job. Loudoun county schools announced they will be closed march 1. Schools are used as poling sites for virginia prime areay election and voter turnout is expected to be hi there was concern that keeping the schools in session would create a logjam in School Parking lots and surrounding neighborhoods. Fairfax county schools ar
Mcdonalds. Your news starts right now. But we begin tonight with a fox 5 weather alert. The rain continues to come down out there and it is not going to wrap up any time soon. Thanks for joining us. Im shawn yancy. And im tony perkins. We may see some thunderstorms and flooding can be an issue. Most of the action will be tomorrow afternoon at the moment what we have out there is that lingering drizzle and miss and were watching that closely because there are parts of our area well to the north and west at Higher Elevations that may get closer down to the freezing mark. We do have freezing rain advisory for some areas ill show you in a moment. This is all because of a huge storm, it is enormous and its spinning up a lot of Severe Weather. Fatalities across the deep south. Thats the system thats going to be heading in our direction. Not doing much of the possibility of very light icing in some of the highest elevations around the hagerstown area and cumberland, a freezing rain advisory w
Here we go, 6 00 a. M. Temperatures upper 30s, low 40s with light rain and showers across the board. Not a pretty start tomorrow, and then by 8 00, 39 frederick, 42 downtown, 48 and hagerstown, 41 in frederick with more rain on the way. Reminder, track all of this on your smart phone. Download our app, go to the app store, search wusa9, you get radar, 3 degree guarantee and extended forecasts. Then we come back we will say when the line of storms also the area. To Prince Georges County where there are new developments in the case of a School Volunteer accused of committing horrific crimes against kids. A grand jury indicted Deonte Carraway on charges related to sexual abuse. The federal government announced their own plans to charge him with eight counts of producing child pornography. Ellison barber brings you the latest. Reporter the federal charges are staggering because if convicted it means that carraway could face a victim of 129 years behind the documents are also helpful becaus
Faith in their police force. Lets just get real about the facts. There are some individuals who may have made a mistake. They will suffer those consequences. But the entire police force deserves respect for the extraordinary job they are doing. The probe centers on two businessmen with ties to mayor de blasio and his campaign and also former chief of department phillip banks. Thank you. Much more at 6 00. Much more. Thank you. Developing now in brooklyn. A special hearing could change the fate of a former nypd officer convicted of killing an unarmed man. A juror is accused of hiding Key Information during jury selection. Cbs 2s dick brennan is live in downtown brooklyn with the late details. Dick. Reporter the hearing was to decide were to throw out the conviction of officer peter liang. He was convicted of shooting the defense says a juror lied while being chosen saying that nobody in his family had been accused of a crime but later the juror told a newspaper that his father went to p