Brianne carter picking up our team coverage. She is in clarksburg with that part of the story. Brian it has been 48 hours of hard work for road crews across the region. Focusing along 270. The preparation is underway. At the Premium Outlet salt slathered across Parking Spaces as the lastminute shoppers try to get out ahead of mother nature. The road crews have been busy. Crews have been pretreating for two days to lay down a salt brine mixture on the already cold roads. Salty streets noticeable on the beltway today. In virginia, more than 5,000 lane miles pretreated and 1,100 pieces of equipment will be out on the snow, we plow out of the way. Something we are good at. The operators know how to do well. The ice gets tricky. Brianne the head of the d. C. Department of public works says the cold temperatures in the last two days means anything that falls will likely stick so the city will deploy 200 trucks from midnight until noon tomorrow to wipe away the Winter Weather. Give the crews
They are not deploying in earnest until 8 00 tonight. You can see in the distance, that is not snow. That is clear sky in the distance. We are not flurries at the moment. They have pretreated the roads heavily. They are ready when it starts. Pretreatment helps for a while but they will put the trucks out to keep roads moving well as the evening goes on. Reporting live, im tom roussey, abc7 news. Alison tom, thank you very much. We all know it doesnt take much during a commute to cause major problems. Look at this on 66. Although that is always tough this time of day. Lets check in with Jamie Sullivan for the latest. Jamie a lot of heavy traffic. 66 heading outbound bumper to bumper delays. This is not because of the weather. This is just the typical afternoon. Maybe a few people left early to try to avoid any of weather coming in. That is why we are seeing so much congestion. Around the capital beltway, both the givener loop and the outer loop heavy. Inner loop north from mcclain to Mo
We can see President Trump. There onsee the media trucks standing by, standing hanging. Big flatbeds. So they can have a perspective and behind them, the president s vehicle. We can see that from our vantage the Canadian Embassy. That tells you where things are right now. Theouldnt imagine president would think about getting out here and taking a walk. A bit of wayste to the white house. Out,me point he can get shake hands. We dont know what he was told his security detail, whether or not thats a good idea. And see. E to wait its always a bit of a surprise. From our understanding, it the circumstances whether or not they do a walk. We do see the vehicle right as dave was saying, the from, we can see that where we are and you c that on the screen, as well. We want to talk to sam sam ford. Is there at freedom plaza. Sam, what are you seeing . Sam well, allison, jonathan, we just saw the d. C. Police Motorcycle Division go by and the is always the start of parade except i noticed they hav
Here is what happened. Two people were behind this liquor store on n street. There was an altercation behind the liquor store. One person fired shots multiple times, and the victim than ran up to where the center feet where the centerfield gate is and then collapsed. There were a lot of people here. That is why it was originally thought that the shooting happened there. Six or seven shots were fired off. The victim collapsed there and was rushed to the hospital. Lets listen to how witnesses described the screen. I came out to him running down the street. We are told by d. C. Police that the suspect got away. He is described as a black male in his 20s, and he was self on south capitol street in a black chevy impala. Are asked to contact police. The job fair was canceled. Reporting live outside nats park, i am sam sweeney. Jummy now we follow another story out of prince georges county. That is where police say they are looking for a man who shot a woman at a school bus stop. This happene
Amy for now were live in northwest, amy aubert, abc7 news. Larry thank you. In the 6 00 a. M. Hour of good morning washington we showed you when the protesters began climbing a construction crane north of the white house. At 10 00 they unfurled a banner that read resist. Stephen tschida picks up the coverage now live. Stephen . Stephen they are still up there. Lets get to it. You can see high up above 15th on the towering crane. They unfurled a banner that from a distance appeared to hang over the white its crazy. Its crazy. Also the weight commenced for the seven activists to descend and face charges. But on the ground, many stop to take photos. To express support for the activists. I hope they are safe. I got to think about it. Its put a big smile on my face. Two of the activists handcuffed themselves to the stairs to block the wa the Police Officers at the ready to apprehend the activists. They will be arrested and they could face a slew of charges. But at this time, the disruption