To hit. Nearly 90 million of us will dry or fly to a loved one 2 more than mast year and while airports are busy majority of people are are driving. Unfortunately were dealing with a bunch of problem already. I want to start you with an issue on cam canal road. If you head to georgetown this could impact you. Canal road closed in both dealing with water main break and icy conditions because of that icy condition we had a crash as well on the inbound side. All traffic being sdi verity todd northbound fox hall road and from there president vare road in or outbound. Watch for extra congestion. Gw parkway inbound looking good roosevelt. And keep that in mind if you try to get to 11 street coverage this morning. Fox5 Melanie Alnwick is at the truck stop in woodbridge. I hope you listen to good dance music and enjoy snacks on travels. Reporter thats right, for me its not dance music its more like country music. But, you know everybody has got the Different Things they like to do to keep them
Cautioning his fellow mail carriers after he was attacked and robbed. It happened yesterday in northeast. That mailman talked to ryan hughes about the horrifying ordeal. He joins us live with the details. Do we know what they were after . Ryan we can tell you they were after money, not the mail. The victim is out of the hospital after getting three stitches in his four head. Cell phone, even his shoes and pants. The victim is speaking out, because he says he wants to protect his coworkers. As soon as i laid down, i started to get kicked in the head. I got pistol whipped. Ryan bruised, battered, and fearing for his life, this postal carrier asked that we hide his face after he was attacked and robbed on the job. I am trying to support my ryan police are back at the scene this afternoon in the 2000 block of Second Street north east, searching through the grass and looking for evidence. Investigators say the mail carrier was headed back to his truck saturday evening when he ran into two m
And fox5 Lindsay Watts joins us live and the mayor calls a News Conference over the weekend and do we have any idea what she might say tonight . Matt, good point. Its rare we see a sunday night conference and we dont know what interim chief could be providing only theyre wanting to ask for publics help for two recent homicides both of them happened in southea both during the afternoon the mayor and chief should be coming out now. Were waiting on them to come out. We were just over at the scene of the most recent homicide. It happened 7 and l streets it was a man that was killed here. We dont know what led up to the shooting or who the victim s hoping to get more information at the press conference. And the second homicide happened friday the victim a 16yearold girl. It happened less than a mile from todays shooting and it was in front of the Potomac Gardens housing complex. They dont believe brianna was the target. They have not announced arrests in either cases were think the mayor or
Much milder air coming our way for tuesday and wednesday. Milder and more moisture laden. Finally some chances for needed rain coming our way the next couple days but not today, increasing clouds staying cool and dry for your monday, breezy, milder with rain chances through most of the day tomorrow, that might continue through most of the day on wednesday, we will cool it down and dry it out later on in the week. The five day forecast comes up at 5 21. 20s and 30s through now and 8 00 this morning, mid to by lunchtime and low to mid 50s for afternoon highs today. Again, we will be dry for all of your plans start to finish or your monday. We will talk more about those tuesday rain chances in a couple more minutes. Melissa has safe track today. Just kicking off here number 11, can you believe we made this this part. Silver orange line being affected. Single tracking between West Falls Church and East Falls Church for about a month through december 21st. Less than a month. Lake forest mal
Today, though, 25 degrees now, we should have a nice rise in temperatures up into the low and mid 50s. Again you will be needing those umbrellas before we get through to your Tuesday Morning. So start looking for them now. Look at the whole week ahead and a peek at the weekend in a few more minutes. For now here is melissa. Take a look at that, trouble here, chopper 4 over southbound colesville right be left side of the roadway. Very slow and this is going to multiply. Eastbound howard road after mlk jr. Still have the left lanes blocked. Top of the beltway otherwise looking pretty good, all of those routes into town and out of town as well. Right now d. C. Police are investigating three separate homicides. Each of them happened in different locations in the reporter whats especially painful to hear for the family and the friends of the 16yearold who died is for the acting police chief to say that the shooter just fired indiscriminately into a crowd. Now, this is especially devastating