Temperatures, getting ready to nose dive as we head into the weekend. Stormwatch seven is tracking the plunge. Good morning washington. Toss to eileen roller coaster ride of temperatures arctic blast thursday friday single digit wind chills thursday warmer weekend wintry mix saturday am to all rain today mostly cloudy. Slight chance of pm rain, mainly east of i95. Highs 4349 winds se 5 mph tonight partly cloudy. Cold. Lows 2934 winds light wednesday partly cloudy. Highs 3946 winds nw 515 mph breaking news in the overnight the president elect tweeting new plans for his businesses, when he takes office. Trump said he will be leaving his businesses in the hands of his two sons before inauguration day, to focus full time on the presidency. Trump also said quote no new deals will be done during my terms in office. The announcement comes just hours after trump postponed a News Conference this week about his plans to avoid potential conflicts of interest when hes in the white house. Were stan
North travelers are dealing with their first big blast of wintery weather. And as we get ready for a serious drop in temperature millions are preparing to hunker down and bundle up. Mary moloney has more. Developing now. Driver is behind bars after he causes what witnesses call a high speed crash in falls church. It happed Sleepy Hollow road. Police say orellana later claimed that he fell asleep at the wheel before he plowed in four parked cars. Witnesses say the force of the sunday crash lifted hector orellanas car right off the road. His speed was such that the rear of his car was elevated up off entirely up off the road by the force of the impact. He was leaving a traiof sparks up off the road. I had not yet noticed at that time that he did not have a front right tire. Orellana is now charged with dwi. Police say he could face additional charges as well. Happening today. The North Carolina man charged with firing an Assault Rifle inside a local pizzeria will be back in court. Relati
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
And we obtained coverage on the crowd from trains to confusion on the platform and the Ripple Effect from the rails to the roads. We begin with adam tuss. He is at the foggy bottom station where metros leaders wrapped up a news conference. Reporter thats right. This is where a lot of people are getting on trains to get back into the virginia where the safetrack surge is taking place right now. By all accounts, this first day of safetrack during the rush hour is being called a success. Safetrack day one in the books and metros leaders are feeling confident about the way the day has gone. So i want to urge everyone whatever you did today do tomorrow, do wednesday, do for the duration of this surge because it worked okay today. Reporter some did report more congestion on the roads as people at the affected stations did find alternatives to get around. Metros general riders theyll only have to deal with maintenance during the time its been slotted, nothing more. We have scheduled this to g
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