In that area. How many structures are in danger at this point . The area evacuated is around 650 homes. There are other communities along that corridor about 12,000 residents live in that area. That particular association has about 650 homes and the one to the northwest of it is about the same number of it residents there. Theyre concerned about any of those residents and communities that are uphill from that area. Its very steep and so if you, as you can see, many of those homes its so steep one home can look over the top of the home in front of it and could be able to see the lake so they all have a lake view. Very steep terrain. Areas that are not developed, the last fire through that mountain that was in 1961 i believe and so just decades and decades an of fuel loading since then and theres tremendous potential for fire in that area. Its the highest risk in our county. It has been for many years even before the past fires weve been experienced. This is identified as one of the high
Ther nature. We have Severe Weather in progress across parts of the deep south so a very energized storm system will bring increasing chance for strong storms later on in the day. Lightning and thunder up near ghe philadelphia area and mov away but developing showers in southwestern virginia. Severe weather chances will go up with time today andigh irrisk for Severe Weather from richmond southbound to the raleigh area. Muggy outside. Highs todayve back abo 90 degrees and the te on the Severe Weather is between 2 00 and 8 00today. Ill show wou futureather to plan that out and talk about the weekend coming up. First 4 traffic alert. Don loring outer loop shutdown at i66 and traffic wushpushed o southbound. Its not having a huge impact because its still early but if it sticks around, major backup. Prince georges county more backups. More issues on the beltway is comurp. Police are working to identify the students who were secretly recorded by a forhor high teacher. The Fauquier County man
Warnings near metro philly. Early morning train and flight to new york city or boston, that travel could be impacted. No rain on the radar first thing this morng. It is steamy. Not everybody will get hit with storms toay. 60 , though. Hail and damaging winds are el lik the morning commute is already in trouble. Outer loop shut down at 66 because of a crash investigation. Megan mcgrat with a live report in a second. All traffic is pushed on westbound i66 to get around this. Outer loop express lanes diverted to westbound 66. Westbound 66 ramp to the outer loop, that ramp is closed because of the crash investigation. Prince georges county no big problems. Top of the beltway looking pretty good. As melissa just told us, a fiery crash overnight has shut down the outer loop near 6. I6 news4 Megan Mcgrath is live on the sne with the latest. Good morning. Reportergood morning. For the time being, the outer loop completely closed down both the main lanes and the express lanes. However, the last
A likelihood of strong to severe storms. The storms arnd 6 00 this evening. We will keep you posted here and download our app. By 6 00 tonight, there is that likelihood of strong to severe storms. Be weather ready today, you guys. Lets get to our Traffic Alert now. Fiery crash has shut down the outer loop of 66. Megan mcgrath is live on the scene with the latest. Is what oing on now . Reporter we have seen a stttle bit of an improvement here within la few minutes. They have been able to reopen the express lanes. You can see the traffic going by here. They are traveling in the express lane. That is all that has reopened at this particular time. The l outerop is completely shut down at westbound 66. They have maneuvered cones and moved all of the response crews off to the righthand side of the road. So they are o trying ton those two left lanes and we are expecting that to happen any time now. But it just hasnt happened yet. For the time being, all of the lanes on the outer loop still sh
Going for gold yet again. And good morning, america. All kinds of excitement for Michael Phelps. How about that, the first u. S. Male swimmer to make it into not one, two, three, four, but five olympics. He could be adding to his already 18 olympic gold medal count. And dont forget missy franklin. After a tough start, she sealed her place on the olympic swimming team. Boy, remember her in 2012 . Well much more on that on your big board. First, that breaking news about isis. Officials report the massive officials report the massive u. S. Air strikes targeting the terror group in iraq killed more than 250 isis fighters. Martha raddatz has the latest from washington. Good morning, martha. Reporter good morning, george. That is a striking number. If that 250 figure holds, this would be one of the largest, deadliest hits on isis fighters in recent memory. We were in that area just over a month ago. This is a group thats normally scattered throughout Population Centers in iraq, does not trav