Is still shutown because of this accidenlo outer op after 50 in virginia a crash there as yoll. Can see on the left side oy, the roadwa that is getting by so that s not too much an issue. Megan mcgrath is out on the scene there on 270. Megan, what are you seeing . Are there twoanes open there . Reporter just wthin the last a couple of minutes they startedno open lanes o 270. Il peek over here. It was two lanes that were reopened. Now looks le we may have three sanes. Yes, three lane on 270 now open. What is still impacted by the cra, though, is the ramp for 118. Germantown road, they are still working on some of the debris thr is in the aea as a result of this accident. That is still closed but the good news here is that 270 had really been bottled up in the southbond direction right here at exit 15. They only had one lane getting by for a wecle bause of the accident. That just changed literally withco the last a uple of minutes. Now we do have quite a few delays. A big bakup here so i
Offload the contents of the truck and we are told that that is about 40,000 pound of candy. They will to take all of that off of the truck first be re they can then haul it out of here. Bottom line this is going to be potentially be an impact for a number of hours here. 270 all of the lanes have reopened so an improvement from earlier this morning. The lanes alo running but they are open. This ramp to germantown road is still closed and that may be the case for several more hours. This all stems from an Early Morning accident here. A Police Officer was doing a traffic stop here on 270, was pulling over a vehicle. This tractortrailer traveling through the area, the driver swerved and hit that police cruer and then pushed theis cru that was pushed into a Second Police cruiser and then the tractortrailer, itself, flipped on its side. At times it wasa across the r and lanes of 270. Everything is op 270 right now but we still have a mess and ople are still going rather slowly through the ar
Wednesday, january 3, frigid weather getting us to. Page county schools delayed two hours and frederick Country Schools also on a two hour delay. In West Virginia berkley grant, hardy and Jefferson County schools in West Virginia are all on a two hour delay. All right lets talk about weather with make mike and caitlin rorj is talking about traffic in a few. Mike to you first. Winds green alley light to calm around the region. Not getting subzero temperatures. Many suburbs Single Digits temps. Well tell what you is up in a few minutes. Mike, good morning. It looked look a lot of people took yesterday often ofive expect many people hitting the road and major crowd and cold temperatures several water main morning. Well have details on where and how to work around. Well check back in a few. If you get up 5 a. M. Here are top stories. Beginning breaking news from Prince George koumentsy. Fire cruz working to puts out a blaze in townhouse on grisle lane in laurel. Everyone in the home was ab
Were referring to winter hurricane east tomorrow. The cold we get the winds involved. And exactly. They will talk more about t that. That will not be today. Today waking up with same old same old. Were watching a storm developing and were concerned about getting light snow around here overnight tonight and early tomorrow. I want to show you temperatures quickly and well revisit these. Yeah, were back off to single dingit temperatures. 15 warm spot reagan national. Dulles and bwi in single digits. So if today is first day back to school if going back to work and make sure you dress accord ling i here. Were hoping to get the temperature up near freezing later this afternoon and well talk about the big symptomle potential for what you are he fer to as winter hurricane quoming up shortly. Cold temperatures today. Dulles and bwi very, very c cold. Back to you. Somebody in midst of right now Team Coverage continues. Bone chilling temperatures as students head back to school this morning. Cau
Joining now is deputy fire chief, john donnelly. Chief, tell me what the situation is. So about 30 minutes ago, fire and ems arrived on the scene of a house under construction. In the foundation work, there was a collapse sort of accident. We dont know the cause. And right now were working to make the scene safe so that we can go in there and try and get the injured person all the way out safely. Reporter there is a man trapped down there, right . Sure. Reporter and hes up to his chest in dirt . Up to his waist and shoulder in one side. Reporter and so what do you have to do to get to him . So we have to shore the walls with lumber and metal framework so that they dont collapse any more and nobody else gets hurt. Reporter and how long do you think this could take . The rule of thumb is that its an hour for each foot youre digging out and its going to be a little while before we can get to diggi digging. So this could go on for the rest of the day. Reporter thank you very much, chief. G