Here coming into the southern parts of the Shenandoah Valley that will graze through here during the morning commute. Off to a wet start on your tuesday. But the Severe Weather threat is arne. The flood watches over with. The heaviest of the rains are behind us now. Nothin more than occasional showers coming on in. Grab the reumba. Showers could linger through the afternoon. Temperatures raincooled this 72 in prince georges county. These temperatures are 5 to 10 degrees cooler than we were at the same time yesterday. This afternoons high tomorrow almost 20 degrees cooler yesterday, d. C. Topped out at 96. Todays high temperature, 77. Melissa mollet, that is employee of the month stuff for me. Definitely it is right now. Take a look at this. First 4 Traffic Alert this morning. Different issues around town. Multiple issued. A couple of them on the beltway and then one on 270. A tractortrailer has jackknifed and lost a load the and we are sending a crew there shortly. The other issue on t
For the most part here. You want to take it sl and perhaps fine another way to get this re you are going morning, right, melissa . Absolutely. A lot of different problems you have possess maybe take your favorite alternate here to get around everything. Another shot, another vantge point where justin is this morning. Inner loop at connecticut avenue and youre just getting by in one lane. A long time before that gets cleared up. Twomile backup and looks ling rain movihrough and not help things at all. Top of the beltway, outer loopw at nempshire avenue where megan fj is wiitzgerald is ther. We e getting by one ride of the road. Meagan, how are things looking at this point . This is a crash investigation. Reporter part of theood news this morning it does look like traffic is just now starting to me along the westbound lane of ther outeop before University Avenue because according to Maryland State Police, the backup is miles. Now to give you an idea of whatt happened ou here. We got chop
We want to begin this morning with updates on two accidents that had major impacts on the morning commute. The first on the outer loop of the beltway. This is between university boulevard and New Hampshire nvga t. Clpd e thhcr leavasing morning commuters sitting in a six mile backup. Still no details on the victim or how the crash happened. And the other accident was also on the beltway. Chopper 4 on thecene on the inner loop just after connecticut avenue. E e there. You see a truck split open spilling bundles of magazines on to the road. The lays remain. No word yet on what caused this crash either. That is how it sounded and looked yesterday, mt. Airy was under a tornado warning. Peoplh waking up wit a big mess to clean up. You cane see on of yesterdays storms blowing right across the district. Severe weather being blamed for one deathn maryland. A tree fell on a home in carroll county, killing an 89yearold man inside. There are tree branches down ale across t area. Including right h
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96 in leesburg. In ten minutes, ill let you know how quickly we warm up. Southbound baltimorewashington parkway, the crash near 50 has cleared. If you are immediately headed out in the road and in this area, you may very well experience a delay in that stretch. Also, 66, we had a work zone out in zanes gainesville. This accident, near the 50 interchange. Sounded minor in nature. Police are there. There have been some close calls with metro trains over the last two weeks. Its operators have run red lights that will likely be the focus of conversation when the board meets this morning. Megan mcgrath National Airport station where the most recent incident happened yesterday. Reporter this is a regularly scheduled Board Meeting happening at 9 00 this morning. Were expecting to get some more information about a couple of things that happened this week here at reagan National Airport at the metro station here. The first is an incident where a train operator ran a rlt here at the airport stat