Closed tonight. What were trying to figure out now is how many will stay closed tomorrow morning. It has been a mess, folks, to say the least. Jackie bensen live. There are serious concerns about how much damage that water did today. Reporter thats right, jim. The water has been shut off. Thats good news. Take a look behind me, you see cars going through the intersection through the water. The concern is possible structural damage to the northbound lanes on the opposite side of the streets. It could be tough tomorrow morning. Crews spent the evening turning off the flow of water from the broken 26 water main under busy rockville pipe just under. At one of the busiest intersections in Montgomery County and affected heavy traffic out of nih and walter reed hospital. And indicates this might not be over by morning rush hour. Right now, the focus is to repair the water main and get people back in service. Then we will have to work with state Highway Administration to understand what the to
Of health sent a letter to people saying no threat had been found to their wells, but offering to test for additional chemicals anyway. An offer welcomeed, even by those toasting the well water safety. If you were still drinking, would you want the test sng sure, why not . Testing . Sure, why not . The Virginia Department of quality is expected to rule on the treating and pumping out the water in january. Hard to believe no one was hurt or killed after a wild chase in shoot out that started in Prince Georges county. It all start county. It all started at a wendys on powder mill across the Prince George county line, a chase ensued, several cars hit, it ended New Hampshire county. A maryland state trooper is in the hospital after his cruiser was hit by a driver on i95. It happened this afternoon in laurel north of route 100. Police say the trooper had stopped on the shoulder of the highway to help a driver with car trouble. He was in his cruiser when another car veered off the road and c
The the backyard. Reporter police tells news 4 the officer was initially off duty but turning on the lights and siren to pull a driver over about 3 30 in the morning, he was immediately on duty. He crashed his cruiser after losing control on greenbelt road and slamming into the fence. Police say slick roads could have been a factor. He was pronounced dead at the scene. We havent had an opportunity to pull the incar camera information yet. We are interviewing people as we speak to find out if that in facts what was happening. And again, darcy broke the news about the passenger being inside the officers cruiser on twitter. For all the new updates on this story, check online and our nbc 4 app. Investigators say a teenager ran over a man in Montgomery Village and killed him. Officers say helen ramolt hit a man around 1 30 in the morning. He died at the hospital. Detectives find the woman near the crash with evidence she may have been under the influence of alcohol. She is 18 years old and
Ultimate Doppler Radar which we can see the cloud kind of moving from the northwest this is the cold front that were talking about that will be affecting our weather mostly later in the day. You will see rain in the chicago area, there is then are storms too and that will be our weather future i think by the end of the day. Heres where we are right now it is a much milder morning out there. 64 degrees with the southeasterly breeze at 5 miles an hour. Just not much of a breeze with the american flag, and 60 percent relative humidity. That is not too too high and your sunrise time is 5 57. Are you ready to celebrate today . Are you ready . After we take a look at these temperatures i just want to make sure you know how mild it is outside right now. Yes, indeed it is Cinco De Mayo, and we got our special Cinco De Mayo forecast and 85 degrees today. Still warm, but with some thunderstorms popping up, this afternoon. So were getting the day started right bob kelly. What did you have in your
Punch. Good evening. Im jan jeffcoat. Im derek mcginty. We got a lot of rain, even hail reported. Our chief meteorologist topper shutt is tracking who is getting hit hard now. Where are those storms headed . Generally moving south and east, slow go up 270 northbound and especially out i66 west bound. Heavier activity has spilled south of i66 towards culpeper. The lightning strikes in reds and oranges is heavier activity. This is a pretty big complex of storms, too, north of cumberland and south of breezewood. Theres a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for this complex until 7 15, some small hail possible and also strong gusty winds. This will move essentially down the river. So on our Storm Tracker we arent done just yet, martinsburg at about 7 56 and percyville at 9 26. Youve been hammered all day in the percyville bluemont area. Further south and east heavy activity up from Montgomery County on the east side of 270 toward laytonsville, olney and this is pretty heavy rain, dont see hail, sl