Kni knit. Crews have been busy in frederick, maryland, clearing them away. Some fell on streets and roadways and making matters worse, a transformer off rose mond avenue exploded leaving dozens of homes and businesses in the dark. Our neighbors in baltimore are dealing with fallout from the ice storm. This was the seem this morning. Power Companies Say it may take another day or so to restore electricity to the thousands of customers still doing without it. Metro is investigating whether a bus accident yesterday was caused by ice on the roads. The m9 bus was headed to Congress Heights when it crashed at 4th street and atlanta avenue southeast. Two people taken to the hospital and expect to be okay. And the bus driver hit a patch of ice and skidded into a tree. 14 people on the with us at the time of that crash. Delays and cancellations at airports on the east coast are being blamed on the icy snowy winter storm. In the washington area, travel is beginning to get back to normal. Adam re
Along chambridge road with ice in the area, but no accidents reported there. Well head down to Charles County right now, this is northbound livingston road at Metropolitan Church road with a report of an accident heading towards 210 and northbound livingston road. The trip to haymarket is not seeing any delays. You can see the eastbound volume here picking up, but no major delays just yet. And no accidents as folks continue to the beltway. Over to the rails, checking them, metro, marc and vre not reporting delays at this time. 6 02 is the time. Now to a developing story out of Montgomery County where police are looking into a smash and grab robbery. This happened just before 2 30 at the Subway Restaurant on old columbia pike in burtonsville. The thieves took the money and security system, so theres no Surveillance Footage at the time. Officers are shifting through the broken glass to find any clue to help identify the criminals. Well have a live report from the scene coming up at 6 45.
Culpepper and fauquier and we are under a rain advisory with an inch or so of freezing rain. We will break it down and let you know how it affects you the night and tomorrow, and what is in store for the weekend. Thank you, doug. Crews all over the region are out there right now trying to keep the roads safe before the storm hits. That ice poses a bigger challenge than the snow. Adam tuss is live in leesburg with lao what the crews are doing, and what secret weapon they have to keep the roads as clean as possible, adam . El, we wendy, there is not really a secret weapon when it comes to the ice, because it is a different animal. As we have been talking to the road crews, they have been telling us that snow is the fluffy snow that we had in some of the recent storms where you could brush it off with a broom is a different story, but the ice, yeah. Here in virginia, vdot has something best described as a syruptyped substance called chem shield. Call it the witchs brew for road crews. You
Reporter the medical examiner testified that the cuts frazier suffered could have killed her in minutes, if not seconds. Reporter now, the jury had a number of options for convicting simpson, anything from firstdegree murder to involuntary manslaughter. Butagain, they found her not guilty on all charges. Coming up at 6 00, we talked with students at Bowie State University about that and get their reaction. Tracee wilkins, news4. We have a developing story in fairfax county. A former teacher arrested and accused of sexually assaulting students decades ago. This Afternoon Police in mclean, virginia, arrested chris ton kloman. A woman says she ran into him at the Washington Episcopal School in bethesda last year while he was working as a substitute teacher there, teaching young kids. And thats why she came forward 43 years after the alleged incident. She said she was 12 at the time. This investigation revealed additional female victims and investigators think there could be even more. Rig
Lets take a look and show you the Winter Weather advisories tonight. Western loudoun county, frederick, to the west and panhandle of virginia reporting light ice going on. We are not talking about a lot here. Still seeing a bit in the way of freezing rain. It should subside later on tonight as warmer air moves in. Notice to the south, this is where we are seeing the heavier rain. Once again, the heaviest rain comes through between now and 3 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Then, we get another huge change in the weather. Well talk about that in a bit. Right now, chuck bell is live in sterling with the storm team 4 x 4 monitoring the traffic and the weather all day. Chuck . Reporter you betcha. Route 7 behind me is busy with rush hour traffic, lots of rain on the road. If you are headed out, dress in layers, take your umbrella or hat. Storm team 4 x 4, we have been in and around it all day. 38. 9 degrees. A third inch of the rain since the 4 00 news started. The rainfall rate is beginning to increase