This morning. In Upper Marlboro, ritchiemarlboro road at the beltway, eastbound lanes are blocked because of the water main break. And wssc is out on the scene. 270 at old hundred road seeing a bit of volume headed southbound. When you look at the map, 270 looks yellow. But really moving, no major problems. 95 at 123, northbound and southbound rolling along nicely. Travel times in ten minutes. Thank you. Many of you are going back to school this morning. It is the first day of school in Prince Georges County. Yep. Parents as you finish packing the lunches, a lot of new things to know about. News4s molette green is live at the bladensburg for us with School Officials talking to them about the new changes. Molette . Reporter absolutely. Even without a big budget increase prince georges schools opened today with Great Expectations. 2,000 newly enrolled student, no 129,000 students, nearly 870 new teachers and six new literacy coaches to help the struggling students get ahead and get on tr
Highs today into the upper 80s. Above average. Lots of sunshine. The key here is low humidity. Metro riders, everything is running on schedule this morning. We had an earlier issue last night with single tracking on the redline. Thats been resolved so youre good to go there. Around the capital beltway still fairly quiet. Its been that way all day. I dont think we can complain about it. On the inner and outer loop no issues. 295 and 395 free and clear of any problems. Traveling north and southbound on the bw parkway as well as 95, everything is free and clear. From frederick toward the capital beltway, youre looking at a smooth and uneventful commute. Another update in ten minutes. Over you to. Over to you. Chinas main market plunged for a fourth straight day one day after stocks suffered the biggest tumble in eight years. The massive selloff was triggered by fears of an economic slowdown in the country. The turbulence in asia has sent Financial Markets around the world into a tailspin.
Riding higher today. Heres a live look at big board now, where we stand. The dow is up almost 345 points. Thats a big gain from where we ended yesterday. Jill wagner tells us whats behind the change in fortunes today. [ bell tolls ] reporter what a difference a day makes. The dow shot up more than 300 points in the first few minutes of trading tuesday morning. I believe the worst is over. We knew buyers would come into this market. Reporter it comes a day after one of the wildest rides in wall street history. The dow plunged more than a thousand points in the opening minutes monday. It recovered almost all of the losses by midday only to drop again ending the day down 588 points. Here on the floor of the new york stock exhange, traders are trying to keep the market volatility in check. They know more wild swings could be ahead. People need to bear in mind were entering a pretty volatile season period for the market september, october. Reporter earlier today chinas major index tanked ag
These communities for people who are facing economic and health care and Public Safety and educational challenges. So, how is tni working . Transforming Neighborhoods Initiative, which is county executive baker Signature Program is working very well, and his vision of the program was for to bring the Government Resources into the communities and work directly with the Community Members, help them identify the resources that are available to them, and work through the issues that were plaguing them. And after speaking with Community Members, going from meeting to meeting, he realized that there were the Police Department was very reactive when the Community Members would call. He wanted the entire government reacting to his residents in a similar manner. Like the Police Department. Correct. So, you initially identified six communities. Langl bladensburg east riverdale, hillcrest heights, objection enhill. What kind of progress have you been able to make in those communities . The crime
That is helping to produce some showers and thunderstorms. Notice this line of storms making its way off toward the east. Now most of these have heavy downpours but moving fairly quickly, not too worried about these, dont expect them to become too strong. There are stronger storms through haigers up to clark county, virginia, Frederick County, virginia, winchester, 81 toward front royal, 66 the next few hours. This whole line will move off toward the east. Once again not expecting it to get any stronger than this. Most of the storms just scattered showers and a few thunderstorms as they move on through the after into. Talk about these as they come up in the afternoon. But amelia segal baking in the heat. We always say it is not the heat its the humidity we have got a heck of a heat index. The heat index very impressive this afternoon. I have to say you can hear it on my mic, a nice breeze, at least we are not dealing with still air. You factor in the humidity right now, its putting the