Route one near the university of maryland. There have been three fatal pedestrian accidents in the first seven months of this year alone. Some exciting news here. Take a look at what im talking about. New pedestrian signal lights were unveiled earlier today. Hopefully, they will save some lives. Its one of several improvements made to route one. Another is lowering the speed limit from 35 Miles Per Hour to 25 Miles Per Hour. Of course, these are hardly new solutions. But with students texting and distracted as jaywalkers, this will save lives. A Partnership Came up with these solutions after another young woman drive died early july. Are part of the solution here on u. S. One. But they cannot serve as the only solutions to pedestrian safety, not when drivers and pedestrians and their behavior are major factors in the Traffic Safety equation. We really want to emphasize that this really takes effort from everyone here. It is teamwork. Which is why the university has kicked off this camp
Franchise. Thisrtuny, a once in a lifetime deal. I will do my best to make sure that i put a competitive Football Team on the field each and every day. We have a new head coach. And tonight jay gruden is talking about his first order of business. D. C. S Police Department rocked by scandal. And tonight the chief addresses concerns from the public after the arrest of two officers. News4 at 11 starts now. First tonight freezing rain in the forecast, and its coming just in time for your morning commute. Stafford county schools already have a twohour delay tomorrow. And Doug Kammerer is tracking the conditions from storm center 4. He is here to break down the timing of this thing. Doug . Yeah, its going to continue to move in overnight tonight. And as it does so, we are going to start to see that change over to freezing rain. We already have temperatures below freezing. Take a look. Well show you where this advisory includes. It includes just about the entire viewing area. The only excepti
Early today starts right now. Thanks for joining us everyone. Im bet any nyguen. A traffic jam and political rivalry involving Chris Christie. One of his top aids may have engineered a traffic jam. Its creating a political fire storm and not just because governor christie is a top contender for the gop nomination in 2016. Stephanie gosk reports. Reporter even by new york city standards the traffic that clogged the entrance to the George Washington bridge last september was maddening. For four days two traffic lanes in new jersey were shutdown bringing that city to a stand still. Among those caught in the jam for hours, Police Officers searching for a missing 4yearold girl. Emails and Text Messages released by new jersey officials suggest the traffic nightmare was deliberately strtriggered b one of the top aids to new jersey governor Chris Christie. The documents that have been published are both shocking and outrageous. They show government at its worst. Among other things, they call i