To start on friday morning or any school day, but it appears that we have been lucky. Reporter they are still looking into the cause of the crash. But it appears that at one point all the rails on the right side of the bus dropped off and skidded significantly. It could have been much worse. We have extremely luck cay that it appears that they were not seriously hurt. Again, the cause is still under investigation as the driver of the school bus will be tested for drugs and alcohol. Reporting live, wjz Eyewitness News. All right, thank you very much. The students went into the hospital to gbmc. The investigation is underway. Over route 32 and route 3. Police say that the suv and the sedan collided just before 1 00. A 73yearold woman was killed. One person in the other vehicle was injured. No word on the cause of the crash. A disturbing sight on the national mall. The man doused himself in gasoline and then set himself on fire. Crews were able to put the flames out as the man was flown t
Hello again. Im Jessica Kartalija. Don is off today. Heres what people are talk ing about. Breaking news. The best selling author and a baltimore native tom clancy has died. Mary is live in the news room with more. Reporter well, tom clancy who was born and lived in baltimore died after a brief illness at johns hopkins. He wrote the hunt for red october and patriots game. He attended loyola college. Before making his literary debut he spent time selling insurance. He was a minority owner of the orioles. Tom clancy is one of only three authors to have sold 2 million copies on the first printing. Tom clancy was 66 years old. Jessica back to you. Thank you. More on his death and life coming you up on wjz at 4 00, 5 00 and 6 00. Day 2 of the u. S. Government shutdown and lawmakers are still trying to find a solution. Tara mergener reports from washington. Theres no sign of compromise on capitol hill. Plenty of finger pointing though. Republicans in the house have proposed one cant pass ide
September 30th, the last day of the month. Im gigi barnett, in for don scott. Wjz has weather and traffic together. We begin with tim williams in the weather center. Good morning. In for marty bass this morning. Beautiful morning. Temperatures averaging just around 50 degrees. We are at 49 in elkton, 50 down on the shore. Our daytime high goes up to just around 75 degrees with lows down into the 50s. We will have the complete forecast coming up in a few minutes. Rush hour is on the move. Sharon is keeping an eye on it in the wjz Traffic Control. Not moving far very fast this morning right now. We have a new accident to tell you on 29 southbound just after 108. All lanes blocked right there. Also on 97 southbound at 32, we still have an accident there at the exit blocking two left lanes. And fire activity downtown. That is going to be two alarm building fire on east cold spring at york blocking all lanes. Speed on the beltway looking good. Same goes for 95 between white marsh and the tu
See at bwi marshall, 62 elkton, 60 on the shore, 64 in hagerstown. Our daytime high 84 degrees, some sun with a thunderstorm in spots in the afternoon with lows back down in the 60s. Your complete five day forecast, well talk about Tropical Storm karen and this warm weekend were in for coming up in just few moments. Here is your rush from Sharon Gibala at wjz traffic control. Not seeing any fog on the western shore. We are seeing an accident. That one is going to be at 702 at hyde park road. This one a vehicle into a building on taylor avenue at lock raven boulevard. Speeds still great out there on all the main roads, including the beltway and 95. Thats a live look outside at the west side of the beltway at 70. A look at the topside still a lot of space in between the cars out there. Now wjz has the stories people are talking about this morning. Heres don. Thank you. We also have two Eastern Shore School Advisories. Kent county schools are operating oh one hour day, Queen Annes County
Good afternoon. Im don scott. Im Jessica Kartalija. Heres what people are talking about today. The Severe Weather moving through maryland right now. A cold front is coming into the region and most of the state is under a tornado watch until 5 oclock this afternoon. Some areas have already seen some heavy rain causing some localized flooding. The worst may be yet to come. Taking a live look outside right now. It is humid and we have cloudy skies and on and off rain. Looks like it might be on again. More on than off. Wjz is live with first warning weather coverage. Marty bass is in the out back and meteorologist Chelsea Ingram in the weather center. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. The good news is the cool front is going to cool us down but its moving fast and furious. Let me take you live to first warning doppler weather radar. Weve got a line of storms pushing there you the region with some heavy rainfall about to make it into the city. Ill zoom in here just a bit for you. We have some