On the roads or about to hop in a car. Megan mcgrath is live near the bay bridge toll plaza. Megan, good morning. Reporter well, good morning, aaron. We are right here at the toll plaza itself. You can take a look for yourself. It doesnt look too bad. You can e the ez pass lanes absolutely no wait at all, folks are cruising right through. The lanes where you have to give cash, theres a little bit of a wait here but nothing too bad. In the last 15 or 20 minutes, they started running twoway traffic on whats normally the westbound span, so that helps as well. Aaa estimating over 800,000 people from our area are going to leave town this weekend, most of them by car. So expect a lot of company out there on the areas highways. Rush hour along 395. Uneventful this morning, but area highways are expected to slow to a crawl this afternoon as thousands leave town for summers last hurrah. Gas prices are lower this year, a plus considering that nearly nine in ten travelers will leave town in their
Drive. His hands are bound and he is bleeding all over the place. The victim pulled from the Schuylkill River this morning lifted dame lived a dangerous life, drugs may have been involved. An asian gang connection is being investigated. Its very brutal. You have three individuals all of them their hands and feet were bound. Their eyes were covered. They were stabbed multiple times. Two of the three i believe their throats were slit and thrown into the schuylkill riff. Its one of the more bore bar rick moments ive seen. Reporter Three Friends targeted because they were involved in something risky when it went horrifically bad. They were abducted together by five or six men. Stabbed and tortured. Two had their throats slit. Whether they drowned or were dead at the time they were placed in the river, i really cant say. The medical examiner will be able to determine that during an autopsy if they find water in the lungs and so forth. Reporter the lone survivor in critical condition. 23 and
Reporter after testimony concludes in the mcdonnell corruption trial the former governor talks about his own human frailness and whether he forgives Jonnie Williams. Good evening. Im jan jeffcoat. Im derek mcginty. The battle to put a stop to ebola which is ravaging west africa right now starts right here. 20 volunteers will potentially put themselves at risk starting next week in an ebola vaccine test trial. We spoke with a doctor leading the effort. Reporter the World Health Organization says the number of ebola cases could eventually top 20,000, six times as many known about now. There is need for urgent action. The world has never seen an outbreak of ebola like this. Reporter its why dr. Anthony foucht with the National Institutes of health realizes what he and colleagues are about to embark on is so important, a trial for an ebola vaccine. Well go very slowly, give it to three individuals, wait a while, give it to another three, wait a while. Reporter 20 people will be administere
Downpour east of charlottesville. A Little Thunder and lightning with it, that is tracking toward fredericksburg, about 55 minutes of getting right into fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County. And elsewhere, just a few scattered sprinkles and short sleeve day today, steamy hot afternoon. And some afternoon storms are looking likely probably not quite as strong as the ones we had yesterday. Right now, takes steamy start across the Shenandoah Valley, in the low 70s there with quite a bit of cloudiness. Mostly cloudy all around the region. In the nearby suburbs, low 70s. Grab an umbrella if youre heading out early on this labor day morning. Some fess sitivities and efforv midday should be fine but rain likely moving this later this afternoon. Well look at that at 5 11. Melissa, the accident causing any problems . We still have 70 east only one lane open at main street. We just spoke with police, they say it should be out of the way this just a little bit. 66 at cedar lane, no problems the
U. S. Surveillance flights are already flying over northern syria. According to the New York Times this morning the white house is aiming to enlist a brad swath of allies and neighbors in the region as it considers air strikes. The state Department Said no coordination will be made with syrian leader bashar al assad. Despite a warning by his regime, the u. S. Strikes without permission would be considered an an act of aggression. I want to bring in Richard Engel. I want to start with peter theo curtis. He was not explicitly held by isis. Does his experience underscore how potentially violent the situation on the ground in syria is this. It certainly does. As you mentioned, he was kidnapped two years ago and held by a group that is very similar to isis. Actually, a group that shares a similar ideology but a rival of isis. It was a group that initially was considered the most extreme group in syria until isis came along with the brutality, the savagery and ellipsed even that group which