Later today well have a chilly morning. Temperatures warming to near 70 this afternoon. Then an even warmer pattern will be setting up later this week. Right now storm team 4 radar shows were all dry now. We have dry roads. Melissa, it looks like were off to a good start. Overall roadways looking good. Right now, top of the beltway, nice and green. Everything is rolling along well. Taking a look at 270 as you head southbound, it will take you 26 minutes. Rehn remember to listen to our friends when you hop on that morning commute this morning. Heres that one issue we were talking about. Do have a little bit of roadwork. Overall Prince Georges County looking good. In a couple of minutes, we do want to talk about one thing right now. Eun, well do that in just a second. Thank you, melissa. 5 02 is your time. South carolina is dealing with the aftermath of a once in a thousand year rainfall. Crews helped escort nearly 100 people to safety. Thats so search a rescue crews can get help. Everyo
House comes to alexandria. One day after spending 11 hours in a congressional hot seat, Hillary Clinton took the short trip to alexandria for a campaign rally. Our senior political reporter scott thuman was there. This is a Rare Campaign visit outside the state. We are hearing so much about, iowa and new hampshire. Scott it is, aldlyson. But i guess virginia now is a swing state. It has been for the last couple of cycles. It was interesting. You mentioned the testimony yesterday. Hillary clinton never referenced it. At least not directly. She instead let Terry Mcauliffe the governor of virginia do that. He had a go at it pretty good about the benghazi testimony. Instead she just continued to reference herself as a fighter. She said she is not a quitter. While she did at times tout the democratic record, the administrations record saying its one to run on, they shouldnt run away from it. At the same time she was careful to distance herself from any previous president. When i look at wha
Thank you very much. So, we learned that six people were injured. Five students rushed to hospitals in the area. Three of them went to Inova Fairfax. Horace holmes is there with an update on how the students are doing this afternoon. Horace . Horace i just got off the phone seconds ago with the hospital officials here at i nova. All three of the students who were rushed here to the emergency room this afternoon have been treated. They have been released. They are now back with their families and fine at this moment. They were all rushed here to the hospital after the accident occurred, treated for mow of the afternoon. All of them have been released and back with their families. Horace holmes, fairfax. Jonathan that is good news. Thank you. Three students accounted for. Inova is reporting a student was taken to Childrens Hospital and the other to the burn unit at medstar hospital in d. C. We have updates on the conditions as soon as we debt them get them. Alison stay with us throughout
We have a vehicle off to the right side of the roadway. Looks like were not slowing down at this point. Well keep you updated if anything changes with that. A little bit of volume there. Pretty normal. 95, b. W. Parkway and 66 overall looking pretty good. Back in a few minutes. All right, melissa. Thanks. Right now South Carolina bracing for another day of rain. The already saturated state could get a couple more inches today alone. Storm team 4 says over the past three days some parts have seen more than 2 feet of rainfall. Seven people have died in that weather and the incidents there since thursday. Search rescue crews say theyve rescued more people than they can count because of all that flooding. Shelters in that area overwhelmed by a need for food and a place to sleep. Eun . Search rcue crews are working to save people from floodwaters. Take a look at the edges of cars being swept away. This person tried to drive through the floodwaters. You can see what happened there. Search cr
Ukraine. A group of armed men have now taken over the key government building in the regional capital of crimea and have raised the russian flag. This is raising fears that russia may step in and into ukraine. Lets go to our correspondent Barbara Starr. Right now forces are active along the border with ukraine. Is there real serious fear russia could potentially cross the line into ukraine . Well, wolf, lets get right to defense secretary chuck hagel because there is an extraordinary optic out there. Earlier today at nato headquarters in brussels secretary hagel issued a warning to moscow. And how many years has it been since a u. S. Defense secretary had to do that . I want you to listen to what he had to say. Im closely watching russias military exercises along the ukrainian border, which they announced as you know yesterday. I expect russia to be transparent about these activities. And i urge them not to take any steps that could be misinterpreted or lead to m miscalculation during