their mines between fenty and vincent gray. the mayor got started early this morning. he went to the sharp health school on 13th street in northwest and to cast his ballot. i voted early. two weeks ago. yes. and who did you vote for for mayor? he needs another chance. it s against. reporter: think he can do that for you. my gut tells me we re going to win because of turnout and from what i see from exit and entry polls at the stops i made. informal, unscientific? yeah, informal unspecific but i am an expert at elections. we will know in a few hours whether people will buy into results and the apologies and fenty will celebrate a victory or weather the city will see the end of an era. brian? live at the fenty headquarters and this is a point in the show where we would go to the sin vent vincent gray headquarters and we re having technical problems. as soon as we can get that up and ready to g we ll check in with wisdom martin who is following vincent gr
or thunderstorm activity in the forecast. in fact nothing but sunshine and warm temperatures for the next couple of days as we have the high pressure that continues to sit across the washington area. the big change from yesterday is we are under a code red air quality alert. that s unhealthy for all of us. a lot of sunshine and hot this afternoon. 95 degrees is your air temperature later today. more on earl and our five-day forecast coming up. let s get to lauren demarco with our on-time traffic. a new accident reported in maryland, 95 southbound at 212, beltsville, the left lane is blocked and reported a lot of glass. so heading down 95, watch your step and for glass in the road. also a wreck on route 50. sky fox over the scene. it is westbound or inbound route 50 after 197. you can see the two right lanes remain blocked with the tractor- trailer involved. we have delays from route 301, crane highway, in bound and it looks like it moved off to the good news there. now trav
lot of heat and sunshine for the afternoon. here is your forecast. bright sunshine and 95 the daytime high. yesterday we were 96. so a repeat from yesterday. code red air advisory. so that s an unhealthy air quality. take it easy out and about during the day. plor in the forecast and more in the forecast and looking at earl in just a minute. back to you. and hurricane earl moving back into open waters, now heading on a course toward the east coast. the mon store storm is threatening the delmarva coast just as the labor day weekend begins. and sarah simmons is in the satellite center with por. reporter: good morning, allison. we re expecting an update from the national hurricane center and feelo fee officials later on this morning at about 11:30. as to the track of the storm and how they are expecting to deal with it. right now we know earl is a category four storm with winds up to 135 miles per hour and it is expected to have an impact on the east coast sometime late th
reopen. any idea what may have caused that crash? it is unclear and the transportation authority police is investigating the incident. all right. we know there s a lot of work still to be done and hopefully the occupant in the car that was hurt is going to be okay and that these lanes get open sometime soon. chief michael cox with the anne arundel county fire department, thanks so much for joining us. thank you. patranya, obviously this is a tough situation for people coming into the washington area, but there could also be some rubber necking on the other side. that s right. but i think just by looking at the camera things look better as we speak. this is the west side of the beltway where the lanes were shut down, but right now looks like traffic is moving. so i think they just reopened a few minutes ago all the westbound lanes moving here towards washington d.c. from sandy point. so that is good news. i m not seeing any closures right now but it s going to be slo
apartment complex. all you could hear was kids screaming and crying. everyone thought we were going to die. it was terrible. reporter: a giant tree sliced right through it. 40 residents representing 15 households are now displaced. many of them are staying at a local hotel thought they were having to leave, but an extension of help is coming just in time. you just pray for god that that was your last minute and breath on earth and just after that, you just want people to reach out. the most significant damage was sustained by the apartments. reporter: monday evening, the council meeting kicked off with a city manager s assessment of the damage and assistance being provided to the victims. there were definitely injuries and things of concern but none that people could recover from that was just a miracle. reporter: vacant apartments have been identified for displaced residents and the manna food center is providing three days worth of meals, and that s not all.