suspicious and police broke in with bolt cutters to take a look. police shut down several blocks in the area including four blocks along independents avenue. he and his friends had to wait for two hours. have been standing here for an hour or five minutes. there will not let me through my car. it is near my cars along the street. a traffic nightmare was caused. every street is blocked to traffic. after a thorough look, police determined there was nothing dangerous inside. the good news, slow going but everything has been opened up. traffic is moving. police say they were tipped off from people who work in the area and they responded as soon as they got a tip. that package resembling a bomb turned out to be a hoax. a road crew reported a suspicious package. that forced police to close the road while bombs check out the device. it was bomb squad checked out the device. the u.s. department of education is finding the university $50,000 for the slow response to dea
its way funneli right up the east coast. a lot of heavy rain for areas of southeastern virginia as well as delaware, then on into new jersey and our area as well. so we get more in, another two to four inches. we ll probably see some gusts to about 40 miles per hour. jim? all right. thank you. our team coverage continues now with the news 4 s chris gordon. he s live in kensington where it s dry now but a second rou of torrential rain is expected to hit as we ve heard later tonight. reporter: we covered a lot of territory today. no matter which maryland community we checked on, we found that people shared similar stories. standing watern the curb lane took many motorists by surprise in beltsville. in bowie, the driving rain made driving difficult. i was driving 30 miles an hour coming down 202. reporter: were you scared? yes. cars coming towards me with no lights on. reporter: prince georges and anne arundel counties, roads were clos because of large pools of water
known if they were used in today s shooting spree. that gun battle happened around noon at the funeral services for murder victim ashley mccreigh. among the 600 people, rival gang members. suspects opened fire on the individuals in that car. reporter: the victims may have returned fire themselves before fleeing at high speed in this dodge durango, but they clipped this mercedes and then crashed into a parked van. inside the dodge, one man survived. another did not. it s not clear if he was killed by gunshots or the crash. 9news now has learned the identity of the dead man. he is jamal kotts of northwest ds. he has known jamal for years and the man known as big pon was running scared. he s been very worried. he witnessed the shooting that was on mozart beach a month to a month half ago. he was scared for his life? he was definitely scared for his life. reporter: and so whether or not that information that he had about that past murder may have motivated someone to
be wasting my time with you knuckleheads. unfortunately i can t so my career with cirque du soleil is going nowhere. good night, everybody. good night. . a cheating scandal rocks the fbi. find out how agents were scamming the system. plus topper is tracking another round of severe weather in our forecast. and new information on that wild gun fight in the heart of u street, including what led to the shooting. this is 9news now. a possible witness to a crime, afraid for his life and perhaps a target for a gunman. tonight we are finding out more and more about the man killed in the heart of washington s bustling u street corridor, and it is a miracle that when all of the bullets were flying by, passersby were somehow not hit. armando is standing by live. reporter: that shooting happened at u street exactly at this block, and for the next two blocks it was the wild, wild west. that shooting spree may have been motivated by an attempt to silence a witness. this car m
locations. there s a cold front heading in our direction. come here through the day. might kick off a sprinkle or two in the mountains. mperatures up close to 90 degrees for a time this afternoon before some cooler weather arrives for tomorrow. don t forget it s saturday, it s fall. send your college football request to chuck.bell@nbc.com. if you want your team represented you have to let me know who they are. i m sure you ll get the emails. we re following some breaking news this morning out of prince george s county right now where three people have been shot. the shooting happened in the 5,500 block of livingston terrace in oxon hill. we don t know the condition of the victims. pole have not released their identities nor whether they have any suspects at this point. taking aook at what s happening today. the man charged with the murder of a southeast d.c. woman will be in court. 22-year-old damon sams was arrested yesterday. he s a rapper that goes by the name nine m