On the ground. Is everybody okay . Im still figuring that out. We have cars everywhere. Down on to the highway. Lindsey this is a new train route for this train. Todays voyage was the inaugural run. Part of a 181 million project. The ntsb will no doubt take a close look at the project as well as interviewing and operating the amtrak train. You can see a live picture of what is going on there right now. A team is headed from here in d. C. To that crash site right now. At the live desk, lindsey mastis. Jonathan thank you very much. Look at the map. When you see the green line, that is the old route. The orange line is the new one that opened this morning. This was the inaugural run and meant to reduce sharp curves and enable the train to speed up. The train was going 81 m the Washington State project had the max speeds of 79 miles per hour. We dont know at this point if the speed was a factor in the derailment. This rail project cost more than 180 million. You know there were cars on bot
Bill no. That is good. Even if you look across the country there is nothing major. Not a huge storm. We have a few clouds in cumberland but our region, that is what i look for, within a four or five or sixhour drive. We are good to go. Its great. I love to deliver that to you. Good evening. In our area i want to widen this out to show the midatlantic. The only exception is up to the north. Tomorrow we expect snow in new york. If you have plans tomorrow, Late Afternoon and evening. That is an area to watch. Break it down for you in a little bit. In terms of right now, look at the radar. Look at rain, blue, snow. You go to new england and none of it is showing up. We are in the mid30s in the beltway tomorrow. Then we go up a little bit by tomorrow morning. The colder spot is shenandoah valley. The outlying areas below freezing tonight. There are some areas that wont get to freezing. We talk about the forecast looking to friday. In the weekend. The christmas forecast swinging back and for
Today. With her lawyer present because there is still an investigation ongoing. There is only so much allowed to talk about. She is charismatic and personable and she spoke highly of the time at Ballou High School and about her love for the school and the students. She made one thing perfectly clear. When it comes to fudging grades and fixing attendance number under her leadership, that did not happen. I didnt do anything wrong. I operated within the spirit of the policies. I know the investigation isgoing. It might reveal that something was done incorrectly. If that is four under to be true then i would if that is found to be true i would work on my return to be fully compliant with the policies. My messaging to staff is never a directive to do anything wrong, illegally, morally unsound. I pride myself on messaging right decision. Kimberly we covered a lot of subjects in the cushion. Q from grades and attendance, pressuring the teachers and the 2017 graduating class. We have more on t
This is a quiet night. You can leave the coat at home. The bigger peckture south. It does cool to the north. New york city, philadelphia. The midtoupper 40s now. Everybody is way far from freezing mark. There is no snow on this map. Green. That is rain in the area. There are light showers to the western part of virginia. Areas west of that. That will move in the region tonight. I dont expect the bulk of that until late in the overnight hours to the Early Morning tomorrow. For the rest of the night. Notice the numbers in the low 50s. Clouds many if forecast. The sun down for an hour. If you are going out tomorrow, a little rain in the morning and again in the afternoon. Break down timing of that for you. Plus look ahead to the all important Christmas Eve and christmas day. Q mccray is live with the interview only on 7. As you know i had a long talk with her today. She told me that she is outraged by the allegations against her. When it comes to grade fixing. She has done nothing wrong.
Postchristmas shopping travel today cold sticking around for a while still monitoring snow chances heading into the last weekend of 2017 today partly to mostly cloudy. Highs 3641 winds nw 510 mph tonight mostly cloudy. Flurries possible. Lows 2531 winds n 510 mph wednesday am clouds, pm sun. Colder and breezy. Highs 2734 winds nw 1015 g 20 mph breaking overnight. Alexandria gutted by a massive fire. Firefighters had their work cut out for them christmas night. John gonzalez is live this morning john we understand some of that fire is still burning . New overnight. A rough landing at bostons logan a jetblue plane skidding off the taxiway moments after touching down. Sam sweeney is at the live desk with the details. Sam. Passengers on jetbl f georgia got quite the scare last night. During its landing in boston the plane skidded off the taxiway, fishtailed and ended up facing the opposite direction. Earlier in the day a snow storm temporarily shut down runways at logan. The good news no o