Good morning. A lot of the earlier construction has cleared out of the way. We still had road work hanging around 95 southbound at falmouth with the right lane blocked by the work zone. Its not slowing things too much this morning in the southbound lanes. Big look at the beltway. Overall, everything is rolling along quite nicely. You can see a little bit of a slowdown outbound for you there near the beltway. No report of anything but ill keep an eye on that one. 66 from Fairfax County parkway to the beltway, that takes you nine minutes. Listen to our friends on 103. 5 f. M. When you hop in your car. Since our last report, we got more information out of afghanistan on that suicide bomb attack. Were hearing that 11 people have now been killed in the capital city of kabul. The Afghan Taliban saying that this was a revenge killing after some taliban prisoners were the attack happened right before the group confirmed that their former leader, mullah Akhtar Mansour was killed in a u. S. Dron
Settled. Coming up at 5, well go back to the west coast and tmz with some more information including some information about the womanbo involved in theut alleged altercation. New tonight, George Washington university is feeling the heat after hiring a former self proclaimed islamic extreme is. He spent three years in prison for advocating for al qaeda after making threats and denouncing the United States. Now George Washington University Says hes renounced his former self and will be a key to helping them stop others from being radicalized. Tom fitzgerald is life gw a more reporter Al Banas Muhammad these days goes by the name of Jessie Morton much make no mistaken, George Washington University Officials told us today they are fully how risky this is, not only in terms of Public Relations but also potential blow back, blow c back from students t and blow back st from any of their big my dough donors. Johan as was sentenced to threee years in federal prison. He got out. By mr. Haythorn
And im lynn yang. This is at i270 at montrose. Were keeping our eyes on patches of ice. A patch of ice is believed to be the cause of this crash in chevy chase this morning. Choppers were over the scene after it happened. Two cars went off the road and into the snow there. One car almost seemed to have hit that tree. No word on any injuries. Lauryn, are we going to get enough of a warmup to melt the rest of the ice on that road . I do believe so, because temperatures will dtop out in te mid to upper 40s, above that freezing mark. Last night we slipped below it, so things refroze on the roadway. I think well have icy spots out there once again tonight and into tomorrow morning. Were getting a little sunshine here in northwest washington, a little bit. We need to go closer to virginia think well get it here eventually. A mix of sun and clouds out there today. Temperatures in the 40s right now. 34 seems to be the cold spot, everybody else in the upper 30s. Everybody was involved with that
P. And do you know who can help us with that . Chuck bell. A beautiful way to get your thursday morning started, nice and mild outside this morning. Temperatures 40s and 50s. So just that little hint of a chill, but a mild kday this afternoon. Loads of pollen still in the air. A little chance for rain coming our way tomorrow that could have a rumble or two of thunder with it, but looks like the weekend is sitting pretty. 48 in gaithersburg, 50 in annapolis, 45 in stafford. Next 24 hours, increasing clouds and rain chances, most of the rain though probably doesnt arrive until after lunchtime tomorrow. Today, nothing to worry about, just breezy and mild. High today 75 degrees. It is traffic time and from wtop, here is the man himself, jack taylor. And were off to a pretty quiet start the. Overnight construction going on crain highway before you get to 50. Only left lane getting by. Not sounds like the newest issue is out of hagerstown. Eastbound i70 toward frederick out near route 40, ex
Lovettsville and Purcellville were allocated a combined $3.8 million in federal funding for "alternative" transportation infrastructure last month, part of $19.5 million distributed for projects in the Washington, D.C., region