Reporter until the shutdown ends, president obama is still refusing to negotiate. Lets stop the excuses and lets take a vote in the house and lets end this shutdown right now. Lets put people back to work. Then serious negotiations could proceed around every item in the budget. Reporter and the president demanded a promise not to default on october 17. Some house republicans, more house republicans, are now reported ready to reopen government and to raise the Borrowing Limit in return for a promise of meaningful talks on obama care and other spending. Im steve handelsman, news4. The families of more than a dozen Service Members recently killed in action are being denied death benefits because of the shutdown. The families are entitled to a 100,000 payment. That money often helps cover the cost of funerals and provides Financial Assistance until Life Insurance policies take effect. The house is drafting a resolution to restore that payment. It could be introduced as early as tomorrow. T
Hit the 90degree mark once again. Mostly sunny and hot. But fall is coming back in just another day or so. More details later. Back to you. I want that fall to come back. Okay. Thank you. And we begin with that developing story involving metro. A contractor has died and two metro employees are in serious condition after a welding accident overnight. The agency says it happened on the red line shortly after midnight in the tunnel between Union Station and judiciary square. The contractor was pronounced dead at the hospital. Metro employees, though, are expected to survive. Metro says they believe hydraulic fluid ignited in the area where the welding was taking place but investigators are looking at why all this happened. Meanwhile, all red line track work scheduled for this weekend has been suspended. Free shuttle buses will continue between Dupont Circle and gallaudet until tomorrow morning. In a rare saturday session for the house, there were several developments regarding the future
Kierein here with more. You step outside, youll think its august. We have humidity in the air, temperatures in the low 70s. Storm team 4 radar showing some showers, some moderate downpours now. These areas of yellow and orange coming up hard north of roanoke and that stretches up into eastern West Virginia and around a bay over to st. Michaels theyre getting a few sprinkles there. And further to the north and west of us there are some showers about to come into western maryland perhaps over the next hour or so and some of those showers southern Shenandoah Valley may make their way into front royal, up to winchester, by around 8 00, 9 00 this morning. Right now were in the muggy low to mid70s throughout most of the region including our nearby neighborhoods and right in washington. Well stay in the 70s with a lot of clouds through the morning hours. Our warmest temperatures may be around noontime. By then we could have showers commencing. A look at the threat of Severe Weather and the ti
Little bit of damage. That was way off to the west around winchester and areas way down to the south around charlottesville. Thunderstorm damage around the country club there, some trees were taken down by some of those high winds, as they gusted up to 45 and 50 Miles Per Hour. Its just showers left for us around woodbridge, dumfries, north of quinnic co, virginia so still some of us having to use umbrella. The big stuff east in marylands Eastern Shore with the high rainfall amounts, something we havent seen in a while. About an inch of rain around d. C. Evening planner forecast, we continue to dry out but again, cooling down in a big way. Ill tell you how you need to dress for the rest of the week. The bad weather causing power issues and cancellations in prince georges county. Barbara harrison is working that from the live desk. Its a tough afternoon in prince georges county. Power has been out more than two hours at the Police Department. Were told strong winds knocked down power li
Week. An investigation is under wayoni into a deadly car crash in in fair fax county. 21yearold devin austin and another person were killed. Police say their car hit a concrete bridge support early sunday morning on van dorn street in franconia. Ranc another person in the car was c taken to the hospital with lifethreatening injuries. Es. Police believe speed may have been a factor in this crash. Now to a scary scene in Prince Georges County where 11 were injured in what witnesses called a drag race. Audrey barnes caught up cau with people who saw the saw accident to find out what happened. There was a drag racing oning the north side of the, of 301 there. Reporter lennard was driving southbound near clymer drive when a vehicle from the northbound sided s slammed into traffic heading southbound. The vehicle beside me hit me, and knocked me into the shoulder. And then from there, the everybody, you know, they hit everybody else. Reporter this mercury marauder which police way wass speedi