They are not deploying in earnest until 8 00 tonight. You can see in the distance, that is not snow. That is clear sky in the distance. We are not flurries at the moment. They have pretreated the roads heavily. They are ready when it starts. Pretreatment helps for a while but they will put the trucks out to keep roads moving well as the evening goes on. Reporting live, im tom roussey, abc7 news. Alison tom, thank you very much. We all know it doesnt take much during a commute to cause major problems. Look at this on 66. Although that is always tough this time of day. Lets check in with Jamie Sullivan for the latest. Jamie a lot of heavy traffic. 66 heading outbound bumper to bumper delays. This is not because of the weather. This is just the typical afternoon. Maybe a few people left early to try to avoid any of weather coming in. That is why we are seeing so much congestion. Around the capital beltway, both the givener loop and the outer loop heavy. Inner loop north from mcclain to Mo
Maintenance, money spent or anything. Again, were standing by for all those details in the preliminary report from the ntsb. Could get that into the newsroom any minute. Well bring you the latest details as soon as we get them. Reporting live in southwest washington, mike conneen, abc 7 news. Thank you. The mind set of some metro passengers seems to be changing these days after mondays incident. This morning, abc 7 saw several people tweeting about smoke in the rosalynn station just down the street as a matter of fact from our studio here and we sent a crew out and they found an odd smell there in the station but things running just fine. But richard wolf tweeted this picture noting the orange line train emptied at rosalynn and smoke fills cars. And then steve cuff tweeted this. Orange line car at rosalynn starts getting something burning smell before metro even says anything. People get the hell off new reality. That could be the case. Abc 7 did call metro and we found out there was a
Officers are off the street and another behind bars in allegations officers were having inappropriate contact with underage girls. It was two days ago when a d. C. Police officer was charged with taking nude pictures of a 15yearold girl. Multiple sources say another officer is being charged for his actions after the mother called the police. The second officer is not charged with wrong doing but placed on desk duty pending the investigation. He tried to alert officer washington that he was about to be arrested. Another officer has been placed on desk duty as his allegations are being investigated. A judge ordered him held until a future court date. He did not enter a plea. Coming up at 5 00, see what happens when we try to talk to the officer whose home was searched. Mark segraves, news 4. One of the worlds richest women wont have to serve jail time for causing a deadly crash. 74yearold Jacqueline Mars is coowner of the mars candy company. She pled guilty to reckless driving. Her porsc
And answer period. Well be there covering all of it. In ft. Washington im tracee wilkins, news 4. All right. Coming up on 4 31 now on this friday morning. If youre just waking up, good morning. Welcome back. Thank you. Nice to have you on a friday. And were checking in on the forecast. Pretty mailed out there for some big changes coming, lets see what Storm Team Meteorologist amelia segal has to say. Periods of rain throughout the day today. Have the umbrella handy. As we work into the afternoon and evening hours, better chance that youre dealing with rain. I want to take you through your day with faw tour weather. At 9 00 a. M. , notice the light showers around the area. Otherwise cloudy skies. So on and off rain throughout the day, again, becoming more steady as we get into the evening hours. Still that hit or miss activity around noon. Here we are at 3 00 where rain really starts to pick up for everybody. Look at the evening commute. 6 30. Even some pockets of heavier rain around th
That any of us will ever share time with on this earth. He no longer belongs to us. He belongs to the ages. That last line there from president obama, he belongs to the ages, reminiscent of another famous quote, which was after president lincoln was declared dead, standing coming forward who reportedly said, now he belongs to the ages. Just one more sign of the significance of the passing of Nelson Mandela. Nowhere perhaps more felt, though, then in his native south africa. President jacob zuma was the one to break the news this afternoon. Lets listen in. Freedom andled for healing. He had the respect of the world. His humility, his compassion, and his humanity gained him their love. Reverencealso word that will unlikely be ever paralleled. Come because quote i think this sums it up very well, sums up the legacy of Nelson Mandela, from the former South African president himself. He said, if i had my time over, i would do it the same again. So would any man who called himself a man. Sco