Justin, thanks so much for that. Furniture turning now to a new warning about drug and alcohol addiction. Its taking a far worse toll than many of us think. A new report from the Surgeon General said 78 americans die every day from opioid overdoses and 28 million suffer from Substance Abuse disorder. The study calls for a shift in the way a disease rather than a weakness in character. The Surgeon General says is an unscientific approach. A town in illinois assesses damage after a deadly gas explosion. The moment of the blast in canton captured by cameras, happening while crews repaired a natural gas leak caused by digging. One worker was killed and a dozen others were hurt. Abcs gio benitez spoke with a witness at that scene. Dinner . Yes. Reporter and you hear what . The loudest boom ever heard in my life. I thought lightning hit. Another person said they thought the town was bombed. Parts of downtown canton are still closed to the public. Ground has been broken on the future home of
66 is okay. 95 northbound was wood bridge, people are leaving town. 95 in maryland, no major problems. An update on the travel times in ten minutes. And we are following breaking news in riverdale over a house fire in the city of riverdale. We are taking a live look from above. As we zoom into the house right here on the corner o know. A mother and a daughter were able to escape this Early Morning fire. At this point, we know that one of them is in critical condition. The mom suffering burns and smoke inhalation. Shes in the hospital. The firefighters are taking a look at the scene from the ground, this is earlier pictures we have. Firefighters from Prince Georges County at this time trying to contain the hot spots. But you can see at one point the smoke stretched high into the caused the fire. Check the nbc washington app for updates on this breaking story throughout the morning. Now back to you. Thank you. A gaithersburg family rattled from their beds when a car careened off the road
The temperatures, 35 in gaithersburg, and its still dry downtown, and its cloudy but dry. 8 00a little bit of rain. Manassas, i66 south, and temperatures mid to upper 30s in the suburbs, and by 10 00, 39 in manassas, and only 40 in fairfax and bowie, and rain all the way to gaithersburg. Sleet mixed in cumberland. Temperatures are colder and the atmosphere may support sleet. By 12 00, heavy to moderate rain across all of the metro area. We will come back and tell you when it will move away and also talk about the coldest air of the season and if it will bring any snow showers later in the week. Thank you, top. Fans leaving tonights capital game at the Verizon Center may have found traffic moving slow. This sink hole temporarily street northwest alongside the arena from east street to 8th street. Crews have placed a large steel e platover it for now, and they reopened the stretch of the street. The repairs will come later. An outpouring of Community Support for comic pingpong the restau
Reporter ah, yes. Just as the tsa administrator and the folks at Homeland Security are preparing for a press conference out here, ive got to show you the scene at midway airport. Its like this, neil, at a lot of places all around the country. Apparently, tsa does not have enough employees to handle the massive lines. I dont know if you can tell, this is actually not a bad day here. This is fairly normal out here, and maybe you see you cant even really see how bad it normally gets because right now its, you know, the noon hour tends to be the lightest of times. If larry with the camera spins around here, the other day we had a line and its on youtube, i dont think we bought it yet [laughter] to show it to you, the line went all the way down here another 100 yards past to the cta trains. Crazy stuff. A lot of airports, neil, have been talking about actually firing the tsa, and you know what . You can do that. A number of airports around the country have already done so. Most of them smal
Return times getting back to those who want to know if we did the same to you would you act the same way. The point is to say they are very good about telling us it is okay to wait and worth the wait but is it . They all have security clearance, they dont have to deal with this type of nonsense, they dont have to worry about the irs coming down hard on them. We do. They never seem to have to threat about much of anything. We wait, it is worth the wait. When it comes to healthcare it is worth trying a few hundred times before you can log onto a bureaucracys website. That is all part of the fun, part of the drama, part of what you have to do. Think about that. Think of the arrogance of that. Telling our vets that, you are waiting, enjoy the weight. There is a difference between a va secretary talking about waiting for care and you and me waiting on a ride, at disneyland or disney world. We are just there to help. Vets are there to survive. They are not having fun. The ones former army sn