Through much of the morning. And then a mild afternoon. Not quite as mild as yesterday, but a beautiful spring day coming up. Still looking like rain likely moving in on friday night. And it will be affecting part our weekend. Coming up next weather and traffic on the 1s a look at the hour by hour temperatures. Now lets check on traffic early on this thursday. Road closure in northwest because of a police investigation. Were talking about eighth street between ingraham and kennedy. Police are wrapping up that investigation. 95 north at old keen mill just got a report of debris on the. 66 and 95 also looking good. 270, no problems. Back at 5 11, live picture of 66. Were following a developing story out of Prince Georges County. Officers there responded to shots fired on edmondson road last night. The victim was found a few blocks away at a gas station. Megan mcgrath is live with more. Reporter you can see the crime scene tape which has been taken down and put into that trash can there,
Gaithersburg. 32 for frederick. 32 for leesburg. There is definitely a chill in the air when you step outside but it doesnt last for long so thats the good news. Take a look at these high temperatures for thank. 70 degrees to ma fan for this afternoon. 07 degrees for manassas. It doesnt last for long. Im get you the cooldown coming up. But first, good morning, larry. 29 lee highway in gainesville closed at this hour as a result of an accident at university boulevard. We have sky 9 making its way out there so hopefully well give smu pictures soon. Meantime if youre going to be traveling eastbound on 66 no issues on the eastbound side of 66 as you make your way from manassas toward the beltway. If anything we have traffic starting to build up which again no delays on 66. For the rest of you traveling on i395, i want to let you know in that area, we have some fallen power lines onth river turnpike between braddock road and shirley highway. Back to you. Thanks, larry. Vice. Joe bide listen
Your new initiatives. We have several new initiatives. The most important is employment first. Many initiatives across Government Agencies we like to think were talking the lead on to really make sure that people with disabilities under the mayors administration really have that pathway to the middle class, like anybody else in the city. So employment first is a big effort to make sure people with disabilities are included in the Workforce Development system. Take us back to 1991 when the facility was closed because of conditions there and because of the programs the lack of programs. There. Tell us what happened. The city was sued in the 1970s, actually on the conditions of the institution for people with intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. That lawsuit finally concluded with an order to close that institution. The condition in that institution, like many all over the country, was really inadequate. The services were poor the conditions people lived in were poor. It really wa
Line for q2 and the second half of last year was the strongest since 2003 and europe is trading much better than the nikkei would have suggested. Our roadmap begins with the market. Stocks are set to open in the green this morning after the major indices fell more than 1 in trading yesterday. The good gdp number helping sentiment after the economy grew as we said by 3. 2 . Speaking of green, shares of facebook are soaring after sales and profit topped estimates thanks to a major increase in mobile ads. Profit for the year totaled 1. 5 billion compared to 53 million in 2012 and what a difference two years makes. Google is selling motorola to lenovo for just under 3 billion. Just a couple years after buying the company for about 12. 5 billion. But well begin with the markets. Futures are pointing to a higher open after yesterdays selloff on the gdp reports and claims and the economy is growing 3. 2 in the last quarter shrugging off the effects of the Government Shutdown and the debt stan
I saw tour in hong kong twenty thousand poultry killed amid fears of a spread of bird flu. As china. As for traditional new Year Celebrations. Us president barack obama has pledged to picasa divided congress and take action on these and to bolster americas middle class in these lakes the state of the union address. The annual policy statement reflected his frustration with republican lawmakers who fees awarded down on corrupt cost initiatives. Or i offered my tv set of concrete practical proposals. The speed of growth. Strength in the middle class and build a new ladder of opportunity in to the middle class. Some require congressional action and im eager to work with all of you. America does not stand still and neither will i so wherever and whenever i can taketeps without legislation to expand opportunity for more american families. Thats longer than that the old sign that says that as this man two was gifted to the chl has once again congress came into the creepy morning that he woul