A look at your hourbyhour breakd overall were looking pretty good. We have two crashes, one in the landoverd one down 95 sout. As youre sort of headed through dumfries. Taking a look at 66, were good into and out of town, tiny but slow as youre coming outside of the beltway. Thats from earlier construction that was in the way. Up here, 95 is looking quite good. Wide look at the beltway, big picture here. No major issues right now, moving along as it should be for this time. Prince georges county side of the roadway, looking good. Seminary road southbound below 395, slow with one lane blocked. That should be out of the way by 5 00. Back in ten minutes. The white house fence jumper returns to court today. Federal prosecutors consider Omar Gonzalez a danger to the president. The army veteran is accused of jumping over the white house fence and running across the lawn and into the white house carrying a folded knife. Gonzalez faces federal and local charges. At his First Court Appearance t
Going on the notion that perhaps that is the main body of wreckage. But tothing definitive yet. They broug in all sorts of equipment to try to help them answer that question and potentia send down navy divers to verify they have an unmanned underwater vessel metal detecting equipment, 3d mapping, sea floor mapping. But as yet, havent been able to decisive say that that is the main body of wreckage. And, of course once again, theyre battling the weather. The high seas the choppy waves, high winds and heavy rains have all come back. And thats really hampering efforts. There are still some ships involved in the search overnigh but the aircraft are grounded the divers didnt get out today. Werent able to go down and check anything out. And that may be the case again, tomorrow. They also now have equipment out searchin for those pings, listenin for the pings of the black boxes. And so far, have not heard anything. Y one investigator said it may be a week before we find those black boxes. Bac
It is getting more humid. Short sleeve day. Possibility of an isolate the thundershower popping up. There is the cloudy sky over washington now. Temperature graph hour by hour today, holding in the low and mid 70s between now and 8 00 a. M. A little sun breaking out. By noontime, partly cloudy, low 80s. Mid80s by midafternoon. An isolated thundershower mainly west of the metro area. And for the afternoon commute, an isolated thundershower rolling over may provide a low impact for the afternoon commute because i dont think these storms are going to be severe. Potential looks very low. Coming up, a look at where the store storms may hit first. Metro is in the final phase of testing trains on the silver line. You can take a look here. Right now the empty silver line trains will run rush hour service along with other trains and that means delays. Megan mcgrath live at the Franconia Springfield station. Reporter with the coming of the silver line, there will be more options for riders and s
Champis. We s down with 17yearold kat la decky to talk about her goalfe next olympics. Good morning, everybody. Im aa gilchrist in for bar harrison. Rightw you want to avoid concavenue. This h b the scene all week ther as crews working to repave that road. Whaar asa routine proct turned into an emerncsituation. Today lane on both sides of connti ae is shut down. Meg mcgra has been on this stor a morning and has why todas have been the wor. Poitrg repr work, repaving work. If you look behind me you can see t cones and constructi vehledoc also see the traffic. Take a look at this. They i down to just one lane there at that sign there. Onea creeping by to the lef afty finish the work on thethd side, then the g to start up on the otherid so were talking later on tonight or perhaps tomoowin connecticut avenuebes tohe weeken as crews continue pe, drivs ue to sit in trafc. Itbe rough couple of days on connecticut avenue. Cut it down to one lane in most cases. In t afternoon, you ed every lane
On the roads or about to hop in a car. Megan mcgrath is live near the bay bridge toll plaza. Megan, good morning. Reporter well, good morning, aaron. We are right here at the toll plaza itself. You can take a look for yourself. It doesnt look too bad. You can e the ez pass lanes absolutely no wait at all, folks are cruising right through. The lanes where you have to give cash, theres a little bit of a wait here but nothing too bad. In the last 15 or 20 minutes, they started running twoway traffic on whats normally the westbound span, so that helps as well. Aaa estimating over 800,000 people from our area are going to leave town this weekend, most of them by car. So expect a lot of company out there on the areas highways. Rush hour along 395. Uneventful this morning, but area highways are expected to slow to a crawl this afternoon as thousands leave town for summers last hurrah. Gas prices are lower this year, a plus considering that nearly nine in ten travelers will leave town in their