Line, hit another car in the southbound lanes headon. That car ricocheted and hit three more cars. A total of five people have been transported to the hospital. Four of them by ambulance. One by medivac helicopter. Three of them are in critical condition. A very serious accident. We are continuing to follow up with the Fairfax County police on the scene. We will bring you the latest coming up in the broadcast. Reporting live in fairfax. Im sam sweeney, abc7 news. Maureen u that. D. C. Utility regulators struck down controversial 6. 8 billion proposal to merge the City Electric supplier with exelon. Leon the deal is not exactly dead. Its still very much alive. D. C. Bureau chief sam ford on the story and is live with the new conditions set by the Public Service commission. Tell us about it. Sam leon, maureen, i would call it tweaking. More oversight and more putting things ou so for a lot of people it seems that the supporters are happy, the opponents are not. The chair votes yes, the m
Precaution. Yeah it is a good thing. Im tracking the quiet conditions for the most part. Had light drizzle here an hour ago. As we arent seeing much of a wintery concern here this morning for the morning drive as originally thought. As you mentioned. D. O. T. Trucks were out in full force making sure anything that did fall this morning wouldnt lead to treacherous driving conditions. We caught up with a few of the tricks late last night setting down the brine, the salt. Making sure the roads were treated enough. Weve been talking with mark taylor. A couple of accidents out here early this morning and out here live, right above 277, the brookshire, travel looks decent. Were tracking everyone going out or just below the speed limit. We had light drizzle out here early this morning. Well keep an eye on the conditions out here this morning. Keith mentioned the chance for freezing rain as we head throughout the lunch time and afternoon continues. Although the travel conditions may not be too
Sunrise. This is one of the warmer spots. The temperatures in the low 50s. The bottom of the screen, your seven day forecast. Anytime im on the air, youll see the seven day. Temperatures are cooling down at this hour. There are spots that will drop down into the 30s this morning. While its in the low 50s right now inuclnter city, well see those numbers climb during the day today. Sunshine and temperatures that will be heading into the upper 60s to near 70 degrees this afternoon. When i come back, well go through each neighborhood hour by hour. Right now, Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic. Weavre watching the vine street expressway right now. These are our cameras around 24th street. We are seeing a disabled vehicle. We did have somebody on scene right there trying to help him out but hes still sitting in this righthand shoulder, not blocking any of the lanes, of course. You can see headed westbound, the schuylkill still doing again. No big backups or gawker delay. A house
That you there is cloud cover but its down to the south for the most partnow so youre going to be greeted by a lot of sunshine. Those clouds to the south because a cold front has pushed through and its also down below us. We have a little bit cooler temperatures in some spots this morning. In reading were down to 39 degrees. Allentown 46 and more typical is that temperature you see in trenton and philadelphia upper 40s in the i95 corridor alittle cooler in some spots down to the south. As we roll through the day not going to be quite as warm as yesterday but still a pretty nice afternoon ahead. By 11 oclock, still 62. But by 1 oclock, 66. By 3 oclock, 69 and well get a high today of 70 probably around 4 oclock. Lots of sun today and less wind than yesterday. Thats almost the best part of the story. Pollen forecast still pretty high. Not sure about that high reading theyre reporting on friday. Were going to get some showers and i think in the afternoon anyway well see that pollen count
Result of of a bar fight that fell into the streets and it caught innocent bystander sfwlz we dont have people hanging in the front at no time of day. And came out to check the security of the building and got attacked. They hope that someone will see this video and turn in the attackers one threatened to come back and burn the place down. That concerns us we dont have them in custody, we are putting the video out there and hopefully going to get these guys in. The mission is thinking about increasing security that would include surveillance cameras, meantime police say that those two suspects were last seen driving a light colored kia, anyone with information should call police back to you. Thank you gray. Police are investigating the attempted fire bombing of a south philadelphia home. According to authorities someone threw a molotov cocktail at the house here on the south block of beachwood. The device broke a window but did not get inside. A neighbor did not want to be identified w