Blocked there by a police vehicle. In fact, we have several roads blocked in the county because of situations like this. First 4 traffic, jack taylor, hes been tracking the road closures. Follow them on twitter. Aaron, back to you. Angie, thank you. Wild weather causing havoc across our area overnight. There were strong winds, lightning, each some hail in some spots. Look at that. Some of the wild weather left a mess behind. Derrick ward is live in northwest with a look at the storm damage. Derrick . Good morning. Were actually in southwest. Were at the 400 block of o street. I can see the Washington Channel from here. You can imagine what kind of winds came through the area. If you cant imagine, heres proof. This tree came up, it looks like it was snapped off at the root base. The roots are actually still underground. Did a little damage to the sidewalk there. Take a look back here. You can see what it did to the landscaping and some of the railings. You see that car back there. Theyr
The storm was intense, and what it left behind is the big problem today. Take a look, power lines closing roads. Trees taking out houses. It is a mess out there. News4s derrick ward is live along pierce drive in Silver Spring, one of the hardesthit spots. Derrick . Reporter well, indeed it was. Take a look. You see this crew from the tree service just finishing up. That doesnt look like a lot of work, but i tell you it was a lot of work here to get big trees off of houses and reduced them pretty much now to chips. But its been a tough morning for these guys. Take a listen. The damage in this Silver Spring neighborhood runs the gamut. Some residents saw little to moderate damage, mostly branches. Mostly branches here too. The problem is it was still attached to the tree when they came down. The shadegiving days are over for this one. Thtr neighbors yard. Before crashing down on his roof, it did a number to this back porch. Its been heck all morning. This is a mess. Reporter this oak cou
The last raindrops near st. George island and way far southern maryland. Planning out the rest of your day, plenty of sunshine this afternoon. Afternoon highs in the mid80s. 86 degrees in leesburg and manassas. 87 in washington. Grilling in the backyard, the perfect night to do it. Have your baseball forecast and help on what to wear today in ten minutes. Lets go over to jack taylor at the glass enclosed news center. Beach drive once again closed. Authorities had opened them and then closed them again. Northbound on route 1 near beechwood road, weve got all lanes blocked off there because of a downed tree. Here, you will be under police direction. Be aware, also this morning, starts surge number five of metros continuous work. Orange and silver line single tracking through july 31st. Aaron, eun, back to you. Its my honor to be able to throw donald trump over the top in the delegate count tonight. Congratulations, dad, we love you. It is official. The gop ticket is set for november now.
Is she guilty or not guilty . Guilty here at home, a huge crowd gathers to talk about police and Race Relations in our community. They hope this conversation is just the beginning. And redskins nation, celebrating the life of one of the teams biggest fans. News4 at 11 00 starts now. We expected to start with politics tonight, until the skies opened up and triggered a thunderstorm warning over parts of our area. Yeah, we have seen huge downpours in the last hour and a heck oh of a lightning show from Montgomery County to d. C. To alexandria. Chief meteorologist tom is here. Hi, tom. Yeah, weve had lightning lighting up our skies, loud thunder, all coming from a storm that developed over gaithersburg. Right now its over northeast washington, coming into northern off to the south and east. Look at all the lightning. Hundreds of lightning bolts, reports of peasized hail. Theres the view showing all the lightning that weve had coming quite a bit here over the last just half hour or so. Its
Lightning and thousands without power and to say some trees are down hard hit was the National Mall good morning. Good morning allison and steve. A lot of trees are down big mess this morning right outside Natural History mall here and you see these are not big trees one after another is knocked over some hit by lightning and even people and its a big mess all along the mall here you can see a and it looks like it it cut a path through here and this is madison by jefferson and arent as many trees there and all the way up and down here and title basin where we were 6 jefferson and along the parkland and independence avenue and bigger trees and one of them clearly looked like it was struck by lightning and strong winds whip around here and jet just a mess a path across the mall and driving down from upper northwest washington ill tell you lots of smaller branches in a lot of roadways some look like theyve about driven off the road and others like theyve been picked up and thrown off the