National captioning institute www. Ncicap. Org youre watching wbaltv 11. Live, local, latebreaking. This is 11 news today at 5 00 a. M. Good morning. Im mindy basara. And im stan stovall. Thanks for joining us for 11 news today. There has been more snow in an unusual place. Arizona. Two inches of snow on the 18th green. Ive been out there a couple of times when it snowed. People would run out of their houses. There are kids that have never seen snow from phoenix. And the maryland no snow. We have the cold this morning but knows no no sn ow. 23 at the airport with little wind. We will make it up to 39 this afternoon with a few clouds. We have some rain and maybe some snow in the sevenday forecast. A busy start on the Northeast Corner of the beltway. All lanes are temporarily blocked because of a tractor trailer accident. That is causing some closures. We are watching for delays around harford. We are seeing southbound delays on 95. 55 on the north side. Running smoothly on the west side
Chris fox, sprint unlimited live in daytona. 37yearold Kevin Harvick in the gen6 car celebrating in victory lane. Matt yocum is there. [ cheers applause ] matt chris, the night started out with little keelan sitting in dads future winning racecar. So much was unknown going in tonight. You knew stewart would make a move. Was it move you expected them to try . What was it like sitting there waiting . Well, i was nervous about the 20 and the 14. I thought their cars were a little bit better than what we had. I want to thank sprint and the race fans. This is where everybody sitting in the stands and at home. Budweiser, bag boy buggy, realty and everybody to put the car on the racetrack. Good way to start off speed weeks. Matt what kind of a statement does it send to folks who were repeating the lame duck phrase this year . Its about winning races and politics and one thing but in the racetrack its about making this car as fast as it will go and those guys, they dont care about anything but
So sequestration could have a major impact on companies that do business with the pentagon. Business is big and small that employ tens of thousands of people in this region. As to the possible furlough employees would be given a 30 day notice before they go into affect. Abc7 news. And we will have another look at the sequestration impact on our area. How these cuts could be one part of a larger hit for families. 5 people have been arrested in connection with mondays shooting death of a Suitland High School student. He is one of six teenagers killed with gun violence this year. Good evening, brad. Good evening leon. It has been a horrible run of violence in prince for discounted. 15yearold Charles Michael walker jr. Was gunned down monday. And today there has been an arrest actually of five arrests, and we can show you a picture of the suspect. These five men were cruising around in a van looking for a victim. They saw walter, saw that he was carrying a bag from the shoe store, and they
Waiting to for it to get its closer point today to be outshined by the met your. The images coming out of russia are almost unbelievable. Imagine seeing this bright flash on your drive to work this morning. The shock waves shattering glass, damaging buildings and injuring hundreds of people it exploded over central russia. An 11yearold described ates pretty cool. Inside nasa described it this way. It formed four and half billion years ago but it spent most of its life outside the asteroid belt. The blast in russia almost overshadowed the earths close call with the asteroid, a 150foot chunk of rack, big enough to create a crater similar to these craters caused by asteroids striking the moon. The good news is weve been tracking this for over a year, we know everybody is safe and it did not hit the earth. While nasa tracked the asteroid at 17,000 miles above the earl the asteroid over russia was just six miles over the earth. This is the largest meteor over russia in more than 100 years a
Around here. At the space museum a big show inside. A live nasa feed of the 2012 da14. It is 150foot rock hurled across the night sky just before 2 30 our time. It was 17,000 miles from the earth before flying back into space. You see it going by so fast and realizing it is so close. It was amazing. It was amazing to see the damage it could have done. But it didnt. Unlike in russia where they saw a blinding flash of light where a meteor unleashed sonic booms. 1,000 people were hurt from the flag fragments but flu debris and glass when the shock wave blow new windows of buildings. They told us that meteors come into the earths atmosphere all testimony tie but blow up before they reach us. It is so exciting. People were fascinating not frightened. We did not run for cover. No word of any fatalities from the russian meteor and no reports of any satellites being taken out by the asteroid. They say today is a wake up call that we need to be more jidge lent about what is flying up around the