She feels horrible. Kevin lewis, abc7 news. Larry thank you. We are seven hours away from the revised version of President Trumps travel ban taking effect. Today three cases in three courtrooms challenged the measure before it began. One of them is in greenbelt. Maryland bureau chief brad bell is there live for us now with more. Brad . Brad yeah, so the passionate arguments were made this morning and now it is up to a judge to decide if president of the United States had the authority to act as he did. Activists chanted and cheered outside the federal courthouse in greenbelt today. A small and brief rally in support of the lawyers challenging President Trumps revisedded executive order on travel and immigration. We believe that President Trumps action put us all at risk. Brad the legal argument made by both sides in the 90minute hearing were just one. Lawyers for a individuals and Immigration Rights groups say the white house is ordering an illegal muslim ban. This isnt rocket science.
Intended to tis discriminate against muslims. President trump is a candidate promised the muslim ban. He said he would use territory as a proxy. Brad lawyers who declined comment after the 90minute hearing told the judge the executive order is about National Security and keeping terrorists out of the u. S. And simply a temporary halt until procedures for screening refugees and immigrants can be improved. Jonathan that was brad bell reporting. Federal judge in hawaii listened to arguments today challenging the president s order. That judge promised an order by 12 o 1 Eastern Daylight Time when the order is set to take effect. Michelle busy day for the president beyond the travel ban. He started with a rally in michigan where he called for lowering fuel economy standards. He called it one of many industry killing regulations. He toured a selfdriving car facility. Now he is in tennessee to revised healthcare plan. That legislation is facing increasing scrutiny from within the republican p
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Delays begin near route 50 on b. C. 295. Everybody trying to take the westbound freeway. That is not a good look either in across the river moving in the 14th street bridge. Southbound 395 is slow. From the pentagon to the beltway. Everywhere you go is jammed up. Best Case Scenario southbound route 1 through old town if you are living the district. If you can get on the freeway, if you are in the district quickly as you can to further to the potomac. That is to maine avenue and in toward the area of 14th street. Exiting there. Jumping on the southbound side of route one. Once you get on the beltway in route one in alexandria, you are beyond the ips dep and clean and green incident and you are clean and green to the beltway. Another thing we are seeing is everybody making the turn from southbound i295 which has been shut down because it takes you into the local lane and filing in the inner loop. Everybody getting to 214 and working their way back. Thats the latest from the abc7 traffic
Police. Right now we have a disabled fire truck on the right side of the roadway. With lanes are blocked. Folks trying to squeeze around that. We see the volume inbound near Fairfax County parkway. Other problems, brandywine at branch avenue, still have a crash being reported there. Follow police direction. Inner loop and outer loop looking good now. Dont have any major problems. And 270, were now clear southbound at Montgomery Village avenue, no problems northbound or southbound on 270. Thanks, melissa. Montgomery county police are looking for the driver who hit a pedestrian and took off. We saw more crashes last night as drivers deal with darker visibility. Kristin wright is live in bethesda where officials are pleading with drivers to be more careful. Good morning. Good morning. Well, recently a bicyclist drove through here along mass avenue and recently as well 95yearold woman as you may remember was killed trying to cross river road. As mentioned, last night there was a person who