Good afternoon. Im don scott. Im Jessica Kartalija. Heres what people are talking about today. The Severe Weather moving through maryland right now. A cold front is coming into the region and most of the state is under a tornado watch until 5 oclock this afternoon. Some areas have already seen some heavy rain causing some localized flooding. The worst may be yet to come. Taking a live look outside right now. It is humid and we have cloudy skies and on and off rain. Looks like it might be on again. More on than off. Wjz is live with first warning weather coverage. Marty bass is in the out back and meteorologist Chelsea Ingram in the weather center. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. The good news is the cool front is going to cool us down but its moving fast and furious. Let me take you live to first warning doppler weather radar. Weve got a line of storms pushing there you the region with some heavy rainfall about to make it into the city. Ill zoom in here just a bit for you. We have some
Running out of money. Defense secretary chuck hey gel is ordered 300,000 employees back to work today from the Defense Department even though the government is shutdown. House Speaker John Boehner said republicans will only approve bills if democrats to changes in the Affordable Care act. We are not going to pass a clean debt limit increase. Theres no way were going to pass it when the votes are not in the house. Democrats argue the 218 votes need ed to pass a bill in the house are there but boehner wont bring it up for a vote. Let me issue him a friendly challenge. Put it on the floor. If congress cant reach a deal the nation could default on debt for the first time in american history. October 17th is going to be an economic collision thats going to wreck our economy. Wall street is watching. Its going to get more anxious for stock investors. Treasury secretary jack lou said it could bring the nation back into a recession worse than 2008. Susan mcginnis, wjz Eyewitness News. Theres g
No way to tell whether that played any role in this and what was happening there. Its severely affecting traffic here. Southbound lanes remain closed. The northbound lanes are open to traffic. So we had to access the scene from the northbound side. For anyone trying to get to the southern end of prince georges county, Charles County area, youre going to have to take some detours, because this road will remain closed for some time. We havent been given a time frame yet, but it will continue to remain closed as Police Continue this investigation. Reporting live from brandywine, darcy spencer. We have new details about the accident that killed a contractor inside a metro tunnel early this morning. Fire is not what killed that worker. Two others were ginjured this morning. Reporter a 41 year old metro contractor was killed and two metro employees were seriously injured after they were hit by a 40 foot section of track that shifted. The contractor and the two employees were replacing sectio
Prime minister she must resign. Tonight rescuers in new york city are uprighting toppled train cars, searching for more victims in the deadly train crash. The train derailed in the bronx on the way to manhattan. At least four are dead. There are 63 confirmed injuries. 11 are listed in critical condition. Al jazeeras Kilmeny Duchardt is live at the scene. What is the latest on the investigation . Tonight, on this very chilly night, firefighters, police, crews and the mtsb are combing through every part of the scene down there right now, looking at the tracks, the mechanical equipment, the communication equipment to try to figure out what went horribly wrong. The Holiday Weekend ended in tragedy and chaos for those on board this train. It happened early sunday morning. We have recovered the event recorder of the cab car. We downloaded the data off the loko motive. We have not had a chance to analyse it at this point. The train was carrying about 150 passengers, heading to new yorks Grand
When it rounded a sharp curve and left the tracks. Thats nearly triple the speed limit for that area. New video shows the moment after the accident. You can see the huge train cars flipped right on their side. This is raw data off of the event recorders, so it tells us what happened, doesnt tell us why it happened. When i heard about the speed i gulped. It sort of takes your breath away. There are two choices. One would be human error on behalf of the engineer and the other is mechanical error on the part of the locomotive. Eyes are turning towards the engineer. William rockefeller told investigators that the brakes didnt work. But the trains black boxes reveal power was cut just seconds before that crash. Four people died in the accident and dozens are injured. Many victims remain in the area hospitals with broken bones and spinal cord injuries. Now to washington. President obama will shift from damage control to sales pitch. It is part of the threeweek effort to refocus the attention