So we talk about that, too. Currently 57 degrees in center city see the win out of the north 8 miles per hour, i feel little breeze out here, makes it feel little cooler. Storm scan3 shows though that we are going to be nice and clear. Skies will be blue and beautiful today. Lower temperatures come with side of sunshine. Down the shore, about 63, and in the poconos, little cooler there, 53, but sunshine for all today. Saturday, will be, some sunshine, then some clouds, those highs staying in the 60s for the whole weekend, but it is that overnight saturday into sunday, where you have to look out for shower, so it set us up for bit of cloudy run. We will talk about your weaken, come back in a few moment, also we touch on the monster Hurricane Patricia in the pacific right now. For now, we head over to vittoria. Keeping an eye on the roads, good morning. Good morning, kyla, good morning, everyone, right now we are starting to seat rush hour rev up. We have some incidents to talk about, be
Mobile app. One pedestrian is dead. Another injured after being hit by a metro bus in hyde park. Frankie jupiter is there live with the story. Frankie . Police and emergency crews are still on the scene, im told one man is dead, the other pedestrian hit by the bus has been transported to the hospital. The driver of the bus im being told was also transported to the hospital. Now here is what know. The bus was turning from edwards road to erie. Thats when those two pedestrians were struck. Now the bus was in service at the time with no passengers on board. Im told the male driver has been with metro for about ten year, and again was transported to the hospital due to shock. Its is very rare for an accident of this nature to occur with metro. And so there are some standard things that have to occur under the commercial drivers license. These requirement are federal requirements. Our driver will be sent make sure there was no impairment. Theyll be a full investigation. I ask a metro spokes
You can also send us an email. We will get your thoughts in just a minute. First i want to see you from as tothe press yesterday pollsters were talking about who has the edge in republicans are trying to will something coming on. Jobresident obamas approval is. 3 in the south. Is too far of a stretch here to political gravity is too much. Thet made me feel like things we need to have happen on election day may be coming to fruition. Enthusiasmeen an gap. Democrats are catching up. With registered voters, which is democratsdemographic, have an edge. Meet the press yesterday. They were talking about who has the edge heading in to tomorrow. Who should control congress . The phone lines are open. The wall street journal has a new poll. This is on the front page. Voters favor the gop by a slim margin for control of congress. Voters favor a republican in congress while 45 favor a democratic congress. In first color is a democrat gainesville. Caller thank you. Host which party should control
Two people were struck by a car on lockwood drive. We just noticed paramedics taking patients into an ambulance there. Were told they suffered some minor injuries. The screak stayed on the the vehicle stayed on the scene after the accident. We dont know if weather played a father a factor but well keep you posted. This tree toppled into a home on woodmore drive in Silver Spring. And there are similar scenes all over the area. Horace holmes is live in bethesda where a tree went down across a busy road. Were here on bradley boulevard and you can see with those heavy winds and the strong rain, what it did to this tree right here. It just snapped late this afternoon. It came down, all of bradley boulevard, closing it down for a short period of time. The county crew came up and they were able to move most of it to the side and they just reopened bradley boulevard. Now were going to talk more about the;yn problems that we he here, just a couple miles from here, another big problem on river r
In the election. A few weeks ago we had the privilege of bestowing the. Ongressional gold medal it was so remarkable because it becauseverdue, but also of the very same time we were appealing to our colleagues to pass a bipartisan Voting Rights act to correct the shelby decision. That has still not happened but we must make it happen. In order to make it happen, we all must vote. As i said, it is a privilege to be here. To accept the invitation of the Congressional Black Caucus foundation. Another privilege i had more than year ago was standing on the steps with the congressional members of cbc on the steps of the Supreme Court. They were there calling upon the court to make the right decision. That very day we were meeting in the house of representatives to dedicate the statue of rosa parks. Are strange, dedicating a statute to rosa parks, people turn out in a bipartisan way to salute her, and yet we have to appeal to the court to do the right thing. When they dont, they sing the prai