You this morning. This is all happening on the innerhe beltway at eisenhower in alexandria. Thats where we find molette green with the latest on the crash. Reporter yeah, let me step out of the way and tell you this is obviously what is going on here at the scene, the cleanup after what has been a horrific accident that started with a driver going the wrong way on the beltway on the inner loop. A man in his 30s driving in this direction and he died after hitting a white tahoe. And that accident also involved a third car, a dodge caravan. Three people we know taken to the hospital. Their injuries are described as nonlife threatening at this point. We are hoping to get this accident scene cleared out just a short bit, but i alsoal here on the scene 2 00 a. M. Driverfhe crv was traveling east in the westbound lanes of 495 just west of eisenhower. He came in contact with a chevy tahoe that was occupied. He died as a result of his injuries. Reporter so again, this accident investigation cle
Caravan. Two people in the tahoe, one petill on the tow tck, t the virginia staatte the ready to reopen the lanes and get traffic flowing freely again. Thats the latest live from the scene. Back to you. Lets get a look at your weather headlines this morning. Chuck bell is here. Good morning, you guys. You saw in the individual tro from t i video heavy mist and drizzle. Degrees today after we didntn is a chance evs afternoon or this evening. A heavy mist this morning. Ever stronger thunderstorms late this afternoon or this evening. A heavy mist this morning. Low visibility, so that may slow down your commute just a bit. Radar shows a few showers headed in to hagerstown. Ill let you know when youre most likely to get rained on around the metro coming up. 6 02. And developing right now, the rhode island metro station is back open after sundays train derailment. Meanwhile federal transit investigators are looking into what caused that derailment. 14 railcars from a csx train came off the t
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To end by lunch time. Rain continuing through the afternoon. Visibility is very low with the dense fog in place. Here we have some showers moving in along 66, parts of 95 through dale city, parts of haymarket and we have a lot of rain to go carrying on through st. Marys county. Temperatures today still into the 60s. We get warmer tomorrow. Well detail that out coming up. Over to you. Metro riders, a bit of an upgrade right now. Originally we were single tracking on the orange, blue and silver lines. Thats done. Now you can expect delays in both directions. Buses are still running on schedule at this point. Around the capital beltway were doing really well. The shoulder blocked on the inner loop between 355 and connecticut avenue for an earlier accident. Again no delays in that area so youre good to go. Taking you to some of our maryland towns south of the beltway. No issues in accokeek, upper marlboro, even parts of oxon hill. This is a live look at Eastern Avenue at kenilworth avenue
The latest. We remain under a severe thunderstorm watch in so much of the area. The worst came through between 2 00 and 4 00 p. M. Today. A handful of Power Outages. A report out of king georges county of a waterspout in the state park. Now, look at the area that remains under a severe thunderstorm watch from frederick, maryland to winchester, charlottesville and everywhere east of the blue ridge still could get high winds and isolated hail. With the other storm that is come through ahead of the weather front, we could see flash flooding. Yeah, there were some flooded roads that i saw. Part of the issue, of course, is we have so much debris from the storms earlier this week. Flash flood watch to Prince Williams county, fairfax until 10 00 p. M. The area is under a severe thunderstorm warning. All the heavy rain that was once over the area headed to marylands eastern shore. Seeing the worst of it. Still some lightning here and heavy rain. What we are waiting on is whats off to the west.