Center and van ness. New a new track problem outside of bethesda causing delays in both directions. 355 at old hundred, 109, all lanes are blocked on 355. They should be there for us in the next couple of minutes. Inner and outer loop, everything looking quite good here, nice and green. Little slow 295 as you head past 50. Dale boulevard at cloverdale, still have the lanes blocked. Thank you, melissa. Buses on the roads and big changes happening today. Summer vacation is officially over as students in fairfax, spotsylvania and arlington and stafford counties and alexandria and Falls Church City all head back to school. We have Team Coverage in Northern Virginia this morning. We start with Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter david culver who is live at hay Field Secondary School in fairfax with more on the changes. Good morning. Reporter hi, there, eun, good morning to you. More than 188,000 students here in Fairfax County getting ready to go back to school. And staff here more than 25,00
Well, maybe we will stay away from this. And mcconnell, i do know some specifics of people who publicly theyre saying, he will not be for mcconnell and i know privately that they have had the conversation and now there with mcconnell. And crews will look around and there will not be that many people with him. Mcconnell can deal with this. We are couple of minutes away from the audience to q and a section. There are microphones that you cant stand that if you want to line up. So, a couple of more minutes of conversation and then we will go to the q a. One more question i had, we can talk briefly about health care and if it will get repealed. Do you think it is possible that the parties will agree on some smaller part of the Affordable Care act that might get fixed or repealed . Puts people like paul ryan recognize that it is probably not good to have the 59th vote to repeal obamacare in the opening session. Most people feel that there are some decent prize to the Affordable Care act and
Secretary clinton was part of the Obama Administration and a key component of the National Security Foreign Affairs team that people now disapprove of obama. Its going to be real tough for her to separate herself from an administration in which he served. Sir . You talk about the agenda on the issues, minimum wage, but you also mentioned legalization of pot. Were you saying its part of the democratic agenda now . Well, it should be. Why . The voters are in favor of it. And our drug laws are a nightmare. The unfairness of our drug laws in terms of incars efforting Young American meams, this is an insane policy. We should be legalizing marijuana in this country. Your comments with regard to the election outcome in the senate might have some impact on the president in terms of his judicial appointment and specifically if a Supreme Court justice decides to retire, over the next two years, how do you think thats going to play out both in terms of who he might nominate as a replacement and h
Georges county and 1 to 2 inches possible for the flood watch and strong winds move in tonight and especially tomorrow morning. Remember, never drive through flooded roadways and that could be of concern tonight. And active at leonardtown at this moment and we see rain in washington up through 6 00 p. M. And hagarstown by 8 00. When does this rain come to an end . In 10 minutes. If youd like to stay ahead of the forecast, download the a app. Looking for a man who opened fire inside an auto shop near k and third streets a few blocks from the convention center. A guy went in, tried to rob the shop when a worker told him he didnt have any money, they say the man shot him and ran off. The individual was transported to an area hospital. Hes in Good Condition right now. Reporter how badly was he shot . One shot at the shoulder, appears to be through and through. Reporter at this point, the police do not have a good description of that suspect. Today the u. S. Launched a new set of air strike
The commute right now. Typically that overnight construction wraps around 5 00 a. M. And now 6 00 a. M. And that is still out there. We have a big backup here forming on 95 southbound right near the blue route. Leave yourself extra time if your travels take you out in that direction. Thats something i will continue to follow for you and ill let you know once that breaks free. Accident on the boulevard southbound past adams avenue. Stick to the outer drive there. And then for drivers on the northeast extension, right as you approach the exit for la lansdale, it is blocking the right lane. Whenever we have one lane blocked, that backup can quickly start out there. Leave yourself extra time there, as well. Tracy . 6 01 and 65 degrees right now. We continue to follow breaking news out of Burlington County where an offduty Police Officer was involved in a shooting. Matt delucia was on first on the scene and what have you been able to find out . Tracy, within the past 30 minutes, more invest