a live look at chinatown or actually 66. if we can switch over to downtown, i can show you the traffic is great between h and 7th. and outer loop, volume is picking up past new hampshire avenue. delay is on the way. over to you. the legal battle over the i- 95, 395 hot lanes project in arlington is heating up. a group of business leaders is urging the county to drop the lawsuit holding up the project. 9 news now reporter kristin fisher is live in arlington with the latest on the brewing legal battle. good morning. good morning, andrea. both sides of the brewing legal battle want the same thing, which is less traffic on these roads, but they disagree on the best way to go about it. the local business leaders argue the hot lanes project is the best way to do that, especially when you are trying to absorb thousands of new workers coming in to northern virginia, but the arlington county board argues the project could likely make all of the congestion even worse. the whole ide
to continue leaking into the gulf. and the mix, 12 to 24 hours, they will give us an indication of how successful this attempt will be. reporter: computer models just released shown within a few weeks they may carry the massive spill off the east coast as far out here in north carolina. with the nation s worse oil spill growing bigger by the day, president obama will make his third trip to the louisiana gulf coast friday for an update on the efforts to contain and clean up the mess. i m bruce leshan at dc superior court where the lead detective in the robert murder conspiracy trial has been on the stand giving a play-by-play of the video tape statements of the three code defendants. the tapes were the second round of interrogations of the three roommates. this time, by detective sergeant brian wade, playing the good cop. joseph price said that he was lying in bed when he heard a loud grunting noise, that came downstairs and found robert on a bed with blood on his shirt.
more time. alexandrea, franconia and to the south long highway 1. that is going to get the heaviest of the rain. to true view two, this will give you a bigger picture of this as i try to clear the warning off there and as we move along here, give you an idea of how this is moving, it s coming in from the west to the east and, again, what we re worried about here, very, very heavy rain, dangerous lightning. hail could be up to 1 to 1 1/2 inches. that would be approaching golf ball-size. the largest hail report we have had so far is from culpeper where we have had quarter-sized hail. the onions in terms of a tornado throat, they re rotating this evening. we don t think that is going to be a big, big deal. the hail in high wind, the problems with the severe thunderstorms as they re moving on through. again, the severe thunderstorm watch is in, picture for everybody until 9:00 tonight. in effect for everybody until 9:00 tonight. the district, prince georges county, prince willi
tragedies, the potomac river task force is stepping up efforts to alert people about the dangers in the potomac. the group had a press conference this morning. kristin fisher was there. reporter: the message here was simple. stay out of the potomac. 13 people have drowned in the river since 2003 and including the two possible drowning deaths this past memorial day. search and rescue spent two days scouring the potomac for the missing 35-year-old woman and her 13-year-old daughter. for some unknown reason the mother entered the water during a memorial day celebration and lost her footing. when her daughter tried to help her, the two were swept away in the current. 48 hours later a helicopter spotted a body floating in the potomac five miles from where the missing women entered the water. thursday morning another body washed up near perry island. it is too early to confirm whether they are the missing mother and daughter, but hopefully some goodwill come out of the likely tra
essentially west of i-95, things have quieted down. and the watches began to trim. beginning to just be, you know, take off from the west of town. we ll come back and show you the watches as they are going away and look ahead to the rest of the week and the weekend. lesli, back to you. all right, topper, thank you. the first part of the method to contain the worst oil spill in u.s. history. has been completed. but the cutting side is still unclear how much oil could be captured once the cap is in place. and dave statter is in the satellite center with the latest, dave? well, all that s going on in the gulf, they have a price tag that is the responsibility of bp. the white house said that it is building bp for $69 million for the cost so far to the federal government. we know that the real cost could not be measured in dollars. there is still little in the way of the good news coming from the gulf. the pictures get worse by the day as the wildlife suffer and the fate o