We want to apologize for some of the technical difficulties re having tonight. But now some more news. A tragedy on a popular local trail this weekend. A woman in her early 30s died because of the intense heat. Tonight an onlineis fund for rachel parkers family has raised nearly 2,000. U. S. Park police say she collapsed on saturday on the lly goat trail in montgomery county. The heat index was about 106 degrees. Parkerson was from maryland. She was a mother of three. A charity be ride ended in tragedy over the weekend as well. 59yearold Diane Deshields was riding in the annual firefighter event in frederick. During that ride, the woman from roth vil collided with a car at the intersection of woods borrow bike and good intent road. Deshields died ae scene. The firefighter event raises money for the Pleasant Valley Community Fire department. Tomorrow John Paul Stevens will be buried in a private ceremony at Arlington National cemetery. President trump and First Lady Melania Trump paid r
Might be smart to think and plan a workaround. Thisuld get harrier as the morning goes along. Melissa, what else is happening around he . Three issues on the beltway and two on 270. Inner loop after connecticut avenue where justin was is a major mess for a lot of people. A we a lot of other issues too. Also this one the other s uationouter loop after New Hampshire avenue is shut down so that entire closure right now, because of a crash on investigati take a look at 270. Ride is shut down. Overturned tractortrailer and fuel spill there so that wcl se some delays even as youre heading southbound, people looking in the northbound lanes and wondering what is going on. Oe cleanup could take sometime. Here is anothere. Good morning, chuck. Good morning, melissa. Four thing you need to know about the weather. A wet start this morning and shower are likely to linger into the afternoon. So much cooler. A Little Christmas in july present almost. Sunshine back tomorrow and hang around the rest of
Crash n. Investigatio single vehicle with entrapment. They have shut everything done. The person was transported. After you get past the one in New Hampshire a downed tree crowding right lne and causing delays there. 270 northbound before 109 ride blocked there. Overturned tractortrailer and fuel spill off to the right and not so worried because its northbound but t southbound traffic will be impacted by this as folks look over at the response. It willake a while to get that out of theway as well. Good morning, chuck. Fogood morning, melissa. Lots of cloud outside. For better or worse, we have a high chance for rain during the morning commute today and this batch. Rain across far southrg west viia is pointed in our direction. Its out ahd of this cold ont which will finally bring an end not only to the rain later today but ento the heatan humidity we have been dealing with around here the last two weeks. Nothing all th heavy on the ready this morning and last of heavy rain in northern p
For the most part here. You want to take it sl and perhaps fine another way to get this re you are going morning, right, melissa . Absolutely. A lot of different problems you have possess maybe take your favorite alternate here to get around everything. Another shot, another vantge point where justin is this morning. Inner loop at connecticut avenue and youre just getting by in one lane. A long time before that gets cleared up. Twomile backup and looks ling rain movihrough and not help things at all. Top of the beltway, outer loopw at nempshire avenue where megan fj is wiitzgerald is ther. We e getting by one ride of the road. Meagan, how are things looking at this point . This is a crash investigation. Reporter part of theood news this morning it does look like traffic is just now starting to me along the westbound lane of ther outeop before University Avenue because according to Maryland State Police, the backup is miles. Now to give you an idea of whatt happened ou here. We got chop
We want to begin this morning with updates on two accidents that had major impacts on the morning commute. The first on the outer loop of the beltway. This is between university boulevard and New Hampshire nvga t. Clpd e thhcr leavasing morning commuters sitting in a six mile backup. Still no details on the victim or how the crash happened. And the other accident was also on the beltway. Chopper 4 on thecene on the inner loop just after connecticut avenue. E e there. You see a truck split open spilling bundles of magazines on to the road. The lays remain. No word yet on what caused this crash either. That is how it sounded and looked yesterday, mt. Airy was under a tornado warning. Peoplh waking up wit a big mess to clean up. You cane see on of yesterdays storms blowing right across the district. Severe weather being blamed for one deathn maryland. A tree fell on a home in carroll county, killing an 89yearold man inside. There are tree branches down ale across t area. Including right h