Full. Thats right. Get a quick check of the weather and traffic right now. Tucker washout for the weekend or just today. I mean lets start with today. Definitely a washout the first half of the day. Then scattered showers in the afternoon. Were getting very heavy rains across the area and even the potential for thunderstorm activity, reports of severe thunderstorm down near charlottesville. Bottom line rain in the forecast for the first half of your day. Things become shattered later. Well focus on the weekend forecast in a couple minutes. Erin how are the roads. Roads are terrible tucker. You know what rain can do during the morning commute. This is the outer loop at old dominion. A big crash blocking the right lane right shoulder. Its seeing some big slowdowns. Fire department on location. And if youre take, metro skipping the roads additional delays in both directions on the green line outside college park. In the in addition to the safe track work. We have several other crashes and
Director. This morning the department of justice denying reports that comey requested more resources for the investigation into russian meddling just days before his firing. Meantime there are mixed reactions to calls to some lawmakers asking for a special prosecutor take over the investigation. Melanie alnwick live on capitol hill now with more. Good morning. Reporter well, steve and allison its pretty clear that repulican leaders here on capitol hill do not support those calls for a special prosecutor. But the Senate Intelligence committee does vow to continue its own investigation into the matter even as some members do say comeys firing, the timing of it, is questionable. Now former fbi director james comey says hes not going to dwell on president trumps decision to fire him. Very simply he was not doing good job. Reporter in an fbi farewell letter comey says hell be fine but will miss the fbi. The ap reports the firing came after the president felt comey wasnt doing leaks about th
Night juliet street in bellview neighborhood of south west. Police have not released many details on circumstances surrounding the shooting. Annie yu tried to get answers, annie, good morning. Steve, allison. D. C. Police are not saying why officers shot the woman. We know that police plan to review multiple cameras to figure out exactly what happened. Lets get to the video last night from when it happened. Police got the calling after 6 30 when the shooting took place outside the balanced eagle remember center this is in the bellview neighborhood in southwest. And police say they got a call about a car that crashed at the end of juliet street followed by a call that the driver a was woman was armed with a gun. Should was alone inside the vehicle and the chief says the officers that arrived on the scene they made contact with the woman own ended up shooting here but its unclear why. Chief is not giving us details and i we asked what led to the review the tapes and he asked if the woman
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They let people in at 10 300 because it was so cold outside o and so many people were lined up. Traffic causing major headaches though and it only got worse as the eveningaffic tg progressed. Congestion didnt ease upio inside either. In fact somen h. Waited in line for hours just ht to get to where they werewhere t going inside thehe resort. Rt. Association its is it i better this morning . Whats wha the scene this morning, annie . Nn reporter hey, goodey, good morning to you allison. Allison. Good morning, everybody. Or well, i canni tell you willyou l right now that were still sll seeing that mixed crowd of of people. We determined folks trying toed test their f luck on thoseho machines and table games. But everyone t seems to be ino e pretty good spirits. Ty gooir the drinks are definitelyinit flowing. Weve also got people showing si up now at this early hour to sort of check it out and gambling in isnt for everybody but as we have been rebuporting this is trulyt as aa destination a