Is still shutown because of this accidenlo outer op after 50 in virginia a crash there as yoll. Can see on the left side oy, the roadwa that is getting by so that s not too much an issue. Megan mcgrath is out on the scene there on 270. Megan, what are you seeing . Are there twoanes open there . Reporter just wthin the last a couple of minutes they startedno open lanes o 270. Il peek over here. It was two lanes that were reopened. Now looks le we may have three sanes. Yes, three lane on 270 now open. What is still impacted by the cra, though, is the ramp for 118. Germantown road, they are still working on some of the debris thr is in the aea as a result of this accident. That is still closed but the good news here is that 270 had really been bottled up in the southbond direction right here at exit 15. They only had one lane getting by for a wecle bause of the accident. That just changed literally withco the last a uple of minutes. Now we do have quite a few delays. A big bakup here so i
Offload the contents of the truck and we are told that that is about 40,000 pound of candy. They will to take all of that off of the truck first be re they can then haul it out of here. Bottom line this is going to be potentially be an impact for a number of hours here. 270 all of the lanes have reopened so an improvement from earlier this morning. The lanes alo running but they are open. This ramp to germantown road is still closed and that may be the case for several more hours. This all stems from an Early Morning accident here. A Police Officer was doing a traffic stop here on 270, was pulling over a vehicle. This tractortrailer traveling through the area, the driver swerved and hit that police cruer and then pushed theis cru that was pushed into a Second Police cruiser and then the tractortrailer, itself, flipped on its side. At times it wasa across the r and lanes of 270. Everything is op 270 right now but we still have a mess and ople are still going rather slowly through the ar
We begin ith another deadly shooting in the district. Justin finch is live with what we are learning, hi, justin. D. C. Police are right on the case of another deadly shooting here in the district. This one happening closeo 11 00 or so last night, a man now dead. St as Law Enforcement forced a new partnership in our region to stamp out these illegal firearms. Sun up and crime scene investigatos out. A man gunned down overnight on the 300 block of 50th street northeast. Police searching for a suspect in a white suv with tints on h windows and sunroof. The suv pulled off into the darkness. The victim left for dead at the Lincoln Heights House Development earlierthis week, a special agent in charge from atf theup gro came together with tougher prosecution. Turns out more than a third of the illegal guns turn out in virginia. Were going to have to get after this, andake it extremely hard for individuals to get guns and thats our commitment. As then homicide rate i d. C. Is up. L year, 2018
Thanks for joining us, welcome to news 4 midday, im eun yang. Lauren ricketts is standing by with what e need to know heading into the lunch hour. Were looking at some temperatures in the 80s, its hot out the, the humidiis out there with us, so, again, a very warm day out there its shaping up to be. Ow lo mid 90s is where we are going to top out. If youre headed to the citi cen as it depose through this afternoon thereld be a stray shower, i think mainly were going to be dry, i would say about a 10 chance we will see a st shower over the d. C. Area and t citi open. Temperatures will be in the low 90s, plus you tack on a little bit of that humidity feels more like the mid 90s out there. No rain out there right now. This is our next rainmaker ov to the west, thats going to increase our rain chances through this ek. Spotty shower today, better chance of rain tomorrow, best chance of rain comes on wednesday. We will talk about timing of that, talk about these hot temperatures, we are in th
Truck slammed into it. Its so lucky that no one was there inside the house sitting in this area when it happened. Let me show you what it looked like earlier. This is what it looked like when it arrivedch the suv was sitting on the side of the house. According to glen arden police it came down the hill. They believe the driver had a medical emergency andcould not stop his vehicle, slammed into the corner of the house and then bounced to the right where it see it sitng. Hear now from the chief of the glen arden police department. When a car hits the house you never know whats going to happen, the house could fall down. Someone could be sitting in a chair so were thankful that nobody is sitting in the house. Oh, yeah. Now, as for the man who was behind the wheel of that vehicle, he was transported to the hospital. They do believe that hes going to be okay. There was some bleeding, but they say ths he in stable condition. His mother was able to get to the scene here. Shes quite upset abou