A thanksgiving day tragedy. A young woman loses her life in a car wreck. A popular musician also hurt. How the Bluegrass Community is coming to support one of their own. Plusa woman attacked on a trail in fayetteville. Who police are searching for. And the black friday rush hits the triangle. Some of the hottest items people are seeking this year. Eyewitness news starts right now. Tragedy a crash kills a young woman in raleighand injures a rising star in the local music world. Good evening im joel brown. The crash happened yesterday evening on lynn road near battleford drive. Police say the young couple. Was headed to thanksgiving dinner. When they turned right into the path of a toyota. Dejuanhoggard live at wake med where friends of the victims are reacting to the we are learning more information about the 2 people involved in thursday nights tragic accident. And now the Bluegrass Community in raleigh is praying for one of their own to pull through. This was the scene thanksgiving ev
Sam it was an intense fireworks on capitol hill this morning as members of congress grilled members from the Senior Leadership team of the National Transportation safety board and the transit association. The overall message is metros board is grossly mismanaging the troubled transit agency. Representative barbara com stock went as far to say its time to blow up the three compact that governs the metro. The panel raised their voices and skoaled the board chair saying were sick of you coming back here time and time again and sick of the reports and then getting no action. Lets listen to one of those interactions. As you just testified, have the authority to fix it and youre not fixing it. How many more people have to die before we get you to act in the now the exemplars of the very parochialism you decry and have done real damage on our side of the river. That was the congressman Jerry Connolly about Cutting Service on the silver line in northern virginia. The meeting is about safety an
Brad . Brad you know what . It has been fascinating. We have been watching. They are doing light testing at the casino tonight. The hotel has been lit up. Its going floor by floor and the colored light on the big patio. Another example this is a very big business. When the m. G. M. Casino opens tomorrow, marylands already existing casinos will get to keep more of their slot Machine Revenue and give less to the States Education trust fund. But m. G. M. Is expected to bring in so much new money that the states overall take will increase and locally Prince Georges County is expecting a windfall. Well, at least 35 to 41 million directly to Prince Georges County. Brases Prince Georges County executive Rushern Baker says half of the money will go to county public schools. Looking beyond m. G. M. He believes the mere presence of county. M. G. M. Along with National Harbor and tanger says to the Economic Community things are happening in Prince Georges County. Brad there is even talk in high l
Pennsylvania and north and northeastern maryland today. We will get some wind with it. Same thing for saturday. But blustery with those lower temperatures. It will be downright cold. The wind on friday could gust to 30 miles per hour. The temperatures now, in the upper 30s. Later today, 46 degrees. The bus stop forecast, chilly. Julie chilly this morning, too, if you are making your way around town. The orange, silver, and blue lines are delayed because of problems that foggy bottom, also at the wheeliereston the wiehlereston east. The dot is having some problems of the camera, but the mainline head to dulles because an overturned truck after 286. On the backside of the hotel headed over toward the casino, metro is definitely an option, as well as the alexandria water fairy. Water taxi. Autria the final steps are being put into place at mgm casino at National Harbor. Be pouring in and hoping for a little luck on their side. Sam sweeney is live inside the casino this morning with more o
Anything in the city. The showers that came down heavy at times overnight are pushing to the north an east of philadelphia. A couple of sprinkles here and there. Parts of south jersey beautiful seeing a downpour, but it doesnt last that long. The bulk of the rain is pushing north. As we go through the rest of the day it looks like theres more of the rain angle toward the south jersey and delaware coastline. Lewis, delaware, seeing this along with rehoboth beach. Most of the rain will be east of philadelphia with a slight chance of a spotty shower or thunderstorm around regions from the shore. 71 degrees as i mentioned it is on the muggy side. Youll feel that as you step outside. 72 in millville. 65 in cape may. As we roll through the day it will be a warm afternoon. Well have spotty showers in southeastern pennsylvania and south jersey and delaware. 1 00 p. M. , 77 degrees under mainly cloudy skies and most of the region dry. Its down in counties that abut the ocean and delaware bay, d