Losing. President obama says hes optimistic. But the u. S. Air war is in trouble too. Many crews cant find targets but spotters are not the Silver Bullet to beat isis. The Silver Bullet is getting the iraqis to fight. It will take three years now to get isis out of iraq back into syria and 20 years to destroy isis. Steve, thank you. Now to the false alarms that spark sparked alarm. They came from tips that turned out to be nothing. Transportation reporter continues our coverage from union station. Adam . Just a couple of minutes ago, a suspicious bag was called in. Got it out of the way. See something Say Something is working the way its supposed to and its getting easier to report issues. See something, text something. Did you know you can now do that with certain agencies like amtrak and metro. Would you text in a threat . This rider says absolutely. I want to make sure im safe and everybody else is safe. I dont feel like im a risk at all. Shes also a former Metro Transit Police chie
The heavy rain we have seen the last one to three hours here. Flash Flood Warning for Arlington County until 8 00 tonight and for Prince Georges County and southeast d. C. Until 7 30. Once again, looks like a water rescue going on right now through Prince Georges County. Please, i cannot say this enough do not drive through flooded roadways even pictures of it on my twitter and Facebook Pages this evening, dont let it happen tough. More rain coming through once again, following that same line, we call this training. As a result of a train, just like train tracks, the rain is moving over the same tracks well. Continue to keep you posted. Thank you, doug. Now to the technical glitches that captured headlines much of the day today from the impact on wall street to airports around the world. We have Team Coverage on all this begin with chris lawrence. He is at the live desk now. Chris . Jim, flights are still delayed on United Airlines and the dow jones lost more than 260 points by the clo
Humidity, it is not going to be hard for any storms that do develop to become strong. Once again, yesterday we saw the flash flooding. That was the biggest threat. Today, that threat still a threat but not quite as high. It is the high winds that we are going to be dealing with. Yes there is a low threat of a tornado today best chance of that northern portions of maryland around the masondixon line. Continue to track it for you throughout the afternoon. Amelia segal and i are in all day. With the stroke of a pen, South Carolina governor nikki haley is about to end the controversy that has divided her state for more than half a century. Haley is signing a bill that will remove the Confederate Flag from the state house grounds. These are live pictures from columbia, South Carolina. This move will come hours after the state house passed this legislation. The Governors Office says the flag will come down in a ceremony tomorrow morning at 10 00. We are closely following this breaking news.
Breaking weather alerts. If this watch is expanded we will send an alert through that nbc washington app. We have new video at 5. It shows the moment a d. C. Man slammed into a van during a highspeed chase in maryland, killing two people. Today, a judge sentenced him to more than a decade in prison. Prince georges county bureau chief Tracee Wilkins was in the courtroom today, join us live to tell us about this. Tracy . Reporter he came speeding this up road here and then the crash happened in the middle of that intersection and then the driver takes off running into those woods. We will show you what happened when did he that in just a little bit. He twloeft women dying on the road here on Central Avenue and another woman severely injured. She was in a coma. We met her today. He was smoking drugs and drink possibly in a stolen vehicle. State Prosecutor Says thats why ronald hayes took off when his car was approached by police in december of 2012. It was a Police Shooting that evening a
Wrong. Hopefully im right and we stay on the calm side. Well continue to monitor this. The debate over the Confederate Flag in South Carolina ended. Tonight new questions are being raised in northern virginia. We have Team Coverage and begin with jay gray in columbia South Carolina where the flag will be taken down in a matter of hours. Reporter it happens after debate overnight that was intense at times, emotional, ending at 1 00 in the morning here with an historic vote and sending many say, a strong message about the past and future of this state. This afternoon, governor nikki haley signed into law a measure to take down the confederate battle flag thats flown on the South Carolina Capitol Grounds for decades. The Confederate Flag is coming off the grounds of the carolyn state house. Reporter its history in the wake of heartache. Three weeks after a selfproclaimed white supremacist murdered nine people inside the emanuel amc church. The perpetrator wrapped himself up in the Confede