Mind paying it. And an easier way to pay your taxes. The Pilot Program now underway and how you can apply. The news at 5 30 starts right now. Thank you for joining us. Im janelle wang an abandoned tanker, a lack of labels and a lot of concerns prompting the shutdown of a busy road for hours. A lot of frustrated drivers and local business owners. The latest on this mystery substance. After hours of being shut down the main thoroughfare is reopened to traffic with fire crews clearing the scene of this hazmat investigation and focused on that sinker. Around 9 dirty, Hazardous Material teams took over several brox blocks of the boulevard and the goal was to figure out what was inside of a tanker abandoned on the side of the road, and whether it was dangerous. Employees working nearby say this is not the first time a suspicious item has been left behind on the busy street. Occasionally you get people dropping off containers on the street, on the shoulder. Its an ongoing problem and has been
The. 2 2 2 2 scientists have been working for years to revive the american chestnut, a large tree that once covered the eastern part of the country and provided food for humans and animals. The like. The tree usually lived for hundreds of years and made up an important part of the eastern american tree canopy. But beginning in the early 20th century, the tree was affected by something called chestnut blight. A fungal disease that came from the invasive japanese chestnut beginning in 19 o 4 and spanning the entirety of the 20th century. It is estimated that the blake killed between 4 and 6000000000 american chestnut trees. Now only stumps and root systems remain. They produce young saplings which are almost immediately infected with chestnut light and then they die it. There are now only between 60800 american chestnut trees that survive. And theyre all in the northern part of the state of michigan. Several groups of scientists are working to revive the american, just not including a gr
When i was a little boy growing up in the us state of pennsylvania, we had thousands and thousands of chestnut trees in the area. We used to throw the chestnuts at each other for fun. And our parents would gather them and roast them as a snack. But then disease struck the american chestnut populations. I havent seen a chestnut tree in decades. Theyre almost all gone. Scientists now say that theyve come up with a plan to revive the american chests, not through genetic engineering to something that might sound like a great idea. But is it . Its never been done before, and we have literally no idea what it will do to other trees as its pollen is spread by the winds. B, as in other insects, are we saving the american chestnut for our . We do mean other species and john kerry onto welcome to the whistle blowers the the. 2 2 2 scientists have been working for years to revive the american chestnut, a large tree that once covered the eastern part of the country and provided food for humans and
Down to a quarter of a mile. Your walk to work forecast next weather and traffic on the 1s at 5 11. Melissa, whats doing on now . Still have some road work. Talking about the inner loop at colesville road. That should be out of the way in next couple of minutes. It was supposed to wrap up around 5 00 a. M. Inner loop at the dulles, still have that disabled vehicle. Overall Prince Georges County looking good. Branch avenue, pennsylvania avenue, indian head highway into and out of town is rolling along. Beltway at central avenue, again looking quite good there. Here is our biggest problem of the morning. Bradley boulevard right now shut down at huntington parkway. Both directions. You can do river or wilson or old georgetown. Dont take bradley and hit this problem at huntington. News4s Zachary Kiesch is out on the scene right now. How are we looking . Reporter youre absolutely right, melissa. Im at the intersection of huntington boulevard and huntington parkway and bradley boulevard. Wha
Where the little lingering showers are. Mainly near levittown, stretching back to lower makefield, if i zoom out of the picture, well show you where the other batch, to the south of pemberton, southampton, leisure town. Everywhere else with the exception of this one batch here near cape may, starting see drying conditions. Avalon seeing a bit of light rainfall. Same thing in sea isle city. Over the next eight hours, we will see things dry up. The sun coming back to us. 76 by noon. By 3 00 p. M. 79. Todays highs between 78 and 81. Ted . All right. Thank you. The heavy rain last night caused water levels to rise along several creeks and streams in delaware. This was the scene along the muddy run creek near newark new castle county. The storms caused damage across the region. Heavy rain brought down this tree on spring mill road in villanova. All that rain yesterday and last night left these roads flooded in hammonton. Police blocked the entrance to parts of packard street and bellevue av