Theyll be with us until 9 00 tonight. There will be travel trouble out there. Again, looking at our radar, we see a few rain showers. Here it is. It is moving through our area later on this afternoon. Well time it out. A big mess anywhere from st. Louis all the way to the east coast. Check your flight information as you head out. I know we have a lot of travel delays. Well talk about the rain and christmas forecast coming up. Right now, we want to talk about this breaking news coming in. A young girl shot and killed. Here we are days before christmas. Heres what we know about this. It happened in acquasco, maryland, prince georges county. We had chopper this over the scene on st. Phillips road late last night. Police found the girl dead sometime before 11 30. A lot of questions here. We know that. Were working to find out what led up to this shooting and who is behind it. When we get the updates, were going to keep you posted in the nbc washington app. And we are following another brea
People were late, trains singletracking of course slows everything down. They had crowded platform. I talked to one gentleman who said it took him about an hour and a half to get home yesterday. Normally it takes half an hour. I told him unfortunately we are still singletracking and he was not happy. I have to be at work at 6 30 and im tired of this. Reporter so singletracking between grosvenor and the twinbrook station on the red line. I talked to a worker earlier this morning and they hoped to get things back to normal within half an hour and were keeping an eye on the situation. For the moment bake in some extra time in your commute because things are still slow here this morning. Well let you know as soon as they return to normal operations. With more on traffic, we go over to melissa mollet. Hows it looking . Not so bad. Well check back with megan throughout the hour. Were tweeting about this on first 4 traffic as well. Singletracking between twin brook and grosvenor. And train 30
He would fight but he never wanted to be captured like cornwallis was at yorktown or. In was in saratoga. He wanted to avoid that kind of disaster. That would have ended the revolution. So he would always want to live to fight another day in his battles and the important thing was to keep the revolution going and keep the army in the field and i believe new jersey and general entrance and in particular was very instrumental in helping him accomplish that goal. It served the Continental Army as a hospital right where we are standing here to barracks. The barracks was an Army Hospital during the revolution. Its where washington made one of his major sort of innovations at that time i inoculating all of his troops against smallpox and saved his army which might have been wiped out in 1776, not by the british but by the smallpox. He played a role in that. In addition trenton because of his location between new york and philadelphia, was a major supply depot and the army needed food and tre
Citys role during the american revolution. Trenton is very important during the revolution. Thats something that people only think about when they think about the battle of trenton is and be they recognize that that was important, that was a turning point, major turning point. It actually was a time that sort of saved the revolution at that point early in the war and allowed it to continue. It might have just filzed out if it hadnt been for the battle of trenton. But trenton goes way beyond in importance to just that one battle. Washington spent more time in new jersey than any other state during the revolution, and and his army spent a lot of time here. And the people of trenton themselves, the craftsmen who loved here, the merchants who lived here, just everybody this trenton wound up playing a role in the war to support Washingtons Army, to support the cause in various ways. Washington wanted to avoid at all costs the kind of military action that would threaten the existence of his
The traffic is about to get much, much worse. News 4s meegan fitzgerald, how bad is it going to get . Reporter well, you know, ive got to tell you, aaa said now is the time to pack your patience because its going to get bad. Around 2 00 is the hour folks can expect gridlock up until around 9 00 this evening. They tell us some 917,000 people are expected to take a road trip to where theyre going to go. Ill step out of the way and show you the good news. Right now, its pretty smooth sailing on the beltway. But experts say this is not going to last long. Theres no secret about it. Holiday travel is usually a bit of a pain for most folks. Yes, im going to avoid the roads. Reporter unless you have good strategy in place and luck is on your side. Rush by leaving early, early sunday morning. Reporter leaving early just staying at home. Familys coming into town. Reporter and staying off the roads are good ways to avoid traffic for some. But thats not always feasible for others. Aaa says 917,00