The weekend in the district, the investigation into the first homicide of the year. The news at 11 00 starts right now. From abc 7 news, this is a breaking news alert. Kimberly the police are investigating a fatal pedestrian accident on crain highway and pennsylvania avenue in upper marlboro. Roz plater is there. What can you tell us . Roz not a lot of information about this tragedy. We are right along the side of 301 southbound, near the route for overpass. That is where the flashing lights and arrows are, the northbound lanes. That is where this tragedy happened. About an hour or so ago, a person was struck by a vehicle and killed. We do not have any more information on the persons age or gender. We also do not know how this happened. I can tell you there has been treacherous driving conditions because of the rain coming down so heavy. There was a silver suv on the site near where the strike happened, but no information, no confirmation from the police whether that vehicle was involv
They found one man with gunshot wounsd. He died. Right now theres no word on all suspect. Good morning, everyone. Im aaron gilchrist. And im eunion. Lets check in with meteorologist chuck bell. 70s one more time. Thats the good news for todays forecast. The bad news is rain chances sneaking up. Obviously well be talking more than in a bit. For now its 43 in new market, maryland, 52 nguywinchester, 50 degrees in maryland. Planning out your day hour by hour 40rkss and 50s. Up to near 60 by 9 00 a. 68 by 11 00 and youll spend mohs of your thursday afternoon sitting in warm sunshine. Temperatures today, mid70s. More clouds late this afternoon into the evening and we might get a sprinkle or two. Thats not going to worry anybody at all. I know me personally ill be in bed. Amelia segal has that. Speaking of being in bed early, heres melissa mollet. We dont have any problems northbound or southbound. A big look at the beltway, rolling along just fine. Taking a look at the top of the beltway, 9
Mark segraves takes us inside the big dig. Reporter the milestone for the d. C. Clean rivers project that will be complete in 2022 has the enormous borehead from the underground drill was removed from the tunnel. About four and a half miles. Its taken several years to do. Were on time, were underbudget. Reporter that budget is more than 2 billion. Theres an item on everybodys bill. Next year its going to be 20. Its going to continue to go up. Reporter while water bills will continue to go up each year, our rivers and creeks will continue to get cleaner. The new tunnels will supplement the existing tunnels which were built in the 1800s and cant handle all of the rain and sewage which leads to massive flooding in d. C. Neighborhoods. For a long time that maintenance was deferred. The bill has come due now. Reporter flooding isnt the only thing these new tunnels will fix. The existing sewers become overwhelmed each time we have a big rain, forcing billions of gallons of sewage and rain to
The previous was just higher than that 111. 7. It was expected to come in at 112. Of. Both the numbers coming in slightly below expectations. The gdp data we had earlier about ten days ago now. The euro is at session lows down about half a percent. Germany has been a price the german tax so far is up better than 10. 5 and closed on a record high on friday. The economy continues to show signs of improvement. Jobless claims coming down. Unemployment rate at 6. 57 . Its been falling steadily. Absolutely. Lets get a reaction from the chief european economist. David, a better day in germany recently. This coming against expectations. Slightly weaker. Yeah. Consistent with germany and consistent with the eurozone more generally seeing expansions. Thing is one of the key things about greece going on. Europe is generally surprising on the upside. Overall we said the youren economy now has just turned the corner even before the ecb Bond Buying Program has begun. Yeah. Weve had several quarters
Learning that a Montgomery County nonprofit will be helping with the search, lending their experience, their organizational skills, to the search for the hoggle children. Police, family members, and even complete strangers have spent hours and hours searching for sarah and jacob hoggle. The toddlers have been missing since the beginning of september. Their father hopes that a new reward fund will help continue that search. They have been missing for two months. Father troy turner holds out hope his children will be found safe. Now, some more help to keep the search going. The victims rights foundation, a Nonprofit Group dedicated to the victims of violent crime, is starting a reward fund. Whatever donations are collected will go to the person who finds the missing children. It gives us more organization. It gives us a greater base to pull volunteers from which is something that we need a lot of to finish up these searches. We probably have still close to 300 maps to complete. Reporter