Kevin, and you can see the moving truck crashed near Georgia Avenue and connecticut area. Fire and rescue is urging drivers to slow down and avoid distractions and of course windshield wiper and headlights on. And a tree fell on tennessee avenue in alexandria. Laegs poli the tree fell on a line and cut power to about a dozen homes. A Traffic Alert to tell you about. You will want to avoid most of downtown d. C. Because of road closures. Derrick ward is live in northwest with more on the first ever its kind event happening in the district. Good morning. Well take a look, is this bike d. C. Or d. C. Bike ride. You can go around. Thats fine. So were talking to those not actually participating, but trying to wind their way through the city. Take a look at what the bike backup looks like. There is actually about 1500 they say 8,000 bicyclists taking part. It started over by the 3rd street, pennsylvania avenue, and thats where it will he saiend. Its winding its way through 17 miles. And they
I went out sleeveless. Its cooler and people are enjoying the temperature and humidity that are down and today, the temperatures will be seasonably warm. Lets take a look at the current readings, upper 50s to low 60s across the north and 65 in durham and here at the station . Raleigh. 60 in henderson and 58 souths south hill, virginia and 59 aft roanoake rapids. As we move to the warmer in laurinburg and fayetteville at 67 and 65 in clinton and goldsboro, and satellite and radar showing fair skies yesterday. We did have fair weather clouds and we talked about those forming at times, and today, a few partly cloudy periods mixed in, and we should see more sun than clouds at 8 00. 69 and a mix of sun and clouds at lunchtime and 83 degrees hit our high, close to normal. Looking for 88 degrees but compared to the last few weeks, it will not be nearly as muggy. We have changes coming in the 7 day forecast in about 15 minutes. Heat and humidity returning late this week but well let brian tell
Tonight, the Dc Music Community lost what some say was a rising star. As a local rapper dubbed swipey was fatally gunned down in Prince Georges County. A story that friends say was of a life full of potential cut short, matt . Debra, his given name was douglas brooks, only 18 years old, but leaving his friends and fans with a lingering question. Could he have gotten on the right track and have done it . He rapped alongside fat joe was the next naming rapper. Meet swipey, here he is performing his popular song dirty in dc last month. Hundreds were there to watch the rising star. The Radio Station wpgc on 99. 5 interviewed him about his future. His comanager believed that a serious payday didnt seem to be out of the question. He had so much success and that it is unmeasurable for me to say how much that they would going to be huge. Reporter swipey grew up in an environment that involved around drugs, violence, poverty. And the music would reflect that and that it is their job to steer sw
Amy good morning, New Hampshire. 6 00 on this sunday, october 2nd. Im amy coveno. Well get to the top stories in just a minute. Josh is looking at the forecast. Still rainy out there. Yeah, it wasnt the nicest day out there, was it . Weve got another similar day although it could be better today. A little bit more dry time through sunday, but certainly, another cool, wet day. You can see weve got clouds and a few showers around the region and a very stray shower moving through southwestern New Hampshire as we check out the doppler radar. Well zoom out farther and show you this, this area of low pressure sitting and spinning still right there. As the flow moves around that, it brings in the occasional showers at times and we cant clear out until that makes its way across the region and whit, until then on and off showers are a chance. Temperatures either side of 50 right now and only once again making it into the 50s, a couple of degrees milder than yesterday, but not much. Well take a
The precipitation in that january through march time frame. And right on cue forecasters including paul deanno as you just heard see a more active storm pattern developing for march. A man who at one time trained to become a Police Officer made his First Court Appearance this afternoon. He is accused of killing his sons grandfather who was also a richmond cop. Kpix 5s da lin was in the courtroom. Reporter videocameras werent allowed inside the courtroom. But the judge allowed to us take pictures with shackles around his waist and hands, the copkilling suspect robert vega appeared calm. The hearing only lasted a few minutes but during that time, robert turned around and look at his sister and also spent several seconds looking at the victims daughter as if he wanted to Say Something to her. This has been a tragic incident for both families. The suspect has been part of the family for quite a while. Reporter some richmond Police Officers came out to support the victim and the victims dau