Baltimore washington parkway tonight. Its a real mess out there, folks. Andn the last few minutes we have learned someonewas killed in this wreck. Thts is rig where i295 andee i495 min prince georges county. We also sawva med helicopter at the scene just a while ago. Were hearing this might be related to a hit a run crash involving a Police Vehicle in northeast d. C. Sh sho marie is live on the scene. Im here at quarles street and kennal worth avenue. There is a damaged k9 d. C. Police suv. It has four flat tire this is where Police Believe that this entire ing started. Lets rll some video. Police say a maroon colored infinity hit the suv causing the flat tires in the 4,500 block of quarles street. That driver sped off. D. C. Police were pursuing the suspect on i295. However, officers called off that pursuit, andat ths when the suspect continued to drive northbound into maryland. He crashed into another vehicle around 9 15 tonight. Prince georges county fire officials y one person died
Towed away a suburban a few moments ago. Behind us, it appears to have skbroos crashed into the power pole behind us. Two cherry pickers trying to repair the pole. They have to stabilize it and remove. It does not appear any power is jeopardized to the area here. You can see why traffic is closed in the area of eastwest highway between riggs and also New Hampshire and why both lanes are congested at this time with this crash response. That is the latest live. Justin finch. Back to you, melissa. Good to see whats happening there from the ground. Eastbound 70, 85 e street. Two right lanes blocked by a crash. Inbound east capitol, near rfk, truck blocking the center of the road as well. This is what chopper was over a short time ago in the sunoco gas station parking lot and the outside area there. Northbound road. No major problems. As far as your travel times, 66 inboubd is fine. 95 north is also looking good. Top of the beltway rolling along. Listen to wtop 103. 5 fm when you hop in you
Recognize jerusalem as israels capital. More World Leaders condemning the move. Those stories plus the massive new lawsuit facing Harvey Weinstein. Why we are flooding this house on purpose. And shoplifting suspects speed away from a mall, dragging a Security Guard with them. The race is on to find them today. Thursday, december 7th, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. So nice to have you with us on a thursday morning. We want to get right to the breaking news. The raging wildfires in Southern California. Fastmoving story. Fastmoving fires. Four major blazes burning out of control right now. The largest is the thomas fire. It has destroyed hundreds of homes and buildings in and around ventura, north of los an then theres also a creek fire in northern los angeles. Another one sweeping through bel air. Then the rye fire near santa clarita. Theyve prompted the evacuation of 200,000 people and of
This afternoon. We had the strong thunderstorms before the sun came up for most of us. Now were seeing the cloudy skies but you can feel the humidity. It is back and will stick with us for the first half of your work week. 84 degrees it feels like 89. We have the feels like temperature in place because of the southerly winds. Were starting to see a little bit of sunshine for some areas. You can see where were feeling it in some areas. Warren ton were in the 70s and 80s elsewhere where the clouds are hanging around. You can see some of the first couple of thunderstorms start to pop up across the area here is a look at the visible satellite. You can see the clear skies through Prince William counties and Faulkner County and other areas. Were seeing the cloudy areas stick by especially through southern maryland. Well keep temperatures into the upper 80s one of the coolest days of the work week. Here are a couple of showers brewing, well continue to track the afternoon thunderstorms on the
Flooding in the spring, but not this. Snow. The same storm drops snow in western kansas and as you might imagine, it caused problems for drivers and pulled down branchs and power lines as well. To stay on top of the weather here and across the country, download our nbc washington app and get alerts sent directly to your phone. Now developing in virginia at this hour, investigators say a fire may have started after a fight between a husband and a wife. First responders found them inside their home with burn injuries. One of them had to be airlifted to the hospital. Deputies say no one else was inside the home. Its unclear how bad the injuries are or how much damage was done inside the home. If you think youre having a case of the mondays, check out the damage in montgomery county. Police say a group of teenagers stomped in the windshields of about three dozen vehicles overnight at an apartment complex in gaithersburg. Thats a mess, pat. Doreen. It was a windshield smasharama. They got t