Thank you for joining us for the news at noon. Nikki is live at the bay bridge with look at the conditions now. Shes been there since this morning. Nikki . Reporter traffic isnt too bad now but it was not that way this morning. Memorial day weekend got off to a rough start when the lanes were shut down to the bay bridge for an entire hour. I heard on the radio the bridge was stopped. That kind of gridlock can put a damp every damper on your vacation. Thursdays use to be the die the day to get away with no traffic. No this weekend especially not today. We were annoyed about it. It was closed stand still absolutely. Turned the car off and sat there a while. Thats expected to be par for the course this weekend. Aaa says this will be the second highest volume for Memorial Day Travel since 2005. Millions are venturing out for the holiday weekend. Employment numbers are up, gas prices are down. Everybody wants to get out because its been raining 25 days. If youve been clinching your steering
We got breaking news out of montgomery county. You are looking at the scene. Sky 9 capturing this where a driver is dead after crashing into a pole. This is darntown road and billsville road and the car brought down wires and caused brush fires. At last check you dont see much traffic and part of that is because nothing is moving around that area. It is a case that sparked outrage around the world and tonight a manassas teen that has sued the prosecutor and the Police Detective that hounded him. The investigators took pictures of the teens penis and threatened to have him injected with a drug so he could photograph his erect penis. Wusa9 bruce la shan talked to the teens lawyer. Bruce, what the heck is going on here . I dont know, adam but i will tell you what is more crazy is that the detective who went after tray the defendants in this federal lawsuit that has just been filed. He ended up accused of molesting two other boys and killed himself as the cops closed in on him. Now, tray s
Gold medal from rio. Remember the news that broke about some team usa swimmers being robbed at gunpoint . Conger was with lochte and two others. Authorities in rio say they have more questions about the incident and have ordered the seizure of passports from lochte and jimmy fagan. Things are unclear, including whether the swimmers, including conger, have left rio. It shows lochte and another swimmer returning to the village three hours after the alleged robbery, appearing to place cell phones and other items in bins before proceeding through the metal detectors. Its not clear what those other rockville today. No one there would talk. It does not appear that authorities in brazil want to talk to conger again, just lochte and fagan. Today, Katie Ledecky is back home in bethesda. News 4s david culver was there where she got a herolike welcome. David . Reporter she brought an excitement to what is otherwise a really boring baggage claim. Catching her excitement then came the chants. [ cha
80mileanhour hurricane and moving up the coast. Its going to impact us. It is hitting the beaches hard. As it weakens, it strengthens to a hurricane, again. It could become a hurricane off the coast. The biggest part is this is going to stall off the coast. This is going to last for days. Look where it is across the charleston area, toward raleigh. Take a look at where this is going. No rain in the region yet. It will get here overnight. 50mileanhour winds. It is going to move along the coast. It has moisture and fuel and they do not have it weakening. It is coming offshore and strengthening. Here is the big question, where does it go from here . It is going to stall acros beaches. Amelia segal has more on that. We are tracking the hurricane and the Tropical Storm. The latest in elizabeth city, North Carolina. It is going to move with the storm all weekend. You can see the shot from our storm ranger. Most of us, beaches in maryland and virginia are under a Tropical Storm warning. This
The area. Amelia is here with the impact where you live. Here in the d. C. Meet tmetro area. If you have the umbrella handy, you may need it at times. The majority of the weekend will be dry. Showers at time, especially tomorrow morning and midday. Rain later in the day sunday. Breezy tomorrow, sunday and monday. Labor day right now is looking okay. Doug, we have been talking about this, frederick, loudoun upper 80s labor day, virtually dry west. If you live in the western zone or west of the blue ridge, dont cancel your golf game or camping outing. Its going to be great there. We are tracking this system. The beaches will be hugely affected. The bay also affected. Much more on those impacts coming up in a few minutes. Thanks. Co theres widespread storm related outages in the area. They have hundreds of workers and contractors ready to deploy. A merger with exelon makes it easier to share resources. A story you saw first on 4. A move by metro that could change how you pay for your comm