People overcome with grief. Police piecing together whether what happened was a crime or a tragic accident, as strangers staged their own moment of silence. Police in Prince Georges County continue to investigate this accident. They tell us the driver did stay at the scene and cooperated with investigators. But was later so distraught she had to be taken to a local hospital for treatment. This was a county bus involve in this, but it was a contractor that operated the bus. They are a giant in the transportation industry, employing nearly 10,000 drivers. We pulled their federal Safety Record and they have just one serious violation in the last few years and two fatal crashes on their record, before today. Live in Upper Marlboro, joce sterman, abc~7 news. We have breaking news from capitol hill where House Republicans are delaying their summer recess now by one day. Our News Partners report the houston will meet tomorrow the house will meet tomorrow morning as they try to advance a Borde
Sixtyseven, almost 68 a barrel. It had a huge drop in the past few weeks. We are going to start with russia. It has dropped in to recession. Its currently has flat out crash. Ralph peters is here. It is good to see russia and putin in trouble. We are a financial program. Could he do it . Yes, he probably will be more aggressive. The budget gets tighter at home. He may play that. Stuart, it is the putin is facing a night mare constellation of problems. He has huge dilatory buildout. We have made wild promises. Russia is facing, as you know, the banks and corporations, they are facing financing and refinancing crises. Putin is going to be up against the wall unless the oil price shoots back up. If the oil price does not shoot back up, putin may start shooting. Stuart i am looking for positives. Let me move on to iran. I say they will never, ever give up on the pursuit of a nuclear weapon. I do not make it makes any difference what the price of oil is. What do you say . I think that you a
A single that opened up on the George Washington parkway is getting bigger. It will take a while to be fixed. And spout run123 parkway, closed. Brianne carter has details on those repairs. Good afternoon to you. This is a piece of the rail we have been talking about. The problem you can see it behind me, this massive hole on the southbound lanes of gw parkway. They have extended the closure all the ways from the beltway to spout run. Work is getting ready to begin. A complicated commute for thousands thanks to this growing sinkhole in the southbound lanes of George Washington parkway. [indiscernible] with the southbound lanes from 120 32 stout run shutdown, the backup continues to build. I just want to go home. That is exactly what colleen tried to do, only when she tried median,a uturn in the she got stuck in the mud and had to wait longer for a tow truck. [indiscernible] police discovered the just after 7 00 last night after four cars trying to avoid the rupture in the road collided.
Some progress. You can see what is or what was the whole, and they have worked to fill it in, and now they are waiting for the asphalt to come and cover it over and finish up the work, but it was a huge, huge problem when it opened up this morning for rushhour traffic. Rushhourt what commuters wanted to see this morning. Looking at the pothole, it did not look all of that big, actually, but big enough to do damage. Single, pothole but a and it grew to five feet long and 10 feet wide, and crews shut thatthe southbound, and caused huge backups. And a bad situation got worse for colleen. She got stuck while making a uturn and had to have her car pulled out. Throughout the entire day, access to the southbound lanes was closed down and caused huge confusion. Did you hear about the sinkhole . No. Completely turned around trying to make it. Southbound is blocked. So what to do . Meantime, by midafternoon, workers came in with a dump truck. , digging a hole and making repairs. Said the Nationa
Here, and here is where the hole was. The crews have been able to did into it, and they now basically have a big section that they have cleared out, and they will prettying up this hole soon. Lets go to video from early in the day. This was about five feet long and 10 feet wide, and it opened up early this morning on the southbound lanes of the gw parkway, and it caused quite a backup in traffic, and it has been causing a mess all day long along be gw parkway, as this had to be diverted as Police Closed down the southbound lanes. Earlier this afternoon, those trying to get on the southbound lanes, not knowing that this was closed out, or was confusion, and we talked to one of the motorists earlier today. To get off, and then another exit to get back on east, but it is a sinkhole. Yes. You cannot do it. This piece of machinery which is coming out right now, that is going to lay down the tar and the asphalt inside the lanes in front of me were the whole wise. They are hoping to have all