Georges county have now been closed with arrests and charges. There are two to go. Reporting live, scott broom, wusa9. Good to get that update. Thank you, scott. Prince georges county police also announced an arrest in the murder of an elderly woman in capital heights. Accused of killing mcintyre, the 71yearold woman was stabbed to death in her home on chapel oaks drive february 9. Investigators believe ward had been helping mcintyre. They say ward stole her flat screen tv and dvd player and the break came when police recovered the stolen television. Law enforcement out there searching for a man they are called armed and dangerous. 60yearold john wesley already wanted for several other Violent Crimes in the frederick area. Tonight, authorities believe he is involved in the murders of an elderly couple over the weekend. Kristin fisher is live with more on the search efforts from outside the victims home. Kristen. John Wesley Jeffries is not officially a suspect, but hes a person of inte
Has killed 18 people and injured three others. A hot air balloon caught fire and crashed into a sugar cane field. The victims are from france, britain, japan and hong kong. Three survivors were taken to a local hospital and it is one of the worst accidents involving tourists in egypt. Also new this morning, the u. S. Supreme court takes up the question of dn actual sam peopling to help involve crimes. The justices will hear arguments from maryland officials who want police to be allowed to take dna samples from people who have been arrested but not convicted. Twentyeight states and the federal government already do this type of sampling. Privacy advocates claim this is unconstitutional. The justices will make a final decision in the case later this year. Also in this mornings top stories, hundreds of concerned parents and residents in Prince Georges County are coming together calling for an end to violence they say is killing their children. A meeting was hosted by radio one last night
National captioning institute www. Ncicap. Org good morning washington, it is 5 00. We are on storm watch. We have a nasty weather headed our way. Jacqui, were talking wet, not white. Unless you live along the blue ridge or areas of to the west, you will have a little bit of sleet mixing in. A little accumulation is mixed in there. Do not leave without your rain boots or your umbrella. You can see the rain still hours away. Most of this morning will be dry. Our temperatures are on the chellie side. 33 degrees in d. C. And 26 degrees in martinsburg. Rangel be developing by the noon hour. Temperatures rain will be developing by the noon hour. Well tell you how much to expect, not in a few minutes. Time for traffic this morning. Problem started overnight starting at 11 00. A tractortrailer slammed into the sound wall, a single vehicle crash. A lot is going on. Cleanup continues. Look at all this activity. This is video. They are still dealing with a lot. This will be the maryland beltway
killed a prince george s county police officers. came down to the stop and the broken. hundreds of nationals fans stranded afters night s game stretched 13 innings, way past the closing time for metro. atashington 5:00 a.m. begins now. live and in hd, this is good morning washington, on your side. good morning, washington. it is tuesday, august 21. glad you are starting or stay with us. i am cynne simpson. i am steve chenevey. start with meteorologist adam caskey. a very comfortable start on this tuesday morning. very humid, temperatures around 60 degrees. feels pretty nice especially for late august. 59 in leesburg, 62 in germantown d.c.orthwest qe-3 in culpeper. watch for patchy fog especially washington, a hagerstown, if martinsburg, frederick, you have visibilities. that should burn off around sunrise. cloudy today, isolated thundershowers. those are few and far between. slight chance of that mainly after 4:00 p.m. high temperature of 84. same story basically
aircraft. metro a has the same for their trains and that s where the problem was. it happened at about 2:00 p.m. according to metro a computer at the metro control sent went down and he could not seep where the 44 trains operating on the system were. the system that controlled signal, speed and proximity of trainers from one another was not affected. trains were stopped oust sadie nonetheless and passengers experienced delays of 20 to 25 minutes. chaos. trains not running due to a computer system. i ve been downstairs near the tenley town university station. just alerted there is no train service due to the computer system being down. thank god they have cabs and buses still running. for us reline lying on the train system, it s puts a damper on our day, but it s saturday. it stopped about 25 minutes in between stations, just going from bethesda to tinleytown, took me almost half an hour. reporter: normally how long does it take? five minutes. reporter: operators we