It is my turn here. 95 northbound at 100 here, we have lane blocked, disabled vehicle blocking the right lane. Keep an eye out for that. 95 in virginia, again, about a four mile backup here. As you get on in fredericksburg we have some road work hanging around through stafford. After that its clearing up out of the way. 66 to compton road, no problems there. Rolling along nicely. Same thing when you look at prince georges county. We are nice and green. And top of the beltway here no major issues. B. W. Parkway, 95, just fine and then 29 here also green as well. Back in ten minutes. See you at 5 11. Thank you. 5 01 now. A developing story, this morning a former Fairfax County Police Officer is on the other side of the law. Adam torres is waking up in jail after a grand jury charged him with murder in the death of john geer. Derrick ward has more on why the officer wont be going home today. Derrick . Reporter well, aaron, he has been a former Police Officer since the 31st of last month.
Stability in washington and any hint i mean, any hint that the growth agenda could get done. And perhaps overshadowing, pun intended, all those headlines today, the Solar Eclipse. Many are wait what many millions are waiting what many are calling a once in a lifetime event. Varney Company Begins right now. Ashley we begin with sad news this morning, the search continuing for ten u. S. Sailors missing after an Early Morning collision between a Navy Destroyer and a tanker or near singapore. What on earth is going on. Whats the latest . Yeah, search and rescue underway. It happened east of singapore. It hit an oil and chemical tanker three times its size. So basically this is the second serious collision in about a month. The uss fitzgerald collided with a freighter off the coast of japan, seven sailors dead there. Sailors are being evacuatedded, and so the search is on right now for the ten missing, five injured as well. Ashley all right, thank you very much. Lets bring in colonel ralph
Day after President Donald Trump was sworn in. Many wearing a pink and holding up signs as a rebuke of President Trump. Demonstrators and not not only gathered and marched nationally but worldwide all in support of the womens march on washington. You are looking at video from demonstrators in mexico city the Czech Republic france and greece saying they are together in solidarity to protect their right. In some places there were so many people that there was nowhere to march. Many dressed in pink as women gathered in washington dc the into staggering numbers to march for human rights. It is a feminist movement it is a human movement. It is not just about women it is about all right. And as a rebuke of resident donald trump. We lost respect and dignity and hope in the white house. The mass of people grew larger than the road to the intended to march. The same thing happened in boston. We will never fighting to ensure equality for all of our citizens. In denver chicago phoenix atlanta. Le
And it feels lake deja vu. And we have live coverage from alexis smith but we start with Amy Hollyfield along 580. Any improvement in sight . Reporter hi, natasha, well it is now starting to rain so nas just adding to so that is just adding to problems. And behind me they are still hard at work, the two lanes are still shut down. The pothole is so big, caltrans had to call in an outside contractor to help them repair it. The rough estimate is they open up at 3 00 this afternoon but with the weather the way it is, they say dont hold them to that. Imagine hitting this pothole at 60 miles per hour. It happened to ray lewis just before 3 00 this morning and immediately sidelined him. It was bad. It was a big bump. So, luckily i didnt lose control of my car. Reporter he wasnt alone. Chp officers say at least 15 other cars sat disabled on the shoulder of the westbound interstate 580, all suffering flat tires from this monster pothole. Demand was so high for tow trucks, they had to wait for t
In dec. A firefighter recovering right now northeast. We went up in flames this morning. Krist kristen, what did he have to say . Reporter we talked to her and she got the call on her way to work there was a fire in her building. We talked with sources who had inside knowledge of whats inside the building here. We understand they restored historic items, possibly from the u. S. Capitol building. Of course, serious concerns about this fire over night but we understand that everything that they were working on was saved. We are just very thankful. Thankful because it could have been a lot worse if firefighters did not get here the minute they did. We got a lot of wood in there. Northeast dc was on fire with all kinds of flammable things inside. There is a lot of fire trucks. Firefighters battled this one for an hour and a half. They had a hard time getting to the fire because of metal bars and shutters then they have to find the fire. It is an expansive building. They needed to extend th