like a bomb exploded on bowed -- on board this bus. it started right here with this mustang. this school bus was traveling eased on frederick avenue in baltimore. it slammed into the back of this ford mustang, but it does not stop, it keeps going. it hit the concrete piling several hundred yards down. like a pinball, it bounces and continues across the street oncoming traffic. that is when it hit the mta bus, killing six people instantly. five people were on the mta bus, and the driver of the school bus was killed. no students were on the bus at the time, but there was a school bus aid among the injured. that person played a crucial role. in total, 10 people where taken to the hospital, their injuries critical. as of the 11:00 hour, rescuers had not made it all the way through that city bus, leaving the possibilities that there are still more victims inside. >> it literally looks like a bomb exploded in the bus. it is catastrophic damage. this was a major incident, and some seasoned individuals have said they he sam: the big question is, why the school bus did not stop. the ntsb has joined the investigation and will assist the baltimore city police department. we expect to learn the victims' identities later this afternoon. i want to send it over to suzanne kennedy, live at shock trauma with the rest of the story. suzanne: we concluded a briefing situation around 7:00 this morning when they started receiving patients. we are five miles from where the crash took place. half of the patients were transferred to this downtown hospital. there are five patients being treated at this hour. one is in critical, one in serious. three are listed as fair condition, considered stable. they do not know one man's age. there are four females, ranging from 20 to . tell us exactly because of privacy reasons, but she got us a sense of what they were treating this afternoon. >> there are generic injuries, from what we see in motor vehicle crashes. i cannot give details on specifics, but injuries to facial bones, to the spine, suzanne: there is never a good time for an accident like this, but it happened at a good time for the hospital. they were in the middle of a shift change, so they had their overnight doctors and nurses still on the scene. they were able to stand by in case they were needed, in case this was more of a mass casualty incident as they first thought it was. of those patients, they expect that two will be in the hospital overnight. one will be surgery. of the people being treated, one is the driver of the mustang, the first vehicle hit by the school bus. the other is the school bus aid. this is impacting the traffic situation in baltimore. for more on that, i send it over to jamie sullivan. jamie: we have closures in place, and you can expect they will be in place for most of the afternoon, as they already have yale avenue to old frederick road. you can take edmonson avenue -- edmonson avenue or wilkens avenue. we definitely do have it blocked off, not impacting any of our interstates, nothing like that. if you live in baltimore and you have to travel through this area, it is completely closed. we have skytrak 7 overhead. we will keep you updated on this expected to reopen. jummy: we want to remind our viewers, you can be the first to get breaking news on your phone or tablet. sign up for our breaking news alerts at wjla.com/text. other breaking news, one person shot and killed in prince george's county. police were called to this eccentric -- to the 60's have an hundred block -- neighbors heard at least three gunshots. police are offering a reward for any information on this shooting. now to an update regarding the two teenagers killed outside the regency apartments in capitol heights. prince george's county police just made an announcement of an arrest in the case. >> i am happy to announce today that we have made an arrest in one of those two hom we have good, viable investigative leads that turn out to be a couple of different things going on on a second individual. we expect further arrests to bring this to a conclusion here shortly. jummy: we will have more on abc 7 news starting at 4:00. we moved to another developing story. police in montgomery county are investigating a second possible hate crime at a school in just painted swastikas at burning tree elementary school. a jewish congregation meets at that school. someone drew a similar image on a football field at quince orchard high school. there is no word on whether these are connected. we are just a week away from election day, and the justice department is now fast tracking its investigation into the hillary clinton's private server. clinton is filing -- linton is firing back. >> hillary clinton on her camp lane -- on her campaign plane overnight, letting loose with staffers, trying to establish a political fire engulfing her campaign. mrs. clinton: i am sure a lot of you may be asking what this new n.l. story is about. >> in cleveland -- here. and they said it was not even a close call. i think most people have decided a long time ago what they think about all of this. >> to cincinnati, clinton putting on a defiant front. mrs. clinton: i made a mistake. if they want to look at more emails of one of my staffers, go ahead. look at them. i know they will reach the same conclusion they reached when they year. >> that staffer, of course, whom and again -- that staffer, of course, huma abedin. those emails are on anthony weiner's computer. abedin's estranged husband, accused of sex thing with a that a possibility of a laptop containing emails could be hers. she will continue to be, as she always has been, forthcoming and cooperative. the white house is staying on the sidelines. >> i will neither defend nor criticize what director comey has decided to communicate to the public about this investigation. the president does not believe director comey is intentionally trying to influence the outcome of an election. >> on the campaign trail, donald trump is thankful. mr. trump: good job, huma. thank you, anthony weiner. >> today in west virginia in charlestown, a lot of issues to talk about here. we have interviewed the mayor. that they have, she describes it as a godsend for this community, can take a hand that can take a hit when mgm opens up a national harbor. people are lined up for early voting. there is a tremendous engagement in this election. we will be setting up our soapbox. we will be here all day long to get folks an opportunity to sound off on issues. obviously coal is one t say and bring you their comments this afternoon at 4:00, 5:00, and 6:00. jummy: happening today, open a roman for the affordable care act health plan begins. -- open enrollment for the affordable care act health plan begins. the price of the so-called benchmark plan is going up by 25%, some facing an increase of more than one million consumers will have to pick a new insurance carrier because their current insurer is exiting the obamacare exchanges. we step outside and take a live look at the white house. another fall like day out there. doug hill is here with a look at the forecast. doug: kind of chilly again today with temperatures in the upper 50's. not any sunshine out there. take a look at national harbor. the wind will bring in warmer temperatures tomorrow and thursday, not so much today. 63, otherwise closer to the 60 degree mark. 52 in frederick. 55 in winchester. 56 reported right now in annapolis. our forecast for the afternoon -- i will keep it optimistic, a little sunshine breaking through, especially west of the metro area. temperatures about 60 to 63 will suddenly have wind that is not as cool. 48 in germantown, 51 in dale city, 51 in largo, 53 in the nation's capital. we will talk about the warming trend and the weekend forecast in seven or eight minutes. jummy: coming up on "abc 7 news at noon," we continue following that breaking news out of baltimore, where a school bus crashed into a car and an mta another tragedy on the roads, northern virginia, on the issues, barbara comstock and donald trump are the same. and reject any comprehensive immigration reform. both oppose background checks that keep guns from suspected terrorists. and comstock-trump were prepared to shut down the government just for politics. time for luann bennett: comprehensive immigration reform now. common sense gun safety laws. bennett tells congress: do your job. i'm luann bennett announcer: you are watching "abc 7 news at noon," on your side. jummy: for anyone just joining us, we continue following breaking news out of baltimore. six people dead, 10 injured, one in critical condition after a school bus crashed into a car and an mta bus. five of the victims were on the mta bus. one was on the school bus. no children were on board these -- no children were on board the yellow school bus. abc 7 will continue to update the story online as more information becomes available. halloween night turned deadly in mississippi. an adult and two children killed when a trailer collided with another vehicle. several others were taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. the three killed were on a halloween halide -- a halloween have cost -- what may have caused that terrible crash. happening right now in pennsylvania, bill cosby is in court for a key pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case. an attorney for cosby will attempt to get the charges dropped. they will also determine if a previously sealed deposition can be used. more than one dozen women have accused the comedian of sexual misconduct. cosby's also want the women accusing him to take competency and memory tests. also today, closing arguments begin in the "rolling stone" defamation trial. yesterday a judge throughout the critical part -- yesterday, a judge threw out a critical part. the defamation case centers on a let's take you back outside to the white house, a live look at what is another kind of typical fall day. temperatures are just about 57 degrees or so. the good news is, though, hopefully a warm-up is on the way in the next couple of days. doug: looking good. you like the gray clouds out there? we just got sorry for the delay. we are talking about fall color. we will show it to you in a second. spectacular out there. andre in upper marlboro sent this. look at this one beautiful leaf. andre, thank you very much. you can share all of your images . we are in the final week of our pick a winner, and then friday morning, "good morning washington," we will announce a winner. fall colors are really starting to come on strongly right now across most of the area. this is the sky, just kind of gray and chilly. 57 degrees at nationals park. we will warm up somewhere around 60, a high of 62 or 63. we will see how much sunshine develops. the best chances looking at futurecast. you see the indication skies may clear a bit, and then definitely tonight as high pressure builds in. the wind will change direction a bit, and that will warm us up. the next couple of days will not feel too much like november. by thursday afternoon, this cold front comes to town. that will give us periods of showers. then it will cool down in time for the upcoming weekend. jump -- after lower 60's today, 76 tomorrow, 78 on thursday. cannot even rule out the possibility of an isolated thunderstorm on thursday. 78 degrees. on friday it will be blustery, 57, sunny, breezy, but feeling cooler than 57. over the weekend, sunshine, cool, low to mid 60's. a reminder, turn the clocks back one hour before you go to bed for eastern standard time. -- enjoy the extra hour of sleep. jummy: abc news is investigating a story that capture the nation's attention. murder charges dropped against ingmar kuan dk -- ingmar kuan deke -- chandra leavy's found in rock creek park. now prosecutors have been that woman. she joins us from new york. what has she found? debra: i tell you, this is worthy of a political thriller. we thought we knew what had happened in the chandra leavy case. gary condit has been linked to the case for so long. everyone had taken their eyes off of him. this illegal immigrant had been convicted of her murder. then suddenly this summer, the case was just dropped. everything has been blown open, and this woman of it. she has not spoken to anybody publicly before, certainly not on television. she tells how she somehow befriended the man who is the star witness in this case can't began -- in this case and began courting him because he was talking about harming somebody in her life. he started talking about the chandra leavy case, and leading her to believe that there was witness everybody thought, and prosecutors realized they did not have a credible witness and realized they did not have a case. we also talked with ingmar himself, the first time that he talked to anybody since the case blew open. we would hear what he has to say about his involvement in the case. he has maintained his innocence, but he talks about details of what led him to this park chandra levy was found, and what his version of this story is. something really just hard to believe. jummy: we are looking forward to that one. thank you for joining us. live from new york. live, coming up, continuing coverage of the breaking news from baltimore, a deadly bus vo: here's the last thing washington needs. amie hoeber. a reckless tea party partisan. hoeber will defund planned parenthood, threatening cancer screening. said she'd invade iraq again if given the chance, and hoeber has fought for a global increase of chemical weapons. we need john delaney. a family man and entrepreneur, he built two respected maryland business, creating thousands of jobs. in congress, he puts working for and i approve this message. jummy: abc 7 is on your side with a consumer alert. every 90 seconds, someone is transported by an air ambulance, and it can be lifesaving but also insurance. you may still get stuck with a high 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