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Transcripts For WUSA Wusa 9 News At 6am 20150109

Clog traffic on this road. Delia goncalves joins us live from the scene with more on the break and the sheet of ice that is there too. Delia . Reporter right, we just learned moments ago that the crews who are here have located the water main break. They are locating the pipe via the valve rather and just trying to get to the valve so they can shut off the water. Of course they have to dig through all the snow and ice that is covering the valve. But in the meantime, yeah, sheet of ice here on river road. And you can see the trickle of water that is now coming down flowing down wilson lane and pooling on to river road. So your outbound lane of river road covered in ice and slush and periodically, were seeing a salt truck which is on standby periodically that salt truck will come out into the lane and treat the roads. So expect delays if you are on outbound river road at wilson lane. Now heres another problem because of the cold, crews say its going to take a little longer than typical because they literally cannot be out in the water in the cold working around the clock. They are working getting into the truck to warm up and then working again. Thats another delay be this process is going to dish and ask this process is going to take some time. As you said river road major road. Expect a lot of delays with folks, things are looking good so far right here because were not seeing a ton of heavy traffic. But as the morning progresses, we can expect to see some more delays. So please keep that in mind as you are heading to work today. Back to you in the studio. All right thank you delia. Shes live on river road in bethesda and of course there are plenty of other routes in case river road is jammed up which is expected to. So beverly farmer is going to help us with that. Bev . Good mu might want to avoid river road. Give them a little to work. And give crew askance to shut off the water, theyve been trialing the road surface to keep it wet where all the water has run off and potentially freezing on river road. But georgetown, 355, wisconsin avenue, connecticut avenue, options to consider to give a little more space to river road. Around the beltway, weve d lanes open. Virginia 95 though a bit of a struggle out of stafford because of that truck incident cleaning that up northbound north of 630 stafford. Truck that had lost its load of blueererries off blueberries cough side of the off the side of the roadway. After that still slow into newington and lanes are open into springfield. Charles county the closure of 425 insides road just south of 326. Mike and andrea back to you. Thank you beverly. We are following breaking news from just north of paris, france. Police there are involved in on operation to capture the two brothers wanted for a deadly mass shooting at a paris newspaper. They think they may be closing on them. Nick giovanni is in the news room with latest developments. Reporter mike, andrea, at this very minute the manhunt is centered around a small town near the Charles De Gaulle airport about 25 niles mideast of pars miles northeast of paris. The French Ministry believes the two suspects involved in the shooting at the scene there are now surrounded. Police believe they have them cornered inside the printing house. Police say the suspects may have at least one hostage in there with them. As this all unfolds the airport has shut down two of its runways and cnn is reporting residents are being told to stay inside. Schools are on lockdown. So still a very fluid situation but now appears to be a standoff. Well keep you posted theres no telling certainly how long this standoff could last. Mike ab korea . Thank you nick. President obama will be in tennessee today. Hes expected to unveil more details into his proposal to make Community College free for two years for hard working students. But, as you might imagine, theres a little bit of a catch. Nikki burdine is live near the annandale campus of north virginia Community College with more on that. Good morning nikki. Reporter good morning. Im sure a lot of parents out there would love to send their kids to Community College for two years for absolutely free. And thats exactly what the president says hell be discussing today on his trip to knoxville, tennessee. The president first made this announcement yesterday in a video on facebook and today he plans to discuss it in more in depth. Pellissippi state Community College. The Similar Program is already in place in the state of tennessee. It was implemented by governor bill haslam and cost called tennessee its called tennessee perhaps. This was inspired by a nonprofit in knoxville called tennessee achieves. Stilt a lot of Unanswered Questions about the program but the president says it would be funded by both state and federal dollars. And the price tag could be as much as 70 billion. But in order to receive that money and that two years of free school, students will have to maintain a 2. 5 gpa and be enrolled at least half of the time. Now of course before any of this happens it must pass in the republican controlled congress. Another issue . There are only 1100 Community Colleges and capacity could be a big problem for the president getting the plan off of the ground. We expect to learn more about the plan today. And in the president s speech in knox vim, and then in the knoxville, and then in the president s state of the union address. Ive been speaking with the director of the tennessee achieves program. She says theyre very excited to see what president says and how he plans to use their plan already in progress to implement that for across the country. And by the way a little small anecdote. My little sister works at that nonprofit and knoxville is preparing for the president s visit. We are excited to hear more about the plan and learn more about what the president says could provide free college for two years for students all across the country. Of course its going to cost a lot of money. Updated on that in a little bit later in the show. Back to you in the studio. All right nikki thank you. Shes in annandale at the Northern Virginia Community College campus there. We have new Surveillance Video to show you capturing the scene after the Fatal Police Shooting of a 12yearold cleveland boy. That child tamir rice was carrying a toy gun. This new video shows his 14 yearold sister rushing towards the scene moments after the shooting. And another officer pushing her to the ground and handcuffing her. Officers are also seen standing around without trying to help the child who was shot. Never seen anything so cruel. She had a front row view of her brother there dying. And shes helpless. Cleveland police are refusing to comment on the video. A grand jury will decide whether to prosecute the officer involved in the shooting. And protesters in our area are demanding justice in another Police Involved shooting. Springfield Resident John geer was shot and killeddened his own front perch on his own front porch and protesters demanded to know why geer was shot. The demonstrators also want to know why officers let geer bleed to death inside his home. The Justice Department is investigating this shooting. A foggy bottom bar is fighting to get its Liquor License back this morning. Mcfaddens saloon at 24th and pennsylvania avenue was shut down and had its license suspended for liquor after five people were stabbed there a couple of weeks ago. Today, d. C. s alcohol board is going to consider whether or not to allow mcfaddens to resume serving alcohol. The District Of Columbia loses out to boston in its bid to represent the United States in the future summer olympics. And former director of the fbi says the it is 6 10 on this fed morning, blustery out there and windchills are in the teens even though we have temps in the 20s in most spots. Live doppler 9000 hd depicting the snow flurries out there. The air is very dry and the bark here worse than the bite. A lot of this not reaching ground and clouds with this too will clear out over the next few hours, a sunny breezy day. Up into thes and got some 30s and got some issues this weekend and especially early next week, now with beverly farmer now and find out about timesaver traffic. Good morning bev. Good morning howard. Friday problems in odd spots. Bethesda the issue weve got the water main break closing wilson lane to the north or west of river road. And bradley. Impacting river road the water runoff and freezing slushy stuff thats been going on there as crews have been treating that. Sky 9 looking at the scene now in bethesda. River road itself the impact will be the slush and volume and looking at what is going on. Another way into bethesda is a good idea. Another way out of Charles County if you travel the iron sides area. 425 south of route 6 south of Durham Church road closed in each direction for at least another hour. Everything open on route 6 itself in the la plata area. 95 virginia northbound early slowdowns out of stafford. North of 630. The accident cleanup tough road to the right with the tractortrailer although on the shoulder its attracting a lot of attention. Slow again dale city and again in newington towards springfield. Andrea back to you. Thanks beverly. The competition is over at least for now. The u. S. Olympic Committee Picked boston as the city representing the United States in its bid for the 2024 olympics. Boston came out on top over washington, san francisco, and los angeles. Its great. Whenever you win a competition its great. [ laughter ] and we were up against some stiff city competition. Its the international round, boston will be competing against several cities including paris and rome in its bid to bring the olympics back to the United States. In response to the choice, washingtons olympic vice chair ted leonsis says that from ted leonsis. Former fbi director robert muler released his report on the ray rice scandal. He says the nfl had never seen the video inside the elevator at that Atlantic City casino until tmz went public with it. Mueller essential he says there was no coverup. But according to mueller the league just didnt dig deep enough to find all the evidence in the case at the time. This morning owners around the nfl are acknowledging that a change in policy was certainly called for on that front but theyre also backing roger goodell. They wrote goodell is quote the right person to lead the league as we move forward. 6 13. 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Children and adolescents in particular may be at an increased risk of seizures, confusion or abnormal behavior. The most common side effects are mild to moderate nausea and vomiting. Call your doctor right away. Dont lose another moment to the flu. When theres flu, tamiflu. Welcome back. Time now is 6 16. Were keeping tabs on delays around the dmv this morning courtesy of cold weather. No closure os report but a few minutes ago Garrett County Public Schools in maryland announced theyll be on a three hour delay today. A couple of counties are going with a one hour delay. Thatd be page and Fauquier County schools in virginia. Being on that list. Most are still two hour delays though mainly on the virginia side today including fairfax, loudoun, prince william, and Warren County Public Schools. All two hour delays today. Again the full list is running at the bottom of the screen. Mike andrea . All right nick thank you very much. It is 6 17. We do get a break a little bit of a break. But the bitter cold temperatures before we get socked again by mother nature. Yeah got an arctic last coming again tonight into saturday. Today 30s and sunday a little bit of a break back into the 30s and then monday morning potentially some center ice around ear to ice around here to start the day in the form of freezing rain. Maybe a little bit of sleet but more likely a freezing rain to rain sort of setup for monday. This morning though im tracking some snow showers here that have been coming across the region. Flurries and nows and a light coating euin snow showers and a light coating in a few spots. One for commuter brad going from frederick to laurel ran into the flurries and snow showers this morning but most of the action right now is along and east of i95. See the get little by the here . Little guy here . Moving to the east but most of it along and east of i95. So if youre in southeast d. C. , out route 50, toward annapolis, over toward bowie down in columbia, in toward leonardtown and lexington park, easton, cambridge, those areas have a potential for seeing a little bit of snow and then you look at the michael son weather camera we had a little lowering here this to the east this morning. There could be a few of the flurries as i said across areas in the eastern section of d. C. Mid 30s this afternoon. Little breezy especially this morning. And then 20s and teens tonight in town with some Single Digits by tomorrow morning. Little breezy maybe an understatement. Weve had gusts in the mountain it is the high country close to 50 miles an hour and gusting near 30 right now at Reagan National and also in easton. Temperatures are in the 20s. A good 15, degrees warmer than yesterday morning in many areas, 28 right now in washington and the windchills though the air still kind of painable. Down in the teens. At reagan gnarl right now. Weve got cloudy skies and a few flurries around. Especially north of town. 28 feeling like 14 with the winds southsouthwest at 20 to 22. This that means a very cold sad once again. We turn sunny today. Mid 30s. Tonight, though teens and Single Digits. Windchills 0 to 5 below. 25 tomorrow. Back in the deep freeze. 38 sunday. Not as cold and then monday morning, monitor this over the weekend. Its not set in stone yet but im a little concerned for that freezing rain threat to start the week. High in the afternoon 39. Beverly farmer, got 6 19 now. Whats happening . Northbound side of 95 howard, virginia side, out of stafford. Youre in a slowdown north of 630 before you get to 610. In fact just after 630. A tractortrailer accident cleanup continues on the id right shoulder, after that still slow until woodbridge and newington briefly. 395 seeing more volume heading up past the beltway to duke street with all lanes open. And if you travel river road, sky 9 has been looking at the issue with the water main break. Down on wilson lane above river road. It remains closed but some of the water has been running down on to river road freezing and creating slushy conditions and work crews have been out there treating the road surface on river road until they can get the water turned off. Better bet is wisconsin avenue or connecticut avenue in towards the beltway from the beltway rather toward bethesda to avoid that stretch of slushy river road. Thank you for joining us this friday morning. Wusa9 more coming up right after this here you go. Wow thanks get a free beverage in any size for enrolling in dd perks, and start earning points towards more rewards with every purchase. Join today for a free beverage on us. America runs on dunkin. 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In a speech at the university of chicago, he says quote he is very seriously considering running in 2016. Omalley made it clear he is not waiting for Hillary Clinton to make her decision. The governor leaves office on january 21st. New Airport Security measures could soon be in place but this time they would affect workers not passengers. The tsa is considering stepping up security after the arrest of five people including a baggage handler in a gun smuggling operation. It began and involved passenger jets flying between atlanta and new york. The new security measures could

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