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Transcripts For WUSA Wusa 9 News At 6am 20151001

That area. No delays but it is wet so take it easy out there. Other than the issue that we were talking about in largo, the majority of the beltway still doing really well with no other issues out in virginia or the top side of the beltway. Want to let you know 395, 295 also free and clear of any issues but you will see volume in areas like oxon hill. So just be mindful of that. Your next traffic update coming up in ten minutes. Well take you along i95 and 66. Over to you. Governor Terry Mcauliffe has already declared a state of emergency. Hes mobilizing all resources to prepare not only for joaquin but what he calls a major statewide rain event today and tomorrow. So with that lets bring in mike hydeck no more on whats being done to prepare for all of this. Reporter theres plenty being done. State of emergency does a few things. It provides, one, a very public warning that a serious storm is on the way. It also gets resources ready ahead of time. It allows state agencies to bypass time consuming paperwork and procedures and gets assistance to local governments and residents of the commonwealth more quickly. Its also a mechanism to activate the Virginia National guard. Guard. It provides liability coverage for volunteers and private entities who assist the state in response efforts as well. In new england, they are getting a short break right now from the rain but they already had in excess of five inches of rain in the last day or so, places like rhode island, massachusetts, maine. Mallsive street flooding there all within the last 24 hours. This is before joaquin heads their way. Meteorologists say the tides are as nomeically high there as nom ceam as free mom astro momically high there. Fail gaters be ware. Theres a possibility the redskins game against the eagles may have to be rescheduled this sunday. As of right now the 1 00 p. M. Kickoff is a go for fedex field but an n. F. L. Spokesman says right now we are monitoring the weather and staying in touch with both teams. It all of course depends on the track of would keen. As we continue to joaquin. As we continue to track joaquin as it travels east, heres howard with the latest on where and when. Joaquin is hammering parts of the central bahamas. It has been strengthening and is looking much more impressive. You can see the counterclockwise rotation, darker colors. The tolder cloud tops, strong thunderstorms are wrapping around the center. Winds 120 gusting to 150. Looks like its going to get stronger as we get into tonight and friday morning. Potentially up to a category four storm with winds 140 miles an hour. Theyre going to get hammered here with the wind. The storm surge, the flooding. Its going to be bad. This is a Tropical Storm warm, mmn the rest of the northern bahamas have hurricane warnings. Even though the storm will pull away, the wind storm is wide enough. After that it goes to the north. Then the when our cane center, the official track last night if you were with topper was over the bay. This morning its east ever delmarva here. On monday and monday night passing east of cape may late monday night early tuesday morning. This track is much better for us but ive got to tell you, the computer models go from landfall in North Carolina all the way up to long island, even nova scotia. Ill show you that when i come back with big weather at 6 15. We have to watch the storm regardless between tonight, tomorrow, into saturday. We could see anywhere from 1 to 4 inches of rain across the immediate metro, parts of southeastern virginia. They could have 6 or 8 inches of rain. You could always get updates on joaquin at any time by going to the wusa9 app. Ill be back with more in just a few minutes. Over to you. Reporter happening today, hes accused of killing three people in alexandria over course of a decade. Today Charles Severance could make his last Court Appearance before his trial is set to beginning on monday. Severance will be in court for a motions hearing where a up come of things will be discussed. One, jury instructions, and, two, what evidence will be permitted in court next week. Severance is charged with the murders of three different people over the course of ten years, Nancy Dunning, Ruthanne Lodato and ron kirby. The last time severance was in court, you heard from a psychologist who testified about severances history of bizarre behavior. The defense says his behavior and writings are because he suffers from schizophrenia and his illness is behind the paranoia and glorification of murder which is found in thousands of pages of writing from his personal collection of letters. The defense also claims severance illness [indiscernible] after an alexandria detective left a Business Card at his home. What did the judge say last time that will not be allowed in the trial that again is set to start on monday . Ill tell you coming up at 6 30. Live in fairfax county, im Nikki Burdine, wusa9. Rise and shine. There will be no government shutdown, at least for now. President obama signed a stopgap spending bill just hours after a bitterly divided Congress Approved a measure. The bill will keep the federal government open until december 11. Theres no assurance there wont be another shutdown after that. A new month means new laws as andrea pointed out a couple of minutes ago. The state of maryland is upping the penalties for drunk driving for one. If your blood alcohol conextent. 08 or higher they will content is. 08 or higher, theyll suspend your license for six months. New information this morning on d. C. s plan to build a soccer stadium in the city for d. C. United. Mayor bowser says she cut a deal that she hopes and promises in fact will bring jobs and development to Buzzard Point by filing for Eminent Domain to take over the land. The property in question is just about a mile south of nats park. And the stadium is proposed to be built on mainly unused industrial land by akridge. Akridge is a d. C. Based real estate firm. The firm and the city are trying to come to a settlement but the september 30 deadline passed with no agreement on the table. So the deal now heads to court. District leaders have already approved spending 140 million to buy the land. Another 40 million goes to tax breaks. The soccer team will spend about 150 million to build the 20,000seat stadium itself. But this is just the beginning. The fight is now heading through the court system. Coming up i will tell you why the court battle will likely cost the city much more in the long run. Were live outside the Wilson Building in downtown d. C. , delia goncalves, wusa9. 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Maybe not raining all the time but we do have drizzle, spotty showers. Well see on and off showers throughout the day. You can see on first alert doppler everything is lifting to the north, northeast. Its kind after mess on radar. Nothing too heavy for the most part. Lots of showers, light ones coming up from fredricksburg toward colonial beach, la plata right now. That will drift into Prince Georges County as well. Around the Northern Neck we have a little bit of rain. Janet reed picked up 1. 2 since yesterday. Not much showing up in the immediate metro but we do have spotty drizzle. Visibilities not as bad as yesterday. We have low clouds with the drizzle but nothing terrible so i dont think fog will be much of an issue. But reduced vice abilities you can see on the cam visibilities you can see on the camera. Larry miller, give me the good news this morning. I showed up to work. Always good news there. Camden line commuters, train 841 is running 25 minutes late. Vre is running on schedule. Heres a look at the beltway there at ritchie marlboro road. Thats exit 13. You can see the earlier accident is cleared so no issues there. Eastbound on i66 expect some volume as you approach areas like fairfax and the capital beltway. Traveling southbound on i270 toward the capital beltway in bethesda, expect some volume. A deadly shooting in our region ends with the alleged suspect being hospitalized. Plus, how those beloved baggage fees are now being carried on from airlines to rail ahh. Yeah ahh. Ahh. Ah. You probably say it a million times a day. Ahh. Ahh ahh. Ahh but at cigna, we want to help everyone say it once a year. Say ahh. Ahh. Cigna medical plans cover one hundred percent of your innetwork annual checkup. So america, lets go. Know. Ahh and take control of your health. Cigna. Together, all the way. Coming up, we have a special hello. Wed like to say good morning to penelope from landover, maryland. She watches us every morning and she absolutely loves howard bernstein. Believe it or not, not just my wife. We appreciate your viewership. Joaquin may not be a direct hit on us. Let me show you whats happening with joaquin. A dangerous hurricane, category 3 hurricane in the bahamas. Its been strengthening ever since yesterday. You can see this impressive satellite imagery. Earlier we showed you the track going through the bahamas and then over toward areas east of delmarva monday morning as a category one hurricane. Heres the problem with forecasting. Computer models in the short term generally north. What happens as we go in time. Saturday afternoon some are moving north, northeast. Sunday morning, look how many are saying off shore headed to new york or long island or up toward nova scotia. So the spread is great. The uncertainty is still very high with this storm. I want you to keep that in mind. The track is going to change sometime today and tomorrow. It will be a few more days till we know exactly where going. Our day planner not looking too good. Some drizzle, some showers on and off. Well get into some lulls i think but at other times its just going to be a little light sour activity. Highs not moving much. Only the low 60s. The winds have picked up out of the north, northeast 10 to 15. Theyll pick up more friday. Weve fallen into the 50s with a few 60s well to the south and east. 40s in the mountains. Its not going to be a pretty day today. Low 60s. Well have showers on and off. So a yellow alert day. Breezy and cool. Tonight low 50s. Tomorrow temperatures barely move, mid50s. Winds could gust to 30 with rain which will be heavy at times. Its going to be an ugly day. Windy with waves of rain and passing showers saturday. Again in the 60s. Sunday and monday just depend on joaquin but certainly looking much better here by tuesday and wednesday. I know some folks already missing the sunshine. Speaking of sunshine, well give you some. Heres larry miller. Oh, howard, getting those brownie points, buddy. Camden line commuters, want to let you know train 841, 25 minutes late this morning. Vre trains running on schedule. No issues this morning from collington road making your way to n street northeast a21 minute commute. Southbound on i270 just looked at the camera there, we have volume. From middle brook road to the capital beltway, a 13minute commute. Eastbound on i66 starting to seity fair share of volume as well. Starting to pick up primarily in centreville. Traveling northbound on 95 on the virginia side from gordon boulevard up to i395 now a 10 minute commute. Lets give you a live look and show you how things are shaping up on i270. We told you volume is certainly becoming an issue there and it is at least from this view on Montrose Road making your way toward the capital beltway. It starts to pick up in bethesda. To your morning commute. Heres a live look to show you how things are shaping up in Prince Georges County. Volume starting to pick up on 214 as you make your way into town. Again wet roads certainly an issue for the morning commute. Drop the speed. Increase the distance it you and the driver in front of you. Well send it over to you. At 6 18 heres whats in the news right now. An important vote on a bill that would block the Iran Nuclear Deal heads to the house floor. The bill says the deal wouldnt go into effect until iran pays billions of dollars in damages to victims of iranian sponsored terrorism. The white house opposes this bill saying it would undermine National Security interests. Russia says its air strikes on syria have destroyed eight positions belonging to the Islamic State group. U. S. Defense secretary Ash Carter Says the russians appear to have targeted areas that did not include isis groups. There is concern they have launched air strikes to help syrian president assad, an ally of russia. Secret assured under fire again this morning secret service under fire again this morning in a scheme against a congressman investigating them. Reporter as head of the House Oversight committee, congressman jay zahn Chaffetz Jason Chaffetz has investigated misconduct by the secret service including an incident in march when agents allegedly drove drunk on white house grounds. A department of Homeland Security Inspector General reports in retaliation some at the secret service sought to embarrass chaffetz by accessing his 2003 application to be an agent. His file was protected by the privacy act but according to the report, assistant director ed lowery wrote in an email some information he might find embarrassing needs to get out. Days later it was leaked to the need yacht the report says at least media. The report says at least 45 members of the secret service viewed the application. I dont trust them. Reporter chaffetz says the disclosure reflects deeper problems at the agency. If theyre doing this to me, who knows what else theyre doing. It really is scary. Reporter the assistant director who sent the email says he was just venting and did not want the information leaked. The director of the secret service crow clancy apologized to chaffetz and said that he will take appropriate disciplinary actions. Cbs news, washington. Meanwhile a law providing medical monitoring and treatment for 9 11 First Responders has expired. Those First Responders will still be able to get their health care for now, but federal officials who administer the program say it could face challenges by february and it will have to start shutting down by next summer. A possible suspect in a is recovering at a hospital in Prince Georges County this morning. Two men were found suffering from gunshot wounds a little before 8 00 last night on Central Avenue in capitol heights. The men died at the scene. A third man was rushed to the hospital. Police say that man is being considered a possible suspect. They dont believe this was a random act. Police are searching for a driver who struck and killed a u. S. Marine in frederick county, maryland. Corporal William Ferrell was driving on u. S. 15 when he pulled over to help a stranded driver. He was standing next to his car when another driver slammed into him. Witnesses believe it was a heavy duty pickup hauling a car carrier. A hearing will be held this afternoon to discuss the planned execution of a virginia inmate. The state had been planning to put Alfredo Prieto to death at 9 00 tonight but his lawyers are challenging the states handling of the lethal drugs. He killed a young couple in fairfax in 1998 and raped the woman as she was dying. Effective today, passengers boarding amtrak trains will be subject to an excess baggage fee. Riders are now going to be charged 20 if they exceed the limit for either carryon or personal items. Customers are allowed to bring two personal items weighing up to 25 pounds and two carryon bags weighing no more than 50 pounds. The fee applies to each item above those limits. Also today marks the first day of Breast Cancer awareness month. You may have seen this sight last night. This building on i street northwest lit up in pink to recognize the fight organized by the think pink society of georgetown visitation. They say the lights are a symbol of the progress made so far in fighting Breast Cancer and a reminder of the work that still needs to be done. Trying to get metro in line. Their new recommendations for stricter federal oversight of the rail system. Plus, a devious way hackers tried to let themselves into Hillary Clintons email server. That story is coming up. Reporter the man accused of killing three people in alexandria over the course of a decade will be in court today but his trial isnt set to start until monday. Ill tell you what we can expect to happen today coming up. The plan to build a new soccer stadium in the city now heads to court but it could end up costing d. C. Far more in the long run. Ill tell you how much more coming up at 6 30. Its not heavy but we have a definite mist and drizzle fawing in northwest d. C. Some of you are seeing that. Some light showers as well moving southwest to northeast. It is going to ab to abmuch cooler day be a much cooler day only in

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