If look over to the left, can you see some scrape marks on the wallu of the tel. Police were looking at those earlier. Perhaps they have something to do with the crash or t altercation that led to this shooting. Again, this happened around 3 00. This is t o heart rush hour. The third street tunnel northbound has been closed down for about two hours. Ive got to give you one other thing. This is the lookout. The lookout that they are asking people to see. Its a lookout for a gray honda accord with a bik. Rac they believe theres a man and a woman in this gray honda accord with a bike rack. They believe the woman was the driver, the man the shooter. Were on the scene. Well keep you posted of any more developments. Now back to you. Pat collins, thank you, pat. We have more breaking news this time out of Fairfax County where chopper is over the scene of a tractor Trailer Crash in the vienna area. Hunter mill road, this is near hunting crest lane. Its closed because of this. That truck hit so
Tunnel shut down now for more than three hours. Lets take look at this scene live right now. Can you see they have removed a number of the vehicles and a lot of evidence here. L poe are still on the scene. There is hope that they could open this tunnel soon, but, agin, its been shut down now for nearly three hours. This is what it looked like earlier. The focus here, this golen explorer. Police say that the gold explorer ran into t backof a darkcolored sedan. The occupants of the darkcored sedan and the gold explorer got out. Thereto was an argument. A man from the darkcoloredpu sedan out a gun and shot the driver of the gold explorer, and then that darkcolored sedan took off. Here now, here n hear now fro morgan cain,he First District commander. What do you make what happened here . This is actually i make that this was unnecessary. This is truly tragic, that a simple accident, vehicle accident, its an accident, can escalate into a shooting. So that to me is very sad and heart wrenchi
60,000 and that exceeds the National Median income. Its the majority black district. Its the second wealthiest black majority district in the country nd second most educated. So a lot of other factorsin this debate as it continues. Dash ward, news had. As the battle over balti aunchedmorehe president l another feud today, this time with the reverend al sharpton. In series of tweets the president called sharp theon, quote, a con man and troublemaker going on to say that sharp theon, quote, hates whites and costs. Speaking just hours later, sharpton fired back calling t this is race baiting at its best and its donald trump plight race card and is a shame and a sham. Sharpton called president trumps tweets aimed at elijah ummings and baltimore absolutely horrible. Well have complete coverage. Just such baltimore. The head of the naacp just ne resig kofi annan reported on facebook saying while, quote, many are provide equity, i no longer believe that the overall organizationalstructure of
So very quickly you started to get jammed here. As were reaching00 a. M. , about a threemile backup right now. Hopefully this work zone gets out of the way and everything sort of releases soon. Boyds 117, buck lodge road at moore, lanes blocked there because of the sinkhole and wk zone. 270 northbound, southbound looks okay. Outer loop at k,braddocleft lane is still getting by that work zone. Little bit of a delay there on the screen. And fairfax westb66nd after 123 right lane blocked disabled vehicle through prince georges coty we look good. 95 and maryland no is tes. Nk you, melissa. 5 01. The third street tunnel here in the district is open this morning after a gunman opened fire on another driver in the middle of traffic. Police are still trying to find a shooter. News 4 justin finch is at the tunnel this morning with the latest on the investigation. Justin, what are you learning so far . Reporter well, eun, aaron, this of course was a crash that turned into an argument that turned
A stray shower possible today. Not likely. S id about 10 chance you will see that the mainly north of d. C. Through maryland. You guys may have a stray shower thgh the afternoon and evening. Perfect day to get out to the pool. Not going to be like that each day this week. Rain chces returning to our p ea. Thats coming u the tenday merecast. Ntime, we are following breaking news out of thct distri this morning. Three people shot on t street in northwest d. C. Overnight. Now, police sayhat this happened near the howard theater. All three victims were rushed to the hospital. To word on their condition right now, but policeay they are looking for a white audi car with d. C. Tags in connection to this case. We do have some good news this morning. Wer has been restored to thousands of people who were left in the dark in the district. Thats right. News4s derrick ward is live in the newsroom with the latest on the overnight outage. What happened, derrick . Yu know, it was about 2 45 yesterday