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afternoon northwest 10 to 20 miles per hour, maybe a little gusty at times but highs near 50. that s just about average for today. i ll give you a look at the whole weekend in detail coming up in a few more minutes. over to melissa. looks like all green on the beltway. good here, beltway moving nicely there. chop 4 over the top of the beltway. outer loop. we will show you that picture in just a minute. everything else on the beltway okay. hearing about a problem branch avenue ramp to the outer loop of the beltway as far as a car in the ditch. we will get moren 270 southbound see your slow spots as you re coming out of frederick down into gaithersburg, germantown and rockville area you re fine. same thing headed outbound, southbound 29, we have a crash reported there as well. travel times in ten. aaron? melissa, thank you. it is 6:01. developing right now the outer loop of the beltway back open after a crash that left one person dead. virginia state police had lane ....
high in the upper 50s. more clouds for friday with periods of rain likely, warmer with highs in the lowers 60s. saturday now looks a little wet and sunday drier, this is a change from yesterday..moved up the timing of the weekend rain system. highs upper 60s over the rain chance 60% both friday and saturday. sunday returns to partly cloudy skies, highs near 60 the cold weather is sometimes a challenge for school didiricts around the state as they try to keep buses running and keep students warm. raycom s michael clark has the story. it s the time of year when we see plenty of jackets and coats at schools but it keep temperatures s rm enough inside the buildings the lowest that our classrooms are allowed to get in the heating season, is 69 degrees. kim melander and his crew showed me how they control the thermostat for every classroom in about 40 rock hill schools. every building, every campus within the whole school district is tied together to one energy management ....
were going to use it to try to kill the president had it dismissed on the grounds that she s insane, does it make any sense. charleston was selected as an interview location because of last year s mass shooting at emanuel ame. we will hear more of the vice-president s comments later on wis news 10. people are sure to be glued to their tv sets tonight hoping to get a little lucky! tonight s powerball jackpot has grown to a whopping 500 million dollars. that of course means many people chose to take the time to pick up a ticket or several. our mike desumma joins us now from corner pantry off garners ferry road in columbia with more on that. mike. dawndy it s been a mission for many people to grab as many tickets as they can. state lottery officials say in sales every time the jackpot gets this high. those hoping to win will have their work cut out for them. more than 30 states will be taking part in the drawing tonight. in fact officials say the odds are you have a b ....
hikers in japan. we have the latest on the efforts to find the missing hikers and get them off that mountain. protestors filled the streets of hong kong, defying the government call to end their blockades. riot police have withdrawn after tiring tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowds. good morning, welcome to al jazeera america. i m del walters. i m erica pitzi. stephanie sy is in chicago where she will bring us the latest on air travel problems. president obama now admitting u.s. intelligence underestimated the threat posed by isil and overestimated the iraqi army s ability to stop it. meanwhile, house speaker john boehner said the airstrikes aren t going to be enough to beat isil, warning america may need to send in ground troops. there are reports that the latest round of u.s. airstrikes may have led to civilian deaths. what are you hearing? dell, that s right, those reports are coming out of the syrian observatory for human rights, it s a london bas ....
200 girls are hoping that the new government will bring the girls home. this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i m randall pinkston. a group of former educators in atlanta will find out today if they ll spend time in jail for their role in one of the biggest school cheating scandals in american history. sentencing gets under way for ten former teachers and administrators in atlanta s public schools convicted of conspiring to change scores on standardized tests so teachers can get bonuses and in some cases keep their jobs. what were some of the protesters saying about the case? we see some of them behind through. yes, they are just dispersing right now. they were very vocal this morning, and basically what they re saying is that they re not denying that this cheating was going on in the atlanta public school system, but they say that the teachers were victims of the system. they were trying to keep their jobs. they came under pressure and they were trying to ....