looks like a very nice blue sky kind of an afternoon. temperatures in the 50s and 60s this morning. 79 at lunch time. 82 by the time you re coming home from work and school. and 77 by 8:00 tonight. a perfect day to be outside today. a perfect day to do anything except sit in traffic. melissa mollet with more on that. it s never a perfect day to sit in traffic. no good time for that at all. branch avenue at auth road, a bit of a slowdown there near the beltway. top of the beltway, no problems. b.w. parkway, 95 and 29 flowing just fine. 270 looking quite good. sometimes we see a slowdown at the top part of 270. we re okay, 66 west of ox road, inbound, out bound, just fine. remember, the ramp to the key bridge is closed through friday. take roosevelt bridge instead. aaron? melissa, thank you. coming up on 5:02 now. a developing story this morning. police are searching for a missing teenager in fairfax county. the 16-year-old boy was fishing with friends in the little hunti
a developing story, the search is underway for a 16-year-old boy who went missing after fishing in fairfax county. he was fishing with his friends in little hunting creek near where it joins the potomac river. news4 s megan mcgrath has the latest on the search. reporter: well, aaron, the boats have been moving around all morning long and they re actually in the spot right now where we can t see them from the vantage point. but three boats are out there. from the fairfax county fire department and the police and the coast guard. what we were told earlier this morning, this is now considered a recovery effort. it was a little after 8:00 last night, three friends were fishing on the little huntington creek where it meets the potomac river. we re told that the 16-year-old went into the creek and appeared to be trying to swim across the creek at the narrow spot where it s about 40 feet wide. he got halfway across, began to struggle. there was apparently another couple that was i
dumpson s sorority. but she said now is not the time to place blame. the purpose of this town hall is to focus on what brought us together, the fact that we ve had enough fon being attacked fr who we are. right now, dumpson is getting ready to hold a news conference and kristin wright is there, working to learn more about what they want to see from the university. we ll be hearing from her coming up on news4 at 5:00. thank you, wendy. just days after the situation at au, we ve learned that police at the university of maryland are investigating a hate incident. someone found a noose last week in the house kitchen of a phi kappa tau. it felt disgusting, to be honest with you. it felt wrong. it s uncalled for and it s just sad and disgusting. it s just so ignorant and horrific. i think that this problem really needs to be addressed. will. and ahead, whether minority students feel safe at the university. our chris gordon spent the day on campus. he ll have a live re
incidents? the tone of the town hall stayed positive. issues like this will continue to happen in the future. not just here at au, but around the country as well. now we have the opportunity to be proactive and to help create a procedure so that members of our community can have a level of transparency and support that is necessary when dealing with bias-related incidents in the future. reporter: of course prompting the town hall meeting today, the banana incidents on monday, those hate crimes. this is surveillance video from campus police of the person of interest in this case. they are still looking for that person. there s a $1,000 reward. coming up, wendy, tonight at 6:00, whether students at the town hall meeting found it to be productive. back to you. thanks, kristin. congresswomen who are members of alpha kappa alpha sorority are strongly denouncing this incidentnd joined that group on capitol hill this afternoon. the group noted the symbolism of hanging fruit,
students, staff and alumni, packed into a town hall meeting at american university today. coming together for a common goal, to fight racism. the student government organized the meeting after racist displays were found on the campus. kristin wright talked to students. did they feel like this meeting was productive? reporter: yeah, students told us they felt like the two-hour town hall was productive . the student government association said it will not be the last. i believe this was a tipping point that officially caused everyone to say, enough is enough. the outcry at american university. reporte i never imagined i would become the president or the target of a hate crime. reporter: taylor dumpson called this town hall meeting, students want stronger defined campus protocols on hate crimes and other bias-related incidents. they want au police to track the number of hate crimes and they want to know what happens during and after an investigation. i m really gla