Breaking weather alerts. If this watch is expanded we will send an alert through that nbc washington app. We have new video at 5. It shows the moment a d. C. Man slammed into a van during a highspeed chase in maryland, killing two people. Today, a judge sentenced him to more than a decade in prison. Prince georges county bureau chief Tracee Wilkins was in the courtroom today, join us live to tell us about this. Tracy . Reporter he came speeding this up road here and then the crash happened in the middle of that intersection and then the driver takes off running into those woods. We will show you what happened when did he that in just a little bit. He twloeft women dying on the road here on Central Avenue and another woman severely injured. She was in a coma. We met her today. He was smoking drugs and drink possibly in a stolen vehicle. State Prosecutor Says thats why ronald hayes took off when his car was approached by police in december of 2012. It was a Police Shooting that evening a
To occasional moderate showers, north of town and parts of the immediate metro area at tysons, down through 66. In to the district, that well find the light showers, which is just enough to wet the roads. Definitely about it. And now that the American Legion bridge will give you a shower in a minute at Howard University and the airport, they would have light showers for you at this point. And this activity, they are going to move off the east, which will be crossing 270 north of the spur and headed towards rockville on our storm track and again this is not heavy activity, headed towards rockville at 6 07. Friends out in ashton at about 6 20 and laurel at 6 23 as this system begins to move essentially a little bit east northeastward. Behind that good news for you as youre clear to the Severe Weather threat in the panhandle of west virginia. Well come back and talk about the showers and when they could end. New tonight at 6 00, a day today where a judge would sentence that driver involve
Answers. Tom . Well we wont have any of that, thankfully. Yeah, those storms came through gave us some gusts of wind and caused some tree damage up near the pennsylvania border. Now everything is settled down. We have a few sprinkles in the mountains but those have dissipate. You may be leaping over puddles from the lingering rain, mid 70s, sunshine breaking out. In the afternoon, quite a bit of sunshine. You will notice the humidity will be lower and a cooler afternoon with temperatures into the upper 80s. So if youre going to be out for a morning run you wont need the umbrella or rain boots. You will need the sun block, sunglasses and short sleeves. A look at the hour by hour forecast for this fabulous friday thats coming up next weather and traffic on the 1s at 5 11. Whats going on with the roads, melissa . Right now 95 southbound here, through triangle in virginia. You can see we have a bit of a slowdown here on the screen. That is because of some lateclearing road work. Right now,
Sunshine. Temperatures in the upper 80s. And next weather and traffic on the 1s the hour by hour breakdown as the day goes forward and now melissa any slowdowns . You still have this closure in fairfax, oakton at fox mill road because of the overnight accident. Chopper is on its way. So as soon as they get there, well get a view of things here from above and see how bad it is. Seems like it may not be reopened until 9 30 this morning. Wide look at the beltway, no major problems. 66 and 95 looking good. 95 a little slow northbound in dale city, totally step cal for this time of the year. B. W. Parkway and Everything Else looking quite good. Travel times in ten minutes. Thank you, melissa. Today stores caught selling illegal synthetic drugs stand to face new penalties in d. C. Theyre easy accessible you can find them inside Corner Stores and gas stations and now police are linking a spike in crime to these drugs. Megan mcgrath explains the action mayor Muriel Bowser is taking today. Mega
Hack a huge deal. Today were learning exactly how huge it was. The numbers are astounding. Hackers stole 19. 7 million Social Security numbers of americans who went through federal government background checks. They took another 1. 8 million from the applicants friends and family. The data had been stored by the office of personnel management, essentially the Human Resources department for the federal government. The hackers swept up addresses, education and employment history along with mental health, criminal and financial records. More than 1 million americans fingerprints were stolen. Some victims received letters from opm alerting them to the breach. They offer credit monitoring and other services. The government says there is no evidence yet the stolen information has been used for Identity Theft or other financial crimes. On the streets of d. C. Theres little trust in that assurance. I want to feel more secure about whats going on. I just want to feel more comfortable when this