pouring down. so make sure you stay cool, and stay in the shade. dry walkways headed back home. temperatures in the mid 90s. the feels like temperature up near 100 this afternoon. temperatures right now nearby suburbs in montgomery county, prince georges, fairfax, low 70s. mid 70s around the chesapeake bay. next weather and traffic on the 1s 4:41. now melissa is looking at that backup on 95. still looking at this backup. this is our biggest issue right now. had some normal construction around town this morning but this backup 95 south there, just south of route 234 through that dumfries area. you can see how slow it is because of two different construction projects. one block in the right side of the road. one block in the left. really making it kind of a pain for everyone headed southbound. here es map of that right now. 16 miles per hour two mile backup this morning. 270 into and out of town no problems there. northbound and southbound you re looking quite good and then i
slow for about four miles this morning. beltway at kenilworth avenue, a little bit of volume. no problem there. in laurel, brock ridge road between whiskey bottom and 198, still the overturned vehicle. a look at 95 northbound here through dale city, the slowest spot at 29 miles an hour. back in ten minutes with travel times. right now, your commute is about to get easier. here s a live look from inner loop of the beltway at virginia in northern virginia. in less than an hour the crews will open the shoulder from the express lanes to the g.w. parkway parkway. news4 s megan mcgrath will show you what s happening. some relief, megan. reporter: well, this is the choke point, the merge area where the northbound express lanes end and that traffic has to go over into the regular lanes. we ll start driving it now to see the merge point here up ahead. you can see all the traffic that we have here. those are the folks in the regular lanes. we re in the express lane. we ll have to g
we are not naming the fourth passenger because he is 17 years old. he was in the front passenger seat but survived. that carload of boys didn t make it far from the party theyed aned. the house where it was held they attended. the house where it was held is just over 2 miles from the crash site. andrea mccarren, wusa9. just heartbreaking. arguably the night before this crash another accident remarkably the night before this crash another accident happened steps away. in that one a fence was flattened, but no one was seriously hurt. across the country tonight same sex couples have begun to apply for and receive marriage licenses. this morning the supreme court of the united states ruled that gay couples have a right to say i do in all 50 states. interns ran down the steps of the high court with the news supporters had waited for. in a 5-4 decision justices ruled that same sex marriage should be legal in the united states. and our cameras were rolling when president o
the leader of the republican flash committee says his definition of marriage isn t changing. we believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman. we still believe that as a party, but the other issue is a matter of states rights when there s a legal issue at hand and the question is whether or not there is a federal right mandated by the constitution on this issue. we believe that it s an issue the states should decide. the virginia catholic conference says it s deeply distressed saying marriage is grounded in natural law and predates any religion or nation. two teenagers are dead, two injured including one in very critical condition after a terrible car crash in north potomac. the carload of boys had been drinking at an underage party. andrea mccarren is live at the crash site on dufief mill road. reporter: montgomery county police say speed and alcohol were both factors in this terrible crash. all four teen-agers had a connection to wooten high sch
[ cheering and applause ] this decision affirms what millions of americans already believe in their hearts. when all americans are treated as equal, we are all more free. as you just saw, thousands cheered as the interns ran out clutching copies of the court s 5-4 decision that will force 14 states to stop enforcing bans on same sex marriage. president obama called it a victory for america. the case the justices decided today began when a man sued to have his name added to his late spouse s death certificate. let s take a closer look at the actual opinions from the high court. justice anthony kennedy wrote the majority of the opinion and authored key supreme court decisions in gay rights in recent years. he concludes by saying they ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. the constitution grants them that right. on the other side chief justice john roberts said the constitution had nothing to do with this decision. in a blistering dissent he read from the bench