i m meagan fitzgerald. i m pat lawson muse. we start with a story that surfaced three months ago and vershadowed virginia politics since. a racist photo found on the medical school yearbook page shows a man in black face next to another man in kulux klan clothing. northam said he was in the photo and apologized during a news conference and later heaid, quote, had a chance to step back nd take a deep breath and looked at the picture and said this is not e in the picture, end quote. and now the school is investigating, reading in part, we found no information that the photograph was placed in error though we acknowledge there is scant information on the subject 35 years after the fact. attorneys leading the investigation spoke just a few s moment ago. with respect to the photograph on governor northam s personal page, depicting an individual in black face and an individual in kkks, robe we could not conclusively determine the identity of either individual depicted in that p
there. meanwhile, closer to 70 once you re down to the western shore of the chesapeake bay. wake-up weather for this o morning, plann temperatures mostly in the 60s. sun s up at 5: and there will be more than in enough sunshe for today, and that refreshing northwest wind. a chance to open up the windows and spreadfresh air into the house. air conditioning season will be back before you know it, melissa. thefo ten-day recast coming up. thank you. first 4 traffic alert, tr ille, a fatal crash investigation. th right side of the road, eastbound 66 before 29, this is shut down. sounds like a car and a tractor-trailer involved. everybody s getting by on the left. right now, it not a big impact. it could turn that way as thee commut progresses if this hangs around. rest of 66 looks fine. 95 northbound, southbound, there in virginia, no worries. annandale near braddock, two right lanes get by the work zone. and looking through prince george s county, no issues into town, out of t
shoulder area. i-66 near 29 in the centreville anywhere in northern virginia. it happened around the 2:00 hour. our news partners at wtop are reporting that this was, in fact, a fatality. a little bit earlier we were able to get video the actual crash here. it appeared that this involve aid tractor-trailer and a passenger vehicle. from what we understand, that vehicle smashed into the back of the tractor-trailer.ve seal hours ago. there are still roads shut down here. at least the right lane. traffic is getting b on the three left lanes, but there s still a lot of backups because police are here, fire rescue are here. and we just passed the scene once again. we can see that the car is still here. there s still a lot of work for police and investigators out here. delays will continue throughout the morning commute. melissa, how can people work around this mess? we ve been seeing a lot of people headed on to 29 t try and avoid it. now 29 is getting busy. very understandably.
into the holiday weekend. details ahead. announcer: news4 midday starts now. good morning and welcome to news4 midday, i m meagan fitzgerald. and i m aaron gilchrist. and we begine with mo pulling 3,000 series cars off the tracks. after a door malfunctioned while passengers were on a train near dunn-lorring station. that means more six-car trains are rolling now. the latest from darcy spencer live at dupont station. good morning,?darcy reporter: good morning. metro is doing this for safety reasons. if you ride metro, you may haved noticehat the trains may have been a little more crowded. it may have taken you a little longer to get where you re going thisorning. metro telling us they are doing everything they can to try to limit the inconvenience for riders. we saw crowded trains here at the dupont circle metr station. we were here just after 9:00 this morning. metro took all of the 3,000 series rs out of service because of a door malfunction that needs to b
The greatest cost of the pandemic was the number of precious lives lost, but the financial impact was also devastating.The News 4 I-Team records showing how man