Offload the contents of the truck and we are told that that is about 40,000 pound of candy. They will to take all of that off of the truck first be re they can then haul it out of here. Bottom line this is going to be potentially be an impact for a number of hours here. 270 all of the lanes have reopened so an improvement from earlier this morning. The lanes alo running but they are open. This ramp to germantown road is still closed and that may be the case for several more hours. This all stems from an Early Morning accident here. A Police Officer was doing a traffic stop here on 270, was pulling over a vehicle. This tractortrailer traveling through the area, the driver swerved and hit that police cruer and then pushed theis cru that was pushed into a Second Police cruiser and then the tractortrailer, itself, flipped on its side. At times it wasa across the r and lanes of 270. Everything is op 270 right now but we still have a mess and ople are still going rather slowly through the ar
We had the inner loop after connecticut with three lanes blocked because of the work zone thats been happening overnight. That has cleared out of the way between connecticut and georgia. Hyattsville southbound bw parkway the ramp to 450 still have that crsh hanging around this morning. The issue on boyds is a sinkholne that work ll laned blocked 117 at moore road. Probably another 24 hours befor that ismpletely wrapped up. Westbound 66 after 123 right lane blocked disabled vehicle. Melissa, thank you. 4 31. Developing in the dismict this orning police are looking for the driver whod opene fire on another driver in broad ftylight. This was the math left behind on i395. Were told an suv hit a honda. There was some sort of argument and the honda driver pulled a gun and shot the other driver. That vict is in critical condition. The road had to be shut down for hours while police were b investigating so far no arrests. This morning a local lgbtq activist is speaking out after ransgender rie
Another strong system swe through the area bringing heavy rain and some isolated thunderstorms. After a tree crashed through one mans home in chevy chase he says he he is lucky to be alive. Michael zilinger was sitting on is couch when a tree fell through the roof. I looked up and there werehe brancs coming through and i was shocked. He is now working with his Insurance Company to see what is covered. Residents in louisiana are preparing for the worst as Tropical Storm barry moves to the gulf and the storm is inching closer to the ast. Tropical storm barry set to land tomorrow and evacuations are under way right now. New orleans is still drying out from more than 9 inches of rain this week, which means the misissippi river is higher than normal. Barry could lift the river to its highest level in nearly 70 years. 10 5 inches of rain are possible and if barry turns into a hurricane, that storm will make history. This will be the first time that we have had a hurricane make landfall in lo
System will bring the heat and humidity back and Storm Chances baclater on into the afternoon today. Not a humongous risk for Severe Weather but any individual storm with temperatures up near 90 today and any individual storms could certainly pack a punch so we will keep you posted on that. Not too bad this morning. Most everybody back down below 70 deees. That will become a rarity beginning tomorrow into the rest of the week. Here is your planner for your monday. A gradual increase in clouds today and risk of afternoon thunderstorms. Future weather and timing that out and hiow high the temperatures are the rest of the week. Melissa, happy monday. You too. R outeop getting by the work zone and nothing will slow you down too much at this point. 66 inbound outbound 95 and Prince Georges County looking into into town. You look at 270 southbound 66le mian hour gets you there in 27 minutes. Northbound after the spur do have construction work and blocking some lanes. All right. Hold on. He i
O be above 90 degreesow inn th it. Mid60s . The Shenandoah Valley. Mid60s in the western and northern suburbs. A little closer to 70 downtown egheow t in beautiful leonard town, maryland. For today more than enou sunshine this morning to get temperatures up to around 90 degrees today before some storms start to dotnd the laape late in the day. Ill show you future weather and look into the weekend coming up. For now, lets go over to melissa walking on sunshine. Its nice. I like it. Inner loop a problem on the dwright side of the roy. That is the earlier crash and all of those delays still hanging aund. Outer loop through that section is looking okay. A motorcycle crash here on the left sidew of the ro and only getting by on the right. Haymarket crash on the right. Beltway inner loop and outer loop, no other issues. Video oof social media a man tasered by metro transit outrage. Sparking a witness recorded the confrontation inside the u street metro station over the weekend. News4 today j