took seconds for himtao unde what he had just seen. he says the driver of the truck was the first one out of the vehicl and his reaction was sobering. walked over, and he went to the car that he had hit and i guess the person was deceased, because he like, threw his hands up, like, oh,an. you know,e le just he killed someone. reporter: the truck driver s wife came to the scene to be with him. he s there in the hat standing next to the woman in the red coat. whene spoke with her she defended his driving record. he s been driving trucks for a while. reporter: the driver of the hyundai stuck between the truck and bus was killed. on the bus were teenage students headed to charles school and they re expected to be okay, so is the driver. veral people involved including the driver trapped between the and guard rail. everyone is expected to be okay. the question now is why did this happen? police aren t saying but they are warning drivers to b careful. just because you h
and continues south and west as far as virginia. no watch in the area other than the potential of flash flooding. that is anticipating the areas of heavy rain. here is the watch up until late tonight from the bay through the d.c. metro and the foothills and beyond in western virginia. the possibility exists through the computer mod that the heavier element of rain may come together in western viewing area and make a push to provide lightning and thunder with the heavy rain. if everything works out by 11:00, the heavy stuff is out of here. lingering showers to mud night and then touch of clearing. no headlines other than watches. no warnings in the viewing area. that is latest from the storm maureen: thank you, doug. stay with the storm watch 7 team. we are updating the platform, facebook, twitter and the storm watch app for you all the time. in the past two hours the search crews stopped looking for a man who jumped in the potomac river last night. they are confident that the
justice s son and a catholic cao priest himself will deliverimse the mass that s set to starthato here in just about four hours h at 11 o clock. the basilica behind me holds hol 3500 people.eoe. now, the visitation yesterdayes held at the supreme court had 3,000 people including theludint president and the first lady fir who attended. father paul scalia also providing traditional prayersrae at a private ceremony held at the supreme court scalia ss casket lay in an area where w president lincoln lay before him. scalia associate justice from the supreme court where he passed at the age of 79 appointed by ronald reagan. vice president joe biden andsinj dr. jill biden will be. jill attending today.tend the president will not.sint w the service technically openalle to the public. pli however it is first come first serve to friends and family. fil we ll send it back to you. all right. a you see in megan s shot t just a beautiful morning.orni i know. that was great sunrise
to change the strategy from metro. brianne carter has more on the strategy. brianne: this comes after a show-stopper was discovered here at the foggy bottom metro station. ment to the general manager said there will be a change with the policies and the practices to keep the rails safe. we sat down today with wiedefeld less than 24 hours after defects were discovered. if it wasn t for the fire, this wouldn t have been discovered until inspections were slated to happen and it wasn t to happen until june. he is coming up with a plane to detect the issues before they threaten the safety. we will come out with a different plan. it will require different technology. now remember the metro officials said tracks were checked after the deadly smoke incident. we have the situation 14 months later that happened this week. wiedefeld called it unacceptable. other around the region are calling for them to step down to metro. we will have that tonight at 5:00. jonathan: stay with abc7
no gun has been found. we repeat, no gun has been found, but police are following up with the investigation. the school is still sheltering in place at this time. stay with abc 7 and we will bring you updates. we are also following a breaking news story in queen anne s county. a scary sight on the bay bridge overturned, leaving it partially hanging over that barrier. that crash snarling traffic on route 50. eastbound lanes opened an hour ago. brad bell is there live with the latest. brad, what is the scene out there? brad: it was an absolute mess this morning, as it always is when you have an incident of any sort on the bay bridge. this was a bad one, a scary one. it closed the entirety of the eastbound span, the one closest to us here, but if you look closely, you can see traffic is again flowing smoothly. the crash happening just after 8:00 a.m. a seafood company truck on its side, leaning against the jersey wall of the bay bridge, high above the chesapeake. all lanes of