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millions of americans are traveling this holiday weekend, and the numbers could set records. we re live over i-95 where the big getaway is already in full swing. what we re seeing on the roads right now that could get a lot worse later on. aaa mid-atlantic expects it to be a very rough night on the roads. especially when you factor in commuters, holiday travelers, and all those last-minute shoppers. news 4 s chris gordon is live along i-95 in springfield. chris, based on what you re seeing out there, did aaa get it right? oh, yeah. take a look behind me. what you re seeing are brake lights, cars coming to a complete stop. these cars trying to merge onto 95 south here in springfield. now, local drivers are used to this scene, but holiday travelers may experience a surprising slowdown. traffic on i-95 in northern virginia is stop and go. this we didn t see accidents or anything like that. just being congested. aaa mid-atlantic explains the reason traffic is so heavy ....
the brakes in low traffic that sometime came to a stop. we met barbara, riding with her sons to visit their grand parents in georgia. we hit delaware, it was a stand still for a little bit because of an accident. cleared up when we got to it, can a little coming in from 495 on to 95, a stand still. aaa mid-atlantic expects the heaviest traffic this evening. i think we can look for very, very heavy traffic volumes because people are commuting from work. they re heading out of town. and also they re going to be christmas shopping. it s going to be a very, very tough evening. we ll tell you how making a long trip with pets and children enhances holiday travel. back to you. all right. thank you, chris. you may run into your biggest problem at reagan near the terminal. officials expect a lot of traffic congestion driving up to the airport, and they re warning travelers to avoid that cell phone lock, circling the terminal only adds to the backup, so they re sugges ....
the most wanted man in europe, 24-year-old anis amri, dead. killed after he was asked for i.d. by italian police. officials say amri immediately pulled a gun and started firing. there is no doubt, italy s interior minister told reporters, that the dead man is amri. this is what officials believe he did at the berlin christmas market. the truck on the left of your screen is a dark menace on the street awash in holiday lights. at 40 miles per hour, running over people and stalls in the market. german authorities say they found amri s fingerprints inside and outside the truck s cab. italy was familiar territory to amri. after leaving his hometown in tunisia in 2011, he spent more than three years in prison there for setting fire to a refugee center. a prison official tells nbc news amri was violent but showed no signs of religious fundamentalism. at the berlin m to business. returning here, an emotional moment for this woman who like amri is from tunisia. there is a kind ....
a little bit wet out there. not too cold. not too bad. lauren is tracking it all. a week ago it was freezing rain coming down. not so much this morning. definitely not this morning. those temperatures are well above freezing at this point so that is good news for anybody headed on the roadways. you re not necessarily dealing with icy conditions, maybe just wet conditions out there as we have rain throughout the region spreading through the greater washington area. it s continuing to stream up as a frontal system, a weak one, but it s moving through the area and it will cross through mid day. in fact we re going to have a dry afternoon. so all day it s not going to be wet, but we re going to time that out for you and let you know exactly when this rain will end in case you need to do any last-minute shopping. we ll let you know when it s going to be dry coming up. one man is dend crash in the district involving four vehicles. police started chasing a vehicle th ....
parts of the country are cleaning up from deadly tornadoes over the past several days. we ll have more on the twisters coming up in just a few minutes. and where ever you are during this week with the forecast on the week, the weather app is free. breaking news. hikers had to be rescued after getting trapped on a ledge. it s the same park where another hiker got stuck last week. our reporter is in upper nyack with more. reporter: well, dick, the hikers were stuck for almost three hours after the fire chief said they went climbing off trail and then couldn t get down from the rocks. chopper 2 was over the scene as the rescue operation was happening. the fire department deployed the high angle rescue team and lowered a fireman down to two women stuck about 250 feet off the ground. a man who was with those two women had climbed down by himself earlier and was able to go make the call for help. we were there when the second woman was helped down to safety. but the fir ....