now. i m megan mcgrath live in alexandria where you can see behind me the search continues for a 16-year-old who went out fishing with friends on little hunting creek. he went into the water to swim to the other side of the creek but he never made it back to shore. it is a beautiful spot where little hunting creek meets potomac river, popular with anglers. this morning, there are police boats instead of fishermen, for the search of a missing 16-year-old continues. the coast guard brought in their search and rescue chopper, boats equipped with sonar are searching the water. shortly after 8:00 last night when a teenager went into the water trying to cross from one side of the creek to the other. he got about halfway before he began to struggle by the channel marker where the water gets deep. the current was going out at that time. he was drifting out. while he was struggling, he then submerged again and was not seen above the water. complicating the search, underwater pla
car license plates. nbc s dave wagner with the latest now from roanoke. please join us now in a moment of silence. reporter: 24 hours after their colleagues were shot to death, a time of reflection and a moment of silence at roanoke s wdbj-tv. the performance this staff has been incredible. they cry, they hug and then they get the job done. reporter: 24-year-old reporter alison parker and 27-year-old photographer adam ward were in the middle of a live interview wednesday morning when police say a former reporter, vester flanagan, walked up and opened fire. parker and ward were killed. vicki gardner, who was being interviewed, was seriously wounded while her husband watched it all unfold on tv. and i immediately tried call her on her cell phone. there was no response. the next time i spoke to her when she called me from the ambulance. reporter: gunman videotaped the shootings himself and posted that video on facebook. police say after killings, vester flanagan faxe
for a while, it s turned to anger and i m relentless and i m not going to stop until something happens, because i don t want to see another alison tragedy like this again. i m just not gonna do it. reporter: as a memorial grows outside wdbj-tv in roanoke, television stations across the country are showing solidarity through social media, a sad and senseless crime that s hitting close to home. in roanoke, virginia, dave wagner, nbc news. and our david culver was at the scene of that shooting all day yesterday. he is back here in the studio with us dig nothing some of the search warrants for the car that vester flanagan was driving. david? here is that warrant filed just today in fauquier county. more than a dozen items pulled and documented from vester lee flanagan s crashed rental car. we can show where you that pursuit ended on 66. officers found a glock happened gun with six magazines and added ammunition. virginia state police also discovered 17 letters with stamps,
61 for winchester and leesburg you re at 59 degrees. headed to the lower #s on. lots of lower 80s. lots of sunshine. enjoy it. here he is, larry miller. what have you got? your time 6:01. how am i going to compete with sunshine? want to let you know we have an accident blocking the center lane on i-95. this is at v a-6 44 out in franconia springfield. here s a live look. couple that with delays and you have a problem. so that is the center lane blocked. we have delays all the way to prince william parkway. no major issues around the capital beltway. still doing really well. no issues on 295 or 395 on the d.c. and maryland side. a live look from our camera shows us how things are shaping up on i-270. no major issues as you approach the capital beltway in bethesda. your next traffic update in about ten minutes. we send it over to you. we saw it but still couldn t believe it. wdbj reporter alison parker and photographer adam ward were ambushed and killed live on the air ye
around leesburg, popping up very very quickly. in fact some storms popped up in a matter of 15 minutes gone from nothing to a legitimate storm. this is pretty heavy storm around germantown. it s not as heavy as it was, but clarksburg, going up 270 it s slow going with the heavy rain. this is a respectable storm down across route 50. the red indicates very very heavy rain. this is pushing off to the north and east headed toward poolsville and will move across the potomac river shortly. in fact on our storm tracker at about 6:12 so get ready for heavy rain. now closer to town, potomac has a pretty heavy storm, tysons has a pretty heavy storm although they ve weakened a little bit in the last 15 minutes this storm is moving off to the north and east. get ready in wheaton for heavy rain, aspen hill at about 6:13, coldsville at 6:20 and even in south kensington and this is a pretty heavy storm, we tracked it across fedex and over attenuates park, heavy rain and no hail and very ve