Roads. We have a crash slowing things down quite a bit. A 2 1 2 mile backup as you are headed northbound on crain highway at branch avenue. The left lane is blocked and those backups are building here. Really have increased quite a bit in the last couple of minutes. In Silver Spring now, chopper 4 over this problem, a pedestrian struck northbound Georgia Avenue at dennis avenue. Another shot from the ground there for you this morning. Also outbound 11th street bridge, still have the two left lanes blocked, overturned truck on the bridge. Thank you, melissa. A developing story now in prince georges county. Police are searching for the man responsible for a deadly shooting at a gas station. Police say surveillance cameras may have caught the shooting around 7 15 last night at the bp station on walters lane near chavez lane in forestville. Officers say this attack was not random and did not happen during a robbery. They hope any other customers inside at the time can help them to a suspec
Of an impact. Traffic not too bad. This has been going on since tuesday. Were talking about the section between pooksville road and cedar lane. They had a water main burst on tuesday. There was flooding, major lane closures. They have repeated repairs to the pipe itself but they still have to repair the road. Apparently they had to take out a larger section of the asphalt. They had hoped to have all the work done by this mornings hour but they even not been able to complete the repairs in time. We have one lane getting by to the left in the inbound direction here right in the area of cedar lane. Now, if youre heading outbound in the northbound direction, all the lanes are open. Theyre making a lot of progress, but were seeing the lane closures, weve been here since about 4 30. Actually theyve made tremendous progress in that time filling in the hole with asphalt here. Theyre working as quickly as they can. Theyll reopen the road as soon as they can. Well be here all morning long and le
The Cool Temperatures have dropped precipitously. Theres a real chill in the air. 46 in guy thersburg and rockville. 51 degrees in brandywine, maryland, this morning. Planning out your day, the sun is up at 7 17. The temperatures will be up. Mid50s by 9 00, near 60 by 11 00. Its going to be a beauty of a day. Just about average for the middle of october. A clear sky this evening will allow temperatures back down into the upper 50s by 9 00 tonight and mid50s by 11 00. Well talk about the weather and what to wear on your way out the door first thing this morning. Thats in ten minutes. Heres melissa right now. Still have this problem in bethesda. Rockville pike between pooksville road and cedar lane, we have the water main break. Right now all we have open, two northbound lanes and one southbound lane. Megan mcgrath to keep her updated. Prince georges county, a little bit of roadwork thats gotten out of the way for the large park here this morning. 95 in virginia, a little blurry. You can
News 4 midday starts right now. A handful of activists gathering at Baltimore City hall with new demands. They want police to release 16 fellow protesters arrested for protesting this morning taken out of the building in plastic handcuffs hours ago. Police broke up an allnight sitin and charged the folks with trespassing as we said. They were part of a large group that disrupted a hearing about hiring a Permanent Police commissioner. Those protesters opposed a preliminary vote to keep kevin davis on the job and they want a say in the selection process. Thanks, molette. Developing right now, an announcement any moment about u. S. Troops in afghanistan. President obama is expected to say he plans to keep troops at current levels next year and 5,500 troops in 2017. Thats much higher than the 1,000 needed to protect embassies that many expected he would use. We are watching the white house where that announcement could happen any minute now. We will bring it to you live when it happens. To
Detectives are gathering details. They are reviewing notes. Let me move right out of the way. You can see them right there across the street. We are here at walters lane and chavez lane at the bp gas station in forestville. Lets roll some video. This happened around 7 15 tonight. Police are telling me that a man walked into the gas station and opened fire on another man. They tell me this was a targeted attack. There was a clerk inside, along with the victim who was a customer. And police are investigating to see if there were more customers inside the gas station. There is surveillance cameras, or excuse me, there are surveillance cameras here at the gas station. Police will review the surveillance video. And again, they are trying to see if there are more customers inside this place. And they dont know if the man drove away or if he ran away from the scene. Theyre obviously trying to figure that out. And they will review the video. Also, theyre trying to determine a motive. Now the m