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
Wednesday, january 3, frigid weather getting us to. Page county schools delayed two hours and frederick Country Schools also on a two hour delay. In West Virginia berkley grant, hardy and Jefferson County schools in West Virginia are all on a two hour delay. All right lets talk about weather with make mike and caitlin rorj is talking about traffic in a few. Mike to you first. Winds green alley light to calm around the region. Not getting subzero temperatures. Many suburbs Single Digits temps. Well tell what you is up in a few minutes. Mike, good morning. It looked look a lot of people took yesterday often ofive expect many people hitting the road and major crowd and cold temperatures several water main morning. Well have details on where and how to work around. Well check back in a few. If you get up 5 a. M. Here are top stories. Beginning breaking news from Prince George koumentsy. Fire cruz working to puts out a blaze in townhouse on grisle lane in laurel. Everyone in the home was ab
Are now able to cast their vote for president and several other races and issues on the ballot. Lots of people there. Absolutely. A look from high above here. Chopper 4 over one of several polling places in our area. Look at the view. This is the scene at Luther Jackson middle school at Falls Church Virginia were you can see if im not mistaken, that line is wrapped around the building already one minute into this election day 2016. Good morning, everybody, it is november 8th, 2016 election day. Im aaron gri it is here. It has felt like a long race and did you know the first person to announce his candidacy was actually ted cruz. That was back in march of 2015. We of course have Team Coverage for you on this historic day. Angie goff is gathering the latest feeds and video coming in to the decision desk. Molette green is live from virginia where the polls have just opened. Were monitoring the latest from new york city. Morning where donald trump is expected to vote and hold an Election P
Reporter now this move was made today during another big change in metro leadership. There were three new members of the board who all took their seats, and they are appointments by the u. S. Secretary of transportation anthony fox who stepped up the safety rules and repair work that are now underway with safetrack. There was also an eye opening revelation tonight by the other new face on metro leadership front. Patrick lack of inhas only been on the job a month. Its been like trying to drink from a fire hose. Despite the breakdowns in at the safety issues, metro has no regular investigative dedicated body for investigation. Likewise, the chairman jack evans says hes responding to growing questions about how metro previous leadership was allowing spiralling and disrepair in the system. Evans says metro these questions anymore. He says at some point there is goes be to a day of reckoning about what went on at metro for years. One of the gaping holes in your Safety Department is that alt
Virginia Visitors Center around 9 00 this morning. Vdot reported 600 vehicles on the road and crews are only plowing areas with more than two inches of snow theyre telling us. Well we have heard a lot from parents in fairfax and loudon counties who said they were too slow to start on time. At one time Fairfax County Public Schools was trending worldwide on twitter. This is video from Sterling Virginia this morning where buses were out on the snow covered roads trying to get through to kids and then to school. Most of the area remains under a Winter Weather advisory right now until 1 00 this afternoon. Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein begins our Team Coverage from the weather channel. Tom. Hey, barbara, most of the snow has ended in the metro area. The snow has ended. As we look at the storm team 4 radar, right now the last of the know is just to our north in the panhandle of West Virginia into washington and frederick county. A few lingering snow flurries in the eastern shore. It