or two in some spots. water is still rising in parts of the country. we begin with hurricane irene. the storm s impact will be felt for months after the winds died down. the death toll rising to at least 27 people. along with the estimated cost, the cost of cleaning up this mess from north carolina through new england, obama administration officials will visit three states today that were hit hard by hurricane irene. virginia, north carolina and vermont. where floodwaters are still r e rising, higher than they ve been there in 80 years. the governor saying entire communities in his state are under water with hundreds of residents still trapped. 260 loads washed out by flooding in the state making the effort to reach people who need help that much harder. amber lion is live in saxton river, vermont. the governor says in some cases, they can t even get into these towns to assess the damage. in other cases, these towns have been wiped out. i mean, that is the biggest issue fac
in the republican presidential campaign. and michele bachmann won the iowa straw poll today. she is the first woman to ever win that test. but the poll may not be as significant as it claims to be given the fact that frontrunner, mitt romney, stayed away from the event and texas governor rick perry picked today to enter the race. and as steven heldsman explains, bachmann put forth the biggest effort with the biggest turnout, and that clearly paid off. reporter: it is like a fair with lots of food, lots of people and bands. but the stars are republican candidates like rick santorum. and tim pawlenty. tea-partier, michele bachmann, libertarian, ron paul, and others. mitt romney was not in the state. iowans came to the straw poll not for the food or music but to vote. so many showing up they waited in long lines to cast a non-binding ballot for their favorite. pawlenty zblrks rick santorum. michele bachmann. some not on the ballot. rick perry. reporter: rick perry pa
point? reporter: this accident happened at about 3:00 a.m. this morning on southbound 295. and traffic has reopened again and the investigation is continuing. now, we do know there were multiple fatalities, however, the information about the victims is still not completely out because of notification issues. joining me now a sergeant schlosser. a serious incident had the road closed for a good part of the morning. at 2:30 this morning, the park police were investigating the accident. we have two confirmed fatalities on the scene and there were several additional okay pants in t okay pants taken to local hospitals. and the long close sure was due to the investigation that had to begin immediately after an sdecht like this. that s right, our park police reconstructionists and detectives were on the scene for several hours reconstructing the crash scene. we do have numbers on the number of people that were killed in this crash at this point? i m confirming there are
forecast. kim is keeping an eye on things out there. that nice low humidity, that s getting a cab out of town. instead, we ll see the humidity levels rise and we ll look at some showers and horms that will be more abundant later this afternoon. you re waking up to a pretty comfortable feel especially in frederick, it s 61. 66 in gaithersburg and 74 inside the beltway. but i m watching a few isolad showers beginning to be detected by radar down there just south and west of fredericksburg. we ll see more of those later this afternoon. so what you need to know, by 9:00, we re clouding up, 74. 84 by noon, and a good bet for thunderstorms by 3:00. 88. more to come or whether or not it will be a washout. new from overnight, a woman hit and killed in prince george s county. police say she was trying to walk across route 210 at kirby hill road in fort washington about 12:15 morning when she was hit by a car. we re told the driver did remain on the scene and is cooperating with in
an inch which puts a nice big dent in our rainfall deficit. the good news is, most of these storms tonight haven t been severe. but they are putting down wind gusts to 25, maybe 30 miles an hour, and they are bringing lightning with them, which, of course, is always dangerous. let s head right to the maps and see what s going on. cloudy skies over the capitol. the bone-dry humidity the last few days? it is long gone. look what we have in return. the latest round of strong thunderstorms is up across baltimore right now. this was down across the northern d.c. area, about an hour ago. and most of us getting a little break from the action. but you folks up there, savage, over to lake shore, seeing the tail end of this. we have lighter rain between clarksburg and rockville. another batch of storms is moving north and east around 20 to 30 miles an hour off in the west. middleburg, virginia, washington and front royal right now in virginia. off to the south, moving away from frederi