Sti year we still have the high sun angle. A look at the big temperature swings hour by hour coming up next weather and traffic on the 1s. Melissa checking on a smooth friday commute so far. If we can just keep it up. Everybody will be happy. Chopper 4 over 66 at the beltway moving right along. Hopefully a lot of folks are headed out of town this week. 270 southbound out of frederick this to rockville, you hit the spur, youre totally fine. A wider look at things, lots of green. 55 miles an hour, so at speed there. A little bit slow d. C. 295 just after 50, 28 from earlier road work. Remember 95 north at dale city, we have the right lane blocked today from 9 00 to noon and southbound, 8 00 a. M. To 11 00 a. M. Again the right lane blocked. So a little sticky down there later today. Im back thin ten minutes. Without food, without water, people are starving. Children are dying of thirst. Tens of thousands of iraqis are stranded on a mountain while islamic militants are threatening genocid
Freelands cousins said theyre not mad at the man police say took her. We want to still pray for him. Were still going to pray for him. Because god foregave us and its only right that we forgive him. Were not even mad at him. He needs help. And we hope that he seek the help and that, you know, justice will come for what he did. Hes going to pay for what he did. Police say they will enti interrogate that man today. Nbcs jay gray tells us more about him and how this all began. This is the parking lot where federal agents moved in capturing their suspect, freeing a woman they say he had held for three full days Carlesha Freeland Gaither was attacked and abducted on a philadelphia street. You can see it in the Surveillance Video here. The man that police say did that, 37 years old, Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey in philadelphia talked about his past. Hes got a very extensive criminal history. He was already wanted in charles city, virginia, for attempted murder, abduction, aggravated as
Not a u. S. Citizen per se. About an hour ago Indiana University confirmed that one of its students, carline keger was a doctoral chemistry student, on the schools rowing team, was from amsterdam and was on the flight and died as a result. Meanwhile the United Nations also meeting as we speak. It has released a statement with its condolences to the victims of this flight talking about how it wants to move forward with the investigation. The u. N. Has offered to put an International Team of investigators together. They made that offer to the ukraine. Obviously the area where this plane went down is not in a ukrainiancontrolled area, so we dont know what will happen with that offer from the United Nations. Weve also learned that at least one person from the National Transportation safety board from the United States will travel to the ukraine to help with the investigation there. The question now, though, is how effective will this investigation be. Nbcs tom costello has an explanation o
Scattered showers where they are a little bit heavier. Light rain and sprinkles. They should stay east of the metro through much of the morning. Upper 50s farther north and west for the next several hours. Dress accordingly. Certainly have an umbrella with you. Driving this morning, you will be especially countering wet roads with temperatures hovering in the 60s through much of the morning. A little bit of drizzle. A clou cloudy afternoon. At 4 41 we will take a look at the nationals forecast and hour byhour look this evening. Thank you, tom. 431. You heard tom saying its wet outside. News 4s Megan Mcgrath is out on the roads. How is it looking now . Well, were on the inner loop of the beltway in montgomery county. Take a look at the live camera. You can see the Road Conditions were dealing with. We have moderate rain right now. An hour ago we had heavy rain. It is starting to let up a little bit. We are expecting it to go back and forth to light. What does this mean for your commute
About. Sometimes youll have freemoving traffic and then youll hit these mystery backups for no apparent reason. Then traffic is clear and you hit another one of those. Projections say its only going to get worse, its going to be all backup the next few years but there is a plan here that would seek to alleviate that. It seems like right now the immediate answer lies beyond the beltway. Its a classic i66 scene, a backup that makes you late and leaves you without much choice. Miles of migraineinducing traffic. But unfortunately i think its an every day occurrence up here. Reporter but help could be on the way. Planners want to make major changes to the interstate between the beltway and haymaet. Its really as simple as that. Reporter why there . Why outside the beltway . We do know that a lot of motorists get there and either have to divert or they have to funnel into that bottleneck that gets into going into our nations capital. Reporter the key they say will be choice, making it an int