much happy veterans day.s day thanks for your service to our u country.tr it has been a tumultuous nights across the country as protestsst continue in cities coast to coast.as while most demonstrationsemss president barack obamapr peaceful in one u.s. cityess.y things took a violent turnn overnight. overni melanie alnwick joins us livens from the trump international hotel with more on protestsro taking place.lace mel good morning. reporter: good morning steve and allison. ow yo wd to show you w rephaort looks like a size police presence here thatet converged on the hotel thisoteli morning.rn definitely a difference in the security stance than what we w saw yesterday where it wast mostly just hotel security sec guards and then they put up u these barricades here but evene if you swing over thisbu way, w you can see here this is the side into the hotel not even n e the front entrance and all the l police officers that are standing there.ffic we don t haveding any hav info
the lunch hour. kevin lewis has been there on the scene all day. he has latest now in the developing story. i understand, kevin, there is a lot of heroes out there today. kevin: absolutely. despite flames, customers and diner staff members ran to help their fellow man. take a look at this now. since we last talked to you a tow truck removed the uper. there are a number of silver diner employees out front. you can see the charred remains on the sidewalk there. they are trying to clean up to open up the restaurant again. oh, my god, this guy just ran into the building. absolutely chaos. this hummer hit and pinged him against the popular restaurant. customers risk their lives to pull the driver from the car that erupted to thick orange flames. a man cut the driver free from the seat belt and dragged him across the parking lot. he was fighting. dennis was eating lunch with his wife. the booth was next to the mayhem. it would have been burned to a crisp if people didn t tr
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president hamid karzai, who s enraging many in washington. now, karzai, i don t think anybody knows what game he is playing. reporter: 26,000 u.s. forces will leave afghanistan by december. but the obama plan would keep 8,000 u.s. forces in the country as trainers. the afghan army is not yet capable on its own. america s top soldier, chairman of the joint chiefs, general martin dempsey in afghanistan today said if u.s. trainers cannot stay through 2015, the main core of al qaeda could rebuild here. i think the principle reason for us to remain post 14 is to maintain pressure on al qaeda. reporter: but karzai won t sign a so-called forces agreement to give u.s. troops the usual waiver from prosecution and the like. unless karzai does sign, dempsey and his commander, president obama, say no u.s. troops will stay. u.s. nato allies told defense secretary, chuck hagel today, their 5,000 troops wouldn t stay either. all u.s. forces pulling out is what most americans want a
then the clouds quickly close in bringing us some showers moving in by the afternoon commute. wet roads and temperatures in the 60s by late afternoon. the next weather and traffic on the 1s coming up at 6:11. the storm team 4x4 hits the road with your commuter forecast on the road. we are checking out a crash in montgomery county. southbound seven locks at democracy avenue, part of the road is shut down. it should be opening up in just a little bit. police say tow trucks are on the way. 66 eastbound after 50 in the right lane here, we do have a semi truck disabled. a new crash here at route 1 at east-west highway in prince george s county. that right now, we have one lane blocked there as well. taking a look in virginia, 95 if you re headed out of safford county, we are pretty slow at this point this morning. no real reason to be quite slow through dale city. slow for this time of the morning at 40 miles per hour. the beltway at central avenue is moving right along. i m bac