Area around 6 00 in the evening. Heres whats left of this storm system. Showers in southern maryland. Widely scattered light showers in parts of montgomery and Frederick County and heavier rain back over the mountains. Again, this moves out of the area by 10 00 a. M. c comfortably cool this morning as well with temperatures in the 60s. Dave, youre tracking an issue on the roads after a quiet morning. Luckily the bulk of that storm damage stayed well to the west of the metro area. The bulk of the metro area beltway included off to a good start. Were looking at i95 and northbound traffic slow through woodbridge near Prince William parkway. A crash just got put in its place on the right shoulder. All lanes are open. Brief delay getting past it. Not bad on 66. Heavy eastbound toward centreville. Beltway traffic growing. On rails, orange and silver lanes a because of unscheduled no trains getting through at all. Youll have to find a work around. If you drive, youll have a lot of company ou
Two stations in the district will close. Stadium armory and potomac avenue. Prince georges county commuters will notice a major impact. Passengers that use blue, orange or silver lines are urged to consider alternate ways of getting around. And on top of safetrack, there will be track work this weekend on metro. Blue line trains will only operate between franconia, springfield and Arlington Cemetery and pentagon. The good news is red, yellow and green line trains will operate on a regular weekend schedule. The time is 4 31. We have rain and showers lingering this morning. Amelia segmea is this going to work into the morning commute . Showers around for the morning commute but for the most part very light in nature. Grab the umbrella heading out this morning. Know if your windshield wipers are on, headlines needs to be we dry out and increasing sunshine. Overall a nice friday. A spectacular weekend and very little rain chances over the next seven days. Right now 67 degrees. Well find ou
Day well have after severe storms overnight. Scattered showers during the Morning Hours until 10 00 a. M. And then improvement in the weather. I want to show you storm reports from yesterday. These are hail reports across the area. Notice how they favor parts of northern virginia. Baseball sized hail reported. Ive added in the wind reports and you can continue to see the damage was mainly in West Virginia and virginia. Barely any storm reports in the district or in maryland. Heres the latest on storm team 4 radar. Showers in maryland as we look further back to the west some heavy rain impacting areas just to the north. Scattered showers until 10 00 a. M. Otherwise temps this morning in the 60s. More on what to expect in ten. For now we send things over to dave. Quiet on this friday morning. You got that right. Good so far driving around beltway and beyond and around the beltway, damp and wet and storms late last night. Inner lanes, a minor crash on left shoulder. Pavement damp here off
This trooper sustained. It appears to us that this trooper was helping a vehicle on the side of the road when somehow he was rathearended or hurt by another vehicle on the roadway but again you can see here whats going on with this investigation. Maryland state troopers have it shut down here. If you try to get on to the outer loop of the beltway from 450, youre going to be directed around that ramp. They have it closed down to keep traffic from coming here. If you take a look behind us, you can see that the beltway on the outer loop around 450 is completely shut down and could be like this for some time. As maryland state troopers conduct their investigation to try and find out exactly what led to this crash. Im Tracee Wilkins. Were reporting live here on the beltway. Back to you all in the studio. See, we understand the trooper was taken to shock trauma. Do we know any more about his condition . Reporter we dont know anything more other than that he suffer all righty. Tracee wilkins
Guard it. The search will resume at daybreak but theres no hope they say of finding any survivor survivors. The recovery soerpgs expected to last at least a week. The impact of plaep was so great the biggest piece of debris left is only about the size of a car. Jim handly has more with what we learned today. Nbc news is getting new information tonight from the former head of frances bureau of investigation for aviation. Its their version of the ntsb. He says tonight that the plane was flying very fast at impact, about 435 miles an hour. And he says its unusual that there was no distress signal sent from the cockpit. The black box that was recovered today has already been sent to paris for analysis. We should have some answers tomorrow morning about that planes final moments. French president Francois Hollande and german chancellor Angela Merkel will visit the crash site tomorrow. Meanwhile, grieving families of the victims are gathering tonight in spain and germany. Nbcs barry arent ha