tom kierein joins us live. low clouds in the live view from our city camera and some of the rural eas, we have some patchy fog. look out for that. look out for the fog we do have in the rural areas. just some light fog in the air. elsewhere temperatures quite chilly, just near 50 in the suburbs and rural areas and shenandoah valley west it s in the 40s and mid 50s, as wells aaround the bay and virginia s tidewar. we have the low clouds in generally from the blue ridge east and the patchy fog and low cloudiness should break up as the morning progresses. increasing sun this afternoon with a blustery northwest wind. highs reaching the mid 60s winds gusting to around 15 to 20. out of the northwest, very chilly tomorroworning just near 40. afternoon highs only near 60 but should be bright and sunny tomorrow. sunny saturday with a high near 70. partly cloudy sunday, low to mid 70 and en it looks like rain is possible. now let s check the traffic on this thursday morning. ashley l
there were at least two cars that hit trying to swerve the light st. again, as you mentioned, 12 people taken to the hospital. four of them are in critical condition. wi talked to a woman right after we arrived on the scene here who was travel behd the bus. she became part of the rescue effort. let s take a listen as to what she had to say. we had to stop. we were calling 911 and helping other people. how many were on the bus? let me see. maybe six kids? four, five, maybe six kids. how many adults? i think three ladies. three ladies and three more adults signed the bus. reporter: okay. at this point we know it s 256-passenger van owned by wolf company, but we do not know just how many people were on the van. the assistant fire chief scott graham did tell me that he did not think the van was full, but, again, at this point we don t know precisely how many were on the van, but we do know there were children. in fact, when we arrived asaw a child being carried away o
several balan several ambulances. we also have hundreds of people stuck on i-270 who cannot get home. let s try to help those people. let s go to ashley linr. ashley, what is going to be the situation there and how are they going to try to remedy those people parked now on i-270? that is going to be the biggest issue right now. from our understanding they are going to start detouring drivers only democracy boulevard. unfortunately that measly little detour isn t goi to do much for the drivers already committed to the beltway. as you can see here, here s the pace across the american legion bridge inching along. those headlights are out. as you can see the inner lop is inching along, making its way up toward democracy. so here s what s going on. this is the camera at 270 and democracy. they have it spun around so you can see. this is democracy itself. you cannot get onto 270 at this point. those drivers who are already stuck, this is going to prove to be not much to help to
northwest wind, it did die down a bit overnight. hook out on the mountains, only in the fourth on western maryland and much of west virginia, and right near the waters, it s in the upper 60s to near 70. the view from space over the last 12 hours showing canadian high pressure pumping in on the northwesterly breezes and that h be with us here throughout the day today with lots of sunshine and cooper weather. highs reaching near 80. that wind will be gusting around 25-mile-an-hour or so and it will diminish a bit tonight and still be a bit blustery tomorrow. cool tomorrow morning again down into the mid-50s. and saturday looks delightful, sunny in the morning, clouds in the afternoon, highs near 80, clouding up saturday night. could get much needed rain on sunday with highs near 80, but it does look like it will end in time for the skins game sunday night. now let s check traffic on this thursday morning. ashley linder, good morning. fortunately we re wrapping up overnight ro
near sugar loaf and it may hold together and of move through pools vlt and towards damascus in another 20 minutes or so. a few sprinkles in western loudoun county and northern culpepper county. these are all drifting to the east and tending to dry out as they move east. we probably aren t going to see much in the way of any rain. we have an increased fire danger as a result of the parched conditions. 74 in washington, it s a balmy morning, 70 shenandoah valley and low 70s montgomery, arlington and fairfax. we ll clear out this afternoon with a blustery northwest wind and the wind will diminish tomorrow and we ll have the temperatures cooler with highs in the 70s and more of the same on friday and saturday with diminished winds. ashley, good morning, how s the traffic? we just had delays on 95 heading northbound from the prince william parkway. now we have an incident. as ult can see it s along the side of the road there along the far left side. center of the screen is the h