House. Figueroa texted a friend that she be working at the house. She came here from el salvador to earn some money before retiring next year. The funeral is in Silver Spring at 2 00 p. M. Friends and meanwhile have set up this gofundme page to help pay for the funeral costs. Donations will help the family send her body back home by plane to el salvador for a proper burial. She leaves behind a husband and two children who live in el salvador. You can find a link to the page in the story that has been posted through our nbc washington app. Good morning. Clear and chilly on this big get away day for the memorial Holiday Weekend. It is chilly. Only in the 40s now. Down to just 46 in winchester. Virginia is right around 50 degrees. Hagerstown at 51. Oakland, maryland, down to a cold 37 right now. Some frost will be forming way out there later this morning. Immediately around the metro area, its down to the upper 40s. Closer to washington and Montgomery County parts of prince georges as wel
Melissa is looking at the get away travel. Get away day, virginia 95 southbound right now, not only getting away too quickly here. As youre approaching dale city. You can see the first 4 traffic tracker a bit slow through dale city because of earlier road work that jammed things up this morning. So we have a 3 1 2 mile backup southbound. Before that and after that youre fine. Volume looks quite a bit lighter than it does. Hopefully, people are already out of the town. In the city, 295 a crash under the indian avenue overpass. Two lanes are blocked. 66 into town, a tad slow near 50 because of the earlier accident but looks better than a couple of minutes ago. The bay bridge looking good. Headed across it headed back over to annapolis. Aaron . Melissa, thank you. 6 01 and while you were sleeping, d. C. Police ended the manhunt for a man they say killed a d. C. Family and their housekeeper. Daron wint behind bars this morning. You look at new video of the detectives and agents processing
Morning. Now melissa has an update on that crash. Update on this crash in the district. Take a look here, just got off the phone with d. C. Police one lane of 295 southbound is now open at nannie helen burroughs. Northbound is open. Right now we are getting by without a major problem. We were shut down earlier. Prince william is shut down at Jefferson Davis. Southbound being pushed on to Prince William parkway to get folks around that crash. Taking a look now at 95 in virginia, southbound here through dale city. We are quite slow. 12 mile per hour at this point this morning. The right lane it sounds like is blocked here. This is a live picture, looks better than it did earlier here. But still quite slow this morning. 95 southbound right now is where the first 4 traffic tracker is heading. Al going to get into some of the backups and show us whats really happening there. Live here this morning, a wide look at things overall the beltway looking good. Moving along nicely as we hit this me
Congress reacted to snowden and theyre saying hmm, maybe it is not quite so scary as we thought to go against the government. I want to move on because of the time. But, mieke, i thought you might have the best view into how might this ruling influence the politics of this, the congressional will . I think that the court the Second Circuit clearly put this back in congress lap and said, look, congress did not explicitly authorize this Bulk Collection Program under 2150 and if they want to be explicit about that, they need to act they made note of the timeline. But their analysis of the 215 program suggests that they would not look kindly upon it the way that it is currently constructed. I also think that the politics of this right now here in the house, it is unlikely that you would get a clean reauthorization of the existing program through. And so the real question for senator mcconnell is, do you take the reform legislation or do you let the program expire . So to move on to so i wa
Policies. I want to drill down into those. You said first funds are being short shrifed because we limit the manner which people pay in. If everybody was under a consumption tax, which is what the fair tax does, all americans would be contributing. I want to stay on this entitlement reform. Back in to 2011 here is what you told neil cavuto. We keep saying that 60 is the new 40. Okay. Lets treat 60 like its the new 40. Lets raise that eligibility age up to 70 for the people under 55. You favored reforms to entitlements back then whats changed . Well, the main thing i feel like that has happened, as i understand if we start breaking promises to people and we start making changes in a Program People have been into for years i think it adds to the disstrus we have of government. Frankly, theres never been a time in my lifetime where people are more distrustful of government. I say go back to people who are 14 and 15 just entering the work force and here is another suggestion. If i may brie