And the rip countries look thankfully remain low looking ahead to the area headlines it is a seasonable day mid july. So humidity with upper 80s thats totally normal. But the storms as we mentioned are set to return for us by mid week. Specially beginning tomorrow. We will talk more about that as the show progresses, vittoria, over to you. Thank you good morning everyone, as i mentioned, to you before, we were over at the desk there speed censors nice and high still. 5 31 we are starting to see few more vehicles on 95, and thats usually where rush hour starts. Ninetyfive southbound right around girard avenue. But look at the space inbetween the vehicles here. As traffic reporter, thats when i know really things arent bad just yet. Even though seeing few more headlight, were not seeing that big old delay. But, with the headlights that we have out there, it is not that far away. So we continue to keep you updated. But you are traveling pretty smoothly northbound, as well, not only around
By that work zone. Zm by the way looking okay and 95 in maryland. We are working for you as the thanksgiving travel rush begins. Team coverage of the roads with our traffic experts, you saw Melissa Mollet there and jack taylor. And we have you covered from up with chopper 4 bringing you pictures of the delays. Nearly 15 million will be traveling this week, the highest number in nine years according to aaa. More than 1 million most of us will be driving to our destinations. Aaa anticipates 43 Million People on the roads through the thanksgiving holiday. Heres some tips to make sure your trip is as stressfree as possible. Get on the road before noon. If youre flying, get to the airport at least two hours, two and a half hours, before your flight. If you need to leave your car at the airport, book your parking spot now so youre all set when you arrive. Take advantage of those low gas prices were seeing right now by become long. And coming up, news 4s justin fitch will introduce us to a wh
There. Brad is up in the air over 95 in virginia. Brad, what are you seeing there . This traffic headed southbound on 95 is starting to build. I know it doesnt look like much right now but were down here a lot and this is not typical volume on the southbound right side of the screen as you head south through quantico and all the way down into fredericksburg, starting to see that volume build. We will keep an eye on this all day and the coming days. Back down to the thank you. We continue our Team Coverage of thanksgiving travel rush with news 4 justin fitch. Live in bood woodbridge with the low gas prices and how you want to take advantage of them. Justin, good morning. Aaron, eun, good morning. So far the roads were clear on 95 south until we got to the woodbridge area and we did see some congestion in the area. I want to tell you, too, Many Americans are traveling by car million americans, more than a million from the d. C. Area. As you mentioned perhaps bolstered by the lower gas pr
Afternoon northwest 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour, maybe a little gusty at times but highs near 50. Thats just about average for today. Ill give you a look at the whole weekend in detail coming up in a few more minutes. Over to melissa. Looks like all green on the beltway. Good here, beltway moving nicely there. Chop 4 over the top of the beltway. Outer loop. We will show you that picture in just a minute. Everything else on the beltway okay. Hearing about a problem branch avenue ramp to the outer loop of the beltway as far as a car in the ditch. We will get moren 270 southbound see your slow spots as youre coming out of frederick down into gaithersburg, germantown and rockville area youre fine. Same thing headed outbound, southbound 29, we have a crash reported there as well. Travel times in ten. Aaron . Melissa, thank you. It is 6 01. Developing right now the outer loop of the beltway back open after a crash that left one person dead. Virginia state police had lanes near exit 57 in springf
A blanket this morning. Meanwhile as the morning progressing in the afternoon we will see sunshine. Showers currently out there should fizal way with time. As the day goes on we heat up efficiently and again there could be a spotty shower or thunderstorm later today. Overall, though, meisha, its still a decent day. Yeah it seems that way getting up to 78. We will welcome that thanks katie good morning everyone. Taking a look at the ben franklin bridge. Look at the roadways. You see how slick it is out there. We have pooling in some areas. In fact one area 295 saw floo flooding in this area that has been cleared and thats how wet in the certain areas it can be and that may slow us down a little. Overall in terms of volume ben franklin bridge looking good. Malfunctioning traffic lights because of accidents cleared 3 a. M. Boulevard ninth bound and accident lingering route 40 harding way near main road still out. There those of you in and around the area use caution because of wet roadway