This crash here near earnshaw drive. Shomari stone just got to the scene. Reporter right now, im here on highway 5. As you can see, these are the southbound lanes and the cars are going, but on the northbound completely closed. You can see an suv mangled metal. Two cars involved in this crash. Two people unfortunately died. Accident reconstructionists are here right now. The other car were hearing is in the woods. This car just went right into the trees. Two people have died again. Police have not released their names, but you have to avoid this area. Highly recommended. Burch hill road and highway 5. Police are still trying to figure out what caused this accident. Avoid this area. News 4. Suitland parkway here near naylor road still closed in both directions. It happened around 7 15. At least four people were injured in this accident. One is in critical condition. We have breaking news out west. Three firefighters battling those massive wildfires in Washington State now confirmed dead
Commute in loudoun county. Theres a chance that bus service could be disrupted again if drivers have another sickout day. They called off because of union negotiations. 14 of 58 bus runs were cancelled. Take a look at the sky bee hind us, hues of orange and purple. A bit of a gloomy morning. Storm is acoming. Meteorologist tom kierein has a look at the weather headlines. Lets just say it wont be real sunny. We have clouds around, producing some showers in the metro area. This is a line of some showers and storms that will be intensifying as it gets closer to us out of the midwest. Right now, metro area we had one line of showers coming through, a little bit of thunder and lightning in the damascus and gaithersburg area. Rockville getting a downpour there. Another one, right near laurel thats tracking off along route 1, headed up Anne Arundel County. Getting a few showers here in southeast washington. And then into maryland. Right along suitland parkway over to the beltway in Prince Geo
Prince georges county, the district, anne arundel, parts of howard county. Watch out for high water tonight. So hour by hour forecast for the next six hours will just begin to dry out a bit. The pavement still wet. Some sun breaks out later this morning. Low 80s by then. Next weather and traffic on the 1s, a look at your bus stop forecast for this thursday. Now melissa is looking at traffic problems early on this thursday morning. Have a couple of issues, inner loop at 295, a single car crash. Probably off the road work right now. 295 at malcolm x is blocked. And nutley road, its blocked there. Inner and outer loop no major problems. Virginia 95 here at lorton road a little bit of wetness, and through Prince Georges County, so be careful as youre headed out. 5 02. We are learning that two cars collided on branch avenue overnight. That crash happened near the intersection with earnshaw drive. Look here, you can see at least one of the cars went off the road. Three people hurt in another
Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein. Good morning. Grab the umbrella before you head out the door. You wont need it immediately in the metro area, but if you live in anne arundel you will. Right now we are getting brief heavy downpours near annapolis and right along the western side of the bay, up toward baltimore. Thats moving off north and east. That line did come through an hour or so ago. So some of the pavement is wet around the beltway and all the major streets and roads so watch out, theyre still slick. And this is the Flash Flood Watch map. These areas in green including fairfax, all of prince georges, arlington, as well as anne arundel, southern howard, watch out for high water tonight. We could get one to two inches of rain in a short amount of time. Now melissa, whats happening . I have two brand new crashes in northern virginia. Lets look at the first one here. Fairfax county, that just popped up. As did this one. A warning on those two. 216 so we had that crash, sounds
Pretty exciting. The last one came later than expected. In fact, folks who maybe didnt stay up for the 11 00 it wasnt in the 11 00 newscast. All new this morning. Sure is. Theyre so tiny. First, we want talk about your weather. And another gorgeous day in store for us. Yeah, Lauryn Ricketts is tracking it for us. We may have a few clouds pushing in late throughout the day, but other than that its another Beautiful Day out there with temperatures maybe a touch warmer than yesterday. We made it up to 86 degrees. Were in the upper 80s today after a cool start. Then well have humidity settle in overnight, a little muggy for your monday. But a cold front will sweep it out of here. Yes, its on the chilly side. 67 in d. C. But then step out once again, kind of similar to yesterday morning. We are talking about mid 50s in the shenandoah valley. Cool throughout the morning, but then well warm up rather nicely. Well warm up to around 90 degrees in some spots. But enjoy the morning. And again, te