Delivery. Well tell you the one letter to look out for. Good evening. Its great to have you with us on a friday night. Its a whiteknuckle drive home for millions. Icy highways and several feet of snow in many places. Winter storm alerts in 19 states. Lake effect snow, being measured in feet. And i90, the scene of the massive pileup in the last 24 hours. In portland, oregon, the sidewalks covered with ice. Heres adrienne bankert. Reporter tonight, a relentless winter assault. The great lakes getting pummeled with high winds, even lighting and thunder snow. Pretty bad visibility. Reporter cars sliding off the roads in jordan, new york. Ive never put one in the ditch yet. Reporter this truck flipping over on interstate 90. A 70car pileup in erie, pennsylvania. Crews racing to pick people out. And 20 injured, 3 seriously, in ohio. And shut down the highway for more than 15 hours. And in portland, ice turning sidewalks into skating rinks. This school bus skidding off the road near vancouver
Take two to three days. You can peer inside the garage door sized opening of the blackened ghost ship warehouse and see the skeleton of flight of stairs filled with a tangle of charred debris. At the base there is a massive elaborate wood carving almost like a mast head. There are damaged propane tanks and fire extinguishers and cart filled with burned belongings. This father traveled here from utah to take pictures where his 34yearold son, Edmond Lapine died. Whats tougher, i will never see him again. I just want to come see where he died. And where he came to believe thought he was going to have a good time. Every day, on bart, it is really hard to see people like this. Reporter other distraught family members were overcome with emotion when nape saw the warehouse. Like the family of 35yearold alex, who leaves behind two twin daughters. Atf chaplain was on hand to comfort them. Investigators with the da office canvassed neighbors to collect video from their surveillance cameras. Peop
Words of warning now from the chief. This is serious business. This kills people. This is the holiday season. This is horrible. And for those that are listening out there, if youre a driver, and you decide to drink, why dont you think. Spend a little money and plan, take a taxi. Reporter Christie Edgar was held overnight. She was released this morning. Susan, back to you. All right, thanks so much, pat. A d. C. Public School Employee has been arrested on drug charges. News 4s Mark Segraves broke this story this morning, rita gray, accused of conspiracy to import at least five kilos of cocaine into the united states. Court documents say gray intentionally and knowingly conspired to bring the drugs in through florida, d. C. Police arrested her last wednesday. The drugs have a street value of about 500,000. Gray has been placed on the search is on for a group of men behind a brazen Home Invasion robbery overnight in Prince Georges County. Police tell us the suspects posed as Police Office
Now at 11 00, 2016 takes another star. All allen thicke died suddenly this evening. All kinds of reaction. Plus new information about the Wild Police Chase at the heart of rush hour tonight. A woman in handcuffs driving a stolen cruiser into virginia and workers planning to strike tomorrow at two of our major airports. The impact it could have and what theyre demanding. And first up tonight that breaking news on i95 in maryland. We sent you the alert on our nbc washington app. We show you the traffic getting by slowly now in both directions after a tractortrailer crashed near the icc in laurel. This is on the northbound side. Both directions were closed at one point tonight. A helicopter landed to take one person to the hospital. Prince georges county fire Officials Say one adult and one child have life threatening injuries. Two other people were hurt. Were still working to get more information, but expect the cleanup northbound to last a while. Now to the breaking news we told you abo
With us and chuck bell. We are in full weather alert mode for thursday, friday and on into the weekend as well. Dangerously low windchills down near zero for most of the day tomorrow. And before the cold air gets out saturday afternoon, we could have sleet, snow or ice early saturday morning. Just know the weekend will start off on a slippery note. Right now temperatures are mostly in the mid to upper 30s around the area. 40 at national airport. As youre planning out the day hour by hour, nothing to complain about today. Seasonably chilly with temperatures in the low to mid40s. Well have the flurries tonight as the arctic air rushes in. Well talk about that and help you plan out the weekend coming up. Sounds like a plan to me. Taking a look at 66 east of 28 here melissa, well get back to you in a minute. We want to check in more on the cold weather because its going to be really cold out there as chuck mentioned. And there are some ways you can get ready for this weather. Kristin wrigh