Area. We feel it here at this stage. We are stuck in a deep freeze. Alison abc7s tom roussey joins us from siller is spring where crews are work Silver Spring where the crews are working on a water main break. This is just part of the problem out there today, right . Tom it is. There are a lot of affects from the cold. The water main break is one of the worst. This is on New Hampshire avenue. So as you can imagine its wreaking havoc on traffic. I just got an update. Good news. They have made progress. It wont last forever but it will last through the evening rush hour. Thanks to the water main break the traffic was bad even before rush hour started. Bad. Really bad. How bad was the traffic you were in . Bad. Back like 20 minutes. That is right. 20 minutes from the beltway, which you could see less than a quarter mile away. Everything had to merge to one lane. What i dont like about it is the left lane, they think they automatically can get in without any courtesy. New hampshire avenue
The good news is all that comes to an end at midnight. Well be dry by tomorrow morning. Temperatures may be below freegz. Well have slick spots to worry about then. Well be near 60 by later in the week. The Winter Weather advisory continues. Your hourly planner on temperatures, we may barely get above the freezing marks but the ground is frozen. Any raindrops, they will glaze them over almost instantaneously. Be real careful later on this afternoon and this evening for that. The trend is finally our friend yet again. Temperatures will be in the 50s by thursday. But that afternoon, evening commute tonight could be a little icy and dicey, melissa. I dont love that. Its going to be a rough one coming home tonight for a lot of folks. Taking a look at the breaking news. Chopper 4 headed to that water main break, eastwest highway takoma park for us. Eastbound lanes are shut down. One westbound lane. The only thing open for us this morning, a little bit of an improvement. We were totally clos
Here on capitol hill later on this morning, calling for tougher gun laws. Andy parker is still reeling from the death of his daughter and the photographer adam ward and hes working to prevent more deaths. He is asking lawmakers to do what ever it takes to stop the gun violence. Now, thats the slogan for todays day of action. Whatever it takes. And andy parker will be joined here on the hill by survivors and relatives of victims from the Charleston Church and sandy hook shootings and the sponsor every town is encouraging people to upload photos and messages to members of congress, calling for tougher gun legislation. Now, there are a number of events scheduled around the country. The events here on capitol hill gets underway at 11 00 this morning. Back to you in the studio. Thank you, megan. One possible new law would push anyone who sells a gun to a person not legally allowed to buy one. It would punish one of those people. It is called the responsible transfer of firearms act. Virgini
Affected by gun violence. Now, it was a shocking crime, a Television News crew gunned down on Live Television by a former coworker. Well, today, the father of the reporter who was murdered hes going to be on capitol hill calling on lawmakers for tougher to pass tougher gun control measures. Andy parker is still reeling from the death of his daughter allison and photographer adam ward. Hes working to prevent more deaths and hes asking lawmakers to do what ever it takes to stop the violence. Now thats a slogan for todays day of action, what ever it takes. Andy parker will be joined by survivors and relatives of the Virginia Tech, the Charleston Church and sandy hook shooters. The sponsor is encouraging people to upload messages to Congress Calling on lawmakers to pass tougher gun control legislation. This will be rallies there will be rallies held across the country, but the event here in washington gets under way at 11 00. Back to you in the studio. Thank you. A virginia senator has int