Stay ahead of the possibilities of storms on the 4th. Download the nbc washington app. Set your home page to weather. Now to that fourth of july and the show of military might such as weve not seenn decades. Yeah. Bring in the tanks. They arrived in the district today at the request ofid prest trump, and they are being transported by train to the National Mall for the salute to americaju this is one part of the president s grand vision, to makes the 4th a much bigger celebration this year, bt a of these changes mean its going to be a much biggerpa one ryone traveling through the area. Dont you know it. Were working for you with Team Coverage tonight. Adam tuss has new details on why the celebrations will impact air travel. Corey smith and new details on t tanks. Cory . Reporter well, wendy, we knew before today that the salute to america was going to be big. Military flyovers, a president ial speech and these tanks make it huge t just way President Trump likes it, but after talking wit
22 degrees warmer and you knowok what, were going to be able to ditch this cold air and seesd a big warmup as well as we get on into the weekend which willcl bring new challenges as well asl but for this evening if youree heading out 7 00 p. M. 0 p. M. Temperature about 24, 9 oclock 23. We might have to drop that9 tort down just a little bit but of bf course the wind we also we a believe is going to slowly but surely get a little bit better t so not as windy on friday. Ri it will still be cold butd b maybe it will be a little bititi easier to take. Tke. By 7 oclock this evening winds, future wind gusts inus the 20s. By 11 oclock tonight, near nea went to maybe 24 miles an hour wind gusts around the region. Asts w aroe get out to fridayy morning, still picking up somee winds gusting to 20 miles an mia hour but that sure beats those t 50 miles an hour gusts we had wh today and watch the wind direction. At arrows actt 5 oclock pointing the direction the wind is coming from. Here come the
Reporter yeah, guys, guy well, the roadway is still closed. Os these are the southbound lanesso here and you can see weve seen people out of you their cac backed up there. There this is as d. C. 295 southbound approaches burroughs avenueughse which is closed. Ich people are out of their cars. If you look offer to the leftofo you see a lot of police down here on the roadway on then service road directing people around at this intersectionn sending them up on the service e road to benning road to get g them back on their way butay b well slow what is causing allw this. Hi videotape from 6 30 this 3th morning a total of six carsx c involved. It looks like it was a chain cha reaction rear ends collisions co with one car, the small maroonmn sedan ending up underneath theat small silver suv. Uv were told two people had to be extricated from the red car c and then a total of 10 people pl were taken to the hospital. Ospi. So, if you come back live now,ew i want you to come back livek le you se
Right before what they callal the glen echo turn around. That is at macarthuracarth boulevard so right now all ofllo clara barton parkway inboundound and outbound closed between bwe the glen echo turn around atundt macarthur boulevard and the and chain bridge. So, people have been asking meim on twitter, yes, you can stillal turn left on macarthuracarth boulevard but you will not be able to continue inbound on canal road and where claralara barton parkway turns intonto canal road into the district. Ih you will not be able to dole tdo that. It looks like commuters w virginia can still make it over the chain bridge and then make their way turning right from the campaign bridge onton t canal road and getting into int d. C. That way but they wouldy not be able to turn left. Lef i dont think they wouldt in ordinarily be able to do that bb in the morningle t anyway. Nyy. But what we can tell you is u. S. Park police are the responding agency here, they came out and theyre continuing the inve
Reporter yeah, guys, guy well, the roadway is still closed. Os these are the southbound lanesso here and you can see weve seen people out of you their cac backed up there. There this is as d. C. 295 southbound approaches burroughs avenueughse which is closed. Ich people are out of their cars. If you look offer to the leftofo you see a lot of police down here on the roadway on then service road directing people around at this intersectionn sending them up on the service e road to benning road to get g them back on their way butay b well slow what is causing allw this. Hi videotape from 6 30 this 3th morning a total of six carsx c involved. It looks like it was a chain cha reaction rear ends collisions co with one car, the small maroonmn sedan ending up underneath theat small silver suv. Uv were told two people had to be extricated from the red car c and then a total of 10 people pl were taken to the hospital. Ospi. So, if you come back live now,ew i want you to come back livek le you se