Live on the scene. Do we know how this started . Jay we do not. The calls of the fire is under investigation. Of the fire is under investigation. The road is closed down to fight the fire. There is a huge gaping hole in the middle of the home. Fire Officials Say when they arrived flames were shooting out and it was fully engulfed. On the video, you will see the backside of the property, where the whole back of the home is blasted open, totally gutted. Firefighters were back there. We just got the video moments ago and sent it in. They are trying to clean up the hotspots and make sure that the blazes out. The good news is it appears nobody was home at the time. Firefighters scoured the home. Here, but again, no cause of the fire. This is an area of germantown that does not have hydrants accessible to the house, so they had to get a lot of fire trucks here with a lot of water to put this blaze out. Jay korff, abc 7 news. Kimberly another house fire, this one in fairfax county. The flames
One day before ran out, Congress Passed a short term measure to avoid a Government Shutdown. The house and Senate Approved a package extending funding through january 19th, but theyre also kicking the can down the road on tricky political issues Like Health Care and protections for the socalled dreamers. President trump is expected to sign the bill before funding runs out at midnight tonight. Abcs Arlette Saenz has more from northwest. Vice president mike pence in afghanistan today for a surprise visit. He arrived yesterday for his first trip to the country as Vice President. He rallied us troops and met with top afghan officials. The visit makes pence the highestranking Trump Administration official to visit an active us combat zone. It comes four months after the president committed several thousand more Us Service Members to the 16year war right now investigators trying to figure out what sparked the fire that destroyed this house in germantown. Firefighters discovered the single st
No white christmas, but otherwise, it is ok. Saturday is our day with rain. Next friday, we could have snow. If g that far ahead, there could be some snow. You can see some blue to the north in upstate new york. For dallas, houston, some rain showers this morning, in this area. Arkansas, washington, towards areas of montana, snow taking place this morning. That is about it. Clouds move in, rain develops tonight. But as moved through, mild day followed by cold. Here is a look at the clouds. Temperatures, upper 40 as the rain moves in, so will the warm air. Lynchburg. 70, raleigh. We will talk about the influence of a cold and the wind for part of the weekend. Roads julie on the roads, lanes are open on the wilson bridge. Traveling on the westbound freeway, this is where we have problems. Uptalled vehicle is tying the center of the road. Heads up coming off to 95 to the westbound freeway towards main avenue. Inner loop of the beltway, pushing north towards 270, a 14 minute ride. Accident
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Jersey shore from sky six over Atlantic City high waves but overall, a beautiful evening out there, the storm will still have an impact on the jersey shore and delaware beaches but hermines shift is good news by and large. We have Team Coverage of the hermine we will begin with Melissa Magee and cecily tynan with what these changes mean, cecily. This image of hermine shows a few things. A wave. There we go, now this image shows, this is still, a very strong storm, maximum sustained wind 75, 70 miles per hour. It is near hurricane strength. It is very large. Tropical storm force wind fields about 500 miles across, but it is, way out to sea. This is the center of the storm, it is 335 miles, east of ocean city, maryland, and this track, is really shifted over the past 24 hours. To explain why, you really to have look at the what is going on in the upper atmosphere. This is snapshot of the 500 millibar level, 20,000 feet up. All week long we talked about how up thatter level low was going