Roads. We have a crash slowing things down quite a bit. A 2 1 2 mile backup as you are headed northbound on crain highway at branch avenue. The left lane is blocked and those backups are building here. Really have increased quite a bit in the last couple of minutes. In Silver Spring now, chopper 4 over this problem, a pedestrian struck northbound Georgia Avenue at dennis avenue. Another shot from the ground there for you this morning. Also outbound 11th street bridge, still have the two left lanes blocked, overturned truck on the bridge. Thank you, melissa. A developing story now in prince georges county. Police are searching for the man responsible for a deadly shooting at a gas station. Police say surveillance cameras may have caught the shooting around 7 15 last night at the bp station on walters lane near chavez lane in forestville. Officers say this attack was not random and did not happen during a robbery. They hope any other customers inside at the time can help them to a suspect. 50 more jurors in Fairfax County will be screened this morning as part of the Charles Severance murder trial. Hes accused of killing three alexandria residents over a tenyear span. Lawyers are trying to find jurors who can handle a six week trial. They have already gone through half of their 100 person pool. Once jury selection is done, Opening Statements could start as early as thursday. And right now, the death toll continues to rise in the carolinas. 13 people have died from storms there in South Carolina. Several neighborhoods are still under water this morning. More flooding could happen and dams continue to fail. Nearly two dozen dams have breached state wide. More than 500 roads and bridges washed out by the flooding. 1300 National Guardsmen are in that area performing aerial rescues. Officials are asking people to donate water to the 40,000 people who dont have clean water this morning. Virginia Task Force One is on the ground this morning in South Carolina helping out First Responders. The team from chantilly in West Columbia now. They have been assigned to the Clarendon County area. The team was called in sunday night by fema. The 80 member team and 59,000 pounds of equipment left yesterday morning. Theyll be down for 10 days total. Were keeping an eye on the dam breach situation in South Carolina. Well check in with Kerry Sanders late are in tr in the s. The cargo ship that sank is now the subject of an ntsb investigation. A team of investigators is on its way to jacksonville, florida. Were learning a baltimore man is among the 33 member crew believed to be dead. The coast guard says the el faro sank off the coast of the bahamas. Yesterday crews found a heavily damaged lifeboat from the cargo ship. A body and a survival suit was also pulled from the water. The ship was on its way to puerto rico when it sank. Video of a big announcement. We now know the winners of the nobel prize in physics. Looking at the video here, japanese physicist and arthur b. Mcdonald win the nobel prize in physics. They were honored for their discovery of nutrino oscillation, the most abundant particles out there. Show they have maps. Nobel week continues tomorrow with the prize in chemistry to be awarded. It is 6 04. A contentious debate over pesticides will likely come up today. Council members should decide whether to allow residents to spray their lawns with pesticides. A lot of people want to protect their lawns against mosquitos, with the chemicals and the bill the council will debate today will ban or regulate them in some way. The company that owns the hospital plans to open a walk in center for patients and lay off close to 120 workers. The union is hosting a Forum Tonight at 6 00 at Partnership Hall on fifth street. The d. C. Council will vote on the proposal to use private ambulances in the district. Mayor Muriel Bowser and d. C. Fire chief gregory dean want to use the private ambulances to respond to your 911 calls. They say it will improve response times and give d. C. Fire and ems crews more time to train. The private ambulances would only transport low priority patients for issues like colds, cuts and twisted ankles. If approved, the plan will last for one year. Police in arlington are investigating another sex assault this morning. A woman was pushed into the bushes Early Saturday Morning on north scott street. Megan mcgrath is live. There has been a recent string of sex assaults in that area. What is going on . Reporter thats right. There have been several Sexual Assaults in the arlington area over just the last couple of months. No indication if the same person is responsible that the incidents are linked. However, it is a disturbing trend, one that has women in arlington on edge. The latest incident happened over the weekend in the 1800 block of north scott street. It was right around 2 30 in the morning. Police say that a man began to follow the victim as she walked home. He pushed her into the bush and touched her inappropriately. And implying he had a knife. This is the eighth assault that happened in the areas. Days before this latest incident there was another one, two miles away, a woman pushed into the bushes there. Certainly something that police want to get a handle on. Women are asked to be careful, to avoid walking and jogging alone. Back to you in the studio. Thank you, megan. A new case of a referee being targeted on the football field. The altercation caught on camera after it ends with punches thrown. One person is dead and close to 20 hurt after an accident involving an suv and bus. What were learning about the late night crash in philadelphia. And two brandnew crashes on our roads, one here in grand view, details coming up. Without the internet i would probably be like a c student. 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The woman was plucked to safety as her couch and her cat were being swept away. The area is dealing with Power Outages and nevada Highway Patrol responded to 76 crashes in southern nevada. Guessing they dont deal with a lot of rain in the desert. What is happening there and South Carolina, folks need a break. Closer to home, a bit chilly this morning, looking outside. It is, what, mid40s . In some spots. Ill go call that cold. Enough to throw another log on the fire this morning. Some wood stoves going on in the mountains now. You need the furnace on. At the bus stop this morning, waiting for metro, youll need your jacket, in the mid40s between 7 00 and 8 00. Mid50s between 8 00 and 9 00. Quickly warping. Wear your fleece this morning, youll need your sunglasses later today as well. A look at the warmer pattern on the way, coming up at 6 21. We have breaking news on the roads. Breaking news now. Were talking about this crash in branch avenue. The crash is off to the left side of the roadway. Looks like one vehicle is pulling away perhaps there to be towed out of the way. But major backups. 3 95 very slow as youre headed to town. 270 south, no problems. Top of the beltway, looking pretty good there. And on time overall. 66 inbound looks good. And 95 northbound quantico to the beltway, no major problems from quantico to the beltway. If you want to break it down, 13 minutes, 123 to the beltway 11. Remember to listen to our friends when you hop in your car. Coming up, passengers recounting a frightening trip after the trains come crashing off the tracks. What were learning about the derailment and the impact the accident is having on Amtrak Service this morning. A craigslist post is causing a stir on social media this morning. The missed connection that one man is crediting with saving his life more than 40 years ago. The time is 6 13. Stay with us. Amtrak is running modified service between vermont and washington today and tomorrow because of this train derailment. Take a look. Officials say rocks fell from a ledge and on to the track in north field, vermont. A crew member is still in the hospital. Six other passengers were taken to the er to be checked out. The engine and one Passenger Car went into a ditch. Three other cars left the track, but stayed upright. All of the most able bodied people adopted a person and got them down the train tracks and out. Other passengers had to break windows and help each other get to safety. Federal safety rules require two inspections every week. New developments in the wake of the tragic shooting in oregon. President obama says he will visit Umpqua Community college in roseburg later this week. Hes traveling to the west coast for four days. At the campus right now, there is a private memorial for the victims open only to students and staff. Nine people and the shooter Christopher Harper mercer all died. Were now learning more about him. A witness said Harper Mercer gave one student an envelope with a flash drive in it. A Law Enforcement official told nbc news they found writings that indicated he believed everyone around him was irrational. He wrote he was the only sane one. Im not going to use my strength and my time to be mad. Im not going to hate him. I just in all honesty, i feel sorry for him. Feel bad for him. School is open today for students to receive counseling and see each other. Classes dont begin again until next week. Anne arundel county mees are investigating a pair of suspicious deaths. A man was found shot to death inside a home in lothian, maryland, yesterday afternoon. Police identified him as 40yearold Anthony Anastasia jr. During a search of the house, officers found a woman dead in the basement. She had suffered trauma to her body. Thats according to investigators. They also say these crimes were not random attacks. An exclusive look at the man police say shot at buildings. One of them the office where he worked. Fairfax county detectives are trying to determine matthew malacarnes motive. Search warrants show the 29yearold had an arsenal of weapons, four guns and more than 30 boxes of ammunition. Police say he fired into buildings overnight, shootering windows at seven facilities from herndon to leesburg. A building engineer identified him after he recognized him driving the same car, a surveillance camera caught leaving the site of the shooting. Less than half of maryland residents agree this people of all races get equal treatment by the police. The poll from Goucher College asked neighbors questions about police in their communities. 27 black residents said all races receive equal police treatment. Compared to 60 of white residents. The poll also found 82 said they were paying some or a lot of attention to the freddie gray case. A top u. S. Commander may be facing some tough questions on a recent u. S. Air strike in afghanistan. General John Campbell will appear in front of a Senate Armed Services committee this morning. This comes after an air strike by u. S. Forces that hit a medical clinic. 22 people including doctors and patients were killed. The general is also expected to answer questions about u. S. Troop levels in afghanistan. Did you see it. The nfl admits the ref blew a call that cost the lions a game last night. In the final minutes, seattle safety punches the ball out of megatrons hands as he crosses the goal line. A seahawks linebacker slaps the ball out of the end zone. An nfl vp says thats an illegal bat of the ball and the lions should have gotten the ball back, first and goal from the 1. Instead, the seahawks win the game 1310 and the lions, poor detroit, they stay winless. That game had a similar ending to a certain game that ended on sunday. Im just, you know, adam is an eagles fan. Im a redskins fan. Well leave it at that. Coming up, a High School Football coach now facing charges after investigators say he punched a referee. That coach says he pushed a ref to break up a fight before deputies saw this video. You see the coach appears to instigate a fight. This is in kissimmee, florida. The referee aparentally made a call that upset several coach and parents. He was hurt. Not seriously, though. And the coach is now charged with battery. Released on bail, though. You see more and more of these things. Awful. Especially at school games. What kind of example are you setting for the kids. Do the right thing, people. Whit is rare to find somethg on craigslist that is heart warming. This letter is so beautifully written, you hope it is true. You read something, it is just too good . In this letter, the vietnam veteran writes about the woman he met, courted for an hour and never forgot. The veteran was in a dark place after getting back from war and was contemplating suicide. He said he saw the woman on new years eve taking shelter from the rain and spoke with her. That talk convinced him to keep living and the veteran says he just wants to say thank you. As for the skeptics, according to reddit, it did rain in boston on the last day of 1972. There is that. Yes. Might be telling the truth. Could be. Imagine if that story were true. Imagine if there was a reunion. How beautiful would that be . It is a love story. Everyone loves a love story. You know what people dont like . Super cold temperatures. Mid40s today. Mid40s. This is more look a morning in december. Not early october as we look outside. We also have some fog beginning to get dense in the shenandoah valley, out of the mountains. If you encounter that, slow down, use your low beams. Closer to the metro area, a little wispy fog in some of the suburbs north and west. Warrenton down to 41, near 40 in much of the shenandoah valley. Montgomery, fairfax, prince georges counties in the mid40s. Right downtown near 50. Mid50s around the bay. There is that Midnight Blue and tangerine dawn showing up. Live view from the storm team 4 tower camera, predawn glow. Off to the chilly start and then it will quickly jump into the 60s noon time. Then mid70s by mid to Late Afternoon. Lots of sunshine, gorgeous autumn day. Rain exited the carolinas. Pulling away. Were still dealing with the lingering effects of high tide times with flooding at times, high tide around the bay. These counties near the bay. Including alexandria water front, east potomac park, high water. High tide time in Washington Channel at 4 23. Highs mid70s today. Upper 70s on wednesday. And well keep this wonderful autumn weather going open thursday. Could get shower, thunder, afternoon and evening. Drying out in time for weekend. Turning cooler. Now melissa has breaking news. Breaking news on the beltway. Inner loop ramp to northbound Georgia Avenue, were shut down because of a crash. This is so jammed and folks started coming off to the ramp. The ambulance cannot get through to where the accident is. Pretty serious situation there. Slow there top of the beltway. North bound crain highway, everything off to the right side of the roadway, we have about a three mile delay there on northbound crain highway. Also very slow, no reason, just lots of volume, northbound 395 at seminary road. Northwest, beach drive and in the city, we have a crash there. Looks like it should clear out of the way here soon. Big look at the beltway. Otherwise running along pretty smoothly. Praise this morning for an American Airline copilot who landed a plane safely after the pilot died midflight. Michael johnson became incapacitated during the trip from phoenix to boston on sunday. The plane started to descend and thats when the copilot jumped in. He spoke with air traffic control, diverted the flight to syracuse, and wasnt until all 147 passengers were on a new flight that they actually found out what happened. American airlines released a statement saying theyre focusing on caring for the pilots family and colleagues. Mcgraw hill education is apologizing this morning for something it printed in a high school textbook. Slaves brought to america workers. The misprint was in a geography book used by School Districts in texas. Mcgraw hill said the wording wasnt intentional and it will improve the editing process. We may learn more about a big Lottery Winner in michigan today. Have family in michigan . I dont. The winner of the 310 million Powerball Jackpot. Coworkers say the woman was working an overnight shift at an industrial plant when she realized she had won. The ticket was sold in three rivers at the town of just 7,000 residents. Think shell move out. Is that the same woman who quit midshift, like she should. See ya. Im done. Bye. Coming up, putting his training to work, how an off duty emt went above and beyond to save the life of a little gir