66 and route 7 to that pavement is wet as this rain continues to track on through. Temperatures are milder this morning. In the 50s to near 60 degrees. Been Holding Steady that way all overnight. Prepare for a wet morning commute. Midday showers and then storms moving through this evening. Melissa, whats happening on the roads. Right now looks like the crash weve been talking about, 395 at Boundary Channel drive having just cleared out of the way. Tow truck on the way a couple of minutes ago. It makes sense that that is moving along and not going to cause a problem any longer. Taking a look at 66. Again, overall pretty green on 66 and 95. Were quite green here looking at the radar. Moving through the area most of 66 and 95 here youre going to see some moisture happening there. Big look at the beltway. Again, roads are green and things are okay visibility wise but that moisture really is falling so could make for a bit of a slower morning commute. Northbound indian head highway after livingston road, no rain there. We do have the crash on the left side really slowing things down. 6 02. Were keeping an eye on flights this morning. The weather system could create some problems not only because of the rain but the wind, too. Right now were not seeing any significant delays or cancellations. Make sure to check the status of your flight. From the skies to the roads, news 4s meteorologist Amelia Siegel tracking the rain how its affecting your cumulative morning commute. Shell have a live update in 15 minutes. If youre running out the door, always check the forecast and get updates with the nbc washington app. Developing right now, two people are dead after a car slams into a house. This is in the alexandria section of fairfax county. There was concern that the house would collapse this morning. News 4s Kristen Wright is live in fairfax now with an update. Kristen . Reporter good morning. Today the big question is how Something Like this could have happened. Things look quite a bit different than they did last night. The car has been removed from the front of the home. The windows boarded up. Now getting the car out of there had to be done carefully so that as eun moengsed, the house didnt just collapse. Now seeing the car lodged into the front of the house, just shocking really. The two men in the car died. Thats the driver and the passenger. Police are reconstructing the crash here and talking to witnesses to figure this out. One of which said the car was going about 80 miles an hour. The family that lives here is fine. They were not home. They have small children. Probably thanking god they were at church. Police say they found a fire hydrant inside of the house and that the impact was that powerful. We think that fire hydrant came from just right over here a cross the street, way across the street from the house here. Were pretty sure this is where the fire hydrant was sitting. Again, today, so many questions still to be answered about how Something Like this could have happened. Back to you. Kristen, thank you. Developing this morning, if you have the nbc washington app, you are among the first to hear, metro has chosen its next general manager. We dont have a name just yet because theyre still working on a contract. News 4s rporter adam truss broke this on twitter. He said a formal announcement is expected by the end of the week. Earlier they said they were down to two finalists. An interim gm took over in january. A woman caught on camera doing yoga on a metro track is expected in fairfax county. She left virginia but recently returned to the area. Metro Transit Police arrested her earlier this month. Two nurses are off the job this morning after being accused of taking drugs from a hospital in the district. One of the nurses is accused of taking a narcotic hydromorphone and she had previously resigned from walter reed under similar circumstances. The other nurse is accused of taking drugs like percocet. Both nurses licenses are suspend suspended. Bernie sanders, the democrat from vermont will host a meeting at 7 00 at george mason university. In the democratic debate he called for debt free higher education. Sanders is trailing Hillary Clinton in the race for the democratic nomination for president. Today Montgomery County the school board will release the plans. An announcement will happen at Seneca Valley High School in germantown this morning. A member of the British Royal family will be in the district today. Prince harry will meet with president obama later this morning at the white house. He is visiting the area to help promote the invictus games, an olympic style event for Wounded Soldiers. Just before midday he is expected toss to virginia with first Lady Michelle obama. There he will meet with soldiers. An altercation between a man and dc police is caught on camera joompt right now were heading on 495 towards alexandra. Were tracking that coming up. Plus, taking actions by several railroads including dre and amtrak that they could shut down in a matter of weeks. How much Time Congress is willing to give them to install willing to give them to install a key Railroad Safety system . The Washington Post endorses democrat Jeremy Mcpike for state senate. Applauding mcpikes ideas about getting traffic moving. The post warns republican hal parrish holds rigid positions against Medicaid Expansion and commonsense gun safety. And parrish was the deciding vote to restrict Womens Health clinics in manassas, forcing women to go elsewhere for cancer screenings and Birth Control. Jeremy mcpike is the better choice. Im Jeremy Mcpike, candidate for state senate, and i sponsored this ad. NarratorJeremy Mcpike ate, who csupports school funding. E, thinks women should make their own health care decisions. And favors background checks on all gun sales. Hal parrish . As mayor, he slashed education. Fought to block Womens Health clinics. Parrish gets an a from the gun lobby they oppose background checks to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people. Virginia extreme or mainstream . Vote mcpike for virginia. Feinblatt everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund sponsored this ad. Developing this morning, students at a university in san antonio are waking up cautiously. There were reports of a gun on campus. Police didnt find anyone. Then after midnight a lockdown again for the same reason. The school said the second sighting turned out to be a security guard. If you are worried about losing vre service at the end of the year, a reprieve is on the way. It would give Train Companies three to five years to start using positive train control. Thats a Safety Technology that regulates how fast trains are going with an automatic braking system. The current deadline is december 31st. Vre said it might stop service if that deadline had not been extended. That deadline is coming up. It looks like it will go through. 6 11. Time for weather and traffic on the ones. Were talking about a weather alert day for good reason today. Tom kierein is here with your weather and traffic on the ones. Weve had one wave of moderate rain passing west of the metro area over the last hour. Another wave in southern virginia. Thats going to be moving in later this morning. All of this passing west of the 95 corridor. Right in the metro area we are getting enough rain to make the pavement wet especially the north side of the beltway and areas just to our north. Drive time forecast, wet roads in the 50s for the morning commute. Afternoon commute, wet roads and maybe flashes of lightning. Gusty winds will be into the upper 60s. The hour by hour timing on storms later today. Thats at 6 21. Melissa can show the radar with the roads. Show where its wettest. I can show the radar. You can see were pretty much solid here. Brandnew crash there in the middle of all of that rain. Inner loop before 355, only the left lane is getting by. Well have a camera here in the next couple of minutes. North bound indian head highway, just before the belt way headed northbound there are a few sections. 270 south from germantown to the beltway, no problems. Getting a tad slow here. It could get worse as were looking at things still falling as far as rain goes. 66 in bound no frob blems. 95 north no problems. A Security Camera is rolling as a train passenger is chased down by robbers. The altercation that had the victim falling onto the tracks. Also ahead, its a weapon you might associate with a show like teenage mutant ninja turtles. Well show you why we thought wed be ready. But demand for our cocktail bitters was huge. I could feel our deadlines racing towards us. We didnt need a loan. We needed shortterm funding. Fast. Our amex helped us fill the orders. Just like that. You cant predict it, but you can be ready. Another step on the journey. Will you be ready when growth presents itself. Realize your buying power at open. Com. Welcome back. 6 16. We have a weather alert day. How heavy it is depends where you are. Take a look at storm team 4 radar here, ive always wanted to do this. You can see the rain sweeping west to east up towards the Northern Virginia area and d. C. Thats the best ive got. Bravo. Going to be a soggy morning for the commute. Real meteorologist amelia segal has been tracking it. Shes in storm team 4x4 on the beltway. Reporter good morning, youre exactly right. Were on the outer loop. Weve been out all morning. We were on be the toll road, on 66, on 28. Taking a live look outside right now you can see we continue to track wet roads but we really havent encountered any weatherrelated problems this morning. Weve been tracking overall light rain. That hasnt had an impact on speed and visibility. Still good news there. However, ive been saying it all morning. We are tracking somewhat breezy conditions. Thats bringing some of the you could have slick spots this morning if you travel over a patch of leaves. Toms going to have the full forecast coming up in a little bit. There is a potential of course of thunderstrms later today and some Severe Weather threats later today. Of course, hell have more on that. For now, back to you, eun. Amelia segal. Thanks. Reaction this morning from d. C. s police chief about this video. Taj a look. It shows an arrest on cloud place on monday. Officers say they found a man barefoot and acting erratically. They used batons to get him to the ground and then started punching him. According to the Police Report officers smelled pcp. Police work is not pretty. When you see situations where officers have to use force, it is not a pleasant video to look at but it is the reality that Police Officers do sometimes have to use force. Chief lanier said the video may be disturbing but that does not mean officers did anything wrong. D. C. Police have the video and the incident is under investigation. Today a guilty plea expected from former House Speaker dennis hastert. Hes accused of lying in a hush money case. He used tens of thousands of dollars to hide claims of Sexual Misconduct from years ago. A plea would prevent any open testimony about those claims. A budget battle on capitol hill. Lawmakers set to. Agree to a deal. The twoyear deal is headed to the house first. It would increase federal spending by 80 billion. It would raise the federal Borrowing Limit through 2017. The deal would push the next potential spending class after the 2016 elections. A group is asking the state to look at legislative boundaries. They rejected allegations that the Virginia House of delegates illegally packed black voters into fewer districts. Democrats won a similar lawsuit about congressional districts. Heather cook pleaded guilty last month after hitting a bicyclist in baltimore while driving drunk. She said she was texting when she hit the cyclist two days after christmas last year. Cook left the scene for 30 minutes before she returned. She had been the second highest leading ee miss could he pal leader. 6 19. A new walmart is opening up in washington. The first Stores Opened in 2013 on eighth street and georgia avenue. Theres been a big debate about low wages. Walmart threatened to pull its stores if the city required the retailer to pay workers 12. 50 an hour. Wizards fans may be glued to the tv today. The team kicks off its season at 7 00 tonight. John wall, garry biel along with the new byes will be on the court. 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Ill do it for the kids. 6 21 right now. Nasty weather to be prepared for today. Lets check in with tom. For us, light rain is nasty. Enough to give us fender benders. Looking at storm team 4 radar, we have rain falling from indiana all the way to the atlantic seaboard. Most of the rain weve had this morning has been passing west of the i95 corridor. The area in the dark green, thats near the pennsylvania border, northern frederick, Northern Washington county. 81 from hagerstown. Enough light rain to make the pavement all wet and have your wipers on, have an umbrella handy heading up to the bus stop. Metro, we have this light rain with us for now. Well get another wave of moderate rain coming through. Hourbyhour forecast, by noontime more moderate showers coming through. Much of the region may settle down by 3 00 p. M. Sprinkles and drizzle and warmer air pushes in. When that happens, some storms will likely be developing by 6 00 p. M. Mainly to our west and to our south, but then the storms come right into the metro area between 6 00 and 8 00 p. M. With heavy downpours. Some of the storms could produce some gusty, strong winds. Then by 10 00 much of that is passing to our north and then aligning with other showers coming in. Eastern Southern Suburbs by 2 00 a. M. And then by dawn on thursday its all gone. Things will be improving. Mild morning. Hovering near 60. 50s in the suburbs. Throughout the day well be milder with temperatures in the 60s as the storms come on through this evening. Still in the 60s. 70s tomorrow and then cooler friday and halloween on saturday. Highs near 60. Trick or treating during the Night Saturday in the 50s. Then sun back sunday near 70. Melissa, whats going on now right now have the problem at the top of the beltway. Inner loop near 355. Do have a crash with only the left lane getting by that accident. Big look at the beltway. Roads look pretty green in general. So does all of this moisture. All of these green blobs showing where its raining. This crash has now cleared here in austin hill. No rain here. Indian head highway after livingston before the beltway. Crashes clear. 270 at montrose road, some of the moisture on the camera. Little southbound. Nothing in the way. It is now 6 24 today. You have your first chance to weigh in on design plans for a new metro station in alexandria. Take a look at the map here. It shows you where the potomac metro station would go and the route the potomac station would take. Its at 6 30 on white street. If you cant make tonights meeting. Mark your calendar for the next one on monday, november 16th. News if you live or park in sell very spring. Month gomt ri county is changing all the meters to smart meters. You can use coins or smart pay. They did it last year. The county says the new meters should all be in place by the middle of next month. New video of a robbery on the philadelphia subway. You can see two people taking a bag from a sleeping passenger there. That man woke up and chased the pair. After a struggle on the platform that man fell on to the tracks. You see that there. Police say he was hit with a stun gun apparently. The crooks took off. The man is okay. Police hope this will help them catch the suspects. A Northern CaliforniaPd Police Department is taking a piece from the movies. They say officers wont swing the nunchucks around as you might visualize. The idea is to gain control without hitting somebody. Officers are not required to carry the new weapons, theyre just an option. They have to pass a 16 hour training program. There you go. They have to be trained if they decide to carry them. We laugh. They can be serious. In the movie, nobody ever uses them. Theres a whole lot of this. Thats enough to scare somebody away. A deternlt. They actually never have to use them on anybody. If i held nunchucks, i would end up hurting myself. We digress. 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