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WUSA Wusa 9 News At 6am September 28, 2015

Schedule thus far. Canal road reopened. A tree that fell now removed. Again, this is eastbound between arizona avenue and reservoir road. No issues out along 50, the bw parkway or 95 on the midmerchandise side. Heres a live look to maryland side. Heres a live look at how things are shaping up in virginia. Traveling eastbound on i66 traveling toward fairfax, you wont havefully problems. Just volume. Your next traffic update in ten minutes. Over to you. As we continue to follow breaking news of a double fatal house fire in anne arundel county, it broke out around 2 00 this morning in the 100 block of benfield road cite across frommer is verve that from serverna park high school. Two severna park high school. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. Reporter metro riders, the next six months could be a test of your patience, especially if you take the blue and silver lines or orange lines. Take a look. We are here at stadium armory metro. Trains on the blue, orange and silver lines will run at longer intervals starting tomorrow. Instead of every six minutes it will now be every eight minutes. Starting on tuesday, only blue line trains will stop at stadium armory metro during rush hour. Orange and silver lines are going to keep on going through the stadium armory stops. This all stems from last weeks transformer fire that knocked out power to a stub station that serve substation that serves stadium armory. With less power metro has to reduce train speeds and reduce the number of trains running through here. Repairs might not be finished till march. In the long run the changes could have a positive impact. Im explain what they mean by that coming up at 6 30. Im nikki burdine, wusa9. The chair of metros governing board is facing an ethics complaint this morning. Our partners at the Washington Post report the complaint was filed by d. C. s inspector general. The head of metros board is accused of violating conflict of interest rules. He served as a paid advisor to a company which has done tens of millions of dollars in contract work for the transit agency. He says he ended his tenyear relationship with the Company Three months ago. Reporter happening today the long debate over Police Body Cameras here in Montgomery County takes one step closer today. At 2 00 this afternoon the county Council Public Safety Committee will begin discussing how to implement this Pilot Program. About 100 cameras will be purchased by Montgomery County police. 20 for the leadership. 80 for patrol officers. But there are some technical and legal issues that need to be ironed out first, like what happens if the cameras stop working, how to release a video without compromising investigations, and what about privacy laws . You see, maryland is a two Party Consent state which means it is illegal to record someones audio without their consent. So how does that affect the program . Police officers clearly want to record interactions but dont want to break the law. Ill have much more on that ongoing debate, the very key Pivotal Point in this issue. Ill have that coming up in the next halfhour. Were live outside of Montgomery County police headquarters, delia goncalves, wusa9. Theres a new call this morning for a federal investigation into the deaths of natasha mcken na. The fairfax mckane in. The fair mckenna. The naacp Fairfax County chapter is demanding the investigation. Police used a stun gun on mckenna while she was handcuffed. The local naacp chapter president argued mckennas treatment may have been different if she were white. President obama turns his attention to some of the worlds most pressing issues today during a speech at the u. N. General assembly. Among other global challenges his focus will be on the crisis in syria. Yesterday the president urged World Leaders to join the u. S. In helping to combat poverty and world hunger. It is a lack of development when people have no education, and no jobs, and no hope that helps fuel so much of the tensions and conflict and instability in our world. Russias president Vladimir Putin is also expected to bring up syria when he addresses the u. N. Royal dutch shell plans to stop off shore Arctic Drilling for the foreseeable future. The company says its because of disappointing ruts. Shells u. S. A. President says an exploratory well drilled 6800 feet found oil and gas but not in sufficient quantities. Meanwhile many women with Early Stage Breast Cancer are now being told they can skip chemotherapy without hurting their chances of beating the disease. The study comes in an article reported in the new england journal of medicine. Women have a 1 chance of cancer recurring. Many say pope francis visit to the United States has renewed their faith in the church. He made a final request during his last stop. Dont let the enthusiasm for jesus, his charge, our families and the brother family of society run dry. At mass yesterday father said this is a good time to abcatholic because people do have such a good feeling about the faith because of pope francis visit and his clear messages. It certainly seemed to be the case last week no question. 6 after the hour. Police are searching for the driver who nearly ran over a local officer. Plus smrks new material plus, some new material surfacing from the late Robin Williams. Thats ahead in todays buzz. We get a frizz alert with drizzle in spots. Lots of low clouds but a mild start to the day. Look at the temperatures well up in the 60s. 71 in tappahannock. Talk about 80 later on with the threat for showers. The forecast coming up in just a couple of moments. For those of you traveling southbound on i2730 no issues i270, no issues 6 09 this monday morning. Kind of looks like a monday morning. The shun come up in a the sun will come up in a little while. As far as the rain, not seeing much near us. Seeing a lot in pennsylvania, parts of central and west virginia. Out toward culpeper and sperryville trying to make its the way toward front royal. We had a couple of sprinkles in the Shenandoah Valley. Temps this morning mainly in the 60s. So i think you can leave the jackets at home. Well be around 0 later with a 80 later with a peek of sun and a spotty shower. Were doing well around the beltway with no issues or accidents to slow you down. For those of you traveling inbound on 50, southbound on the bw parkway and southbound on 95 on the maryland side, no issues. Just affects a little bit of volume on the bw parkway from laurel in toward the 11th street bridge. Heres a live look to show you how things are shaping up over the wilson bridge. Light on the inner and outer loop. Northbound 395 over the 14th street bridge, you wont have any problems. Traffic fill fairly light with all lanes of traffic open. Well have your drive times around the metro coming up after the sevenday forecast. Over to you. Nasa has learned something new about earths neighbors but theyre being coy for just a few more hours. The countdown is on. House Speaker John Boehner talks about giving up his leadership post and his seat in congress. Plus, how he mmm. Nothing like johnsonville breakfast sausage. Delicious and packaged with nothing to hide. No secrets. Just like our family. Well there is one. Folks, im not your grandma. Just a handsome kind hearted drifter who wandrered in years ago and stayed for all the yummy sausage. Feel bad about lying. Nap time. I got her. Seriously . I feel like i just woke up. Ha ha ha fully cooked johnsonville breakfast sausage. We dont make sausage. We make family. And sausage. This is the first week of fall, right . The first full week . It started last week. Why are we talking about humidity . Weve had this consistent persistence if you will on shore flow coming off the atlantic giving us a lot of moisture. Keeping it humid. Not good for painters but its kind of dry and we could use some rain and i think well get our fair share between now and the end of the week. Tuesday night and wednesday looks rather wet and potentially saturday as well. Lets show you whats happening outside this morning. A little drizzle in spots with the low clouds. Not too much in the way of fog. You can see the city lights reflecting off the low cloud deck. We should see a peek or two of sun this afternoon as temperatures get up toward 80. That is above average with winds out of the east and southeast about 5 to 10 Miles Per Hour. On first alert doppler, some showers, light ones around the culpeper area. And west of warrenton for the most part n. Has been drifting off part. This has been drifting to the north, northwest trying to get into the Shenandoah Valley with light sprinkles here or there but not much to write home about. Temperatures this morning are up. 66. So is the humidity. 94 with a northeasterly wind at 8 miles an hour. Thats created a little bit of fog, especially around easton. Not terrible but visibilities a mile. We have fog in Garrett County. Thats about the worst of it. And ten miles in quantico. So, yeah, keep the jackets at home. Were going to have a warm day. Might need a little rain gear at times this afternoon but not too widespread, 80. Tonight 70 with 60s in the burbs and a passing shower. Tomorrow about the same. Could see even a rumble of hunder around 80. Tomorrow Night Thunder around 80. Tomorrow night into wednesday looks like whether the heavier rains could move in. Were waiting for another model run to confirm that and another yellow alert day. Look how much cooler. Saturday looking wet now with highs only in the mid60s. Heres larry miller with another look at timesaver traffic. Thanks. Your time right now 6 15. Marc train riders everything running on schedule. Vre is running on schedule as well. Traveling inbound on 50 nothing to show you down this morning from collington road to o street northeast, youre looking at a 17minute commute. Want to give you a live look and show you how things are shaping up on maryland 214. At this Point Central avenue here at ritchie road, you can see traffic still fairly light in that area. Back to the maps. Southbound on i270 nothing to slow you down from ridge road toward the capital beltway, a 17minute commute. Inbound on i66 just checked the cameras there. Were starting to see volume. Primarily areas in centreville closer toward the capital beltway. If Fairfax County parkway to constitution Avenue Northwest now a 22minute commute. If youre going to be traveling northbound on 95 on the virginia side from richmond highway up to 395 an 8minute commute. The good news is theres no incidents or accidents to slow commuters down this morning. Thats the good news. The volume starting to pick up but it usually does as we get toward the 6 30 halfhour. Want to give you a live look at i270 from our maryland camera and show you how things are shaping up at montrose road, the southbound side. You can see it starts to pick up as you get closer towards the capital beltway. Over to you. At 6 16, heres some of whats in the news now. Two days after his stunning resignation announcement, house Speaker John Boehner sat down for a live interview on cbs face the nation. He says he doesnt want to leave his successor a dirty barn. Over the next month he plans to clean it up. Case boswell has more Craig Boswell has more. Reporter house Speaker John Boehner said his final 30 days in congress will not include a government shutdown. There are going to be is there going to abshutdown . To be a shutdown . No. Reporter hes been under intention pressure from conservatives over a budget that takes away funding from planned parenthood and an ouster if he didnt agree. Boehner says some private words from pope francis during this weeks capitol hill visit confirmed his decision. I would repeat it but it would cause me to cry. Reporter the House Speaker offered this advice to his successor. Just do the right thing for the right reasons. Reporter boehners decision to step down wont calm the chaos surrounding his replacement. A group of conservative lawmakers released this statement theyve not decided who to support. The new speaker will need 218 votes to get the job and boehners last day is october 30. As for how he wants to be remembered . He was a good man. Thats it . Thats all. Reporter congress has until wednesday to pass a budget to keep the government running. Craig boswell, cbs news, washington. A woman in Prince William county is in jail on murder charges this morning after police say she stabbed a man to death. Investigators say Rashida Wright stabbed andre warren Early Saturday Morning at the home they shared in woodbridge. Wright suffered selfinflicted wounds and was taken to the hospital for treatment. We now know the name of the man killed in a triple shooting in southeast over the weekend. D. C. Police say 50yearold thomas stalling of district heights, maryland died of gunshot wounds. It happened saturday night on elvans road. Two other victims were taken to local hospitals in critical conditions. At this point no arrests have been made. Police are looking for the driver of a car they say tried to run over a Police Officer in Prince William county. That officer approached a red Jeep Cherokee that had entered a restricted area of an arts show. Thats when the driver accelerated forward. The officer was not injured and the car was found abandoned a short time later. T minus just about five hours till we hear from nasa about an important discovery from mars. The separate agency is scheduled to announce a major science finding at 11730 this morning. 11 30 this morning. Many expect the revelation will deal with water on the red planet. The floor is open for members of the public to ask questions elas wl via twitter during the briefing. Use the hashtag asknasa. A total Lunar Eclipse combined with a supermoon last night, a sight not seen since 1982. The eclipse gave the moon a reddish color. Some call it a blood moon. It wont happen again till 2033. Investigators may have found the cause of death in the Christina Brown case. Lets start with the verdict. In the case of bobbi christina, it has been determined. Its been sealed by a judge. The autopsy results have been sealed. Sorry, we dont know and i dont know if they will be unsealed or what. Any action on the boyfriend husband, whatever he was . Not that weve seen of the youre so right, whatever he was. Whats sort of sad is he keeps courting the press. Even when he says i dont want to talk to the press, hes courting the press. In tweets he has a lawyer, a representative. He very obviously wants to be famous and hopefully those autopsy results will be unsealed and not because we want to pry into the familys business but just to sort of give closure for the public and everyone to know. Really sad. Were hearing more from Robin Williams. We are. I always called this sort of the songs or the movie found in a drawer. This happens with famous dead celebrities which i feel im always talking about. People like michael jackson, elvis, whitney houston, someone always seems to find something in a drawer or whatever that is additional material or things never released. Tupac. Right. In the case of Robin Williams, there are all these outtakes from alladin which is an animated classic. Was brilliant in that. Theres a lot of extra Robin Williams and it will come to the new dvd version of alladin in a few weeks. People are excited about that. Big sales on that whats happening to the box office . Not a super exciting weekend. Nick asked me before whats the number one movie. Hotel transylvania 2 which im sure you both ramp out and saw. Neighbor ran out and saw. Maybe next week. Its the biggest september opening. It did about 48 million. Its an adam sandler movie. Hes one of the voices in this. Not a lot of animated stuff out right now. People always want to get the kids out of the house so thats why it did well. Were so close to halloween, too, so people are looking for that kind of stuff. Not super exciting but whatever. A high profile guest gears up for her first appearance on Stephen Colberts late show. And a special story of world war ii veterans [ inaudible ] im delia goncalves. Ill have that debate coming up. Met free riders may have noticed some not so good changes last friday on their commute. Im afraid to tell you that those changes are here to stay, at least for a little bit longer. Ill explain coming up. Im howard bernstein. Weve got low clouds and patchy drizzle, even a few sprinkles southwest. The main rains are going to stay to the west and northwest. Look at the temperatures across the east in this travel forecast. 70s and 80s. Cooler weather, wetter weather coming by mid week. Here is a live look at i270 southbound at montrose road. You can see things are starting to pick up there. Rocking and rolling around the beltway and throughout many ever the interstates here in the dmv. Stay with us. Mo pumpkin excitement is back at dunkin. Pick up your favorite pumpkinflavored baked treats and beverages, like the new pumpkin macchiato before pumpkin season is over. Its from virtually anywhere. Rno of danger its been smashed, dropped and driven. 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