Truck hooked up to the tow truck. Theyre going to be hauling it away. Theyre starting to take away one of the halves of the cab right here. In terms of the traffic were talking about the inner loop of the beltway right here with indian head. We had closures here for a number of hours when this happened, but if you look beyond here, you can see the traffic has reopened or the road has reopened completely. Traffic is running at speed. No slowdown here. No word on the identity of the person on the motorcycle who was killed or exactly how this played out but the cleanup cons. You may notice the piles of garbage and activity on the righthand side of the road in the local lanes right here on the inner loop. So just be aware there might be some rubbernecking as you pass through the area. Back to you all in the studio. Thank you, megan. 5 01. Weather traffic on the 1s. Lets check in with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. What do you see, chuck . Skies are generally clear. No fog in the ra
Leon new warnings about the west nile virus. And gunfire in d. C. , next. 11 00 come 7 news at on your side. Leon 11 candidates, one stage, three hours. Tonight, tackling immigration, the economy, and a refugee crisis. Leon just a few of the issues at the debate tonight in california. Alison brad bell us live with a look at the highlights. A lot of exciting moments packed into the last three hours. Absolutely, a lot of singers, a lot of barbs. This was a highenergy debate. Perhaps it is because there are so many candidates, the stakes are so high, or perhaps because of the beautiful setting at the reagan library. 11 candidates trying to score points with voters tonight. Dealing with the elephant in the room, donald trump, the surprise front runner in the race. It seems as though all of the question somehow came back to trump, and he was his usual self tonight, an example this exchange between trump and senator rand paul. Rand paul should not even be on the stage. He is number 11,1 in t
News4s Megan Mcgrath is there now. Reporter you can see this is all thats left of the scene. It was hauling trash when it hit a person on a motorcycle. You can see the traffic behind me here. This is the inner loop of the beltway right here at indian head highway. Traffic has gotten back to normal speeds here this morning. Everything has reopened. Although for a while we had lanes that were open. The local lanes and ramps were closed. Everything back to normal. Theyre trying to figure out what happened here. This tractor trailer which you see here in the video, it struck the motorcycle here and then burst into flames. And as i said, it was carrying garbage. The garbage had to be removed from the truck. It was then toed away. We geeb a little bit of a mess in the patterning lot. By and large the impact is over at this point but a lot of questions remain in terms of what happened here, why the truck and the motorcycle collided. No word yet on the identity of the person on the motorcycle
Portico, working tirelessly. I want to show you whats most notable. Take a look over here. You can see the roof and thats where the pope will celebrate mass. Bottom line here is no detail is too small. Workers have been repainting curbs, trimming trees and of course, preparing the main altar where the pope himself will be seated in less than a week. The lawn will soon be filled with 15,000 seats and just behind the chairs are these risers. This is where the media will be placed. We are even told the cell tower was installed to help ensure cell service. Earlier today the cocardinal al with the monsignor toured the portico and were excited about the progress thats been made. The enthusiasm in this community and this city and the country for the popes visit and there has to be a fitting place for that enthusiasm to be addressed. So now we are told, i want to show you so you have a good visual of what this is going to look like. Take a look at the lawn. As we told you there will be 15,000