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in silver spring, to young women killed and one badly hurt after the driver lost control and hit a brick wall. police are trying to figure out if alcohol and speed were factors in the accident. it happened after 3:00. chris gordon is on the scene with more. chris? >> reporter: jim, this double fatal accident occurred along busy university boulevard east. the car crashed into that brick wall and stopped before hitting that house. in the daylight, you can see the tire tracks. the car that crashed stopped short of the basement window. the montgomery county police accident reconstruction...

now it is complete coverage. it is wjz, maryland's news station. >> caucuses countdown, a shake up in iowa less than a week before the race for the white house heats up. and voters head to the polls. hello again, i am jessica kartalija, here is what people are talking about today. just five days before the nation's first presidential caucuses are held a new candidate is on the rise in iowa. terrell brown reports for wjz and has the very latest from washington. >> reporter: michele bachmann hits the campaign trail in des moines without one of her top organizers. her iowa campaign ...

18-year-old james of silver spring was sitting in the front passenger seat. she survived the crash but is hospitalized with injuries. police are trying to determine if alcohol or excessive speed may have contributed to the cause of this double fatal accident. >> there are reports there was another car of family or friends close by or near to them during the ride on university boulevard. they want to speak to them more in detail about what the driver was doing prior to getting into the vehicle and how she was operating the vehicle as well. >> reporter: the family of tamara johnson tel...

one person survived and tonight, investigators are trying to determine what led up to the deadly crash. he's more on the story. >> reporter: friends and family desperate for answers could only look at the early-morning car crash and hoping it was not as bad as it looked. >> i don't know. this is terrible. very devastating. i don't know. hope everyone is alive. >> reporter: rescuers would find one person alive. >> and they seemed determined that there were three occupants of the vehicle, two deceased. >> reporter: the two bodies remained inside the suv until the medical examiner arriv...