area. more than 3 million people are driving to the destination. the traffic map show the busiest spot in the area. you can see a lot lit up in red. tom roussey with a firsthand view. you said it took 45 minutes to go 15 miles on the inner loop. what are you seeing now? any better? >> well, i have little good news. let me stress the word "little." this is what it looks like on what i think has been the worst part of our area. there are a lot of bad spots. but the inner loop of the beltway between tysons and 270, which we are approaching here has been a disaster. a.a.a. predicted the worst time is 4:45 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. it got really bad at 4:45:00. we were moving a little bit. not doing it an hour

i recommend to wait another hour or two hours to be safe. a lot of the interstates having trouble in the area at this time. >> a traffic alert on the roads. the crews are racing to finish repairs on the outer loop of the beltway where it goes over suitland road in prince george's county. that is the same area where a major construction project underway for months. but the work is expected to finish at some point tonight. so that is good news. we are continuing the team coverage for you with those flying. you need to know a few things. sam sweeney is joining us. it's dicey. sometimes you get there, wide open.

long time. >> now you can go to the t.s.a. app and check the waiting times before you go. there are people joining you if you are flying. a.a.a. estimates 28.5 million people are flying on american airlines. take a look at the traffic. sea of red. similar situation at dulles. united says their busiest day was last friday. it's a myth this wednesday before thanksgiving is the busiest travel day. the wednesday is just lick any other day in the summer. if you are headed to the airport have patients and arrive early. reporting live at the reagan national airport, sam sweeney, abc7 news. michelle: thank you. the stormwatch7 weather team tracking the holiday rush. jonathan: the funny

chief meteorologist bill kelly is joining us now with the one blip on the radar. you saw the brake lights and you gave an oh, my goodness. bill: i'm very thankful i'm working and not out on the roads. boy, oh, boy. let me show you the air problems. not dealing with those. the airline travel is due to the weather. the weather is very quiet. we got in the low 60's today. the only blip we are talking about is back over here. this is a cold front that is sweeping through the area. later tonight and tomorrow morning. notice the sliver of rain and snow behind it. this is a minor deal. it will cut across until the travel forecast for tomorrow. earn everywhere is dry. there are lingering rain showers

by and large the map for the weather part is looking good. we will talk about the thanksgiving and black friday in a few minutes. you can see the traffic map to get an idea what is happening on the roads. great the breaking news on your phone by downloading the app. michelle? michelle: "7 on your side" alert. as the people hit the roads for the holidays we see this. look closely. this guy has a gun on his hands. that is just one of four similar crimes in eight days across the district.

getting gas anywhere you are vulnerable. the victim either just got out or in this case got back in the car. >> the police can not say they are related but they acknowledge similarities. what they all took place in the early morning hours. >> whether or not this is a pattern or the same group is not the priority. the priority is to be safe. >> the carjackers struck this b.p. station. if use worry about the carjackings did happen early in the morning hours. 2:00 a.m., 4:00

good idea to gas up during the day. jonathan: thanks. hours after cbs fired charlie rose amidst sexual misconduct allegations from eight women pbs dropped his long-running show after 26 years. rose was also a constrictor on "6 -- a contributor on "60 minutes." >> there is an investigation into john conyers. a woman settled after saying she was fired for rejecting his sexual advances. coming up, why a major project to rebuild ocean city beaches coming years ahead of schedule. jonathan: look at this. shattered glass and a rottweiler and the burglary that could change a lif

dog. >> how thieves got past the menacing looking dog and why it i

michelle: caught on video. the moment after a gas main explodes in michigan. the flames so intense the firefighters couldn't get close enough to fight back. video from t

it look like a crater right there in the aftermath of a bombing. no one was hurt. look how deep it is. if baltimore a choking smoke filled a city as an abandoned warehouse burned to the ground. it took 50 firefighters hours to get things under control and keep flames from spreading. at this hour no injuries have been reported. jonathan: this is a gut-wrenching story from massachusetts. thieves break in a home and steal money that a family spent time collecting to save their sick dog. 8-year-old prince has bone cancer may need part of his leg amputated. two weeks to react. rottweiler. he just watched as thieves made off with the money the family had sitting in jars. >> i don't want to lose my job. i have had him since he was a baby. jonathan: surveillance camera in front of the home recorded

s.u.v. after taking the jars of money. here is the good news. this will make you feel better. a go fund me page put together after this happened by the family. they have raised nearly $16,000 dollars to cover prince's surgery and recover. so prince may be okay after all. michelle: good to hear. jonathan: holy cow. michelle: we have an update on a story we first brought you last night. remember the scene, elephants stranded on the side of the road after a track fire in tennessee. we have a new look at what happened next. the elephants got a checkup before the next leg of the journey. the first responders were warned to turn off the sirens so they didn't spook elephants. they say this is all a first for them. >> the emergency response job is to figure out what is going on and handle it. it is sometimes something you very seen before. elephant on the interstate fall in the never seen it before c

michelle: i bet. the elephants by the way have names. mikeaya, lovie and lou. they made it safely to florida where they were headed when the truck fire broke out. jonathan: they got baths. look happy now. just ahead at 6:00, the race to rebuild years earlier than expected. why the stand is flying in ocean city. >> shot in the chest on the baseball field. now a survivor of the ballpark ambush is thanking those who saved hi

jonathan: new tonight a heartfelt thank you from one of the survivors of the attack. matt mika wet the first responders and the surgeons who saved his life the day a gunman showed up and opened fire on a congressable baseball practice. >> we heard a loud noise. everyone told me to get down because i had been shot in the chest. i didn't feel it until i looked down. all the miracles happened afterwards and they put me back together where i am here today. >> he was one of four people shot that day. thanks to the response from the police, paramedics and the doctors, everyone shot that day survived. michelle: update on a crime

county. they have caught the man responsible. here he is. robert williams-dixon. he is charged in 11 burglaries. he would break in cars and use the garage door opener to break in homes. they are investigating whether he is connected to similar crimes including this one in herndon. jonathan: well, now to the caribbean and two months after hurricane maria devastated puerto rico half the island, half remains in the dark today. 200 utility workers from new york state arrived to pick up where white fish energy stopped. the contract is already under federal investigation. to texas, where travel trailers and the machineered homes are awe riving in neighborhoods still recovering from hurricane mar i have. three months the storm flooded the area. to qualify people must still be in need of the housing and

trailers while they rebuild. michelle: closer to home, a rough summer for the coastline along ocean city, maryland. storms went up and down the coast each leaving the mark. jonathan: now the race goes on to repair the damage. brad bell gives us a firsthand look. >> on this brisk november day, the ocean city beach is a surprisingly busy place. a $12.1 million project to rebuild the beach is in full swing. it's usually done every four years but this year it was needed a year early. a messy but a simple project. sand is picked up by the shore and pumped through massive pipes to the beach where the bulldozers spread it around. it will give vacationers a place to some day but most protect the tap from the hurricanes and the storm surges. what it does is protect our property. it prevented $900 million in

completed. >> before the beach replenishment started in the 1990's where i'm standing here is the high tide line. this dune and the beach has been bumped a -- pump aid shore. >> this is the bread and butter. this is the most important thing we do. >> the equipment will be gone and the beach will be noticeably higher and wider. in ocean city, brad bell, abc7 news. >> now must-see video of the ked officer from alabama. why would they do push-ups alongside the k9 partner? he is good at this. every time he pushes up, nitro does, too. >> i put it on facebook. funny. >> each time closer to the treat. jonathan: giving away the secret. it's all about the treats. you are great and i love you but that looks good. bill: whatever that is. for sure. i want to show you what is going on. a quiet night

leaving to head out. the capital wheel there with the temperature of 60 degrees. last night we were at live and it's very cool. have you been down there? jonathan: not yet. michelle: i thought you were going to say "very cold." bill: it wassed inside there. it's 6 -- it was 9 inside there. it's 60 today. we are still at 60 and we have frederick at 65. 54 in leesburg. winchester is 52. cumberland is 50. the temperature dropped. an hour ago we were near 60. that has gone down quickly. there is a cold front pushing to ohio. but there is just a little bit of rain. this is what we watch in our area heading to the night tonight and tomorrow. here we go. stop at 11:00. we will start to se

the area. if you are out and about late, 2:00 in the morning, some of you may be traveling overnight. you may see showers. most of these from d.c. to the east. if you are traveling to delaware, traveling to new jersey, that could be a rainy drive. around our region, generally speaking, 7:00 8:00 in the morning the rain is gone. a very quick weather maker. once we get past the time frame of 8:00 and maybe 9:00 for the far eastern suburbs we are dry for the rest of the day. the winds turn south to the north. that will make a difference for you. notice the future cast that shows not just the dry conditions. look of the white as well. that would be the cloud cover. straight to the extended forecast. morning showers mainly south

cool. we will see the influence of the cool air but it is dry on thanksgiving day on thursday, thursday night, black friday shopping. technically early friday morning. these days black friday started a week and a half ago. 52 on friday. saturday a couple of stray showers. it remains quiet through the weekend. so maybe you are visiting and you are not leaving to go back home until saturday or sunday. either day you will be fine with the travel related issues. next week we keep it dry. 40's and 50's. all in. loving the forecast. michelle: thank you, bill. great weather to sit home and watch football. jonathan: enjoy turkey. still tough to digest what happened last weekend. how did that happen? scott: i am still scratching my head. they need to pile up the wins. slim chance to make playoffs. they need to run the table and it starts this week. thursday night football. giants in town. we w

scott: to say the least it's been a tough season for the washington redskins. the two major storylines heart-breaking losses and injuries. for thursday i'll giants game the skins will use their third option at center. with spencer long on injured reserve and the other breaking a brone in his hand, veteran

journeyman bergstrom will likely get the start. the blaggerrendy and gold is battered and bruised after the sunday's devastating loss in new orleans. the team is a prize fighter after taking a power bunch. stunned. there is confusion. but they are not on the canvas just yet. head coach jay gruden is confident the players will respond against the giants. >> you put so much in a game and play so well and then you lose at the last minute. lose against dallas. lose against philly. it's hard. the guys have shown the ability to bounce back and continue to prepare and work hard. it doesn't matter what the record is who we are playing. we'll prepare the same way. get after it. give it all they've got. >> need to get the wins. if you are having a bad day twitter is gud for a laugh. last night pelican forward demarcus cousins wa

after elbowing westbrook in the face. one wrote about the wrong cousins referencing kirk cousins instead of demarcus. so kirk had fun on his twitter account saying, "glad to see my fighting skills are getting proper recognition." michelle: the wrong sport. jonathan: so much of this is wrong. scott: fact checking! i'm sure demarcus cousins would allow kirk to pick up the potential fine from the nba. tonight in college park, the maryland women basketball team will host howard. the game just started. terps trying to bounce back from sunday's loss at number one uconn. jonathan: kirk cousins get a jab. cut him slack. if you hold them up, they are close. robert: very close. michelle: so much in common. final check of weather. bills no problems weather wise. it's 60 in the area. >> no problem. thank you. "world news

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tonight, several breaking stories. 12 days after the story broke, president trump now breaking his silence on roy moore. defending the alabama senate candidate. and what the president says about the eight women who have come forward. what he said today when asked, what is his message to them? also tonight, charlie rose, fired by cbs news and by pbs. what he said when asked for comment about the alleged wrongdoing. and what his co-anchors said when they opened their show this morning. the urgent nationwide manhunt at this hour. the prisoner who has escaped a second time. wanted for multiple home invasions and now kidnapping. dangerous driving, with millions traveling today and tomorrow for thanksgiving. tonight, the two systems we're now watching on both coasts. rain, snow, high winds. ginger zee is standing by. and made in ameri