the nicest thing you can say about it on 270 where they've shut both sides of 270 so they could get emergency crews in. >> they say when the bus came to a standstill, the bus was still running, smoke was pouring out and the back emergency door was jammed at a time when every second counts. 's why you s front to back everyindow was knocked or pulled out so they could get in and rescue some of these passengers here. again, we're hearing as many as 26 people. again, this is a charter bus. we can see wolves on the side. there are moving vans around it. apparently other vehicles got out andried to rescue some of these passengers as they waited for emergency personnel to show up on the scene and we've got state police, we always have

several balan several ambulances. >> we also have hundreds of people stuck on i-270 who cannot get home. let's try to help those people. let's go to ashley linr. ashley, what is going to be the situation there and how are they going to try to remedy those people parked now on i-270? >> that is going to be the biggest issue right now. from our understanding they are going to start detouring drivers only democracy boulevard. unfortunately that measly little detour isn't goi to do much for the drivers already committed to the beltway. as you can see here, here's the pace across the american legion bridge inching along. those headlights are out. as you can see the inner lop is inching along, making its way up toward democracy. so here's what's going on. this is the camera at 270 and democracy. they have it spun around so you can see. this is democracy itself. you cannot get onto 270 at this

point. those drivers who are already stuck, this is going to prove to be not much to help to you because unless they let everybody off and immediately sew it's not going to help drivers but it's progress so we'll take it because there is some movement to be made. now, there is a serious accident and with the accident investigation that's sure to continue, it's going to be like this for quite some time and it doesn't appear th the roadways are going to be reopened for any time soon. f you're on 270, you're getting quite an eyeful. it's starting to be a huge mess. if you're traveling on the outer loop o the beltway, you're going to be on the brakes. coming toward us is drivers leaving silver spring, headed around bethesda, very, very slow as you can see beyond connecticut -inchi inching alon.

thisis going to last for quite some time. right now i believe the newest issue of the newest information on 270 is they're going to try to get a drivers detoured off of democracy. back to you. >> craig melvin on the scene there. craig, you told us about one fataly. what are you seeing where you are? can you see where this bus came down? >> reporter: you know what, jim? yes, we can see it. you guys won't be able to see it at this point because they i've asked us to step back a considerable ways. but we did go down as soon as we arrived here. at this point it's very difficult to tell just how the bus ended wedged in the embankment. at's how it is. bus wedged in tell bankment to the left of what you're seeing right now. we spoke with a woman just a few moments ago and we're going to try to get that turned around in

just a moment. a woman described in vivid detail what she saw. she also described after the accident how she was within of the folks helping toet some of the children off the bushl skid her how many children were on the bus. she said at least six were off the bus. she described a lot of blood. she ao said that some of the kids were out of it. we just heard from the assistance fire chief a few seconds ago that told us there were four that were seriously injured. he not going into a description of those injuries, nor has he told us at this point whether any of those injuries are children. i can tel you that right after we got here, we saw a child on a stretcher being put into an ambulance. we also saw another woman who was cleay shakenup. she had several cuts about her as well. shes with also involved in the accident. she would not talk to us. think we have the sound from the woman that i just talked to who was involved in the accident. do we have that sound? okay.

let's take a listen. >> we had to stop. 911nd helping the people. >> how many kids do you think were on the bus? >> maybe -- let me see. maybe six kids, three, four, five, maybe six kids. >> how many adults? >> i saw three ladies. three ladies and i think there were three more of those inside the bus. >> reporter: that's what the assistant chief told us. they are trapped. at this point we can't figure out the whether they're trapped on bu or one of the cars involved in the accident. they have set up a triage area ya down ther we'll continue to gather more information. as we learn more we'll pass it along do you. >> hey, craig -- >> reporter: go ahead. >> when she talks about the

children, what age range are we talking here? >> i don't want to speculate, fwu child that we saw on the stretcher, if i had to guess, i would guess somewhere between the ages of 6 and 10. the woman that you heard from, she couldn't guess the ages. they weren't really small chirchlt i asked whether they were really small. she said, no,he had to help them out because they were trapped on couldn't move. >> so we're talking roughly elementary age. not teenage or kindergarten. >> right. >> when you were talking with the chief earlier, did hear him say there may be other people injured in other vehicles or down below? >> yes. >> do wu know howany people? base on the triage area set up and a blue honda a hrc that's banged up, a gentleman involved in the accident, there are three or four other cars involved in

the accident. as far as the extent of the injuries, we don't know at this point. >> we're look over the top of chopper 4, so we're over the top of it. this bus we learned is from wolves, it's charter, but they w't tell us who had dharterred em for the day or for this trip. it doesn't look like the roof caved in at all, so we're wondering if itolled wheels down the ramp or flipped. do you know anything aut that? >> no, we don't know at this point how it ended up in the embankme embankment. i can't see the vantage point that you guys can in terms of the bus, we were at one point 15 14, 15 feet away. i think once we get some better pictu pictures in a little bit, it's ally going to have a lot of folks asking how it ended up in that position because at this point it doesn't look like it flipped but it does look like

somehow it may have rolled just off the road. >> again, we're talking about the northbound lanes but all lanes across, south and north are closed where you are, craig? >> all lanes are closed and they're telling folks to avoid 270 north completely if you kchlt once you're north of montrose, you should be fine. if you don't have to take 27 0 rkt, stay away from it. they're starting to reroult traffic. another problem they're having jourks the gawk ers and those taking out their flip cameras trying to takpicture ps of what happened. there was a good six, seven folks whoever with doing that, who had gotten out of their cas. they got those folks moving along so, that, of course, helped the process. >> but the rubber nckars

filling it up consistently. >> can you give us the two borders? this is happened between where and where? montrose and what is the southern road? >> reporter: i want to bring in -- you were closer to the accident, right? >> yes, i have. >> reporter: first and last name. >> veto manterello. >> reporter: we do a lot of work with you. >> there's a medium-sized bus that appears to have gone off the sky ramp. it ended up ottawa senators its wheels but in a precarious president obama position. they had to stabilize it first and zr indicate the people board. there are people trap and one fatality. in additioning there are a number of other injuries. i show a number of small children being treated and eventually transported. >> are they still in the process of extricating people from that bus and vehicles? when i left the bus, eight

peerpeer -- it appeared that the extrication process was other. i don't know about the fatality. >> reporter: i spo to a woman a short time ago and she entioned she was helping to get some children off the bus. doll we know how many children were on the bus, their ages and and tent of their injuries. >> all i can tell you is i saw a number of children being treated, triaged, and subsequently transimportanted to hospils. i didn't know whether they came off the bus, but none of them appear to have serious injuries. >> the vehicles involved, do we know if the bus slammed into them? do you know how they were involved in the zment. >> it's hard to tell. >> it's very difficult at this the point to decipher how that bus wedged up into the enbankment. i know it's early. i don't want you to speculate. but can you give us any indication how it may have

happened. >> well it appears from what i saw it tumbled off the sky ramp down the incline, of course there are a number of trees that suffered damage and it finally ended up on the other side of that abutment that's up there and on its wheels but severely damaged. >> cleared the sky ramp totally. >> oh, yeah, definitely cleared the sky ramp. >> wel let you get back to your work. we'll continue to gather a little bit mo information, especially regarding the ages of those children and the extent of their injuries as well. >> thank you. it certainly sounds like that brush and that slope may have helped cushionnd slowed it down and saved the lives of many. again, one person dead and we're hearing as many as four to tell. we heard as high as 15 people with injured, some of them with serious injuries. and they've been taken to suburban hospitals. >> we don't want to give people

the impression that it sailed through the air. it looks like it rolled on its wheels and down the grass. >> that's what we saw from that new perspective, that vantage point. we don't know if it overturn but it looks like apparently the dame was done to the windows d that was probably by firefighters trying to get back there. again, the back emergency door was jammed. >> a problem with this is if people have any kind o injuries, they don't want to move them. they're stabilizing the people inside and treating them through the window so they can have access to them once the vehicle was stabilized and they could have staed moving them. >> we said before it could have been road-to-road impact.

it was no it could have been concrete and flying through the air. >> it sounds like it don't -- >> it doesn't look like it went on the lower lanes at all. these drivers who pulled up and sawthe bus smoking when it came to a halt did not actually come into -- it doesn't appear as though th came into contact because it doesn't appear that it was on those lanes there. b other vehicles also sustained some damage, we had heard earlier. >> and as vito said, he saw it up closer. speaking of vehicles, if you've got to go through here to get there, to get home or to some meet or event, i-270 is shut down snool in both directions. >> so they have access to this area. here's a map to show you. it is a mess. itis a parking lot. these cars have ju been sitting there and the state police now trying to reoute

them onto democracy boulevard. any of you who know, who are veterans of our area -- >> this is the pack, lot right here and thee coming into virginia particularly, if you're thinking about coming in. don't do it, affect it could be an hour, twohours here. we've got a lot of vehicles block both lanes. we passed this. this isbusy on a normal day. today we've literally got tens of thousands of people who take this route home. >>nd a it's been a messy day with weather. that is our other top story we're going to be tracking. nicole has brushed toward cuba and is headed north our way. >> it is. it's expected to give us a month's worth of rain over the next two days. we want to go right now and hear the latest right now. doug is -- what time lime are we looking at?

>> those are pictures from cuba. as it made its way through kai ba it made its way to a tropical storm. now downgrading authority. no longer a named storm, not even a depression. this was never -- our rains were never about tropical storm nicole. it's the feeds right up to our area. the rain just off to the east that. is associated with what was tropical storm nicole, but as you move towd the north here, watch what happens. you go all the way to the north and that's where the moisture is. right up through our area. right w we're seeing some of that light to mad rat rain. that's what we're going to see throughout the rest of the evening hours as well. it was actually a little heavier. now we're in a little bit of a respite. i think geerng to stay in that in the next two to three hours. we will see the potential for

heavy rain tonight. 66 degrees out there right now. winds out of the north at abo 59 miles an hour. 63 in sterling and in manassas. down toward leonardtown e's cou degrees. look at. this the moisture has come out of the tlp atlantic and it's a line from florida, straight on down toward yam. some coach reach as high as 6 to 8 inches of ranl over the next 48 to 48 ours. again. no longer a named storm but watch the track as we extend the track right up through the area. the remnants will make their way. we'll have two rounds of rain here. e biggest rouncoming tonight and then into tomorrow evening.

that's why i think we could easily see two to four inchesf rain, and then to the east, including parts of the eastern shore, ocean city and the delaware beaches as well. we could see upwards of five inches, maybe more. we have flash flood washes in effect and all of our coastal communities have coastal flood watches and warnings that are going to be in effect. so round one, heavy rain, possible flooding, overnight tonight. onto two inches of rain. # the heaviest will be coming tonight. round 2, one to two inches, winds 30 ta 35 miles an hour. the heaviest will be to the sement tomorroto the east. so your forecast tonight, cloudy skies, light rain continues. heavier rain moving in later. here comes that heavier rain. periods of the heavier rain.

60 to 65 degrees. as you wake up, it's going to be coming down in some locations. give yourself extra time. especially to the east of washington along the chesapeake, 75 on friday. will be clearing out but still on the breezy side and saturday and sunday. right now looking bet were temperatures into the middle 60s and some sunshine aswell. so we've got a tough, say, 24 to 36 hours to go. we'll continue to keep you updated. and, of course, we're holding web chat right now go. to nbcwashington.com and click that web chat. veronica andly be answering all of your questions about the next couple of days. >>thank you, doug. we're about to get walloped. >> also a man fell to his flames trying to escape flames. others were seriously hurt. news 4 john ins us live.

john? >> it certainly was a scary scene. in fact, two men jumped from the fifth floor of this apartment building behind me. we spoke to one of the men who survived that fall. definitely still in shock from the life or death situation. as explained his unle who also took that jump with him was not so lucky. >> translator: all i could hear him say was help me, help me. >> reporter: a fire broke out on the fifth floor of this eight-story apartment building on 16th street northwest. the flames quickly spread through the stair well to the stores above trapping owe la da and his uncle pablo inside their apartment. >> i didn't get to go past the door because my uncle said, no,

do not go there. that's when i reacted impulsively. >> not wanting to rn alive as he grabbed the telephone cord, wrapped it around the refrigerator and threw it out the window to use as rope. >> that's when i went out the window, got all the way to the third floor, jumped off from the third floor to the tree, managed to get out to the dirt with minor scratches. >> reporter: he thought his uncle was behind him but as he looked up he saw him plunge five stories to his death, landing on the spikes sticking out from the metal fence below. as others were still asleep not nong what was going on. isaac larios who lives on the first floor were alerted by the woman's screams. >>hen we opened the door we saw a lady burnt, hair, eyebrows, her shirt was burned on her skin. >> they grabbed a fire

extinguishers. he ran up and knocked on 20 doors. 's thankful almost everyone made it out okay. he was just doing the right thing. >> like a hemmelper, i would wa somebody to do the same thing for me if i was sleeping. >> they're not sure how it srt birthday u they said eight people were taken to the hospital, three of them in serious and very critical condition. stay with us. coming up at 6:00 we have a news conference that's supposed to start out in front of this building shortly. mayor fenty is supposed to speak as well as fire chief ruben. reporting now from 16th street northst, john, back to you guys in the studio. >> we're going to bring you the laest on the charter bus accident when we come back. we've got new live pictures coming back from chopper 4. again, this was a charter bus it came dwn 45 feet off of a

sky ramp at the 270 spur and traffic has been horrendous. >> 270 is parking lot right where this happened and they're starting to try to reroute people on the democracy boulevard. it's going to be a very long, tough, arduous night for those people trying to get home because all of the little side roading. we'll have more on what's coming up on what happened on this bus this afternoonfter this. we're taking a quick break.

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we continue now with coverage of our breaking news this afternoon. a chartered bus comes down a 45-foot embankment killing one person onboard and leaving a lot of people injured. this afternoon off of 270. >> craig melvin is right in the middlef it. craig, when last we spoke we had talked about three to four people who were being extricated. is everyone off the bus? >> everyone is off the bus. i just spoke with the assistant fire chief few moments ago. he told me 12 people had been taken to thehospital. two of them have life-threatening injurie another two are in critical condition. and the other eight are in stable condition.

they expect those eight to be just fine. so, again, oneerson ad. 12 people taken to the hospital. two ofhem in really bad shape. the other two are in critical condition. the assistant chief -- we always learned in just the past few minutes a little bit more about what led up to this accident. i'm going to step out of the way. i want to show you this hov flyaway here. assistant chief scott graham telling me moments ago that bus was leavi washington, d.c. on, on some type of tour. it somehow left the roadway completely. they do not know at this point whether the bus flipped or whether the bus flipped over, but they do know that once it went down that embankment some 40, 45 feet it began to rest on a jersey wall on northbound 270. that was just after 4:00 today. they also at this point do not

think that that bus hit any vehicles upon impact. they think that the two or three ehicles that were involved either stopped suddenly and crashed into each other, a gentleman told me that a light pole fell right in front of his car, but they do not think that the bus hit those vehicles. at this point they also can't tell me whether the person who died here on the scene was the drive over that bus or whether the person was a passenger on the bus, nor could the chief tell me how many of the injed were children. he did say that, yes, there were children on the bus. at this point we're trying to figure out the agesof those children and the extent of their injuries as well. but we do know there are children on the bus. the extrication process is complete that. is welcome news. >> craig melvin right as we say, in the middle of it there. again, all lanes closed in both directions, right craig? >> yes, all lanes closed in both

directions and the parking lot, they're telling folks again if you don't have to be on 270 northdon't get on 270 north. north of montrose. north on montrose you're fine. >> al they're trying to reroute some of those people in this slow process only democracy to try to get them moving in their dezty nations because they've been parked there for a good hour, hour and a half. >> well, we took democracy in, so that's not that much better. >> no, no, it isn't. this is going to be ugly coming and going on all sides. >> u condition firmed what we were wondering earlier. if there are other -- if there were other vehicles involved, they hit each other on noticing that bus coming down and suddenly they didn't know what to do. >> reporter: there was a -- there was a guy in a vehicle, he didn't want to be on camera but he did say that he was driving

along and one of these massive light posts that you see behind me a few feet in front of his car, so he swerved off and saw someother folks behind him. i do want to sort of describe the scene right here right now. we still see a fe dozen ergency responders, the triage area for people who suffered bumps and bruises. eaier saw a child on a stretcher looking to be in pretty bad shape, again,ener between 6 and 10 years old. ain, that's the only person we receive on a stretcher. with e haven't seen ambulances coming and going. >> 26 total aboard this bus, is that right? we shod mention it's wolf's bus lines out of pennsylvania. you were hearing a total of 76? >> he was -- the assistant chief was not certain.

they said earlier that there were 26. they backed off that a little bit. so i don't know if they're still trying to conduct a head count or what. but that was what we heard originally. then shortly thereafter we heard, we're not sure. another 12 people were injured and of that, could you run through that again furor us how man life-threatening? >> 12 were taken to the hospital, two with life-threatening injuries, two others have what are called critical injuries and the other eight are in stable condition. he saidhat some of the eight that were transported were transported as a precaution. he said thatthe eight are going to be just fine. they're really concerned about the other four who were transported, the two who were critical and the two who have th. >> and the good news that you shared with us all at the top there, craig, is the extrication, which is lengthy, is complete. >> the bus is empty. >> but they still don't know whether the doa was the person

driving the bus or whether it was the passenger on the bus. >> and y're talking about the one fatality, the oneerson who was killed in this accident. >> right. >> okay. >> all right. the big story around forthe big picture. craig, right where you e, you talked about a parking lot. the american legion bridge in both direction, a huge parking lots well. >> right. and they are, again, starting in the last half hour, according to ashley linder at the traffic network, they're trying to get people rerouted who are sitting there and have been sitting there for an hour and a half on i-270. they're trying to reroute them and get them onto the side roads so they can get to their destinations. >> well, aaron gilchrist is on his cell phone and he's driving through the area. aaron, what are you seeing.

>>. >> reporter: >> reporter: we very sitting on fernwood. we could see the accident scene from where we were there, and police officers basically said they were trying to get traffic turned around. we watched as the traffic stopped on 270 was rerouted up the oramp ifthat makes any sense. traffic coming off fernwood that would normally be going from fernwood down onto 270 was being sent backp the highway there. other traffic was turned around on 270 and sent to some of the other what would be known to be entrance ramps some of that was pretty a clean operation to watch in terms of getting traffic off the highway from 270 northbound. but, of course, that meant that all the roads that were leading to that area are now jammed. we're -- we're watching as, you know, traffic istarting to back up on fernwood. it's a nightmare going down to democracy boulevard.

all the tlask would be coming toward 70 to get on the interstate, it's backed up as far as you can see, and in the other direction as well just because traffic that was coming off the interstate or rerouted off the interstate then ended up in all of this road traffic and people were trying to figure out how to get to someplace to get to where they were originally trying to go. >> but as anyone who travels through that area knows, either democracy orou try wisconsin, 355 north, it's always going to be -- their parking lots, anyway, are bumper tbumper anyway, and now you're going to rerte all of this flow from 270. it's r people trying to avoid the area. there's justno avoiding the ripple effect and the repercussions that are going to radiate out from this accident as all of theseeople try to get home and up to montgomery county and frederick county. >> we want to thank you, aaron

gilchrist, again. he's on the road on his cell phone. we'll stay in touch withou to see how the scene looks as you try to crawl through that area. meanwhile we've got some weather blowing in tonight. we want to go to the storm center. doug, it's a littler f e e er - earlier. >> it's going to be light rain. that's good news for the clean-up that's going to be going on down there. the heaviest rain is near the rimond area. for the most part the light to mod real rain has become light across the region and i think it's going stay like that. you can zoom in and show you where the rin is across our area, just very light ra and a lot of it is beginning to make a its way to the west. so grow're east of washington or east of the potomac, you're really not seeing a whole lot of it. maybe light shower activity. that's going to be it for the

next couple of hours. watch roy happens. a tremendous amount of moisture and that moisture feedoming not just through the carolinas where they're seeing a lot of rain but all the way from south florida that's where the remnants of tropical storm nicole are making their way to the north as well. so this is a moisture feed, a moisture train moving from florida all the way up toward our area. again, we're going be watching that. now, as far as our weather is concerned, what can we expect her here? 66 degrees. there's that moisture feed making itsay in from t south. you can see it's a line from washington straight on down through the atlantic ocean. the atlantic, the caribbean, the gulf. they're all tapped in. that area of cold pressure, it will make its way to the north over the next 2 to 36 hours. by:00 a.m. it will be down to north carolina.

by 8:00 tomorrow it will be down there. we'll see me wind from this storm and tomorrow could actually be the worst timing as far as the bl is concerned for. thisow much rain are we expecting? ybe two to four inches and points just off to the eas and west. up toward the east, eastern shore in delmarva picking up five inches of rain. that's the area that's really going to see it. as far as rain, heavy rain, possible flooding. that's tonight into tomorrow morning. then tomorrow night heavy rain and very windy conditions. one to two inches of rain there. gusts up to 40 miles an hour. we're going to continue toee it as it makes its way, into the day on friday as well. as we look for the next four days, 08 tomorrow, 75 on your friday with windy conditions as well. although not too much in the way of wind and rain. saturday and sunday things will be calming down. once again, a lot going on we'll, of course, keep you updated on it.

veronica and i are on the web for any questions you may have in our web chat. doug, thanks a lot. >> we're going to have, of course, more coming up on that chartered hey ove, i'm gonna need a bank. any ideas? capital one bank. they're everywhere. yeah, you're right! ♪ [ male announcer ] capital one banks are everywhere. [ clang! ] with hundreds of branches and atms, they're hard to miss.

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back with live pictures at chopper 4.

this is bethesda where a charter b leaving washington, d.c., with parents and children aboard went off of some type -- it was an hov flyaway. went down an embankment, a grassy embankment and wound up here. as you see, there are no windows on the entire side of the bus. several pasngers had to be zr indicated. 12 people were rued to the hospital. two with life-thrtened injuries, two with critical inju, eight with stable and should be okay but one person was killed on this bus. we understand several vehicles made contact with other vehicles on the road below but not with this bus. i was leaving washington. it's a charter bus line out of wolf's in pennsylvania. >> the problem for everyone heading north of there or south of there going through this area is, of course, i-270. and now democracy boulevard,

probably wisconsin, any of the rounds would try to head north from montgomery county, that traffic from i-207 has been at a standstill. it is a parking lot. park police announced -- or state police announced they are trying to rerte people are and have been for the last 45 nutes. let's get the latest from ashley lind linder. what do you hear? >> here's theery latest. why it is so slow right now is they're blocking it rightt the 270 split. so drivers on the inner loop are forced t continue around toward old georgetown road and then fin agle their way. that's just adding tolready substantial delays. delays begin out of annandale. so it is -- this is the pace all around the beltway. the ower lo outer loop is equal slow and your delays begin

closer to the avee and definitely in the thick of it connecticut and onward. the difference with the outer loop is you can continue onto 270 north because yore not on the spur in that stretch. so you can go onto 270 north. it's open to old georgewn road but you cannot take the hov flyover ramp to get basically back on the spur. so what we've got going on right now if you were stuck on 270 in that stretch, they are starting to let a little trickle of traffic make its way over toward democracy to kind of let out some of these delays, but unfortunately they just continue to stack up around the regio now, if you're traveling around the outer loop, it will begin on georgia avenue but they're quickly stacking up toward college pa so it has far-reaching effects. the good news is if you're coming off of democracy, you're flying. there's at least some good news. we need this accident cleared to help rush hour out a little bit.

but back to you. >> what a nightmare, any indication from your contacts when they might get all this clear? we know that all the zr indications are done with the bus, but they've still got vehicles in the way. >> because they have confirmed one fat, the investigation is a lengthy one. it's not swift by any stretch of the imagination. from our guess because we don't have any evidence that they're going to open it up sometime soon wrks fatales they do have them typically last for several hos. >> we'll check back with you. meanwhile we've got tons of weather headng our way. let'sead to the weather center. doug, you said we're getting a month's worth of rain in one or

two days? >> yes. normally we get three and a third inches. in just about 24 to 48 hours. we have that much rain making its way toward the area. here's the really good news you guys have been talking about. the 270 spur there, the good news is the rain in that area is gone and most likely wi be. for the most part that area is dry. you can see what's happening. light to moderate rain actually starting to decay a little bit. we're seeing less rain moving through portions of our area. most of the heavy rain is down ward virginia beach and richmond. that's as an area o low pressuris starting to take shape. once that starting to move to the north we'll see our rain intensify and increasing coverage later on this evening as well. let's take a zoom in here. we did see light to moderate rain earlier. watch how it fizzles out hire. still rain toward winchester and hagerstown. we're going to continue to see that rain as well. here's the moisture that's

moving our way. an area of low pressure is forming right around wilmington. that will continue to move to the north and bring plenty of rain with it. behind that rain we have the rain down from there that was associated with tropical storm nicole. it's no longer a tropical storm. that's good news but again it doe't mean a whole lot for us because we're going to get the moisture from that storm. so over the next couple of hours we're going to continue to see the light rain and the rain will be back in ernest and into the day tomorrow. so temperatures 66 degrees. winds out of the north at 60 miles an hour. temperatures only in the middle 60s and they're going to stay there right on through the morning tomorrow. overnight you may have a couple rumbles of thunder, maybe some winds. tomorrow could be a different story as the remnants of nicole do move up toward the region. we could see powe ttential seve weather tomorrow afternoon. up toward martinsburg, west

virginia, 62 degrees. you notice it's a straight line from the washington, d.c., area right on down through the atlantic. it extends through cuba. we'll seehe moisture move out late tonight. the area of low pressure willbe off the florida coastline. the other one will be around the area overnight tonight and by 8:00 a.m. tomorrow it will continue to move up and by 8:00 p.m. we'll see the strongest winds, say between 5:00 and 9:00. winds could be gusting 20 to 30 miles an hour, maybe up to 45 mileness ahour, especially for your folks along the chesapeake, down tord and by 8:00 a.m. things begin to shift. it could be anywhere between two to four inches for a large portion of our area. this is through friday morning. if you're to the west of this district most of the rain is going to come tomorrow night.

to the east, most of the rain will come tomorrow and into tomorrow night but everybody's going to be seeing rain over the next 12 to 24 hours. the flash flood watch in effect for tonight and into tomorrow. we have a flash flood watch in i affect along the chesapeake bay and the potomac river as well. if youlive along an area prone to coaal flieding you may see that. cloudy skies. light rain, becoming heavier and really overnight tonight. that's when i'm expecting some of the heavier rain to move in. periods of heavier rain. slow your roll. tomorrow you'll need to do so. it will bebecoming windy with winds gusting upwards to 30, 40 miles an hour. think thinks will start to calm down during the day on friday and especial for the weekend. saturday and sunday looking food. 65 on sunday and then a

potential other storm, coastal storm possibly developing late monday into the day on tuesday as well. so we've been very, very dry and now it looks like we're in a very, very wet pattern and it looks like it may stick around here for another least another week or so. >> one time, doug. thanks so much. we want to head back out to the scene. craig melvin has been out there talking to witnesses at this 270 spur. craig, one of the stories that you've been hearing from, you've talketo drivers of other vehicles and these people jumped to and tarted to help, i understand, in some of the rescues or tried to anyway. >> reporter: yes, there was a woman who once she saw what happened she started helping get some of the kids off the bus. i think we're having a audio problem. can you hear me okay? >> we're having trouble with your microphone, craig. >> reporter: give me one or two

minutes to get that figured out. >> what craig is saying when this bus came down the embankment when it came over and we had a picture earlier where you could see it brke through the sky bridge and rolled down this embankment hitting a lot of trees, taking a lot of trees with it as it came to rest em d embedded there in that em bankment with 26 people onboard, parents and children on some type of chartered tour trip out of washington, d.c. all we know is the bus line is wolf's bus line from pennsylvania. we do not kno what the destination was but it came out of washington. as you see it came down the road, you see the lamp post, it hit that. that came crashing into traffic. cars immediately slamming on their brakes. some of them wrecking into one another. you had a whole lot of chaos. but people got out of their car, ran to the bus, hay could not get the emeency door open out of the back so i guess they were breaking out the windows to get

to people and a lot of people we trapped on the bus wchl dough have to mention, of course, one person was killed. 12 people were taken to the hospital. of those 12, two do have life-threatening injuries. of these 12, eight people were tan, i guesser, for observation. they're in stable position and they are expected to be, what i hear from officials, goingo b all right. >> but the extrication took some time. it took until 25, 30 minutes ago. again, th all started to unfold shortly after 4:00 this afternoon, and this is the hov flyaway where the bus came rreling down. about 30, 35 feet. that is the distance where it wound up dwoechblt know whether it overturned or not, but that light post, that's where t vehicle started, stopping short, and there were some other injuries on the lanes below, but no contact between the bus and

any other vehicles that we know of. >> again, craig is working on his audio. we're going to take a very short break and we're going to come back to him because he s interesting stories to tell that he heard from the people who

this is the story of the day, impacting more than two dozen people aboard this bus and vehicles all around it. then tens of thousands of people still stu in traffic right now in virginia and around maryland on the beltway now. this is live. >> at 270. >> at the 270 spur. >>e have live audio from craig

melvin. let's get to stories from him on the ground. >> reporter: northbound 270 inner loop toward democracy boulevard, northbound 270 inner loop toward democracy boulevard going to be shut down, quo, for the foreseeable future. st for people waiting for someone to get home. talking to folks throughout the course of the afternoon we found out from the chief and one of the folks involved that there were two cars, maybe three, at least two cars that were involved in the accident besides the bu we also know at this point that the bus did not hit either one of those cars. the cars appeaed to have crashed into each other or into the embankment to try to avoid the bus or try to avoid a falling light pole. we do know that at this point. we know that the extrication process has been complete. 12 people were taken to a another hospital. eight are critical. two have light-threatening

injuries. two in critical. eight stable. we also found out a short time ago that the deceased is a male. we do not know whether he was driving the bus. we do not knowhether he was a passenger on the bus. at is point they're in the process of notifying the man's family. when they release his name and whether he's from our area or ether he's from the pennsylvania area, we will, of course, pass that along to you. there also seemed to be some confusion about the number of people on the bus. it's a 26-passenger tour bus, but the chief says at this point he knows that the bus was not full. the bus was not full, so at this point they don't know precisely how many people weron the bus. they're still trying to figure that out. we'll pass that along do you in just a few moments. for now we're going to toss it back to you. >> craig melvin all over the

story for us, right in the thick of the scene, foreseeable future, never good to hear at the height of rush hour. it's a parking lot. it's going tobe hrs. >> they're trying to reroute people on the other roads there, but we all know what that's going to be like. that's it for us. we'll continue to coverhis at 6:00, which is coming up ri [ music throughout ] male announcer ] looking for a complete picture of your money? meet pnc virtual wallet. it comes with a lendar that shows you all your finances at once. it lets you know when your money's going out. and when it's coming in. it even tells you when you'rrunning low. we call that danger days. it's built to help you see your money in a wholnew light. experience everything virtual wall has to offer

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good evening, we begin our coverage tonight of a terrible accident in the midst of rush hour tonig on one of the busiest roads in our area. a tour bus carrying students and parents that fell off a flyway that fell over 270 and crashed. good evening. i'm ji. >> and i'm doreen gentzler. we know that one person was killed. 12 people have been taken to the hospital. and four of them are critically injured. the tour bus involved in the crash is based out of york springs, pennsylvania. we'restill waiting to learn more about those crash victims. craig melvin has been covering the story throughout the afternoon and he joins us now from bethesda with the latest. hi, craig. >>po