right now at 6: a.m. we are watching a huge fire going on in gaithersburg. >> take a look at live pictures coming in from chopper 4 right now. you can see heavy flames still going right now at this building on shady grove road. news4's megan mcgrath live on the scene now. megan, what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, yeah, this is a very large fire. ta a look behind me here just at the size of this building. look up there on the top floor. you can see where the roof has collapsed inside. it is still on fire. although much more undercontrol

than a short time ago. take a look at this video shot when this fire was really rolling and you could get an idea for the intensity here. this is a very large building that appears to be a block wide. it seems to be some mixed use, commercial use on the bottom and apartments and condos on the top. the building, though, was under construction. we are told that nobody had y moved in. so they didn't have to do any evuations. nobody was hurt. but you can see the tremendous amount of damage done by the fire. you can get a bird's eye view and get an idea of th size of this building. we have just a tremendous number of firefighters here on the scene from where i'm standing i can actually see two of the ladder trucks. they have been just throwing water on this thing nonstop since we arrived. absolutely no lull in the

action. as i look around the corner. i see a third truck hosing down the other side of the building here. they do have windy conditions but folk has been hurt. i'm told this is the development called the gables. we are told that some of the other buildings are occupied. people have already moved in. apparently they had to cut power to the entire area to cut the power to the blding on fire. the folks who live in the buildings across the street are without electricity at this poin some we could see down the road a little bit or just standing at the corner watch iing, firefighters are still trying to knock down this extensive fire here anduite a lot of damage. we'll try to talk to some of the folks on the scene and join y later on the show. megan mcgrath, news4, back to

you in the studio. danella sealoc continues our impact for drivers in your first 4 traffic. >> yes, i'm seeing road clores and a few roads .here first we'll start with road. and this is along chokeherry road, closures there between a hard drive and shady grove ad. if you're traveling along i-0 northbound and southbound, you are not going to be able to exit on to eastbound shady g. keep in nd, on i-270 here, that's the view as past. you will still see flames and drivers to use caution. that may not all of a sudden hit the the /* area.

and the winds are not too bad up near 10 miles an hour. yestdathe fire there in gaither. thankfully not much wind. it's 36 there now. and w 45 at reagan national. temperature at 42 this prince gege 40 in fairfax county and across northern virginia. manassas and stanto virginia, right at freezing. high clouds are beginning to drift over us now. and it's a chilly morning, so you need a light jacket. temperature is by 8:00 a.m. we'll be near 40 degrees for the morning and then close to 50 by the afternoon. the next weaer and traffic on the 1s at 6:11. the campaigning is over. election day is here in the district. polls open in less than an hour in the democratic primary. news4's melissa mollet is live in northeast washington with more on whatou can expect at the polls.

melissa? >> reporte aaron, those polls are up and at it. they close at 8:00 testimony tonit that we have a little bit of action now. some of the workers at lasallee. take a look at this video of them rolling screens out for the democratic primary. right now mayor vincent gray and councilman bowse are neck and neck. we are talking about 28 person of the likelihood to his campaign. we have trained over 16,000 poll workers. we have two working and three at

the larger precincts. so check-in should be much faster than our voters have seen in the past. >> reporter: a total of eight democratic candidates in the race for mayor today. the winner today will take on council member david catania. and there will be a new council member in ward 6 replacing tommy wells. the candidates facing off are charles allen and darrell thompson. jim graham is facing a challenge from communications consultant brianne nado. graham represented world war i for 15 years. find out more from every candidate by going to nbcwashington.com to search for results. you can be the first to know when that jorge torrez killed amanda snell in 2009.

torrez already is serving a life sentence for a series of rapes and abductions in 2010. he's also linked by dna to two high-profile murder cases in he has not gone on trial for those climbs. 6:06. investigators are looking into a house fire that killed a child in safford county along. both levels had smoke coming out of t two houses. the fire also caused the house to partially collapse. we are learning to find the identity of the person. >>. and there's a defect linked to dozens of deaths in these vehies on the road. and the changes that could standout for the new iphone and when it will be released. plus, we are watching a chance for showers today.

tom kieran will know what to expect in weather and traffic at 6:11. and here's a live look from chopper 4. we'll keep you posted on the work to get the flames out and the roads to avoid. 6:07 is your tim