>> stay with us. "news4 today" at 578 begins now. good morning, everyone. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eun yang. >> megan mcgrath has just arrived on the scene. what are you learning? >> reporter: that's right. this was a fatal accident, a deadly accident. it involved a tractor trailer and a person on the motorcycle. the fatality was the person on the motorcycle. you can see here some of the wreckage in the wake of the accident here. the track tor trailer actually caught on fire. it was hauling garbage. it caught on fire. a tremendous amount of damage that was done here. you're looking live here at the wheels of the back end of the cab of the trailer. you can see the damage that was done. if you spin around, you can see the pile of garbage that's still here on the scene. we've got crews cleaning it up. they have various pieces of the

truck hooked up to the tow truck. they're going to be hauling it away. they're starting to take away one of the halves of the cab right here. in terms of the traffic we're 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 right-hand 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." let's check in with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. what do you see, chuck? >> skies are generally clear. no fog in the range of our tower cameras but there are areas across montgomery county, frederick county and into shenandoah valley and virginia. be on the lookout for reduced visibility this morning. temperatures, mid-50s in the suburbs to mid-60s downtown. your hometown forecast, germantown and maryland. 82 at dinner time. nothing but sunshine today. commuter forecast coming up in ten minutes. melissa, look at the roads. >> that looks good. woodrow wilson bridge, you're looking good both ways. don't have any problems. 95 at mine road also rolling along nicely. 66, into town, out of town, nice and degree. in front of sibley hospital right in front of dal carly

roadway. and everything rolling along quite nicely. back in a few minutes. and here in the newsroom we're getting in new images from a powerful earthquake that rocked chile. this is new video just in. take a look here. shelves shaken at a grocery store. food, broken, spilled on the ground. people in a panic. the earthquake was at 8.3 striking off the central coast at 7:00 p.m. local time. five people are dead and right now people are getting out of the area. the quake is having impacts in the u.s., california, and hawaii on high alert right now. orange county, california, is closing beaches all because there are sun warnings in both states. this, by the way, is the biggest earthquake to hit this part of chile in more than a century. back to you.

5:04 right now. developing now we're working to find a man shot to death inside a car. police found his body just before 8:30 last night. police have not released the victim's name or said whether they have any expects. and police say they caught the man accused of shooting someone on a metrobus last month in southeast. officers say vee john lamont brown opened fire on august 21st. metro had to reroute bus farce day because of that shooting. right now search teams are hoping for something to develop in their search for a 6-year-old boy on the east utah border. they confirm the boy is the only one still missing after a flash flood carried away cars in hildale. the boy, his siblings, mother, and cousins were in the car.

in utah six people died in floods. we learn one of those people was a sheriff's sergeant in southern california. he worked with the didn't for 21 years. his wife was with him as well. she is missing. search teams will be look for her today. sources say general motors will pay a $900 million fine for a deadly problem it may have noun about. it's a settlement over a faulty ignition switch that caused deaths. they say automakers knew about the problem for more than a decade. also today both sideses of the pepco/exelon merger, they say the companies didn't prove the merger would benefit you, the public. supporters are holding a meeting this morning in the northwest to ask the district to reconsider. this morning opponents are

holding a rally to keep exelon out of d.c. pepco and exelon argued if they combined it would increase. she was just the light of the world especially for myself and my fam ler. >> that is how james sumter describes his sister. samantha sumter was killed in a drunk driving crash. this is a picture of her. a number of people called 911 on sunday to report a car driving dangerously. sheriff's deputies were trying to catch up with the car. it was a volvo. it struck two other vehicles before colliding head on with a toyota sumter was driving. witnesses say passengers were hanging cartons of beer out of the windows and yelling. >> any time you carelessly

callously take the life of someone so special, so angelic, almost not of this world, yes, every means of the law needs to come your way. i mean they should not be spared. >> the two men who were in the volvo remain in the hospital. one of them has been charged with dui. a third man who bailed out of the car has also been found. today bowe bergdahl will appear in court. he was captured and held for five years. bergdahl was eventually released in exchange for five at guantanamo bay. lawyers will argue his years in captivity was enough. and the american men who stopped a train attack in france will be heading to the white house. the man came out of the bathroom and started firing an assault rifle.

the three men, alex skarlatos and spencer stone and their friend anthony sadler risked their lives to restrain that man before authorities arrived. president obama called the men shortly afterward to express his gratitude and to invite them to the white house. a marathon crime meeting in d.c. city leaders were there. ♪

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it's now 5:11. time for "weather & traffic on the 1s." >> storm team 4 chuck bell has the forecast for your bus stop. >> frederick county out to the panhandle of west virginia out to the shenandoah valley, there are pockets of fog and reduced visibili visibility, we'll give you a

yellow light. otherwise we'll be back to green lights for late on this afternoon. 52 in baltimore, frederick, and 62 in arlington. walking around, 60s this morning. 80s this afternoon. could have some sunshine delays on your way in and out. but, again, it will be a sunny and very warm afternoon. a check on that seven-day forecast coming up in ten minutes. for now it is traffic with melissa mollet. >> good morning. right as it turns from 270 to 15 there, at 70 we do have a crash in the northbound lanes. trying to get more information on that one. here they have closures because of the road repairs from yesterday's water main break that are still under way. no problems northbound or southbound. totally normal here for this time of day. taking a look at prince george's county, no problem there. remember to listen to our friends on wtop 103.5 when you

head into your car. >> thank you, melissa. it's 5:13. emergency responders are trying to figure out what to do about a building that fell apart. the building collapsed hours ago. we're told no one was hurt. city investigators are working to figure out why it clapped. they could decide why they had a demolition at the site to make sure everything was safe. a marathon crime meeting in the district went till after 3:00 this morning. d.c.'s deputy mayor tweeted. and at 3:23 a.m. we are adjourned. we look forward to talking more about mayor bowser's safer stronger d.c. proposals in coming days. chief cathy lanier testified. she said since mid-august, 110 illegal guns have been recovered by her department. the chief talked about drugs being the target and leading to

crimes. 110 homicides in d.c. so far this year. a 41% increase from last year. the meeting started at 5:00 and, again, ended at almost 3:30 this morning. kenny mcduffy called the meeting and said he's introducing new measures to help solve the city's crime problems. back to you. the second gop presidential debate in the books now. so who won. why some are saying donald trump. an update on a breaking news story we brought you yesterday morning.

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traffic alert for you at 5:17. you'll have to find your way around repairs of a water main in northwest washington. loughboro road near dalecarlia. the road is still closed.

it's chopped up after making repairs from the water main break. we're told it could take up to three days to fix the street. >> today the judge will make an important decision involving three prominent alexander residents. it's set to start in october. today the judge is expected to decide whether to install tv cameras inside the courtroom. a psychologist is also expected to explain severance's bizarre behavior. d.c. police will be in the room on public safety. they'll be embodied to bring their ideas. organizers say their goal is to walk out of the meeting with an action plan. >> but the simple fact is -- >> excuse me one second. >> no. >> more energy tonight.

>> mr. trump, we don't need an apprentice in the white house. we have one right now. >> eveready, it's very high energy, donald. >> 11 republicans want to be president. ten of them have one goal. stop donald trp from gaining ground. republicans are increasingly worried that trump could win the party's nomination. last night's debate launched a full-on attack. trump made plenty of strikes on his own. issues, terrorism, same-sex marriage, and defending personal attacks on each other. >> donald trump said the following about you, quote, look at that face, would anyone vote for that, can you imagine that, the face of our next president. mr. trump later said he was talking about your persona. >> you know, it's interesting to me. mr. trump said that he heard mr. trump very clearly and what mr. bush said. i think women all over this

country heard very clearly what mr. trump said. >> i think she gets a beautiful face and i think she's a beautiful woman. now, ahead at 5:30, nbc's tracie potts will break down the debate and some of the other big takeaways. soon the federal court will read maureen mcdonnell's appeal on why she should. go to prison. last year she and bob mcdonnell were found guilty for trading political fabors worth tens of thousands of dollars in gifts and loans. they say federal law should apply differently to her than her husband. the county received a $100,000 safety grant. the money will go to security improvements like hallway cameras, automatic locks on doors, and front office buzz systems. more than two dozen county schools will benefit from the grant. more people from d.c. are

getting health insurance. that's changing. from 2013 to last year, the number of uninsured people dropped from 42,000 to 34,000. officials of the census bureau highlighted more d.c. residents signing up for obamacare. >> 5:21 our time right now and it's thursday, so we're that much closer to the weekend. >> storm team 4 chuck bell has been planning for us since monday, the minute his alarm clock went off. so we know we're ready, chuck. >> we are ready. dmoijt what you have planned. i have a whole lot of football planned at least for my saturday. outside on a thursday morning. mostly clear sky has led to a little bit of patchy fog around early this morning. the other thing, high pressure has been in charge of our weather all week long and without any real change in air masses, things have gotten a bit stagnant and as a result air quality has gone down.

unhealthy. the very old, the very young and folks with either heart or lung issues. be careful about that for today. reduced visibility in parts of orthern maryland and in the shenandoah valley. right here in the urban centers but there will be pockets of fog to deal with. be on the lookout for it. there's that same area of high pressure that will be pumping the air. that will switch our winds from that warm southwesterly wind into an onshore wind. a northeast wind around here. now, the ocean is still relatively warm, but whenever we get that onshore northeasterly flow, that typically brings in not only cooler weather but it also brings in clouds and might bring in a chance for light rain. that will take place over the weekend. so with time our rain chances will start to creep up just a little bit as we go into the monday, tuesday, wednesday time frame. already thinking about your weekend?

saturday, warm and dry. temperatures well into the 80s once again. sunday is the day things start to turn around. breezy and cooler. more clouds. highs in the upper 70s to near 80 degrees. things are going to start to change. here's your seven-day forecast. 87 today. 86 tomorrow, 88 on saturday. warm and dry until then. there could be a problem with air quality as well. the temperatures go down and as the propose arrives on tuesday there will be at least a chance for light rain showers. we'll keep a very close eye of that part of the forecast. i'm keeping a close eye on this crash. brand-new report of an accident. we're going to get information for you. we have this one still we talked about 15 minutes ago. 15 at frederick at i-70, a crash in in northbound elapses. in front of sibley hospital at dalecarlia parkway, road repairs

are under way after the water main break yesterday. it wi could take up to three da to get that cleared. southbound lanes normal and prince george's county looking good as well. back in ten minutes. >> melissa, thank you. it's 5:24. pope francis will be here in less than a week. today we'll get an update on the construction. on wednesday pope francis will deliver a mass to 25,000 people there and he'll perform the first canonization on american soil. today's health forward will discuss abortion clinics. they say it was drin by politics and not science. supporters of the tougher construction standards say they're necessary to protect women's health. a 5#fjç94-year-old woman fr laurel may have died from the west nile virus. the maryland didn't of health and hygiene says it can't con

girl whether dorothy mount died from west nile but according to wtop the daughter notified them. mosquito control experts are expected to collect samples from around the mount family home to determine if any mosquitos are infected there. two more people died in those fires in california. the state's didn't of fire protection says firefighters pulled bodies from homes in the beaut fire east of sacramento earlier this week. as for the valley fire north of san francisco, it is now 35% contained. that is a small step toward beating it. it was at 30% at this time yesterday. and not something you see every day. a plane landing in the street. take a look at this. this is what neighbors in southern california saw yesterday. there's the small plane. it made an emergency landing north of john wayne airport in orange county. a pilot and several students

were on board. there's no reason right now for that sudden touchdown. they're going to try to figure that out. no one was hurt. we now have the aud yes of what elton john thought was a call with russian president vladimir putin. turns out it was all a big prank. >> he told us everything in western music culture and for human rights. >> tell him i'm extremely honored to be on this -- that he's calling me and that i'm speaking to him. >> again this was a hoax. a couple of russian comedians did this. they frequently prank slelkts and politicians there. elton john has not said anything as we learned the call was a stunt. as he says, sorry seems to be the hardest word. >> pock. it's now 5:26. we're taking a look outside. we're in for another warm day.

chuck bell is back with look at your hour-by-hour forecast. am coming up, the meeting that could have you paying more to commute on 66. a deadly accident on the beltway. less than an hour ago, news confirmed someone died after this terrible wreck on indian highway. take a look at the live

beginning now at 5:30, police are investigating a deadly crash. this morning we have confirmed a motorcyclist died there. this is megan mcgrath following the story live from the scene. megan. >> reporter: well, aaron, this pile of garbage you see behind me is all that's left of the accident scene. if you take a look behind me here you're seeing the local lanes of the inner loop of the highway. you can see everything is reopen and everything is at speed. what police are trying to figure out is what happened here. it was a deadly accident that involved tractor trailer that involved trash and a motorcycle. it happened around 11:30 last night. the tractor trailer and the motorcycle they collided. the person on the motorcycle was kill. we had traffic impacted for a while. all of that has cleared up. but there are still a lot of questions as to exactly what

happened here. what led up to the collision between these two vehicles. now, there's no word on the identity of the person who was killed, the person on the motorcycle. no word on their age. but the investigation ongoing. back to you in the studio. >> all right, megan. thank you, 5:31 right now. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eun yang. >> we're going get a check of your weather starting with meteorologist chuck bell. >> good morning, everyone. weather impact on your day today, fairly low. code yellow. young and old may have to reduce their ticket activities later day. the sun's up at 6:51. temperature ms. the 50s through 7:00 a.m. 1 by 9:00. nearly 80 by the afternoon.

temperatures in the low to mid-80s and another dry pleasant evening. pick out your favorite sidewalk cafe and you can sit outside and eat dinner once again. >> unfortunately i'll be on my patio. >> nobody cooks as good as you do. >> yeah. that's the reason. taking a look at a couple of the things. 15, northbound at 70 in frederick we do have that crash still on the right side of the roadway at 2 70. constitution avenue at northwest, the accident has cleared out of the way. travel times for you in ten minutes. brother's administration gave us barack obama because it was such a disaster those last three months that abraham lincoln couldn't have been elected. >> donald trump gets front and

center during the debate while ten others do whatever they could to stop him. the question now, who came out on top. nbc's tracie potts live on capitol hill. a clear winner here, tracie? >> not clear but there were some who held their own. some who had impressive performances. donald trump did not dominate luke he did before. he promised to tone it down but he came out swinging initially with an unprovoked attack on rand paul and mixed it up with jeb bush. but there were a lot of substantive debates about issues where he was silent for long periods of time. carly fee carly fee or rina came out. that was a moment that was likely to happen. and marco rubio, a lot of people saying he had a pretty strong

performance last night. >> tracie, carly fiorina getting a lot of attention on how she responded to donald trump regarding her appearance. how is that affecting her campaign? >> as we look at the net base analysis of how people did, the most mention of candidates were donald trump as you might expect right after that, carly fiorina. she seems to be doing well. also, when they look at improvement, how people on social media felt about the candidates, marco rubio wasn't the most improved. carly right after that. >> thank you. after that clinton talked to jilly fall lop on "the tonight sho show". >> i'm confident i think people can count on me for them and their families. >> see, you sound like a robot. leap, look, leap, look, does not

compute. >> later she took a serious tone. >> there are problems in the world and there are, believe it or not, some people who don't agree with us and might want to cause some mischief. so you do have to be prepared to do it in a sensible smart way, not bullying but, you know, with a little more diplomacy. >> and you can watch more of clinton's interview with fallon on our website. barack news at the live desk right now. we're following two suicide attacks in iraq. the bombers set off the blasts at security check points near market in baghdad where there are a lot of people. 14 were killed including three police officers. 69 people are wounded. so far no group has claimed responsibility for the attacks. aaron? >> kristin, thank you. it's 5:36 right now. new details this morning. a man caught on camera setting fire to a cvs in baltimore facing jail time after pleading guilty to rioting charges.

raman carter pleaded guilty yesterday to starting the fire during the riots in baltimore. the fire at the cvs on pennsylvania avenue did more than a million in damage. carter will pay restitution. right now no word on how much that will be. he'll be sentenced in november. police want you help in finding a man in connection with two sex assaults in anne arundel county. police say in july a man approached a woman on a bike in glen burney and sexually assaulted her. he e was carried a night. then in another incident a man attacked a woman while on a bike. coming up on "news4 today," more changes could mean money out of your pocket. today vdot will talk about the potential for tolls on the interstate. they would be similar to express lane tolls. "news4's" darcy spencer is working on the story. learn how soon this could be

coming up. is metro's purple line any closer to becoming a reality. they're holding a meeting to talk about possible changes to the line that could include koflt reducticost reduction and staff. a local father has a decision the make about his children's safety walking to and from school. brian quinn's 5- and 6-year-old sons can't take the school bus to the school in reston because they live too close, but he doesn't want them walking either. that's because they don't have a sidewalk along a busy road. >> they'll be hit by a car. they have no regard for safety. >> it could take a split second for them to goof off and one lands in the road. >> officials have provided an alternative route and they say he canfly file for an exemption.

a sad update to tell you about this morning after staffer for new york governor andrew cuomo dies. what we learned about his death overnight. a jacket now, perhaps shorts later. chuck bell is back with your chuck bell is back with your school day forecast at i was at my shop tied up with a customer when i realized the time. i had to get to the bank before it closed, so i made a break for it.

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welcome back to "news4 today." it's 5:41. 59 in rockville and bethesda, 54 at dulles international airport. what to wear on your way out the door today. might need a little jacket first thing this morning. but by later on today, once again, shorts and t-shirts are all you're going to need. early morning bus stops, in the 50s. by later on this afternoon, we'll look at recess an "a." more on breaking news -- or trouble on the roads with melissa. >> trouble on the roads this morning. just got new information about a accident at west lamont street and sherman avenue. also northwest sibley hospital right in front of sibley we're still shut down at loughboro and

dalecarl dalecarlia. maryland, you don't have any problems. 66 and northbound to the quantico looks good. remember to listen to wtop 103.5 fm when you hop in your car. mayor quo missouri is mourning the loss of an aide. he was shot before a parade last week. he spent ten days in critical condition in the hospital. he died last night. cuomo put out a statement saying, quote, he put a tremendous commitment to the community. gabay was 43 years old. happening today, testimony expected in the investigation of federal employees hiring prostitutes overseas. at least two u.s. marshals are accused or recording sexual encounters with their government-owned devices.

roderick allison is expected to testify this morning. we follow a continuing story in utah where the search continues for a missing 6-year-old boy. and good news for uber and lyft users. lyft users. when you can soon catch a car at

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we're follow news in oxon hill. megan mcgrath is at the scene. at the top of the next hour, we'll see what investigators left at the scene. right now there's a crash at lamont street right at sherman avenue northwest. we have a crash there in front of sibley hospital. at dalecarlia, the water main break, the repairs are complete but the road repairs are continuing this morning. chuck? >> if you're forming your latte,

cooler. temperatures, 50s in the suburbs. the forecast is five minutes from now. developing right now in utah in the town of hildale, one boy is still missing after a flash flood killed a dozen members of his family. emergency officials confirm the boy is 6 years old. he was in the car with his mother, siblings, and cousins, when a flood washed it and another car away. this morning hundreds of volunteers and search teams will search for him. in utah teams will be looking for a woman who is missing right now. she's the only person from a group of hikers still unaccounted for after a flooding. all six have died. vdot will discuss possible changes coming to i-66 that could bring a hit to your wallet. we're talking potential tolls,

similar to expressway 495. darcy spencer has more on what this means for you, darcy? >> reporter: good morning. what this means for people is that, yeah, it could cost you more money for that commute, but also that money is buying you more options for people who get tired of being stuck in traffic day after day after day. now the takeout here is if you use i-66 outside the beltway, toll lanes are headed your way. this is not yet a done deal, but vdot's preferred plan will be to expand the highway to two two toll lanes and three regular lane. that's between 495, university and gainesville. those tolls will go up and down based on the traffic flow. now the idea is to cut down on congestion. the construction is scheduled to start in 2017 but people who use i-66, live and work in this

area, still have an opportunity to provide their opinion on what they think should happen. public hearings are scheduled for later in fact month and later the briefing will happen later. back to you. >> darcy spencer, live for us, thank you, darcy. also today bowe bergdahl will go before a military judge on desertion charges. he faces charges for leaving his post in afghanistan. he was captured by the taliban soon after leaving his post and was held for five years. bergdahl was eventually released in exchange for five detainees at kwaub. his lawyerers will likely argue his years of captivity as punishment enough. a search continues for an arlington bank robbery. take a look at the photos. it happened at a t.d. bank in the middle of the afternoon. he's not your typical robber. at one point he had a onwhile he

had a gun. >> it's like he dropped something and he said, you can have it and kept walking. he didn't look like he rob a bank or something happened. he looked like he was in a rush to go. >> reporter: he left with cash but left a trail of it outside a bank. if you know who this man is, call police. martin o'malley is in colorado this morning pushing his plan to decriminalize mann. o'malley wants pot reclassified as a controlled substance. that way doctors everywhere could prescribe it. he signed a bill last year decriminalizing small amounts of pot. many of you are calling to stand with ahmed. we told you about this story yesterday. 14-year-old ahmad mohamed brought a clock to school. a teacher con fi cased it thinking it was a bomb and

called police. >> they went after this young man and treated him like a terrorist. and we know what people think terrorists are, that they associate that with people who are muslim. >> even president obama joined in tweeting, cool clock, ahmed. want to bring it to the white house? school leaders are defending their actions and suspended ahmed for three days. police did not charge him with anything. at 5:51 i want to turn to chuck bell with another look at the forecast. >> love it. >> the only thing is it's getting stagnant. we've just sort of got the gunkiness in atmosphere. we have cold yellow this morning. a woman called to ask if it's a code orange already. currently it's code yellow on the air quality.

joyce steve sent this picture and there's my new number one fan, sawyer. he's going to enjoy it. he's got mom's pocketbook and wallet and car keys. it won't change by the time he turns 16, i promise you that. outside, 65 at national airport. winds have gone calm for now. that's part of the reason we have poor air quality in place. temperature, 61 hagerstown, but 52 in frederick, maryland. there's fog across parts of northern maryland in shenandoah county. outside, activities earth today will be okay. once temperatures get above 80 degrees, which will be between 11:00 and 12:00, that's when the temperatures will again to climb. 85 in frederick, maryland and in manassas and culpeper. good night for baseball.

if you're headed down to the baseball game or whatever you're doing with your evening. temperatures will be in the 80s and drift back to the 70s. all right thinking about your weekend. a lot of things taking place and the bluemont fair is this weekend. saturday will be a great outdoor day. temperatures will be warm and in the 80s. sunday, breezy and noticeable cooler. a little weather front goes on by. that will start to change. no rain today. if you're doing any traveling, lots of rain across florida and parts of the midwest as well. we'll stay high and dry around here until the early part of next week. here's your seven-day forecast. warm weather, today, tomorrow, and saturday. finally cooler. lots of clouds early next week and chance after pope francis arrives on tuesday. a check on traffic. here's melissa. >> good morning. we still have this problem in northwest washington. lamont street, we do have a closure there because of an

earlier accident. we're going to keep you updated on that one. same thing, another problem northwest. at dalecarlia roadway we have repairs under way. the water main has been fixed. the roadway, not so hot. 95, slow pots, dell city, again, normal for this time of day. taking a lot at 270 southbound, and 15 north, the crash is on the shoulder. tow truck is on the scene. back in a few minutes. >> she was just the light of the world. especially for myself and my family. >> that's how james sumpter describes his sister. samantha sumter was killed in a drunk driving crash in spotsylvania county. this is 25-year-old samantha sumter. witnesses called to report a car

driving dangerously. sheriff's deputies were trying to catch up with the car. it was a volvo. it struck two other cars before colliding head on with a car sumter was driving. they were hanging cartons of beer out the window and yelling. >> any time you carelessly, callously take the life of somebody so angelic, almost not of this world, yes, every means of the law needs to come their way. they should not be spared. >> the two men in the volvo remain in the hospital. one of them has been charged with dui. a third man who bailed out of the car has also been found. good morning. i'm landon downie at cnbc headquarters. the fed wraps up its two-day meeting this afternoon when we'll find out if they've decided to hike interest rates for the first time in a decade. experts say you'll still have easy access to low rates and

terms if you have a good credit history. banks may keep rates flat on c.d.s and other deposits. that's your cnbc report. i'm lan down downey. >> thanks, landon. they voted yesterday to allow ride sharing services like uber and lyft to sit on the premises for customer pickup. they'll pay a $1,000 fee and a $4 surcharge per ride. uber says it's the highest in the country. >> it might persuade some people rj some might prefer to jufrm into a taxi cab. the new changes take effect on november 1st. a developing story in prince george is county where we're working to learn more about a person killed overnight at a fiery crash on the beltway. we're live at the scene with

what may have happened. you may encounter fog. but the story you should prepare yourself in the days ahead. ahead on "news4 today" at 6:00.

a pair of veling stories. first an overnight accident leaves one person dead. we're live at the scene with what we're learning about this fiery crash. we're also watching the situation in south america, in hawaii, and along the california coast after a powerful earthquake in chile triggers a tsunami warning. a lot of new video coming in overnight. what we're learning about the damage. but first an air quality warning. here's chuck bell. >> clear skies. not much of a breeze. as a result the maef hasn't had much of a chance to get fresh air. our code yellow this morning will become code orange for later on this afternoon. it's very difficult for young people or older people with rets spir torrey issues. a little bit of gfog around thi morning. below a mile of visibility for

frederick and a mile and a half for culpeper. temperatures are in the 50s to near 60. melissa mollet now with brand-new crash. >> this one, prince william parkway at smoke town road. be careful headed to that area. it just popped up so we don't have a direction at this point as to exactly where this is. lamont street, an accident. and the intersection shut down in northwest as well. loughboro road right in front of sibley hospital. road repairs because of the water main break. thank you, melissa. now to that developing story. charred trash is what's left of a deadly crash involving a motorcycle and 18 wheeler. this happened overnight at indian head highway.