two of those incidents already proved deadly. chris lawrence joins usverom the desk with information on the third crash that may impact your commute. >> yeah.cr s have been out since midnight. i want to show you where all of this is happening in the area around aspen hill. we spoke with montgomery county police that tell us they shut veirs mill road down from aspen hill tond roe drive. a motorcycle and passenger vehicle and at least one person has been seriously injured. 3:30 iaythe afternoon yeste a woman was killed when her bike collided with a car in rockville. and in landover a man was killed when he and a child were on a motorcycle that hit car near 56th street. the child is still alive but seriously injured.

this morning's crash is still under investigaon andorced closure of local roads. she is going to be bringing you a live report, but first let's get to melissa. she is looking ahe ways to get around this. >> good morning. lots of ways to get around. already shutdown. we have a crash involving a it may have been too big to get throughn overpass area. now we hear the entire thing is closed there. inner loop andbeltway at mcclrnn. >> good g, melissa. quite start to the day today. hope you enjoyed your monday

weather. more of that coming our way for today but there will be a chance for a shower or thunderstorm late this afternoon into early this evening. this weather front is going to glide by. it's mainly going to stay to the north. we're never going to get that much c on the other side. there will be a chance for thunderstorms later on in the day. nori w at all. no chance at all of rain until after 2:00 or 3:00 this afternoon. the opportunity for showers developing about 3 and 4 out across the blue ridge. that comes into the c. metro area shortly there after. temperatu temperaturewise, upper 60s this morning. 83 the forecast hh for today and even warmer the next couple of days. on that coming up. >> it's 4:03. three new developments in the investigation into president trump's supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. new text messages from

kavanaugh have been released. another a is speaking out and the investigation itself is expanding. first the white house told federal investigators to only interview four people. each with a potential witness to allegations of sexual misconduct by kavanaugh. now more people can be interviewed. ew photo shows him pictured with the second accuser, deborah ramirez. the two were in the same wedding party more than a decad after kavanaugh says he exposed himself at a party while they were students at yale. text messages show kavanaugh expe exasking friends to defend him. >> in an nbc news exclusive last night julie swetnick said she was a vicfm a gang rape that he attended in the early 80s.

she has not said kavanaugh was her attacker. during the w,interv she described his alleged behavior at high school parties. >> he was very. aggressi very sloppy drunk. very mean drunk. i saw him go u to girls and paw on them, try to, you know, get a little handsy touching them and private derts. >> pre trump said he thinks the fbi will vindicate svanaugh. the investigatiuld be wrapped up by friday. senate majority lder mitch mcconnell says there will be a vote on kavanaugh's nthination week. >> four minutes after the hour and dozens of students arein dema that the dean of a catholic university be fired or -sign for his tweets about julie swetnick. students walked out of class saying no victim shaming.

uggested that swetnick could be considered a perpetrator instead of a victim. >> every moment they stand by somebody that's mocked a survivor of sexual abuse is ahu moment theh is showing they don't get it and the school is showing they don't get. dean rainford since apologized. >> today the d.c. c councilould appeal an initiative that voters approve in june. they'll vote on initiative 7 today. it would rage minimum wage for tipped workers by 2025 they say by overturn the bill they're disrespecting the process and d.c. voters. they sad it's for workers and businesses. we'll send out an alert once the vote takes place. also otoday, the council wil

vote on a permanent plan t track down on k-2 in the district. we have followed a huge spike in use in the last months. temporary emergency legislation that changed how synthetic drugs were classified. the law made it easier for people who make and sell he drugs. today they'll work to make that temporary bill permanen >> new details from the d.c. council member that says he was assaulted by a bar emploe that refused to let him in even after showing i.d. he tried to enter the dc eagle for ant city e on saturday night. he showed the bouncer his d.c. council i.d. card but it didn't have his birth date on it. that's when the bouncer pushed him out ofub the >> he pushed me right out the door of the building and i wound up in the pavement. on my bac on the pavement and he literally came out and stood

over me. >> management sai in a statement that gray refused to provide proper i.d. and was told to wait outside. a spokesperson told news 4 they're reviewing tht incid to determine if charges will be filed. >> new details concerning a weed spread power outage. take a look at this rare sight of wisconsin avenue in the normally bustling bethesda area. all the lights were out. equipment issue at the substation caused thousands of its customers and even the metro service to go dark last night for hours. >> an update to a water valve dsue that cause problems in gaithersburg. all lanes of 355 at game preserve road will be opened by 5:00 this morning.

crews are finishing up paving the roads. yesterday mning around 3:00 a valve burst causing water to spew into the air. the death toll from this weekend's indonesian tsunami is rising this morning. chris lawrence joins us with the latest >> when we reported this yesterday morning, a little over 800. the spokesman for the indonesian disaster agency now says theh detoll stands more than 1,200 victims thatin died d the earthquake and later that tsunami. that number could rise as crews continue toig through the rubble to search for survivors. this was aho l. now a pile of rubble. the 7.5 mnitude quake hit on friday. it crow yateated a tsunami. the death toll at 1,234.

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they log back in. >> 84 days until christmas. retailers are already concerned about keeping workers. 23% of retailers came up short in getting all the temporaryy workers t needed in 2017 and many way need even more workers this year. a possible solution, currenter wo picking up more hours. and customers are going to have towait. >> all of those people filled with holiday cheer andove turn into angry -- >> this is why i shop online. all right. no sprises here. c. traffic is notorious for being bad during thefall. >> google analyzed data comparing summer and fall

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gator swimmhrough a park in conway, south carolina. he was pretty big. that's just a head. >> that's not the rest of it. the park ind still 3 feet of water there because of the nearby river overflowed. >> that's crazy and scary because all of sudden, what if i'm driving through and some prehistoric creature jumps out at my car. p in mind they k don't live this far that part of the low country in south carolina there, that's still the waters from hurricane florence. the river crested fourays ago and the water is still at the height of mailboxes and thiso i plus weeks after the storm went by. just an amazing amount of flooding for them.

ere's still a few chances for showers coming our way. this will be mainly going to the north but tail end of it will get into our area briefly late this afternoon a into this evening. it's a cold front as it comes by but it's going to be warmer tomorrow and friday behind the front identity chance rolls in late thursday night. it's and bright sunny start up to 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon. a chance for hit and miss showers and thunderstorms along

i-81. just know that the rain chance stacked up much, much laterinn he day. probably not going to be effecting too many of your outdoor plans. 81 yesterday and 83 degrees this ternoon. a chance for thunderstorms on thursday night and then cooler weher over the weekend. tell me these problems are getting cleared up. >> not yet. diverted at aspen hill road this a motorcycle crash from

overnight. this is a big issue here. went underneath the overpass and could also see ptial closures of the beltway. that has now cleared. the flu you, coming up, is getting worse and the shot is evolving. how it's working t keepou healthy this year. >> put a ring on it. ahead of the new se washington capitols do just we're checking out the champion bling in the next half ghur. >> all >> later this afternoon on ellen. ri who was your first cel crush? >> you. >> you can't lie.

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>> we're hearing that this may involve a motorcyclist and would be the third crashnvolving bikers in maryland in just about an hour span. more on those issues for you in a moment here.

>> this motorcycle happened a little after midnight. trying to figure out what happened. i want to give you a look over there where the investigation is going on. this is near aspen hill road. you can see there's bright lights. but obviously g before they here it's very dark at the time of night and tough to see. this makes the third motorcycle accident we've seen in just 12 hours. motorcvilists in roe and yes we're having problems with a aimee's signal there but we'll keep you up to date on story because it could impact your commute this morning. >> this is not t t onlyuble we're seeing on the road this morning. >> we check in withchuck. with a look at the fo acast. >> tak look at the first alert traffic report. she was saying this