in the world. live team coverage starts right now. we are startingso wit breaking news as we come on the air. n because of this scene here. >> a tanker truck flipped over and leaking fuel at the emergency legionbridge, right now the loop is closed down, causing miles of delays. we're gng to begin with chopper 4 above the scene. brad it looks like they have one lane openi allowing cars to squeeze by. >> it's misleading. that that is is te left l has been reopened to clear out the traffic traed just north of 267. the closure point is back there now. but you hitn he naile head. it is a nightmare situation right now. these are the terloop lanes of the legn bridge. that truck just about went through the jersey wall and down

into the potomac river, mere feet from a worse situation right now. we've watched over the past hour and a half or so they've been trying to figure out what t they're going do there. you can see the absorbent pads absorbing the fuel to go down the embankment into the river. a couple other cars were involved that have left the scene and were not as damaged. it looks like this le tractor-tr is going to need a couple of heavy duty rescue trucks to come in and get that righted. as of now, do not head this direction. legion bridge is going to continue to be closed down. the closure point at 267, the toll road as we can see here from the chopper. 're going to continue to follow this the next couple hours because it is going to

threaten the commute for a lot of people headed from virginia into maryland. if you have somebody uses this route as their way home, send them a text, give them a call, let them know this is happening because there aren't any viable alternatives. otherwise you want to get on the outer lp and take it through prince george's county to get into maryland that wway. >> fromre you are right there. this bridge there, that's theen conflu of the gw parkway and a half mile north or so ofhere is i-270. what does the gw bridge look like? we haveeople at the natsame and they want to use that route to get home. i-270?at's with >> we're talking about h delays on the canalays and the gw parkway. right here is canal road and th we have the gw parkway looks pretty much the same. the issue is getting on the

outer loop, you had two left blocked there for the emergency response and folks were backed up into the roville area to try to get to this point. so the fallout is bei felt all over this area, and i can't stress it enough. if you're going to have to come this way, seek an alternate route if you canhr workgh d.c. or delay your travel plans. right now it is g the entire area. leon. >> thanks, brad. at least we have that one lane of traffic now getting throug the northbound lane there on the beltway. our coverage of this wreck is just getting started. news4 mark segraves is making his way to the crash site. we'll get a report from him and have live updates the next three hours. let's get to a sentence that brings some small measure of closure to a family of a murdered teenager. >> heras killer sentenced to life in prison withe no cha of

proposal today. nabra hassanen's death in 2017 sparked protests internationally. >> today her fatherveays they achieved justice but the healing, that's justbeginning. david culver is live outside the fairfax county courthouse on the story for us. an emotional journey coming to an end today for this family, huh? >> reporter: incredibly emotional. nearly two years after that attack, that rape and murder, the family of nabra hassanen has now some sense of finality to all of this. but it became apparent talking with her father outside of court today that the grief here is still so raw mohmod hassanen, a father who is broken. every day. every day. every minute. i never forget. i never forget her. >> reporter: struggling to find the words to reflect on his

daughter. >> she loved everybody. asmiss her. >> reporter: he h relied on the muslim community and nabra's friends for support. they t tohink of the pain, smiles when they think of their friend turn to aush of tears. june of 2017, nabra walking home with friends, darwin martinez-torres pulled up to the group of muslim teens in his car. they ran he went off nabra hitting her with a bat, putting her in his car, prosecutors say he then rapedpeer and d her in this pond. to have such a child taken in his manner, especially such a sweet, religious child, the family is obviously devastated. >> darwin martinez-torres pleaded guiltyim to the in

november. today a judge sentencing him to life in prison. >> this at least gives the family some, finali although it doesn't end their grief and nothing else. >> reporter: mohmod hassanen knows that healing will take time. lots of time. >> david, did martinez-torres say anything in court today? did he expss any emotion? >> reporter: you know, pat, remorse. a sense of he did have an opportunity to say a few his attorney first read a letter he had written and then through a translator he stood up and took full responsibility for the crime. he wants to answer any questions that her family has. that's part of the plea,de not the death penalty, instead life inso p so he could sit down with her family or their attorneys and talk aboutd what p to this.

>> thank you, david. david culver reporting live for us. what an emotional story. the legal ordeal is ending but the emotial one is still going to go for some time. for more on the story's investigatn and a time line, search nabra in the nbc a former virginia commonwealth university student said she was harassed by douglar wi the woman, identified as sidney black said that wilder kissed her without her consent in 2017. she also saidhawilder suggested she could live at her here and offered to pay f law school while she worked as an assistant. wilder as you know is a historic figure in virginia and across th country, having been the first african-america elected as governor of any state. he has not responded to our request for comment. police are looking for answers after the deadly

shooting of a h man who turned his life around after leaving ilison. traceens joins us now live from police headquarters with this mder mystery. tracee, any progress today on the part of police as they search forhis suspect? >> reporter: pat, there are still lots of unanswered questions. you know, eric weaver jr. we sat down with him and his father who were activists, they were trying to help folks leaving prison better their lives. for him to be taken this w so confusing for his family. the police are asking for the public's health. >> ts is unfortunate that we lost him in this way. >> reporter: family members want to know who shot and killed 30-year-old eric weaver jr. and why. >> there are questions that remain unanswered. don't know. hopefully somebody will care enough about the family members. even if they do it ano, ma'am

mou -- unanimously we need to know. >> he and his father were working together to redirect the lives of menn prison. the two were building their relationshou. >> see stories, hear stories about the feeling of being reunited with your family.ve like we a unique bond. so coming home it was -- i can't explain it. >> reporter: police say weaver was left prince george hospital suffering from a gun shot wednesday moing. they're asking anyone who saw it to come forward. >> they put him in acar, drove him to the hospital, left him there and took off. that's concerning. why wouldn't you stay and talk to us, tell us what happened, whates you know. are people we are desperate to speak with. >> prince george's county police wa topeak with the driver. they're asking witnesses, anyone whoay have seen him dropped

off in front of the hospital to come forward with information they have that can help ithe investigation. prince george's county police really need the public's help in this case. reporting live i'm tracee wilkins. back to you all in the studio. >> switching gears to baseball's opening day. for man t it marks end of a long, cold winter and the beginning of warmer temperatures and days of sun. >> and hopefully muc more pleasant things to talk about here. and nats fans, perfect weather for opening day. but not a perfect result. they lost to the mets 2-0 today. a pitchers' dual between max ascherzer jacob degrom. >> but that didn' a takey from the excitement by the ballpa ballrk. this tim of year it has a different vibe. the streets f areull of activity and fans blocking to thera rests and establishments.

>> we have team coverage from the ballpark. we begin with julie carey. she's been out there talking with the fans all afternoon. hey, julie. >> hey, pat and leon. the fans heading home and that opening day optimism, the hopes ey brought dashed a little bit but max ore today scherzer what a pitching performance. for a lot of folks being here on openg day it is a tradition. they have to be here. for others ey're getting a taste of the special experience for thirst time today. >> welcome to nats park, happy opening day. >> reporter: happy, excited, optimistic those are the emotions of opening day. >> it's justti ex. being part of that moment when the gates open. >> reporter: the riley family they were there three hours before game time. first in line, making themselves comfortable in the season ticket holders' red carpet. >> it's special to us.

we've brin bnging him since he was a little guy. he's gone to every opening day since he was born. >> reporter: he madehis opening day poster but a ting of sadness for him. sten to what he wrote. >> my favorite player used to be bryce harper. >> my favorite player used to be bryce harper. who's going to be the new favorite? turner. >> reporter: this little guy he esn't have a favorite player yet but his mom and dad gladly give him his first opening day experience. >> he's 8 months. >> reporter: every fan we asked predicting good things for the 2019 nationals even without bryce harper. >> i think it looks good. you know, look to the future, right? >> reporter: as for opening day itself, we got this prediction from a most reliable source. are the nats gonna win? and here i thought you cou always trust the word of a good

horse. patnd leon back to you in the io st >> at least he didn't say nay. that's what we didn't want to hear. >> reporter: he would have been right. our opening daye cover wouldn't be complete without our wing man, chief meteorologist doug kammerer. >> how's it going down there, doug? >>t's going good. so far i had a lobster roll.mo we have a lot going on. say hello. we said we'd be here at the salt ne, opening day for the nationals. coming back in a couple minutes we're going to talk about the weather and show you how things are going to be the next couple days because we have great weather and then it gets iffy. alsod, aheausan hogan talks to local passengers stranded overseas when an airline abruptl shut downs. we're staying on top of the news a tanker crashes on e

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back now with another look at the breaking news happening on the inner loop chop r 4 over the scene of a tanker truck crush. the truck still leeking some of

the fuel on board. that has the lanes closed down there. ther miles and miles and hours of delays here for us all this evening. we'll have continuing coverage througho hour so keep it tuned right here. back now to opening day at nats park. n fans may have seen the outcome they wanted this y hadnoon, but at least t some good weather. >> that's true. and there's plenty of things in itat part of the now to hang out, have a good time and wash down and was away the loss, maybe enjoy this perfectly pleasant afternoon. >> team coverage continues with tommy mcfly who's just outside of the park having a littlef that fun. tommy. >> reporter: that was plenty of awesome weather doug was talking about. also, we were talking our nats fam and players. there was a surprise, we thought sean dolittle was expecting a little dolittle his wife posted

a picture of a jersey plus one, we thought it was a baby announcement. it was not. and then t evenugh jason worth was not playing for the nats this season, he's been warneding around. so we had a tommy showarty earlier and one of our family members kim showed up, she was wearing her worth jersey, saying i think that was worth. it was. he took a picture with her, so nice. if you search worth on instagram and twitr, he's been bouncing all around. have you seen jason worth? >> apparently he 6'5", longer hair? >> he had little bit of camouflage on. >> have you seen jason worth? >> we love m. >> if you see him send him our way. >> weiss him. we love him. >> reporter: still a great fan base for jason worth.

>> we said we'd be at the salt line this afternoon, maybe he's coming by. jason, comen down. >> reporter: we'll buy you a drink. >> pretty nice out here, isn't it? >> it'au ful. >> a little breezy. i said even though you have the sunshine mak sure you wear a couple layers. we have th on now. a little breeze, beautiful afternoon, you can get one of these beautiful salt line vests here. >> next time, doug. >> yeah. >> we'll getou one of these for weather day. >> i am back for weather day. this is paul one of the owners at salt line. you've been doing great all year but you love baseball season. >> we do. beautiful weather arranged by ug. 40,000 fans, great day to be on the water. >> this area is getting better by the day. o's incredible the amount of building going down here.

the amount of people l ing here. >> you see the skylines and the cranes, even at the field you seeuildings that weren't there last year. >>rohe gh here has been phenomenal. i had the lobster roll earlier. >>hat was your appetizer. >> good. i'm still hungry. >> we're going to getou a smash burger later. maybe oysters. >> i'm here for three hours. last year was okay.t' look and see what's r ppening right now weat wise. once again temperatures right now in the 60s. plenty of sunshine around thear today. all in all not a bad afternoon at all for opening y. 62 degrees winds out of the south at 16il an hour. that's a big deal. 16 miles an hour that southerly wind producing t numbers, 64

in lsburg, 65 around fredericksburg. 61 towards gainesville. i thought everydy wou hit 60 or better yesterday and that's what we'veon today. storm team 4 radar stays dry until the dayn sunday, that's the next chance for shower activity. possible tomorrow with a storm system back to the west right now. that storm system is going to move our way, should stay to the north but that's something i'm gosg to track for you we make our way through the next 24 hours. so tomorrow and saturday night and warm, tracking the showers fosunday. today we're in the 60s, back to the west the 70s 37 we get into the 70s tomorrow and saturday. tomorrow looking great. a high temperatu of 73. we will see cloud cover from the storm, some sun, though.

75 degrees on your e'saturday. th that chance of showers in the morning on sunday. it gets breezy, the temperatures come down, only in the 50s. in the 40s i by latethe evening. by monday talking a temperature of 54 degrees. guys a lot more coming up over the next couple hours. iayaid yesterde would be here at the salt line and everybody showed up. everybody showed up. this is great. go to salt line.com and put in your order, leon, and then i can bring you whatever you want. >> it'll be cold by the time you get here, too. >> nothing for me, doug. okay. >> no, no, p i know what you want. i know exactly what you're getting. >> all right. >> all right, man. >> thanks, doug. > we'll get back to you in a bit. get your tickets, hamilton coming bk to the kennedy center. >> if you're just joining us, a tanker crashn the

un a disairline cancelled flights this morning leaving thousands of passengers

strand. >> wow air announced their closure on their website. consumer reporter, susan hogan spoke with a woman in iceland right now and she had to scramblein to a different flight to get home. > reporter: dani and her boyfriend both from silver spring were scheduled to leave eland saturday but they got a message earlier today from a iend back home informing them hey better check the retur flight. >> if you go on the app it still shows our flight. >> reporter:i d took a quick break today from sightseeing. >> my friend messaged me said your flight is cancelled. haven't heard anything from wow the hours later. so we're lucky she messageds when she did so we were able to get online. >> reporter: other travelers started lining up to get tickets from other airlines.

wow air specialized in ultra cheap flightsor between america and europe. >> the seats are small, there's no tv b screen we knew what we were getting ourselves into, which is fine. it w a way to get to iceland. >> reporter: but the airline'nk ptcy comes after six months of negotiations to sell the low cost carrier. wow air failed to line up 2nancing, and cancelled all flights scheduled. leaving 2,700h passengers w few options to get home. >> we had to cut our trip short day, but it's a small price to pay. we are fortunate we were able to get another flight. because i know people in the same situation weren't as lucky. if you had a future flight booked on wow air and you paid by credit card, you may be able to get a refund by filing a dispute with your credit card

company. if you bought insurance, you can way.a claim that and you have the option of making a claim in bankruptcy court but it could takeo years get refunded from that. a brutal evening shapi up on the beltway this afternoon. mark segraves is live. >> reporter: coming up on news4 we'll take you live to the american legion bridge and we'll show you what first responders are doing to try to get the

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i'm erika nzalez here at e live desk with breaking news. the catholic news agency is reporting that pope francis is ready to appoint d.c.'s next arch bishop. it's wilton gregory, he the seventh arch bishop of washington. cre's what we know about him. he'srently the arch bishop of atlanta and has been since 2005. he's 71 years of age and has been in the priesthoodor nearly half a century. he grew up in chicago. we have not confirmed that he's accepted the appointment. a formal announcement could come as early as nextweek. back to you in the studio. >> thank you, erika. breaking news now at 4:30, thevening commute slows to a crawl. >> the inner loop closed at the

american legion bridge. that's causing delays not just on thebeltway. >> mark segraves has finally made it to the scene. mark? >> reporter: as you said, traffic everywhere in the area is just jamm up, the clara barton parkway and thegw parkway. you can see right now first responders are trying to funnel thsome o traffic one lane of the traffic is now open. what they're trying to do is get this traffic that's been stopped up here outthe way because you can seehere's a tanker truck that's been overturned. there's 8,000 gallons of fuel in the truck that needs to be removed. let's look at video from chopper earlier to give you another angle on this. they're bringing in other tanker trucks to offthe fuel but they have to clear the traffic out before that can happen. then they'll transfer the 8,000

gallons of fuel from e overturned tanker truck to the other trucks and then they can turn the truck back right here. nobody was injured, theause of the accident is under investigation. but the ripple effect. we came here from northwest washington, it took us about an hour and a half to get here. we couldn't cross chamber road, tried to cross clara barton parkway. but traffic all over is a mess. if you're trying to get to an airport tonight you're inig trouble. leave early or call your airlines and see if you can get another flight because getting out, especially to dulles, is going to be a major task. we're waiting word from maryland fire and state police, about what the plans.re here the first thing they have to do is get the traffic out of the way so new tanker trucks can get

in here and offload that 8,000 gallons of mfuel. k segraves. gonna be a long afternoon. special counsel robert mueller's russia investigation is over but the waiting is not. >> nbc news confirmed a that his report is over 300 pages long. >> and tempers are heating up on the hill. today members on a committee clashed at a hearing. while the president is lashing ut at the fbi director he fired. blayne alexander has the report. >> reporter: withlpecial coun robert mueller's investigation over a fresh war ofards between president trump and the fbi director he fired, james comey. >> comey who's a terrible guy. fbi folks i know so many they're incredible people but at the time they were not clean, to put it mildly. >> reporter: comey speaking exclusively with lester holt,

defending the investigation he once undersaw. >> this was smoke, enough to investigate. >> reporter: comey also joining a chorus of voices on capitol hill urging theublic release of mueller's report, more than0 ges long according to a justice department official. so farll that's bee seen is a four-page summary from the president's attney general, william barr. >> no thank you mr. attorney general we do not need your interpretation. it was condescending, it was arroga arrogant. >> br said he'll release more and testify on capitol hill. >> i will not -- >> reporter: republicans calling for the headin of the house lligence committee adam schiff to step down as chairman after his previous claims that there was evidence that the president and his team conspired with russia. president trump going a step further sayin schiff should be forced to resign from congress. schiff dismissing both asks

partisan att c angressman schiff's committee is one of several in the house continuing investigations not only into the trump campaign, but also the president's finansis and ss dealings. >> blayne alexander, thank you. back now to the excitement of this nationals opening day. >> that's right. the game is often a family affair for the a fanss we know but it's the same for the players.am eaton said he's happy to be back with his baseball family in front of his own family. >> he said his wife and son were with him through almost all of spring training and squeezed in a little daddy time. it was a priceless father/son experience. >> to be able to play with my son on the field is a pinch me moment. i never imagined myself ever ing able to play with my son on a big league baseball field.

we tryo soak it up as much as we can. after the game hopefully he'lli have and he'll come in and shower with the boys, he comes in, eats dinners, goes and lift weights. he has a gat timeith us. running the hot tub every now and again. for me to be able to hang out with him is enormous for me. >> got his little guy birping on at two. this is eaton's third season roth the nationals, by the way. chief metgist doug kammerer is down there live near the salt line where the line's e really long. >> not a bad afternoon to be down there, doug. not aad afternoon at all. plenty of sunshine here. we're in the shade,mp but teeratures still looking good. a lotf o earlier there. over there in nats park they came out here and now they are at the salt line. look at our mass camera here, you can see this place i packed right now. a great place to be after the

game. great place to be weather wise. i told you you need the jackets but you can probably put them away for torrow. we'll talk about the warme temperatures and what we need for the weekend. is that my food? sweet. local students fighting for change. howey're making a

we are on blossom watc andhere's a fresh look at the

cherry blossoms today.t they're still phase 4 out of 6. >> almost there. peak bloom set and it's still on track, according to amelia, here prediction is monday. we explain how the blossoms could impact traffic this weekend. a look at your first 4 traffic, friday night going to be bu w. if yt to look at the cherry blossoms, a lot of folks will be doing that. they are gseng to be c to peak. and the sweet 16 games they are happening friday night at capital one arena. if you're going to take metro, that is your best bet. tke it smithsonian for the cherry blossoms or to gallery lace for the ncaa tournament games. s you look at the district right now, not looking so bad here but it's going to qui red and busy so metro going to be your best bet. expect heavy volume on the 14th street andor ml bridges if you are driving. not advised but i kno some people will want to.

take the roosevelt bridge to e street for capital one arena. thinking about the blossoms friday evening or afternoon, rking around the tidal basin the next couple weeks is going to be virtually impossible. if you have to do that, park downtown north of constitution and walk through the mall. that's our advice to you. avoid metro computer crowds, get the tidal ottom and basin is less than a mile. if you didn't catch hamiltoi the first ti came to d.c., you get another chance. the kennedy center released its lineup and the musical is going to have another run here next year. the show will run from june to september of 2020. last december you may lirecall, manual miranda and the other creators received a unique honor

for creating hamilton. the horrible evening of traffic on the beltway. >> the tanker truck is flicked over, and one le on

back now at 45 past the hour. the inner loop almost completely shut down because of this.ch per 4 over the scene of a fuel tanker tuck tha crashed on the american legion bridge that caused miles of delays that will probably go on for hours. we'll have a report from mark segraves coming upn news4 at 5:00. a group of high school girls in montgomery county fighting back after finding out about a list rating their looks. >> we first told you about the list last week. it was creat a by group of boys at bethesda chevy-chase high school. for the first time we're hearing

from the teens who were rg taeted. >> the girls are turning a painful moment into a chance for change. >> reporter: at bethesda chevy chase high school, change is in session. ghanks to a group of senior girls teach their classmates an important message in the age of me too. the girls lending their voices to a school wide harassment reckoning after the girls were on a list based on their looks. group of male students created the list which contained the names of 18 female studts. each one of them given a rating from 5.5 to 9.4. yasmin said when she found out she was on the list, it added ty her d struggle to overme body image. >> it was hurtful to me because

i was thinking why am i not worthy to be a higher number. lit at the end i r i define who i am. >> others say after seeing the li nothing was the same. >> knowing that my friends, my peers in that comnity created that list l feltike a betrayal. >> reporter: without citin specifics, school officials say inary action ci against a number of the boys responsible for creating the list. but that wn't enough for the girls who saw this incident asty an opportunio change the culture at their school. the gup worked with administrators to organize an eye-opening meeting with the male students. >> a lot of girls shared experiences with harassment. >> reporter: a teachable moment that came with apologies fro the boys and dialogue at the

school. >> i felt proud they were being vulner and courageous inin sh their stories. >> reporter: a step in the right direction that has others taking note. >> to be the generation that says this is enough and that we're going to start change. that starts w working together to send a message globally. >> nbc's morgan radford recor reporting there. you can find our coverage on the nbc washington app search bethesda chevy chase. funthe game is over but the at nats park is ongoing. let's go down to doug kammerer, who's stillaving fun and filling up. doug? >> the crowd that came out, he here we are right outside the first base gate. inside was electric, amazing.y obviouhe first day of the new season here, so many high hopes going on for the nationals today, unfortunately not coming away with a win, but it was a great game max scherzer had his

game going on with the exception ofno . thatil guy kd us. but it doesn't matter, everybody had a great time. then in the end they came here to the salt line. a great place to be for dnk and, of course, food awell. you know i had to get my food on. i'm an oyster guy. these are from the chesapeake bay. that's really good. and they're made rightthere. they're made righthere on that grill. i now need a drink. that's coming? okay. i'm going to give you these. thank you very much. did you gs have fun today? go nats! let's show you what's happening weather cewise. ay today for baseball, absolutely. a little on the cool side, it's still nice. the exception when we have the wind. that's the oy time it feels cool but all in all a beautiful

afternoon right now with abundant sunshine. you see t temperature, 62. 59 by 7:00, dropping to about 54 by 11:00. much more on thed mde than it has been the last couple nights. friday looking good. look at the numbers now, 65 in gaithersburg. t 62 towar fort bell var area. we're in the 60s everywhere. tomorrow, we getnto the 70s. radar is dry, clear. no problem there. we're not going t see a chance for showers possibly for tomorrow inur norther zones but most of us stay dry all day. at the bus stop 51 degrees. notice we have more cloud cover, that's expected. temperatures around 73 in the afternoon, mild we'll call it. and then the next couple days, let'send it to amelia. i'm here for nats opening day.

i hear you're live tomorrow on a beautiful day for thesoherry bl. >> it's going to be excellent weather tomorrow at the tidal basin. what s a gren spring is here. we have baseball season, theso bl and nice weather to kick off our weekend. saturday we start at a cool 55 degrees. warm to about 75. and the winds pick up later in e day on saturday. we have breezy winds for the afternoon and evening hours with partly to mostly cloudy skies. saturday is the day to make plans .outdoo sunday we have showers moving in through about 6:00 a.m. and no n. appointmen going to rain the entire time but in that time period you can count on rain. we start off at 52 and hang in th t 5oou t0stghhrou windy as w sunday. so when you factor in the winds on sunday we're dealing with wind chill temperatures in the 40s and on top of that some rain. 6:00 a.m. sunday notice the showers in place ang with cloudiness. continue to track rain around

9:00 a.m. ase move toward the early afternoon hours, rain pushes to the east but it's blustery and cold out there. the weath having a low to moderate impact on your weekend. get out i yourawn and garden on saturday. i'll have more on what you can and cannot do at 5:15 in your garden this weekend. heading down to the tidal basin, pick saturday it's going to be breezy and nice but later in the day sunday you can make it down there still. when the blossoms start to blow around in the wind it looks pretty. re's your ten day forecast. next week is pretty quiet, maybe some rain on tuesday, temperatures in the 50sarming into the mid 60s. but what great weather for a home opener today. unfortunately th gnanats had a tough loss but i don't think anyone is too concerned aut it. >> they're not. i think we hav16 1 games left.

we're here through the 5:00, the 6:00 and you just got to love it, nats pa open for the season. >> we love the way you split things up, you get oysters and amelia is going to be at the tidal basin getting pink cheetos or something?e that's what gets poere. >> i agize about that. can i get another oyster, please? might as well do it. if you're gonna do it, might as well do it. >> that's not fair. >> all right, doug. >> i don't even like oysters and that's not fair. we'll let you get back to the important stuff. >> i have to et back inthere, i need a drink now. . continuing our coverage of breaking news if you're just tuniwe in. >> e going to be live near the american legion bridge where the fuel tanker has crashed. you're seeing live pictures this is closing almost all of

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we are staying on top of the br jking news if you't tuning in, we are keeping our eyes on a suation where a fuel tanker truck has overturned on the american legion bridge right at the gw parkway. we have seen one lane get open on the inside by the jersey wall and traffic has made its way through there. >> this is a live picture from chopper 4 which is overhead and mark segraves has bee an eye on the situation from the ground. as you can see emergency vehicles arriving there. we don't have word of anyone being hurt but it has been a mess on the entrance to the american legion bridge for hours. ff it looks like they're closing the lane so they can get some kind of vehicle in there to upright that tanker truck and get it out of there. we were told it may take a couple hours for that to happen. traffic affected in every direction around this area. we'll have more at five. >> montgomery county is nsidering resent vising ing

recycling. if you live in the county that means you cou be charged more. >> but that also means you could save money forecycling products. >> reporter: we all know that we should be recycling things like bottles ans but some would agree they're guilty of throwing it in the trash. montgomery county's director of environmental protection says job.ents here do a great >> montgomery county has one of the highest recycling ratings on the eastern sea board. >> reporter: but he says there's still a lot more that can and needs to be done because he says the county is losing money. so the transition team from the newly elected county executive camep with dozens of ideas of how to get residents to do recycling. one is called pay as you throw. >> it's aeo system wheree are charged more if they throw

out more trash. >> reporter: he says the county is still trying to figure out how something like this could be implemented. the residents we spoke with are split on the idea. >> right now ptple j trash everything and anything they don't need. because they don't have to pay additional. but if you have additional costs, people are going to be more mindful. >> i don't think g it's ad idea because i think i would incentivize illegal dumping. >> rplorter: most p do agree something needs to be done to decrease our carbon footprint but for now it's up to the county to figure out how it can be done. >> we're going to take the next year to see does it make sense economically and for us to implement. and can we get residents to buy in. >> announcer: news4 ath:00 begins wreaking news. right now at 5:00, take a ffic nightmare still going on on our beltway. >> the inner lp heading north

closed down at the american legion bridge because of this. this tanker truck dangling off the road, leaking fuel and it's not just the beltway backed up. >> they had one lane reopen just for a certainumber of cars behind the accident. >> to clear a perimeter around it. >> and get equipment in there. brake lights on roads all throughout our region as people try to find a way around. we just got word from chopper 4 that that is a six-mile backup non >> that h going on since 2:00 this afternoon. let's get the latest from mark segraves. he is on the ground not far from that crash. you've been there all afternoon. is thereny hope for those people out there? >> repter: it's going to be a long night for everybody who's in a car tonight anywher in the metro region around the beltway. this is live action. you can see that tanker truck on itsside. about 2:00 this afternoon, that truck went on its side there and then a car ran int it.

i think you can see the red car behind that was just moved by a tow truck. that's the car that crashed into the tanker truck. nobody was injured in that accident but, of cose, the ripple effect is what we have now. there's about 8,000 gallons of fuel in that truck. as you can see here, a new nker truck has been brought in. they cleared out all the lanes of traffic along the beltway so that they could bring this empty tanker truck in. they're going to drive it up next to the overturned truck and off load the 85 00 gallons of fuel once that's completed, they can up right that truck and move it out of here. the cause of the crash is still under investigation. nobody was injured. but the ripple effect is not just on the beltwa we tried to get here from northwest d.c., clara barton