bagel and doughnuts. i haven't had a bagel since october 10th. if you want to lose the weight you have to make some sacrifices. this is 9 news now. late fight fatal helicopter crash in maryland shuts done interstate 70 near the washington county and frederick county line. good morning, everyone. i'm andrea roane. angie has the traffic and howard is starting us off with weather. we have fog, hot, humid. muggy out there. >> but don't have the thunderstorms and i'm not sure whether the thunderstorms had any contribution to the fatal helicopter crash there on i-70. i think the rains have pulled out. >> i was driving through it. it rocked the region. >> a lot of lightning last night. any severe weather in west virginia and the mountains. but we had lightning and heavy rainfall. those storms have pulled away. we are watching the activity

pulling out of marynd and going over to the atlantic coast there and we have some clouds and a lot maof clear s se ou there. but the moisture on e er, grndo re ced duvisibilities down to zero in the the r air park. manassas three quarters, half in frederick and cambridge a quarter miisitle viliby. we get you out the ilwi plse s. y. ese taasit osoat mef it easy. some of that dense fog when you hit it, boom, visibility tr sptioranonta to tinothing quickly. we sit at 70 a washington. good morning, angie. even more reason to pack in extra minutes for your commute. we are kicking off the 5:00 hour and want you to know about i-70 westbound and eastbound. it is closed in both directions due that that helicopter crash this is between mapleville and route 17. the best way to get around this is to use route 40. moving to 270 southbound no

logos from 109 to 121. approaching the split you are all right. north of the district, drivers are moving at speed and in virginia 66 remains delay free from gainesville to centreville and finally round it out with 95 northbound from the prince william parkway to the capital beltway. no incidents or accidents to report. now over to andrea. we are following breaking news out of western maryland. interstate 70 west of frederick, maryland is closed after a fatal helicopter crash. it happened near the frederick county and washington county line. four people were killed when the chopper crashed on to the median bringing down several power lines in the process. james hash has more. >> the helicopter crashed just before 10:30 on wednesday night striking the ground on i-70 near hagerstown, maryland.

all four occupants on board were killed. no motorists on the highway at the time of the crash were injured. amy crews were met with a grisly scene. >> we found at that point the helicopter was fully involved in fire. there was confirmation that four individuals did succumb to injuries as part of the collision. >> reporter: it is unclear if weather played a factor the crash but the area had experienced heavy storms and had isolated areas of fog. >> there was limited viable due to the moisture and fog in the area. especially around the upper levels of south mountain. >> reporter: investigators are trying to determine if the helicopter may have struck power lines nearby. a high-tension transmission line runs directly over the site and wires did fall on to the westbound lines of i-70 necessitating its closure as well. >> we're not sure either during the collision or as a result of the fire. we know there was some damage

that occurred to the high- tension power lines that run through that area, the 70. >> reporter: the robinson r-44 is a popular helicopter and its safety record is described as impeccable. ntsb crews are conducting an investigation now but there is no word on the cause of the crash. james hash, 9 news now and wusa9.com. here's a little more information on the helicopter which went down last night. the model type was a robinson r- 44. similar to one shown here. it is a small four seat helicopter. this particular chopper was owned by morrisson aviation based out of wilmington, delaware. we have been following the story overnight on wusa9.com. but if you condition be near a television today get the latest information there. learn more about the type of helicopter involved and see the backups it is causing on the front page. if you live in the region and

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. welcome back. traveling southbound on the bw parkway from 175 past greenbelt. we are all clear. coming up an update on lanes opening on i-70. in the news now at 5:10. a section of interstate 70 just west of frederick, maryland remains closed but we have good news. one section of the highway has been opened after a fatal helicopter crash. it happened around 10:30 last night near the frederick county and washington county line. four people were killed when

the chopper crashed on to the median of the highway bringing down several power lines in the process. while 70 is open, eastbound is closed. lawmakers have begun to vote on a budget deal struck by arnold schwarzenegger and state leaders. an court documents show michael jackson's personal doctor is the target of the manslaughter investigation in to the singers death. dr. murray was with michael jackson when he died and has been a central figure in the probe since the on set. coming up a look at internet heros and baseball fans in the midwest were witness to major league history. here's howard. >> the rains are gone but left fog in their wake. we will look at visibilities and tell you how bad it is out there. and what to expect for this afternoon and the weekend. it is coming up.

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we have power outages in prince georges and montgomery county and several thousand are without power. pepco is working hard to get those folks back. i want to tell you about the interactive doppler. it is on wusa9.com under the weather tab. check it out. you can track the storms here and nationally, as well. cool stuff. if you go to my blog er link to the nklio the chat ro omd anomthere you go. there's the interactive doppler. i want to tell you what is happening outside as we go to the weekend. today, upper 80s. they have a thunderstorm or two but looking at a lot less coverage than yesterday. tomorrow sunny and hot. in the mountains may see a thunderstorm. in the lower 90s. and on sunday a chance of an afternoon thunderstorm with a high of 90 degrees. watch for patchy fog with temperatures in the 60 and lower 70s. had a storm system pull off the east coast. heavy rain in long island, two to three inches in many areas. a these thunderstorms last

night. and some places got hit three times yesterday with thunderstorms and this morning, one, two, there they go, and this morning we are relatively quiet. rainfall three inches in frederick, an inch and a half at dulles but a half an inch in washington. still enough to shorten the nationals game to 6 and a third innings. baltimore a half inch. martinsburg hardly anything and winchester almost an inch and where the rain really fell is where we are having problems with fog like in frederick and central montgomery county at the air park. through manassas and andrews. visibilities are dropping quickly to zero and some places are doing fine. as we look at the time lapse you will see the clouds and fog in here over to arlington and a little foggy and hazy out there. 68 degrees. dew point in the 0s and very light winds. not stirring up theatmosphere very much. upper 60s to around 70.

manassas and culpeper, we sit at 68. looks like a decent weekend. although we will watch the chance of thunderstorms on sunday as we look at the seven day. hot, too. in the low 90s, tomorrow upper 80s and isolated storms and could be more numerous as temperatures push the 90-degree mark. grab the umbrella today but a lot less activity than yesterday. time for traffic. with that, here's angie. >> thank you, howard. we want to keep u yoyou update helicopter crash and how it is impacting traffic this morning. it had checked out part of i- 70. this is the washington county frederick line between maple wood and route 17. we know we have a westbound lane getting by. it is eastbound lanes that remain closed. the good news is at route 40 it will be the best alternate. we have our digital

correspondent armando trull live at the scene with the latest. armando? >> good morning, angie. we will start with the go news. westbound i 70 is fully open. it had been eat exit 42. that's the meyersville green briar state park exit. that opened seven minutes ago and the last ten miles we gone from exit 42 to exit 32 traffic clear on i-70 westbound. the bad news is that you have got only one lane going in the eastbound direction on i-70 and right now the backup on i-70 eastbound are about a mile and a half long. that is the line of traffic that we saw on the other side of i-70 as we were driving by. so if you are heading in the eastbound direction on 70 you will be in for a very long drive at least during this part of the morning because backups from 30 to exit 33 on the

eastbound side. that is how long the delays are. back to you. >> thank you. a reminder as the alternate consider using route 40. keep in mind extra minutes. that's going to be key for the commute because that road, too, will feel the impact this morning. a lot of people are using it as an alternative. more shots around the region, beginning with 270. volume is building around the germantown road area. no incidents to the split. over to the inner and outer loop we go. this is in maryland, as well. we are moving at speed between 95 and georgia on the outer loop. switch it over to virginia and show you 95 northbound from fredericksburg to the beltway, right now looking at a 40 to 45- minute commute and on i-395. that's how we will wrap it up. here's the shot. lanes are wide open from the capital beltway across the 14th street bridge. now over to kristin fisher who's standing by in the 9 news now web center.

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13450. deadly helicopter crash. four people are dead in and a major highway is shut down after helicopter crash in western maryland. welcome back to 9 news now. i'm andrea roane. thanks for joining us this friday morning. angie will have the traffic in a moment including the details on i-70. westbound is open? >> westbound is open and right now one eastbound lane is

getting by but very slowly. we will have that and the alternate. part of the investigation is to whether weather played a factor and for that we turn to howard bernstein. >> tough to tell the hagerstown airport had been reporting heavy rain and we know that is not happening. they will go back and check it out. we have had reports the rain has ended but many areas between 10:00 and 11:00 last night. i was rockin' and rolling across montgomery county and frederick county and points east. that will be something that the investigator will lack in to carefully. around here this morning we don't have any rain but the pockets of rain that happened last night left low level moisture and led to the development of isth isth morning. some of thsie hblvibeavesene very low. some areas toward the air park in gaithersburg, half mile in frk,edicer culpeper is a mile drana s ewichalf and andrews a and a half. nd other areas didn't get a si s lemid anbuesle rgmileand leese

mile visibility. 550s -- 50s in oakland and garrett county 70 in southern maryland and today a warm day with temperatures in the upper 80s. a slim chance to see a storm this afternoon. angie has a lot to tell you here at 5:30. good morning, angie. >> thank you very much. yes, folks we are half way through the 5:00 hour and we know that things are changing on 70 in maryland. actually ignore this close right here but that has changed. interstate 70 all westbound lanes are getting by and one eastbound lane is getting by but very slowly. we heard from armando trull on the scene and he told us already that delay is backed up to one mile. that's only going to grow. i suggest you use 40 as the alternate and remember you can follow me on twitter at oh my goff is i.d. name. i have updated this three times already this morning. i will continue doing that throughout the morning, as

well. moving to 95 and the bw parkway, a different situation. lanes are wide out out of baltimore from 198 past powder mill to the capital beltway. in virginia a lot of volume around the prince william parkway and continuing to 395 fine past the beltway to the 14th street bridge. look at new york avenue. i'm happy to report we remain delay free from the washington times building past this point at bladensburg road. that's a look at traffic. now, over to andrea. again we are continuing to follow breaking news out of western maryland. as you just heard angie say, westbound i-70 is open, one lane eastbounon i-70. just west of frederick county. it is now open after this helicopter crash. ithappened near the frederick and washington county line. four people were killed hen the chopper crashed on the median

of the highway bringing down several power lines in the process. james hash has more. >> reporter: the robinson r-44 four-seat helicopter crashed just before 10:30 on thursday night striking the ground on the left shoulder of eastbound i-70 near hagerstown, maryland. all four occupants on board were killed. no motorists at the time of the crash were injured. amy crews were met with a grisly scene. >> we found at that point the helicopter was fully involved in fire. there was confirmation that four individuals did succumb to the injuries and as part of the collision. >> reporter: it is unclear if weather played a factor in the crash but the area had recently experienced heavy storms and had isolated areas of fog. >> there was some limited visibility due to the moisture and fog in the area. especially around the upper levels of south mountain. >> reporter: investigators are also trying to determine if the helicopter may have struck

power lines nearby. a high-tension transmission line runs directly over the crash site and wires did fall on to the westbound lanes of i- 70 necessitating its closure as well. >> we're not sure either during the collision or as a result of the fire. we know there was some damage that occurred to the high- tension power lines that run through that area, the 70. >> the robinson r-44 is a popular light helicopter in the aviation community. the safety record is described as impeccable. crews are on the scene conducting an investigation but there is no word on the cause of the crash. in hagertown, maryland, james hash, 9 news now and wusa9.com. here's a little more information on the helicopter which went down last night. as james said the model was a robinson r-44. similar to the one shown here. it is a small four-seater chopper made by the california- based robinson helicopter company. this particular chopper was

owned by morrisson aviation based out of wilmington, delaware. we have been following the story overnight on wusa9.com. so if you can't see your television today, get the latest information there. learn more about the kind of helicopter involved and see the backup the crash is causing on the traffic page. if you live in the region and witnessed what happened last night, then make a comment under our story. that is at wusa9.com. the senate has passed a 680 billion there's defense spending bill just before passing the legislation the senate eliminated a jet engine program on the advice of secretary of defense robert gates. that comes two days after senators cut money for additional f-22 fighters. differences 2003 the house and senate versions must be worked out before it is presented to the president. virginia candidate deeds will have some presidential star power in his corner soon. president obama plans to go to mclean, virginia too campaign for deeds in a couple of weeks.

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. welcome back. 20 mens from the 6:00 hour and on 50 headed westbound lanes are wide open. all the cars are green telling us the drivers are at speed from bowie to the beltway. it is angie with the traffic in realtime coming up. in the news now at 54 of portion county police need your help in finding a missing child. 8-year-old lamar anthony jones was seen 8:30 last night taking out the trash at his home many laurel, maryland. he was spotted by family members but ran away from them.

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welcome back. you are looking at the jefferson memorial and parts of downtown washington. howard is with us. showers right now. we may see a thunderstorm but a lot less than yesterday afternoon and evening. as far as the fog is concerned it is damp and humid but visibilities are good here in northwest. it is hit an miss with the patchy fog. much of the rains were to the north of washington. let's get to going with the forecast first. look at the weekend, upper 80s today. could be a thunderstorm or two but a lot less than yesterday. tomorrow sunny and hot. breezy in the low 90s. and then on sunday, hot with an afternoon storm.

highs of 90. that's where we should be this time of the year. i know it has been a cool season but we will get summertime heat g roininll the next few days. patchy fog and otherwise partly cloudy. in the 60s and 70s with light winds. those winds will be southwesterly this afternoon pushing temperatures 85 to near 90 in a few spots with isolated afternoon thunderstorm. sin setting 8:26. other than a stray thunderstorm, expect partly cloudy skies and lows in the 60s an light winds out there. check this out, low pressure you can see the spin going up the east coast of new england. so massachusetts, boston this morning looking not that great and the thunderstorms that came through last night, second batch. a lot of lightning an power outages in spots this morning. a couple of showers in pennsylvania and west virginia but the clear skies are overhead and soggy ground. visibilities dropped a quarter mile in frederick, gaithersburg is dropping and andrews down a

half and cambridge from a quarter to one half mile visibility. manassas down to four but no widespread dense fog. just patches of dense fog. the time lapse shows how we had fog at times worse and now it is a little better as the sun is about ready to rise there. 68-degrees is the current temperature at reagan national with a north wind at three and the humidity is 90%. so a little sticky this morning. manassas 61. culpeper 59. a patch or two of fog to our west not out of the question. at the beach this afternoon looking good. could be an isolated storm in southern maryland, 88. near 80 on the bay. 70s off shore. 80s to near 90 as we get away from the coast. the mix of sunshine and cloudiness and as we head to sunday going to the beach. winds south at 12 on the bay. don't expect many problems here. don't forget the sunscreen.

here's the seven-day forecast with temperatures on the hot side. breezy and hot tomorrow, 92. isolated storms through the period with a few more by thursday. highs low 90s. night time 70s in town and 60s in the suburbs. get traffic update. a lot of info on the i-70 situation. >> we are 12 minutes from the 6:00 hour and want to keep you upto speed on that deadly helicopter crash that impacted traffic this morning. this is on interstate 70 in maryland near the washington frederick county line between maple road and route 17. the good news is westbound lanes are getting by. one eastbound lane is getting by, as well. here to give us an insider look at the situation is our dickal correspondent armando trull who comes to us live from the scene. >> good morning. the good news is that traffic is flowing on both sides of i- 70 eastbound and westbound. in fact all lanes are now open. we just finished doing a ten

mile loop and started on the westbound side and went from exit 42 to exit 38 and traffic was flowing around 65 miles an hour westbound. then we looped around and went eastbound on i-70 heading to frederick and again all of the lanes were open eastbound. traffic again moving 60 to 65 miles an hour and so that's the good news. now you heard howard talking about dense patches of fog. you will hit some of those on both directions of i-70. hopefully that will clear up later in the morning but the good news is traffic is now flowing in both directions on i- 70 both eastbound and westbound. maryland state police and highwacrews are doing a great job of clearing up the debris from the helicopter crash as well as that downed power line. so you should have no problems heading eastbound or westbound on i-70 thisghorning if you are heading out right now. reporting live on i-70, i'm armando trull , back to you at the information center. >> thank you, armando.

great information there. you heard it from him, drivers are moving in both directions on i-70. looking at the inner and outer loop looks like the same situation between 95 and new hampshire avenue. drivers are clocking in at a great pace. this just in. a report of an accident in silver spring at georgia avenue. please be careful. heading to our maps. look at route 4, route 5 the suit land parkway. we will get there, i promise you. 301 this is an accident free zone. virginia, 66 eastbound starting to fill out around the route 50 area. a shot with northbound 95. a ten minute commute so far. that's growing between the prince william parkway and lorton. now over to you. >> thank you so much, angie. good morning. i cannot tell you guys how many times people ask me questions about twitter. what is it? how does it work and they are all rapid questions. it can be confusing and part of

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peace. >> wow. >> that was suray and we are buzzing about movies that are coming out today and one is the ugly truth. >> yes. this is the ultimate battle of the sexes. that's how they are coining this movie. apparently it does star catherine highle. and i always love it when it involves tv personalities and that's what it is modeled after. she plays abby, a romantically challenged morning show producer. >> we don't know any of those. >> nobody like that. >> she is searching for mr. perfect and it left her hopelessly single and her boss, who is a hard core tv personality who promises to spill the ugly truth on what make men an women tick. like working with howard bernstein. >> do they like it. >> i didn't get reviews. but my friend who is a big movie reviewer in the area didn't mention this one when i asked what movie to see so --

>> i guess we are seeing the same thing over and over again. that catherine is always so great. i loved her in "28 dresses ." >> i know the truth. so be nice. >> me, too. i want to tell you something green going on in yosemite national park they are replaces the tour buss with diesel hybrid buses. 70,000 people a year pay to get a guided tour through the park and the flat bed trucks will be replaced with clean diesel hybridses a and that is god for them. if you go to yellowstone a new set of wheels to pull you around. tell us about the weather. >> this morning patches of dense fog but overall a quieter morning than yesterday afternoon and evening. it was rocking and rolling in a lot of places. thunder was popping with lightning out there. not too many reports of severe weatr but quite a a pow power outages this morning. look at that storm system going up the east coast. wet morning in new england and mahu