a crash near fairfax drive in ballston.elays getting past fairfax drive, getting through falls church where the left lane has been blocked near fairfax drive with the recovery effort. if you travel on the beltway in maryland, slow spot getting into the work zone between new hampshire and university boulevard and off and on around to georgia avenue in silver spring. the story we've been talking about since early this morning on 95 south of fredricksburg close to the carmel church exit. that's the 104 mile marker, route 207. some traffic is able to get buy in each direction but delays. your next check of timesaver traffic comes up at 6:58. back to you. >> 6:45 our check on weather right here now with howard. >> still quick outside. the humid -- sticky outside. humidity lefts are up. you guys in frederick, maybe up in montgomery, you felt a little bit of the humidity drop but it's not going to be lasting all that long. let's start you off with the day planner. we're expecting the high clouds to be around for the day today with

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. >> police here in arlington me this happened on the bottom level of the ballstone common mall.of three that may be connected. the first of the two happened clarendon. did not know why he was on the kerb hiding. >> in may she noticed a creepy on the sidewalk between two cars. >> he had a newspaper he was covering himself with. >> when the paper moved she realized he was exposing himself. she called police but after 10 nottes came by they had as kids arrived at the restaurant. we had to make him leave. >> he started to walk away so i keep walking. >> later in may a man allegedly himself to a woman on a patio. now police say a man struck at the mall last night. a girl visiting from ireland in a bathroom stall and to see a man peeping her.at he ducked into a stall and she saw his feet at the bottom as she fled. her description matches the other two. he has seen a man he thinks maybe the suspect. >> he makes me feel like you want to whip his behind. you do not miss with kids. >> all three incidents happened here in arlington. say the suspect description matches in each of them. have

he will headline a private fund- raiser in the ballston area.his wife was living as a tax attorney in arlington when she met him in 1999. the tax debate continues with ryan's running mate mitt romney. on thursday he declared he has paid at least 13% of income in federal taxes every year for the past decade. romney has not officially released those tax returns. democrats want him to prove his claim. in our next hour we explain how taxes and medicare are hot topics on the campaign trail. president obama is working at the white house. he will meet with senior advisers. >> we are hearing from the security guard who was shot when police say a man opened fire at the office of the family research council. >> his name is leonardo johnson. he says he does not consider himself a hero. the shooter is undergoing a medical evaluation. steven tschida has more. >> leonardo johnson was on a gurney right after he was shot at the family research council. >> my instincts to cover. something did not your right to me. >> he spoke to us from his hospital bed. he occa

. >> reporter: the superintendent met with dozens ever parents at a previously summer chat in ballston. he says, despite the opposition, the school bus transportation changes will take effect when school reopens on tuesday. >> i think where we are and given the time line as far as the things that we put in place, we are going to continue to move forward with the system we have in place. >> reporter: murphy says scherr trying to resolve issue for more than 250 families who have made online appeals. >> i know we'll be responding to folks later this evening and into tomorrow so that we can make some adjustments before the school year starts. >> reporter: families at campbell elementary school are trying to do what they can on their observe to make sure students get to school safely next week. >> we're trying to organize a walking bus but, to be honest, we only had a couple of weeks notice and there are just many cultural and language issues that wear trying to overcome and working as fast as we can to do it. >> reporter: the changes in the walking policy may be just the tip of the iceberg

google ballston. quiet at the pentagon. not that across the potomac river. now to news. >> we want to update the breaking news that's happening in the tulsa, oklahoma, area. if a large refinery fire is actually a tanker on fire at a refinery outside tulsa, west of the arkansas river. it has been burning since 2:00 this morning, so about three hours. no reports of any injuries. we will keep an eye on that. >> what could've been a disaster at reagan national airport, federal investigators looking into how three planes came close to colliding tuesday afternoon. john gonzalez joins us live the airport with the very latest. >> this morning, u.s. airways said its working with the faa to investigate this near collision at reagan national airport involving three commuter jets similar to the ones that you see behind us. these were carrying about 200 passengers on tuesday afternoon when air-traffic controllers cleared to build the planes for take off while a third plane was landing on the same flight path. the planes were reportedly 12 seconds apart when the controlle

. >>> the most recent case happened monday night from a restaurant at ballston maul. a young girl saw a man people over her stall. he then ran off. police tell us there have been two other similar incident recently. >>> d.c. police are looking for this man for a series of apartment burglaries. n street northwest near logan circle. police say the man in these surveillance photos is a person of interest. >>> big changes to women's health care go into effect today as part of president obama's affordable care act. it includes most preventive care. the most controversial companies must provide free birth control. routine checkups such as pap test, breast exams, prenatal care, also covered. there's screenings for diabetes and stds, for some these changes won't go into effect until the next insurance calendar year. opponents of the birth control option are challenging that law into court. >>> did you stay up last all see them? five young american girls nicknamed the fab five, today even the president called the gymnastics team to congratulate them form the girls won the gold

investigators say a girl was using a bathroom at the ballston common mall when she saw a man watchinge stall. he may have included similar crimes in the area. they noted similarities in witnesses' description of the suspect. >>> prince george's county police need your help finding the man who robbed a beltsville gas station. they released this surveillance still of the suspect who robbed the exxon gas station on cherry hill road monday personing. if you have any information call crime solvers right away. >>> today in maryland, a family will gather to pray for the safe return of a woman who disappeared in aruba one year ago. robin gardner disappeared while the two were snorkeling. authorities held him for months in connection with that disappearance but let him go due to a lack of evidence. tonight's vigil begins at 7:30 at the griffin art gallery on north market street in downtown frederick. >>> new clues in the kidnapping of california ripken's mother. new sketches of the person they believe to be the suspect at an arun dall county store. they believe she kidnapped her at gun point o

had watched helplessly as a shark pulled myers under the water, as he and his son body surfed on ballstona dorsal fin about so high. >> reporter: myers was bitten on both legs above the knees, possibly in one strike. >> both of his legs were pretty bad. >> reporter: massachusetts top shark scientist says it was most likely a great white. >> it's not likely to be a macko, a blue. all this adds up to a white shark being the most likely candidate. >> which makes us very thankful that joining us now from massachusetts general hospital in boston, is chris myers. you see his son, j.j., there, who was by his side through it all. chris, it is great to join you this way. we want to ask, first and foremost, how are you doing? >> well, under the circumstances, quite terrific. thank you. >> well, you and justicement j. are out body surfing. and then, what happened? >> well, we were trying to get out as far as we could to a sand bar that was a good ways offshore. probably 400 or 500 yards. we were swimming through some deeper water trying to get out to the sand bar. as you're swimming, j.j., when did

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