marie could be. hurricane marie five days from now. angela? folks at home as you prepare to head out the door. more volumen side of the capital belt which on the big picture map number starting to see color through arlington as you make the trip eastbound on interstate 66. 295 miles per houring in from the vw park which and starting to see delays on the park which as you head through the stanton area silver hill toward the district. we're dealing with a couple of incidents you are going to have to watch out for. the longstanding close is there. it arrives some time ago. the trip this morning as you approach westin avenue. we have the activity, the center lane remains blocked with the early this morning accident. on interstate 95 in maryland, it is just a stalled car. well, it is creating a lot of havoc on the southbound lanes of interstate 95 where partially in the roadway as you approach 216 so as you come through howard county and the traffic cameras will delays now southbound 90 and the vw parkway that may be a better option at this hour. that's the rattest from traffic watch. back over to you. [speaking in native tongue] >> imagine being on the air as the 7.1 mag tuted earthquake struck. we're tracking more break news morning. you can see it there all caught on cram. the moments the 7.1 magnitude quake slams mexico city. >> the tremors leading to panic events. you can see entire buildings there leveled. >> breaking overnight. the death toll now climbing to 208, but the, is still on to find survivors buried in that rebel. adrianna hopkins has every new detaille cog in overnight. reporter: at least 21 were kids who died when the school collapsed. at this hour, 30 kids and eight adults are still mission. also about 40% is about 44 buildings fell in the capital alone. two interesting facts, though. the quake happened on the same day an8.1 magnitude quake hit in 1985. 9500 people were killed then. also, the quake hit about two hours after citywide earthquake drill. larry, autria, back to you. >> all right. well, we'll keep track of that breaking news from the caribbean. we are hear from dr. samuel christian, a resident dominica describing the sheer force of maria over a messaging app. abc 7 spoke with his brother, gabriel, who libs here in d.c., but he has not heard from samuel since. >> it is a tough day for us. my brother, we have not heard from him. he are desperate. >> in fact, not a single one of he 72,000 people on dominica have been heard from. the last calls and on-line mess!s a went silent at 2:00 a.m. yesterday when maria knocked out all phones and internet signals. abc 7 is following may radio why's every move. you can download the app to get the latest on the smartphone. 6:06. police are anopessing two more arrests after last friday's failed terror attack onboard the london subway train. a 30-year-old, a 48-year-old taken into custody early this morning. that makes five total arrests. a partially ex plosed bomb detonated en side of a crowd train car on friday. well, closer to home, new overnight, abc cameras capturing a pi biczar crash in maryland. a dumb truck driver forgot to put the bed of the trail other down and hit a bridge near church r no delays this morning. good new for us. also good news, no reports of any injuries. >> 6:06. a crime alert now in prince gorges county. police are looking into a series of suspicious incidents here at the university of maryland campus in guilford road. we told you earlier this week about a sexual assault investigation. now police say a man entered another apartment on that street earlier this month. just one week later, there was third incident. police say man opened a window and peaked into apartment there. now investigators are not saying if they think it was the same guy but they are increasing their patrols. and right now, it is a turf war in d.c. what one school is doing that parents says putting their kids at risk. plus, maria now making landfall. the latest from puerto rico as the monster storm makes impact. still ahead here on good morning you each drive a ford (all) yes.ght? 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>> veronica, we picked up two accidents. one of them going to impact the ride this morning. i want to go to sky track 7 on the capital beltway. you can seen crease end volume. the good news is on this stretch of the beltway. we're not dealing with any major incidents not the case as we head back to the maps to show you what is happening. heading out of urbana, you may want to stick with i-270 and the volume delays from i-70. 355 shutdown in both direction. very serious accident there at the holiday drive with both the north and southbound lanes closed. lass crash on eastbound 66 heading out, just be alert for the delays there. our traffic lane cameras showing you delays that continue on 95 in maryland southbound at 216 with the stalled car partially in the roadways. that is what is happening on the roads, autria, back over to you. congratulations you are pregnant. at least amazon thinks you are, even if you are not. the strange e-mails going out to thousands and the mysterious case of the baby registry you never knew you had. ralphcandidate for governor,rtham, and i sponsored is ad. they're studying for 21st century jobs., but ed gillespie supports donald trump's plan to take money out of virginia public schools and give it to private schools. as a washington dc lobbyist, ed gillespie worked for lenders trying to keep student loan rates high. and ed gillespie's plan to cut taxes for the wealthy could cut virginia school funding, too. ed doesn't stand for education. >> breaking right now. landfall in puerto rico. hurricane maria hitting the island minutes ago as a category 4 storm. the storm's eye passed overnight doing massive damage. may whys still massive about 450 miles wide and could cause nine feet of storm surge. it is being blamed for a least one death so far, but there are reports of people still missing as well. and at 6:15, to a developing story here at home. a turf war in d.c. schools. >> parents livid about new fields being laid down. john reporter: they are saying if there is any risk at all, larry, why teak the chance? so many fields, so many schools around the country using this artificial turf. this is rubber. it is 70% pieces of old, recycled tires, while oyster adams using it at the bilingual school here in woodley park through the fence, we can show you the field there. now the school wants to install it over the middle school in adams morgan, but parents, concerned parents saying not so fast. they are worried about possible health effects, parents met with engineer last night to voice their fears, clearses of cancer have been reported in other parts of the country, concussions and bacteria also addressed at this meeting last night. the parents just want more testing. the current field over at the middle cool, actually failed a safety test that used to astro turf, the patio turf so they ripped that up and now the plan is to put in this artificial turf. in the i near hired by the city saying there is no stud dow really confirm, determine, there are health issues, and there are so many benefit, easier to clean, easier to maintain, but this fight is not over just yet. reporting live in northwest washington. john gonzalez, good morning warkton. >> thanks for that. the abc 7i continue amendment has been on this. last may we pressed the schoolers for answers after they moved forward in stalling rubble fields they in stist it is safe but say to reeral with it if federal studies come out showing otherwise. >> well, a consumer letter for you at 6:17. if you shop on amazon, the company may have informed you are having a baby. probably not. maybe you did get e-mail yesterday. amazon congrat lating you after someone bought a gift on the baby registry. not pregnant got the e-mail, so here's the thing -- it is not a scam. amazon says, a glitch on their end fired off that e-mail, so now they are contacting any customers who got. of course, this lead to plenty of jokes on social media. some people come mbing on twitter, it was quite the way to find out that you are expecting. autria? >> you know, i feel like a lot of mothers might have seen this and though, oh, finally. >> right. >> and i get a gift. >> right. >> not so much. >> all right. well, interesting. thanks. 6:18 now. today, a bush push in d.c. to get thousands of young people into jobs. the d.c. opportunity fair is holding more than 1800 interviews for people between the ages of 16 and 24. thoughps that are hiring include starbucks, five guy, walmart, fedex and many more. that runs from 9:00 this morning until 3:00 this afternoon at the washington convention center in northwest. >> yeah. usually when we show video of someone on surveillance camera. it is never anything good. check this out. the 18-year-old found a wallet with $1,500 inside and he hand-delivered it to the own in's home. he saw the calm are and wanted foam know yeses was there and showed them the wallet. walked off. i love that because the homeowner actually did find them later and amade sure he got a reward. >> nice. >> nice. >> i always wonder if the people get the money they are promised. so good. >> maybe more than. >> %. >> that is toad. >> the numbers. >> all right. all about the numbers this morning. >> it is. yeah, maria's numbers very impressive that way. >> yeah. we have been back there dig through information again talking to the track producer whose family is from there. the big river. take a look the image because it is just north and east of the rio grande reporting the river out of the banks that had more than already and a look at how far deep back the system guess and the eyewall making the landfall around that area. reporting winds right there, the center of eyewall, 115-120 miles per hour. just a fierce storm that is going to lash at puerto rico all day long today. i don't see the eyewall moving away until sometime much later and see the storm surge of six to nine feet, rain fall, 12 to 18 inches, that means mudslide norse mountainous region ear. you can see all of these counties there or areas, i should say, bordered in red where. that is where there are hurricane warnings posted. well, we'll away back up to this storm. that is jose, just off the coast. just east of new jersey and a few hundred miles. 150-200 miles per hour. there we are still getting the clouds wrapping around. a little bit of early morning moisture and fog but no big travel troubles force. the fog mainly i-81 so have the green light a about everything today. no major troubles whatsoever. ail am seeing now on the map is in terms of big systems is what is coming to the rockies. that is snow. the first of the season as far as temperature, move to the 70's quickly today. sunshine yes. close to 80 by 11:00 a.m. mid 80's. we hod there all afternoon. i wish we had a nice breezement your weekend, up to 80 on sunday. that is one warm day out of the weekend in fact. some areas could get close to 90 degrees and looking to marry lan, 88 sunday. 86 leesburg. 86 to maybe 87 degrees. on top of that. it stays dry for next couple of days. you know what that that means? >> it is 7. >> ok. yeah. you are right about that. >> well, on the road veronica, let's get you out the door for wednesday morning ride. we got quit a bit going on. good news if you travel the bridge. all lanes have been row troped the emergency maintenance now folks traveling in maryland. sky track 7 reman offers the 270 area where we're looking live actually at southbound 270 this is the capital beltway and this is the capital beltway in montgomery county where we're starting to see outer loop delays. let's go aboutk to to the maps though and upa debt you on the real problem situations. accident activity tying us up eastbound on interstate 66 as you maneuver to the subway area. it has been moved to the shoulder. as you can see. we got hefty delays traveling eastbound through manasses on interstate 66 and a picture of those delays. westbound clear for the most part but eastbound, are on the brakes for folks making the ride in to the area, this is a long standing collision. we don't know why. the center lane remains blocked east bnd as you travel on leesburg pipe. please be alert for that. the clob showers on 365 take i-270 instead. track is getting by on the shoulder, as you travel on 355, which is that point, heading toward the holiday drive interchange. autria? >> thanks. 6:22. new this morning, dig up a painful past. the locker room drama and the smack talk that is caution new four the red skins four years later. first though, beaten and left for dead. the college hazing incident and the cases tied to the but they don't know. you have to live here to know, to feel the people, to feel the places, and most of all, to feel the rhythm of our city. we're pirates, painters, poets, and partier, sometimes all at the same time. we embrace the old and welcome the new. we like to experiment and defy the norm. we all love to sing, but we dance to different drummers. they say d.c. has no soul. well, we not only have soul, we have heart, and we show it every day. this is our town. these are our neighborhoods. and we love this place as much as you do. ♪ reminds me of how geico hasd been saving people money for over 75 years. hey, big guy! come on in! let me guess your weight! win a prize! sure, why not. 12 ounces! sorry, mate. four ounces. i've been taking the stairs lately. you win, big guy. sorry, 'scuse me! oh, he looks so much more real on tv. yeah... over 75 years of savings and service. get your rate quote today. >> 6:26 here on wednesday. five football players are facing felony charges in alleged hazing incident they are is accused of brutally assaulting a fellow teammate. kenneth gibson has details in "gma's" first look. reporter: in the morning's gma first look, five college football players for facing felony charge for alleged hazing incident that left a fellow teammate needing surgery after he was beatp, abandoned, half naked on a baseball field. they are being charmed with felony counts, aggravated battery, unlawful restraint. reporter: the five players all seniors at wheaton wheaton college telling abc news in a statement, the conduct we discovered as a thrift investigation into the incident was entirely unsen and inconsistent with the values we share as human beings and members of the academic community that espouses to lib according to the community cov nen. coming up at 7:00, be more on the investigation with the "gma first look" abc news, new york. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> when food is good and clean and real, it is oh die crave. announcer: now good morning washington on your side. we begin with a breaking news later. >> and right now, as we come back on the air at 6:30. a hurricane, a powerful category 4 storm slamming into puerto rico. the eye of the storm crash crossing into the island within the half-hour. "storm watch 7" is tracking mariee. >> also new this morning, president trump speaking out. the praise he is keeping on the first u.n. speech. >> plus jimmy kimmel take on the new halt care bill. who he sai face. very passionate overmeeting. good morning to you washington. i am autria godfrey. >> i am larry smith. hurricane maria is hitting puerto rico as we speak. here are the latest pictures. look at this video now. heavy rain, high wind, major flooding. overnight the storm hitting st. croix than the vir gn lines. this shows the storm pulling the roof off one home there. that is video of thatp? it is a scene that played out across the island as people were teaking to social media with desperate call force help. more coming up. but first let's get the let a e on the track from veronica johnson. j.j., good morning. meteorologist: i have been tracking maria every since came in. pow hurricane. this is the worst storm that puerto rico has ever seen. it will spend all day long, the eyewall track right across puerto rico,
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