robert altman has details. robert: this is below 178, the eastbound 50. delays for the most part from 97 over the severn river bridge. look at the capital beltway. the right side of the screen behind the trees. you can see smoke. that is a car fire beyond the george washington parkway. look at if beltway. the left side is the inner loop. out of virginia to the area. connecticut avenue. stop-and-go continues including southbound 75. southbound on 301 leaving la platta to the bridge on 301 because of an earlier incident with a stalled car. that is the latest. kimberly: alert for "jeopardy" fans. tournament of champions are underway but you didn't see it because of the rayens game on abc7. you can watch it tonight at the sister station newschannel8. then at 7:30 flip over to watch tonight's regularly scheduled show. horace: great idea! kimberly: yeah. horace: 7:00 on newschannel8. >> sounds like a plan. kimberly: okay. doug: do you know how many fridays we are well, hem and haw. but this is gorgeous. >> the humidity won't ramp up enough for afternoon. throug

related to, and we were talking about robert altman, i got to work on a show. and it was entirely from his gut. and sometimes to his detriment., sometimes it wasn't clear where the story was going. but i do think that not being as smart as everybody else or as tt some other people who actually think things, it is probably part of the job description. pe you have to be able to simplify it to reach a broad audience.y >> thank you. >> next question.. >> for mr. trudeau. audi >> speak up. >> you wrote 45 years and counting long novel.d i and i've wondered do you have in the back of your mind how the story ends and what the last thy strip would be? >> i don't. the only thing that occurred tok me is when the moments come and i turn out the lights, it seems to me that it is -- the strip started on a random moment of two kids rooming together and gc introducing each other as freshman. i think it will end on something just like that. and i don't see any need to tie everything together. i have 74 characters in the strip. and that long-time readers would recognize and can

kimberly: let john tan take a breath and check on the traffic with robert altman. it does not look pretty. robert: no. a couple fridays that haven't been so bad but this is not one of them senator toward the octaquan. that takes you to fredericksburg to 95. the stop-and-go continues. through the area of silver spring. a new accident at new hampshire avenue. the right side of the screen is the inner loop. there was an earlier car fire. eastbound and route 50. the delays dissipating. back to you. jonathan: all right. thanks. coming up at "abc7 news at 6:00" -- the new effort to build the trust between the police and the community members. where it is happening and how it works. plus a chunk of funding for the purple line. what it means for the future of the project and h we could see action. consumer alert. hundreds of thousands of volkswagen cars being recalled. what you need to know is coming up tonight at 6:00. kimberly: time to check on our weather. gorgeous day. we don't want it to stop. dobs it's gorgeous -- doug: it's gorgeous. it will continue this way through

robert altman keeping an eye on things. rt: right now the beltway between new jersey and the university, the accident popped up. two right lanes are blocked. solid delays building around through college park and i-95. where we have six lanes but they are all jammed up at this point in time. moving along the beltway. look at the inner loop, the right side of the screen leaving river road. most of the slow traffic above georgetown pike to the 270 spur. passing an avenue at new hampshire avenue. left side of the screen is the inner loop moving in toward college park to capital greenbe. westbound slow moving from the third street tunnel to the 14th street bridge. an accident at southbound 95 near pohick road midway between springfield and morton, left side of the roadway. slow traffic nonetheless moving toward the southbound commute. 395 also to the pentagon. approaching the area of 95. that is the latest from the traffic center. jonathan, kimberly, back to you. jonathan: robert, thanks. did you walk outside? did you feel like y

robert altman on traffic watch. how is it looking? robert: not too bad for a monday.thbound lane of 270. the heavy traffic continues. i have through clarksberg. the brake lights continue. along the northbound commute. on the beltway, the intermittent stop and go. moving past connecticut avenue. the earlier accident at new amp is gone but slow traffic through 95 and college park. virginia, outbound, 66. to centreville and the stop and the go continues. not too bad. southbound 395 moving below the pentagon. the brake lights continue. down toward the area of landmark. 95 is picking up heavy traffic. toward the occoquan river. not too bad. northbound, george washington parkway. left lane is blocked with roadwork. delays throug the pentagon area. kimberly, leon, back to you. kimberly: thank you. leon: thanks, robert. taking a bite out of a family business. police in arkansas are on the hunt for two suspects who stole baby alligators at a farm and a petting zoo. they show the suspects wearing masks, breaking down the door at the arkansas alligator farm and petting zoo. they

then squawk market master robert altman. he says china's real growth rate could be as low as 3%. marco rubio sat down with john harwood to answer some of the biggest questions on the campaign trail. we'll have that when we come back. >>> taking a toll on oil drillers. however the weakness could make these companies ripe for investment and a lot more m&a in 2016, 2015. deal-breaking -- schumberger buying cameron for $14.8 million, cash and stock dealing. joining us is charles schering. good to have you here, sir. we planned to have on you before this dpeel, but what's your assessment of why this deal has been happening? andrew's been asking, are we seeing this because of a weakness in these countries or a slump with schlumberger or what's your investment of it? >> this is a merger of two great companies, both of which could survive any imaginable downturn so schlumberger needs more diversity of product, cameron provides that. very little overlap between the two businesses. something the industry has anticipated for a long time. this is sort of two very good companies emerging from

and the artists that i've related to, and we were talking about robert altman, i got to work on a show. and it was entirely from his gut. and sometimes to his detriment. sometimes it wasn't clear where the story was going. but i do think that not being as smart as everybody else or as some other people who actually think things, it is probably part of the job description. you have to be able to simplify it to reach a broad audience. >> thank you. >> next question. >> for mr. trudeau. >> speak up. >> you wrote 45 years and counting long novel. and i've wondered do you have in the back of your mind how the story ends and what the last strip would be? >> i don't. the only thing that occurred to me is when the moments come and i turn out the lights, it seems to me that it is -- the strip started on a random moment of two kids rooming together and introducing each other as freshman. i think it will end on something just like that. and i don't see any need to tie everything together. i have 74 characters in the strip. and that long-time readers would recognize and can differentiate. so i don

and the artists that i've related to, and we were talking about robert altman, i got to work on a show. and it was entirely from his gut. and sometimes to his detriment., sometimes it wasn't clear where the story was going. but i do think that not being as smart as everybody else or as tt some other people who actually think things, it is probably part of the job description. pe you have to be able to simplify it to reach a broad audience.y >> thank you. >> next question.. >> for mr. trudeau. audi >> speak up. >> you wrote 45 years and counting long novel.d i and i've wondered do you have in the back of your mind how the story ends and what the last thy strip would be?