albreakthrough withyou back. non-drowsy allegra® for fast 5-in-1 multi-symptom relief. breakthrough allergies with allegra®. welcome back. you re watching cnn. i m brooke baldwin. a reportedly frustrated president trump has just held this closed door meeting with his national security adviser, general h.r. mcmaster as the white house is facing some tough questions about its promised new strategy in afghanistan. got barbara starr live for us at the pentagon and retired brigadier general anthony tate. barbara starr, just reminding everyone, there are nearly 9,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan. what kind of indication are you getting as far as policy moving forward? reporter: well, at the moment, it s not moving and by
44-year-old james price and anthony tate have been arrested in connection with the theft and sale of over $70,000 worth of copper. both were involved in a scheme where they were stealing copper wires which belonged to pepco. reporter: police say the two suspects were two contract workers with rockingham construction company contracted by pepco to complete urpd ground wiring at multiple sites. while we were working, they were obtaining copper wire that was provided to them by pepco but they would take the wire, load the company truck, go to another vehicle which was personally owned by them, load their truck, and then they would go to a recycling facility where they would sell that copper wiring. reporter: fox 5 has been showing you for months how stolen copper is actually big business on the black market. in june in this surveillance video, two suspects take two loads of copper gutters from a home, load it into a van and drive away in 4 1/2 minutes. we were shocked.
approaching 100. very nice. yeah. steve looks very excited about that. let s get started with the hd radar. sarah tells me her sister out in illinois said the storm were particularly bad. she sent pictures. you can see the flashing and a lot of lightning out there towards cleveland pushing down towards pittsburgh. some of that cloud cover we can guarantee will get into the area today so we ll go with a partly to mostly cloudy day today. i know we ll wake up with a little sunshine and we ll quickly cloud up. it is possible some of the shower activity will get in here as well today. that will help hold the temperatures down just a little bit. 80degrees at reagan national. another morning where we won t get a chance to cool off a whole lot. let s go to our next map and check out 80 degrees. humidity, 56%. winds out of the north at five miles per hour. here is your forecast for today and again, possible of some showers around later this afternoon with highs in the low 90s. 89