river into calvert county. few 70-degree readings. 62 in leesburg, 65 in 65 ington, virginia, bethesda. high temperatures 82 degrees dropping.ity will become senate around lunchtime. a stray showers later on this afternoon. we will start with the drones now used reconnaissance in afghanistan possibly flying over northern virginia if. mcdonnell thinks be an asset in our region. brianne carter joins us to tell for.at they could be used good morning. that s right. the governor now says he in northern virginia itr the next couple years could be the criteria to use drones to monitor the roads and other areas. he says he believes the idea great.e new support for additional eyes in the sky to fight crime. i think it s great to use technology to make law- more productive, manpower, and safer. we use it on the battlefield. virginia governor bob became the latest virginia leader to support police using drones. i believe if you are keeping officers safe and making productive and
it sure looks ominous out there. tucker has been saying all morning long we might hike was in store for us for today and the rest of the heat. some strong storms rolled through parts of our area last night. up to 3 inches of rain fell in areas around hagerstown and up interstate 81. there are still a few power outages even this morning. keep that in mind. hopefully, they ll get their power back on toon. quite ate bit of rain that we were dealing with last night. a little bit wet out there on the roadways. we are still fighting the sun as we saw it a little bit earlier. not a lot of sun here early today. by later this afternoon, we ll be partly sunny and as you guys mentioned, less humidity. and cooler temperatures than yesterday. it is going to arrive in a couple of steps. today is step one. we ll take the baby steps as long as we re inching towards better weather. i saw a couple of power truck out on the roads when i was driving in. power outages back. it is summerti
and they say, due to safety, they had to stop it because it was lightning. and if somebody was holding on to the rails and the lightning hit, so they cut it off. the public is invited to chuck brown s public amendments. a public memorial service. a service begins at noon tomorrow at the washington convention center. 4:31. we turn to tom kierein. we heard the thunder, saw the lightning yesterday evening. but it broke the heat, boy. it feels nice this morning. it was needed rain, but the sky opened up and unloaded last night. yeah, we had torrential downpours with a lot of lightning and fortunately not a lot of damage as far as wind was concerned. now this morning, looking at the radar, this is what s been happening the last six hours. the activity has diminished, but we still have scattered showers, all that moving color across virginia, maryland, parts of eastern west virginia. and toward the eastern shore. now the closeup view of storm 4 radar showing light rain he
washington convention center. the mayor gray says the flags will be lowered to half staff throughout the describe and bruce john district and bruce johnson reports on the memorial unlike any the city has ever seen. reporter: the entertainment. he s the one of the artists preparing to salute go go legend chuck brown tomorrow. i ve managed and developed groups such as raheem dine, tank, i ve worked with tires, dru hill, puff any. reporter: more than 10,000 people stood in line for the viewing yesterday at the howard theater and one government source today predicted up to 15,000 could turn out for the funeral at the convention center for chuck brown. you had louis armstrong and jazz. you have bob marley who develops a genre and transcends that. now you have chuck brown who develops a genre and transcends that. reporter: wayne bruce s music director for tomorrow s funeral paying homage to chuck brown will be a host of local stars like sugar bear, donny simpson and
of it. quiet on 270 70, the greenway, 66 between centreville and the beltway. no projects on 50 right now between annapolis and the new york avenue and again across the potomac river. more to come with newschopper 7 in a little while. now to news. we will start with major developments this morning. in the february shooting death of all men in culpeper. police announced yesterday one of their officers has been charged with the murder of patricia cook. the officer of s mother is facing charges. culpeper county police officer daniel harmon-wright has been indicted, accused of shooting and killing 54-gerald patricia cook, a driver that he pulled over earlier this year following a support a report of a suspicious woman in a vehicle. he shot the driverhe claimed that he fired his gun after being trapped and dragged. there s no way that he was being dragged. correct he was indicted on the count of murder and malicious shooting into an occupied vehicle, on tuesday if. or wr