Amelia . If you remember, adam, last week we were talking about a heat wave for this weekend. This is what looks to be a sixday heat wave. The humidity not too bad. Parts of the area under a code orange alert. Children, elderly, if you have heart or lung issues, take it ea easy outdoors today. The sun comes up around 6 20. Temperatures in the suburb around 60 degrees. 56 in culpeper. 59 in frederick. Here in the district, a balmy 68. Here is the morning planner, plenty of sunshine, clouds around today. The sun wins out. Look at how temperatures warm. 8 00 a. M. , 72. My noon, mid80s. What to expect this evening and if you have outdoor plans what to expect. New this morning, Prince Georges County officer shot his gun during a struggle with a suspect. Around 11 00 p. M. , an officer heard a car crash and went to check it out. When he arrived, a man was running from the scene. According to police, the man tried to take the officers gun. The suspect was shot during the struggle and rushed
Good morning and thank you for joining us this saturday morning. Im mike hydeck and erica grow is here. And its still summer. We had a break from the humidity. It was wonderful. It was still warm but pleasant to be outside. Its going to start to be a little bit warmer and youll definitely notice the humidity by tomorrow. But its going to be dry through the rest of the weekend. Heres a look at the day planner. A good amount of sunshine to start the day. Well see a few more clouds in the afternoon and temperatures getting to around 90 degrees. 90 at 4 00 and the High Temperature will be 91. Currently, its 61 degrees in leesburg and gait under arrest burg and frederick. 59 in manassas and 56 in culpeper. Ill track developing thunderstorms with the first alert 7day forecast coming up in 10 minutes. Breaking news. Police are investigating an officer involved shooting and one person is in Critical Condition after police say that started after a struggle with the officers gun. Surae chinn has
Ten minutes. Well send it over to you. Im Nikki Burdine in laurel with a group of men who call themselves the 300 men march. They are walking from lawrm, maryland all the way laurel, maryland all the way down to d. C. Guys, can you tell me why youre out here walking this morning . Can you tell me why youre out here walking this morning . Were marching against the violence going on in baltimore city. Were not protesting. Were just a group of men who believe in our community and believe in the people. Thats why were out here. Were walking in d. C. To make a statement to let people know there are people actually out here who care about whats going on. Reporter when you get to d. C. , what are you going to do . Rest. Were just going to be welcomed by whoever is out there and let people know. We dont want to shout. We dont want anything. But we just want to bring awareness to whats going o300 men going on. 300 men march. Reporter these gentlemen have been walking since yesterday at about 6
All of the agencies that have teleworking ability to take advantage of it and allow those employees to do the work. They should expect major delays on wednesday which are expected to have the most people headed into the district for the popes, vents. We want to help you get around and get through all of this while the pope is in town. If you havent already and download the nbc washington app and youll find a list of tips for commuters and visitors written by staffers who just like you rely on metro every day. Just search pope commute. Thank you, chris. An overwhelming number of people requested tickets to see the pope on the west lawn of the capitol. So congresswoman eleanor homes norton figured out who could go. A High School Senior stepped up. Yeah. Thats right. Norton wanted to show no favoritism. So they got appear minister from archbishop carol. The students principal whose job today was to hand pick each winner vying for one of these very limited and hot tickets in this town. It
Camera. Sunshine breaking through, the fog kind of rolling on through the metro area now. That sun is breaking out. Over the fog its a mostly clear sky. So once this fog does break up well have quite a bit of sunshine breaking up. All these areas in gray under this dense fog advisory until 10 00. Along the 95 corridor, includes Southern Maryland as well. Some of the visibility is under a quarter mile. Watch out for that for the next couple of hours or so. Temperatures right now are cool, in the mid60s, Montgomery County and Prince Georges County. Much of the vest of virginia and north and west of us, south and east around the chesapeake bay. Mid60s. Big change moves in beginning tomorrow. A lack at how long that will last in a few minutes. Were working to find out more about an overnight crash that killed a woman in ft. Washington. Prince georges county Police Say Two cars crashed on Old Fort Police have not released the name of the person who died. Pope francis is on his way to havana