And the other ingredient, a cool front sweeping in away the humidity that is now at 82 . 77 in re michigan national. A calm wind starting off this morning with a shortsleeve day. And we have a few light showers here out in West Virginia and just coming into western maryland tracking well to the west of the metro area for the morning hours. It is later today when we have the risk for severe storms. Have an umbrella throughout the day. A very humid day throughout the morning. Some strong storms coming through 3 00 to 8 00 p. M. A look at the hourbyhour temperatures as the temperatures progress throughout the day coming up over the next 24 hours. Now back to you. Tom, thank you. The armys dthree soldiers were injured when they were outside when the storms hit yesterday. You can always download the latest Severe Weather app on itunes or google play. Who wouldnt want that . Now heres Melissa Mollet with the first 4 traffic report. What is going on on the roads. Now i have a disabled car 95
Outside on our tuesday, its indeed a weather alert day as you mentioned. Frequent updates will be here on nbc4 throughout the course of the afternoon. Main threats today, another changes some damaging wind gusts along with downpours of rain. The primary risk is 3 00 to 9 00 p. M. Today. That is the timing everywhere in the yellow shading along the blue ridge ahead of a cold front. It will spark off the strong to severe thunderstorms later this afternoon into the metro area. For now most of the rain is in the mountains of west virginia. But it wont be long until the rain drops move into the metro. Currently temperatures are in the low to mid80s. It is plenty steamy with temperatures hovering near 90 degrees for much of the afternoon. Thunderstorms developing around 3 00 and continuing until 9 00 this evening. Break down the individual chances for Severe Weather to talk about the cooler and dryer weather ahead in the next few minutes. Thank you, chuck. And to stay ahead of the storms, do
Think he should be punished severely or no, not severely, but no, should be reprimanded. I am told he will spend the night in jail. Is he due in court sometime tomorrow afternoon. We are seeing brand new video tonight that is reported to be the last video taken inside Malaysia Airlines flight 17 before it was shot down. This is posted to instagram by a passenger as people were still taking their seats, and as a pilot made an announcement. The caption reads, in the name of god, feeling a little bit nervous. Theres some confusion surrounding the post. The name on the account does not appear to match the name of the passenger who is reportedly widely who is widely being reported, that is. International investigators, meanwhile, are arriving in ukraine as the world begins to mourn the loss of nearly 300 people. Tonight a vigil will take place at the dump embassy in northwest to remember those lost. We learned earlier today that one of those victims is an american. Meanwhile, there is more
In european skies filled with citizens from many countries. There has to be a credible International Investigation into what happened. The fbi and the National Transportation safety board are sending experts to assist in the investigation. It wont be ease where i. The crash site spans over ten miles and is controlled by rebels who may have blown up the plane. This should snap everybodys heads to attention and make sure that we dont have time for propaganda. We dont have time for games. We need to know exactly what happened, and Everybody Needs to make sure that were Holding Accountable those who committed this outrage. The u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Says america cannot rule out russias help in the attack. The white house says the separatists have blown up planes before with russian weapons, but never a passenger airline. If inrussianbacked separatists were behind this took fablg, they and their backers would have good reason to cover up evidence of their crime. Reporter most of the
Gosk. Things are going to change a bit today. Im liking it. But youre seeing the changes already. I know i saw some rain drops in early. Meteorologist chuck bell joins us with the forecast. Good morning to both of you and a good saturday morning, everybody. Plenty of clouds and yes, there are, indeed, a bit of light sprinkles out there this morning. Sat slight and radar showed the picture when you saw a moment ago, here it is on storm team 4 radar now. Not a lot of rain inside the beltway. A couple of very light sprinkles here near the panhandle. It looks a lot scarier on radar than it is. This is all extremely light rain. So dont count on a washout of a saturday. But dont count on much sunshine here. Mi mi mid60s in the suburbs. Plan on the 70s for the remainder of your day. Just passing rain drops out there. I wouldnt spend a lot of time polishing the fender first thing this morning. More in a few minutes. Back to you. New this morning, ukraine and prorussian rebels have established