There. Theres been heavy rains at times. See the yellows, the oranges, the red. This whole area is moving northeast. This is why i had to raise the yellow alert flag. The bulk of the heavier stuff is south of 64 but getting closer to charlottesville, richmond. Petersburg is seeing it. These lighter showers have lifted to the Northern Neck. Now were seeing these light to occasionally darker green colors. You see them in charles county, st. Marys, across the Eastern Shore and even into senior prince georges. Into prince georges. Solomons seeing a little bit of that just south of leonardtown. Then on 301 and east toward hughesville and aquasco. Highs later on upper 70s and low 80s. Heres monika with timesaver traffic to let you know whats in your way this morning. A huge water main break in hyattsville over on rhode island avenue. Our Nikki Burdine will give you all the information you need to know about it in just a few minutes. In the meantime, lets check out elsewhere whats going on. T
Were just having a little bit of fog weve been talking about the last 90 minutes or so, especially down toward happen tan knock and warrenton. Halfmile in frederick. At times been zero. Other times two miles. A little fog trying to form across parts of prince georges and howard counties, mainly when you get to those rural areas. Temperatures in the 60s in most spots. 50s in westminster. Luray has dipped to 59 degrees with 68 on the bay in annapolis. The light winds this morning will be with us for the day. The sunshine, the heat, all of them come together to produce some extra ozone at ground level. Nitrous oxides. That means the air quality goes a little south. Unhealthy for sensitive today. The young, the old, anybody with Health Issues probably want to keep it indoors in the air conditioning this afternoon. Lets turn it over to monika now with a look at timesaver traffic. A couple of issues i need to tell you about. First of all looks pretty good here on the beltway but if youre com
State. After massive evacuations, now the fires mocht seems to be taking movement seems to be taking it deeper into the forest and away from nearby towns. 5,000 firefighters are battling that blaze. Hazy, hot and humid. July is back to its normal weather. Heres olga. Thats what weve got in store for you today. Partly to mostly cloudy skies. The cloud cover moving on in this morning. Temperatures are mild. Most of us sitting in the upper 60s to near 70 degrees. Well increase our clouds flew midday and early through midday and early afternoon. Could see a late day shower popping on through but highs headed for the mid80s. Overnight lows will be reasonable as we get into tonight. Down in the 70s. Yes, a little bit of an opportunity each day through the remainder of the week. Monika . Bad accident right now on the southbound side of i270 involving a motorcycle. Its been here for about half an hour or so. A live look from our sky 9 where crews are on the scene. The motorcycle off to the sid
Evening as we have all day. Complete coverage beginning with Meghan Mccorkell who has the growing impact of maryland. Lets go to the latest from washington dc. Danielle notingham has been there all day. Reporter the first day of the shutdown is ending as it began, with a stalemate in congress, a new play by republicans and no sign of how all of this will be resolved. And the joint resolution is not agreed to. Reporter the republican controlled houses latest attempt to approve an emergency spending bill was a nonstarter in the senate. The Affordable Care act was known as obama care, and all were rejected. The house wants to restore funding to portions of the government, including Veterans Affairs and the National Parks service. The senates democratic leadership said no. Just another whacky idea from the tea party driven republicans. Reporter president obama criticized republicans about the Government Shutdown again tuesday, which was also the first day of open enrollment for obama care.
Penn state payout. The university agrees to 60 million in damages for the victims that former football coach Jerry Sandusky. Tonight the number of victims doubles as sandusky maintains hes innocent. Hello, everybody. Penn state will pay tens of millions of dollars to two dozen young men who say they were molested as boys by assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. Wjz is live. Meghan mccorkell has more and whats next for the university. Meghan . Reporter dennis, penn state will pay 57. 7 million to 26 men who claim they were abused as children by Jerry Sandusky. Penn State University agrees to a multimillion Dollar Settlement with more than two dozen men who say they were victims of Jerry Sandusky. In june, the former assistant football coach was convicted of sexually abusing ten victims on school property. In an interview with 60 minute sports, prosecutors admit there are many more. There are dozens more. Yeah. Dozens. Dozens more. Yep. Reporter attorney mike casey represents seven of