there. there s 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 we re seeing these light to occasionally darker green colors. you see them in charles county, st. mary s, across the eastern shore and even into senior prince george s. into prince george s. 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. here s monika with timesaver traffic to let you know what s 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, let s check out elsew
i think we re dry until about 7:00 in the immediate metro area. we ll talk more about your forecast coming up in the first alert seven-day. back to you. thanks, ear could. here s what s in the news right now. president obama addresses the united nations general assembly today to try and rally more support in the bags against isis. battle against isis. his remarks come as the u.s. carried out air strikes against isis targets inside syria. the u.s. launches additional strikes against a second terror organization called khorasan. a group of al qaeda veterans believed to be planning an attack against the u.s. the enterovirus has spread to 30 states. children with enterovirus often have cold-like symptoms but the virus with swell their air passages making it hard to breathe. the virus progresses rapidly with children going from healthy to severely ill in a matter of days. more crews are being sent in to try to help contain the wildfire threatening thousands of homes in
fighting started july 8. they have now stalled. we re tracking a system coming out of kentucky. it s headed toward virginia and west virginia. you can see the increase in showers and storms in this part of the world tracking almost due east. for us we ve had some clouds. the farther north and east you go, the more breaks you ve had, air. we actually have temperatures in northern maryland in the 50s. a little bit of fog but that s improving. visibilities down in warrenton to a quarter to half mile earlier. no real problems right now. that is probably the last time we ll look at it this morning. temps in the 50s. 60s and low 70s now and look for highs this afternoon still comfortable. it s been quite a summer. highs in the low to mid-80s but the slim shower or thunderstorm chance this afternoon and this evening. it is 6:00. bewitching hour. let s find out what s happening on the roads. here s olga in for monika. i can tell the time change because traffic volumes are really
to the sousa bridge. it s nice to see the 14th street bridge moving for a change. sunrise is at 6:33 this morning. we are looking pretty good with temperatures which will be getting into the mid 80s. boy, look at that sky. i m going to go back to t. just want to show you we have broken clouds around this morning. a good looking sky to start your day here in washington with those as i said mid-80s here. low 80s by lunch time. 4:00 85. high about 87 but it will feel less humid as drier air is moving in from pennsylvania this morning. a few of those clouds, you can follow them. there were showers and storms that hit the mountains and out in west virginia yesterday, came through dry on that front. we re not going to have any rain chances till perhaps the weekend. this morning upper 60s in hagerstown and cumberland. we ve got 70 now in gaithersburg. la plata 72 with mid-70s here in d.c. over toward easton at 75. the difference is once you get south of 70, the humidity levels are
where the investigation stands now. delia? reporter: police still looking for more individuals. not only do they believe this shooting was drug related, they believe that the suspect and the victim knew each other. at the time we came here to woodbridge high school, talked to a lot of students here. we talked to neighbors who live in the area and they all said, many of them, that they heard the gunshots, six of them at least. and they saw the suspect run away but thankfully we can tell you he did not run for long. 20-year-old kawain smalls was arrested just last night at his home in woodbridge without incident. he faces a couple of charges: use of a firearm during a felony and possession after firearm as a convicted felon. he has a pretty long rap sheet. police say he killed 16-year- old brenden wilson, shot in the head monday afternoon on the trail behind the school. neighbors say that trail known as a cut is also known for its drug activity. police are telling us this mor
talbott road between 260 and 258. a couple of people trapped in one of the vehicles. northbound 4 for the time being being blocked. beltway north of andrews doing okay for now. on the inner loop of the beltway there were crashes it basically between greenbelt and landover. both moved out of the roadway near the bw parkway and 450. montgomery county beltway early crash as we head on the beltway near colesville between colesville and georgia and again near connecticut avenue of the one on the inner loop of the beltway just after the left exit for 270 they re clearing up. mike, nick, back to you. thanks a lot, bev. as the snow piles up, so do the closings and delays this morning. delia goncalves has been monitoring all of that working the phones, checking twitter. any updates? reporter: a lot going on. we have more than two dozen schools canling and delaying. operations and classes this morning. lots of kids sleeping in. but if you live in the district, wake up. d.c. pub
cameras. here s a look at maryland. this is the outer loop here. you can see brake lights are starting to stack up a bit and it s blocking the right center lane so you want to stay to the left. we re following breaking news out of prince william county that was just alluded to in traffic. that s where a pedestrian was struck by a train around 3:45. this happened near quarry road. delia goncalves joins us live at the scene. so far what do we know, delia? reporter: we gist arrived here at the manassas park station a short time ago and immediately heard on the overhead speaker and saw a sign on the electronic billboard that the manassas train to union station delayed at least an hour. the first train was expected at 5:15. our last announcement we just heard was another ten minutes. but listen, this is going to be a delay that s really going to tie things up much longer than that because you can actually see where this freight train about a mile down [ no audio ] crews on
dealing with mounds of snow and just going from the main lanes to the ramps. it s a real danger. it is. i did a little bit of slipping and sliding as well as i got into the district on river road this morning and made a phone kahl about that. so what we re concerned about is that volumes are a little lighter this morning. you may be thinking you can travel at speed but i would advise you take it nice and slow still. vre by the way is on an s schedule. metro bus should begin. they were suspended till 5:00 a.m. prince george s county, thebus is on limited service today. if you re planning to head er near the bwi airport, of course taking a flight out today, you absolutely want to call ahead of time. i don t think they ll be on a normal schedule around here, bwi national or dulles tell well into the weekend. and near bwi airport, there s an accident closing aviation boulevard. if you re planning to head over here inside the beltway, westbound route 50 at route 410, two right l
of its snow fleet. delia goncalves joins us live from forestville, maryland with more on that. good morning, delia. you re on the road. reporter: we are on the road and warm and toasty inside. dave howard s plow truck here. this is fairly a new vehicle for the dpw. only been on the road for about two years or so. our photography paul lester is actually in the back seat so you may see some obstruction of seats when we go over to talk to dave. i m in the front seat buck himmed up with dave and we re taking a look at the roads. tell me about this dry run. you ve been on the road with the dpw for 30 years but you actually don t typically drive. so this is really important for you to kind of reacclimate yourself. it allows people who don t do this on a regular basis to be able to go back out and get used to driving the truck and on a route they re not familiar with. reporter: we were talking when we were driving a second ago, you re really high up and can see a lot but this
might crack the 80-degree mark in a few spots with a breeze out of the south, southeast 10 to 20 miles an hour. the shower threat will be west of us for the most part out toward the blue ridge, shenandoah valley, areas west. a touch of fog as we looked at a moment ago to the southwest. that s thought too bad. two, three miles. the dense fog of last night is pretty much lifted. we re looking at a lot of things lifting almost due north with the the rain. some showers out to our southwest are moving north. so light sprinkles or drizzle we have, that s about it for now. we re in the 60s going well up in the 70s if not near 80 later on. nick and andrea? thank you, howard. at 6:01 here s what s in the news right now. a united nations medical worker from germany has died from ebola. the worker contracted the disease in liberia. researchers have begun human clinical trials on an experimental canadian made ebola vaccine. that vaccine has shown promise in tests on primates. today