Tracking those southbound on i270, slow from frederick, normal delays. Heres a live look at 109. Sluggish here. The trip from germantown all the way to the beltway, guys, nice and clear. Back to you. Thanks. The rain is moving out. Temperature are falling, the wind is about to kick up. Heres storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein. Right now, we are getting observations in for how much rain fell overnight, and the highest amounts were in montgomery, loudoun county, frederick counties. Thats in maryland. And frederick county, virginia, an inch and 1 8. 1. 28 in the panhandle into washington county. In the district, about 1. 2 inches. Prince georges county, an inch and a quarter. South of washington from Fairfax County and around dulles down to Prince William, they had two inches or a little bit more there. And about an inch and a half or so farther south. A lot of rain in a short amount of time. The highest was 3. 3 inches in frederick county. The monocasee river there is going to be run
3 45 p. M. Tuesday to find fire and smoke coming from the balcony and were here at the forest park apartment building. And chopper 4 recorded video of the flames. Lets show you some of that video right now. Important to point out we have information about the man who was rescued. He was on the bravo side of the building. Basically the side when you come up with the driveway according to firefighters and hes 24 years old. He was rescued from here. Right now lets come back out live. Firefighters are still, i want to show you, on the fourth floor, fourth floor apartment and whats interesting is that it started on the first floor. Those flames were so intense, so strong they shot up literally four stories and shot out of the roof. Youre now going to get an update from scott graham, the spokesperson for Montgomery County fire rescue. Were talking to the family initially and it may have begun back in a bedroom area but we want to confirm that. Thats where it was first noticed by the family m
Was getting on scene. A deadly scene as the house fire has taken three lives. A mobile command center has pulled up. Fire investigators here. No word on whether or not the house had working smoke detectors. Weve had a lot of fires in Prince Georges County, thats one of the things i was talking about with chief bashore. They want to make sure people check smoke detectors. A lot of people dont have sprinkler systems in homes and apartments. Make sure that those smoke detectors work. Guys, devastating news. We had families show up. You can imagine how devastated they are that two children have died along with an adult male. Well stay on the story all morning. Back to you. Thank you. More breaking news now. Another fire. This one in Montgomery County, rockville. We pulled up to the scene here. This is a former youth Treatment Facility which is now vacant. Were talking with firefighters here and will bring you an update as soon as we get it. Tough morning, busy morning, as well. Stay with u
Plata and its going to abmild day so to to be a mild day so to speak. Lets go to monika with your latest timesaver traffic. Were hearing about a fire in glen arden basically on leslie avenue south of route 704 again in glen arden near route 704. More on that in a few minutes. The beltway looks great. No issues to report as you head on the north side of town. Looking good on the beltway college park into Silver Spring and bethesda. No issues on 95 in from baltimore, 270 in from frederick. Well take a live look at the beltway in college park right now which is incident free near route 1 as you head around the bend toward 95 and college park. Lets see if we can take a look at our maps again. No problems to report inside the beltway on the gw parkway. Dulles toll road looks good. 66 to the roosevelt bridge. 395 to the 14th street bridge. Well take a live look outside one more time. This time here near route 50 heading for the beltway and vienna. As monika just mentioned, breaking news stor
Case against olympia Oscar Pistorius. The lead investigator in the case is facing legal troubles. The white house releasing the first ladys official portraits for the president s second term, different from reversed and 2009. Good morning washington at 5 00 a. M. Begins now. Live and in hd, this is good morning washington, on your side. Good morning, washington. Time to wake up and get the day started. Thursday, february 21. I am cynne simpson. I am scott thuman. Led data meteorologist jacqui jeras to talk about what we are in store for. is what we are in store for cold is what we are in store for. We have clouds lingering right now. It will not last long. The skies will be generally clear with a lot of sunshine. The temperature is almost irrelevant, but we are in the low to mid20s across the region. 26 at reagan national. Wind chills factory at 18. Thats dropping into the Single Digits. Another day of school ahead. 28 degrees for pick up time with partly cloudy skies, mostly clear at