We couldnt see 10 feet in front of the bumper after that. The rain was so strong. The reason we kept the green alert for yesterday is you were able to sneak in Outdoor Activities before the rain moved in. Today, not the case, we will see that threat for showers and thunderstorms arriving by about lunchtime today. Lets take a look outside right now with the weather cam. You can see its already hazy and fogny some spots. Lots and lots of clouds. 10 00 a. M. , 75 degrees. The dew point, by the way that measures the humidity in the atmosphere, is close to 70, so that means its going to be very muggy throughout the entire day. Popup thunderstorms starting to develop by 1 00 and your temperatures reaching into the low 80s today. 81 degrees at 4 00, dropping from a high of 83 degrees, which well reach at 3 00. 64 degrees now in leesburg. 70 already in winchester. And 71 in Downtown Washington. Its 66 degrees in frederick and in gaithersburg. Theres the reduced visibility. Its not too terribly
Weve been following for the past three hours it seems like. Well zoom in to a couple of these areas. The red indicates the heavy rainfall. I dont see hail. I dont see damaging winds. This is a pretty good storm now right along 17 just to the east of winchester. It is drifting off to the south and the east so it actually could head toward sterling. Going to rain in sterling. You could have a shower before the next maybe till 8 00 or 9 00. It will head offo the south and east. The other storm this just popped up. Not crazy heavy but moderate rain around potomac and also another little moderate rain around 97 on george avenue. But by and large this is the monster right now. Its drifting off to the east. Still heavy rain in between dc and baltimore and laurel is getting hammered right now. Everything pushing off to the south and the east away from the immediate metro area. Well come back and talk about how much more well have tonight in terms of storms and tomorrow and look ahead to the ho
Believe that the killers tortured the 10yearold boy Philip Savopoulos in an effort to get money out of his father. Police believe that the killers were in the house for about ten hours and this they successfully forced the savopoulos family to get them tens of thousands of dollars. Someone may have actually had to ge out and get the cash go out and get the cash while the rest of the family and their housekeeper were held hostage. Police cheerve cathy lanier chief cathy lanier confirmed they were beaten and tour turred before the tortured before the home was set on fire. At one point the killers may have actually ordered pizza delivered to the house from dominos. Detectives working hard to find an arrest to find and arrest the killers. At this point the only video theyve been able to release is this shadowy figure shadowy tape, a picture of a man running apparently near the scene where the suspect torched the Savopoulos Porsche on annapolis road in prince georges county. Well let you kn
Please do not try to cross a flooded street by car or foot. Further south germantown, rockville, heavy rain right now. A little lightning showing up but primarily just heavy rain with these storms. They are slow movers, a lot of moisture essentially moving east on our storm tracker, headed for rockville at 11 48, washington at 11 12 and dayton at 11 22. Look ahead. Hot again with thunderstorms tomorrow. They will not affect the commutes. Nice but cooler finish to the week. Memorial day weekend looks good, not storm free. Saturday looks best, thunderstorms on sunday and memorial day but not a washout. Well come back, talk about a potential problem tomorrow morning and it is not thunderstorms and well have the 3degree guarantee. It has been four days since savvas and Amy Savopoulos were found murdered in their home. Our ellison barber is live. Reporter the house behind me looks a lot how it has the past few days. The front road in front of the savopoulos house was blocked off. Police had
Spoke with the survivor. Reporter Miguel Rodriguez is out of the hospital and said the tragic chain of events was a result of road rage. They were leaving for work going into the district from virginia when life changed forever. With a bullet lodged in his jaw an emotional Miguel Rodriguez cries for the loss of his brotherinlaw 50yearold pedro alvarado. The two men drove together every day to work at a construction site, but yesterday they would never make it to work. Their commute ended abruptly on 295 northbound in d. C. In a hail of bullets. Alvarados life ended there. Miguel who was the passenger survived. He said it was road rage and they were being followed before the barrage of bullets. In this interview youll see first on 9 he says there was no confrontational encounter before. The violence was all on their side. Neither one of us he says did anything violent. He says he only saw a hispanic man between 20 to 25 years old with short hair, but he says he was bent down and it was