starts right now. he may have been a member of elite but led a live dedicated to public service. sergeant shriver is being remembered. vice president biden, michelle obama, clin top and pelosi and several members of the kennedy family are at the our lady of mercy church. shriver tied tuesday. he suffered from alzheimer s. he founded the peace corps, celebrating the 50th anniversary this year. he was instrumental in work with the special olympics founded by his late wife, whose siblings were john, bobby and ted kennedy. gabrielle giffords is beginning a new and arduous phase in her recovery. nearly two weeks after being shot in the hot in, the arizona congresswoman flown from tucson to a texas hospital where she will begin rehabilitation. mike tobin joins us from memorial herman hospital in houston where she has been transferred. what can you tell us about the recovery phase? reporter: her husband, mark kelly sent out a message on twitter saying they are getting settled
we pull out and you can see what is headed our way and you will see some snow flurries this morning and that is going to be it today and some temperatures, cold. 23 in the district and dulles, 20 in baltimore and 18 degrees right now in fredericksburg and that is a cold start to the day. a couple of snow flurries early and that is that and cold today. not breezy and that will be improvement and we ll see sunshine. 36 in leonardtown and 33 in frederick and 37 in fredericksburg and that is a look at the weather and let s get more from the the morning traffic. reporter: this morning, tucker was saying we had a few flurries and a couple of callers were saying. that we re receiving word that we have reports that ice could have played a part in this morning s deadly crash that occurred along canal road and, as a result, canal road is shut down and will be until the accident investigation has been completed and this is that portion, one closure spot here, where we have a live came
police chief. now questions about the man in charge of running the day to day. we re talking about the city administrator, mike downs. his commute, 160 miles round trip and some residents are upset about footing that bill. fox 5 s maureen umeh has the investigation. reporter: quitting time on a monday and michael downs is on his way home. fox 5 going the speed limit can t keep up with his city issued 2010 chevy impala as it heads up route 50 towards the eastern shore. more than an hour later we find the car parked in downs driveway, 80 miles away from where he works as city administrator for new carrollton. is this okay? absolutely not. reporter: cynthia sweet is a long time resident and like others has questioned downs take home car and his 160-mile round trip commute to rock hall. where do you care about this? because i pay taxes in the city and i ve been a resident for 18 years. reporter: department guidelines provided to fox 5 by downs himself say any employee
a little shower activity to the south of washington. clouds and cool temperatures to start the day. but much like yesterday, hanging in there, i think you ll see sunshine break out during the course of the afternoon. our temperatures will top out in the low to mid-60s. let s get to it. we ll show you the hd radar and the shower activity is limited in scope here. it s generally south of the city. south and east of the city down towards cambridge and oxford and salisbury and ocean city getting showers. here in washington we re doing fine. quiet conditions in washington and off to the north and northwest we ve got cloud cover so i think the rain will be limited to regions to the south during the next couple of hours. let s show you the satellite radar and you ll see the cloud cover across the mid-atlantic and again the clouds continue to push in from the west to the east as we go to view you ll see the cloud cover. there you go. and we ll start to lose the clouds during the cour
we ll show you where the heavy precipitation is as we speak. and as we ve been seeing all morning long, with few exceptions, the heaviest rain is to the east. east of the district, along eastern portions of the beltway, through prince george s county, into anne arundel county. and here we go again for annapolis. they were getting some moderate rainfall but heavy rainfall coming down. down in diehl we re getting heavy rain. largo, kettering area, and clinton, maryland as well. all of the rain tracking from the south to the north and embedded in these areas of heavy rain are some thunderstorms that we ve seen primarily south and east of the district, down around st. mary s county, st. mary s city, some of the regions down there. meanwhile here in d.c., a couple of pockets of heavy rain south of alexandria, in fact pushing into alexandria right now. camp springs, heavy rain. over toward annandale and burke, and then portions of northwest and northeast d.c. as well. let s go to t