Well, this week we saw what can go wrong if y dont heed that advice. A father for carry his kids through waistdeep floodwaters. Molenas therescue. Reporter it only took a few ion to for a bad dec put a family in danger from the dramatic high water th the heigg rush. Watch here as this dad had to carry his two little girls, they were around 7 years ofe, ag in each arm to get them out of their stalled car, trapped in high water here at the intersection of little falls parkway and massachusetts avenue. Luckily, the dad was able to carry them away safely and a Good Samaritan rolled up, who watched all of this play out and actually gave them a ride home. He was unable to open the car so thats why he that why the grabbed them out of the window. I was going t just go nearby him. Then i saw that it was okay, that he grabbed the kids. So then they were walking on the grass area. Reporter and you took them home. I took them home, yes. The kids were a little bit afraid and they were like, oh, dad
G od morningd welcome to news 4 midday. We begin with our weather alert. Right now were under anxc eessive heat warning. In fact, 31 states are under some kind of heat alert. That means 150 Million People are impacted by this weather. And the feels like temperatures are going to t 100 degrees today. Yo think thats ba oh, baby just you wait until tomorrow. Lets get the stage set herem storm t4 meteorologist chuck now. Joins us breakdown what we can expect. Heat indexes running 105 to 110 degrees for three days in a row. , tomorrow and again on sunday. Hazy skies an code orange air quality. So folks that have respir ory or cardiac sensitivities, this is not the weather you want to be spending outside. Theres the excesse heat warning outside for all of the listening areanow. Heat index values over 110 degrees, onespecially saturday. Saturday i think will be the peak of the heat wave. Right now itslready 90 degrees with the heat index close to 100 degrees at 11 02 in the morning. Ur theres
This morning for traffic. Hello s getting weird good new in the weather department. The risk of Severe Weather is tu out of the p for quite sometime to come. A little weather front and work its way through the region today. As itcomes through it might ring out one or two isolated rain shower in the day today. Most of us will not get rained on for a fday. A lonesome drop in charlottesville. 73 in washington. Cooler to the north west. 64 leesburg and 63 winchester. That slightly cooler and slightly more importantly less humid air moving in for the weekend. At least less humi here is your planner for hot and humid. A chance forh a ser or two. Mostseof tho rain chances across parts of Northern Virginia and Northern Maryland and lorraine chances for today. Good morning, jack taylor. How are you . Chuck, morning. Starting off deja vuing agai hi. Canal road is closed again this morning between reservoir and ll fox unfortunately, with mondays damage from the storm. That roadway will take a whi
Degrees. By 7 00 p. M. Low 90s but its feeling close to 100 when you factor in the mugginess. Most of us are dryt there. I cant rule out a few isolated showers and thunderstorms, in especially northern virginia. Again, most of us are dry. Everybody is warm. That should say 81 at 11 00 p. M. , but it will feel more like 91 at 11 00 p. M. When you factor in the humidity. Heres the latest check of storm team 4ar rad the d. C. Metro area is looking dry. Back to the west, showers into washington county,he panhandle of West Virginia and out into lualay. This is about the dangerous heat. More on how hot it will feel as the week wears on coming up in my fl forecast right around 4 20. Thanks, amelia. Folks, as those temperatures rise well be on weather alert later this week, and the best h thing toe with you, our nbc washington app. That or a fan. Can you make weather your home page there and getts alerent right to your phone at any time. Pat . Its been one year since a 10yearold girl sitting o
105 in frederick, maryland, and 112 degrees ileesburg right now. Heres the latest warning. Everybody here in pink is under an excessive heat warning until 9 00 p. M. Tonight. For feelslike temperatures until 9 00 p. M. , around 100 degrees or hotter. Again, we have a heat warning in effect for tomorrow and a heat ay. Ch in effect for su for your evening planner, check it out. At 90 degrees right now. It still feels like 105 degrees at 7 00 p. M. 9 00 p. M. The sun is down and still feeling like 100 degrees out there, and by 11 00 p. M. It feels like 95 degrees. Now coming up at about 4 20, im going to be walking you throughout your day tomorrow hour by hour with the feelslike temperature and also breaking down what is the difference between a watch and ag . Warn pat, back for you. Thanks, amelia. Our coverage of this dangerous heat is just getting started. Coming up in five minutes were working for you on how to save on your electric bill. Then later in the hour your heat and your heal