Here coming into the southern parts of the Shenandoah Valley that will graze through here during the morning commute. Off to a wet start on your tuesday. But the Severe Weather threat is arne. The flood watches over with. The heaviest of the rains are behind us now. Nothin more than occasional showers coming on in. Grab the reumba. Showers could linger through the afternoon. Temperatures raincooled this 72 in prince georges county. These temperatures are 5 to 10 degrees cooler than we were at the same time yesterday. This afternoons high tomorrow almost 20 degrees cooler yesterday, d. C. Topped out at 96. Todays high temperature, 77. Melissa mollet, that is employee of the month stuff for me. Definitely it is right now. Take a look at this. First 4 Traffic Alert this morning. Different issues around town. Multiple issued. A couple of them on the beltway and then one on 270. A tractortrailer has jackknifed and lost a load the and we are sending a crew there shortly. The other issue on the beltway, silver spring. Left side blocked at the crash. Look at this one. Overturned tractortrailer d fuel spell at thissite. More coming up. Mek ssa, thanyou. That right there is how it sounded, even looked yesterday while mt. Airy was under a tornado warning. People are waking up with a big cleanup. Check out te video from o tower camera here. One of the cells from yesterday iowing across the district. Severe weath blamed for at least one death in maryland. A tree fell on a home in Carroll County killing a man inside that home. Treeranches are down including this yard in northwest washington. Irefighters found here in tnnily town checking for damage rnoveht. Drivers all over d. C. Had a tough timeavigating through all of that rain. Luckily today is the start of much Better Weather as chuck was mentioning. That is od news. Th morning, a gesture of goodwill coping with tragedy. 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You canvoid mixed drinks and consider bottled wine or beer w andatch the bartender open it or buy your own alcohol from a freeduty shop. A family at aflorida beach took this video showing sharks smming in the shallow waters just inches from t shore. The family say they have been going to cocoa be h for30 years in northeast floridaand they have never seen a shark this close up. Check this out. We are not the onlyea ones dng with a heat wave. This is a moos in alaska was to hot it was cooled off if a lawn sprinklerin anchorage. Whenoure hot u youre hot. Right. Op oute shut down at the top of the belt way. A long situation and a mess. Where ishat we know about this. Aollision with entrapment is what we are hearing from policei and it now a crash investigation, meaning it could be there for sometime. Inner loop after connecticut is the only thingng getti by is one lane. Or arailer lost its load. We will get pictures of that with a crew going to the scene. Its good its in the northbound lanes but the southbound folks will come by and look to the left and no doubt get some delays tat as well. Another tree is down at this area. A mess out there this morning. Chuck . Sure is. Good news is mess is all focused on the rest of the this morning upe and things on the up and after today. Widespread chances for rain but thatis. We are back to pure sunshine starting tomorrow afternoon and honestly after we have suffered through thhe heat wave t last ten days to almost two full week. This will last the better part of four to seven day n reale weather is just around the corner. W bute have to get through a rainy tuesd first. Quite a bit rain shower across virginia. This is all trending in oun al direction. May not rain every minute of the day today but at any inute you could be rained on so keep the umbrella handy. The heaviest of the rainn last r into the Early Morning hours, heavyins are lifting out of northeastern maryland heading up to philaelphia. We have hit and miss rain chances for today. Future weather here walks you through what is mostly infree. Spits and drizzle for now as we get more into the morning commute, i think steadier rain is likely between 7 00 or 9 00 or 10 00 in the morning. A gradual drying out in northwestern parts of the area and take a while but i think the steady rain mong out around lunch time the d. C. Metro area. H norn maryland to eastern West Virginia winchester virginia top of the Shenandoah Valley you should be done with by of your rain chances 2 00 or 3 00. Raincooled today and six and nly 70 now. Day time hourly temperatures will not budge much courtesy of the cloud and northwesterly breeze. Todays high is not a typo. 77 degrees s that i nice. Tomorrow, low humidity and sunshine and nice breeze. Highs only 84 degrees tomorrow and zero percent chance for rain thursday, friday, and saturday. We are looking forward to that. Well done, chuck. T nk you very much. Coming up next on news4 today, three little number make or break so many aspects of your life. We are talking about that allimportant credit score. How wellwned what impacts that number . We are working 4 you this morning and explaining what does and what does not hurt your credit score. If your home this morning, dont miss we are back here at 4 23. The three little numbers, your credit score, key to many aspects of your Financial Life from getting a good Interest Rate on a loan to even getting a job. Follows you everywhere. But a lot of people arent sure about what effects their score. Consumer reporting susan hogan is working for you separating fact from fiction. Reporter how much do you know about Credit Scores . Loans . Mortgages . How mani credit card have if i ever am late on paying a credit card. 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The left lane only getting by after connecticut avenue. The tractor trail jackknifed so only get by to the left. Debris all over the roadway and a live report is coming up. This is the other major problemb probly a bigger issue travel wise. Outer loop shut down before