kenny: redskins win their preseason finale over the bucs. an exciting second half, right down to the wire. donte stallworth the game- winning touchdown. redskins over the buccaneers. it begins for real next sunday, a week from sunday. redskins and the new york giants. for joe theismann, doc walker and our entire crew, this is kenny albert saying so long from fedex field. the redskins finish the preseason with a record of 3-1, following tonight s 29-24 win over the tampa bay buccaneers. thanks for joining us throughout the preseason. now we look forward to the 2011 redskins regular season. [ man ] i got this new citi thankyou card and started earning loads of points. you got a weather balloon with points? yes i did. [ man ] points i could use for just about anything. there it is. [ man ] so i used mine to get a whole new perspective. [ male announcer ] the new citi thankyou premier card gives you more ways to earn points. what s your story? citi can help you writ
highs reaching the mid-80s. we ll take a look at your friday evening planner coming up in ten minutes. danella, how s traffic? let s start with the rails. they re all looking good. metro, marc, vre, all not reporting any delays. roadways still slick, but let s start with the area bridges. if you re taking south capitol street and making your way onto the douglas bridge, it s wet, but it s clear. shooting over to the american legion bridge, i m seeing a little volume increase both directions on the american legion bridge, but no accidents at this time. that s a very good thing. taking the 14th street bridge as well. we did have a little overnight construction here. cones are up, and it is absolutely clear for you. back in ten minutes with another update. for now, back to you both. thanks, danella. new from overnight, almost a dozen people are homeless after a fast moving fire rips through their apartment building. the flames sparked along chester grove road in upper marl
monika? if you re planning to head out early on this friday morning, other than a couple of wet roadways, everything is looking fine. good morning. we have the green light. we ll take a look at the beltway. then zoom into 95 in virginia. all of your lanes are open right now. traffic is moving very well as you head north on 95 from dale city to springfield and on to 395 here up to the 14th street bridge. you ll be ok. back over to the beltway, this time, let s zoom in to 66 and take a live look. no problem as you come in from manassas to fairfax, you ll be ok on 66. this is still 395. let s go back over to your travel times right now. 95 coming down from 216 to the beltway is 10 minutes. 495 from the beltway, 95 over to 270, ten minutes on the topside. only three minutes right now. in my next report, we ll take a look at maryland roads at 5:09. back to you guys. bge is down to fewer than 50,000 power outages statewide in maryland. 9,000 customers are out in anne arundel
in all, pepco has 3600 customers without power right now. bge has about 1250 customers out in calvert, montgomery and prince george s countiy. system m etch c. on has just under 2400 out ams. as for schools this morning, marley glen school is closed today. tucker, i drove through some rain and it was pretty heavy this morning. we have some thunderstorms working through. i think you ll see the shower activity continues here south and east of the city down towards southern maryland, chesapeake beach, waldorf and la plata getting a president- elect way good thunderstorm. the bottom line, it is possible some of us will encount are a shower or a thunderstorm encounter a shower or thunderstorm on the way to work today. be ready for that. temperature at reagan national, 70 degrees. humidity, 81%. your forecast for today, it will actually get better from here. we should have partial sunshine. it will be warm, humid. i don t think we ll see any afternoon rain with highs in the low
park. pepco has just about 3600 customers without power right now. bge has 1200 customer out in calvert, montgomery and prince george s county. and smeco has around 400 outages. the only school to report to us so far this morning is in anne arundel county, marley glen special school will be closed today. we are also now learning that nor nature took out and historic piece of nature in our area during irene, a 220-year- old oak tree that stood near john f. kennedy s grave site at arlington national cemetery was brought down during the hurricane. it was known as arlington oak and cemetery officials had gone to great lengths to try to protect it when the grave site was first constructed 4 years ago. that is pretty sad. you kind of wondered how many of these big trees came down and now we see what that damage did. terrible. always sad when the big trees go. more rain overnight too. showers and i afew thunderstorms breaking out across the region. not going to amount to a