And this is annie paying back her friend for the tickets with zelle® before the previews start. And this is annie getting ready to enjoy the show. [whispers] this is your rig here, right now bank. Fa this is wells o. And thanks for bearing with us, folks. We had a litt technical issue. Right now at 5 00, a Storm Team Weather 4 alert out there. Were keeping the eye on potential for really bad weather. This hour lot of people are dealing with temperatures above 90, and its quit steamy out there. That was madtoworse earlier y by a round of rain that moved in and moved out. This is what it looked like from chopper 4 when the showers rolled. Amelia draper and in the sto center. Is something worse heading our way . Keeping a close eye on the storm team 4 radar. The threat for sever weatheis diminished a little bit, but within the last 30 minutes were ear starting to see more showers tdevelop. Ts how its going to be. A lot of popup storms, relatively scattered. A lot of people wont see them,
Causi any rumbles thunder but we have shower and some fog and a broader view showing that acrosshe eastern saesheaboard, rather delightful. How about 77 degrees in our Nations Capital . Still in the 70s for anchors town and paxnriver, i the 80s. Not as hot as yesterday but close to 90 degrees. We will talk more about the weekend in a moment. For traffic, we go to jack. Clay, we start on the beltway Prince Georges County before 202 accident activity has blocked two left lanes. You find we have activity closing powder mill road. Damascus a vehicle involved in a crash single vehicle. Tow truck on the scene and traffic is alternating. N radolph drive remains closed because of an accident. Back in to you. Jack, thank you. Breaking news off the coast of south florida. Seven americans, including West Virginia billionaire, were killed in a Helicopter Crash in the bahamas. Est Virginia Governor and one on the state Supreme Court s coles executives and others were killed in the crash and they cr
Woman to the hospital where wereold she died. Investigators are now on the scene trying to gathecesome eviden there. Weve got news 4s Jackie Bensen headed in that direction and thll see her life report as soon as she gets e. From the news desk, im Erika Gonzalez. Thanks, erika. Another tragedy on theor baltimwashington parkway. This time a father of five killed by a hitandrun driver. Mark johnson sr. Was out walking to a gas station last night when he wasy sudde struck. His car had run out of gas on he the ramp near beltway. News 4s Darcy Spencer spoke with his wife and son about this hoible loss. Reporter mark johnson sr. Was a husband, father and grandfather. He was also a plummer. He was working wednesday night when he ran out of gas on e bw parkway and his family says he w took offlking to find the consest gas stati, and thats he was struck and killed. The driver didnt stop. I dont want my dad to get lost in the news as just a name, just another hit and run on the bw parkway. His n
Coming up at 5 15. Jim . All right. Well keep in close contact. Thanks, amelio alsbreaking right now, a deadly acident near a park in the arlington, virginia area. Police say a woman was killed when this tree limb fell on her. She was just walking on a path. Jackie bensen is going to join us wi live report in just a uple of thminutes. Now to yet another tragedy on our baltimorewashington parkway. This time a father of five was killed by a hitandrun driver. Mark johnson sr. Was walking to a gas station last night when he wasd sudly struck. His car had run out of gas near the ramp to the beltway. News 4s Darcy Spencer smoke to his wife and son today about ible loss. Reporter he just didnt deserve to die that way. Reporter angela lost the husbandnd a father to their five sons and high school sweetheart. I need you to listen to me and remain calm, okay. Reporter she had to break the news to her sons th their dad is nevuter cong ofmi gas on the bw parkwaywednesday night. His family says he
Showers are moving away from the Washington Area and Washington Capitol region. Great friday morning to all of you. If youre hereor the week, we say welcome and we are enjoying rather a muggy start to the day. But we wont be starting out on the wet note. We have some fog in some area, patchy fog, particularly where the rain showers have fallen across the area. So we are going to keep an eye on that the next couple of hours. Take a good look at the teeratures across the area. 75 degrees across the bridge in cambridge. 77 in town. Montgome county, in the 70s. Well to our west, cumberland, maryland, usually they are cool but they are looking at temperatures in the seventh as well. For us, 89 degrees and humid. For traffic, jack, what do you have for us . Clay, still dealing with the investigation ongoing in Prince Georges County. Ongoing accident investigation. Activity in anan list southbound maryland 2 and ramp is blocked it sound like now and all travel lanes have been reopened on that