Sixplusweek time frame. Needless to say multiple injuries. Sensitive area that really changes your quality of life in addition to your ability to come back and play football. Theyre going to be as cautious as possible before romo does come back to play football. Cris and there were social media and cliff avril, a lot of people screaming and yelling about him. He was tomahawking down, trying to get the ball out, as he should on the play. So lets stop that completely. For tony romo this now is a pretty good streak. And i think for the Dallas Cowboys and for tony romo as a husband and a father you start thinking about bigger things than football at some point. I hope hes fine. Hope hes back playing again. But also hope hes doing whatevers best for him and his family. Mike celebration penalty at the back end of the touchdown the 20 yard line. On this play as well. Tony mcrae brings it out to the 30 yard line. Cris third offsides penalty of the night. Referee offsides, kicking team number 3
You were out getting blasted in montgomery county. I was in the weather lab. Do you know what your anchors were doing, donovan and nicole brewer. They were eating. Because they didnt clean up their mess, yes. Very nice, nicole and jim. Yes. There is butter in here too. Look at that. That is in the cool, but hey, everybody relax this weekend, enjoy, good day to wash your car with the sunshine, temperatures up around 50 degrees. Check it out right now. We are at 34 at the airport. A few areas below freezing. In allentown, reading, upper 20s. A few areas of icy conditions, that will quickly melt, this morning. Wrapped change in temperatures, check it out, compared to this time yesterday we were four to 18 degrees warmer. That is the warm trend. Wind are calm, no harsh wind chills this morning. Not a bad start to the sunday. Dont expect a whole lot of sun. We have cloud rolling in. That is a sign of the warmer air in the the forecast. Overall temperatures in the bad. By noon time mid 40s 5
weekend s heat is just dangerous. at least 61 deaths have been blamed on the triple digit temperatures across much of the country. ten of the deaths were in virginia. ten others were in maryland. power companies say the heat is to blame for many new power outages in the area as well. overnight temperatures were in the mid 80s. so those without electricity didn t get much relief from saturday s heat wave. pepco has 500 customers without power with most split between c.d. and month good morning between d.c. and montgomery county. bje has more than 300 people without power. and we could see even more power outages today as severe weather moves on in. let s go to meteorologist chuck bell. he s in the storm 4 weather center with details now. good morning to both of you. good sunday morning, everybody. yesterday goes down as one of the five hottest days ever in washington. as long as we have been keeping records and that goes back to 1874. right now, there s a picture of
we ll have more on the shuttle landing in a live report in just a few minutes. first, though, we begin with the extreme heat we re all dealing with. it can be downright deadly. at least 22 people have died from the heat wave nationwide. right now, at least 34 states and the district of columbia under heat advisories and warnings. that means nearly 141 million americans are affected. this is all because of a heat dome caused by a huge area of high pressure that is compressing hot, moist air beneath it. that heat dome is now over our area. and to give you an idea of just how hot it is outside in the middle of the afternoon, we used a special infrared laser thermometer to measure surface temperatures. a tennis court in rockville, 133 degrees. the scoreboard at a nearby baseball field in cabin john park, 103 degrees. but the seats registered at 136 degrees and the dugout, the railing there went in at 169 degrees. taking a live look outside right now, the hazy sunshine helping tho
i was cooking lasagna. did you bring some? it was eaten by the family! thanks for leaving us out. okay, first thing this morning, it is hot already. right. i mean, already. the heat index is at 89 degrees right now. know that there are some spots just south of us where it feels like it s 90. yes, it s been hot. it s been hot. it s been hot all week. and now it s going to be very hot. for the end of the work week. in fact we are going to see some of the highest temperatures here than anywhere else in the nation. 82 is the current temperature. take a look at the dewpoint at 76 degrees. that s what s doing it to us. and will for the next two days. very high heat, and extreme humidity, too, around the area. so 89 the current heat index. look at the temperatures throughout the area. we re in the upper 70s to right around the low 80s. and the heat index, 83. feeling like in leesburg, feels like 98 89 here and 83 in fredericksburg. a few high clouds. i don t think we