Isolated storm today. A much better chance of strong, and severe storms tomorrow afternoon. Today, High Temperature of 95 degrees. Heat indexes up near 100. Coming up in ten minutes well give you the beach forecast. Looking good at the beach jack taylor. How are roads holding up on thursday . Not too bad. Live look at i95, its just crowded. R v not a huge delay. Its truly volume. Lorton, off obto the shoulder. Metro this morning, surge number three shut down between braddock road and National Airport through july 11th. Kmorng, silver and orange, single tracking. You can expect delays in both directions. Back to you. Jack taylorfvin for melissa. Chuck talked about it. is here now. Molette green is out in the thick of it this morning with tips for us. Smiling through the heat, molette. Oh, yeah. There are just a few joggers out. One guy didnt have on much clothing. I guess thats his way to beat the heat. The best time to exercise outdoors, early in the morning or later in the day. Its re
By phone today, i talked to his mom. There was a struggle. His hands were bruised, his face was bruised, his knees were bruised and two shots to his back and yet they never took anything. So it even on top of being totally ridiculous, if it was a robbery, they didnt even do what they set off to do. Reporter it happened near the intersection of flagler and w streets northwest. It happened about 4 19 in the morning. Were urging the publics assistance in this matter. Reporter seth rich, he worked for the Democratic National committee. Today, this statement from chairman Debbie Wasserman schultz. She says seth rich was a dedicated, selfless Public Servant who worked tirelessly to protect the most sacred right we share as americans. The i dont know who did this but ill tell you this, they had to know their way around. You see, the bloomingdale section is undergoing a major sewer project here. Many of the streets are blocked off. Its like a maze getting around bloomingdale. So if you dont kn
Afternoon. Right now, it is a muggy start. Were in the mid to upper 70s airwide. The next 24 hours. Temperatures climbing in the mid 90s. For tomorrow, another sizzler, up near 97 tomorrow. Well help time out our rain chances for today and more about that thunderstorm threat for tomorrow. For now, it is traffic time. Lets get over to jack taylor at wtop. Unfortunately the crash were hearing, metropolitan police let us know they got the outbound lanes closed at firth sterling. Hopefully they will have everything open soon. Outer loop of the beltway, Montgomery County, it sounds like we may have accident activity. Apparently a vehicle went into the guardrail. It was along the right shoulder. Stay and not have any kind of delay. Aaron and eun back to you. Protests in minnesota right now after a black man was fatally shot by a white police officer. I want to show you some video thats come into our newsroom, about 200 people protesting outside of minnesota governor mark daytons mansion. A m
Officers in this country. Well be following this developing story all morning. Coming up, well have reaction from senator tim kaine from virginia. Well also have the full story on the nbc washington app. Now, in light of the recent Police Shootings, Fairfax County police are reaching out to the community. Tonights cops on the corner begins at 6 p. M. In reston. They will be there to speak about the recent violence. Feeling hot already. Chuck bell brought the heat back with him. Down in atlanta, hot and steamy every day last week and they came out of the suitcase when i got home yesterday so were back into the summery pattern around here. Humid and mild outside early this morning. Unlike yesterday, it looks like our thunderStorm Chances will return tomorrow afternoon. A brief cooldown toward wednesda the end of the week. For today, High Temperature 96 downtown. 94 today in manassas. Everyone gets above 90 degrees today. That will be six days in a row. Theres only one day in the tenday f
96 in leesburg. In ten minutes, ill let you know how quickly we warm up. Southbound baltimorewashington parkway, the crash near 50 has cleared. If you are immediately headed out in the road and in this area, you may very well experience a delay in that stretch. Also, 66, we had a work zone out in zanes gainesville. This accident, near the 50 interchange. Sounded minor in nature. Police are there. There have been some close calls with metro trains over the last two weeks. Its operators have run red lights that will likely be the focus of conversation when the board meets this morning. Megan mcgrath National Airport station where the most recent incident happened yesterday. Reporter this is a regularly scheduled Board Meeting happening at 9 00 this morning. Were expecting to get some more information about a couple of things that happened this week here at reagan National Airport at the metro station here. The first is an incident where a train operator ran a rlt here at the airport stat