Slow for about four miles this morning. Beltway at kenilworth avenue, a little bit of volume. No problem there. In laurel, brock ridge road between Whiskey Bottom and 198, still the overturned vehicle. A look at 95 northbound here through dale city, the slowest spot at 29 miles an hour. Back in ten minutes with travel times. Right now, your commute is about to get easier. Heres a live look from inner loop of the beltway at virginia in Northern Virginia. In less than an hour the crews will open the shoulder from the express lanes to the g. W. Parkway parkway. News4s Megan Mcgrath will show you whats happening. Some relief, megan. Reporter well, this is the choke point, the merge area where the northbound express lanes end and that traffic has to go over into the regular lanes. Well start driving it now to see the merge point here up ahead. You can see all the traffic that we have here. Those are the folks in the regular lanes. Were in the express lane. Well have to go move over and that
Pass this bill, but they did actually by a wide margin. 9420. Governor nikki haley put out this tweet that says it is a new day in South Carolina. Haley herself reversing her position of on the Confederate Flag. She is expected to sign this bill today and then the bill requires that the flag be removed within 24 hours her signing it. Back to you. Thank you, kristin. Efforts here on capitol hill to ban the Confederate Flag in federal cemeteries is proving controversial. The measure was added as an amendment this week to a bill that funds the National Park service. Today, however, the house will vote again on another amendment. The democrats say weakens that ban. 5 01 right now. Today, the outcome of a Board Meeting at metro may have a big impact on your morning commute. Zachary kiesch has more on how it could affect the metro riders. Zachary . Reporter yeah, good morning, aaron. Blue line riders would be the real winners here. This is a new proposal being presented today to metro board
A much it will be different weather day today compared to yesterday, waking up to a live doppler showing a few showers that are spotty across the area. Showers working their way into the district, picking up some of these late spotty rain showers. Temperatures this morning starting out quite cool, overall it will be a cooler than average day today, temperatures in the lower 60 plus. For your driving, for your home from work, there will be a few isolated showers, especially for the morning drive. Take it easy out there as we go hours, a fewvening showers possible north and west of town, temperatures in the 50 plus and i may be some patchy fog developing. That may be something you want to be mindful of early tomorrow morning. Tomorrow afternoon going to be completely different than the weather today as high temperatures soar into the upper 80 plus. There may be a few isolated thunderstorms around. I will time those out for you and talk about the tumbling temperatures we will get into the
Rain and drizzle. And some spotty showers out there this morning. These are all pushing eastbound towards the city. Again, grab your umbrella on the way out the door. It may be a little built of a long sleeve day as well as temperatures are only in the 50s. For a check on afternoon temperatures and a cute puppy dog. For the forecast, chuck, as you head out this morning, yeah, you might run into a few of those showers as chuck just showed you. Heres lincoln. Lincoln needs a home, up for adoption. If youre interested head to the rescue alliance. On the website. By noon today, 53 degrees. I lot of showers will be out of here. Overcast skies around 60 degrees. By 6 00 p. M. , temperatures will be right around 63. Overall, the days going to be cloudy, a little cooler. And we cant rule out a sprinkle as we go through the afternoon. Coming up in just a bit, though, chuck and i are back to talk abouthe and also more rain for the weekend. Lets check the roads with melissa mollet. Good morning.
Over out west of that location thats where the u. S. Has a humanitarian campaign. They have delivered at this point about 8,000 meals and 5,000 gallons of water. That is to the iraqi refugees, mostly christians that are on top of a mountain. They are surrounded by these isis militants. This extreme islamic group. Its not clear when these refugees would be able to come down from the mountain or what is going to happen from here but we do know that fighter jets are escorting those aircraft making the drops out to that mountain region. Well be watching this all from the live desk. Back to you. Those bombs fell less than 12 hours after the president warned the u. S. Would not hesitate to bomb iraq. When the lives of american citizens are at risk, we will take action. Thats my responsibility as commander in chief. And when many thousands of innocent civilians are faced with the danger of being wiped out, and we have the capacity to do something about it, we will take action. The president w