Warm. Isolated shower or thunderstorm. Highs 8186 winds sw to wnw 515 mph right now were breaking news in the district. Jummy olabanji is at the live desk jummy . Autria, Dc Police Say a man was shot overnight in southeast. It happened on 53rd street. Not far from the benning road metro station. Right now, only a few details about what happened but we know the victim was shot twice. He was taken to the hopsital conscious and breathing. So far the victim has only been identified as a 23yearold man. Increased security at Southern High School today, after threats online. Anne arundel County School Officials Say the threats were posted on media, but do not appear to be credible. Addit school today as a precaution. Southern high school will open on time this morning. Happening now. New restrictions are now in place outside the white house. Because of security concerns. The sidewalk next to the south lawns black fence is now closed. Visitors have to stay behind a barrier. The secret service
At lunchtime, sunny, warm. Have the sunglasses. Later this afternoon as we get closer to the evening rush around 6 00, you can see these popup thunderstorms. There will be a risk of thunderstorms. Nothing severe, but just be on alert. This morning, upper 50s. Maybe a few isolated showers through about 10 00. Have the sunglasses for midday. A few thunderstorms between 3 00 to 7 00. If you enjoy the 80s today, you will get one more day tomorrow. Talking about this all week, temperatures expected to tumble into the weekend. The weekend looking unsettled with a lot of rain. We will time that out in about nine minutes from now. Lets get a look at the morning rush. What do people need to know . Julie the inner loop of the beltway is where we have problems. Traveling south of route 4, pennsylvania avenue, in the direction of the wilson bridge, standing room only with the crash only the left lane getting by. 495. Bound 95 to slowing down on the use side of town. We had earlier problems on 210.
Out to his car. What sparked the flight fight . I need some good news baby and, oh, baby. Serena williams serving up some major news with this photo announcing shes pregnant. The secret she kept while winning a recordbreaking grand slam. What will it mean for her future on the court . Good morning, america. A lot of excitement for Serena Williams right there. A lot of excitement for her and posted this on snapchat saying 20 weeks, i think we all figured out what that was. Shes engaged to the cofounder of reddit. She was celebrating as we mentioned that historic grand slam when she was eight weeks pregnant and no one knew. That is just incredible. Great day for them. Not so m of Sexual Harassment accusations oreilly got the news just after he met pope francis at the vatican that ended a more than 20year run with the begin of fox news in 1996. He has been a cash cow for fox news for 16 years but advertisers abandoned the show after reported settlements were paid to five women accusing hi
Ellipse side of the white house. That bombing is why all the streets closed around the white house to begin with. Sam ford is live near the executive mansion to explain why for us. Sam . Sam the secret service says it is after a review of the new security measures following a number of jumpers and attempted jumpers at the white house. As you can see, the secret Service Agent is there. People are no longer able to go up against is that fence. They are all over here. Trying to see from the area they can see taking pictures because of the new restrictions. Secret Service Posted signs restricting access. No more walking along the fence behind the white house. Officers directed the visitors past two roadways to another sidewalk on the ellipse. So far we havent seen anything. We sides a fence, that is part of the white house. That is it. Secret Service Police temporarily restricted the Pedestrian Access to pennsylvania avenue in front of the white house to lafayette park. We tried, we were o
News4 midday. Metro needs even more money to keep the system up and running for the next decade. The breakdown looks a bit like this. Metro wants 15. 5 billion over the next ten years. Thats 1. 5 billion a year. It also wants dedicated funding to the tune of 500 million every year. For d. C. And virginia, youll likely pay some kind of tax. The cap increases at 3 a year. Just a few minutes ago, wiedefeld was asked if he thinks this proposal will become a reality. He says he remains positive. The system cannot fail. Weve got to get this right. The future of this region is dependent upon it, and we have to do what it takes to get there. For workers, wiedefeld wants changes lets turn to the weather now. A much warmer day ahead after some morning rain. Suns out. You see on the right hand side of your screen temperatures close to 70 degrees. As we go through the rest of the afternoon, were talking about temperatures in the low 80s. Currently 68 degrees in the district. We had that morning ra