it looks foggy as well. with a first check of your forecast, we re heading over to gwen tolbart. the fog is definitely out there. it s going to take a while before it gets out of the way. lots of clouds as well. the cloud coverage is very intense across the area. you can see to the south, we ve got precipitation, and that s going to be heading our way. we got a bit of a break last night, but into the course of today, we ll see increasing showers and drizzle. some of you probably had to experience some of that as well. but that fog is definitely and certainly hampering visibility. here are the current temperatures. we re going to be warmer today than yesterday. not as warm as we were on friday when we hit temperatures into the 80 s. be prepared for that. we re talking fog and drizzle. expect to see showers later on. the winds will be light across the region. i m going to let you know how long this unsettled weather will stick around later with the full forecast. back to you.
the ruling in the case of a local man held in aruba in connection with the varbing of a maryland woman. good morning to you. i m joe krebs. and i m eun yang. welcome to news 4 today on this tuesday, august 16th, 2011. we ll take a live look outside at 5:00 a.m. it is 68 degrees. a touch of humidity, but the temperatures are coolerme. it s pretty comfortable out there right now. 5:01. time for weather and traffic on the ones. that s a mouthful. it is. even later today it s going to be nice outside, nice start, nice finish for the day. we re just going to see some very spotty light showers. that s it for the day. we ve got a lot less to worry about weather-wise. let s head on out the door. we re about 1 hour, 22 minutes from sunrise. 73 is the temperature, just gone up a degree. and the wind s picking up a little bit too. we re at 13 miles an hour. just an hour ago, we re at 9 miles an hour. oxon hill at 68. berry farms at 73. good morning to you folks in oak there is
leonard bruce has lived in rockville s lincoln park neighborhood almost his entire life. he has endured many hot summers, catching a cool breeze on his front porch. today he is watching his grass turn brown. you can t water your grass and stuff like that. you can see the grass turn brown already. it s from the heat. reporter: that s thanks to this torrent of water that climbed 100 feet into the sky. rockville s main water line ruptured, two million gallons of water lost in a geyser active for six hours. we have two broken sections. it happened right near the joint. two sections have to be replaced. reporter: crews spent tuesday digging up the old cracked pipes and around 1 made the first attempt to install the new line. problems forced crews to bring in new parts and begin again. we should at least try. always forcing people to restrict water, but we can at least try to help out the whole community. reporter: rockville residents are temporarily getting water from
that pipe. more than 4.5 million gallons have spewed so far. the president calling on congress for $58 million for emergency funding to fight this major catastrophe. david mattingly is live in louisiana this morning. david, seeing the oil and natural gas gushing out of the ocean floor really does put a face to what we re seeing. what are the efforts to cap that spill? reporter: well, all the pieces are in place this morning, john. and the plan is to have the top hat solution in play either today or possibly tomorrow. what bp is going to do, first, they re going to try that smaller, revised dome, that they re going to place over the top of that leaking pipe that we saw. if that doesn t quite work the way they want it to, then they ve got a plan b already onsite that they would insert a tube into that leaking pipe. so they ve got two plans to attack it with today. they hope that one of them works this time. you know, david, yesterday, congressional hearings in the house r