Two. President obama spoke to somea of thesp victims. Victims annie yu listened to hisd to h speech and has more now. Now historic moving emotional imonm sure, controversial, too. Good morning. Go reporter . Reporter right allison,on nearly 71 years after the u. S. Dropped an atomic bomb on here h shima president obamonhiroshimaa the first sitting president to visit the shrine. The shrine. He says progress is beingprress made. President obama just finished speaking to the crowd gathered e at the peace park in here h shima alongside Prime Minister shinzo abe. Zoab after they laid a wreath thea wh president met with survivors and other guests. This historic visit is stirring mixed emotions. 200,000 people were killede kile when the u. S. Dropped the bombdr on the city bopack on august 6tt 1945. 19 73,000 more died in a secondsend bombing at nagasaki. Nagasak though an apology would please p some in japan the white house h stresse not apologize for the attsiacksc that forced the surrender
Because of this scenee overnight. A crash between a car and and a tractortrailer it actually happened just before 5 oclock o this morning on the outer loopel between Georgia Avenue and connecticut avenue. Ec one person was hurt in this crash. The backups now have been as hea much as 3 miles. M all lanes are opened butpe theres a live picture and you can see even with the laneses opened it is slow going sow gng erin is going to join us in just four minutes. Well get the update from her. President obama and Vice President biden heading to oheao orlando today to honor the victims of that deadlydl nightclub shooting. Hootin they will meet with victims families. Lies meanwhile as the investigationti into the attack continues, the u. S. Senate Homeland Security committee is calling onalling on facebook to help uncover anyncoy clues the gun plan omar mateen e may have been on line. E. Maureen is back in studio s and joins us with the latestat details. Details. Mo. Steve and allison the a comm
Is the heat and we are in the aw middle of some very hotome veryh weather. Got really toasty yesterday. Rday its only going to get hotter h as we go through the weekend. Wd heat advisory is in evening asva we take a live look outside onse this saturday morning,ng july 23rd. 3rd. Theres the white house withseit the sun showing up rider onp rid top of it. You can see the sun dappledappld trees as we take a look at theo National Mall and the whiteall d house included in that shot. S it looks beautiful but it is i i very warm already. In fact, starting the morning reaganean national at 81 degrees. Grees. Dulles 74. Bwi marshall 78. So, we have the warmth, we w have the humidity. Ve the humidi. Its only going to climb fromcl there. Temperatures also in the 70so s just about everywhere to thee low 80s. Its 81 in annapolis, 82 in stevensville, 75 in cumberlandum and 73 in winchester. Cheste i just dont think we see muchh relief when you start the day te this warm and all of us should o climb
Once that starts were headed back to school. Its like everything winds dow down. Seemed like the fun kind of ends. Summer fun feeling, and its like back to business. It is, back to School Shopping and back to school and before football season beginning, all of these thats something to look forward to. That is it manuel avilay. Eople excited about that many people are skate excited about that. Humidity and temperatures fell into the 60s overnight. 57 Reagan National and 67 out at Dulles International and bwi, marshall coming in 68. So, we actually despite the hot day yesterday had a comfortable overnight. Elsewhere, temperatures in the 6 0s and 70s. 65 virginia. Nice morning for exercise or just taking the dog for a walk. Satellite and radar clear. Were looking at a bright, sunny day. Still a hot one, though, were in the same pattern of the jet stream far off to the north. This sunday the setup remains the same. Warm with temperatures in the 9 0s. Still humidity, not terribly oppressive
As you look outside on this april 9th, saturday morning,y mi thats a beautiful view of theif potomac a gorgeous lookingoo morning but we had rain showers as i was driving in adrn couple hours ago and weve gotra a couple of snow flurries showing up outside there, too. T weve got cold ahead in the next 24 hours just like lasteas weekend. Not much has changed in this ths very active weather week. Eather heres what to expect later today. Today. A wind advisory for the d. C. Metro and all the way back to the mountains in West Virginiaii as gusts are expected overd ove 40 miles an hour at times. T tims we could even see Power Outages like we did last week. That wind will increase laterasl this afternoon. This its not so windy right now. Now in fact its fairly calm but like i said we do expect it toti increase later on today. Tod so, even though we he do have dh some snow showers out there, iut think the bigger story is going to be the wind. W freeze warning thats out for tonight into early s