Under Public Comment if you would like to make a Public Comment, you can see and hear everything in that room. With that, we have a few other announcements. The first announcement is item 5i which is coit tower will be coming off the Consent Agenda and will be heard separately today. We ask that you turn off any sound producing devices and that you take any secondary conversations outside. If you would to speak on an item today, we ask that you complete a blue card. It is not required but we do call names for Public Comment in the order received by the blue card. Once were through with that, we will ask if theres any additional Public Comment. You will have two minutes to speak on every item on calendar today with the exception of 7 and 8. We will be hearing them together as one. Item 7 and 8 together. You will have three minutes total on a. If theres an item on calendar that falls under the jurisdiction of the commission that is on calendar, that falls under the jurisdiction of the co
Fog may be a little dense for the rural areas. Watch out for the roadways. Patchy fog there. Elsewhere, beautiful morning. Mild and comfy this afternoon. Your weather headlines, a weekend turning summer like. Nice warming coming up this weekend. A cool morning, though. Temperatures with the fog will be hovering in the 50s between now and 8 00. After that, we will jump into the 60s. By noon, should be around 70 degrees. Mostly sunny. Delightful afternoon. Temperatures in the mid70s most of the region. Low humidity in place. Just a few clouds beginning to pop up. We go live to georgetown with Amelia Siegel. Now lets check in on traffic. Heres Alexis Davies. Good morning, tom. We have a serious accident in maryland. Single car crash involving a a fatality. The offramp of branch avenue towards allentown road is blocked entirely. The investigation will be on site the next 30 minutes. Find an alternate route if youre traveling in that area. East bound 66, two right lanes blocked. All lanes o
Midafternoon. Next weather and traffic on the 1s at 6 11, Amelia Siegel live in georgetown. Lets take a look at traffic this friday morning. A couple of crashes. Alexis davies reported on that. Whats going on . No major crashes or incidents reported. Just volume. Elsewhere, we still have accident in maryland involving a fatality. Offramp of branch avenue is blocked due to the accident investigation. And westbound 50 before route 201, right lane blocked due to an accident. And John Marshall highway at beverly road. Use caution in these areas. Elsewhere on the roadways, phded phd traveling south on 270 looking good. Aaron and eun. Voters in scotland have spoken. Scotland will remain part of the united kingdomment scottish people turned out in unprecedenteded numbers for independence referendum. The first minister thanked the voters who backed independence saying they had change the face of british politics forever. The economy is responding well to the news. British stocks are up in earl
D. C. Homeless shelter. Officials have referred charges against her mother to the u. S. Attorneys office for potential prosecution. Bruce leshan reports the City Council Member is now raising serious questions about a d. C. Investigation that concluded the city did everything it legally could to protect the 8 yearold girl. Reporter there was the statement that there have been charges sent to the u. S. Attorney. Can you tell us anything about that . Youll have to talk to the d. C. Attorney about that. Reporter top d. C. Officials still declined to talk publicly about many of the details of the disappearance about 8yearold relisha rudd who was last seen alive with the janitor of her homeless shelter who later allegedly killed his wife and then himself. Sources have long said that a grand jury is looking into whether relishas mother lied to investigators and made it harder for them to find her daughter. Do you solemnly swear the testimony you are about to give today will be the try, the w
Announcers outside the u. S. We have a chance to grow jobs tax revenues, infrastructure by expanding coal exports and i think it is a way to keep prices lower as well as create jobs, tax revenue for infrastructure. I was just handed the words we have on that. The east coast ports alone by shipping 70 million tons. Accompanies the own, manage, export commonwealth continue with longrange plans focusing on potential for your, asia, south america. Glad to see the east coast. The coal, senator barrasso from wyoming we have opportunities from wyoming to miami and getting back to expansion. And recognized the lowsulfur content. Thank you, madam chair. Seeing such rapid change. Capability is increasing. And would you see as the role, to change the way we think about energy, change our generation needs to facilitate time shifting, move us forward to a very different kind of grid than what we have experienced in the past. Thank you. Storage could be a game change and costs are coming down, distr