you today. plus, a dakota town, north dakota town, i should say, could be hours away from literal wipeout. 11,000 people told to get out of town now. the sirens have gone off, i m told. we re going to talk to the town s mayor here in mere moments. plus, breaking news outside of atlanta. take a look at this. live pictures, i m told. look at that thick black smoke coming out of this sounds like it s some sort of corporation. clayton county outside of atlanta. 50 to 55 different firefighters trying to fight this thing. you can see some of those patrol cars and fire trucks there on the scene as they re tending to this. again, some sort of two alarm fire at the tinser corporation. an outside source fire located on a storage lot. no people according to the chief out of clayton county, no people were endangered but evacuations are in place all around the area. we re watching those pictures for you. as soon as we get updates from our southeast desk, i promise we ll pass them al
proposal is being reported in the press right now to me is insufficient and unacceptable and basically what he s doing is advocating for only a token drawdown of 5,000 troops by the end of this year and another 27,000 at the end of 2012. basically, we have a status quo in place until after the election. we re kind of kicking the can down the road. i want to know and my constituents want to know how is this war going to come to an end? it s the longest war in our history. we re borrowing $8.2 billion a month to pay for it while at the same time, we re cutting fuel assistance for low income elderly people. so there are a number of people who want a lot out. there are a number of people who don t want so many out and defense secretary gates said that 2,000, 3,000 would be up his alley. these numbers are all tentative. in fact, according to the washington post this morning, there was a draft of what the president was going to say at 8:00 tonight from the white house that had
morning. not everyone is getting it. most of you are not getting it but we have seen some activity this morning and we re likely to continue some during the early morning hours and then we get a break and we ll see more during the late afternoon and into the evening hours as well. temperatures, it s a warm start to the day. we re in the 70s. 74 degrees in the district. 73 at dulles airport, baltimore is at 70 degrees. fredericksberg is 75. and frederick, maryland is at 73 degrees. here is your day planner for today. say it with me hazy, hot and humid. sorry about that. we ll see a good amount of sunshine today, mixed with clouds. high today right around about 90 degrees. look for showers between 3:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. and some of them could be strong. that s a look at the weather. now lauren demarco is here with a look at traffic. well it got started this morning early with the outer loop in montgomery county, delays because of an earlier wreck that is clear but you are