The storm is expected to become a hurricane byhe time it makes landfall this morning. First responders have told people along the coast in louisiana that the time to run has passed and now people have to hunker down and barrel through the storm. T good morningo you, im meagan fzgerald, were tracking the latest developments on Tropical Storm barry and how that system could affect us here in the d. C. Region. We want to check in with Lauryn Ricketts. First and foremos this storm system is continuing to churn very slowly over the last several hours. It has sped up. From three miles to five miles an hour, heading towards the coast of louisiana. Now, not sure if its going to get to category 1 status manufacture it makes landfall. Winds are 65 miles an hour. The thing is, it m doesntatter if it makes hurricane 1 status, capgory 1 status, or troal storm. The damage is starting to be done right here. Lots of rain headed towards new orleans, towards baton rouge, just to the west of new orleans.
This morning for traffic. Hello s getting weird good new in the weather department. The risk of Severe Weather is tu out of the p for quite sometime to come. A little weather front and work its way through the region today. As itcomes through it might ring out one or two isolated rain shower in the day today. Most of us will not get rained on for a fday. A lonesome drop in charlottesville. 73 in washington. Cooler to the north west. 64 leesburg and 63 winchester. That slightly cooler and slightly more importantly less humid air moving in for the weekend. At least less humi here is your planner for hot and humid. A chance forh a ser or two. Mostseof tho rain chances across parts of Northern Virginia and Northern Maryland and lorraine chances for today. Good morning, jack taylor. How are you . Chuck, morning. Starting off deja vuing agai hi. Canal road is closed again this morning between reservoir and ll fox unfortunately, with mondays damage from the storm. That roadway will take a whi
Around mount vernon, wood bridge, over towards waldorf. If there was any heavy flooding it would be in this area over the next half hour to an hour. Watch out. It could come up very, very quickly. The line extending all the way down i95. Really just a mess out there night on i95. Going to be a mess of a night for sure, but we are drying ando startinsee that threat, that flash flood threat diminishing. That is some veryllood news. W talk much more about this over the next couple of minutes. Doug, thanku. We could use some good news tonight. People headed out of the district this afternoon have not been able to use canal road. It remains shut down in both directions between reservoir and fox hole road. So the crews can repair asi hole. It was caused by mondays heavy rain and tonights rain probably not making their job anya eer. The repairs were extented pecte take at least through torrow mornings rush. Well let you know asoon as the road opens on our nbc washington app. A reminder from p
Southbound 50 inbound residual delays. And next. 7 01. And we learn that deadly train sdmaent Washington State may have been caused by speed. Later fox five Melanie Alnwick is live outside head qu5r9ers. Mel, good morning. First full day for ntsb go team which left here in washington d. C. And headed to Washington State for that crash. When they arrived at the seattle tacoma area quick briefing gave jaw dropping information and 80 miles an hour in 30 mile an hour zone. One of the trains then data recorders. Interests state 5 there in Washington State this is about will be closed for a portion of the day. Still today while volingttors landed on to interstate five. Train was making its inaugural run on fast iter root from see at toll port long, horror. There were 08 passengers on boards. Theyre looking at many factors including spied. And the speed limit is known to operators and and the speed limit and that is will help show us. We can tell you that crew members have not yet been interv
Good morning and welcome to news4 midday im chris lawrence. And im erika gonzalez. National Weather Service says Dulles Airport hit a record low temperature of one degree early this morning. Right now you are looking at the current temperatures. Big improvement from the one degree. Dont get too 457happy thoug. We have nor snow. Lets get the latest from the meteorologist sheena parveen. Hit a record low this morning about zero degrees. So, yes, its very cold weather. Locally very cold weather in florida wintry mix and snow moving into parts of georgia and carolina as well. This is our next weather system. Heading out into the atlantic, and tonight part of the area start to see snow falling. Ill show you how much coming up in a minute. But temperature wise low to mid20s. Well be breaking 30 degrees this afternoon for some of the area. Big improvement compared to what we have seen over the past few days. In the suburb there you see 31 degrees, then well see the snow moving in. For some of