ago while in the custody of antigadhafi brigades. human rights watch is calling on the libyan national council to investigate this. conditions in syria are getting too dangerous for the u.s. ambassador. the state department has pulled ambassador robert ford out of syria citing what it calls credible threats against his personal safety. u.s. officials say an armed pro-government mob attack ford an some colleagues in an embassy convoy last month. ford has been an outspoken critic of the syrian government s violent crack dourn on protesters. u.s. officials say they don t know when it will be safe for ford to return to syria. a growing danger in the skies with more people on the ground shining hand-held lasers into airline cockpits. it usually happens while planes are taking off or landing. the most dangerous times for pilots to be distracted or even temporarily blinded. the faa reports more than 2,700 laser incidents so far this year. nearly ten times the number reported in
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downpour. otherwise, like ray and scattered around. light rain is moving into western ski fairfax county. morning showers and an afternoon storms. some of those afternoon storms could become severe and we will have sunshine in between the morning and afternoon rain. the degree of sunshine will very. the more sunshine and you get all around lunchtime, the higher your chance of thunderstorms later today. 84 degrees, on our way to about 90. with the wet pavement, the volume of traffic is starting to bunch up a little bit on 66. they are experiencing a little bit of rain. no accidents between marshall and going into vienna and more action spotify 95 virginia out of woodbridge. spotted out of the virginia on 95 in woodbridge. we love more to come on traffic. we began this morning with a fallout from the debt deal. global stocks are down and analysts are saying it is because of new growing economic pessimism. that extends to this side of the lead to even after president obama
good morning. straight up 6:00. sun starting to come up today on another warm tuesday, august 2nd, 2011. good morning. thank you for waking up with fox 5 morning news. i m sarah simmons. i m steve chenevey. this was the view from our tower cam late last night looking south from northwest d.c. several warpings were issued across the area as the veer weather moved through. it did have some damage down to the south but some other places didn t really get much at all. it was a mixed bag last night. absolutely. some folk would get it and some folks would not as we said and that is how it played out. i had several minutes of very heavy rain where i was and other people got no precipitation what soviet. national airport got no rain. so no rain for us today. we ll have a dry day. another warm day, not quite as warm as yesterday. not as humid as yesterday either. take a look. these are the latest stats coming to us from reagan national airport where right now, it is 75 degrees.
we re generally between 70 and 75. as well as right around the bay. their temperatures in the low to mid-70s. in the mountains low to mid-60s. yesterday we had the front pushing through, and that did trigger those storms which are now long gone. we ve got a clear sky. the bright spot in the southern sky is jupiter. we have on tap for today plenty of sunshine. sunrise at 6:10. by 9:00 we ll be near 80 degrees. bright sun with low humidity throughout the day. afternoon highs reaching, yes, low and mid-90s. and then by late afternoon we should be back down into the low 90s. we will have increasing humidity tonight, and changes on the way for tonight and tomorrow. we ll look at your night planner. that will be coming up in ten minutes at 5:11. now let s check our tuesday morning traffic. danella, how are we doing? we are doing great. the roads look great. i m checking cameras for you. i don t see anything really slowing you down in our area. especially if you re taking the brid