arlington county low 70s. most of the region, though, in the 60s. shenandoah valley into the moun ta mountains. weather watchers faithfully reporting this morning. sunrise in about ten minutes. there is the clear sky over the washington monument. live picture from the city camera by 9:00 near 80. lots of sun through the rest of the day. reaching near 90 by noontime. ought to peak in the low to mid-90s midafternoon. by late afternoon back down to the low 90s. again, not very humid. lots of sun today. humidity will be creeping back in tonight. a look at your night planner in about ten minutes at 6:11. danella, good morning. how s traffic? good morning. i have breaking news out of d.c. fatal cycleist accident has florida avenue shut down at eckington place. police are investigating. try to stay out of the area. i want to give you a look right now. you can see the road is completely shut down while police are investigating. also traveling i-66 east, this is a look at fairfax
thunderstorm later today. more details on the forecast coming up in a couple of minutes. allison, tony. thank you. now the developing story of a plane crash in pakistan. a plane with 152 people on board went down while trying to land at the airport in pakistan s capital islamabad early this morning. the air blue jet attempted to land in heavy rain and fog. unfortunately police now say all 152 people on board are dead. and the u.s. embassy is confirming that two americans died in the crash. fire and smoke could be seen in the hills above the airport as helicopters flew overhead. rescuers had a hard time getting to the scene because of the thick forest. over news here at home, we continue to track the aftermath from sunday s severe but quick- moving storm. dozens of crews are trying to get the power on. pepco is reporting just over 36,000 customers without power, mostly in montgomery county temperature dominion has 210 customers without power in northern virginia. bge i
heat will be back and in a big way toward the end of the weekend. nice temperatures. 66 degrees at reagan national. and that s one of the warmer spots. 50s in places like frederick, only 52 degrees. and 58 down at the boardwalk in ocean city. very cool start. winds out of the north and nice breeze and again expecting fantastic conditions around here throughout the thursday. hard to believe it s first of july. there is your satellite. very quiet conditions. a lot of sunshine building in from the west so even more sunshine than yesterday. we ll go with mostly sunny skies later today and highs as i mentioned actually below where they should be with expected temperatures around 80 this afternoon. bright sunshine and cool and most importantly comfortable. winds out of the north at 5-10 miles per hour and with highs about 80. and we ll look at the holiday coming up in a few minutes. let s get to julie wright with the traffic. it s been busy in virginia, especially at route 50 at
fox 5 s will thomas has been following this investigation from the very beginning. he joins us now with the very latest details. will? reporter: brian, as you know, at this time last night, we were showing you hundreds of people gathered at the high school vanessa pham attended for a candlelight vigil. tonight police have a way you could help find her killer and vanessa s family is giving us all more insight into the promising young woman. i m angry, you know. i m really sad and i m here but i m angry. sorry. reporter: a cousin who was more like a sister can t hold back the tears. she stood shoulder to shoulder with vanessa pham s mother as they spoke about the 19-year- old gone too soon. julie pham lost her only child in sunday s brutal murder. we had a lot of special moments together. everything i did with her was special. i keep replaying like how it could have happened. reporter: that s what detectives are trying to figure out. and for the first time since van
95 northbound in virginia, we are moving from fredericksburg past dumfries to inside the mixing bowl. 395, if you are continuing on to that roadway between the beltway and the pentagon, nice and quiet still. speaking of the beltway, in virginia, we take it over to a live shot near arlington boulevard and looks like we are incident and accident free. we are tracking maryland roads. 270 southbound moving well. lanes are wide open to the split and wrap it up with the maps. a couple of construction setups on the beltway, particularly on the inner loop near route 1 college park and outer loop at branch avenue but it should be clearing in the next half hour. back to you. senate republicans have dealt president obama and senate democrats a major blow. they blocked a measure that would have extended unemployment benefits for hundreds of thousands of americans. democrats were three votes shy of the 60 needed to crack the gop filibuster. reporter: linda thompson is one of this many a