almost $35,000. for more information, logon to nbcwashington.com. the quake s epicenter, mineral, virginia, is also still recovering. the earthquake caused a total of $61 million in damages to louisa county schools. two of the schools, thomas jefferson elementary and louisa county high school, were forced to close permanently. the school district received $28 million for repairs. time now for weather and traffic on the 1s at 6:01. storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein is here, and we re watching a little fog burn off this morning. yeah, just a little in some of the rural areas, but generally not a big problem for your morning commute as you head off to work and school on this thursday morning. we have some clouds over washington, the bay and southern maryland, the eastern shore. those little patches of green are some sprinkles of light rain now in st. mary s county, southern calvert, northern neck of virginia crossing the bay heading to the lower eastern shore, but it
side. we can see it 673 degrees right now and arnold coming in at 67. sykesville at 63 and the winds are calm. we have patchy fog in a lot of spots this morning and you definitely need to take it easy out and about and make sure you have the low beams on instead of the high beams. now maryland s most powerful radar is dry. and it s going to stay that way. even as we go through time today. so no need to even pack the umbrella. because it s going to be a nice dietary. although we do need the wet weather. well, we re waking up temperature right around 70 degrees. we will have a few clouds as we go through the morning. still ready to burn off the morning fog. and then by lunchtime today we will be seeing plenty of sunshine with that temperature coming in right around 83 degrees. a high temperature today i m going with 87. so make sure you re prepared for that. we will be snow and ice and seasonable and a season nice and seasonable and a stellar day on tap. 695 at liberty road
the death toll keeps rising. we will have a live report. y president obama could be getting ready to open the floodgates. the midweek warm-up has finally arrived. look at this beautiful live picture from the tidal basin. good morning washington continues right now. captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org live and in hd, this is good morning washington, on your side. we say good morning, washington. great to have you joining us. i am alison starling. and i am julie parker. police are still on the scene as to look into one of the worst acts of violence in years. 10 people were shot during a drive by in the 4000 block of south capitol street. four are dead. three people are in custody after a chase into prince george s county. we will have a live report in just a moment. your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. we want to start with brian van de graaff on what should be a beautiful day. the storm system is finally moving off