Down nearly 334 points. The president just weighingin on all of this tweeting moments ago quote what the market wanted to hear from and the Federal Reserve that this was the beginning of a lengthy and aggressive rate cutting cycle. Which would keep pace with china the European Union and other countries around the world. Powell let us down but elysses and in quantitative tightening which should not have started in the first place. No inflation. We are winning anyway but im still not getting much help from the Federal Reserve. So steve, is this fair criticism given the strength of the economy . I think jay powell is simply trying to save face. He had to reverse himself for from last year and now he is saying , we will do it our own way. But there will be another cut by the fall. Kind of a big yawn. December should have happened i dont think today should have happened. Today is just a reverse, one thing that should have happened there for the second thing had to happen. Im not so sure we
Happening . G happy 5 00 on a tuesday morning, everybody. Starting off on a great note. A little warm out there. We have got temperat es that are on their way up along with the humiatty. Is the main thing youll notice out there today. The heat and o humidity isut there. Not the bl skies we had yesterday. 77 degrees is our temperature ttght now. We will slip a bit as we continue through the 6 00 a. M. Hour and start moving back in the right direction. 8by 10 00 a. M. Its going to feel like 90 degrees by that time. Mix of sun andl cd out there. More humid today. Afternoon, we could have a chance for storms and same with the commute soim we will t those out coming up. Good morning, melissa. Good morning. Taking a look at northbound 395 near king street brandnew crash blocking the ride of the road here. They are getting by on theleft so be careful. You might a little bit of a delay. Beltway overall right now i would say no major issues. For the first time, neighborsh are sing their concern
This fire some lane are blocked. A a couple of minutes ago, everything was shut down southbound New Hampshire avenue at randolph road. You can see it looks li we are closed. Everything shut down southbound New Hampshire at randolph road. Northbound lanes are not impacted. We have poln e out there oe scene shutting things down so all of the apparatus can get in and out safely. Lauryn ricketts, pretty out there this morning. Not bad. Youre right, melissa. A beautiful start. Sun just came up. Or just coming up about three or four minutes ago. Beautiful out there right now. We will continue to e a autiful day. A few more cloud around today compared to yesterday. E a littlt more humidity. 76 is our temperature right now. Youll start to feel that humidity if you have not yet. 94 is where we are today but look at the temperatures. We go up on wednesdayand definitely on friday. Rain likely on thursday and that will be from barry. Our average temperature is 89 degrees. Lets talk about timing of
We begin this morning with our weather, get ready for dangerous heat to move into the area this week and into the weekend. Its already hot. And adding to the problem, the midity is getting worse, that will make the afternoon feel hotter than it is. Lauren joins us now with a look at that, and a chance of storms . We have a chance of storms later this afternoon,d say around 3 00 well see showers and thunderstorms develop, some of those will be a little on the stronger side. Keep it here, well keep you updated on that, current temperatures out there right now, in the 80s, it is warm. You factor in that humidity. Our air temperature headed into the 80s and 90s. It will feel closer to 100 degrees out there. 40 chances of storms later on. From 3 00, 4 00, uil 9 00 or 10 00. Not everyone is going to see hem, we will have a few out there. Well talk about that. We have remnants of barry to make it through here. We have this heat wait until you see the numbers we have for friday and satuay. Wel
Degrees. By 7 00 p. M. Low 90s but its feeling close to 100 when you factor in the mugginess. Most of us are dryt there. I cant rule out a few isolated showers and thunderstorms, in especially northern virginia. Again, most of us are dry. Everybody is warm. That should say 81 at 11 00 p. M. , but it will feel more like 91 at 11 00 p. M. When you factor in the humidity. Heres the latest check of storm team 4ar rad the d. C. Metro area is looking dry. Back to the west, showers into washington county,he panhandle of West Virginia and out into lualay. This is about the dangerous heat. More on how hot it will feel as the week wears on coming up in my fl forecast right around 4 20. Thanks, amelia. Folks, as those temperatures rise well be on weather alert later this week, and the best h thing toe with you, our nbc washington app. That or a fan. Can you make weather your home page there and getts alerent right to your phone at any time. Pat . Its been one year since a 10yearold girl sitting o