Ere starts right now. Ws 4 begins with a storm team 4 weather alert. And good afternoon. F happy fourthuly to you. Thanks for spending part of your holiday with us, and if you have plans for the rest of the holiday ight, strong storms could affect those plans. Thats right. And thats why were starting things off at this hour hereth storm center with amelia draper. Weve seen some sprinkles with rain out there on the mall right now. Lo what are you king at in. Im tracking very heavy rain down at the mall right now, and youre hearing the dinging going off. A new Severe Thunderstorm Warning out there. We talked about the high likelihood for storms and heavy rain yesterday, leon. Right. And here it is. First, lets take you to some video at the Lincoln Memorial where the president is set to give his speech at 6 30 tonight, and check it out. Just an absolute downpour down there. Our camert checking the right now. No Severe Thunderstorm Warnings t there, but very heavy aspl speech at 30eng rig
let sind out what the forecast is. happy new year to you both. and welcome bac good to see you. happy new year. here it is the first monday of the new year. back to work and schoolith no travel problems weatherwise. a lotcolder since yesterday afternoon. it is below freeng throughout the entire regin. right now in the 20s in prince george s, arliton. near 30 in washington and by the way. farther to the west, fairfax, montgomery, only mid-20s from tinley town, capital heights, potomac. we have a clear sky. windchill in the teens because we have northwesterly winds 20 to 25 miles per hour. it s colder i the mountains of western maryland and west virginia. and have the rain yesterday afternoon and evenin that moved on out uickly. that was replaced by high pressure puing , clearing the sky overnight. lots ofunshine today but seasonably cold weather. by:00 back above eezing. by noon time, upper s. sunrise, 7:27. by midaernoon, low 40s. brig sun and blue sky. after sunset, back
three hours. we ve seen pockets of yellow and orange. those are the areas of the heaviest rains that have been coming through. also thunder and lightning over the eastern part of the chesapeake bay. and on the eastern shore of the chesapeake bay they are geing heavy downpours right now. now the radar locally is showing a few pockets of moderate to heavy rain in fairfax county and montgomery county as well as ince william. another pocket of very heavy rain in southern prince william. all of these are heading off to the north. one band of very heavy rain moving off to the north and northeast, and will be sweeping across the western part of the eastern shore here over the next half hour, or so. when you see the areas of lighter green or blue where it s not raining quite as hard, another pocket of very heavy rain is about to come into southern maryland. they ve already had over four inches of rain. all these counties in red reporting flooding. water over roads in many locations,
weekend near prince george s community college. the driver told police she didn t know she had hit anyone. tonight at 5:30, we ll hear from the victim s mother a find out how the motorist didn t know she was dragging the person for several miles. family member say dr. david skoen in good condition and doing better every day. authorities say 50-year-old paul pardus of arlington shothim after the doctor delivered news of his mother s condition. after shooting him, pardus shot a killed his mother before turning the gun on himself. university of maryland community is once again on edge tonight after a sixth armed robbe was reported near the campus. the attacks started in early august. the most recent one happened sunday morning in a parking lot off route 1. egan mcgrath is there with a warning from police. reporter: the parking lot is well lit and not exactly off the beaten path. but that did not stop the suspects. early sunday morning, police say three men jumped their vic