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Good morning, everybody. Im aaron gilchrist. Eun yang. We want to beginou on yr commute and your forecast. And are dry out there could have a little bit of fog. 77 degrees and southerly wind b willst up the humidity levels throughout the day. Nothing is happening out there right now. We are dry. Not saying we couldnt see a stray thunderstorm thi b s,ci 9 9 similar to yesterday. They were highly isolated. Same deal today. If youre thinking about getting that car washed, we have rain coming as we head through the rest of this week. Today might be the day to do that. We will talk about that rain for today and for the rest of the week and time it out coming up. Lets time out your commute. Good morning, melissa. Right now we have an issue here northbound 295 after the oxon cove bridge. Work zone. Everything is gone on the beltway no matter which way youre heading right now. Really good its just the shoulder there now. Aaron . Melissa, thank you. We are following some breaking news this mor
Offload the contents of the truck and we are told that that is about 40,000 pound of candy. They will to take all of that off of the truck first be re they can then haul it out of here. Bottom line this is going to be potentially be an impact for a number of hours here. 270 all of the lanes have reopened so an improvement from earlier this morning. The lanes alo running but they are open. This ramp to germantown road is still closed and that may be the case for several more hours. This all stems from an Early Morning accident here. A Police Officer was doing a traffic stop here on 270, was pulling over a vehicle. This tractortrailer traveling through the area, the driver swerved and hit that police cruer and then pushed theis cru that was pushed into a Second Police cruiser and then the tractortrailer, itself, flipped on its side. At times it wasa across the r and lanes of 270. Everything is op 270 right now but we still have a mess and ople are still going rather slowly through the ar
Hot, hot saturday morning, temperatures only going up from here. That is why were in weather lert mode this morning. Another dangerously hot day is on tap. He foratest well check in with Lauryn Ricketts. Its like ablanket. Its that heat blanket covering you out there right now. Even as we headed into the early torning hours you can s haze out there. Sun coming up, just about two minutes ago. See if we canet that sun for you. But again it is a hazy day out there already. Of course you see ouranners are red for weather alert. Take a look, these are the temperatures right now at 6 00 a. M. On your saturdaymorning. In the 70s right now in d. C. , coming in at 81 degrees. But lets go ahead and factor in that humidity. It feels like 86 out there. And last hour it felt like 88. Its come down a little bit, improvement, improvement, people. Temperatures right now, again, are on the warm side. And so it feels pretty hot wen you head out there. Thats why we have that excessive heat warning and it
Sunshine . Because im freezing. We are waking up with temperatures in the 60s around thy. Cit low 70s right next to the warm waters of the chesapeake bay. Even more spots have dropped into the 50s this morning than we had yesterday morning. All of the Shenandoah Valley is in the 50s now. Gaithersburg 60 now. 61 manassas and 58 warrenton and 55 in winchester, virginia. Summertime ff for for sure. Your planner today. More sunshine than yesterday and a bitan warmer th yesterday as well but rain chances are low and not quite down to zero. Rain chances are under 20 . Just like yesterday but yesterday it did raint my house around 6 30, 7 00. Taking a look at the beltwa inner loop and outer loop okay near 50 a lane blocked because of a work zonee rest of theway looking just fine. Here is ather situation. Gw parkway turkey run because of work zone there and laurelpa bw way between 198 and 32 left lane is getting by and silver kpring Georgia Avenue northbound 16th street wor getting by that wor