What were now learning about the gunman. And search continues for a missing virginia firefighter how her family and friends are holding out hope that she will be found safe. Good morning to you 5 01 is time now holly morris alongside maureen umeh and erin and gary is holding down the for the in weather center. Is it going to be summer part two today gary. Pretty much. Not quite like yesterday. Holly i dont know if you heard earlier. 85 degrees was High Temperature yesterday for national. That is awesome. We wont be that warm today but in the 80s one more day and then changes ill have that well talk about it. No complaint from us, airport erin hopefully know complaint on the roads yet. Lot of overnight roadwork and tractorTrailer Crash on the ramp 95 down towards virginia we have you covered there. All right. More details to come. Right now though lets get to news at 5 01 we have new information on deadly armed standoff that unfolded independent green belt, maryland a man was shooting a
Actually looking look at a triangle and of course in springfield it is 5 00 and that means it starts to slow down already. A live look on the northbound side of i 35. Northbound 395 still looks pretty good here as you cross the river into the downtown area. Back to the maps this time well head over to maryland, southbound 270, no issues to report. A live look the beltway at college park. Asses you head as you head around the bend to 95, no problems to report. An elderly woman died after being attacked in her own home. Sue rae chin has more. Im going to miss her. Reporter long time friend Joseph Cromwell would help his elderly neighbor get around. She was a very nice woman. I cut her grass, take her to the store, when i heard this, it really blew me. Reporter detectives are talking with neighbors of 71yearold Geraldine Joyce mcintyre. Right now we are passing out flyers. It is a cash award flyer for anyone who has any information in reference to the murder of mrs. Mcintyre. Reporter pol
good morning to all of you. offy to aquiet start. you are at speed. overnight construction cleared for those traveling along 66 as you travel between nutley street and the beltway. you will find overnight roadwork in the hot lane zone also cleared as you travel between tyson s and the american legion bridge. no trouble spots to report as you head inbound towards centerville. no signs of any trouble here on the beltway. top stretch at 29 colesville road. traffic flowing freely between college park and bethesda. that s a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. our big story this friday morning, trouble for a rockville man overseas. 70-year-old warren weinstein is from rockville. he was kidnapped while working in pakistan last august. al-qaeda just came out with a video claiming to be holding him hostage. it is from an al-qaeda leader. let s get the latest now from sherry live with the latest. reporter: it has been nearly four months since dr. warren weinstein was kidnapped
well out to the west at this point. that doesn t get through here until late today, maybe tonight. once it comes through, it could trigger a couple of showers and thunderstorms. best chance of that will be to the west of the city, late day and during the evening or nighttime hours. there is a secondary front farther up to the north and west. that will really bring the cooler air in here for the end part of the week. current temperatures at the area airports, right now, 70 degrees. dulles is at 66. forecast looks like this. lots of sunshine, man a little bit of fog here or there this morning. i would say maybe a 20% chance of showers and thunderstorms late today and this evening primarily out to the north and west. look for a high today of about 87-degree in town. that is the latest on the weather. more coming up in just a little bit. all right. we ll enjoy it. thank you. new this morning, prince george s county police investigating an overnight homicide. they say a man wa
talking about. it is continually hitting our area. we ve had this unsettled weather pat were over the course of the last couple of days. we have this east early flow so all of this moisture is continuing to stream its way through across the area. some of you may not be getting much right now. some of you will be seeing some. by this afternoon, it is all setting us up for a chance of seeing some thunderstorms and some periods and pockets of heavy rainfall. we had a flash flood watch in effect. this is in effect through later tonight so do be careful with the thunderstorms as they start to pick up this afternoon. we could see some low-lying areas definitely being affected. do be careful where you drive. we also have a coastal flood advisory in effect. that is in effect right through until midnight tonight. you can see they have onshore flow and that is the reason why we have the coastal flood advisory. temperatures now a mild start to your day into the 60s pretty much everywher