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
Today and unfortunately thattt pan is going to continue on into your weekend. I think saturday is probably the hottest day of the stretch from a heat index standpoint. Right now, current. 80 in arlington and 82 annapolis and 76 at clinton, maryland, morning. It is already very muggy and look at how quickly these temperatures are going to climb. We will be above 90 degrees before lunch time today and afternoon highs probably wont gethundred for a temperature today but the heat index could be as hot as 105 and we will talk about how to beat the heat with the weekend coming up. For now, it is time for traffic. Melissa, you got to have good news at 4 00 a. M. . You would think, right . Annandale outer loop on a work joan there. But not impacting anything. 66 and 95 noprlem. Everhing good in and out of town. Same situationro thh Prince Georges County. Indian head highway route 4 and 5. We have this. If youre heading northbound oni 270 any t soon still have that work zone there at the spur a
Thats coming up in justbo. Lauryn, thank you. Just in to our newsroom this morning, the new York City Police detective who was on capitol hill pleading for additional funds for 9 11 First Responders earlier this month has died. Luis alvarezs family announced his death this morning. Here he is at the capital testifying with comedian jon stewart. They were asking congress to keep the fund going to help 9 11 First Responders who are now ltdealing with hea problems from their work at ground zero. Congress has yetot to ve on the bill to extend those funds. Thoughts and prayers with his family. And this morning a Death Investigation is under way in a quiet i beach townn delaware. Authorities found a bodyoa flng in a canal in Bethany Beach yesterday, not far from where a woman originally fromnt montgomery c was last seen. Her name is linda lee bravo. There are reports the body recovered yesterday appears to be. Wel and have the latest on our nbc washington app. New this morning, President Tru
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