Do not call me mr. President. What i do want to acknowledge that we have the honorable mark farrell in our Commission Room and i know he has a very packed schedule and has many important things to do today including budget hearings. I want to acknowledge the bis busty schedule and have him speak on a item before it is called. Supervisor. Thank you commissioner low and i can call you acting president. Commissioners thanksgivings for having me. I have to run we are actually in 5 minutes starting the budget deliberations for the fiscal year including the rec and Park Department this year so have to get back to that. I want to speak on the item with fran cisco park [inaudible] this is an agreement two years in the make and i want to thank the staff. [inaudible] in particular who has been instrumental making this happen so want to thank everyone. They are going to give a generous gilf to our city to construct the park we talked about a few years ago and appreciate all your support for that.
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Batch from this morning trying to pull away. But theres more in West Virginia out to the west and actually this goes back almost to missouri right now. So definitely lulls on the way for the afternoon. But later this afternoon, and on and off this evening well have some of those showers and even some rumbles of thunder. We see north and west were starting to dry out a little bit of montgomery and loudoun. Frederick counties, northern fauquier but in town, here we have some of the more moderate rain just to our southwest and southeast. Its all moving east northeast at a pretty good clip and its headed toward annapolis here by 12 15. It will head to stevensville by about 12 30 or so and temps are ranging from the low 60s to look at that in richmond. Mid 70s. I think we make the 70s today but cooling off firefighter weekend and ill have your forecast in detail in a few minutes. At this hour, more than 100 firefighters are continuing to douse a massive blaze in kentucky. Fire broke out aro
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