it will be hot and humid, i should say the heat index will be around 105 degrees. 66 and 95 as a normal volume of traffic but no accidents. 270 southbound has delays between 1008209. this is the beltway near andrews air force base. if you take route 5 out of wall dark to go to clinton, it is smooth and no problems on route 4. we will have newschopper7 and a little while. more tough talk and action in the fight to raise the nation s debt ceiling with less than five days until america default. the house is poised to vote on a gop plan but it is not the end of the debate. wall street is beginning to show some signs of worry. autria godfrey is live in the newsroom. the house is set to vote on this new plan from john boehner today. he is hoping some last-minute rewrites and harsh words will get his own party on board. he is sending a clear message to fellow republicans telling them i cannot do this unless you are behind me. the message has gotten some on board. i am a cons
statement following the action. it says, pepco is working hard to improve service reliability and through our reliability enhancement plan we have dedicated over a quarter billion dollars to achieve that goal. we believe in reliability standards that are fair and achievable. residents like forsyth says it s time pepco had to pay the price for outages instead of residents. it s expensive. i have to one time clean out a whole freezer full of food, meat, vegetables, cakes, homemade goodies all gone. reporter: the d.c. city council still has to sign off on that $100,000 fine for pepco. it s part of the budget they re currently debating and it is expected to go through. if you would like to share your pepco outage story, the pse is taking public comments until august 22nd. i m sure many people have a lot to say. thank you. it s been a soggy friday in our area and more of the same for the weekend. that s the question. gary has your forecast. i m not even going to stretc
seen enough rain to cause flash flooding. please be careful on the roadways and watch out if you don t need to be out if you don t need to be out this evening, might where t=, p?@athat sga is v ?umess. bo andib ont-@re?aqorm the is=z] andn of flash flooding, it is really awful up in frederick maryland and on the phone is lieutenant clark pennington with the frederick police. lieutenant, what roadway is it in your 0h7 thoroughfa well, it scity.) we have had to close down approximately six or seven roadways which some of those roadways are actual thoroughfares through the city. we re talking about market street?k of &qi thvtó9homes.hn$÷].ñ6ouroa s .ave that pa6ú mayo be stranded in the roadway. cyd ore dajn ,-q< through standingt but we re just getting motorists moving. all right, lieutenant clark pennington of the frederick county police. an othe way. don t drive through it. well, if you have any weather pictures, we would like you to share them with us. send them t
this is fox 5 news at 10:00. fox 5 is on top of several big stories tonight. we re about to officially kick off summer with some changes. the temperature spike and thunderstorm we re tracking tonight. and president obama is getting ready to make a major announcement about afghanistan. will this be the beginning of the end of the war? . but we begin tonight with two violent attacks in northern virginia that landed one man in the hospital. thanks for joining us tonight. i m shawn yancy. i m brian bolter. police say in both cases a group of men swarmed the victims. the a attacks happened within minutes of attacks happened within minutes of each other in the same area of woodbridge. fox 5 s bob barnard with more. reporter: the muggers apparently have an appetite for pizza and beating people up, two attacks here in woodbridge saturday night. one of the victims was flown to a hospital. prince william county police call the crime committed here along matthews drive in w
reporting live in stafford for abc 7 news. a man accused of causing a scare the pentagon is not immune to legal problems. yonathan melaku appeared in a courtroom today by video. he now faces new charges. his new charges are two counts of grand larceny that are unrelated to the incident at the pentagon on friday. two of his victims spoke out. weeks before yonathan melaku became the center of the massive security scare at the pentagon and the arlington national cemetery he was at the center of the larceny investigation. he was accused of smashing windows in vehicles and grabbing everything from gps systems to thousands of dollars in cash. we have glass everywhere. he was charged with grand larceny thrown in jail, and released on bond. on friday morning, he turned up at arlington national cemetery suspected of carrying bomb making materials. the guy at the pentagon was in my car last week. federal authorities searched his home and determined he was not carrying expl