your weather expertise. we talked earlier and asked you how hot it had been in washington and you nailed it. yeah, 106 nd the hottest it had ever been and that was on july 20th, 1930. we won t get there today but we ll flirt with 100. here is the here are the current conditions being reported at reagan national. temperature right now 79 degrees. your humidity, we showed you that hazy picture, 84%. and there are no winds. the winds are calm. so the haze is just kind of hanging there for right now. here is a look at the temperatures across the region. we ve got 80 degrees. now we have just gone back up to 80 degrees in washington. it has gone up to 81 in annapolis. 7:00 in the morning and we shouldn t be talking about temperatures in the 80s. 72 in manassas. 76 in quantico. baltimore 79. frederick, maryland, 75 degrees. it s going to be another hot day, folks. as we ve been saying, hazy, hot and humid. a heat advisory going into effect at noon today and a code orange air qu
and baltimore, but don t anticipate us doing that today, at least in d.c. but it is going to be a scorcher. my daytime high today is forecast at 99 degrees. and some of you may see it just get a little bit even warmer than that. so do be careful. we ll have a look at the five- day later on. back to you. big story we re following this thursday morning, d.c. council member harry thomas, jr., out as the head of the economic development committee. this comes as he faces charges of using funds for personal use. sherry ly is live with what all this means. reporter: good morning. allison. there was pressure for harry thomas to resign, but even a few days ago he was saying to resign from his committee chairmanship would be an admission of guilt. now that he has resigned he said don t read anything into this and it does not mean he is admitting anything and in his resignation letter thomas said he fully expected to be reinstated once this investigation is said and done with. thoma
two hours. we ll stay on top it and bring you more information in a live update coming up in a few minutes. i m sarah simmons. welcome to fox 5 morning news. we ll get to all of our top stories coming up in just a minute. first, let s get a quick look at the weather with gwen tolbert. we have a scorcher. oh, boy, do we. it will be a very, very hot one. 74 at national. 64 at gaithersburg. frederick at 66 and 69 at baltimore. preddy good example of where we re headed when it is warm already at this hour. nothing happening in the skies. a ridge of high pressure settled in over the mid- atlantic. that is keeping our skies fairly clear. we are going to be holding preddy steady into the course of the day. heat advisory at 12:00 noon until 8:00 tonight. thank you. checking our top stories, in the district, council chair kwame brown says he will announce a plan of action concerning councilman harry thomas. thomas is accused of spending hundreds of thousands of city dollars. he
this morning. good morning. i m wisdom martin sitting in for sarah, melanie and dave who are all off. and first we begin with a cyber attack on a major defense contractor here in the d.c. region. hackers launched what is being considered a significant attack on lockheed martin. the company maintains no secrets were compromised. they are working to restore access to the targeted network. the impact on the pentagon is minimal and homeland security are analyzing data to figure out how bad the attack was and how to minimize the risk. arrests sparked by dancing. two people taken into custody and park police are now speaking out. fox 5 s roz plater is following the developments. i gave you a warning to come out here and demonstrate. reporter: the trouble started not long after the protestors started dance in the rotunda that expressive dancing is considered the same as marching and making speeches, all of which are banned in certain parts of national memorials. and i fi
how about this. this was a video steve kemp sent. hail was piled up like snow on his deck. that s pretty amazing. unbelievable. some areas didn t get much at all. all i know is my satellite was trying to be tricky during american idol last night. you need to watch it. i need to and i want to. i just want to say to ski kemp, that is great video. it captured it as it comes down and the use of his hands put it in perspective. that s what we want out there. current conditions at reagan national, 59 degrees. the relative humidity, every day this week you feel it when you step out there this morning. it is humid and there is no winds. the winds are calm. so the fog that we ve had is hanging around and it s quite humid. i won t say uncomfortable but it s humid and you feel it. nothing in the way of precipitation. we do have the clouds and the humidity and the fog. so there is meanty of moisture to deal with it out there but we re not having any shower activity. and i can