that kind of hits you in the face. but for folks, good for the short sleeves today. i would put on short sleeves. sniff, sniff, sniff. pull the scissors out if you can t find anything in your closet. it is sticky out there. we re not only talking about a day that s going to be warm and humid, but also the air quality forecast today is code orange. and that means unhealthy for those folks with lung conditions or heart conditions. so you want to take it easy today. 74 the current reading. largo, maryland, at 72. as well as franconia, now at 73 degrees. throughout the area, low to mid 70s. temperatures running a few degrees higher than yesterday. a look at all the cloud cover that s moved in. so we re partly cloudy right now. and it is going to be a partly cloudy day. so we ll have sunshine coming through, then it s really going to heat that air up over us, out ahead of the weather front that could spark some showers and storms during the afternoon. your sunrise today, 6:2
territory. and now the focus turns to the federal reserve. this afternoon, the fed will meet to discuss what it can do, if anything, to help boost the economy. investors are hoping for some good news after the worst day on wall street in two years. maria bartiromo reports. reporter: investors reacted to the first ever downgrade of u.s. credit, fast and furious, on what became the worst day on wall street in two years. now tuesday s fed meeting is critical, as pressure mounts for ben bernanke and his fellow policy makers to consider fresh stimulus for the economy or face the threat of another recession. there s concern that the s&p downgrade may do something to consumer confidence and thereby ease us a little closer to the infamous double dip that everybody s worried about. midday monday, the president tried to inject confidence into the market. our problems are imminently solvable. and we know what we have to do to solve them. reporter: but as the president was ta
did all the research. yes. and in bermuda the businessmen do, in fact, wear shorts with their shirt and tie. i like it. i think that, you know, in honor of the heat, that a lot of d.c., the offices might want to take this look on. guys, we ve got to unite today. get out there in our bermuda shorts and chill. you come in with the short sleeves and the skirts. you ve got all this air and venting and what not, and we re sweating it out in these suits. it s called beating the heat. why not? let s talk temperatures right now. the other thing that s been crazy is the dewpoint temperature. it s at 75 degrees right now. yesterday we got up into the low 80s. last time we had dewpoint temperatures that high in the low 80s was back in 2002. so this is yes, it s unusual. 93 is the current heat index at capitol hill with a temperature of 85 degrees. lanham, maryland, it feels like 82 degrees. springfield, virginia, at 85. laytonsville, maryland, current heat index at 77 degree
until he broke the windshield, putting at least two holes in the front windshield there. the worker crawled out, got over to the side of the jeep, protected himself as the man began to yellin coherently, and as quickly as he appeared, he disappeared back into the woods. according to police, he never fired that shotgun. the worker was not hurt. there were people who were coming down the bw parkway and saw all of this happening, calling police. some of them actually pulled over into the side of the road and then spoke with police about what they saw, so they have some additional witnesses. but, again, never found that suspect. they re saying now that that man is still, they believe, somewhere in the area, but they did feel that it was okay for them to go ahead and open up 295. they had more than 50 officers out here from three different police departments searching for this suspect. they re saying that it just does not appear that he is immediately in the 295 corridor any longe
year. looking outside, but temperatures are holding in the 60 s. 62 at dulles airport 65 at reagan national. a nice warm up for this afternoon with a few scattered clouds here and there not going to amount to much. high temperatures will approach 80-85. we have breaking news on the traffic front with lisa baden. around 3:00 this morning in a crash occurred in clinton maryland. branch avenue, five closed at surratt rd. no one is able to get through. southbound leaving the beltway can get downtown the waldorf through waldorf. there s construction outside the beltway. no problems on the dulles greenway or the dulles toll road. route 7 looks good between sterling and route 7. back to you. thank you. 4:31. we have more breaking news. investigators in wheaton are trying to piece together a deadly pedestrian accident. a 24-year-old was crossing georgia avenue when she was stopped. the car that hit her and then went off the road, crashed through a fence and and ended up in a ba