Fbi acting director is testifying before lawmakers about what is next at the Bureau Following the dismissal of extract or james comey and on the right, first alert doppler tracks showers moving into the region. Good afternoon and thank you for joining us. Im andrea roane and we are in for cloudy, cold and damp weather into the weekend. Howard bernstein joins us with the first alert forecast. Good news . Good news on mothers day and tomorrow, it wont be that bad but a nasty afternoon on the first half of saturday, lots of commencements. We have a concert and a lot going on. Plan b for those contingencies. On first alert doppler, this activity is moving northwest to southwest with heavy rain, thankfully, pushing through much of the region and we are watching the south and east of town with heavy showers after the northern at six Marys College to the eastern shores. It comes in from the northwest with some brakes and perhaps we will get into a low here or there but showers will be more on
Screen. Sandy should make landfall in southern new jersey; but the impact will be felt for miles and the worst is yet to come. At last check, the storm center was within 50 miles of the city. City. It is forming a powerful super storm like weve never seen before. For the latest lets turn to sue in the weather center. Sue, i understand this storm about to make landfall near atlanta city. Yeah. Going to be real close. We just got the update from the National Hurricane center. Its 0 miles to the south of atlanta city, 30 miles from cape may. So you can do the math. Still moving to the north, northwest at 20 Miles Per Hour. It will be ashore probably between 6 and 6 30 somewhere in south jersey. Maybe the delaware bay gets clipped. An amazing forecast. The big change is that it sped up a little bit more than we thought. Right. Its probably making landfall three hours faster faster. We were thinking right there at it will wear bay. And its still got that incredible recordsetting low pressur
Scary moments outside a Charter School this morning after a man dropped off his daughter and girlfriend at harmony public Charter School someone drove up in alexis and shot him. He was hit in the arm and stomach and Police Working with a big description of the person behind it. They say it could involve some domestic dispute. Mayor bowser visited the school this afternoon and said she was glad to hear students were in the classrooms and not always when the incident happened. If you plan on traveling down about seven near yellow schoolhouse road police are asking you find another route this evening. At least one person dead after an accident involving a truck and two cars and westbound lanes about seven will be closed for the next four hours we are told. You probably noticed its cold out there right now and chief meteorologist tyler shuts said its the coldest days of foreign later this week and make it the nicer day tomorrow and into wednesday and then looking for cold air by thursday.
Like polar vortex. Here we go again. Its going to hit us at the end of the work week. Another cold snap. For today, not going to be too bad. Temperatures in the 40s. Stormwatch 7 will be tracking the wind and rain coming from this system coming up the south and west. Showers later today, 6 00, 7 00. Mid to upper 30s. 41 degrees inside the beltway with cloud cover everywhere across the area. Temperatures creeping up, so not much higher than where we are right now area and a few showers after 6 00, 7 00. Ending around midnight. The next big change for us comes wednesday going into thursday. That is going to be our High Temperature. Windy c wind left hanging on for friday. Look at the windchill across the area. Coming all the way across the midatlantic, that is our highest on thursday. Will talk more about the cold if you have travel plans for the weekend. John gonzalez, reporting on the fire alarm going off downtown. Is coming up on and kmute, between l street, portions blocked off. We w
Toward the back of his own backyard. He called 911. Police arrived and determined the woman 22 years old was dead and suffered from upper body trauma. No further details jobbed that. The woman did not live nearby. However, the police say the man found dead in his town home last night after 8 00 in springfield, about five minutes away, 22yearold Henok Yohannes was the victim of a homicide. Five minutes away from the scene in burke. Police were called to the home on Blarney Stone Court in springfield where they found yohannes murdered. Also upper body trauma. I am just sad. He was a nice young man. Very helpful. Through the initial distribution last night the detectives were able to discover some things that made them feel or appears to link to this case. Jeff so that is a big ue what exactly happened to the two 22yearold individual, one male and one female. So many questions still remain. The police have not put out a call for a suspect suspect at the moment. They dont have anybody in c