Hometown highs. Right now a busy highway is back open following a water main break that causeded a sinkhole in alexandria. Chopper 4 over the scene for us last night while you were sleeping crews finished the repairs there on the southbound lanes of richmond highway. We checked with fairfax water and the water main is fixed and the water is back on this morning. Now a look at traffic from melissa mollet. Good morning. Right now actually looking pretty good. 95 in virginia, dale boulevard, looked a little slow on my map. Doesnt look so bad when you see it in person. Wider look at things, everything flowing quite nicely. 2270 at old hupd road getting a little bit of volume out of frederick. A little slow around this bend. And we typically do see that this time of the morning. 95 in maryland no issue there is. Same thing bw parkway into and out of town. And we do have cancellation Brunswick East 890, canceled all together today. Ill be back with travel times and also hearing about a new c
Weather and traffic with dave and karen good morning,. Reporter good morning, guys we have snow showers pushing down from Lehigh Valley and into bucks and berks county. Its not a lot but enough to put down a coating on roads, if you get caught in one of these deals, slow it down. Well see if it makes to it philadelphia. They may fall apart before they make it to i95. Even if one sneaks farther south theres light accumulation and slippery conditions developing on roads so slow it down. 37 in wilmington, 38 in trenton. 29 in allentown as colder air rushes in from the northwest. The reason for that, the change in windy direction out in allen up to were picking up a northwest flow. That will turn across the entire region as we go through the day. They will send the temperatures down. There is a chance of snow shower after 10 00 a. M. , that chance diminishes. 30 by noon, 26 by 3 00 p. M. 22 by 6 00 p. M. At the same time the winds will pick up. Guys, as we go into the dinner hour, the temp
Because these temperatures that we have right now may be our high temperatures by friday. And over the weekend, even colder wealth moves in. Right now though we are just hovering near 30 in the metro area. Mere by nearby suburbs mid to upper 20s. Near 30 by the bay. Shenandoah valley mountains, upper went to near 30. Oakland down to just 21. What to wear . Youll need a warm coat scarf, gloves sunglasses. Wont need the umbrella. Well have bright sunshine throughout much of the day. And a lighter wind as well, as we look forward here for the day ahead for this wednesday. Bright and sunny by 8 00 a. M. Well be right near freezing. Then by noon should be up near 40 degrees. May hid mid40s briefly. And then by the time youre heading back home with high clouds drifting in back down to the low 40s by late afternoon. Next west and traffic on the 1s thats coming up at 4 41. Now lets check on the morning commute. More road work. 66 westbound here we have road work at nutley street. That should b
Reston town to 13. So dress accordingly. A warm coat. Hat, glove, sunglasses. Wear something red were rocking the red today for Heart Health Day this frigid friday. And temperatures all around the region going to stay below freezing here for another couple of hours. There is the sky over washington now. Its all clear. Well have a frigid morning your headlines for this frigid bring. Well have a chilly afternoon. It will get above freezing later this afternoon. Yes, we can look forward to a warming trend a warmer weekend is coming up. But right now, layer up as we have these very cold temperatures. Now lets check on our traffic early on this friday. Overall looking pretty good. We have the one crash in alexandria that well talk about. But 95 headed in and out of town here in virginia youre looking good. Nice and green. 66 also east and west moving along quite nicely. Taking a look here 270 at father hurley boulevard, just got a meet your street request on twitter about father hurley boul
Into the atlantic ocean, some 50 miles southeast of virginia, 170 miles from washington. Were told the pilot was the only person on board. No word on ihis identity. Well continue to follow the story and report to you. Happy labor day weekend, im in for bruce johnson. Bruce has the evening off. Certainly a welcomed, dry start to this labor day weekend, but your outdoor Holiday Plans could get interrupted tomorrow, as well as monday. First alert meteorologist erica grow is here with more on those yellow alert days. Thats right. We had to issue yellow alerts because tomorrows thunderstorm threat could affect any plans that you have for a barbecue or anything outdoors in the Late Afternoon or early evening hours. You can see right now on doppler 9000, a threehour loop of an area of thunderstorms really starting to fire up and blossom here, but its still a good almost 100 miles away from the downtown dc metro area. The thunderstorms just rolled through cumberland, now pounding fort ashby w