Qualifies you as an early bird . Does 5 00 a. M. Qualify you. Todd no i think that does. Neki and a lot of people go to work at this hour. Todd and a lot of people are coming home from the club too. Good morning s. Thank you for waking up with us or staying up with us. Whatever it is, we dont mind. Neki and jennifer we hope its a great day so we know you dont have a lot to talk about. Jennifer and it it is so i dont have a lot to talk about other than that a dry start for us. Other than that temperature down to 60 dein miami. 70 in Fort Lauderdale. Dmeerl key west at 68 degrees. Winds flow out of north and northeast. Light breeze. An ease derly wind will be in place today. Heres a look at the the satel light. You can see the faint looking blobs. Thats cloud cover over us but High Pressure is in control and right over the southeast over the atlantic as well. Breezy east winds later today. Seasonable temperatures but for the rest of of the morning temperatures are slowlyising. Eventually
Lightning and they could feel the high winds. I looked out the side doors, thats when i saw this solid sheet of rain and the wind just was really tremendous. Reporter thats not exaggerating from the looks of things around the church. Even inside the lobby area the doors started kind of buckling in and out because of the pressure change. Reporter while crews have begun cutting up whats left of fallen trees and repairing the daniel to power lines, you can seen the damage all over the area and the close calls. And we heard a tremendous loud sound. Reporter parts of the church roof are now in the Church Parking lot, and there are leaks inside where the water came in. Even the cemetery saw some damage but reverend felder is happy no one here was hurt, and he says its hard to think of a better place to be in a storm. Absolutely. We were definitely in gods hands being protected. Reporter and the damage he says, however costly, can and will be repaired. And indeed they consider themselves very
Passengers tomorrow. Rides will be free for a while. City officials have not decided yet what the fares will be or how they will be collected. Coming up at 5 00, molette green will have details about what we may expect. 4 31 your time right now. Want to get a check with weather and traffic on the 1s. Good morning, everybody. You know what today is, friday you made it. Pretty much doesnt matter what the forecast is, but it will be cold and windy outside today. Northwest winds keeping it cold and a frigid start tomorrow morning. Everybody way below freezing tomorrow morning. It will be dry through the weekend, so that is some good news there. And spring like weather is not far away. Were still dealing with winter. Cold northwest winds could have an occasional snow flurry or snow shower northern maryland. Current windchills back done into the teams and 20s this morning. 19 the feels like factor will gaithersburg, only 31 in culpeper. 19 the feels like fact gaithersburg, only 31 in pe more
Exactly what it should take. So no major issues there either. Remember to residence to wtop 103. 5 when you hop in the car for the latest on any issues in your area. Top of the beltway still a little slow outer loop at New Hampshire avenue. Otherwise looking quite good. Remember we have the Wind Warnings in effect on the bay bridge and the governor harry nice bridge. No vehicle restrictions. 66 at waples mill rolling roonk just fine. Im Erika Gonzalez at the live desk. An update to a story weve been following. Five people are in Critical Condition after a shooter in hesston, kansas opened fire on several people including those in his workplace. Flags will be flown at halfstaff in kansas where three died inside the excel lawnmower plant. 14 people were wounded before police shot and killed the gunman. By some things is how they put it. Well win, win, win. Marco rubio goes on the attack. This guy, this is what well have this guy inherited 200 million. If he hadnt, do you know where donal
Beefing up the police force in the system to deter these kind of incidents and riders are happy. Just knowing how easy it is for any of those things to happen, its nice to see were taking a stand against these types of activities. Reporter metro is paying over 1 million bucks to bring in private Security Officers who will be responsible for looking over metros revenue collections. That will free up the current Metro Transit Police officers performing that revenue work to then be out in the system. Does metro have enough officers . We probably would never have enough. Probably no one ever does. Reporter more on the way though and riders should start noticing. And metro says officers are now going to start overlapping shifts so they can have higher visibility in late afternoons and evenings, jim. Back to you. Thanks, adam. As it regards that shooting on metros green line this week, we have learned that the suspect, a teenager, has a criminal past. Hes 16 years old. Hes being charged as a