approaching 100. very nice. yeah. steve looks very excited about that. let s get started with the hd radar. sarah tells me her sister out in illinois said the storm were particularly bad. she sent pictures. you can see the flashing and a lot of lightning out there towards cleveland pushing down towards pittsburgh. some of that cloud cover we can guarantee will get into the area today so we ll go with a partly to mostly cloudy day today. i know we ll wake up with a little sunshine and we ll quickly cloud up. it is possible some of the shower activity will get in here as well today. that will help hold the temperatures down just a little bit. 80degrees at reagan national. another morning where we won t get a chance to cool off a whole lot. let s go to our next map and check out 80 degrees. humidity, 56%. winds out of the north at five miles per hour. here is your forecast for today and again, possible of some showers around later this afternoon with highs in the low 90s. 89
but the clouds will keep us a couple degrees cooler than we originally thought today. heat cranking up tomorrow for the daytime. highs this afternoon 89-94. in the overnight, skies clearing and the wind will change out of the south. the mid 60 s to mid to upper 70 s. 95-100 tomorrow with heat index around 105. letson an update on the rush hour commute with lisa baden. a quiet morning. metro rail, marc rail, vre texting in just fine, no accidents to report as far as interstate travel either. going south into richmond or north into baltimore all clear. out to the airport has been a pretty good ride. overnight construction on the beltway at 66 as well as 66 outside the beltway has been cleared away. we will look at one camera of the beltway near andrews air force base. more to come on the traffic scene, but now to a news. the fighter echinacea debt ceiling. a little < 5 days until america defaults, if the house is closed to voting on a contentious gop plan but it s not the
injured chasing down a burglar in a hotel hallway. metro anoupss clan morans to improve escalators at the subway. and a wild wednesday for the skins and the rest of the nfl. big name players on the move. good evening i m jim vance. and i m doreen gentzler. and we begin with new details on a story from last night. a police officer indicted on 12 counts including attempted murder after an altercation at his house and the officer is being investigated for a previous incident in which he was accused of luring a man to his house and a gun went off. meanwhile we have uncovered a third allegation of violence against this officer. craig melvin catches us up on the develops in this case. reporter: the 17 police officers from mount rainier work out of the headquarters behind me. and gene gillette was named best cop on that force. and while he is in a jail cell, another alleged victim has come forward. when this man saw the video he recognized him. it made me feel happy they g
we cannot let a small block of house republicans lead the whole nation off a cliff. reporter: the democrats competing plan also fell short of delivering all the promised savings in its congressional budget office review. the main difference with the gop plan is that it raises the debt limit in one step instead of two. there s only one bill in congress that is a through compromise true compromise. we re running otoof time. it s time to get serious about finding that compromise. reporter: both sides need to reach agreement before next tuesday or the government could face a downgrading of its credit rating. the white house continues to push democrats and republicans to work out a deal the president will sign. jay dow, cbs news, washington. reporter: there are some republicans who say that president obama is overstating the severity of this crisis. they argue that the country will in fact have enough money to pay off its bills after that august 2nd deadline but regar
recognizes the suspect. now, the profiler also told us that he may have tried this type of behavior with a wife or girlfriend and was rejected and now he s turning to strangers. back to you. andrea, thank you. late this afternoon we learned of new details regarding a mount ranier police officer accused of trying to sexual sexually assault and murder a 20-year-old man he met at a gas station. sources tell us there may be other victims from other incidents. wendy has the latest lindsay has more. lindsay? reporter: prosecutors say he told the victim that he would pay him to be in a porn movie with women but when they got to the defendant s house there was no one there. these are very serious injuries. the facts are very serious. reporter: the state s attorney was the only person willing to talk to us about the case on camera. the defendant s friends, family and attorneys said nothing, although many were crying in the courtroom. in court prosecutors said gillet want