Plenty of clouds around today. 60s in the shenandoah valley. Mid70s in and around the metro area. 77 at National Airport now. Most areas going to hold in the mid70s for the next couple hours. Best chance for some showers west of the blue ridge and down into parts of Southern Maryland. Tomorrow im already a little bit more optimistic for your sunday forecast. And yes, indeed, many, many 90degree days on the zsevenda. Today russian rebels are blocking european investigators from entering the crash site. Armed rebels guarding the perimeter of where that Malaysian Airlines plane was shot down thursday. Ukraine also claims that prorussian separatists moved 38 bodies to a nearby morgue. Remains of other victims are still out in the open. They believe rebels plan to move plane wreckage onto russian soil. In light of the downing of mh17, Malaysian Airlines says they will wave change fees. If they want to cancel them altogether, they wont be charged. Customers will also receive a full refund on
Gosk. Things are going to change a bit today. Im liking it. But youre seeing the changes already. I know i saw some rain drops in early. Meteorologist chuck bell joins us with the forecast. Good morning to both of you and a good saturday morning, everybody. Plenty of clouds and yes, there are, indeed, a bit of light sprinkles out there this morning. Sat slight and radar showed the picture when you saw a moment ago, here it is on storm team 4 radar now. Not a lot of rain inside the beltway. A couple of very light sprinkles here near the panhandle. It looks a lot scarier on radar than it is. This is all extremely light rain. So dont count on a washout of a saturday. But dont count on much sunshine here. Mi mi mid60s in the suburbs. Plan on the 70s for the remainder of your day. Just passing rain drops out there. I wouldnt spend a lot of time polishing the fender first thing this morning. More in a few minutes. Back to you. New this morning, ukraine and prorussian rebels have established
Petersburg. Dont get used to it. It is gone by late tonight. Temperatures crash down to the 50s. 40s overnight. Our High Temperatures coming up for the weekend, not too great either. A snapshot of 6 00 p. M. With the storms coming into the area. New information coming in in the next couple minutes. Well update this and have the latest on the track of these storms for your evening rush in a few minutes. On the ground. Were learning at least one person was killed and an entire mobile Home Community destroyed after tornadoes and storms ripped through oklahoma last night. Just two years after the town of moore, oklahoma was torn apart by a deadly tornado, residents are forced to clean up once again. Coming up in our next half hour jay gray is in bhoormoore with a look at the damage. Shocking details out of france tonight in the crash of german Germanwings Flight 9525. Were learning more about the copilot now blamed for the crash. You saw the breaking details in our nbc washington app. News
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