Sunrise at 5 59 this morning. Got to love these long daylight hours. Bright enough out here and still mostly cloudy. Rain drops are not far away though. Tower camera shows it. All cloud cover as youre looking east to what would normally be a sunrise. Not so much today. Upper 50ed across the area now. We are not going to budge much. No, its not raining where i am now, i promise you i have an umbrella right there on my desk. Why is that, sheena . Well, because youre going to need it in ability, chuck. Showers hanging around. Rain and thunderstorm activity mostly for the district. Washingtons big line, it is in the area, fredericksburg. 38 lightning strikes in this line in the past ten minutes. If we zoom in, you see one thunderstorm around fredericksburg, spotsylvania. Still raining acros front royal, winchester, all of that sliding through. Like chuck mentioned, temperatures not budging today. Around 60 for a high. Upper 50ed this afternoon. Keeping your umbrella. Coming up well take a
Rain. And you notice, no more yellows. We had lightning and thunder earlier this morning. That rain is gone, just the shower activity. Heres whats happening right now, through loudoun, fauquier. We had a break through parts of northern virginia, but the rain continues to fill in here and it is making its way down to the south and east. But this is all part of a storm system and a boundary thats across our region. You can see the edge, up through pennsylvania, back to the west. We continue to see shower activity moving through. And this will continue for the next few hours. Kinda tough to get the nationals game in, but maybe. Continued cool, yesterday we were 76. Today right now, 55. Mothers day forecast, it does get a little bit better. And the 80s, they do return. Even a 90 in there as far as the forecast is concerned too. Much more on t look ahead to the weekend, remember, you can get the latest on storm team4 on the nbc washington app, set weather as your home screen. Just open sett
The public thinks about this dismissal. Leon harris has the details. This is getting a ton of attention. And will be for days to come. President trump spoke extensively about his decision to fire james comey in an exclusive interview with nbcs lester holt, and the president s reasons appear to contradict previous statements coming from the white house. Now on the topic of comey, were also seeing some new reaction from a brandnew nbc News Survey Monkey poll. More than half, 54 believe that comeys dismissal was not appropriate, and when it comes to why the president let comey go, nearly half think it has to do with the russia investigation. Only about a quarter think its related to the Clinton Emails as stated. In his sitdown, he also had choice words to describe comey. Hes a show boat, hes a grandstander. The fbi has been in turmoil, you know what, i know that, Everybody Knows that. You met attorney general rod rosenstein. Right. Did you ask for a recommendation . What i did is, i was g
With him. What stands out in your mind from your talk . We set the interview up about ten days ago. Obviously they were true to their word and happy to sit down. A couple things stood out. One you saw some of that, how strong the president came out to denounce jim comey. We began the interview talking about how he could be so supportive of him during the campaign, because he was going after Hillary Clinton, and the president essentially seemed to focus on the fact that he didnt end up prosecuting her. He was angry at the fact that comey had laid out all that evidence and said, by the way, im not going to charge her. He was angry after his Second Review that he opted again, said there was nothing that was going to change his conclusions. He seemed to be more upset about the outcome than comeys actions in general. Lester, there have been different accounts about how all of this unfolded this week. Tell us more about the president s comments on the process that led to comeys firing. Well,
You can see a bit of a spin. Another round to the west, bringing heavy rain and another round early tomorrow morning. Well take you hour by hour for your saturday. If you have plans tonight or your saturday, as well as mothers day, well be back here in about 15 minutes and amelia will have another check of the radar in about ten minutes. Now is the perfect time to make sure you have the nbc washington app. Get the power of storm team4 right on your smartphone with hour by hour forecasts all weekend. There are still more questions than answers this afternoon about a townhouse fire in fairfax county. The home was gutted and it spread to its next door neighbor and the homeowner is nowhere to be found. Meagan fitzgerald is on the scene. What have you learned . Reporter well, we know this morning. Neighbors say they heard a loud boom and their house shook. When they looked outside, what they saw was this town home e. Deuced to charred wood and rubble. Saw the flames. It was horrible. They w