west at this hour. as the day progresses, we ll see more rain showers move through as we speak. some rain showers this morning and then later on this afternoon, chance of some thunderstorm activity developing once again. let s take a look at the current temperatures around the region. we are at 54 degrees. it s mild start to the day. fairly humid start. let s check the humidity, tell you what that is as well. right now, humidity level is at 87%. a lot of humidity out there. 50degrees in gaithersburg. 56degrees at quantico. here is your forecast for today. some showers are possible during the course of these morning hours. again, we are seeing those off to the north and west. then later on today, i think primary will you during the course of the afternoon, there is a chance of some thunderstorms developing as well. high today about 70 degrees. more details on all of that. coming up in just a little bit. stick with us for that. thank you so much. our top stories. the number o
more on all of this coming up in just a little bit. thank you. let s check in with charlie max doing traffic for us this morning. it s quiet morning but we already have an accident to deal with northbound 395 on the infound 14th street bridge, we have an accident. the light rite lane gets by. the good news is very light volume is keeping this without much of a delay. if you are heading up to the 14th street bridge, keep in mind, it is the right lane that you will use to get by. in contrast, in maryland, things are rather quiet. volume building on southbound 270. quiet still on 270 and the dry pavement is helping that trip a little bit this morning. that s a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. now, to the deadly weather here in the u.s. the number of dead has risen to 12 in the south. the twister cut a path of destruction from louisiana across mississippi. more than 100 homes are unlivable. the final tally not expected until sometime tomorrow. emergency workers set up
we had blankets and things. i got in there in time. reporter: officials say one tornado brought winds upwards of 170 miles per hour, the base 1; 1/2 miles wide. in mississippi, sturdy brick homes reduced to rubble. ron sullivan and four customers in his small grocery store. when it hit the building it literally was an explosion. it was gone immediately. reporter: throughout the tornado zone there are stories of survival. dale thrasher was in the hillcrest baptist church when the tornado hit. it destroyed the two-story building but with the building crumbling around him he found safety under a table, near the pulpit. one area of the church that didn t get destroyed. i asked the lord to protect me. covered my head and heard the building starlight caving in. reporter: amazingly he walked away with just a small cut. five people in this county didn t make it. authorities tell us that two of them were children. abc news, french cap, mississippi. closer to home heavy
destructive tornado outbreak this season. the governor calling it a scene of utter on lit race. hundreds of homes were damaged and destroyed and thousands of people still without power. in darlington, south carolina, the winds overturned mobile homes and ripped treed out of the ground. three people were injured there. further west, two deaths have been blamed on the storm. one carved the path of destruction across the city of al bertville. by far the greatest destruction from the weekend s tornado outbreak was in mississippi, the unstoppable force of nature claimed ten lives, including three children. in yazoo, the tornado measured a mile wide. it left behind nothing but depre. one resident said it was like looking into the eyes of death. ed lavandera is live with the latest. reporter: good morning, kiran. this is what s left of the hillcrest baptist church here. preliminary reports from the national weather service say at one point the storm that passed through here, the t
so be aware of that. we re not quite clear with this unsettled weather pattern. so let s go to the weather maps. we ll take a look at future cast and show you. future cast is showing us that by the afternoon hours at around the 3:00 hour we can expect to see some rain moving in and maybe even at that point we could see some heavier rainfall and maybe even a storm popping up. so we ll watch that closely. and as we progress into the 7:00 hour, still lingering wet weather in the forecast there. 2:00 tuesday morning, it s still sticking around. so as you move into the early hours of tuesday and get ready for your commute, you may have to be concerned but its all out of here by the time we hit the 9:00 hour on tuesday. ridge of high pressure building in after that. and we ll get back to some sunshine. temperatures right now, 54 degrees at d.c. we have 52 at baltimore. 54 at dulles. and 52 degrees at gaithersburg. and for today, temperatures are going to be in the low 70s, pretty m