Afternoon. We do have the sun shining through oha high overcast. Well have that sun through the high overcast throughout the day ahead. Temperatures already up now around 60 degrees. Annapolis up to 64 right now. This milder air is going to continue to push on on. Temperatures hourbyhour soaring to near 70 by noontime. Hitting mid70s midafternoon with some sun through the high overcast. Might get sprinkles of light rain tonight. Cooler weather moving in for sunday. Thats coming up this hour. Thank you. And if you wanted that warm weather and Cherry Blossoms, youre in luck today. Were talking 70s, folks, for peak bloom weekend. Derrick ward is checking out the blossoms and the early crowds this morning. Derrick, beautiful sight behind you. How are folks filing in already . Reporter you know, pretty enthusiastic people. Theres actually a lot of folks moving around. You can see the group down here probably one of the most picturesque spots on this side of the tidal basin. This year compar
A block of center city closed after the street caved in at walnut and locust. Pamela osborne on what happened and the impact on drivers around the area today. Pam . Reporter tracy, so far this morning weve seen a few drivers lingering on the other side of the barricade folluntil they fi another way around. This is why the street is closed. A hole actually opened up on 17th. As you said, it has things shut down between walnut and locust. We got a closer look since we saw you last. We checked it out. You see water running under there. We checked with city officials, and they tell us the water pipe connected to a fire hydrant broke causing the street to cave in. The hole is twofeet wide but drops deeper than that. You see cracks around where the hole is at. The Water Department will be out to make repairs this morning. Theyre expected to have the closure through the morning. Perhaps into the afternoon. And there is a possibility that crews could be working later than that. Well keep you p
Into the coast. Hurricane matthew proving to be as dangerous as advertised. Good evening everyone, im chris oconnell. Im dawn timmeney. One of the hardest hit areas in florida so far appears to be saint augustine. This is what the streets there look like right now. Some have turned into raging rivers. This is video of the water rushing past casablanca inn on the bay where at least a couple dozen people are trapped including a number of children. The mayor there predicts damage to the city will be widespread. Many homes have been pounded by waves and the storm surge could only get worse. Fox news says five people have died so far as a result of the storm. Two of those were medical related deaths in saint lucy county. They happened after the county was forced to suspend its emergency services. Also right now, at least 600,000 people are without power and this could be the worst Hurricane Impact since 1989 and hurricane hugo. President obama reminding people today this is a slowmoving sto
Two people lucky to be alive after this tree, take a look, came crashing in to their car. Is this the college park area. Prince georges county fire saying they had to cut two people out of that car on 49th avenue and hollywood road. The tree also damaged a nearby home. The latest from tom kierein. You were telling us today would be a weather alert day and we see the impact. We had peak gusts around 60 miles an hour last night. They have greatly diminished as the cold air is surging in this morning. Were getting some scattered show showers and some brief snow flurries as we look at radar. White and gray, it these are scattered snow showers. There is one coming out of Shenandoah Valley coming across center Fauquier County. A couple other fast moving flurries and snow showers coming out of Clarke County and into southern Loudoun County. Here is one right away mclean and coming out of great falls, that is moving right to the beltway where it meets 66. So fast moving brief snow flurries and
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