In february. In case 71 yesterday was not a fair enough reminder of how mild our patterns have been, heres the president s day forecast. For today, temperatures in the 40s. Near 50 by 9 00 a. M. 57 at lunch time. Afternoon highs today, low to mid 60s once again. Our average high is 48 degrees. This is anything but typical for february. Later this week, we expect to possibly be in the 70s. The entire week will be unseasonably warm. Some days warmer than others. If youre about to walk outside. Look at how mild it is. Twinbrooks, 52. Potomac, 44. In the district, 54 degrees. A lot of 50s on the map. Fairfax city, 43. Montclair, 45. For the rest of the area, heres what it looks like. We have a few 30s. 38 in manassas. 33 in warrington. Those are the exceptions to the mild air. It will stay mild all day today. And we mentioned the unseasonably warm tra earlier this week. Chuck will have a look at that coming up. Lets check the commute forecast. Right now we have this situation in alexandria
Bao bao needs mama back in china. Four things to know about the weather today. President s day, hail to the warmth. Another day with temperatures more than 15 degrees warmer than average. Our final february freeze might already be in the rearview mirror. We have not been below freezing all weekend. I dont see subfreezing temperatures for the entire remainder of the week. There is finally some needed chances for rain coming. It may impact the weekend. Well detail that coming up. An marching into april. Temperatures will stay way above average. It will feel more like april than march for sure. More about todays forecast. Lets go over to sheena. Good morning. We have some mild temperatures. If you have not walked outside just yet, you dont need the heavy coat. 44 degrees is the temperature right now. Mild start. By 7 00 a. M. , we should be in the upper 40s. A lot of sunshine today and cooperative weather if you have outdoor plans president s day. If youre grilling out, milder by noon. 60
Youre going to want to dig your jacket out. For more, lets check in with chuck bell. We have aa cold, both adam and angie complaining its cold. C b can agree with you. 30s, 40s, 20s in your forecast. Breezy and chilly throughout the course of the day and even colder tomorrow morning. So anything that didnt get zapped by the freeze tonight will get zapped later. If not this morning, later today. You know what i mean. 38 degrees by 7 00 a. M. 40s by the afternoon. Sunny, breezy, and chilly. Considerably cooler. We made 60 downtown yesterday. Well probably make 55 today and a cold evening coming up tonight. And by tomorrow morning, a killing freeze likely. Well go into your morning lows coming up in a few. Chuck, thanks. Happening today. Family and friends will remember transgender victim. Tonight the vigil gets under way at 7 00 p. M. Its at the state park. This morning were learning more about a fight that led up to zella dionas murder. Reporter acourts to documenting police were called
Commute. It ought to be drying out a bit. A chance of spotty can drizzle as we hit the upper six. Im back in 10 minutes with a look at where all of this rain ends at 6 11. What are you finding, megan . Reporter well, we are seeing some problems out here on the road the rain itself has tapered off a little bit. A little light rain. 295 north towards benning road. We are told by a number of different sources that there is standing water in the area near benning road causing this traffic jam. We are barely moving. Were at a crawl on 295 because of that water. Back at mile marker 7. We saw a little standing water ourselves. Some spots are swamped, wet. Definitely make sure you bank a little extra time in your commute. With more on traffic, we send it over to melissa. How is it looking . Looking a little nasty. We can see where you are and see we have red in that area near in washington. Bw parkway, an earlier crash keeping things very slow. Otherwise, looking pretty typical. We are slow he
Money to run his popular business and the graffiti artists facing federal charges for tagging metro cars. First at 11 00, a College Community rocked by the murder of a wellknown student, and tonight weve learned the suspect is her own roommate. Steven vander briel is charged with the firstdegree murder of grace mann. Now both go to the university of Mary Washington in fredericksburg virginia. Thats where shomari stone is live tonight. What are you hearing. Reporter good evening, chris. Students and faculty here at the university of Mary Washington is grieving. Its a very somber mood out here. People remember grace mann as a great student, someone the type of person you would like to hang out with because she was just so uplifting. Tonight shes gone and her roommate the suspected killer is behind bars. Friends remember grace mann as an intelligent 20yearold who uplifted the student body at university of Mary Washington. Tonight police say they arrested her roommate steven briel, for all