Amelia . If you remember, adam, last week we were talking about a heat wave for this weekend. This is what looks to be a sixday heat wave. The humidity not too bad. Parts of the area under a code orange alert. Children, elderly, if you have heart or lung issues, take it ea easy outdoors today. The sun comes up around 6 20. Temperatures in the suburb around 60 degrees. 56 in culpeper. 59 in frederick. Here in the district, a balmy 68. Here is the morning planner, plenty of sunshine, clouds around today. The sun wins out. Look at how temperatures warm. 8 00 a. M. , 72. My noon, mid80s. What to expect this evening and if you have outdoor plans what to expect. New this morning, Prince Georges County officer shot his gun during a struggle with a suspect. Around 11 00 p. M. , an officer heard a car crash and went to check it out. When he arrived, a man was running from the scene. According to police, the man tried to take the officers gun. The suspect was shot during the struggle and rushed
Weather deck. Is it warm out there . Its nice out here. Its not too humid. The sun is shining. Hazy, high thin clouds. High temperatures will warm into the low 90s. So, starting off this morning, we are looking at nice conditions across the area. As we take a look at your morning planner, sky cast 4, you can see we are looking at mostly sunny skies. Here is the midday planner, temperatures are going to warm into the 80s, upper 80s for the afternoon suburbs. Low 90s for some of us. Howard county is under a code orange air quality alert this morning. That means elderly, children, heart or lung issues take it easy. Most of us are fine with code yellow air quality. I have to say wharks is nice out here, theres a bit of a breeze. The humidity starts to creep into the area tomorrow. Coming up, im going to let you know when the humidity will be the worse for the upcoming workweek. Thank you, amelia. New this morning, a tragic disaster during a camping trip. Two children are dead after a tree
Reverend hurley, september 26, wellness day 2016. How do you plan to celebrate that day . We will have dr. Davidson there giving good advice about how to live a healthy life. We will also have have dr. Rodney ellis there. This time we decided to break it down so that the men had their own private session because sometimes men wont come to things because they dont want women to be around to hear some of the things they ask about. Youth 12 and over. We will have all kinds of activities. Games, food demonstrations, others will be there doing eye vision screenings, and Blood Pressure screenings and we will have a cooking demonstration. And its going to be an enjoyable day. Sounds like a fair and sounds like a lot of fun. Its more than a fair. Its where theyre going be empowered with some bit of knowledge when they leave. We give them a pretest before they start and a posttest to see how they fared. Statistics show that maryland has the 29th highest adult obesity rate in the nation. Is mary
The humidity levels remain manageable, pretty low. But were on day two of what looks like a sixday heat wave. It is amazing outside. Great morning for walking a dog, going for a run or going out on the bicycle. 61 degrees in ft. Belvoir and 63 in gaithersburg with mainly clear skies. Heres your morning planner. Showing you skycast 4. Plenty of sunshine around throughout the Morning Hours and here your temperatures. 8 00 a. M. , 74, but well warm up quickly. Very similar to yesterday. 10 00 a. M. , in the low 80s and today, great day for a pool. Maybe an isolated lateday thunderstorm. And guys, the humidity does creep into the area. Ill let you know when its arrives in ten minutes, adam. Thanks, amelia. We learned that a teenager died in a crash near a Prince Georges County school. Maryland National Capitol park police say a 17yearold was riding a utv with two other minors outside the Stephen Decatur middle school. They were on an athleticism field when that crashed. The 17yearold died.
Per hour. Back in ten minutes with more on the metro issue. Thanks. As melissa just mentioned happening right now, metro having some problems as it tries to roll out the newest 7000 rail car at the greenbelt metro station. We want to get to Meagan Fitzgerald with more on what happened before the rail cars get there. Whats the issue . Reporter well, a lot of folks are frustrated because theres an issue with the train that stalled on the tracks. Its monday morning, they were excited to ride on a brandnew 7000 series train. But if you take a look here, youll see thats not happening any time soon. Metro officials tell us that some sort of an issue with this train here. Not able to function properly so passengers had to get off and theyre certainly not happy about it. Now, it was around 5 35 when we noticed that the train was stalled. Passengers waited inside for a few minutes before metro employees told them they had to get off the train. Were told theres some sort of a mechanical issue th