Punch. Good evening. Im jan jeffcoat. Im derek mcginty. We got a lot of rain, even hail reported. Our chief meteorologist topper shutt is tracking who is getting hit hard now. Where are those storms headed . Generally moving south and east, slow go up 270 northbound and especially out i66 west bound. Heavier activity has spilled south of i66 towards culpeper. The lightning strikes in reds and oranges is heavier activity. This is a pretty big complex of storms, too, north of cumberland and south of breezewood. Theres a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for this complex until 7 15, some small hail possible and also strong gusty winds. This will move essentially down the river. So on our Storm Tracker we arent done just yet, martinsburg at about 7 56 and percyville at 9 26. Youve been hammered all day in the percyville bluemont area. Further south and east heavy activity up from Montgomery County on the east side of 270 toward laytonsville, olney and this is pretty heavy rain, dont see hail, sl
Toward winchester white coast. Cord cedarville. The potential of hail too until 4 00 p. M. Hail it could be large. We could see gusts of 50 miles per hour. Some heavy rain and lightning. I think well hold on to this possibility until perhaps 6 00 p. M. This evening. Another look at the radar. Well continue to jump in should any new warnings be issued. Thank you. Now to a tragic story weve been following all day. A district firefighter dies after racing to help people in a high rise fire. D. C. Lost a hero today. Lieutenant kevin mcrae a 24year veteran. Lieutenant kevin mcrae was one of the first firefighters to make it up to the ninth floor of the burning building on seventh street downtown. Chris gordon joins us live where he caught up with the people who frantically ran down to get out. Reporter heres the latest from seventh street. You see emergency equipment still blocking the roadway. The building is closed. People are out. D. C. Fire investigators are trying to determine the caus
More storm will continue to develop. Well have the latest for you in the storm center. Now to our other big story. Condolences pouring in for this man. A 25year veteran of the d. C. Fire department died after collapsing at the scene of a high rise fire this morning in northwest d. C. His name is kevin mcrae, a lieutenant who leaves behind a wife three children and a mother. He is being called a hero. Mcraes crew was the first to arrive at the building on seventh street just north of the Washington Convention center. Within other firefighter the went to the hospital. We have new information on the victim and his family. Mark . Reporter behind me is a fire house in mourning. Draped in black bunting. Since the news spread this morning that lieutenant james mcrae died firefighters from around the region have been pouring into this station. D. C. Lost a hero today. Reporter that hero is loonl kevin mcrae. He and his team were the first to arrive at the twoalarm blaze this morning. Lieutenan
Outbound. First 4 traffic tracker headed down 95 right now. Doing to show you a live picture of the traffic tracker headed northbound. Everything is looking good. Did have some slowdowns earlier that were not explained. Then Prince Georges County overall is looking quite good right now as well. Indian head avenue everything is nice and green and rolling along. Back in ten minutes. Weather and traffic always on the 1s. See you at 5 11. People in the midwest waking up to destruction left behind by a night of severe storms. Take a look. A funnel cloud there in nebraska nebraska crossed the highway. Someone driving captured it. It touched down near pie ron. Several tornadoes touched down in oklahoma leaving damage and bad flooding. In oklahoma city, a hotel was hit. And you can see there it looks like the storm ripped off a large section of the roof. A selfstorage place levelled as well as an rv park. Some of the heaviest rainfall ever in oklahoma city. The first ever flash flood emergency
Are expecting sunshine. Thats a plus but a cold day. The winds sustained over 20 miles an hour ear through midday with the gusts here through midday with the gusts in the 30 to 40 mile an hour range. Almost 20 degrees below average. Big storm now pounding areas of southeastern massachusetts, especially out toward the cape and nantucket. Theyre going to get Hurricane Force wind gusts with the heavy snow. For us we have snow showers were watching. Some flurries coming out of the win chester area right down from winchester going out route 7 here south of berryville where 17 and 7 come together and a couple south of sperryville into the park. Your temps this morning and these are the temps, not the wind chills, running in the 20 to about 30. I suggest heavy coats. Weve got wind chills down in the teens. Got some slick spots too with more on whats becoming a difficult early rush hour. Heres jessica in for monika this morning. Thanks so much. We only have two accidents and its only 5 00 in t