Will drive you to the polls this. November maybe it is matters of gun control, or immigration, perhaps an interest in changing the house or senate, or to keep that from happening. What are your issues in the upcoming november elections . Call and tell us, 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. Independents, 2027488002. You can also post on twitter, or tell us about the issues leading up to the november elections on facebook, you can go to facebook. Com cspan. Cnn this morning has a piece by Ron Brownstein taking a look at the november elections and the places that will decide, in his estimation, the 2018 election. He says red pockets, bluecollar blues those labels describing the seats in the house of representatives that will likely determine control of the chamber in the election. Virtually analysts agree that the epicenter of vulnerability for the majority for republicans are the red pockets, the predominantly white color suburban that the gop holds in metropolitan are
Of electrical problems caused the fire this time. Lets talk about the forecast. At 4 31, yesterday was a pretty hot and humid day. I was out in the latter part of the day and it wasnt that hot. Well see if that continues. Heres tom to look at the forecast. Humidity did drop yesterday but its right back up as were looking at the rain moving into the mountains. Generally drying out as it gets closer to the Shenandoah Valley. And a few showers coming down in winchester. And as it moves east of the blue ridge, it looks like it will try out at least temporarily. Heres the hourbyhour timing by noon time and then by 2 00 this afternoon, showers with thunder, mainly just south of the washington, but our Eastern Suburbs could see that as well. By 4 00, scattered showers with a Little Thunder around Northern Virginia, eastern shore. That continues to move off to the east by 5 00 or 6 00 p. M. Lingering showers maybe thunder as well all the way to late to midevening. There could be ponding of wat
66 eat of compton rolling along. Were going to have more on this fatal crash coming up in a couple minutes. Its 5 01. Good morning, everybody, im aaron gilchrist. And im eun yang. On this wednesday july 15th with the forecast, tom kierein. Hey good morning. With the storms we had overnight, late last evening, are now long gone, theyre passing. And the cloud cover has broken up. Partly cloudy now, well see sunshine this morning. Temperatures are fresh and cool now, northwestern suburbs in the mid to upper 60s. And that includes the Shenandoah Valley and the mountains and closer to the bay, southern maryland, eastern shore. Mid to upper 70s. Theres the first light of day showing up there. Clouds breaking up. Live view from the power camera. Upper 70s by 9 00. By 11 00, should be around 80 degrees. Next weather and traffic on the 1s. A look at the drive time forecast, aaron. Developing now, we just learned the Wheaton Metro garage is now open following a deadly shooting last night. This h
Continuing to climb into the afternoon. Coming up next weather and traffic on the 1s. Your drive time forecast. Aaron. Tom thank you. Right now you can expect big delays if youre driving to work on interstate 66. Vdot crews are making repairs. Kristin wright is there. Kristin . Reporter it could be a slowgo for some of you coming from western virginia to d. C. This morning. We want to show you where, it does look like in the past minute or so they have started to open up part of the stretch that was closed. You can see traffics actually moving pretty good where we are. But its behind us between nutley street and the beltway and eastbound lanes of 66 where it is still slow because the x lane is closed. Parts of the x lane between nutley and beltway are closed for some road repairs. Traffic already bad, you know, this time of the morning in this area. So this morning, expect it to be even worse. Until they do completely open up that x lane. It was supposed to be throughout the morning ru
Baseball diamond. Checkey beckford is live at the airport where the feds are investigating. Reporter rob, it seems the drone was in the air over the airport for quite some time. First, a jet blue pilot reported seeing it around 2 30. More than two hours later, the delta flight came within 100 feet of one. This was delta flight 407, safely parked at the gate at kennedy airport. Just minutes before, a very close call. A mile back, there was a drone flying just under the southside of this abandoned airport here. Reporter an unmanned drone, dangerously close to a flight about a land. What altitude would you say that was . Probably a hundred feet below us. Reporter normal required separation is 1,000 feet. Concerned, the tower told other pilots to be on alert. The one ahead of you reported a drone over there. A drone over there. Its extremely dangerous to the aircraft. Reporter john would know. Hes an airplane technician at kennedy. A drone so close to a plane could spell disaster. Ingestio