good morning, everybody. it s two thumbs up. it s going to be on the hot side but at least we are not dealing with humidity and we should have a lot of sun. let s take a look at the satellite radar. showers, thunderstorms activity that rolled through here yesterday afternoon is out of here. we to have some leftover fog but generally the conditions really quieted down. we should dry up the atmosphere, should continue to dry out the atmosphere. this is the coolest it s been in a week. 60s off to the north and west, 68 in frederick. gradual improvement. we ll see what we can get. temperatures back into the 90s but, again, lower humidity and we should be drier this afternoon. 92 in washington, 90 in la plata. more details on the forecast. let s go back to traffic. julie wright? all right, tucker. a lot going on this morning. we have dealing with a water main break. 295 looking good leaving the beltway to the inbound 11th street bridge. now, cars tying up the right side of the
following all morning long. some good news. the beltway is back open now. it had been shut down in the tysons corner area after power lines were knocked down across the highway. stacey cohan at the scene with the very latest. some good news. reporter: it s nice to have good news to report upon, especially involving traffic which we don t have often or in this area. as you can see behind me some cars are able to move through this part of the beltway. it was just within the last ten minutes that it reopened. we do have video from earlier this morning what was causing the problem. around 1:30 a.m. a contractor that was working on construction out here in the tysons corner area encountered some power lines that were strung across the roadway. those lines came down blocking all lanes of traffic. the beltway was shut down between route 7 and 66 in both directions. but once again that has now been reopened. i will say that dominion power is on the scene. about 174 customers rema
indication of the potential the storm had and not moving in and it pulses, so, watch out in garrisonville, aquiah, when i had way island, bell wear, cross roads and liman park and this this is passing close to you and south of dale city the next 30 minutes or so. if it continues on the path, we ll have to keep an eye on it here and recapping tornado warnings for spotsylvania until 6:15 and the tornado watch for the entire area until 8:00 and that is not going to end at 8:00. the watch may but we have more weather to watch overnight and tomorrow, brian. more coming in a few minutes. and allegations of nepotism and crony simp in the d.c. administration swirling tonight. mary shay, the head of the d.c. council committee on government operations, is determined to get to the bottom of it and said that her investigation is being thwarted by witnesses ignoring subpoenas. karen gray houston has the latest. reporter: the saga continues. mary shay said the fired employees brown and
discovered last saturday morning by a coworker coming to open the store who then grabbed a passerby who then called police. we re going to find out a lot more about this in about an hourperhaps a motive, how police were able to work this case for the past week. that apparently will lead to the arrest the surviving victim. that s what we are about to find out. we ll hear that in about an hour that the suspect in the bizarre, mind-numbing case, the murder has been solved. of course, we don t know the name of that victim because, at the time, we thought she was a victim and specifically of a sexual assault. so we re going to learn a lot more details as montgomery county police charged this woman now with this brew saul crime. montgomery police is expected to comment at 7:00. we will carry that press conference for you live right here on fox 5 a followup right now into the investigation into mayor vincent gray s campaign workers. a house committee announced its own investigat
power and prince george s county has 755 outages. in northern virginia dominion power has more than 8400 customers in the dark tonight. bge reporting more than 6900 still in the dark. seems many people have to spend the weekend cleaning up from the storm damage while others are happy to get home after roadblocks showed up during the rush hour tonight. we go live to ken with what it looked like. reporter: looked crazy everywhere you looked around the washington area. the winds may be gone for now but not before it left behind a trail of destruction. take a look at this massive tree. this will answer any of the questions about how strong the wind was today. now neighbors in this bethesda neighborhood and throughout washington are left dusting themselves off from today s rattling winds. in most cases it came quick but fierce. winds uprooted this massive pine tree and sent it crashing right back onto its lawn and this bethesda neighborhood, same thing. all of a sudden drivi