At 5 30. So one more morning rush hour moving toward independence avenue. Back into you. Its 5 01. Today is the first morning commute under the Safetrack Program as jack said. We have you covered from the rails to the roads. The storm team 4 x 4 out monitoring the traffic impact and how that could affect your drive it work. We begin our Team Coverage with molette green at the Ballston Metro station where trains will be single tracking. Reporter good morning. Yeah, i just spoke with one of the passengers who uses this this station every day. He said he didnt change his plan this morning, but expects his ride home will be a little bit tricky as things start to really move along in the day. I want to just show you Something Interesting over here of course, we have the shuttle bus sign here, Metro Safetrack shuttle plan in place. Youve got the metro workers doing a lot of this work to make the rails and the system better. All eyes of course on what will happen between East Falls Church and
Just a few wispy high clouds are coming. Temperatures are jumping. Low to mid 80s shafle. It will continue to climb. By noontime, low 90s. Upper 90s 3 00 to 6 00 p. M. , well in the 90s and feeling like 100 degrees or higher. By late evening back down to the upper 80s. A look at when this heat wave is finally going to be ending and our Storm Chances the next ten days. Today, we expect all the museums on the National Mall to open back up. A power outage shut down the museums on friday. The buildings were just too hot. Crews were back out yesterday morning and they were able to get the power running again and a. C. Back on. Still not clear what exactly caused the outage. The d. C. Parks and Recs Department is helping you keep cool. They are extending the hours at spray parks. 13 parks will stay open two hours later until 9 00 p. M. During the week. The next few days going to be scorchers, but did you know its actually been a cool 2016 . Believe it or not. You can check out more about tha
Im chris gordon. Its another storm team 4 weather alert day. Its actually pretty pleasant right now if you want to get out and get a run in and get some yardwork done. Do it before 10 00 this morning. After that, its requesting to get going to get dangerously hot. Theres a pink and gold sun rise on live view on the tower cam. Theres a subtlery summery feeling in the air. Right now near the bay its about 80 degrees right now. 10 00 temperatures, upper 80s and hot in the afternoon. Feeling like 100 by 2 00 p. M. When it gets to mid 90s. May get to 98 by 4 00, 6 00. 10 00 p. M. , back down to the this heat wave lasts. Today, we expect all the museums on the National Mall to open back up. Power outage occurred on friday. Crews were back out and were able to get the power back on. Its not clear what exactly caused the outage. The d. C. Parks and reks department is doing their part to help you keep cool. They are extending the hours at some of its spray parks in the district. 13 parks will s
Were too hot. Crews were able to get the power back on. Still not clear exactly what caused the outage. The d. C. Parks and Rec Department is helping you keep cool. They are extending hours at some spray parks. 13 parks will stay open two hours later until 9 00 p. M. During the week. Next few days, of course, going to be scorchers. Did you know its actually been a cool 2016 . You can check out more about this in our nbc washington app, search heat records. Developing right now, two men are wounded in the shooting that somehow involved an offduty officer. This all unfolded near ingraham street and Georgia Avenue in northwest d. C. It happened around 8 00 p. M. In this cvs parking lot. Were told when police learned about the shooting, they found the two men injured but conscious and breathing. An offduty officer apparently witnessed a shooting and intervened. Police tell us that bullets actually hit anyone. The victims made their way to the hospital. No word yet if there will be any char
Situation in turkey. There was an attempted military coup under way right now. A busy afternoon. My goodness. Thank you. An out pouring of support here in washington for the people of france. And the attacks are hitting close to home for some in our area. News4s chris gordon is outside of the French Embassy in d. C. Chris . Reporter people have come to the embassy of france to show their support and sadness. A local minute ter says people of different backgrounds no longer communicate. We dont talk to each other anymore. And so what is lacking is understanding who we are. The pastor of the frenchspeaking catholic parish of the diocese anger over the loss of lives in nice, especially the children. But he now says his sermon this sunday will focus on forgiveness. Im sorry so sorry for you that it brought his life to that. Reporter he says flying to france now fills her with fear. Im going to travel to france so im hoping that with the help of god that everything goes okay for my trip. Re