Twitter feeds or sign up for the stormwatch app on your smart phone or tablet. Leon we got breaking news coming and on behalf of the Governments Office of personnel management. Opm announced as many as 25 Million People may be affected by the breach. Jennifer donnelly is standing by with the latest. These hacking hits just keep on coming. Jennifer thats right, and this developing news has 25 Million People asking if they are among the massive number of people who very likely have their identity stolen by hackers. That number of 25 million means the number of those impacted by the breach at opm is six times more than originally thought. Breaking some of that down, you know wether or not you fall into this category, people whose information was, must, government officials said the bulk of the group had applied for background investigations. Almost 2 million of their family members like their wives or husbands or people with whom they lived, who, by the way never applied for a background
Humidity, it is not going to be hard for any storms that do develop to become strong. Once again, yesterday we saw the flash flooding. That was the biggest threat. Today, that threat still a threat but not quite as high. It is the high winds that we are going to be dealing with. Yes there is a low threat of a tornado today best chance of that northern portions of maryland around the masondixon line. Continue to track it for you throughout the afternoon. Amelia segal and i are in all day. With the stroke of a pen, South Carolina governor nikki haley is about to end the controversy that has divided her state for more than half a century. Haley is signing a bill that will remove the Confederate Flag from the state house grounds. These are live pictures from columbia, South Carolina. This move will come hours after the state house passed this legislation. The Governors Office says the flag will come down in a ceremony tomorrow morning at 10 00. We are closely following this breaking news.
Breaking weather alerts. If this watch is expanded we will send an alert through that nbc washington app. We have new video at 5. It shows the moment a d. C. Man slammed into a van during a highspeed chase in maryland, killing two people. Today, a judge sentenced him to more than a decade in prison. Prince georges county bureau chief Tracee Wilkins was in the courtroom today, join us live to tell us about this. Tracy . Reporter he came speeding this up road here and then the crash happened in the middle of that intersection and then the driver takes off running into those woods. We will show you what happened when did he that in just a little bit. He twloeft women dying on the road here on Central Avenue and another woman severely injured. She was in a coma. We met her today. He was smoking drugs and drink possibly in a stolen vehicle. State Prosecutor Says thats why ronald hayes took off when his car was approached by police in december of 2012. It was a Police Shooting that evening a
As i told you earlier in the show, there were a few sprinkles still lingering but that they were going to clear up pretty quickly and were starting to see that trend setting up throughout the metro area. It is going to be a very warm day, though. 79 degrees already at 8 00. 86 at noon but with the heat index, its already going to feel like its into the 90s. Then into the 90s we go in the afternoon. 91 degrees by 4 00. Thats dropping down from a high of 93 which will reach which well reach at 3rbg. The 3 00. Then the threat of thunderstorms arrive late in the afternoon into the evening. I say between 5 00 and 9 00 p. M. Is when were looking for that threat of thunderstorms. Most of the storms are going to be north of the beltway this time around instead of the to the beltway and points south like they were yesterday. 73 in leesburg and frederick right now. 74 in hagerstown and 79 in Downtown Washington. On satellite and radar, you can see that area of thunderstorms well to the north and
The boat was found running unattended. Well have reports from the scene momentarily. We start with weather. Were tracking potential storms with possibly damaging winds for later today. Here is meteorologist erica grow. A yell loy alert yellow alert day. It is a yellow alert day for the thunderstorms to develop in time for the evening commute but they will be a little later than they were yesterday. This is the focus as we head into the later afternoon hours. The orange area is where the Storm Prediction Center thinks there is the greatest potential for Severe Weather today. And the main threats would be damaging wind gusts and heavy downpours. But were not expecting that flooding potential like we had yesterday. Also notice that its not really from the the beltway and points south. Instead its north of the betway that we have some of those stronger wind and also stronger rain potentials. Youll see that here on 9 futurecast as well. The focus of the energy is further to the north. Were