into the rapids. she was in this water like this for more than a half an hour before montgomery county fire fighters moved in for the rescue. peter gillis, he made the grab. we grabbed her any pulled her toward the one side of the boat. pulled her up over the boat and back into the boat safely. when she got into the boat she said thank you. she said i didn t think i could hold on much longer. she said i m glad you guys are finally here. reporter: the kayaker identified only as a 31-year-old woman from virginia. they say she went out by herself when her boat capsized and she was left holding on to that tree. it was a doctor on the cno canal who was bird watching and saw her first. he made the 911 call for help. had that doctor not made that call much different outcome. as you heard from the rescuers, she was fatigued and she was hypothermic and she didn t know if she could hold on much longer. reporter: once out of the water they put her in an ambulance and wrapped
houses and it looked like my granddaughter had been playing with a doll house or a paper apartment and it s all shattered and spread everywhere. reporter: what makes this outbreak most remarkable though isn t the hundreds of reported tornadoes, but how long they were on the ground. and we re dealing with very long-track tornadoes that are tracking on the ground anywhere from 20 to upwards of maybe even 80 miles. reporter: for those who survived, the tales are harrowing. it s a very, very terrifying experience. there s no way to describe it. reporter: more than 100 made it out of this lowe s store after a manager pushed every everyone to the back. felt an incredible wind inside and a noise just prior to us getting into the hallway. it was deafening. there was a deafening roar over our heads. reporter: the huge crowd kept alive by mere secondses in a region now left with a long, long recovery. reporter: and back live now. you don t have to go far to see anothe
stafford county, prince william, fairfax, all the way up to frederick county. so most of our rain just north of the district. up into montgomery, gaithersburg, damask as, ulney. making its way north. we ll be left with lighter rain showers in the next hour and a half to two hours. still going to be wet. 50 degrees right now in georgetown. we have cooled one degree. ashton, too cooling to 49 degrees. still at 50 in tysons corner. at the bus stop this morning, scattered showers. the sun is up today at 7:35. we ll be between 52 and 56 degrees. so jacket and umbrella, you ll need it again for another yet morning. by noon time, 59 degrees. rain showers ending. and a little bit of afternoon sunshine, jerry. after sun and a little breezy too. let s take a look at traffic. still dealing with the accidents as we continue to follow breaking news. the accident occurred just a short time ago inner loop of the beltway, route 50. involved a tractor trailer and one or two other vehicles.
ulney, 50. manassas, 52. at the bus stop, scattered showers. 52 to 56 degrees. it is going to be wet. we will start to see it end around noon time, 1:00 today. temperatures rising to the upper 50s to around the low 60s. by 3:00, 60 degrees with a mostly cloudy sky. partly sunny by 6:00 with a temperature of 59 degrees. quick look at your four-day forecast. close to 70 tomorrow. so we will be turning things around. some nice sunshine. some nice warmth to round out the week. we ll talk about the upcoming weekend in the next couple minutes. see how the early morning commute is going. the drive along interstate 270 with the road spray. everybody doing okay so far this morning. please be very, very careful. it doesn t take much to start hydroplaning. no accidents frederick to the split. head over and see how the commute is treating us as we go over to northern virginia. a lot of folks getting an early start on interstate 66 headed through vienna. again, overnight road work had b
deal in place. i m eun yang. good morning to you. i m joe krebs on friday, the 8th day of april right now. taking a live look outside, drizzle and rain around the area right now. here s tom to tell us all about it. yeah. we have had this the last couple hours moving north and west. it s mostly in maryland. we have had some of these sprinkles and a little bit more moderate rain in western maryland. where you see these areas of green on the radar it s coming down a little bit harder. light rain, montgomery, howard, northern prince george s, near baltimore. but farther west and north, northern loudon county, up towards the panhandle of west virginia, western maryland, getting a little bit heavier rain. it s still just light rain. it s also chilly. just in the mid-40s. 46 at reagan national. out of the mountains, central west virginia, some of the high spots in the low 50s there. around the eastern shore, virginia tidewater, sprinkles there. it s in the mid-40s. and the view