us a nice weekend as well. forecast for today, sunshine, low humidity, 76 your daytime high in washington and 78 in fredericksburg. warmer tomorrow. details on that in a couple of minutes. let s see traffic with julie wright. on the roads, that s where we find the crew in halifax along 66. if you are traveling inbound, slow moving from business 234 toward centreville. as you work your way east of 123 headed in towards the capital beltway the accident activity cleared. road open once again but wall- to-wall traffic eastbound 66 in towards the capital beltway. on the other side of town, this is where we have some problems earlier in roslyn, dave ross was at the scene. we do have some traffic that s able to get by. seems like a lot of people standing around and examining the situation at this point but again, fort myer drive, two lanes able to get by at this time. not a big tieup at this moment. although metro says their buses slightly delayed because they have had to work a
president obama addressed it at just minutes ago. our economy has created more than 4 million private sector jobs over the past two years, more than 600,000 in the past three months ag loan. but it s clear to every american that there will still be ups and downs along the way and we have a lot more work to do. it s the first time in more than three months that employers have hired fewer than 200,000 new employees. if you ve filled up, you know gas prices are way up. aaa says it s 3.93 for regular, in virginia, $3.93. derrick ward has driven across the region and joins us live in bethesda. good morning. reporter: good morning. the big question is are people changing their driving habits yet? from what we found, the way only they ve changed them at this point is they my drive a little farther to find cheaper gas. the last time average gas prices have been anywhere near this high was back in 2008. it was july 17th of that year when the average hit $4.01. a look at the pr
things stirring on thursday morning, day before friday, one day before the weekend. friday eve. all right 49 degrees welcome to fox 5 morning news i am wisdom martin in for tony perkins. glad you are with us today tucker barnes not going to feel too much like friday eve however, chilly out there. it is a little cool allison temperatures 40s low 50s and we can expect a cooler day with highs only in the upper 50s to about 60 later this afternoon so might want to bring a jacket as you run out the door. let s get to it and take a look at current conditions regan national falling back to 40s. 49 degrees washington 46 baltimore, 48 this morning ocean city and 42 hagerstown. cool start to the day, all the sunshine in our live shot we should be in for a mostly sunny afternoon although we ve got storminess just off to the south and west of charlottesville the front that came through yesterday is hanging up down across virginia carolina border and will do so during the day some
for the evening rush, 52 degrees, wind out of the south, a mild wind for us, in fact, temperatures will be rising for the evening in a good part of the overnight. take a look at the rain that we have picked up today, more than an inch in gaithersburg, maryland, just to the north of montgomery county. you folks around leesburg, almost an inch of rain. winchester at an inch. right here in d.c., reagan national, too an inch of rain, close to that even down around quantico as well as pax river, annapolis and baltimore, all an inch of rain and due to get more. look at storm four doppler. we have had a break but rain building just to the west of us, win chester down into northern foggier county. one tornado warning sitting just on the other side in kentucky. what you are looking at now, all of those little circles, those are the reports of tornado reports over the last 24 hours. there were 15 reports yesterday and five reports today, the most of which have been in kentucky. but aga
lucky. felt a truck pick up, slammed on its side and drug across the parking lot. reporter: at least six killed, more than 100 others injured in the tight-knit town. we have lost children, we have lost loved ones, we have lost, you know, part of our family here in this community. reporter: the heartland now heartbroken over the loss of so much and so many. it s a devastating storm that will leave bad, lasting memories for years to come. in harrisburg, illinois, doug wolf, nbc news. that same storm system had an impact, although considerably less severe as it moved into our area. this was the scene on route 1 in alexandria this afternoon that roadway was closed in both directions because of flooding from heavy rains this morning. it didn t open up again until around 4:30 this afternoon. kammerer here to talk about this storm. the eastern two-thirds of the country affected by the storm one way or the another. you can see back toward omaha, nebraska, first ones repor