Here to the National Press club. I am Monika Samtani and i will be your master of ceremonies this morning. I am the president and founder of news media, and international pr and Management Firm based here in washington, d. C. Personally as the mother of a new teen driver, and my third, this is my third time going to this this summer, and professionally as a former Television News reporter of Traffic Safety, it is been a passion of mine for years and im thrilled to be here this morning. For those of you who are new to fccla, its a National Student Led Organization that helps you develop leadership in workplace skills through family and Consumer Sciences in order to better prepare students for both college and or their careers. Fccla has over 160,000 student members in 5400 chapters across the nation and in puerto rico. Those numbers speak volumes about the reach in the impact of this organization. Fccla is unique among student organizations because its programs are planned and run by st
Most local governments also closed. Emergency personnel, though, are still asked to report. Every major Public Transportation agency is closed today, including metro transit and vre. Pretty much every flight into and out of our region has been canceled. Youre advised to call your Airline First if you have any questions about getting in or out of town. Marc is shut down today. Amtrak canceled most of its northeast corridor trains. Again its pret much a quiet day. Today is also the third day of an extended weekend for most School Systems in our region, and we have all of this information on our website. Its wusa9. Com. We keep it updated 24 7. Very little traffic out there, but that doesnt mean we dont have problems and road closures. So lets go to Monika Samtani whos going to tell us about that. If youre planning to head around town, let me take you to a graphic. Here at the bay bridge, level one wind restrictions. That means winds are 40 to 49 miles an hour. No empty box trailers are h
System usually to be in play this far north. We only have a week or two window of opportunity every year to get this. This is rare. I dont remember anything like this. You may never see this again. Lets hope so. Just an extreme, extreme weather event. Kudos for everybody for taking it seriously, for canceling schools, work, transit. I think thats easily the right call and calling the evacuations. Lets get you going with a look at our day plan other this monday morning. Weve got rain which has picked up. Moderate rain right now. By noon heavy rains and wind going on there. Temperature steady if not falling. Right now 53 degrees with moderate rain. Weve got Hurricane Force Wind Warnings from the midatlantic to the northeast. This is where i think the Hurricane Center blew it. They thought, you know, past cape hatteras, we wont issue hurricane or Tropical Storm warnings because we think its going to be an extra Tropical Storm. Well confuse everybody by going to another warning system. Thi
N. F. L. Players accused the league of creating a culture of drug misuse by handing out pills with prescriptions. We deserve a break in the weather and were getting t. Heres howard. Heavy rains yesterday. We had some spots in Southern Maryland, parts of st. Marys and Calvert County where over 4isms of rain fell from the storms. This morning tracking them still along coastal areas. Down in st. Marys and the Northern Neck, this is what were looking at. A couple of lighter showers which are just straggling across here. Looks quiet in st. Marys. The heavy stuff in the bay moving towards the Eastern Shore. Temperatures starting to drop along with humidity levels out west. Its up in the 40s. Oakland 52. Cumberland 55. Low 60s for winchester. Even luray 59. Were Still Holding on to the upper 60s and low 70s. Looks like its going to be a really fine day once we get rid of the early clouds, sunshine. 82 at 3 00. High of 84. Even this evening looks great with temps down to 74 by 9 00. Monika sam
Were just having a little bit of fog weve been talking about the last 90 minutes or so, especially down toward happen tan knock and warrenton. Halfmile in frederick. At times been zero. Other times two miles. A little fog trying to form across parts of prince georges and howard counties, mainly when you get to those rural areas. Temperatures in the 60s in most spots. 50s in westminster. Luray has dipped to 59 degrees with 68 on the bay in annapolis. The light winds this morning will be with us for the day. The sunshine, the heat, all of them come together to produce some extra ozone at ground level. Nitrous oxides. That means the air quality goes a little south. Unhealthy for sensitive today. The young, the old, anybody with Health Issues probably want to keep it indoors in the air conditioning this afternoon. Lets turn it over to monika now with a look at timesaver traffic. A couple of issues i need to tell you about. First of all looks pretty good here on the beltway but if youre com