Meteorologist jacqui jeras. Warm temperatures yesterday, 73 degrees. Today, we will top that. We have a few clouds this morning with mild temperatures, national, 53 at dulles, 46 in frederick, 54 in winchester. Have a south wind today with midlevel and high level clouds. Sunny today with a High Temperature of 7580 degrees. Interesting things by the weekend. We will detailed added a few minutes. First, traffic would jamee whitten. It is quiet. Not much to tell you about. This is when we watch construction wrapping up. Have in tysons on the beltway. 66, no problems. 395, theres some road work. Travel lanes are open in arlington. Here we are near glebe road. The maryland beltway, they have busy overnight, over the branch, between new ,ampshire avenue and university been picked up you are good to go. No delays affecting many places maryland, virginia, or the district. , a gorgeous start. Back to you. Thank you. It is a sad ending to the search missing a 12yearold girl in new jersey. A body
District, what happened in happen in our nations capital. Good morning washington at 5 00 a. M. Starts right now. Live and in hd, this is good morning washington, on your side. With us on this tuesday morning, october 23. I am steve chenevey. I am natasha barrett. Get to meteorologist jacqui jeras. Good morning. Are temperatures are mild. Need a jacket. Will be a beautiful october day. I did say that. Have a few clouds right now, but it will be filtered sun shine. 50degrees in the district, fredericksburg and we will about 58 with partly skies at 9 00. 71 and partly sunny and pleasant at noon. At 5 00. High temperature just shy of 80 degrees, at least 10 degrees this time of for year, a pretty incredible. How long will it last . Thats coming up, but first, whitten. Ould jamee the commute is not bad. Not much to tell you. Lanes are open in virginia. 95 looks good out of stafford. Working towards the occoquan, newington,ton and looking good. Hov lanes are open. Quite happy about that. In
The worst. Jennifer donelan is live in northeast washington with an important detail to try to prevent flooding. Yesterday we saw a lot of apathy. Today, a lot more concerned. This time of year, this is the major problem. We have leaves all over the place and we have storm drains and these leaves in the storm drains mean we will have clogged drains. In college park, pepco crews were ahead of what may or may not be a power blowout from Hurricane Sandy. I am very concerned about it. Pepcos presents down the street was welcome. I am concerned for the children. Pepco said it had already begun preparations ahead of sandys arrival. 400 outside contractors are already in the region trying to improve reliability. Pepco said they are adding to their personal in case theyre needed. And the extra workers will be on duty this weekend. Frustrating flooding such a massive problem this summer, d. C. Water sent a number of crews today to check the source system. They also hit trouble spots in every cl
Through the evening. One of the biggest concerns is the potential for widespread power outages. Power crews are to win what they can to get ready. Suzanne kennedy houseas how pepco is preparing. Pepco says it has had time to prepare for this mega storm. The Utility Company says that it is hoping the recovery from it will be easier than from the late june event. This summers historic storm knocked out power to more than 400,000 pepco customers. This kensington resident was one of the people who endorse a days long power outage. After what he experienced in june, he is worried going into next weeks storm. I am concerned about power outages. Without power you are in big trouble. That is the main problem, power. Pepco announced it is gearing up for a multiple day all hands on deck event. In addition to its regular and stand by contractor crews, theyre requesting 2400 400 tree trimmers, and several hundred damage assessors and will have an additional staff. This is a hurricane. A hurricane
Snowstorm of the year. He did not complain of the cancellation of school because of the snow but he will complain about what is falling. I was hoping for snow. Vdot started planning. We started planning yesterday when they said snow. Operations manager Keith Washington this is an exciting moment. Has been coordinating personnel and plows nonstop. Vdot will deploy 900 pieces of equipment including 35 trucks dedicated to i95. Be patient and give us a chance to get out there. Thursday afternoon, fredericksburg schools along with other counties canceled all afternoon activities sending students home in a hurry. Im glad i get to go home in a hurry. The right decision because safety comes first. Because of all the rain weve had the past couple of days and today vdot did not pretreat the roads with chemicals, they would have melted away. Instead, all the plow trucks are filled with sand ready to hit the roads at a moments notice. Thank you, jeff. This lack of snow in maryland is coming up as