Us for the best place for sunday morning tv, wusa 9. It feel like fall. Its cold in some places. Today is going to be muggy and milder than yesterday. Well get a few degrees. As far as the shower chances, not that high overall, but some of you, your morning is going to be damp and it looks like the sun pattern will be with us for lighter rain showers coming through the metro. For today, were going to have a mostly cloudy mild day. Low to mid70s. Well have a few showers with the highest chance of that south and west of washington. The sunrise setting at 6 58. You can see on first alert doppler, the showers in the carolines and virginia. West of the metro, everything is lifting first weve had some light showers coming through for the most part. At the moment, mainly dry in the district. Dispatch of showers on the beltway coming through college park and berwin head up towards laurel and into howard county. Colesville and clipping silver spring. Back atfairfax, we have a couple of showers.
With what we can expect tonight. It was a great decision to move that concert indoors. We have two active Severe Thunderstorm Warnings. One includes just north of the district. Another Severe Thunderstorm Warning around haymarket. Lets get you started with the storm cluster producing very heavy rain and a lot of lightning as well, gusty winds right over bethesda, silver spring, wheaton moving to the east at 30 miles an hour. To theorm cell moving east at 30 miles an hour. To the next storm cell off to the southwest. We had storms moved through earlier. The storm redeveloping on the southwest side. Warrenton and haymarket picking up this heavy rain. A lot of lightning with these storms. It is all part of a line that has been very warm, very humid all day long. Downright hot. We were at 96 earlier. 91 in d. C. Dulles, 72 degrees. We will see in d. C. A rapid drop in temperature within the next hour or so. For the remainder of this evening, temperatures falling into the 70s and 80s. It wi
Disturbance in electric systems. Were about to show you a picture of a burnt transmission line on the ground near that power station. You can see the grass is blackened all around it. Pepco calls this interruption a dip in voltage. The interruption automatically caused backup Power Systems to kick in at many businesses many large facilities across the region which is why it appears the outages primarily affected buildings and offices and not homes. Pepco says its now investigating at the substation in Charles County to learn about what else went wrong and how this all started. At the live desk im Scott Mcfarlane. Oprah winfrey was in the middle of a speech at the warren theater when the lights went out there. The media mogul didnt miss a beat. She kept on talking. She was taking part in the unveiling of the Postal Services new maya angelou stamp. Tom sherwood was downtown when this happened and tells us how metro was affected. Reporter right now at the Dupont Circle metro station. Its
Centreville, all the way to fairfax. Tysons corner, the beltway looks good. No issues to report as you travel take from annandale. On the northbound side of i95 coming from dumfries youre going to be okay. This is where the accident was overnight southbound at route 234. The big accident. Everything has been cleared in case you heard about it. Lets go back to the maps this time over to the bw parkway, route 50 through cheverly into the northeast corridor. A live look at the beltway north of town near New Hampshire avenue. All clear at this time. Andrea and mike . Thank you, monika. Wow, a scary, scary day for a couple of Jewelry Stores. For Area Police Departments and some other detectives are trying to figure out why these places were robbed in broad daylight. Exactly. Both these heists happened while the stores were open for business. Wusa9 reporter Delia Goncalves is live in arlington with more on the story. Good morning, delia. Reporter good morning, andrea, mike. A very busy today