also be behind the series of shootings last fall. take a look outside this morning. temperature already pushing 80 degrees. good morning. thank you for waking up with fox 5 morning news. i m steve chenevey. i m audrey barnes. this morning, we are glowing to help you get your day off to a sweet and cool start. tony is live out on dupont circumstance we ll more on that. how is the humidity this morning. good morning. it is up there. i have to say there is a little bit of a breeze this morning so it doesn t feel as bad to me as it did yesterday morning but our terms are higher than they were yesterday. we are in the upper 70s across the region. it will be another hot day. we ll see a high right around 90 degrees for today. hot and humid which is why we have come outside to the due pond metro stop because dupont circle metro stop because we ll be with the folk from receipt s water ice. they are getting upset. we ll start handing out rita s water ice to make your day get
anything new. it s still 80, 74% humidity. and you can feel the humidity out here. a hot and humid one today. we ll get sunshine at times. it s push on past the current conditions to the satellite radar and show you we have plenty of cloud cover out here. that will help hold temperatures down into the upper 80s to about 90 later this afternoon. and then with a cold front approaching from the north and west, the risk of thunderstorms could be strong. we had the briefest of sprinkles here about 30 minutes ago, like three drops but that is over. skies are breaking up. we ll be here until 10:00 handing out free rita s water ice on the northern side of the dupont circle station, 20th and q. street northwest. it s free and you need it today it will be a warm day. that s it for us. we ll toss it back to you guys and more coming up in a little bit. thanks very much. our top story this hour, sources say investigators have found the man who fired shots at several military build
here. partly sunny skies with scattered showers and thunderstorms returning this afternoon. and again, with all of the heat and humidity around here, some of the storms could be on the strong side late this afternoon. i ll have more details notice forecast. slightly cooler and drier weather for the weekend. i ll have those details coming up. allison? it has been two years sin the deadliest crash in metro s history. nine people were killed when a redline train crashed into a parked train. the victims families have filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against metro. we get more now on the anniversary from stacy cohan who is live at the fort totten station. good morning, stacy. reporter: well good morning. we have moved just down the road from the fort totten station to an overpass. you can see behind me that is where family members of victims have posted large pictures, flowers, various memorials to loved ones. it s drawn quite a bit of attention as i ve been sitting out
morning. not everyone is getting it. most of you are not getting it but we have seen some activity this morning and we re likely to continue some during the early morning hours and then we get a break and we ll see more during the late afternoon and into the evening hours as well. temperatures, it s a warm start to the day. we re in the 70s. 74 degrees in the district. 73 at dulles airport, baltimore is at 70 degrees. fredericksberg is 75. and frederick, maryland is at 73 degrees. here is your day planner for today. say it with me hazy, hot and humid. sorry about that. we ll see a good amount of sunshine today, mixed with clouds. high today right around about 90 degrees. look for showers between 3:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. and some of them could be strong. that s a look at the weather. now lauren demarco is here with a look at traffic. well it got started this morning early with the outer loop in montgomery county, delays because of an earlier wreck that is clear but you are
searching for a suspect they believe may be linked to several home unvagues and sexual assaults. what common link the crimes share as fox 5 morning news tin we ll take a look off at the horizon this morning. we are starting to sea a few more blue skies out there, a few less clouds than we had seen previously. it is wednesday morning, june 22nd. i m syesha. i am audrey barnes. already temperatures are starting to climb up. tony, how high will they get today? i think we ll see a high around 90 degrees today. didn t quite get there yesterday. we were in the mid-80s for the most part. today, i think around 90 degrees. we ll start with a look at the satellite-radar. we ve been watching some showers and thunderstorms pop up. those storms now dissipating almost as quickly as they began to pop up an hour ago. still a couple of showers here and there, primarily in the western suburbs. some of you may get some rain this morning. what we were seeing is dissipating. there certainly