Justices son and a catholic cao priest himself will deliverimse the mass thats set to starthato here in just about four hours h at 11 oclock. The basilica behind me holds hol 3500 people. Eoe. Now, the visitation yesterdayes held at the Supreme Court had 3,000 people including theludint president and the first lady fir who attended. Father paul scalia also providing traditional prayersrae at a private ceremony held at the Supreme Court scaliass casket lay in an area where w president lincoln lay before him. Scalia associate justice from the Supreme Court where he passed at the age of 79 appointed by ronald reagan. Vice President Joe Biden andsinj dr. Jill biden will be. Jill attending today. Tend the president will not. Sint w the service technically openalle to the public. Pli however it is first come first serve to friends and family. Fil well send it back to you. All right. A you see in megans shot t just a beautiful morning. Orni i know. That was great sunrise. At sse the sun just
Going to give us a very active day. Cloudy to mostly cloudy, isolated, scattered showers, possible snow showers, thunderstorms as well, could be some brief heavy rain, 50s on the temps today. A little bit of rain in south bay as you saw there. You will see that once when when the rain comes because all of a sudden we start getting a lot of crashes might want to check the south bay. Let me see here. Ill check so far so good. Keep your fingers crossed. Maybe this is the day californians learn how to drive in the rain. I say that with all the love in my heart. Lets take a look at the east shore freeway. As you head out to the bridge, traffic moving along pretty well as you head out to the bridge. Right now, as i mentioned with steve, looking pretty good. We dont have a lot of accidents. We have one notable crash that i will mention in a moment. Lets go to the bay bridge toll plaza, traffic is light here as you drive into San Francisco or the other way around. I want to mention on state ro
Announcement around 8 00 this morning. Well send the alert to your phone through the nbc washington app. Right now were watching hurricane patricia. Right now its headed toward mexico. It could be the strongest storm on record to ever hit the country. The National Hurricane center is calling it potentially catastrophic. Its heading toward a big resort area. One resort is going to be evacuated. Pa treesh ya is expected to make landfall this afternoon. 4 31. Time for weather traffic on the 1s. Chuck bell has your weather. Yes, indeedy. Not too bad of visibility. You can still see the u. S. Capitol building in downtown washington. Current temperatures, how about this out the door. Low 60s in the shenandoah valley. Mid50s in the suburbs and downtown. Compared to yesterday its considerably milder. This afternoon even though were off to a milder start, well have a cooler day. North to northwesterly wind. Could be breezy at times. That will hold. Nowhere near as warm as that 76degree day we e
88 people are looking for a temporary place to stay after this fire broke out in the four buildings of this complex about 7 00 this evening. Flames went through the roof of the fourth floor and spread to adjoining units with 30 apartments heavily damaged. Everyone managed to get out. Yeah, i grabbed a pair of pants, slipper, deep e and we just ran out. Reporter ross says she was scared. Everybody was just coming, knocking on doors. They was like, hurry up, come outside. The building is on fire. When we came outside. All you seen was flames. Then it just engulfed it. The fire trucks are coming. Reporter the police who lost their homes could face weeks of displacement, i saw plenty of flames, lots of smoke. It was crazy. Reporter thats where you live . Yes. Reporter what are you going to do . Thats the question of the night right now. We will figure it out. Something will happen. Reporter more than 100 firefighters were here. Three had to be treated for minor injuries. Its a nice evening
Larry bowers has been named interim superintendent. The school board still isnt saying why star is leaving but star said the board wanted to go in a completely different direction. Meanwhile there is encouraging news for the future of thousands of young men and women in a neighboring county. Prince georges county is reporting the highest Graduation Rate for students. More than 76 last year. Thats more than a 2 increase over the previous year. And the dropout rate fell by nearly two points. Prince georges county found out whats driving the success. Reporter looking back renee smith knows how she lost her way in school. Her grade point average dropped after a disconnect with her teacher. Now a senior with a 3. 5 average shes planning for college. I feel like i could do better. Reporter renee is one of many students here at central high benefitting from improved faculty training. Stronger student accountability resulting in an 8 increase of graduates. The highest of any school in the coun