it is much more pleasant as we have drier air pushing in from the west. we have a cool front pushing in from the mountains, and that front will be pushing through the rest of the region east of virginia. that will be as this day progresses, and that will usher in even lower humidity as we get into the late afternoon hours and into the evening hours. right now still quite a bit of cloudiness over washington. live picture from the city camera. by 9:00, upper 70s, partly cloudy. partly cloudy the rest of the day. temperatures mid-80s by late afternoon. as that secondary shot comes in, we could get an isolated shower popping up where the humidity is going to be remaining east of i-95 around the bay and eastern shore. there s only a 30% chance of those storms popping up. i ll look at your friday night planner at 6:11. danella, good morning. how s traffic? i want to start with the rails. we have a couple of delays here. a delay on the marc brunswick east line p-870 you re delayed
reporter: melaku, a truck driver in the marine reserves, not on the fbi s radar until last friday. when he was arrested in arlington national cemetery after hours. after he was picked up, there was a shutdown of ramps and roads around the pentagon for more than four hours. inside his backpack, the fbi found ammonium nitrate, ingredients for a bomb. a notebook with preference references to the taliban, al qaeda and osama bin laden. and incriminating shell casings linked to shootings at military facilities. at melaku s fairfax home, a day-long search turned up a treasure trove of evidence. including elements for a timing device. bomb-making documents. and the self-shot video of him outside that marine museum. on that tape, he says, last time i hit them, they turned out the lights four or five days. this time, i m going to turn it off permanently. that marine museum, two recruiting offices and the pentagon among the buildings fired upon last year by a fan tam shooter. anybod
series of mysterious shootings at military targets around northern virginia. sources tell news4 the 22-year-old marine reservist has been linked by forensics to five unsolved shootings that started last year. the first was at the national museum of the marine corps on october 17th. when someone fired at least ten rounds into the building s glass ceiling. narrowly missing a jet on display. two days later, someone fired the same weapon, shattering windows at the pentagon. at least six to seven shots were fired before 5:00 in the morning. one week later, an overnight shooting took place at a marine corps recruiting station in chantilly. then on october 30th, the shooter struck for the second time at the museum of the marine corps. the final shooting occurred november 2nd. then they stopped. melaku, a native of ethiopia has been jailed in loudoun county on unrelatesed theft charges. he joined the marine corps reserve in 2007. but was never deployed overseas. right now, law enforc