nice clearing trend towards morning. a couple of cold fronts coming through. you can see on the radar that we re done with the rain showers. generally good news here in the forecast. temperatures at reagan national at 70 degrees. 68 at dulles. 67 in fredericksburg. ocean city currently 73 degrees. forecast for today calling for nicer conditions than yesterday. should be lots of afternoon sunshine. we ll go high temperatures in washington about 80 degrees. that is just about where we should be this time of year. more details on the forecast in just a minute. back to you at the desk, will j thank you, tucker. some of the top stories, the d.c. council will vote on a temporary chair today. phil mendelsohn appears to have the votes to succeed kwame brown who resigned after pleading guilty to a bank fraud charge. sewers say mendelsohn is favored because he is not likely to shake things up too much and will offer some stability. george alhelp won last night s republican primary in v
we re done with the rain. mentioned the humidity is on the way out as well. sorry. we are looking at a lot of sunshine the next couple of days. we ll start with a look at your radar. shower activity done and the blue you see, we have a couple of cold fronts coming through. in steps here, we ll lose the humidity and lose the very mild temperatures that we ve started our day with as that cooler and drier air starts to work in from the north and west. let me mention the winds will be out of the north at about 10 to 15 gusting to 25. humidity still up, 84%. it will be improving this morning. winds out of the north appear west at six. it does feel a little better than it did during the day yesterday. today, mostly sunny skies by the affect. 08degrees your daytime high. 81, 82 in a few spots so low 80s. nice start to the first day of summer break for a left kids. yeah. thank you. you mentioned you saw things moving nicely on the roads. so far, so good. we ll go to lauren
day planner, into the mid 70s by mid morning. a passing shower, generally a 50% chance by noontime, and the likelihood of showers, thunder and lightning too. highs reaching the low 80s. how much longer will this continue? we ll have a look at traffic. good morning. good morning. watching the roadways, another accident. inner loop of the beltway, approaching the interchange, a crash blocking the right lane. be aware of that. and seeing wet pavement, give yourself extra time today. i-95, looking good, heading out of woodbridge, making your way toward the beltway. no issues to report. a live look at lorton. very light volume, but increasing northbound, no major delays just yet, and you are accident free in this area. i-270, leave look at clarksburg. travel lanes open, even all the way to the lane divide and northbound as well. nice and clear, no accidents, but you can see very wet roadways here. wet all morning. again, give yourself extra time. back to you. 5:01. new this mo
activity. you can see the green lifting to the north and east and the north and east side of that beltway. college park, beltsville as you got out towards crofton and annapolis, you get some showers and working down the bay as well. we ll see rain here on and off today. could see a thunderstorm as well. warm and humid temperatures expected around here this afternoon. currently, we are 71 degrees. that temperature has fallen become a little bit in the past hour with the rain showers moving through. humidity way on up. 87%. there are your winds out of the south at 13 miles per hour. here is your forecast for today. as we get into the afternoon hours, we ll see more shower activity and the possibility of a for you more thunderstorms developing as well. high temperatures about 80 degrees at 5:00 p.m. more details on the forecast in just a minute. back to you. thank you. our top stories, an investigation under way after a 23-year-old man was hit by a csx train in rockville. it
they won t talk publicly, but about all of them will talk to you on the telephone if you don t use their names. the vote is wednesday. i m told right now neither mendelson nor orange has the votes to become interim chairman and kwame brown s staff is not likely to be let go immediately. chairman pro tem mary cheh is offering to keep the 20 or so staffers on board at least for now. let s talk about the fact that there s no votes locked up so far for these new council chairmen who want to be can chairman. these people know each other to be council chairman. these people know each other very well. here s one deal we know about. michael brown and phil mendelsohn have teamed up. if phil mendelsohn becomes the interim chairman, michael brown becomes chairman pro tem and you can bet vincent orange is making deals, too, on the side. right now there s mistrust because nobody knows where the next shoe will drop. in other words, somebody else could be indicted and forced out,