The rain shafts coming through this thunderstorm. Theres a nice little lightning bolt right there. That was chopper 4 about 20 minutgo that. Same storm. Take a look at it on storm team 4 radar has really declined and decdased in intensity, an what its done is sent out this boundary, so were seeing other storms form in parts of fauquier and Fairfax County and Prince William county. Lets go in and zoom on it. Lets show you in through Fairfax County nd greatfalls, the heaviest of which coming towards quantico. Strockest storms now, ba into Jefferson County west virginia. A lot of lightning with this one and a ne forming back towards thisn our way moving t through evening. On the hot side. 91 so far today, leon and well go higher tomorrow. Ngouve been talki about the chances of a 12day long heat wave. Are we still on track for that . The one day were really watching would bemo nda 8y. 9. That would take us out of the heat wave, but if were looking at 89 to give us some relief, you know wev
They are working on her right now. Well have them seated in a couple minutes and shownfully on the deck in knife. Reporter fisher rose to stardom as Princess Leia in the original star wars series and is also known for being outspoken about her struggles in hollywood and her Mental Health issues. Fishers star wars costars took to social immediate could show their support. Mark hamill tweeted a it is 2016 couldnt get worse. Sending all our love to Carrie Fisher and peter mayhew wrote thoughts hand prayers for our friend and everyones favorite princess right now. Carrie fisher. Fisher recently published an autobiography titled the princies di pararist. Larry, ama . Thanks so much, dan. Turning to our weather now. Get ready for a cold and wet weekend. This is a live look at mt. Tam where you can see the wind is blowing right now. Heavy rains fell all across the bay area most of the day. Driving conditions slick and windy, especially while crossing the bridges. You can see a tree there that
A lot of heavy rain and lightning and thunderstorm activity. That continues down towards washington, so if youre in gloucester, again, 4 26 washington and near 430 and williamstown expect it by 4 55 so this line of storms is going to be crossing the major interstates up through philadelphia and even extending through parts of trenton and mercy county. Thats going to slide into new jersey and delaware. Well talk more about this and what you can expect for the rest of the evening coming up. We have our newest meteorologist that we want to welcome to the nbc 10 weather team. She has a closer check on the heat in the area. Thank you. Im getting a hot and wet welcome here. You can see the change from where the rain has already moved through. Tracking the temperature 74 in allentown and philadelphia and 87 degrees, feelslike temperatures. What it feels like based on the fact that we have the high humidity. Check out dover, 107 is what it feels like. While temperatures will dip a tad, were ta
It has been explosive. We ended 2013 with a 37 decline in homicides over the last three years, but this year alone 17 of our 42 homicides have been domestic in nature which means 40 of the homicides in our county are domesticrelated which are phenomenal numbers. We are concerned about it and really just intent on causing a decline in those numbers. Maybe we can start out with a working definition for our audience first. When we talk about Domestic Violence, Domestic Abuse, it can take many forms, not just what we think of initially when it does end in something as horrendous as murder. What else are we talking about when we say Domestic Abuse . Certainly the physical element is a piece of that. Its emotional. It could be sexual so its unwanted, you know, harm towards someone and uninvited someone coming at you, violating your boundaries, from an emotional, physical perspective, but its harmful behavior, thats emotional and physical and aimed at another person. What are you seeing when