Radify. Correct. And second thing thing. Reporter a few minutes later it was back to business for hearth and the press core thanks to smart phone flash lights. Tonights other top story. Reporter at the university of maryland where the power outage jammed elevators. Firefighters had to rescue about a dozen people but no one was hurt. Classled canceled at 2 00 p. M. But a medical School Recruitment fair went on under emergency backup lights. He says the power went out right in the middle of a practice medschool admissions test. Then the fire alarm went off. And luckily it was in the 10 minute break so i quickly ran took my stuff and ran to my room. Reporter he says the lights went off in the middle of his class. Chinese lit in the dark. Reporter and after they made their way off stuck elevators and dark classrooms, it ended up being one of those days that makes college such a blast. Feels like its out of a movie. Reporter classes tomorrow start on time. Reporter in Downtown Washington th
Light rain. In this area in Loudoun County, washington frederick, northern Montgomery Howard county getting just a few light sprinkles right now. Those may be spreading closer to the metro area over the next hour. Right now low to mid60s. Breezes gusting 15 to 20 miles per hour. Washington monument under a dry sky, but have an umbrella ready. Well have bluster we rindswinds through the day. Showers and thundershowers looking likely this afternoon and this evening. Got your bus stop forecast for this friday morning next weather and traffic on the 1s. Any volume building yet . We do have control im building. 95 southbound approaching route 32, take a look here, just a little bit of volume. The deer has been cleared out of the way. Again, just seeing volume green single tracking. 95 north at Prince William parkway, there a crash reported. Just a twlarng. One warning there. Inner loop and outer loop moving along. Randolph street at 22nd we have a water main break. Zach, tell us how were lo
Top. It was so bright. It was like like it was at night. It was just as more daylight even now in the day time. Reporter the station is cooperated by pepco and smeko. Crews are here getting the station back up and running. The power is not yet on yet. And theyre also trying to figure out what caused that coil insulator to fail and fall. Actually three of them we see missing here now on whats called a back bone. Now when the failure happened here it caused a dip in voltage and then the Ripple Effect into d. C. Pepco says that caused generators and all these huge facilities to then kick on and many of them require a manual switch in order to get the main power supply back up and running and pepco says thats the reason for all the delays and getting the power back on. Theyre still trying to figure out what happened here in mechanicsville. Tourists were ushered out of museums and some federal workers sent home for the day. Bruce has been out all over downtown trying to gauge the impact of
Celebration down on the mall. Huge for the big concert down there. Great weather for us today. Well still have a nice day, but it will just be a big drop in temperatures. Closer to where we should be this time of year and cooler than average in most of the area. Lets get it started with the weather cam. Were waking up to temperatures that are very similar to what we had yesterday at this time, but were not going to see that dramatic rise in temperatures that we had yesterday. Filtered sunshine, 63 degrees. 65 at 1 00. A good 10 to 15 degrees cooler as we head into the afternoon. By 4 00, a lot of clouds in place. Notice the easterly winds will be rather strong. 15 to 20 Miles Per Hour at times. Rain arriving in the evening. That rain will get heavy at times, so it looks like it could be messy for that monday morning drive. Current temperature is 55 degrees. 57 in cull pepper. Its 59 in leesburg. Those temperatures are pretty comfortable. Satellite and radar showing just a few clouds in
While she went gambling in maryland. They say someone notified an officer when they saw the little boy sleeping and in the Police Report it says germany showed no remorse. She said she needed money. Time to look at our forecast. We are talking about a beautiful spring day. Especially the gorgeous weekend we had. I mean, if you could take a threeday weekend you could. Because that spring weather finally arrived after winter held a firm grip. We want to check in with tom. It was so gorgeous over the weekend. We will continue that today. This morning a few scattered sprinkles. Patch of green here. Along 81 from winchester to south of hagerstown, this is tracking off to the east and quickly moving on through. At the bus stop this morning, a bit of a chill in the air. So youll need a light jacket. Well be cool between 7 00 and 8 00 a. M. A few clouds are coming through. Between 8 00 and 9 00 jumping into the mid 50s and the breezes picking up out of the south. That will be warming us into t