people are also cleaning up in hampton, virginia where a twister packing winds of 98 miles per hour through the downtown area and a yacht club. first, let me welcome you. i m will thomas. sarah is out sick today. gwen is here today with the weather. we have got just a few clouds rolling in across the area. the wet weather now over parts of delmarva. that will gradually start to push its way out into the course of the day. as we take a look at where we hit yesterday. we were right on where we should be for temperatures. 80 at national. 79 at dulles. currently, 65 degrees at national airport. by this afternoon, the winds will start to be gusty. before a chance of showers and maybe a passing thunderstorm. back to you. thank you. some of the top stories this morning. a 37-year-old woman is recovering after a car crashed right into her apartment building in riverdale yesterday and hit her bed as she was sleeping. she says a man jumped out of the car and said don t call polic
be upgraded. so you ve got to live with it. reporter: metro riders not happy but not surprised by the second rate hike in under two years. in the past we ve had the increases, too, and things haven t improved. reporter: but metro s general manager richard sarles says the money is needed to close a $100 million budget gap. what the fare increase does is provide additional revenue to us to provide additional rush hour service during the peak period, to provide additional bus service, to improve our maintenance. reporter: today s vote comes after months of debate and no one has fought the fare increase harder than metro access riders. near 50 disabled riders packed metro s headquarters ahead of the vote urging the board to reconsider. these rates really affect our home and our lives going to the doctor and to the grocery stores. i need metro access. it can happen to you. that s all. just reevaluate. reporter: the board agreed to reevaluate at a later date but for
face. luckily no children were involved in the attack. tonight is the night redskins fans have waited months to get here, the first round of the nfl draft. it starts in less than an hour. the redskins have the no. 2 pick and they re expected to take baylor s heisman trophy winning quarterback robert griffin, iii. we have team coverage following the big day for burgundy and gold. kristen berset is at redskins park, but we start with derek mcginty just outside radio music hall. reporter: just call him rg3. everybody else does or call him the future perhaps. the redskins are hoping that s exactly what he will be when in about an hour they make him their first second no. 2 pick in the draft since anybody can remember, perhaps in history. as you said, an hour from now in that building there, radio city music hall. the redskins hope in one fell swoop to turn their entire franchise around. welcome to primetime, the nfl draft just a few hours from kickoff on the biggest brightest
four inches below average for precipitation. now there is a live view from our city camera. there s the washington monument, the jefferson memorial. right now reagan national is at a cool 55. the wind is around 10 to 15 miles per hour. and we have some clouds beginning to move in from the west. conditions are dry. right now temperatures down into the low 50s around the shenandoah valley and the blue ridge. as well as montgomery, loudoun, frederick counties, points west. closer to washington, southern montgomery into arlington, fairfax, prince george s counties, in the mid 50s. southern maryland, near 60 in through central virginia, fredericksburg at 60 degrees. near the pennsylvania border, it s near 50. over the last 12 hours, there s been a weak fronts moving out of the ohio valley coming into western maryland. a few light sprinkles of rain there. that front will be coming closer to us as we get toward the middle of the afternoon and evening hours. we ve got a greater chanc
language. the veteran newsman known for his probing questions died last night. bryan moore looks at a career that spanned more than 60 years. reporter: mike wallace was a tv giant who cut the rich and powerful down to size. when we talk about dictat dictatorship, i m wagging my finger alts the presidet the pr china. as the inquisitor on 60 minutes, he interviewed ayatollah khamenei during the crisis. he is a disgrace to islam and he used the word a lunatic. reporter: when mike wallace asked the questions, the world waited for the answer. some of our great leaders would not have been perhaps great television personalities. reporter: but wallace was, in a tv career that spanned six decades. the mike wallace interview. reporter: he had a knack for making people squirm. you like that 40 million people have to see me do this. reporter: not even friends were safe. you didn t really need that question. reporter: but he did, hard questions that occasional