virginia, the district, all of maryland just about, except from the mountains west. heat index 105 to 109 noon to 8:00 p.m. stay inside unless you absolutely have to be out. just stay in the ac to stay safe this afternoon. by 7:00, we ll be into the mid-70s, so a pleasant start to the morning, but soaring to near 90 by noon, then yes, near 100 by mid-afternoon. after that, could get some strong storms developing, perhaps late afternoon into early evening. i ll be back in ten minutes. danella s here now with a look at your first 4 traffic this thursday morning. good morning. right now, i m tracking breaking news on the roadway. northbound i-270 at 109, we have an accident in the roadway. once this banner s gone, i can show you, it s blocking all lanes, involving an overturned tractor-trailer, and you can see that police as well as the fire department is on the scene of the accident in this area. so again, if you re traveling i-270 northbound at 109, all your lanes are bloc
head for the door or head for the hills. that s the kind of cliche metaphor that s true. it sent a very strong message that i m not going to back down on health care. health care i thought was the absolute strongest hart of it. i did. didn t you get a sense, like he was above the politics and he was trying to bring the politicians together. you know, perez tries to do over there. he said that but after half an hour of taking these shots then you can t say, but let s all get along. it doesn t work then. what shots? i thought he said, you know, this is what i inherited two wars fact. lousy economy fact. it is a fact but then don t say after talking about that for a half an hour, that you don t want to relitigate, i guess not, because you just did. well, the moderates out there want to hear that. i think any president i want to like him. i wanted to like it. i think hoover did the democrats a big favor by having the depression on his watch, prov