In the 90s for the next several days. Lets get it started with the heat alert. This is heat advisory in effect for the entire metro area. It goes into effect at 1 00. The heat index will be right around 105 for many of us. And actually in the immediate beltway region we could see heat index values above 105 as we head into the afternoon. Here is a look at that day planner. Already 87 degrees at 10 00. Thats before you factor in the humidity. 93 at 1 00. 94 degrees at 4. 88 even at 10 00. Right now it is 75 in leesburg and hagerstown. 73 gaithersburg. Its still 79 in downtown washington. We actually have a heat index value in d. C. Right now of 84 when you factor in the dewpoint of 74 degrees. We are going to keep it mostly dry as well. We dont have any rain in the forecast. Maybe a stray isolated storm from this weak disturbance thats trying to pass through. A cold front will arrive on tuesday. We will track that for you coming up with 9 futurecast and the first alert sevenday. Back to
Happened . Reporter they are still trying to figure that out. But me give you a lay of the land. It sits at the triangle of land where the potomac and the shenandoah rivers meet. The National Park is just down the road. That is with the rivers are. Let me show you where this fire was. In the heart of the historic district. You can see for buildings, all of them terribly burned up. We do not know the cause yet. It is under investigation but one of the pieces of evidence we know that they will be looking at is an extraordinary piece of videotape that was given to us by the man who took it early this morning. Take a look at this video. It shows at about 3 00 a. M. The first moments of this fire. It is crackling loud. You can hear the trauma and the voices of the people. They are wondering where the Fire Department is. They caution each other to get away. A woman is worried about getting her dog away from the fire. The good news, no injuries to people. Two cats were killed. This is a bad f
Lawrence. He is at the live desk with new details. Police just wrapped up a News Conference in the last one to two minutes. We now confirm a man shot ten people in that theater and then killed himself. At least one of the victims is dead, and three others are in critical condition. Take a look. Here is what has been happening at the grand theater. Witnesses say they were at the 7 00 show eing of train wreck. About 20 minutes into the movie someone stood up and started shooting. Some of the witnesses say this was at the back, that he stood up and started shooting down. Now police are telling us they do know who the shooter is but all theyre saying is he is a 58yearold man, a white man. But theyre not giving out his identity. Although, again, they do know who he is. Right now the fbi and atf are on the scene. They are been sweeping the building and the parking lot for explosives. Right now there is no evidence of that. But remember, in the colorado movie shooting, james holmes had rigged
Thunder especially south jersey and delaware. Most of you will be dry, though. 75 degrees right now in philadelphia, warm certainly. 68 in allentown, 71 in trenton and low 70s in millville. Mid 70s down along the coast. I got to show you dewpoints because the humidity which started to come up yesterday is even worse this morning. Weve got some dewpoints up over 70 in some spots. And that is oppressive humidity and of course it will feel worse as the sun gets up over the horizon and temperatures are going up today, too. 87 by noon. 3 oclock is your high today 92 degrees and 87 by 6 00 but you can probably add about three, four, maybe 5 degrees to the temperature at any given moment through the day to get the heat index value how it actually feels out there. A little worse on the heat and humidity tomorrow, matt pelman and then were going to go for a heat wave on thursday. Details coming up in that seven day. We just keep adding those degrees. I know. But on the other end of the spectrum
An air quality alert in effect in new jersey as new Jersey Health officials are sensing that the ground level ozone is going to be bad enough where a code orange ozone hack alert day is necessitated and that means those of you who fence sieve groups including Senior Citizens real young kids and those who suffer from respiratory and heart ailments need to limit your Outdoor Activity especially during the afternoon up around dinner hour. Those of us in pennsylvania and delaware might want to think about that as well. A lack of real significant cloud cover on satellite and it is warm as the sun gets ready to come up over the horizon. 75 degrees in philadelphia, 68 in allentown, 70 in millville. Also want to show you dewpoints. Yesterday we had them in the 60s. Now weve got some areas including philadelphia popping up into the low 70s and that is oppressive humidity. As we roll through the day nice in the morning. Well nicer i guess. Its still going to be humid but the temperature wont be