Kids going to need a jacket, lightweight umbrella, temperatures in the 30s. Highs upper 40s and low 50s. Plenty of clouds. Could see a little peek or two of sun later on this afternoon if youre good. Over to danella. Good morning. Well, chuck, checking our area. Its friday and so far pretty quiet. Not seeing any congestion. Road work that was happening overnight appears to be gone. As you make your way to the capital beltway, your travel lanes are open. Over to i95, same story, nice and clear. Ill give you a live look at 198. Cars getting by without any issues at all. Taking the rails, theyre open. Not seeing any delays along the metro, marc, vre. Theyre clear as well. Breaking news at 5 01. Heres Melissa Mollet at the news 4 live desk. Thats right. Weve been following the 7. 3 earthquake that hit the northeast coast of japan. Now a small tsunami about a meter high has also hit. When you take a look at this video, you can see the shaking. The tsunami warning is still going off. People
Yesterday. Still 39 degrees at nashville airport. Winds are light out of the southeast, averaging 5 miles per hour. Temperatures around the region are, most important of all, above the freezing mark, especially from i81 eastbound here, temperatures middle and upper 30s for the most part. I say its a good thing were above freezing because storm team 4 radar does show light raindrops. Some more showers scattered out and about i81 in the blue ridge and Shenandoah Valley. Were going to keep a close eye. Not going to add up to too much. Couple of hundredths inch of rain. Could rule out a touch of some freezing rain or a sleep pellet or two, but not looking for any problems to impact any of the major roadways around town. Your friday planner, spotty showers around town. Most of the light rain chances stacked up in the morning hours. Cloudy and chilly for much of the friday temperatures, generally speaking, in the 50s. Bus stop weather, jackets required. Maybe a little umbrella or too with pa
Downtown on pennsylvania avenue. D. C. Officials have privately said they would support moving the fbi to Prince Georges County, if the county would allow the redskins to move back to the district. Tom sherwood is here with new developments. Tom, whats the story . Doreen, d. C. , maryland and virginia all want the fbi headquarters. The redskins would be a new wrinkle. The fbi headquarters downtown has a hyper security focus. It creates a dead space along pennsylvania avenue, just blocks from the capitol. Now that the fbi is looking to move to a bigger and better space, Regional Business leaders say theres new hope the dead fbi block can be rebuilt with businesses, condos, retail and night life. This would be a very big shot in the arm to downtown washington, to better utilize that space. And god help us not that building. Not one of the it is the Ugliest Building in the city, and could be in the country. Reporter a regional battle has broken out between d. C. , maryland and virginia. P
Lighting on the ellipse last night. This marks the 90. Tree for the Tree Lighting ceremony. Im sarah simmons. Welcome to fox 5 morning news. A huge day here on fox 5. Today is our annual stuff a truck food drive. We are teaming up with the capital area food bank. Wisdom martin will join us just a bit later on this morning from a stuff a truck location. Well have everything you need to know if you want to donate as well. First, lets get to gwen tolbart in for tucker barnes. It is cold out there. It is nippy. You want to make sure you are tressed warm. Satelliteradar composite showing you plenty of clouds. Could see some patchy fog this morning. Current temperatures, 39 at Reagan National airport. 3 at dulles. 33 at bwi marshall. Winds are pretty light today. 38 at dulles. Back to you. Thank you. We have some breaking news out of tokyo this morning. A strong earthquake off the coast of northeastern japan trigger as a tsunami warning. The preliminary magnitude is 7. 3. This is the same ar
You can start calling right now. That number to donate any amount really, is 2028953307. At the bottom of your screen, there is information on how can you donate by text or online. Weve got you covered. Oh, yeah. We have made it easy for you. Any form possible. It is so much fun every year. Hearing the music. You feel like you are actually doing something. You really are doing something. Lets say hello to you, gwen. A little bit chilly. I better say cold. Julie says not chilly, it is cold. Well, relatively speaking. Compared to yesterday, it is slightly warmer so hows that. As we start our day, lets take a look at radar. We do have a little bit of spotty activity going on here. Some of seeing some light rain or even some sprinkles. Not anybody seeing this. It will be off and on. Just be prepared. No big downpours or washouts to talk about. We have a little bit to the far northwest in the panel, a little bit of freezing rain as well. That is the statement story up toward the masondixon