change as we move through the morning and afternoon. daytime highs well into the mid to upper 80s, showers and storms later on today. the heaviest rain later this afternoon into the evening and overnight. some areas may see rainfall rates of one or two inches per our. there could been 3 inches by the time the system goes out. coming up in a few minutes we will look at the rest of the forecast for the weekend. thank you. now to lisa. it may be a little dicey getting out of your neighborhood with a few tree limbs down. drive defensively. getting on to the beltway, the major roads this morning traffic moving on 95 through springfield looks pretty decent. we will give you normal travel times between richmond and baltimore. driving around the beltway looks pretty clear. we have wet pavement, but no major issues around region. on the dulles greenway, the dulles toll road. one final picture is traffic to and from the 14th street bridge on to the freeway and it looks good into th
power. we just got this picture flooded in the district. this is from a viewer at an overpass in the northeast. this line of storms packing a heavy punch. here s the scene earlier today at a hotel near the airport in louisville, kentucky. fierce winds ripped off the roof, covered cars with debris. no injuries. but this is the same system that is moving through our area right now. let s get the latest from veronica in the storm 4 weather center. reporter: e. our winds gusting up to 25 and 40 miles per hour when those storms came through. but, for us, as we said, when we showed you, flooding, the big story with the heavy rain. right now, we ve got some flash flood warnings that remain throughout the area for the district of montgomery county and for western prince george s county. we open it up. you can see that whole line of storms still extending down towards fredericksburg to get a lot of lightning. rainfall amounts between one and two inches at times. wait until you s
watching a cluster of storms making their way through baltimore county and packing lightning. looking at the reports on twitter, it s bringing low visibility around areas of i-95 into areas of harford and two more lines back to the west. one that s scattered right now around i-81 and a stronger line that will move eastward. it s the stronger line i m worried about that could bring heavy rain to our area between 9:00 and 11:00 p.m. this evening stepping into areas like montgomery and d.c., localized flooding and we could see more poor visibility too with the flooding taking place, we ll have more coming up. the federal government wants to know why people couldn t get through to 911 after last month s derecho. they opened an inquiry to investigate the outages. the 911 systems are run by verizon that says they lost power during the storm. several backups also failed. some towns lost their 911 systems for 48 hours. the review is part of a broad investigation of service provider
county. and with that, the montgomery county council began laying into pepco and questioning the utilities response to the 238,000 outages after june 29th s storm. the frequency and duration of power outages threatens our help and well fare and economy. tom graham and the maryland public service commission s chair, attended the hearing and responded to concerns. i completely understand the frustration of the customers who have been out of service. what i m hearing from mr. graham, which makes me infuriated is that he s not listening to what everyone is telling him. emily of north bethesda lost power for days after the last storm. that s why she and many other concerned residents attended today s hearing. she said the leadership and president don t get it. he said yes it was a big storm, shouldn t be beating up on us, you can expect outages. everybody understands that. what happens next depends on what we find. the maryland public service commission s chair s