Viciously hot wi the potential to be very dangerous. I go insidethe house. What happens when going inside isnt much better . Allen cassidy and his wife are in their 70fo years theyve been living at the charter house, which is a 55 d olderpartment community in silver spring. If it was on, you would hear it. And lately, their air conditioning unit hasnt been working. We were inside his apartment for about 15 minutes and we also started to sweat. Thats why a lot of people n downstairs othe second floor. We followed allen downstairs to the mezzanine. This is when we saw, an empty water jug and neighbors fanning a woman who had passed out it felt as though the air wasnt working on this levelf the building, either. She got too hot. D an drink. And were having to Work Together because the water bottle was out. She fated. She fainted. That woman was taken to the hospitaer montgcounty fire and rescue Officials Say the heat likely exacerbated this womans preexisting condition. On daike today thi
Odington, bowie. Croften, were going to see the storms coming tough with a vengeance, if youre just to ths of this line, that are you taking coverage now. We do have reports of tes on houses in gaithersburg, also in poolesville. A portion of Montgomery Co ty. These are pushing through the baltimore beltway. Just now exiting or getting ready to exit the eastern side of the d. C. Beltway. These warnings continue to push out in front of it. We will see annapolisn its wake. Bowie along 50. Heavy rain, damaging winds, Power Outages reported and trees are beingo talk about timing. Theres more storms and rain behind the line so well show talk about let the heat that was the main story today. Its not over yet. Building for the weekend. Well show you that coming up. Lets get to breaking news. The weather lauren is talking about caung mage. Erica gonzales is working that story at the live desk. We pick things up where lauren left them. Ea the h has made it a tough day for firefighters who have h
Plan to stay out of the extreme heat as much as. We have a heat index already and how indicative how humid it is. Upper 70s from the d. C. Metro area, eastbound to the bay. Not much of a rain chance the first part of the day b heat index is over 100 degrees as early as noon time p. M. High in the 90s. 60 chance of more thunderstorms later today. Possible storms for today and sweltering saturday on the way and deep fried friday here today. Complete check of then teday forecast, which has the cooldow at thed of it, melissa. I like hat. A cooldown somewhere in the future sound pretty good tome northbound 95 before orcentrep parkway road work so a delay there. After you take a look after fredericksburg you can see. The rest of the beltway and op inner los looking okay. Yesterdays storm knocked out power to thousands of people across the d region. This morning, about 5,000 people are still without electricity. Largest group is in fairfax. Dominion energy says 4,200 people are without power.
Corridor and points to the west. Were tracking some brief but heavy downpours and you could find an instance where you get an isolated severe thunderstorm that pops up. The other part of the story on our monday is that the humidity is quite oppressive in some spots. The dewpoints, the level of moisture in the atmosphere, 69degree dewpoint there in philadelphia. When we get close to that its really oppressive but down right oppressive for lancaster, wilmington, down to millville and Sea Isle City at this hour. As you look at the heat index however, current air temperatures are in the middle and uner 60s but you factor in the humidity it feels like 90 in philadelphia, feeling like 92 in wilmington and 80 degrees along the coast a current heat index there in the boardwalk. Coming up well let you know if this humidity is going to break any time soon and were tracking a bit of an unsettled pattern this week. Take a closer look with the full and exclusive accuweather forecast. Monica. Thank
You guys are always wearing dresses. All right. We are looking outside right now we have a lot of construction out there, no action right now, we will talk about that in a little bit. Jims trying to pick fights this morning. Always freezing. You know, wear something warm. Is there a vent aimed at poor rahels head and im sure the air is timed to go on at 4 30 a. M. Yes. Trials and tribulations on this shift. Lets take a look outside as we get outside to storm scan three. You can see that little expect that will shows up. Dont worry about that, we do have quiet conditions but there is a frontal boundary warm front specifically lifting n hear word warm front and you start to think warmer air. That will take place, warming trend business to get underway , not today, however, frost advisory back into maryland but also south central, new jersey and just across river in gloucester, camden counties and berks, lehigh also included. I dont think that means that the places that arent in the advis