Expected to attend tonights capitol fourth concert on the west lawn. Smoky robinson and rock star gavin degraw will perform. Pretty proud to be an american. Reporter to make sure this area is safe, u. S. Park Police Officers set up eight check point this is morning and canines went to work i think our country doesnt often recognize how much its contributed to the world, liberty and freedom. So that is what this means to me. Reporter the essence of the holiday culminates tonight with a fantastic fireworks display. Exciting to me to be part of an American Heritage with my children now. Reporter if the weather co operates and it is expected to cooperate, the free concert starts at 8 00 p. M. Then the fireworks are scheduled to go off at 9 09 p. M. Just beyond from where i am standing, reporting Live National mall, wusa 9. Fingers crossed it will still go off stephanie thank you. Todays weather forced the white house to cancel its barbecue on the south lawn with military heros celebrations
Im andrea roane. Meteorologist allyson rae is tracking the showers. Which parts of the afternoon will be a wash out . All parts. Were seeing the showers push into areas along the 81 corridor near 66. Its not going to be all evening, though. Im really holding on, crossing my fingers for the fireworks but once it starts raining, its going to be raining for a few hours. Were dry if youre headed to the nats game, maybe late goers, at least the game started on time. Here come some of the light showers. The good news is, no lightning yet, so that is something to that is good for the fireworks because were not expecting severe and they say as long as theres no Severe Weather, its going on. 5 00, the showers are starting to wind down. I think this is a little optimistic. We will see some good showers between a pockets of heavier rain. Were going to go through the entire futurecast right through that 9 00 hour when the fireworks will be going off throughout the region, well see where the firewo
West here and because that warm front position were going to keep a spotty shower in the forecast later today. Ultimately it will be dry so dont be surprised if you see a rain drop. Most of the day bursts of sun and cooler along the coast. 79 degrees for the lunch hour. That barbecue in the afternoon, late early evening, 82 degrees. Very pleasant. But we have a better chance for rain as that cold front approaches for sunday. The chance for a storm too. Ill have that hour by hour timing in j all right ,. Pamela, thank you so much. This morning its official, Rob Gronkowski is out for sundays patriots Season Opener. The star tight end just named one of the captains is dealing with a leg injury. Its another set back for a team already not playing with tom brady. Dan roach has more. Rob gronkowski doesnt usually play for the preseason so when he didnt suit up it big deal. His hamstring has not approved so he will miss the Season Opener against the cardinals tomorrow night. He hurt his hamst
And until then, chilly start this morning. We zipped into the dipped into the single dints. 10 in nashua. A lot of teens in suburbs north and west of boston. 21 in the sit they. And then a lower 30s in parts of the outer cape where the clouds have been a little thicker overnight with ocean effect cloud cover. Real feel right now Single Digits in worcester is zero in keene 10 in boston. Theres still a bit of a breeze but the wind will subside over the next several hours. Clear skies and sunshine going to greet you today. We have had ocean effect clouds from plymouth to the cape and they will taper and gradually dissipate through late morning. So the planner goes this way. Bright sunshine sunrise coming earlier. Nice winter day on tap. 38 for lunchtime and the wind will be light and dipping into the mid30s for the ride home. Cloud will increase pretty rapidly late in the day. With the sunset at 5 21. Tonight. All the details on your weekend coming up. We will get you on the road together
In the lighter shade of brown, high wind warning until 10 00. The highest winds are with the rain and immediately following it. Pretty Quick Movement by 6 00, already be back edge moving through the worcester area. The boston area around 7 00. At about 8 00 or 9 00, it pushes its way toward the atlantic. Its very mild right now but as we had deeper into the night it will go subfreezing again, after midnight especially. We will start to ice up by tomorrow morning. More on the storm in what follows it for the rest of the week coming up in a few minutes. The storm unfortunately could not have hit at a worse time, right in the middle of the evening rush. The traffic not map shows a lot of red, all of it having and go traffic. Ken has more. Reporter we are on the pipe westbound and we havent encountered the heavy traffic you talked about on your map. This is a look at the road. Believe it or not, things are moving pretty well. Judging by what eric said, we are starting to get to where the m