Ovethe near future here. There you go, much of the area starting to dry out. Weve seen this little batch of shower and thunderstorm activity redevelop in the past hour to the south. If you look carefully, youll see blinking towards la plata and waldorf. And will come eventually into Prince Georges County to the north and east, towards annapolis and the bay. Nice and mild to start your day. Good news is once we get rid of this last batch of moisture, we should be looking at just cloud cover here for much of the morning and eventually afternoon sunshine. Conditions will improve. 65 at Reagan National. 59 at dulles. 64 at bwi marshall. Heres your forecast, early showers give way to afternoon sun. Temperatures top out in the mid 70s. Nice mild afternoon. More details in a minute, well look at the weekend. Back to you at the desk. Tucker, thank you very much. Lets go to julie wright with more on the traffic. Tony, on the inner loop of the beltway out of virginia this morning a rude awakenin
prince george s county officers are mourning the death of a fellow officer. officer kevin bowden was killed yesterday after his patrol car collided with an suv in maryland, sending his car into a utility pole. sherri ly is live at police headquarters with the latest. reporter: police expect to have more details about their investigation about two hours from now. early indications so far from witnesses is that this was some type of accident that led to a tragic chain of events that ended in the officer s death. 28-year-old officer ken bowden got off work around 1:00 yesterday afternoon, and within hours was dead. the six-year veteran of the prince george s county police department was off-duty heading north on branch avenue when the crash happened. witnesses say it appeared an suv swerved to avoid a tour bus and collided with the cruiser and his cruiser slammed into a pole nearly slicing it in half. to lose a second officer so soon is devastating. this is a sad day in pr