This 25th of july. Good saturday morning to you. We are going to start off with chucks homework. Another hot day, but humidity not as bad, right . Thats right. Pencils down. Beautiful weather on tap. Humidity, as you mentioned, nice and low. Temperatures have fallen quickly into the 60s this morning across the outlying suburbs. Here is the view from the tower camera. Downtown, washington, a mostly clear sky in place. A Beautiful Day coming our way. Plan on plenty of saturday sunshine. Today the high humidity will be making a comeback. It looks like a building heat wave for the middle parts of the week. Nothing to worry about today. Sunshine high, humidity low. Nothing showing up on the radar this morning. Temperatures mid60s in the suburbs, 73 downtown, 71 annapolis. Plan on sunshine and heat, high near 92 degrees. Well talk about your sunday rain chances in a few minutes. Thank you, chuck. 6 01 right now. A man died following a shooting in the district. This is not far from alabama av
Straight spots of the beltway. Its going ton throughout the weekend. Alternating lane closures on the inner and outer loop. We actually had three lanes closed. That was over at 7 00 this morning. What you are going to see are one and two lane closures as you go through this area. Youll start to see back ups around central avenue, at least in one direction and probably ritchie marlboro in the other. This is whats happening because of concrete repairs going on on the beltway. Not a lot of concrete here, but overpasses. This is a heavily traveled area. This is a heavily stressed section of the beltway. You might see how light traffic seems these days. A lot of people on vacation and school is out. Thats when the crews take the opportunity to do much needed repairs. It may cause hardship now, but youll thank them in september on your daily commute. Derrick ward news 4. Thanks. New this morning, one man died following a shooting in the district. It happened not far from alabama avenue south
Sun shine. The last of the showers exiting the atlantic beaches and were getting a few breaks in the clouds just to the south. Temperatures right now are near 80 degrees. And the Shenandoah Valley, more sun this morning out in western maryland, West Virginia the leading edge of heat beginning to push in. Low and mid 80s there. In the upper 70s around the chesapeake baey where its still quite cloudy as well. Chance for storms later this afternoon. This is chris gordan with that developing story in rockville. Vandalism to the confederate memorial statue. Spray painted black lives matter and on the bottom red spray painting that iappears to say black lives matter. It apparently happened overnight. An uber driver came to take a look at the statue. He called the police. They called rockville city police. This is a rockville district. The Montgomery County official said he will have it removed. They had a crane operator in last week measuring it for removal from this area but this vandalism
Finleytown station. The Civil Rights Group and students met last night to discuss putting together a petition that would propose changing the name to Thurgood Marshall high school. Theres a counterpetition to keep the name. He was a confederate general. It started before it was prompted to remove confederate flags around the country. Today youll have a chance to buy a piece of history. The barbara fritschie house. She became a legend during the civil war era for standing up to a confederate soldier and refusing to put down her flag. She was 91 years old. Time to get the forecast. Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein tells us about the brutal humidity. Its still with us. You can see it on the power cam. Look at the thick haze in the air maybe a few patchy clouds. And that fog is getting thicker, so watch out for that, essentially any roads near open fields. By 6 00 a. M. , well have that haze in the sky, temperatures in the upper 70s. Near 80 by 8 00. This is in the metro area. Still
News4 today continues at 5 00 a. M. It is 5 00 a. M. Good morning, im aaron gilchrist. And im eun yang. Were keeping an eye on a couple road closures that could really impact your drive into work today. Melissa mollet standing by with that. First, we do want to check in with tom as we enter day two of the heat . Siri do you hate heat and humidity . Ooh you didnt want to hear. Starting off with dense fog. Right now the counties in gray stratford, response veinia and Shenandoah Valley, watch out, visibility down to a quarter mile. And this dense fog is around here through 8 00 9 00 this morning. Right now, you can see a little bit of fog. Live view from the tower camera. By 7 00 a. M. Mid to upper 70s. Metro Area Temperatures will be near 80 by 8 00. Hazy sunshine through the morning. By 9 00 most of the fog will be gone. By 11 00, partly cloudy, temperatures jumping into the mid80s. Your drive time forecast coming up at 5 11. Aaron. Tom, thank you. Your first 4 traffic right now, you ma