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
Continuing to climb into the afternoon. Coming up next weather and traffic on the 1s. Your drive time forecast. Aaron. Tom thank you. Right now you can expect big delays if youre driving to work on interstate 66. Vdot crews are making repairs. Kristin wright is there. Kristin . Reporter it could be a slowgo for some of you coming from western virginia to d. C. This morning. We want to show you where, it does look like in the past minute or so they have started to open up part of the stretch that was closed. You can see traffics actually moving pretty good where we are. But its behind us between nutley street and the beltway and eastbound lanes of 66 where it is still slow because the x lane is closed. Parts of the x lane between nutley and beltway are closed for some road repairs. Traffic already bad, you know, this time of the morning in this area. So this morning, expect it to be even worse. Until they do completely open up that x lane. It was supposed to be throughout the morning ru
Hours away of getting in the metro area. We have a huge area, under a winter storm warning. Most of maryland all of West Virginia 4 00 until noon, winter storm warning in effect. It could unload eight inches or somewhere in maryland Calvert County, and southern Prince William, over to culpepper, north around the metro area. Fourinch to eightinch amounts will be common by the time it wraps up tomorrow morning. Next weather and traffic on the 1s, new timing coming in now. Ill show you whats the arrival time. Thats at 6 11. Thank you, tom. Crews at Dulles Airport are working hard to make sure your flight leaves on time today. Theres a number of delays after a pipe burst overnight inside the control tower. Megan mcgrath is live at dulles with the impact this could have on flights throughout the day. Megan, good morning. The control tower is open again. But were seeing residual consolations and delays because of the problems they saw yesterday. You look at the board. A number of delays list
Bedroom. 10yearold Philip Savopoulos was found in his own bedroom. His remains were so badly burned investigators have not officially identified him. 4 31 your time right now. Lets check your weather and traffic on the 1s. Good morning. Its much cooler when you head out the door. We do have some rain approaching us. An area of low pressure is sweeping into the region coming in from the west. If youre trying in to the mountains headed up toward pennsylvania or into West Virginia or heading south down 95 maybe running a little bit of light rain this morning. Right now around the metro area dont have any rain yet. The pavement is dry. A few sprinkles maybe trying to reach the ground. And then in Southern Maryland Charles County in to stafford and spotsylvania culpepper, a few light sprinkles beginning to move in. A chilly morning. Temperatures are down into the mid 50s. Much of the region near 60 around the bay. Reagan national at 62. Out in the mountains in Shenandoah Valley its in the 5
virginia, the 9191 911 system is down. bring emergencies to local police and fire stations. water restrictions are also in place for many marylanders. wssc is telling customers in montgomery and prince george s county to limit the water he noouds use, because the storm knocked out pouber to filtration plants and other facilities. if the heat weren t unbearable enough, word more storms could roll right through parts of our area tonight. tom kierein is watching things in the weather center for us. tom, bopup thunderstorms, that s the last thing people want to hear right now. yeah, but unlike last night, they re not widespread and don t have any reports of any widespread wind damage, but we have some very potent thunderstorms popping up south of washington over the last, oh, about an hour, hour and a half or so. you can see the areas in orange. those are the severe thunderstorm warning areas, and i ll zoom in and show you. these are the zones being affected right now. the