Showers are moving away from the Washington Area and Washington Capitol region. Great friday morning to all of you. If youre hereor the week, we say welcome and we are enjoying rather a muggy start to the day. But we wont be starting out on the wet note. We have some fog in some area, patchy fog, particularly where the rain showers have fallen across the area. So we are going to keep an eye on that the next couple of hours. Take a good look at the teeratures across the area. 75 degrees across the bridge in cambridge. 77 in town. Montgome county, in the 70s. Well to our west, cumberland, maryland, usually they are cool but they are looking at temperatures in the seventh as well. For us, 89 degrees and humid. For traffic, jack, what do you have for us . Clay, still dealing with the investigation ongoing in Prince Georges County. Ongoing accident investigation. Activity in anan list southbound maryland 2 and ramp is blocked it sound like now and all travel lanes have been reopened on that
Muggy air and continues across the region. I95 north and east rain showers have moved from baltimore to the north. For us, its not a rainy start to our friday which is good for those of us that are vcationing with us here in the washington area. If you want to make that early joor walk, you will not need the umbrella but you will need probably to wipe your brow because the temperures are close to 80 in annapolis. How warm will we reach today . Few minutes. In we are following breaking news off the coast of south lorida seven americans, including a West Virginia billionaire, were killed in a Helicopter Crash in the bahamas. West Virginia Governor jim justice says coal executive and philanthropist chr cline was killed in that car. The plane was traveling to ft. Lauderdale. No word what caused the crash. Fire ripped through a house in the district. Firefightersay flames shot through the atsc of thi home am on barnhtreet on northwest. Four people are searching for place to stay and no one
To the south. This is where the storms are. You may hear that beeping. Thats for a brandnew warning here in madison county. That warning going until 4 45 today. 4 45 warning there. Culpepper unty, very strong storm in your area, and this one was severe. These storms moving right down towards fredericksburg over the next hour or so, so this is, ofs cour something well keep an eye on for you. Now, we do have some Severe Weathereain our ar but more Severe Weather back to the west. Numerous severe thunderstorm watches here and take a look at the nuters. Hi a High Temperature so far and back to 86 in d. C. And 91 in richmond. Guys, seen a little biy in the wa heat so far this summer. Its really about to get hot. Talking about temperatures in the mid to upper 90s throughout the rest of the week. Here we go. Here we go. Thanks, doug. Back now to the video that d has sparkeoutrage after a transit officer used a stun gun during an arrest. T just a short time ago a lawyer for thaan at the center
Court. He talked with the woman who recorded that video. Path, what did she tell you . Reporter she has a lot to say, jim, but, first, lets talk about the victim here. Hes a howard grad, a finance major. He works in a startup here in our city. Saturday he wanted to see his mom. He decided to take metro. He goes down into the u street station and and lets go to the videotape. The metro cop tased him and then tased him again. They say the man was trying to be a peacemaker when it happened. The 29yearold man cuffed and charged wit assaultn a police officer, charged with obstruction of justice, charged with resisting arrest and jailed for two days. According to his attorney, the charges all dropped today. Hear now from his mom who was at the courthouse. I couldnt believe my lawyer. They dropped all the charges and happy. He is very upset. Highly raumatized, and hes not happy. Hes not happy the way things went. Today i shock with shameer jones who took the pictures. I kept screaming like yo
Additional charges dropped tonight or tomorrow. Herndon high school placede th former drama teacher on leave when this broke in april. He talked about the timing, school is out as of last were. Youve got to worder how long have police known that students were victims and a lot of parents had no idea. Thats a fantaic question, jim. We asked the mayor in the press conference and he said it had nothing to do with the end of school. We wanted the community to know this when we did. There was another update in april and may. At both of those press conferences, the major stood at the podium and said there is no connection to herndon high school. Ad that point the amount of images theyve h time to go through, there was no connection to the high school and no reason to believe that any of those devices were ever brought into herndon county. The major stood up hwae he disappointed to learn that theyve found images an video to dicate there was a lot of recording going on inside of the school. Dr