dorchester, caroline, kent county schools opening 2 hours late. let s check with tony to find out when we can get that out of here good morning. it will be awhile it is so dense in much of the area, very dense fog out there. let s look at viper we want to show you well, this is yeah, this is viper showing you we don t have much in the way of precipitation. there is the fog it is really showing you across the area, particularly from washington to points east, it is very very dense, visessability in some places down to visibility in some places down to a quarter mile. because of all this, now we will go to graphics we have a fog advisory in effect until 9:00 a.m. this morning right now it is for counties east of washington east, northeast, southeast, it may be expanded later on this morning, but again, dense fog it will take while for it to burn off it has been spreading west ward into the washington area. current conditions reported regan national, 49 degrees, temperat
most of you are seeing light to moderate rainfall. 62 in ocean city. forecast for today, clouds, cloudy all day. periods of rain off and on throughout the day. the temperatures will be in the mid-60s today actually right where they should be. we ll see the breeziness pick up. julie wright is the one to tell us about the roads. all right. busy ride on that outer loop. not only do we have the stalled truck that is still in place as you approach university boulevard at the northwest branchen. you will find the right side of the road remains blocked off there. as traffic surprise to merge off of 270 and exit down towards the outer loop, that is where we have the accident activity. accident activity tying up what was reported as the left and right side of the roadway. flashing lights on the scene. state police on the scene and that is what is going to cause big tie-ups for you guys traveling off of the southbound 270 and around the big curve on the outer loop. let s map out a co
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today, the trial for the so- called underwear bomber begins. good tuesday morning, october 4, 2011 taking a live look outside. a much nice are day than it has been in days past here. good morning. thank you for waking up with fox 5 morning news. a much nicer day than it has been in days past here. i m steve chenevey. tony perkins is here with the weather. let s take a look at the current temperatures at the area airports. 50s and 40s right now at reagan national, 52 degrees. dulles international at 48 the and bwi marshall is at 47 degrees at this hour. so still a cool start but we are aheading in the right direction. here is is a look at the satellite-radar. there is your area of low pressure. now moving off the coast of new england. still, we have clouds across the region but there are some clouds, already some gaps in those clouds and i think that will macfor i great sunrise and then, as that low continues to push out, we will see the clouds pull out of our region a
we will start with sentinel satellite radar you can see clouds are not particularly thick and broken up, providing us with very pretty pictures there is precipitation across southeastern virginia there was more earlier. just a little bit showers in eastern north carolina none of that impacting us this morning here is a look at current temperatures around the region, 66 degrees regan national, 61 dulles, 61 bwi marshall the forecast today, isolated afternoon thunder storm possible, most of you remain dry we cannot rule out a pop up shower or thunderstorm, high 85 degrees. now to julie wright and get an update on traffic. all right tony good morning sir still very busy on the roads this morning inner loop of the belt way tieing up between 66 and headed up toward pike. for the crew in sky fox above the dulles toll road as you travel eastbound you will find lanes are open no problems to report right now as you continue inbound past the belt way. back inside and update the ride