Cooling showers have a chance to develop. Feel close to a hundred degree mid90s with temperatures and keep an eye on the storm chance betwe 3 00 and 9 00. To get you out the door 60s and low 70s most of the area and hot and humid today. Afternoon highs low to mid90s. About 94 in washington your rain chance has been increased up to 40 . We will show you future weather and Start Talking about the weekend coming up. Jack taylor, good morning. Good morning to you, chuck. Eltway work. Both the inner and outer loop work onbu both sides the right lane is blocked so traffic is moving. 395 in the northbound direction between edsel and duke construction there. And thenhis construction site. Left lane is only getting by so traffic is moving but in the in bed direction a little bit of ad slow n. Back in to you. Thank you, jack. The democratics president ial debate is in the books. Aaron gilchrist ismi in mi covering the first democratic debate of decision 2020. He has a quick recap of the moments
You get on the baltimorewashingtorkway kenworth avenue northbound there is work and to go north on that stretch that ramp remains closed. You will find westbound span closed so eastbound is running twoway traffic and still in ay that twow traffic pattern. For now traffic is light and not causing that much of a delay. Back in to you. Th morning, former Vice President joe biden is defending his record on race after a tense texchange during night of the democratic president ial primary debate. He was one of ten candidates on the stage last night. Heres alook at all of the candidates who were a part of the debate. Ten other candidates took part in tht debate the nigh before. It was senator Kamala Harris who dnfronted about his record. You may remember biden caused controversy earlier this month when he spoke about having a respectful relationship in the 70s and 80s with two senators who opposed desegregation. Harris accused him of working with those senators to prevent africanamerican dent
Rest of the beltway is okay. Thank y. You can see all of the rain and wind blowing across th parking lot in leesburg. Thats the reason homeowners around our region have some cleaning up to do today. Check out this video from loudoun county. A Lightning Strike caught a house on re and look at the flames there. No one was hurt but the home is badly damage. In maryland a huge tree crashed into a familys backyard in bethesda. Theimbsrushed part of the deck there and branches slammed through the roof and caused the ceiling to cave in. M god,he end of the world right now i thought and i was super scared. It could have been pretty danedrous if it happe while we were out here. Take a look the sparking lines and flames on huma street in west washington. A reporter is headi to scene to check out the damage this morning. The heat is proving to b deadly. Extreme heat blamed for four deathsin maryland. Two most recent hapned this week in Prince Georges County and worcesr county. Earlier this month
Plan to stay out of the extreme heat as much as. We have a heat index already and how indicative how humid it is. Upper 70s from the d. C. Metro area, eastbound to the bay. Not much of a rain chance the first part of the day b heat index is over 100 degrees as early as noon time p. M. High in the 90s. 60 chance of more thunderstorms later today. Possible storms for today and sweltering saturday on the way and deep fried friday here today. Complete check of then teday forecast, which has the cooldow at thed of it, melissa. I like hat. A cooldown somewhere in the future sound pretty good tome northbound 95 before orcentrep parkway road work so a delay there. After you take a look after fredericksburg you can see. The rest of the beltway and op inner los looking okay. Yesterdays storm knocked out power to thousands of people across the d region. This morning, about 5,000 people are still without electricity. Largest group is in fairfax. Dominion energy says 4,200 people are without power.
Ild wind and rain hitt g our region hard yesterday. This video from a parking lot in leesburg. Homeowners from around the region haveleaning up to do today. News4 justin finch joins us live from yuma street where the storm caused serious damage. What are you seeing . Reporter thats right. H first ting you notice here at 4 30 is how dark it is at yuma northwest. Hey are working restore power to several customers in this area. Take a loi beh me here. Working under way is right now on what was a l veryrge tree that came down in yesterdays storms. Crews having to frst get the tree down to work on the wires that came down with it during thest storm yeday. Take you to owdeo right from late in the afternoon. Close to 6 00 p. M. , neighbors tell us the storm was really being down on this area and eventually they heard the snap, crackle, and collapse of those big branches to that tree there. That also took down some wires. Also, too, setting off small fires, until the yard of that home where th