To get to our destinations. Local triplea officials are concerned because this years fourth of july falls on a saturday. Gas prices are low. Some people may have a few drinks. Lots of factors come into play here, and you cant forget the rain in the forecast. You wont have any trouble hitting the road in wheaton this morning. Crews are done putting Georgia Avenue back together after a water main broke. Things were back to normal around 10 00. As soon as wssc announced that everything was fixed, the southbound lanes had been closed since wednesday near arcola avenue when a water main break flooded the street with 2. 5 million gallons of water. Muggy leading into the Holiday Weekend. Did you notice the fog on your way in . Tom says folks are going to have to deal with that right tom . Use your low beams and slow down. I ran into it especially in the rural areas. Maybe where there are open fields. Theres ground fog thats drifting over roadways this morning. Watch out for the next couple of
See was all stopped yesterday. 66 here at 95. No issues. Lets take a live look at 66. Its not what i wanted show you. We do have a lot of fog there. Especially if you are in the manassas area. Back in a few minutes. Thanks melissa. The National Park service will hold a full dress rehearsal for tomorrows capitol celebration. The annual concert brings thousands to the national for d. C. s World Famous Fireworks display. Singers will begin rehearsals at 9 00 a. M. This morning on the capitols west lawn. While the fourth of july is a time to celebrate our nations independence and spend time with family, Police Agencies around our area are on high alert. The big threat this year is a lone wolf terror attack. Thats because groups like isis are using social media to call for attacks and to recruit followers. News 4 derek ward live on the National Mall with more on how police plan to keep you and your family safe this Holiday Weekend. Well, the increased scrutiny isnt in response to any specif
When that rain arrives. Now were looking at the commute. Problem still hanging around here northbound dumfries shut down after spriggs road. Police are trekt directing around that through the neighborhood. Over all of our major routes, and everything looking quite good. At this point this morning. Metro running on a saturday schedule. They dont open until sunday. A lot of people not happy about that. Not realizing that they open at 7 00 this morning. As far as marcos on a saturday schedule brunswick and camden no Service Today because of the holiday. Back with travel times. See you then, melissa. 6 01 now, and in a few hours during the fourth of july on the National Mall. The National Park service will begin hold aing full dress rehearsal for tomorrows capital fourth celebration. The annual concert brings thousands to the National Mall for d. Krchls World Famous Fireworks display. Can you catch that rehearsal on the capitols west lawn today, and youll notice a new safety regular laying
Womens soccer team are champions of the world tonight for the First Time Since 1999. The ladies won in spectacular style against the japanese, who won the title in 2011. This was billed as a net big rematch, and the u. S. Women came through with a great performance. Reporter team usa stormed the field, running towards redemption. Four years ago, the americans lost the championship game to japan in this agonizing penalty kick shootout. The u. S. Struck first and fast on the first two shots of the game. Carli lloyd putting the americans ahead 10 only three minutes into play. Three minutes later, carli lloyd again, giving the usa the quick 20 lead, the two fastest goals and womens world cup history. Lauren holiday scored a third goal for the u. S. The japanese defenders cannot keep up. And carli lloyd pulls off the hat trick from midfield 40 u. S. After 16 minutes. Japan finally got into the game and the 27th minute. The u. S. To the 41 lead into the locker room. In the second half, the a
In the clear right now but look at the heavy thunderstorm activity moving through northeastern maryland and cecil county now edging into Chester County and New Castle County along i95 just to the south of newark and heavy rainfall entering newark and scattered showers in the wilmington area. Were getting a showery, stormy start this morning and the threat of showers and thunderstorms will stay with us during the day today. But its not going to be an allday rainfall. Scattered showers and thunderstorms at 6 00 73 degrees. Well see mostly cloudy skies and a chance of scattered showers at 9 00 77 and there will be some breaks of sunshine but also more storms heading into the noontime hour. Well warm into the low 80s but climb into the upper 80s this afternoon. Your hourbyhour future weather when i come back in ten minutes. Right now, lets check out how the roads are going and see if the rain is affecting the traffic just yet. Jessica boyington standing by. We definitely see rain in differ