Open today. Homeless shelters in Montgomery County will stay open to provide a cooler space. Now. Go to nbcwashington. Com and search cooling centers. Kids may have the right idea right now when it comes to keeping cool. Take a lock at this area. Pools and fountains are a fun way to keep the stress of the heat from getting to you and your family. And not everyone can spend the day at the pool though. Prince georges paramedics say they need to be ready to help people having a hard time beating the heat. Were going to use ice packs and iv fluids. Paramedics recommend everyone drink between a glass and a bottle of water every today. Thats a lot of water. Youve got to have something to sweat out if you are going to be outside today. The rule of thumb is you divide your body weight in half and thats how many ounces of water you should drink. If you way 200 pounds, you should drink 100 ounces of water. And by comparison, mostly a gallon of water. Four things to know about the weather, sweati
Youll need all three today. Good morning, im angie goff. And im david vculver. Lauryn ricketts is live in the weather center. What are we thinking here . Were thinking a lot of rain coming our way. Were so muggy out there right now, similar are to yesterday. So we will have some torrential downpours as we head into the afternoon. Timing for this, between 2 00 and 8 00. We did have a round of thunderstorms that went through the area earlier this morning. Were looking dry right now with the exception of maybe a few showers out there. But this is what im watching as we continue into the morning. This will continue to slide up right around i81 and the blue ridge mountains. So a few showers this morning, but again, more this afternoon. The biggest impact will be between 2 00 and 8 00, thats when we will be watching the radar for Severe Weather. Well time it out for you and what you can expect in terms of severity coming up on 6 02. In temple hills, a man found shot to death in the street ju
Fall apart as they come east of the mountains, but a stronger line of thunderstorm chances comes our way in the metro later this afternoon. Muggy and mild yesterday we had 50s on the map, today everyone is in the low to mid70s. So the next 24 hours, chance of strong to severe storms today between about 2 00 and 8 00. And then moving in to Southern Maryland after that. 75 this morning with showers in the shenandoah, but nice and dry in the metro. Fairly cloudy start coming up tomorrow morning with temperatures near 70 degrees. That leads to another storm chance on thursday. More about that coming up at 5 21. It is time for traffic right now. Good morning, dave. Good morning. No signs of trouble. 66, 270, montgomery fredry co e county line, lots of space. No signs of issue or incident. Out on the rock creek parkway, doing the work zone near the kennedy center, northbound lanes blocked for another few minutes. And on metro, other thrangnd next week for safetrack. Thats the latest. Back to
Standing by and Megan Mcgrath is also going to talk about what we can expect with this heat wave. Chuck, how is it feeling out there right now . Its warmer and more humid than yesterday. If you are going to get out and enjoy the day, the next hour or two will be the best part of it. Temperatures in the 60s and low 70s but youll notice the humidity has started to creep back in. As far as any cooling rain chances, well have one or two chances for a stray shower or thunderstorm very late in the day today, but dangerously hot and humid over the week. I took a look back to see how this summer stacks up against our alltime hottest summer, the summer of 2010. By this date, in the summer of 2010, we already had 39 days 90 or higher. So far this year, only 18 days. So were 21 days behind in the 90degree day count. Total number that year of 67. Were going to have at least 8 or ten in a row starting da holding up on a friday morning . Well, its not off to a great start if you are through the remi
From andre himself. He knows he says that that may never come, but he hopes his mother would be proud that he finally spoke up. I try to live my life to make her proud of me. Im never going to give up. Never going to give up on anything that i feel is important. And and thats her. And thats her. Thats living for her. Thats honoring her and honoring her name. Thats all for this edition of dateline. Im lester holt. Thanks for joining us. Anks for. Breaking news. Commandos storming a bakery. Right now trying to free hostages taken by isis. We will have the latest bangladesh. Cracking down on illegal fireworks sales. Firefighters urging you to leave the big stuff to the pros. An all nighter. The celebration going on until down at the air and space museum. First we begin with insane back backup. Chopper live over route 50 west of the Chesapeake Bay bridge. At 11 00, we have serious delays to the eastern shore. Backups up to 4 1 2 miles as recently as an hour ago. Headlights as far as the ey