two miles out from the terminal at dulles, 50 winners of a metropolitan washington airport authority contest looked on as history unfolded. i felt reilly humbled to be an american and see, you know, our our greatness. reporter: the initial process will begin later this evening. however, crews won t begin to actually take discovery off of the 747 until wednesday night. 8:00 p.m. and they will work until 8:00 a.m. using the two cranes. i m told the wind factor may be an issue. then can t really take the discovery shuttle off of the 747 unless winds are at 10 knots or below. in order to make room for discovery, the enterprise space shuttle will have to leave the smithsonian. the two will meet nose to nose for a photo-op unlike any other before enterprise is flown to new york and shipped by barge to the intrepid air and space museum next monday. nasa says that it is not the end of an era and that its best days are still ahead. vehicles with names like o ryan, dragon
miles. here s a look at your highs for today. close to 90 degrees around downtown. manassas also 89. annapolis warming up to 84 degrees. here is a look at your next three days. same deal for saturday. but hot sunday in the lower 90s. here s angie with your traffic. green light stays on as we get geared up for this 5:00 hour. good friday morning, everybody. let s get started with our maps. we ll take it over to 95 headed northbound first. we ll zoom on down and show you the northbound trip. so far, so good as we watch it through our cameras. the drive from dumfries past woodbridge is moving smoothly. back over to the maps, this time we ll take a look at 66 headed eastbound. notice the green cars. there are no significant delays early this morning but outside, we do have some wet roads we re dealing with. going to want to watch your speed and not a bad idea to factor in an extra minute or two for your friday commute. travel times for you on the outer loop from 95 to 27 0, sti
hour. tgif, everybody. we re going to first take a zoom on in to our outer loop. as we move our map there. hey, chris, can we get our map going? thanks. drivers are moving at speed from college park. things start to slow down outside as we watch through our cameras from new hampshire avenue over to university. back over to the real time graphic. this time, we ll take it down to prince george s county. fort washington, accokeek, the clinton brandywine area, all of the roadways, your typical volume. no incidents or accidents to report. your travel times for you, hello, virginia. 66 in the yellow. about 21 minute drive. eastbound dulles toll road. no problems. northbound it looks like d.c. 295 is doing just fine. a closer look at interstate 270 coming up at 6:12. over to you. we have a major traffic alert for drivers in both maryland and virginia. a motorcycle rally to honor the victims of 9-11 will roll through later today. as many as 3,000 bikers are expected to travel into
milder this morning compared to yesterday. manassas, 70. la plata coming in at 70 degrees. your highs for today, right around seasonable, upper 80s around downtown. 86 for annapolis. luray, 85. winchester, 87 degrees. better chance for more showers and storms tomorrow. mid-80s. on saturday, for your weekend, partly cloudy and a chance of showers and storms once again. here is angie with your timesaver traffic. good morning. good morning, anny. thank you so much. hello, everybody. we re ready to kick off the 6:00 hour. unfortunately, we re doing it with the yellow light. that s because we re following this water valve repair out in silver spring, maryland. what we got here at georgia avenue and connecticut, we re losing a couple of left lanes. going to want to stay to the right to get by. this is going northbound. southbound is ok. over to the maps, quickly, let s zoom in to 66. want to show you the eastbound commute. nice and green. we re building volume between 234 to 28 a
lots of clouds, showers and thunderstorms in the forecast. scattered showers and thunderstorms. high temperature 89 degrees. more details on the forecast and a look at the weekend in a couple of minutes. back to you. our top story this morning, an arrest in the murder of this 93-year-old prince george county woman. police say the suspect is her 15-year-old neighbor. the teenager s family says it does not add up. stacey cohan is live outside police headquarters with more details on the disturbing case. stacey. reporter: i m learning that this 15-year-old had reportedly used her credit card. that may be what originally tipped police off to the fact that the 15-year-old william fitts may be involved in the crime. he has been charged as an adult with the murder of 92-year-old thelma steele. steele was found dead in her home last week. she was bitten and strange beaten and strangled. her home was robbed and ransacked. steele lives near the fitts family. he did odd jobs for