Tonight there are growing concerns about possibly life threatening storm surge. Well have live Team Coverage. Lights for liberty. Hundreds of protesters near the white house stand up for the children who have died at the southern border. He never done nothing to nobody. He was a good child. And all new tonight, lovedes on mourning a Community Leader who was gunned down in northeast washington. Tropical storm barry is inching closer and closer to louisiana where it could dump dangerous amounts of rain this weekend. Were talking about up to two feet in some places. Homes and roads are already flooding in southeastern louisiana. Crews are closing flood gates as the surge pushes iand. Things could soon get a whole lot worse. Its expected to make landfall tomorrow morning. A federal emergency has been declared and folks in new orleans now are sheltering in place. Weve got Team Coverage for ou tonight. Amelia draper join in a moment. We begin with Nbcs Jay Gray live in t big easy. Jay . Repo
The storm is expected to become a hurricane byhe time it makes landfall this morning. First responders have told people along the coast in louisiana that the time to run has passed and now people have to hunker down and barrel through the storm. T good morningo you, im meagan fzgerald, were tracking the latest developments on Tropical Storm barry and how that system could affect us here in the d. C. Region. We want to check in with Lauryn Ricketts. First and foremos this storm system is continuing to churn very slowly over the last several hours. It has sped up. From three miles to five miles an hour, heading towards the coast of louisiana. Now, not sure if its going to get to category 1 status manufacture it makes landfall. Winds are 65 miles an hour. The thing is, it m doesntatter if it makes hurricane 1 status, capgory 1 status, or troal storm. The damage is starting to be done right here. Lots of rain headed towards new orleans, towards baton rouge, just to the west of new orleans.
Today. Clay anderson here with a look at that. Good morning. Great saturday morning to all of you, a theme for this weekend, no excuses, no apolog ts as far as weather is concerned, bright sunshine across our area right now. H low idity, temperatures warming up into the 8 and its june. Outside right now we are uowing yowhat we see and, ain, sunshine across the area, thses some cloud well to our south and west nt it will conue to remain to our south and west throughout the day today. In fact, 6currently, we are degrees currently is the temperature across our region right now. And for the forecast this is what we do expect, folks are outside already and you should get out both today and tomorrow. Temperatures in the low 80s today, mid80s for your sunday. If you like the heat and humidity, adam, weve got that fo you coming up in the extended forecast. More details in a bit. Back to you. Clay, thank you very much. In rs few hou delicious smells will take over downtown d. C. The National Ca
Playing two games of baseball today will be dicey at best. The overnight rains are coming ma an end, but our rain chances for today re extremely high. So dont plan on any dry hours past about lunchtime. Here is storm team 4 radar, scanning the skies, finding the last of the shower in thewe parts of the chesapeake bay. Once again in the muggy 60s to around 70 degrees temperature wise. It will be warm. It will be humid and before this day is done it will be rainingc again. High chances for rain maybe a rumble or two of thunder but not a big Severe Weather threat today. That Severe Weather threat returns for tomorrow. More on that in a f. Lets go over to melissa and see how traffic is coming on a gdnesday. Ood morning. Look at the beltway, inner loop, outer loop no issues on the eltway, everything is movin along fine. No road work to be worried about. Southbound 295 malcolm x avenue right side blocked by crash. Another problem, arlingt northbound gwkw par diverted to memorial. Aaron . Mel
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