Rain. And you notice, no more yellows. We had lightning and thunder earlier this morning. That rain is gone, just the shower activity. Heres whats happening right now, through loudoun, fauquier. We had a break through parts of northern virginia, but the rain continues to fill in here and it is making its way down to the south and east. But this is all part of a storm system and a boundary thats across our region. You can see the edge, up through pennsylvania, back to the west. We continue to see shower activity moving through. And this will continue for the next few hours. Kinda tough to get the nationals game in, but maybe. Continued cool, yesterday we were 76. Today right now, 55. Mothers day forecast, it does get a little bit better. And the 80s, they do return. Even a 90 in there as far as the forecast is concerned too. Much more on t look ahead to the weekend, remember, you can get the latest on storm team4 on the nbc washington app, set weather as your home screen. Just open sett
Leon harris has the latest on the investigation. Its a really crazy situation in new york. An 18yearold woman died and two dozen people were hurt when a wrongway driver slammed into a crowd of pedestrians on the sidewalk. These are live pictures from the scene. Police are telling us that Richard Rojas rammed into the lunch hour crowd just before noon. Investigators say he made a uturn and started speeding down the sidewalk for several blocks before crashing into a traffic pole. Right now, Officials Say they do not think this wreck is terrorrelated. According to Law Enforcement sources, rojas appeared to be under the influence of drugs or challenge and he has two prior dwi arrests on his record. In 2008, he was arrested in queens for drinking and driving and also in 2015, he was arrested in manhattan for drinking and as of now, four people are in Critical Condition in the hospital. The word is, they are expected to live. Thats some good news. Thank you, leon. Back here in our area, what
Rehoboth. Take a look at some of the rainfall amounts weve gotten already. Upwards two and three inches of rain. Annapolis, over three. Baltimore, over three inches of rain. Close to four in pax river. Those inland locations, same story. Picking up the high rainfall totals. This system, again, so large, affecting a lot of people. Not just at the coast, but well inland. Were going to see this through the overnight period. As we get into the western locations of west virginia, where snowshoe already had six inches of snow. Theyre expecting about two to three feet of snowfall by the time they get to wednesday late. So flood warnings remain up through tomorrow. With five to ten inches of rain in the forecast. Through Loudoun County and sharpsburg, and little falls will have high water rising several feet above average, as we move through the rest of today and tomorrow. Again, all with sandy making its way ashore in the next couple of minutes, we think, around cape may, Southern Area of new
Coming ashore. You can see whats going on. A ton of rain on the west side of the storm. But notice, the strongest side, normally the Northeast Corner here, thats where you see the strongest winds, 84mileanhour wind gusts in long island. Notice the rain here, really cutting off on the back side, as it makes its way in. Well continue to see rain here, though, as we continue to be on the southwest side of the storm. Heres atlantic city. Heres the ey coming onshower right now. Atlantic city, probably seeing the strongest winds they have seen in years. Maybe even decades right now. Potentially 90, 100mileanhour winds with this storm. You can see the outer eye wall which is right here through cape may county, new jersey, along the delaware bay. Were watching this rig around rehoboth beach. Theyre probably seeing very strong winds out of the northwest right now. Once again, they could easily being seeing 60, 70, 80, 90mileanhour winds even towards rehoboth beach. We are just Getting Started.
Recorded. And that goes back to the super storm of 93. Even beating the super storm of 93, that was the benchmark for many meteorologists. The one we all learn about in school. I guarantee you well all be learning about sandy. As we move through the next day or so, sandy just making its way north of new york. What will keep us in the wind. It will keep us in the rain, too the rain is slacking off around Atlantic City, toward philadelphia, Atlantic City coming in with winds of 70 to 75 Miles Per Hour. This is the eye wall, right in through portions of cape may county, new jersey. This is cape may county. This is where wildwood is, Rehoboth Beach right here starting to see some of the outer bands making their way through, too. Well start to see some of these bands, this one right in here, a strong band coming across the chesapeake bay. The winds are picking up very quickly. They will stay up all night long. Were seeing numerous trees down across the region. Were looking at a lot of Power