West for now. Not going to be dry for the rest of the day, though. Keep that umbrella on standby. Its not going to be a rainy afternoon but we will have some moments of thunderstorms. Here we go. Along 95 a couple of areas of light rain. Its really pushing off to the east pretty fast. Most of the morning will be dry except for areas south of the district i think well have some lingering showers all the way from the east part. The district to queen anne and bowie and clinton and all the way through charles county. We have some wet. Notice the yellow colors. Colonial beach were looking at moderately heavy rainfall and pockets of light rain. Jan in reedville says its not raining yet but it will be in a little bit. 58 for baltimore. 53 for annapolis. Were headed for the 70s today. Its going to be very warm but that sets us up for some thunderstorms this afternoon. Very isolated. Ill track them on your futurecast coming up in just a bit. First a check on traffic with larry miller. Good morning, allyson. I appreciate that. Good morning you to. I want to let you know we have an accident right now on the ramp from dale boulevard to northbound i95. We understand that its an suv involving a tractortrailer. A look right now on 95 at dale boulevard doesnt show any delays in that area. But again volume starting to build up on the northbound side. Were keeping a close eye on that accident. Well let you know how it shapes up there. Traveling on the beltway, no issues to report on the inner and outer loop. Free and clear. 395, 295 as well as the bw parkway smooth for the most part. But if you are going to be traveling southbound on 295, were starting to see volume again just starting to build up. You want to be mindful of that and if you can, add some additional time to your drive time. For those of you traveling on the beltway, the inner and outer loop, starting to see volume build up mainly around colesville road. Andrea and nick, over to you. Still not clear how long the family lived without electricity but a fathers attempt to keep the lights on and his kids warm may have cost all of them their lives. Dad and his seven children ages 6 to 16 all died from Carbon Monoxide poisoning. Delia goncalves joins us now with the story that delia has us all thinking what if, what if somebody had done this or someone had gotten in sooner but nothing can bring them back now. Reporter thats right. Im sure that is a question that is playing over and over again in the minds of family members, friends and relatives who all made so many attempts to find this family. They visited the home, knocked on the door, but as you said, no one was quite able to make it inside until police were called. And sadly, a whole week had gone by at that point. Rodney todd sr. , his seven children, five girls, two boys, were last seen march 28. Thats the last time dad reported to work. We dont know the last time the kids attended classes but we can tell you School Officials visited the Princess Anne home twice. The family was about to file a missing persons report about their loved ones when police discovered the bodies insides the home that they say had no electricity and a generator inside. That generator was off and out of gas. The power was off in the house. And they were in different rooms in beds and in sleeping positions. In life he just wanted to do everything that was right. He wanted to set a good example for his children and he did just that. Reporter that is the dads mom. The seven childrens grandmother. Just devastating news for that whole community. Really a smallknit community. The children, five of them attended the same elementary school. This morning there will be grief counselors to help all of their mass mates deal with classmates deal with this tragic tragedy. Delia goncalves from our Satellite Center this morning. Three shootings, two of them deadly in less than four hours. The one survivor showed up at d. C. General hospital before 11 00 last night with a gunshot wound to the andmen. Police dont know abdomen. Police dont know where he was shot. A teenager was shot before 8 00 p. M. It happened along 37 37th street and a man was fate eel shot 30 minutes fatally shot 30 minutes later on congress street. D. C. Police made no arrests in any of the shootings. No word on what caused a deadly fire in northwest washington. An 81yearold died in yesterdays house fire on kenya street in columbia heights. The husband is still hospitalled with serious injuries. Firefighters pulled up with flames shooting out of the second story of the row house. Mopup operations lasted well into the night after a massive fire burned through a building and some of the rescue equipment. Firefighters had to abandon a couple of their trucks in the heated moments. Nikki burdine live at that scene in Capitol Heights with the latest. Nikki . Reporter you can see theres still quite a few fire trucks out here now. And there is still a lot of crime scene tape just roping off this area blocking off whats left of that warehouse. You can see theres not much there. Weve also seen a couple of firefighters Walking Around looking for hot spots but its a very different picture than what our crews saw when they first got here yesterday. This was a massive fire and there were flames shooting from the building. It started at about 5 00 yesterday and the flames went up fast. The winds shifted and that caused those flames to move to the two fire trucks that were parked outside. Those trucks caught fire and destroyed. About 1. 5 million in damage. The trucks delonged to the Kentland Fire Department and West Lanham Hills department. Thankfully no serious injuries n. Is of course something that everyone here this is of course something that everyone here is thankful for. We never lost two fire engines on a building fire. We have lost brush trucks on brushfires and those things before but ive never lost two engines. As the chief in west lanham said, were thankful our folks are okay. We can replace the fire trucks. Reporter absolutely. Good news there that everyone is okay. There was one firefighter that had injuries burn injuries to his leg. Hes expected to be just fine. I will tell you this warehouse was used by a Roofing Company so the materials inside, a propane tank, cars, a lot of Wood Materials served as fuel for the fire and made it grow a lot faster and stronger than it normally would have. The cause is still under investigation. Coming up in our next half hour, ill tell you what new concerns First Responders now have. Back to you in the studio. Thank you. Also in prince georges county, police are asking for your help to find a missing woman. Her name is tracy Rochelle Williams and shes 25 years old. She was last seen on Hospital Drive in cheverly around 1 30 yesterday afternoon wearing a hospital gown. Williams picture is on the screen described as 56 and weighing about 175 pounds. Please call police at 301699 2601 if you have any information on tracy Rochelle Williams whereabouts. A woman is now in custody over last months stabbing after station manager. According to our partners at wnew march 15 the incident happened. She pulled a knife on the manager when she was told she couldnt ride the train for free. He was hospitalized but will recover [ inaudible ] thats the latest from the magazines publisher. The decision comes despite a scathing Columbia Journalism School report. It found the magazine acted recklessly by publishing an article that falsely accused Phi Kappa PsiFraternity Members of gang rape. Now uva students are hoping to put the scandal behind them. Theres been a little disappointment that no actions have been taken against the reporter but also theres been some closure. The chapter says it will pursue all available legal action against rolling stone. Theres a new but familiar king of College Basketball. Well show you the big mistake in the nats opening day game. Sports is coming up. We are starting off with some light rain, a little bit of drizzle for the most part but areas off to the west of 95 and 95 included drying out but for how long . Ill have all the details straight ahead welcome back. Happy tuesday. Yellow alert tuesday. We have a couple of showers pushing east of 95. Areas through the district and through 66 off of 270, frederick, drying out. Not drying up through la plata, waldorf, leonardtown and east of colonial beach. You have that area of yellow and getting heavier rainfall but pretty light for the most part. Well see a drier afternoon. Very warm intots 70s and a warm into the 70s and a few afternoon thunderstorms. Looks like we have a water main break. Water route between highland lane and frye road closed as a result of a water main break. Thats where we find sky 9. Crews are working to get this situation under control. Not sure exactly how long the situation is going to take or how significant the water main break is but significant enough that theyve closed off parts of route 1. Well let you know how this develops. Andrea and nick, back over to you. Bonfires lit up the skies last night at durham. The celebration still going on this morning in North Carolina because . Duke has done it yet again. They knocked off wisconsin in last nights National Championship game in indianapolis. A battle of two number one teams took a 17point sling in the second half to give coach k a fifth Championship Ring. We were fabulous down the stretch. I dont know how you can be any better than we were down the stretch. He did it with freshman. They accounted for 60 of the teams 68 points. The uconn women will be gunning for another title tonight after beating merchandise midin one of sundays sell any final games. To do it theyll have to beat the same team they faced in last years championship game. Notre dame. The huskies have won the National Championship four times since 2009. They did it last year beating notre dame. In baseball a crucial mistake leads to a loss for the nationals on opening day. Spoiled what was otherwise a perfect [ inaudible ] this was one bright spot. Bryce harper sending one into the stands for the nats home opener but late in the 6th evening, ian desmond calls it a Little League move there. Drops it. Shers scherzer frustrated. The mets scored two runs in the inning. New york ends up winning 31. The teams go at it again tomorrow. Well see if they can get back on track. Max cant get flustered now, you know. 210 million well spent though. Absolutely. Its 6 15. D. C. 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Closing arguments are set for this morning in the murder trial of former new England Patriots tight end aaron hernandez. The defense resteddity case monday after calling just three witnesses. Hernandez is on trial for the 2013 shooting death of odin lloyd. At the time the victim was dating the sister of hernandez fiance. Its been eight months since the Ferguson Police officer shot and killed 18year old michael brown. Today voters in the city are going to the polls. For the the first time in fergusons history, up to three black candidates could win seats on the city council. The Congressional Black Caucus and other are groups have conducted the get out and vote drive. Just after midnight two men burst into a store near 30th street one holding a gun. He kept the weapon on the clerk until the register was unlocked. The thieves ran off with cash. If you can help police catch these robbers, youre in for a 10,000 reward. Thank so you much for yesterdays forecast. I was just saying how everyone always blames us for the weather but dont say hey, yesterday was really great. Now a reality check. Its going to be a little wet at times today. Most of it will be cloudy. Taking the blame. We are going to see a cloudy day today. A little on the warm side because were not going but were not going to be so warm tomorrow so enjoy the last bit of warm weather we have. A little cloudy and wet at times. Heres a look at the michael son weather camera. It will be cloudy out there but during the afternoon, we will have some moments of sunshine and that is going to gear us up for some thunderstorms this afternoon. So we kind of have this unsettled pattern to go through for the next few days before we get to a nice weekend. 62 degrees. A couple of light showers really just pushing off to the southeast. Heres doppler 9000 through baltimore. 95 is drying out, especially areas off to the west are drying out for now. Areas south of the district through fredricksburg, youll have the the rain linger through the late morning. Charles county from la plata and down through st. Marys county, calvert county, we are looking at a couple of light showers. Watch your futurecast. Areas by 9 00 you still have the light rain pushing off for areas farther south, especially if youre traveling down through richmond. Youll continue to see the rain. Still cloudy and we are going to stay warm and humid today. Then during the afternoon, we dry out. See these Little Pockets of sunshine we can see before the sun sets if we were to imagine this about 5 30 instead of 7 30. I think futurecast is a little behind here. We will see some thunderstorms. Not everyone will see them but we goarg to see them we are going to see them especially areas west of 95. Then for wednesday the winds turn out of the east. That is not a favorable wind us for. Well be cool with spotty showers. As we head through the Late Afternoon and evening, more showers. Game time for the nats game on wednesday will be generally dry, maybe just a few light showers but were not expecting any thunderstorms by that time and by thursday still cool but well see some spotty showers continue. Heres your sevenday forecast. Well have very warm temperatures by friday and clearing for the parade with mike and andrea on saturday for the Cherry Blossom festival. Sunday another good one for the peak of the Cherry Blossoms. Things will be great. Larry, you all right over there . Im literally almost just ate it. That would have been brutal, man. U. S. 1, route 1 closed between highland lane and frye road as a result of a water main break. Thats where we find sky 9 this morning. You can see crews are on the scene right now. Not sure exactly how large this water main break is just yet. Trying to get a ground crew making their way right now to let us know how big this water main break is. Wasnt to stay away there this area because the detours are going on close to this area and mount vernon. Beginning, you want to stay away from this area as a result of that water main break. For those of you traveling northbound on 95, want to let you know the on ramp from dale boulevard to northbound i95 closed as a result of an accident involving an suv and a tractortrailer. Well break down the commute around the beltway as well as for maryland coming up shortly. Andrea and nick, back over to you. Hillary clintons day could be filled with details about her Upcoming Press denying campaign glndz a candidate on the the news is back on the weekends. The saturday morning show is one hour from 7 00 to 8 00 a. M. The sunday morning show is 90 minutes from 7 00 to 8 30 a. M. Followed by capital download. It all starts this saturday, april 11. As of right now, ted cruz may be the only official candidate running for president in 2016. That is about to change in a matter of hours. Senator rand paul will announce hes seeking the republican nomination at an event in louisville, kentucky. Hes just released a new Campaign Video saying its time for a new way and new set of ideas. Paul follows another Tea Party Favorite texas senator ted cruz in announcing his candidacy. Experts say its still too early to judge pauls chances. Over the coming months i think it will become clear whether he can build a coalition big enough to win in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina. A handful of possible g. O. P. Candidates have yet to declare. They include stormer florida senator marco rubio, wisconsin Governor Scott walker, new Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former Florida Governor jeb bush. Could be 12 republican hopefuls in all. We shall see. Speaking of jeb bush, turns out he once identified himself as hispanic in the 2009 Voter Registration application according to documents published by the new york times. 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