What is that . Rain. You happy to see it . Yeah. The close call on capitol hill. 911. Tree limb into car. The final score, tree 1, car 0. Driver and passenger, they escape injury. All of a sudden i saw a cloud of leaves, and so im like a tree that fell so. Im putting on my brakes and its nowhere for me to move. To maneuver around it. It fell on top of us. Reporter virginia rain. It usually starts there and then well, comes our way. This is what it was like on i66. Today we got rain. Thats interesting. We did. We did get rain. We desperately needed the rain. Reporter maryland rain and Prince Georges County. Now it didnt affect emergency calls or emergency responses, but some of the bosses, they ended up reading reports by flashlight. Rain, rain, rain. It was a wash down, cool down, that we really needed. Rain is good for . For plants and us and the country. And farmers. Farmers. You know a farmer . I dont. Neither do i. Its good for them. Yes. I love farmers, they grow cattle and corn a
still more severe thunderstorm watches now for eastern oklahoma, northwestern arkansas and far southwestern parts of missouri. may also have severe weather today from the dallas/ft. worth area down towards houston, texas. further up the line, a moderate risk for severe weather today from minneapolis/st. paul to the northwest side of chicago. so if you have flights from twin cities, st. louis or houston, may have flight delays. in the mid-atlantic, all is quiet. still a few sprinkles now across far northeastern maryland. they are drifting away from us. we have no chance for rain here in the washington area today. especially out to the south and west of washington as well. so, it s going to be a mild one as well. so, be ready for a real warm-up and a hint of summer li-like weather. closing in on 70 degrees down south of frederiksberg. 72 in the mountains of west virginia in petersburg. what about today s forecast? we do have cloud cover left out there this morning, but that s b
questions today about safety. jay gray has a closer look. reporter: as maintenance teams and federal investigators continue to cut through possible issues with southwest airlines fleet of 737 300s, the carrier was forced to cancel about 70 flights today. southwest grounded 79 planes for emergency inspections and canceled hundreds of flights over the weekend after this five-foot hole ripped through the feuselage of the jet last friday, depressurizing a cabin 18 minutes before the flight from phoenix to sacramento. a preliminary on-site examination reveals pre-existing fatigue along the entire fracture surface. reporter: maintenance records in 2010 it crews found two instances of cracking in the aircraft s frame and len more intanses of cracks designed to hold the plane s kin in place. they found small sub-surface cracks in three more southwest jets similar to those that may have cause the tear on friday, but faa officials stress that is not unusual for a fleet that s 10
victims in the hospital reporter: ma, drawing their strength right now from the amazing courage and resolve of the survivors. survivors like shooting victim eric fuller who after calling accused gunman jaredoughner an unhinged lunatic, showed up at his parents house todayo apologize forhose harsh words. i saidome bad thing about their son. so i thought i would come over here and try to forgive them. reporter: there s he coming from univeity medical center as well. florida congresswoman and gabrielle giffords goofriend deie wasserman schultz was in r hospital room when it happened. hsaid touch my ring gabby, if you can hear me. and she touched his ring, his arm, his neck. was so unbelievable. reporr: some would even say a miracle. yes, miracles happen every day. reporter: dtors confirmed today giffords is opening her ey and has moved both arms and legs now. this is a major leapforward. this is a major milestone for her. and we re hopinghat she crosses thrgh m