up in just a few minutes here. let s check in with tucker barnes for a look at our weather. it felt better out there this morning. i that you the same thing. everything is relative, of course. all in all, not a bad start. 75 at reagan national. some 60s out there. dulles at 68 at this hour. these temperature generally cooler than they were 24 hours ago. we got some thunderstorm activity across parts of the area yesterday. shower activity, thunderstorms off the coast. we are clearing out. going to be a beautiful day today. bright sunshine, no shower or thunderstorm activity. we will be on the hot side with highs back in the mid-90s so real relief from the heat yet but at least we can take the humidity out of the equation. sunshine, heat, less humidity, # 5 and yeah, you saw it right. the sup will be wearing sunglasses again today. back to you. thank you. the top story is the debt debate. it is the senate s turn to sign off on the bill. last night, the house approved the
we re starting off with a green light this morning. only construction to look out for. we ll start off with a live look in virginia. on the northbound side of i- 395. here we are at duke street. lanes are open until you get to the 14th street bridge where there is long-standing construction in the left lane this morning. beltway in virginia, construction on both loops here on the inner loop northbound side approaching the dulles toll road and on the outer loop of the beltway southbound side of 495, between the dulles road and i-66. let s take a live look at 270, southbound side, lanes are open. traffic is moving well on the northbound side in the local and the through lanes, you have construction this morning in the right lane and now we ll go over to a map. route 4, route 5, route 301 looking good in prince george s county heading over to t look h westbound h street between 14th and 13th street, you ll find construction there in northeast d.c. coming up in my next report,
democrats, 242 republicans, incoming gop lawmakers say their first order of business is cutting the congressional budgets. and in the chamber, where the new republican agenda will face the toughest opposition. in the senate, democrats are in control narrowly with 51 seats to the gop s 47th street. history on the senate floor today. maryland senator barbara mikulski served in the upper chamber of the congress longer than any other woman. john henrehan has more now. the senate spent 30 minutes congratulating mikulski and her accomplishments. reporter: today, even the republican leader of the senate, put aside politics to congratulate the senior senator from maryland for her long service in that chamber. that you will bear true faith and allegiance. reporter: when barbara mikulski took the oath for the beginning of her fifth term in office. so help me god . i do. reporter: she became the longest-serving woman in the history 69 upper chamber of history in the uppe
like? unless you have some concept of what the future is going to be like, you won t be making rational decisions about taxes and spending. because energy is a huge, huge part of our life. we live better than any civilization has ever lived at any time, largely because of the enormous supplies of this energy . the next chart is oil production looking to the future and where will it come from? the dark blue here is conventional oil. that s the kind of stuff we ve been using for a lot of years now. started using it way back in the early 1900 s . and we re producing more and more and more and now as this chart shows we ve reached a peak. it s called peak oil. by the way, that happened in our country in 1970. it was predicted 14 years before that by m. king hubbered who was regular gated hubbard who was relegated to the lunatic fringe and ridiculed but right on schedule. in 1970 we reached our maximum oil production in our country. the world this chart says has reached it now.
fauquier county, frost advisory. high temperatures around 65 degrees. the inner loop at braddock road on the beltway, a crash has moved onto the shoulder. if 270 out of frederick, there is a wreck near 80 urbana moved to the side. metrorail blue and yellow line customers, metrorail is a reporting there s a track problem at crystal city. that is affecting the trains. if they are single tracking between pentagon city and reagan national. back to you. thank you. there are major developments from the fight over the district s new teachers contract. this morning that deal is in jeopardy. there s a report the city s chief financial officer will not certify the agreement because of some strings attached to the private donations. courtney robinson is live in northwest with details. good morning. good morning. two years of back-and-forth negotiations between the teachers union and d.c. public schools. now seems the deal was on the brink of failure. if it all comes down to po