live triple doppler radar showers near warrenton and northwest of culpeper. isolated drops here and there. not going to amount to much. warm temperatures, 78 in the district, 75 at dulles, 72 in martinsburg. the cold front is moving through. behind a cold front, skies will clear this morning. sunny this midday and afternoon. you ll notice the humidity dropping. 84 today. lower 80 s tomorrow with low humidity and increasing heat and humidity. near 90 s by thursday with a chance of a late-day storms. the remnants of tropical storm arlene could affect us on the weekend. not much to affect you. outer loop between gondar avenue and georgia avenue, two left lanes blocked. 95 in virginia is pretty decent. no problems on 66. quiet is on this side of town. more to come in a little while. bacteria. back to you. public schools in d.c., prince george s county, and anne arundel county will begin today. we saw a lot of last-minute shoppers intraday buying back- to-school supplies.
the eastern shore if you don t feel it it will get there we will clear things out with mostly sunny skies we are noticing a couple chilly mornings. stay tune for that. the power is restored at a dozen homes in dundalk and it s a mess. basements are flooded following heavy rains from yesterday. we talked to homeowners in the area and especially on trap road and they say water piled up in the basements and we are talking 6 feet covering gas lines and electrical panels. they say the problem is in the backyard where there s a creek and that at the .cally overflows. the weather is downpour so bart it is unreal. we had plan to sell and get out of here because every storm is flowed. reporter: bge has been dealing with the power outages since the storms came in on friday: they say 1900 customers are in the dark. it s a minute after 6 now overto tanya with a check on the traffic. reporter: we have a broken water main in wood lawn that s passable if you need to get through. l
you had some drizzle and rain overnight, right, tom? moefst of that is gone, but it s still rather humid. local radar picking up one shower in prince george s county. and there s another shower in culpepper county and coming out of rappahannock heading off to the east-northeast as well. we ve got the cloud cover that still lingers with humidity in the air. right now 77 at reagan national. low to mid-70s at prince george s, arlington, fairfax, montgomery counties. in the mountains of western maryland, west virginia, low to mid-60s there. low to mid-60s in much of the shenandoah valley, and that low humidity continuing to advance to the east will be moving in as the day progresses. sunrise at 6:28. back to work and school on this monday morning with a pleasant pattern, a clearing sky. we ll have increasing sunshine throughout the day. mid-70s by 9:00. by noon time near 80. by afternoon ought to hit the low and mid-80s with low humidity. a bit of a blustery northwest wind gust
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i m steve chenevey. i m tony perkins. welcome to fox 5 morning news. tucker barnes is with us this morning. good morning, sir. it will get better and better after a lot of rain around here yesterday. a couple of spots had more than appear inch of rain. sunshine, low more than an inch of rain. sunshine, low clouds. a lot of rain and thunderstorm activity during the day yesterday. still a leftover sprinkle. can t rule out the possibility of a light shower or sprinkle. generally, we are trying out. we have clearing skies back to the north and west back to cumberland and hagerstown. should be a mostly sunny day today. it will be bright and beautiful. high temperatures in the mid- 80s as that frontal system consequence to fade on off to the south and east. the best part, we ll be dry. 7 # right now at reagan national 78 right now at reagan national. your forecast today is a good one, becoming mostly sunny, breezy and noticely cooler. less humidity too with wind out of the