when an older pipe like this breaks, we are putting a band-aid on it today. that s what we did back in november. but this pipe is slated for replacement so we will put a new stretch of pipe in here in the coming months. reporter: now they say they hope to have that band-aid in place by tomorrow morning. coming up at 6:00, i m going to talk to a man who will have to find another place for himself and his family to stay the night. i ll see you at 6:00. now back to you. thank you pat. news4 s shomari stone live with an update amount traffic conditions. shomari? reporter: this comes a at really bad time especially folks getting off work or planning to pick up their kids from day care, summer camp from bethesda to silver spring. look here at these barricades. they are stopping people from going south and right over there, take a look those cars making a right onto randolph road and they are avoiding this area as because of this water main. let s roll some video the south
after midday today. that law will go into effect on october 1st. yeah, employers will have a little more than a year to comply. 4:31. tom curran has a check at our hour by hour forecast over the next four hours. notice it got humid overnight. and the rather steamy humidity going to be with us through much of the day. showers here one shower here in the shenandoah valley that s going to be moving toward the north and east into loudoun county, west virginia, just south of winchester, near charles town, leesburg, perhaps toward frederick and near damascus the next hour or two. thunder and lightning too this area in red in st. mary s county, heading over toward calvert county. it may be get getting closer to cambridge the next hour or two. we ve got some breaks in the the clouds over washington. a live view from our towercam ra. temperatures 60s and low 60s. low 60s by 8:00. sun may be breaking out, partly sunny. noontime upper 70s. mid 80s midafternoon. a chance of afterno