What has been an absolute perfect end to a weekend. The sun was shining bright this mothers day. Gwen is here and i know people would like to see the sun stick around for a couple of days. Its going to stick around. When i was outside i have to tell you i did not want to come in. We did serve it up with the sunshine as a very warm day with all our moms out there. Yes, once again, happy mothers day. Look at this, unbelievable as we hit into it upper 730s and low 830s at all three air pomplets it was spectacular out there. The winds picked up a little bit, but other than that i dont think there was too much to explain about at all. And speaking about those winds, look at the winds right now, still gusting, 18 to up to 35mile per hour wind gust across our area. Thirtyfive at baltimore this hour, three p p at cumberland, 31 at dulles and 21mile per cap to. The winds will continue to be fairly strong. Sky conditions, well, ridge of High Pressure starting to build in. That gave us plenty of
Yourself today at a metro station between church, and west falls you were offered a pamphlet. It talks about the extended maintenance schedule, and how difficult this will be for metro riders and commuters. Even though today was the first day of the schedule, it was rough. One workday down, one year left to go. Your commute normally . 10 minutes. Chris how long was it today . About an hour. I think tomorrow will be more telling. Neglect,ter decades of metro has begun its maintenance blitz. Over the d asked year, crews will cram in three years of muchneeded repairs in the next year. See major delays from 15 search projects, the first between falls church and ballston, starting today. Andur system was broken, the plan we have in place as difficult and inconvenient as it is come it is crucial to get metro where we wanted to be. Chris metro said that overall ridership on the entire system was down just 1 . For the stations west of downton, ridership was 24 . I know they are in the middle o
Including lifesaving rescues and the latest forecast in just a moment. Leon we started in waverly virginia, where three people are about an hourwn south of richmond. Three people including a toddler were found dead amid a mobile home. Jay korff has a look at the destruction. Is takingamage here your breath away and its humbling. Im literally standing in the middle of the street, both sides blocked by massive trees. We look down with our news light and there is debris, siding, a tremendous amount of trees. Down the block, massive trees blocking this road. Turning off to the left, this is about 50illiams home, feet from where im standing. He and his nephew ran from that home during the storm, wanted to get into a vehicle to but they did not have time. That car is cracked open like a sardine can. The side of it is a quartermile away. Quickly, over here, timothy says he and his nephew were in this. Ar he said the storm was barreling towards him, he could see the tornado. Three feet,e car s
Winds. We have Power Outages in parts of st. Marys and Calvert County from the first storm that came through. That was a storm right in there that moved way up to the north but now were watching this line, this bow echo coming in here and thats what were continuing to watch. So heads up in this area. Severe thunderstorm warning in effect until 6 45 tonight. Lets drive on down to the south, veronica, show you where the potential for the Tornado Warnings are, and look whats happening here. This one right here. This one right here looks very dangerous. This is coming in towards Caroline County. This is Spotsylvania County where we have the Flash Flood Warning but this storm in carolina line county, this is one we will watch very, very closely because eventually it will move towards King George County and then over across the river and towards Southern Maryland, and i expect that to occur within the next half an hour to an hour. If you live in those areas, be ready to take cover. Hopefully
You know you have several inches of rain. We have Severe Thunderstorm Warnings, and thats bad but better than a Tornado Warning. Well keep you posted and make sure they dont turn into a Tornado Warning as the storms move eastward, and well zoom in more. His this is heavy rain in college park and walker mill and lighter rain toward old town and also alexandria and arlington as well. This is moving off to the east. So get ready in bowie and queen anne and kettering. Heavy rain is on your way and you are under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning. Top, looking at the lightning oh, im sorry. Lesli . Lets get you caught up at the metro station with our colleague eric lee there, and a lot of lights behind you, eric. Whats reporter yeah. What we are hearing is there is obviously, you can see here that if i switch the camera around eric, im going to cut you off. Its really hard to make out what youre saying. I think yeah. Andwe can see fire crews there. It looks like theyre trying to go into the stat