numbers. most of the nearby suburbs are in the 40s to upper 50s. your gardening forecast, another day perct for spending time in the backyard garden getting your flowers ready to go for summer. veggies as ll. mid 70s this afternoon. perfect time of the year to introduce your kids to gardening. sun flowers and elephant ears grow fast, they re fun and get your kids interested in gardening at an early age. more about t holiday forecast coming u in a few. melissa? first 4 travel alert. they are finall getting that tractor-trailer out of the way with a big rig s help. they kind of spilled out. they had to offload some of them. it s been taking a while here. they vh been at t for seven hours. right now outer loop near central avenue, still have a pretty big delay. we talking about a 4 mile backup. hopefully that gets out of here soon. another vantage point as they switcthat cameraround to show you what s going on. you can see the delays. the rest of the beltway is oo looking g s
reporter: sun s up and somebody spaernl spiked the coffee here somebody spiked the coffee here. it s going to start feeling like summertime here. ump,ne of the thanks that comes useful, one of the things that comes with the when he is cluster of thunderstorms. the fist batch will go barely to the south. however, i think it may leave little outfly boundaries, when lsit coo down, that s cool air that leaves out of the storm. that could leave a chance of increased thunderstorms i the metro area for the day. a slight risk for strong to severe storms. doug will keep you posted on that. mostly in the mid 50s out the door this morning. going to be a good day for school. ancht high, 84 degrees. nice. and the weekend promises to be even warmer. melissa, more about that coming up. thank you. right now, chopp 4 flying over prince george s county. everything nice and light. let s keepur fingers crossed that volume stays looking like that. montgomery county, rockville here, norb
why we have some fog. the fog will burn off across our area later on this morning and as it burns off we ll have some su nhine. right, yes, visibilities are a concern if you re driving about. just a little bit over a mile visibility in gaithersbu , out to the west, shenandoah valley, hagerstown and interstate 81 less than a mile visibility. the story will be tonight. that will be the first of several rounds of raishowers. a flash flood watch tonight. what time does it start? 8:00. what time does it end? not until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow mong. close to two, possibly three, inches of rain. we ll bring you the forecast. up and down weekend but get outside oday. ack to you. i m melissa mollet with a lookrsat f 4 traffic for metro this weekend. stations closed and buses replace train there s. what we re talking about. ll 0 e line, huntington, eisenhower avenue, king street, braddock road, crystal city. s notpping at dca because of repairs happening. also closed on the blue line, van
nothing to worry about. i ll track out the timing of the rain for now, melissa mollet, a lot of nighice on the road even tho it didn t come from the sky. i weow. l talk about that. chopper 4 over the beltway, outer loop near colesville. not seeing anything from above.j right nowt seeing delays at the top of the beltway. green belt, a few roadways there. crash with all lanes should down. telegraph at south vandoorne in alexandria.li ton, southbound near oak wood drive, an accidout there. sout on 270, nice and clear. we ll let you know if we hearor an ice coming up. melissa. thank you. thank you. it is 6:01. libraries are supposed to be safe spaces f learning. this morning montgomery unty police are trying to track down a man who inappropriately touched a girl at the rockville memorial library. justin finch is there toxplain what happened. justin? reporter: eun, good morning. lice say thi 5-year-old girl ran screaming to her parents after she says ach man t her inap
traveling locally or regionally. we ve got plenty of sunshine coming your way for the first part of the day. we will see more clouds. rain chances, though, for tomorrow begin as early as about 3:00 in the morning and could continue as late as 3:00 tomorrow afternoon. most of the rain in the morning, but i can t give you the all dry until after sundown tomorrow. right now, cold and dry. 30s early on. afternoon highs upper 40s to right around 50. again, increasing numbers of clouds. your friday evening plans will be dry. first little possibility of rain comes after 10:00 or 11:00. ite mercy likely after midnight. we ll take a look at the forecast in a few minutes. let s take a look with melissa and see if she has any problems. i ve got no problems. the problems will happen hours from now. 5:00 p.m. we ll be speaking a different language. right now, quite good. taking a look at 66 and 95. problems there. to 70 from down to the spur. you re on time. had earlier work that is now