today.y. absolutely. it s peak bloom and it s it the weekend.nd weather is great today.ay blue skies later thiskies afternoon, lots of sunshine. sin we dressed for the occasionf you and i.yod i we re in blue.lu we always try to color coordinate. somehow we seem to pulloul through this time. time. live look at the cherry blossoms down there thisere th morning.rnin it s going to be a a gorgeousgou day for them but you ll ll probably want the jacket. jke first thing you ll notice asotic you walk out the door is cooler temps outside.psside. 41 degrees in d.c., 30 s elsewhere. 34 gaithersburg, 32 frederick,dk hagerstown and martinsburg asbus well as winchester cumberlandrln checking in at 34 degrees thiss morning so pretty much upperch r 30 s lower 40 s anywhere you go. winds the good news, they rere starting to lighten up a bit.upt still a little breezy inezy washington at 14 miles an hour u butter those will continue touet diminish as we head into thein late morning a
and wedding bells will ring in this kentucky county. even with a defiant clerk spending the night behind bars. news4 at 11 starts now. first tonight, d.c. fire and ems promising to get to the bottom of their response to a medical emergency involving a 5-month-old. that baby died. we don t know how or exactly when, but we do know that it was a d.c. fire truck that started taking him to the hospital because the first ambulance dispatched was seven miles away from the home on hillside road in southeast. news4 s jackie bensen is live with the investigation into how the boy died, and the fire/ems response. jackie? reporter: doreen, we re told his name is traquan. he is about 5 months old. it s not clear whether the chain of events led to or played a role in his death this afternoon. a woman who identified herself as the baby s aunt told news4 she came down stairs from her bedroom at the sound of a fire engine siren about 3:00 this afternoon. she says she saw her 5-month-
check on traffic now with melissa mollet. good morning to you. good morning. do have a crash here, got off the phone with police. this is blocking one lane here. 50 eastbound at bay dale drive. easy for me to say. before the bay bridge here, you ll have one lane blocked. right now traffic looking good going across the bay bridge and coming from the eastern shore this way as well. 270 at montrose road, no issues there. and 66, 95, nice and green. see you back here in ten minutes. all right, thank you. it is here as we approach labor day, the unofficial end to summer. nearly 2 million of you are expected to hit the roads this labor day weekend. the maryland transportation authority says today and monday leave before 10:00 or after 10:00 to beat the rush. and you can stay up to date with the latest travel delays on the nbc washington app. find out where the cheapest place is to fill up in the district before you hit the road. the gas report will be released later today.
near 70 in the shenandoah valley is. low to mid 70s in the moets metro. patchy fog, blue ridge, 84 by early this afternoon and a risk of showers around by the friday evening that rain chance may sneak into early tomorrow as well. area wide, mostly mid to upper 80s. a live look at 95 in virginia this morning as you can see right now traffic should not be too bad. you see some head lights out there, but thousands of you will hit the road today. heading unto the holiday weekend you can expect some company. news4 s megan mcgrath is keeping an eye on the bay bridge traffic this morning. good morning. how is it looking? reporter: good morning, eun. it looks terrific right now. i went through with my e-zpass and had no problem. these are folks coming across the bay bridge, headed to the eastern shore. they are running at speed. we re not seeing two way traffic on the westbound stretch yesterday. that will start when the traffic starts to build. we are seeing people traveling acr
where a child is dead under serious circumstances. firefighters were forced to transport a young boy to the medical center. there was no ambulance available nearby. the boy died at the hospital. now the even is under investigation. we re live at engine company number 30 with the rest of this story. reporter: when the call came out for a critical medical emergency involving a small child today, it was firefighters from the station who are the first to respond. a dc fire and spokesperson said the closest ambulance was 7 miles away at the time. when firefighters get to the scene, this was on hillside road, within four minutes of receiving the dispatch call. the boy was no older than two, having some kind of severe medical emergency. they began advanced life- support treatment. meanwhile, dispatchers sent the ambulance from 7 miles away. and prince george s county was called for assistance. we were told there were no invalid told they were knowing glances there either. within