no one got hurt. reporter: chris and his parents believe that one disciplinary issue in 13 years should not be enough to keep this 18-year-old out of his graduation ceremony. i think if they had been forced to mop or clean or scrub the floors in the presence of the other students and received a little ridicule, the message would have gotten across. reporter: the shoemaker family spent 90 minutes today at a hearing with a hearing officer from fairfax county public schools and that is their last appeal because of the level of the suspension. it doesn t go to the school board and there is no time, anyway. the graduation ceremony is tomorrow afternoon at patriot center. they just got word, the school system is standing pat. the young man, chris shoemaker and presumably the two others, we believe they did not appeal, won t be able to graduate with their class, at least not at the ceremony. they will get their diplomas privately instead. hmm. just happened, laura. i m s
nice clearing trend towards morning. a couple of cold fronts coming through. you can see on the radar that we re done with the rain showers. generally good news here in the forecast. temperatures at reagan national at 70 degrees. 68 at dulles. 67 in fredericksburg. ocean city currently 73 degrees. forecast for today calling for nicer conditions than yesterday. should be lots of afternoon sunshine. we ll go high temperatures in washington about 80 degrees. that is just about where we should be this time of year. more details on the forecast in just a minute. back to you at the desk, will j thank you, tucker. some of the top stories, the d.c. council will vote on a temporary chair today. phil mendelsohn appears to have the votes to succeed kwame brown who resigned after pleading guilty to a bank fraud charge. sewers say mendelsohn is favored because he is not likely to shake things up too much and will offer some stability. george alhelp won last night s republican primary in v
tony perkens is off. let s get to it. tucker barnes is standing by and tell us it is going to be a gorgeous one, tucker. a gorgeous one, will. in the afternoon hours, lots of sunshine expected. lower humidity. not only today but the next several days, featuring perfect weather around here for summer time. a couple of fronts coming through and the second one, the winds are pushing up in the next hour or so and the conditions start to dry out. a little humidity. and parts of the area, southern maryland, dealing with some cloud cover but most of the action is over and done with the rain that we picked up during the day yesterday. let s do the temperature. right now at reagan national, we are at 69 degrees. 69 at reagan national. the humidity is still up there. you saw a little built of haze will in the live shot. 84% and the winds out of the north at 9-miles per hour and let me mention the winds. picking up. breezy if not gusty at times this afternoon, with the winds out of th
we re done with the rain. mentioned the humidity is on the way out as well. sorry. we are looking at a lot of sunshine the next couple of days. we ll start with a look at your radar. shower activity done and the blue you see, we have a couple of cold fronts coming through. in steps here, we ll lose the humidity and lose the very mild temperatures that we ve started our day with as that cooler and drier air starts to work in from the north and west. let me mention the winds will be out of the north at about 10 to 15 gusting to 25. humidity still up, 84%. it will be improving this morning. winds out of the north appear west at six. it does feel a little better than it did during the day yesterday. today, mostly sunny skies by the affect. 08degrees your daytime high. 81, 82 in a few spots so low 80s. nice start to the first day of summer break for a left kids. yeah. thank you. you mentioned you saw things moving nicely on the roads. so far, so good. we ll go to lauren
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