Clear skies and cooler conditions. Temperatures will continue to move on up. Were not quite as cool as we were yesterday. Yesterday we were in the teens and twernts. Rig 20s. Right now were at 31. And temperatures will continue to move up, by 11 00, well be in the 40s. But well see an increase in the cloud cover. So again were talking about a warming up trend, but then we cool down wednesday were still tracking the holiday, well let you know what we can expect for that, that will be in about 12 minutes. New this morning, part of Rockville Pike in rockville is closed after an accident turns deadly. Police say the driver of this moped is dead after a hit and run crash late last night. It all happened at Rockville Pike and congressional lane not far from the twinbrooks metro station. Police say the driver of the car ditched the vehicle just a few yards from the scene and ran away. He was tracked down and is now in polic yet been released. And this morning a little girl is recovering after
Standstill. You can hear the cheers of excitement the minute they came back on in the Atlanta Airport yesterday. It came at the start of a busy travel season. Passengers were stuck in the dark for 11 hours. One person described it as literally pandemonium. Some folks said they literally had to yell to find one another. Because they couldnt see. The fact that every aspects of how the airport works, computers didnt have flight information, restaurants closed down and even the vending machines didnt work. A fire in an underground electrical facility may have caused that outage. Over the next few days in atlanta, doesnt matter where youre flying because Atlanta Hartsfield is integral to the entire flight system. Airlines than a thousand flights. We caught up with some people at reagan national. This may end up costing her more than the flight did in the first place. I have a dog thats boarded. Its going to be an extra day of cost with boarding and extra day of cost with the parking. I had
Well keep you updated on the story in the nbc washington app. 4 31 now. President trump is back in washington this morning after a weekend trip to camp david. Now a top lawyer for his Transition Team has accused a Government Agency of unlawfully turning over thousands of emails to special counsel, Robert Mueller. This is all part of the russia election meddling investigation. President trump says he doesnt plan to fire mueller. No, im not. What else . What are you, surprised . President trump cannot technically fire mueller. He could order for his dismissal. The only person who could fire mueller would be depply u. S. Attorney general rob rosenstein. He just told the iteam that hes satisfied with the special counsels work. Republican senator john mccain is home in arizona right now. The 81yearold was recently treated for a viral infection at the National Cancer institute in bethesda. Doctors say he is responding positively to his treatments for brain cancer. Senator mccains daughter me
When you have bad traffic, its hard to stay sane for too long. The next light is already red usually. Then you have to wait at the next one. People speed past you and have to stop at the light. Were all here together now. The forecast is looking good, especially if you like the mild weather. 41 degrees right now in washington. Almost everybody is above 50 except manassas. Theyve dropped to 30 degrees. Still chilly. You want a jacket. You might want to shed the jacket in the afternoon. 39 degrees right now clinton. 40 quantico. 35 gaithersburg. 41 in leesburg. As you are leaving the house, nice dry roads. No rain in the forecast today. But we have nice mild temperatures. Were going to be back in the 50s. Look at the radar. Were nice and dry. We dont have rain in the forecast for quite a while. Not until we approach the weekend. A closer look at that forecast coming up and milder temperatures ahead. Letec hopefully not too bad. Not too bad. A couple of things happening. Shady grove road,
Developing this morning, a major power outage brought the worlds Busiest Airport to a standstill. You can literally hear the cheers the moments the lights came back on at atlantas Hartsfield Jackson airport. The power outage came at the start of the busy travel season. Passengers were stuck in the dark for 11 hours. One person described it as pandemonium. You can hear it there. People literally had to yell to find each other because they couldnt see. Georgia power says a fire in an underground electrical facility may have caused the outage. Over the next few days, its likely to impact your Holiday Travel plans no matter where youre flying. Justin finch is live with the number of delays were seeing this morning. Hey, justin . Reporter hey there, good morning. [ inaudible ] reporter very slow moving line. I can tell you as well this morning, i have been watching the board as well. We have flights in from atlanta due to arrive. The first at 9 00 a. M. And a couple others at 10 00 a. M. In