same story out of 66 in manassas. if you re planning to head across the river, look how nice and light that is. i think people are just packing up and gearing up to get out for the weekend. usually it slows down a little later in the rush hour and into noon and the rest of the day. let s take you back over to the maps. this time we ll head out east. looking good out of annapolis and the bay bridge. route 50 no problems as you head towards cheverly and northeast. let s take a live look outside first to the south side of town. here s what it looks like out of waldorf or out of annapolis and route 50. no problems to report out of bowie as you head for the beltway and now we ll go down to waldorf. no problems to report here as you head near bwi airport, i-97 and route 100. no problems out of waldorf, route 5, 301. all the southern corridors are great. in my next report, we ll go to 270 at 6:12. the memorial day holiday weekend is here. you heard howard say it s going to feel li
typical memorial day weekend. kind of hot and sticky out there already this morning. temperature in the 70s. good morning, everyone. i m sarah simmons i m allison seymour. welcome to fox 5 morning news at 5:00. i can t believe you re here. it is nice to see you so early. i think that s you, right? yes. good morning, everyone. you look great. good morning. good morning. love the green. shades of green. what does that look like? i ve heard all about it. things are hot in here. things will be hot outside later today as we are expecting warmer temperatures than even yesterday. we ll be in the mid- to upper 80s. there is sentinel radar. you can see we have one or two leftover showers north and east of baltimore. just sort of a warm and hazy start to your day. a little fog in spots. so be ready for that. but otherwise, generally a dry start to the day. so just an isolated risk for a late day storm. temperatures, there you go. that is what you call warm at 5:00
reporter: we re here at hemmingway s over looking the bay bridge talking about memorial day traffic and what you can expect when you hit the roads later today if you re not on the roads already. with me is lon anderson from aaa mid at mid-atlantic. you re expecting lots of traffic on the roads, a very busy weekend. exactly right. very busy, lots of traffic. we re projecting almost 900,000 washingtonians heading out of town this holiday and about nine when ten of them are going to be on the roads. the fact that gas is 25 cent as gallon cheaper than it was last memorial day and it s been falling for seven weeks, been falling since easter nonstop, that makes it pretty good. stay off the phone, stay awake, stay sober and stay safe. reporter: and have a great weekend. you re heading out to the mountains this weekend? you bet. west virginia, mountain momma. reporter: i m staying local, party hopping and we re going to have a great weekend. you bet. but be safe. report
culpeper counties, those did drift into prince william county last night. then as they crossed the potomac, they dissipated but left a lot of the roads wet. in the wake of that, we have cloudiness from the blue ridge east of southern maryland. parts of the eastern shore, it s cleared there. crossing the bay bridge, heading over toward eastern cambridge and salisbury, it s going to be great weatherwise. no travel problems. but temperatures off to a cool start this morning. right now, we re in the 60s to around 70 degrees all around the entire region. a little cooler, shenandoah valley into the mountains, and later today, we ll have a few clouds by mid morning. it will be in the mid 70s. by noontime, up around 80 degrees. and mostly sunny to partly cloudy. then middle of the afternoon ought to hit the mid to upper 80s briefly. and then by late afternoon, back down to the low 80s. i m back with another update in ten minutes. danella, good morning. how s traffic? good morning.
and we ll talk about the weekend and holiday on monday in a minute. back to you. tucker, thank you very much. more space history is set to be made today. we ve got live pictures to show you from space. this is where the dragon space capsule is going to attempt to dock with the international space station. wow, these are impressive pictures. these are new pictures coming in. sarah simmons is back with the details on this historic mission. hey, sarah. the dragon capsule which is operated by the private firm spacex made tests to see if it was ready for today s docking, which is planned to happen around 11:30, possibly earlier. it will deliver a half ton of supplies. it become the first commercial vessel to visit the space station. yesterday dragon came within one and a half miles of the space station in a practiced fly by. earlier on fox 5 morning news, we talked with phil mcalister, special assistance for program analysis at nasa about the mission. here you go. okay, appare