year. they have arrested 52 homicide suspects. today, a controversial vote for lawmakers in frederick county, maryland. the county will vote on whether to invoke an english only ordinance. it requires county business to be conducted in english. supporters say this allows the county to avoid printing documents into multiple languages which gave them money. but several council members say there s no evidence to support that. 4:31 is our time. we ll get a look at weather and traffic on the 1s. 73 degrees outside. this warm air is not going to just completely disappear. we have to wait for it to slowly get out of here. yeah. seems like the sticky weather is sticking around. we re ready for a cooldown, tom. yeah, it will be a bit cooler because of more clouds as well as an increasing chance of some showers. getting some showers, thundershowers out in west virginia, pennsylvania. the bulk will stay well north and west of the metro area over the much of the daylight hours.
it is my turn here. 95 northbound at 100 here, we have lane blocked, disabled vehicle blocking the right lane. keep an eye out for that. 95 in virginia, again, about a four mile backup here. as you get on in fredericksburg we have some road work hanging around through stafford. after that it s clearing up out of the way. 66 to compton road, no problems there. rolling along nicely. same thing when you look at prince george s county. we are nice and green. and top of the beltway here no major issues. b.w. parkway, 95, just fine and then 29 here also green as well. back in ten minutes. see you at 5:11. thank you. 5:01 now. a developing story, this morning a former fairfax county police officer is on the other side of the law. adam torres is waking up in jail after a grand jury charged him with murder in the death of john geer. derrick ward has more on why the officer won t be going home today. derrick? reporter: well, aaron, he has been a former police officer since the
winds. we have power outages in parts of st. mary s and calvert county from the first storm that came through. that was a storm right in there that moved way up to the north but now we re watching this line, this bow echo coming in here and that s what we re continuing to watch. so heads up in this area. severe thunderstorm warning in effect until 6:45 tonight. let s drive on down to the south, veronica, show you where the potential for the tornado warnings are, and look what s happening here. this one right here. this one right here looks very dangerous. this is coming in towards caroline county. this is spotsylvania county where we have the flash flood warning but this storm in carolina line county, this is one we will watch very, very closely because eventually it will move towards king george county and then over across the river and towards southern maryland, and i expect that to occur within the next half an hour to an hour. if you live in those areas, be ready to take
loudoun county, this is all moving up towards frederick and northern taug u montgomery county, further to the south, warrenton, cull pepper, fredericksburg. this is line that will move into the d.c. metro area about the next hour or so. so the national s game, no problem at all getting starting. here s the overall picture. you notice numerous showers across the region. a lot of these, though, back to the west, won t make their way over the blue ridge. we got one more wave coming through. keep the umbrellas handy, just in case. coming up in a couple of minutes, this moves out. but very cold air moves in for the weekend. the showers next time could be mixed with snow on saturday. we will talk about that in just a minute. i know, i know. okay. doug. today, you are probably going to need our interactive radar in the nbc walk app. don t forget, you can track the storms down to your own neighborhood. a deve now, a northern virginia fairfax county school bus and police cruisee
insulator to break. that s something being assessed and hopefully in a short period of time will be able to determine what exactly caused that. we ve got team coverage on all this tonight. the university of maryland just got all of its power back on within the last hour. we begin with tom sherwood in dupont circle. reporter: all kinds of people today were affected by the power outage including a few people at the warner theater. hi. how are you? reporter: on 13th street downtown people were buying the new maya angelou stamp. it s not just her. it s the stamp collection is recognizing african-americans who have made a contribution. reporter: inside the warner theatre, oprah winfrey was celebrating the new stamp with first lady michelle obama. the power flickered and failed. but the program finished up. what did you think when the power went out? the power went out but we still rose. we kept going. and that s what you do and that s what maya angelou wanted us to