Of extreme and hard won National Pride as news 4s Aaron Gilchrist reports it all started with a simple decree. I believe that this nation should commit itself to chieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. President john f. Kennedy in 1961 setting this country off on a very clear, very bold mission, and launching the apollo program. More than a decade of lunar exploration, a 20 billion, 400,000 person investment in winning the space race. The center piece of the program, apollo 11. On july 16th 1969 nasa astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins auzz aldrin made their way to launch pad 39 a at the Kennedy Space center, destined for greatness. Three, two, one. Crowds in awe, force in rumble of a rocket carrying apollo 11 took their breaths away. Four days later a manmade history on the moon. The eagle has landed. Rocket tranilitish we copy you on thero gd. Youve got a bunch of guys about to turn blue, were breathing ag
For today. Not only do th see , but were also seeing the very hot temperatures. You can see the temperatures right now. On the warm side. Again, the temperatures are in the 90s right now. You see the 70s out there. Thats where weme have so rain showers rolling through the area. Let me show you the showers and storms that ar out there. We have a severew thunderstorm ning to the south and west for loudoun, clark, warren, fauquier and Rappahannock County until 4 30. Well continue to watch that as it moves up the north and east at a pretty good rate, about 35 Miles Per Hour. Could have a downburst so well continue to watch the storm as remainder of the the afternoon. Can you see the storms are leading all the way back into west virginia. Of course we he the heat advisory until 8 00 p. M. Tonight. Its rather warm around here, beotuse its narm enough already. The heat indices are well into the triple digits at this moment. Were going to continue to trac. This stor just to the south and west
To the north and west, temperatures in the low 70s. Feeling close to a hundred degrees out there. Lets timehis out and talk numbers. Lets talk about just how hot it will feel out there and that is coming up. First, lets talk about traffic with melissa. Good morning. On the beltway we are seeing delays here. This morning, People Living in Prince Georges County are upset over a proposed amazon warehouse. Some neighbors near the proposed site say they were misled about what aually was coming to their rhneighbod. Look at Property Values is our concern. Is this going to add or detract . About a 100 pele packed a Community Meeting last night in clinton. News4 first told you source say a new Fulfillment Center and it is is not sitting well with people in that community. The developer did ot confirm what was going in the building but told ushow it would help Prince Georges County county. This is unique opportunity for the county and proposed tenant is pposing having 1,500 quality jobs. Another
Happening . G happy 5 00 on a tuesday morning, everybody. Starting off on a great note. A little warm out there. We have got temperat es that are on their way up along with the humiatty. Is the main thing youll notice out there today. The heat and o humidity isut there. Not the bl skies we had yesterday. 77 degrees is our temperature ttght now. We will slip a bit as we continue through the 6 00 a. M. Hour and start moving back in the right direction. 8by 10 00 a. M. Its going to feel like 90 degrees by that time. Mix of sun andl cd out there. More humid today. Afternoon, we could have a chance for storms and same with the commute soim we will t those out coming up. Good morning, melissa. Good morning. Taking a look at northbound 395 near king street brandnew crash blocking the ride of the road here. They are getting by on theleft so be careful. You might a little bit of a delay. Beltway overall right now i would say no major issues. For the first time, neighborsh are sing their concern
Through mosquitoes in salas county. Florida International University is hoping it can answer your questions. The school is hosting an expert panel tomorrow called zika watch. Faculty members from different areas of the university will discuss everything that south floridians should know. Talk about a beach bummer. Two studentsf student pilots onboard a plane that went down in the water. It appears they are working to bring that aircraft back up to the surface. Tonights social view 6. Beachgoers who saw the crazy crash posting pictures on social media. Fortunately both of the students made it out saffy. Bobby brooks has been on the beach all day long posting updates on facebook and twitter. He joins us live from the scene with the very latest. Bobby . Reporter i jus want to reiterate how lucky these two are that they are okay. They are just flight students. Ocean, yet somehow, some way, they made a decent landing, and walked away from this. Thats the tail of the plane sticking out of th