Temperature in the mid 80s. I have all the details on that weather forecast. Erin how are the roads. This is what youre up against, sluggish commute use low beams and caution on the outer loop about a 20 minute delay from 95 over to Georgia Avenue. Also in virginia, gw parkway just outside alexandria shut down because of a crash scene. Well help you steer clear of all those issues with your traffic. We got you covered this morning, allison and steve. Our big story this morning though new details in that breaking news out of delaware where a tense standoff in its 19th hour between police and a man they say shot and killed a delaware state trooper yesterday. Trooper stephen j. Ballard was gunned down as he approached a car and parked at a convenience store. Sadly we learned trooper ballard had had a local connection to the d. C. Region. Melanie alnwick joins us live with the latest this morning. Reporter steve and allison, many of Corporal Ballards friends have changed their facebook pro
And later, home Court Continues to be lucky for the wizards and now lets hope the luck carries over for the caps as they continue their request for a stanley cup tonight. Good day at 9a starts right now. All right. So we got the caps, we got the wizards trying to do their thing, we got the nfl draft. We the got the nats keeping on keeping on. So its all interesting right now who redskins going to pick much a lot going on. Empty meantime 9 01. Good day d. C. Thursday, april 23 are, wisdom martin, holly morris, maureen umeh, steve chenevey. Were all here. The caps take on the pittsburgh penguins. If you want to be there to cheer them listen closely and keep your twitter closer starting now like right now 9 00 oclock the team is kicking off another rock the you can win play off tickets. Mike thomas down near the Verizon Center looking for clues. Well check in with him a little bit later on. First though we want to talk about the weather. Because when those clouds burn off this morning, it
Matt auc ackland is live at gallery place with more. Matt, how is the red line now. Reporter things seem to be running smoothly for now o this morning as you were saying it was a headache. I was one of those people heading to an appointment when they shut it down. A lot of people then came out onto the streets. Were out in front of metro center. They came out in a big group. There were ambulances fire trucks around and they got on their phones, they were calling for uber, they were calling for taxis. There were shuttle buses here. A lot of people saying it happened again. It happened again. Smoke in the tunnel shutting down a major line during rush hour. Prompting many complaints on social media. Metros gm had a simple response to those complaints. It would have been very easy to though, to say well we saw some smoke and its not that bad lets run the trains. Im not doing that. Im just not doing that. Reporter meanwhile metros Workers Union staged a major pte meeting today. Mr. Wiedefel
Find out exactly whats happening on the rails by signing up for our abc7 metro text alerts at wjla dot com slash text. More on metro from julie wright in just a minute but first heres eileen whelan. Warm, less humid today hot humid saturday feels like 95 sunday trending warmer all depends on the front today mostly sunny. Warm, less humid. Highs 8386 winds varial isolated thunderstorm. Mild. Lows 6468 winds s 5 mph saturday mostly sunny. Hot and humid. Isolated late day thunderstorm. Highs 9095 feels 9598 winds sw 510 mph happening now the clock is ticking government shutdown. That deadline to strike a deal now just xx hours away. Sam sweeney is at the live desk following it all. Larry federal workers can breate a little sigh of relief. This morning, it looks Like Congress will pass a budget extension to stop a midnight shutdown today. A final trilliondollar spending plan isnt week. Theres still sticking points. One of those funding trumps border wall. The shortterm deal is expected to
You dont need a jacket, mid to upper 60s. Im more of a spring and fall person than a summer person. Yesterday running outside, boy, did it feel warm. A lot harder to run in the warmer weather. Thats for sure. It will be another toasty afternoon. Afternoon highs 79 in gaithersburg. 83 in washington. 84 in fredericksburg. Certainly warm weather for today. Warm and dry to boot. Warm and dry temperatures. Sunday, also plenty warm. Not record highs to finish out the month of april. Monday, may 1st looks like it may be our next chance for everybody to get much needed rainfall. Now for a check on friday traffic, lets go over to melissa. Good morning, prince gorges county looking good. Most of the problems we have been having are out of the way. That is good. Taking a look at 66, Fairfax County parkway to the belt no big problems there. Listen to wtop 103. 5. Inner loop and outer loop of the beltway defining this problem on 66 and have cleared out of the way. Melissa, thank you. Developing now