Hot, hot saturday morning, temperatures only going up from here. That is why were in weather lert mode this morning. Another dangerously hot day is on tap. He foratest well check in with Lauryn Ricketts. Its like ablanket. Its that heat blanket covering you out there right now. Even as we headed into the early torning hours you can s haze out there. Sun coming up, just about two minutes ago. See if we canet that sun for you. But again it is a hazy day out there already. Of course you see ouranners are red for weather alert. Take a look, these are the temperatures right now at 6 00 a. M. On your saturdaymorning. In the 70s right now in d. C. , coming in at 81 degrees. But lets go ahead and factor in that humidity. It feels like 86 out there. And last hour it felt like 88. Its come down a little bit, improvement, improvement, people. Temperatures right now, again, are on the warm side. And so it feels pretty hot wen you head out there. Thats why we have that excessive heat warning and it
Caused major delays for thousands of people. News 4 ras Darcy Spencer is li at reagan talking to people. The good news is the Technical Glitch has been fixed. The bad news is, there is still major delays. Take a look here behind me. We are at Reagan National airport outside the u. S. Airways ticket counter. You can see crowds of people. This is not what you normally see on a saturday evening. People are frustrated. Theyre confused trying to figure out if theyre going to be able to get on a plane today. Now lets go to some video. The problem started at an air Traffic Control center in leesburg earlier this morning that caused some ground stops, again delays, cancellations, the problem was resolved right around 4 00 this afternoon, but there is this huge backlog now. Thats what were seeing at the airport. Some flights were even diverted around washington. Some are being told that they are going to have to wait as late as monday to get their flight. We wanted to go to tampa and our flight
Flights and tested nerves. And donald trump at it again in an exclusive interview with nbcs chuck todd. He rolls out his controversial plan to deal with undocumented immigrants. Gunshots on a busy saturday evening in shaw as people were out to dinner getting ready for a concert. Now the Murder Investigation begins after somebody shot a man near the shaw metro. Thats where Darcy Spencer is with details on who police are looking for. Darcy . Reporter erica, i just want to tell you, this is where the shooting happened, outside of the metro station here near this muffin place here on the corner. Just a few minutes ago d. C. Place released the name of the victim who was shot and killed. Hes it paid to as 23yearold matthew schlonski. He lived in washington. Multiple unofficial sources told me today they believe he was the unintended target in this shooting. Were still trying to get that information confirmed with police. Police bring down the caution tape after wrapping up their investigatio
The humidity levels remain manageable, pretty low. But were on day two of what looks like a sixday heat wave. It is amazing outside. Great morning for walking a dog, going for a run or going out on the bicycle. 61 degrees in ft. Belvoir and 63 in gaithersburg with mainly clear skies. Heres your morning planner. Showing you skycast 4. Plenty of sunshine around throughout the Morning Hours and here your temperatures. 8 00 a. M. , 74, but well warm up quickly. Very similar to yesterday. 10 00 a. M. , in the low 80s and today, great day for a pool. Maybe an isolated lateday thunderstorm. And guys, the humidity does creep into the area. Ill let you know when its arrives in ten minutes, adam. Thanks, amelia. We learned that a teenager died in a crash near a Prince Georges County school. Maryland National Capitol park police say a 17yearold was riding a utv with two other minors outside the Stephen Decatur middle school. They were on an athleticism field when that crashed. The 17yearold died.
It is gorgeous. Its going to be a hot one. Thanks for waking up with us. Its sunday morning. The best place for sunday Morning Television. Im mike hydeck. Shes erica grow. This is going to be like three heat waves back to back. Well see temperatures soaring into the 90s not only today but tomorrow and tuesday. It continues for the next several days. Its not really intense heat. Were not going to have heat index values in the triple digits. Were going to keep them at the 2 digit level. Lets start out with a look at the michael son weather camera. The humidity has increased from where it was yesterday. Its still not oppressive. 89 degrees at 1 00, 92 at 4. Were going to reach a high of 93 today between 3 and 4 00. Its 70 right now in hagerstown, 69 in Downtown Washington and 60 in waldorf. We do have quite the temperature spread of about 10 degrees. Satellite and radar still clear. Ill tell you about our next chance for storms as well as more detail on that heat wave. An indonesian airpl