Started to form a little touch of fog outside this morning. No advisories here. There is a dense fog advisory lower parts of the eastern shore, but just know that there could be pockets of lower visibility. Frederick, maryland, now only half mile visibility. 6 miles of visibility there at dulles. If youre planning to be outside, nice and cool, dry, little fog around. Nothing to worry about. All your Daylight Hours will be dry. Could have a stray shower after 8 00 or 9 00 after we get back to the summer weather. We like the summer like weather especially since we have not seen that sun in quite a few days. Nice changes today. Currently were seeing a few clouds around. Like chuck mentioned, pretty good visibility. 59 degrees in the district right now. You might get a little sun glare this morning for your commute. That will be a change as weve seen so much cloud cover and rain over the last several days. 7 00 a. M. , 60 degrees. Finally dry. By noon were looking at t 73, 5 00 p. M. , mid
And im erika gonzalez. We have breaking news beginning on this midday. It is now over almost an entire day after Corporal Steven ballard was killed in delaware. The suspect was killed by police. That happened only an hour and a half ago. The man was holed up inside the house after shooting ballard, a delaware state trooper, yesterday. This all started at a wawa. Ballard was investigating two men. The other man was taken into custody, but the one accused of shooting ballard took off. Ballard is from bowie, maryland. He was 32 years old. The red line is a mess this morning. Megan mcgrath is at the metro center station with this story. Heres red line reporter this Downtown Ambassador did her best to direct riders to shuttle buses. Metro need to pay me. Reporter in what was a frustrating and confusing rush hour on the red line. Both exiting at metro center thought they could grab a bus on the corner of 12th, but they say nothing ever came. They eventually walked over to the gallery place s
temperatures is hanging out in the neighborhood. that is sticking around. we will have a focal point for showers and possibility of few thunderstorms redeveloping during the course of our friday. today is going to be a beautiful day. if you are traveling in next hour or two for much of the morning we should be having some dry conditions. 69 now in town. we are cooler than we were yesterday at this hour. 63, ocean city. 68 winchester and 69 in fredericksburg. highs today are 15-20 degrees cooler than yefor the high. lots of clouds. few peeks of sunshine during the course of the day. scattered showers and thunderstorms returning. more details coming up in just a couple of minutes. beginning of the memorial day holiday weekend. if you plan on heading out of town you are not alone. aaa estimates 800,000 people in the washington area will travel this weekend. over 680,000 of them by car. if you are heading to fill up before you leave here is what you can expect to pay at the p
that could be five times higher than bp and the coast guard have estimated. officials say they re cautiously optimistic about bp s attempt to choke off the gusher by plugging it with mud and cement. but the oil giant may not know until late tomorrow whether it worked. we begin our coverage tonight with jay gray live from venice, louisiana. jay? reporter: hey there, doreen. as you know, the president traveled here tomorrow, his second time since the spill. amid growing frustrations and questions about the recovery operation. many of those now squarely focused on the top kill effort, the seal of the well. there are reports tonight bp is again pumping thick mud into the fractured well. after starting the top kill yesterday afternoon, bp executives talked about progress throughout the day. it started this morning on the today show. the team worked through the night. we re pressuring up and pumping into the well. reporter: updates continued through the afternoon. top kil
chavez. a spotsylvania man has been set free after investigators say he was falsely accused of trying to kidnap a child. a boy lead his mother to rice s house saying the truck in the driveway was the one his attempted abductor was in. now investigators say the truck didn t even belong to rice. the date in question, he did not, in fact, have any contact with the child. in fact, another man is the one that had a conversation with the child. that man was a contractor. all he had done was to see if the boy was okay after he had fallen off his scooter. list was sent home with an apology from the sheriff s office. developing news on how much you will have to pay to ride metro. late this afternoon, the board voted to approve a fare hike. john henrehan live at metro headquarters with the details. what are we talking about here. reporter: some of the fare hikes were expected, some are new today. there was a lot of horse trading going on among the members of the board. the pr