Good friday morning. We are tracking a new Severe Weather outbreak. More tornadoes, more heavy rain and more to come. Good morning, everybody. Its may 3rd. This is today. Relentless. The thing is just sitting there. Yet another round of powerful storms slamming the south and midwest, a string of tornadoes commuter chaos. A nightmare for hundreds of thousands of drivers after a fuel truck crash sparked a massive inferno in connecticut. I can feel the heat from here. An overpass melting. Part of the road closed for days to come. Were there live. Cracking down. Youre under arrest well use force overnight, new confrontations between police and protesters. Thousands now arrested from coast to coast. Just ahead, the growing questions over the behavior of those demonstrators and the response from schools and Law Enforcement. Courtroom tensions. Lawyers for the man accused of killing four Idaho College students, blasting prosecutors, accusing them of withholding key information. While frustrat
Difference we have had. We got a lot warmer today and were still heading upward over the next couple of days as we head into what will feel more like september weather. Still hanging on to 60 degrees or higher in some parts of the state right now and we will not drop a whole lot more. Tomorrow morning we will all be in the 50s as we start out our monday. A couple of showe downpours in areas just north of the lakes region and much more scattered showers and areas of central and southern New Hampshire. The warm air begins to push on in and a big change on the way for tomorrow. Look at the projected highs for tomorrow and it goes even higher in the days to come. I will have more in a couple of minutes. Cherise fish and game are warning you to be prepared if youre heading out to see fall foilage. Number of hiker rescues spikes. Wmurs kristen pope live in the studio with how to stay safe. Kristen cherise, fish and game says this is one of the most popular times to explore New Hampshire, but
Prosecutors argue that brian rice failed to buckle gray up in the back of the police van last april. He later died of injuries he received in that van. The defense says the 25yearold was uncooperative at the time of his arrest. Rice opted for a bench trial. Meaning a judge, not a jury will decide his fit. Ease off the a. C. Today if you can and you can get some money back on your next energy bills. Pepco is hovering incentive to try to keep the stress on its system down. Peak demand is expected between 2 00 and 6 00 p. M. You can earn a dollar in extra credit for energy use reduced during that time. Time right now is 4 31. Its going to be hot today. Most of us under a heat advisory. If you are outside, make you are drinking plenty of water. The early afternoon and evening hours. The focus today on the heat and humidity. It will be feel the hottest between 3 00 and 5 00. Look at the heat index at 3 00 here. Feeling about 103 in the district. 105 in leesburg. Even at 5 00 p. M. , when yo
Fairfax and prince georges counties as well as the district, arlington and alexander. Heres what it will feel like at noon today. Feeling about 100 degrees in the district and many other locations as we continue on into the afternoon hours. It only gets worse. Feelinthe hottest between about 3 00 and 5 00 p. M. Ive posted this information on my facebook and twitter pages as well. In ten minutes, ill take a look at our morning planner, what you can expect. A work zone to deal with this morning on the beltway . It is. One of those longtermers. Down on rock creek parkway at the kennedy center. Its not a huge deal. On 50, going eastbound, john hanson highway, before 197, near freeway airport. Paving project going on. Only the left labor is going by. This is eastbound. Most of the traffic is headed beltway, weve got a paving project affecting both sides of university boulevard. If not cleared, it should be momentarily. Back to you. Two people dead and another two hurt including an officer a
Announcer no one covers New Hampshire like we do. Now, wmur news 9 at 6 00. Stephanie two people are temporarily homeless after a fire burned their home in manchester. Firefighters are trying to figure out what sparked the flames. Good evening at thanks for joining us. I am stephanie woods. Adam i am adam sexton. Mike cronin is live from the scene with new details. Mike firefighters are still here at this hour. You can see they are going through the garage sifting through the debris and taking pictures. That is where this fire started. It spread upstairs and damaged the outside of the home. A neighbor s cellphone video shows the smoke rising from the fire just before 4 00 this afternoon. The homeowners called 911 after noticing smoke coming from the garage. Six or seven minutes to get here. Luckily, no one was injured. A man, woman, and her dog are displaced tonight. There is about 100,000 worth of damage to the house. But firefighters say it is fixable. Smoke and water damage and some