normal schedule and students will continue taking their end of year tests today. all right. time now to check our forecast. chilly and dreary. it does not feel like june. grab the umbrella before you head out the door. much of the region the pavement is wet. from just some scattered drizzle. now the areas you see in the light green, that s some very light rain that s falling. that s in prince william county into fairfax county county. that stretches up to northwest washington. southern montgomery. extreme northwestern prince george s county. so along 95 around the beltway in virginia the pavement is wet. wet around washington as well. a little bit of drizzle as well. there is the story through much of the morning and into the afternoon. temperatures are cool. we are in the 50s now. and hour by hour through the day ahead, our temperatures by 10:00 this morning just around 60 degrees. by noontime we ll be in the low 60s. then by mid afternoon to late afternoon, only reachin
still, way too early to know exactly what might have started this fire. just no idea at this point, but we can tell you it was bad and that we know that six people are hurt. two of them again with critical we re told very critical injuries. and two of them with nonlife threatening injuries. two firefighters were hurt, but just minor and are going to be just fine. so this is riggs place northwest. riggs is closed in this area off of 16th street. parts of 16th street are also closed. i m going to hand it over to melissa mollet right now with a look at how this might impact traffic this this area this morning. all right, of course she ll be on this for us this morning. we re talking about a couple of different closures. 16th street between r and t street and riggs place northwest. the entire section of riggs place is shut down. your alternative is 16th to make your way around this. 395 at seminary road looking better than before because of the construction. supposed to b
you guys. thank you, kristin. 16th street between r and t street is shut down and riggs place between 16th and 17th in northwest closed because of that unfortunately fatal fire this morning. your alternates are 15th or 17th depending on which way you re going. in laurel eastbound, before route 1, a pictures from a couple of minutes ago from the chopper 4 pilot. the right side still blocked. i got off the phone with police there. overall, everything else in thatary looking pretty good. going 36 miles per hour right now on 32 if you re trying to get around that. wide look at things. looking pretty good here on the beltway. no major slowdowns. 270 at shady grove road, everything rolling along nicely. 66 at lee highway looks fuzzy but a little bit of traffic heed into town this morning. thank you, melissa. you may keep to keep your umbrella handy as our storm team 4 tracks some scattered morning showers. rolling across d.c. right now. tom kierein is here with what you can
new video from a deadly row house fire. two people died when a fire broke out overnight along rigs place and 16th street in northwest. news 4 s kristen wright is live on the scene and has more for us. kristen, good morning. reporter: good morning, barbara. i want to show you the row home first, it looks pretty bad. this was a devastating fire. you see fire investigators and police still here. atf here as well which is standard in an investigation like this. just got off the phone a few minutes ago with a man who lived in this row home. fortunately he is out of town right now but he is saddened to hear that tweemhear that two people are dead. the fire was intense. flames were shooting out of the roof top and it was pretty bad. they had firemen on the roof of that house and the next two houses down. reporter: one neighbor saw a person who was trapped in the burning row home on riggs place in northwest d.c. break through a window and jump. two people are dead. . firefighte
friday morning, august 19 and, 2016, we re showing you beautiful rosslyn virginia. that s where we are today for our zip trip, tucker and annie are there right now, erin he going shortly. we re going to join them in a few minutes. friday morning to you, i m allison seymour i m maureen umeh. welcome to fox 5. they re having breaking developments in that scandal involving four u.s. swimmers accused of lying of an alleged robbery at the olympics in rio. the last held in brazil james feigen just paid $11,000 in order to leave the country. two others allowed to return home after testifying about that incident. wisdom, it s a bizarre story as they try to unravel and get the details. we also have breaking news an apology from the olympic committee for the athletes s controversial behavior. the committee released a stale saying the behavior of these athletes is not acceptable. nor does it represent the values of team usa or the conduct of the vast majority of its members. mea