airways chairman and ceo doug parker. great to see you, doug. and a big move for the company today.what do you get out of this? >> well, thank you, first, for having me. what we get out of it is the ability to fly more flights out of reagan national, which is a big operation for us. it allows us to serve more customers and fly to 15 new cities out of reagan. we also get the ability to fly to sao paolo, brazil, as well as tokyo, japan, markets we have not been able to serve before. so it's a big boost for u.s. airways and our customers. >> and you're looking at annual results up by $75 million as a result of this. that's a near-term projection. in terms of the longer term and huh how you want to boost results going forward, is this going to be an organic growth story, or is it acquisition time? >> well, first and foremost what we worry about is making sure we have a stand-alone airline that can be profitable in the long term. and today as nounsment allows us to do that. it does improve our annual profitability by $75 million immediately. so once we get this approved our annual profit

. >> and i'm julie parker. doug mckelway has the morning off. we begin with your traffic and weather every 10 minutes. we'll check in with jim russ in just a moment, but first, brian's got a check on your friday forecast. brian? >> good morning, julie. good morning, alison. it's going to be much like yesterday with conditions outside mainly just partly sunny skies, a little sunshine, a little cloud cover, and really, these thunderstorm chances the last couple of days have been so sporadic. we had one or two yesterday total, so we hate to mention it, but there could be one or two. low 70's from annandale to landover. 68 this morning in warren ton. the forecast today, mid 80's, partly sunny, all in all, not a bad day, not like thursday. jim, what's happening? >> got an accident on the suitland park. police have been on the scene of this for a bit now, and the rodeway is shut down. be prepared for diversions. traffic on the inbound suitland parkway near the intersection with naylor road. let's take a look at a camera in maryland now. we'll show you

i'm alison starling. >> i'm julie parker in for doug mckelway. weather and traffic every 10 minutes. ryan is here with the forecast. >> going to feel better each day. shifting the temperature down a couple of degrees. shine.lile more sunshine. side. the rain is enough to get it it will be a nice little soaking for your yard, if your yard is still ave.li look at the fog this morning. 73 downtown. we'll talk to adam in 10 minutes about the extended outlook. >> we had a few things. looking at 270 and middle brook road. we had an accident. wires down earlier. that has been cleared up now. the ramp off of 270 northbound, the traffic away from us to get on the middle brook road, that ramp has been reopened and traffic can get by once again. we go out to the outer vicinity of new hampshire avenue. no accidents along the stretches of the beltway so far this morning. so far the pace has been pretty decent. silver springs just starting to slow down. we are looking at 95 . julie and alison, back foum >> we're following breaking news out of fairfax county th

. >> and i'm julie parker. doug mckelway has the morning off.r traffic and weather every 10 minutes. we turn now to brian for the weekend forecast. >> it's not looking too bad this weekend. it will be a little warmer than yesterday. we're going to get back into the low 90's, but the thunderstorm chances are so few and far between, we'll just focus on the partly sunny skies and warm conditius fet t.'set focus on thakt. myocus f 60r 's iand ready to go.2 atup ugr 60's in roe ththrnh teod through the afternoon, mid and peup mr 's,r uch like st'sy. yesterday. i thought yesterday was comfortable, so i will say this afternoon is comfy. how about that? let's take a look at traffic with jim russ. anything comfortable about it? maybe not. >> huh? hi. sorry, talking to the producer ther sorry about that, brian. we have got a couple of deals out there on the road right now, northbound 95, north of the interchange at route 3, we had an accident earlier. we're showing this video, there was a crash earlier this morning at suitland parkway near the intersectio

. >> i'm julie parker in for doug mckelway.n with your traffic and weather every 10 minutes. >> good morning. welcome to the morning. you know, actually you open the window this morning, felt a little less intense. >> less humid? >> a little bit. not super different than yesterday but each day we get a little bit better feel. outside this afternoon we'llon t y liho s twnoo. shown too.e a lh g.fo fog. les tat'lkt' about whatforecastr ucaol hds for us ast few pop up butavye avy wnpos.ur mid 80's, a couple of degrees below average for this time of year. >> we're looking at 270 southbound where there was a minor accident on the ramp. it has been cleared away now. the lanes are open again. now the beltway enter change. traffic looks good college park to silver pring. the west side block of middle brook is blocked. >> thank you so much. this afternoon public will have its chance to say goodbye to one of the last members of american royalty. eunice kennedy shriver died tuesday but her life was about much more than just a famous last n

parker, abc 7 news. >> the rain is gone and the heat is now on in the metro area. doug hill is now in the weather center with how hot it's going to get, as if it's not hot enough right now, doug. >> we have a break on the humidity today and tomorrow. let's take you high above the weather center to the rooftop in arlington and look around. a little hazy but very comfortable. temperatures in the middle 80's. 82 degrees here in our studios right now. it's very comfortable. as we get to the evening hours, temperatures will drop to the 70's. atwenee r kheorn e ather wetwork. rt.y areomlefoab imef usmes 88. below avesrare at 87.lls church here is your forecast for a monday evening on the third evening of august, temperatures in the 80's. southerly winds at 5 five miles per hour. how far in the 90's and how long will the hot weather hang around. that's minutes away. >> thanks so much. a fire at a prince george's county firehouse is raising questions about response time. the fire broke out at 2:00 a.m. firefighters quickly contained the flames and they called for back-up. the c