more storms up to the north, more shower activity and even more developing down towards quantico, we still have a ways to go. we'll continue to keep you posted if this guy goes, we'll bring it to you right when that happens. >> thank you, doug. >> a dc firefighters just out of the training academy is now fighting to survive. >> an entire community of first responders is rallied around and its department. last night smothers was working a fire in northeast dc when a fire truck ran into him. he tweeted some of news source reporting -- megan, are you finding out any more about how >> so this is what investigators are telling us. they say it happened when he first arrived on scene. he's at the corner of getting ready to fight this fire at his home behind me, when all of a sudden an engine turned the corner here and struck it. it takes a special kind of person to be a firefighter. >> the fire service in general is dangerous. there's many dangers. >> the folks at engine company 3 say 28-year-old dane's mother is that special type of person. he just finished his training academy and started

as you notice, if you look down 95 towards quantico, we have more light rainfall.his is where you start to see rain around charlotte. down to richmond off to the

gaithersburg 69 this hour and 70 dulles and quantico 674 fred rikdzburg 69.en though in the 60s waking up for humid feel out there. clouds did move in overnight. nothing too orgition into around the region the mountains will be a trigger for popup storms. hit and missed itment here we are noontime hour. nothing much going on and breaking into sunshine after the morning cloud cover. we head to the afternoon. there's future cast trying to pop a couple storms. again not everybody seize them and some will. we head to evening and get past sunset and clear it out rinse and repeat tomorrow. highs today up to 9d 2 in washington and 90 quantico and 90 fred rigsburg and feeling hotter than that with humidity in place. 92s through friday and saturday maybe we start with shower. we get a cold front through here early in the morning and help get humidity out of here. clearing it out nice for the weekend. let's check the forecast. caitlin roth is budsy all morning on the roads and it's just getting startd busy like you mike with the weather. luckily no weather right now. h

when you combine it with the humidity, feels like 95 in the district. 89 for gaithersburg, 93 for quanticois what feels like in culpeper at 5:00. our visibility satellite picture, a few cumulus clouds and we have a couple of showers in a few of those popping on out there's been one near baltimore and a couple more passing across loudoun county and central virginia, nothing causing problems. of but this is category 2 hurricane gert. let me show you last six hours, very visible eye. aren't we lucky this thing missed us, strong but moving quickly away. gert has winds of 100 miles per hour and moving northeast at 31 miles an hour, lots of rough surf for the north atlantic. strong rip currents, gert will be out by late tomorrow. and we're glad to see that she didn't cause too much trouble along the eastern seaboard. what can you expect? showers and storms in the forecast tomorrow. clouds and sun, so a mixture of both, it will not be quite as sunny as today. kind of goes for friday too. scattered showers and storms, temperature of 90, here's what's changing, tomorrow, a warm front is going to mo

joint base andrews. 95 at quantico. little less oppressive in the higher elevations north and west of the metro area. the final showers are leaving the coast of ocean city. humid,ecast, hot and feeling warmer, and the forecast overnight, and the activity will end overnight. it will be muggy. through the day tomorrow, we start off muggy and warm and get more so throughout the day, getting close to the 90-degree , with increasing chances of showers and thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon. the placed our area in a marginal risk for showers and storms reaching that level. at the arlington county fair, the weekend looks much better. generally, a dry day, upper 80's. on sunday, humidity levels drop a bit. let's check out the next seven days, and we will add in three more. 87-90 tomorrow with storms. 88 on monday for the eclipse across america. partly sunny, may be mostly sunny. hot and humid into tuesday. turning cooler as we head into the end of next week. adrianna: thanks so much. right now, the streets and seat pleasant are s

you are seeing the breakup of now at d cover and 75 reagan national airport and quantico and 75 fredericksburg 73 in napolis and leesburg. for the afternoon we will see this clouds continue to move out and the rain is just off the coast of ocean city so it is teadiest improvement through this afternoon through it evening and tomorrow and a couple of very nice days. the time the weekend rolls around showers are back in the forecast. hour temperatures will climb to about 80 degrees ith sunshine and tonight 57 to 66 with clear skies and light winds. ooking ahead through tomorrow 83 with sunshine, conditions. the e the nicest day of week. the next seven to 10 days average.res well below we are not talking major storms chancese will be shower friday, saturday, sunday and monday. nominator is temperatures remaining significantly cooler than into the we heads middle -- head into the middle of august. doug.ie: thank you, to a consumer alert as families topare to get ready for back school we want to make sure you get the best bang for your buck. we checked school supply prices at wal-mart. staples and

comfortablek, how it was pretty even though temperatures were in the mid 80's, quantico at 88, becausere was lower humidity, still felt prey tomorrow and into. tuesday so, feels like temperatures today in the upper 80's. we're going to be in the upper 90's as we start off the work we. are 8 wantahead, we to see temperatures back up to9, but thunderstorms will be moving in. we will let it know -- you know what it means for seeing the partial eclipse. s people were injured -- seven people were injured when a metro bus crash inear china town. all of the injuries were considered non-life-threatening. part of h street was closest police investigated. we are waiting to learn more about cost it. tragedy and baltimore. a mother and her two children died after being rescued from an early morning apartment fire in baltimore. fire officials think that fire might have been accidental. it started in the kitchen. one firefighter was taken to the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. a crime alert in we learn more about two shootings. at different rec centers last night. the first injured in ei

it's 82 at quantico. it's 81 in college park. 80 at joint base andrews.in the past couple of days have been trapping franklin. it's -- tracking the franklin. it's officially a hurricane. top winds at 75 miles per hour. they could reach 85 miles per hour before it makes landfall north of veracruz of midnight. the first hurricane of the hat lan tick hurricane -- atlantic hurricane season. this is the day that they updated the forecast for the rest of the season. the next system is gert. the hurricane center in the update said they upgraded the forecast for the name storms this year from 11 to 17 to 14 to 19. a little stronger. five to nine hurricanes are expected and two to five could be major. category three or higher. so very busy tropically. tonight not busy at all weatherwise. we will see the sunshine. go away at sunset. most areas are mostly clear tonight. we drop to the 60's. maybe 50's tomorrow is another beautiful day. but later in the day the clouds could roll in and the winds will change direction. it could set the stage for a few hours in the aft

right at the moment our útemperature 88 in the district, 89 in quantico. a average high of 88.'re going to be at or bove 90 most of the rest of this week until we get to off for the relief of will show that the war pattern continues as high pressure is going t continue to drift off happies a bit of a trough, a very weak frontal boundary wil form and we can't rule out the storm during he day rm to. we but watch in front that comed,- through for the weekend. it humidity out of town, oo and the weekend starting to look better even han it did yesterday. here's your planner úfor wednesday. 76-degrees at eight in the morning. by noon 86-degrees and then watch after two, 3:00 for the ossibility of a couple of popup thunderstorms úthat will last until 8:00. 89-degrees at 5:00 down from our high of 91 here in the warmer city centers. mid and pper 830s as we get north and west. fredericksbrg you may also be able to touch 930-degrees as wee days at or above 90 in he city with popup thunderstorms each day. saturday we're going to say maybe it's a morning shower clearer in the aftrnoon, 85-

southern maryland getting hit, i-95 getting hit from quantico down to richmond. getting hit too bad right now, a few sprinkles out in prince william county but we do have the flood warning for the manassas area, manassas park, city of manassas, they've extended this because broad run has made it to flood stage over the last hour. we will continue to watch that. a lot of closed roadways around manassas. please follow police direction. visibility is really low out in the shenandoah valley, even loudoun county and frederick county maryland. be careful, that fog will eventually burn off as we go through the morning. i do believe we will get sunshine mid forng, temperatures in the mid 80s, sunshine is not your friend today because we have storms later on this aftern w through our area. so if you're headed to county fairs, prince william county has their fair, also montgomery county, better day tomorrow. alexandria sidewalk sale, late afternoon storms. nats game could be played once again today. i know they were canceled yesterday or postponed until tomorrow with the d

there's your highs today. 86 here in washington. 85 in manassas and quantico and fredericksburg. a beautiful and feeling good kind of august day. all right, that's a check of the forecast. over to erin now for traffic. >> 5:26. we do is some breaking metro news for you. could be slowdowns if you take the red line because of some late clearing track work. that's causing single tracking between tack ma and silver spring. that's in addition to the green line track work. this is ongoing project through august 20th. branch avenue suitland stations and the green line remain closed. shuttle service replaces trains between naylor road and branch avenue. from our rails as we take a look at our roads pleasant conditions for this thursday morning. inside the beltway we're not seeing any problems in the northeast section of the district. things looking good in problem free on 395 through alexandria as you get toward the pentagon you're in great shape as well. no issues on 66 and things looking good on the dulles toll road. any questions at erin fox5 d.c. on twitter. wisdom and maureen, back

it is 76 degrees in washington. 74 in quantico. 73 in clinton.if you're near parts of the shenandoah valley, here are some cooler temperatures. going through the morning, we will be heating up quickly. you will notice more cloud cover around today. 8:00 a.m., 80 degrees. 9:00 a.m., 82. and more humid going through the afternoon. similar to yesterday. here's a look yesterday, 2:00 p.m., talking about a strong storm around frederick. this was at the time as we zoom out the only storm in the area. again, isolated storm chance in the forecast again today. most of us stay dry, we will be watching closely. we're also watching the roads closely. someue good morning, jack. >> good morning. we start the morning with breaking news in fort washington on 210 northbound, a crash just after palmer road has the northbound lanes of 210 blocked and all travel diverted onto palmer road. you need to plan ahead, this will cause early, big delays. this is an on-going investigation. southbound is not effected. virginia, 95 northbound after lorton. volume is light. two

seventy-six at quantico. 70-degrees at west martinsburg and 68-degrees at winchester.even # at culpeper. overnight tonight our lowe's will be in the 60s and 70s. we've got this system to deal with and storm predisiks center has us in a slight risk of severe weather for tomorrow. that frontal system will move ahead and along of it. we do anticipate to see some of the storms firing up tomorrow. it will be a pretty active day. let's time things out for you. looking at rain moving into tonight. tomorrow 7:00 hour we start to see a little bit of activity here. take a look once we get to nine really just firing up over the west and then here we are here with heavier rainfall and i can't rule out that we won't get tomorrow. here it is, it tips right through. we don't get much of a break until we get to 11:00 until tomorrow. 70-degree s, mostly cloudy skies. tomorrow we're talking the storms at about 830-degrees. your fox5 seven day forecast showing you we're going to break tuesday, wednesday. and then we start to move into some more active weather before the end of the week.

quantico is 62 degrees. so, again, mostly fair skies.real nice. here's a quick look at your forecast for today. clouds, sun, more mild mild east at about five to 10 miles per hour and as you briefly look at the seven-day forecast, we're wet tomorrow with showers around. drying out by wednesday. holiday weekend right now looks pretty good. >> i like the sound of that. well, 5:56 right now taking a look at our morning commute. definitely starting to get a little busier than usual for before our 6 o'clock hour so let's take a look at some of the problems we're dealing with. reconstruction and construction on beach drive closed right now by tilden street northwest. watch for that closure point. ongoing construction. points of closure adjusted a bit. eastbound side of 695 right lane blocked on the ramp to the third street tunnel. motorcycle crash. and then as we take a look at 95 northbound, crash investigation cleared at 234. it moved over to the shoulder so seeing have dissipated. once you get into woodbridge you'll hit that typical slowdow

quantico 93, fredericksburg 92.n the upper 80's but those who get caught under thunderstorms you'll see these temperatures cool down rather quick. that's a check of your forecast. over tom caitlin roth for a check of your traffic. >> mike i got a second what maureen said. so that appreciate those accents on the deja vu. you've taken the -- >> i try. >> you've taken the graphic making to the next level. [laughter] >> good job, mike. wonderful. all right, outer loop crash we are still following this one. it blocks the far left and right lane at connecticut avenue. on the top side of the beltway here in montgomery county and you've got some pretty moderate delays to take you back to 97. looks like they're easing up a little bit. that was a red line the last time i was here so a yellow line at least. it is still early. hopefully with that crash -- we're going to see some improvement. i don't know, though. it still is blocking the far left and right lane but as for now consider it out there and consider it delayed headin

quantico marine base will get clipped by that, again, areas along i-95. that will eventually move off to the southern maryland area, as well. this is something we'll watch. but, again, this atmosphere is becoming a little bit more stabilize. we're still do have that tornado warning up until 5:30. amelia. >> i'm going to read some towns where we're coming in. not only tornado, potentially, but quarter size hail. this storm, again, moving towards the south's and picking up some steam at about 15 miles an hour. leonard town, this is the area that i am most concerned about and i certainly was earlier. oakley, if you lever in these towns, you need to be in your basement now. if you do not have a basement, go to an interior room on the lowest floor of a sterdy building. avoid windows. you want to move to the closest substantial shelter and, of course, with these situations we're can always see flying debris, as well. i'm doing to kind of hone into this area just to kind of reset for you, we're still have a tornado warning. this tornado warning now, only in effe

currently 68 in washington. 66 in quantico.as yesterday out to the west, 61 dulles. let me mention a little fog has developed out to the west as well early this morning so you might encounter that. that should burn off pretty quickly. sunshine in the morning hours and this afternoon be we'll stat to get some clouds. some of this is compliments harvey of the the other feature is a cold front. that is that front gets in there could be a few showers get kicked up along it. best chance will kind of be north and west of washington. if you're up towards hagerstown southern pennsylvania northern maryland you have the best chance of that. today in the 80's mix of clouds and sun. behind don't think we get much above 70 or so. much cooler tomorrow. not -- listen we're in prime time for trop fix. unfortunately we know about harvey. this is now irma. very strong tropical storm. forecast to become a major hurricane. the good news is it's parked in the central atlantic at this hour and will not be a threat any time soon but we got watch it c

there's a band of showers between quantico and woodridge. some of our co-workers

above average, 89 for dc, 87 quantico, 86, hagerstown, 85 for gaithersburg.king at the futurecast, we see that there's chance in the afternoon tomorrow but it's widely scattered. so not a big round of showers and storms but a few could be around at 4:00 and you can see some have bright colors indicating that heavy rain, even as late as 8:00, we may still have to chase a few around tomorrow, keep that in mind if you got evening plans tomorrow then unfortunately, friday, it looks like we're going to have to do all of this over again, we start with some clouds in the afternoon, and once again, a frontal boundary coming through, maybe severe thunderstorms, a quick look at our seven-day forecast here, saturday 90 for the weekend, isolated thunderstorm sunday, looks nice at 89, and i'm not too worried about the thunderstorm on saturday but i think that would be mainly south and east. sunday good. total solar eclipse not in our area but partial for us, 90 degrees looks like we'll have at least a couple of clouds but it should be good visibility because showers are b

temperature. 70 at dulles. 77 quantico, 73 in leonardtown.racker radar while mainly quiet does show a skinny band of some downpours from about dale city moving southeast ward across the potomac into portions of southern maryland. if you live from that line from dale city to montrose you may be getting brief heavy rain. partly sunny and hot, highs around 90. pop-up thunderstorms later on details on that still ahead and now let's take a look at the roads. erin good morning. >> good morning. 4:36. biggest issue we're dealing with is this construction on the inner loop right by the american legion bridge. the right lanely is blocked with an arrow truck. it's slowing things down just a smidge on the outer loop as well with a rubberneck delay so a little caution. as you can see volume is still pretty light this morning. we'll switch things over and take a look at our maps. gw parkway looks good, clara barton parkway problem free. not seeing any issues on c john. 270 right now 70 to the beltway we're at speed. 70 moving along just fine. maryland top

winchester 63 degrees. 70 in quantico. 68 in clinton., once the sun comes up, we'll start to heat up quickly. 7:00 a.m., 75 degrees. by 8:00 a.m. 78. warming to 81 by 9:00 a.m. today will be hotter in some locations but also a little more humid too. this area of high pressure is still keeping us dry today. really for most of the week. one thing that we are watching, tropical depression emily over florida. we're not going to worry about this thing. it's going to move out to sea. locally, we have a small rain chance closer to the weekend. we'll talk more about that and what you can expect for the weekend in a bit. >>> the search for a mom and her son and his young cousin ended in tragedy. this is not what we wanted to report. the weather played a role this it was a family member who found the car overturned in a creek. we saw the scenes from chopper 4 all night over the scene of evergreen mills road in loudoun county. the car and all three bodies were discovered late yesterday afternoon. they were missing since friday. shomari stone has re

clinton coming in a half mile, quantico, not too bad in the district. as you drive over any of the bridges, that's where fog will get more dense across the area. we'll talk more about when the fog will lift with mr. chuck bell. >> start getting temperatures close to 80 degrees, warm air will absorb moisture and help fog to break up and dissipate across the region. future weather, moving forward through time. look at all of the fog, hanging tough around i-95 corridor through 8 or 9:00 a.m. dense fog advisory goes until 9:00. after 9:00, 10:00, break into a mix of clouds and sunshine, depending how much sunshine helps indicate whether we have to deal much with rain threat. i don't think most anyone gets rain spotty showers. so much humidity in the atmosphere, we get extra sunshine, highs today in the upper 80s to near 90 degrees. more warm days to come, jack taylor. >> nice. thank you, sir. i appreciate it. freeway downtown works zone between third street tunnel and south capitol street. left lane blocked, volume so light, not causing any delay. had wires

we have showers around leaving fredericksburg and near quantico, into charms county, near bowie and annapolis and parts of prince george's county. that's where we also have some rain. through the morning, the showers will be gone, on the drier side and comfortable. we'll look at the local forecast through the weekend coming up. >> thank you, sheena. more now on hurricane harvey. the storm is hurdling towards tens of thousands of people in texas. want to show you these incredible images from space where you can see how wide this thing is. this will be the first major hurricane to hit texas in a decade. it is expected to get stronger before it hits land sometime tonight into tomorrow. that has president trump promising federal support. south and central texas -- the entire gulf coast impacted. the message from officials, get out of the danger zone now. as you can see, people are listening. this is a live look from houston where the highways have been pretty packed. most of the morning, people trying to get out of there. this was the scene as they filled up tanks to hit the road. 700 members of

that storms right now heading to cambridge, link wood, vienna, quantico as well and all this in the next 20 minutes or so. so just ab wear in this area, that there could be, very heavy downpours and some lightening strikes as well. temperature right now in the district 72 degrees. the heat index is at 72 as well. that just goes to show the humidity level is up there it is hot, sticky. tomorrow will be a day where things will be a lot more comfortable and we are finally going to get dry weather, we deserve it. eighty-one by the time we hit midday. your full forecast and that all important seven day is just ahead, >>> thanks, gwenn. national weather service confirms a tornado hit near community of broad run and fauquier county yesterday evening. tornado packed wind of 75 miles an hour, knocked down trees, power line, causing damage as well. fortunately no one was hurt. this is first tornado to hit virginia, two twisters hit the eastern shore of maryland over pennsylvania several weeks. >>> now to the district a young man accused of shooting a teenage girl in northeast made his first court

frederick, 66. 68 degrees in quantico as you wake up and walk outside. in the upper 60s by 7:00.9:00 a.m. low 70s. it is going to be warmer today than it was yesterday. then as we go into tomorrow, we're going to see a pretty big temperature drop heading into the weekend and that drop is going to come with the remnants of harvey making its way here for part of your labor day weekend. we'll talk about that coming up. let's check the roads with >> sheena, good morning. not a great start for those moving around frederick with breaking news. northbound lanes on 270 are closed just after route 85. a couple trucks were involved in the crash. a medivac helicopter arrived on scene, blocked the southbound lanes. the helicopter is clear now and southbound lanes are open, northbound remains close. trying to get on to 270 from 85, unclear if you can do that. we know now that we'll get a good look at the activity northbound on 270, 85 all lanes are blocked. back to you. >> jack, thank you. we want to give you another look where harvey is this morning. that storm a tropical depression now. it'

quantico and route 610.problem here it involves some heavy equipment and some trucks, there's two tractor-trailers and a box truck that are involved in the accident right here, the first one. then there was a second accident further down on the road. but this one involved heavy equipment type of trucks as well. so you're going to have some slow traffic as all lanes are shut down. they're actually diverting traffic to get around this i know it's a dark shot but the cars are not moving hardly at all. diverting traffic of course on to route 1. i pulled up route 1 and put the sen sons on here -- sensors on here. everything is moving okay, it's around exit 148 exit off of 95 to head northbound on route 1. mike and jan? >>> >>> sol definitely historic and not nothing we wanted to see -- something we wanted to see. now the rain continues they saw 40, 50 inches of rain in the houston area. and now it moves over to beaumont and yeah, they're seeing over 20 inches of rain. and that area. and now it's moving into louis