this morning. 50's showing up widespread in our suburbs already. 54 manassas, 59 winchester, 55 gaithersburgat is light jacket weather as you head out the door early this morning. 72 in washington, 70 in annapolis. always a little bit warmer in the city and by the water. satellite and radar very quiet out there. we'll have a gorgeous sunrise just like we had a fantastic sunset last night. it's amazing when you scour out on the humidity how much crisper everything. 83 degrees today and a light west-northwest wind mostly sunny skies, low humidity. just a light breeze. it will feel really fantastic. all right, that's a look at your forecast. erin, good morning to you. >> wonderful monday morning forecast. your way out in the district- we have some pepco activity. account street northwest one lane blocked east on k street between 14th and connecticut avenue. some caution there. give yourself little extra time. beltway looking good. earlier construction but traffic moving along fine not causing any slow down. yesterday the last dave metro safe track work. metro should be on time starting at 5:00.

we're really not getting out of the 70s. 65 in gaithersburg.we go into to a slight chance of showers. rain chance continues. let's take a look at the roads. melissa mollet. >> look at 95. 95 in virginia as you're headed northbound north of triangle on the right side of the roadway. over turned vehicle. starting to see delays build through that area. chopper 4 over the earlier problem, northbound bw parkway. that two-mile backup is dwindling down. that is good news of course. inner loop and outer loop of the beltway, overall looking quite good. northbound indian head at palmer road, had the crash at the intersections. as far as your travel times go 2, 70 looks good. 66 in bound and 95 northbound remember to listen to wtop when you hop in your car today. >>> we're getting you fit for summer this week. the one change to your routine that could help you get in shape before you even work out. >>> take a look. do you remember this mess? changes metro he's somebody who says,. i am going to make change. and i wanna make change not for the riches

check this out, by morning, 53 in gaithersburg. 62 downtown. so we can rest the ac again. we'll come back and tell you when we've got to start firing up the ac, coming up shortly. >>> the white house says syria will pay a heavy price if attacks against its people go on with chemical weapons. the blunt warning after they have evidence bashar assad is planning an attack. >>> d.c. police say they now consider the death of a popular swim instructor to be a homicide. 25-year-old van scott was shot along southern avenue. he was paralyzed immediately, but died the next month as a result of the shooting. scott was attacked outside of his apartment complex after coming home from his job as a capitol hill swim instructor. a reward of $25,000 is being offered to find his killer. >>> another defeat for the purple line. a federal judge has rejected a plea to allow its construction, while maryland fights a lawsuit opposing the light rail line. backers of the 16-mile project linking new carollton to bethesda, they're still waiting environmental approval. the judge rejectioned arguments t

and our comfort are going up as the humidity goes down. 56 on gaithersburg.ng to last much longer than the increasing sunshine. the temperatures into the low 80s. >> i'm excited but i'm burnt from yesterday. the cloud coverage, and now i'm very burnt. we will have to lay on my front today so i can get the backside. you tillty work going on norbeck between georgia avenue and norbeck boulevard. sounds like they are alternating in the westbound lanes. go back and forth there. construction work on route 32, again this morning, hitting i- 95 and also north of

tomorrow morning andrea, 67 downtown, 63 in gaithersburg and 64 as far south as fredericksburg. and 59 up in cumberland. we'll talk about how low the humidity stays, and which day of the weekend will have thunderstorms. >>> coming up a retired firefighter proves you can start all over again. >>> but coming up next, we now know when and what circumstances fired fbi direct sydney james comey will testify on capitol hill. he will appear one week from today before the senate intelligence committee. the panel says comey will testify in open session, then behind closed doors. he is going to face questions about his firing and whether president trump pressured him to drop an investigation into former national security advisor mike flynn. >>> president trump delaying the move of the embassy in israel. he still intends to move it from tel aviv to jerusalem but the delay is intend today maximize chances of reaching a middle east israel, of course, considers jerusalem its capital but palestinians claim east jerusalem for the capital of a future state. sean spicer said the question is not i

gaithersburg coming in at 50 degrees.e can thank this big area of high pressure for the weather today, tomorrow and friday. humidity is going to stay low really just today. tomorrow it creeps up, more so friday and into the weekend. if you're walking the dog, he needs a home, available at humane rescue. head to the website, figure out how to adopt him. 8:00, 70 degrees. near noon, perfect weather. low humidity this afternoon. dogs will love it, people love it too, of course. a look at the beach forecast headed into the weekend, friday, mid-80s, pretty good, breezy. saturday most of the day is nice and dry. late thunderstorm by sunday. looking at thunderstorms in the forecast. elsewhere, 90s on the map thursday, friday, and saturday and sunday. heat and humidity through the weekend thunderstorms saturday, then a chance for scattered thunderstorms sunday. we'll look at the ten day forecast in a bit. let's check the roads with melissa mollet. >> good morning. breaking news on the roads, talk about it in a second. rails again

it was in the middle of a row of townhomes along autism hill way in gaithersburg.irefighters to battle the fire. several people were evacuated. no one hurt. >>> a wood bridge man arraigned on murder charges today. jones is charged in the shooting death of a donis wright. shot last friday on south lower street i investigators say the two menu each other and got into an argument before the shooting. >>> dc mayor bowser will be up for reelection in 2018 and the polls show she has a strong approval rate >> but still concern amongst district residents about specific areas of job performance, ronica cleariry taking a closer look on this one tonight. >> reporter: a recent "washington post" poll found that 67% approved of mayor bowser's performance with 19% disapproving. this is good news. in 2015, a poll found she had only 58% approval with 25% is disapproval. if you take a deeper look at the numbers when the poll asked about specific issue, there are areas of concern by the residents. take a look at this. when it comes to how the mayor is handling 62% say she's doing not

right now, 81 degrees at dc. 77 at gaithersburg. martinsberg, 73 at winchester.th, 82 at fredericksberg, and we've got 79 at dulles. winds aren't too bad, light to breezy, depending on where you are, but moving in from the northwest and we're going to go see a change in that as well once we get into the weekend. the north easterly flow picking up at gaithersburg at twhe mines, 14, however, in the nation's capitol and 18 at baltimore, 13 at winchester. overnight lows into the low 50's as well as a couple of 60's here and there, 61 in dc, pretty mild and a little bit cool to the north northwest as we see, we got 49 in hagerstown and 53 at martinsberg. overall, no the bad and here's a look at national temperatures we're going to go see a change in our temperature trend as we start to get a southerly flow into the weekend. ad mid 80's by sunday. northwestern, light wind, overgh 60's with partly cloudy skies. but things change for tomorrow as we start to warm up. can't rule out maybe a passing sprinkle, but overall not bad as we move into the low 80's, but by sunday w

we're going to stay dry for a good portion of this forecast. 80 for gaithersburg this afternoon, maybe

the city of gaithersburg kicking off the fourth of july weekend with summer fest. saturday juln party, classic car show, several stages with live h music, food and then fireworks. over at national harbor they'll be celebrating with the d.c. carnival beach party that is also being held on saturday from s 11 a.m. to t 5 p.m. and this party 21 and older. there are a lot of djs lined water. something you can do to get some relief from the heat and some educational time for the kids. the national museum for american h history is hold ing a grand opening for its west wing, 30,000 square feet and feature a number of exhibits that showcase the american democracy. there are some clips online of the curators discuss ing their favorite features. take a loovment throughout this exhibit people are going to see an incredible array of national treasurers, the desk that thomas jefferson descrafted the declaration independent on. susan b anthony ionic red shaw. one of the real treasurers of the smithsonian's collections is george washington 's christening blanket in 1732. this orig

gaithersburg is 64. frederick is 68. here in town, 71, still headed to the upper 80's, middle 80's up to the north and west. i think the i95 corridor upper 80's. a lot going on in the tropics. right around we have brand new tropical storm brett. wind around 40, so tracking to the west and to the northwest probably will dissipate in the caribbean over the next five days or so, got to watch that one. newest one we're watching is what they're calling it's a potential tropical cyclone three and that's head to the gulf right now, and that could be making land fall somewhere is a legitimate tropical storm around texas or louisiana, all of a sudden the tropics are heating up. by the way, we already had tropical storm arlene in april and she was out of the central atlantic. here's erin como. >>> 5:07 if you're headed out. you do have structure fire causing a slowdown, road closed near crom well. use caution. the rest of the tuesday morning looking pretty good. you can see all of the green, 50 from the bay bridge to annapolis. pr

. >>> a gaithersburg man accused of impersonating a police officer is due in court. 35-year-old ataierman is facing gun charges. he was arrested on february between after they learned he may have been impersonating an officer on multiple occasions. police found assault rifles body armor and ammunition. they recovered what appeared to be a baltimore county police badge. according to documents o-he was also in falls wearing an ice uniform. >> developing in northern virginia this morning, police are trying to track down a man accused of inappropriately touching a girl at arlington national cemetery. happened on memorial day while president trump was laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier. police say the suspect and the girl did not know each other. if you recognize the man in the picture you just saw, you're asked to call police. >> developing in the district a cab driver is that behind bars accused of sexually assaulting a female passenger over the memorial day weekend. she says she got into the cab along u street early sunday morning and the woman admits she had been drink

marina maracco is live from gaithersburg with more on this heart breaking story. >>reporter: tony, shawn, it's now been more than 24 hours since this double homicide and tonight still one big question, why were these teenagers in montgomery county gomryville ache when they had told family they were headed to demass demass cuss. today is graduation. add i nature jer's son didn't walk at today's graduation for northwest high school seniors. >> two people down, blood, gunshot wounds to the head instead his 17 year old son was shot dead in the driver's seat of this honda civic, his friend 18 year old arrow temp disifer off also a senior at the germantown high school dead in the passenger seat. the homicide scene played this quiet cul de sac in montgomeryville age on the eave of the boys graduation. two teens had spent the early part of the evening in nature jer's home in germantown. they were headed to demass cuss to sell extra graduation tickets. instead for reasons unknown they ended up six and a half miles away from naz jer's germantown home on california gri court

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and 75 la play at that, and 10 nice again, everybody in the 60s comfortable, 64 gaithersburg, 62 cumberlandmany of us will be in the 50s in the suburbs tomorrow night as well. big planner, 78 a couple clouds, and a couple showers possible in the afternoon. beautiful wednesday, 84, high not humid, 90 thursday. 7 day, friday, saturday, sunday, monday, and also tuesday the 4th generally low 90s with afternoon storms, but not a wash out. >> thank you topper. headlines you might have missed sinc meet texas 12-year-old nathan men doe is a he is kicking cancers butt now he is kicking everybody's butt living out a dream to drive a tank. >> congrats to henry ross of rochester new york back in 1943 he dropped out of school to help fight the nazis at age 93 he is a high school graduate. sports next news at ♪ the sun'll come out for people with heart failure, tomorrow is not a given. but entresto is a medicine that helps make more tomorrows possible. ♪ tomorrow, tomorrow... ♪ i love ya, tomorrow in the largest heart failure study ever, d out of the hospi

low 60s in gaithersburg. mid-60s in it manassas and leesburg. storms work their way from northwest to southwest. culpepper used to have a little sunshine at 6:00 a.m., but inside the beltway, it's going to be drizzly, and showery. temps upper 50s, to low 60s. it kind of works its way across i-95. up into martinsberg. nothing heavy, but is just kind of miserable. then by 1:00, most of the showers now west of culpepper. so i think in terms of afternoon vs. morning, we'll have a pretty decent afternoon except for the fact we'll be cloudy, with temperatures in the 60s. i think we may be able to cancel the yellow weather alert for the ride home. ride home, just wet for a couple. by 6:00 tomorrow, we're downtown. just a few showers out towards leesburg, and way out west. day planner goes like this. 63 with showers early. 63 at 9:00, then just clouds at 11:00, and clouds at 1:00. notice the temps are just creeping up around 70. pleasant on thursday. 74. low 80s on friday. fantastic. make plans the next couple of days. saturday is okay. low 90s sunday,

gaithersburg has dropped down 52 degrees. air got drier and the humidity got pushed to the south and so with low dewpoints overnight temperatures especially again out in the suburbs have really been allowed to get pretty this is here in town at 11 o'clock. 82 at 2 o'clock. we're going to reach about 83, 84 for a high today. should see good amounts of sunshine and dry. just a few high clouds here or there later on this afternoon. so, there's your forecast. we'll be talking more about the weekend through the morning hours. right now let's get to erin como who is putting her traffic hat on. >> that's right. if you're heading out in foggy bottom earlier barricade situation has cleared out. we'll let you know if anything starts to slow us down again but traffic flowing freely there. 66 looking good. 95ly from virginia problem free. hey, 50 in bowie is nice and quiet. problem free on our way to bwi reagan national and dulles. if you have early flight, enjoy. >> 4:36 is the time. hey, we're kicking off the weekend with our second fo

in gaithersburg, warfield road, brand-new crash. southbound 295 at pennsylvania avenue.d there as well. beltway inner loop and outer loop looking very normal. eastbound here on 66 at sudley road. do have the crash off to the left shoulder. right now folks are just getting by a little bit this morning. 95 virginia northbound here out of fredericksburg, headed into quantico. as we zoom in on the bottom of the beltway in prince george's county, in bound indian head highway is a little bit slow as is branch avenue. up here, reported there. as far as your travel times, it is what they are. what you would expect here on this thursday morning. nothing too atypical. remember to listen to wtop good morning, chuck. >> good morning, melissa. good day to be outside. today temperatures below 60 degrees at national airport in the morning. it's that time of year where this is more and more of a rare occurrence. on average our last day below 60s is june 5th. the middle of september was the last time they will drop below 60. we're well below 60 this morning. even 40s out across the shena

temperature 84 right here on the national mall. 79 the high in gaithersburg.d 80s for most and upper 70s for the

. >>> montgomery county, a search is on for a missing boy at maple lake park in gaithersburg. officials say the child has been missing since yesterday. he attends gaithersburg middle school, which is a few blocks away from the lake. >> all i know right now, it is not my area of expertise, but i know they'rea dredging and bringing out sonar or radar that can do the detection of the bottom of the little tiny lake area. >> the town's mayor says the boy is actually new in the country. he has been here for less than a year. >>> we will take a look at this man. dajon jones. arrested tonight. for shooting and killing one person yesterday in arlington. it happened last night in the knox neighborhood. authorities say jones and the victim knew each other. they got into some kind of a dispute. and that led to the shooting. >>> the search for seven missing american sailors in the sea of japan is now over. the navy says those sailors were found dead inside that damaged destroyer. the collision happened between that destroyer and a huge cargo ship. investigators are trying to wrap their hea

eighty-four in the nation's cap tocialtion l 83 at baltimore, 80 at gaithersburg, 77 at winchester, 82culpeper and 830 greece at martinsburg. when we take a look the at dewpoints they're in the 40s and the 50s. this is an indication of just how dry the air is. a far cry from when we had the tropical mass from cindy that is sort of sitting over us and we really felt the humidity and the stagnant air that we had to deal with. finally a bit of a break overnight lowe's into the 630s. as i said, we will have some clearer skies. and the winds kind of a variance. sustained winds now anywhere from five to about 17 miles an hour, but they are gusting a little bit. will have light winds once we get into tomorrow. in the meantime right now, 22-mile per hour winds gusting at martinsburg, 24 at dulles, 21 at gaithersburg and 21 at baltimore but we'll get some improvement as the night wears on as far as the winds are concerned. jet extreme well to the north of us, not too bad. we're seeing mild conditions. it with ill be warm . we're going to see a reverse once we get to the later part of the week a

look at these 50's. 56 gaithersburg, 57 frederick, 55 winchester.her and that's all across the midwest especially from the mountains off towards our west. 57 in pittsburgh, 56 in detroit, 65 new york so despite the fact that we're 70 70 degrees at reagan national most of us. high pressure in control. so much in control it will shove the jet stream down towards our south o uncharacteristic when you get that canadian air mass overhead. we like to do that in the wind wintertime. mostly sunny outside today, 83 degrees. just a few passing clouds. it's warm but with low humidity and a nice breeze, it's really, really nice. and then we're about 10 degrees below normal for tomorrow. tuesday the cool left day of the work week 77 with the slight chance of a thunderstorm. fantastic on wednesday, sunny and 82. we heat back up on thursday, humidity returns on friday and then the thunderstorm chances by wonderful weather to be outside. you don't see that in late june very often. >> as you wake up right now huge problems bottom of the beltway. this is the inner lo

a lot of clouds by morning but notice dry so 60 now in gaithersburg, that's pretty comfortable. by 9:00 a lot of clouds fewer clouds off to the south in culpeper, fredericksburg and upper 60s by the time we get to lunch time there will be a few showers popping a better chance out toward i81 between cumberland and hagerstown and down toward winchester but notice the winds turn northwesterly temps in the mid 70s and from now most of the showers confined around i81 corridor and tomorrow night clouds increase as the winds start to go easterly and we get that easterly flow not good for us at all. so 60s across-the-board to start 74 by 11:00 and 76 by 1 with some sun and we'll keep it dry through 1. showers and drizzle wednesday though 72 and then pleasant on thursday, but only 74. then friday very nice. isolated shower possible and nats on 9 saturday warmer, 90 sunday and don't look now, low 90s on monday and the nats still in town. president trump says he wants to privatize the nation's air traffic control system. he says that overhaul would improve customer service by reducing cost

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[laughter] >> 61 in annapolis. 52 out at dulles. 51 in gaithersburg. chilly enough that you may want to consider a jacket or a sweatshirt as temperatures overnight have fallen back. we got a lot of dry air in place making it very comfortable. there's a live look at your satellite picture. is it going to be a beautiful friday. >> yes. >> that's right. it's going to be a beautiful friday. our high temperatures about 80 degrees, lots of sunshine an dry afternoon. i want to mention a little trough to our north. you could see an isolated shower if you're up in northern maryland or southern pennsylvania. but for us low 80's. hey, let's get into the weekend forecast. a few days ago we thought it was going to be a rainout but now it's looking great. saturday just an evening storm. that's going to be widely isolated, 82. and sunday we'll hold the storms off until late in the afternoon and a warm sunday mid to upper 80's but again, most of the weekend should be dry t i think our best chance won't be until late sunday. that is the latest from the train near bowie

comfortably cool outside. 71 degrees but with low humidity it doesn't feel that bad. 67 at gaithersburgin manassas. all right, here's the satellite and radar and this is the area of rainfall we're watching this morning right off through central virginia you can see it weakening a little bit. we'll see if it's able to hold itself together as northward. it may brush ashburn loudoun county later on this morning. there's futurecast. it's a little aggressive. we'll keep an eye on it. watch as that moves on relatively quickly and then we're kind of in the clear, just cloudy through the rest of the morning hours. we head into the afternoon, we do a little daytime heating. we'll pop more showers and thunderstorms. this is a warm front that will work its way through later on this evening and bring some of that shower and thunderstorm activity over on the metro areas. one or two of these storms could be on the strong side as the warm front comes through t we're under a marginal risk of severe weather later on this evening. not a widespread outbreak. that just means one or two storms could contain