we're going to get to gary mcgrady.an we start about our weekend weather. >> we can always talk about weekend weather. we were talking about it yesterday. let's talk about it today. let's start this morning with temperatures so you kind of get an idea what's going on out there. we have temperatures 72 degrees. we have some clouds that have been kind of coming up from the south basically along the east. tother temperatures in the suburbs north and west a lot of lower 60's even cumberland ry i suspect before it's all said and done north and west we're probably going to have a couple of upper 50's is. obviously martinsburg at 60 degrees is not too far weigh from that. satellite picture shows those clouds i was talking about. give them a couple hours after sunrise and they'll burn off and then we'll end up with some pretty good conditions later on this afternoon. and really what happens today is that we end up with some pretty good sunshine, too, before it's all said and done. more clouds come in and there's at least a chan

fox5dc.com/contest for the details. >> let's get to gary mcgrady for the weather today. a lot. heat index was up over 100. we won't have that today. thank goodness. i don't see that coming back for maybe the rest of the summer. >> riding out ahead of this frontal system along 270 we have a chance for few showers through the morning hours. few and far between pote potentially could be out. there upper 70s right now and lower 70s gaithersburg and here's erin como with traffic. >> 4:56 and we're taking a please ebts view of 395 yesterday. we had such big problems with hov being shut down and right now hov are looking great and so are main lanes. volume is building but not to cause slow downs as you make your way beltway on through. any questions erin fox d.c. on stwiter. we'll look at your metro schedule next. >> changes are being made to navy leadership after deadly accident aboard the u is ss john mccain. >> lightning caused massive fire in western maryland. >> heading across the d.c. region, it's 4:57 now. 78 degrees. "fox news morning" back after this >> today anti-trum

erin back to you. >> thank you gary mcgrady. quiet start to the morning. 270 spur looks good. in fact the entire stretch of 270 is at speed. if you have any questions for your commute at erin fox5 d.c. on twitter. we got you covered here on fox5. >> coming up on fox5 news morning president trump threatens a government shutdown if congress fails to pay for his border wall. >> the federal government inches closes to running out of cash as the nation's debt ceiling deadline nears. >> we're going to break with a live look outside across the dmv at 4:57. 56 is the temperature. fox5 news morning is back after this. >> wisdom is going to have a taylor swift sing along. >> who is taylor swift? it's really nice when clients come in and have done some of their own research. working with a bassett designer was really easy. just kind of ties in very well. we love it! >> up top 30-inches of rain. latest track on harvey just coming out within the past few minutes. >> plus, robbed at knife point. a local family is targeted while taking a walk

gary mcgrady is in the loft.ood weather is headed our way. ♪ ♪ >> whipping the lottery tonight. >> we're lynn winning lottery tonight. >> it's all good. >> man this is a wonderful wednesday. >> it is, though. >> who said wednesday had to be bad. >> no. >> doesn't have to be. >> it seems to be particularly wonderful at this moment, gary. >> let's see, if we win the lottery. >> yeah. >> somebody in the building wins the lottery. >> yeah. >> i mean they have to share, right? >> well there. >> wisdom said he will share. >> i definitely would share. >> number one chick-fil-a that's great. that's a good deal, wisdom. >> absolutely it is. >> and starbucks. >> yeah, there you go. >> so long heat and humidity. it will go away. it's not gone away yet. today gets pushed south. comfortable temperatures north and northwest. pittsburgh 65. columbus 58. detroit 58. color, drier weather coming out of canada. the next couple days will settle in. it all comes in behind the front of the front this morning is to the west and north w

green line will not be affected. >> ♪ >> 54 as we take a live look outside early in the morning, gary mcgradyive us an update on weather. good morning, gary. >> hey, good morning guys. there's a lot to talk about. obviously weekend we've been talking about this last weekend of the month, august looks just fabulous. lots of sunshine, temperatures will be upper 70's. some lower 80's. showers are moving out so we're drying out behind that. give it a couple more hours i think just about everybody will be dry. don't expect a lot of sun today. mostly cloudy this morning. 60 to 67 for the kids at the bus stop. after school 77 to 80 will be mild for this time of year obviously and we'll have a mix of clouds and sun during the afternoon. it's cool out there in spots this morning. winchester 55. martinsburg 67. gaithersburg 60. we're sitting at 67 here in town. fredericksburg is 65. so, here's hurricane harvey. there's a little -- just a little good news here if there's any good news to find in a big hurricane like this but it hasn't intensified any more in the last update. winds still at a maximum loo

gary mcgrady. they're doing weather and traffic as well.uys, listen, we might have a little tropical storm of our own down to the south of us. we may get some rain from that. >> we have a crash 695 eastbound. we'll work your way around that one. holly and whiz. >> thanks erin. catastrophic flooding sweeps across texas. the effects of hurricane harvey downgraded to a tropical storm. >> at least five people were killed and now rescue efforts are under way across the state. lauren blanchard reports from texas with the latest. >> come on big daddy i got you. i got it you. >> reporter: rescues under way in the houston area as unprecedented flooding hits. the nation's fourth largest populated city inundated after harvey drops more than 2 feet of water in 24 hours. quickly rising waters leaving residents stranded and emergency crews conducting rescues by boat. >> i mean, it's up right in here and the water -- we live on the second floor so everybody is on the second floor right now. >> okay. >> and the water is probably like on the fourth step alr

. >>> fox 5 local news gary mcgrady joining this morning, this makes landfall yesterday. but we're still a long way from the end of the impact in >> the exact impact won't be felt days. now it's a rain event. satellite picture as far as satellites go, this is a very impressive satellite representation what's going on right now, see the red? this is clouds. not rain, way up into the atmosphere, incredibly cold rainfall and cold tops indicate something very, very heavy rain and that has shifted basically to eastern and southeastern sections of texas and houston is getting hit with rainfall four to six inches per hour. in houston right now. parts of houston. there's not going to be any let-up to this for several hours. not everywhere is getting that kind of rain, but within these bands, that are still rotating around tropical storm not only is it just rain but there's possibility of tornados, flash flood watch warnings are posted just about everywhere across southeastern texas right now and look at he's big bands coming in. this is where you still find the wind, 30 to 40 to

we've got your full forecast with gary mcgrady. >>> plus, breaking overnight. fiery crash in northeast at a gas station. we're live with the breaking details this morning. >>> and the standoff is over. three people in custody. we've got the latest on a barricade situation that happened last night in prince george's county. >>> good morning. welcome to fox5 news morning on this saturday. i'm annie yu. it is saturday august 5th. let's start with that breaking news this morning out of northeast d.c. a fiery crash unfolds overnight. details are very limited at this hour. our tisha lewis on the scene trying to gather what she can. tisha, what happened? >> reporter: wl, what we do know is that this happened in the wee hours of the morning shortly after 3 o'clock and also there's a tweet that came out several in fact from d.c. fire and ems saying that one fatality occurred here and that another person was seriously injured. this is the aftermath of a crash. in fact, if you take a look behind me you can see it's still an active scene here. all of this happening at the

we have gary mcgrady standing by with the latest. hey, gary. >> all that water has to go somewhere and basically this was what we thought was going to be the threat tonight and with these thunderstorms moving across was the whipped and heavy rain and we really got both of them with lots of severe thunderstorm warnings taking place throughout the evening and a lot of heavy rain too. i take you to southern maryland they have gotten brunof that in a second as well. we still have a flash flood warning in effect until 11:30 for calvert, charles and s st. mary county. there mainly northern sections of st. mary county just a sliver of southern charles county and then over to really just kind of a sliver section of southern south central sections of calvert county. and they picked unas much as three to four inches of rain down there in a short period of time. now, look, let's show you the big picture here this turned into a really, really dramatic squall line. but it took getting east of the d.c. area, east of i 9 a5 to really become this maj

. >> sad news >>> right now, we want to check in with gary mcgrady, we've got storms moving through. at's going on in the weather department >> a little storm that could has become severe, we looked on this earlier, a little storm formed, and is severe, we want to show you where it is and tracking this is going to go until 11:30 now, severe thunderstorm warning in place, in his will be for anne arundel, calvert, prince george's county, southern prince george this is tracking to the east. at about 30 to 35 miles per hour. big wind here could be up around 60 or little bit more than that. these storms have had a history there. and some hail as well. lots of lightening. of see all of that lightening in the core of the storm, moving off to the east. goes until 11:30, the severe thunderstorm warning about 30 minutes or so, this will be in the bay and headed towards the eastern shore. things are calming down out there. we'll have more details the rest of your weekend forecast coming up. guys. >>> also seeing on setup of breaking news in the district. an 8-year-old was shot late tonight in so

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gary mcgrady joins us from there live. gary? >> reporter: thanks look it's 5:00. i showed you adorable little puppies, in all fairness, i know it's not everybody is dog people, we came over to the cat side, stephanie followed me, you're in charge. tell us what the message is you're trying to get out. you got more animals coming your way. >> we have animals coming this weekend who have been rescued from the hurricane and flooding areas from houston, we're trying to empty our kennels out so we can help as many animals who have been rescued in that area as possible. >> reporter: it's amazing they're coming in already. are these cats and dogs that are have been evacuated from the flood areas >> these are cats and dog whose are coming in. of they have been in the shelters in the houston area and they need to move them out because >> they're making room >> we're all making room for the animals who have been rescued and need to be housed because of the flooding. >> reporter: speaking of making room, there's a lot of room here, come over here, cute little cat here, seems

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gary mcgrady checking the weather.oler start today. >> it is and especially if you're out -- go north and west in those suburbs, temperatures are close to the upper 50's out there. as a matter of fact we'll look at temperatures. there you go, martinsburg is 59 degrees. first one in the area. dulles 63, westminster 63. here in town we're 73. notice how the temperatures from d.c. off to the east and a little bit -- a little bit warmer. clouds have been working up i-95 and off to the east of i-95 so that's keeping temperatures up just a bit this morning. annapolis you're 74 degrees. some kids going to school this morning. be careful. loudoun county starting so temperatures before school in the 70's and after school in the low 80's today so it looks like it's going to be pretty good. there's a look at your forecast. erin como traffic this morning at least we're not dealing with any of those little rain showers le dealing with yesterday morning. >> on-time traffic brought to you by toyota. visit buy a toyota.com for special

gary mcgrady. good to see you gary. >> thank you very much. good monday morning to you all.emperatures are kind of cool out this morning. we generally have fair skies. there's clouds off to the east of us but really nice for us. 67 here in town now. gaithersburg 56. frederick is 55. the c coolest temperatures along i-81. winchester bottomed out at 52. they could get a little cooler. all of us could get a little cooler before the sun starts to get up and we start the warming process. back into the 70's today as we continue this mild pattern we're in and absolutely dry today but we do have basically some showers in the forecast coming in tonight, tomorrow, lingering into wednesday as well, which will be related to a new tropical storm that i think is going to form, maybe even in the next couple of hours or so. we'll keep an eye on that and talk more about it as well. temperatures today upper 70's. here's a look at your monday morning commute. >> 4:36 right now. we are continuing to track this breaking news. 95 northbound out by dumfries road, all main lanes blocked just the ri

least cloudy skies and we have several thunderstorm warnings out there right now >> let's go to gary mcgrady for the latest. >> it's gotten real active out there. let me show you. we take you down to charles county. i think this is one of the strongest out there i've been watching this closely for the last half our orders, big wind coming out. they've extended the warning further out to the east. they will go until 6:45. prince george's county and st. mary's. you see the humidities ahead of the storm. most severe part right now is over denseville. and we're talking about good wind out of this, maybe more than 60 miles per hour and right in here, is just south of roger's mills i'm getting the biggest wind reports, again, all along highway 6 here, the core of this storm is denseville expect hail possible as well as extremely heavy rain and there's a lot of lightening coming out as well. the severe thunderstorm warning from the north and northeast, they dropped montgomery county. this storm is moving off to the east. heavy rain, wind and a lot of lightening. so again, we're continuing to track

. >> all righty in the meantime erin como is watching roads and gary mcgrady talking about weather.ning. >> it's

we'll keep you up to date with the latest models on hurricane harvey from our gary mcgrady this morningn here and online at >>> time now is 8:07. coming up this morning another shakeup at the white house. details after the break. >>> and gary will join us once again on the other side to give us the saturday forecast and what we can look forward to in the week ahead. stay with us. we'll be right back. >> ♪ >> ♪♪ we just moved in about four months ago, but the living room's pretty blank. we did a lot of research online. we just need to have a designer put it all together. mmm hmm. so, it's really nice when clients come in and have... done some of their own research. what do you think about these chairs and that table? working with a bassett designer was really easy. us being young professionals, we're so busy... there's no way we could've designed it ourselves. no. we love it! >> welcome back. here's a live look at the white house and it is gorgeous outside. so, if you need to walk dog or if you want to just take a walk or jog or run it is the perfect morning for that. enjoy. >>> developi

. >>> baltimore versus dc in a battle of belting out a tune >> gary mcgrady is live in northwest whereeam is warming up the voices for the karaoke show-down. gary? >> reporter: this is guys, jim said it. this is all about the battle of the beltways and belting out the tune, you didn't hear that i'm talking to jesse, by the way who is the commissioner. what's going on >> it's city-wide finals the culmination of ten weeks of epic karaoke competition across dc and baltimore, our top teams are here tonight. >> safe to say that tonight's battle is the best on the la plata. >> it is absolutely. these are most fearless, most wonderful performerses of the car yo key hands down. >> reporter: i was will go to do the karaoke we couldn't get tv signal downstairs i just want -- how many teams, how many people will be doing this competition tonight? when does it start? can people come down all details. >> we're at penn social, 801 e street we start at 7:00. there are eight teams competing in three rounds. each team has eight people on it. so we have 64 total performers coming in, not to mention frie

gary mcgrady, don't we?t there but we have sunshine poking through too. >> a little bit of both. >> it's nice, it is cool, especially out, gaithersburg we're still at 59 that may have changed. as a matter of fact, temperatures right now, would show us that basically, we have lots of 60's out there this morning, it's been super comfortable. now we do have something -- we do have clouds, yes, in place this morning, no 50's now, the temperatures have all come up into the lower 60's we're headed into the upper 70's and low to mid 80's again, depends where you are. 71 here now in town, quantico 66. dulles it's 65. it's been a super delightful morning out there already. some spots, several were in the upper 50's for lows, we've come up all -- and annapolis right now at 70, it's just going to be a really, really nice august day. it's been a great august weekend so far, i see no reason why that would change. we do have clouds streaming across, the sun gets higher in the sky and will burn this off. allow sunshine thr

now, the human rescue alliance is looking for animal loveses in our area >> gary mcgrady is live in northwest with more and who is that guy you derived us to before? . >> reporter: that's bowie. he has a friend and his friend's name is blitz. listen. if you've been watching the pictures from down in houston and you want to be able to help and you think what can i do to help? we're so far away. here's an opportunity and you couple that with maybe your thinking in the back of your mind you'd like to have a pet, dog or cat and we have just the way to do that. meet stephanie shane with the humane rescue alliance. you have a program here and you want t and the hands of people now, because you got a make room >> we do we have dogs and cats coming from area. we need to empty our shelter so we can make space for those animals. we know they're coming. >> reporter: do you know how many >> the number keeps growing, we have about 20 coming now, but we have been told we should expect for number to increase. especially catsly we expect a lot more admits. we're reminding people, thinking about adopting come

. >> all righty in the meantime erin como is watching roads and gary mcgrady talking about weather. good morning. >> it's will be rainy today and it will be wet today and looks like both sides of commute morning and evening will be wet. you know what that means, e erin. >> i know what that means and we're already dealing with upper loop crash little river turnpike and all breaking news otts of elkridge maryland, lots to get to with traffic. >> if you're just getting up at 5 a.m. let's talk about top story, president trump travels to texas to get a first happened look at the catastrophic flooding. and it's rising as the houston area gets more rain. between coastguard and houston fire and good samaritans upwards of 10,000 have within rescued and continuing through the night. fema has began the. >> just beginning the process of responding to the storm. search and rescue process. >> we're already crowded. all they said we're getting 00 more people it's like what where will they put us all. >> mandatory evacuations forced texans into shelter and emergency deck rarlation is in place for t

hi, gary mcgrady. >> what's going on?es this morning it's absolutely delightful out there. last weekend of august will be great. it's 68 now here in town. some sunshine, too. still lower 60s in upper 50s. this will make to right. sunny and nice tomorrow. 80. erin is already smiling. mostly sunny, 79 degrees we have good amounts of sunshine both days. next week, guys, we'll have some impact from what is now hurricane harvey talking more about that coming up in the seven day forecast. here is erin. >> at least we have beautiful weekend in store here in the dc area. taking a look at the roads gary it does feel like one of the last weekends of the summertime commute. not the typical morning volume we usually see we have bigger delays i want to point out on the outer loop top side of the beltway. earlier crash cleared but from route 1 to 270 spur 30 minute slow down. ten minute delay on knifed southbound icc to the beltway. metro is on time. keep it to fox5. 8:00 o'clock hour coming right up. ♪ ♪ ♪ award winning interface. awa

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including in prince george's county where we find our gary mcgrady who is live in pharmacokinetickerringng ready for the big thing. how have we never been here before. >> i don't know. >> this is great. i scaid earlier in the tease it's kind of a beehive. this is kind of prenight outset up. i feel like i'm back stage in at a big concert. come here deborah. you can't get away from me this easy. debbies raised tonight is the boss. everybody keeps coming up asking you all the questions. what is going on here. >> tonight is national night out . in fact, this is about our 13th or sanctuarith national night out. >> bigger and better every year it's a great time for law enforcement, community, family, faith based all come together in a fence fun environment and get to know each other in a different environment. and a it's free. we have free hot doings. he gives back to the imhunt. he's a vendor. we honor him tonight as well. his last one. >> yes, he's retiring to florida . hold on. that is a challenge. let's go talk to him h. let's see if could have him stay one more years. he come up from flor

. >> you called me gary mcg mcgrady. >> i have multiple voices in any erie don't think were there. >> got to the hear the whole behind the scenes. >> quopt be the last. >> won't be the last. >> what's going on rain is gone for us? >> rain out of here. cool, much more sunshine than yesterday. i feeled complaint in the twitter world that maybe yesterdays with a little rainy and cool for us. yeah we'll get the sun back. 62 reagan national and 57 in baltimore. there's satellite and radar rain showers to' stone and cape that's leftovers from tropical depression ten getting out of here and we should number for marshall sunshine today and highs about 80. quickly down to norp gulf there you go structure intact. and winds still 45 345eu8z an hour. still heavy rain in eastern texas. fortunately out of houston. little more on harvey. tim fact our weather. when, i'll let you know. 79 today. mix of sun and clouds. there might be a shower out west and for the most part dry today. >> okay. thank you. >> dry today. let's get back to airport and trouble on the roads. >> we have improvement from sky fo

for more on the storm's path and impact gary mcgrady joins us live with that. >> everything you said if you noticed rye at the end looking at the satellite picture the red and it showed the eye co coming back into formation. a couple of things to note here. at least we know now it's still a category two hurricane. hurricane hunter is in and out of the hurricane, it' already thish the overnight per, too. so as soon as they find anything that would be indicative of the major hurricane force winds, they'll let the hurricane center know and they'll upgrade this to category three. i'm hoping that that doesn't happen. everyone is hoping that that doesn't happen. but what i'm seeing red on the radar, in the last few frames, is concerning as well. outer bands already impacting texas. they've already had nearly tropical storm force winds up through ports of corpus christi you see this band right here that's a band of thunderstorms around the center much that is shrinking and contracting. that means that this hurricane is getting stronger. there's another band right there. this will probably c