that's where university boulevard meets montgomery blair high school. we have a beautiful moon. temperatures only around 70 degrees. here is your bus stop forecast for the morning hours. we're going to have temperatures hovering right in the low 70s. between 7:00 and 8:00 at the bus stop. between 8:00 and 9:00, we'll have it climbing into the mid to upper 70s. during the afternoon it will be hitting the low 90s. so a lot afternoon. dress accordingly. short sleeves. good morning, melissa, how is traffic? >> overall actually looking pretty good, tom. 66 no problems. 95, at least the top of 95 is okay. if you head a little south there you can see 95 north at the truck scales a crash on the right shoulder. we are seeing a slowdown. inner and outer loop, no issues here. 95 in maryland at scaggsville, rolling along nicely. back in ten minutes. >> thanks, melissa. >>> just into the live desk, north korea launches a missile. the video just coming in. >>> she is accused of purposely driving her children into the ocean. so why is a judge settin >>> just in to the live desk some new footag

montgomery blair high school is the largest enrollment in montgomery county. there are 3,000 students. that's bigger than some colleges. that i will -- they will assemble here this morning. be watching out for students waiting for buses. with we'll have the -- we'll have the temperatures in the mid 70s and headed back home with lots of sunshine. it will be feeling like summertime. a hot afternoon. temperatures climbing into the low 90s. it's going to be rather humid as well. let's check on the commute. we have university boulevard pretty busy behind me as well as colesville. what's going on on the roads? >> new hampshire avenue northbound to the inner loop of the beltway, take a look. brand-new crash. chopper 4 got over this one. we are starting to see some delays as folks are trying to take that route here this morning. 16th street at irving a crash there. outer loop, top of the beltway, no issues there. 95 north, quantico to the beltway, a few minutes behind from fairfax county park to the beltway. remember to listen to our friends on wtop 103.5 f.m. as you

montgomery blair was her brother. he was in lincoln's cabinet.er father francis lair was a lincoln confidant and it buys her. her other brother frank blair was a congressman. her husband philip lee robert e. lee's cousin but he was an officer in the union. because he was in the navy she wrote to him almost every day so they are thousands of letters. her wartime letters are actually published but there are plenty more on both sides of the war happily imprinted. so her letters really give you a sense of what's happening here all through the war and how much danger washington within which was something i really could not open some particularly at the beginning of the war when there was every expectation they would come in and just burn the place down and until the forts were built around it and months would go by it was really unsafe. i found a diary, an unpublished diary from 1861 that first year of the woman who was the farmer farmer -- so she really talks about how scary it is. she is a confederate sympathizer and so she's telling her children, j

her brother montgomery quit -- montgomery blair was in the camp cabinet and are father was a big adviser to lincoln and her husband samuel philip lee who was sick cousin of property lead was in the union navy and because he was in the navy she wrote to him almost every day and we have her letters. the wartime letters are published and the rest are at princeton. and they are just utterly delightful letters. she and farina stayed in touch through the war. she was also one of the few people who prevented mary lincoln, not easy to do and mary lincoln had a tough time. it was basically a southern town they didn't like abraham lincoln and the women here thought she was kind of a rough westerner which was not fair but that was the assessment. she then made life harder for herself by being a difficult person and a one point she was accused of leaking the president's state of the union message and there was a congressional investigation of the first ladies private communications. [laughter] she had personal servers too. [laughter] and she was accused of leaking this to the new york herald either