a couple spotty showers across the area. just abe ware of that along 95 perry hall you will see couple of those. so spotty showers during the course of the morning. let's go through the timeline and again 74 around the 8:00 hour and lunchtime have a little lunch outdoors. 8 2k50e6 gee -- degrees and humidity could trigger off a scattered shower or thunderstorm during the course of the afternoon. going for 91 as the two degree guarantee against storms and through the 8:00 hour with the temperature around 85. we will have a check on the seven-day forecast coming up in little bit. let's check this morning and i will mention again still watching delays right around lombard street and also into lombard street because of the water main break. use alternative routes around that mess. 895 northbound between route 2and fringe first avenue we have delays heading into the harbor tunnel. here's a look outside and a good looking shot. very clear looking shot. 95 at route 43 looking good. some of the drive times showing us a pretty good c

just a spotty shower or two. mike and andrea, back to you. >> thank you, howard. >>> the nationals are enjoying their all-star experience leading up to tonight's game. >> a prince recrowns himself king of the home run derby. kristen berset has your morning sports s. >>> good morning. the pomp and circumstance that is the all-star week well under way. sunday it was a celebrity softball game where a member of the washington nationals wounded warrior amputee softball team took home the mvp. last night it was all about the power hitters. the annual home run derby featuring eight of the league's strongest hitters. last year's champ not having much of a good night. he was shut out in the first round. not a single home run. the crowd booing him. obviously not many yankees feigns -- thankees fans. the two left standing were prince fielder and jose bought test take --bautista. he beat out -- fielder beat out bautista to win his second home run derby. >>> tonight bryce harper get as chance to show the nation why he's been

we may see a spotty one here later today. it will be a seasonably warm day with highs in the mid- to upper 80s. ail have your full seven-day forecast coming up in just a few minutes. >>> we're going to take a live look from sky 9 on the northbound side of i-95 north of the fairfax county parkway. heavy traffic here and a problem on the ramp trying to get on to northbound i-95. traffic squeezing by on that ramp to the left. in my next report another live look at area roads at 6:18. >> thank you, monika. >>> it's 6:12. pepco wants to raise your rates by 4% and a decision from maryland's public service commission was expected this week. but with all the outages from last week, pepco is asking the psc to delay its ruling by another week. our next guest this morning is against any kind of hike. hank greenberg is with aarp and thank you very much for being with us. aarp has called proposed rate hikes unfair, unacceptable. why? >> i think it's bottom line is that there is no reason to add costs to existing customers now. they have r

it's getting into the 90s and that could be spotty storms especially towards the south.nd to the west of the city limits. in terms of the forecast today, how about a two degree guarantee of 91. humid sunshine out there with the afternoon storms developing and then for tonight, we will go down to around 73. with an early start. quickly looking at the 7-day forecast. 95 for tomorrow. and dry and beautiful for wednesday. right around 89. let's check the abc2 timesaver traffic. what's -- we will tell you about the latest on the water main break. lombard and light street affected in addition to fleet street and between care line and -- caroline and bond street. several lane closures this morning. so avoid the area as much as possible and white marsh degree is in the roadway tying things up around loop # and 95. -- 1 and 95. 695 at baltimore national pike, seeing the brake lights comingon. so far area roadways look good. drive times show you that we are looking okay. 795 and 95 about 11 minutes rides. 695 downtown. say around 11 minutes and 695 fort mchenry tunnel. you will hi

overnight it's upper 60s to low 70s we'll look forward to with a chance of a shower but a very spotty chance at 71 degrees. we get up to 85 degrees tomorrow, considerably below average which is 89, maybe a thunderstorm or shower for a few spots, but again nothing that is expected to be severe. at 8 a.m. 75, slight chance of a shower, same deal at noon, temperature 81 and by 5:00 a couple storms mainly west or south and a temperature of 84 degrees. finally we've got all 80s on this five-day forecast, 87 wednesday, only a very spotty shower, not wet, neither will thursday be. that boundary down to our south starts to lift north friday and saturday. that will focus more showers and storms closer to where that is, but temperatures still remain in bargain territory as we close out the week. that is your five-day forecast. everybody is talking about that all-star game, though. lindsay murphy has more. >>> this is the verizon 4g lte sports desk with lindsay murphy. >> thank you, sue. hello, everybody. ian desmond will likely have a tough time watching tomorrow's all-star game here on fox. i

high temperatures today spotty showers, upper 80s. should be a really nice start to the week. >> reporter: i'm happy to say we are not experiencing any major delays, coming in from the north. 95 looks great. in from laurel down to the beltway. there is one incident right now, fire activity on switzer lane in west laurel. you want to watch out for police direction around that fire activity. 32 is fine in columbia and down to the beltway as well. back over to a live pic and show you what it looks like if you are planning to head over to the beltway. all of your southern maryland areas are incident free as well. clarksburg to german town all of your lanes are open. a few brake lights now. we'll take a live look at route 109. the pace is good into german town. i'll be back with more traffic. >>> we get to a story happening today. the suspected aurora, colorado gunman is back in court. james holmes will be formally arraigned and officially charged. he was first in court one week ago, holmes is accused of killing 12 people inside a movie th

one or two spotty showers expected. here's what wear's watching. reports of people seeing a water spout, and they did not have a good weather day, that's for sure, as this system has been producing a lot of showers andsh storms, and it goes down the coast to charles ton. so that little disturbance willi be there tomorrow. close enough to send someo showers and storms our way, and as we look at the future cast. 8:00 a.m., spotty showers here and there. they bubble up more in the afternoon, but nothing widespread. the better chance will be where the higher elevations are, and as we run this into wednesdaywe morning, a couple of early morning showers again, we possibly bubble something up ino the afternoon. e next couple of days, more of ths same. it looks like thursday will beil for the most part a dryer day, only a slight clans for a shower or storm on thursday, here'ssd your five ayday.f we ivhave another couple of days in the 80s, 87 tomorrow, 88 on wednesday. first day of august. thursday, about 91, maybe a couple of storms here and there, spotty

there could be a spotty shower almost anywhere this afternoon. this morning the shower activity is off to our south. here's the big picture. front is actually down in the carolinas but you see some of the shower activity southern western virginia sneaking into virginia now generally south and along i-64. fredricksburg, you may get a few showers headed your way. in st. mary's county south of leonardtown, we're starting to pick up some activity as well. here's a different look at the doppler radar in motion. i just want to zoom in. you see some of the sprinkles trying to move toward fredricksburg here but it's down in the richmond area where we're really seeing the big thunderstorms that have been falling for hours. they extend from the south side of richmond east, northeast. lightning is now east of richmond, south of newland. that's that little shower south of leonardtown. scattered showers now in st. mary's county. so we'll watch that. i don't think it's going to creep much farther north. might sneak into southern calvert at this point but the r

it is so spotty.s frustrating to see your neighbors looking fine and they are sweltering in the heat. by this week and hopefully pretty much everybody will have the power back. >> thank you tom. we're also following breaking news from prince george's county where dozens of metro passengers found themselves stuck inside a hot metro car. newschopper 7 was out after it happened. this is the latest frustration for many who are struggling to handle the intense heat. the train broke down near the college park metro station. autrie? >> that train was in between the plaza and college park, when it lost power. passengers were irritated. but the became furious when the train sent to pick them up died on the tracks. >> [no audio] >> so this all unfolded and just before 6:00 p.m. this afternoon. the train suffered an electrical problem and lost power. passengers 300 passengers, were forced to evacuate and they had to walk 300 miles to the college park station. a couple of people suffered minor injuries. i think w

we do see spotty showers by the overnight. outside, right now, as of 6:00, a beautiful shot, though you notice the clouds coming back in, the clouds will be pat of the forecast for the jeff night hours in to tomorrow. maryland's most powerful radar, a dry sky overhead. northern carroll county, notice the showers hanging mostly on the pennsylvania side of the state. you may encounter scattered showers, especially if you travel 83 towards the north. for the rest of the evening, 84 degrees. mostly cloudy skies. spot shower chance best towards the north and to the west. if we broaden out the shot and show you temperatures, 85 and dc. less go towards the west, this is where we see the real heat cranking, 96 degrees, central oklahoma, the heat is going to come at us in to the weekend and much of next week. heat wave number three. >>> there was outrage and little appreciation. you have your chance to let bge know how they handled the power outages. the public service commission will hold hearings to go over how utilities handled the

there may be a spotty shower. this is 5:00, but i think we'll have shine poking through as well and that should get the temperatures out of the 70s and into the lower 80s for highs tomorrow. some of you will stay in the 70s. this is the lows overnight tonight. temperatures stuck in the 60s. 67 here in town. gaithersburg 66 degrees or so. manassas 68 and dulles 68. tomorrow, with some sunshine, temperatures should be allowed to get into the lower 80s and chasing that, it's going to be hard to do, but most of the numbers here take temperatures up into the 80s. we start off tomorrow morning, clouds, drizzle, 68. mostly clouds at noon and sunshine poking through by 5:00 and look at the five-day forecast. we're going to warm back up, 90s come right back into the picture. it is july. we can't have 70s in july for very often. will, maurine. >> very true. now we need the barbecue. >> thanks, gary. that does it for us. fox 5 news always on myfoxdc.com. >> sports xtra is 2 minutes away. we are back at 6:00, 10:00, and 11:00

ninety degrees and more thunderstorms in the afternoon and a spotty thunderstorm is possible on sunday. looks like most of sunday will be dry and we're hoping that next weekb stead of 95, 96 for a high temperature, we're talking about 90 degrees and the upper 80s and that is better and we should be 88 degrees for a high and that is average this time of the year. >> okay, good. i'll look forward to it. thank you, gary. >> remember, you can check the weather any time. when you download the fox 5 weather app. go to the apps store and search for d.c. weather. you will find it on our website. also, www.myfoxdc.com. >>>et redskins return to the field looking to make the most of a second chance. lindsay murphy is up why, in the sport -- next in the sports edge. ♪ music ♪ . >>> everyone's doing it and sole members of the u.s. olympic swim team. they're warming up with the song "call me maybe." they thought it was a good idea to have fun before the competition and the video made a splash in the first 15 hours, it raked in more than 200,000 views. those ads taking my words about small business o

spotty through the lunch hour and temperatures then will be in the low 80s.he mid- and upper 80s you'll notice the spotty nature of the showers and storms this afternoon. maybe a little bit more concentrated to the mountains and high elevations. overnight things quiet down some. an isolated shower or two overnight. tomorrow morning again bay areas better chance of showers and storms and then even better chance area wide on wednesday. all going to see showers and storms for the afternoon and evening before we start drying out and that means a warming process as well. your forecast today, 88 degrees. we're looking at a few thunderstorms, a few showers. tonight back in the 70s in town maybe a few 60s north and west. tomorrow, 88 and by the way yellow alerts today and tomorrow for those thunderstorms which will get in the way especially tomorrow. by thursday though, just the stray storms and keep it green. 92. friday even drier. going to heat it up to 95 and keep it in the mid 90s with mainly afternoon storm chances saturday, sunday and monday. mike and andrea? t

it will feel like 100 degrees. 98 today hot and hume which had spotty storms. tonight down to around 75 a warm, humid evening. but all indications is they should wrap up around 8 and any storms that start to fire does have the potential of becoming severe. here's the 7-day forecast. notice the heat is on. thursday 100 degrees with the real feel temperatures between 105 and 110. that heat advisory will be in effect through the weekend. and 99 on saturday, potential shower or gusty thunderstorm out there and as you can see the next several days, just unsettled but the real story is the heat. 100 thursday and 100 friday and 99 as we head into the weekend. let's go outside guys and start blowing things up. >> mike. get out here right now because dan is here with phantom fireworks. megan he set us up. >> i know. and i am so excited because i never lit a fireworks so come on over many you going to help news walk on in here. >> is this how you do it -- >> mike, grab us the stick because we want to hear dan. what are these? i grew up with. [audio not understandable] >>

there could be spotty showers toward the blue ridge here. lies in the upper 80s, again the isolated shower today, more so in the mountains. michael, over to you. >>> thank you howard. the nationals pull out a nail biter last night in milwaukee. >>> and the redskins enter another week the in the dog days of training camp. >> reporter: good morning everybody. heading into sunday's series finale in milwaukee the nationals were tied for the lead. gio gonzalez took the mound. look at this shot to right. nice. 410 feet over the right center walls. nats on the board first. brewers with a wild pitch. corey brown comes in from third to score the game tying run. down two in the ninth. mike ward the shot to right center, right in the coroner. that ties the game up and we go to the 11th. a double down the left field live. ryan zimmerman gets in and beats the throw. nats win this one 11-10 in 11 innings. today they have the day off. >>> men's basketball playing a game that counts over in london. michelle obama on hand. france within one after one quarter

they will be spotty at best. the record at bwi today is 102 degrees. we could definitely see 102 degrees downtown. current conditions show pretty clear over the area. those showers may get here because of this upper level disturbance that is going to push through. it is not going to bring any relief today and maybe not even into tomorrow because we are watching this system that is hanging out and we thought it would have swooped through by this evening. it does not look like that is going to happen. it will give us a chance of 40% to 60% chance of thunderstorms over the next couple of days. unfortunately you are going to have to deal with the heat a little longer. spotty showers are around 11:00 this evening and then you make -- you might get some thunder this evening and then it clears out again banding there are some storms right behind it that we will have to watch for. mostly cloudy, a chance of thunderstorms. taking a look at your 7-day forecast. 92 degrees here on thursday. it could be 85 degrees or a little warmer or cooler. in the weekend, a li

there are spotty rainshowers. west of the bay is there. it is coming off the ocean, providing a lot of the moisture. warm air is trying to move up from the south. the big storms have been down from southward. those are the big storms, powerful winds and a lot of rain. how much rain did we get here that an inch and 20/1 hundred. we have almost three-quarters of an inch here. this morning was the stuff that really measured. this afternoon has been mostly drizzle. the clouds in the rain held the temperatures down today. only made it to 72. we have been sitting at these readings all day long. a typical high is 87. the high is 104 degrees. warmer temperatures to the south. the even had some sun breaks to the south. light rain activity held the temperatures down. you can see this agreement shape. that is where all the drizzle has been falling. here's a satellite showing the big thunderstorms. the clouds are producing that drizzle. it should continue tonight. the front has action moves a little farther south. i think this help support some in the

may stay in tact and by act -- about 5 o'clock give us enough of a ripple that we could see some spotty thunderstorms in the areas. i'm not too concerned about fire works this evening being interrupted. between 5:00 and 8:30, just before 9:00, that's where we may see some scattered pop up thunderstorms. folks, it's july the 4th. we actually have some good news for you coming in our first warning weather segment. don, back to you. >> thank you very much. remember wjz 13 is always on for you for the latest forecast and your own live look at the doppler any time go to wjz.com. >>> despite the heat baking much of this country it's not stopping americans and american politicians from celebrating our nation's birthday. president obama and mitt romney are taking part in 4th of july celebrations. >> president obama celebrated the nation's birthday with a nationalization ceremony for active service duty members. >> what a better way to celebrate, the world's oldest democracy with some of our newest citizens. >> the secretary gave the oath. >> i here by declare on oath. >> late r today the presid

spotty afternoon thunderstorms after lunchtime. hot and sticky, mid 90's. tomorrow, mid 90's, tens of storms again. a little cooler and less humid on wednesday. wednesday will be the best day all week. now to lisa. >> branch avenue southbound is closed because of an automobile accident. that's going out of clinton into waldorf. no. found 5, everything is getting by. police have a detour. interstate travel looks good. clearing overnight construction mostly. no major problems on 81 70, 95 between richmond and baltimore, travel times working in your favor. now back to you. >> in a few hours the accused gunman in friday's movie theater shooting in aurora colorado, is scheduled to appear in court. >> james jones will make a brief appearance and he will not enter a plea. he might have killed more people if his gun had not jammed. one officer spotted something odd. >> detectives say that he is not cooperating with them and it could take months to learn what caused the attack that killed 12 people and wounded 50. president obama visited with survivors and another v

at times we've had spotty showers. right now we have a clean slate maybe into parts of kent cowed, moving toward queen anne's county but not much in the way of precip. let's talk about the heat. 94 in the city limits. you take the heat and humidity. you combine them, you get 101, the real feel number. 100 it feels like and even salisbury a pair of nines, a sticky and warm night. this evening barely getting out of the 90s. 93 with a mixture of sunshine and clouds will keep the wording but we're looking like a small chance of that happening. we have the high pressure. that is bringing in the southwesterly wind flow. this is a system that we have to keep an eye on, this cold front that will drop down through the lakes and give us the chance for gusty showers and thunderstorms. we'll talk about that and their arieferl cup -- arrival coming up. >>> extreme heat hits the region. scott goldberg joins us with the three h's -- hazy, hot and humid. what's the temperature like in new york? >> reporter: right now it's not so bad,

spotty showers or storms possible after the 4:00 hour. we will talk about that hot seven-day forecast in a little bit. let's get a check on traffic. a couple of issues to talk about. we will talk about the west side of the city. numerous reports of lights out. if you come to a flashing dead light, remember, treat it as a 4-way stop. we are watching an accident. this is something we have been watching for the last hour and a half. an accident on 95 northbound, fort mc henry tunnel. right knocked out. alternative route is harbor tunnel. let's look, 695, bel air, smooth sailing. keep in mind we have debris from the friday storms, last night's storms. >>> back out live to megan pringle in towson, one of the hardest hit areas k one of the areas where tens of thousands of people remain without power. trees are down, and the big clean up is underway. >> reporter: hundreds of thousands of people across the state are without power. this yeah has been hit particular hi hard. i will show you why. if you look behind me, a tree fell over, not only did

mid-afternoon looking at spotty hours and low to mid-80s in the shenandoah valley. as we head to the 6:00 p.m. hour. mike and andrea back to you. >>> one of the main concerns about the 2012 redskins not the quarterback position, the people who protect him. the offensive line. >> always a big concern. >> kristen berset tells us the group is already suffering problems. >> good morning everybody. heading into training camp the redskins' offensive line was the biggest question mark of the team. after a season hampered by injuries, a drug suspension, and lack of depth, would this line be good enough to protect the team's biggest invest. four days in it's a familiar stair. right tackle -- story. right tackle brown hasn't even joined the team yet. we also found out that kory lichtensteiger will miss the rest of the preseason. they are grooming hurt and leribeus to fill the voids. because of that depth that shanahan said he's not too worried. >>> robert griffin iii says he is pleasanted with the -- pleased with the progress he's made over the first four days of training cam

spotty storms. otherwise a few passing showers. then spotty showers, mostly cloudy skies, 92. are. >> 's the seven-day forecast -- here's the seven-day forecast. comfort will be in the next 48 to 72 hours. there's the man. dry conditions and indications we could be into the 90s. 92, 93, 92. another heat wave. we're talking about the whole crop situation. a lot of records that are falling are rivalling the 30s dust bowl. >> the dust bowl. >> that's another imprlssive stat. we'll do some blogging and look at our climatology. july will be the hottest month. >> all right. thank you, i think. all right. students, those who teach and work here at cop pen can't understand the deficit after one month into the fiscal year. they don't want layoffs. >> the big picture here is priorities. are they going to have the people on the growrntiond the boots on the -- ground, the boots on the ground to gift students the quality education they need or are they going to give it to a bunch of bureaucrats who sit around with the president and slam each other's back. cop pin's only had five presidents

spotty showers and no thunderstorms to speak of.re are the clouds, they are in place again for tonight. that reflects in the planner. 8:00, 83 degrees. down to 77 degrees around 11:00. there could be spotty showers that tries to develop by tomorrow morning. 74, more humid air, and on our way for 8 87. stationary front separating the humid hot air to the south. cooler more stable air to the north. it's trying to wobble north, we are seeing the scattered showers. that will be with us as we head in to the next 24 hours. this is a very slow moving thump but this will override the drier air on top of us now and soupy air. shower or thunderstorm tomorrow and going in to sunday, the indications are, saturday might be the weather of the next two days. 85 new york city. here is the school cool spot with the rain. west towards the mississippi river, beyond that to oklahoma city, 96 degrees, a day in to the 90s. that is the heat that moves in by early next week. we are forecasting heat and humidity next week. future trend showing us tomorrow,

tomorrow morning you are going to wake up to clouds, spotty showers out there at 69 degrees.we will see enough sunshine to poke through the clouds during the course of your afternoon to get to 82 degrees. the eastern shore might be the exception to the rule. the further north and west, your conditions will be a lot better further east, more in the way of clouds. mailed's most powerful doppler is clear overhead. towards the north, that's where we see scattered showers. embedded thunderstorms in here. that has triggered flash flood warnings south of pittsburgh. we will watch the progress of the storms through the next several hours. about four hours to the north and west. if we see the storms move in to the baltimore viewing area it would be around 11:00 in to the mid night hour. temperatures, take a look at new york city, 64 degrees, we were 100 degrees earlier this week. 90s not far off towards the south. how about 100 degrees. we found the 100-degree mark around parts of oklahoma city. all the way down towards dallas texas. little rock 101, this will branch off and head east

where more showers and storms can fire up and there might be another one here and have one or two spotty -- showers in anne arundel county and on the other side of the bay bridge and that is weakening out a bit and this is tough on the bay bridge if ask you me, anyway, and that is because of the height. we have isolated showers and storms and built up a deck of clouds. in general, we're seeing the bigger storms stay with the frontal boundary and stayed farther south than expected and that allowed us to get sunnier and warmer and the temperature did touch 90 degrees briefly and they need the rain across the carolinas and they glad for it. it's dry and not many reports of severe weather down there and touch briefly at 90 reagan, dulles, 89; bwi thurgood marshal hitting 90 degrees and some temperatures adjusting quickly. cooler and 79 for dulles and nomasses and that is where we have had rain. 86 degrees for the district and 86 for annapolis, baltimore at 84 and into frederick at 81 degrees and that is nice. finding the low 80s to the north and check out boston at 76 degrees and bing hampto

cloudy, spotty showers in to too many. 2-degree guarantee around 82 degrees. here is your seven-day forecast. we will start off on a cloudy note tomorrow morning, maybe a few scattered showers. we will see a peak or two of sunshine, if you are going to hit up deep creek, good looking weekend overall. maybe the clouds hang tough as we head along the eastern shore. 86 sunday. everyone sees brilliant shall be. humidity is back. 9191. tuesday 93. we need a little bit of that sun. it's a gloomy day here this week. that doesn't stop us here at abc2 news. we are on the go again. this time at hershey park in hershey, pennsylvania. wyatt everhart is life tonight to tell us about the amazing rides the park has to offer. did you ride sky rush today? republican i haven't been on it yet. it maybe misty, gray, it's always sunny in hershey park. director of ride operations. >> kids want to work in the industry which is a wonderful thing, most children love amusement packs. >> i heard a few screaming in the last few minutes. tell us about sky rush. this is lean, mean, the fas

clouds, watch for spotty thunderstorms, nothing severe expected later. a high of 88. >>> ron , we want to come out to fells point. manic monday through -- plus this day. >> reporter: that's right. we're going to do the coach when we come back from the break if >> -- from the break? >> i think we should. >> reporter: we have a great group for you. we have the coach and friends in the house. say hello. we have a great group here for manic monday. they're at the jewel box. when the eyewitness news morning edition rolls on. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> 72 right now, 87% humidity. cam calm winds. it's warm, humid, stuffy but not apressive today. 70 elkin and easton, mid 70s dc, packs river and ocean city, still two shy of 80 annapolis and kent island, 69 westminster and bel air. high pressure runs our weather. that will allow a frontal boundary on wednesday to come sneaking into the area. we -- wednesday could be a stormy day opposed to today and tomorrow with a spotty thunderstorm. 88 the high. pretty standard forecast. 69, partly cloudy over night. tomorrow the same

few spotty showers across the area. it's the eastern shore getting slammed.rames, a ton of lightning, this is towards ocean city, a severe warning around the eastern shore and mouth of the chesapeake. severe weather close to the area, but not in the yeah. 73 in town. el 80 dc. salisbury 80 degrees we will get our highs in to the 90s today. there is the batch of showers and gusty thunderstorms from the overnight as we expand the shot , there is another piece of energy upstream up near wisconsin, and that could drift in by later this afternoon. we will keep the chance of a scattered shower, the heat is on, 80s, 90s, that's 100 dpree weather over parts of the rockys today. 93 today. partly cloudy, isolated shower, gusty thunderstorm possible after 4:00. tonight down to 70, partly cloudy with isolated storm. seven-day forecast looks like this, 93, 92 tuesday, if you got a plan, keep the plans if tact. 92 but the humidity will feel like 100 degrees. there is a chance of late day shower or thunderstorm. another heat burst comes in by thursday, 9 5- 97 on friday. th

not much happening on the radar, you notice spotty showers well towards the and north and this is going to be running along i-95 towards wilmington and these are the storms from earlier this evening and those are exiting, clear skies out towards the west so that is good news. 96 degrees today, and ocean city a little bit of a breeze came in off the ocean and that knocked the temperature to around 87. so 77 right now in townment humidity way up there 88%, and we have few are 70s over -- a few 70s over the eastern shore and the dew point values up into the 70s so that's oppressively humid and that's going to take us through the time line into tomorrow morning, lunchtime hour right around 91 degrees and we're going for around 94 degrees, some indications say we could be higher than that and 88 around a the 2:00 hour. notice the radar everything pushing to the east rather nicely. we have a trough on top of us right now which is why we're seeing the storms not only in our area but in west virginia and virginia, impressive shelf clouds from some of these thunderstorms that rolled through part

we'll probably have storms around on wednesday, thursday at spotty storm, not so widespread. temperatures heats up until we get to 91 degrees. lots of 70s on the map, soma that's nice to see.e. what we are noticing is the high humidity levels.mis. so that means later tonight where you might have had rainad today, you can have a bit the fog forming, and we won't evenev take a couple showers out of the forecast, they would be spotty, but one or two could pop up witi areas of fog. our temperature overnight, 73, tomorrow, mix of sun and clouds. there will be some storms around in the afternoon with a temperature of about 87, and part of that coming from thatom southeast wind, so the storms tomorrow will probably move fro southeast to northwest. at 8:00 a.m., some clouds andous 76, by noon, mix of sun and clouds, 83. and we'll watch in the afternoon for the storms with as temperature of 87 degrees. so here's your 5-day, we have a couple days in the 80s, we80s, heat up into the weekend. looks like there will be some spotty storms around even as we look towards the weekend, but all

so spotty showers part of the forecast again a lot of humidity in place right now. a cold on the is out to the west and that's going trigger scattered showers and storms. 74 goes to 86 around the lunchtime. and we are on the way to 91 and muggy conditions again late day shower and thunderstorms are possible. another check of the weather coming up in little bit. let's check on traffic this morning and we go outside and look at 695, at bel air road, a pretty good looking community this morning. still some issues due to the water main break. we will check traffic and weather together coming up in a little bit. charley. >>> a big day of meetings in washington today. coming up, the conversation drawing thousands to the nation's capital. and what they are coming for. a local family taking their fight to dc today. the issue they want members of congress to take on and you are waking up to what's new in maryland. good morning maryland continues in a few minutes. >>> news time 4:44 five things to in on this monday. suspected gunman in the colorado theater massacre will appea

so we've got the spotty showers on the future cast for the afternoon.ack at the storms in the mountains march toward the east this evening. 6:00 p.m. not everybody is going see the rain, and i know many folks need it. we're still seven and a half inches below normal since january 1st here in d.c. tonight things settle down, then tomorrow looks like the rain is going to be a little bit more weighed spread. so a better chance for showers and storms areawide tomorrow than today. then we're going to start to dry out and warm up. so about 81 today. yellow alert because some of us are going to be impacted by these storms where it may mess up an afternoon or evening plan to get outside. tonight we're dipping into the 70s and six north and west. more showers and storms tomorrow than today, 81. another yellow alert day. but green on thursday. looking pretty good with just a stray thunderstorm, 92. friday 93, sunny and hot. then hot over the weekend. we climb to the mid-90s with a chance for mainly afternoon and evening thunderstorms. we'll be right back with mor

a few soty showers moving across -- spotty showers moving across the skyline. moving up to the north, we have showers and storms well towards the north and west. in fact a slow moving cold front. this cold front is going to tap into some of the humidity during the course of the day today. so that will trigger all the scattered shower and thunderstorms during the course of the afternoon. starting out at 8 in the morning, 74 degrees. lunchtime a little lunch outdoors with a mixture of sunshine and clouds. it will be humid and warm. 86, the two degree guarantee is going for 91. showers and storms becoming mornewer rouse taking you into the 8:00 hour. going to 91. let's get a check on your abc2 timesaver traffic this morning. and we do have this in from the traffic center. 95 northbound at without 100. that's when we probably miss vehicles north of meadow ridge road causing concerns 95 northbound. we will see how fast they clear that. watching downtown city limits, because of that water main break, lombard street wright street affected in addition to caroline and b

spotty, the potential is there. keep that in mind with early morning plans. through the afternoon, a better chance of more focused showers and thunderstorms. again, some could drop some heavy rain, potential for some flash flooding exists. these are slow-moving storms. on sunday morning, probably starts out dry with a spotty storm here and there and then we can see more action in the afternoon and some heavy rain, the main feature and we'll have that situation probably the next few days and the hot stuff gets in here. we are looking at a big ridge of heat that is going to be building in with the temperatures getting probably up and over 94, 95-degrees by the time we get into next week. so, let's talk about the five- day forecast. we have our unsettled weekend with chances of showers and storms, badly needed rain and you will notice the humidity and we start warming it up monday, tuesday, and wednesday, and climbing into the mid-90s with isolated storms. >> all right. thank you, sue. >> sure. >>> the united states new team puts on a show in the first expeditio

these two are responsible largely for the spotty showers. as soon as they clear the area, the temperatures are going to go up. today the mid 80s as our daytime high will be in the mid 90s tomorrow and through the rest of the week topping out with a heat index around 100 heading into tuesday and wednesday. 8:32 your sunset time today. going up to 87 today. we got to 88 yesterday. we'll be in that zone again today. spotty showers through out the evening and a chance of thunderstorms. 74 tonight. look for 92 sunday, hot and more humid. 95 on monday, 97 tuesday and we understand, 90 on thursday with lows in the 70s and upper 60s. >>> still ahead on eyewitness news saturday morning, police say they attacked a man and put it on the internet. now they will learn their fate coming up. >> a serial bank robber had good reason to fear his judge. you won't believe the sentence handed down. that's coming up when eyewitness news saturday morning returns. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> some rain outside, welcome back to eyewitness news saturday morning at 6:49. it i

and just spotty out there. that's all we're seeing.ut as we head through the day tomorrow, and a few peeks of sunshine. we could see a couple of thunderstorms try to pop up. then the warm front clears us. we jump into the 90s sunday. still a chance for a shower or thunderstorm. with a cold front part of the storm coming through. and even when that clears, the temperatures are going to keep on climbing. because it starts this weekend. but it will really be building out over the middle part of the country. and move our way for the middle part of next week. out on the waters. not much of a breeze going on. south winds at 5 knots. bay temps, still pretty warm. 82 degrees. forecast goes like this. for tonight, going down to about 70 degrees. chance for a couple of showers. maybe a little rain or thundershower out there. but better chance for rain out of this one. tomorrow, couple of showers. maybe thunderstorm. clouds occasionally breaking for sunshine. about 87 for our high. so not the best but not the worst of days tomorrow, to start off

that that i will call for a spotty thunderstorm. most of this thunder activity is staying to the south of us this evening and there is a chance that something can bubble up. we'll be watching it. 89 at 7:00 and 85 or so at 9:00 and temperatures, lower 80s. remember how hot and muggy it was last night? >> uh-huh. >> should feel more comfortable than that and i will keep an eye out for storms popping up that can happen and that does not look like it's going to be widespread this evening. shawn. >> sounds good. thank you, gain. >>> and a remindder, can you check the weather yourself 24/7 with the fox 5 weather app. download it to your droid, iphone or. >> i joy pad and on our website at www.myfoxdc.com. >>> well, more backlash against chick filet since the company ceo publicly announced it supports the biblical definition of marriage. the protestors marched to the chick filet truck in downtown d.c. and gay rights groups are calling for a boycott of the fast food chain. this morning -- today, a spokesperson for the human rights campaign

i see a little spotty action on the radar behind you. >> spotty showers beginning to fizzle out but it rain that's welcome. we are still several inches behind where we should be rain fall wise. so showers diminishing now, yes but we had descent ones early. clouds holding tough. the main weather continues to be if states to the south, carolina down through georgia, tons of rain and thunderstorm action tonight here. pretty quiet with temperatures around 80 still. so it is a warm, humid evening. into the 80s some spots could hit 90. you want to know the temperature hour by hour right where you live you can find it, down load the weather an ask find the hour by hour forecast information right there for baltimore and beyond. all the neighborhoods in maryland. check it out online. >>> new developments tonight on a story. a prostitution ring. abc 2 news christian shaffer is live with more on that story tonight. chris? >> the fbi coordinated with city police in investigating this case, a special advisory to the human trafficking task force tells me that means there must have been out of state

there could be a spotty shower in a few spots. first stop tonight let's check out radar, nothing around the d.c. area, but we are beginning to see a minor expansion of some of the lighter showers that we've been seeing down around harrisonburg moving into charlottesville west to east, super light, just a sign the atmosphere is trying to moisten up a bit. over to temperatures, that's another nice part of this story because it's so lovely out tonight, 80 degrees in the district, 72 in manassas, winchester and culpeper. temperatures around dropping much because of the cloud cover that's in, but also it's almost safe enough to open those windows just a little bit. we certainly have some more pleasant temperatures to our north, richmond 72 degrees. there have been a lot more showers across the carolinas and high pressure which will build in over the weekend was building in here today. it will slip to our east over the weekend and then the heat and moisture we've seen across the southeast. over the weekend opportunity to 94 degrees poss

and spotty thunderstorm at 7; spotty thunderstorm at 9.fall into the upper 70s by 11:00 and with some clouds out there and let me show you the big highlight and that is shifting to the south. st. louis is finally loving this and with 84 degrees now and some rain in the area and there is so many days this summer, 100 degrees plus. little rock is baking. wichita is baking and now the heat has shifted down into texas. this quasi frontal system is huge for some of the folks that had so much hot, hot weather. northern-central plains and into the midwest and this will be the setup, too, for the next several days. so, we'll stay nearly normal with the temperatures in the unsettled each day and some upper 60s in the subissues and otherwise on the muggy and mild side. again, tomorrow is much like today and a mix of clouds and sun. the temperatures in the upper 80s and we'll warm up a little bit thursday, friday, and saturday, and nothing extreme and that is as for us. >> and -- . >> and that is back there eating it. >> you're stock piling, are you?

a few spotty showers early on around 4:30 edition when we talked.he spotty showers moving quickly now over into the eastern shore. let's show outthe setup. suddenly wind bringing in that humidity. and out towards the west a vigorous cold front doesn't look like much just yet. but that's going to interact with a low level moisture. the humidity and tryinger's shower afternoon thunderstorms. we will call strong but some of the storms are capable of producing some hail damaging winds and certainly dangerous lightning. and all the humidity will trying earth lightning. future trend shows temperatures around 88 degrees on the way from 91 for the two degree guarantee. this one model says most of the action is towards the north. i think it will be a start for maryland going into the course of the afternoon. only down to 78 at midnight and dropping to probably 75 and then we are up into the 90s as we head into tomorrow afternoon. the best shot of storms will be well down towards the south and to the east of the cold front that will sag through. so we will be

so just be aware there are a few spotty showers out there mostly isolated but we're going for 92 the two degree guarantee. we'll time the arrival out on future trend in a little bit. now a check on traffic and lauren cook in the traffic center. >>> good morning mike. well hopefully the storms will cool everything down for artscape this weekend. if you are hitting the roads we have some trouble in anne arundel county there's a four car crash on route 295. right along the southbound lanes another interstate 195. you want to expect delays in the areament 95 will be the best alternate route. heading to downtown baltimore that yolk still causing -- water main break still causing big problems on light street shut down between baltimore street and lombard street. use mass transit if you can, if not hopkins place fayette street are the best alternate routes. out on the beltway a crash actually cleared on the west side on the inner loop at reisterstown road. here's a live look at overly. starting to pick up on the outer loop up to loch raven boulevard. but inner loop nice and clear down to 95

. >>> and adding to the trouble in nowhere virginia, several areas have spotty or no 911 service at all. some agencies contacted us with some backup phone numbers. the numbers are there and if you lein the area, write the number down. call that backup number insteadive you why -- if you can't get through 911. >> a boil individualory issue has been in issued. customers are irare advised not to drink tap water. it's because of a drop in water pressure and that is in the city water system this afternoon. >>> the news edge continues in minutes with a last look at weather. @@ . >>> welcome back, a little bit of good news. we had the thunderstorm complex south and west of the city. watch that explode late this afternoon and into this evening pushing to the south and south and east. a confirmed tornado developed to the north and to the east of richmond and weather to the south and in washington, nothing more than a pop-up shower and to the west, and do not want to see the clear, but we're not look at the severe weather we were 24 hours ago into the west and that could be another pop-up shower

could be one or two spotty thunderstorms, but it does look like a summertime pattern comes back. wednesday, hot and humid. 96degrees. and just about every single day chance of thunderstorms. >>> thank you, gary. want to show you the utility numbers one more time. write them down. never know when you might need them. one person had power and lost it again. you never know when you'll need them. write them down. share them as well. >> as always, you can get the numbers and other important information like closings, weather updates, advisories all on myfoxdc.com. >> it has been a busy weekend. but that does do it for us. fox5 news is always on myfoxdc.com. >> keep it here. sports xtra two minutes away. >> stay safe. [ male announcer ] this was how my day began. got my bearings. ♪ a little bird told me about a band. ♪ an old man shared some fish stories. ♪ ooh, my turn. ♪ she was in paris, but i still got to see her. we talked for hours. ♪ everyone else buzzed about the band. music, stories, adventures, memories. ♪ ...all at my fingertips. ♪ there's a wireless mind inside all of us. ♪

spotty afternoon and evening thunderstorms. slow-moving storms.mes wednesday, upper 80s, sunny, low humidity. nearly 90 degrees by the weekend, a pretty typical. average high is 88. let's go back to lisa baden for commute. >> arlington, south courthouse between 63 and eighth they preparesed as the road from a water main break. no damage around the beltway right now. looks good as far as the dulles greenway and the toll road and sterling and tysons on 7. nothing on 95, 395. good and centreville and the beltway. at father hurley boulevard to the beltway. >> it is 5:52. >> temperatures are a little steamy this morning. this.ore coming up after ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] virtual wallet can help you be that person who's good with money. see what's free to spend. move money with a slide. save with a shake. feel good about your decisions. with another look how the victims of movie theater remembered. being >> we will shella moore from esterday's prayer vigil in aurora to pay tribute to the 12 killed and more than 50 injured -- we will show you more. my god

ocean city, you'll notice a few clouds rolling in today, a few spotty showers but all in all a beautiful day. downtown it is a beautiful shot, right now our temperatures sitting around r right around 86 degrees, 66 is your due point value. 87 your official high, ocean city a little sea breeze kicked in and allowed for your day to get to around 72. frederick, 88 degrees right now. dew points between 66 and 67. yesterday that humidity allowed for some storms to build up. 101 was the record that was back in 2011. there is 1 statered shower running through cecil county, nothing severe but we'll keep an eye on you. that's going to hit in the next 25 minutes. in the satellite picture, we're looking good. other wooirz around 8:00 o'clock we're looking good. nice, nice start to monday morning coming up. on the big boards again, scattered somehow irs and storms along new england, nothing really much to speak of. but some bigger storms are coming from the tennessee valley and all along this area of low pressure center comes out by tuesday, so a fret pretty wet scenario coming then. we're in the 80

and it will move on through so there's at least a chance with a spotty shower or a thunderstorm coming on across overnight tonight. and then we'll have a potential for a few thunderstorms again tomorrow and tomorrow afternoon. 96 the high today. dulles was 95. bwi 95. it was sticky too. with the high humidity levels. back to the west, it's still hot out here. st. louis 96 and wichita 99. lincoln 100. fargo 90 and 95 for chicago. i show you this to show you there's no real relief anywhere from this heat until later on in the week. okay? it's going to be hot and sticky the next few days. 81 and holding here in down. quantico 80 degrees and some clouds overnight tonight and mild and muggy temperature gets down to 76 degrees tonight. which is not very cool. we start off and we warm up quickly tomorrow. look at noon heat index will be 95 to 98 degrees and we'll have a few scattered thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon. not for everybody. i don't think we're going to have as much as what we had today. temperature up there into the middle 90s and look even on tuesday and wednesday it gets hotter

they have weakened considerably and there are just a few spotty showers in parts of central and western howard county. dropping down towards frostburg and parts of western maryland, it looks like that is where the most severe weather will be. this line of storms has the chance of producing damaging winds and heavy downpours. there is a severe thunderstorm watch in effect from garrett county west into west virginia and the extreme southwestern corner of pennsylvania. the orange boxes are severe thunderstorm warnings up in the mountains to our north and west. not too much as far as that goes around here. 100 degrees in downtown baltimore. the 100-degree record stands. right now, 94 in parkville, colombia in the mid-90's. 91 degrees on the beach town of ocean city. it feels like 107 in frederick and 106 in downtown baltimore. the heat advisory remains in effect until about an hour or so after sunset. watch out, there may be a few isolated thunderstorms tracking through, but looks like skies will clear out nicely by tomorrow morning. scattered storms for the fireworks displays. the sunsets

it is free to attend. >> some spotty showers around the area. some producing some lightning strikes. no drifting -- not drifting very much, kind of stationery. it may be moving off on southeasterly breeze. the showers are slow-moving. while most areas will not get what -- to get wet. high temperatures today at the airport, 87, the average for this 30th day of july. no rain to measure. we had 0.06 of an inch to measure. less than 0.01 of an inch at the airport. the deficit for the month and year grows a little bit. 85 in cockeysville right now. coastal areas are in the upper 70's with a breeze coming off the ocean trade western maryland, a little bit of cloud cover and scattered thunderstorms -- thunderstorms. the low temperatures from 67 in the suburbs to about 75 at the inner harbor. a slight risk of thunderstorms through the evening hours. most of the night partly cloudy. high pressure is passing north of us and it will continue to move out to sea. opening the door to some weather disturbances of to the west. temperatures are not that excessiv