we'll check in with rob stallworth at wtop momentarily.ena parveen has the forecast. >> wech a weather alert day. the humidity, it will make it feel like triple digits. no rain relief. we don't have thunderstorms in the forecast. normally we have pop-up storms similar to yesterday. it's going to be humid enough to make it feel around 103 degrees. if as far as the commute, the roads will be nice and dry. at the bus stop, stand in the shade, especially this afternoon. exercise, better inside today. if you are lucky enough to hit the pool, probably want to be in the water. definitely have the sun block on. radar is nice and dry. reports of fog about a half mile there. we'll look at how hot it will be. plus a huge cooldown in the forecast. let's check the roads this morning. wtop, good morning rob. >> good morning sheena. guys, if you're headed out on the roads this morning, northbound i-95 at lorton. the right side is blocked due to a crash there. continuing on to the springfield interchange and beyond on to 395, be mindful of the hov lanes a

let's get a check on the roads with wtop's rob stallworth.e today. i-95 and high pressure 395 remain jammed between dale city and the pentagon. that's mainly due to the hov lanes northbound on 395 that are closed near edsel road and the 49th street bridge. soon to be reopened hopefully but not right now, still jammed. i'm rob stallworth. >>> we will have a check on your forecast when we come back. if you'd have told me three years ago... take... minutes. that guests would compliment our wifi. that we could video conference... and do it like that. (snaps) if you'd have told me that i could afford... a gig-speed. a gig-speed network. it's like 20 times faster than what most people have. i'd of said... i'd of said you're dreaming. dreaming! definitely dreaming. then again, dreaming is how i got this far. now more businesses in more places can afford to dream gig. comcast, building america's largest gig-speed network. >>> good morning. it's going to be a hot one today, 77 degrees right now is the temperature in the district, but as we go through

i'm rob stallworth, back to you. >> rob, thank you. we're staying on top of the breaking news overseas. right now the search is on for ten missing u.s. sailors. they went missing after the u.s.s. john s. mccain collided with a tanker ship east of singapore. five other sailors were hurt. this is video of that american ship. you can see the collision punched a big hole on its left understand. the navy says this incident is being treated as an accident. this is the second accident involving a ship from the navy's 7th fleet in the last two months. >>> the strategy in afghanistan will become a little more clear tonight when president trump addresses the nation. the president will speak in primetime on the path forward in that country. mr. trump will deliver the a did he say at the fort myer military base in arlington. this comes after a lengthy strategy review which looked at whether several thousand more troops should be deployed to afghanistan. you can watch the address tonight at 9:00 on nbc4. >>> another issue facing the trump administr

let's get a look at roads with rob stallworth.u approximately folks if you're traveling on the capital beltway look out on the outer loop just past knew hampshire avenue getting the first report of a crash there. also northbound on new hampshire avenue, crash there reported under police direction. if you're traveling northbound on the george parkway loot look out for a crash along 123 on the left sietd. then green line strain service has been restored as you make your way on the green line so you're looking good from the wpot traffic center stallworth. aaron back to you. >> we will get a check on your solar eclipse day forecast when we come back. >> temperatures still comfortable out there. 77 washington, 73 leesburg, 74 in clinton and the solar eclipse is today. as we go through the day around 90 degrees but remember at the peek 2:40 twot temperatures will startor drop. (vo) there's a freedom about asheville. an unspoken invitation to discover who you really are. here, the world is a big, beautiful place filled with adventure. ta

stallworth on the left, 82, swann, 88, on the right. franco harris is now at the 30, big pileup. he fumbled the ball! and let's see... minnesota has it! jeff siemon on it. >> oh, yeah! it's still wild and woolly, and i love 'em that way. >> you love 'em wild and woolly and you're seeing it now. >> impressive drive by the steelers. >> everybody loves everybody when you win. >> the drive has used a lot of time. here's a roll-out. bradshaw fires... touchdown! an awesome physical team were the steelers today. (crowd chanting) pittsburgh, the super bowl champs. >> narrator: pittsburgh. for 70 years, they've loved their football team: the steelers. >> this is a tough town. the people here are tough, tough-minded. the way the steelers played the game meshed perfectly with the people. >> hit him! hit him! >> they loved that hard-hitting, punishing, brutal defense that they played. >> narrator: they called the defensive line the steel curtain. >> that just fit perfectly into the way they saw their own lives and what they had to be in order to survive. >> narrator: and if there was one ico

former nfl players grak jack brewer and donte stallworth. this is a fascinating conversation.olin kaepernick's kneeling during the national anthem. still without a team weeks before the season starts. is he out of a job because of his beliefs? >> there are i think a variety of reasons that people can point to as to why colin kaepernick is currently unemployed in the national football league. you look at a man who has a passion for the nfl anton play for it and it's probably feeling more to him like a business and less like a meritocracy. there is a league where it has a lot of player who are good citizens but has also given second chances to people accused or charged with domestic violence with, sexual assault, murder, abuse against animals and here he is trying to do just a silent protest. a legal protest, make a social political stance against what he says was the oppression of black people and people of color who were targeted by police brutality and albeit during the national anthem where people have taken offense to that. you know, his protests didn't come out in the most

white women and in both cases inspired by the examples of many african-american women who were stallworths of the civil rights movement. that was very important. also, the feminist movement took many of its tactics and emulated many of the strategies that the civil rights movement had made. they clearly recognized they were building on the successes of the civil rights movement. as we mentioned there were those who believe that now, the national organization for women, needed to be formed so that the women's movement would have an advocacy group similar to the naacp that could press outside the government for change. so in that way there's two movements. one inspire and influence the other, and by the time the women's movement is really getting under way, the late '60s and early '70s, women like bella abzug very involved in the civil rights movement, even going to mississippi to risk her life to defend willie mcgee, a black man accused of raping a white woman who was eventually executed, a very courageous act. abzug believed it was important to do help bring about social change when it cam

political reporter wesley lowery, and former wide receiver for the new england patriots donte' stallworths working with lawmakers on criminal law issues. wes you heard the president was just kidding don't protect suspects heads when you put them into the police car, let them bang their heads, what did you think? >> well, i think that in some ways, the white house believes saying hey, this was just a joke is a means of dismissing this, but i actually think him joking about this may be just as bad, if not worst, if this had been some earnest statement. the reality is large swathes of the population, tons of americans and police will say this, who have distrust of police officers who have experiences which they believe they've been abused and assaulted, mistreated, so that the commander in chief of the united states of america would i think that's something appropriate to joke about, you know, i think really raises eyebrows for a lot of folks. beyond that, you've got an attorney general, jeff sessions, who has insisted that he is going to be serious about police officers who do the wrong thi