. >> all right there is this billionaire ricket shut down two popular local news sites one week after editorial staff voted to unionize lauren simonetti with details on this. >> this is interesting you know the chicago cubs owner also will founder ceo of dna info, about. >> popular web sites for local news if you live in basically five cities new york, chicago l.a. san francisco washington. issue is owned them 8 years they have never made a profit so this is the message that popped up from mr. ricketts when he logged on to sites today, he says, look dna is the end of the day a business, businesses need to be economically successful to endure last unique being new york works dna info decided they want to unionize as a result all you 115 workers at all offices are now out of a jo about the union response to ricketts do we have it? the details looking at all of our potential he areas of recourse, we will aggressively procu pursue member rights. >> he has been vocal how he feels about unions digital media he hard to get into unions can be expensive. >> go ament we always have when we talk

meteorologist lauren rickets. we want the spring. >> yes. even though we needed the rain a lot of people want that hose turned off and quickly. this is light at the end of the tunnel. just not tonight. we are starting to see some of rain, the heavy rain move out. but, still rain in baltimore. hopefully it is doing well with the firefighterring firefighting down there. now, right now it is a chilly 46 degrees out there. chilly rainfall. 45, 42 in hagerstown. look at this north and west. that is much colder air. some of the chill here air will moveer air will move in. the rain continues and we have the winds to talk about. we will talk about snow, actually. can we see flakes? we will have more. >>> rain will never scare or chase or take the will away from people who are fighting breast cancer. you know, we walked in cold snowy mornings before in hunt valley, now, they are starting to take a lap. don harrisson was there and says it it was still a great day at the beach. >> 3, 2, 1. [cheers and applause] >> with that the race began. more than 36

draper ano to amelia laur laur la laure lauren rickets. >> they were moving south and east and pushing south. a lot of thateavy rain now south of zblus we'. >> we're going to continue to track storms south of the , distriut for washington and areas to the north you're only dealing with some showers now. n if you'rth of the district, your thunderstorm threat for the afternoon is now over. south of the distr still going to be dealing with hunderstorms for a few more hour here's where i'm seeing some of the heaviest activity in parts of prince william county. traveling along 95 south towards fredericksburg it is going to be a slow g with the weather head be over into charles county. just someun showers aro waldorf, but more substantial heavy rain in western parts of th county. here's a wider look at what we're tracking. you can see this is a broken line. st of theounty mainly dry. just some scattered light showers. you can see som haf reasoeavy r moving in. along 66 and areas to the north looking mainly dry. just a fewcattered showers. the national game should be fine tonight. at 6:00 p.m

. >> lauren rickets. >> we're always happy when you're here. >> i'm happy because it's friday. >> then you have the weather reality. 90 degrees. >> before 5:00 in the morning. >> when i do my is at 90, i couldn't believe it. >> crazy. >> craziness. >> we are in d.c. and it's summertime. nothing we can't deal with. as we continue through the remainder of the weekend, we're in weather alert mode. it's going to be so darn hot as we continue not only today but also tomorrow and sunday. humidity will finally break by the time we get into tuesday. thank goodness. but until then, dangerously hot conditions. we have storm chances. maybe an isolated chance today but better chances into your saturday and sunday. 86 is that temperature right now. you step outside, we have 70s most places. clinton, maryland at 82. we factor in the air temperature, this is what it actually feels like when you step outside. it feels like 90 in the district. surprise. it's going to be a warm day out there. heat advisory starts at 10:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. the heat index pretty much in will be 105. possibly up to 109

storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell and lauren rickets are outside with the latest on how it's feeling out there. good morning. >> i walked outside. i was telling chuck, it's chilly out here. just a little bit. >> little taste of the san francisco bay area. >> little fog as well. city camera view cannot see the top of the monument. that's 555 feet 5 inches. here's the view from our tower in the northwest. down there. see the two little white blurs. that's not lauren and i, those are the satellite pictures. visibility quite reduced. under a milen maryland. under a mile in dulles, airport. as you're planning out the day today, mostly cloudy today. we'll see a peek or two of sunshine. rain. some showers as early as noon. thunderstorms maybe after 5:00 or 6:00. keep your weather eye to the sky. look at the ten day forecast coming up. back over to jack taylor still dealing with breaking news. >> yes. >> unfortunately it is on the red line this morning. it's going to cost you some time. if you're a normal rider no service between fort totten and gallaud gallaudet. they are establishing shutt

. >> but first, storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell and lauren rickets have a look at these bitterly cold temperatures. >> sheena is the smart one. she headed to florida. >> i couldn't believe it. i found out when i came in. i thought she had the day off, but nope. good for her. >> feels like 19 in leesburg and manassas. four things you need to know about the weather, number one, another frozen start this morning. more sunshine today than yesterday, but that northwest wind will be back by later on this afternoon. some saturday rain showers look likely as temperatures may actually be briefly near 60 on saturday afternoon. but about right after that, more cold air comes in f i'll give you the whole extended forecast coming up. >>> good morning. taking a look right now at the roads, 270 southbound still quite full as you're approaching 109, 81st and then 109 because of an earlier crash. the crash is gone, but we still are slow headed southbound. looks pretty good once you get here to 109. pretty normal there as you're heading southbound this morning. no major problems right now on the b

we'll go to chuck bell and lauren rickets. she's in for sheena. >> precious little in the way of melting yesterday. >> temperatures only made it into the low 30s yesterday. >> lilted sunshine, as well. we'll be able to improve on both of those more sunshine and slightly milder weather later this afternoon. it is another frozen sole lid start this morning with temperatures in the mid 20s pretty much areawide. a moved t mostly sunny afternoon b is coming your way. we're tracking a chance for some rain drops on your saturday. it will be rain, too, with temperatures in the 50s before another shot of cold air comes our way sunday into early next week. back to you. >> chuck, thank you. 6:3 2 now. we turn to our top stories this morning. a man found shot to death in a stairwell. prince george's county police have not yet identified the man or a suspect in the killing. >>> the justice department has indicted two russian spies in a massive yahoo! e-mail attack. 500 million yahoo! accounts were compromised. the intrusion targeted securi

lauren rickets out there now. the grass is one thing, the roads something else. >> the roa area right now. that's what we're seeing as we continue with the snow falling. you were talking about the snow and doug was talking earlier. he went outside. it is a very wet snow. the roads are going to be wet to areas south and east and in the d.c. area. side streets, especially by mid tomorrow morning. i think the main streets will be okay. just to the south and east we'll see the rain and a little bit of the mix. north and west, where we could have the major totals, that's where we're going to see major delays on all roadways. side streets, secondary roads and we'll watch how it transition. remember, this is going to be a very wet snow. a back breaker as you try to shovel it tomorrow. good snowball making snow. definitely not accumulating to where exactly we wanted to earlier because of the water content in it. doug? >> we'll be watching it throughout the night. the sleet-rain line up across heaviest snow, north and wefs

our lauren rickets will have a check on your forecast in just a moment. first, let's get a look at your commute. how is it going? >> at waldorf and owleonar road, it sounds likes they are landing a medevac because of the driver involved. sterling northbound 28, the light lane is getting by that accident and 270 southbound at shady grove, hard to see a crash in the mainn lanese distance as you are headed inbounds. >> thank you, nowck we'll che your forecast when we come back. stay with us. >>> ll>>>. >>> we had heavy rain, we are putting it on right now, going all the way up to buoy, through route 50 into annapolis. it should be short lived moved out.ai a lot of the hea rain and severe weather is well off the eastern seaboard, we are getting showers around the beltway right now. t have a wind advisory. this will be main story today. we will have sunshine, gusts up to 50 miles an hour possible. we are looking at more power outages, temperatures are dropping. we'll be in the 50s and low 60s, again, it will be a windy day, tomorrow lighter winds, showers poss

>>issa is standing by with your first 4 traffic but we begin with lauren rickets and look at all the cold temperatures, lauren. >> yeah. we havpe chilly ttures out there right now. we will continue to see some chilly temperatures as we go through theday. but look at these wind chills across the area. you can s some pretty drastic wind chims to the upper midwest. and those are continuing to sink down. now this piece of cold air ise going to coming our way as we go into the afternoon and evening. winds will start to pick up after about 8:00 p.m. tonight. again, we are looking at some very bitterly cd wind chills. we have wind advisories and wind chill advisories in place for this. now the current wind chill here in the d.c. areas at 24 right now. that is only going to drop throughout the day today. so we will see those very cold wind chills come right back into our area. wind chill advisory in place, a wind advisory in ace. we'll talk all about those coming up, but first traffic with melissa. >> good morning. >> going to start with cameras o this morning show you what's going on road w

. >> by the way, lauren rickets, congratulations on your engagement. >> thank you so much. thank you so much. yeah, got engaged on wednesday. feels more like winter outside. i'm freezing. i came back from outside. >> it's going to stay cold all morning. you need the jacket before you head outside. if you thought yesterday morning was chilly, it's a little bit colder. right now 47 degrees, very l in place. 37 dulles, 37 manassas. winchester is 34. here's a look at the advisories. north and west of the district, frost advisories until 9:00 a.m. freeze warnings. temperatures out there in the 40s and 30s. moving up, 7:00 in the mid to upper 40s. then we move right into the 60s. we're going to be in the 60s, mid to upper 6 os. we'll have plenty of sunshine out there today. 68 degrees, another beautiful day. still looking good. not going to need the umbrella out today. you may need it as we get through this week. we'll have the forecast coming up. right now we have traffic coming up for you. >> good morning. again, this earlier fatal crash in alexandria, they have cleared the sce

. >> teaming up with lauren rickets at xten barre. ayey're showing us a cool workout this hol season. >> you can see i'm trying to get the hang of this. this is t my firste trying xtend bar. it's a lot of fun. lauren i one of the instructors here. i want to thank kelly for letting us i here studio this morning. we have a miss virginia contestant working out and getting ready for h competition next week. there's a lady named emily in this class. sheas done thi kind of class 750 tim right here. emily. up for all right. so lauren, come on or here a tell me, what is this kind of workout for people that don know what this is. >> this is a great workout. it's a workout for everybod we have trx. we have yoga, we have barre, a little pilates and ballet and it's the best workout. >> it makes you strong. it's card yore based but pilates and barre based. i love it because it'ssculpting me and the class goes by so equick. i lov it. >> let's go on over here. >> so come back this way, second position. so legs are wider than your hips so you want th

lauren rickets will tell us what to expect in the tenda >>> at 9:03 on this saturday morning, developing the search is on for a gunman after a police standoff ended this in temple hill. >> it all started just before 1:30 this morning. misresponded to a shooting to a house on summit drive near fair lawnstreet. investigators tell us that one man was shot but police bieve the suspect then barricaded himself inside the house. four hours later police managed to get iide but the gunman was gone. the victim was taken to the hospital with non-life esreatening inju we're going to continue to follow this story and bring you the very latest information. > and let's get to this all new this morning a bicyclist fighting for theife after montgomeryrs say a police officer hit them. 11:00 p.m. t after last night. you're looking at connecticut avenue and jones bridge road. it is not clear what led up to this crash, but we're told the bicyclist is in the hospital with life threateningin ries. >>> in capital heights a crash left a police officer and another person hurt. authorities tell us that a district

wel begin with storm team 4's lauren rickets. >> temperatures in the 50s right now. all across the area, winds are calm and a few clouds out there. that kepthe temperature from going down too much. we'll slip a little as we go into the 7:00 a.m. hour. a if you in maryland, you'll have an isolated shower. clouds to the north, sunshine to the south. clouds increasing. there will be a little spread in temperature. if you're in maryland, you'll be in the 60s. today, tomorrow however, we have severe weather possible on friday right in time orr the easter weekend. we'll talk me about that coming up. first, we'll talk to melissa about breaking news. >> that's right. take a look at this. northeast, benning road at north street. there's a mob where there is a fire situation. a lot of app pa ratd tuss right there. there roads through theyou can expect closures. westbound benning road is being pushed off on to 25thlace in northeast wilder. drew wilder, a lorge area. silver spring powder mill between new hampshire l inneroop and outer loop, no problems. >> it's 6:02. developing

. >>> time to check in now with lauren rickets. we have a warning right nonow. >> squall warning. we are in one until 12:45. that's likely going to move to the east and amelia draper will update you through the afternoo biting cold today and thursday and we'll warming up. here's a look at the snow squall inarea. it's m to the east. should be right along the i-95 corridor just as we get into 12:30 or so. >> all laright, en. >>> the big story for us today so stay wh us throughout our afternoon shows. that's it for us today. we'll be back >>> we're live in five. four. three. two. one. ♪ it's a snow day, a winter cold day ♪ ♪ sy home and just say it's a great family day ♪ ♪ >> that's great. that sounds really gd. >> that doesn't sound like my principal. a school closing video. thanks to michi n superintendent and principal. guys, school cancellations all over the country. welcome to "access live.u remember when ere a k?id deal ever. >> you couldn't do anything for the next couple of days.

let's check on your forecast with stormea lauren rickets. >>> it's just so warm outside right now. temperatures 58 here in washington. 61 in manassas. we're only going to warm up from here. lower to mid 70s. cloud cover but we'll get sunshine later this afternoon. sunshine will continue wednesday and thursday. when our temperatures will top out around 80. we will have temperatures in the low 70s on friday. back door cold front slipped through. temperatures slip into the 60s for the weekend. >>> coming up on news 4 midday >>> from nbc news, this is "today" with kathy lee gifford and hoda kotb live from studio 1 a. >> this is a great song by the way by chris harmony. called "work from home" ♪ work work work i love when you have to know one word. >> we could have written it. >> we probably couldn't have. if you like a legend, we have one here with us today. sally field is joining us. she's in this movie

. >> fet's check in with storm team 4's lauren rickets who is tracking thiese temperatures. >> in additioo that, high school football games on this saturday afternoon. it's going to be pretty out there. of course, weather alert for today because of the chilly conditio. some of t coldest temperatures we have seen this year. i feel like we sayhat every weekend, but going into november, i think this might be the last weekend i say it until we slip into the teens, but it feels like the a 20s 30s out there with the wind. here in d.c., we can deal with the cold temperatures but the winds add insult to you can see the temperatures in the 30s and

. >> let's go straight to storm team4 meteorologist lauren rickets. what can we expect today? >> well, you know, we can expect a little bit of a warm-up in terms of that humidity and heat. temperatures are going to be in the low 90s for daytime highs today. beautiful looking out there right now. oh, gosh, what a gorgeous view right there. 86, already up to 86 before the noon hour so it will continue to warm into the lower 90s today, some areas may make it into the mid 90s, of course feeling a little warmer with that with the increased humidity that we have out there and you certainly felt it earlier this morning. nothing showing up on the storm team4 radar right now but i was checking the forecast from this morning to right now before we went on air at 1 1:00. i think i am going to put a chance of an isolated shower or thunderstorm today. temperatures today, lower 90s, mugginess out there. but storm chances coming up on the ten-day forecast so let you know when that humiditre minutes. >>> developing this morning, an alleged supermarket theft leads to a police shooting. it happ

lauren rickets is in the storm team 4 weather center with a look at the weather. good morning, ladies. good morning. that wind is definitely whipping around out there. but we are seeing gusts, 40, 50 miles per hr. >> yeah, wind advisory until 10:00 this morning. so before you head out, keep in mind, it will be a windy day. 7:00 a.m., temperatures around 50, but feeling colder. right now, it's 49 in the district. lurch time, winds gust to go nearly 30 to 40 miles per hour. still a windy day. 53 by lunchtime. staying in the low 50s as we go through the afternoon, though. so a chillier and windier day today. here is the wind advisory surrounding the district, all of maryland, even northern virginia. as we go through the afternoon, again, it will be chilly, but tomorrow, even colder. we're talking about the 30s tomorrow morning and a chance for a few snow showers. but this morning, chopper is up out there. >> i chopper 4 still over this problem on the beltway. this is outer loop of the beltway. we had ems show up here in the past couple of minutes. and it's kind of ab

. >> but we begin with storm team 4 meteorologist lauren rickets andoping we'll see some sunshine. >> i think we'll be able to get some sunshe and that's going to be good news for everybody because we are all due for a ttle sunshine after that soggy weekend we had. the south winds will help push the temperatures into the 50sda so it is a nice, mild morning

lauren rickets is up next with when we can expect some showers to move our way. >>> an historic agreement has been reached between d.c. government and the firefighters union over back overtime pay. i'll tell you how much money >>> house speaker john boehner used his last weekly republican radio address to promote d.c. school vouchers. he has long championed a program to give funds to district students to use at private and parochial schools. on friday, the house passed a bill he introduced to extend the voucher program and increase funding. >>> it has taken measure a decade, but today, firefighters got a big boost. the mayor signed a controversial overtomb agreement, but that's not all the mayor was up to. darcy spencer has the latest tonight from the fire station. >> well, that's right. this is an agreement that's been in the works like you said, more than ten years. this is something that's been brewing because firefighters were working without overtime pay. and they've been working on this for some time, so it really was a celebration today. this settlement agreement involved $45 milli

. >> we'll begin with lauren rickets, though. she's in for chuck bell. >> i like you guys. it works out. >> is the weather gce or somethut there? it is nice. 51 degrees is our temperature right now. we have the clouds inplace. and we'll have rain in place throughout they. go ahead and grab that jacket. small umbrella, as well, as we see some rain showers pushing your way out of the area. 40s to around 50 degrees. rain moving in, a few sprinkles. a lot of this is not reaching the ound. you may get some sprinkles on your windshield this morning. have rain on our way to the area. we also talk about thearh we're going to see. we'll talk about that in a little bit. let's talk about roadways with ve. >> this morning will be shaping up better than the afternoon commute. it is dry and quiet along the be beltway. or any wrapped up in the parkway. northbouo, getting by the left. southbound gettinghe by to right, near buckey's town pike. 66, manassas to 95. roosevelt bridge, inbound staying leflt stay ing lhet as they pull back barrels. >>> this morning, trump, his administration and

lauren rickets is there tracking it. >> today is the hottest day of the year, megan, unfortunately, for a lot of people, especially those with outside work on saturdays. it is going to be a very muggy indext day with that heat close to 100 degrees. the june rise is beautiful and gorgeous, plenty of sunshine as we continue through the day today and then a chance ofat scred showers and thunderstorms later on this afternoon. but as far as what we're looking at right now it is 72 degrees at 6:00 a.m southerly winds pushing in the humidity. asp you wake u this morning temperatures will slip a degree or two by 7:00 a.m. and then rit back up. plenty of sunshine this morning, storms later on this afternoon.o let's talk a who will have the best chance to see storms, coming thup. >> sounds good, thank you. >>> this morninfire officials are investigating a massive fire that engulfed a large home in irfax county. chopper 4 flew high over the scene last night. flames tore through this home on clarks branch avenue in great falls. several fire departments had to lend a hand. we're told it was so inten

., it's just now 76 degrees, so yesterday's hot temperature is just going to get a b more >> lauren rickets is here in studio. >> that t perature is in th mid 70s right now, but you factor in the humidity, feeling warmer than that. this it is a gorgeous morning, and a hazy morning out there today. plenty of sunshine out there this morning, tt sun coming up just about quarter to 6:00, it was a beautiful sun rise, by s are those temperatu going to be in the mid 80s, temperatures are going to topt ight around 90 degrees for a daytime high today. but it's going to feel cser to 105 thisteround. so a advisory in effect from noon unt 8:00 p.m. be careful when you're outside, pecially ifyou're going to be outside for an extended period of time. not only do wea havat advisor advisory, if you're feeling feint or dizzy, excessive sweating, nausea or vopting, rapid weak pulse, and muscle cramps, get out of the sun because you m be suffering from heat exhaustion and also heat stroke. we're ing to talk about how hot it's going to be if you're watching fireworks tonight or if you're watching them next wed

. >> but we begin with storm team 4 meteorologist lauren rickets with more sunshine in the forecast. we hope we warm u a bit too. >> those temperatures will be a little above normal today. so i think we can warm for a one day special. it's going to be a beautiful morning out there. plenty of sunshine once the sun comes up at 20 minutes after 7:00 thisrning. nothing happening on the radar. haven't been able to say that all weeken but nothiappening on the radar right now. we're looking good and dry as you make your way out the door this morning. now those temperatures, still mild, our average daytime high for this time of the year, 47

we need to get to lauren rickets for the forecast. in early this morning, oh, 'sbo lready warm, it's already hot. it's already sticky. weather service has issued a heat advisory. that's why we're a weather alert as we continu through the middle part of the day and into the afternoon. this is whe we see the heat index up to 105. even if iou're not that advisory, know that it's extremely warm outside. we haven't seen heat outside in quite some time.he 84 temperature in washington. temperatures across the 80s across the board. and you factor in thean humidit it feels like we're in the 90s in a lot of spots and that number continues t rise. we're dry today, we do have storms in the forecast tomorro but welso have heat in the ten-day forecast coming u in 18 minutes, guys. >> thanks, lauren. a lot to get to as you just mentioned it's a weather alert day and the sun will be unrelenting. >> you hear the sun that we always here, take care of yourself in.temperatures. news4's justin finch is working for you withips to beat the heat. justin, goo

. >> fet's check in with storm team 4's lauren rickets who is tracking thiese temperatures. >> in additioo that, high school football games on this saturday afternoon. it's going to be pretty out there. of course, weather alert for today because of the chilly conditio. some of t coldest temperatures we have seen this year. i feel like we sayhat every weekend, but going into november, i think this might be the last weekend i say it until we slip into the teens, but it feels like the a 20s 30s out there with the wind. here in d.c., we can deal with the cold temperatures but the winds add insult to you can see the temperatures in the 30s and 40s. they're almost up to 30 miles per hour. we'll have the potential to see wind gusts up to 35ho miles per throughout the day today. so you factor in the wind, you factor in our air temperat we, this ist it feels like outside. or ls like the 20s and 30s most of our region. this is how it's going to feel for most of t day today. we'll talk about the football games going on later this afternoon and we'll ao talk about any snow in the forecast. certainly c

wel begin with storm team 4's lauren rickets. >> temperatures in the 50s right now. all across the area, winds are calm and a few clouds out there. that kepthe temperature from going down too much. we'll slip a little as we go into the 7:00 a.m. hour. a if you in mand

. >> but we begin with storm team 4 meteorologist lauren rickets with more sunshine in the forecast. we hope we warm u a bit too. >> those temperatures will be a little above normal today. so i think we can warm for a one day special. it's going to be a beautiful morning out there. plenty of sunshine once the sun comes up at 20 minutes after 7:00 thisrning. nothing happening on the radar. haven't been able to say that all weeken but nothiappening on the radar right now. we're looking good and dry as you make your way out the door this morning. now those temperatures, still mild, our average daytime high for this time of the year, 47 degrees. om finally sunshine out there today. a little on the breezy side as well out e.th not only today but also tomorrow. the next big change comes on thursday night. we have some rain. we'll talk about that coming up minutes. but let's first talk about traffic with jack.in good mo jack. >> good morning. we still have a lot of roads that are dealing with street flooding and vre is going to be a victim of this. piper lane is closed been 28 and observati

lauren rickets also joined us. >> sorry. you cut out. >> you're all nice and fresh you're so happy you didn't have to work yesterday and deal with the aftermath. gosh, that was a mess. >> i know, it's crazy. i'm glad i heard that instead of glossing over that comment. yeah. yesterday listen, thursday we did get a good decent amount of snow up to the north and west of d.c. and yeah, yesterday you're just trying to figure out what happened. a lot of things forecasting with the winter weather we know around here all too well about that. but the good news is no winter weather outhere this morning. now, it is cold. winter.ly feels like the temperatures are in the 20s with areas that had clear skies overnight. to te north, had a little more cloud cover so those temperatures were able to stay in the 30s ands. 40 but as you head out the door this morning, you can leave that umbrla at home. you can pretty much leave it at home all weekend. you willeed the sunglasses and winter coat and accessories. the temperatures will be around 40

storm team 4 meteorologist lauren rickets forecasts what is to come. >> my goodness, this morning a what a mess out there. across the area roadways. but good news is temperatures are warming. i still have a few spots that are below freezing at this moment but again those temperatures are coming up. we're going to be talking about that forecast. we've got rain on the way for tomorrow. we're going to be talking about all about that in a few minutes. >> early morning ice wreaks havoc for motorists and pedestrians. more about it coming up on news4. >> and a heated dispute between the u.s. and china after an international incident. what one side did today that could cool things down. the beltway near baltimore this morning. slick roads may have center a fuel tanker truck sliding. a man who said he pulled over because of the icy roads caught the crash on his cell phone video and we want to show you a look at the aftermath. debris from the explosion set off a 55 vehicle pile up. the damage on some of the vehicles obviously very visible. crumbled between others and the truck driver and one other

. >> lauren rickets, standing by. definitely unsettled, right? >> unsettled, but nothing like texas. all of that floodwater, my goodness and they'll have multiple amounts of rain through thursday and an upper level low through northern mexico and pulling in the gulf moisture and you get the heavy rain from san antonio into dallas and it gets absorbed once it gets into the gulf of mexico. us here, we're just sei isolated showers and that's about it coming south of alexandria near whorton and quantico. you can see just a few isolated showers and that's the way it will be as they continue to sink south and another frontal boundary. wednesday will be almost a spitting image of today. we do have more rain for the end of the workweek and have a pretty strong frontal system come through on friday and again on sunday. so saturday, looking like the pick of the weekend if you have to have one. temperatures out there, it is warm and humid and we're in the mid-80s and we have fallen into the 60s tonight outside the beltway and inside the beltway, temperature

. >> a look at f your firstr traffic but we begin with lauren rickets and your friday forecast. temperatures in and out of the 20s and into the 30s but we're 'rdry. also cloudy out there as well. you can see the cloud cover across the area and then you can see the rain just to the south. oh, yeah. strong storms moving outf atlanta right now. at least heavy rainfall com

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meteorologist chuck bell and lauren rickets are outside with you. they will brave the elements for you, with you, it's just chuck actually. lauren got smart. >> i will brave the elements. lauren will be smart. she will keep her hair straight and not curly from the moisture out here. yes, indeed. it's raining once again. i've been out on the weather i've had to have the umbrella up three out of four times. i should move the rain chance up 60% to 75%. temperatures mid to upper 60s across the area. as you're planning out the day, showers to start. a little bit of sunshine at the finish of the day. chances for rain, mentioned 60% is what i put on there. it's not raining everywhere, but it is raining here up and down the i-95 corridor, 270 corridor and 66 in bound. covered up in rain drops. rain can often be problematic for the commute. let's go back up to the wtop's jack taylor. >> it sure can. this morning, again, the case. if you're riding into the district out of maryland on 50 westbou westbound, good news is they're trying to clear the crash. if the

let's check in with storm team 4 meteorologist lauren rickets. how much more rain will we get today, lauren? >> we could have heavy rain in spots. we have one for culpepper county. we'll get to that. isolated flooding around the region. yes, it was a gray day. it still is. some areas got a little bit of sunshine earlier this morning. you were lucky. we could get more pops of sun through this dry into the early afternoon. another round of rain and storms are headed our way for the afternoon. some which could be strong. now, temperatures are in the 60s right now. we jumped up to 65 here in washington on our way to the 70s. i'm going to time out that rain and it's memorial day weekend. i've got that forecast in a few minutes. >> thank you, lauryn. >>> now to the aftermath of the terror attack in manchester this morning. more victims recovering from the bombing at the ariana grande concert that got a big visitor. the queen of england went to the royal manchester children's hospital. 12 children under 16 were taken to that hospital after the bombing.

let's go over to miss lauren rickets. good morning. >> temperatures out there right now. a little on the warm side. we're in the 60s and 70s at this point. we will have a little bit more humidity throughout the day today. 71 in washington. 70 and upper 60s. as chuck says by the weekend, things really heating up. we'll make it into the 80s. we have a few showers maybe this morning and a few thunderstorms maybe possibly later in the day, but we also have some chances of thunderstorms throughout the weekend. we'll be talking about that. all coming up in a erika? >> thank you, lauren. as one safetrack surge ends, another begins. details on what will impact your weekend plans and why there is some light at the end of the tum for riders. >>> erika, they were protecting our roads when they were mowed down by a truck. an update on two officers one week after a terrifying crash. >>> d.c. sniper resentencing. a victim now speaking about the chance his convicted killer could one day goree. f introducing fios gigabit connection. superfast internet at an incredible price. with speeds

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lauren rickets is here tracking the latest on the storms. we'll check in with her in a few minutes. >>> there's aolitical storm brewing after the attorney general released a redacted version of special counsel robert mueller's report into russian meddling. the white house and the president's allies are claiming complete vindication. but democts are staying not so fast. they want to know more, and they're calling for mueller to testify before congress, and they want an un-redacted report. to help sort it out, tracie potts is live on capitol hill. >> refresh our memory on the key findings of the report and als what does mueller say that he wants congress to decide? >> reporter: sure, adam. first of all, the key findings are that russia interfered in the election, and there's a lot of detail on that. there was no collusion by the trump campaign or any american with russia to do so. but there were ten incidents of possible obstruction where mueller could not make up his mind whether to charge the idesident in part because his department dec and

we'll start with team coverage with chuck bell and lauren rickets. >> i'm glad we're not out in it yet. coming later. >> when i walked in they said we're going outside. it's raining outside. >> we can't forecast rain without standing out in rain apparently. a big push of moisture coming our way. you may see sunshine before more rain comes in later. we're stuck with the clouds and rain and steadier rain showers ready to move in. grab the umbrella. you'll need it today. 50s with rain drops coming down now. four things to know. rain likely today. breezy, mostly dry for tomorrow. more rain chances are creeping back in for saturday night and sunday for your holiday weekend. rolling thunderstorm and now it is traffic time and good thursday morning to you. >> good morning. taking a look at a couple of problems here. couple of things on our radar. 95 north at dale city sounds like this is just clear here. we had the right lane blocked because of police activity. just heard that in my other. as well this morning, inner loop at georgetown pike, all lanes are open but we do have police activity t

. >>> we'll begin with meteorologist lauren rickets in for chuck bell. it's a weather alert day, lauren. what do you expect? >> i expect some storms later on this afternoon any time after 2, 3:00 p.m. storms develop around the region. same deal as yesterday. you'll see those damaging winds, pretty heavy downpours as well. live city camera, it's calm out there right now. we have a little fog in some spots creating some low visibility, but we also have some dampness from last night's storm. again, beautiful sunrise coming up at 5:48. now current temperatures out there right now, it's warm. those temperatures are in the upper 60s to mid 70s. that is our range. we'll stay in the 70s through 7, 8:00 a.m. by 9:00 l we're in the 80s. it will be sticky out there as we continue through the day. now, if you're traveling, airport traveli today and then coming back on sunday, new york toks beautiful even fore fireworks they look gorgeous. coming back no issues. the only issue that you're really going to have is charlottecoming back fromhere on sunday, good chance of

lets check in with lauren ricket? people have to bundle up out there? >> yeah, people will have to bundle up. lets go ahead and go to our maps right now. we have the veterans race going on downtown dc, we have the woodrow wilson bridge half marathon, that begins at 7:00. it is going to be a nice morning for a run, although a cold morning. temperatures are nigoing to be the 30s. we'll continue to see those temperatures moving into the mid-40s, mid to upper 40s. all right, we got some warming conditions out there today, just a chance of some rain and we are warming things up this week. taking a look outside, we have a little bit more clouds out there right now. the next couple things to know, we tied the record yesterday. pockets of freezing rain is p t possible. today for brunches, temperatures are going to be fine. upper 40s for daytime highs today and maybe some late rain tonight and that's where we can see some pockets of freezing rain and just a little bit, not sure if it is hitting the ground. we are stuck in cloud cover, that's one reason why our t

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. >> let's start with meteorologist lauren rickets in for chuck ll. >>> good morning. going to be a great morning as we have cloud covere. out th but the sun coming up just about 2.5 hours from now. aeautiful and mild start this morning. cover, the oud temperatures didn't fall too far. a little warmer to start this morning compared to yesterday. you're looking at temperatures in the 40s and 50s right now. and we will continue to warm our wayntp the low 70s

let's get straight to lauren ricke rickets. >> the win temp now in the teens and 20s. we've got the south wind at nine miles an hour. it's going tour start to to the west as we go through 8:00, 9:00. we'll see 4 gusts to 50 miles an hour throughout the day today. windchills through much o a the da the teens and 20s tonight and teens and single digits. >> we'll have a look at your commute when we come back. at children's national, stronger is caring for a baby's heart in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. and a future when prenatal pediatrics leads to healthier children. it's being the number one newborn intensive care unit in the country. and giving parents peace of mind. it's less recovering in our bed, and more jumping on yours. stronger is standing out and standing proud. because we don't just want your kids to grow up. we want them to grow up stronger. >>> still have this crash hanging aund inner loopf the beltway at river road. some of the delays from this, on the american legion bridge, you can see delays. outer loop to van durn street, overturned trash truck. >>>

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>> yes, and lauren rickets made some promises yesterday. >> we were off to a good start for the workweek. what do you e have? >>e off to a good start right now, plenty of sunshine, it's going to continue to be gorgeous, not only today, but also tomorrow as well, so if you can't get o today, hopefully you can get out this evening, but you have all day tomorrow to enjoy very nice and comfortable conditions outhere. right now we're up to 80 degrees, we're going bo have a nieze out there. temperatures are going to climb into the daytime highs today r for. gh pressure is moving into our region. all good things must come to an end. the heat and humidity comiek back this >> we're working m to learne about this developing story in d.c. a man whose name has not been released was shot this morning a suspect description has not been released. police are investigating a shooting in the 5400 block of l cartere in riverdale. news 4 is told a man was found in the roadway with gunshotd wounds aro7:00 this morning, at last check that man is in critical conditio n police hav released any suspect informati

first, we want t check in with lauren rickets in the weather center. good morning, lauren. >> good morning, meghan and david. we're looking at some very- a very dire situation still ongoing in eastern north carolina and south carolina. right now we're on the very northern edge of any clo that is coming through florence. a lot of this coming from the cean, the atlancean with this easterly flow we're getting. we have the winds com off the atlantic. it brings moisture and brings it into here in the form of cloud cover. we've seeing that and drizzle. we get saturated and i forms in