Right now it is foggy with patches of drizzle outside, and later will clear slightly and be cloudy with temperatures in the 60s.
Explosion Displaces Over 100: Over 100 people have been displaced after a suspected gas explosion ripped through three or four apartments in a southeast D.C. complex.
Your Daily Dose of Inaugural News: The Post and W. Times describe the ‘extensive’ shutdown of downtown and the National Mall, and Post columnist Courtland Milloy thinks D.C. is getting ‘burned.’ The AP has a list of the streets which will be closed.
Cause of Helicopter Crash Unknown: Officials are trying to figure out what caused a medical helicopter to fall into the Potomac yesterday, killing two.
Briefly Noted: Indymedia profiles a business threatened by the stadium, the Washington Sculpture Center … a brief brush with a porn website has caused a scandal for some Rockville cheerleaders …