good morning, everyone. welcome to the 9:00 edition of "news4 today." m eun yang. we are going to take a look at the forecast with meteorologist chuck bell at the storm center 4. good morning, chuck. >> good morning to you. off to a beautiful start this saturday morning. welcome to your weekend, everybody. blue skies overhead. it looks like we are going to have nice weather all through not just today but lasting into tomorrow as well. you can see all those blue skies and shadows out there. temperature now at national airport hopped up to 65 degrees. still 60 degrees at andrews air force base. 63 at dulles international airport. 61 in frederick, maryland. 60 degrees in winchester, virginia. it is going to be a nice one today. plenty of shine and temperatures up into the mid 70s this afternoon. with nearly 100% sunshine. looks like our great weather will finish up into tomorrow as well. detail check of the 7-day forecast and, of course, eun,

saturday in the fall, that means your college football forecast will be coming up as well. for all of the local games and other tes. >> we are looking forward to that. thank you, chuck. the red cross is stepping in to help hundreds of maryland families whose holmes were flooded when a massive water main broke. the six-foot wide main broke late yesterday afternoon in dundalk. it caused major floogd and many residents had to be rescued from water chest-deep in and areas. the water receded and turning their attention from getting people out of the area to getting them back in their holmes. >> reporter: danger is over and cries sis over. and now is the job which we are all ready to do and doing it to the to get people back. >> maryland senator mikulski called yesterday's break a disaster. there hasn't been a water main break like this in maryland since the one in bethesda last year. a water main break flooded river road just a couple of days before christmas. rescue crews had to pull drivers

from their cars stranded in rushing water. that water main on river road was only 66 inches. the one that that burst into done talk was 72 inches. new information about a deadly fire in prince george's county. firefighters tell us they believe it was arson. they responded to a home on yak avenue in capitol heights this morning around 2:30. they found one person dead. exact cause is under investigation but the fire is being called suspicious. right now we don't know how the victim died, how old the victim was or whether the victim was a man or a woman. the fbi and several local police departments are participating in an exercise today. that's the first for the d.c. area. they were staging a mock trial abduction designed to test the skills of first responders and analysts and investigators. it is taking place in alexandria and that's where our derrick ward joins us now live this morning. derek, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning to you, eun. we are in the parking lot of the plaza 500 shopping center off edsall road in alexandria. if you look around you see there

are lots of folks from law enforcement, the fbi, local command center, yellow crime scene tape. usually when you see something likethis, it is a bad thing. this time it is a good thing. it is a mock child abduction. making sure they have the right procedures in place for something like this actually happens. people from local law enforcement and residents. if you are out here and see this high police presence don't be alarmed. it is all about being prepared. >> the fbi and fairfax decided to put together a mock child abduction training exercise because when in the event of a real child abduction, you could never have enough training. every second counts. and so the nice folksf the overlook community, alexandria, virginia, offered their assistance. they are providing their neighborhood for part of the ex-er ice and some of the residents are even role players. what we have found tabletop exercises are good but nothing

compares to a real live training exercise, role players, somebody is going to be playing the victim's family. the victim's friends, neighbors and witnesses. we actually have, you know, the bad guy as well. >> reporter: this is much about getting law enforcement prepared as it is about getting residents prepared. how to be good exists and what to look out for and what to do should the unthinkable happen. this one has a happy outcome to it. the key here is to do this sort of thing so have you the same outcome in real life. live in alexandria, back to you in the studio. >> derrick ward. derek, thank you. the man who carjacked a woman and l police on a high-speed chase through two states is still on the run. thursday night in gainesville, virginia, man forced a woman into her car at gun point and started driving. officers caught up with him and chased him into prince george's county. that's where he crashed and ran away. the woman inside the car was not hurt. there's new insight into the mind of the man accused of killing yale grad student annie le.

some people who knew him say raymond clark was controlling and often clashed with people in the science lab where le was doing research. clark reportedly september a text message to le on the day she disappeared to discuss the cleanliness of mouse cages. police found clark's dna at the murder scene and that investigators saw clark trying to hide cleaning equipment that was splattered with le's blood. police say that they may never know what his motive was. he's currently being held on $3 million bond. a grizzly scoffry in silver spring. a woman believed to be missing was murdered. her body was discovered in plastic storage container more than two weeks after her disappearance. a 17ier old is under arrest. jane watrel has the story. >> reporter: when rosa vazquez varned worried neighbors circulated flyers. police found her body hidden in a backyard plastic storage container. >> it is sad to hear this news. last time i saw her was the day

before she disappeared. then all of a sudden they said she disappeared. it was shocking. >> more shocking was the arrest of 17-year-old priamo portillo-guevera. according to the charge documents, he was dating the victim's daughter. the victim's daughter let priamo portillo-guevera into the family's home the night of august 30th and kept him hidden in the base many. after the daughter left for school, the spect texted the daughter her mother found him there. an argument ensued. police believe the suspect killed the victim in her home and hid her body in the backyard container. >> her family is in shock. and we want to be sensitive to them before we start asking them more questions about the details that led up to this. the main thing is that we believe that we have her assailant in custody. >> reporter: rosa was hard working and happy. they are unnerved by her murder. >> translator: it is scary.

i live here by myself with my daughter. to think this could happen to another woman my age is very scary. >> it was a shock that, you know, she was in the backyard and nobody knew about it. >> reporter: jane watrel, news4. president obama is rejecting claims that race is playing a factor in the health care debate some democrats, including former president jimmy carter, had maintained rac may be motivating some republican oppositions to the president's plan for health care reform. but the president told "meet the press" david gregory that this issue has been playing out since before he ever entered the white house. >> argument that's gone on for the history ofhis republic sxlik that is what's the right role of government, how do we balance freedom with our need to look after one other. i talked about this in the joint sessions speech. this is not a new argument. it always invokes passions. >> vice president biden is expected to dive into the health care debate this week. he will deliver his first major

address on the issue tuesday to the national association of insurance commissioners. you can see david gregory's entire interview with president obama tomorrow morning on "meet the press." it all starts here at 10:30 on news4. it is now 9:08. 65 degrees. story of survival that sounds like something out of hollywood. a woman survived for five day, badly injured in car crash on a remote mountain. how she did it. plus who says good for you can't be fun, too. great lunch ideas that leave your kids smiling. local nba player delonte west is singing the blues. what police found in his guitar case that landed him behind bars.

nba player and prie george's county native delonte west facing serious weapons charges. west is a guard for the cleveland cavaliers. an officer pulled him over on i-95 thursday night for speeding and making an unsafe lane change. police say they found three guns on west. two handguns and a shotgun. he's facing speeding and weapons charges. there is no word on why west had those weapons. amazing story now of survival in the rocky mountains. a colorado woman has been rescued after crashing her car and spending five days traed in the wilderness. >> reporter: this was the scene tuesday afternoon. 68-year-old cynthia hoover had been rescued.

five days after her car careened off of central city highway. the car tumbled and flipped and landed outside the view of passers-by. badly hurt, hoover could hardly move. but she braved the environment letting her hair absorb the rain so she could drink. >> as it turned out we all heard something. >> reporter: it was john northern who delivered her long awaited rescue. he had been giving a tour at the heidi gold mine. >> at some moment applause we were talking and the lady again said help. >> reporter: northern took off in a sprint. >> she was located there on the slope. >> reporter: the woman he found was bruised and battered. northern called the mine manager, chris stone. >> i ran around the corner with the first aid kit. >> reporter: they kept hoover safe, giving her watder and keeping her conscious. >> she knew when the crash was. frankly, at the time we took that as an incompany herent thought. we just -- it is unbelievable, you know, some one had been there since thursday. >> reporter: this is where flights landed. from here it took hoover to st. anthony 's and where she remains

tonight. her family tells us she has 11 broken ribs, a broken neck, and a broken back. all of that, of course, sounds very bad. but her family tells us that the prognosis is very good. >> that's the news everyone needed to hear. with a positive outcome like that, you can feel good about what happened. >> reporter: with the crash happening, just outside central city, rthern stlas is no other way to explain it. a stroke of luck. >> sequence of events that led to her being found is pretty delicate. >> what an amazing story of survival. >> using your hairing to collect water. yikes. >> good instincts. >> beautiful sunshine on the way for today. i'm optimistic. we keep it for even tomorrow. a check of the forecast coming right up.

school lunches don't have to be boring. chips, pizza, cookies, all of it healthy. liz crenshaw hasricks of the trade that will turn your child into the envy of the school cafeteria. >> reporter: we are here at stratford university. welcome. we are doing healthy back-to-school brown bag lunches. where do we start? >> we are going to start with peanut butter and jelly. >> let's make a sandwich. >> no. the trick is you use graham

crackers and fresh fruit. kids will like it. peanut butter and all-flute spread. put a few berries in there. this will increase your children's fruit intake and fiber intake for the day. >> smash that together. >> smash it all together. >> carry it too school. that's great. peanut butter is great protein. >> it is great protein. here's the way to add water and fiber to it. the trick is celery. >> celery. >> celery. just add little fruit to the top. >> raisins. >> craisins. >> ladybugs on a log. >> you can also use m&ms. wrap them up and take them to school. >> kids love that. >> kids love raw vegetables and ranch dip. >> they do. the trick is small containers for portion control. >> precut veggies. perfect snack. send it in a -- >> insulated lunch box. >> kids love these.

>> whole wheat crus i cut up the vegetables really small on this and hid it under the cheese. >> hiding under the cheese. you sago ahead and wrap the leftovers for back to school. >> makes a perfect lunch. >> you are not crazy about light bread sandwiches. >> i'm not. the trick to a hethier sandwich is use the whole wheat wraps with low-fat cream cheese, add the fruit, dried fruit. >> and you have fiber. >> you do. roll it up. >> i think it looks cute. they will eat it. >> i think so. >> kids love corn chips as snacks. >> loaded with sodium and fat. trick is bake your own and using corn tortillas. cut them into triangles. you are going to spray them with low-fat spray. >> sprinkle them with a little bit of salt. >> watch the sodium. >> bake them for how long? >> 350 degree, ten minutes come out beautifully golden brown. package them for school. >> good snacks. >> kids love cookies in their lunch box. >> trick is, though, bake a

healthy one at home. mix your dough up and roll it up in parchment, lower in sugar, fat, and salt. >> you just slice it o and bake what you need on a daily basis? >> you could. or do it once a week and freeze it. >> send it off to school. perfect. thank you so much for the healthy ideas >> kids and parents will be thanking us, too. have a healthy school year. >> yes. >> that was liz crenshaw reporting. if you are thinking that looks like too much work, you can make your mornings less hectic by planning ahead. put the meal together the night before. even make them well in advance and freeze them. there you go. if i pack celery with m&ms, i have a feeling the celery will come back. i carried a brown bag lunch to school for years and traded all kinds of stuff mom made at home for us. anyway, more -- more importantly, people are interested in the forecas because it is the ekend. everybody is up and going.

first cup of coffee down probably. working on the second cup now. maybe you are a tea person. >> i like tea. like both. green tea. >> beautiful. green tea. wow. you can't sell that to kids. beautiful weather for today. nice weather is going to last all the way into your sunday as well. i don't think we have another chance for rain until we get to monday. by then who cares if it is raining outside. under a mostly clear sky. here in the washington area. our temperatures are on their way up from a cool start earlier this morning. we are now generally speaking in the low to mid 60s across the area. and national airport, our temperatures stand at 65 degrees. you can see those flags flapping there. northeasterly wind now at 15 miles per hour. today we have 12 hours and 17 minutes of daylight. six weeks from today we will be down to just under 11 1/2 hours of daylight. six weeks from today, halloween. can you believe it? halloween is only six weeks away. start thinking about your costumes now, kids. outside across the rest of the area on this beautiful saturday

morning, 61 in frederick, maryland. 62 in the inner harbor of baltimore and 64 at the naval academy and annapolis. 57 in cull pepper and 63 degrees in manassas. 63 now in vienna. also, in falls church. beautiful daks expected for today. high pressure is in charge of our weather. it has been settling down eastern seaboard. yocan see how the skies have cleared out now from central virginia, northbound all the way up into portions of southern new england. so high pressure is in charge. sunny saturday coming up. if you are doing traveling down to the south, southern virginia headed down to blacksburg for the game down there today, cloudy skies. maybe a shower in far southwestern virginia. no chances for rain around our area for today. as high pressure continues settle on in, we will keep that northeasterly wind around the area for today. good kite flying weather. if have you a kite you haven't had a chance to get out recently. high pressure moving closely to us overnight tonight and skies will remain clear. high pressure moving in and that means the winds will die off tonight and could see a little bit of patchy fog first thing tomorrow morning. then tomorrow afternoon, winds coming back around to the

southeast. little warmer tomorrow. but still a beautiful day. for today, plenty of shine and beauty of a saturday. highs today mid to upper 7 ons. all important college football forecast. middle tennessee state. coming to college park to take on the terrapins today. 75 degrees. full sunshine in college park. go terps. huskers, university of nebraska. going to blacksburg today to take on virginia tech. 3:30. kickoff time down there at 3:30. 74 degrees. may have a sprinkle down there. most of the game should be dry. and southern mississippi coming to charlottesville -- going to hattiesburg to play southern miss. warm and humid 85 degrees with a chance of thunderstorms down there. our all important 7-day forecast if you are planning on hanging out around here the next couple of days, you picked a great weekend to hang around. 75 today. 77 tomorrow. a little bit more humidity starting to come back as we get into monday and tuesday and as a result chances for light passing rain showers monday evening and

then unsettled pattern lasts not only through monday night and tuesday but on into wednesday and thursday as well. we try to catch up on a little bit of our sneaded rain. it won't be a cold september rain. it will be a mild one with temperatures in the 80s and rest of the all-important college football game forecast coming up next. >> looking forward to that 37 thank you, chuck. there hasn't bench to talk with the nationals this year but ryan zimmerman is the hope for the future with a career year. here's dan hellie with in morning's "sports minute." good morning. your "sports minute" starts with the nationals. they snapped the three-game slide in new york. zimmerman, he is playing well. 30th home run of the season. mike mcdougal picks up his 16th save. nationals beat the mets 6-5. to football. saturday night redskins night here on news4. nbc 4. we start with redskins show time and doc walker and mike wise joining lindsay and me. we are talking skins. that starts at 7:00 and followed by the jim zorn show at 7:30.

down a few levels to high school. last night rolled over friendship collegiate. michael merriweather looking good saying get out of my way. 45-12. in suitland, dontrelle kelly takes it in from 20 yards out. suland shuts out northwestern 21-0. that's your "sports minute." i'm dan hellie. everybody have a great weekend. >> if you are heading to the redskins home opener, there are things you should know whether you are taking the train or driving. metro promises to have more trains running for fans. that includes for those traveling from the morgan boulevard and largo town center stations on the blue line and from the landover metro station on the orange line. those who chose to drive or choose to drive will have to deal with new game day rules. starting this sunday, tailgaters fa restrictions on where they can party during the hours leading up to the kickoff. nontailgaters will get to park in the front of the designated lot.

tailgaters that need more than one parking spot will be shuttled to park. some fans are not happy about those change. >> tailgating has been the most fun part of the game day. and now you are telling me i can't even do that anymore. >> kickoff tomorrow is at 1:00. parking lots open at 9:00 tomorrow morning. 9:25 is your time. 65 degrees. they say you are only as old as you feel. you may have a potentially life threatening problem and not know it. we will tell you how to calculate your age. the wild scene in a crowded subway station. a gunman opens fire and it is caught on tape.

water main break floods a maryland neighborhood. beware of scammers. plus, fire investigators say a deadly fire in prince george's county was set intentionally. and new information about the terrorism investigation that is stretching across the country. investigators now say they may ve disrupted a dangerous cell. good morning, everyone. i'm eun yang. thanks for watching "news4 today." a check of what's making news this morning. first we want to check the weather with meteorologist chuck bell in storm center 4. good morning, chuck. >> good morning. a beautiful saturday under way across the area right now. bright blue shine.

blue shine. the sun is bright yellow. the sky is blue is what i'm trying to say. a clear blue sky. you can see the national cathedral in the lower left-hand corner of your screen. temperatures in the low to mid 60s around most of the metropolitan area. mid 60s in the nthern neck. also, into portions of southern maryland. dew point temperatures upper 40s and low 50s. plenty of sunshine today and very little in the way of humidity. highs this afternoon getting up to near 75 degrees. amongst all the other great things you can do, bluemont fair in loudoun county, virginia today. 40th anniversary -- 40th annual bluemont fair, loudoun county. off of route 7. 10:00 to 5:00 today and sunday. they send this great shirt. get outside and enjoy outdoor actity today. >> good day for it. thank you, chuck. sample wines of the world. try great mood and listen to live music. this weekend is the third annual vintage crystal and here to tell us more about it is angela fox, executive director of the event. thanks for joining us this morning. >> tell us what to expect. it will be a gorgeous day.

>> gorgeous day. we have 30 wines from spain, argentina and chile. we have jazz from the d.c. jazz festival and salsa fm the salsa room. salsa classes. you can taste great nibbles and drink great wine from around the latin region and we also have a little tequila tasting for our friends. >> you might have on the get a designated dryer for that one. >> very small on the tequila side. >> you mentioned claeses. an educational element to this event. >> there are two sides to that. one is the wine tasting classes. you can learn about the individual wines and that's courtesy of jim whitaker there. salsa room providing salsa classes. 23 you want tory it out, you can have exhibitions and get on stage. >> it looks hard. it can be. >> i have done a little bit myself. as long as you sort of are with somebody that knows what they are doing, you are okay. and starring at the beginning is a lot of fun. >> tickets cost $10. there's free elements to

providing people with fun free things to do especially during the economy. >> yes. actually the tickets if you are drinking wine are $10 -- $20 cash. if you are only doing food it is $10. there are plenty of activities if you are not either pch watch the salsa and listen to great mousse zblik another scene this year is the ecofriendly aspect. tell bus what you are doing in terms of getting people to be aware of the environment. >> when we do an event like this, you bring 5,000 people plus into an area, there could be a lot of waste. and one of the policies of the crystal city business and permit district is a zero policy. all of the plates and napkins we have are compostable. all the bottles recycled. really trying to make sure we are not contributing to landfill at the end of the event. >> it is tomorrow. tell bus the details on when, where, and -- >> absolutely. tomorrow is sunday. doors open -- tents open at 2:00 and goes until 6:00 p.m. throughout the day, there will

be the wine classes and the salsa exhibitions and also the music. >> where is it? is it -- you were saying tents. >> one of the great things about vintage crystal is the event is a block from metro. you don't have to drive. there's plenty of parking if you have a designated driver, that's where the $10 tickets come in. you can come in on the metro and walk a block away. you don't have to go far out and you can have a really nice afternoon. it is at 220 crystal drive -- 220, right in there between 20th street off the metro station. very easy to find. and lovely outdoor venue. >> all right. sounds like a lot of fun, angela, thanks for joining us this morning. >> thank you. . in "news 4 your health," how old are your veins? it may seem like an odd question. your vascular age may be vastly different from your actual age. that could be a life or death difference. meredith land has more. >> reporter: beth patterson is 46. she says she feels 46. but beth wants to know how old

her veins are. cardiovascular disease runs in her family. >> all of my aunts and uncles have had premature deaths. it is something that's in the back of my mind. >> reporter: noninvasive painless test will determine that. it is called cimt. it has been modified and is now used in doctors' offices to measure the sick thickness of the walls of the arteries using ultrasound technology. >> her measurement is 569 right about where it should be roy translation -- dr. mark mcquaid says beth's vascular age is 46, too. >> somebody learns their vascular age is ten years older than their chronologic age, that's an indication to change your lifestyle. >> still a salad. it is paying off. >> reporter: >> meredith land reporting. heart disease is the leading

cause of death in the u.s. a deadly shooting inside of a subway station in mexico caught on tape. we must warn you now the video is graphic. the man was writing graffiti on a wall when police approached him. he pulled out a gun and started shooting. it happened inside major station in mexico city just as the train pulled in. he killed two people and shot five others before police finally subdued him. according to witnesses, the man said he was shooting to get revenge on the government. mexican police are adding hundreds of officers to patrol the subway system. new details today in the high-proceed trial terrorism investigation. a senior intelligence official says the man questioned for three days by the fbi has indicated that he has a direct association with al qaeda. the fbi discovered that his laptop had bomb making instructions and feared that he was planning some kind of attack. zazation attorney said his client never met with al qaeda operatives and isn't involved in any kind of terrorism.

zazi is expected to be questioned again today. new information about a deadly fire in prince george's county. firefighters tell us they believe that it is arson. responded to a home on kayak avenue in capitol heights this morning around 2:30. they tell us they found one person dead. the exact cause is under investigation. but the fire is being called suspicious. right now we don't know how old the victim is or whether the victim is a man or a woman. officials in maryland are still assessing the damage caused by yesterday's massive water main break. the six-foot main broke late yesterday afternoon flooding the baltimore suburb of dundalk. the water has receded and crews are working to help residents return to their holmes. officials are also warning those residents that they may be victimized again not by floodwaters but by contractors trying to make money atheir expense. >> we have had predator contractors go into the community and say they were september by baltimore county and telling people they had to sign a conact and in order to clean up their houses to do what

the public servants who are in the community do not do. we -- baltimore county sent no one into the community for anybody to sign a contract. >> the maryland insurance administration is helping residents file insurance claims and make sure that they aren't taking advantage of. it is now :36. 55 degrees. just ahead, it is beyond the power lunch. how much one person paid to have a meal with sarah palin. plus a little bit of everything at the box office this weekend. whether you are looking for good scares or a little romance. we will tell you what's new in theaters. an in-depth discussion of redskins football heading into the rams game plus a locker inspection for the tight es and much more. tonight on "redskins showtime.

jennifer aniston and matt damon headline film debut this week. cheerleader turns out to be a deadly date. mike wilbur has this box office preview. >> reporter: jennifer aniston and aaron discover "love happens." he play as self-help guru with need of serious help himself in the form of annston. romantic drama is rated pg-13. >> we need your help. >> reporter: matt damon teams up with stephen saiderberg. a star witness inside the corporate giant. >> they will make me the next president. >> reporter: motives for cooperating to the feds come

into question when they discover some of his own activities are suspicious. this one is rated r. when megan fox is possessed she develops a real appetite for boys in jennifer's body. it is up to her best friend to stop the murder and mayhem. horror film is rated r. >> we are about to be the epicenter of a perfect food storm. >> reporter: "cloudy with a chance of meatballs" is based on a children's book. the adventure follows the town where food falls from the sky instead of rain. it is rated pg. that's this week's box office preview. mike wilbur, nbc news. $63,500 can get you one dinner with sarah palin. that's how much someone bid to dine with the former vice president al candidate. kathy maples was the top bidder on ebay for the meal of a lifetime. palin offered herself up for the dinner with proceeds going to a charity that helps wounded

warriors. that $63,000 doesn't cover transportation. naples will still have to pay the travel bill to meet up with palin and that's most likely in alaska. redskins fans are counting down to the home opener and team's coach said the players are ready to lay it out on the field. here is dan hellie with a look at what's coming up tonight on "the jim zorn show." >> jim zorn, larry weizman. i'm predicting a win. tell me how you wil get there on sunday. >> we will come out and fight much like we did last week with improvement. the week's practice and hard work we have been putting in. we play with passion and we are going to give it everything we've got. and this -- this week we have the extra element. that's our fans to help us win this game. >> your key to victory?

our key to vip, i know this guy is itching to call more runs and clinton portis is just champing at the bit to turn himself loose. i think jim will call every running play and clinton will be a tired and happy warrior. >> jim zorn is busy taking notes. >> jim zorn busy taking notes. "the jim zorn" tonight. >> they need a win. >> didn't get it last week. we need it this week. i hope the team is listening. the rest of the pep talk and weekend forecast coming up after these important messages.

sticky situation for rush hour drivers in albuquerque, new mexico. a tractor trailer hauling fresh fruit flipped over on the interstate yesterday afternoon. spilling its cargo across the highway. it led to several more accidents and caused big backups in both directions. it took crews several hours to clean up the mess. >> yikes. i'm glad it didn't happen around here. our traffic is bad enough. >> we don't need anything else sticking to the road. >> there you go. especially several hours. sunshine is out. it is going. everybody is excited for another weekend filled with outdoor activities. just sitting around doing nothing but enjoying the great weather out there. couple of weeks in a row. cloudy skies all week long. three weekends in a row now, the weather has really turned the

corner. just in the nick of time. in fact, this weekend it turned the corner earlier because last weekend we had the clouds sticking around for saturday. that's not going to be the case this beautiful saturday. we have bright sunshine out there right now. it is going to stick around. all day long. there is a live picture outside from our city camera today with a bright blue sky hanging overhead as we look across the potomac river into prince george's county. good looking day. that's fedex field. fedex field. yes. guaranteeing a redskins win tomorrow. right, everybody? >> we are? >> of course. of course. luckily they don't have me on the team. that will help their chances of winning. 65. that's our current temperature at national airport. dew point nice and low. 51 degrees. nice northeasterly breeze at 15 miles per hour. keeping things stirred up. cool september and dry september so far. half inch behind average in rainfall. and two degrees cooler than average now for the entire month of september. so a little break from the faly warm august. believe it or not, five degrees cooler than last september was. right now it is 65 in town.

62 in baltimore. and 63 degrees in howard county. 63 also in frederick county, maryland. 60 degrees on the nose in martinsburg, west virginia. on the whole, going to be a day filled with sunshine across the area for today. and anything you want to do outside. whether it is sailing or just sitting around doing nothing. good weather for and it high pressure building on in. as it continues to settle down, this weather front which broughts that northeasterly wind and cooler temperatures than we saw yesterday, that weather front is stalling out along the virginia/north carolina border. we will keep plenty of sunshine for today and tomorrow. this area of high pressure moves off the east coast late tomorrow and it will start to allow a little bit more of a southwesterly wind flow in the atmosphere and that will bring high clouds back into our skies late tomorrow afternoon and our chances for rain start to ramp back up again as we get into monday afternoon and monday evening. by and large, the weekend is looking great. and monday certainly won't abwashout. we are having an unsettled weather pattern as we get into the middle parts of next week. could face several days of the clouds and showers chances.

get outside and enjoy your weather today. sunny and beautiful. temperatures today generally up into the mid 60s. leslie in northern virginia put in the request for this game today. west virginia down in auburn on the plains of eastern alabama bam, 79 degrees at kickoff time. 8:00. good chance of passing thunderstorms tennessee vols in gainesville taking on the gators. 90 degrees and humid down there. of course, the most interesting game mainly because it is a weather game. tulsa golden hurricanes going to take on my beloved sooners. kickoff at 3:30. 80 degrees there. those are the football games. i'm predicting another oklahoma win even though we didn't win the first week. waiting track last week. i think we can take tulsa today. our forecast, saturday forecast -- that's the one everybody wants to know. mid 70s today. upper 70s tomorrow. chance of rain by late monday. better chances of rain tuesday and wednesday of next week. that may trail into thursday as well. temperatures will not be cold. that will be a mild rain with temperatures in the 80s for

tuesday, wednesday, and thursday of next week. that's not too bad. touch of late summer, early fall humidity and chance for needed rain showers. >> we have this weekend to enjoy. take a little rain. >> we have 36 more hours at least. good weather. >> courtesy of maryland. >> i always predict the home team to win. yes. maryland will take middle tennessee. >> good. thank you so much, chuck. up next, lindsay laces them up to talk hockey with the coach of the capitals. it is a fire they don'mind fighting. why this mini bonfire is a good sign for workers in one city.

some philadelphians are fighting being fired with fire.

they set stacks of layoff notices on fire yesterday. the best part of the whole thing, none of the notices got to their intended targets. they were supposed to go to the fire fighters and other city employees but a last-minute bill raised the sales tax one cent and created enough money to save the jobs. a bitter end to last season for the washington capitals fans. what's the team's head man doing to enjoy sweet success this season? bruce boudreau sat down with lindsay czarniak to discuss the upcoming season as well as culinary peculiar area in this week's edition of "lunch with lindsay." >> scary because everybody knows i'm sort of a burger kind of guy. i haven't seen this place. it is going to be interest. >> is that like your go-to burger? >> well, it is -- fast food.

i didn't get this body from eating a lot of veggies. i'm going to have the angus beef burger. shake. need a peanut butter shake. i have my diet coke. >> what are your food idiosyncrasies? you said we are going learn a lot about you. >> well, i have never had a cup coffee. >> in your life. >> in my life. i have never had peanut butter in my life. never had mustard. never had relish. this is the biggest one, though. i hate cheese. if i find out that there's cheese mixed with it in it, i will not eat it. even if i have already eaten half of it and loved it, i will stop eating that thing right away. i don't know what it is. there is a restaurant in indiana -- i don't know if it is around here, called cheddars. i would never go in there because it has a cheese-flavored

name. how stup you had is that? >> do you want to try peanut butter? >> no. i don't. i'm so weird. it looks great. it looks great. >> now, i know you played in the pro-ams with ter woods. >> experience of a lifetime. honest lick i can tell you that. i was playing the first hole with tiger and then i backed offing with played with mike weir. so which is another fellow canadian which is -- a hero of mine. and somebody admired well before he won the masters. >> how popular is he in canada? >> in canada, he is -- he's it. i mean, when he won the masters, the next day he dropped the bucket at maple leaf garden and got the longest standing ovation they have ever recorded in the

garden. >> what did you do after -- >> i tried many times to watch our game 7 against pittsburgh. i haven't made it past the 13-minimum mark when they scored their first goal. >>really? had to turn it off? >> i can't watch this. when pittsburgh did win it, i was watching the game, and -- i must say i got five texts within five minutes. game seven. five texts from five guys that said in certain words, can you believe that? this is where we were. this is how close. yeah. >> might be a way you -- peanut butter. dip them in this way. that's what people do with wendy's frosies. >> just because it is you, i'm going to have my first taste of peanut butter. that's pretty damned good.

>> he has to try the peanut butter. it is all about beer in germany. october dpes sunday way. world's most famous beer festival runs longer than two weeks. this is the 176th annual octoberfest. the mayor got the event started by tapping the first keg. city is expecting 6 million people to come out this year. octoberfest is feeling the hit from the recession. the cost of a mug of beer is up 50 cents. next year it will cost more than $12. festival-goers will drink more than 1.5 million gallons of beer. >> wow. >> million and a half gallon. >> that's a lot of people, though. >> that's true. >> lot of folks going over there. >> lot of beer. >> germans like good beer. >> probably worth going to at least one. >> you would believe he never tried peanut butter? >> he doesn't like cheese. >> what was the other one? what was the other one? >> coffee. he never had a cup of coffee. >> never had a cup of coffee. has he heard of starbucks?

it is a billion dollar idea. >> the caffeine is not good for you anyway. >> beautiful day outside. mid 70s and upper 70s tomorrow. nothing wrong with the weather this weekend. >> sounds good. thank you, chuck. that does it for us and thanks for joining us this morning. we will see you right back here tomorrow starting at 6:00. "inside the redskins" is next. . .