for her getting on facebook, celebrating with her friends. >> that's right. >> looking good, too. >> keeping up with modern technology, newfangled things the kids are using. >> impressive. >> stay with us. "news4 today" continues right now at 5:00 a.m. >> and now from washington's leading news station, this is "news4 today." new this morning, the crash, chase, and standoff that all ended in front of a d.c. area embassy overnight. and a possible double dose of stormy weather. the winter weather system and the hurricane that could cause problems for your weekend plans. tom kierein analyzing the models just coming into storm center 4. good morning, everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eun yang. welcome to "news4 today" today for this thursday, october 25th, 2012. at least two people have died as hurricane sandy continues to gain strength over cuba. the category 2 storm made landfall overnight with wind gusts up to 114 miles per hour. the haiti news agency ahp says a woman died trying to cross a

flooded ravine. one person in jamaica was also killed when he was struck by a boulder. a tropical storm warning now in effect for palm beach beach county florida and the treasure coast. although it is unlikely sandy will make landfall in florida, this storm will likely pass close enough to generate some unfavorable conditions for the weekend. we'll have some live reports from florida coming up later this morning. >> tom kierein closely monitoring the track of this storm and wondering how it's going to affect us in this area. >> yeah, unfortunately there is a risk that this storm -- it's probably not going to be a hurricane by the time it comes up our way, but it may affect our weather beginning sunday and into the first part of next week. i have the latest details coming up in just a couple seconds. but first, what's happening right now? right outside our door. well, no hurricanes. and no storms. no rain. beautiful morning under way. just a few clouds east of washington and around the bay. otherwise, a clear sky and temperatures right now around the region are on the cool side after yesterday's dreamy coue

of hours of summer-like weather, now back down to the 50s, most of maryland and virginia including montgomery, arlington, fairfax, prince george's counties. it's getting chilly, though. many locations there in the mountains are in the upper 40s. here is the latest satellite view of sandy, category 2 hurricane passing over eastern cuba. winds are down a little bit. this is the very latest update. just came in a few minutes ago. throughout the day today, maybe maintain category 2 strength for another maybe 12 hours, then back down to a 1 by tomorrow as it passes over the bahamas, takes a right turn west of bermuda, then takes a turn to the north an a little bit farther to the west, coming close to us, it could track anywhere within this zone. this is 2:00 a.m. tuesday's position, so beginning sunday, the effects may be on monday and into tuesday. for today though, beautiful day. enjoy afternoon highs into the mid 70s. sunrise 7:28.

i'm back in ten minutes with a hometown forecast and another update. >> good morning to you, taking the rails, nice and clear. good choice. not seeing any reported delays. to the roads in virginia, backlick road is shut down between johnmarr drive and little river turnpike. 66 heading westbound, looks like this accident just cleared. earlier the right lane was blocked, but just cleared. along 50 in maryland, heading outbound 50, just past 295, had road work there. it should be completely gone. i'm back in ten. over to you. new this morning, some video you will see only on news4. after a police chase that ended inside the gates of the russian embassy here in d.c. megan mcgrath joins us live now from the embassy with more details. megan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, aaron. an interesting night here for the folks at the russian embassy. they got an unexpected visitor

this morning. this all began around 12:30 with a car accident on massachusetts avenue. >> havina little trouble with megan's microphone there. we can tell you it started with a car crash on massachusetts avenue. the driver was pulled over, police intended to cite him for driving drunk. he apparently took off on foot, according to d.c. police, ran to the russian embassy on wisconsin avenue, jumped the fence there, and then, of course, was taken into custody by russian authorities. secret service had to step in, negotiated for 90 minutes with the russian officials, and were able to have him released into american custody. today a cease fire is expected to begin in syria to mark a muslim hollywood day. rebel forces continue their attacks. a suicide car bomb killed at least six people in damascus yesterday. rebel leaders say it was a present for president bashar

al assad. the syrian government agreed to a cease-fire. this morning, ecuador is asking britain for assurance that julian assange will not be arrested if he needs to leave the embassy property for medical treatment. he has been inside the ecuador's embassy since june. assange maintains his innocence, but he's worried that if he returns to sweden, he could be sent to the u.s. to face charges over publishing classified documents. as far as his health, britain's foreign service office says they don't know of any medical concerns, despite reports, he's lost of lot of weight. we've just learned the family of a pakistani teen activist shot in the head by the taliban is now on the way to the uk to see her for the very first time. they left pakistan this morning. they're scheduled to land in about five hours. malala's mother, father, and two

brothers are expected to make the flight. they'll be briefed on her condition, then reunited. she's been there for about a week and they haven't seen her in that time. doctors say she's stable. she was, of course, shot on her way home from school earlier this month. president obama is getting an early start to another busy day on the campaign trail. he's set to land less than two hours from now in tampa. it will be the first stop on a day that will also take in two rallies in richmond and cleveland. the president will also stop in chicago this afternoon to vote. he'll end the day back here in washington. mitt romney will focus his campaign efforts in ohio. he is spending a whole day in the buckeye state with visits to cincinnati, worthington, and defiance. the republican presidential nominee has good reason to campaign hard in ohio. no gop nominee has ever lost there and won the white house. romney's running mate will campaign today in virginia. paul ryan will speak this afternoon in bristol. he'll also stop in charlottesville this evening. romney will return to virginia

this weekend, he has events scheduled in haymarket, richmond and virginia beach on sunday. the son of virginia congressman jim moran says he doesn't want to be a distraction. patrick moran resigned from his father's campaign following accusations he tried to help commit voter fraud. undercover video from the group surfaced recently, showing what looks like moran talking to a man claiming to be a field director who is concerned about the election. he talks to patrick moran about trying to skirt virginia voter i.d. laws to cast multiple ballots. moran suggests forging utility bills to try and get around those laws. the group's leader james o'keefe says it's proof that voter fraud is a real problem in this election. >> we don't think this is a partisan issue to expose weaknesses. voter fraud is a problem. it's a problem, period. and it's not necessarily a left or right issue. it's just an issue and it's a fact that needs to be addressed. >> patrick moran released a statement following his

resignation and said that he thought the man was joking, and in hindsight, he should have walked away immediately. jim moran's campaign also released a statement saying that pat had a clear error in judgment. virginia attorney general ken cuccinelli is now stepping into a politically carjacked investigation into possible voter fraud. the state's republican controlled board elections authorized the investigation yesterday and asked cuccinelli to get involved. it senters arou ecenters around hired for the republican party who now faces criminal charge for allegedly destroying voter registration forms. the parent company is already being investigated in florida for more than 200 allegations of voter fraud. coming up, a shooting inside a megachurch in atlanta. this morning, the ties the suspected gunman has to the d.c. area. lee boyd malvo's new revelations from prison in an exclusive interview. what he has to say about his actions as a d.c. sniper and who he now wants to reach out to. and another nice day on tap

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absolutely breathtaking images this morning with important implications as well. this is hawaii's kilua volcano.

right now the molten rock is 100 feet from the top of that crater. >> our director says imagine all the s'mores you can make. >> i don't think you can get a stick long enough. >> i know. let's check the forecast. our forecast, tom? >> early this morning don't have any travel problems weather-wise. college park and prince george's county by 7:00 a.m., the upper 50s and a few clouds around. by the lunch hour, the mid 60s and partly cloudy. partly cloudy for the afternoon. here is the regional forecast for all of us. we'll have afternoon highs reaching the mid 70s. a gorgeous autumn day coming up. latest trends, may be coming a little closer to us. i'll have the very latest track coming up in ten minutes along with the seven-day outlook. a look at traffic along with danella. >> good morning, tom. still seeing a situation in

virginia. backlick road closed in both directions. you get off on to johnmarr drive and connect to little river turnpike if you'd like to continue your drive in that direction. road work set up at hunter mill road, but that looks to be gone. connecting to the beltway in virginia, nice and clear. had road work set up on the outer and inner loop. between the dulles toll road and the interchange, no incidents to warn you about. ahead on "news4 today," the move on today's calendar to get metro's plan for a purple line back on track. and we've heard about the benefits of aspirin for your heart. as governor, i cut five billion dollars in spending and balanced the budget every year. and tim kaine and i both cut our own pay as governors, to lead by example. mark warner and i reached across party lines to get things done.

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d.c. area sniper lee boyd malvo says he was sexually abused. malvo says his accomplice abused him for years until the two were arrested ten years ago. he made the revelation in an exclusive interview with nbc's matt lauer. malvo also complains that police still don't know everyone he and mohamed killed. he says he's tried to reach out to those victims' families. >> without anyone contacting me, i reached out and i did that, in five different instances in different states. but there was a point in time where psychologically, i couldn't handle it. this is reality. in here, i have no one. i have to take care of myself. >> you catch matt lauer's entire phone interview with lee boyd

malvo on "today." five family members were shot yesterday after police say a man started shooting inside their business in suburban l.a. then went to their nearby home and continued firing. police don't believe the man ever worked for the family and they don't believe he's related. this morning, that gunman is still on the loose. police believe he took off in the family's car. the colorado teen accused of murdering a 10-year-old girl will be in court today. 17-year-old austin sigg turned himself into police tuesday night after his mother called authorities. earlier this month, jessica ridgeway went missing on her way to school. her body was found five days later in a nearby field. sigg will also face charges for trying to abduct a woman back in may while she was jogging. the man who police say shot a man yesterday at a georgia megachurch was once in a maryland mental health facility. police say 51-year-old floyd palmer was charged with attempted murder, assault and handgun charges in baltimore in 2001.

he was released in 2005. yesterday police say palmer shot and killed a church volunteer outside world changers church international. that church is run by naa nationally known televangelist. the reverend jesse jackson is among at least a dozen people arrested at a factory in illinois. jackson joined a group of employees who were demanding to speak to plant management. the group was warned that they would be arrested if they came on to factory property, but the protesters linked arms and walked on anyway. the company which is owned by bane capital is in the process of closing the plant and moving those jobs to china. a police officer and e.r. doctor are being held as heroes. a 74-year-old woman collapsed in a parking lot. the officer and an e.r. doctor both saw it happening and rushed

into action. it's something the officer says he has never experienced in his ten-year career. >> before you know it, she's taking a breath, she's moving a little bit and you're just thinking to yourself, i can't believe this is actually happening. >> the woman is expected to fully recover. today, we'll get an update on the purple line. prince george's county is hosting a purple line business summit in green belt to discuss the economic impact of that proposed line. the 16-mile light rail line would extend from new carolton to bethesda in montgomery county. those in favor say more than 60,000 people ride the rail every day. it would connect to metro's red, green, and orange lines as well as to the mark trains and amtrak. a three-day-long health and fitness expo kicks off today to get the region ready for the 37th annual marine corps marathon. the expo serves as the check-in for the nearly 34,000 runners taking part, but more than 200

exhibits will also be on display at the d.c. armory, including fitness products, health screenings and giveaways. the expo runs through saturday starting today and is free and open to the public. the marathon takes place sunday at 7:55 a.m. some people concerned about whether the weather we might get on sunday could affect the marathon. tom kierein keeping an eye on all things meteorlogical. >> indeed. we have just a few clouds east of the eastern shore and maybe a little fog forming. elsewhere, a clear sky. temperatures are cool after yesterday's touch of summer, back down to autumn-like temperatures in the 50s this morning. montgomery, prince george's, arlington, fairfax counties. it's a little bit chillier. parts of virginia near 50, from manassas down to culpepper, shenandoah valley, a few locations dipped down to the 40s. the latest with hurricane sandy, it's decreased a little bit in

streng strength. it is a category 2 hurricane. it is moving rapidly north at about 20 miles an hour. and on this pace, it's going to be passing close to the bahamas later today and into tomorrow. it will be di minute iminishinga category 1 hurricane. the latest track takes it northeast for -- it does look like during the day on saturday. late on sunday and very early monday morning, it may be off of cape hat rteras, but it does sh a trend that it will be tracking farther northwest. there's a wide area of uncertainty. storm team 4 is on it. we'll be keeping you fully informed. but unfortunately, if it does track this far west, we could get a lot of rain and wind from that system, and that would begin on sunday, but between now and then, pleasant autumn weather. highs today, mid 70s.

the four-day forecast, friday near 70 with increasing clouds. depending on the track of that storm, if it goes farther east, we'll get fog. if it comes close enough to us, and this the worst case scenario, we would get wind-driven rain sunday, monday, and tuesday, and much cooler. stay tuned. now with a look at your first 4 traffic, here's danella. >> i'm back with an update on the crash that's still closing backlick road. single vehicle involved in this accident and it's overturned. so for now, backlick road closed between johnmarr drive and little river turnpike. you can take johnmarr drive and then connect to little river turnpike to continue your commute. let's head over to 295 in maryland, vw parkway between the baltimore beltway and capital beltway. a look at i-95 in maryland as well, nice and clear. this is at 216.

southbound continuing to connect to the beltway. travel speed still looking pretty good. back in ten minutes. we'll check rails. over to you. good news this morning for the safety of children riding in cars. new test results just released by the insurance institute for highway safety show that more booster seats on the market can keep your child safe in an accident. nearly 50 models got a best bet rating. that's way up from just ten seats in 2008. there are still several seats that received a not recommended rating. boosters are recommended for children up to eight years old, weighing up to 80 pounds. we set up a link for you to check out how your child seat ranks. today, vice president joe biden will head to south dakota to pay his respects to the late senator george mcgovern. the vice president will attend a prayer service this evening in sioux falls. it will take place after a public viewing for mcgovern who died sunday at the age of 90.

he will eventually be laid to rest here in washington. the vice president also reaching out to breast cancer survivors. he and his wife hosted a reception last night for survivors and breast cancer advocates at their home. the vice president says there is reason to believe doctors will find a cure for that disease. there's been incredible progress made, incredible progress made. it's gone from being 34 years ago, we started talking about it, viewed as a death warrant, as something that -- i can survive this, i can survive this. >> joe biden founded the biden breast cancer initiative 20 years ago. october is breast cancer awareness month. there is reason for hope for people suffering from a different form of cancer. doctors say aspirin may help colon cancer patients with certain genetic mutations. they say patients who took aspirin regularly lived longer than those who did not. about a sixth of all colon cancer patients have the mutated

genes. patients getting chemo therapy for mistaken cancer believed that chemo could cure them completely. close to 70% of patients believe that chemo could cure them. doctors say chemo can help extend their lives, but it is rarely a cure for late stage cancer. they say that patients should still get chemo treatments, but understand what it can and cannot do. they are calling it a controlled catastrophe. one of the tallest smokestacks in poland came down yesterday. that is all it took, and then very slowly, this 490-foot-tall power station came right on down. engineers used 200 explosive charges to take out that concrete and brick structure. bam, right there. it looked like a slow motion -- it was in slow motion as that

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and now, this is "news4 today." looking at stories making headlines right now. an international incident of sorts overnight. a man arrested while climbing the fence at the russian embassy. he was running from d.c. police at the time. president obama will campaign in richmond today, while republican vice presidential candidate paul ryan will hold and vent in charlottesville. hurricane sandy gaining strength after it made landfall in cuba overnight. the new models show the storm hitting the u.s. tom kierein is tracking the chances that the storm will hit our area. good morning to you. i'm eun yang. >> i'm aaron gilchrist. welcome to "news4 today" on this thursday, october 25th, 2012. a live look outside -- that was it for you this morning. let's now go to tom kierein to get a look at our forecast. >> got a little bit of light haze in the air.

a little fog forming. the view from space is showing a little bit of that fog under a mostly clear sky. a little area of light gray. elsewhere, we're mostly clear. the areas in the blue are in the 40s. parts of west virginia and western maryland. but closer to washington, the dark green areas, that is in the 50s. and it's roiight in the low 60s east of washington under cloud cover with the fog. latest with sandy now, it is passing over eastern cuba with a lot of rain and wind. the latest statistics on sandy is that the winds have diminished overnight but it's still a category 2 hurricane with the sustained winds. maintaining category 1 strength going north and east, and by monday, taking a turn to the west. unfortunately, it may be getting closer to our coast. as a result, here are some of the impacts for us. by sunday, we'll begin seeing the effects of the wind and the

rain here. this is the worst case scenario. monday looks like probably the worst day with the strongest winds, coastal flooding, heavy rain and maybe some power outages. so stay tuned to the forecast. hour by hour today, though, enjoy a beautiful autumn day, highs mid 70s. i'm back with another update and a hometown forecast in ten minutes. danella now with your first 4 traffic. >> taking the rails, i'm checking them for you. not seeing any delays at all. all are running on or close to schedule. over to the roadways. backlick road still seeing the single vehicle crash. it's closed between johnmarr drive and little river turnpike. for now, you can take johnmarr drive and then connect to little river turnpike. chopper is en route to this accident. i'll be back with more some more details on that shortly. traveling i-95 northbound at occoquan.

that drive will take 13 minutes. over to you. it's all about the battleground states in these final days of this election today. president obama will campaign in three of those states. mitt romney will focus all of his efforts today on ohio. nbc's tracy potts is live on capitol hill now with more. good morning. >> reporter: it's now becoming a challenge just to keep up with these candidates as they crisscross the nation in what we've identified as seven battleground states, and that's pretty much where they'll be between now and election day. president obama and governor romney making their final pushes to get out the vote. president obama pulling an all-nighter. he says he'll get no sleep after appearing on jay leno last night. today he continues in florida, virginia, and in ohio. he says that his message now is just getting out the vote. governor romney making three stops today in ohio. he says this will be a defining

election for families. >> we've got a long way to go, nevada, but we've come too far to go back now. we cannot afford to go backwards to the policies that got us into this mess. we've got to go forward, and that's why i'm running for a second term as president of the united states. >> the president's campaign slogan is forward, but it's not forward for that man. and it's not forward for those 23 million americans that are struggling to find a good job. it's not forward for the millions of americans who are working but having a hard time making ends meet because the income has gone down and the cost of everything from health care to gasoline have gone up. we don't want forward. we've been forewarned. it's time for a new direction for america. >> that was mitt romney in iowa. president obama says he is not surprised by how close this race is. he told brian williams that he was prepared for a hotly contested race. the president says he isn't changing his strategy now, less

than two weeks from election day. >> well, actually, i think that we always knew this was going to be a close race from the start. and what we have right now is a lead that we've maintained throughout this campaign, and we are going to just continue to dr drive home the message that there are two fundamentally different choices. >> you can see the exclusive interview at 10:00 right here on nbc 4. more and more people are using absentee ballots to cast the vote, but some researchers say some of those votes may not be counted. a study examined absentee voting in california for two decades and found that absentee votes are twice as likely to not be counted as votes cast on modern machines. the study said that in 2008, as many as 21% of absentee ballots across the nation were never counted. melissa at the live desk with some breaking news. >> this is something that has

just happened the past couple of minutes here. wikileaks has started releasing more than 100 classified files from the department of defense. the files are from the past decade. they'll be released over the next month, including information on guantanamo bay, procedures in detention camps as well as detailed interrogation manuals. we'll have more of that coming up. the trial begins today of two people accused of giving alcohol to minors killed in a crash. prosecutors say debbie franco and her son joshua gave alcohol to three teenagers before a january 28th crash in krofton. police say britney walker was driving the wrong way along route 50 when she slammed into another car. walker, zachary rose and franco's daughter brianna and the other driver died in that crash. a former university of maryland stubt who threatened to go on a campus shooting rampage will be sentenced today. alexander song was arrested in march after posting online that he was going to "kill enough

people to make it national news." in august, he pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace. song is already banned from campus and required to do 200 hours of community service. he faces three years in prison, but prosecutors plan to recommend more community service, probation, and mental health treatment. today, the two opposing protests groups head to gallaudet university to demonstrate for the same thing. both supporters and opponents of gay marriage are calling for the reinstatement of the chief diversity officer angela mccaskill. dr. mccaskill was placed on paid leave for signing a petition that forced a referendum on maryland's gay marriage law. ministers who support gay marriage have already planned a rally. the national black church initiative signed on as well. mccaskill says she signed that petition to leave the decision up to voters. prince george's county teachers have a new contract this morning and it includes plans for a pay hike. "the washington post" reports the school board unanimously

approved a three-year contract with the teachers union last night. teachers get a 2% pay raise as a result of that. that is the first raise many have gotten in three years. the new deal also addresses paid leave, teachers' rights, and working from home. the d.c. area is getting younger. new analysis of census bureau data shows that our region is drawing record numbers of young adults, and while those over 55 are moving out. in the past three years alone, the median age of the d.c. area resident has dropped by six months to just about 36 years old. washington also now has the largest population of 25 to 34-year-olds in the nation. researchers say the jobs, decent incomes, even during the recession have driven many young adults to move to this area. all right. good for us. >> absolutely. come up this morning, the moment of new beginnings ahead today after that east coast earthquake more than a year ago. how last night's game 1 of

the world series turned out to be one for the record books. hurricane sandy c

"and what's your name?" "oh, it's flo." "and what do you do?" "oh, i sell insurance like no one else." "oh, that's nice." "thank you." now, that's progressive. call or click today. good morning. i'm tom kierein. this morning, a little patchy fog. watch out for that. otherwise no travel problems

weather-wise. hometown forecast, burke will be in the mid 50s and partly cloudy. around the noon hour, in the upper 60s. a delightful autumn day coming up. hour by hour for the whole region today, a wonderful afternoon coming up. we should be hitting the mid 70s. by mid afternoon, not quite as warm as yesterday, but still a delightful day with just few clouds in and out. coming up in ten minutes, the latest track for sandy and the potential threat for us this weekend. seven-day outlook in ten minutes. danella with a look at traffic now. >> the fog has grounded chopper 4. they were en route to the crash along backlick road, blocking all your lanes between johnmarr drive and little river turnpike. over to 395 heading northbound, nice and clear. no issues there. as you make your way over to the 14th straight bridge and head

into the districting your travel lanes are open. if you're traveling in the district, not seeing any reports of accidents. i'm back in ten minutes. 63 degrees. still ahead, the window of opportunity you have starting today to get your hands on tickets to see the national christmas tree lighting. and what's causing a sales rush on one particular apple devi

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you're watching "news4 today." >> 13 before the hour now. police believe they have figured out who killed the d.c. woman over the week. now they need your help to find him. the shooting happened early sunday morning along hamlin street. police say 24-year-old michael d'angelo briscoe shot and killed 26-year-old sherry mccutchen. briscoe was also accused of

getting into a physical altercation with another walmart who police say is his girlfriend. police are offering a $25,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest. this morning, police are asking for your help to find four burglary suspects. police say the men used a stolen credit card at a fast-food restaurant in silver spring. the crowd was taken from a house along richie avenue earlier this month. if you recognize any of these men, call police immediately. a cyclist remains in the hospital this morning after being hit by a school bus in montgomery county. the accident yesterday around 4:00 p.m. off of darnstown road. police say an adult male was riding that bicycle when he went into the front of the bus. it is not clear what led to the crash. none of the students onboard at the time of the crash was hurt. the cyclist was last listed in critical condition. funeral arrangements are now in place for a prince george's county police officer killed in a car crash. kevin bowden died last thursday after an suv collided with his cruiser in clinton. he was off duty at the time. the first viewing is friday night at lee's funeral home in

clinton. his funeral will be held on saturday. hip-hop and fashion mogul sean combs is reportedly okay of a car crash. combs was a passenger in an suv that was hit by another car in front of the beverly hills hotel. these pictures from "tmz" were taken moments after the accident. combs reportedly complained of pain, but said he would seek his own medical attention. no one from either vehicle went to the hospital. tom cruise is suing "in touch" and life and style magazines for $50 million. this is because of articles regarding his 6-year-old daughter suri. the lawsuit refers to two cover stories published by the magazines in july and september with the headlines "abandoned by daddy" and "abandoned by her dad." cruise and suri's mother katie holmes was divorced earlier this year. so far the magazine publishers have not commented. cruise's lawyer says if the actor wins, he'll give the money to charity. today, some alexandria residents will tell city leaders where they believe flood wall should be built to protect their

homes. they'll be at a public meeting to hear the results of a flood reduction study. the army corps of engineers conducted the study to come up with the best way to protect the bell haven water shed. hurricane isabel damaged more than 200 homes there in 2003. tonight's meeting is scheduled for 7:00 at the south county government center. 14 months after the east coast earthquake, and louisa county is moving forward with planning to build a new elementary school. teachers, students and parents will be on hand for the ground breaking ceremony at the new thomas jefferson elementary school. last august's 5.8 magnitude earthquake destroyed the school. since then, classes have been held on mobile unit. school administrators say the new elementary school should be ready to open at the beginning of the 2014 school year. time for weather and traffic. we are tracking hurricane sandy. more specifically, tom is doing that. >> yeah, that's right.

and we have an increasing chance, unfortunately, of sandy affecting us here by the end of the weekend. and this morning, we don't have any travel problems. some patchy fog. so watch out for that, especially north and east of washington, parts of southern maryland around bay on the eastern shore. now looks like some of the denser fog. elsewhere, a mostly clear sky. the storm team 4 current temperatures now in the dark green, the 50s, the lighter green, the 60s. a mild start this morning. 62 at reagan national as well as around the bay and the eastern shore. farther west, parts of the shenandoah valley into the mountains of western maryland. chilly 40s this morning. here is the very latest with hurricane sandy. it is a category 2 hurricane. it hit jamaica yesterday with heavy rain and wind and now over eastern cuba, with sustained winds higher than that. it's moving rapidly to the north. here is the very latest track. it is going to be tracking north into the bahamas later today. may diminish down to a category

1 hurricane passing well east of florida and maintaining that strength during the day into tomorrow and saturday and taking a turn to the right heading off to the northeast, perhaps during the day saturday and early sunday. but by monday at 2:00 a.m., here's its potential position off of hatteras. after that, this is the problem for us. by monday afternoon, perhaps into tuesday, there is the potential it could track farther inland. it may track anywhere in this zone. if it goes farther east, we won't get anything out of it. if it comes this fast west, we could get strong winds and a lot of rain. for today, watch out for some of that patchy fog. beautiful, sunny, mild, upper 60s to near 70. during the afternoon, a few clouds will peak in the mid 70s. friday increasing clouds, high near 70, and then just cloudy saturday. should be good for the aids walk washington. all the events on saturday. sunday and into monday, tuesday, wednesday, this is the worst

case scenario. this is if it tracks closer to the coast. i think there's about a 50% chance it will. that will be happening sunday, monday, tuesday with rain and wind. stay tuned. turning much cooler into next week. i'm back with the potential impacts of sandy in ten minutes. still checking on things in virginia. if you're traveling, a bumpy commute for you. single vehicle crash there. that car is overturned, blocking all of your lanes, between johnmarr drive and little river turnpike. if you're traveling backlick road, you'll have to get off at johnmarr drive. i-95 seeing delays. crash at joplin roadblocking lanes. delays solid between 610 as you continue northbound just past job lynn road. over to i-66, making your way at the bypass, pretty slow in this area as well. you are sluggish as you head toward centreville road. i'm back in ten, and then i'll

check i-27 at that time. back over to you. wasn't activated until the third week of august. into center. at the wall! another! >> wow. the 2012 world series started off with a bang. giants' third baseman pablo sandoval hit three home runs in his first three at-bats, as san francisco routed detroit 8-3. kung fu panda joins just three other players to have hit three homers in a world series game. the best part, this is the first time he's hit three home runs in any major league game. game 2 of the fall classic is tonight. cool. starting today, you'll get a chance to win free tickets to the national christmas tree lighting ceremony. there are 3,000 seated tickets and 14,000 standing room tickets. if you want one, you can enter online at thenationaltree.org. we also have a link on our website. that lottery runs through monday. the 90th national tree lighting

ceremony will be held december 6th on the ellipse. this morning, we are seeing a mad rush of people selling their apple merchandise just days after word of a new ipad coming out. shartia brantley is live with more on that. >> reporter: trades are not exclusive to the car market. the first thing many consumers did was put their old ipad up for sale. gazelle.com says 140,000 tablets were listed on its site between tuesday and wednesday. a 700% increase from monday. and in other news, elizabeth taylor may be gone, but the hollywood legend is still earning her keep. taylor, who died last year, tops "forbes" annual dead celebrities money list. her estate made $210 million in the past year. mostly from the auction of her jewelry collection and sales of her white diamonds perfume.

taylor also makes money off of her movies. after "cleopatra", she negotiated a 10% stake in her films. >> thank you. microsoft looking to regain its footing in the computer world with a limited release of its new operating system today. the computer company holding a pre-launch event for its windows 8 system later today. it features elements usually seen in smart phones and tablets and is expected to try and compete with apple's popular ios system. the new operating system will come standard on microsoft's new surface tablet as well as all-new pcs going forward. a 105-year-old woman in new mexico may be the oldest person on facebook. maria just celebrated her 105th birthday with friends, including 85 of her facebook friends. she's been on facebook for about three months. her family believes she is the oldest member based on recent

articles of facebook celebrating the oldest member, who is 101. her grandson says the company may not recognize maria as the oldest member because she was not able to put in her real birth date when setting up her account october 23rd, 1907. >> facebook has a problem, they would only go back to the 101st birthday. every time i tried to put that she was 104, it kept coming up with an invalid date. >> so far facebook has yet to confirm if she is, in fact, the olest facebook user. >> so she was really happy to have all her family around her to celebrate her birthday. but also, apparently, i think she got an ipad so now she can use her ipad so she can facebook. maybe she'll get on twitter. >> face time and all kinds of stuff. all right. >> good to see. there are new developments this morning in the deadly meningitis outbreak. coming up at 6:00, why the company that made the tainted drug should have been shut down years ago. also ahead, we're live along

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