make landfall later today and new information just released shows the storm packing winds of nearly 60 miles per hour. it's already raining heavily right now in florida. some areas could see as much as eight inches of rain. tom kierein is here with what to expect. >> we're starting off with increasing clouds. a mild morning. temperatures are in the low to mid 60s in the nearby suburbs in prince george's county, montgomery, arlington and fairfax. mid 60s in the district of columbia. all around the region low to mid 60s. a few sprinkles of light rain in the shenandoah valley and mountains of west virginia. let's zoom down to florida. areas in yellow and orange heavy downpours across most of florida now. there's the circulation of tropical storm andrea. the first one of this 2013 season. here is the brand new updated track. this just came in. does look like it will pass just west of jacksonville, florida, by late today. then here's the position. 2:00 a.m. on friday right near

savannah, georgia, could track anywhere within this zone and come close enough to give heavy downpours during the day on friday. here's the position at 2:00 a.m. on saturday off the atlantic seaboard. be prepared for some moderate to heavy rain here tomorrow but for the day today, for this morning, just a cloudy morning by noontime we'll be into the mid 70s. a look at the rest of this thursday. that's in ten minutes. first four traffic now with danella. good morning. >> good morning. still keeping our eye on the accident eastbound university boulevard at dennis. that's where you will be forced off. police are on the scene of the crash here off to the side. this is as you head eastbound toward four corners. be aware that you'll have to turn off on dennis either left or right. make sure you follow us at first 4 traffic. we're tweeting out updates about the earlier fire, yesterday's fire at frager's hardware store. traveling pennsylvania avenue seeing closures outbound between 10th, 11th and 12th. we're tweeting out details and work arounds so make sure to

follow us. 295 northbound from oxon hill nice and clear. slow as folks travel on the 11th street bridge. back over to you. >> thank you. 6:02 now. we're following the developments in southeast this morning where nearly 12 hours after flames ripped through frager's hardware crews are on the scene looking for hot spots and that could impact your commute. outbound pennsylvania and parts of 11th and 12th street are still shut down. today investigators will be at the local landmark looking for what caused the fire that gutted the historic building. >> and today we expect to get our first good look at just exactly how much damage that four alarm fire did. news4's megan mcgrath has been on the scene all morning checking out the damage live now with the latest. megan? >> reporter: aaron, you can see all of the crews that are still here on the scene and we're going to give you a live look at pennsylvania avenue. this is inbound pennsylvania avenue which has reopened. outbound penn avenue heading in

the eastbound direction still closed and this is the reason why. take a look at all of the damage here. this is frager's hardware store or at least what's left of it. we've got some new video to show you as well. just a little while ago they once again were hitting hot spots spraying water through a window up on the second floor of the building because they had another flare-up here this morning. this hardware store was just jam packed full of stuff. a lot of it combustible. a very difficult fire to put out. they still don't know what caused it. fortunately no major injuries. two firefighters had minor injuries but nothing beyond that. that's good news here. investigators will be returning here this morning trying to figure out exactly what started this blaze. they still don't know. not as of yet. as far as these road closures, pennsylvania avenue will be closed for quite some time in the outbound, eastbound direction, good news here is that for commuters headed into town, your lanes are open at this point. reporting live in southeast,

megan mcgrath, news4. back to you in the studio. >> other local businesses already stepping into help employees at that iconic store. match box on capitol hill offering temporary work for the 60 people who work at frager's. they can stop by between 2:00 and 5:00 this afternoon for more information about that. the company's vp of operations will be there to personally talk to the employees. they say they will hire them until frager's can get back on its feet. the fire at frager's is the third major fire on capitol hill in just six years. take a look at these pictures from april 2007. it took two years for the food hall to be rebuilt. and then in june of 2011, a staple among bars on capitol hill tune inn went up in flames. d.c. fir says that started in the kitchen. the restaurant was able to reopen after a few months of repairs. a developing story in philadelphia where the 14th survivor was pulled from the rubble of that building that collapsed. take a live look over the scene

this morning. you can see the area is still a mess littered with bricks and debris. firefighters say the 61-year-old victim reached for rescue workers nearly 14 hours after the building came crashing down. six people were killed. at least 13 others were hurt when the four-story building came down on a salvation army store. the building that collapsed was in the process of being demolished. >> the head of the irs in for another tough day today. the house oversight and government reform committee wants to know more about how the irs is spending your tax dollars. we learned last week that the agency spent more than $50 million on hundreds of conferences for its employees. this will be the third congressional hearing this week that's scrutinizing the irs. we're following a developing story that neither white house or verizon is commenting on a report that nsa is collecting

verizon customers phone records. the government was given permission to collect the information for a period ending july 19th. the government can't listen to calls but find out what numbers were called, where the calls were made and how long the calls lasted. talk about hitting the jackpot. new information this morning about just how much money maryland casinos are pulling in. also ahead, new information about the woman who survived for days trapped in the rubble of a factory collapse in bangladesh. an image giving us a different perspective on how powerful a tornado that hit moore, oklahoma, was. >> good morning. i'm storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein. light rain in the shenandoah valley and in the mountains moving closer to us by later this afternoon. i'll show you timing on that and that's all coming up in just

plenty of people are placing bets in maryland's casinos. a record haul last month collecting more than $69 million between the four casinos. maryland live was the top earner bringing in $55 million. the most ever by a single casino in the state. that good news comes as maryland live celebrates the first anniversary of the grand opening today. they will have giveaways throughout the month. we're getting closer to the d.c. lottery's big reveal. the lucky winners of the second chance lottery scratch tickets will be announced live here on "news4 today." one lucky person will get to take home $1 million. another will win the golden getaway vacation package with $10,000 in cash. we'll announce both winners live during news4 at 6:00 and our facebook page and twitter and aaron is going to recreate dr. evil for us. >> we'll throw cash in the air and having a good time. >> time for weather and traffic on the 1s. >> storm team meteorologist tom

kierein has the forecast. >> that's the last of the sun we're going to see. weather and traffic on the 1s at 6:11 a lot of cloudiness rolling in and some sprinkles of light rain showing up well west of washington. cloud cover east. and we're getting these speckles of green here. sprinkles of light rain around winchester and northern shenandoah valley and panhandle of west virginia. these are going to be moving gradually to the east. here's how our day is looking. cloudy morning. 60s and low 70s by noon. upper 70s mid afternoon and by then 3:00, 4:00, we'll get light rain showers coming through and moderate showers after that into the evening hours. a look at the latest track on andrea and your seven-day outlook is in ten minutes. how's traffic? >> 66 eastbound seeing delays because of an earlier crash blocking the center of the roadway at 123. your delays as you make your way to fairfax county parkway looks like camera is moving.

you can see heavy volume here. drive time 18 minutes from fairfax county parkway to the capital beltway. >> not what the doctor ordered. frightening moments for fast food customers after a car slams into a restaurant. we're tracking a developing story on capitol hill where firefighters continue to mop up hot spots after a fire destroyed a local landmark. this is a live picture from the scene there. the impact this fire is having on the morning commute next.

february 22nd. a landmark transportation bill is up for consideration in the virginia legislature. even though it's backed by republican governor mcdonnell, tea party republicans refuse to support the plan. but terry mcauliffe thinks this is too important a time for partisan politics. mcauliffe reaches out to democrats and urges them to support the bill. and the bill passes. terry mcauliffe. putting virginia first.

developing this morning. you are looking live at what remains of frager's hardware in southeast washington this morning. the capitol hill institution gutted by flames. firefighters are still there. you see putting out some hot spots this morning and some streets are still closed in that area. coming up in half an hour, we'll check in with news4's megan mcgrath getting an up close look at the major damage to that historic building. let's check in with richard jordan at the news desk. >> we're hearing from the woman trapped in that factory collapse in bangladesh. she spent 17 days under the rubble.

she's now out of the hospital and talking. she says she will never work as a seamstress again. she did suffer a very serious head injury. she now has accepted a new job. she's going to work at the weston hotel in their housekeeping department. her new boss says she's going to be a public area ambassador. she is very grateful for all of those that supported her. she's become a celebrity in bangladesh. back in april 1,100 people were killed when that factory collapsed. it's called the world's worst garment industry disaster. new this morning, north korea says it's open to holding talks with south korea on reopening their jointly run factory. the complex closed in april. tensions there between the two governments after the north korean's nuclear test in february grew. a date for the talks has not yet been set. today the late senator frank

lautenberg will lie in repose in the senate chamber. he'll be buried tomorrow at arlington national cemetery. vice president joe biden and hillary clinton were among mourners to pay respects yesterday in new york city. lautenberg died on monday. he was 89 years old. president obama heads to north carolina today. he'll visit the charlotte area to taut his plan to boost the economy. the president will speak at a middle school there. it promotes what it calls digital learning. this is the third stop on his middle class jobs and opportunity tour. he visited austin, texas, and baltimore last month. new this morning, a poll shows most americans now oppose what's called obama care. these are the results of the latest nbc news/"wall street journal" poll. 49% of people surveyed now believe the affordable care act is a bad idea. highest number since we started tracking opinions of the controversial plan in 2009. just 37% of people say it's a good idea. girls of any age will be allowed to buy generic forms of the

morning after pill without a prescription for now. that's what a federal appeals court decided to do while reviewing a judge's ruling of allowing the sales. right now you must be at least 17 years old to get the plan b pill. new information released ahead of the trayvon martin murder trial shows george zimmerman once applied to be a prince william county police officer. new paperwork was filed this week including a rejection letter from the prince william county police department but there's no indication of what the prosecution plans to do with it. there is no comment this morning from the prince william county police department. zimmerman said he acted in self-defense when he shot martin more than a year ago. jury selection starts on monday. 19 after the hour now. a pilot truck driver leading a truck with an oversized load across a washington bridge just as it started to collapse says she did her job correctly. investigators say the bridge segment crumbled when a girter

was struck. major milestone and honor for a victim of the shootout with the boston marathon bombing suspects. transportation authority officer richard donohue left the hospital to serve as honorary banner captain for the boston bruins last night. he waved a giant flag before the game from his wheelchair. he received a standing ovation from fans. donohue was nearly killed after being shot during a gunfight with the tsarnaev brothers. the bruins led their series with the pittsburgh penguins three games to none. river front towns in missouri bracing for flooding. many homeowners have stacked sandbags and tarps across property. water already covering some bridges and roads there. and a second levee gave way yesterday. because of that people in 40

homes spent the night in shelters. that region could also get thunderstorms today making conditions worse. we want to show you a dish picture that captures the devastation last month's moore tornado caused. this picture was taken two weeks after the tornado. vegetation is red. water is blue and buildings and paved surfaces are in blue/gray. you can see the path of destruction where there's no color. two dozen people died in that tornado. more than 380 others were hurt. coming up on 6:21 right now. rain is moving into our forecast. >> let's check in with storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein to show you what's coming our way. >> in the weather center, reports of increasing moisture moving in from the west. increasing clouds as well. storm team 4 radar showing that area moving in green. sprinkles of light rain around the shenandoah valley in mountains of west virginia and western maryland. it will stay west of washington

this morning. meanwhile, south in florida heavy rain causing flooding. they could get up to 8 inches there today. there's the main center of circulation of tropical storm andrea. first named storm of this 2013 season. here's the brand new track. it looks like it will come ashore florida panhandle by late today into tonight. and then near savannah, georgia, the position by 2:00 a.m. on friday. right now packing winds up to 60 miles an hour. after that, track comes up along the carolina coast and then near the mouth of the chesapeake bay by friday afternoon. it may track anywhere within this zone but the most likely track is the red line. position off cape may at 2:00 a.m. on saturday. it will be a post-tropical storm by then but coming close to give us moderate to heavy downpours. for today, increasing clouds by noontime 70s and light rain mid to late afternoon into this evening as we reach the upper 70s. some heavy downpours are possible here tomorrow. we could pick up an inch or two

of rain. blustery winds. high 70s. lingering showers into saturday midday and sun back sunday afternoon. partly cloudy on sunday with highs 80s. small chance of afternoon thunderstorm. greater chance on monday. drying out tuesday and wednesday and lower humidity moving in. now how's traffic? >> a live look from chopper 4. here's what's happening on the beltway. inner loop in express lanes at braddock road, a crash lined up to the left shoulder lane. it was in the left lane but off to the shoulder so keep that in mind traveling express lanes this morning. over to the beltway, this time outer loop at central avenue. just off to your left shoulder lane here there is a crash. this accident was blocking the left lane but now just off to the left shoulder lane. and also keeping my eye on i-66 earlier accident in the center of the roadway at 123. it is clear. you are seeing heavy delays from centreville eastbound toward 123 where you are sluggish. back over to you th.

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look at this video here. customers at a taco bell in ohio got a shock when a minivan came crashing into that restaurant. this van crossed four lanes of traffic and a drive-through lane. investigators believe a medical emergency caused the driver to lose control. two men inside that store taken to the hospital to be treated for cuts from that shattered glass. >> this morning a look at one family who is very glad it doesn't have a convertible. look at this youtube video from south africa. it shows a tiger on top of an suv hanging out crawling on top of the suv and used it as a chew toy and then fell asleep on top of the vehicle. this is at a private game reserve tiger canyons. at one point do you say, excuse me, i got to go now? >> that's when you go buy a new car. i don't want that one anymore. let the tiger keep the car. move along. >> quietly exit. pulling in the star power in

the race to be virginia's next governor. the big name who will campaign in our area later today. also ahead, the information we learn about a pair of home invasions linking the two crimes. we're watching tropical storm andrea as it begins its trek up the east coast. we'll go live to florida just ahead. plus, the impact the storm could have on you. >> plus, a developing story from capitol hill where firefighters continue to mop up hot spots after fire destroys a local landmark. the impact this fire is having the impact this fire is having on[ indistinct conversations ]

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firefighters on the scene in southeast are putting out hot spots this morning. look at the iconic frager's store. coming up in ten minutes, we'll hear from residents in the community heartbroken by the destruction. >> welcome back to news4. big changes ahead in our forecast today. storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein is here with what to expect. >> good morning. a blanket of clouds has rolled over us overnight and

temperatures are milder this morning starting off this thursday morning in the 60s throughout much of the region including fairfax county, low 60s. low 60s in montgomery county. near 60 much of prince george's county and mid 60s in the district of columbia. low to mid 60s everywhere else too. right now storm team 4 radar showing sprinkles of light rain around the blueridge into the mountains. maybe a couple sprinkles trying to reach the ground in northern fairfax county in western montgomery county. all eyes on florida getting pounded with heavy rain now. this is the latest track coming ashore in the florida panhandle late this afternoon into this evening and then after that coming close to us tomorrow. maybe tracking just east of us during the day on friday. giving us some heavy downpours and blustery winds. here's how we look for today. we'll have our afternoon highs reaching upper 70s by noontime mid 70s. a cloudy morning but you'll need your umbrella heading back home. latest on the afternoon and evening. that's in ten minutes. first 4 traffic now with danella. good morning.

>> good morning. unfortunately i'm checking metro and seeing a delay on the yellow line because the situation eisenhower avenue where single tracking between braddock road and huntington and you're seeing delays on the yellow line in both directions. good news, marc, vre, no delays at this time. live look from chopper 4. i-95 in woodbridge volume as you continue northbound but you are moving. that's good. drive time just a bit under speed from prince william parkway taking you 19 minutes to reach the capital beltway. back over to you. new this morning, d.c. police looking for the person behind a double shooting in northwest. it happened at 3:45 this morning. it happened on first street. when officers got there, they found two men who had been shot. rescuers took them both to the hospital. police have not released a description of the gunman they're looking for. >> first lady michelle obama will be in campaign mode today

in virginia. she's headlining a terry mcauliffe fund-raiser in tyson's corner. supporters that donate $5 or more can be entered into a contest to attend the event. mccauli mcauliffe's opponent is using the event to show they can make progress with grassroots efforts. maryland corrections officers plan to introduce new actions to prevent scandals in prison. they plan to add cell phone blocking technology to keep inmates from using smuggled phones and they plan to put new tests in place that focus on ethics before hiring officers. a polygraph unit is also being created. we know the name of the man killed in temple hills tuesday night. he's andre elmore.

someone shot and killed him objecting buckland court around 11:00 tuesday night. prince george's county detectives haven't found who killed him. he was 38 years old from capital heights. police are trying to figure out if two violent home invasions within an hour of each other are connected. the first happened on north capitol street in northeast around 3:00 yesterday morning. two men broke into a home. the owner picked up ankle weights and yelled that he was coming to get the men. they escaped through a basement door. an hour later, a couple woke up to two men in their bedroom, one with a knife and the other with their gun. the two took money and iphones and laptops. there was a struggle and a shot was fired. no one was hurt. today the last remaining battle over the alexandria waterfront could be settled. the virginia supreme court will hear arguments in the lawsuit filed against the city. three women who live near the

area say they tried to file a last-minute petition last year to stop the city council from taking a vote. it wasn't accepted because it was submitted past a deadline. they argue that the petition should have been allowed and that it would have forced a super majority to pass the rezoning. a newly elected council did pass the plan again in march. today is an emotional day for many world war ii veterans. today is d day. some veterans and their families from kentucky are flying here to washington to commemorate this day. ford is sponsoring an honor flight so they can visit the national world war ii memorial. you might want to avoid some parts of loudoun county parks today. the county is spraying an insecticide to kill ticks. they will spray three more parks next monday. staff will be there today to make sure you don't go into any of the sprayed areas until the insecticide is dry. a developing story unfolding right now in southeast

washington where firefighters continue to hit some hot spots after fire destroys a local landmark. the impact this is having on your drive to work. also ahead, the dramatic discovery made in the rubble overnight after a deadly building collapse in philadelphia. tom? >> good morning. here in the storm team 4 weather center, getting some heavy rain now on our radar in south florida. that storm is tracking close to us for tomorrow. the latest on that and

if you stayed up late, maybe you saw this. a rocket streaked across the night sky. it launched from virginia just after 11:00 last night. it flew up to take pictures that scientists will use to study when the first stars and galaxies were developed in the universe. it has splashed down already 400 miles off the virginia coast. >> let's check the forecast now. 6:41. time for weather and traffic on the 1s.

a nice cool start. lots of clouds out there. what does this mean for our weather? >> let the angels sing. look at that glorious shaft of sunlight pouring down on the potomac river. a break in cloud cover there. live view there. elsewhere, storm team 4 radar showing a few scattered sprinkles that are trying to reach the ground in northern virginia. maybe here in montgomery as well. sprinkles reaching the ground shenandoah valley and out of the mountains. most passing to the north. down to our south, heavy rains in south florida all coming from tropical storm andrea coming close to us tomorrow. here's how we look for the day today. a great chance of an afternoon shower as we reach the mid and upper 70s by mid afternoon. this evening, occasional showers likely through the evening down into the 60s by midnight. a look at the effects of andrea here during the day tomorrow. we'll look at that and your seven-day outlook in ten minutes. how's traffic? >> i have good news on metro. the earlier single tracking between braddock and huntington

is over. disabled train is clear. however, yellow lines still seeing some delays so just expect that if you're about to head out of the house. leaving later today, hopefully it will clear. university bouleva as you make your way eastbound. this is toward four corners, your eastbound lanes are blocked at dennis avenue because of an early morning crash. you can see police are still on the scene and that is affecting your commute in silver spring and shooting over to 50 inbound slow as you make your way toward new york avenue. let's shoot over to 50 in maryland. not bad at 410. once folks get around landover road is where they are sluggish as they continue into the district. back over to you. >> 6:42 now. we're following the developments in southeast d.c. now. now 12 hours after an intense fire ripped through frager's hardware. crews are picking up the pieces now. investigators will look for what caused the fire that gutted that historic building and fire

impacting traffic outbound pennsylvania avenue. something we've been hearing from you is that the store is an institution and capitol hill community is crushed this morning by this devastation. news4's megan mcgrath has been talking to residents and has a closer look at the damage. megan? >> reporter: all morning long residents have been coming by. they've been taking pictures. they've been sharing stories about what a loss this is. we've changed our vantage point and gone further down the block. you can get really a better idea of the damage here especially since the sun is up here this morning. just devastation here at this landmark hardware store and they're still spraying water on hot spots here. perhaps up on the second floor you can see there's just a light haze of some of the smoke in the area. they are running a ho ing ning

the top of the ladder to spray from the air once again here this morning as they try to knock out those hot spots which have been a problem through the night. this was an incredibly intense fire. frager's hardware store absolutely packed with all kinds of stuff. all kinds of materials. some of them combustible and flammable so this was a difficult fire to fight. you can see here from this video just how intense it was. 200 firefighters were here on the scene. now, two firefighters did sustain minor injuries but they are going to be okay. no other injuries beyond that. as we've been talking and discussing all morning long with residents. they say this is a landmark and that the loss of this hardware store is just really devastating to the community. >> i'm 58. i've been going to the hardware store since i was 12 years old. there are entire generations of kids that earned college money and high school money working at

frager's. it was a tiny slice of being in a town of maine. the hardware store was crammed and fabulous and everybody knew each other and this is how all of the houses were renovated on the hill. everybody went to frager's. >> reporte >> reporter: and you can see that firefighters are up on that ladder and they're running a hose line to the top. it looks like they'll again start to spray the roof area, the second floor, from the air using that hose and ladder apparatus here. still knocking out hot spots. as for traffic, we are seeing traffic impact in the area outbound pennsylvania avenue is still closed. inbound reopened. that's good news. other areas in the closure as well. megan mcgrath, news4.

back to you in the studio. >> thank you. some other local businesses are already stepping in to help employees at that icon store. match box is offering temporary work for the 60 people that work for frager's. they can stop by to talk to the vice president of operations. 15 minutes before the hour now. we're hearing the dispatch calls for the first time this morning and they paint a good picture of what firefighters experienced battling that intense fire. >> all units, all units respond to frager's. be advised we have heavy fire conditions and the building is pretty jammed. be careful going in. all units on the fire ground need to evacuate the building. evacuate the building. all engine companies i need you to hit your air horns. air horns. >> two firefighters were hurt but they're injuries are minor.

the fire at frager's is the third major fire on capitol hill in six years. this is april 2007. an early fire destroyed the market and it took two years for the food market to be rebuilt and a staple among bars on capitol hill in 2011 tune inn went up in flames. the restaurant reopened after a few months of repairs. developing story in develop where the 14th survive was pulled from the rubble of a building that collapsed. you can see the area is still a mess littered with bricks and debris. firefighters say the 61-year-old victim reached for rescue workers nearly 14 hours after the building came crashing down. six people were killed. at least 13 others were hurt when the four-story building came down on a salvation army store. fire officials say the building that collapsed was in the process of being demolished. a d.c. woman says she's relieved that police have someone in custody in her son's murder. police arrested the man this

week they say he shot and killed olu williams in march. they haven't said why they think he did it. olu williams was 31 and worked full time while earning a degree from catholic university. his mother says stories like this are too common around here. >> it's senseless but it is something that is not new to this city. it's something that happens all too often in this city. >> she accepted her son's diploma on his behalf last month. >> hundreds of students, family and friends gathered for a candlelight vigil to remember the arlington student killed in a skateboarding accident. john malvar died in a stunt while doing skitching. charges are still pending

against the 17 year old who was driving at the time of the accident. >> we're following a developing story right now. neither the white house nor verizon is commenting on a report that nsa is collecting verizon customers' phone records. according to a british newspaper the government was given the authority to collect the information for a three-month period that ends july 19th. it's not clear why this is going on. the government can't listen to calls but find out where the calls were made and how long the calls lasted. >> the new head of the irs in for another tough day today. acting commissioner danny werfel will testify before a committee who wants to know more about how the irs is spending your tax dollars. we learned last week that the agency spent more than $50 million on hundreds of conferences for its employees. this will be the third congressional hearing this week that is scrutinizing the irs. immigration reform advocates are sounding less confident about getting a deal done this

summer on capitol hill. republican senator marco rubio says the bill he and other senators drafted does not have a chance of passing in the republican controlled house. supporters say the bill may not to bolster border security if it has any chance of surviving. we expect the senate to take up immigration reform next week. microsoft teaming up with the fbi to protect you from cybercrimes. good morning, hampton. >> you're right about that. working with authorities in 80 countries to launch an assault on one of the biggest cybercrime rings. the group is believed to have stolen more than half a million dollars from bank accounts over the last 18 months. the hackers take over as many as 5 million pcs around the world using them to steal from dozens of financial institutions including american express, bank of america, scitigroup and pay pal. craving a big mac and hash browns? the golden arches is here to

please. they will serve a limited number of breakfast and dinner items between midnight and 4:00 a.m. you'll be able to mix and match so go ahead and order that egg mcmuffin and fries. after midnight push will appeal to those who want to eat what they want when they want. mcdonald's is trying to boost sales which have sagged recently. food, this time of the morning, how did that work out? >> thanks a lot, hampton. appreciate it. 6:50 right now. a close watch on tropical storm andrea getting even closer to the florida coast. an hour and a half ago the national weather service upgraded alerts for the system along parts of the east coast. the weather channel's mike seidel joins us north of redington beach, florida, near tampa. mike, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. some wind and rain down here in the tampa/st. pete area. a few minor tornado reports as far as tornadoes go these are

weak tropical systems so they spin up quickly. they don't last long causing minor damage around the tampa/st. pete area. central and south flare including miami, tampa, orlando, cocoa beach, all under a tornado watch until 11:00. we've got a 60-mile-an-hour tropical storm making landfall early this evening up in appalachian bay pushing water toward the coast. the tide will go out and that's a good thing. behind me, you can see the surf here and looking it he pier just to our north here at north redington beach, two to three footers. tide coming in here. unlike tropical storm debbie, we don't have those impacts. that was last year when the entire beach was under water. since then the corps of engineers has put more sand back. they have replenished the beach. we have wind, the rain, the risk of severe weather and some of those impacts heading up toward the maryland/delaware coast later tonight and certainly on friday. this moves out of the way if you're coming from d.c. toward

florida for the weekend. no need to cancel plans. back to you. >> that's good news. mike seidel live for us. thank you. let's get the latest on the forecast from tom. >> increasing clouds ahead of the system. scattered sprinkles later this morning. the areas in green you see moving are some sprinkles that may try to reach the ground in montgomery, loudoun and fauquier counties and sprinkles in the mountains and shenandoah valley. temperatures right now low to mid 60s across northern virginia and nearby suburbs in maryland and mid 60s now in the district of columbia. here's how our day is looking. by noontime the 70s. a small chance of a sprinkle this morning. have an umbrella handy. you'll need it this afternoon. pretty good chance of some passing showers mid afternoon into this evening after we reach upper 70s back down to upper 60s by this evening. there's the radar up close showing the circulation from tropical storm andrea. here's the latest track. it looks like it will be continuing to move off to the northeast coming ashore as mike said florida panhandle later

today and then zooming east of us during the day tomorrow as it does do that, we could have some blustery winds and some downpours that position there you see where the l is where it will be a post-tropical storm by then off cape may by 2:00 a.m. on saturday. it may have 40-mile-per-hour wind gusts and we could have -- it could produce an inch or two of rain during the day on friday. ending late friday night and a lingering shower during the day on saturday. saturday afternoon sunshine coming back with highs low 80s and partly cloudy on sunday. maybe an isolated shower sunday afternoon. small chance of that. greater chance on monday. lower humidity drying out tuesday and wednesday. how's traffic now? >> slow trip on 395. live look from chopper 4 traveling beltway to 14th street bridge taking you about 17 minutes. some spots slower than others. that view is slow. i-95 northbound at fairfax county parkway, looking pretty good but your drive time is a

bit sluggish from canquantico. 37 minutes to reach the capital beltway. you can see father hurley sluggish in this area. tr trip to rockville not bad. it is 6:54. right now the executive director of the d.c. lottery is here with a big announcement. >> we've been talking about this waiting for it all morning. explain to everybody what you're going to announce. >> so this ticket, this little jewel in my hand, this is a sample, is d.c. gold. it's 90% sold out and we had this contest that if you didn't win, we always call it a nonwinning ticket, you can enter it online, the nonwinning ticket and you have a chance to win a million dollars or that golden getaway vacation. we held the drawing two days ago and we're ready to announce the winner. >> who is our second chance winner? >> the second chance winner for

a million dollar is earl holstendorf from d.c. he doesn't know unless he's watching or one of his friends are watching or new friends and family are watching and the second winner for the golden getaway vacation which could be to san francisco, hollywood or las vegas, it's up to them, and it's worth $10,000, so they'll have spending money too, is ts terry jacobson from silver spring. they need to actually claim the ticket within 30 days. they have to prove who they are to be the winner. >> this is not over yet. >> this is not over. you can win a million dollar with this ticket. only a few left at d.c. retailers only. >> you can still buy them. >> you can still buy them. >> i'll be back later. >> come to our office. >> thanks so much for joining us today. claim those tickets. you have one month. >> let's go over to tom.

>> here's your seven-day outlook. today increasing clouds. might have a sprinkle this morning. and better chance of an afternoon shower and so have an umbrella handy. likely moderate to heavy downpours maybe an inch or two of rain tomorrow with some blustery winds as andrea tracks east of the metro area during the day on friday. lingering shower on saturday morning. sun back saturday afternoon. sunday partly cloudy. highs upper 80s. might get an afternoon thunderstorm. small chance on sunday. greater chance of maybe some storms around and some rain on monday. how's traffic now? >> well, still seeing delays on metro. the yellow line just a bit slow because of earlier disabled train at eisenhower avenue. what's happening is there was single tracking but that's gone but you can still expect delays in both directions. let's talk about the beltway outer loop at new hampshire. seeing normal volume here. you can see on the right just slow as you head toward georgia avenue. aaron and eun? >> thank you. that is "news4 today." thank you for starting your day with us. >> the "today" show is next.

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