45 miles per hour. lot of people waking up to a mess this morning. the rain we are seeing right now is causing problems on the roads. this is what drivers on the beltway saw. crews pumped the water and that is final ly starting to clear. p pepco has 300 outages. and bge has about 100 outages.

we are in for a soggy friday. let's get to meteorologist tom klerein. >> we are going to get high water here. ponding of water and streams and creeks. southern maryland these areas of dark green getting rain in calvert county. that is about to come into prince george county. rain near fredericksburg. but the rain is spinning away here. wind gusts of 51 miles-an-hour. heavy rains as it tracks quickly south and east of our metro

area. it is going to be near the mouth of the chesapeake bay. heavy rain we have a big area under a flash flood watch. one to three inches of rain possible. good morning how is traffic. >> good morning. update on that excellent on the inner loop of the beltway. >> it is being used to transport the tractor trailer back up. outer loop of the beltway. we are looking at the inner loop

at land over avenue. the right shoulder is blocked there. accident in dc 11th treat. flooding in annondale. back to you. >> thank you. a developing story in kentucky. medical helicopter crash in kentucky. we got a scene. the crash happened at 11:30 last night. three people died in that crash the cause still under investigation. >> another former dc council member is facing legal trouble.

federal prosecutors will charge michael brown with bribery. prosecutors say he accepted a loan from two undercover fbi agents a year and a half ago. >> new at this hour we are getting details about what president obama will speak about later this morning. he plans to talk about what the state is doing to help people sign up for health care. six million people will be eligible to participate. he is in california for a two day summit with the president of china. it is the last stop for the chinese president. the two presidents will meet to

discuss a wide range of issues. this is the first time the two have met since he became the president of china in march. >> credit card companies provide information to the nsa on top of the internet and phone monitoring we knew about. some members of congress say the programs may have saved lives. >> it doesn't bother me one bit for the national security administration to have my phone number. they are trying to find out lwh is calling. there are new plans to build a

new sandy hook elementary. >> the damage already done. >> we have heavy downpours coming south of washington right near southern maryland. that is advancing toward the north. could get heary at times this afternoon. traffic alert. traffic alert. we are k

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morning after their boat cap sized. they were pulled to safety no word if they were hurt. >> at least three twisters believed to have been spawned by an dree thea. 85-year-old woman was hurt as well. that happened when a tree fell on her house. time for weather and traffic on the one's. >> watch for high water this morning. we are seeing the rain picking up. the heaviest raining coming into southern virginia. they will be arriving here between noun anoon and the rain

should taper off. the latest track in ten minutes. >> good morning we had the accident involving a jackknifed tractor trailer. you are looking at an 18 minute drive. back to you >> thank you. >> why a beauty pageant is scrapping a big part of its competition. >> why the timing of this will make headlines this weekend. >> we'll have a live report for you on the concerns

6:15 tropical storm andrea is our top story today.

that four-story building was about to be demolished on wednesday. six people died. a woman who works next door to the building is suing the owner and the demolition contractor for criminal negligence. she was one of the first rescued. the city now inspecting hundreds of demolition sites to check safety standards. they found violations at two sites. connecticut is setting aside $50 million to help build a new school at the site of the sandy hook shootings. state lawmakers attached a bill on the final day of the

legislative session. last month a task force in newtown voted to dare to ed td school. they're trying to get federal help to rebuild the school. learning about major league baseball players suspected of using enhance drugs. at&t and t-mobile and wants to see records for the players its investigating. those include shipping documents from the south florida anti-aging clinic accused of providing p.e.d.s. just a few days before his 92nd birthday, for instance fill sip he philip is headed to the hospital. buckingham palace says the operation will be conducted under general anesthesia he's expected to be in the hospital about two weeks. he turns 92 on monday. and getting closer to our

area, andrea. over south carolina turning northward. major cause for concern not only because of heavy rains but tornado warnings. the storm is expected to spend the day heading up the coast. people in north carolina are bracing for andrea now. the weather channel's dave malkoff has more. what's it look like where you are, dave? >> reporter: good morning. take a look. it is very windy and you can hear the storm rolling in with the waves crashing here. the wind is chopping up the waves back there. that's all we're seeing now. although earlier this morning, as you said, tornado warnings just north of here near the outer banks. that is pretty scary. if you are a family and you are here for vacation, and now that you get those alerts over your cell phone and you hear that cry of the ems alert on your cell phone in the middle of the night, this was at about 4:00 a.m., and that's what some people were waking up to this

morning. but those candidate warning have passed. we did see a little damage up north of here in the inland areas near the outer banks, but that's all the damage that we've seen so far. but later on today as the storm moves flew and it s through andt a good clip, around 30 miles an hour we're going to see thunderstorms and a lot of rain. that's what they're looking for. think of this. we are at the very beginning of what could be a very active hurricane season here. so this is a very slow start as we get into this, this one tracking up through florida, and now here into north carolina by the end of the weekend it will be out of here and somewhere in the atlantic. back to you. >> so people there vacationing or just staying put and riding out the storm, i guess? >> reporter: yeah. that's pretty much what they're going to do here. it's not going to be a major, major hurricane, like we saw 17

years ago here on wrightsville beach that completely destroyed one of the popular piers. this is just going to be a thunderstorm that rolls through, but still with the tornado warnings, it can get scary. >> right. dave malkoff in wrightsville beach, thank you. an idea exactly what you need to plan for. storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein is here. >> here in the weather center east where dave is located out in the atlantic is a buoy that reported winds 15 miles an hour. the main threat is heavy rain. looking now at storm team 4 radar we have light to moderate rain now beginning to move into the metro area from the south. this is the first from tropical storm andrea moving in. one band of moderate rain, calvert county, across the bay and the title potomac and heading towards fredericksburg now. pa farther south, heaviest rain into virginia, just to the west

of norfolk stretching into north carolina. heavy downpours and all the rain advancing off to the north and east, where the track is going quickly. in fact, moving at about 30 miles. hour. peak wind gusts around 35 to 50 miles an hour. right now you can see the zone of potential track is narrowing. increasing confidence. it's probably going to be passing near the mouth of the chesapeake bay by around mid to late afternoon this afternoon. after that it's going to be off the coast of new jersey after midnight tonight. another one to three inches of rain possible on top of the inch we've had already. all of these contis in gree nu . maybe up to four-inch total amounts by the time it ends this evening. blustery winds, 30 miles an hour. over the weekend, sunshine back on saturday and sunday and a small chance of an afternoon maybe a morning shower tomorrow. maybe afternoon shower sunday. a small chance of that. could get afternoon storms each day monday into thursday next week. back with another tropical storm

andrea update in ten minutes. here's a look at traffic. taking a look at eastbound 66 this morning. we're seeing volume delays. no major incidents reported. further in on 66 inside of the beltway at glebe road, no incidents reported. 12 minute right from the beltway to glebe road. and inner loop in montgomery county, two lanes blocked. in clarksville, a car into a tree. the earlier accident has been clearrd at davidsonville road. was closed for a while but is now reopened. back to you. a tv studio surprise. see what gave one meteorologist quite the scare. a busy morning for our own meteorologist. how the timing of tropical storm andrea could impact one

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.

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cool, collected tom kierein might freak out on this one. a scorpion crawled on to the weather set on our affiliate in phoenix. the station's meteorologist got a broom and swept the creature away from everybody there. who put the camera down like that. come on. nobody got hurt, though. not even the scorpion, i don't think. beauty queens competing in this year's miss world pageant in jakarta will not wear bikinis after reports indonesian conservative groups were offended by the bikini portion of the pageant. held september 28th in jakarta. nearly 90% of the 240 million people who live in indonesia are muslim. a big event cot have walmart workers on the picket line. >> and weekend community plans after that big warehouse hardway store fire on capitol hill. plus, don't get used to the calm conditions this morning. tom tracking just when we will start to feel that tropical storm. and a tractor trailer

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right now, tropical storm andrea getting even closer to our region. check out the storm team 4 radar now. that big blob, you see a lot of rain and some wind headed our way. the timing of the storm to lead to big problems this afternoon. >> meaning a lot of rain as many of you start the trip home from work. check in with meteorologist tom kierein with the latest track of the storm. >> good morning. the ground already saturated from up to an inch of rain that fell through the region overnight. watch out for ponding of water ap and in addition, more rain. the areas you see in dark green from southern maryland, in southern calvert county, southern charles, fredericksburg, getting heavier rain. heavier downpours, a band beginning to develop from the northern neck of virginia to richmond to charlottesville 23457 is advancing north. that's going to be the first wave of heavy rain. that should be moving in to the

metro area by about 10:00, 11:00 this morning. heavier rains the in a larger area of that further south, southern virginia, into north carolina and around noontime all coming from tropical storm andrea tracking knee the mouth of the bay by late this afternoon and then late ace thrch oace flooding potential later this afternoon. the morning hours, light to moderate rain until 10:00, 11:00. 11:00, noontime into the afternoon more. this friday afternoon and your evening coming up in ten minutes. here's alexis tracking traffic. good morning. >> good morning. issues just in. an accident now on the inner loop of the beltway, a car off the road. across from our outer accident

where the right lane is still blocked. watch for high water. we saw reports of high water areas. further down on to the woodrow wilson bridge, no reports of incidents on the bridge itself and traveling further into maryland just trier to pennsylvania avenue and accident reported at branch avenue. use caution and watch for that high water area. accident northbound route 1 at fairfax county parkway where the right lane is blocked due to a vehicle fire. back to you. >> thanks, alexis. you may see more than bargain hunters if you head to the wm with respealmart in clin maryland. striking workers in bensenville, arkansas, right now for the company the annual shareholder meeting, saying walmart should treat them better with higher wages and better hours. and a photo of a man robbing a bank, who detectives are looking for. the sheriff's office says this

man robbed the branch of the bank yesterday, and was last seen getting into a gray van. if you see him or know anything about that robbery, call police. this morning d.c. police need your help finding the man in the white t-shirt in this video. he robbed two people at gunpoint outside a restaurant. we're hearing from one of the victims this morning who says he calmly walked up to they are, flashed a gun, demanded everything they had and told them to stay calm. amp getting about $200 and an iphone. >> really i'm thankful it turned out the tway did. my friend might have lost some cash, but, i mean, in the grand scheme of thing, it's not worth your life, obviously, but it's -- it is definitely an eye-opening experience that, you know, everything you have can vanish just like to in an

instant. >> investigators say it's a crime they've never seen before. the man got his iphone back. the robber dropped it while getting away. a home ip vaeme invasion in street in northwest washington. on sunday burglars climbed in through a window, took a flat screen tv and cash while they were asleep upstairs. >> the aggravating thing is you feel violated, personally violated, that someone would come into your home and just, and do this to you. >> he lives within blocks of similar home invasions. one happened wednesday morning along north capital street in northeast washington. the other along second street. police say because of the locations, the crimes could be related. prince george's county police arrest add man in connection with two sexual assault cases at the same apartment building. bernard king jr. grabbed a woman last month. he tried to pull her clothes off.

the victim managed to fight him off and get away. detectives say king tried to do the same thing last july. in that case the victim was able to fight him off as well. king is facing several charges including attempted first-degree rape. d.c. police are hopening you can hype find the man who attacked a woman on chesapeake street wednesday. he claimed he was delivering a package. when she opened the door detectives say he hit her in the face and tried to sexually assault him. the 60-year-old woman says he it mace and handcuffs. she fought him off. police do not have the a goodell description of him. who shot and killed a woman's dog and why. the saint bernard bentley wandered away from their home over the weekend. her search across two counties came to a heartbreaking end when someone found bentley dead. the dog had been shot. she says she plans to press charges if investigators can find the shooter.

seven counties in maryland are still at odds with the state department of education over how to use student test scores to assess our teachers are doing. prince george's, charles and five our counties plan to submit proposals today. the state wants to make the test scores 20% of the calculation on evaluating teachers, giving the county three years to do so. that in standard's in place by the 2016 school year. today police and firefighters may begin sifting through the rubble of that historic building that housed the hardware store. investigators are still being cautious about entering the store making sure will are no more flare-ups and that the walls won't collapse. the "post" reports the store will actually be open saturday, sort of. it will open a stall at eastern market tomorrow to sell mostly garden supplies. the 93-year-old capitol hill staple went up in flames wednesday night. a big celebration on capitol hill. the accomplishment for one

lawmaker that no one has ever done in american history. and what kept a school board meeting in session until 1:00 a.m. and moderate rain closer to the metro area. could get heavier later today. i'll show you the timing on andrea's effectsen our region in just a couple of minutes. >> meantime, down load the weather app, in the apple google

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tropical storm andrea. take you now live to wrightsville beach, north carolina. the surf there is picking up and conditions are expected to deteriorate today. it's not going to be a good day to go in the water. there is a tropical storm warning now in effect over the next 24 hours. they are expecting two to three inches of rain, winds of up to 30 to 40 miles per hour. there's also a chance of

tornadoes, and this is not coming at a good time for north carolina. they're used to this, of course, because it is hurricane season but it's a time when the summer season kicks in. tourism season under way. starts to hike there. many tourists will ride it out, wait for the storm to pass and conditions tomorrow might be a little bet perp at the live desk, i'm richard jordan. even a tropical storm could not keep a daredevil from practicing his routine on the high-wire. look at this, blowing in the wind, making everyone nervous. he cancelled the walk because of lightning but yesterday afternoon right back on the tightrope practicing for his walk across the grand canyon later this month. quite the sight. he was given a challenge by the winds but made it across safely. >> i don't get it. >> daredevil. thrill seekers. >> whatever gets you out of bed in the morning. 6:41 is our time right now. i want to get a look at the forecast that includes a lot of rain over the next day or so. let's check in with tom. >> area. you can follow what's going on,

too, by checking me out on facebook and twitter. get your latest mobile updates. i'll be posting frequently here as tropical storm andrea gets closer to our region. right now storm team 4 radar showing bands of rain, areas of darker green. moving into southern maryland from car vert counlvert county . moving into the northern neck of virginia. near charlottesville. that band of heavy rain should sboob the metro area around 9:00 or 10:00 this morning. and heaviest rains into carolinas and southern virginia. that should be up here by noontime and will be with us off and on into the afternoon. here's the timing hour by hour. by noon into the low 70s with heavy downpours. to get gusts of wind to around 30 miles an hour getting into the afternoon from individual strong, heavy downpour cells rolling through between noon and into early evening.

in fact, could still get heavy downpours from 8:00 to 9:00 tonight when we'll likely get creeks and streams out of their banks and high water. a lot of rain tapers off by midnight. lighter showers, still a bit of a blustery wind. a look at improving news for your weekend and the latest track for andrea in ten minutes. alexis davies looks at traffic. good morning. >> good morning, tom. a couple of incidents in the same spot on the beltway. first on the outerloop at van dohrn. police on the scene. use caution approaching that area at van dorn. the outer loop at van dorn street, an earlier accident, right lane blocked due to flooding. elsewhere, route 50 to annapolis through the district. no reports of incidents. clear on route 50 from landover road and further in, normal volume delays there. accident reported in montgomery county. hollingsworth drive. various lanes blocked there.

and an accident reported southbound, old georgetown road at 270. aaron and eun, back to you. >> thanks, alexis. a story in kentucky, at least three people killed in a helicopter crash in man k4e679or, kentucky. a photo from the scene from our affiliate. the crash happened near an elementary parking lot last night. the helicopter dropped off a patient at a hospital. the pilot, a nurse and a paramedic died in that crash. the cause is under investigation. another former d.c. council member is facing legal trouble. news 4s tom sherwood learned federal prosecutors will charge michael brown with bribery. he's learned brown will plead guilty to the charge next week. he accept add loan from two undercover fbi agent as year and a half ago and in exchange the agents asked him to lobby for d.c. business contracts. brown was running for an at-large seat on the d.c. council earlier this year and dropped out of the race in april

for what he called personal and family reasons. the latest in a string of corruption charges against formal council member kwame brown and thomom jr. pleading guilty to charges. they're still looking to mayor vincent gray's 2010 campaign. today senator lautenberg will be laid to rest. the former colleagues paid respects yesterday. his casket lie in repose in the senate chamber. he died monday was 89 years old and represented new jersey three decades in the senate. lautenberg was the senate's last remaining world war ii veteran. and john dingle becomes the longest member of congress in history. a live look at the capitol now. dingle first arrived in the house in 1955 at the age of 29. he has now served 57 year, 5 months and 26 days. that beats out the late senator robert byrd of west virginia.

dingle tweeted out a picture yesterday with a visit from vice president joe biden who stopped by to congratulate him and give him a gift. the 86-year-old says he has no plans to retire. and getting new details this morning on what president obama will talk about during a speech today on healthcare reform. he is making the speech in san jose, california, and plans to highlight what the state is doing to get people ready to sign up for health insurance exchanges. he will also focus on how hispanics can benefit from the health care law. about 6 million people in california will be eligible to participate in the health insurance exchanges. and after that speech, the president meets with china's president for the first of a two-day summit. the u.s. is the last stop of a four-nation tour for the chinese president. he's vis the new mexico, coast rico for trade talks. they're discuss a wide range of issues. the first time the two have met

since he became president of china in march. now to a developing story, the national security agency surveillance programs we just learned about may have also included credit card transactions. credit card companies provided information to the nsa. that's on top of the internet and phone monitoring we already knew about. privacy advocates are furious about this. some members of congress, though, say the programs may have saved lives. >> the sheer breadth of information should be chilling to any american with privacy. >> it doesn't bother me one bit for the national security administration to have my phone number, ba what they're trying to do is find out what terrorist groups we know about and individuals and who the hell they're calling. >> the white house says president obama is confident the phone program protecting americans and their civil liberties. new this morning, fairfax county schools discipline policy will not be changing drastically. the county school board met until about 1:30 this morning to discuss amendments to its

student policy. rejected most amendments. the issue that's drawn attention to this debate, parental notification. which should parents find out administrators are questioning their child about a major offense? our northern virginia bureau reporter david culver was in that meeting until it ended. >> so what we've said tonight s is, that even an 8 or 9-year-old student does not have the right to have the their parent called when they are suspected of the most serious offenses against board policy, and that is beyond disappointing. >> this debate over the discipline policy comes two years after h.t. woodson high school student nick steubening to his own life after being expelled and forced to transfer schools. soon getting a peek at new apple devices and they could be available for holiday shopping. courtney has more. >> good morning.

apple is expected to show off new software for the ipad at the developers conference which starts monday. the new ios will probably be launched this fall when apple is likely to unveil the next apple model, saying investors may not be wowed by next week's announcements. analysts say they want physical products. they think of a tv and wear of a watch will be coming from apple next year. google believes it can protect the next blockbuster or bust. the search volume for a movie trailer in weeks leading to up its release can help promote a movie 92% accuracy. relying on a handful of research firms to report the movie's take. this focuseses on getting internship at google. wonder if that had influence on the study? back to you. >> i don't know. thank you. car max wants to do more than just sell used cars. it's teaming up with a nonprofit

group to build 30 playgrounds around the company. the company is spending more than $4 million on the venture. the first goes up in richmond, the headquarters for car max, and in los angeles. after that we'll see playgrounds opening in seven other states including maryland. if the rain holds out, you'll have the chance to take in a classic at an outdoor film festival. the golden triangle business improvement district is presenting a series of classic films every friday at dupont's museum from now until july 12th. tonight's movie is "casablanca" one of my alltype favorites. the other include "rear window," "some like it hot," "yankee doodle dandee" the films are free and open to the public. and gambling with their latest promotion. guaranteed good weather night. they made the move even with tropical storm andrea coming to the coast. if even a drop of rain fell after the gates open the fans

get a free ticket to a future game. if more than a quarter inch fell between 7:00 and 10:00, one lucky fan would pocket $10,000. that guy waving, he didn't get it. the skies opened up in the ninth inning, meaning everybody got a free ticket, but fortunately for the pelicans, that happened just after 10:00, so nobody won the cash. got to give it to the pelicans. bold, though, guaranteed weather for a game? >> a great move. turn to tom kierein. talk about the odds, chances for bad weather, but a guarantee? >> at 100% guaranteed heavy downpours here this afternoon. here's a live picture, wrightsville beach in north carolina. that's near wilmington. you see the surf is quite turbulent then and east there, a buoy reporting 50 mile-an-hour winds. yeah, that's tropical storm force wind. as we look at the radar, areas in green, modern rain in

washington. another band in calvert county. charles, and across the potomac into prince william faulk here. the heaviest bands of rain are much farther south stretching from the mouth of the chesapeake bay to near richmond and charlottesville. the heaviest from southern virginia into north carolina. the pockets of yellow and orange, the heaviest rain advancing north as the latest track for andrea takes it southeast of us. it's going to be right near the mouth of the chesapeake bay between around fourp to 7:00 p.m. this evening, tracking just south and 50e6east of us along atlantic seaboard around ocean city towards assateague. after that, the position saturday east of the jersey coast and quickly pulling away. expect another one to three inches, maybe even up to four inches of additional rain, all of these counties in green under a flood watch into this evening including all of our viewing area, after everywhere east of

the blue ridge and the heavy band coming in as of 10:00 friday morning into southern maryland zone, right into washington by noontime, and then during the afternoon, some other pockets of moderate to heavy rain coming through, and then by midnight, most of it should be over. a small are chance of a shower tomorrow. look at how much rain we may get. we could get up to a total, including last night's inch, up to maybe a four inch amount, right along 95 and points east of there. blustery winds, too, up to 30 miles an hour. it moves out late tonight. the sun back tomorrow and sunday. only a small chance of a passing shower each of those days or a little thunder and bit warmer sunday afternoon. chances of afternoon storms monday into thursday. i'm back with frequent updates throughout the morning. stay tuned. also on facebook and twitter. let's check out traffic with alexis davies. good morning. >> good morning, tom. still dealing with that accident on van dorn street where the car is off the road. you can see live here.

police are on the scene. use caution across the beltway on the outer loop of van dorn in the same area, the right lane still blocked due to high water. there was an accident there earlier. itting whos like it's just high water there now. looking at 395 from the beltway traveling up to the 14th street bridge, normal volume delays. a live look at the 14th street bridge, you can see light volume there, but seeing volume approaching the 14th street bridge. north route 1, all lanes open. that accident cleared, and an accident, old georgetown road at 270. looks like involving a school bus. back to you, aaron and eun. >> thanks, alexis. one other traffic alert this morning. you won't be able to use the hov lanes on 95 and 395. crews doing work on the express lanes project. closing the lanes tonight and tomorrow night from 11:00 p.m. until 10:00 a.m. the next day. the entire length of the lanes will be closed. give yourself extra time on

the metro. red line, trains single track in two sections. none of the other lines has closures or single tracking but metro says trainle les will arrn stations every 20 minutes. the work starts at 10:00 tonight and the 4r569s through the day on sunday. even with a rain a weekend of celebration in fair faxx county. the celebrate fairfax starts today running through sunday, and features more than 300 exhibitors, 120 concerts, carnival rides and fireworks. the festival opens at 6:00 tonight. the first concert begins at 7:15. bands, everclear, live filter and sponge. nbc 4 will be there as well. a brand new storm team 4 x 4 there for you to check it out. cool. hope to see you there. things to know before you head out the dort. president obama meets with china's president today in california planning to discuss a

white range of issues from the economy to national security. the first time the two meet since the chinese president took office. and the school board voting not to adopt major changes to its student discipline policy. the school board met until well after 1:30 to address that issue. and former council member mike many brown charged with bribery today. he'll plead guilty to that charge in court next week. brown was running for an at-large seat earlier in the year and dropped out in april. and tropical storm andrea in south carolina right now. the storm weakened since it made landfall but is still whipping up winds at about 45 miles per hour. we could see the heaviest rains here in the dmv region around noon. the latest on the track from tom. >> right now getting bands of moderate rain now just beginning to move into the metro area. the first rains from andrea. and as we take a look a little bit wider view, you can see there is heavier bands. those areas in yellow. they are associated with the circulation from andrea that is

way down in north carolina and south carolina now. but those heavier bands will likely be arriving here by noontime and will be with us off and on into the afternoon. as a result, we'll likely get flooding and the latest track is showing right near the mouth of the chesapeake bay, by mid to late afternoon this afternoon, then quickly zips off later tonight and moves off the new england coast during the day on saturday. bupt another one to two inches of rain on top of what we already had. so we'll probably get flooding in all the areas in green later this afternoon into this evening. watch out for that. alex alexis, how's the traffic? >> an incident in van dorn street. a car off the road. you can see tow trucks on the scene. use caution outer loop at van dorn. right lane blocked due to high water. southbound, old georgetown road, accident involving a school bus. beltway to 270, 19 minutes. back to you, that is news for today. thank you for starting your day with us. the "today" show is next welcome

back with weather, traffic and breaking news and right back here monday morning at 4:26. hope to see you. until then, 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.

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