benefits in green belt, news 4. now at 6:00, tracking hurricane michael moving across the southern united states. we have been watching live pictures of thi storm all day as the conditions have been changing. and right now, the storm i still very powerful and very dangerous with winds already proving catastrophic. michael made landfall as a category 4 storm with winds just 2 miles per hour shy of being a cat 5. this hurricane formed fast, and it's moving fast. >> there it goes. >> oh, wow, that storm approached the gulf coast with such strength this morning, those w planned toide it out changed minds and tried to evacuate. the fire department t toldm it was too late. the bridges were closed. they would have to shelter in place. this is theto strongest ever

recorded in the florida panhandle. >> that's right. dur team is standing by with everything you n to know in the storm center. >> guys, in changed a lot. >> biggest change, is panama city, places like mexico city, mexico beach, rather, they are done with the devastation there. it hit them. it's about over as far as winds are concerned, and now it's in georgia as cegory 3, still at this hour, 115 storm in georgi strongest to hit there since 1898. >> insane. weke t about that, a lot of people couldn't get out of florida because it forme so quickly. georgia right knocking on that doorstep right now, and it continues to travel. >> eventually, giving us impacts making into the next couple days. this is w the stormis, look how big it is. this is all the entire state of georgia right now, you can see what's happening down in parts of florida as well, and you have some of the outer bands that are coming on through. you can see the circulation. the eye is filling in here,

telling you we are seeing weakening, but t last couple ames, the red in the eye, and look there, some orange is trying to show up. that's selling you therm is weakening. of course, ay vergood trend moving through, but, still, some heavy rainfall, heavy windsnt continuing georgia right now, and it will move threw georgia with t state under a tornado watch, and eventually moving into our region. i want to show you the latest adviso advisory. winds at 115 miles per hour, nor in a, moving north/northeast at 13 miles per hour. pressu came up. this has weakened a bit, but again it's going to be a mor impact on georgia, the carolinas, andll eventour area. much more of what to expect tomorrow locally and friday. back in ten minutes. that is a fast moving storm. all right. thank you, e erica gonzalez is tracking the damage. de is live in the live desk with the latestelopments on the storm. erica? >> reporter: we now know that

president trump will visit florida early next week to survey hurricane michael response effort. the national concern center says life threatening storm surge, catastrophic winds, and heavy rainfall continue now. ta michael drove through the beach, wood and mel pierced this car. can you imagine seeing that, god forbid being in the vehicle. a column now has a hole in it thanks to mich tl, ands pole crashed down on a building. algoright. let's ack to panama city beach. we got live pictus for you right now coming in of what appears to be a firestone business that's collapsed. nbc's carrey sanders is battling the elements -- this is -- of -- it is? back to the sanders clip we showed you early your about what he was doing with the elements outside. >> reporr: estimated ,000 people stayed in their homes. it was just -- according to the fire department, many have been

calling saying, can you come get us out? fire department not only not responding, but taking those 911 calls on pieces of paper because they say we can't get out there, writing your address down and check on you after the hurricans through. >> incredible that video. kerry was about bwn away, and, in fact, the weather channel's jim cantore came in toelp rescue him back a into safe his helmet flew off in the live shot. ithbama now dealing hundreds of thousands of power outages. a story that we'll be sticking with. back to you. >> y gotit. thank you, erica. zblmp resident trump is in pennsylvania now for a campaign rally. trump did n want todisappoint his supporters. >> before the president left town, fema briefed him on their

hurricane response plan. blayne alexander was, of course, on that. >> reporter: with hurricane michael slamming the gulf coast moving inland -- >> had the pressure close to andrew. >> reporter: president trump and fema say help is inti po. >> food supplies, food chaining, working with all of the states. >> reporter: the presi briefed by homeland security secretary and the fema director, brock long. >> most intense hurricane that struck the area since 1851. >> reporter: among the biggest not enough people evacuated. >> we are concerned citizens chose not to heed the warnings, but we're prepared with search and rescue teams to tryo go in and do what we can. >> a lot of people are very poor inin of those areas, and it's tough for them to leave. >> reporter: this potentially catastrophic storm coming weeks after hurricane florence earrelled into the east coast, flooding some of ame areas now in michael's th. >> i really worry about north

carolina and south carolinnd frm the sint they are so saturated, and they'll get a reasonable hit. >> reporter: the back-to-back hit, another test for fema staff. >> le have a of staff and will continue to have a lot of staff in recovery phase of a lot of storms. now all eyes on michael and the path through the southeast. rescue workers in place with more to come. nbc news, washinngon. sta with news 4 for continuing coverage of hurricane michael throughout the hou including live reports from florida, the damage left behind. a man is dead tonight on what appears to have been an accident in a d.c. metro station. were first to report that a man was riding up an escalator in a wheelchair. >> reporter: metro investigators have been here since this afteokoon. take a this is the columbia heights escalatorion, the leading to the platform upstairs on the sidewalk. abouaf 1:00 this ternoon, a man was in a wheelchair.

he tried to get into the elevator or here. according to the officials with metro who reviewed video, the man waited several seconds, 15, 20 seconds for t elevator. when it did not come, he then got the wheelchair over here to the escalator, into the escalator on his wheelchair, falling back, all the way back down to the platform. now, d.c. fire arrived at1:30. they found the man, transported him to the local hospital where he was pronounced dead. again, metro officials are still on the scene, investigating a tragic accident that happened at 1:00 this afternoon at the columbia heights metrostation. in northwest, mark seagraves, news 4. breaking news fromhiall street evening. the dow plummets more than 800 points. it was driven by big losses for te companies. netflixf amazon and

slid over fears interest rates are going up. today's loss, the worst lost in eight months. it dropped fr of the las five sessions. denying any involvement, and, today, daron wint had a t chan defend himself. he was charged in the d.c. murders se. they tried to sow doubt he pulled off the elaborate crime. >> reporter: for the first time, we are hearing from the defendant, daron wint, after the torneys had him testify. they hope his testimony proves the case laid out inpening statements. they are arguing that wint's brothers use his blue van to drive to d.c. where they murdered the familynd tricked da n into coming to the house to get his car. in explaining the argument,e

told they asked to borrow the van for urs$300. that'she same day three family members and the housekeeper were heldst e. wint said he agreed, and he was dropped off at a friend's house in d.c. as he waited for his brother to return later that night, but ner did. at next morning, he returned to the family's porsche an him to the mansion where he said he was working. when wint arrived, he said he ate a piece of stale pizza in the downstairs room of the home. he said he was asked to put on a construction vest and hard hat and then said he's about to steal items from the house. wint said he refused to participate and threw the hard hat down and started walking towards the bus stop. minutes later, he's picked up by his brother, who drives him back to maryland, all the while, wint pled him to ge back the van. wint says he found a tow truck driver in the parking lot along annalis road, hiring him to

pick up the blue van as you see, he said later that night, he ate dinner with e family and saw the mansion murders on tv. he met up with hisnd brother asked about what happened in the house and tells him to take the van becauseoee't want to be connected in any way to the crime. that's when wint says he pays him $6,000 cash so that he can buy a new civ and him two iphones. days later, wint says the van was not in the garage of his dad's home, assuming his brother picked itp to get rid of it. keep in mind, wint's dna was found on thetiizza constr, the vest, and hard hat, and now tomorrow morning, when the trial resumes, prosecution will have theire chancto question daron on the witness stand. back to you. >> thank you so mu. meagan fitzgerald. >> you are a bra woman, that was delivered from the police

chief when a neighbor tried to stop a girl's abduction. the man is now behind bars. we are live now with more. david, you learned how they were able to track the man down. tell us about that. >> reporter: tonight, police sources relayed to me that amidst that intense search yesterday for the suspect, there was a s arateunrelated investigation going on, not too far from here, involving officers who were walki ining ad in plain clothes, not uniform. when one of the detectives toked down at phone, he got the suspect description and photo, and when he looked up,e noticed the wanted man standing feet from him. from the doorstep of the this town home, she says she had lived here for the past year. she says adam seth walters' father is a resident in the home, and in the last six

months, she says adam seth movek in. we pass each other in the kitchen area, she says, a he always acknowledges me, asking how i'm doing. the description of a kind house mate, far removed from the accusations of a violent criminal. accused of brutally beating alissa and sexuallyssaulting a little girl. she told me tuesday -- t iught i was going to die, that was at the point of death, policeay the 26-year-old walter went after the 11-year-old girl as she walked to school essex drive, and then targeted alatiss she tried to help the girl.ad still bruised, she told me tuesday she wished she could have done more. from the policechief, reassuring her, visiting her in person today, thanking her. >> showed great courage, great character, and great compassion, and i don't have anything but praise for he r

orter: that praise echoed by neighbors. >> bringing you something to make you feel better. >> oh. >> appreciate what you did for the little girl. >> reporter: hours aft the attack, they brought flowers and a fruit basket, a community . grateful >> i think she's fabulous. i mean, she went out on a limb to help a little girl she didn't know, and she got beat for it, and - >> great neighbor.te >> rep midday, i stopped by the he behind me, knocked on the front door, checking in on her, and her son answered the door, said his mom was not ut there,t work today. 24 hours after the brutal attack, she went to work. got to pay the bills, resilient spirit, hard worker, no question. my word. >> we hope the girl is okay too. >> yeah, absolutely. >> thanks, david. it against the law to eat or drink onhe metro. >> well, now metro's considering a proposal that allow riders to

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so when donald trump's epa attacks our clean water laws, frosh is leading the charge to stop them. attorney general brian frosh. we continu to track hurricane michael as is inland after slamming into the florida panhandle. >> check these scenes out, this wood beam through the window of a car. buildings shattered, debris er everywhere, p lines down into the streets. >> jay gray continues our coverage from panama city beach which was hammered earlier this afternoon, but it's s calm down now, jay? >> reporter: finally, doreen, leon, a break from what was driving rain for hours here, just sheets of rain falling. still significant winds. it's gusting pretty intense at

times, but i want to show you the surf here as well. usually calm. you can see it, still churning out there, cleef evidence that michael is not done jt yet. florida's panhandle under siege. hurricane michael, most powerful storm on record to hit the region, slamming into t coast. >> hurricane michael is upon us. now's the time to seek refuge. >> reporter: catastrophic storm inging a triple threat. a dangerous storm surge, up to 14 feet projected along the coastline. the destructive winds as high as 150 miles per hour, tearing up buildings and knocking out power. and torrential rainfall already causing flooding. >> hurricane michael t ishe hurricane of the worst >> reporter: storms tracking inland, georgia declared a state of emergency in thearolinas dreaded michael's arrival. >> north carolina is staring down anotherer pl hurricane,

less than a month after hurricane florida battered our state. threatening a life storm putting the entire southeast on alert. our team coverage of hurricane michael continues now with doug and lauren. >>th standing by i storm center for us with a look at the storm and where it'sde h next. seems like the trajectory projections are spot on. >> they yohave. remember, i mean, a week ago on thursday of last week, i was saying there w storm coming through the florida panhandle upo our regio thursday and friday this week. that's what's happened. we had the track good on this. the intensity, though, you know, coming in as a strong category 3 as we thought, but it was close to a 5. absolutely. just that one miles an hour from a 5. you know, again, 155 miles per hour came on as a, stro powerful hurricane. >> you see in the last couple frames, it got organized. is is 24 hours ago. notice down to the eye, not much in the eye, it tried to get it's

act together, but then itndpens l a becomes what's known as the buzz sawk for a hurricane, coming into the panama city area, and that we saw earlier,evastation in panama city. getting more and moreictures coming through. follow the eye. it's now in georgia as the strongest hurricane to ever hit florida, orr rat hit georgia since 1898, biggest hurricane to do so, however, you notice the eye really starting to get disintegrated here, good news as it weakens fairly quickly over land. now, the storm is moving our way. that is the lst advisoadvisory, again, coming our way, just like this, through virginia beach, making its way through the carolinas, and right now, winds at 115 miles per hour, making its way north and east ats 13 mir hour, through the carolinas, into our region, and this will have an impact on us, but let's take aook at this, lauren, what's the impact for us tomorrow and friday? >> a lot of people want to know, are we going to have direct

impact from it? it's really not going to be too bad. we will have just a minor impact of that, and if you are closer to souther maryland, even eastern shore, your impactsay be more moderate. this isy finrehe c why.some. now, fredericksberg, southern maryland, you are closer to where doug showed the trackal where mile is going to exit off to. north carolina, virginia that pushes out, we will have flooding ing flooding, but just south and east of d.c. and to the shore, is it windy friday? that's the main impact? we'll have sun on, frid but those winds gust up to 35 miles per hour around here, possibly up to 50r miles per houth and east of d.c. big impacts here.. but, again, they are going to be little on the minor side. for us, and do we have changes this weekend? absolutely. we do have changes this weekend. temperatures going to drop. it'sor feeling like fall, and

doug has the ten-day forecast on that, doug? >> temperatures have been in the 80s, close to 90 in the region for the feels like temperature, but look tomorrow. 79 with the rain and windy conditions friday falling temperatures, the wind, especially early in the day, by eving, friday evening, going out? jacket fowear that sure. saturday, sunday, highs in the low 60s, and, really, we stay in the 60s next week. that nice warm air we've seen in th say hi to fall, it's moving in quick. >> okay. >> all right. >> we got it. thank you, doug and lauren. >> thank you. stillahead, 250 miles away from here, police stop a man's alleged plot to blow himself up on the national mall. details froming federal investigators. a consumer alert about something you may have gotten in the mai from a local car dealer recently, and what you need t recently, and what you need t know aobo

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local dealerships are accused of sending out fake recall noticesn su hogan is at the live desk with details. susan? >> , doreen. so three passport auto dealership settled claims with the federal trade commission that they misl consumers with recall notices. passport toyota, passport nissan of alexandria and marlo heights are part of the settlement. the fcc says they sent out 21,000 fake recall notices just like these to consumers in 2015 and 2017 to increase business at the dealership's service departments. a court order now bans them from future deceptive practices. >> if marketing companies send thin to fool consumers, then those same consumers are gng get a legitimate recall

notice down the road ignore it, and that puts them and their families at risk. >> in a statement to news 4, passport auto says it only sent the notices because st was haviious problems identifies and fixing open recalls. they also y it was not their intention to mislead anyone. we're working for you with what you need to know. if you receive a recall notice, first of all, take a close look at it. it tells you to go to a specific dealership, that's a redag. confirm your vehicle is recalled by entering your nn the website, saverc.gov, and they say this wrong doing is part of the settlement. back to you. >> susan, thank you. hurricane michael makes landfall in the florida panhandle as a strong category 4 storm, and the strongest ever to hit that part of the stat > storm team 4 telling us this

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hurricane michael crashes ashore, slamming into the florida panhandle with terrif terrifying winds, more than 150 miles per hour. >> those winds damaged neighborhoods, battering the coastline. news team 4 is tracking the storm for us, andoo it's a g thing it's moving fast. not like florence. >> really is. if you take a look at areas like panama city, this storm already moved through panama city. they are dealing with winds there, yes, but the rain is, ovnd a lot of people are out surveying the damage here around the area, and now, pefully, people that are still in their houses, that's one thing we don't want. don't want peopln the roadways, still a lot of trees down and power lines down in this areaoi and it's to take some time to get this area

up and running again. over300,000 people, that's what i saw an hour ago, 300,000ut people witho power on the tallahasseedyarea, alr 90,000 people without power, and now you can see this storm movin into georgia. here's macon, georgia, known as middle georgia here, making its way to middle georgia as a hurricane warning, at 6:00, winds at 115 miles per hour, a category 3 storm. eventually it goes into the carolinas and our region again tomorrow. this is going to pick up speed, by tomorrow afternoon, this storm will already be carolina and it'll be moving close to 25 to 35 miles per hour with an impact on us. i'll come back in 15 minutes showing youhe local impacts this storm has on the area, but for now, let's look at somee of th video down towards parts of florida, and e erica is watching sit. there iincredible damage. >> absolutely. monitoring damage reports, and we know that some 300,000

customers are without power in florida, georgia, and alabama. now, one place that we have not been able to really get a good look at is mexico beach. where the storm made landfall? ere are scattered reports there is catastrophic damage, more like w what you'd seeh a tornado. msnbc spoke to a counscilwoman n a town where they evacuated, and she dsn't know that her home exists or not at this point. >> caller: i can tell you this is a raw interview because i keep getting texts from m friends saying i'm so sorry about your hous >> oh, boy. >> caller: i have no idea if i have e, if it's underwater, if it's a pile of match sticks. i don't know. i can tell ya, if it is bad, which i'm thinking it is, it uld be like going int war

zone, and we -- our town would be wiped off the map. we have just 20 businesses, mom and pop businesses, and there if t foods. ecause e out here just you love the white sugar sandy beach. i know people say it's just a house, it's just things -- >> it's your home. le caller: it's my home, it's my home, and f with lots of memories and had i anticipated that it would be this bad, i mean, i took a lot of things with me, i packed my van full, but i just thought that we'd be coming back home. hard tohear. again, the storm poses a serious risk to georgia and the carolinas. we'll watch it all night. back toyou. >> boy, hard to hear. >> yeah. >> breaks your heart. >> on the other hand, good she was not in it >> yeah. >> absolutely. absolutely. but it's got to hurt to hear it secondhand. >> sure. all right. thank you. >> thank you. we'll be tracking the storm all night long, both on air and

online. if you step kout,p our nbc washington app close by, sign up for alerts, and track where the storm is headed next concern is growing for missing "washington po" columnist, jamal, a frequent to criticize saud i arabia. surveillance camera took ae pictf him entering the consulate in turkey more than a week ago, but he went there to get papers so he could marry his turkish fiance and has not been seen since. some fear a hit team from saudi arabia killed him there. investigation underway tonight at a leesburg high school over an didn't that reportedly happened among football players. the police refused to characterize the nature of the investigatio the bureau chief reports

studen believe it's an alleged sexual assault. >> discipline, passion, and commitment. those words wrapped up in the high school, but now the word "investigation" is casting a shadow over the winning program. the husky football team went to the ste finals last year and in 2014, but this week offarhe field, vty team members are questioned by the police detectives. an allegation of a crime was phoned into the police on friday. izpolice can't yet charact the event. theerocal pap said they first reportedn the probe cites sources that a boy was sexual assaulted in the locker room last week. students tell news 4 that's the word that spread through the school as well. a senior football player, they say, assaulted a younger players, and the senior's friends restrained victim. to preserve the integrity of the investigation and due to federal laws protectsing student

privacy, lcps is limited what they can share with the public. a leesburg police spokesman say detectives are interviewing a lot of football players, but no decision has been made yet on whether there's charge as the investigation got underway, football practice was cancelled saturday and monday, but resumed tuesday, and they regula scheduled away game for friday night goes on as scheduled. news 4. metrow may a food retailers to sell in and around stations now as a plan to increase revenue. now, you still can't technically eat or drink on the train in the system, but everything you could buy would be sealed, contain the, or ndwrapped, it would be sold outside in the paid area of metro. coming up, a man's alloted pl to blow himself up here in the nation's capital. thwarted. life threateni surge and catastrophic winds, pple in catastrophic winds, pple in fleo

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a man from a historic town outsid york city had plans to cause death and destruction here in our town. >> he blt a 200 pound bomb that he planned to use to blow himself up on the national mall. wnbc is tracking the story for us. >> reporr: the allegedarget was the national mall. fbi and police say it oing to be a decide bombing. the man lived in this brown house identified as 56-year-old paul rosenfeld.ay policee built the big bomb with black powder and detonators in his basement. u.s. attorney in a statement said nfrod concoct the a twisted plan to draw attention to his political ideology by killing himself in the national n d.c. risking harm to others in the process. the police seen going in and out all day as neighbors looked on. >> surprise me?

no. in a community lik this? yes. >> reporter: he allegedly contacted a reporter in pennsylvania to boast of the plan. that reporter tipped off the police. prosecutors say he had radical ideology for targeng politicians, although he claimed he did not want to hurt anyone other than himself. the statement said, had he been successful, rosenfeld's plot could have claimed lives of innocent debyst and cause untold destruction. mades a lone actor a statements admitting his plans. neighbors try to make sense of it all. >> concerning, you know, with so much activity this morning, unbelievenb unbelievenble. >> makes me nervous somewhat, but not surprised because of the way our world is. >> reporter: he's in custody and there's no further threat to the public at this time. in orangetown, new york, news 4. still ahead, much more

coverage of the very dangerous hurricane michael's storm surge om the category 4 storm that could bring water to the second floor of homes in florida. doug's back with a look what to watch for and a look at the impact of the record-breakin storm ong o their first beer cooler was slapped togeheer with two by fours, counter stand built from scraps of wood. david trone's first store was held together with scotch tape, and hope. but he ended up with one of america's largest retail chains. creating over 7,000 jobs, where every worker and every community got to sharen it's success. now david's running for congress, with the same goal he had as that young man. to get big things done, create jobs, help communities. and failure n't an option. i am david trone and i approve this message.

hurricane michael strikes the florida panhandle as a dangerous category 4 storm, worst, the governor says, has been seen in a century. >>his is what we have in store tonight on "nbc nightly news." >> tracking the latest lopments as hurricane michael makes landfall, and now a powerful category 4 storm, thee most intense storm the florida panhandle has seen on record and behind me,ou can see this is a roadn apalachicola, florida. they expect nine feet of surge here, and this is a city that is

expected to be just east on the projected landfall, the so-called dirty side of the storm. conditions are expectedt deteriorate rapidly over the next several hours. >> good day from panama city, florida. thentensity of the storm oontinues to grow. just an hour or ago, it was like a summer storm, and now it feel like a hurricane. the winds have been picking up quite rapidly, ands t city is batoning down. everyone who was going to leave left. other people, perhaps, riding it out, but there's no one on the streets here.e we'll h full coverage of rricane michael and its impact when we see you tonight on nbc nightly news. >> lester holt and the team were in a hotel room when the storm came ashore. you can see them here moving a mattress in front of the window to protect t themselves prevent the glass from shattering. >> i saw in the report, they said the glass was beginning to bow inward into the room. >> holding a pushing against it to protect themselves.

wow. our team coverage of hurricane michael continues with doug and lauren. >> sto w center 4h the look at the storm right now, and where it's headed next. >> it is going to have an pacts here. i continue to see more and more video and more and more pictures. i just saw a picture in mexico beach that just came onshore with an entire comdoex now just simply gone. it's no longer there. i think that's what we're going to seemhere f panama, panama city, down towards the mention quay beach area. moving into georgia, into the carolinas, and even into our area, we're going to have impacts, am though this is not something to cancel plans for. >> no, absolutely not. just a few rain shauowers burks it's o well south us. >> reporter: take a look at the eye, really developed here the last couple frames, before landfall, you see that donut shape, donut with a hole in the middle of it, the buzz saw, the look of the storm moving close to panama city. watch the east side here, a, we

lose the e, and, two, notice the lighterrs colo, the storm is weakeng, it's good news, b a hurricane, moving into georgia, moving a the macon, georgia area as a hurricane. guys, any time there landfalling tropical system, we goat a tornado, and most of tha st of georgia under a tornado watch. look at this. a tornado warning aroun atlanta. this is for fulton county. there's a tornado on the ground right now south oat nta. this is hundreds of miles away from the center, but this storm coinues to make its way up towards parts of georgia into the carolinas, and eventually into o region, and, lauren, we aroing to have rain and some wind, but as mentioned, impacts here are not huge, and definite not lifehreatening like they are down south. is absolutely not. however, the raioing to pick up a little bit tomorrow morning. we'll see showers, and that'y not o going to be from michael, but a song frontal system going through the area. you can see this front from

charleston to western wednesday. this is thursday at 9:00 a.m. thank goodness the front is there. that's going to help steer michael t to sea, around the virginia beach area. atch, here comes michael, remnants of it. there's the front. as we go through the day, ou30, we have more showers and thunderstorms as we head into the afternoon, and the michael goes offshore, after midnight friday morning, and there's rapid clearing thr the day friday. talk about rain. we're going to get around an inch of rain for most of our region, but areas closer to where michael's exiting, soutrn maryland, even out to the eastern shore, look at the totals. yeah, we could have some flooding just south and east, extreme southern maryland, that's why we have a flash flood watch in the area to the eastern shore, and by friday, doug, h's windy aroue. >> could see winds overnight thursday into friday, woken up by the winds, upwards of 30 miles per hour in the city. places south and east could see

40 to 50 miles per hour, closer to the bay, and over to the ocean city, and now our weather? 79 degrees on thursday withain likely, again, heaviest south and eastward, but rain just ab all day. 64 friday, falling temperatures fridght, dinner friday. temperatures in the 50s, and 40s overnight into saturday and sunday morning, talking about some chilly air here for the weekend. you know it's on the cool side, and then breaking out into sunshine as we move downhe ouple days there, next wednesday, thursday, and friday. guys, storm is through. now we have wedding photosoing on there. >> you're kidding. >> yeah, you think that bride was upset at the weather forecast for this one? >> i think they are all -- everybody in the wedding party, half of them probably didn't make the trip. >> that's true, may not have, but they are getting the pictures. they paid for the pictures, you know what happens, you paid for them, get them done. >> quite a memorable experience.

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