white. >> love her. >> it is monday. grab your coffee. we are hear to start your day and i'm here to tell you about the bus stop forecast. it is partly cloudy and dry in most locations. northern neck, southern maryland a come of rain drops. i hear from you on facebook. part of our family we bout you. will not forget about you. we will skirt by the southern and eastern suburbs today leaving us with partly cloudy skies north of the district and off to western maryland. the balance of the day is looking at highs around 76. this is about a month ahead of schedule. normally a high like this toward the end of september. angie, good morning. >> good morning. it is monday, august 31st. we are kicking off the 6:00 hour and traffic not looking that bad. 95 northbound. right now no problems between the prince william parkway and lorton. clear from the fairfax county parkway to the mixing bowl. to the inner loop we go.

finding drivers between 95 past braddock road up to 66 clearly at speed. the outer loop, disabled vehicle at the toll road. good news there. that is now gone. lanes are moving. jumping to the beltway. this time north of the district in maryland where a little volume is building on the outer loop at university. we will take it over to 50 where we are flying this westbound from the bay bridge to bowie to the beltway. things are moving nicely as far as speed is concerned and finally that will drop us off at inbound new york avenue. the drive through northeast dc looks like a good little delay starting to grow from the times building to bladensburg road. that's a quick look at traffic. now, over to you. summer vacation is officially over for students in montgomery county. students head back to class for the 2009, 2010 school year. digital correspondent kristin fisher is live outside of quince orchard high school in gaithersburg with more. >> reporter: that's right. you can see it is still pretty

quiet here at quince orchard high school in gaithersburg but you have to keep in mind we have an hour and a half to go until the opening bell. now, in total, 142,000 students in montgomery county will be heading back to school this morning. and one of the big issues at the start of the school year is the h1n1 virus which is a concern at districts across the country. now, superintendent jerry weast was on wtop radio on friday talking about how the montgomery county public school system will handle the h1n1 flu virus. let's hear what he had to say. >> we will treat it as the regular flu and encourage people to get regular flu shots. we have been commute kateing with the parents. then we will treat it -- >> the superintendent will be speaking with us live right

here at 6 listen 30 a.m. this morning in just about a half hour. no teachers or students yet but we have the superintendent. we will speak with him shortly. for all of you at home, getting ready to start your work day, the thing to keep in mind is remember if you are driving through montgomery county you can expect to see a bit more traffic on the roads as you head to the school hour. watch out for more students on the road, crossing the streets. new drivers, a bit more traffic on the road this morning in montgomery county to keep watching for and that's another thing that the superintendent will be speaking about this morning is traffic. again, that's coming up. for now back to you. >> thank you no word if all the scheduling issues within the portionses county school system have been worked out. as of friday, 1 hurricane students still had problems with their schedules. last monday on the first day of school, 8,000 opportunities had no schedule or missing classes. school leaders say glitches in

the new computer scheduling system called school max is to blame. school districts in our region are taking steps to try to combat the rising trend of truancy. our friends at the washington examiner say the total number of students skipping school is difficult to determine but estimated to be in the thousands. in fairfax county, school officials have a policy where they notify parents about each skipped class. they are asking any adults that see a truant to report that person to police. montgomery county has a warning list to highlight at-risk students before they reach truant status. a university of maryland student is recovering after falling four stories from a campus parking garage. it happened at 2:00 a.m. yesterday. police are not confirming whether alcohol was involved, but several witnesses quoted in the campus newspaper say the 20- year-old man was allegedly intoxicated.

>> it is a big party school but you wouldn't expect something of this magnitude to happen. >> i haven't heard about it until now. >> reporter: students say it is hard to believe someone could fall out of a window with rails on it. montgomery county police are searching for a hit and run driver who struck and then dragged two women in silver spring it happened around 10:00 on saturday morning at the intersection of leafy and capitol view avenues both were seriously injured. police are looking for a black toyota suv or pickup truck. the grill of the vehicle fell off and was found at the scene. time for living smart report. wall street will be watching for unemployment report later this week. it is expected to show more americans have lost their jobs. whirlpool laid off workers and announced it is closing down a atlanta in indiana after laying off 1100 employees. some of the jobs are expected to be outsourced to mexico.

u.s. automakers are increasing production of small cars. gm and chrysler announced a 63% boost. government incentives are helping to drive demand for fuel efficient cars. consumer confident dense in urine is on the rise. that suggests it is slowly coming out of the worst economic downturn in decades. france and germanmy are already out of the recession but they expect it will be slow and difficult. health experts warn of a h1n1 virus that is even more dangerous and firefighters are called in to fight a growing wildfire outside of los angeles. it is time to check on maryland's weather. we do this every morning at this time. 6:06. let's take a look and we will zoom in across maryland. looking good this morning. a couple of rain drops across maryland. as far as thtemperatures go, we have a nice range outside. most plac in the 60s

in have69 have 69 at patuxent river to as low as 58 in cumberland. that's also your number in gaithersburg. a trip up to 72 in rockville. partly cloudy skies. clouds will thicken up south of annapolis with a high of 72 to leonardtown. some rain today and 71. if you are watching from beautiful western maryland, cumberland, good morning. the high today 72. angie has the maryland traffic. good morning. good morning, kim. hello, everybody. we begin with a live look at no traffic here at brink and ridge roads. things are moving smoothly. to gunners branch and 355 the same situation. a few drivers out here. no incidents or accidents and 95 heading southbound in maryland out of baltimore making your way to the beltway, i'm tracking pretty green cars telling me the drivers are moving at speed. honk honk. guess what. it is time for back to school for montgomery county schools. here's a live look at the buses

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a look ats what happening today. the jefferson memorial reopens after 2 1/2 years of renovation. the ribbon cutting takes place

at 10:30 a.m. and a man accused of killing his estranged wife in a church parking lot goes on trial today. kevin kelly is accused of killing patricia anne kelly outside of people's community baptist church. in the news now, georgia police are offering a 25 thundershower dollars reward for information leading to the arrest in what mobile home attack that left eight people dead. police say seven bodies were discovered on saturday. and an 8th person who was injured later died. the man who reported the mass killing has been arrested on unrelated charges but police haven't ruled him out as a suspect. the world health organization is warning of a new and more powerful form of the h1n1 flu virus. the new kind goes to the lungs requiring hospital treatment. some countries report as many as 15% of patients have the more potent form. two firefighters were killed while battling a wildfire in california.

they died when their vehicle rolled down a mountainside. they were among 2,000 firefighters battling a stubborn wildfire that began days ago in the mountains north of los angeles. now, kim, a lot of that is because of the dry conditions. we haven't gotten a lot of rain here lately. >> we had a couple of thunderstorms over the week but the tropical system that didn't affect us didn't bring us a lot of rain. it stayed in the ocean and hit atlantic canada and our weekend was okay if you didn't mind a couple of thunderstorms. it is time to get moving inmo g.re 'shern g. here's a look outside. bus stop weather forecast and our temperatures looking pretty . it is starting to tu mnau, goevod autumn, everybody 50s yeh50 e. reknfou t yo i owinthatahye. before you know it that will be a nice warm high temperature when we head emtoec dber. right now it is 57 in k an ecederick k heitrggabu or. od m, nigaitrsburg. good morning, dc, you have 65 and we have 67 degrees. off to the east in annapolis. here's the satellite-radar loop. i'm tracking a little rain as

it comes up from southern maryland. go it to it now on doppler 9000. i will show you the suburbs. saint indigos, patuxent river and to heathsville in the northern neck of virginia. i also heard from jan shriver in reedville. she says they are getting rain at this hour. as we head to the morning hours with our bus stop commuters we will have showers across the southern suburbs. otherwise partly cloudy skies and temperatures in the 60s. we will take those 60s today and head to the afternoon and work on schooler than average day. by that i mean highs in the middle 70s. that's what it will feel like. frederick 73. frederick 74. that's the number for la plata. folks cumberland to hagerstown hard-pressed to hit 70 this afternoon. we are watching rain drops like i mentioned thanks to this area of low pressure. it will be following this front today and kicking off a few

scattered showers from say fredericksburg on up to maybe parts of charles county, maryland. you can see that on microcast nine. as we head to the afternoon by 5:00, things will dry out. some clouds to the south. heading to the late evening, overnight hours we will have generally partly cloudy conditions and your tuesday, much nicer. a little warmer than what we are forecasting today. and no rain for anybody north or south. let's talk about it. we'll have this nice push of northernly winds coming our way this afternoon. that will mean low temperatures tonight. ready for this this? 48 cumberland. 50 winchester. lows inside the beltway even down to 60 and 58 leonardtown. let's take a look at the next seven. we will keep rain out of the forecast unless we count a few sprinkles on thursday possibly. in to next week and we will have highs in the 80s again. good morning. hey, everybody. we will kick things off in remington where on james

madison street, at battlefield drive despite the icon not been in this area a bad accident involving a rollover an fuel spill. hazmat is on the scene. follow the detour or avoid the area all together. moving 0 to 66. slow 50 to 123 and nutley though beltway. on 395, northbound travelers are moving from the beltway to duke street. no incidents or accidents here. back to the maps and take you to route 4, route 5 and crane highway. normal volume that we see around this time but no incidents to report and 270 southbound we are slowing down from 109 to 121 and the germantown area to i-370. as i mentioned before it is back to school for many of us and we are taking your pictures to share on your morning show. visit our blog at oh my goff at wusa9.com.com for more information to pub mitt your pictures. during a recession it is

the high cost of college education worth the debt? but the fear is changing plans, leaving many to opt to go to community college. with me is the managing editor lauren ashburn. thanks for joining us. >> good morning. this is a tough time for people who are rgconsidering going to college. we are in the worst recession since world war ii and entering the 21st month of that recession. and so people are rethinking, do i go to college? do i take out those big loans or don't i? and the bureau of labor statistics says for people who are college educated the unemployment rate is at 4.9%. and that's up from last year when it was 2.8%. >> that's a big jump. >> but it is still below the average which as you know is 9.4%, a lot of statistics but we are seeing the number rising. >> if people are worried about the cost of college because it can be enormous. what are they doing about it? >> people in our area are, and

all across the country are turning to community colleges, maybe for their first or second year and then waiting out the recession, seeing what happens and then moving on to maybe a four-year college. and the second thing they are doing if they are in four-year colleges or considering going to four-year colleges is they are really holding the line on expenses. >> yep. >> and we found that because of that financial aid, nine out of ten people that go to colleges are not paying the full rate. a lot of them are using financial aid. >> any other suggestions you have, tips for folks? >> well, sure. the one thing that everybody says, all the experts say and sandy block reported the story for us and they say if you are not sure what you want to do wait a year. >> good idea. >> if you are going to get in this kind of debt make sure you know what you want to do. and the second thing you can do is there is a website es

planner basics. go to basic.es planner.com. it will analyze on you based on profession and the amount of loans you have to take out what your disposable income will be after your graduate. >> that's a great tip. thank you. the redskins begin to trim the roster on the road and the nationals make a trade for a pitching prospect. before we head to break time for the signs of now. as we have been telling you all morning today is the first day of school for montgomery county students. this morning we want to know what is the ratio of public school residents the answer coming up. select eyeglass frames are just $9 at walmart - and they have a 12-month guarantee. juniors' tops from op are $9, too.

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welcome back. the answer is a. in montgomery county one in every seven county residents is a public school student. five players were released from the redskins. but it seems all eyes were on the quarterback position where the team will have to make an interesting call after the jag's game on thursday. the second year guy brennan who struggled this preseason or undrafted rookie chase daniels. >> the last preseason game is

doubly important to end on a good note definitely want to go out and do good but the pressure is on and that's what you strive for and what you want at this level. >> as the pre-season starts the guys that don't continue to rise up and really make a difference are the guys that you have to question. some other redskins notes, albert haynesworth did not practice on sunday due to stomach issues. portis has been ruled out for the jaguars game on thursday and coach zorn says the playing status for carlos rogers on thursday is in question. the nationals were on the road on sunday against the cardinals. garrett mock had a strong outing against the cards. pitching six innings and giving up four, striking out five and allowing two runs. in the government of the sixth, pujols had an rbi single. cardinals take a 2-1 lead. top of the ninth, last chance for the nationals. harris flying out to center to

end the game. nats fall 2-1. in other nats news, washington traded belliard to the dodgers for minor league pitcher luis garcia and a player to be named later. he played three seasons with the nationals and this year he is hitting 246 with five home runs. on the war effort in afghanistan, it is becoming increasingly deadly for u.s. servicemen and women. and mud slinging in the race to be virginia's next governor has taken a new twist. >> we are li from pennsylvania and minnesota avenue. thdrive is looking fine. we have more traffic and the weather with kim when 9 news now returns. stay with us. angie, good morning. a lot of kids are heading back to school today. i will have the bus stop forecast and look ahead to see if any rain will fall on those kids at the bus stop. it is coming up next. you are watching 9 news . modngni. . having the right tools is crucial

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vernon campuses. hong kong back. angie is following the traffic and kim has the weather. kim? >> i'm enjoying the patio furniture on the weather terrace. it is one of the first mornings where we haven't had so much dew that got absorbed in the fabric. it is comfortable and dry. back to school for a lot of kids today. show you what's going on with the weather. it is dry, like i mentioned. we have a couple of exceptions to the rule. most of us are dry. we have 60s on e wethather the 65 dc. 63 manassas and 67 annapolis. up in martinsburg, west virginia you have 58. let me talk about rain. folks in fredericksburg are dry but may get clipped by a shower today. southern maryland is seeing the rain and so is the northern neck. you will get more in the afternoon. around the beltway, points west and north will be dry including

annapolis. high today 76. the seven-day forecast coming up. here's angie with the traffic. half an hour until the 7:00 hour. glad you are joining us early. unfortunately we have a bad accident to tell you about in silver spring. looks like we are in the process of getting the car on the tow truck. it is at randolph road and serpentine way. the best way to get around this if you can follow me is serpentine to aveenturine way. and touramline. shoot me an e-mail and i will hook you up with a personalized alternate to get around where tieups are volumed. we will keep you updated when lanes reopen, as well. the outer loop a good amount of

volume between new hampshire and georgia avenue. below speed here but no incidents or accidents along the way. on the inner loop in virginia from 95 to 66 a different situation. notice nothing but green cars making the way up to 66. drivers are moving at speed here. on 66 slowing down already approaching the capital beltway. that's what that yellow means. we are below speed. on 95, the trip is slow also in virginia from the prince william parkway to lorton. i'm estimating the drive time at ten minutes. jessica, over to you. an american service member died in a bomb blast in afghanistan on friday. making august the deadliest month for u.s. forces during the entire length of the eight- year war. right now more than 60,000 u.s. troops are in afghanistan. it is all part of president obama's efforts to combat the resurgent taliban. tara mergener has more. >> reporter: august of 2009 is the deadliest month r for u.s. forces in afghanistan. a record 46 soldiers died this

month including an american soldier who was killed on friday by a road side bomb. more than 6 a thousand u.s. troops are in afghanistan battling the taliban. the top u.s. military officer admits the situation is detear rating. >> the taliban insurgency has gotten better, more sophisticated in their tactics just in my recent visits out there and our troops certainly indicate that. >> reporter: it is not clear whether more troops will be requested but what is clear is the dwindling public support of a nearly eight year war. a "washington post" abc news poll shows more than half of americans say the battle is not worth fighting for. president obama had hoped recent afghanistan elections would indicate some progress in the country but it has been more than a week since voters headed to the polls and there's no clear-cut winner. one candidate must win 51% of the vote to avoid a runoff election and president happened

karzai currently leads the race but his top competitor, abdullah, abdullah is claiming fraud. >> i do not trust -- >> reporter: so far there are 700 major fraud complaints. the fear is the longer it takes to investigate each case the more time until afghanistan sees a new possibly more stable government. tara mergener , cbs news, washington. >> weekend fighting in pakistan has left 30 taliban fighters dead. they are part of a pack stabny military effort to restore security in the taliban- controlled region. despite the efforts, suicide attacks continue. yesterday a suicide bomber snuck to a police courtyard and killed 17 cadets while they were training. partisan, politicized and dangerous. those are the words that dick cheney uses to describe the decision to investigate the cia's treatment of detainees. the goal of the investigation is to determine whether interrogators broke the law by

using tactics such as execution, death threats and water boarding. >> i think it is an outrageous political act that will do great damage long term to our capacity to be able to have people take on difficult jobs, make difficult decisions. >> reporter: cheney insists the interrogations paid off in a big way. critics say there is little supporting evidence in the documents the cia has released. virginia's republican gubernatorial candidate bob mcdonnell is coming under fire for a paper he wrote in ' 89 it was part of his law and master's degree requirements while attending regents university. in it he surged parents to shield heterosexual parents against abortion, welfare, cohabitaters, homosexuals and the paper which was disclosed by the "washington post" is an effort to by democrats looking

to erase mcdonnell's lead in polls by portraying him as an extremist. today's schools within the largest educational system in the state of maryland will open their doors. public schools in montgomery county will welcome 142,000 students and that number dunn include students enrolled in parochial or private schools. kristin fisher is live outside of quince orchard high school in gaithersburg with a preview. good morning. you in the the end of summer break is never easy for students but if you had to pick a day to go back to school it doesn't get much better than this. it is shaping up to be a beautiful morning here in gaithersburg. now, we have 1800 students that will be returning to school right here this morning. and we are still about an hour away from the opening bell. so not a lot of activity here. but this is the main entrance. you can see some teachers and employees have started to congregate around the front. like i said we haven't seen too

many students yet. one of the big issues facing this school as as well as many schools across the country as ahead to the first day of classes is the h1n1 flu virus. and unfortunately, we were supposed to be speaking with superintendent of the montgomery county public school system live right now. due to a scheduling error that will not take place but i did speak to him in a few minutes ago. this is what he had to say about the school will be handling the h1n1 virus this year. >> we know how to clean up, work together with parents and certainly we have the health department which comes in and supersedes us when it comes an emergency or a pandemic type of thing. so we will all work together and do everything we can to get these kids through the swine flu and our employees, too. >> there you have it. the school says they are all set to handle the h1n1 flu virus. now, probably the biggest thing they are concerned about right now is traffic.

people getting to school on time. making sure they know where to go and making sure the students get here safely. if you are out on the roads in montgomery county, keep in mind we will have a lot more buses on the road and a lot more traffic as we get ready to head to the first day of school. live here all morning long and we will have an update at 9:00 a.m. back to you. we have a 9 news now followup to tell you about this morning. the man charged with killing a security guard at the u.s. holocaust memorial museum is scheduled to be arraigned in federal court. 89-year-old james von brunn was indited on first-degree murder, bias motivated crime and killing in a federal building. four charges make him eligible for the death penalty if convicted. police in silver spring are searching for answers after a man was found shot to death outside of his home. it happened yesterday morning around 5:00 in the 900 block of university boulevard. police say 63-year-old clarence ranken was found near a side

door to his home foshot several times. in the driver of a car that struck a 16-year-old in elk ridge, maryland. a boy chases charges this morning. wharton died on friday from his injuries. police say he was riding his bike on friday morning when she was struck by a nissan altima [ no audio ] 26-year-old is free on bond. court records show she had a prior drug-related arrest. it is time for another living smart report. the federal government is hauled in $4 billion in profits from large banks that have repaid obligations from last year's bailouts. that's according to the new york times. critics of the bailout were concerned the government would never see a reason on its investment but the government has already claimed profits from eight of the biggest banks

and 14 smaller ones. if you are carrying too much debt, chances are you are carrying too much weight, as well. new research shows people find it impossible to pay off debts within a reasonable time are twice as likely to be overweigh as the rest of the population and they found individuals deep in debt were less educated and more likely to be depressed or a smoker. well, forget about cutting coupons. these days you can just tweet them. the use of electronic coupons more than doubled in the first half of the year. they still represent a small fraction of the coupons being used they are attracting younger consumers through facebook and twitter and generating new interest in coupons. those annoying recorded calls from telemarketers will soon come to an end and thousands stand in line to camp a glimpse of the final resting place of a beloved lawmaker. now look at weather with kim it. >> is time to focus on virginia's weather. we do this every morning at

this time. i'm meteorologist kim martucci. speaking of twitter, you can get the forecast from me at 4:00 in the morning. my i.dkim. zoom in ather hekim. zoom in wh r at do we have inmpes wh. ur looflot of 60s n t out. leesburg 64. quantico 65. no rain across most of northern virginia. the northern neck of virginia where we have rain drops. down there, south of dumfries to orange we will have a couple of showers. highs 73. that's also the forecasted high for lurery and gainesville this afternoon. a little more sunshine to the north. we like that sunshine. good morning to you. are you up and at it? we hope so. virginia we are watching the roads. here at fairfax not a lot of traffic at this intersection right now. moving the shot to the micking bowl. so far, no problems getting on 395 from the capital beltway and finally if you travel 267 the dulles toll road, traffic is flowing from the againway past the airport to reston and

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i'm howard bernstein with the living green tip of the day. if you have leaky faucets in your house you could be wasting thousands of gallons of water a year. check the pipes and fixtures in your home and if you are not sure you have a leak, check the water meter at the beginning and end of an hour to see if water was used if it was used fix your leaks. fixing them or plugging leaks could save you money and previcinity water from being wasted. for more tips go to wusa9.com and click on living green. well, it is back to school season. the leaves are starting to change. the weather is participating, too and you have a special back to school treat for us. >> i do. love this time of the year. we invite you to go to wusa9.com or to my blog, either

way we will hook you up with a gallery where we can share back to school pictures with the rest of us. this morning look at this cutie pie that goes to indian head elementary school. this is lance david grimmel, he is ready to go. kindergarten awaits and his mom went to our website and uploaded the picture. great to see you. >> how about that bus stop forecast? we have partly cloudy skies around the beltway. and to our south. skies thicken up with the clouds. in fact we have rain drops across southern maryland -- maryland and t s mbissi the numbers sit is a g up witht 50s and 60s out there. we will keep these 60s in place throughout the morning. eventually highs in the 70s. but this will feel more like the end of september today instead of the end of august. here's a look at the rain as it is pulling from southwest to northeast. staying out of reach for the district. this have a intern suburb

headache. 72 at lunch and temperatures around 76 this afternoon at 5:00. air quality is code green which is the good category. low pressure is kicking off the scattered showers. south and east of dc and we will be tracking this to the ocean today. as it takes its path, southern suburbs, northern neck of virginia, fredericksburg points east toward saint indigos and leonard some rain showers for you. the rest of u.s. enjoying a northernly wind and a push from canada. temperatures only rebound to 70 in cumberland this afternoon. we will be reaching for the middle 70s inside in the beltway. 73 frederick, 75 warrenton. take you hour by hour. here it is at 8:00 this morning. the rain on the screen for those areas i was talking about, south and east of dc. and then as we head to the afternoon, we will leave clouds around here. partly cloudy all around the dc metro. points north and west. and then to tuesday morning a nice start. no rain for anybody.

on tuesday afternoon it will be mostly sunny and very nice outside. with high temperatures in the middle and upper 70s. so we can thank the jet stream right now. it has taken a little dip on top of us that allowed the collyria to sneak in. tomorrow we rebound to high dms the 80s as we head to wednesday a lot nicer around here and summer is hanging on. here's the seven-day outlook. maybe a few clouds on friday and by and large heading to the week looking good. we will have 80s in place. labor day weekend will be coming up and at this point i don't think there will be too many weather headaches. >> thanks for joining us. we are going to kick things off with an accident alert out in silver spring. we come to you live. this is at east randolph road and serpentine way. that's where we have crash activity that is blocking all lanes. it involves a bus.

not that school bus. the good news there are no churn on the bus. great news there but crews are working hard out here. you are asked to avid the area. i put an alternate on-line on my twitter account. oh my goff is my i.d. name to go to twitter.com/traffic. i will hook you up. no accidents germantown to montross. 66 eastbound from 50 to 123 we are slow and using the breaks to the beltway, we are okay. below speed from edsall to seminary from the times building to bladensburg road the delay is growing. a simple white oak cross and white marble foot marker  marks ted kennedy's final resting place. the media and the publichad a chance to pay gre itthes avisdee unr bla y.er avesite is under a thmaple tree on the hill close to where his older brothers are buried. >> really something special.

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league in canton, pennsylvania. he was honored in williamsport, pennsylvania. congrat-- in williamsport, pennsylvania. congratulations to him. at serpentine way, still an accident involving a school bus with no children on it. block all lanes. to the outer loop in maryland, 895 to georgia 15 to 320 minutes. seven-day forecast looking good. most of us are dry. southern suburbs, think fredericksburg, leonardtown you get the idea. northern neck of virginia rain today. tomorrow everybody gets the sunshine. highs in the 70s. one more day after today and then climb back to the 80s right where we leftoff over the weekend. what's coming up next with the "early show"? >> the "early show" is next and they are going to have more on how the recession is leading to an increased number of cuddle parties. >> oh. coming up, we are talking about spa trips