look at live doppler 9000 hd because we have chose showers around this morning. those are light, spotty showers. you see them there in prince georges county, parts of anne arundel county. we have a little bit also, not far from brunswick and harpers ferry over to point of rocks in to eastern fairfax county, along the river at mount vernon and mason neck seeing that, as well. annandale and burke a few showers bethesda to northwest dc, but this is light spotty stuff. and that's the key. over in the weather computer, the storms were tremendous yesterday. dropping upwards of a foot of rain across parts of southern maryland to the east. eight to ten inches in calvert county. a lot of flooding there. we had five and six-inch totals not far from the record. national plenty of flooding. thankfully the heavy colors, the yellows and oranges, have moved away from us. flash flood watches are over.

a few lingering in anne arundel and stafford county. so watch out for high water an road closures there. most of the state of new jersey is under a flash flood warning at this time. winds will be a factor gusting to 30. and gusts near 30 out of the northwest and with the northwest wind the storm is pulling away and the drier air is moving down and the temperatures are cooling. 63 reagan national. 61 culpeper. manassas is 59. winchester 58. in in the valley 60 luray. oakland, garrett county you go from 900 feet to 3,000 feet and you are down to 52 degrees. clouds this morning with spotty showers. 66 by 9:00. 70 at noon. 72 for the drive home but more sunshine as we go through the afternoon and that's a good thing. weekend looked mix with saturday being the better day. i will have more on that coming up. right now here's angie.

>> some issues that carried over from yesterday is how we begin. it's in crystal city, virginia. happy friday. we are looking at route 1 and south ball street. we have all lanes closed in both directions due to high water. the inner loop in virginia going southbound at telegraph road. more problems out there. we have a huge pothole on the right lane and located on the cameron run bridge. that's something to avoid. i would stay left if you are passing that way on telegraph. in maryland, 355 wisconsin avenue where it meets brandywine is where we had police activity earlier. transformer blew. as a result we are dealing with traffic lights out. treat it as a four-way stop. go to the maps. 95 and the bw parkway. promise we will get there. there we go. nice and green out of baltimore making your way to the beltway. everyone is moving at speed. right before the nasa good card area on 95, going southbound, that's where you want to keep an eye out for a downed tree.

interstate 270, nice and quiet out here. smooth sailing. no incidents or accidents to report out of frederick all the way to the split. andrea, back to you. >> thank you very much, angie. our flash flood warnings are over but as angie just said some of you might experience some high water conditions. jessica doyle is live in old town alexandria with a look at streets and roads there. good morning. of course this time yesterday we were talking about the possibility of flooding and it happened. i'm right here at the barricade. this is at king and union street in old town alexandria and i have to tell you this yesterday was floating in the street, yesterday afternoon. what happened is high tide came up around 1:16, and it flooded the low-lying area. this is the last block of king street before it hits the river. people were out grabbing sandbags getting ready for the

storm and the possibility of flooding. we caught up with one woman who had serious concerns and that's why she was picking up sandbag and here's what she said what. >> it is already raised up four inches and that was this morning and now we have a couple of inches to go until it comes in the house. >> reporter: now there are some real concerns about today. we may not necessarily be out of the woods just yet because we have high tide coming in this afternoon and tomorrow, saturday, there's also the possibility we could see more flooding in old town alexandria. of course there's runoff coming in to the river system. we have a high tide coming in. that could spell some problems. we will bring you live here in old town alexandria. i'm in front of my thai restaurant. what they have done here is created their own sea wall, and there are sandbags, like this one here, not a bad idea for some folks today.

if you want to get your own sandbags, you can go to king and lee street. bring proof of residencecy and they will set you up so if there are any possibilities of flooding in the next couple of days you will be all set. i will tell you right now we have a light misting of rain going on. it is very, very windy and chilly down by the waterfront this morning. with that, i am going to send it back to you. >> thank you, jessica. in the district, this the rains trapped some cars in up to a foot of water on rhode island avenue. some intersections were underwater in friendship heights. stay with us for continuing coverage of our weather alert. we're going to bring you live we and traffic updates throughout the morning and we'd like to see how the rainstorm affected you. e-mail your pictures to photos@wusa9.com. or post them on facebook at our page there it is facebook.com/wusa9. if you are on twitter, hash tag

your tweets with dc flood and we will get them on the air and on wusa9.com. three staff members at saunders elementary school in dale city were taken to the hospital after a student accidentally knocked over a container of formaldehyde in a science crab. an outside company was brought in to clean up the spill. the three sickened staffers are expected to be fine. boaters in montgomery county will have a say in whether or no the county can charge them for call an ambulance. the maryland court of appeals ordered a referendum on ambulance fees be place on the ballot in november. the earlier ruling rejected thousands of signatures petitioning for the vote. it could charge up to $800 each time an ambulance is called. the end of nasa's shuttle program is bad news for a number of american workers.

the company, which makes rocket boosters for the shuttle has laid off 400 workers. it said it had to make the cuts because of uncertainty over the future of the u.s. space program. could the postal service run out of cash? the answer seems to be maybe. especially since the regulatory commission turned down a request for a two cent increase in the cost of a first class stamp. they say the usps has long-term structural problems that have nothing to do with the cost of mailing a letter. the post office is about to announce billions of dollars of losses for fiscal 2010 and add that to dropping mail volume and you have an agency in serious trouble. for more "living $mart" headlines, log on to our website, wusa9.com, and click on the "living $mart" tab on our front page. our coverage of the aftermath of yesterday's storms will continue but before we head to break, here's howard.

out on the weather terrace. still need the rain gear. we see light rain and spotty drizzle. still damp out here but the flooding rains are done. we will have an update for the weekend when we return.

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connection with a suicide. he jumped from the george washington bridge after his roommate and another classmate allegedly used a web cam to record his sexual encouldn'ters with another man. a city shows how often depression and joblessness go hand in hand. the study finds 10% of adults with major depression are unemployed. it's not clear whether unemployment causes unemployment or depression makes it harder to hold a job. the cdc says one in ten americans suffering from depression. a third of that group has what is considered major depression. our time is coming up on 4:42. 62 degrees. some rain is falling. before we head to break, here's howard with an update. >> about four-plus inches of rain here in northwest. some areas double and triple that. still wet this morning. we are looking at spotty

showers. live doppler 9000 hd showing the light showers around but the flooding rains are pulling away. the complete forecast when we return. 3q

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of the school day. i would rather air on the side of being safe rather than sorry. so be it. some spotty showers. talk about the rainfall totals. pretty impressive national daily records with 4.5-inches of rain. patuxent, maryland. when we bet the update this morning we will be close to ten or 11 inches down there. blue oaks virginia 43. so with we had a lot of different numbers from three to 12 inches. an amazing tropical rainfall event without even having a tropical storm in the sense of a land fall. although nicole you could argue is what caused this. let's go to live doppler 9000 hd. i want to show you where we have spotty showers this morning. you can see them in the metro. they are coming through dc, prince georges county. spotty stuff in montgomery county and up to point of rocks

approaching route 15 here in southern frederick and northern loudoun county. locally, though, as i said here in washington, you can see the showers as you are coming through the district. southern montgomery through rockville, bethesda, arlington seeing spotty showers down route 1 alexandria, even in to northwestern areas of charles county. western prince georges over to accokeek we are seeing showers and i want to zoom in a little bit and give you an idea. some of the rain and it's not heavy at all. it is nuisance type stuff. you will need the wipers. folks in white plains, la plata will get some of this in a half hour. lorton look at that hour. light ones to the west of 95, crossing 95 by springfield. some showers out of arlington and the national airport area. and in prince georges county, you go from upper marlboro north on 301 through woodmore, bowie, west of 301 as we head

to 295, seeing the showers our of eastern howard, as well. back on the weather computer and show you the big area of rain pulling away. this is the good news. this is the end of the tropical rain. but in southwestern virginia and south central virginia we still have this upper little swirl and this has to pass. it is going to take another six hours or so before this can get past us. i think through the morning, through the noon hour or so we will be dealing with spotty showers in the region and then the afternoon will get far, far better. >> the flood warnings up to the east. it is in st. mary's. not in calvert, although probably some high water spots in calvert, too. kristin fisher is down there and we will check in with her later this morning. we have anne arundel, baltimore, the areas north and east and stafford county sheriffs report closed roads due to high water from the heavy rains we had yesterday. the momslikeme.com bus stop

forecast, i foresee few spots except for spotty showers this morning and drizzle. 50s and 60s to low 70s on the lower eastern shore. sunrise a at 7:04. the day at a glance, mid-60s at 9:00. 80ish for noon if not upper 60s and 72 at 5:00. mostly sunny skies to finish out the day. the winds are northwest at 10 to 20. the plus sign means gusty. gusts to near 30 miles an hour. tonight, clear and chilly. the winds will drop off 44 to 54. a very cold night so far this year. haven't much colder than this. northwest wind five to 15. we will go back to the heaters potentially tonight. sunny and pleasant near 70. a beautiful saturday in store. northeast winds five to ten. going to friday night football should be good for that and don't forget dc high school sports.net is the website for the high school football

action. 28 national. 19 gaithersburg. 22 manassas and culpeper and fredericksburg is 28. the gusts, not like yesterday where we had gusts over 40 in spots but northwesterly winds are bringing in the drier cooler air. 59 winchester hagerstown. 59 manassas. to our south we have 60sin tappahannock and pax river at 64 and 68 at cambridge. it's a cooler morning. cloudy with light showers an. northwest winds 19 at national. there's a wind chill out there. jessica doyle was talking about that down in alexandria and jess, i agree with you. 77% on the humidity as we start to see the storm pull out. low pressure, deep area of low pressure is over toward areas approaching philadelphia, approaching aberdeen. this is going to continue to move north and east. as it does so the warm sticky air will be replaced by the cooler, drier air mass. behind, though n this northwesterly flow will be another disturbance coming as

we head to the week. you can see it coming from michigan, heading to chicago tonight. overnight through saturday morning, it approaches cleveland and buffalo and during the day on saturday, look, western pennsylvania, western new york getting showers and some of that could be with us as we head in to sunday. don't be surprised on sunday if we see more clouds and a few showers. our seven-day forecast, 73 degrees today. we will see clouds give way to sunshine and early showers. tomorrow 70 and sunny and then spotty showers off and on on sunday, monday, tuesday, maybe a few more wednesday afternoon in to thursday morning. and that's going to mean cool, too. below average highs in the mid- 60s. it is 4:50. above average, here's angie. >> i'll take that. thanks, howard. hello, everybody. hope you are off to a great friday. man, are we ready for the weekend. right now dealing with weather- related tieups. begin in crystal city on route 1. we are closed at south ball street because of that high

standing water we are dealing with. a little flooding out that way. 95 in virginia if you are traveling out of fredericksburg up to the mixing bowl, you are pretty much going to find lanes wide open. nothing in the way to slow you down. 395 continuing on to this roadway, everything is all clear from the bridge to shirlington to the 14th street bridge. going back to our maps, we want to tell you about route 29 -- if we go back to the maps i can show you at route 198 and university boulevard that's where we have a downed tree. taking away a right lane for drivers. wrap it up with that camera. the drive through the district right now looks clear as you make your way on bladensburg road on past it on inbound new york avenue to the third street tunnel. you want to watch for flooding spots still around rock creek park. andrea, over to you. a commuter alert. all area drivers. today maryland's ban on hand held cell phones while driving goes in to affect. that means you have to have a

hands-free device if you want to make or take a call or you will face a $40 fine. if you are caught more than once, that becomes a $100 fine. we want to know if you have been afced by a distracted driver talking on a cell phone or while texts. we would like to hear your story. go to wusa9.com or by calling 202-895-5960. a northern virginia woman had just $5 in her pock and decided to spend it on a lotto ticket and boy did it pay off. lindsey mastis has the story of a woman in arlington who just became a millionaire. >> that day something whispered to me that hey, two ahead. >> reporter: she says she wasn't sure what megamillions was, but decided to go ahead and buy her first virginia lotto ticket. >> and he said do you want to get a mega-- and i said what's that she explained i double my

money an i said sure, why not. i let the machine pick the number. >> reporter: now she is a millionaire. >> this this morning is the first time i cried. i lost five pounds already. i haven't slept or ate. >> reporter: she bought the ticket on giant on glebe road in arlington. the store is getting $10,000 and will likely donate the money. valdez and her husband will be using their money for school. >> i want to go back to college. >> both will major in best business and whatever is left. >> we are going to stretch this until we are probably going to retire. >> reporter: she says both of them will keep their jobs. in woodbridge, virginia, lynncy mastis, 9 news now. >> talk about beginners luck, valdez said she thought she had won $20. it took her a while to realize it was a full million dollars. local communities begin new efforts to improve the health of their children. and researchers study a new health problem associated with sitting in front of your computer. you are watching 9 news now.

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itchy eyes, burning and tearing there's not much we can do about the amount of time we spend on computers and hand held devices but there are things we can do to make our eyes feel better. >> reporter: doctors say to follow the 20/20/20 rule. every 20 minutes focus on something 20 feet away for 20 seconds to allow your eyes to rest. >> it will allow the muscles to relax and take the strain off of the muscles and you will feel a lot better. >> when we are at the computer we blink 60% less than normal. drying out our eyes. they recommend blinking more or using eye drops. >> it is sounds like something we ought to do subconsciously but when you are on the computer the blink rate goes down. >> reporter: hehe has reading glasses for the strain. >> it was quickly how it

disappeared. >> now he can focus completely on his work. karen brown, cbs news. >> one more tip, check the lights in the room to make sure there is no glare coming off of your screen. it can make your vision blurry making you strain harder to see what's on the monitor. we thank you for watching 9 news now extended weather coverage at 5:00 a.m. i'm andrea roane. angie will have the traffic in a moment. right now howard bernstein is here with a look at the forecast and improving forecast. >> reporter: yes, it is. it is not pouring to beat the band out there. there are spotty showers and drizzle and still damp out this morning. however, this afternoon we will feel feature sunshine and a breeze and it will help to dry things out or begin to dry things out. for areas with a foot of rain it will take more than just a day. on live doppler 9000 hd you will see spotty showers. they are light in nature. some heavy drizzle in there bowie to lanham, dc, alexandria, woodbridge now in to