[ laughing ] . a little patchy fog tomorrow morning. let's start with a live look outside. our michael and son weather cam. we're looking at 84 was only the high but it's only 74 now. dew points are right around 70 which is just not comfortable. winds south, southwest at 7. pressure rising a little bit to 9.94 inches of of mercury. satellite picture radar combined, we'll zoom in. you can't really see a clear line of showers and storms here out in the midwest, but we do see some showers and storms to the south of us. and, yes, unfortunately charlotte would have been okay tonight. but tough call. most of the activity across eastern carolina. a couple showers back in ohio. they're going to die out. we're in pretty good shape as we go through the night. and most of tomorrow. just a slight chance of an isolated shower tomorrow. best chance will be saturday with the front and right now it looks like most of those showers will be in the afternoon. that's what we're thinking. so patchy fog early. mr. bernstein will be in here

bright and early at 5:25. but the morning commute will be dry and we're looking at a hot and humid day with an isolated thunderstorm and the main event by far and away will be saturday. many more storms saturday with the front. the good news is it will pay dividends. the frontal system will trigger showers and storms on saturday, but it will sweep out the tropical air mass on sunday. that's a good thing. overnight, partly cloudy, humid. some patchy dense fog. low 68-74. winds out of the southwest at 10. now, by morning partly cloudy. very warm and humid. you'll need your sunglasses tomorrow. a lot more sun tomorrow than we had today. temperatures in the 70s and 80s with light winds. and then by afternoon, we're going to close the week on a hot note and humid note. isolated thunderstorm. high temperatures around 90 and winds out of the southwest at about 10. to we'll break it down for you. a little bit of fog in the morning. 68-76. and then warm by noon. we're in the low to mid 80s by noon and 87 and 91 by evening with a chance of a thunderstorm. next three days we're going to

go code yellow tomorrow. certainly code yellow on saturday. 91 just an isolated storm tomorrow. scattered storms on saturday. 86. and then code greenery freshing. refresh -- green refreshing. refreshing. highs 70s and 80s. the cooler air stays around for a while. upper 70s on monday which is kind of nice. timing of the football season. we'll be watching football on sunday. it will feel like fall. very nice. warm up a little next week but not uncomfortably low. mid 80s on tuesday and thursday but not humid. we're finally getting rid of the human air mass that's been sitting on us for about a week. >> we could have a long, late, non-humid summer. >> that would be nice. >> sometimes fall works out that way. >> it could work out like that and work out with no snow. >> hey, now, don't go crazy. we have a blog on the website. no suspense regarding the reaction to president obama's speech. of course they loved it. he was preaching to the choir. but here we had the choir from the other church.

a group of republicans gathered to pass judgment on the words of mr. obama. and the question of the hour, just like last week, could he change any minds? in charlotte, the crowd was fired up in anticipation of president obama. but here in our wusa9 viewing center, that feeling in the air is skepticism. >> as of right now, i think he's doing a mediocre job at best. >> but our local republicans seemed more disappointed than hostile. >> so many were captured by hope and change. and now that we're graduates, it's not very hopeful. >> i feel a sense of disappointment and overwhelming sentiment from the hope and change mentality. >> there's not a chance i'm going to vote for him, but i'm open to hear what he says. >> but once he began to speak, our gop friends seemed a tad less friendly. [ laughing ] >> even bursting into laughter every time the president mentioned cutting the debt. others just seemed bored.

>> i was disappointed honestly. i think at this point he's pandering for votes that he knows he's not going to get. he didn't really provide any sort of outline for a plan for our future. anything really positive. it was just words. >> just words. apparently that's exactly how the group felt. and at the end of the night, they said no. no minds have been changed. so that's what happened last week with the democrats. that's what happened this week with the republicans, which i guess is an interesting sort of display of how this electorate is. everybody has already made up their minds. anita. >> that's why the few independents are so important. >> making all of the difference. every thursday we bring you the restaurant report that can turn your stomach. russ ptacek brings you information about restaurants busted for violations. because of the national convention, we'll be bringing it to you tomorrow night.

and now 9 sports with kristen berset. >> the fireworks were flying tonight at nationals park, but it wasn't just the long balls. this time it was punches being thrown. the cubs frustration boiled over into a bench's clearing brawl. this was the situation before it all happened. the score nats are up by three runs in the fourth. ryan zimmerman at the ditch. he knocked the single to left and the nats just keep on adding the runs. two more here. but the next inning cubs bench coach jamie cork and the nats third base coach bill porter start getting into an argument of words. porter heads over to the cub's dugout standing at the top of the steps. that leads to a bench's clearing brawl. here come the bullpens from both teams running over. jamie cork eventually gets ejected. next inning bryce harper leading

off for the nationals. throws way inside. cubs catcher doesn't even move. that insights another brawl. benches clearing. the cubs catcher, another pitcher and nats pitcher mike gonzalez get tossed for fighting. but in the end, the nats get the last ho ra. they end the game 9-2 with a four game sweep of the cubbies. >> i think it was the bench coach's frustration in sending it to him for a couple of days. but if they want to quit competing and forfeit then fine, but we're going to keep competing. >> before the start of the orioles series against the bronx, they honored one of the great. cal ripken, jr. joined four other legends i am mort lies i mortlized

outside of camden yard. -- immortlized outside of camden yard. mark reynolds would add two more tonight. in all the birds had six homerun. it seems to be the lucky number around here beating the yankees 10-6. following up on a story we brought you earlier in the newscast, a sex scandal and the prince george's county not ball program. they had been dismissed from the program after they hired prostitutes after their season opener in north carolina and brought them to the hotel. some of the players even engaged in sexual intercourse. two players have withdrawn from school. others face expulsion. those five involved were not starters on the football team. switching to a happier note, time to announce the winner of our toyota game of the week poll. we had over 41,000 votes. a matchup between south lake and herndon edge out the rest. thank you all for voting. we'll have highlights for you

tomorrow night. and good news on the injury front for the redskins. cornerback josh wilson practiced fully today and line backer brian irapko injured and also practiced. neither one of them faced any setbacks. both should be good to go for sunday's game. they're going to need both of them on defense going up against drew breese. and despite the oriole's big win tonight, the day started on a sad note for fans. art model passing away today. modell most remembered for taking them out of cleveland and he was very influential in changing the way we watch football today negotiating to get the game on television. if it wasn't for him, we wouldn't have monday night football, sunday night football or sunday afternoon. >> derek would be beside himself. >> i think the browns fans at some point essentially may forget. >> maybe. >> maybe. >> but you have to think, if dan

snyder moved the redskins away, would there ever be forgiveness? >> no. >> that would take a century. >> at

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