we have nice weather this afternoon. this morning, though, looking at the day planner, we're starting out partly to mostly cloudy with maybe even a sprinkle, especially in the mountains here between now and about 9:00, 10:00. by noon partly sunny, 74. this afternoon more sunshine. we had a high of 81 with a drive home temp a beautiful 78 degrees. watching se showers this morning out of ohio, down in toward west virginia. the stuff here in eastern west virginia not reaching the ground but an isolated sprinkle certainly can't be ruled out. mid-50s in the then dough ya valley. -- in the shenandoah valley. 61 in oakland. same in annapolis and the patuxent river naval air station with 61 here in washington. with more sun later, more clouds this morning. still expecting highs upper 70s to low 80s. amazing for this time of year. 15 above average. monika? northbound 95 a bit of a mess because of a jackknifed tractor-trailer. it happened just after midnight northbound down in falmouth near courthouse road. so what you want to do northbound is to avoid the

delays. you might want to get off early northbound at route 17 in falmouth or you could even get off where the detour is set up at center pore parkway. work your way over to northbound route 1 and northbound 95 to get around it. but i think the closer you get to the scene of course the more delays there are going to be. keep that in mind for your travel plans early on in virginia. we'll take a live look further north northbound 95 in springfield. everything is final. no issues here as you head -- is fine. no issues here as you head for 395 and the 14th street bridge. this time to 270 where things are still looking good. all lanes are open down to germantown and rockville. on the beltway at university boulevard, traffic is moving well. more coming up at 5:10. >> thank you, monika. he's held a congressional seat for two decades but maryland representative rosco bartlet could be in trouble this election cycle. >> that is because of a dramatic change in the map for district 6. it used to lean republican but the new boundaries add in western and

northern montgomery county, adding in gaithersburg, germantown, clarksburg and potomac. that swings the balance dramatically toward the democrats. 9news reporter kristin fisher joins us from the satellite center with a look at a very complex situation. good morning, kristin. >> reporter: good morning. no doubt the republican incumbent rosco bartlet has the experience. he's 86 years old. he's been at this for 20 years but his democratic challenger john delaney is a successful businessman in and of his own right and no doubt this redistricting has certainly given delaney the edge. both of these candidates sat down here in our studios last night with our derek mcginty to debate the issues and to discuss why each of them are running. >> some have suggested part of the reason you're running is because the party asked you to do it because they didn't have anybody who had a chance. did that have anything to do with it? >> i reach across the aisle. i'm the legislator of the year

for the humane society. i appeal to people on a broad spectrum. i have a doctorate. i'm a scientist. my first degree was in theology. i was a home builder. so i can identify with people in a lot of different areas. >> why are you running? >> listen, i think the american dream is about tomorrow being better than today. and for us to continue to fulfill that promise, we have to reverse the employment trends that this country is facing. i believe i'm uniquely positioned to do that as someone who started two businesses here in maryland, created over 2000 jobs and has helped over 5000 businesses around the country. >> reporter: when people who live in maryland's district 6 go to vote for either of these candidates, they'll also be voting for some very important ballot measures. gambling, same-sex marriage, the dream act. here where both of those two candidates stand on those ballot measures coming up in half an hour at 5:30. >> kristin fisher reporting live from our satellite center. investigators are looking into the cause of an early morning fire at a d.c. high-

rise. firefighters arrived on the scene at cathedral avenue in northwest around 3:00 a.m. crews worked quickly to douse the flames although several apartments had to be evacuated. the fire started in a kitchen. a 13-year-old boy charged with beating his 2-year-old foster sibling to death is now being sent to a therapeutic group home. prince george's county state's attorney says that boy will remain there indefinitely. the foster child was beaten to death in july when the defendant was 12. the 2-year-old was living with the boy's family in fort washington. a manassas, virginia woman facing a long list of charges after she allegedly tried to run over a police officer. police say 27-year-old angela cobbold led them on a chase there walter reed -- from walter reed to rockville. officers approached the driver they spotted making a u-turn at the hospital. then they say she struck a car as she drove away from the attempted stop.

eventually another officer stopped her car but she backed into his cruiser and took off driving towards yet another officer. that officer fired at her. she eventually crashed and was arrested. if you're commuting to or from the eastern shore, you should have a much easier ride this morng. the bay bridge was shut down yesterday after a tanker truck started leaking propane. hazmat crews got there to clear the scene. the eastbound lanes, though, were closed for about 90 minutes which is a big deal during rush hour. the westbound side was closed for nearly two hours. it is 5:05. time for the latest your money report of the morning. >> jessica doyle is here with today's headlines. good morning. >> good morning. owgly, owgly -- ugly, ugly day for wall street no other way to state that but we do have some good news. facebook could help today. the company surprised wall street with a better than expected profit report. sales jumped 32%, largely because of gains in advertising on cell phones and other mobile devices. the other after the bell

results came from netflix and they were better than expected. checking the markets, the dow stands at 13,102. tumbled 243 points in trading yesterday. nasdaq was down by 26. the s&p 500 was down by 20. target is selling its consumer credit card business to a canadian bank for nearly $6 billion. that price tag matches the size of target's current credit card receivables. that's what consumers owe the retailer. if you swiped your credit card at barnes and noble lately, watch your bank statements. barnes and noble says hackers broke into the key pads in front of cash registers at 63 stores nationwide. "the new york times" reports the company discovered the security breach around september 14 but sources tell the times the justice department asked barnes and noble to keep the matter quiet so the f.b.i. could pick out who was behind it. after getting word of the tampering, the bookstore chain disconnected all pin pads from its stores nationwide.

customers looking to use a credit card will simply have to have their card swiped by the reader attached to the cash register. we don't know how many people could possibly be in jeep day because of this data breach. >> that's scary. thankfully they're taking some action trying to help people out. >> and they're trying to catch the people behind it. >> they still haven't found that at all. >> not that we know of. >> keeping it quiet. what do you have for us in the next half-hour? >> the pay cut between men and women starts right out of the gate with the first job out of college and it's a huge differ. we'll talk about that coming -- huge difference. we'll talk about that coming up. the circumstances surrounding a shark attack. that story coming up. >> millions of muslims started fulfilling one of the chief requirements of their faith. >> ahead in sports, robert griffin iii opens up about his transition into the n.f.l. has a highly touted quarterback. you're watching 9news now.

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wednesday morning. mostly cloudy out there. might see a stray sprinkle, emily in the mountains -- especially in the mountains. and a warm day. we may see temperatures getting above the 08-degree mark. -- 80-degree mark. by noon 74. 79 at 3:00 with a high of 81. still pleasant at 6:00 p.m. with light winds and 76. coming back in a few minutes with the seven-day forecast. i'm have the very latest sandy. right now monika with timesaver traffic. on the northbound side of i- 95 instafford, only the right shoulder gets by. a jackknifed tractor-trailer near courthouse road. you want to use route 17 in falmouth or center port parkway to get around it. here on 395 things look great on duke street. more at 5:17. back to you. >> thank you, monika. an investigation is under way into a deadly shark attack off the coast of california. fellow surfers pulled a 39-year- old man out of the water and attempted to give him aid. he ended up dying at the scene. the attack happened just off

the coast of property belonging to vandenberg air force base. jerry sandusky is starting his first full day in pritson. he was -- prison. he was transferred yesterday. he will have an assessment before being permanently assigned to a prison. millions of muslim pilgrims have officially started the annual sill grimmage. it's -- pilgrimage. it's believed four million people will make their way. the saudi government says its forces will quell any political- related demonstrations. you may have heard a lot about how defense programs could be affected by sequestration. but coming up at 5:49, we'll look at how the automatic federal budget cuts could impact other areas. >> in sports at 5:23, the redskins make a roster move on offense this time. >> next at 5:15, howard has the latest on the possible effects of sandy in the seven-day forecast.

we'll be right back.

good morning. welcome back to 9news now. it's 5:14 on this wednesday morning. you can take off the jacket later today. you won't need it. >> you may not need it this morning. some temps 61 right now in town. i would bring one just in case it's too cold in the studio.

but we're very comfortable today and outside. your bus stop forecast, it's looking good this morning with temperatures running ins 50s and 60s. we do have mostly cloudy skies and some showers out in ohio and west virginia hold together across the mountains. may give us a sprinkle during the morning hours. sunrise at 7:27. we do the time change thing coming up the 3rd and 4th of november, the first weekend. so today high clouds and some mid-level clouds this morning. i think mostly cloudy, 63 at 9:00. by noon partly sunny, 74. winds light, variable 5 miles an hour or less today. by 5:00 coming back down to 78 after hitting a high of 81, 3 degrees shy of the record 84 set back in 2001. that's the same record at dulles and 82 in baltimore today. we may get close. showers up in pennsylvania. this stuff in the eastern part of west virginia probably not reaching the ground, although in southern ohio and western west virginia, we're seeing these showers trying to get toward i-77 and charleston. i-79 as well. we'll watch that for later this

morning. with the cloud cover and winds out of the south overnight, it's mild. 56 in fairfax and ashburn and haymarket. it's 57 in rockville. andrews is 56. 55 for crofton and college park. as we look outside on the michael & son weather camera, once again great visibility in the distance under partly cloudy skies to mostly cloudy skies. 61 degrees with light southwesterly winds. winds really not much of a factor this morning. watching a lot of cold air. it's 20 degrees this morning in great falls, montana. there's been snow flying in the mountains of the northern rockies and northern california and the pacific northwest. big storm covering much of british columbia and the northwestern u.s. that's helping push the warmer readings toward us. if this storm moves more inland, it may be enough to kick sandy out to sea. we watch the showers sort of fall apart as they move east. they may hold together a little more than the models are indicating. we'll get a few clouds here and there. tomorrow the wind direction becomes more of an easterly one. you can see the clouds moving

in here at times from the east so that's a cooler flow for us. tomorrow night into friday with more easterly flow, that may bring some drizzle by friday morning and maybe a shower by friday afternoon. let's go to the tropics. we've got tony. we don't care about that that's not going to abproblem. sandy a big problem. it's strengthening. the darker cloud tops, this storm is stringening moving toward jamaica as a weak hurricane early thank. across cuba as a category 1. then into the bahamas as we head into thursday night, friday morning. then hurricane center trying to make it a turn to the north and the east. they've nudged it just a hair back to the west it looks. we'll watch this carefully because this could be a player for us. latest winds up to 70 miles an hour. our forecast, when i say a player for us, it could come up more of the east coast and bring us rain and wind. tomorrow 75. friday 72.

next week a lot of saturday depends on sandy. this jackknifed tractor- trailer we've been in touch with authorities down in stafford dealing with the situation that happened at 12:30 this morning where this tractor-trailer is also leaking fuel. it's jackknifed and it's going to be there for a while. they cannot tell us how long it will take before they can open up some more lanes. right now the right shoulder gets by northbound 95 about a mile or two south of courthouse road. so you have some options. you might want to take route 17 out of falmouth and just get yourself out of that delay. take route 1 over to 95 at courthouse road and get yourself around that. another detour is center port parkway. let's take a live look at northbound 95 at route 17. it looks like everything is fine down there. this is over here near route 644 yobdz the accident -- beyond the accident scene and you can see things are just bunching up but the lanes are open heading to 395. on the west sides of town no issues to report on 66 or the dulles toll road. a quick look at american legion

bridge. traffic is moving well here, too. we'll be back with more traffic coming up at 5:24. back to you guys. >> thanks, monika. the redskins make an additional roster move on the offense. >> plus, rg3 a role model in so many ways now. he talked about the business side of being an n.f.l. quarterback. that story is coming up in sports. >> it's 5:19. we want to take another look at our question of the morning. a new study suggests more smartphones are damaged here than anywhere else. is it a, the bathroom, b, the kitchen, c, the car? >> our facebook friend said bathroom. i dropped phones in the water, the sink and the toilet. >> log on to the wusa9 facebook fan page. leave your response. we'll reveal the answer during the 6:00 hour.

welcome back. 5:22 on this wednesday morning. mostly cloudy out there. there are sprinkles in west virginia. they might just hold together across the mountains. more clouds than anything else. 50s to even 60 out there this morning. by 9:00 low 60s. starting to warm up. by lunch time 74 degrees. then this afternoon we're looking at highs upper 70s to low 80s. not bad at all. andrea and mike? >> thanks, howard. the world series starts tonight. san francisco giants taking on the tigers. they're hosting the tigers. >> we're all confused because it's not the teams we wanted in

there. plus, rg3 gives a revealing interview. kristen berset has details in your morning sports. good morning, everybody. the arrival of robert griffin iii and the dmv has reenergized this redskins fan base, win or lose every week. with that of course comes a lot of pressure that he carries with him. in an exclusive interview with "u.s.a. today," rg3 talked about his experience so far this season. >> you do get to play the game you love and get paid to do it but there are a lot more things that happen on the field and off the field with the business aspect of it. you have to be mentally tough. it is everything you dreamed of but a lot more than you dreamed of as well. >> he proved to be mentally tough for sure. last week it was rg3's electrifying touchdown run that stuck with us all week long but one week later redskins nation is stuck with an image they'd much rather forget about it. josh wilson getting burned by

giants receiver victor cruz on sunday. the 77-yard touchdown catch from manning sealed the skins' fate. unfortunately or fortunately this was a great game but unfortunately that last play is what we're stuck thinking about. >> any time there's something like that that happens, you know, you take a look at that one play, everybody is sick about it. all of a sudden if we play it like we normally play t we played a pretty good game. get a couple of turnovers, a sack, then you get that play and it takes away everything we did on defense. >> the skins made a roster move by signing williams. he was originally signed by the redskins in 2010 as a rookie. to make room for williams, the redskins cut running back brian grant. that's a quick look at sports this morning. i'm kristen berset. have a great wednesday. in our next half-hour, we'll take you inside a local company that makes eye black

for athletes. >> the candidates will descend on virginia several times the next few days. it's coming up on 5:25. how is traffic moving? here's monika. good news on the northbound side of 95 in stafford before courthouse road. jackknifed tractor-trailer accident from overnight. only the left lane remains blocked. i'll very details on -- i'll have details on that in my next report at 5:29. you're watching 9news now. we'll be right back.

good morning. welcome back to 9news now on this wednesday morning. i'm andrea roane. >> thanks for joining us. no need for a jacket today. i'm mike hydeck. good morning, monika samtani. >> i'm loving it. >>it's really nice. we do need a freeze. got to get rid of the stink bugs. >> maybe more than a freeze. they're trying to get indoors. >> and lady bugs. >> lady bugs do a lot of good things. just keep them outside but they do a lot of good things. we need some rain. we're 8 inches in the hole since january 1. if sandy heads our way early next week, we'll

make a big dent in that. we'll be watching that carefully. this morning other than a sprinkle mainly in the mountains, we're dealing with some clouds blowing off some showers out of ohio and west virginia. mostly cloudy, 61. 74 by noon. partly sunny. more sun this afternoon. a high of 81. light winds. a 5:00 temperature a gorgeous 78. you can see the showers up in pennsylvania this morning. we've got some showers trying to get going in west virginia and more so ohio and coming out of kentucky into southern west virginia. your temperatures are up. talking about not needing a jacket, frederick is 50, one ever the cool spots with culpeper and orange. in warrenton a touch of fog and also up in york, pennsylvania. we're as warm as 61 in town and annapolis. highs today not october like. more like early september. upper 70s to low 80s. average high is 66. it's 5:29. here comes monika samtani. how is 95 northbound doing? any better? much better, although it's still there. we're talking about a jackknifed tractor-trailer northbound 95 down in stafford

before courthouse road. it happened at about 12:30 last night. there was a fuel spill involved as well. right now only the left lane is blocked and that is much improved from earlier this morning. so you should be able to get through with some delay but at least you' -- your right side of the roadway has been reopened. let's take a live look in springfield on the northbound side of 95, much further north from that accident. things are looking great both in the main and hov lanes heading for 395. no delays heading for the 14th street bridge. let's go back to the maps and this time the northbound side of town coming in from aspen hill, wheaton, no issues. burtonsville a little bit of slow traffic on route 29. 95 looks great. we'll take a live look over at 270 at shady grove road. all lanes are open here in gaithersburg and rogville. i'll be -- rockville. i'll be back with more traffic at 5:39. campaign 2012 returns to the commonwealth tomorrow with president obama headed to richmond and congressman paul ryan making stops in bristol

and charlottesville. >> then mitt romney is planning three virginia stops this sunday. he starts in haymarket. with less than two weeks to go before election day, both campaigns are crisscrossing the swing states. tuesday the candidates focused on who has a plan to improve america over the next four years. >> we haven't heard an agenda from the. that's why his campaign is taking on water and our campaign is full speed ahead. >> i've laid out a plan for jobs and middle class security. unlike mitt romney, i'm proud to talk about what's in my plan. >> president obama's campaign will distribute 20-page outlines of his agenda in the battleground state. mitt romney's campaign says his five-point plan can be found on his website. he's been in congress for 20 years but maryland republican rosco bartlet has a new group of constituents who may not vote for him. his sixth district has been radically changed by redistricting giving challenger john delaney a greater chance of upsetting the incumbent.

>> kristin fisher is following this. she has more from our satellite center right now this morning. good morning, kristin. >> reporter: good morning. last night our derek mcginty hosted a debate between these two candidates. a lot of it focused on all of those high stakes ballot issues this year in maryland. here's what the two candidates -- where the two candidates stand on question six, same-sex marriage. >> marriage has been a term for centuries that's been applied to the union between a man and a woman. i think it needs to stay there. i do, however, believe that our epuhn ration includes your job, your pension and if you want your significant other to share in your health care and visit you in the hospital, they ought to be able to do that. >> i support marriage equality. the best thing that happened to me is getting married. i think when this country has reached for greater equality, we've looked back and realized it was the right thing to do.

>> reporter: the candidates also discussed question 4 on the ballot, the dream act which would allow the children of illegal immigrants to get in state college tuition. >> i support the dream act and i support comprehensive immigration reform in this country. i think it's one of the most important things we need to do for the morality around the 11 million undocumented residents in this country. we have to create a path to citizenship for them. >> it depends on what you think is the highest priority. respect for our laws or looking at these people, you want them to become a productive member of our country. >> which do you think is the highest priority? >> i will tell you that when i go into the voting booth. >> you haven't decided which way you want to vote on it? >> i will tell you i am conflicted. >> reporter: you have to appreciate his honesty. it's rare to hear a politician say in this day and age he still doesn't know exactly where he stands even though he has to vote on it in less that two weeks. just two weeks to go. you can believe it? >> no, we can't hardly believe we won't see those ads anymore after that.

thank you for reporting live from our satellite center. a group of religious leaders in maryland is pushing for the approval of question 4 on the maryland ballot. a coalition of priests, pastors and rabbis from many faiths rallied for support last night in silver spring at the southern asian seventh day adventist church. approving question 4 would finalize the dream act passed by the general assembly. it would allow many students who can prove they live in maryland to attend state schools at in state tuition rates even if they're not u.s. citizens. on this day ten years ago, the washington area let out an audible sigh of relief. that is because on october 24, 2002, police officers arrested d.c. snipers john allen muhammad and lee boyd malvo after their three-week shooting spree that left ten people dead. their blue chevy capri was found at an i-70 rest stop in myersville, maryland. the two were sleeping inside at the time. muhammad was executed three years ago. malvo a teenager at the time is

now serving a life sentence. the securities and exchange commission has opened an informal inquiry into the district of columbia's chief's office. they're seeking copies of all internal audits dating to january 2010 and it's cooperating fully. cfo was criticized at a recent d.c. council hearing for his failure to release audits that uncovered problems in the office. it is 5:35. jessica doyle is watching your money. >> she's watching the cost of college, too. that's a doozy. >> that's right. the cost of getting a higher education is definitely surging. and it's well outpacing the gains in all of our income. this fall the sticker price of in state public tuition climbed about $400, nearly -- or rather 5%. the college board says that brought the average to $8600. tack on room and board and then you hit $17,860 on average for

public school. coming up in the next half- hour, kiplinger's personal finance is out with its annual look at the most affordable colleges in america. if you are on a budget, i will tell you why you should look at the ivy leagues. that's coming up at 6:00. the big pay gap between men and women starts right out of college. a year after graduation, women are earning nearly $8,000 less a year than their male counterparts of the american association of university women analyzed data from a department of education survey of 15,000 graduates from 2009. men earned average salaries of $42,900. women earned $35,300. even when you control for the same majors, the same jobs, the same hours worked, women were still paid 7% less than men. that person who calls you during dinner to find out why your check is late is about to face some tough scrutiny, too. for the first time in history, debt collectors will be regulated. today the consumer financial protection bureau is expected to finalize a new rule to

oversee and regulate the largest u.s. debt collection agencies. this would start january 2 and it affects a lot of people since 30 million americans have debt currently under collection, and this change will allow regulators to demand to know if consumers are being treated fairly. some of the debt collection practices in america, they'd make a great reality tv show. >> people should pay what they owe but you don't need to be bludgeoned. >> exactly. >> thanks, jess. jessica will be back with daily deals. >> right now we'll play a sound for you. you have four minutes to guess what it is. >> da, da, da.

welcome back. 5:39. i'm out on the weather terrace this morning without a jacket. very comfortable. the winds are light w. area be60 in northwest with the cool spot still about 50 degrees. we're off to a warm day. here's a look at your day planner. we're starting partly to mostly cloudy. we could see a stray sprinkle especially the mountains but we'll warm to the mid-70s by lunch time. a high today about 81 degrees. by 5:00 p.m. we're coming back down but still nice at 78. i'll be inside in a few minutes with the full seven-day forecast. lots of questions in the seven day. all depends on what happens with the tropical system named sandy. cleanup continues from an overnight tractor-trailer accident on the northbound side of i-95. down in stafford before courthouse road. right now the left lane remains blocked and expect delays. i'll have more on traffic coming up once again at 5:47. back to you, jess. >> thank you, monika. we've been combing through the day's daily deals, e-mails and retailer websites to find you some deep discounts and here are some of our favorites on this wednesday. today only you can buy a tablet

with an android operating system at 63% off. e-bay is selling the motorola xoom android honeycomb $219.99 including free shipping. it normally sells just under $600. a big discount. if you ever wanted to fly like a trapeze arptist? the school located at the navy yard in southeast d.c. can make your dream come true for the discounted price of $69. you will enjoy a brief tutorial before you take to the sky for two and a half hours of soaring. when your session is complete, you can enjoy sweets and hot drinks. this one is on living social. living social always uferring discounted -- offering discounted tickets to three ways discards games. prices start at $27. if you have an offer you've seen or you're a local merchant with a deal for our viewers, i would love to hear from you on facebook. i will send it over to andrea

and mike for that weird sound. >> we have two quizzes this morning. you heard what we played before. you had four minutes to think about it. take a listen again to see if you can identify this sound. >> what do you think? researchers off the coast of san diego thought they were hearing people talking until -- check it out -- they discovered human-like sounds coming from a whale they were studying. the whale has learned how to imitate the sound of humans that he's heard talking on the surface. one e-mailer told researchers he's heard the whale do the star spangled banner which may be true since it's played every day at the nearby navy base. that is neat. >> i know. if he listens to the news, he could be a coanchor one day. >> some day he will speak much

more clearly than i will. health inspectors reveal their findings related to the fungal meningitis outbreak that story coming up. >> we'll take a look at some of the charity efforts that could be affected by the looming sequestration when it comes to those budget cuts from the government. >> 5:43. let's see who's celebrating a birthday today. rolling stones musician bill wyman is 76. kevin kline is 65. if it's your birthday, have a great day. well be back.

good morning. welcome back to 9 news now. it's 5:46. hump day. we're almost to the weekend. boy, it could be an interesting weekend thanks to sandy. >> sandy and an approaching cold front. maybe you can take your weekend today or tomorrow. do it because it's beautiful.

sandy is causing all sorts of problems for jamaica, cuba, the bahamas the next couple of days. but early next week should she come more up the east coast as opposed to out to sea, we'll be enjoying a host of problems as well. you don't have to send the kids to school with a jacket. they may take it off and leave it at school. consider that with temperatures starting in the 50s and 60s. sunrise 7:27. we'll see more clouds this morning. maybe even a sprinkle coming across out of the mountains through mid- to late morning. then a little more sun this afternoon. noon 74. 3:00 79 with a life 81. we've got showers in ohio and west virginia, kentucky. some of this stuff in eastern west virginia kind of light. i don't even think it's reaching the ground but it's all moving toward the east. we'll at least get some clouds out of that the next several hours. 55 gaithersburg and winchester. 50 in culpeper but 61 now at the patuxent river naval air station. outside on our michael & son weather camera, good visibility. we have partly cloudy

conditions. weather terrace, i'm looking up seeing stars this morning with 61. winds light out of the southwest at 3. dew points in the 50s. so this is the system giving us the clouds and maybe a sprinkle this morning. it's going to come through and as it passes this afternoon, we'll see more sunshine and winds fairly light today. our change is going to come with the wind direction change as a front slips in from the north. so you'll notice the clouds. kind of subtle. i want you to watch n. here we are at 5:00, sunny and about 78, 79. but these clouds start to move in from the northeast. with the winds changing, an easterly flow, that's a cooler flow off the atlantic, not as warm tomorrow. highs probably only in the low 70s as opposed to the low 80s or mid-70s tomorrow. then friday perhaps low 70s but even some drizzle. if the clouds are thicker friday, we may stay in the 60s. we've watching sandy w. he have tony here going to the northeast. not a problem. sandy, though. when you look at satellite loop and we color enhance study to make it -- enhanced it to make it easier to see where the

taller clouds are watching around the center. this is boiling away south of jamaica. winds 70 miles an hour. almost a hurricane, likely will be a category one as it hits jamaica later today. here we are at 2:00 near landfall. they're talking about maybe a foot of rain, some storm surge, flooding as well. this storm is going to cross cuba, get into the bahamas and start to transition from a tropical to a non-tropical storm so the wind field will expand greatly. it's still going to maintain 70 mile an hour winds but is it going to come more toward bermuda or more up the east coast? the latest advisory moved the track a little more to the west closer to the u.s. mainland. watch that trend. 81 today. more clouds this morning. tonight 50s to about 60. 75 tomorrow. friday 72. could be an afternoon shower, maybe a little patchy drizzle in the morning. then the weekend shower possible saturday with a front and beyond saturday, it just depends on what happens with sandy. so we'll know more as we know more about sandy but definitely turning cooler. monika, over to you.

it's kind of a good news- bad news situation. a tractor-trailer was on its side with a fuel spill at about 12:30 last night. northbound 95 down in stafford before courthouse road. now authorities are telling us that the cleanup continues but only the left lane is blocked. i wouldn't say there's not a delay. there probably is a delay, at least a mile and a half on the northbound side. scoot over to the right to get by or choose to use route 1 as your alternate route. let's take a live look further north on the northbound side of 395. this is what it looks like at duke street. all lanes are open both in the main and hov lanes. everyone is behaving themselves heading up to the 14th street bridge. let's go back over to our maps and this time to 270. on the southbound side that slow lineup now begins over in frederick about 31 miles an hour here at route 109. we'll go there live right now, southbound side. you can see it is slow and heavy down toward 121 and germantown but at least the lanes are open. i'll be back with more traffic coming up in a few minutes at 6:00. back to you guys. making news now, coming up

on 5:51, the fungal meningitis outbreak linked to prescription steroid injections has now killed 23 people, including for in virginia and one in maryland. massachusetts officials say an investigation of the drug manufacturing facility turned up unclean conditions, including visible black specks of fungus in steroids. police in madrid, spain are trying to keep the parliament building sealed off from protesters. that is because lawmakers are meeting to discuss next year's budget which includes austerity measures which will affect health care, transportation and education. demonstrators are now calling for new parliamentary elections. people are dying things down and boarding windows in wingston, jamaica -- kingston, jamaica. hurricane warnings are in effect for both jamaica and cuba. it's a longward with a big impact. sequestration. it's been brought up in the presidential debates. if it happens, the automatic federal budget cuts would

greatly impact our area. >> much of the talk about what would happen is focused on the department of department. but as peggy fox shows us, the across-the-board cuts would have far wider reaching effects. >> reporter: it's part of the family center which helps 77,000 people, people who were hungry, jobless or suffering from domestic violence. [ no audio ] about a third of its budget comes from state or county funds. some come from federal sources. if sequestration happens and budgets are cut, leaders worry if they'll be able to help people in need. >> that's a huge amount of money. that is direct scheses to the people -- services to the people we help. >> reporter: the sequester cuts amount to $1.2 trillion even divided among domestic and

defense spending. economists have predicted 160,000 jobs could be lost in the d.c. area alone. >> i don't think you can make across-the-board cuts equally. i think it's growing to affect some people much more than it is other people. >> reporter: like the president, many are convinced the cuts won't happen, confident congress will act after the election. but when democrats like jerry connolly have tried to ask for the issue to be taken up, they've been shut out. >> what's going to happen now is after the election, not before it sadly, we're going to have to deal with sequestration and the full plate of other issues that are quite serious. but i like the president am confident we're not going to let sequestration happen because frankly there's something in there for both sides to hate. >> reporter: peggy fox, 9 news now. >> congressman connolly also told peggy it's not just defense or defense contractors but civilian contractors who will also be affected. but representative connolly feels something will get done by the end of the year no matter who wins the

presidential election. redistricting leads to the closest race in years for one veteran maryland congressman. that story is coming up. plus, we go inside a local company that makes the eye black you see on many professional athletes, baseball, football. you see it on tv. over you to, jess. >> thank you. want annual affordable college degree for your kids? coming up at 6:06, why you should look at the ivy league if you're on a budget. you're watching 9news now. happy wednesday morning.

welcome back to 9news now. it's a piece of equipment you see at almost every outdoor sporting event. >> the makeup under the eyes has evolved big time. it's called eye black and its origins are right here in the d.c. area. diane roberts has more on who make it is and how it's gone far beyond your basic black. >> reporter: eye black is a well known, well worn staple of athletes everywhere. professionals, student athletes and weekend warriors. it's that stuff you see under athletes' eyes to keep out the glare. what you may not know is there's a company by that name based in rockville, maryland. they do somebody nobody else does. they have a patent to put logos, mascots or advertising on those black peel and stick patches. it's the brainchild of pete beverage. >> i was looking at the st. louis cardinals baseball. i was looking at the eye black patch going wow, that's pretty

cool. but what would the value of that be if you could put nike on it or putting logos on it? >> reporter: from pete's mouth to under your eye and those of some of your favorite players like the redskins robert griffin iii. >> i wear the strips whether it's a nighttime or day game. i never play without them. >> reporter: rg3 is a believer in the little black patch. several of his n.f.l. colleagues actually have official relationships with the company. most famously brian of the chicago bears and even sean michael, the show stopper. it's not just star athletes with custom eye black. you can get your own as well with any logo, design or saying you want. just about any. >> we have a lot of crazy things that people want. i can't tell you the craziest ones because they can't make it on tv. >> reporter: the product designs are created at eye black's art department in rockville. their printing is done in at

ran take. -- in atlanta. to many fans having authentic eye black is like having an authentic team jersey, but if sports isn't your thing, no worries. there's eye black in red and blue for your favorite presidential candidate. for 9 sports, i'm diane roberts. >> eye black estimate it is would ship out about 8.5  million pairs around the world this year. there they are right here. just a little sticker. you can peel it off if you're any good at it, if you have lots of coffee it's much more difficult. they literally pop right on. pretty easy. these are for the nationals. >> turn it around. there you go, mike. >> that looks better. >> the glare is now away from your face. thank you for watching 9news now at 6:00 a.m. i'm andrea roane. can you see? >> i can. we're glad