howard with a look at the forecast good some schools are also -- or individual schools may be closed because of power issues. we have that information scrolling at wusa9.com. it's not the prettiest morning but doable. you'll need a rain jacket. we have a few showers and sprinkles out there with temperatures upper 30s to low 40s and windchills in the mid- 30s. it's not the most comfortable morning. here's a look at the day planner where we're expecting lots of clouds once again. good visibility here this morning. temperature by noon pushing 50 degrees with mostly cloudy skies. we're going to see not that much sunshine today. 5:00 mostly cloudy to cloudy and 53. hoping to get to 55 today. yesterday we only got to 46 with the rain and the wind. snow still flying in the mountains out there. some areas have had over 30 inches in the highest elevation. we're seeing the sprinkles showing up across areas to our north and our west. you see them pushing across frederick county. look how this area of light

showers has spandzed from warrenton -- spanldzed from -- spannedded from warrenton to culpeper. we'll have light rain or showers around for the morning commute. that's not going to happen. leesburg, manassas all at 39 with 43 annapolis. when you factorn the winds, there are your windchills running in the mid- to upper 30s in most areas. monika samtani, it's pretty chilly inside the studio but she has the traffic report. >> it's freezing in here. >> mind over matter. >> that's right. if you're planning to head outside, one problem is replaced by another. there was a problem on the inner loop near route 450. that was cleared. now there's another accident. i'll get to that in just a minute. first of all public transportation normal service on metro bus and rail. amtrak modified service from basically newark, new jersey to points south. call ahead and know that of course they're going to -- there are going to be delays due to sandy. let's go to another graphic and this time it's just a list, a short list of the road closures

including georgetown pike, sligo creek parkway, route 108 and mink and beach drive. that's just a short list. you may hit a road closure due to flooding or wires down from sandy. at university boulevard, a single vehicle accident. it slid off the road here the police are on the scene. not affecting traffic here. a quick look on the other side of town northbound 395, hovs are in effect. i'll be back with more traffic coming up in a few minutes. >> thank you very much, monika. the mess that sandy left behind could include the worst river flooding in well over a decade. >> this flooding could last for days as tributaries dump their excess water into the potomac river and the snow further to our west starts to melt. 9news reporter ko im is live in alexandria where preparations are under way. good morning, ko. >> reporter: good morning, matt and andrea. we have to remember again that today is halloween. right now we're not seeing any

rain, maybe a light breeze if anything. kids will be waking up and going to school in alexandria. people will be going to work likely. but they probably won't be trick or treating here late tonight and that's because this road on king and south union streets will be closed. as howard mentioned, the potomac could crest a couple feet above water so we're keeping an eye on this marker right here in front of the torpedo factory. we got some video yesterday of people getting free sandbags from the city of alexandria to try and prepare for these persistent flooding issues. the mayor told me yesterday that they're going to be monitoring the situation for the next couple of days. the flood warning is in place until 2:00 p.m. friday afternoon. if you come take a walk with me on south union streets, yesterday this was flooded at high tide. we're expecting high tide again after 10:00 this morning. the sign -- the do not enter sign was put up yesterday.

right in front of us closer to lee streets, there's a caution tape sign so they're expecting water levels maybe higher than yesterday. basically again high tide coming in from the potomac behind us around 10:05, 10:06 this morning. the sandbags are in place and the businesses -- are a in place around the businesses. we're seeing halloween decorations up and down the streets. trick or treating will go on as planned. we know some pre-halloween festivities were canceled yesterday. as far as we know, trick or treating will go on as planned. after school, after business we'll likely see some people in costumes down here. we're live in old town alexandria, ko im, 9news. back to you. >> i bet you they'll be a lot of frankenstorm costumes out there and big bird. thank you, ko. one of the main rivers that feeds into the potomac is the monocacy river in maryland. >> kristin fisher joins us live from frederick with a look at the flood conditions there.

good morning, kristin. >> reporter: good morning. well, got news is the worst is over, but it's still pretty bad. check this out. this is the monocacy river. this is the river that flows underneath i-70 through the national battlefield and then up here to pine cliff park where i am now. you can see the roadway there completely flooded out. this is it. check out how high the water gets so quickly. that is a full size street sign right over there. just goes to show you i can stand here but you go just a few more feet and it is -- it would be up to my shoulders by now. not stuff you want to get into, not stuff you want to drive into. this is at about 21 feet. but at its highest, look at this. this is how high it came. this is the flood line right here. this is 22 feet roughly. that's when it crested about three or four hours ago. so it's going down. that's the good news but still lots of flooding to deal w. i want to show you -- to deal

with. i want to show you guys just how dangerous it can be. yesterday during some of the really rough winds, some folks were trying to get on a boat and get out from some of the flooded fields. they got stuck. they got trapped. they got in rough water, couldn't get out. they had to be rescued by fortunates on a raft. it -- by firefighters on a raft. it got pretty ugly but they're okay. great news there. no other injuries to report because of this flooding. i just spoke with some folks with the county. they say that they don't have any other issues to report this morning. but for folks still driving around, just want to show you in was really our only warning that this water was coming up as we were driving down this road. it's easy to miss when it's off to the side of the road and it's pitch black out here. so if you're driving around, you've got to really watch the signs and be careful because if we didn't know, if we weren't looking for this water right here specifically, we could have very easily driven right

into it and then you would just easily get carried away. really sticky stuff out here but it's getting better. back to you. >> all right, kristin. thanks very much. good information and advice. travelers across the country have felt the ripple effect of sandy. >> coming up, we'll have an update on today's efforts to get flights moving in and out of our local airports. >> here's a quick and easy way you can help the hurricane victims. just like wusa9 on facebook. for every one of you who donate a -- i should say for everyunof you who likes us, we -- everyone of you would likes us, we will donate a dollar to the sandy relief fund.

5:09. it's cloudy, chilly. there are a few light showers out there this morning. i think it will be a little bit better later this morning interest the afternoon. here's a look at your day planner where we've got the clouds and a couple of showers or sprimples here, at --

sprinkles here at least through 9:00. midday 50 degrees under mostly cloudy skies. by 6:00 p.m. getting ready to go trick or treating, 52. on the inner loop of the beltway at university boulevard, a car went off the road and it is not affecting traffic, although crews are there. all the activity is on the shoulder as you can see and all lanes are getting by. i'll have more on traffic coming up once again in a few minutes. back to you, andrea and matt. >> thank you, monika. it is 5:10. time for the latest your money report of the morning. >> jessica doyle is out at reagan national covering the aftermath of the storm. she's following the effort to return to normal after sandy. jessica? >> reporter: well, i will tell you folks it is not normal operations just here at reagan national airport, but there are flights that are scheduled to leave on time. and that is a welcome relief for people who have been in and out of the airport trying to get out over the last 24 hours. flights were starting to get back to normal a little bit last night. here's the major problem here at reagan national airport,

though. before sandy the commercial airliners had to take the planes off the tarmac here to keep them safe because we had wind gusts up to 60 miles an hour at reagan national and at bwi. now they've got to get those planes back if whatever location that they were housed at. that's the reason why we have flights still on the board behind me that are showing canceled to places like chicago owe share, cities that weren't even affected by hurricane sandy. they are saying about 19,000 flights were canceled since sunday and the economic toll is racking up. we are expected to start seeing some flights out of the new york area today. newark airport, j.f.k. both expecting to get up and running around 7:00 a.m. this morning. laguardia, however, we have seen those photos, and the pictures of the massive flooding at laguardia. officials are going to go over the tarmac today. they're going to start looking at operations, taking a look at damage to make sure they can start resuming flights at this point at laguardia airport. of course a major hub on the

eastern seaboard. in terms of the damages from hurricane sandy, we could be seeing total damages, total losses to our economy up to $50 billion. $20 billion of that alone is just damage of property and things like that. then you have to factor into that economic output that's lost as a result of this. long-term we might see some recovery because of rebuilding. but we're live here at reagan national airport. people are starting to show up for flights and they're due out about 6:00 a.m. this morning. i'll send it back you to in the studio. >> thank you, jess. again, make sure you call your airline first before you head to the airport. it is 5:12. early voting came to a halt during our some storm but it's resuming today with -- our superstorm but it's resume drag with conditions. >> an expert joins us with tips on safe trick or treating after the big storm. >> next at 5:15, howard looks beyond halloween to the weekend in the seven-day forecast.

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. good morning. welcome back to 9news now. 5:15. will the weather tonight be a trick or treat for the little goblins? >>it's going to be dry. how's that? >> all right. will they need mid weight or heavyweight gloves? >> i think mid weight gloves.

i just want to remind everybody, we've got school closings that are out there. we just want to tell you about that. in maryland allegheny and garrett county schools are closed. they're dealing with wintry weather. schools in anne arundel and frederick counties two hours late. still some high water in spots. virginia schools, manassas park closed today. loudoun county schools on a one- hour delay. schools in culpeper, fauquier, shenandoah and warren counties two hours late. >> in west virginia berkley, hampshire, jefferson and mineral county schools are on a two-hour delay. you can always check yore closings or delays on our website at wusa9.com. it's all your fault anyhow, howard, the weather. >> yes, sure, blame the weather guy. it's so easy. >> need somebody to kick, i'm right here. let's get you going. want to talk about the river floolding that's -- flooding that's going on right now because that's still a big issue. on the monocacy and the potomac. the monocacy did crest a little while ago toward 2:00.

just under 22 feet but well above the flood stage. so they've got some major flooding going on up there. at point of rocks, that's going to crest this evening at about 8:00 at 5 feet plus give or take over flood stage. that's moderate flooding there. we're also watching the potomac as it comes toward d.c. the wisconsin avenue gauge forecasts the crest tonight at 8:00, about 2 feet above flood stage. you can assume pretty much the same in georgetown because the water is going to be flowing right down very quickly. even alexandria. we'll talk about high tides ath later this morning. the bus stop forecast their high tide is at 10:00, the next one about 10:06. ko is out there for us there. cloudy, chilly, stray shower, upper 30s to low 40s. it is brisk with sunrise 7:35. don't expect to see a lot of sunshine today. it will be a mostly cloudy day. still with a few sprinkles around, isolated shower through mid-morning. by 11:00 thinking mostly cloudy, 47.

1:00 low 50s. not going to abpretty day but we're trending better. -- to be a pretty day but we're trending better. we're going to make a run toward 55 or so at noon with a 5:00 p.m. temperature of 53degrees. speaking of this evening because i know you're wondering here's our trick or treat forecast. cool, 52. we've got dracula paying me a visit. cool, 52. 7:00 50bg. by 8:00 49 degrees under cloudy, cloudy skies. that was a fun surprise. i wonder who that masked manual was. we've -- man was. we've got some snow up in the mountains. we've got some showers in west virginia and western maryland. these are fairly light showers that are coming in. you'll see here parts of the shenandoah valley coming into fauquier county, even prince william almost to manassas out of culpeper some light showers moving off toward the east. it's a chilly morning. we've got upper 30s and low 40s. washington 43. with some windchills.

i hate showing this this time of year. windchills in the mid and upper 30s in most areas. our michael & son good visibility. cloudy skies. 43. feels like 38. looks like the snow will continue here. the stray shower or two through the mid-morning and then this afternoon partly to mostly cloudy. still more snow up in the mountains. they could get another six inches or more over the next 12 to 24 hours. today high about 55, early shower possible. breezy. tonight upper 30s, low 40s. tomorrow 55 and breezy. friday 52. the weekend looks good, better. maybe a late shower sunday and this is the weekend we turn the clocks back. monika? >> cool, coolish, ghoulish. very clever. i like that. now we have to find out who that masked man was, especially with the purple cape. if you're planning to head around town, what you're going to see is that traffic volumes are definitely going to be heavier than what you're used to. a lot of people stayed at home the last couple of days. not today.

it's going to be pretty normal out there. give yourself extra time not only to deal with some of the road conditions left over but now also the added volume. on the inner loop of the beltway at university boulevard, the accident has been cleared. you're good to go. same story on the inner loop near route 450. let's take a live look outside and show what you it looks like at 270 and father hurley boulevard. all those people trying to get to work already here in germantown down to rockville. now let's go over to the other side of town. no problems on the northbound side of i-95 just people in front of you trying to get through springfield on to 395. hov restrictions are in effect today. metro is on a normal schedule by the way. one last live look, this time in prince george's county on the beltway here at route 50 in new carrollton. i'll be back with more traffic at 5:27. back to you guys. it's been easy to forget with all the weather but tonight is halloween and we have the president and c.e.o. of safe kids joining us this morning with some tips on trick

or treat safety. thank you for joining us. >> good morning. happy halloween. >> one best piece of advice you give is parents talking to their children. >> absolutely. we want parents to talk to their kids not only about the costume they're wearing and some tips we'll give and checking the candy but most importantly about walking safely. on halloween, there are twice as many fatalities. it is the most dangerous night of the year in terms of pedestrian accidents. >> right now with all the debris still along many streets and roadways, it's hard sometimes to get down sidewalks to young people will be in the streets. >> they could be in the street. there are a lot of lives that are down. the roads are slippery. the sidewalks are slippery. you don't want be sending your kids out there alone. we have a study that showed 12% of parents sent children 5 years and younger out without an adult. >> wow. >> that's definitely a wow. that's a no.

>> no one under age 12 should go out without a response adult, not just an older teenager. >> exactly. >> you talked about costumes. you discourage masks. >> we certainly do the reason for that is not that we don't like masks. they're fun and they have a place but if you're out trick- or-treating and crossing streets, you really lose visibility when the mask impairs your ability to see side to side which is so important when you have to cross the street. >> running out of time, last bit of best advice for parents and trick or treaters glndz and drivers. pull the cell phones down for drivers. for costumes add reflective tape to a dark costume so the driver can see them. >> and then have a good time. >> happy halloween to everybody. >> thank you, kate carr with great advice for parents, trick or treaters and drivers. >> thanks very much. a another post-season honor for a nationals player. plus, the wizards go without two starters in their first regular season game. highlights coming up in sports. stay with us. we'll be right back.

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temperatures in the 55-degree range. matt and andrea, back to you. >> thank you, howard. a nationals infielder is awarded for his defensive effort this season. >> plus, the wizards fail to extend their winning streak at the end of last season. kristen berset has your morning sports. good mornings everybody. the nba season got under way last night. the miami heat were in florida enjoying their ring presentation while two homes hoping to be there one day soon squared off up north. this year's third overall pick bradley beal making his wizards at nba debut. wiz on the break. aj price to bradley beal. he buries the triple but just eight points for the rookie last night on two of eight. irving, no such problems, 29 points the last season rookie of the year. cavs up 2 and they would pull away late. thompson with the dunk. the wizardses lose their season

opener by 10, 94-84. major league baseball handed out their golden glove awards that honors the league's best players at each position. nationals first baseman adam la roche walked away with the first award of his career. his teammate short stop ian desmond was a finalist at his position. that's a quick look at sports this morning. i'm kristen berset. have a great wednesday. the tail end of superstorm sandy has left us with some lingering rain and chilly temperatures. >> but the storm's final punch will come in area rivers. more on the flooding threat coming up. >> on the southbound side of i- 270, no issues to report other than the volume coming down from frederick past father hurley and down to the point where the lanes divide. 355 is incident free as well. we'll be back with more news, weather and traffic. you're watching 9news now. stay with us.

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i'm andrea roane. i'm matt jablow in this morning for mike hydeck. we want to start this half-hour with a quick check of our current power outages. pepco is down to less than 1500 customers without electricity. about half of them are in montgomery county. dominion virginia is reporting more than 20,000 northern virginia customers waiting to get their lights back on. bge has more than 86,000 customers without power. most of those are in or north of baltimore. we're running school delays and closings on our website wusa9.com as well as at the bottom of your screen. thank you for joining us this wednesday morning. monika samtani will have a traffic in a moment. we start with howard and weather fir. we have some -- first. we have some cold, snowy conditions causing school delays and closings. >> garrett and al gamey county. i'm -- al gamey county. im-- allegheny county. around here this morning, almost feels like it could snow but we do have some cold

sprinkles, light rain showers going on with temps in the upper 30s and low 40s. the day planner shows we're not going to see a lot of sunshine but it should be a little bit better by midday into the afternoon with peeks of sunshine. 50 by noon. high of 55. probably 3:00 or so by 5:00 about 53 degrees. right now we're cloudy and 43. you'll see the snow in pennsylvania. southwestern pennsylvania through western maryland and west virginia. locally we're watching some light showers but still enough to wet the ground and maybe cause some slicker conditions out on the roads, especially with so many leaves that came down from sandy. you can see coming out of the culpeper area through warrenton and southern fauquier county especially. also up from frederick west to hagerstown some showers and temps, you'll definitely need something to keep you warm. upper 30s to low 40s. thankfully windchills only seem to be running in the mid-30s. outside maybe upper 30s here in the studio.

>> howard, did you see that? a snow flake in the studio. really, it was. it's that cold in here. if you're planning to head around town, first of all the good news is metro is on a normal schedule. now want to let you know although marc is operating today, some flooding and signal issues because of sandy so expect delays due to speed restrictions, although marc is in service. so just keep that in mind and take your patience with you once again today. here comes my coat. if you're planning to head outside, i'm ready for it, too. let's take a look outside at the roadways. northbound 95 filling up quickly from route 644 to the beltway. on 395 you're fine. we'll take a look at 14th street bridge if you're planning to head over there. that's fine, too. 66 no delays as you leave centreville into fairfax. i'll be back with my coat on at 5:43. >> thank you, monika. the death toll from the superstorm sandy has risen to at least 50 people. >> most of those were in new

york but two people have died in maryland. national guard has been rescuing people in new jersey. president obama plans to tour there today. residents say they got hit by a surge of sea water at least 5 feet high. >> within a matter of minutes i think where the basement got completely flooded. we' just waiting for the rescue. >> we have a plan for recovery and that recovery is already beginning. >> new york city mayor michael bloomberg says work is under way to get the financial sector back to normal as well as make repairs to the flooded transit system. the recovery could take months in the breezy point community where a fire destroyed more than 80 homes. before his trip to new jersey today, president obama visited national headquarters of the red cross in washington tuesday. he thanks relief agencies for doing their part and he warned we're not through with sandy yet. there are still areas threatened by high winds and water and that includes

alexandria, virginia where we find 9news reporter ko im. good morning, ko. >> reporter: good morning to you. good morning, everyone. well, we're standing on king street a little bit higher where if you've been to old town, you know that this is on an incline. so we're up higher between south union and lee streets. this part is still closed to the public for cars. we don't know if businesses are going to open today at all. this ice cream shop is set up so it can have a first line of defense with these sandbags as you see here. even this parking meter to my left has some heavy sandbags leaning against it. good to see no cars are parked in this flood prone area. we have some video from yesterday of the flooding that we saw at high tide. high tide this morning expected again around 10:05, 10:06 but

businesses and people here have been preparing for flood prone conditions. the potomac in front of us could flow very quickly. we talked some people, two construction workers actually this morning asking me is this area going to open again and we reminded them that these roads are going to be blocked off probably until friday. they did not live here so they were not used to these flood prone conditions. we do see some people walking about and maybe taking their bikes this morning, but basically people preparing for these flood prone conditions. power outages that were mentioned earlier in the show, northern virginia is seeing the most people left in the dark this morning. dominion power told the associated press overnight they will try to restore power to everybody by thursday night. that is when we could see the worst of these flooding conditions. so we'll keep an eye out here.

once again south union to lee streets on king street in old town alexandria is closed and we'll probably -- and will probably be closed till friday afternoon. we'll send it back to you for now. >> ko im reporting from alexandria, virginia. one of the area waterways that will dump its water into the potomac is the monocacy river. >> kristin fisher is live in frederick with more on what problems the river is causing there. >> reporter: good morning. when we first got here about 4:00 in the morning, the water level was almost up to here where did crested right -- it crested right about 22 feet. but the water is receding. great news here. now it's at about 21 feet. the last measurement was taking about 4:30 this morning. it's fairly accurate. it will continue to go down and should be flooding below flood stage a little later this afternoon. let me show you what it looked like yesterday at its absolute worst when we were still feeling the higher winds from

hurricane sandy. two people had to be rescued when this water was flowing at its peak speed and the water was still about 21 feet where it is now. they were trying to get out some of the fields. it they had hopped on a boat to try to get out. they got stuck, had to be rescued and are okay. but just one example of why you've got to be so careful when you're dealing with flood waters like this. now, the water even though it is receding, we're still feeling quite a bit of current in this water. i can't wade out too far because it gets really deep really fast. you can see the current right here, it's taken out all sorts of stuff. in fact, we just heard two trees crashing in the distance. you can't see because it's so dark but we heard it happen. as you get of course closer and closer up to where the water stops, you don't feel the current as much but i just too a few -- just take a few steps back and i can already start to feel it starting to sweep you away. for people not aware of this

water, driving into it a big concern. this is a park, the pine cliff park. it is completely flooded out right now. you can't get in there. the parking lot completely under water. just look at how deep it gets. just beyond me is one of these parking lots and that is a full size street sign. so you can see how quickly the water rises and how deep it does get and how dangerous it can be. but just to put this all in perspective for you all, this is 21 feet right now. the historical high of the monocacy river is 35 feet. 14 feet higher and that took place at -- in 1973. so while it's bad, it could be a whole lot worse. back to you. >> all right, kristin. thanks very much. hard to believe it could be 14 feet higher than that. >> scary, too. superstorm sandy may enimpact next week's election. >> people rushed to maryland's early voting centers last weekend before they were shut down because of the storm.

today early voting resumes in maryland and the district of columbia along with in person absentee voting in virginia. maryland governor martin o'malley has also extended the deadline for absentee ballot applications. it is now today until 8:00 p.m. for applications received by mail or delivery. and 11:59 p.m. for applications received by fax or e-mail. all applications should be sent to the local board of elections. >> opening up at 8:00 a.m. on the remaining early voting days which is earlier than the usual 10:00 a.m., and we will be extending those hours all the way up until 9:00 p.m. >> governor o'malley also announced state resources will help get -- will help out to get early voting running again in garrett county. that's where sandy dumped more than 2 feet of snow in some spots. today airlines will start the process of returning to normal after sandy. >> but it could take a while with one of new york's major

airports still under water. we'll have more on that coming up. you're watching 9news now.

welcome back. 5:42. out on the weather terrace. it's cold, damp. the kind of cold that cuts through your gloves and a good jacket in order this morning. here's a look at our day planner. we'll deal with a few sprinkles, showers early. mostly cloudy at noon, 50 degrees. probably staying partly to mostly cloudy most of date if not overcast with a high around 55 and a little bit after breeze out of the southwest at 10 to 15. in a few minutes i'll come back inside and have a seven-day forecast that i think you can live with. right now here's monika samtani inside with timesaver traffic. you may not like this very much. it's an accident on the outer loop of the beltway here at new hampshire avenue on the beltway north of town where authorities there tell me that maybe at times the left shoulder is getting by. two cars are involved with

equipment on the scene. tough to see through the trees. on the outer loop, you can see the delays trying to get to the accident. i'll have more information coming up in my next report. back to you guys. >> thank you. tough start to the morning at 5:44. time for another your money report. >> jessica doyle is live at national airport where some of the first flights since sandy will take off this morning. at least try to. good morning, jess. >> reporter: good morning to both of you. good morning to everybody drying out and trying to get things back to normal here at reagan national airport after hurricane sandy. our first flights are due out in about half an hour from now, but i can tell you on the board behind me, there's still a lot of cancellations, even to cities like chicago o'hare that you wouldn't expect. the reason why? ahead of the storm the major carriers decided to take the planes out of reagan national airport, get them out of the way of the storm so they wouldn't just be sitting there on the tarmac with 60 mile an hour gusts. now they've got to reat a time the planes back into -- rotate those planes back into position here at reagan and that could

be several days before things get completely back to normal. if you head up the eastern seaboard to new york, we are seeing resuming operations later this morning, about 7:00 a.m. at newark and j.f.k. laguardia is anybody's guess. there was so much damage at the airport because of the flooding. they are assessing that situation and they're going to tell folks when they can get back to business, maybe potentially later today we'll get an update on that. in terms of the actual economic impact of hurricane sandy, ihs global is saying we could be seeing $50 billion in economic impact because of this. $20 billion of that just due to property damage from the storm. of course we've seen the horrific pictures coming out of the new york-new jersey tristate area. of course the losses there are going to mount. as for wall street, i want to give you a little update here. we're back to business on wall street for the first time in two days. friday not much of a big market day for stocks on friday.

we were up about three and a half points for the dow jones industrial average. nasdaq was up actually. s&p 500 was down a point. the last time they closed for two consecutive days because after weather event dates back to the blizzard of 1888, practically unprecedented. certainly unprecedented in modern times. we'll have to watch the action on wall street today. very likely going to digest the results of the economic impact of hurricane sandy. in the meantime we're live here at reagan national airport where still the passengers are starting to show up but i would say that the staff still outnumbering the passengers here at reagan. i'll send it back to you at the studio. >> all right, jessica, thank you. howard will detail our trick or treat forecast coming up. >> plus, many area police departments deal with sandy's aftermath and some northern virginia detectives are investigating pipe bomb explosions. that story and lots more when we return.

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welcome back. before we head to weather, we want to bring you up to speed on school closings. in maryland garrett and allegheny counties are closed. in virginia schools in manassas park are closed today. loudoun county schools are opening one hour late while schools in culpeper, fauquier, shenandoah anwar reason -- and warren counties are two hours late. >> mineral county is on a two- hour delay. even in the counties opening on time, some individual schools in those districts don't have power and they are closed. you can check for those closings and delays on our website any time you'd like at wusa9.com. it's 5:50. it's halloween. and it is a trick to say happy birthday to our colleague delia goncalves.

it's her birthday. new mommy. >> 23, right? >> 23 is her age. big sister there. mom and dad all enjoying this day. >> giving her a morning to sleep in. >> we know she follows us on facebook and twitter. hi, delia. it's raw. i was on the weather terrace a couple moments ago. it's cool, damp. it just cuts right through you when it's cold like n. i had the gloves on. lightweight ones. i wish i had the heavyweight ones on. glad i'm inside where it's not as cool. >> monika has the jacket on. >> still flood warnings but not as many as we've had. a lot of these are for rivers and creeks that are still running high with all the heavy rainfall we had from sandy. anywhere from 4 to 10 inches locally to a foot. we'll have runoff too from some of the snow melting in west virginia. a lot of that is on the other side of the don't be then -- of

the continental divide. we will have some tides that we'll be dealing with, coastal flooding. still a few warnings in and around the washington area for that area on the tidal potomac that comes up toward alexandria where the next high tide is 10:06. coastal flood advisories so it's not as severe. minor flooding 1 to 2 feet, maybe 2 to 3 here. we're talking high tide in annapolis 6:28. chesapeake beach 5:06 and 3:18 this afternoon at point lookout. here's your bus stop forecast. we have a couple of sprinkles, light showers now, cloudy, chilly. it's damp. 37 to 44. yeah, kind of a rough morning to be outside if you're not bundled up. today we'll see clouds and some showers here and there, at least through mid-morning. then mostly cloudy at noon, 50 degrees. winds will be out of the west, southwest 10 to 15 miles an hour. so a bit after windchill also with a high of 55. and 53 by 5:00. if we stay cloudy all day, 55 is not going to happen.

it does look like for the trick or treaters that it will be dry and cloudy and cool. 52 at 6:00. down to the upper 40s by 8:00. with agent bit of a breeze, that means windchills will be down in the 40s. i know, you'll be bundling the little ones up. yourself too if you're going with them. still have snow falling across parts of pennsylvania. there were areas in garrett county had 29 inches. i've seen 30 plus in areas across the high country of west virginia. locally we've got some light cold showers from hagerstown back to cumberland through winchester and martinsburg. west of town getting a little closer, leesburg, very light sprinkles in d.c. but we're picking up some -- a little bit of darner green -- darker green from manassas to culpeper. we'll have to deal with a few showers this morning. certainly the chill that's out there with upper 30s and low 40s and windchills which are in the upper 30s. winds are fairly light. a quick look outside on our

weather camera, visibility not affected at all by any of the light sprinkles we have going o. your temps today 55 with some luck. some areas stay in the low 50s. a couple of sprinkles this morning. tonight back in the upper 30s and low 40s, mostly cloudy, 55, breezy again tomorrow. friday 52. by saturday not bad. we'll still be in the mid-50s. clocks fall back on sunday morning at 2:00 a.m. it will be mrs. bernstein's 25- hour birthday and sunday we get up to 60. >> and you're going to celebrate all those 25 hours. >> mm-hmm. >> and a special gift. i've got your back, mrs. bernstein, yes, i do. if you're planning to head around town, i'm sorry, i do not have good news for you. there is an accident on the outer loop of the beltway at new hampshire avenue. it's slowing things down not only on the outer loop but here on the southbound side of i-95 as well. let's go to a live look first from our sky 9. here's the backup and there's the accident. it looks like only the left

shoulder is getting by. i was on the phone with police and they tell me -- we lost the so the. let's go to our traffic land camera. if you are planning to head over there, this is what it looks like. authorities tell me it's two cars involved. they are not sure about injuries yet but again they're only letting the left shoulder get by with flares set up as well. i'm sorry about that. let's go to another camera on the beltway at old georgetown road. this side is not affected. i'm have more on that traffic accident coming up at 6:00. back to you guys. >> thank you, monika. investigators are looking for a suspect in three homemade bomb explosions in stafford county, virginia. >> neighbors tell us two of the bombs went off at the current or former homes of sheriff's deputies. all the explosions happened yesterday morning, two in the unincorporated part of the county and one in the city of fredricksburg. fortunately no one was hurt. stafford county detectives say other agencies are assisting with their investigation.

at 5:55, let's look at some more stories in the aftermath of hurricane sandy. the cleanup is under way after power was restored to the little patuxent water reclamation plant in howard county, maryland. the outage caused millions of gallons of sewage to spill out. a health department spokesperson says public drinking water is safe. people in southwest virginia who thought sandy might spare them, very wrong. while virginia did not get the huge snowfall totals of some other places, the gusty winds did create some two-foot high snow drifts. the snow is expected to melt over the next few days. and the cruise ship carnival prize made an unscheduled stop in the chesapeake bay. it left baltimore sunday and was headed to the bahamas but the captain was concerned about the weather and decided to drop anchor. the ship will move on once conditions improve. just because the rain is clearing does not mean our water problems from sandy are over. >> coming up, we'll have live reports on the flooding threat as local rivers swell out of

their banks. we'll be back.

at least 50 deaths, more than 8 million on the east coast without power due to sandy. new york and new jersey will begin their recovery after being slammed by the super storm. homes in new jersey are surrounded by sand and water. >> president barack obama will travel to the storm stricken state today and join governor chris christie in viewing the damage and thanking first responders. good morning. thank you for watching 9news