i'm andrea roane. >> i'm matt jablow in this morning for mike hydeck. monika will be back in a minute with timesaver traffic. first, howard joins us with weather first. >> it's not the prettiest morning by any stretch. it's cool, damp. we have a few showers. temperatures running in the 30s to low 40s. as the day goes on mostly cloudy and probably get to 55 with a little optimism. here's your day planner. i want you to know when you get dressed this morning you'll need a heavy jacket and probably some gloves and something to keep you dry. looks like the showers will be around for a few hours, maybe mid-morning on and off. there are a lot of leaves down from sandy so roads might even be a little slicker than just normal wet roads. at 5:00 after hitting 55, we'll be about 53 degrees. so low 50s as we start the trick-or-treating with a little bit of a breeze, too. snow still falling across parts of pennsylvania and west virginia. we've had 3-foot snow levels in -- snow totals in the high country of west virginia.

showers this morning coming out of east and west virginia right in toward hagerstown. a few sprinkles in northwest but lighter showers coming out of fauquier now into prince william county headed toward fairfax as well. those temps, yeah, they're not nice. in fact, it's kind of chilly outside with temperatures running in the 30s here. you might see a stray snow flake in a couple of spots th 43. it's cold in the studio too. 41 andrews and 41 in eastton. let's go to monika samtani who is in a playful mood this wednesday morning. >> there was snow in the stud. did you see that? there's still some on your shoulder, howard. on the beltway outer loop of the beltway, not good news for you. i was just on the phone with police and they're telling me it's three vehicles involved in this accident on the outer loop of the beltway at new hampshire avenue. i'm going to step out and show you what it looks like live from our sky 9. again only the left side of the roadway is getting by. look at backup already at

6:00:01 in the -- at 6:01 in the morning. this accident was a tractor- trailer and to cars and it's going to be just a while. let's go to our other camera. there we go. it's going to be a while before they can clean that up. flares were set up as well. expect delays not only on the outer loop coming around from college park but southbound on 95 as well. here in virginia 95 is incident free. you have the initial delays as you head into woodbridge and then again in springfield as you can see from route 644 trying to get up to the beltway or beyond on to 395. that actually still looks pretty good leaving landmark to the 14th street bridge. let's go back to our graphics. metro normal service amtrak of course is going to be a modified service basically from newark to points south and also marc is on a normal schedule today except for the speed restrictions so expect some delays because of the signal issues and maybe some flooding problems as women. i'll be back with -- as well. i'll be back with an update at 6:11. emergency officials have their eyes on the potomac right

now. even though we didn't get the flooding that was expected, a threat still remains. >> ko im is live in alexandria with the conditns there. good morning, ko. >> reporter: good morning, matt and andrea. old town is located on the west bank of the potomac. it is expected to flood tonight. maybe even crest a couple feet above water. dr alexandria was able to escape major flooding issues. we did see some minor flooding monday and we saw how high the water can get yesterday morning around high tide. if you haven't prepared already, we want to show you this is an example to follow. this clothing store in downtown old town alexandria has put up some plastic right in front of the door. this is the way to do it. stack these sandbags so that if you can, they're staggered. there's no gaps in between. of course lay them flood so that they don't fall over.

so this is pretty sturdy and hopefully the store won't see any water dampen some of the clothes inside. as far as history, we could see the potomac here rise to the highest water levels since 1996. it could go down in the books as one of the top five water level events. as far as alexandria, while it is used to flooding, they are preparing for the worst. every flood condition is different and flooding is pretty common in this area but joggers this morning if they come back later, they won't probably be able to stand in this area on king and south union streets. we'll monitor these conditions as officia are this morning and through friday afternoon. for now we'll send it back to you. >> all right, ko im reporting live from alexandria, virginia. flooding also remains a concern on the monocacy river after the storm. check these pictures out. two men actually had to be rescued from the river when

their inflatable raft overturned. kristin fisher is in frederick, maryland to show how things are looking there. good morning, kristin. >> reporter: yeah, it was really ugly yesterday, but it is getting better now. what we're talking about, this is the monocacy river. it is the river that runs underneath i-70 up through the national battlefield. and then up to here where i am now, the pine cliff park. as you can see, it's completely flooded out. this is the main drag into the park and pashing lot, all the picnic tables, camps spots, they're all back there. no way you can get anywhere close to them. here i am just a little bit into the flooding. it's maybe about a foot deep. but right here that's a full size street sign almost completely under water. there's a stop sign way back there and you can only see the very tip of it. it gets very deep very fast which is just one reason why this is still so dangerous. it is coming down.

let me show you how much. this is about i'd say maybe 20 feet. it's been coming down throughout the morning. but at its peak when we first got here, it was about 22 feet right here. that is let's see -- that is 17 feet above the flood stage. so significant flooding of the monocacy river. but it's going down. you can see the water line receding. it's going to continue to go down throughout the day. we're expecting to see this river dip below the flood stage sometime later this afternoon. so great news there and i've been trying to put all these numbers in perspective for you guys throughout the morning because i know feet, flood stages gets confusing. 21 feet, 35 feet way back in the '70s. it could get a lot worse. we're not seeing that here but we are still seeing some damage. you see this current ripping through here? it was a lot stronger during the peak of sandy of course but it's still coming through at a pretty good clip. and right over here, pitch

black. you're not going to see anything but we've been listening to trees fall. the water still taking down some trees this morning. so while it is going down, it's not quite as strong as it was, it's still very strong, still very dangerous. no way i'm wading very far into that. you can get swept away even though the photographer has been very kind and said he would dive in to save me. it's incredibly dangerous for drivers and i'll leave it at this sign which says it all. park flooded. turn around. don't drive. >> thanks very much and thanks to joe martin. the carnival pride is sitting in the chesapeake bay. the cruise ship left baltimore on sunday. it was headed to the bahamas but the captain was concerned about the weather and decided to drop anchor. the ship will move once conditions improve. we want to give you the latest power outage numbers.

they are improving. pepco has 505 outages. dominion power still has more than 20,000 outages across northern virginia. bge has 31,000 outages south of baltimore. most are in anne arundel county. potomac edison has more than 35,000 outages in maryland and more than 9 #,000 out -- 98,000 outages across west virginia. smeco has 24 outages in st. mary's county and novec has more than 3,000 outages. an important update. schools are closed in maryland. schools in manassas park are closed. while most school systems will be back open, some are closed due to power outages. in prince george's county, excel academy public charter is closed. in d.c. jefferson academy is closed. in fairfax county, langley and holmes high schools are closed as well as sleepy hallow and -- sleepy hole leand springfield el-- hollow and springfield

elementary. let's head out to jessica doyle who is live at reagan national to let us know how the airports are doing. good morning once again, jessica. >> reporter: good morning to you and good morning to everybody at home. things are starting to get back to normal here at reagan national airport. they started having some planes coming in last night to fill up the tarmac a little bit. i wish i could show you from this location but we've got an empty tarmac over there. we've got lots and lots of slots that are left empty. let me show you the scene behind me. we're starting to get some passengers here. the first flights are scheduled to go out just about 6:00 a.m. i've been watching the tarmac, the runway to see if any flights have taken off yet. in the meantime there's still lots of cancellations as well on the board behind me. cancellations to places of course like laguardia airport which had such bad flooding in the new york area. and places like newark still showing canceled even though operations are set to resume at newark and j.f.k.

at about 7:00 a.m. later this morning. in total they're thinking about 19,000 flights have been canceled across america since sunday because of of course hurricane sandy. they're starting to tally up the economic toll of this storm. it could reach as high as $50 billion according to ihs global which is an economic forecasting firm. if you look inside those numbers, $20 billion in commercial losses, things like trees coming down on houses and of course we've seen the massive damage in new york city and at the jersey shore. those types of losses as well as the economic impact of shutdowns like 19,000 flights across the country. and that potential impact that could go on for days and days and days. so we've been telling folks all morning before you come to the airport, just because you see us here, just because you see travelers here, do not assume that your flight as scheduled should go out today. you're definitely going to want to check with the airlines. check the mobile devices.

make sure those flights really are scheduled today because as of now, still dozens and dozens of cancellations on the board. reporting live at reagan national airport, i'm jessica doyle. i'm going to send it back to you in the studio. >> jessica, thank you. >> a lot of people want to know when they see the disaster how they can help. here's a quick and easy way you to help the hurricane victims. just like wusa9 on facebook. for every one of you who will, we'll donate a dollar to the american red cross sandy relief fund. stay with 9news. we'll be right back.

gldz howard here with your weather first. temperatures in the upper 30s and low 40s. might see a passing shower or sprinkle. partly to mostly cloudy skies today. upper 40s to around 50 by lunch time with highs today in the mid-50s. you'll definitely need the jackets. i'll be back in a few minutes with the rest of the seven-day forecast. work continues on a three- vehicle accident on the outer loop of the beltway right at new hampshire avenue. it's already causing major delays as you can see. only the left shoulder has been getting by for a while with flares set up and police on the scene. i'll have more on this coming up in my next report. back to you guys. >> monika, thank you very much. laurel, maryland is one of the areas spared the worst of the storm but there were still

homes crushed by fallen trees and overflowing sewage issues. nick checked in on one family of six who weathered the storm at home. >> reporter: over the next few days we'll be dealing with floods rkt power outages and lots and lots of cleanup. the silver lining is not all of us have four kids stuck in a house with next to nothing to do. >> it's real nerve-racking. the kids are not behaving n. is their only heat source. i left most of the night by myself on the bed couch. melissa slept on the couch. the kids slept on the floor with their brothers. they're getting on the nerves now. >> reporter: fortunately water stopped pouring into the basement early this morning. that's about the only good news they have. >> the hot pad ran out sometime this morning around 9:00. >> reporter: what's your favorite book to read? >> he says the power should be back on by now, dad. >> reporter: which one is this? >> i don't know how to read.

>> reporter: 15-year-old casey has found tranquility in transformers. the dvd player is the only thing without a dead battery leaving only what kids know best. tormenting each other are tormenting the fish are or tormenting the cameraman. >> stop. >> reporter: so on this second day of sandy, all we can offer is good luck. i'll be in my hotel room. in laurel, 9news. >> the new honey boo-boo. i love it. it's 6:16. thank you for watching and a special thank you to rita hurley and joyce kilgore. some of them have been without of power and they were watching us streaming live on our m.wusa9.com and they appreciate all the hard work we've done

and we thank you for doing that and sending us the little note. >> we're glad we're able to provide this on so many different platforms. we knew the power was going to go out and staying connected with our viewers is important for you and for us. weather wise we've got a cool, raw morning out there. want to start off with some of the river flooding. a lot of the water has been receding. we've been watching kristin fisher this morning up on the monocacy in frederick. that did crest a few hours ago. possibly getting below flood stage this evening. but it's going to be a slow drop in the waters here this morning. as we go through the day, we'll also worry about point of rocks on the potomac. that's forecast to crest at 8:00 tonight. 5 feet or so above flood stage. that's moderate flooding in that part of the world. then the potomac river is going to be cresting here at the wisconsin avenue gauge again this evening about 2 feet above flood stage. that's moderate flooding. if you're wondering about the coastal areas, we have flood warnings still for areas in the

lower eastern shore. flood advisories in the darker green and in and around the d.c. area for the tidal potomac, we're worried about some tides which could be 2 to 3 feet above normal. yet again in the green areas, that will be 1 to 2 feet above. the next high tide 10:06. chesapeake beach that was about an hour or so ago. they'll have another one as we head into the evening hours. at the bus stop, bundle up. gloves too. raw outside. some light sprinkles and showers out there. it's damp, cloudy, chilly, upper 30s to low 40s. today we'll see a couple of showers around this morning. i think we're going to be mostly cloudy if not overcast at noon. southwest winds 10 to 15. windchills a bit after factor too we get to 55 about 3:00 and by 5:00 we're back down to 53 degrees. then the trick or treaters are going out tonight. we've got some news for them. temperatures look like they will be on the cooler goalish

side -- ghoulish side. it is going to be a brisk night. a couple of showers are still out there. ones north and east in east and west virginia approaching frederick and leesburg this morning headed toward the district over the next one to two hours. looking at the forecast, temperatures today about 55. again a shower or two, especially this morning. tonight upper 30s and low 40s. another breezy, cool day on thursday with mostly cloudy skies, 55. but better friday, 52. at least more sunshine. by saturday 55. clocks back saturday night. could be a late shower sunday or early shower monday. temperatures are mainly in the 50s. here comes monika now at 6:19 with timesaver traffic. you know, i just cannot believe how quickly delays form on the beltway, especially on a normal rush hour day. we're not used to that the last couple of days. we had other issues. this morning it's an accident on the outer loop of the beltway right here at new hampshire avenue. it was three vehicles involved. a tractor-trailer and two cars.

i'm going to step out and show what you it looks like live from our sky 9. this delay begins before route 1 in college park. it extends all the way to new hampshire avenue where only the left side of the roadway has been getting by. you see that ramp there, that's southbound 95 as well. delays begin at 2:12 all the way down to the outer loop trying to merge on to that area. since you're still at home watching this you want to plan early. do not go on the beltway because this is what you're going to have to deal with. if you're getting on at new hampshire avenue, i believe you should be okay and beyond that in silver spring, traffic is moving really, really well. but look at that. traffic squeezing by the accident scene there at the bottom of your screen. you can see it. only one lane getting through. three vehicles involved. it's been there now for about i'd say half an hour or so. i'll keep you poabsed on that let's -- posted on that. let's go over to another live picture. this is 270. this is normal from route 109 to 121. in virginia hov restrictions are in effect and metro is

running on a normal schedule. i'll be back with more traffic coming up at 6:25. we'll be back with more news and weather as well. you're watching 9news now. we'll be right back.

welcome back. 6:24. still dealing with the remnants of sandy spinning over pennsylvania. for us it means light showers and unseasonably cool weather. in the mountains there's still snow falling. even into areas of southwestern pa, we have snow falling there. the mountains are still getting pounded. they could get another six inches or more in the higher elevations. locally we're looking at some showers into frederick county coming out of western maryland. more stuff, though, as you get back toward hagerstown in toward martinsburg there, berkley springs. to our south and west, there are a couple of sprinkles in

fairfax county that are coming out of prince william and fauquier. we're going to watch those sprinkles and light showers for a few more hours. the temps this morning in the upper 30s to low 40s. it's 43 in dng. 39 in -- in d.c. 39 in gaithersburg, 41 in manassas with windchills in the mid-30s. our day planner, we'll have sprinkles around this morning. by midday mostly cloudy and not a lot of sun today. expect high temperatures near 55 and a 5:00 p.m. temperature 53. upper 40s to low 50s for the trick owe treaters. we'll be -- trick or treaters. we'll be back with 9 news now right after this.

we are back at 6:29. this is always the place to get your weather first. we have a live look at the u.s. capitol dome, the people's house there. and it is 43 degrees. you will need the medium weight gloves says howard, maybe an umbrella. some light showers out there this morning. thank you for starting your wednesday with us. i'm andrea roane. i'm matt jablow in for mike hydeck this morning. meteorologist howard bernstein is live on the weather terrace with a look at the forecast. howard? i don't know if this is the joker or dracula with me this halloween morning. sprinkles, maybe one or two here in town. we'll need the umbrellas for a little while and the gloves too. the dampness will current through you. thanks, count. we have temperatures running in the 30s and low 40s right now with some showers here and there, light ones. by noon 50 degrees.

by 5:00 53. with some luck we get to 55. it is a very -- it's just raw out here this morning. snow in the mountains of pennsylvania, western maryland and west virginia piling up. some areas have had close to 3 feet. these are the light showers i'm talking about up into frederick county now, coming out of eastern west virginia towards hagerstown and martinsburg out of the cumberland area. also south and west through fairfax city, warrenton, we have light showers that will keep the streets damp. a lot of leaves came down so watch out for that. your temps this morning are running in the upper 30s to low 40s with a little bid after wind chill. ail go inside and warm up. here's monika with timesaver traffic. big troubles out there this morning. >> there are. just keep that guy away from me, okay, howard? i can't even pick out what he is. on the outer loop of the beltway, three-car accident. in fact, there was one tractor- trailer and two cars involved on the outer loop trying to get over to new hampshire avenue. the delays begin before route 1

in college park and southbound on 95, look at that. it's from 212 trying to get to the outer loop. let's take a live look from our sky 9. that's what we're dealing with so early in the morning. it's been about 45 minutes since the accident happened. only the left showld continues to get by -- shoulder continues to get by. police are working on it trying to clear it up. again, this is the height of rush hour. this is what happens when you have an accident like that on the beltway north of town. i'll be back with more details coming up in my next report. back to you guys. >> what a mess. the east coast is rebuilding this morning after sandy unleashed her wract. >> gail king -- her wrath. >> gayle king is in new york. she and the rest of the crew will be looking at soondzy's latest on -- sandy's latest on cbs this morning. hi, gayle. >> hi, matt and andrea. sandy has left behind a lot of problems. neighborhoods swallowed up by sand. heavy snow piling up in the mountains. we'll show you the most

compelling images from the areas hardist hit by sandy. we'll take you inside united central to see how the airlines are working to get the flights on track. 20 fragile newborns are among hundreds of patients evacuated from a crippled hospital. we check in on the babies in need of special care. look at that baby's face. those stories and more when we see you at 7:00. >> thank you, gayle. we'll be watching. the potomac river is expected to experience its worst flooding in 16 years because of hurricane sandy. >> ko im is live in alexandria, virginia with the very latest there. good morning, ko. >> reporter: good morning, matt and andrea, monika, by the way, i think it's the joker running around the newsroom. we don't see anyone in halloween costumes in old town right now. it's pretty quiet. no rain coming down but later you may need the rain boots if you're walking around because we could see flooding conditions. high tide here expected in a

few hours at 10:00. there are already signs like this one put up telling people to stay away. the roads are closed here along king street and south union streets. i was able to, though, walk down to the potomac just a little while ago. it hasn't really come over to the street yet, but businesses have prepared. a thai restaurant down here put up a metal grate of sorts. we know the parking lot back there on strand street is closed. we also heard, though, that one business may be open this morning, a bakery to my left. we saw some people waiting in line for some coffee this morning. we don't know how long they will stay open. we know the starbucks right next to us did not open today like they were yesterday. we are seeing some joggers here also but they won't probably be able to get here later. we could see the highest water levels on the potomac in the last 16 years. so officials here are taking this very seriously.

again high tide comes in at 10:00 and we could see water levels higher than yesterday at high tide. officials here are certainly prepared for that. the mayor ordering do not enter signs going up all the way a block up to lee street. and we're going to keep an eye on the water marker to our right and make sure that nobody is around here when the water does come up because just six inches of moving water could sweep you off your feet and you also don't want to be near contaminated water and gets sick. so stay -- and get sick. stay warm and stay dry. back to you in the studio. >> thank you ko in alexandria. we thought we heard the sound of an airliner going across which is the path to national airport. >> never thought i would be so happy. >> exactly. i know the people inside are going to be very chilled if that's landing -- thrilled if that's landing at national. concern also at the monocacy river. >> kristin fisher and her

fantastic photographer have been live all morning with incredible pictures and very good information. good morning once again, kristin. >> reporter: good morning. it's bad but getting better. let me show you this from the national oceanic atmosphere administration. this is a geographer showing the flooding on the monocacy river. this is where it was at 6:00 a.m. on monday. look how much it spiked. 21 feet cresting at about 22 feet late last night and now you can see it's starting to come down. and i'm going to hand this off to my photographer joe martin. thank you very much. just to kind of put that graph into pictures for you, right here is about 22 feet. this is where it was when we got here right around 4:00 this morning. now you can see it is starting to recede. it's gone down several feet. my best guess it's down to

about 20 feet but we have 5 feet to go before we're down to below flood stage at 15 feet. it's pretty shallow right here. when you first walk in it's not too bad but look at how much deeper it gets just a little ways back. that is a full size street sign, folks. when we got here, it was obviously a lot higher. it's just crazy to think how much higher it gets just a little farther out that you go, especially when you start to get into these currents. these currents are a lot weaker than they were yesterday during the aftermath and we were still feeling the high winds from hurricane sandy. i want to show you some pictures of what it was like a few miles up farther north on the monocacy river. two men were on a raft. it overturned. they couldn't swim. the current was too strong. they were grasping on to trees, had to be rescued. they were rescued by the sheriff's department, fire department. they're doing okay but it goes to show you how dangerous these waters can be. even though it's not ripping as

much as it was when those pictures were taken and those two men were rescued, it is still coming through at a very good clip. we've been listening to trees falling throughout the morning. it's still very dark. we can't really see the extent of the damage here. for folks who know this area, this is the main entryway into pine cliff park. this is the monocacy river flowing through it. farther down is the national cemetery. then it flows underneath i-70. so you can't even get to this park right now. all the parking lots, everything completely flooded out. what i really want to make clear to folks this morning is that even though the worst is over and this water is indeed going down, it is still really dangerous. there are no lights out here whatsoever. when we're coming down here, this sign was kind of off to the side of the road. we couldn't really see it all too well. if we had not been looking closely for this water, it could have been very easy to just drive right into it.

again as i said, you go just a tiny ways in, you get literally where that current is right there, you can easily be swept away. good news, it's getting better. this is by far the worst it's going to get. it's going to keep going down but still a big danger and even though we're seeing 22 feet up here, 20 feet down here, to put it all -- the big picture for you, guys, the worst it's ever been here was 35 feet back in the 1970's. so we've got some concerns but it could be a whole lot worse. back to you. >> thanks very much. check out this new snow video we just got from garrett county, maryland. the remnants of hurricane sandy collided with a cold front and this was the result. more than 2 feet fell in parts of garrett county. the snow will continue apparently into the morning. the national guard was there to help with any emergency transports. unbelievable. superstorm sandy may even impact next week's election. >> people rushed to maryland's

early voting centers last week ahead of the storm. today early voting will resiewp in maryland and -- resume in maryland and the district of columbia along with in person absentee voting in virginia. governor o'malley has also extended the deadline for absentee ballot applications. it's 11:59 p.m. for applications received by fax or e-mail. 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. >> the governor also announced state resources will help out to get early voting running again in garrett county where sandy dumped more than 2 feet of snow in some spots. we just showed you the pretty pictures. here are the latest power outage numbers.

pepco has 501 outages. dominion power has more than 20,000 outages across northern virginia. bge more than 31,000 outages south of baltimore mostly in anne arundel county. potomac edison more than 35,000 outages in maryland and more than 98,000 across west virginia. smeco24 all in st. mary's county and novec more than 2700. in maryland allegheny and garrett county, schools are closed. and in virginia schools in manassas park are closed today as well. while most school systems will be back open today, some schools are closed due to power outages. in prince george's county excel academy public charter is closed. in d.c. everierson academy is closed. in fairfax county langley and holmes high schools are closed as well as sleepy hollow and spring hill elmintry. for the rest of the -- elementary. for the rest of the closings and delays, log on to our website wusa9.com or just watch the crawl at the bottom of your

screen. you know the treacherous conditions in new york city and the flooding around closed-in jersey kept wall street closed for two days. plus airport traffic was closed for two days due to sandy. >> it's getting better slowly. let's go to jessica doyle who's been live all morning long at reagan national to hit us know how the airports are doing. good morning once again, jessica. >> reporter: good morning to you and to everybody at hope. you just mentioned with ko the sound of an airplane overhead. that's right you probably did because flights are taking off. i want you to take a look at the tarmac here at reagan national. it's empty. right here in this main section, that's not because planes are taking off. that's because they haven't gotten them back here yet from hurricane sandy. on sunday all the major air carriers took their planes away from this location to keep them safe knowing the 60 mile per hour winds were coming to reagan national. i just checked the board.

still 38 cancellations on this board just from this morning. laguardia not probably opening any time soon. the eastern seaboard looking at the tristate area, the flooding there was horrendous. we're hearing about 7:00 a.m. this morning we're going to see you in walk airport and j.f.k. reopening but laguardia could be several days before they're able to get to that tarmac, inspect it, make sure it's flight worthy for the carriers to come back after the massive flooding. you mentioned wall street. wall street is back to business today. investors are going to be taking a look at the economic toll of hurricane sandy. ihs global forecasting official is expecting losses to reach $50 billion across america because of the economic impact of hurricane sandy. let's take a look at the numbers. the dow jones industrial average on friday was up about three and a half points. the nasdaq was up about two and the nasdaq was actually down one point. it's been closed for two

consecutive days. this is unprecedented in modern history for storm-related events. you have to go back to the blizzard of 1888 to find a situation equivalent to what new york has been through the last couple days. but wall street is reopening later today and a lot of people are going to be happy to be getting back to business after the impact of hurricane sandy. reporting live at reagan national airport, i'm jessica doyle. back you to guys in the studio. >> people heading to the airport might want to take a jacket and some umbrella, rain gear because we'll have a few peeks of sown and a few showers- - >> of sun and a few showers. >> monika and howard back with your traffic and weather next.

good morning. welcome back to 9news now. it is 6:47. we're almost to the weekend. trick or treat tonight, halloween. >> going to be chilly. >> chilly but no rain.

>> no rain. a little rain this morning, a couple of sprinkles. it's humid and damp so you'll feel the cold. i don't know what i put on there so just go to graph ins. i don't remember. there -- graphics. there we go. >> we're frozen in here. your brain cells are frozen. >> we have flood warnings in effect. these are for some of the area streams, creeks and rivers. there's still some high water out there. heard from bill in smithsburg, maryland. maryland. if you're wondering why the monocacy and potomac is running high, nearly a foot of rain. i want to talk about smithsburg up here. we also have coastal flooding due to the winds which came back if the south and all the water pushed toward the coast when sandy was approaching. we'll look at tides 1 to 3 feet above normal. 1 to 2 in the advisories. 2 for 3 in the warning areas. the warning areas are the lighter colors. that does include old town alexandria where the next high

tide 10:06 could be three feet governor -- feet above norm a.m. bus stop forecast, it is a chilly, raw morning with a few light sprinkles, stray showers. upper 30s to low 40s. i think a winter coat, medium weight gloves. it's not pretty outside. not the greatest day but we should dry out a little bit. mostly cloudy, 50 at noon. high of 55 with a little luck. 54 at 3:00. by 6:00 p.m. for the trick or treaters, looks like we're going to start out with temps in the low 50s. a little bit breezy, too. when i show you the numbers, prepare for 52. pep for 42. we have the breeze and temperatures dropping into the upper 40s by 8:00 p.m. and a little humidity in the air, you're going to feel t. you'rele going to feel the snow in the mountains and rain showers by us. we had snow totals. you saw the video from garrett county 2 feet plus.

your we're looking at hagerstown to martinsburg with the light showers toward frederick and lighter showers approaching d.c. at this hour from fairfax county and also coming out of the manassas area. that will keep the streets a little wet and a lot of leaves came down from the storm. so complete keep that in mind. probably more slick than normal on a wet morning. 55 degrees and breezy with a couple of showers this morning. watch out for the high water that's still out there. upper 30s, low 40s tonight. mostly cloudy, breezy again tomorrow, 55. by friday a little bit more sun but a little more chill, 52. the weekend not too bad. 55 saturday. saturday night we turn the clocks back. goodbye daylight saving time. hello standard type. sunday could be a late shower, around 60. let's go to monika samtani, 10 to 7:00, with timesaver traffic. good morning, everybody. it's a long-standing accident, three vehicles involved on the outer loop at new hampshire avenue. i'm going to step out and show you the delay. first of all from our sky 9. this is a close-up of the

accident. you can see that one lane still only is getting by. it's been at least an hour since that has been the case on the outer loop of the beltway. this is our shot if our traffic land camera. hard to see through the trees but believe me the delays are bad. let's go to our chart camera now. if you're planning to head through college park, that's your delay beginning before route 1 all the way around past new hampshire avenue. solid, solid backup. barely moving trying to get through. and southbound 95 by the way is affected up at 100. yup, the icc. that's over 2 miles on the southbound tied of 95 as well trying to merge on to the outer loop of the beltway. if we do have that sky 9 shot back, let me know if they're showing the delays and we'll show that again. on the northbound side of 95 -- there's a close-up of the accident. you can see that's why it's taking so long to clear it up. heavily damaged vehicle. police on the scene. they need to fix -- do their investigation, do their paperwork, clean it up and then open the lanes.

in the meantime they've got the cones set up and only allowing one lane getting through right now. that's why we've got such a big backup on the beltway. so avoid it if you can. please choose your alternate routes early and before you head out the door. let's also go to 395 northbound. just want to let you know this is normal here at the 14th street bridge. 95 is normal as well as you come up from dale city off and on to springfield. hov restrictions are in effect. i'll be back with more news on this accident and we'll have weather and news as well coming up at 6:58. you're watching 9news now. we'll be right back.

some news before you go. at 6:55, as flood waters some smaller rivers and tributaries to our north and west like the

monocacy begin to recede, we'll begin seeing a swell in the potomac. it's expected to experience its worst flooding in 16 years. we'll have our eye on this story now and update you as warranted. some airlines are beginning to resume service at the major airports serving washington and bad more after super-- baltimore after superstorm sandy. wall street is also set to reopen. the time is 6:56. >> one more check of weather and traffic when we come back.

squishiness. a live look at major delays past an accident on the outer loop of new hampshire avenue affecting the beltway and i-95. >> definitely not a treat. a big treat out there. have a great day. we'll see you again tomorrow at 4:25. happy halloween, everybody.