we have been in the northern panhandle community for a long business. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. now >> now with deliberation, consideration of tweaks to the current draft with the percolation of finalizing maps once and for all. here's the process i would propose. i have tried to capture a couple of items that were noted in the last few meetings as well as during today's public comment. it is a very, relatively speaking, short list. i will ask in a moment there are others who would like to add items. again, i would ask you to offer them in the spirit of new, not revisiting, although, we will not prevent you from raising something that is a revisit, but i would ask you to err on the side of new. we will do those in the context of population-based shifts and changes. second, we go to non-population shifts and changes. finally, we will turn to our consultant for the lines and borders assessment. that will be the final piece of, if you will, the puzzle. any questions? >> i actually wanted to do the lines and tweaks first because i understand it could impact something. >>

we have been in the northern panhandle community for a long president chiu: welcome back to the board of supervisors meeting. i would ask people to take their seats. i think are stenographers are back in action. we appreciate your patience. why don't we go back to public comment on behalf of the appellants? >> good evening, supervisors. my husband and i have been san francisco resident since 1994. the boats operate small businesses in the city. we -- we both operate small businesses in the city. we both realize that change is inevitable. the 8 washington street represents the wrong kind of change. it destroys a vibrant, existing community. there was no initiation fee when i joined the gateway. my husband and i love the fact that be regularly meet new friends at the gateway. gateway is unlike any other kennedy center were i have spent time. -- unlike any other community center where i have spent time. it is a place where i can spend time your children and elderly alike. it is a gem in the crown of san francisco. the washington street project is not a community center. not a space for f

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and the northern panhandle of west virginia and much of the shenandoah valley. a pleasant start this morning. prince georges county, near 70, arlington and fairfax, and mid and ee eer upper 70s, not too h. a beautiful morning under way and we get into the middle of the day. it will get into the low to mid 80s, but not too uncomfortably humid. we'll have a possibility of a an isolated storm mid to late afternoon. south of the metro area and before that, we have to reach the upper 80s to mid 80s by early evening, by dawn tomorrow, in the 60s throughout much of the region, with afternoon highs in the mid and upper 80s woens, partly sunny tomorrow. partly sunny on thursday. small chance of isolated showers, mainly south of the metro area, and then on friday, a greater chance of showers and storms around much of the region, maybe afternoon storms as we get into the weekend. saturday, sunday, monday, highs in the 80s. actually get up to around 90 on monday. and now how is traffic? >>> let's check things out. i-95 in virginia, heading from triangle to the beltway, nice

. >> i also saw that the trade- off between those blocks in the northern panhandle, the trade- off was new because it is a very easy trade off. >> thank you. and nothing other than what has already been raised. >> thank you. >> with the last one you mentioned, the 15th street to extend to valencia -- >> that was mentioned. it was not the last one. the last one we mentioned was -- no, that is correct. we did capture it. ok, thank you. >> i thought that was a repeat. because it is already at the freeway. and we have been dealing with that extension for a long time. >> ok, thank you. >> i had three items, but then i had a recall. i wanted to consider that three- way trade. if there is any interest in that, that was one to revisit. >> it is a revisit. >> understood. >> the second is the ucsf block we heard about today. i did not think that was on the list. >> we just made that move at the last meeting. >> right -- no, we did not. we considered that move and did not reverse it. raising it again? >> if we heard some further public comment on that today. >> it was not a different case, though

. >>> and some of the drought crisis is over in texas, but despite heavy rain, the northern panhandle is still parch. parched. the state system is drying up. karen brown reports for wjz. >> reporter: each in the middle of a corn field. the farmer is never without his blackberry. >> how has that changed your life? >> well, ultimately, what we will be able to do is consult everything with our telephones. >> reporter: in the blistering heat of the drought, he and his neighbors are going high-tech to conserve water. because the massive aquifer that irrigates their field has seen an historic drop in two years of drought. in some areas, as much as 14 feet. >> we're looking pretty good here. >> to help save the aquifer, leon teaches the new high-tech system. underground probes measures soil. >> it will spike up. >> reporter: so he only waters where it's needed. >> right now, we're watering crops like this corn, with half as much water as we're used to. >> reporter: sprinklers are now closer to the ground, so there's less evaporation. we used to spray the water. >> reporter: sensors monitor w

as we widen out here the severe thunderstorm watch, no longer in affect for extreme northern virginia, the panhandle of west virginia and most of maryland knew out of that severe thunderstorm watch. so some good news there things are starting to calm down. not only are they going to calm down as the hot weather brought in those storms but things are going to get beautiful, by tomorrow morning, going to walk outside to a completely different atmosphere. wither going to see low humidity, cooler temperatures, some going to be nice. plenty of sunshine. can that last a little while, doug? my answer is no the heat moves back in, not just the heat but potential record-breaking heat. we could get close to the record in d.c. the record shy 103. right now, i got us going to about 101 with the heat index, about 105 to 110. thursday looking like a very hot day but it is going to be short lived. we have another front to the north that will break that heat as we head to the weekend. this evening, scattered storms, some severe down to the south. but again this threat is diminishing now temperature's 84 to 89. tomo

lot of cloudiness across northern virginia, the district and much of the rest of maryland and still a few sprinkles out in western maryland. the potomac highlands the panhandlef west virginia. right now 83 at reagan national and beginning to hit the low 80s across northern virginia and parts of maryland and under the cloud cover in the shenandoah valley and still getting some of those showers, only in the 70s. cumberland is only at 70 degrees right now. for the rest of the afternoon, a little sunshine breaking up and a slight chance of a shower, will be reaching the mid-80s by midafternoon. a very light, variable wind and back down to near 80 by early this evening. going to the beach this weekend? i'll have your beach forecast. we'll look at your seven-day outlook, as well. >> thank you, tom. >>> d.c. mayor vincent gray is slated for many public events today as he faces calls for his resignation. three council members say the mayor should step down in light of the investigation into his mayoral campaign. pleaded guilty to running $650,000 shadow campaign. last night the mayor acknowledged the probe while accepting a leadership award. he told the crowd he wou

we're getting some lines of some pockets of heavy downpours here from northern west virginia all of the way across the panhandlef west virginia into northern maryland, eastern shore, around the atlantic beaches getting some heavy downpours. a lot of heavy lightning there. right around washington, just light rain in the immediate suburbs and the district, but farther to our south, southern maryland, charles county into prince william county, too, near fredericksburg getting some moderate downpours with some thunder and lightning. low to mid-70s throughout most of the region this morning, near 70 shenandoah valley into the mountains. here's your "day planner." some occasional showers, a little thunder and lightning through noontime, then a smaller chance of that the rest of the afternoon, remaining cloudy and humid, highs upper 80s. i'll be back in ten minutes with another update and a look at your seven-day outlook for the rest of the week. danella's here now with a look at traffic. good morning. >> good morning, and thanks, tom. great news if you're traveling northbound gw parkway. had a downed tree blocking al

holding back some of that heating rays of sun producing showers and thunder and northern shenandoah valley and panhandle that is passing over the next hour or so and no severe weather associated with these. we could get some late this afternoon and early evening that might produce wind damage. between now and then the sun should break out between now and then. eun? parents this year i'm going to teach your kids that magic does exist. it's called science! here's what they'll need. ♪ pencils, folders, notebooks. ♪ ♪ backpacks, denims, graphic tees. ♪ ♪ markers, calculators. whoa! ♪ ♪ converse one start tennies ♪ well, pencils, hair gel, binders. ♪ ♪ pencils, hair gel, binders. announcer: school takes a lot, target has it all. >>> good morning. traveling i-270 still a mess because of the overturned tractor trailer in the median as you make your way northbound at 109, only the right shoulder lane is going to get you by. still seeing delays southbound jammed from 85 all the way past 109 as you make your way to clarksburg road. the camera is blurred here at 50 but slow over to the beltway. eu >>> 8:00 now on

panhandle of west virginia, much of northern and western maryland and out into west virginia, it's inhe upper 70s now and here is what has been happening over the last several hours. we've had a front that's been stalled out here to our south and this front is gradually sort of creeping a bit north, but it does look like it is going to be dissipating by saturday. as a result, that will allow the humidity to begin to move back in, but, right now, it's the barrier between us and extreme humidity. we do have a lot of sunshine just to our north. just a few streaks of high clouds passing over us now and we will have these clouds in and out across the metro area all into the afternoon, getting a few sprinkles at the atlantic beaches and as we go forward over the next several hours, just a few clouds in and out during the afternoon. wherever you see any color breaking out, that's where we have a chance for some showers and we stay dry here, all the way through the day, much of the day on friday. this is by friday around mid-afternoon to late afternoon. still just a lot of cloudiness coming i

panhandle of west virginia. east of there, much of northern virginia in the low 70s as is sporn maryland right near the bay, though, mid and upper 70s. montgomery, arlington, fairfax, prince george's counties in the low 70s most locations. and then later today, we will climb to the mid 90s mid afternoon. few clouds popping up. slight chance of an isolated thunder shower. overnight tonight back down to the 70s after midnight, near 70 by dawn tomorrow. a pleasant start tomorrow morning. during the day on tuesday, should be mostly sunny, hot up near 100 and, again, near 100 degrees on wednesday. and more humid though and likely some afternoon and evening storms. some could be severe on wednesday. as we get into thursday, friday. both of those days, chance of showers and thunderstorms. but a bit cooler. then lower humidity and cooler, just in time for the weekend. danella, good morning. how's traffic? >> good morning. checking travel speeds in our area. traveling on the dulles toll way eastbound and westbound. moving right along on hunter mill and. the dulles toll road all of the way to the interchange, both direction

right now light showers through the panhandle of west virginia, maryland, and back into the new market area. a couple of storms down toward the northernk, and that is about it. that may go into southern maryland but for the most part we're done. that said we could see some fog develop later on tonight. look at the storms back into west virginia. most of the activity sunk to the south and to the east after the first wave went through, and that's kind of what saved us. in terms of temperatures, here's our break. 78 in rockville, 79 in leesburg. wake-up weather not bad. temperatures in the 70s but dry. 72 to 80 by 7:00. 74 to 82 by 9:00, still dry. we'll come because and talk about when the storms return. it's going to be earlier than you might expect. >> i'm not a racist and i'm not a murderer. >> when you think back and -- >> george zimmerman gives his first television interview since being charged with murdering trayvon martin in february. it was an exclusive on the fox news channel that ended an hour ago. gary nurenberg monitored that and is here with highlights. >> reporter: zimmerman said he was sorry but also said, given the same

panhandle of west virginia. then as they advanced east across northern maryland over towards the northern part of the bay, they dissipatedt brought us some clouds and that was good because that did hold back the heating rays of sun but now we're getting the sunshine breaking out. the temperatures, as a result, are climbing quickly. now, 88 at reagan national. probably going to climb another ten degrees into the upper 90s locally and near 90 through central virginia and southern maryland and those locations will get to near 100 by mid-afternoon. feel like 105 or higher with the humidity. then there is a small chance of some isolated strong storms perhaps late this afternoon and perhaps into early evening. and then tomorrow, hot, humid, again. highs mid-90s and more clouds around tomorrow and probably more storms perhaps during the afternoon and early evening. some of those tomorrow could be severe, as el. over the weekend, partly sunny saturday and highs mid-90s and might get afternoon storms and lower humidity and pleasant weather for late july, early august. first part of next week have a cool afternoon, if you don't ha

brown is investigating the impact starting in northern texas she discovered one happy crop that's thriving in the heat. >> reporter: here in the texas panhandle cliff bingham is turning dust into gold. >> does redding. >> reporter: the drought sucked the life out of most crops but the bingham family farm is a bright spot. how good is your crop this year? >> fantastic this year. we've got the quality and the quantity. >> reporter: bingham is growing grapes. they can tolerate droughts and in fact the heat makes them sweeter. they're so profitable, bingham uses most of his water for his vineyards leaving the cotton crop to survive on rain. so you can make ten times more off of these grapes than your cotton with the same amount of water. >> correct. >> reporter: in fact farmers doubt they'll make any profit on cotton this year. >> it is -- in a word finished. >> reporter: on jason coleman's farm the plants are small and the flowers on top a bad sign. >> they've waved the white flag of surrender, they're done and it's finished. >> reporter: analysts say texas farmers will likely abandon a third of the cotton crop because of drought damage. for mos

showing some light rain generally across northern virginia, but these are heavier downpours we're getting in frederick county, virginia, and into the panhandle of west virginia and those areas in orange and yellow pass well north of the metro area. closer to washington, getting a few sprinkles and starting to show up here in the district. these areas in green sprinkles of light rain and fairfax county and farther south along and getting some other light showers now and st. mary's and these are advancing to the north and east. this is the zone, too, in yellow that could get stronger storms that might produce some wind damage south and east of the metro area, including southern maryland and eastern shore and northern neck and much of virginia. that would be later today, but then generally around 3:00 p.m. to around 8:00 p.m. that might happen. much of the region, the main problem is going to be flooding from heavy downpours. that's not going to occur until perhaps late afternoon into this evening. flash flood watch up and all these counties in green, including just all of northern virginia and the district and all of maryland and eastern and w

northern maryland. it will drop into western maryland and west virginia. those should continue to fall apart as they move south into the potomac highlands. there's a look at the rain breaking up into the panhandle it emmett's bertrand thurmont, there's been rain off and on. one downpour moving into hagerstown at this time. beneficial rain, actually, early this morning. 74 in arlington, 74 la plata, 72 in strasbourg, virginia. there's a heat advisory in effect today starting at noon until 9:00 p.m. for the metro area, and down the 95 corridor. it will feel like 100 degrees to 105. 91 degrees by noon. 97 will be are higher temperature -- our high temperature. when it rains, the air will cooldown briefly. we will have scattered storms popping throughout the day as early as 11:00 a.m. all the way through about sunset. there's a slight chance one or two storms could last through the fireworks time. a very slight chance. maybe not all the storms will be over by then. warm and humid for the fireworks upper 80s. we are in the reach of 100 today all the way through saturday. cooling down by monday, upper 80s. steve, the commute. >> troubles on the b-w parkway. the road is blocked both ways. we started w

panhandle getting drenched right now. there is good news for you early this morning as we grab the umbrellas as we head out the door. virginia, north carolina northern parts of south carolina damaging wind gus will be the main concern here. it will be an isolated threat. not expecting major outbreaks. >> thank you very much maria. appreciate it. > >>>>> angelina jolie rocking her $500,000 re -- engagement ring. the first time she showesince a. amazing spider-man comes out swinging at the box office. took in $65 million this weekend making it the number one film in america. in second place was ted with 32.6 million. following in third was brave with $20.2 million. >>> see a close-up of angelina's ring. >>> now for your starting lineup along with the sports stories making headlines at this hour roger federer making history at wimbledon. (cheers) >>> federer winning a record tieing 7th wimbledon title beating andy murray. cheering him on in the front row were cape and pippa middleton. fox sports learning exclusive the tigers justin verlander will be the pitcher in the all star game. we don't know yet who will start for the national league. brian kilmea