scattered about in toward loudoun county. you see in manassas. there's the stuff on 395 i'm talking about, also toward the pentagon looking at a couple of showers. then a lot more here. south and east of cambridge. a little lightning and thunder could be coming your way with heavier downpours toward calvert and st. mary's right now moving toward charles county and virginia in another half-hour to an hour. temps haven't moved much since yesterday. low to mid-50s shenandoah valley. 59 fredericksburg. there's the 64 in cambridge. some slightly warmer air to the south and east but we're sitting at 61 in d.c. at this hour. with decent visibility on our michael & son weather camera, at reagan national just cloudy sky. no drizzle no fog. that's why we've got decent visibility at the moment. still with the north wind that's bringing in the cool, damp air off the ocean and the dew points are in the upper 50s. as we said not much has changed from yesterday. the storm out west has moved a little bit. look at the line of storms in the plains this morning. ni

a proposed traffic circle on the fairfax-loudoun county line is causing an uproar. we will show you why. >>> a d.c. couple wants to raise $1 million for the poor. if they do, they will change if they do, they will change their last name to the van oh, no, i got to go. oh, can you make that to go? these days, nobody has time to get sick. but minuteclinic makes it easy to get well. our nurse practitioners can diagnose and write prescriptions for everything from strep throat to sinus infections with no appointment necessary, so you can feel better in no time. you guys want to go to the park? children: yeah! minuteclinic, the medical clinic in cvs pharmacy, now offering flu shots every day, no appointment necessary. find a clinic near you at minuteclinic.com. >>> new details about the woman shot last week after trying to drive her car into a white house barrier. barbara harrison has the latest from the live desk.  >> new court documents were unsealed today. they detail what police found in miriam carey's car. she had a lockbox in that car. inside the lockbox, a passpo

monday's attacks have forced both loudoun county deputies and officers from nova community college to visibly step up their patrol around campus. women who walk around these parts at night are sharing their thoughts. >> i'm looking around in case i see somebody strange. >> i do think it's terrible and no one should be -- no one should do that, no one should have to be subjected to that. i hope they can find him. >> i was coming across this morning and i just didn't want to walk in the parking lot after hearing about what happened about sexual assault. >> reporter: neither of these two cases did the women report being hurt but police are still looking for the manual. they say he is -- the man. they say he's out there. he's either 5'6", 5'7" in height, maybe middle eastern. if you know anything, you're being asked to call the loudoun sheriff's office or nova community college police. >> the police report add similar attack last friday at the annandale campus but they say thanks to alert bystanders that situation was stopped and no one was hurt. >>> they spent a decade locked in the clev

. >>> new details tonight behind a deadly crash in loudoun county. a woman killed there. several others injured. and tonight we have learned the heir to a billion dollar candy company may be at fault. >> reporter: 86-year-old ire lien ellisor, her life came to a tragic end. police tell us 73-year-old jacqueline mars, co-owner of the multi-billion dollar mars candy maker, m&ms, skittles, twix, skrashed into ellisor on route 50 in loudoun county. >> she was just a real caring person. loved her family. >> reporter: in an excusive phone interview ellisor's grandson byron tells me he misses his grandma. >> my grandmother still had a lot of life left in her. she was really into traveling. she would get around well. >> reporter: her son jerry and her daughter-in-law alice drove from huntsville, texas, near middleburg last thursday for a wetting. irene, her daughter, and four friends were in a minivan. suddenly jacqueline mars was driving westbound on route 50, crossed the center line and hit the ellisor family in the eastbound lanes. irene wasn't wearing a seat belt in the backs

. >>> a loudoun county man charge with drunk driving after a deadly crash in ash burn. police tell us mark anthony garata crashed into a motorcycle early this morning throwing a man and woman from the bike. they were pronounced dead at the hospital. >>> nfl team owners are in the district tomorrow for their annual fall meeting and this year they will be greeted by a group of proes the protesters h get the redskins to change their name because many find it offensive. here's a look at the latest effort to make a change. >> reporter: on the field they are fierce competitors with a faithful fan base but off the gridiron a different battle over the team's controversial name, redskins. in an interview released saturday president obama weighed in for the first time. >> i got to say if i were the owner of the team and i knew that there was a name of my team, even if it had a storied history, that was offending a sizable group of people, i would think about changing it. >> reporter: redskins owner dan snyder recently said he would never change the name. on saturday team attorney

this happened last friday near breyer patch in loudoun county. police say 73-year-old jacqueline mars was driving her porsche suv when she crossed the median and hit a minivan. irene ellisor of huntsville, texas, died. she was not wearing a seat belt. no charges have been filed against mars. this tragedy has left jackie filled with sorrow for the loss of life and those who were injured in had the accident. she would lake to express her deepest condolences to the families involved. obviously that statement from her represent ativerepresentati. >>> a carjacking victim, a woman was sitting in the front seat outside a home in biltmore street. she was looking at her phone when someone yanked the door open. >> just pulled my arm and he said get out of your car. right then, you know, i just panicked, of course. i started screaming and i was honking the horn. >> yesterday the bmw-x5 was spotted. they chase it had before it crashed in landover hills. that's when two teens took off. police eventually caught up with them. an officer suffered nonlife threate

>> parts of loudoun county, virginia got more than an inch and a half of rain in a short amount of time that led to flooding with drivers having to take it really slowly on the roads. police even had to divert drivers around some standing water gathered on part of i-66. >> a tornado watch has been lifted for our washington metro area and cooler temps are moving in. >> veronica johnson is tracking this big change in our weather. >> that's right. no more warnings for us but get ready for fall in a big way. some unsettled weather. this morning the line on top of us, this was at noon today. the bulk of the severe weather between 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. this is noon. i-95 corridor, baltimore, south through d.c. all the way down to quantico and fredericksburg, this was moving through. what we were left with is just a little bit of damage. that was way off to the west around winchester and areas way down to the south around charlottesville. thunderstorm damage around the country club there, some trees were taken down by some of those high winds, as they gusted up to 45 and 50 miles per hour. i

loudoun county, 64 degrees. prince george's county coming in at 61 over towards camp springs and college park coming in at 61. storm team 4 radar dry in our area. once again you do not have to go down to the south very far and until you run into this system. this is a system that has a lot of rain associated with it. already bringing 30, 40-mile-an-hour winds along the cape and it will bring its way up into the coast. that means we are going to see rain and will start tomorrow. breezy conditions already out there right now. winds, 10 to 15 miles per hour. breezy. we are not going the see too much in the way of wind with this system. sometime was the nor'easter, you will see 30, 40-mile-an-hour winds especially along the coast. 15 to 25 is where i'm going for this one. cool weather and rather breezy tomorrow morning. clouds moving in. clouds thickening and lowering. by 5:00, everybody is in the rain. i think that d.c. itself, 95, will start to see rain 2:00, 3:00. to the west and lot earlier to the south, as earl

. >>> loudoun county police need some help. they release add newcomb posit sketch of a man wanted for assaulting two women near nova community college. in both cases, the victim's say the man who looked like he was in his 20s tried to kiss them. there's the sketch on the screen. they believe he's about 5'6" with an athletic build and shortened black hair. if you have any information, please call loudoun county police. >>> michael skakel could be out of prison as early as next week. he's the kennedy cousin accused of beating his neighbor to death with a golf club in 1975. he's halfway through now a 20- year sentence. a judge granted him a new trial saying his defense attorney initially did not do his job properly. his new attorney asked the judge to release his client on bond yesterday. the judge says he's going to hold a hearing on that matter coming up next week. >>> students at danvers high school in massachusetts are returning to class this morning as new chilling details of their high schoolteacher's murder are released. po

. >>> and in ashburn a loudoun county man is charged with drunk driving after a tedly crash. police say mark anthony fw alotta had hit two people while driving on ashburn farm parkway. it threw the man and woman off the bike. they were rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead. >>> the government is shut down but this morning one retailer wants to make sure military veterans are not forgotten. an attack that stunned the nation and it was caught on camera. coming up, some new developments in the search for the people behind this attack. >>> wild weather, our first look at the damage after floodwaters finally start to move out of parts of the south. and we're staying on top of breaking news now at 4:37. an accident on the beltway has an accident on the beltway has the inner loop closed february, 2013. a landmark transportation bill is up for consideration. even though it's backed by republican governor mcdonnell... ken cuccinelli joins tea party republicans to block the plan. but terry mcauliffe believes it's time to break through the gridlock in richmond. mcauliffe presses de

that's in loudoun county.. >> and the university of maryland libraries are getting a landmark gift. we are told this gift will be the largest of its kind to the university. we don't know who it's from or exactly what it is. that announcement will come today at 10:30 this morning. >> now for a live roundup of today's top stories. >> brianne carter kicks it off, she's live on capitol hill this morning. >> well many people waking up to find out that in fact there is a partial shutdown here on capitol hill. no deal was reached after that midnight deadline. democrats and republicans tried to get a continuing resolution and one the senate said had to not include anything having to do with the affordable care act in order to get the votes needed. now, some 800,000 workers will feel the pinch. they'll be coming to work today many to find out the plan for the next couple of days. some will be furloughed. others will have delayed paychecks. the military will continue to get paid. >> and from all the furloughs to even fo

media markets goes to fairfax and loudoun county, many in swing areas seeing all of this coverage, it can affect things. when republicans look, as they have looked in the last six weeks or so, and when ken cuccinelli makes a decision also mentioned in the ad to bring ted cruz to campaign for him, it's doing to be hard for him to separate out from national republicans that have not done the party any favors. >> chris, lets face it, we have people, federal workers living throughout this area in the district in maryland and virginia. in addition to federal workers who live in virginia, you've got all of the military, all of the federal defense contractors -- >> that's a huge part. >> that is a huge part of it. >> look, if you go back and look how bob mcdonald won in 2009 he did it by winning in places like fairfax county and loudoun county. the sort of nearing to urban parts of the state. if you can't win there as a republican it's a lot harder and ken cuccinelli is not winning there. >> a point of personal privilege. i want to talk about when congress actually worked. there was a nasty

rain at the columbia back to germantown, southern loudoun county and then back into northern fauquier county and it's moving northwestward. temps upper 50s, low 60s, 58 in rockville, bethesda, also in reston, down to 57 in fairfax and 59 in college park. look at that, 56 in waldorf. so yellow alert for thursday and friday, 1 to 2 inches of rain possible by early friday morning, but again it's spread out over a long period of time. next three commutes will be wet, could be the next four, but we'll say next three, gusts 20 to 40 miles per hour on the lower bay tonight and tomorrow. stay off the waters. tomorrow morning we're wet, nothing crazy heavy, though, and by afternoon we are wet again, all green which means light to moderate rain, nothing crazy heavy and by tomorrow evening we're still looking at some rain with heavier rain out toward winchester and southwest of hagerstown. even as we get into friday morning we're still wet across most of the metro area. how much rain could fall? this is one model, maybe a hair overdone, but you get the picture. it's going to be affecting everybo

and that number has more than doubled in prince william, loudoun and fauquier county. in maryland first time notices more than doubled in montgomery county and tripled in fred rig county. >>> our time is 5:238. we have -- 5:38. we've heard from protesters an even the n.f.l. commissioner over the debate of the name redskins. >> now team owner dan snyder has issued a response to the controversy. we'll tell you what and when you get up -- can i play? no! you don't even get football. [ male announcer ] when you've got 100% fiber optic fios, you get it. america's fastest, most reliable internet. it's the ultimate for downloading, streaming, and chatting. -- that guy all over the football field. thanks, joe. if the running backs don't start picking up the blitz, the quarterback is going to have a long night. is that your sister? look, are you trying to take my job? maybe. technology that lets you play with the big boys. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities that's powerful. at 800-974-6006 tty/v. >>> 5:40. rain gear on and use it and you need it. in the 50s

the attacks happened earlier this week on and near the nova community college campus in loudoun county. in both incidents, the victims say a man tried to hug and kiss them. he's described as in his 20s, about 5'6" tall with an athletic build and short black hair. take a look at this picture on the screen. if you think you've seen this man, if you have any information, you're asked to call loudoun county police. >>> maryland's attorney general doug gansler says he is going to stay in the 2014 race for governor. this despite the release of some controversial photos from a high school party at a rented delaware beach house. the photo shows gansler in a white shirt holding a cell phone. nearby young people on a table and a smattering of plastic red cups. they're all dancing. gansler says he was there to talk to his son who is not seen in the photo. he admitted yesterday he probably should have assumed there was drinking going on and spoken to some of the partygoers and chaperones there. >>> 5 after the hour. hundreds of people will spend part of their weekend helping to make life a little

> there is a fight close to home over plans to build a roundabout on where fairfax county borders loudoun county. >> it is planned for an area where growth is explosive and the old country roads can't handle the extra traffic. >> news4's transportation reporter adam tuss explains why this issue is pitting county against county. >> reporter: follow along here. a busy four-way stop intersection didn't used to be so busy but because the crowded region continues grow, the intersection now flooded with traffic and crawling. sound familiar? >> sprawled out and, again, i remember when i was in high school, manassas was nothing. there was nothing out here. look at it now. >> reporter: the intersection here literally gets a failing grade from traffic engineers. now vdot wants to put in a roundabout to keep things moving. not everyone is happy with that. >> i'm saying at the moment do nothing option is the preferred option. >> reporter: ted is leading the fight against the proposed plan. >> this doesn't solve any problems. putting a roundabout here will push the traffic problem elsewhere roundabout

but just off to the west into fairfax even and prince william and western charles and loudoun we've got some showers out there. highs will eventually get to 65 to 70 with a few breaks of sunshine during the afternoon. i'll be back. it will -- we'll look much more closer at doppler 9000 and a look at the weekend forecast. >>> it's nice and quiet still on 270 here at route 121 in clarksburg. really no brake lights yet out of frederick down to this point and into rockville. 355 is pretty much the same story. mo no problems on the great seen -- no problems on the great seneca highway or river road through bethesda gldz here is a look at what's new this morning. it's believed more than 30 people died after a bus crash in southern india this morning. police officials say the private bus was speeding when it hit a culvert and its diesel tank burst into flames. a few passengers were pulled out alive and taken to hospitals. >>> interstate 10 in arizona reopened overnight after blowing dust caused a series of crashes that killed at least three people. several other victims were seriously injured.

choices sherwood at paint branch, the top two teams in their conference and a bug rivalry game in loudounnty. -- a big rivalry game in loudoun county. >>> last week we showed the video of the ohio university marching band performing the giant michael jackson moonwalk. these guys are impressive. this time they're paying tribute to the movie. we sped it up for time's sake, but take a look. recognize that theme song? it's jurassic park. they went from harry potter to t-rex. then t-rex decides to move on and heats one of the enemies as well. this one -- and eats one of the enemies as well. this one i love, coming out of the phone booth, superman trying to save a falling girl. that's amazing. >> if you go, they're going to tell you it's the ohio state university. >> you don't know how tough it is for me a florida gator to even talk about in a positive way ohio state. >> their band is so famous for doing these kind of things. >> can you imagine the amount of hours they have to put in to get it just right? >> they do four or five or six different formations. >>> we've got a followup on the searc

a loudoun county man is charged with drunk driving after a deadly crash.y say mark anthony garlotta hit two people on a motorcycle. the incident threw the man and woman off the bike. they were rushed to the hospital where they were pronounced ted. >>> metro's red line is back open this morning after a fatal accident during some track work. officials say a large piece of track hit and killed a contractor and sent two other metro workers to the hospital. the three were working to replace part of the rails in the tunnel between union station and judiciary square. investigators have confirmed a small fire and loud noise when the rail shifted. 41-year-old harold ingram from richmond died. metro says one employee was treated and released from the hospital. >>> in the day ahead, metro will celebrate a grand opening ceremony for the new entrance at the rosslyn metro station. the facility includes three new high-speed elevators, a new station manager kiosk and pay stations that includes a new walkway to help with passenger flow. the project was completed on tame an

another double fatal overnight, this one in loudoun county. at rail stop terrace. passenger in the car was ejected and died along with the driver of the motorcycle. deputies trying to figure out what caused the crash. >>> overnight accident in a metro tunnel resulted in the death of one man about sent two others to the hospital. derrick ward is live outside the station now. good morning, derrick. >> reporter: you get a sense that something serious has happened here, it's on the faces of the metro workers still on the site here. it's a serious, forlorned look. a man died overnight. welding work going on in the tunnel between union station and judiciary square station ignited some hydraulic fluid that was leaking from a piece of equipment. three people injured. all three were transported to a hospital. we understand that the contractor died. the other two people were injured, metro employees, with serious but nonlife-threatening injuries. there were no trains in the station at the time. metro is in the midst of track work on red line. that section of track was shut d

the parkway would collect loudoun and prince william counties. it would help boost cargo traffic at dulles, but a new study finds it would only be an 8% increase and according to the washington post, that wouldn't offset the declines in air cargo over the last few years. >>> the road to a brand-new home got bumpy for animals having to be moved out of the national aquarium. >> i'm scott broom at the national aquarium in baltimore where day one of the great washington fish lift has been a success despite one unhappy octopus. after more than almost 100 years, most of the exhibits are being moved to baltimore. they are moved in the first of a series of trips made to complete. but it was the octopus who stole the show. he arrived in baltimore alive and well and who, as octopus' do, changed color. >> when they are stressed out, their color will be a white color. >> to let everyone know how he feels about moving to baltimore. >> right now, he is stressed from the transition. >> here it is in time lapse, dark to near white. unhappy octopus. after a 60 to

loudoun and fairfax county all in four inches in the hole with rainfall.do need some. 72 degrees right now with eeve got dry conditions right now. tomorrow morning dry, not too cool. at the bus stop tomorrow morning, 66, 68 degrees by 9:00 a.m. i'll be wanting to put the short sleeves on tomorrow. a mild start for us. watch the clouds move in. another partly sunny afternoon for us. don't think we're going to have as thick of cloud cover. to the north, there might be just a little sprinkle or two prk but big time moisz chur gathering down the gulf of mexico. here it is, early morning saturday, just about ready. some of the outer bands about ready to make their way on shore east of new orleans right now. expected to make land fall late saturday night, early sunday morning. for us, i think what happens is that big storm system out west hits us monday with some of the rains from karen hitting us tuesday. so finally, we could get a chance here with both systems to pick up at least some moderate, maybe even at times heavy rain. 66 to 79 degrees at 11:00 a.m. goi

the flood warning for loudoun county and fairfax county goes until 11:15 p.m. tonight. that's the urban and small stream flood. there's a few different flood warnings up in frederick and carroll county, too many to name. if you want a look at everything, go to our website www.wusa9.com and there's a detailed lists of what each of the flood warnings is in reference to. on satellite and radar or just radar, i'm sorry, doppler 9,000 you can see the stream of moisture continuing to push just south of the beltway. i'll tell you how long this will last coming up in the first alert seven-day forecast. >>> still ahead tonight another sports team getting pulled into the debate about the redskins name. we'll take you to atlanta for that story. >>> virginia governor bob mcdonnell says construction of the i-95 express lanes project is halfway complete on schedule to be finished late next year set to open to traffic early 2015. the express lanes corridor runs from i-395 in fairfax county to i-95 in stafford county. >>> while you hit the road, it won't cost as much to fill up as your

on the bay north beach is 65 this morning with mid- to upper 50s in loudoun county and warrenton with the fog sitting at 57. outside on our michael & son weather camera, i'm going to step out of the way. you see good visibility this morning under clear skies. 65 degrees with calm winds. humidity 75%. notice the dew point at 57. those suburbs where we get closer to the dew point with the light winds, you can condense out the moisture. that's why we've got some patchy fog here. even e.j. in prince frederick said there was a little bit of ground fog down there. satellite and radar quiet once again. a few clouds out of the mountains. may drift toward us. that's about it. instead of mostly sunny, could be partly sunny a little bit. the big moisture source is coming up. see the twist coming in toward arkansas? that's going to draw in some gulf moisture north. but high pressure in upstate south carolina, we're on the north side of that. so our winds will be westerly today. that's going to really warm things up into the mid and upper 80s. in fact, you look at the futurecast, we'll take you th

it is now just to frederick, almost to i- 70 between baltimore and frederick all the way through loudoun county running into jefferson county into west virginia not far from berkeley springs. temps, 50s, 55 bethesda, arlington, 56 in old town and 55 in waldorf, temps uniform and cool. so yellow alert tomorrow and friday, 1 to 2 inches of rain possible, maybe some spots with 3. the next three commutes will be wet, possibly the next four and gusts 20 to 40 miles per hour possible on the lower bay, small craft advisory posted. 2:00 tomorrow morning heavy rain, at least moderate south of town. everybody has rain. it will be a wet commute tomorrow morning. by thursday morning 9:00 you're at work, still have moderate rain across parts of the metro area north of town. coming home tomorrow, yup, roads wet and then into thursday evening we still have rain and showers across the metro area with little pockets of yellow, heavier rain, and friday morning guess what, another wet commute going to work with more rain. how much rain will fall between now and saturday morning? quite a bit. one model thin

freezing in western loudoun county. springfield and alexandria and upper marlboro at 38 and bowie 36. going to the mid-60s. let's turn it over to monika samtani with your first look at timesaver traffic. >>> thank you so much, howard. i spoke to my traffic peeps from overnight and they told me it was very, very quiet. we're starting this morning with a clean slate. that sounds good. northbound i-95 dale city to woodbridge no issues. lorton, newington, springfield same story. we'll go live on the northbound side of i-95. look how quiet it is behind me. kind of a distant shot. no problems in the main and hov lanes. let's go back over to the maps on the north side of town coming in from 270, frederick down to germantown and the point where the lanes divide. lanes are open right now. same story on route 355 and river road in bethesda. here's what it looks like at middle brook road in germantown. lanes are open. no problems as you head for the beltway. back to you. >> thank you, monika. >>> what was supposed to be a normal n

. >>> one woman died in an accident that closed route 50 near snickersville turn spike in loudoun countyours. she was a passenger in avon hit by a vehicle that crossed the -- a van hit by a vehicle that crossed the double yellow line. >>> 81 names are added to the national fallen firefighters memorial in emmetsburg. the annual ceremony this morning honored 73 firefighters who died in the line of duty in 2012 plus eight more from previous years. because of the federal government shutdown, the event was moved to mount st. mary's university campus. it's normally held you might recall at the nearby national emergency train centering. the foundation was created by congress in 1992 to honor firefighters who died in the line of duty and provide grief counseling to their families. >>> it looks like our streak of sunny days is coming to an end. let's go over to first alert meteorologist erica grow for the details. >> yeah, that streak of summer- like weather is coming to an end because of a cold front that's on the way. before it sweeps through we'll have some rain and thunderstorms. because of t

or baltimore, southern baltimore county but everybody else from carroll, frederick, montgomery, loudoun, fairfax, prince william, fauquier, the blue ridge, east and west virginia and western maryland, a freeze watch for tonight. this will end the growing season in many areas with lows upper 20s to low 30s. right now 30s and 40s. cleveland 35. pittsburgh 37. there's enough wind to keep things mixed up in the atmosphere. when we get the light winds, get the radiational cooling and the heat escapes. locally down to 38 for martinsburg. manassas one of the coldest spots at 36 along with the tappahannock airport but still the upper 40s in cambridge and easton right now and in town as we look outside on the michael complain son weather camera, -- michael & son weather camera, great visibility. a west wind at 10 and the dew points in the low 30s. without the winds we'd have some of the temperatures already in the low 30s but again it keeps things mixed up. looking at the bigger picture, we cleared out after yesterday when we had some rain showers. officially only .07 of an inch of rain fell at

we'll take you through fairfax and loudoun county. 86 in culpeper, and prince william county coming inund 8 7 degrees. tomorrow, two degrees cooler. then right back up to 88. possibly 89 on saturday. this is the warmest start to october since 2007. but we're not going to stay in the 80s for long. we may have a tropical system move up monday into tuesday. some computer models giving us one to two inches of rain and it's much needed. right now we're two to two and a half inches below average. thursday through sunday, it's on the hot side for sure. >> we are busy today. we'll have the latest on the navy air force football game. plus -- >> this is a t-shirt. >> this is a t-shirt. are you february, 2013. a landmark transportation bill is up for consideration. even though it's backed by republican governor mcdonnell... ken cuccinelli joins tea party republicans to block the plan. but terry mcauliffe believes it's time to break through the gridlock in richmond. mcauliffe presses democrats to support the bill. and the bill passes. terry mcauliffe. putting virginia first. "i'm terry mcauliffe,

and then light irrain around loudoun county and leesburg. now getting in on the lighter rain. right around fairfax and southern maryland seeing the rain now. and look at the flow here right off of the ocean. that's going to mean more rain for us. only 56 in camp springs. as we stay in the east, only in the 50s. 57 in winchester where you're in for a cool, rainy and windy couple of days. you can always download our weather app or of course with google play. >> janet is on track to become the first woman ever to lead the world's most powerful central bank. president obama just nominated her to become the fair of the federal reserve. she's been the vice chair of the since 2010. yelen would also be the first democrat to lead the federal reserve since paul left back in 1987. >>> crews are inspecting an arlington sidewalk grate where a man fell 50 feet today. he was walking to a meeting when the steel grate collapsed. he fell down to a concrete slab. it took rescuers nearly an hour to pull him out of there. he suffered mostly bruises and cuts and is expected to make a full recovery.

loudoun county is included, just the corner of the county. what a beautiful crowd. beautiful monday morning here in times square. as we say -- stress, stress, stress, you're okay. we say good morning, america. >> monday morning. a lot of happiness for our good friend, jack hanna. in the control room. a few animals. denise got the beaveron there. a vinturon. denise is back from her honeymoon. there with a lemur on her shoulder. >> oh, no. is that a sloth? >> that's a sloth. hanging out in the control room. please don't make me say anything about wild animals and our control rooms. >> oh, look. >> that's not us running through the hallways. this time, it's penguins. we're all here to celebrate jack hanna's 30th anniversary on this show, by the way. an amazing, amazing, amazing thing. >>> also ahead, a very important story. is there a link between concussions and brain damage being suffered in the nfl by thousands of players. a controversial new book and new documentary soon to come out looks at a growing health crisis in america's signature spo

they debated issues in front of the loudoun chamber of commerce and took on medicaid expansion in virginiand how to fill judicial vacancies. but also how they would be different from current attorney general and candidate for governor, ken cuccinelli. >> he has bent and twisted the law in order to impose policies that are wi touds the mainstream. and this senator will be a continuation of that. >> a great place to do business we have to keep them low. our regulatory system fair. and to make sure we have a level playing field. and i've supported those policies. >> both candidates promise more transparency should they be elected. >>> the washington nationals now looking for a site on i-95 in fredricksburg to build a new stadium. the stadium would seat more than 4,700 people and would be built just north of the virginia welcome center. it would be privately financed, although the city is offering a number of tax insent issives. >> >> this will stick around for a while, guys. we're talking near record heat. the record today, 89. we reached 88. so take a look outside. nothing but clear skies. a

in loudoun county, the legislator tried to purge the list after she found that 400 of them were on thisy mistake, she found so many names on there she wanted to proceed with the election so it could be done carefully and correctly. the state board rejected that decision and urged her to start to purge people off the rolls immediately before the election. that local registrar told them "i will do in best." in chesterfield county, he said just into his initial dive into the list he found more than 170 names on the list that were in error. he told the richmond times dispatch, what will i really find when i start to dig? the registar wanted to put off the election until the state governor's race. in chesterfield county, his local board is standing by him in his decision. so that means the voters there may not get purged off the rolls in the election if they can hold out. so less than four weeks off from the governor's race, the republicans in virginia are running into some trouble with their attempted voter purge in some counties. not everywhere, but in some counties. also, there is the mat

. >>> a scary incident in loudoun county for safety of students walking to school. a driver hit a student in ash burn yesterday. the teenager was treated for minor injuries. the driver got a ticket for failing to yield the right of way. >>> there is new help on hand for emergencies in fairfax county, virginia. the fire department's newest station wolftrap opened up today. it will house more emergency response units by next summer. residents can check out the station during an open house scheduled for saturday. >>> they have big appetites. did you see the freezers and refrigerators? >> did you see the stove? >> they are feeding a lot of folks. you are feeding us with a lot of nice weather. >> 84 today. the average high is 74 and we are hitting 84 today. ten degrees above the average high. i think we are going to get warmer. quite a few of you out there on facebook telling me hey, a little too warm. where is the cool weather? where is the fall like weather we have had? temperatures outside sitting at 82 degrees. winds northwest at 7 miles per hour. plenty of sunshine

states, created a list of 80,000 virginia voters registered in another state. 2200 names were sent to loudoun and registrars across the state were asked to check names. judy brown decided to hold off on the purge until after election day. >> immaterialed to make sure everything was being done for the best of the voters to make sure we weren't removing people before election. >> reporter: this week when democrats filed suit challenging the purge and some registrars were waiting, brown was ordered to get started and send out notices right away. >> this close to the election seems a little out of the ordinary. >> reporter: once a voter's name is purged from the rolls, they send this notice urging them to get back in touch right away if a mistake has been made. in fairfax county, the process has been completed. 728 names were put on the list in error. 7200 letters went out. registrar says this pile of returned envelopes are proof. >> all we are doing is taking off the voters who are no longer legally entitled to vote. again, human error occurs. >> reporter: she says they have only received calls

loudoun county, these are the areas that are down about four inches in rainfall. in just a couple minutes, i'm going to tell you how much rain i think we could get out of karen and the cold front for next week. >>> surprising testimony during day two of the amanda knox retrial. a convicted mob murderer is standing by her testimony her brother killed meredith kircher, not knox and her then boyfriend. lucy told the courts in 2011 her brother committed the murder. today, she stood by her previous testimony. the court ordered a new dna test at the knife of the center of the case. neither knox or her exboyfriend were in court today. >>> if you are one of those people who take photos with food, check this out. the surprising effect that it could have on how much you eat. >> make us hungry and thirsty, right? also ahead, what started as a racist comment turned into a huge blessing for a waitress. the gift >>> all right. if you decide to take a nap on the job, make sure you are not on camera. in the middle of a speech, the camera pans up to north carolina republican georg

a few spots in the mid-50s in northern montgomery and loudoun county. 57 in centreville and warrenton. dumfries 58. so is waldorf. 62 from warmington and crofton this morning and up in columbia, 63. another look at the beautiful sky this morning. with those colors over the potomac, we're looking at the north end of reagan national at the lower part of the screen here. so it's just a fantastic morning. sunrise at about 7:05 today. 65 currently with a southwest wind at 3 with just a few high clouds around giving us a fantastic picture of the sky in d.c. the high clouds are coming from a weak system which is pulling out of mississippi and tennessee into the ohio valley. some spotty showers here but for us, generally just these high and mid-level clouds. they may thicken up the atmosphere enough to keep us mostly cloudy this afternoon. that's why mid-#s on instead of upper -- mid-80s instead of upper 80s. looks like we'll not get a front in here until sometime early next week. in the short term most of the rain stays north and west of us. a few of these showers tomorrow could be heading i

our cool spot is up in northern loudoun county at 50 with prince william county looking at mid-50s. 58irfax this morning. mid-50s from waldorf at 56. andrews is 59. 62 from jan in reedville a little while ago and north beach, a gorgeous 59 degrees. one more look outside on our mike equal & son weather camera. you see the cloud deck over the potomac river there. 61 degrees. the north end of the runway. 61 degrees currently at reagan national with a southwest wind at 5 and the humidity at 83%. so we've got a storm system in the atlantic. that's just an area of low pressure. not doing much. we have moisture coming in from the gulf off the mississippi valley but for the most part high pressure in control here means other than some passing clouds from time to time, we stay high and dry and warm. look at all the rain falling by wednesday afternoon out in the mississippi valley sneaking in toward southern indiana, kentucky. that's going to head toward northern indiana as we get into thursday morning. that will ride up and around us. i don't think our rain chances start to go up now until mond

owner of the mars candy company is now facing a reckless driving charge after a deadly car crash in loudoun county. sheriff's officers say that mars was driving her porsche suv on route 50 near aldie on october 4 when she crossed the center line and hit a minivan. 86-year-old irene elliser, a passenger in that minivan died. mars is expected at a court hearing in december. >>> jessica is back with news that could get taxpayers mad. yay, another reason. >> as if we need more, right, mike? good morning to both of you. this is a controversy affecting how the government is mishandling your money. the social security administration has been overpaying massive sums of money to disability beneficiaries and they have no one to blame but themselves. some disability recipients continue to get payments for months even years after notifying the agency they're working again and they earn too much money to qualify. the government accountability office oversees the social security administration. it says budget constraints and large backlogs of applications have delayed the reviews of income information th

we're now seeing southwestern loudoun, northern fauquier county, route 17 comes into 50, just east ofhat, heavier showers but it's moving to the northwest this morning. look at this. just east of waldorf so this is coming in towards prince george's county and d.c. here over the next couple of hours with a lull behind it where it's just drizzling or a damp overcast, kind of frizz alert today. monika will attest to that. she was temperaturing to me about the frizz factor. 512 in winchester and -- 52 in winchester. 58 to our south and east. we've got the low clouds in d.c. some of that light rain falling at national airport. winds out of the north at 15, gusting to 23. raw. it is raw out there and humidity at 87%. nice in the middle of the country. there's a storm in the rockies and the mid-atlantic but the storm in the mid-atlantic can't move much because of the blocking area of low pressure over maine and nova scotia bringing in the northerly winds, the warm southerly winds on the east side and on the delmarva, 70-plus at ocean city. we'll be stuck in the 50s with these waves of moistu

the four-lane highway would run between prince william and loudoun counties. meeting is tonight in alby, virginia, that starts at 6:00. a second meeting will be held thursday in manassas. >>> a metropolitan police officer hurt in the navy yard shooting wakes up in his own bed this morning. doctors discharged officer scott williams. williams was shot in both legs. scott? >> jummy, more now on the government shutdown as national parks visitors have to get out. at yosemite national park in california, visitors staying at a hotel or campground are told they have 48 hours to vacate the park. no one is allowed to enter. >> we're not going to ask them to leave immediately, they'll have two days, even if their expected stay was longer. >> i'm pretty much rolling with the punches. there's no one to be really angry at, at this point, there's nowhere to take it. >> bunch of jerks running the show up there. it's not fair. >> he's especially upset because he had to book the camp site five months in advance. >> checking other news from out west, authorities in colorado say

there was minor flooding and that caused backups in loudoun county, virginia just before lunch time today. >> the district today, the strong winds made it difficult to open the umbrella. we saw wind gusts of 40 miles an hour today. other folks didn't watch our forecast and got caught in the rainstorm. >> close call near lincoln park for a driver. a large branched on top of a moving car in northeast d.c. much cooler temperatures coming our way. >> a lot cooler, yesterday we were talking record breaking temperatures, 91 is what we hit. right now we're close to 30 degrees cooler. we'll show you the radar. that storm system continues to move out. we saw the rain move through rather quickly during the day but we did see heavy rain especially during the early morning hours and then right around noon came right through the i-95 corridor from bamt through washington around waldorf and fredericksburg where we saw the tornado warning, no reports of damage down there though. we did have a few wind reports today a few downed trees but that's about it. most of the area did not see severe weather and n

. >>> police have released this composite sketch of a man who assaulted two women in loudoun county. take a good look at this picture. the attacks happened on or near the nova community college campus. both victims say a man in his 20s tried to hug and kiss them. the suspect is about 5'6" tall with an athletic build and short black hair. call police if you have any information on that man you see on your screen. >>> 6:05 now. game two of the world series is in the books. it will not be a sweep this time for the red sox. world series tied up at a game a piece because the cardinals took advantage of some errors by boston. not too good. that's two games in a row where errors played an issue in the final outcome. they erased a deficit in the 7th inning. cardinals defeated boston final score 4 listen 2. the worlder is -- 4-2. the world series resumes tomorrow night in st. louis. >>> some revealing documents related to the jonbonet case. >> he's known as iranman but -- ironman but right now brett ironman but right now brett favre is suffering the washington post praises terry mcauliffe for

we also have a report from round hill out in loudoun county of about 2.75 inches of rain. heavy rain fall in blue. you see stripes of blue and even the green was significant rain fall, half an inch or more. in fact, we'll go back to that. it's our first measurable rain in 16 days. we had .87 on september 21. nothing since then. rain fall amounts again, about half an inch to 2 inches and light rain is still possible late in the week. temperatures, 60 in arlington. 60 in fairfax. 61 in reston. 61 in college park and 60 in waldorf. the cooler air is here. drying out tonight, much cooler from july back to reality tomorrow. a reality check for us. chilly at the bus stop. 40s and 50s. tell the kids, and karen could arrive wednesday afternoon and could set up unsettled weather. for tonight, partial clearing, 46 to 56. winds will pick up north, northwest 10 to 15. we're in the 50s through 9:00. pop into the 60s by 11:00 and only in the mid to upper 60s by afternoon, but it will be sunny. but, afternoon rain possible on wednesday, 65. and even a better chance for light rain and sho

look at that, some low 30s in northern loudoun and northern montgomery county.ternoon sun, clouds mix. pretty comfortable day. all a he need a light jacket. 63 in fairfax and 62 in rockville. let's turn it over to monika samtani. you said at the desk a moment ago you have some bad news for some. >> it's just a prediction. right now it's terrific tuesday. today my prediction is that although we're calling it terrific tuesday, i'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news but i think it's going to become terrible, if not today then tomorrow morning until people get used to this new closure that's going to be in place for six months. kalmia culvert which is like a bridge between east and west beach drive, it's a well used shortcut. 17,000 people in the morning and afternoon rush hours use t. here's your alternate. east west highway, 16th street, military road, connecticut avenue. that entire combination around that kalmia culvert will be your detour. i'll keep you posted on that. if you have any suggestions, tweet it to me. let's go to a live picture if you're planning to

it's part of a north-south corridor project linking loudoun and prince william counties. meeting is happening tonight at john champe high school. the meeting is from 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. >> some problems this morning at virginia's state capitol. just ahead, if i canning a growing problem in richmond, but it ha nothing to do with lawmakers. >>> and a live look at capitol hill this morning. we're tracking developments. congress continues their debate over the nation's budget. almost 12 hours into a government shutdown. "i'm terry mcauliffe, candidate for governor, and i sponsored this ad." these are birth control pills. more than half of american women use them at some point in their lives but ken cuccinelli sponsored a bill that could have made common forms of birth control illegal, including the pill. cuccinelli was one of only five senators to support this "potentially radical intrusion into domestic, family and individual decision-making" why is ken cuccinelli interfering in our private lives? he's focused on his own agenda. not us. >>> this just in -- d.c. delegat

we've got upper 50s and low 60s 234 fairfax county -- in fairfax county and mainly upper 50s there in loudounnty. ashburn 61 degrees, one more look downside on the michael & son weather camera with the beautiful colors this morning. sunrise not until 7:07. currently 67 degrees and muggy. 63 on that dew point. with calm winds. so the air is still and not going -- not spinning much. all right we are looking at some showers that are going to be falling well to the north and west. slight chance for just something to pop up in the mountains later on but looks like a partly to mostly sunny afternoon. and hot and humid. tomorrow in the afternoon, we're looking at a chance for some showers to pop up mainly north and west of d.c.. but monday, that's going to be the rain day. we've been waiting for this. this is tropical storm karen. now the colder cloud tops are the brighter ones and a lot of them are on the east side of the circulation. not the best looking tropical system but that's okay. the better looking the stronger and more destructive. hurricane center is tracking it moving northwest at 10 and