if you consider the numbers that i have told you, 18000 and west virginia, 14,000 in east virginia, it is easy to's he who is dominated this date legislator. so that was an issue with western virginians. the other had to do with taxation. the laws and virginia gave an on the property of slaves. now western virginians would cross out this. the number one property of are of humannians beings. western virginians, when they lost anything they pay full tax on it. they cry foul on that. our social relations were all to the north and west. all of the commercial relations were to the north and west. all of the river ways, critics and streams -- creeks and streams flow to the west and we were separated by the grand alleghany mountains. all of those things taken together over many years came to a head. along comes the american civil war to reignite the tensions. it would be this group in wheeling that would jump on the opportunity. that is one thing our story has to teach everyone that's when you are presented with an opportunity you must take it, because if they had not, it simply would not hav

east carolina hosting virginia tech. not so fast. pirates up a touchdown when the quarterback finds jones. worth another look. one-handed touchdown. one final chance for virginia tech. hail mary time. clock ticking down. heaves the ball one last shot. knocks it down, game over. virginia tech to drops to 2-2. uconn hosting navy. navy up 7-3. second quarter finds tillman. reynolds known for his work on the ground. 10 yard t.d. run. second in ncaa history. navy wins. 3-0 on the season. montreal beats d.c. united tonight >> we are going to start off with cloudy skies. a cool start. >> maybe a nice light jacket. it may be starting to feel like fall. that's our news for tonight. "saturday night live" is next. see you again tomorrow. >> oh, gosh, what a perfect day for a picnic. it's so nice out here. [ cheers and applause ] >> i'm so glad it's finally that time of year again. you know what i mean. >> i sure do. [ piano plays ] >> ♪ there's a breeze in the tr

so on the virginia tech, frank beamer spoiled fans, i'm surprise the losses has the faithful grumbling, sort of one of those surprising losses last year to eastematch down in greenville, watch ryan malik right here. the old toe tap by the tight end, 14-0 virginia tech. later on, the pirates who was big today, five yard run. 21 straight points. later on, summers, look at that guy. summer breeze makes me feel fine. 41 yards, east carolina, upsetting virginia tech again, 5-28. navy uconn, that's reynolds approaching the record for most rushing td's all time. here he passes the football. this topper, navy's first touchdown pass of the season. later on, reynolds takes it himself. that's td number 73 all time. passing rickie williams in second place. he is four behind the leader of wisconsin. navy wins 28-18. that's the college game, some pro now, skins played on thursday night. losing to the giants 32-21. the game kicked off a big week of football here on wusa9. the 0-2 ravens are approaching must-winter story. they play the -- ravens, they haven't been able to put complete games together. last week, a head scratcher in oakland. the defense looked

really difficult travel with these heavy, heavy downpours over i-95, 270, out 66 up into the east and west virginia panhandle. i think the threat of heavy rain diminishes some after midnight. tomorrow doesn't look too bad. it will be relatively mild, mostly cloudy, maybe peeks of sun on wednesday. thursday looks like another shot of rain returns. may also be another yellow alert day. we're watching would keen. the tropical storm center is over -- joaquin. the tropical storm center is over here so it has some winds with it. look how slowly it will be move the next couple of days thinking it will make a turn toward the north. that could be a problem. there's not a lot of confidence in this track either. the models are all over the place. this track is a little slower and a little farther east than what i was showing you this morning. so by sunday morning maybe east of cape hatteras. we're going to have to watch that. in any event, looks like there's a lot of available moisture for a lot of rain here over the next several days. 81 today. the yellow weather alert really for the afternoon and evening ho

. >> sadly virginia is becoming known as the predatory lending capital of the east coast. >> reporter: virginia attorney general mark herring and delegate scott survil say virginia's law needs to change. >> these predators target low income families, people who are nonnative speakers and people from other states. it's bad and predatory and it needs to stop. >> peggy fox says the car title loan business has been booming since 2011 when virginia's legislation made it legal for lenders to use out of state titles as collateral. >>> former kansas senator bob dole is now leading a major fundraising effort to build a memorial to dwight d. eisenhower right here in washington. dole said he aims to raise $150 million in private money. joining him in the effort will be actor tom hanks. the two men also worked together to raise $170 million to build the world war 2 memorial. >>> a man is under arrest for allegedly having a weapon on school property and tonight he's held without bond. police took him into custody after finding him lying in some tall grass behind oakton elementary. they were alerte

east. in southern virginia several schools are closed. these are pictures from the northwestern part of the state. creeks and sewers overflowing turning streets into rivers. on some roads the water was up to 7 feet deep. parts of james madison university are still closed this morning. pictures here from there. eight inches of water flowed through the parking lot and underground tunnels of the campus. local roads leading into the school re-opened about an hour ago. there's much more tropical weather in the forecast. nicole, what's the latest with joaquin? >> we had been a tropical storm, but a strong one at 70 miles per hour. now with the 8:00 a.m. advisory, 75 miles per hour, which puts it into the hurricane category. that was expected. this is an intensifying storm. you see this near the bahamas, and the bahamas, hundreds of islands, a long stretch. so it's more the central and kind of north and western bahamas impacted by this, not the entire region but this is a meandering system right now. it only has wind speed of about 6 miles per h

east. the idea of eastern virginia to southeastern new england in play here for tropical storm impacts. heavy rains, gusty winds, coastal beach erosion. if you look at our futurecast here, several waves of rain to go through. spotty showers tomorrow. heavy batch coming in ponding and flooding on area roadways for your wednesday morning commute. a little break in the afternoon. next rond would be later thursday and the one that would be the impact from walk would probably be friday night in to saturday. for tomorrow it's just a shower or two. look how this huge slug of moisture comes along that front. that's when it's really pouring. we start it with wednesday morning. that initial shot could be a couple inches of here's your muggy and patchy fog. isolated showers early . tomorrow it's lots of clouds. couple bright spots in the middle of the day could get us in to the low 80s. then an isolated shower or storm. then heavy rain tomorrow night. rumble of thunder, flooding possible. lighter later in the afternoon. lighter thursday maybe to start but getting heavier late then maybe tropical t

then south and east of us, down to virginia beach.ecast tonight, clear partly cloudy, enjoy it now, we're in the 80s. we'll be dropping to the 70s, 60 in the cooler spot with a couple of 60s to the 70 in town. light winds. tomorrow good looking labor day. now we've got the parades and the other things going on. partly sunny and comfortable in the morning. 60s and 70s, then a pretty good afternoon. maybe not as nice as today, but still not too humid with the highs 87 to 92. now as we would look at their three-day forecast. no yellow weather alerts. but we'll watch for thursday and friday ask just hot and humid, 93. temps with the isolated storm on wednesday. with the 93, but a better chance of that will be west of the blue ridge, especially west of i-81. thursday and friday that front will come through. so we've got showers around. some thunderstorms, and then look at the coming weekend. saturday and sunday, terps game number two as skins have their home opener with miami. the weather should be fantastic for both of those events. >> ok

nasa says the meteor was traveling west to east over west virginia at 9:27 tuesday night and it was seenn several nearby states. we have posted this video on our wusa9 app. so take a look. >> who knew they had cameras on top of the washington monument. they've got cameras everywhere. >>> coming up forecasters say this winter's el nino is shaping up to be one of the strongest ever. we'll tell you what that means. >> i guess that means topper will be happy. >> but up next weather delays, the start of what was supposed to be what did iran's supreme leader get in the nuclear deal? to start with, $100 billion. they keep their nuclear facilities and ballistic missiles. there won't be surprise anytime-anywhere inspections. and after ten years, restrictions are lifted and iran could build a nuclear weapon in two months. congress should reject a bad deal. we need a better deal. >>> who doesn't like a county fair? it's that time in prince george's county. the prince george's county fair just got underway at rosecroft raceway in ft. washington. it includes rides, games and music along with a pettin

north ever city more in the way of cloud cover for philadelphia points south and east with the low across the virginias and also carolinas, tuesday, mostly cloudy, breezy, 76 and vernal equinox begins wednesday quick warming on the way temperature 80. thursday clouds and some sunshine and highs in the upper 70s as we get to next weekend for the papal visit it's going to be cool. saturday, in at 70. adds we get to next sunday sunshine and clouds sharing the sky. it will feel like fall with high temperature coming in at 73. so cloudy start then things warm up and sun up and we're tracking sunny conditions as we move to next weekend and changes in the forecast we'll keep you posted. melissa, thank you. >> ports is next on "action news". >> ports is next on "action news". >> we'll be right back everyone is saying, "hey! you gotta get fios!" but why? well, fios is a 100 percent fiber optic network, so you can get 100% out of all your devices. so whatever speed you need, fios has it with the fastest internet and wi-fi available, from 50 to 500 mbps. but the main reason to get fios? we're rated number 1 in cu

, a temperature of 66 degrees, satellite and radar, the clouds are to the south in virginia and low pressure to the east of jacksonville, florida, this is sitting there for a few days now. this will slow will he drift to the north as we get into the end of the week and the upcoming weekend. what is ahead. another winner on tap for your thursday and it starts to turn cloudier friday, saturday and sunday and many of you are be outdoors and it's breezy this weekend and much cooler with the clouds, we'll show you the numbers and show you future tracker how far north that rain will get on your saturday and sunday, coming up in the seven-day forecast. they don't want it to rain they put mary the blessed mother in the window, get the statues out. >> lots of marries out this weekend. >>> still ahead, kissing the kiss cam good-bye, what new york stadium is considering getting rid of that and why. >>> and you won't want to miss a beautiful way her late father's brothers in blue proved they were a real family. >>> and a parody taking the internet by storm, why this utah mother's rendition of hallelujah has everyon

east coast. chip reid is in virginia where an emergency has been declared. >> reporter: sheaths of driving rain pummeled the northeast wednesday. a half foot of rain fell in some areas. it came down in buckets, almost literally. the streets of downtown portland, maine, flooded dramatically, though the waters quickly receded. >> this is insane. it looks more like rapids. it's unbelievable. >> reporter: rush hour was a slog if providence, rhode island. some cars ended up with about as much water inside as out. the system, which drenched coastal alabama and florida over the weekend and hit virginia and the mid atlantic yesterday has now pretty much moved into canada. but the ground here is now well saturated, a date with hurricane joaquin next week could bring much more serious flooding. >> you know this is ground zero. >> reporter: george stables run asthma rwanda and charter boat company in alexandria in virginia. he remembers the damage hurricane isabel did. >> we can handle a storm surge. we can't handle 70, 80, 90mph winds. >> reporter: it doesn't take much for the potomac river, which you see behind

east of jacksonville. clouds extended into the virginias and the carolinas.t of the precipitation at this point still off the coast. that low has been stuck there for a few days now and it's going to slowly drift to the north. we only have this feature to watch. we also have low pressure over canada. and that high over the great lakes will slip into new england over the upcoming weekend. highs to the north, low pressure to the south with expanding rain. the two opposite forces in the atmosphere sending a pretty strong breeze out of the north and east here like saturday and maybe sunday. and the high should win out for the mid-atlantic bringingous clouds and a breeze. holding off the rain to the south. the precipitation can get as far north as washington, baltimore, southern parts of delaware, with the soaking rains over the virginias and carolinas seeing 2-4 inches over the weekend. and peeks of sun, especially in the afternoon and the high temperature of 75 degrees. and on sunday, a lot of clouds, very cool with an east-northeasterly wind 10-20 miles per hou

storm team 4 radar showing the rain from northern virginia to maryland tracking off to the north and eastthe heavier downpours in the yellow and orange along 81 from la ray all the way to winchester, martinsburg and hagerstown and the metro area. light rain in montgomery county in prince george's and fairfax. the area in yellow, coming into southern prince george's county. it stretches to charles county. to the west, this one batch of moderate rain in northern fauquier is moving into lauden county. no thunder or lightning with these. there is quite a bit with this batch of heavy rain. that's about to move into the central northern neck, crossing the potomac into st. mary's county and southern calvert county. it's another hour or so. expect very heavy rain with thunder and lightning. they are not severe storms. the main threat is ponding of water. temperatures are cool. it is raining, 60s noo shenandoah valley. low to mid-70s around the bay. at dawn, we had a beautiful rainbow. a lot of people sending me these photos. this is from philip doer. it lasted a few minutes, then the clouds moved

right now the storm team 4 radar is showing a few of the sprinkles across northern virginia and moving off to north and eastowers out in west virginia. part of an upper level disturbance that may be drifting over the metro area. just a few scattered sprinkles, fairfax and prince william and montgomery county and prince george's county. all of this moving off quickly to the north and east. temperatures are rather cool this morning. low to mid 60s. mid 60s around the bay. farther north and west, shenandoah valley, a few spots have dipped into the 40s. a few breaks in the clouds. and we'll be breezy starting around 8:00 this morning into the afternoon. small chance of a few sprinkles during the afternoon. as we reach the low to mid 70s. a look at a dry pattern continuing as we get into the rest of the week ahead, that's coming up in a few minutes. >>> the kirk cousin era is now hours away. we're about five hours and 29 minute froms the -- minutes from the season opener. yeah, kirk cousins is the starting quarterback after he won the job over rg3. he's going to face one of the toughest defenses in the nfl. when

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an area of low pressure that is over western virginia and passing to the east and to our southeast in the next 24 hours. it will throw back some clouds across the area, much of the range vault will stay offshore. they'll be an isolated showers tomorrow night. today just clouds. sun breaking through from time to time. expecting mostly clouding conditions for tuesday. as we go into wednesday, things will get gradually clear and plenty of sunshine as we enter the next season of the year. today a high of 73 degrees. mostly cloudy skies tomorrow, scattered showers and high of 75 degrees. autumn comes in the morning on wednesday with 78 degrees. thursday we'll have close to 80 degrees. low 70s on friday. that is a check at your weather, let's check out the roads this morning out the roads this morning good morning. we had an earlier problem on the bridge but now there's a problem in new jersey. there's no issues on the platonic. there's a problem over by exit 151. let's look at the 59th street bridge, upper and lower by 96 street, northbound and southbound looks good and so does grand centr

east. losset of rain in southern k and virginia. rain chances for today are below 30% but as we get into saturday and sunday, a 40% chance of showers each day over the course of the weekend. so the weather impact will be fairly low, but do expect plenty of clouds. i'd pack the umbrella just to be on the safe side. the longer youer going to be home. the more likely you're going to need your umbrella before you come back to your comfy abode. mid 50s. there's the moisture i'm talking about. high pressure in that east to northeast wind keeping the wind at bay for now. it will be raining there. with time, though, that moisture is going to try to make its way into our area, so i can't give you the all clear for the forecast as we get into the weekend. there's future weather then. all clouds. not much rain during the daylight hours today. rain chances start to sneak in starting this evening. umbrellas as a precaution for today. 74 today. only near 70 for tomorrow. a lot of clouds around. rain chances do linger out of the weekend and on int

virginia. that will slowly slide to the east coast keeping us dry for the forecast period. nothing on fox 5 sky guardian. take a look at the satellite photograph. no clouds. just a few scattered clouds off to the west and way off to the north. again on the big picture, there's the high across west virginia and virginia. clouds moving from the gulf coast states across. and eventually there's a cold front kind of hiding back in here. that's going to meander across the country. it will get here about sunday or so. it's probably going to come with clouds. sunday should be a decent day. on the other side of the front, we get back to nice weather early next week. the temperature will be seasonal at that point. plan on a beautiful wednesday forecast and comfortable out the door in the morning. 60s in the morning. look at your high tomorrow afternoon. 87. looks like mid to upper 80s most of the northeast. there's high pressure over washington, d.c. we're all nice and clear. the high slides slowly to the east. there's the cold front i spoke of causing showers across wisconsin and a

the cone of uncertainty from the hurricane center takes it east of north carolina, east of the virginia coast. sometimes early part of the weekend. the models are making it with a little bit of a left hook. if that happens, that's not good news. that could bring the heavy rain and wind towards our area. for today, up around 80. very muggy. a couple of spotty showers. take the umbrella to make it safe. heavy downpours likely into tomorrow morning. 73 tomorrow morning showers and storms taper to lighter showers in the afternoon. not as wet on thursday. upper 50s, friday. same thing. we'll have to watch the track of joakim. friday and saturday stay in the 60s with a few more showers come sunday and monday of next week. things are getting stormy. hopefully quiet for the commute. >> mostly quiet. we do have a new accident on the cross bronx expressway. westbound by west chester avenue. two lanes and starting to build here. head over to the bruckner. things moving along pretty nicely there. then moving further west. harlem river drive northbound the ramp is closed at 95 here. all due to road

a process that will repeat itself as they marched down the east coast, all the way to virginia. .he french are very different when i say this, we need to keep in mind that the continentals over here are made up of different religious, ethnic, and religious groups. ,he europeans, in particular bring their own cultural baggage with them, something the french will experience continually over and over again. and, the french army too, as i said, is not a whole me a genius of troops.neous body the experiences are considerably different than those of the french, and sometimes, if nothing else, because more than aref our calvinist -- lutheran. o they enter into a very different religious environment than the catholic french. on the other hand, th, in the winter quarters at newport, they placed guards on hand so that people do not wander into church services. what i mean is that french forces encountered pockets of , and you get the complaint over and again that they do not want anything to do with the soldiers of the king of france because they remember why , forpa left france example. on the othe

maryland may hit the war against west virginia and it kicks off at 3:00 and virginia tech travel to east carolina and it's howard and morgan state and the chicago football classic. that game is at 4:30 from soldier field. between the baseball, each though it doesn't matter anymore, a lot of good football, college. >> can't throw it over the guy's head. >> that was a scary move by papelbon there. he got a suspension and he'll take it like a man. >> look at wendy, as calm as ever. >> not concerned about the redskins. >> and not batting an eye. >> and i'm not each loven looki you. >> impressive. >> all right. thanks, jason. thanks for joining us toght. "nightly news" is up next and chris, we'll see you tonight at 11:00. if you want me i'll be at the bar. >>> tonight, the boehner bombshell sending shock waves across washington. the house speaker suddenly announces he'll offered to. tonight a republican party divided and a mad scramble to replace him. >>> the crowd goes wild. tens of thousands clammer to see pope francis. a sea of humanity in new york city. a historic journey through central

virginia. 75 at reagan national airport. we still have some rain around. flooding in annapolis and it is pushed way of east the delaware. we have one additional area of rain just out of the cold front moving in from portions of southwest virginia. it's moved across 81. i think it will hit fredericksburg and stafford over the next couple of hours and stay south. scattered showers for the rest of the area. overnight things will start to clear out a bit. the extent of the rain at this area stretches well into pennsylvania and southern new england. the second little bats coming through charlottesville and then on the other side of the mountains skies are clearing. you see the influence of the heavy clouds. temperatures in the 70's but down south temperatures have not reached yet. across the mountains we are in the much cooler air in the 70's. warming into the 80's. that will be our weather tomorrow. lower 80's here. that is where the good news and's tomorrow he goes this whole complex of low pressure along the front will move out and give us this wedge of clearing skies tomorrow and the women of a cold front to do with on sa

a separate system is bringing flooding rains to the east coast from virginia to new england. 6 inchest. >>> some mystery surrounding a reported meeting between pope francis and the kentucky clerk who refuses to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. lawyers for kim davis claim that meeting took place at the vatican embassy in washington. davis says the pope told her to, quote, stay strong. the vatican refuses to confirm or deny the meeting. >>> well, a warning today about a growing threat on the road. a government report finds drivers under the influence of drugs are becoming as much of a danger as drunk drivers. experts blame the increase in prescription drug use and the legalization of marijuana in some states. >>> in north carolina, take a look at this driver. calling the firefighters who rescued him angels. his truck plunged 70 feet into a creek. crews used a ladder truck to pull him to safety and he is okay this morning. >>> now to a heartwarming story about a woman who survived a devastating injury as a baby and says a loving nurse gave her hope that inspired her for decad

>> a big story for the east at least down through virginia, alex, the heat reprieve. you mentioned the humidity too. take a look. this is saturday over the northeastern quarter of the country. instead of being in the 90s, philadelphia, areas like new york city, upper 80s yesterday. 85 today in d.c., 82 degrees expected in new york city. and for sunday, mid 80s again, wore going to see the temperatures on the rise at least for labor day, maybe a touch of humidity back. but overall we've got real nice weather coming to us in time here for the labor day weekend. areas of the southeast not too bad. this reprieve from a weather front that's come through and the front stalling. so unfortunately for virginia beach, areas of the outer banks down through south carolina, there could be showers and thunderstorms coming through for saturday, for stunned maybe even monday. so that's the touch and go area right now. even florida could see some scattered showers and thunderstorms. take a look at areas around new orleans, on monday the temperatures build back into the mid 90s. we're

. >>> more than 450 virginia national guard member, headed to the middle east.any of you know some of the people who are going. the guard members are based in leesburg, fredericksburg, charlesville, suffolk and woodstock. they'll be honored with a departure ceremony this morning at 11:00. the guardsmen and women were part of the winchester-based 3rd battalion. >>> a montgomery county mother wants more children to walk to school. danielle macy is known for her free-range parenting style. she spoke at the action committee in silver spring last night. she believes parents choose to drive their kids to school instead of letting them walk because they're afraid of stranger danger. >> of course, what we know of course, the number one cause of death for children is in a car. so people say i'm going to drive my kids to school, rather than walk. well, actually, we're leading our children there. >> she and her husband were charged with neglect for letting their two children age 2 and 6 walk a mile to a park away from their home. >>> get ready for the long lines when you t

east of philadelphia. so here's the setup. the satellite/rada sat look at l moving into west virginia and virginia but staying to the south. of a big area of high pressure off to the north. that will likely suppress most of the rainfall to our south during the day tomorrow, but with the high to the north, low to the south, we get that tight pressure gradient. so that's why i do expect some of those gusty breezes. so as we take look at potential rain through tomorrow afternoon you can see it accumulates to the south of us. we stay dry in philadelphia. but then by sunday, maybe a trace of some moisture down the shore. maybe a quarter of an inch in atlantic city by sunday evening. had a half an inch towards cape may. also those winds will be gusting over 20 miles an hour tomorrow. over 30 miles per hour in atlantic city and we'll keep that forecast for your sunday. so the bottom line as we go hour by hour tomorrow morning, a fall feel. 66 degrees. by 10:00. by 1:00 o'clock 71 degrees and by the afternoon, temperatures low to mid 70s. cloudy and once again breezy. then on sunday we're looking at cloudy and cool conditions. fee

. >> now, last night in the virginia tech ohio state game, proof you always want to look your best on national television. the hoch eastd watch. see that thing with his uniform? imagine getting hit with that, ouch. unfortunately for virginia tech, starting quarterback michael brewer was injured, and they were beaten up by the buckeyes 45 to 24. >> president obama meanwhile spent labor day boston, and during his speech about the importance of unions, the president weighed in on tom brady's deflate gate scandal. >> even brady's happy he's got -- (applause) they had his back. so you know brady needs an union, we definitely need unions. >> over to duke now, the duke blue devils will row live their national college championship basketball championship later this morning, and then they visit the white house. the team including sixers first round draft pick, okafor, will meet president obama in a white house ceremony just before none. coach k and the blue devils beat the wisconsin badgers last april to win their fifth national championship. special day for them. >> the us open continues today with sisters venus and serena wil

east bay neighborhood. >>> and his daughter killed on live tv in virginia. now a call for change that is reaching the bay area. >>> plus star power headed to san francisco as the city prepares to kick off super bowl festivities. "today in the bay" starts now. >>> a very good now thursday morning to you. thanks for joining us. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> and i'm sam brock. more on those stories in just a moment. but first we begin with breaking news. two homes up in flames, two others damaged. all of this happening in a matter of minutes. by the time it was over seven people were injured. >> it happened on anchor drive in bay point just north of highway 4. "today in the bay's" bob redell is there. bob, is the fire out? >> reporter: it is. it's been out for quite some time. when you take a look at this video you will get a better understanding as to why it took the contra costa county fire department several h put out the fires and also cause aid lot of damage and destruction. the fire started around 1:20 this morning, destroyed two houses, damaged two more, b

virginia and pennsylvania. sunday it makes it to the east coast. for today, beautiful day on the heels of that rm to.esterday, lower humidity. lower from d.c. to new york. saturday, chance for late day showers as the cold front comes in. not a lot of rain but few showers out there. sunday, 71 in boston. big changes from the hot weather we had in the eastern half of the country to cooler transition to fall. >> it's almost clock work after labor day. temperatures start to take a dip. thank you. >>> breaking overnight, a dramatic carjacking and hostage situation. the suspect hold up inside with hostages. the swat team entered and found the suspect shot dead. unknown whether it was a police bullet that killed him. this began when an la county sheriff helicopter noticed the suspect holding someone at gunpoint. >>> democrats able to block the disapproving iran nuclear deal. it was two votes short of 60 needed to push the bill forward. it limits the iran's ability to produce nuclear weapons in return for lifting of sanctions. >>> former tennis pro james blake was misidentified as a credit card fraud suspect

east. look what's happening in northern virginia, inundated with rain back toward la ray, around warrenton, winchester, parts of west virginia as well. we have heavy rain around portions of the shenandoah valley. up toward winchester, over toward warrenton. in through manassas. all of that moving toward the north. look at the wider view here. we have a stream of moisture coming off the atlantic. this is going to come in, even rumbles of thunder here and there. more heavy rain likely. that's why we have a flash flood watch as that's been issued. areas like hagerstown, martinsburg, winchester, look at the flash flood warnings, areas in red here including the paige county area until 7:30. 2 to 4 inches of rain possible in those locations. in the city, about 1 inch. maybe a little bit more. ponding on the roads, avoid areas of high water. again, we're just getting started. tonight is round one. round two coming over the next couple of days. roads are going to be a big issue both times. >> yeah, for sure. rain has overspread the area. it's not until late, though, most of the metro area will get

a process th will repeat marched down the east coast all the way to virginia. fontaine of virginia. the french are very different. they are more formally inculcated than us, people living on frogs and course -- coarse vegetables. [laughter] dr. selig: when i say this, we need to keep in mind the continentals, the united states are made up of many different racialus and ethnic and groups. the europeans in particular bring their own cultural baggage with them, which is something that the french experience continually over and over again and the french army, too, as i said. a quarter of them are german-speaking or german. their experiences are considerably different than those of the french sometimes. because of nothing else, more orn half our calvinist lutheran and they enter into a very different, and very different religious environment than the catholic french, for example. in newport, hand, rochambeau places guards at the doors of churches to make sure his troops do not wonder rendering church services -- wander in during services. the french forces, for example marched down the e

virginia. tuesday night could have a passing shower to our east if you're near the bay.etter chance than other areas. as we head in to wednesday, we start out mostly dry but by lunchtime we're popping a few showers. with the front getting closer you'll have more stuff up here but you'll notice in the i-81 corridor by midafternoon. as we head toward rush hour, scattered showers and storms. a yellow alert day for wednesday and also thursday. thursday looks even more active than wednesday. we'll gladly take the rain for the midweek and then it's going to clear out some and hopefully sunday we can make better of it. right now it's looking iffy. 66 to 72. clear to partly cloudy and not as cool tonight. nice last night with the 50s. i had the windows open. ac will be buzzing tonight. we warm quickly. going to be humid, sunny in the afternoon. hot, humid. 89 to 94. stray storm, most of us aren't going to see it. looking at the three-day, here are two yellow weather alert days wednesday and thursday with afternoon showers and storms wednesday. we do have scattered showers and st

east of the metro area. that's in the northern neck of virginia and along 95.t's tracking into prince george's county and st. mary's into southern calvert and off to the mountains a few more sprinkles there. that's part of the disturbance in the upper level of the atmosphere that's drifting over the metro area later this afternoon. that might trigger a few sprinkles. a few clouds floating in a blue sky. that's the live view there from our tower camera. the temperatures are still cool and comfy. great weather for a bike ride on the path or a morning run. in the mid 60s most of the region. around 70 in the bay. out in the mountains in the 50s and later today climbing into the 70s. this is in northern montgomery county. i took this picture on friday morning and still looking that way even this morning. and look at this tree, just heavily laden with apples, oh, the autumn apples are coming out. this was taken near martinsburg, west virginia. posted on my facebook page. great morning for a run. afternoon temperatures quickly climbing from near 70 at noontime into th

virginia, 82. this low pressure is east of jacksonville and sitting here day after day and will become a coastal systemit lifts to the north, first it brings the clouds and then the possibility of showers in the area for late saturday into sunday and the low will probably bring coastal flooding to the shore over the weekend and the chances for rain 0% tomorrow and a small chance on saturday, but yesterday sunday was 30% and we bumped it up to 50%, and we'll go into more detail model by model in the full accuweather forecast. >> thank you adam. >>> bishops and priests from the pope's native country of argentina, celebrated mass in old city philadelphia today. ♪ ♪ dozens of worshipers from argentina are is the oldest of any church in america. we'll have traffic, weather and papal news every half hour, starting at 9:00 a.m. on saturday and continuing on sunday, watch the digital updates at 6abc.com and the 6 abc news app. now we love this. "action news" reporter, cathy gandolfo, is back with the gang. >> we are learning more about a deadly stabbing that happened in the heart of center city, the victim spe

east. still humid. traveling further south across virginia and carolinas and is there pretty sticky stuff down there. is there warm number across the most of the gulf coast states but you can clearly see front by following the clouds. next system we are watching is this guy right here, just north of dallas, developing area have of low pressure which will pull east but should move off the companies of cape hatteras north carolina and pushing out to sea. here's the front. you can see that line right there. real hot to the south. very comfortable to the northwest. that will be the pattern throughout most of the upcoming week. temperatures on the cooler side to the north, low humidity levels and steamy, sticky, diving stuff down there across the gulf coast states. new orleans is at 90 degrees right now. go further north, quite a ways to the north, chicago here at 67, no humidity. st. louis 69. bismarck 67. we are showing 71. high pressure in control, clearing skies, breezes out of the northwest, temperatures holding steady in the mid to upper 70's. we will get into tomorrow. system passes by to the south

by friday it's expected to make a big turn with the east coast in its sight as strong as a category 3 hurricane. and just a short time ago virginia's governor declared a state of emergency. al roker has been looking at the best and worst case scenarios. al, what are you seeing? >> well, lester, it doesn't look great right now. this is a storm that is going to grow in strength. as you mentioned right now it's 175 miles east-northeast of the central bahamas. 85-mile-per-hour winds moving southwest at 8 so forward speed has started to pick up. we already have hurricane watches and warnings for the bahamas. five to ten inches of rain, some areas up to 20 inches of rain. and as it makes its way toward the bahamas tonight on into tomorrow it becomes a category 3 storm some time friday afternoon. it continues its path paralleling the coast and then making landfall sunday afternoon as a category 2 storm but continues inland as a tropical storm with winds of up to 65 miles per hour and the rainfall amounts anywhere from five to ten inches of rain, gusts to 40 miles per hour starting saturday night, high surf, beach erosion, power outages, f

east coast. cars in hoboken new jersey already underwater at this hour as rain pounds down in that area. a similar sight in virginia. you can see a truck as it trug ls to move a tree that came crashing down on the road as the water is around it. the east coast could be in for a one-two punch as tropical storm joaquin strengthens over the atlantic. we'll be batching this throughout day. >>> not even the pope could save her life. the woman who -- she was executed in georgia. she was put to death after a five-hour delay and including one from the pope himself. she's the first defemale to be skewed in 70 years. >>> edward snowden is on twitter. the former government contractor who leaked private information about national security has more than 900,000 followers. snowden follows just one account, the nsa. he's hiding out in russia where he's been granted assaye hum to avoid those peaage charges. >>> the controversial clerk said she met are pope francis in washington, d.c. her legal team said the pope told her to stay strong and even gave her rosary beads. the former arkansas governor, mike huckabee, who supported davis

east and west. there will be problem spots today. thunderstorms around d.c. down to virginia. you may run into wet roadways if packing up the car heading to the beach. labor day weekend phenomenal. check this out. boston in the 70s, 81 new york city. this is after 93 yesterday. looking at mid-80s by sunday with lots of sunshine. notice the orange colors down here to the south. that's shower activity hit or miss. don't cancel the plans if you're down in the outer banks. rain is involved. by monday, hotter temperatures. temperatures by 90 by the time we get to labor day itself. thunderstorms saturday, sunday, monday. muggy with temperatures in the 80s. overall, most the country nice this labor day weekend. >>> there's been a significant development in the killing of the officer. the resident has turned in surveillance home video from police. it may give includes to the suspects. police are planning a news conference this afternoon. a funeral will be held monday. >>> in philadelphia, video shows the moment a mass gunman enters a home grabbing a woman. scary stuff there. you can s

east coast. but another storm. the heavy rain in the south like here in virginia forced the evacuation of homes and road closures.ome schools closed early just in time for the kids to see halloween pumpkins wash away down a creek. there is also a state of emergency in the florida panhandle with major flooding. many homes and farms are cut off with roads impassable. businesses closed early. drainage systems are overtaxed. and the rain raised the shoal river's water level by more than ten feet. >>> that rainfall from the southeast is also drenching the northeast. >> and right behind this storm is joaquin, growing into a hurricane. here's meteorologist justin povick at accuweather. hey, justin. good morning to you. >> reena and kendis, thanks. and good morning to you. we're tracking more heavy rains throughout the northeast into portions of new england. and i do suspect this is going to cause additional flash flooding problems all throughout the day. new york city north and eastbound toward bangor. in fact, i wouldn't be surprised if some areas receive close to ten inches of rain before it's all said and done later

east lansing. notre dame with some momentum off this performance, goes on the road against virginia. what do you make of the oklahoma/tennessee game. you like both of those teams. >> kirk: i do. didn't surprise me to see tennessee early have struggling with bowling green. oklahoma, we'll see. that game is, i think, pivotal -- pivotal for both teams, though it's a nonconference team. >> chris: bama fans are going to be watching that lsu/mississippi state game. >> kirk: both teamss hovers in the top five. we enjoyed that game a year ago, watching that one when michigan state was playing well out at eugene early. >> chris: harris again. picks his way for a short gain. wisconsin defense still scrapping and fighting. the starters are still out there. >> kirk: you have to. we talked about, you're evaluating constantly. week one. i don't care how good your week one is or how bad your week one is, it's week one. and you've got to be able to get ready for week two and beyond. and you learn a lot about how your team handles adversary. that's really what makes a team become special is when they