so 9:00 there is those showers that we were looking at in southwestern virginia. a few isolated showers in the early afternoon. but then here comes a line of storms with that frontal system at 3:45, that will continue to travel to the east. heavy at times dropping a lot of rain, but then rapid clearing after that. we'll go over exactly what you can expect once again for next week coming up in just a few minutes. >>> lauren oig, thanks so much. next up we have "reporter's notebook." >> and we'll be back in 15 minutes. >>> good morning. i'm pat lawson muse. let the single tracking begin. 13 straight days for starters followed by close to a year of disruptions. safetrack is up and running and a lot of folks are bracing for the impact. crowded stations, extra long wait times and more. mark segraves and scott macfarlane are joining us this morning. are youpr d.c.'s hair asking metro to reconsider midnight closings on weekends? sounds like they're not ready. >> ready or not, here it comes. and what mayor bowser is concerned about is night-life. you have all these clubs,

later today, really going to favor areas like charleston and then more so into central sandrrg southwestern virginia. for us, we've actually lost some of that storm risk from the storm prediction center. now they're putting us just in that marginal category. so a change in a better direction for us as we head thunderstorms are going to stay in the forecast. that's what we're going to watch as we head out later on today, and we're starting to find sunshine, and general temperatures make their way up into the 80's. up to the get outside now that we're drying out? we're about 7959 1:00. when those thunderstorms start to pop up, i'm expecting about 4:00, and then through the evening. i'll time those out by you, and we'll look at a much prettier weekend forecast. oh, that's in just a few minutes. jummy? jummy: josh, thank you. stay with abc 7 weather team. we have you covered around the clock on air, online, and on your smartphone with our free storm watch weather app. come up on abc 7 news at noon -- an update on the water main break and a huge hole that opened up last night in alexandria and how long t

washington with his classic book, when the war closed, freedom came to southwestern virginia. they read the emancipation proclamation and this surrender that brought long-awaited deliverance. in the 20th century, african-americans who had been slaves, echoed such published reminiscences. fannie barry remembers slaves post into spontaneous song when they learned the white flag had been raised. they knew they were free. as news of the surrender traveled through the south, slaves are away from the triumphs in the end of their enslavement. lineup, theyour status quo of slavery cap right since thead emancipation proclamation. it was only when generally surrendered that -- general lee surrendered that we felt we were free. eliza washington told her interviewer, these are interviews conducted by the federal writers project in the 1930's, she told her first thing ithe remember is living with my mother in arkansas about 1866. i know it was 1866 because that was the year after the surrender, and we know the surrender was in 1865. " just as appomattox continued in many slaves memories, i

in kentucky and west virginia and southwestern virginia.lenty of thunderstorm warnings, flood warning. tbofl ball size -- golf-ball sized hail. moving to the southeast. one little shower, thought was going to make its way. it just fell apart. as it crossed into i-81. this is the reason for the yellow weather alert. all of this activity is going to be tracking across west central pennsylvania. harrisburg is getting a thunderstorm right now. this also. see it fall apart here. near bedford. this is also a tough time moving southeast. but we're going to watch this for a few there's certainly a potential for a few showers. isolated thunder for this evening and tonight. one positive. it's going to -- didn't get too warm today. temperatures now on the 70s and low 80s. in fact, it's a rain-cooled 60s and 70s. 81 in easton. and 78 in waldorf. plenty of clouds still going on. michael and sons weather camera. that dew point near 70 now. and temperature up 79. but a lot better than any other area in the country today and tomorrow. forecasting a high of

into virginia, west virginia, and southwestern pennsylvania.s a large area of thunderstorms to track as we go through the day today. that's today. today and into tonight we'll see those showers and thunderstorms. they clear out for tomorrow. 86 degrees the high temperature on friday. by saturday and sunday, the first summer weekend, it is going to be warmer. upper 80s to near 90 degrees sunday afternoon. monday, clouds and 88 degrees with some sunshine as well. tuesday, wednesday, and into thursday we could see scattered showers and the possibility of thunderstorms. that threat disappears for friday and next saturday. vai? >> all right. thank you, bill. >>> 21 minutes past 5:00 a.m. on this thursday, june 23rd. turned on its side. ahead, find out what happened to the driver after this car crash and what neighbors saw just after it happened. >>> plus, in the aftermath of a hollywood star's death, a popular automaker is now warning its customers. find out how the company is trying to prevent anymore accidents involving its vehicles. ♪ i was on my

, towelly, more like a cluster of thunderstorms, that is moving in from western maryland, virginia, southwesternto washington, d.c., where it is starting to rain right now, baltimore area, about to get that rain. and you can see, with the yellow that's where heavier rain; it is even heavier rain, so at moderate to slight risk of severe thunderstorms, today specially this morning, all probably see little something before the end of the morning, unless you're up in the lehigh valley and the poconos, may escape all of this, but look at this mess down to the south of us, moving through dover, delaware, by about 10:00 and then headed into yep cape may county, one against before the morning is through. so let's put this altogether in the seven day forecast, little unsettled today. chance of some thunderstorms, 80 degrees. tomorrow, it does look like we will calm down for fine friday, and we will he can tends that nice weather into the weekends, even into monday before another system bringing pop up thunderstorms, headed to the shore looks like beach temperatures, got to keep eye on the sky, tomorrow l

we are tracking a few light showers in through virginia and southwestern pennsylvania.at's a possibility for a few spots this afternoon. i thinkç most of the area stay dry today. that will change it. look at the showers and thunderstorms moving through the chicago area. it's a ways to go before it comes to us. count on that weather to be in the area for tomorrow morning. put your rain gear on stand by. you'll need sun glasses this morning partly sunny skies. most of the area will be dry at that time. those go into the late evening hours. that's at 11:30. that line of showers moves through the philadelphia area. that chance increases by this time tomorrow. a rainy morning, on and off showers to start with, we'll continue into the afternoon tomorrow. today, sunshine and a few clouds. 84 degrees. a slight chance of a shower tonight. most of the wet weather comes in tonight and tomorrow. that's going to really cool things down for tomorrow. it starts to warm back up on friday. 75 degrees at least. we get more sunshine. we could easily hit 80 degrees if those clouds clear e

virginia. floodwaters have killed at least 23 people. the severe weather comes as residents confront overwhelming damage to their homes and businesses. we're live in the southwestern part of west virginia along the banks of the elk river. garrett, how are things looking? >> reporter: rain is the last thing that folks here need. the national weather service a few minutes ago issued a flash flood warning. that has officials worried, because if any of these areas get more flooding, that will only add to the cleanup efforts as folks have just been starting to get out and get their lives back together. this is some of the damage out from the advent christian church here. they've been clearing this out over yesterday and today, and just this past hour, the governor of west virginia wrapped up a press conference here. he says he has heard from at least a half dozen governors asking what they can do to help. he says there will now be 700 national guard troops here on the ground assisting in these recovery efforts. one of the things he was asked was, was there enough warning, did folks get enough of a heads up? he said with this kind of thousand-year flood, there wasn't a

they're moving through areas of southwestern pennsylvania and central pennsylvania into west virginia and virginia. the shower threat today will continue into tonight. in fact, strong late-evening thunderstorms are possible, even into early tomorrow morning. during the day today, neighborhoods will warm only to 80 degrees this afternoon. temperatures really held back, thanks to the clouds coming in and the chance of some showers and thunderstorms. philadelphia, the suburbs of the lehigh valvalley. the forarther north you go, the less likely you'll see storms. newark, 81 degrees this afternoon. 80 for dover. atlantic city and linwood get some sunshine. it's already starting to fade. wildwood could see stronger storms. a little farther to the north, you're less likely to see those storms. there's still a chance of showers and thunderstorms during the day. this is the area of storms that we've been tracking that moved through the midwest last night. it's a large area. look at the line of very heavy thunderstorms. severe thunderstorms and flooding rains of 1 1/2 to 2 inches as those storm

of storms one after the next cutting right through especially central areas of west virginia and then this southwestern i test test a 1 in 1,000 year event hang here. it's a very hilly mountainous range. that water very quickly rises because it funnels down in throughout the low lying areas and in throughout the ravines and such and floods quickly. it goes up quickly and goes away quickly, most of it is gone now, now it is the recovery period and the big cleanout that's going to go on all weekend long. a lot of people without power. it's very warm there. a very hot, humid, uncomfortable weekend and obviously so much destruction going on there. greta? >> and to think 20 people dead already and it just looks worse. rick, thank you. >> you bet. >> the live twitter voting results on your screen right now is brexit good for trump and the numbers are 10% say no. 90% say yes. and don't forget to vote on twitter every night. that's all for now. see you monday night right here at 7:00 p.m. eastern. don't forget to go to my facebook page and gretawire. two great lace places to go on social media my facebook page

southwestern pennsylvania. these light rain showers here across central west virginia, those are the ones that will be in the shenandoah valley in about the next hour or two. so commuting along i-81, you will need the wind shield wipers. and around the metro,need the w. and around the metro, chants get higher with the heat of the day. it is muggy outside. as you plan out your day, a lot of breaks of sunshine from mid or late morning up into the early afternoon hour. temperatures rising into the low 80s, but there will be a collapse for a thunderstorm or two. not much in the wave severe weather threat for today. you can see the widespread nature of it there on our future weather. hit and miss showers around during the course of the afternoon becoming more and more likely as we get close are toward sunset. meanwhile if you're ze heading down to the beach, saturday will be the best day at the beach. so go on down today and enjoy your weekend. the whole weekend, sunday looks a little on the stormy side. some could be very heavy rain producers and there is a chance to severe weather on sunday, as well. have your nbc washing

virginia. unfortunately, we had more scattered showers and storms and throughout today. flash flood warnings remain inai part for the southwesternnight and then thunderstormsth e now the highest threat is north of us not wested of us in west virginia they could still see some agent middle part of the week looks great. i think we m got a couple of fuy dry days.dr into they holiday weekend we'll have your first look at what promises to be a very summery like weekend. w we head into july beginning on friday. storm strack consider radar we had showers that wentck c throuh this evening it remained in cree belle mild outside.mild we got plenty of moisture in place. we've seen storms bubble up ovep the past hour or to write around district certainly the beltway.w one by beltsville, prince george's county right now, been drifting east ward. road in these sees that scenes very very heavy rain sitting offer fairfax, kingstown, yougso guys saw heavy rain win the weight hour.ht if you are under one of it's pouring, if you are not you don't know what i'm talking about.ab what has been tolding together a stronger clast, plenty of lightening s

give you another update for those of you just joining us, southwestern loudoun county, central clark county and central/your county, all in virginia until central fauquier county until 6:30 p.m. south and east. right now, no reports that anything is actually on the ground area just a tornado warning. that weradar indicating have had a couple of these in the afternoon and early evening hours. if you are watching us in loudoun or clark, this is the time you need to seek shelter. we have a severe thunderstorm warning for jefferson, and talk your county until 6:30 p.m. this evening. fauquier here -- county until 6:30 p.m. this evening. this is all moving off for the 25 -- offeast around toward the south and east of around 25 miles per hour. this is all part of a complex storm system is going to continue to move our way as we head to eat hours. evening hours.he just to give you a little perspective -- head through the evening hours. we are going to show you the track for this as we head through the next half hour to 45 minutes. , percy bell at around 5:58 p.m. about 10bill at minutes after 6:00. marshall at around 6:45 p.m. this is on

virginia planters basically, and then one wealthy new englander. but jackson really initiates a period when what was then the west, which is tennessee, kentucky, and these southwestern states, begin to call the shots. and polk and johnson are both their democrats with a small d and believe in the privacy of the small man. that was really what tennessee presidents bring to the american political system. >> our cities tour staff recently traveled to nashville, tennessee to learn about its rich history. learn more about national and other stops on our tour at c-span.org. you are watching american history tv. all we can, every week and on c-span3. >> each week, american artifact takes years into hisri

of the three hour loop here in eastern virginia, a little hint of moisture moving in and computer modeling trying to bring in a quick shower for far southwestern corner in our area at some point today but for the mess part we will stay dry across the region as a whole. our temperatures in the lower 60's and cool as the low 40's like we are in mount pocono but that win, any breeze at all has been essentially tapered off completely. while it is a cool start you may want to think about grabbing a fleece or jacket, but later today it looks nice, even they clouds will start to rebuild generally speaking we are looking at a dry day because of the cloud, uv index may in the be as high as yesterday but please do not let that deter from you putting on the sun block. looking at area headlines and as cloud rebuild wet weather moving in, coming up later in the show we will time this out for you give you a sense of when you'll see umbrella at the ready and have your father's day outlook. i will give you a hint. right the now that fathers day weekend forecast is looking darn nice. >> yes, proud of our dad out there, awesome. katie, thank you. good morning e

virginia planters basically, and then one wealthy new englander. but jackson really initiates a period when what was then the west, which is tennessee, kentucky, and these southwestern states, begin to call the shots. and polk and johnson are both their democrats with a small d and believe in the privacy of the small man. that was really what tennessee presidents bring to the american political system. >> our cities tour staff recently traveled to nashville, tennessee to learn about its rich history. learn more about national and other stops on our tour at c-span.org. you are watching american history tv. all we can, every week and on c-span3. >> each week, american artifact takes years into historical sites across the country. up next, we visit the smithsonian air and space museu. jeremy kinney is a curator who shows us some of the museum's prayer and one-of-a-kind artifacts. >> hello. we're going to go through a tour of some artifacts that really stand out in terms of the story of higher, faster, and farther. first, i would to talk about the museum overall. it has over 8 million visitors a year. looking at the story of flight in the atmosphere, where i work in, we

virginia then onebasically, and wealthy new englander. ut jackson really initiates a period when what was then the west, which is tennessee, kentucky, and these southwesternts. johnson are both his heirs in a sense that small democrats with a " "d"and they believe in the common man and the presidency should be an agency for promoting those nterests, and that really is what tennessee presidents bring to the american political system. >> all weekend long, american history tv is joining our partners to showcase the history of nashville, tennessee. cities more about the on our current tour, visit c-span.org/citi c-span.org/citiestour. look at thewith our history of nashville. > the civil rights room is a sacred space, in 1954, after the brown decision, the year after king's assassination. purpose of this space is to engage our community and is to pivotal and focus the role that nashville students, ashville's clergy, nashville's elected officials played in crafting this path toward segregated institutions. and so when you walk in this of e, you get an idea something sacred took place right here in this very spot and it are standing, gives it merit and sort of

southwestern u.s. starting to see more showers and thunderstorms forecast for that area. you can see there is a small chance that we could see isolated severe weather across portions of the carolinas, virginiad parts of the plains. that's something to keep a close watch on. otherwise, temperatures in the southeast and the plains already very warm. many areas with temperatures into the 70s. as we head into this afternoon, they will be heating up into the 90s. heads up across the southwestern u.s., you're getting relief from the very hot temperatures in place over the last couple of weeks. in phoenix, closer to average. 100 degrees this afternoon and you should be at 80 in l.a. back to you inside. >> one of our guests lives in los angeles. >>> fans know him from the champ and silver spoons and later in nypd blue. the now golden globe winner ricky schroeder is telling stories from behind the camera. >> oh, what a cute child. and his new six-part documentary series. it tells the stories of our soldiers in afghanistan. it is from their perspective with footage from their own cameras attached to their helmets. look. >> 3, 2, 1. hit it. >> if you don't return fire, you're going to be on the receiv