north of washington, northern maryland, a little more under the gun than southern maryland. rain chances pretty solid just about everywhere. thunderstorm chances today, marginal risk for severe weather. up across southern pennsylvania, northernmost maryland. have your nfc washington app loaded and ready to go. thunder, at least 50%. rain chances dropped to just the occasional shower chance for tomorrow. thursday and most of your friday will be dry as well. friday evening we may have to put a chance for a thunderstorm in there. unfortunately, jack, we have a chance for rain over the weekend. doesn't look like a watchoushou >> i'll figure it out today. accident activity in centreville. good news there. looks like anybody that was left there has cleared the scene. 95 northbound north of triangle sounds like v dot or state police with a vehicle on the left shoulder. that a parnsly has been activity. sounds like now soup and park trau back to you. >>> close calls putting lives of law enforcement in jeopardy. what's driving the trend behind rising crashes involved. >>> new focus f

by 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, some of these storms in northern maryland could be on the strong to severe side.ur nbc washington app ready to go. you can track the rain drops as they come in later on today. most of the thunderstorms are up across parts ever northern pennsylvania. as the front gets closer to us there will be an opportunity for stronger, potentially severe weather. better risk -- higher risk for severe weather north of the city up into parts of northern maryland and central pa. here's your five day forecast. around. hit and miss thunderstorm chances. little bit more thunderstorms. maybe a rumble or two. dry weather for the weekend. good morning. >> good morning, chuck. breaking news is still on the rails. unscheduled track work on the red line this morning. it is between fort to the ten and gallaudet. shuttle bus service has been established. metro authorities are saying customers should consider using the green line as an alternate. escalated a bit in maryland, 95 southbound approaching the split from call very ton. fire and rescue arrived on the scene in the middle of the roadw

rain chance virginia and northern maryland. prince george's county, if it's not raining at your house, don't worry, it will be soon. cool and wet this morning. we will actually get a break or two of sunshine around lunchtime today. putting temperatures into the mid 70s. that leads to thunderstorms this afternoon. steady rain this morning out of here by about 10 or 11:00. peaks of sunshine early afternoon. then we destabilize a bit and add up to thunderstorms later this afternoon or evening. tomorrow looks like a pretty nice day. outside chance of a shower. rain saturday night and into sunday. i'll have that forecast and maybe a passing shower monday. it might be the middle part of next week before we can get two whole days without rain. >> not totally excited about that. i'd like a little bit more sunshine than we're seeing. new business route, lanes blocked because of crash and response on the scene. inner loop at george pike, lanes closed. everything else right now looking pretty good. again, all of the green here showing you

ago, his wife was in the hospital and the computer was down in the landline at their home in northern maryland only makes local calls. what did he do? >> i made a phone call, locally, to my son and daughter- in-law in maryland and asked them to forward the messages to children in virginia. >> reporter: that was good enough. he likes to keep it simple. how does that make you feel? >> i feel at ease. >> reporter: we showed him what he could be missing a touchscreen to solve problems quickly. >> i don't know if i would trust myself with using this. >> reporter: he could pay bills from mobile apps. >> touch id for my at&t? >> reporter: the touch of my thumb print. >> wow! >> reporter: and using face time. >> hello. >> reporter: he is impressed, but not enough to buy a phone of his own. >> i am use to going one-on-one and stop wasting so much time on your cell phones and on your computers. just get a life. >> reporter: a little advice from a wise man who loves his simple life. mikea turner, wusa9. >> christopher does not have a social media, but will and friends. only 40% of households have a landl

only the lightest chance for northern maryland. here's your ten day forecast. 83 today. 91 tomorrow. 92 on thursday. next chance for rain is friday afternoon with a chance of showers. rain you can keep it rain free i'll be very happy with you. in bound river road at golds boro, still have that milling and paving project. the live picture is here blocking the left side of the roadway. inner loop after pennsylvania, still blocking the right lane. rest of the beltway is fine. southbound 295 east capitol still blocking the right lane. 95 southbound the ramp to deal city has the right lane getting by the work zone. same thing, southbound after route 1 spotsylvania, right lane getting by the work zone there. >>> 4:54. this morning we can show some pride for two students in our area. >> they are among the top ten finalists in this year's national geographic bee. max garand is an eighth grader. here he is in the middle. anish the finals will be held tomorrow. >>> if you're wondering how hard the questions are, here's a winning question fro

. -- llite and radar are left with cloud cover with the sunshine across pennsylvania and northern maryland. some bright spots from time to time. we do expect a dry afternoon. it all changes this evening with the next batch of rain coming in. i think things work out fi start of the nationals' second home game with the mariners. we will see rain increase in probabilities as we go through the evening hours. fingers crossed for that. futurecast, the rain, it breaks, more rain. tomorrow, showers around early in the morning. through the rush hour, midmorning, it takes a brief break, then more showers and storms. an upper-level low to the west. our most active weather day of the whole week is going to be tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening. we will take close look at the holiday weekend in about seven minutes and 25 seconds. lindsey: right now, there is a new effort to crack down on the heroin and opioid epidemic. earlier today, the virginia attorney general joined community leaders and law enforcement to address the crisis. john gonzalez was at that meeting in alexandria. john: a serious discus

out of pennsylvania and here they are in the pittsburgh region, right down 70 coming in toward northern marylandg showers there and towards calvert county. you see it east of hagerstown. generally just north of i-70 we're seeing the activity starting to pick up a little bit of stre going to be just on side of mount airy crossing route 27 and going in towards howard county. the one in myersville headed towards frederick or maybe the north of frederick, potentially up towards route 40. the showers that are down in towards calvert county, unimpressive at best here as they're crossing the patuxent river near benedict and hughesville. breezy conditions across the region. that will be the case this afternoon. highs in the mid to upper 70s, and at times those winds are going to gust 25, close to 30 miles an hour. good news for the nats weather- wise. breezy and dry. i think you need to take a jacket or sweat shift. we'll be in the low 70s, first pitch is 7:05. by 9:00, so what are we talking, 6th, 7th, 8th inning we'll be in the mid-60s. if i'm going i'm grab sweatshirt. weather headlines, more showers

most places will be up in northern maryland and loudoun county in the shenandoah valley.ere's your ten-day forecast. 93 today. 92 tomorrow. still near 90 on friday. but the increasing clouds and the rain chance should keep us out of the 90s. look at that for the weekend, highs back down in the 70s. good running and biking weather for the weekend. sheena's got a closer look today, hour by hour, coming right up. >>> ahead at 5:00, it was a day that started like any other, when they dropped their son off at day care. but it ended tragically, how the 4-year-old managed to get his hands on a gun minutes before killing himself. >>> and it's a device giving co hope. you thousand a 3d me to listen carefully. i'm ralph northam,aught and when survivors of the virginia tech shooting asked me to support an assault weapons ban and close the gun show loophole, i took on the fight. as an army doctor during the gulf war. now, i'm listening carefully to donald trump, and i think he's a narcissistic maniac. whatever you call him, we're not letting him bring his hate into virginia. >>> in n

noticed our futurecast was trying to track one closer to northern maryland tomorrow. this is what we're to be mighty steamy all of a sudden with not a whole lot of notice to get you ready for it. we have seen this coming a little while. a pop storm possible friday. and then we cool it off a little bit for friday. so far we think we increased the clouds a little bit, but keep the rain at bay. monday a couple thunderstorms, 83-degrees and tuesday about 81 shawn and tony, that's your seven day forecast. >> thank you much. if you are looking to lose weight you might want to take consider taking a bath. researchers at love borrow university in england found that a hot bath reduces your blood pressure, gets your metabolism goes and burns cath calories. the same as a half hour walk. >> why are you laughing, shawn. >> forget walking we're going to sit in a bath all day. turn the shawn a on. by the out we'll all be tiny. how about this one, a new bow teak gym in london is focused on just working out your face. the 230u7bder claims you will leave looking younger as one visit. t

through 7:00, sticking with showers, especially through northern maryland, and headed through the middle, 10:00, things will let up a bit, especially through virginia, looking drier. 12:30, very dry, and setting the stage with the winds turning, and thunderstorms brewing. not a total washout, but we will see the thunderstorms roll on through, and then finally we trier weather this is tomorrow morning at 10:00. a few stray showers out there. >> we have construction happening on the beltway. all my alerts that the -- at this point are for the beltway this traffic camera looking like the traffic is not having a problem getting around the construction on the beltway. >> outer loop, and then a couple of accidents at the inner loop. we have a crash without any backups and the same down on the inner loop before you hit the springfield interchange. a crash here as well. mike and jan, you can get by without delay. >>> a moment of silence across the u.k. today for the victims of the bombing at manchester area that parents -- arena. parents as -- and children as young as 8 years

higher risk for stronger thunderstorms in northern maryland than southern maryland.ay's forecast, increasing clouds, rain and thunder showers. even some strong ger storms a possibility today. high near 79 degrees. chance you're going to get rained on at least 50%. chances around for tomorrow as well. >> whose turn is it now? >> jack taylor's. >> how's traffic looking? >> well, i'm going to start with the good news. maryland, 270 southbound live look near 109. heavy but no huge delay. metro has a gigantic problem this morning unfortunately. the red line. no train service nor noma-gallaudet and fort totten. just in though, sounds like a trouble spot out in virginia on 50 westbound near lee road. that may be blocking the west-bound lanes. i'll have more in the next report. >>> checking our top stories at 5:32. 20-year-old reuben ortiz and 19-year-old shawnee copp will appear in court as they charged in a rock ri. montgomery county police say they retaliated after the victim robbed them and group during an arranged drug deal. >>> two shootings in the same northwest d.c.

already to the north in northern maryland. we are seeing this next huge area around the d.c. metro, reston and leesburg and out towards loudoun county. coming down now on the western portion of the beltway. late are crossed and mclean, out towards fairfax and chantilly. another wave making its way up braddock and mclean and the silver hill area. temperatures today, mid to upper 60's through the morning. the lightning and thunder coming our way in the afternoon hours. 3:00, overcast. 72-75 degrees. everything winding down in the afternoon. chance of rain tomorrow between 10:00 and 4:00. temperatures staying flat at 40 degrees -- 60 degrees. planning for this weekend and next week in. look at the temperatures for next weekend. the 60's. slight chance of rain for mother's day. heavy rain up until lunchtime for today. the weekend with unsettled conditions. tossing it over to eileen whelan who is in burke, virginia. i've been: we continue to -- eileen: we continue to move we are catching a little bit of a break. commuters, do not be fooled. it looks a little brighter. but, the clo

a few showers up toward northern maryland as well. in close we have a couple of showers moving through prince george's county over to calvert county and a few scattered showers here and there. so bottom line i think it's going to be overnight before we get more decent showers coming in here. it definitely looks impressive, but we have he to wait for a bit more of this to come in. it be some showers in the overnight hours. it's definitely stormy down to our south. we have some tornadoes and flood watches in effect for the carolinas and foor parts of georgia into florida and a little bit of alabama. that kind of of weather not in the cards for us if you're thinking about heading to the game, the nats are taking on the mariners at seven:05, treatment of 65-degrees there could be a few showers around, but it doesn't look very heavy and maybe a delay but i think it would be the type of thing where you can still get the afterwards. i'm pretty optimistic that they play tonight and we'll keep a close eye on radar. the trend is for more to be

up across the northern maryland virginia. nothing all that heavy. but you will get a quick five-minute rain shower from martinsburg to hagerstown within the next 40 minutes or so. a chance of storms coming up later on this afternoon. sheena's talking about that in two or three minutes from now. for now, melissa mollet. >> trouble on the outer alone at connecticut avenue. they do have the left side of the roadway blocked this morning. starting to see slowdowns at the top of the beltway. northbound glebe at 123. northbound lanes are blocked because of a downed tree there. sounds like we're sending a crew there. northbound side before bryantown road, still has the left lane getting by those downs wires. the beltway, inner loop and outer loop, no big problems there, aaron. >> melissa, thank you. 5:15. let's take a look at stories making headlines outside of our area. >> we begin with a threat from north korea, and what's being done to stop it. the united states says its missile defen s the pentagon shut down an intercontinental missile in a successful t

there is risk of very marginal severe weather tomorrow and that's mainly northern maryland into pennsylvania got two fronts colliding here. now towards west. stationary boundary south. temperatures will be in the 70s for washington into the 80s though as you get to central virginia and we'll have a similar situation with morning clouds giving way to breaks of sun in the afternoon and that could then refuel thunderstorms. here's what it looks like. closing out memorial day with clouds rolling in late and this is a little aggressive we may have to enhance that rain chance for tomorrow morning if models continue to show this and that would be heavy rain as we hit the roads morning commute tomorrow and perhaps two rounds of rain early afternoon breaks of sunshine may feel some of the showers again later in the afternoon. so, unfortunately staying unsets sled for at least another night. 78 tomorrow. cooler. morning clouds and showers. 83 and little warm were thunderstorm on wednesday. thursday like i mentioned that is the day to be outdoors. it's beautiful. most of friday nice too. warm, 86. late

notice how the rain hasn't made it up to northern maryland. tomorrow during the day really just a whole lot of cloud cover. not much rain threat until very late wednesday night on into the early part of thursday morning. a lot of rain chances. as you go out the door, upper 60s to around 50s. highs in the 60s with thickening clouds. going out to the baseball game tonight, the mariners are in town. should be able to get the game started but i couldn't rule out a delay as rain chances creep up. for tomorrow, a shower early and late in the day. cloudy and cool in the 70s. thunderstorms and rain likely on thursday. friday and saturday look great. temperatures in the upper 70s to 80 degrees. a few more minutes we'll take you all the way through the holiday weekend. >>> outer loop at gw parkway, that crash is on the right shoulder. outer loop at little river turnpike on the shoulder as well. you can see the problem on the right-hand side. northbound indian head highway, quite slow through prince george's county after the wilson bridge. as far as trav

patchy fog in northern maryland and the inner harbor. for today, partly and cloudy day.eezy, temperatures well into the upper 70s and low and mid 80s. chances for rain come in later on today especially this evening. school day forecast, not much of a chance for rain before 4:00. after 5:00, 6:00, it will be an increasing chance for showers. sneaking ahead for the weekend, way cooler. highs only in the 60s. for today there's an enhanced risk for severe weather that includes all of the news 4 nation today. our primary threat time in weather alert mode from 4:00 p.m. to midnight the likelihood of storms reaching i-81 about 5:00 or 6:00. could be inside the d.c. metro area between 7:00 and 10:00 p.m. there's that swath of rain ahead of it. cold enough on the back where that is snow all the way down to kansas and nebraska. with that much cold air on the back side, that's the reason we have an opportunity for stormy weather. warm. 85 today. 70s later on in the week. might have some strong storms today joompt outer loop here at leesburg pike, a little alert here. 1 mile backup.

you can see on storm team 4 radar just a couple sprinkles way up across parts of northern maryland. no rain around the d.c. metro area, but a whole lot of cloud cover. couldn't rule out a stray sprinkle. not much to impact your day. we will break out into a fair amount of sunshine, enough to make today about 10 degrees warmer than yesterday. we were only 74 with the rain yesterday. we should be 84 degrees this afternoon. again still carrying a small 30% chance for showers into the afternoon. but again, if you need to go to the pool, don't forget your spf. >> thank you so much, chuck. >>> today is memorial day and all over our area, there will be tributes to remember the brave men and women who died for our country. >> and one will take place at arlington national cemetery where thousands of soldiers are buried. justin finch is live with more on the >> reporter: good morning. we can tell you large crowds are expected here as well. already we have seen flags and place cards for the fallen here as well as mourners gathering to have a moment of reflection or two here at the wall. and la

crash 270 southbound from northern maryland it's 124 montgomery village avenue and little caution there as we forward things along once again. dealing with again 300 block e street northwest reopened earlier police investigation at that location and things back to normal and route one main street remains closed southbound side near tebs lane near triangle shopping center take to 95 to get around that one. inside the district seeing a little bit of 295 delay and 7 minute slow down 50 to 11 street bridge typical volume picking up. any questions fox d.c. twitter things slowing false church. allison and steve. >> airport, thank you. more commuter news happening today maryland proposed purple line will be focus on discussion among state and country leaders and comes days after lawmakers passed federal spending bill which does include millions of dollars for the purple line. prince george county executive baker is hosting today's ev event. >> also happening today 23 annual blue mass here in d.c.. first responders from federal, state and local jurisdictions will gather who lost their lives ser

there are even rumbles of thunder into northern virginia, shenandoah valley, parts of northern maryland. this ribbon of rain drops with thunderstorms from winchester to frostberg. all coming down towards the i-95 corridor. raining from prince william county parkway. not expecting any severe weather. it is not going to be a severe weather day. future weather carries the chances for rain right here now and about 8:30 to 9:00. likely to have quite a bit of rain here during the first half of the afternoon but then after 2:00, 3:00, may try to trend downward just a little bit. on the whole though it's going to be a cloudy and rainy day today. temperatures stuck into the 50ed. hoping to go to the nats and orioles game, that could be postponed. nonetheless, they don't like playing baseball in the rain. rain moves in today, showery tomorrow. first part of saturday looking wet as well. maybe we can get the water works turned off around saturday afternoon. sunday looks great for mother's day, melissa. >> i thought you meant the water works in the studio because people were crying. >> oh, no. >> y

inside the beltway in falls church and arlington traffic is looking g same story 270 northern maryland to frederick and gaithersburg this space between the vehicles southbound volume picking up and college park outer loop past new hampshire light volume 95 to george aavenue same store sxwri inner loop quiet as you make your way off the spur there from 270 to the beltway as well. love what we're seeing on all of the secondarys in the district. quick look at maps. we're seeing all green all good everywhere and if you're taking metro and skipping roads we're on time except for safe track. questions, erin fox drkts c. on twitter wisdom and holly. >> 5:18 is the time. stories you'reen gaming with most with the realtime news track. >> first up remember this picture the side by side look former president obama 2008 crowd size compared to president trump's. apparently president trump hunted down national park employee who tweeted the picture during mr. trump's first day in office he called the national park service to complain about the photo. ip address was craze california and was a employee

temperatures should be well into the 70s to the mid 80s, across our area, so probably upper zero seven northern marylandstill very comfortable. mid to upper four's, north and west, 57 in washington, 55 55 annapolis, 50 leonardtown, high temperatures tomorrow, i think most every douse hit 80, this might be little cool. but you get very comfortable, not any humidity just quite yet. but that will change as we get to the second half of the work week here. so noticeable change in our weather pattern, nice ridge builds in, wednesday, thursday, int and with that, the heat pump begins to blast. 80s and 90s, well into the 90's, i think here in washington wednesday. and thursday. but some real summer like weather gets you in the mood for the season to come t could be our first heatwave of 2017. little early, but you get three days in a row, and you have got the un official heat, 92 going wednesday, thursday 93, friday might be little tough to get day three with the cold front coming in, and chance of some thunderstorms, but regardless, these temperatures are so far above that average high temperature of 76, than

the chain revealed dozens of stores in northern virginia, maryland, and the district were hit. if you made a purchase between march 20 four and april 18, you could be impacted. the storeslist of and what you should do, visit our website, wjla.com. could you be overcharged at the emergency room? a new study says yes. at johns hopkins compared how much emergency departments build compared with how much medicare would allow, and the difference usually comes out of your pocket. they found that some marked up prices as much as 13 times what medicare would pay. my doherty's and the uninsured -- minorities and the uninsured appear to be getting the brunt of it. shethan: a he said, said about how a person wound up hurt in an emergency room. no criminal charges have been filed as of yet. jay: the name but have not identified her guardian's. she is two years old, left kind at a hospital in silver spring, holy cross hospital. the photo was first published by the national center for missing and exploited children. she it injuries on her lower body when she was brought in by a woman. the wo

let's z westminster up in northern maryland is 73. you can see supper 60's to our west.7. 69 this morning in hagerstown. we get our dewpoint temperatures, this measures how much water we have in the atmosphere. you get these above 65 and it gets noticeably uncomfortable and look at that dewpoint this morning in washington, 68 degrees. 69 in annapolis. very sticky air in place here and it's going to be another hot one. we'll see highs about 90 degrees. this cold front will drop down into our region later this afternoon and it will likely kick off a round of thunderstorms and much like yesterday, you know, i'm not sure the coverage will be terribly widespread but those that do get thunderstorms could see a few strong ones develop much like yeste some hail and some pretty good downpours and lots of cloud top ground lightning. here's futurecast. futurecast lovers the idea of the storms developing south of washington later this afternoon. we'll see if that materializes. looks like things are more favorable for storm activity to the south o this evening a few showers and storm

we are seeing light showers coming into northern virginia and northern maryland that.ay hold together just north of the metro area over the next several hours. most of this will be gone in the mid-afternoon. then it is mid to late afternoon where storms could be coming through. after that, maybe afternoon storms on sunday, maybe a morning shower memorial day. >>> and that's your latest forecast. >> all right, dylan, thank you. >>> generally end of the year classroom awards are supposed to be encouraging, but this morning a texas teacher is under fire for an award anything here's keir sanders. >> reporter: a mom points to her daughter's end-of-year classroom award. a texas teacher naming her most likely to become a terrorist. >> it was supposed to be a joke. >> reporter: was it a joke to you? >> no. >> reporter: the unnamed teacher thought it was a joke. but in a statement, the channelview independent school district apologized for the ins sensitive fake awards. the mother is furious. >> being a teacher, giving it to a 13-year-old, how is she gonna feel when she grows u

maryland. it may hold together into the northern neck after that, maybe around 7:00 to 8:00 p.m., but drying outre. temperatures hour by hour will stay in the upper 40s near 50 for a couple of hours. then hit upper 50s and hover near 60 degrees during the afternoon hours. .then by dawn tomorrow, it will just be near 40 degrees in many of the suburbs. some of the rural areas to our west and north will only be in the 30s tomorrow morning. might even have some catered frost here in may tomorrow morning out in the deeper valleys to our south and west. for the morning commute, need the heater on in the car. by noon time, upper 50s. partly sunny, partly cloudy. into tuesday and wednesday, chilly mornings again. afternoon highs, low to mid 60s on tuesday, upper 60s on wednesday, staying dry until thursday. that's our next chance of showers. off and on showers on thursday and cool again with highs only near 60 degrees. average high this time of year is 73. and we may not make that until a week from today. that may not be until, perhaps, next sunday when we'll be up into the low 70s by sunday afternoon.

and much of northern virginia and southern maryland as well showers are moving from south to north.ugh montgomery, howard, and maryland northern counties for the tuesday forecast in d.c.. showers today and tomorrow much cooler day. cloud and showers are likely. that's a check of the forecast erin como certain back to check you. >> good morning, mike, that's right we have a new crash outer loop little river turn pike. inner loop is small and blocking right shoulder. mess of police lights outside of the camera view there. sluggish conditions outer loop baingt little river turnpike, really heavy traffic. really typical for 35:37 in the morning. because of rain people leaving early. 20 minute delay 29 gainsville to 28 centerville. metro is on time except for safe track. >> erin fox d.c. on twitter. >> coming up reserveers say they found a positive healthy use for the zika virus. >> tonight city leaders in rockville your environmentp the. >> a live look in israel. mayor force landed minutes a ago. discussing restarting middle east peace negotiations with palestinians. time now is 5:38. 5

satellite and radar showing high, thin clouds, northern parings of maryland and west virginia. again unless we get to afternoon, sunshine is back in full force. will be a gorgeous spring day. which is what we should have early may. 62, 11 a.m., by 2:00, 6 5:00 this afternoon about 68. couple of clouds come across from time to time mostly sunshine this afternoon. all right that's a check of the forecast, erin como is back with a little look at traffic. >> 4:36 and rights now traffic is looking really nice outside. it's dark and quiet and no problems 295 in the district. 50 down by the hill quiet now getting out and about early and college park beltway looking good and south in virginia coming up from richmond into fredericksburg guy quiet. same story dale city. entire stretch is at speed, questions, erin fox d.c. on twitter, back to you. >> coming up, president trump and russian frump vladimir putin agreed to work together to stop the civil war. >> and enduring fans from fen way park is nothing knew. adam jones just made it national news. >> time now is we're back in a moment. e

delays toward father hurley right now that is causing some big slow downs this morning from northern marylandfrom father hurley down to the beltway things kind of get back to a normal traffic pattern through rockville this fort hunt road in alexandria still closed with a water main break at bellevue boulevard caution there and then 295 southbound even though earlier crash at east capital street cleared quite sometime ago still really heavy delays from 50 down to the 11th street bridge. new york avenue inbound super slow past bladensburg road and also suitland parkway dealing with usual morning slow downs as you try to get to south caply if you have any questions at erin fox5 on twitter. metro is on time except tracking safetrack delays on the green line and yellow rush plus. back to you allison and steve. >>> over the weekend touching story coming out of indiana. >> several members of the indianapolis metropolitan police department and other law enforcement agencies met at a cemetery to give the daughter avenue slain police officer a surprise prom send off. searer broadway's dad died in the l

current the temperatures upper 60s across northern maryland and northwestern virginia around 70 in and protecting it. confidence is a state of mind. find it in the free creditwise app from capital one. by providing your credit report, and alerts to changes, creditwise can give you credit....wiseness. if that's all, i'd like to get back to my chai tea. don't you mean tai chi? you tell me, greg. you tell me. what's in your wallet? codogs just won't quit.! neither does frontline. that's why there's frontline gold. with its easy applicator frontline gold delivers powerful protection that doesn't quit for a full 30 days. its triple action formula is relentless at killing fleas and ticks. frontline gold. the latest innovation from the maker of frontline plus. for persistent protection you can trust... good boy! go for the gold. frontline gold. available at your vet. just wash your hair, it fuels it. making every strand stronger. so tangles don't stand a

northern and western maryland around the shenandoah valley, in the month of may only three of the lastight days the high temperatures have been at or above average. the trend is going to continue. today, mid 60's for thursday. getting even cooler around here, temperatures rising by 9:00 a.m., other locations getting at least the upper 40's to around 50's. sunshine we will have an early spring chill for quickly and nicely into the afternoon hours, taking it up into the upper 60's for a high today. culpeper, fredericksburg, stafford, it will be a good-looking day for us, very bright. rain chances going up for friday. even with a 50% chance of that promisedng through, as i was going to show you the rain that we might get in some areas, perhaps even an inch and a half. many neighborhoods across the area by late saturday. coming through over 36 hours, withll in a short time, our mother's day forecast coming up in a few. julie? continuery busy as we with our rush-hour drive. let's get to it starting off here. southbound 270 out of germantown, the lanes were open but police have tell me they

visibility down near a mile or less across much of northern virginia into parts of northern maryland.et a few breaks of sunshine late morning and early afternoon. thunderstorm chances at 50%. have a good day. >>> and that is your latest weather. >>> all right. mr. roker, thank you very much. 8:17. a little late. good time for trending. we have a special guest. maria shriver. >> everyone have a good memorial day weekend? >> yeah. >> we're in the big, strong no. the wisconsin governor shared a photo of his kabobs on the grill. look at this. harmless photo. nothing wrong here. right? apparently governor walker was roasted on social media. hundreds of people tweeting back, many of them blasting his bbk technique. one person said not seasoned. chicken. this screams noro virus. were you raised by wolves. >> no good deed goes unpunished. >> come on. >> that's what works for him. >> people are so bored. they have so much time on their hands. >> now to the battle of the statues. we all know the famous wall street bull. the artist called it a symbol of strength and prosperity. then we were intr

severe weather risk slight risk off north across pennsylvania sliding to northern sliver of maryland there and most o marginal risk of severe weather later this afternoon and main threats today gusty whipped and large whale thunderstorms as well. we'll keep an eye on that. look at temperatures around the region start the day, mild start, 65 in d.c. and 67 quantico and 61 leonardtown and temperatures later this afternoon headed to 70s. not as warm as yesterday 85 on memorial day and only 77 later this afternoon with a little more cloud cover around than we he yesterday afternoon. take a look at "fox5" accuweather 7-day forecast warming up to 83 spotty storm and thursday dry day. sunny and 80 bringing in june on very nice note. let's check the forecast. erin, lady in red. >> that's right, 5:17 mike unfortunately problems. northbound third street tunnel tractor-trailer blocking all traffic lanes now and detour around that. working on gathering information just got update from d.c. police traffic aside from that earlier police anesthetic activity suitland parkway cleared a moving fine th

unless you are in extreme southern maryland, northern neck to the eastern shore. showers are popping up to harrisonburg. but if you look at the big pictures it's just one spot. south and southeast of the metro washington. the next organized batch in here midday tomorrow coming up from the gulf of mexico and the deep south. a cold front coming through to give us a brief area of high pressure. even though we will stay cloudy. we'll stay dry until we mitt later tomorrow and the next area comes up on the heels. check the timing. 9:30 in the morning. rain south of the washington metro. we will get to midday and early afternoon. overhead. low pressure offshore. once it moves out later we have another high pressure bubble in, another break. later on wednesday to thursday. repeat processes. little disturbances and bubble of high pressure. finally it looks like on friday we getry of the entire pattern. bigger version of what is happening here through wednesday evening. look at the rain. that is the third big batch of rain. which is interesting is earlier this morning the c

not until 9:00 tomorrow where it may be coming down harder and across northern virginia and marylandoon time just maybe a little bit light rain and a few passing showers mainly in virginia, that's going to be around 3:00 during the afternoon tomorrow, then after that by around 5:00 it starts to taper off a bit but still some moderate showers through central virginia and by the evening hours maybe just a little bit of drizzle around. so the pollen has improved as well. the trees now for the first time are down into the moderate range. the grass as well as in the moderate range. the grass pollen getting down and the weeds and mold spores are still in the low range. and then the upper 50s by midnight and for the morning commute tomorrow, rain to the 9:00 is when it's going to move in. so it should be dry for the morning commute. look at our temperatures holding steady in the 50s throughout day. your lunch hour wet, wet roads during the afternoon hours as well as you're heading back home during the afternoon on thursday. thursday night maybe a little bit of drizzle around and a little dr

northern neck. maybe clipping southern maryland here. five or six hours or so and maybe at the beaches after that. general trends will be drying out here. here's hour by hour timi region. these areas in color are some showers and some storms that move into western maryland by 5:00 p.m. maybe a few lighter showers to our south. most of them are going to be out in the mountains. later in the evening around 9:00 to 10:00 p.m., scattered thunderstorms, maryland, virginia, coming out of west virginia rolling right through the metro area between around 9:00 p.m. to midnight. after that things settle down and during the day on monday for memorial day temperatures should be up near upper 80s and feeling like summertime. right now near 70 degrees. reagan national is at 71. and play ball. nats park. first pitch is 1:35. by then we'll be in the mid 70s. near 80s through the rest of the game under a partly sunny sky so great afternoon for baseball at nats park and memorial concert cloudy and mild. showers should hold off. mid 70s. they come in right

mostly in through northern virginia and maryland. d.c., eastward, you might stay mostly dry, a few showers around d.c. so if you're going to be out this evening, with you. here comes the heaviest rain. that's the spin, bringing in all the moisture off the gulf, in the atlantic, into the region overnight and into tomorrow morning. let's time it out for you. but first, show you the temperatures. look at the temperatures here. 46, buffalo, 48 indianapolis, 63 lexington, 53 in st. louis. you think it has cool air? most of the eastern part of the nation, much cooler as a result of this storm. that's how big it is. this is just an hour away. seeing the rain around 10:00, mo mostly west of 95. and then early tomorrow morning, everybody in on the action. that's moderate to heavy rain for the morning commute. here's 6:00 a.m., 7:00 a.m., 8:00 in the morning, still dealing with the rain. you could run into big problems on the going to clear in the nchaftern. but possible showers, maybe a rumble of thunder. if we get any sun, that will help to

a couple of light showers howard county maryland northern portions of montgomery county about to slidever the beltway. that's about it. there could be a few more later this afternoon. let's get to your forecast. 78 degrees, a mix of clouds and sunshine. can't rule out a shower or two but compared to where we were yesterday, it will be a much drier day. all right. that's a check of your forecast. erin como i'm going to send it to you for traffic went got much more coming your way from ellicott city in a bit. >> looks like a beautiful day. go out and join the crew if you can for the first zip trip of the season. we have a problem 395 on the southbound side at glebe road. let's hop outside for a live look. there's a fallen tree that's blocking the right lane right shoulder. police are out the so the southbound side toward the beltway this could slow you down just a bit. again a tree fell over blocking the right lane. northbound side of 395 moving along without any problems. we'll forward our cameras along. this is 95 right now. traffic flowing through lorton on the northbound side. southb

. >> eric: peter, in virginia. 50% rate increase for maryland. northernginia. 29% increase for the district of columbia next year alone. >> i told a friend i was going to come on and talk about health care. it's like playing pickup basketball with lebron, ezekiel. if you lose bill clinton, the war is lost. bill clinton said last fall that obamacare is crazy. what -- >> he did not say that. >> a crazy system. the example he used is a guy that worked 60 hours and saw his deductible go up and the costs go up. my point is the system is not working. people know it's not working period the problem i have with the reform bill now is gates essentially saying we are going to be half pregnant. we have a fundamental choice. we continue down this direction we are going of greater government intrusion or we decide were going to have a free market oriented health care system. >> under obamacare, what happens? people go to the marketplace. they choose which insurance company they want and they get subsidized for it. that is the free market at its best. it >> kat: govern

cooler air and the clouds continuing and those clouds have kept things stable over much of northern virginia and maryland. we are watching these storms back to the west and these are pretty strong storms coming through luray. in towards eventually stay to the south. there is sunshine in this area. the wider picture shows it well. look at the low clouds. they're trying to get out of here. until they do, we're going to stay on the stable side. but once we get some sunshine, we think we could get storms. look at the line of storms from new york all the way through pennsylvania. not just through pennsylvania, all the way down towards tennessee, that's the line. so once again, if we get a little bit in the way of sunshine, we could pull some of these thunderstorms in and see a couple of strong ones in here. that's what our future weather model says. here's the storms to the south, we've seen some to the north as well. by 7:00, couple of storms, from d.c. southward, the best chances for storms. they move through overnight. by 11:00, still showers to the south. clouds return for early tomorrow morning, but the

if you live out toward the dulles air, northern virginiaor up toward north central maryland you likely had some scraping to do. so not that cool tonight, but we will fall into the upper 30s and low 40s. thirty-nine formatter instance bugger, hazes town. i wouldn't be shocked in a few spots may head down to the upper 30s. about 51 for the distrt. than last night. we'll talk about the set up for later this week. start ers tomorrow still looking good. high pressure is going to keep this frontal boundary at bay a little bit longer. so that gives us sunshine, a comfortable day of the temperatures upper 60s to low 70s. it will be a mix of sun and clouds. the high is not going to stick around forever. later in the week that's when we bring the rain in. tomorrow's planner five at eight in the morning. by 5:00 about 73 in the district. maybe per 60s in the suburbs as we can see here in the afternoon planner. but then as we head toward thursday morning at eight, starting to bring in some rain showers. i think this is too early. i think it will hold off until later in the day. you can see that th

wind report and over the portion of the southern maryland and northern virginia. wind damage. one of the spots with the wind damage is in king george county, virginia. that is where we find brad bell. brad? brad: hey, doug. take a look at this. the steam out of the power plant there on the other side of the potomac river and the nice bridge. that has been the direction all day. the wind is coming out of the south. fairly gentle now. but this morning. just after 8:30. a weather buoy recorded a gust just under the tornado strength. it moves through the community. in a tweet a navy sailor said the wind game cuddenly, over fast and -- came suddenly, over fast and very scary. three cars flimmed. like this one shown by the navy. a few others were damaged at a lot along the river. there was very little damage in the area. puddles and the branches down. across 301 from dogrin, the volunteer tim was surprised to find several trees down and the road sign blown away. >> i came over and walked down the woods looking for it. it was in good shape. wedged between the other trees. it must hav

including southern maryland, northern portions of virginia. it. all right, this weekend cooler air moving high pressure slides to our north. we'll get an on-shore flow that will cool our temperatures doyne into the dowe 70's. sunday high pressure closer stronger easterly flow means more clouds in the picture for sunday. temperatures on the mild side of things feeling month are like springtime. here we go. weekend forecast. mix of clouds and sun on saturday 74 degrees. mostly cloudy on sunday maybe a shower for those off to the west but not an overly wet day. 73 degrees is all we'll manage sunday afternoon. fox5 accuweather 7-day forecast shows 70's sticking around. monday 77 degrees scattered storms. a couple on the stronger side. tuesday 76. bigger threat for severe weather perhaps next wednesday we'll keep a close eye on that one. showers and thunderstorms 75 degrees before we clear it out next thursday, temperatures well below normal then actually only 72 degrees. all right, that's a check of the forecast. erin is back with traffic this mor

it looks like over the next two to three hours we'll have a few showers coming across the northern tier of marylandlifting north of 70 up into frederick county over towards carroll county. th w off throughout the day. gaithersburg 60, a little cooler up to the north where the clouds are and a few of those showers. afternoon planner looks like this. 71 or so here in the city at 11:00 a.m. 2 o'clock 74. i think after 2 o'clock we're going to start to get into some showers and some thunderstorms out there. some of which may be strong or be possible orange line severe but it looks like the severe threat really is farther to the south and the southwest. here's a real quick look at your seven-day forecast. again the trend takes us into the 80's and then next week looks a little bit nicer and a temperature right around 80. annie. >> thank you so much gary. >>> time now 8:35. if you are ready or getting ready for your weekend get away and are having hard time figuring out what to pack, that's me, i pack everything, this next segment is just for you and me. we're going to help you get organized so you won't

probably not getting out of the 50 as you go up into northern sections of maryland and pennsylvania asacket, too, for any of these outdoor activities because 62 will feel much more like you're in the 50's with the showers and the breeze. mostly cloudy and breezy again on sunday, 64. but we do stay dry. and temperatures do stay below normal. the seven-day forecast very cool and we're coming off of the hottest april in record on d.c. we're off to a very cool start for may and look at those as 60's continue through the rest of the week. midweek is drive. it looks really nice if not cool. temperatures start the day in the 40's. we round out the afternoon in the 60's but those shower chances return by next thursday and friday. that's a look at your seven-day forecast. annie, back over to you. >> thank you, thank you. many of you may be trying to get beach body ready. coming up we're going to help you get started with lisa reed. she's back with us this weekend. be right back. >> ♪ oh no. oh no. oh no. i hate this belt. man oh man. mom, we have a situation. life's bleachable moments <

now, locallyt county, just about to cross the potomac river, moving into frederick county, maryland, and northern county. light to moderate rain showers moving on through there. so we're all quiet here now, but it's these cells of strong storms from charlottesville down to near lynchburg and roanoke. these are the ones getting closer to fredericksburg in about another half hour or so. they're moving quickly. 40 to 50 miles an hour. and this one cell developing near charlottesville, getting to fauquier county in about half an hour. into metro around 7:00 p.m. that looks like that's the hour by hour timing going forward, into the evening hours. all the area in colors are the scattered storms on the panhandle of virginia, into maryland and the district. this is as of 8:00 p.m., when we'll likely see some showers and storms coming through. some of them could be severe with some damaging winds and hail. at 9:00, still some showers and storms right in the and south from fredericksburg down 95 to richmond. advancing into southern maryland, anne arundel, some storms moving through there between 9:00 p.m.

we will get to 11:30, southern maryland and the northern neck it may be a hot spot tonight.here then clearing skies in the forecast. look to the early morning. heavy storms are developing now. most get to south and east. it's gorgeous weather for the next couple of days and a turn cooler heading toward the weekend. that and the ten-day outlook. that is coming up in 20 minutes. jonathan: three days and counting since convicted felon escaped the custody. nancy: there is a lot of manpower but no sign of david watson. michelle: brad bell has what police are saying about the search. >> ed this was so bizarre. this guy was seen running from a transport van. a police job -- dog tracked him to anne arundel county. that is where they lost the track. we can show you the video of how much searching was going on out here. they had a helicopter up. dogs. doing everything they could do to find watson. what 28 years old. serving 100 years plus for trying to kill police officers in delaware. facing the additional trial for the state of maryland. he has to be considered desperate. nothing to

still have a new showers -- rather some drizzle that's moving across northern central portions of marylandhen you can kind of see the next round that's sliding in through the panhandles of maryland and eventually through the panhandle of west virginia as well. once we get this boundary sliding through western pa and west virginia through the air mass will dry out which means less in the way of cloud cover and month are in the way of sunshine as we head into the latter portion of the afternoon. drizzle and showers through the morning hours. cloudy start to the day. we'll get this area low pressure a little farther off shore this afternoon. sunshine will move in, some sun, it will be a mix of clouds and sun but i think a better afternoon than what we had on saturday and sunday. 80's back in the picture. in fact mid 80's around here this afternoon. probably best day of the week for pools. here's your futurecast in case you don't believe me. clouds through the morning hours. we head into the afternoon. there's that last round around 1 o'clock and then after that point we break off into some su