the highest one i could find was reedville virginia. la plata about 8 inches. in washington d.c. we had 5 inches. it is 43 degrees this morning. still a pretty modest. when about 5 miles per hour. lots of 30-degree readings. 39 in winchester -- 37 degrees at this hour. here is your forecast. they are not giving up their candy tonight. mostly cloudy, chilly, temperatures in the mid 40's. sunset -- you should be able to get in dinner quickly before you had out there. sunset is 6:08 p.m. >> such great news -- marc trains metro virginia rail express are running on a normal schedule. marc rains may see some delay -- you might want to check that before you go out. a stretch of sligo creek parkway, little falls parkway kensington parkway at beach drive is closed as well. interstates are doing great. 95 from stafford,3 395, no troubles. repairs continue on the board -- georgetown pike at old dominion drive. light volume not causing too much of a backup. a belt the crash in the inner loop has been cleared. debris cleanup continues at 108 in the sandy spring area. one more thing -- new jer

showers and storms overnight dropped an inch in rain in reedville, virginia.'s on the northern neck in the bay. but in calvert county a few new showers just starting to pop. a look at the day planner we are expecting yeah just another warm day and we'll take it. been a very hot, in fact one of the hottest months d.c.'s ever seen. got temperatures today mid 80s by 3:00. top out about 88 with drive tome temp of 86 and there will be only isolated showers and storms this afternoon. this morning, we've been watching the heavy stuff the really heavy stuff out towards st.my rye's county the northern neck and drift to the east. but in calvert a couple of now showers popping up on live doppler 9000 hd. around prince frederick, these are new too. we'll be watching especially near the bay for the next couple of hours a few showers there and then as we warm up, the shower threat will pop inland as well. especially by the mountains. into the 70s in many areas d.c. east. hagerstown also 72. but into northern virginia especially out to the shenandoah valley, mid- to upper 60

jennifer says we're in fleeting beach which is near reedville, virginia for a weekend away until sundayould we cut the trip short and come back saturday or will we be okay leaving sunday at noon? >> i always err on the side of caution and i would say if you can finish up and have a nice day today and come back late this evening or first thing tomorrow that would probably be best. weather conditions will get worse and worse very rapidly during the day tomorrow. so if you've got stuff to do and especially if you had a planned trip out of town monday or tuesday the airlines are already being very flexible with their waiving of change fees. if you are going to be on the amtrak commuter rail up to new york city, if you have a plane flight out monday or tuesday, call your airline. be flexible with them and they'll be flexible with you. travel could be really, really, really bad around here. air, ground, and train. >> pretty much everything. >> whatever you're on. >> when you don't want to pay the $150 fee. make those plans right now. >> right. we'll take more questions through the morning. we

moisture streaming in from eastern north carolina, south eastern virginia and it has been effecting the northern neck. you can still see reedville seeing light to moderate showers. extending up into delaware. the lower eastern shore seeing it. down into st. mary's county and solomon you are still seeing the light showers. the rest of us we are dealing with mostly cloudy skies. a little sunnier out west. more clouds in cambridge. it's 72. 73 at the packs river station. shoepacking a big difference. even 81 in petersburg. and looking outside on our cameras a little cloudy in washington. good visibility. temperature 78 degrees. the air is drying out a little bit. humidity at 54%. much drier air. that will be moving in later tonight and tomorrow. a lot of that dry air it's up over ohio and indiana this afternoon. we will see that tomorrow. by friday see this activity? we will see showers and storms back here later friday night. off the carolina coast that is beryl. and beryl is getting back close to wear. it will strengthen a little bit. but it's losing its tropical characteristics. it will likely become a storm but not a tropical s

reports of over 5 inches already in the reedville area, northern neck of virginia. heavy rains continue now moving frts bay and the eastern shore over to the metro. in the mountains, we've got snow. not going to talk much about that. above 2500, 3000 feet, blizzard warnings in effect from garrett county through the highcountry in west virginia. could be a foot or more of wind-driven, wet snow there. >>> here's the latest on sandy. 7:00 right now, 5:00 advisory, the last one we have. we'll have another advisory, intermediate one at 9:00 a.m. 946 millibars. this dropped 4 millibars between 2:00 and 5:00 a.m., sign of a very strong and strengthening storm. that is a very low pressure, moving north at 15. we talked about the turn it would make. notice the northwest path, become northeast, now moving to the northwest. looks like it could have winds even stronger a little later today. forecast has 90 mile-an-hour winds. landfall at 10:00, 11:00 tonight south of atlantic city. devastating to the jersey coast. raritan bay, southern manhattan, could have storm surge up to 10

virginia. it's going to be somewhat active with the rain and maybe a rumble or to of thunder. temperatures in the low to mid- 60s. we're still 72 in town. 73 in reedville and 70 in newland from our weather watchers. outside on our michael & son weather camera, cloudy skies. 72 here at the noon hour with winds south, southwest at 14. that's bringing in the low level moisture. it's also bringing in some of the warmth we've had where nighttime temperatures stayed in the 60s. you can see a wider picture, a push of the showers and some isolated thunder moving north and east. behind it cooler, drier air coming in behind the front. that's what's going to move in for tonight. south and east of town we're also worried about the threat, maybe a strong thunderstorm or two especially -- actually, this is even better news. earlier this was in southern maryland. not really concerned about the severe weather threat. that's good. but we are looking at some nice weather once we get past today. today the yellow alert, 73. scattered showers. isolated thunder for the afternoon but nicer tonight as we dip into the 40s to around 50. cool tomorrow but a good day, 66. a few c

virginia. low 70s winchester and leesburg manassas 73. 78 on the bay and 79 down in reedville. 79 here in washingtonll going to about 95 with a chance for a couple of strong storms south and southeast especially. inside to monika samtani. 6:30 with your timesaver traffic. >>> howard i just got word of an accident on route 32 west of route 108. you want to watch out for that. other than that we've been looking great. no problems to report inside the beltway here. vb parkway and route 50 through cheverly. no problems on route 50 out of annapolis. a live look outside right now and oxon hill south of the beltway inner loop is looking great. 210 to the wilson bridge and into alexandria all lanes are open right now. back over to the maps and this time we'll head over to the west side of town, on the dulles toll road to the beltway. 66 inside the beltway a little slow here. trying to get through the falls church area and across the roosevelt bridge. and one more last live look at the american legion bridge coming in from bethesda across the bridge span into tysons corner you'll finds the pace is good. comi

virginia tracking more towards charlottesville than d.c. temperatures low to mid-70s out there. easton is 70. 66 in cross junction. from steve up there. 73 in reedvillere in d.c. we've got low clouds out there. starting to break up a little bit about on our michael & son weather camera, mostly cloudy to overcast. 76 degrees with a south wind at 6. the humidity level 91%. a sticky, sticky morning. big heat. a lot better here than places like kansas city and st. louis where they'll be in the low 100s this afternoon. some of that heat is going to be flirting with us this week. we get a little bit of it the next couple of days but the high stuff, the high heat underneath this rirchl of high pressure, you see -- ridge of high pressure, you see the storms up and over idaho. quieter this morning. then we're watching this area from the north and west kind of try to stream in toward us. so there will be times over the next couple of days we'll have some storm chances. a break wednesday and then that heat. i think thursday it really builds in here. so today 93. got the yellow alerts for the afternoon storms today and tomorrow. those storms this afternoon, a co

virginia-north carolina boarder now. still some rains just getting into the outer banks in northeastern north carolina. raining heavily in norfolk. our weather watchers in reedville over five inches of rain already since yesterday. 3.2 overnight. you can see how the heavy bands of rain continue to move off toward the west. here's the latest on sandy. hurricane with winds of 85 miles an hour. gusting to 105. pressure down to 946. this is stronger by 4 millibars than it was three hours earlier at the 2:00 advisory. that is a sign of rapid intensification. 90 mile an hour sustained winds at 2:00. expecting even further strengthening. the question is it 90 or 95 as it comes ashore tonight at about 11:00 p.m. just south of atlantic city. on this track even at 2:00 75 mile an hour wind. by 2:00 p.m. it only weakens to 60 miles an hour winds. that is a long time to be battered by damaging wind gusts along with the heavy, heavy rains that we'll be looking at as sandy comes ashore. i mean rains could be in excess of six inches here in the metro and more east. it could be a foot or more in some spots. here's a look at the winds and rains. hatteras 30 feet. virginia beach 2

rainfall totals -- reedville virginia just about 10 inches. la plata, 8 inches. ocean city, 7 inches. it is the 5 to 10 no. we were talking about. here are temperatures -- 43 at reagan national. culpeper at 41. 37 degrees in winchester. the clouds just do not want to budge. we -- they will stick around through the day. we will get some sun peeking through tomorrow. as we approach the weekend things will look a lot better. that's now will last throughout much of -- that snow last much of the week in west virginia. high temperature is 62 -- 52 to 56 degrees, well below average by 10 degrees. let's check on the roads and see how things are going. are they getting back to normal? >> we are trying. crews are working diligently since the storm arrived. georgetown pike, they are trying to restrain wires that came down. georgetown pike, old dominion drive, is close to each direction. roads in fairfax and loudoun county are closed because of standing water. the beltway add 395 -- no problems. across the 14th street bridge checks out fine for everyone. a portion of little