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this could impact alexandria and aldie showers and storms at well. farther west these storms are pretty slow moving. these could produce 1 to 2 inches of rain per hour. let's talk about the one flood warning out west into the mountain areas. grant county in west virginia and hardy county, this is until 10:00 again. so february we're watching these storms. we could see more storms -- again we're watching these storms. we could see more storms coming through this evening as well. some of the storms have lightning associated with them. we could see locally heavy downpours and damaging wind gusts. your forecast tonight, temperatures will be fairly mild out there, in the 70s and temperatures will be cool once again tomorrow. we'll talk more about your forecast when we come back. >>> coming up folks living in virginia working in d.c. could have to soon pay a price for that. a prominent republican weighs in on what they used to call the commuter tax and his stance may surprise you. >> but first the deadline to decide if pepco can jack up the rates in maryla

until this harris teeter in aldy, virginia, where two masked gunmen go inside and rob two cash boxes from two self checkout registers. >> i think it's harris teeter a lot. i don't know if they've done it before. they were pretty good. they weren't even in the store for a minute. >> reporter: reaction from customers. >> people just anywhere can go in and rub anybody. >> i wouldn't think it would have them around here. >> scary for the neighborhood. >> reporter: the question tonight -- did those north carolina robbers make their way up to virginia? or are these just copycats familiar with the harris teeter holdup scheme? the louddown county sheriffs are investigating the case. in aldy, virginia, pat collins, news 4. >>> harris teeter is committing up to $50,000 reward for information leading to the successful arrests of the people responsible for the recent robbery. >>> the president of penn state university is speaking out today about a report critical of the university. an investigation by the former fbi chief louis freeh criticized penn state's reaction when child sex abuse allegati

this morning, until this harris teeter in aldy, virginia where two masked gunmen go inside and rob twoboxes from two self-checkout registers. >> i think they know about harris teeter. i don't know if they've done it before. but they were pretty good. they weren't even in the store for a minute. >> reaction from customers. >> people just anywhere can go in and rob anybody. >> i wouldn't think it would happen around here. >> scary for the neighborhood. >> reporter: the question tonight, did those north carolina robbers make their way up to virginia? or are these just copycats familiar with the harris teeter hold up scheme? the loud on county sheriff's are investigating the case. in aldy, virginia, pat collins, news 4. >>> howard county police arrested ten men using a reverse prostitution sting. that sting took place friday in laurel along the route 1 corridor. female officers posed as prostitutes, men who approached and offered money for sex were promptly arrested. the men range in age between 24 and 47. they're all from maryland and northern virginia. >>> an alexandria police officers a

two masked men robbed a grocery store at the village center plaza in aldie around 2:00 tuesday morning. the suspects opened several safes, grabbed money and then took off. if you have any information about this robbery, please call the loudoun county sheriff's office. >>> it's not as hot as it was yesterday and the storms have passed for right now. but we could be in for another round of storms. anny is here with the forecast. >> hi, jc. temperatures will thought be as hot today but still warming up pretty quickly. here's a look at the white house on this thursday afternoon. temperatures will get into the lower 90s so almost 10 degrees cooler than yesterday's triple digit highs. we are looking at scattered showers and thunderstorms impacting the area by this afternoon. better chances of those showers and storms are later tonight. right now mostly cloudy conditions. temperatures 87 degrees. we do have a code orange air quality alert for the unhealthy, sensitive groups. things are quiet right now. we have cloudy conditions out there but to the north and west of us in the ohio valley, we

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. >> they said the harris-teeter in aldie. i was like whoa. >> reporter: at 2 a.m. two masked men rushed the harris-teeter in stone ridge. the how down county sheriff's department released this video from inside the grocery store. the pair make their way to the cash registers after pushing an employee to the ground. >> seems like we were a lot safer than that. >> reporter: they headed straight for the self-checkout and helped themselves to the cash boxes. one of them is holding a handgun and runs off. >> it's going just too far all over it seems like just boldness and people not respecting other things and property and people. >> reporter: it is similar to nearly 10 robberies in north carolina and south carolina. after tuesday's early morning robbery here a charlotte harris- teeter was robbed at 10 p.m. one of the suspects forces a store manager to clean out the safe. the robbers are bold, in some cases firing shots inside the store, roughing up employees including a pregnant cashier. >> there's shots fired. what would you do if you're in the store, you know, buying

sheriff's office says two masked men robbed the harris teeter grocery store at the village center plaza in aldie around 2:20 tuesday morning. they took off with some cash. if you have any information, call the loudoun county sheriff's office. >>> let's take another look at the question of the day. what is the number one thing that kids tend to stick up their noses? is it a, a crayon, b, french fries, or c, a bean? >> one person wrote peas. i choose them myself as long as they're frozen and cooked with some butter. canned peas? yuck. >> log on to our facebook fan page and leave your response. we'll have the answer in about an hour. >>> we're taking a live look from sky 9 at this accident blocking the ramp from university boulevard to get on to the inner loop of the beltway. keep that in mind for your travel plans. i'll keep you posted coming up in my next report at 6:00. you're watching 9news now. we'll be right back. >>> good morning. happy thursday. pre-friday. temperatures today will not be as hot compared to yesterday's triple highs. that's a good thing. by noon 89. chance for some showers an

two men walked into the harris teeter store in aldi, virginia.he men robbed customers and employees at gunpoint. one of those employees talked with news 4. he asked, though, that his identity be concealed. >> i see he has a mask on and he just has a gun pointed to me and he walks up to me and he's like get down, get down on the floor. >> if you recognize these men call loudoun county crimestoppers. harris teeter is offer a $50,000 reward. >>> two spotsylvania sisters are recovering after being attacked by a rabid beaver. they were swimming in lake anna on sunday when the animal went after them. it first bit the 11-year-old and then attacked her 8-year-old sister. the freelance star reports their uncle shot the beaver. police turned it over to the health department, which confirmed that the beaver had rabies. >>> volunteers are asking a lot of questions this morning about the abrupt closing of a breast cancer charity. it's a story first on 4. y-me based in chicago suddenly stopped operations and shut down its website. the charity is popular in the

if we zoom in closer, we saw a lot of it go off to the east and now maybe fairfax and just south of aldie you're looking at a little bit of rain. i'm going to widen this out. you can see right around the d.c. metro area we're kind of in a lull, but it's these storms and showers we're watching that could bring us more rain and also cause flooding later tonight. here's a live look at your live weather cam brought to you by michael and son, kind of a misty day, cloudy skies, temperatures 77, still muggy, though, dew point in the lower 70s. right now 74 degrees in gaithersburg, 73 leesburg, south made it into the lower 80s, but we aren't talking crazy hoot. so we'll see the temperatures continue to -- heat. so we'll see the temperatures continue to decline. flash flood watch continues until 11:00 tonight, more showers and storms arriving. cooler and unis thed saturday heading into the weekend -- unsettled saturday heading into the weekend and the warmth returns sunday. check out your 9 futurecast, scattered showers and storms tomorrow night, sunday more unsettled but not as wet. how much rain

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