. >> good morning to you thanks for joininging us on tuesday august 2 alleghany county students you'reack to school today and get up and get r rolling. >> grab the backpack and before you head autumn brel aas well. gary will talk roads and talk rain. >> thanks a lot. wet this morning. it's just going to stay wet and will continue to get wet place this morning it's not wet right now. so it does look like it will be rainy. some places could pickp a quarter inch three quarters inches inch later today after the rainfall totals primarily i-95 east what will end up getting the heaviest of the rainfall today. and it's cool out this morning too. temperatures low to mid 60s. we're not going to warm up a lot. look at rain coming in. winds coming in from north east. we'll be breezy today. 15 to 25, maybe a couple gusts 25. it's just not going to be good at all. of course it's starting off real slow this morning xing you see the yellow ban there that's the more moderate rain which is shifting up all of this out ahead of a storm to the south a second. i want to you see kind of as this rain is track

right now some lighter showers in towards washington and alleghany or alleghany and down towards romney. what we're expecting for the afternoon, very hot, humid day. highs up into the lower 90s and as the afternoon wears on, even by 3, 4:00, don't be surprised if we see some storms starting to fire. and then they could be on and off right through the evening hours, and some of these storms could have some damaging wind gusts and torrential downpours. stay up on the weather this afternoon. of course we'll bring you the very latest on the wusa9.com website and on the wusa9 app. you can keep track of all the weather there. that is a free download. >>> law enforcement officers around the country are paying their respects for berke bates. he was one of two kill lieutenant h. j. cullen listen laid to rest tomorrow. >>> another controversial statue taken down, the 145-year- old statue depicting roger taney was removed in the middle of the night. he was a chief justice on the u.s. supreme court. he's most known for his majority opinion in the dred scott case where he ruled african-americans fre

. >> rise and shane alleghany student are you headed back to school today. >> all righty in the meantime erin como is watching roads and gary mcgrady talking about weather. good morning. >> it's will be rainy today and it will be wet today and looks like both sides of commute morning and evening will be wet. you know what that means, e erin. >> i know what that means and we're already dealing with upper loop crash little river turnpike and all breaking news otts of elkridge maryland, lots to get to with traffic. >> if you're just getting up at 5 a.m. let's talk about top story, president trump travels to texas to get a first happened look at the catastrophic flooding. and it's rising as the houston area gets more rain. between coastguard and houston fire and good samaritans upwards of 10,000 have within rescued and continuing through the night. fema has began the. >> just beginning the process of responding to the storm. search and rescue process. >> we're already crowded. all they said we're getting 00 more people it's like what where will they put us all. >> mandatory evacuations force

tell you one mechanism i've seen in some cit ies and i'll use an example one i'm familiar with, alleghany in pittsburgh area, they fund drinks you you pay at bars. it generates a good amount of money but i don't think anybody is happy with that. you got a. q. p point there, fits. the band at the university of maryland is playing a different tune. why it won't play one song any more and it won't be the mercedes song. we'll be back after this. welcome back. an independent review underway in charlottesville to the response earlier this month at a town hall last night they talked about issues that led to violence in their town. locals are blaming a lack of planning and preparedness. they're still looking for answers. of course het her higher died during the protest. two police officers were killed when their chopper crashed while responding to the scene. if you've been to a university of game uch ' likely heard the football band play the game. the university suspended playing of the song at all intercollegiate events. the civil war era song is racist. some of the lyrics are a december pat. th