so these are the kinds of vessels that these vikings used to sail out onto the atlantic. now, where did they go? well, we saw on the previous map they went down the coast of europe. they went to the faeroe islands, the shetland islands, ireland, scotland. well, they also ventured a little bit further as well. they ventured over here first to iceland. and again, the journey from the north of scotland to the heberdes islands or the shetland islands, the faeroe islands, toward iceland is not all that far. 300, 400 miles maybe. the vikings began to notice. you might ask why did they sail west at all? because as they saw in the water, they saw debris coming from the west, they also saw birds. so they understood that there had to be something out here. these birds are coming from somewhere. and the debris in the water has to be coming from somewhere. so that's why they sailed west. about the year 800, evidence is we have arklogical eviden larch but no one really pinpointed. but about the year 800 the vikings arrived in iceland. and they settled iceland. they settled there. not

so that's why some of these are a bit askew, but it's back in the atlantic tomorrow afternoon. it will probably strengthen back into a tropical storm. the good news is it stays pretty far away from us well out into the atlantic passing our latitude sunday, could be stronger rip currents at the beaches and check out some of these doppler estimates of rain just today in some of these darker areas. we picked up another foot of rain, maybe a foot more to go and jacksonville will be in the core of it as we look at a prediction of how much rain may fall through wednesday, another 4 to 8 inches between jacksonville and crescent beach. that's a lot of rain. futurecast takes it out of here into the atlantic and maybe southern georgia will get clipped with some of that heavy rain. we won't see any of that. high pressure will keep it to our south. so your five-day forecast, for us now that we get debby out of the picture or at least tomorrow for florida, it's all about the hot stuff that will move in our direction. it's being suppressed one more day. we warm it up thursday and friday, sat

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it did make landfall last evening and the track now takes it back out into the open waters of the atlantic, so it could restrengthen, but the good news is as we go through time it will push away from land. the satellite and radar still picking up on lots of rainfall across this area, florida, and they've already received about 22 inches of rain and they're going to get more in a lot of spot. maybe three feet of rainfall before all is said and done. here at home, though, we are not dealing with any type of rain at all. we are dealing with mostly clear skies and that translates into lots of sunshine for today. mid-50s in elkton, a cool morning once again. make sure you have the jacket as you head out and about. it will be breezy into the afternoon hours like we saw yesterday. i'll talk more about tropical depression debby and also the heat wave that could be making a comeback. right now let's get a check of the abc 2 time saver traffic with lauren cook. good morning, how are the roads this morning? >>reporter: good morning, lynette. we are following breaking news out of west baltimore where

lindbergh was not the first to cross the atlantic. theiwork two english flyers in 1919 named al qaeda and brown and --alcott rnd y won an award -- a lot of money at the time. a publicity stunt for his two newspapers. they flew -- the airplanes we chheut t flew from newfoundland to ireland -- they flew 1,000 mes. it was like theirs waa wld r i . and so they were the first to actually make it across but you are talking about -- this is a us 1,000 plus mile flight for alcott and brown. allotted the mechanics of publicity. in 1927 you had movies a radio and newspapers and photographs and millions of lindbergh songs and -- lindbeghnd thertg e etn aet for this kind of fascination and world adulation. somody else? yes? >> you spoke about ruth elder. theegni yd tre we numr crossed the atlantic. could you say something more about them? >> there was an english woman who was royalty who flew across fr england for trying to make it to the united e kn the flying princess. you have to remember when i start rearching a new book the old detail start

lauderdale. >> reporter: a chance no one here in atlantic city wants to take. anne thompson, nbc news, atlantic city. >>> we're back in a moment with a health care stont for a television icon. >>> jeopardy host alex trebek is in a los angeles hospital tonight after suffering a mild heart attack. a "jeopardy" spokeswoman says the 71-year-old trebek is expected to make a full recovery and be back giving answers when the game show resumes production next month. >>> as millions of americans still struggle in a fragile economy, nowhere has the face of poverty seen a more dramatic shift than in this nation's suburbs. a third of america's poor now live in the bedroom communities surrounding big cities. since last fall, "dateline nbc" has been following three families, all living in comfortable suburbs near boulder, colorado, as their formerly solid middle class lives descend into poverty. joyce welch, a stay at home mom, living a comfortable middle class life in superior, colorado never thought she would have to ask for help. after her husband, a mechanical engineer,

. >> really excited about being up in atlantic city. it's just such a great resort. >> it's called the mussel bar rebel? >> it's called the mussel bar at the rebel. basically a combination of beck can the mussel bar together on steroids up there in atlantic city. oh my goodness. what are you fixing. >> i'm doing something so summery here at the area. it's a soft shelled crab blt. toasted brioche bun hear, a little bit of -- here. a little bit of homemade mayonnaise. >> you sauteed them in? what? >> butter and olive oil and applewood smoked bacon, just brings it all together. the recipe is on jchayward.com. >> basically that's nice and sauteed and it's dusted in a little bit of -- >> how long did you have -- >> about five minutes, put that on top of there and then take little president of lettuce. take this tomato. put that on top and then we're going to take this bacon right here. >> oh my goodsness. >> pit this right on top of this. >> uh-huh. that looks good. >> oh, yeah. it's really tasty. and then you just take it and you jus smash

lauderdale. >> reporter: a chance no one here in atlantic city wants to take.nne thompson, nbc news, atlantic city. >>> we're back in a moment with a health scare for a television icon. we had a great spot, not easy to find, but worth it. but with copd making it hard to breathe, i thought those days might be over. so my doctor prescribed symbicort. it helps significantly improve my lung function starting within five minutes. symbicort doesn't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. with symbicort, today i'm breathing better. and that means...fish on! symbicort is for copd including chronic bronchitis and emphysema. it should not be taken more than twice a day. symbicort may increase your risk of lung infections, osteoporosis, and some eye problems. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking it. with copd, i thought i'd miss our family tradition. now symbicort significantly improves my lung function, starting within 5 minutes. and that makes a difference in my breathing. today, we're ready for whatever swims our way

. >> powerful winds sweep through atlantic states claiming lives and leaving millions without power. we survey the damage. from summer storms to firestorms. fueled by heat and drought, the west is ablaze, barry petersen is on the front lines. >> on the eve of mexico's presidential elections, journalists are high on the hit list of drug traffickers, bill whitaker explains why. and a tourism option that is literally out of this world. and so is the price tag. captioning sponsored by cbs >> this is the cbs evening news. >> good evening, i am lee cowan, it is rare and violent, the breed of summer weather that tore up the landscape from the midwest to the mid atlantic overnight has a name, it is called deval patrick de recho roach and it did a lot of damage, at least 13 people are reportedly killed, nearly 4 million people are still without power. and record heat still grips a wide area. johnson in washington tonight has more. >> the overnight storms were sudden and violent. >> bat ferring the dc metro area with lightning, driving rain and wind gusts above 75 miles per hour. terrible. i a

so there's lots of geophysical realities that make the possibility of offshore wind from the atlantic a very significant component of the energy portfolio of the united states. so i'm proud of the work that we've done in the real world, in terms of standing up, renewable energy, and making it a reality for the united states. now, some may say that in these times where there's an election under way, that maybe there's nothing that the congress can do to help us move forward and to make the real world of energy even a better reality than we have today. well, i beg to disagree, because the fact is, there are things that this congress could do. and i'll throw out two simple things. one --ics why don't we have organic legislation that institutionalized what we're doing in the offshore information arena? organizely, within the department of interior? mms when james watts signed the secretary laureate creating mms in 1981, he did it just by virtue of the authority of the outer continental shelves live act and the secretary of the interior. it's with some authority i use some 30-plus years la

area, the mid-atlantic could see temperatures in the 90s come sunday afternoon. so here's how we're looking this morning. still relatively cool in new england. notice the temperature in minneapolis, we're at 73 degrees to start your morning. very warm, too, from san antonio to new orleans. that's where the summertime air remains. later on today, we should hit near 90 today from minneapolis to chicago. kansas city will be mid to upper 80s. along with dallas, we will see thunderstorms along the gulf coast, and for anyone living up there say around burlton, vermont, northern portions of new england, late this afternoon toward this evening, some strong thunderstorms are going to blow through. could see some danging winds and maybe even some hail with those storms. we'll have the complete weekend forecast a little later. it looks very warm and steamy. definitely a pool or beach weekend. >> all right, nice. bill, thanks so much. also coming up, big ben says nothing on stimulus, best buy may be in play, and the highest speed limit in america. your first look at this mor

even today down at the coast, the westerly breeze is keeping the sea breeze out over the atlantic and not really cooling things off very much. a sunny day there on the beach. it is kind of hot. ocean city at this hour is 90 degrees, the hottest we have seen so far this week on the beach. 94 inland around salisbury then 97 at cambridge. 100 in downtown baltimore right now, 99 in frederick. up in amounts to the west we have had some showers and thunderstorms pop-up in the west virginia panhandle. that is helping cool things off a little bit, down to 73 at petersburg. fairly comfortable compared to our temperatures here in allegany and garrett counties. 81-83 degrees. around here, when you factor in the moisture in the atmosphere, the humidity and the temperatures combined, 100 four in downtown baltimore, 107 he index. -- the heat index. the weather service indicating that things will continue to colossally through the evening. they have canceled -- continue to cool off for the evening. they have canceled a heated by three west of the date -- they have canceled each advisory. anyway you

sunshine in the mid 80's at the mid-atlantic beaches. numbers starting to come up. more details coming up in a few minutes. >> the culpeper police officer charged with shooting and killing a 54-year-old woman has pleaded not guilty to murder charges. prosecutors say damon harmon- wright shot at patricia cook seven times during a traffic stop in february. the first two hit her and was not fatal but he fired another five at the woman as she was driving away. one bullet hit her head and another her heart. bonn has been set at $100,000. >> military judge will not dismiss any of the 22 counts against bradley manning. he is charged with aiding the enemy and other offenses tied to the leaks of thousands of classified documents. there were published on the wikileaks web site. >> several new developments in the race for a president tonight. former gop presidential candidate rick santorum makes future plans known. he is forming a political action committee. >> we have bigger challenges today. this is the most important election in our lifetime. maybe in the history of the cou

flight 447 prepares to depart rio de janeiro. 730, p.m., takeoff it is a routine flight across the atlantic. the plane is filled with vacationers, citizens and families. destination, paris. 8:30 p.m., passengers settle in. there's no sign that one of the biggest mysteries in modern aviation is about to unfold. among the passengers is eth na walls an irish medical students and a riverdance star on holiday in rio. her sister is kathryn. >> her last text was saying she was getting on the flight. she'd had a brilliant holiday. >> reporter: she's on board with 215 other passengers, knowing their lives are in the hands of the men in the cockpit led by captain marc dubois. what they may not know is just how much the captain and his team depend, perhaps disastrously on the sophisticated automated systems of the plane, the airbus a330, considered to be among the safest in the sky. >> airbus like to say their plane is pilot-proof. >> reporter: that's the good news. here is the bad news. is it true that on any given flight, the pilots are at the controls only three minutes? a minute 30 in takeoff and

when it gets into the atlantic, we have to keep in mind it could reach strengthened.but all models are pushing it out to sea. not a bad forecast. we stayed dry back in baltimore and maryland the next couple of days. eventually heating up by friday. 95. that is when we have a chance of thunderstorms friday night into the weekend, and could be a little unsettled for the weekend. right now, only 30-40% chance of rain late in the week. >> carrie engel from valley view farm's digging valley view farms here to answer your plants and burning questions. i love the color of your pepper. >> great ornamental peppers. this one is called medusa. there is also a cool one called purple slash -- purple full lives with white spots and purple fruit. you could have a lot of fun. >> i just want to look at ben. >> on the center of your picnic table outside, beautiful. >> let's start with the japanese beetles. starting to choose some of the roses and perennials. what are control options? >> some people love just filling up the soap and water and going out and putting them in there. i do no

ocean city doesn't sit very high above the atlantic and that distance appears to be shrinking. over the last half century most of the world has seen a 2-inch rise in sea level. according to the usgs, the coastline is experiencing far more. virginia is up to 4.8-inches, off pennsylvania it's 3.7. in new york it's 2.8-inches. and as it continues to rise in the future. >> that will make a difference in storm surges and the effects of that on coastal communities. >> reporter: meaning more water pushing further inland during storms, why levels are higher is unclear. one theory colder fresh water from melting arctic ice is blocking the gulf stream. >> water coming down from the north atlantic that may have slowed the gulf stream is basically causing water along the shorelines to actually rise. >> it's not just the coast, the chesapeake bay is also rising. people who live here have watched it climb over the years. >> probably 10 to 15, the water level is higher every day. >> we have more of a rise because the land itself is subsiding or sinking a little bit. >> reporter: that's not go

low off the atlantic ocean that is bringing this high cloud cover.throughout the day and we will have partly cloudy conditions. 70 right now downtown. 67 at the airport. ocean city, 66 degrees. oakland, 48 degrees. they will warm up to the low 70's later today. it should be a good day. morning clouds will be giving away to partly cloudy skies. 75 to 80 degrees. this is the system in the atlantic and it is throwing out this cloud cover. a little bit of moisture in the upper levels because of the northeasterly wind. portions east of the bay will see cloudy conditions longer today. i think we will be pretty good today. this will move out of here later today. high pressure city over pennsylvania right now. that will be with us over the next five to seven days, which will give us great weather. the temperatures will get higher and the humidity will build. it is june in baltimore. partly cloudy and pleasant tonight. 59 to 65 degrees. be advised if you're heading out on the bay. the wind is pretty heavy. looks pretty good if you're heading down to the ocean

debby made land fall on the gulf coast and moving across the state to the atlantic oceans. debby has dropped more than two feet of rain in some areas. the town of live oak is 80% underwater. >> i have never seen it this high. even with a hurricane. a real hurricane. >> we're doing all we can. the water is rising, the retention ponds are full. the ground is saturated. we're trying to keep people safe. >> reporter: the state of florida is in a state of emergency and tens of thousands of people are without power. portions of i-10 in north florida are closed. >> doug kammerer now with all the incredible rainfall in florida. >> it is incredible. this is a slow-moving storm system. it has been sitting out here in the northern gulf of mexico inundating florida with all of this rain. now the storm finally moving across the peninsula and should exit into the atlantic by this time tomorrow. jacksonville, florida was hit hard today. you can see the center coming across shore and down to the south and east. this is a tropical depression and it should move out into the open waters of th

you are able to see the storm departing the atlantic coast. the stars are out.if you look to the west, there is another one running a little sooner. it is out there. the track is the same. we have a high pressure producing the humid conditions in our area. the storms run along the edge of these ridges. we will be on the edge again today. that is what our forecast is about to see if we have another storm develop. it was a game of dodge ball this morning with the power outages. it reminded me of the aftermath of a tropical storm. more than an inch of rain fell throughout the area. these storms occur this time of year from late may into june and july. sometimes extending into august. rehr that we get one here, but this one survived. we take a look get that store moving out of indiana into ohio. that is a similar set up today. heat, the humidity. >> thank you. it will be a day of cleaning up for everybody. there is lots of damage caused by uprooted trees. the lieutenant joins us on the phone. good morning. you were telling us baltimore county is the hardest hit. wha

an employee found the body at the atlantic oceanside hotel in morning and investigators released little information. it's not clear if foul play was involved. >>> montgomery county police made an arrest in a rape case three years ago. thirty-year-old david martinez was the suspect they say that made the arrest based on dna evident. the woman was arrested after park herself car in march of 2003. and martinez knocked the woman to the ground and assaulted her and drove her to the school and attacked her again and left her there. >>> and metro kicked off the new rush plus program and that is designed to alleviate congestion and means more trains on in some lines and different rue -- routes as well and metro said the tee key is to play close tension. >> and that is confusing this evening. once i understand how that is going to operate, this should be okay. >> if you remember nothing else about rush plus, it's not about line color but checking the destination side on the sign of the train or platform displays. >> metro is making frequent announcements and there is an overabundance of helpers

and this kind of went back and forth across the atlantic for several years. i'm running out of time here, but i just wanted to tell you the one anecdote where the german government protested to the roosevelt administration in the late '30s about laguardia. can't you shut this guy up? we're not at war, you know? and roosevelt turned to the state department in one meeting and says, yeah, we'll discipline laguardia. like this. you know, we're not, we're just going to make a little, you know, go through the motions. and the next time laguardia came to the white house to meet franklin roosevelt, roosevelt went heil. [laughter] and they had a laugh about it. so just brings us up to the war, and i'm going to cap this in a moment. laguardia, of course, was one of the great proponents of civil defense. this is even before pearl harbor. this is 1941. thousands of new yorkers in early '41 volunteered to be air raid wardens or to help air raid wardens. the notion is if they can come over here and bomb us, who knows? we don't know. probably not, but why take risks? of cou

moving east-southeast, it will curb out over the cooler waters of the north atlantic. a reminder that it is a hurricane season, not only the summer and heat season. from the desert southwest, 108 in phoenix, denver 96, chicago 95. 93 degrees in minneapolis today. he is continuing depressed east and high pressure area keeping that choleric locked in well to the northwest. this little dip in the jet stream, there has been a cold front near the ground, sweeping through the mid-atlantic thursday night into friday. the heat will be with us for a couple of days and then this dip in the debt -- and the jet stream should cool things off as we get toward the end of the week and into the weekend. a high of 88 degrees today. the normal is 84. today's record, 99. tomorrow's record is 100. we will be close to the. a good indication of how war is going to be. 82 in downtown baltimore, 73 in easton, 75 in cambridge. a warm night sets the stage for a hot day tomorrow. sun up tomorrow at 5:30 and will not go down until after a:30 tomorrow evening. you can see that high pressure strengt

now, here we go we have this area of low pressure that's out into the atlantic.is that storm that moved through on tuesday basically it's pretty much like stalled out and hasn't moved in. with that we will have some clouds that could be kicked back in here into the afternoon. that will be giving us some more on shore flow and easterly flow and we have the chance for more clouds than we saw yesterday. future trend picking up on the fact that though we have the clouds but then through time, that system will shift down to the south. basically staying away from us. so we are looking good for sailabration as we go through the rest of the week and into the weekend. so 78 degrees is what i'm going for today. yesterday i went around 82. we actually came in at 80. this will be the game day forecast. 75-degrees and a good day to get out there and watch the orioles beat the pirates. now a check of the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren book and you have some serious conditions this morning. what's going on? >>> yes, we continue to follow breaking news out of anne arundel co

but that's going to change into the weekend as a new atlantic system starts to impact both spain and portugal. here are your temperatures for friday then. 22 in rome. 29 in athened. but much cooler up towards the north. 13 in stockhome. 15 in berlin. london 18, but that will be going down to just about 11 degrees on sunday. so more like the end of march than the beginning of june. i'll leave you now with your extended forecast. >>> and our top story at this hour once again -- foreign exchange traders are seeing another sign today of the rising economic power of china. they are trading the yuan directly for the japanese yen. something they've never done before. brokers made their first trades at the start of the day on the trading floors of japanese banks. the initial exchange rate was set at 12.33 yen to the yuan. the arrangement removes the interim step of converting to and from the u.s. dollar. and the deal has raised expectations of increased financial transactions between asia's two largest economies. >>> and that's all for now on this edition of "newsline." i'm yuko aotani in to

. >> ellen and showers and thunderstorms moving off the mid-atlantic coast only managed to bring us a few scattered showers around here. if you have a storm down on the coastal areas. even those locations are in the clear now as it is taking severe storm that into southern virginia and author of the mid- atlantic coast. a severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect across southern virginia. for our area, looking to the north and west behind the front where temperatures have cooled into the 60's and 70 with usually cool and dry air coming in from the north and west. the lower that number, the dryer this. it's kind of rare to have one dropping into the 50's or even the 40's. a reading of 43 currently. 45 in westminster indicating very dry air coming in which will allow the temperature to cool off quickly tonight. 50 in the northwest suburb of's for the lows tomorrow morning. a little on the breezy side also. when that the northwest and sunset this evening at 8:37. those clouds indicating a big storm which is pushing off the mid-atlantic and high-pressure meeting a gorgeous day tomorrow.

what is left of tropical storm debby is now out in the open atlantic. but that storm left a soggy mess behind. the floodwaters forced thousands to evacuate from their homes. >> reporter: the soggy conditions in this pasco county retirement community made life here unbearable for many residents. a boat was the only way out. >> it is totally miserable. you can't do anything. water is up to the doorstep. no air conditioning. no electricity. you can't flush the toilet. that's ray trip. believe me. -- a trip. believe me. >> reporter: winds from tropical storm debby hit all 67 counties in florida over the past seven days. here in tiny live oak, about 80% of the homes are flooded. >> reporter: how fast did this water come up? >> literally overnight. >> reporter: water surrounded ray duncan's home. he was lucky. rainoaked through his ceilin and floors, but did not flood the house. >> i thought for sure we were going to a tornado or something coming through. because the wind was pretty rough. >> reporter: near jacksonville. rushing waters washed away a 25- foot

that brings just a marine influence off the atlantic, off the chesapeake bay. really this is comfortable stuff. overnight we will look for temperatures to drop sharply. 57 degrees a breezy cool start and then sun on tap as we head downtown for celebration. we will talk about how it chase sunday and big time next week. >> new tonight a surprise announcement from the president. the president said that the government will no longer deport the children of illegal immigrants. christian is here with that story and the reaction tonight. >> reporter: it's a debate where last year legislators passed a so-called dream act which would grant instant tuition to children of ill el immigrants. in november voters here will decide if they will overturn it. the announcement targets 800,000 children of illegal immigrants living in the united states. >> they are americans in their heart n their minds, in every single way but one. on paper. >> reporter: in many cases they were brought here by their parents as young children. the president said they won't be deported if they can pro

severe storms sweep across the atlantic bringing tornadoes and flooding as a huge wildfire rages in new mexico with no end in sight. >>> chaos in the courtroom. fighting breaks out after egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak is sentenced to life in prison for his actions during last year's revolution. we're going to have a live report on that. >>> fit for a queen. celebrations under way in britain for queen elizabeth's diamond jub lie. grand pageantry to thousands of street parties, we'll have a royal seat as the family heads to the races today saturday june 2nd, 2012. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with lester holt and hoda kotb, live from studio 1, a in rockefeller plaza. >> i like the sound of that. >> you do. >> welcome to "today" on saturday morning. i'm lester holt. >> and i'm hoda kotb. hold on. not what i expected. you promised. >> you didn't spike mine. >> in twitter you momsed but i'll forgive you for this one. >>> residents from coast-to-coast are keeping a close eye after weather this weekend. >> uprooted trees, damaged buildings, in virginia a funnel cloud wa

yes, it's washington crossing the delaware or columbus crossing the atlantic. take your pick. in any case, he's a brave and persistent sailor and a good commander. a good commander. he keeps order among his men and among the three vessels under his command. here you see the first voyage. he makes four voyages. the first voyage was at the top here in the yellow. sailing west. boy, was columbus lucky. he's sailing in august and september across this part of the world that's not quite the south atlantic. what does columbus avoid? he's blessed. hurricanes. think about it. he didn't know. columbus didn't know it was the hurricane season, but he sailed in the hurricane season. no hurricanes, at least he didn't encounter any. very lucky. there's another wise thing, too. as they're sailing west they begin to see stuff in the water. again, birds occasionally, so like the vikings, they said, well, it there must be land somewhere near. columbus is on a course nearly due west. due west. then he decides, because he has seen stuff in the water, that seems to come coming up from the south, s

this will encompass the whole mid atlantic. the storms will stay out in the western part of the planes could but some of the warmth out here, these were actual highs today, almost 90 degrees of around bismarck. denver was 91 degrees today.

a merging backup probably in the atlantic as we head into friday morning. it could strengthen a little bit and then continue to move northeast. it should come up this way. i don't think it's going to be a problem here in the mid- atlantic but as we get toward the weekend or next week even, it's possible she comes up a little farther north, that riptides may become an issue. if you're going over to ocean city or any of those areas, virginia beach, the outer banks, you'll have to pay attention to exactly where debby goaz because ever the rip -- goes because of the riptide concerns. today a beautiful day. 75 at noon. by 4:00 81. going to be about the high, 81, 82. very, very comfortable humidity levels. big front came through yesterday with big storms to our south. we had some isolated showers and storms here. this morning you'll notice the clear skies and then beautiful temperatures. down in the 50s in many areas. hagerstown is 57. baltimore 58. still mid-60s at the pax river naval air station and locally, though, lots of 50s. fairfax county, vienna is 55. 59

high pressure builds throughout the mid-atlantic. with high pressure in place the storms are going over the top of the ridge. this is some much-needed rain coming across florida right now. florida beachgoers they need the rain. floridians will not complain about that forecast. our story for the weekend sunshine. upper 80's. on sunday we are looking for hot conditions around 90 or 91. it will become humid, typical summer stuff. if you are going to the chesapeake bay the winds are westerly. air temperatures in the 80's. water temperatures in the low 70's. upper 70's to load 80's off the boardwalk. on the beach from it will be in the lower 70's. water temperatures about 70 or so. i think lots of people are heading to the beaches for the weekend. close to 90 tomorrow. about 90 on sunday. muggy with a few clouds on monday. as we head through tuesday and wednesday, the next cold front comes through with increasing chances of storms. >> thank you very much. everybody's favorite abc 7 facebook contest is back online. >> we want to thank you

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a low in the atlantic will move to the south. as it does, it should help to pull some of the clouds away. interestingly enough, this computer model trying to get a couple of sprinkles to pop north and west of us. i think that's overdone. but stranger things have happened. tonight partly cloudy. tomorrow again turning out to be mostly sunny and pleasant and nothing really heads our way for the foreseeable future, at least through the weekend. as we look at the forecast, pleasant today. a little more sun this afternoon. 79. tonight we're back in the 50s and 60s once again. very nice friday and saturday with sunny skies, highs 80, 81. then we start a slow warming trend for your weekend. by father's day 83. monday 86. here comes the heat tuesday and wednesday. low to mid-90s by wednesday. and wednesday by the way summer begins at 7:09. how appropriate to be back in the 90s. it is 4:47. >>> good morning, everybody. overnight at about 1:30 this morning, there was a very serious accident out in gambrells here at route 32. authorities ar

all the areas in green in the 60s for the mountains all of the way to the atlantic beaches. reagan national now at 69. right now in waldorf it's at 66. and partly cloudy there. and here's the hometown forecast for charles county, waldorf, by mid morning, low 70s. by noontime, around 80 and partly sunny. for the rest of the afternoon, mid and upper 80 there's for a brief time. mid to late afternoon. just a slight chance of isolated thunderstorm popping up into the evening hours. back down to the 70s by midnight. and even hotter tomorrow. we'll look at that and the week and weekend in ten minutes. >> tom, right now looking at an accident. this is if you're traveling 95 nn as you approach the 11th street bridge. use caution. have a crash in that area. over to the beltway and prince george's county road work. it's on the right side of the road for you. traveling along i-270 north and southbound at old georgetown road. road work on both ways. it's on the left side. be aware of that. if you're traveling along 395, i have your commute coming up in ten minutes. angie and eun, back o

woodruff: we hear from anne- marie slaughter and get two reactions to her recent article in the "atlantic" magazine which has sparked a lot of buzz about women balancing work and family. >> ifill: ray suarez talks with author rajiv chandrasekaran about the u.s. role in afghanistan, and his new book, "little america." >> it's the version of a sugar high.

ocean city doesn't sit high above the atlantic and that distance appears to be shrinking. over the last half century, most of the world has seen a two inch rise in sea level. a 600-mile stretch of coastline is experiencing far more. virginia is up to 4.8 inches. pennsylvania 3.7. in new york 2.8 inches. >> as it continues to rise in the future -- >> that will make a difference in storm surges and the effects of that on coastal communities. >> reporter: meaning more water pushing further inland during storms. why the levels are higher is unclear. one theory colder freshwater from melting ice is blocking the gulf stream. >> water coming down from the north atlantic that may have slowed the gulf stream is causing water on the shore lines to rise. >> reporter: it's not just the coast. the chesapeake bay is rising. people who lived here watch it climb over the years. >> the water level is up higher. almost every day. >> reporter: chesapeake bay we have more of a rise because the land is subsiding or sinking a bit. that is not good when storm surges like the one from isabel push

radar satellite shot and you can see most of the rainfall from the system is no moving up the mid-atlantic. we have a few clouds that are strolling in across our region, as far as everything else is concerned, that is going to clear up tonight across the d.c. area and not bad at all. 74 degrees at national airport on light northerly wind at 6 miles an hour. the humidity at 34%. tonight, partly cloudy and clearing skies. 56 degrees is what we're talking about for overnight lows and we have some weather that we're going to have to keep our eyes on for tomorrow, and i will have the details a little later on when i come upstairs. back to you. >> all right, thank you. >>> and you want to stay on top of what is going to happen with the weather. a severe weather like yesterday, a good reason to download the fox 5 weather app. all you have to do is go to apple's app store or the android market on your smart phone and search for d.c. weather. can you find it on our website, www.myfoxdc.com. >>> and the most serious damage from yesterday's storm appears to be in hartford county, maryland, where more

at the same time, american merchants were plying "the atlantic carrying on the trade." american whaling vessels were pursuing their prey in the south pacific. you can read melville's wonderful "moby dick" about that and don't skip the whale chapters. they're actually kind of interesting about that. that will travel. you know, we have an image from some 20th century political rhetoric that americans before world war i or world war ii at some point in the early 20th century that americans before that were isolationists were penned up in their own country. that simply isn't true. what you saw were you had merchant ties all over the world and some of these were immensely profitable. sarah delano roosevelt, the mother of franklin roosevelt her fairly warren del know made two china voyages in the china trade and sometime not much longer after tocqueville came to america. he retired after that at the age of 31 and built a castle on the hudson river and the family was rich ever since off the profits from that kind of trade. that was america traveling around the world, and in th

great undertaking nicaragua is planning to build an alternative to the panama canal linking the atlantic and the pacific oceans find out what countries are hoping to dive into the thirty billion dollar deal. that's still to come for you but first spain is on the edge of a financial abyss e.u. sources claim it could ask for a bailout as early as this evening madrid's credit score has been slashed while it's boring call soared close to the level that forced greece portugal and ireland to seek rescue but as euro zone powerhouses try to keep the single currency afloat one town is banking on the past to turn a profit on tuesday or smith. it's a blast from the past as this customer uses the irish punt to pay for some everyday purchases in the town of closeness islands joined the euro from the get go in two thousand and two but crisis hit business owners here have revived their old currency to try and desperately claw some cash back into the community if you bring in pointed to was twenty point whatever you spend or fifty point whatever you spend we will give you a change of tone his tone voter

has more the us has had the biggest share of trade between the atlantic and pacific oceans since the panama canal was completed in one nine hundred fourteen that situation is now under threat with new plans to build another canal in nearby nicaragua and because more and more ships are too big for the panama canal to handle project leaders say they've had interest from russia china japan south korea venezuela and brazil towards the thirty billion dollar project the nicaraguan government hopes it would bring much needed investment to the country currently the region's second poorest after haiti the project has faced some controversy one route running along the river border with neighboring costa rica has caused complaints but nicol regular maintains it does have the right to build the panama canal is currently going through an upgrade but even after that's finished this nicaraguan canal would be able to take bigger ships and with global trade increasingly shifting to the asia pacific region interest in a second route is also growing if all goes according to plan the project could be co

the the american coast in new york city are atlantic city or what have you, rockaway beach in front of you in the lights are on at night, which is when you want to surface and singer torpedoes at the enemy. those slaves silhouetted any kind of american ship or allied ship that's going parallel to the coast. so let's can the light, keep the u-boats away. anybody else? [inaudible] iv imac >> well, because -- that's a somewhat complicated question about american foreign policy in the wilson administration and how the war unfolded, but the fact is, try to give it a surety and they are. you know, part of it has to do with the fact that the chairman were sending out, before we entered the war were sinking american shipping. of course the lusitania in may of 15 with british liner, but over 100 americans died on it. you know, you can answer it on several levels. woodrow wilson tried hard to keep us out of the war, but by 1917 in the early 1917 shermans resume -- you know, the germans get it but lots keeping the western front -- but if keeping the english, fighting on the western front is th