mary's and calvert counties. breaks toward mechanicsville.his is moving east and the -- southeast and the eastern shore will be dealing with wet weather most of the afternoon. one more stop. moderate rain at times across carroll county and westminster. almost up to thurmont there, coming in 144 out of emmittsburg. woods dboro in to frederick and carroll counties with light to moderate showers. as we look at the next four days a cool afternoon. 50 is all we will do here. 69 richmond. that's where the warm air is. the showers will be ending this evening. tomorrow sun returns. cool, low possibly mid-60s and back in the 70s as we head to thursday. this afternoon, numerous showers. 50s for highs. northeast winds five to ten. definite jacket, sweatshirt, umbrella weather if you will. showers taper off tonight. some spots in the upper 30s if not mid-40s as clearing late. northeast winds at five. and then the sun returns for your wednesday but still cool with highs in the low possibly middle 60s. it is only 42348 gaithersburg and hagerstown. winchest

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mary's county, into calvert county. this is light activity and this will run down 495.n the next 30 minutes and it's going to be about it. let's go back to the computer and talk about temperatures. with clouds and showers, it's a great equalizer. 54 in bethesda, 55 in college park. high was 57 today at national. it's 10 degrees below average. mid to upper 50s out towards sterling and leesburg. tomorrow morning, plenty of sunshine, cool, 40s and 50s to start. and then by afternoon, again a nice day. partly cloudy, breezy and pleasant. showers are possible, but the bulk of the day will be nice. high temperatures around 70. winds will increase at 10 to 15. satellite picture, radar combined, our weekend storm is in the rockies, causing some rain and snow in the rockies. thunderstorms in the plain states. this system is finally leaving us alone. with a weak system, we talked about that. only about a third to .2 of inch fell, and everything is east of us. we'll see some clearing already back into the mountains, that gets in here tonight. >>> next seven days, 70 tomorrow. mayb

units from prince george's and calvert county worked to help find the teenager. >>> tonight a university held a vigil for a student killed. tryal hall shot two men. brandon died from his injuries. hall told police he fired in self-defense when the men lunged at him. police say other students believe hall had assaulted a woman at a party hours earlier. >>> in life, brian betts was a popular dc principal who was success plea transforming an understood performing school and building -- nund performunder performing school and building. andrea mccarren explains. >> he was my big brother. he was my hero. it's nice to know that other people knew how nice he was. >> reporter: jennifer at more heard of her brother's fate when she answered a knock at her door. they said she needed to contact montgomery county police right away. her brother, brian betts, had been found dead in his silver spring home. >> it's one of those things you think it's a bad dream. let's wake up from this dream. i don't like it. >> reporter: betts was admired and adored at shaw middle school. but he was also an uncle and god

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around prince frederick, you may be seeing a leftover sprinkle here in calvert county.e but give it another 20 minutes. called in with 0.4 of an inch of rain. we go to the weather computer and go through the weekend with the forecast first. 61, maybe 63 in a few spots today, breezy. a bit breezy at times. today will be the breezier day. on sunday, delightful finish to the weekend. temperatures making it back to the low 70s. that bustout forecast this morning, some sunshine north and west of town, clouds south and east, breezy and cool. 47 to 55. sunrise 6:41. sunny, breezy, cool their afternoon. around 60 or the low 60s. northwest wind breezy. tonight, chilly in f. not cold. a couple of clouds passing with sunset 7:39. going up to new york or boston this morning, there may be some minor delays with the early showers. and then the cold air into pittsburgh now and columbus in the 30s. cleveland's at 40 but it is still 61 in norfolk. the high in the country yesterday tied chesapeake, virginia the national high got up to 88. locally, we've got upper 40s now in arlington and

we have some in anne arundel county, calvert, and charles county as well as st. mary's county. 48, the temperature in manassas. 49 in fairfax. 48 in baltimore. throughout the area, anywhere between about 48 and 50 degrees. by tomorrow morning, we are going to have a pretty cool start around here. we are going to be dry across the area by tomorrow morning. so on your fast forecast the showers, those will be leaving soon. about 8:00, 9:00 p.m. seasonal sunshine back tomorrow. then i will tell you how warm the rest of the workweek is looking. and even peek at the weekend. >> all right, veronica, thank you. a minor earthquake rattled southwest virginia early this morning. it happened just after midnight about 50 miles from the west virginia and north carolina borders. officials say it had a magnitude of 2.5. there were no reports of any damage. >>> first lady michelle obama left washington today on her first solo trip abroad. and the trip began with a surprise visit on the way to mexico. the first lady stopped in haiti. she spent the day getting a firsthand look at t

around calvert and st. mary's county. most of it is out of here. and by early tomorrow morning we should have signs of sunshine throughout the area. opinion 16 of an inch of rain in manassas today. opinion 39 in ft. belvoir. culpeper picked up opinion 54 of an inch of rain today. rain is going to return for the weekend. again, today is just an appetizer of things to come. low pressure. that's the system. it has been rather sxwaek moving off the coast. the next storm system is not weak storm system at all. it has been producing some travel slowing down for showers and storms. throughout areas of the west and california and arizona and even nevada. and snow through the higher passes out west and including colorado. this will be abslow moving system. main part really not arriving here fully until the beginning of next week. so again, we will stay socked in for the weekend and beyond. here is look at severe weather reports nationwide. it has been a slow start to us this spring with showers and storms and severe weather reports versus last year. even sl

there are sprinkles now in southern charles county, calvert county and st. mary's county. on the whole, going to be a cloudy and cool day today. started off with temperatures at 52 early this morning in downtown and now, we've made it all the way up to 53. i don't think we're going to move a whole heck of a lot more than that either. temperatures just down to our south are as warm as we were yesterday because that's where the weather front as moved on down to. satellite picture shows cloudy skies in that general train of southeast rain showers coming in the area. cloudy, cooler today than yesterday. afternoon showers are likely. these are just going to be enough to collect all the granules of pollen on the hood of your car and make big bright yellow spots. >> that sounds terrific. we'll talk to you again. maybe you'll have a better outlook on our car condition a little bit later on. >> i'm optimistic you'll like half of the seven-day. >> thank you, chuck. >>> there is good news out of florida this morning. an 11-year-old autistic girl was found alive a short time ago, she

romer, we're going to get right to the questions now and i'm going to ask sharon calvert to stand. she is a businesswoman and, am i right, a member of the tea party here in florida? >> yes, i'm one of the leaders he in tampa, florida. >> woodruff: and you have a question about the stimulus. the recovery act that was passed last year and how well it's worked. >> that's right. >> is there a time when we look at the stimulus, we've spent $900 billion and it didn't stimulate, where we look at broad-based tax cuts to give americans the money in their pockets to get the engine of our economy going again. >> woodruff: dr. roamer? >> what we found is that the recovery act so far has saved or created some 2.5 million jobs relative to where we otherwise would have been. the other thing is i think it's important to realize the recovery act had a lot of tax cuts in it. and we estimated that there have been some $200 billion so far of tax cuts and payments to people... to families in need that we think has actually been incredibly important to the recovery, accounting for as much as half the to

i have worked at a couple of nuclear power plants, specifically calvert cliffs, nine mile point, too and beaver cliffs. i would like to ask kathryn if she has ever taken a chance to look at the in poker -- the info report. guest: yes, it is an industry group that takes a look at our ports and makes recommendations for we can run our plants better. host: next call from north carolina, paul on the democrats line. caller: would like to make three points. and i am an -- a mechanical and an electrical engineer. and i'm very familiar with folks mechanical stuff that is used to operate these plants. all of these are very safe even with the back of systems. number two, these plants are very vulnerable. i know of one in the south where a rocket launcher could be placed in a van and it could be pulled right up and blow a hole through the cold in -- cooling power. and number three, the waste is forever. it does not go away. there is nowhere to put it, just because it is put in a capsule, these are time capsules. i know of people who worked in a plant in the industry and died before they were 40