got to say hi to tony up in charlestown. charlestown, we don't mention it enough. good to see you there on saturday. enjoyed it. >>> we have a decent start to the day and the week. midweek is when our problems will be, wednesday probably not going to happen with outdoor plans. but either side that have looks all right. at your bus stop forecast, mostly cloud did i skies out there a few sprinkles in western maryland, parts of west virginia. we are all watching that along 68 and 70 this morning and out in the mountains. temperatures running 57 to 65. our day planner today. mostly cloudy to start. 68 by noon though. skies are mostly sunny. it will best temperatures in the low maybe even mid 70s. by 8:00 partly cloudy and 64. so a decent start to the week. cold front up to the north. not a strong one but you notice the showers with them here. southern pennsylvania and southern ohio. some of them had been sneaking some -- sneaking in toward individual and maryland. we have seen a few sprinkles toward cross junction. that is it right now. behind the front we have tempera

charlestown bridge, how you doing, scott brown? almost every single democrat and therefore a majority of the senate voted to move this bill forward, but the republicans filibustered it. they are unanimously opposed. joining us now is john stanton, reporter for "the roll call" newspaper. thanks very much for your time tonight. it's nice to have you here. >> goods to be here. >> let's start with the exception to the rule. which democrats did not vote for this version of the jobs bill tonight? >> jim webb and ben nelson from nebraska did not vote for the bill. >> okay. david axelrod has been arguing in a memo to democrats really to everybody today that the policies in the jobs act are really popular, the bill, itself, is popular and getting more so. he is saying democrats who don't back it are making a political mistake. why doesn't the polling on this appeal to guys like jim webb? >> i think partly it's because webb is fairly conservative in sort of his fiscal policies. you know, with say nelson and other democrats that opposed it, t

this goes from harrisonburg up and down interstate 81 toward charlestown just getting over to aroundarper's ferry. this is slowly moving off toward the east. the other area of rain. plum point, north beach up to shadyside. even into eastern areas of prince george's and charles county. light rain moving in and coming up route 4, route five, even 301. you'll run into the light rain off to our east over the next hour or so. we'll have to watch it as we go throughout the day. temps are cold. 43 leesburg. 45 winchester. 50 at tappahannock. annapolis at 45. here in town, we're up one from last hour. 48 with the clouds. dew points 41. west-northwest wind at 5 miles per hour. winds won't be much of a factor today but tomorrow, i expect some bigger ones. big storm system here in the west coast. one off british columbia with the rain coming on the northern california to the northwest. hen this other big storm system, number two across the country. sitting here across the east for days and days with showers back toward detroit. upper lows here, surface low offshore. surface low gets a little be

charlestown is near 63. it is already most -- much warmer than yesterday. we will talk about the dusty wind and the future with this pattern shift coming up. >> thank you. >>> governor chris christie says he is ready to silence pressure once and for all as abc news confirms he will announce this afternoon that he is not running for president, which leaves many conservatives' feeling they are without a clear candidate. >>> a former army sergeant major pleaded guilty in a case of apparent road rage. passengers say gene mckinney picked up passengers, and then hit one of the passengers once he demanded to be let out. he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and reckless driving. sentencing is scheduled for december 9. >>> d.c. police want to know who robbed and beat a man in dupont circle. the victim took a cab from the 930 club. that is when someone attacked the man and hit a woman on the head. there is no word on the severity of the injury. >>> police in montgomery county are searching for a man who attacked a woman inside her home. police released this compos

also around harpers ferry and sharpsburgs this headed up to myersville and it is just north of charlestown. our futurecast today. couple of sprinkles north and west in the next hour or two. by 9:00 though, our temps will drop to 54 or so maybe the upper 50s east of town. we'll go toward the noon hour, sunny. near 60 degrees. but the winds today are going to whip near 30, 40 on the gusts, might see a sprinkle near hagerstown mid-afternoon with temperatures only getting into the lower 60s. andrea? >>> thank you howard. today the defense could start presenting its case in the trial of michael jackson's doctor. the last scheduled prosecution witness is expected to wrap up his testimony today. an expert anesthesiologist testified the drug propofol is safe in an operating room but not designed to be used as a sleeping aid. dr. conrad murray is charged with manslaughter in michael jackson's death. >>> lindsay lohan has posted bail after a judge revoked her probation. a los angeles county judge revoked lohan's probation wednesday after the actress encountered problems during the community service

the dark blue areas, charlestown, hagerstown to myersville and frederick and westminster.orth of that in pennsylvania a freeze warning is in effect. our day planner calling for spotty showers for the rest of the afternoon. 64, 65 for a high. the late afternoon and evening winds are going to shift behind a front that will clear us out a little bit. we'll go partly cloudy tonight and temperatures by 9:00 low 50s. by tomorrow morning, low 40s 234 town with mid 30s in many of the suburbs and closer to freezing up north where the freeze watch is in effect. look at this on the radars how everything has been moving from west to east. things not as intense but we still have some rain around generally light rain out there but lots of breaks and upper montgomery and northern loudoun county out through areas in fauquier county south of 66. here from d. c. points east, well, light to occasionally moderate showers and even into southern maryland the eastern shore. howard county, you're also starting to clear out some. we'll take you up north here, the lower part of montgomery county si

some of the more moderate rain coming down now along i- 95, port deposit, havre de grace and into charlestown and northeast. so, again, as you head out and about, make sure to take it easy on the roadways because it is slick out there. temperature wise, not so bad. coming in right around 56 degrees into sykesville and we do have a freeze watch. so as we go throughout the day, temperatures will start to drop as the cold front pushes through. freeze watch is in effect until tomorrow morning for all the areas here shaded in the blue. let's go over to tanya with your traffic. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we have an accident reported on reisterstown rowed 1 -- route 140 at 795. let's look at the beltway on the southwest side through catonsville, the end of the delay. outer loop is slow from 795 to edmonson. looking at 59 south of 22, -- 95 south at 22, the roads with wet but it's part of the detour around the conowingo bridge. 59 south to 22 to get to route 1 or take the tidings bridge or hatem bridge. the tanker truck has been removed. >>> track alert to know about. this is video we r

here in panhandle of west virginia, charlestown, marti martinsburg, and hagerstown getting a few sprinklesnortheast of frederick. and getting a few light showers in the northern part of west virginia and far western maryland and garrett and allegheny counties. temperatures there in the low 50s behind the front. ahead of the front, it's mild. low to mid-60s. right now 65 at reagan national. near 60 in prince george's, arlington, fairfax, and arlington counties. our sunrise at 7:19. a little sunshine in and out this morning. just a small chance of a sprinkle now between 8:00 and 9:00. after that, becoming mostly sunny as we claim to low to mid-70s by midafternoon. this evening we'll cool it down, becoming increasingly cloudy, near 60 by midnight. sunset at 6:27. by dawn tomorrow, it will be chilly. 50 degrees much of the region. highs 60 to near 70 with increasing clouds. late tuesday night probably after midnight. through the day wednesday into wednesday evening rain likely. highs only in the 60s. much cooler after that thursday and into the weekend. mornings in the 40s. afternoon highs onl

some light to moderate rain you can see right in between inwood and charlestown.ut other than that, we are pretty much dry as of now. but, as we go through the rest of the overnight into tomorrow, once again it will be a day like it was today. and the day before yesterday. so, as we check out our highs today, not high at all. well below average. 51 in baltimore. and a in easton and 52 in d.c. upper 40s in frederick and hagerstown and york, pennsylvania. tomorrow, the temperatures into arbutus coming in around 55. once again we are in the 50s. 54 in overly and we will have overcast skies once again. reason why is well, we still are under an upper-level low and until this moves out of here, we won't see the sunshine. but, it will be coming as we go into wednesday. so we are waiting for the high pressure to dive into the area. but in the meantime, we will be unsettled. so, tropical satellite yes we are talking about the tropics. but the good news is hurricane ophelia pushing up into new finland and tropical storm felipe work its way off towards the west but could doo

march of over two thousand students that were on the other side of the city trying to cross the charlestown bridge being blocked by police at that moment and late afternoon yesterday camp two was founded and the police were caught off guard and respect so that second camp which is adjacent to the jewish quit kept in an unnamed park and i can see exactly where it is it's a quarter of the congress in atlantic and it's also why it's bordered by purchase street and pearl street and it was also surrounded by about three hundred occupiers who had also linked arms and we have pictures that you've seen video of that and then about one twenty we began to see police vehicles arrive on the scene boston scouts had already found the concentrations of. police and at least three locations within two or three blocks of the site and ten minutes later. the park was surrounded not a very large park by police in maryland by transit police interesting the and state police the boston police themselves went in from the pearl street side and began doing what you could kind of see an obviously grainy videos and pho

a sprinkle is approaching charlestown. otherwise, we are seeing the clouds clear out of despite isolated sprinkles. the big story is the wind. the -- you can see the arrows indicate direction the wind is coming from. 36 miles per hour up to 31 in annapolis. 25 in the district. you will feel the wind. it will subside tonight and tomorrow. here is our radar. you can see the breaks in the clouds developing. we will have a partly cloudy skies but we are still under the influence. you can see the rotation around that law which is centered off to our west over ohio. that will continue to track to the northeast and replacing it will be a high pressure system for the next couple of days. partly cloudy skies but upper 50's in the potomac highlands later this afternoon. in the temperature difference. tomorrow will be similar temperature-wise. partly cloudy skies. not as windy tomorrow. today we will have those costs. tomorrow, 5-16. beautiful into the weekend. >>> this morning i just noticed a heavier volume of traffic. no accidents

two to four inches in front royal, charlestown and around washington, now, i'm thinking less than anh. if we get a heaviest burst of snow, that could pile things up on grassy surfaces. i'm not worried about roadways. to the south and east, this is rain and wind. i'm talking 20, 30 maybe 40-mile-an-hour winds as we go through saturday. not a nice day out there. rain moving in throughout the evening, mainly on the light side. snow toward the west virginia area. now, tomorrow, rain. heavy at times. with the winds increasing, starting off 36 to 39 degrees. the snow well west tomorrow morning in most locations. tomorrow afternoon, rain heavy at times. 36 to 41 degrees. over the next couple days, we dry out and get closer to average temperatures into the 50s by monday and tuesday. as we move into the middle of next week, looking good. another chance for a storm. that one will be small and rain. sounds like a piece of cake by comparison. >> exactly. >> timing. when are we looking at this? >> the rain is moving in right now. tomorrow morning. a lot of people have events tomorrow morning. i t

toward charlestown, and parts of washington county. 5 in winchester this morning. oakland though is 3 with the northwesterly winds. 65 degrees, 62 here in washington. lots of low to mid-60s this morning with north winds at 7 under mostly cloudy skies. reagan national checks in at 62 degrees. the big chill up in the central and northern rockies and northern plains. lots of 20s and 30s. that is going to slowly make its way toward us. temperatures starting in the 70s tomorrow by the end of the week we'll struggle to get out of the 50s. a storm system a little twist here coming through wyoming with rain and higher elevation snows. that is one piece of the equation. the other piece of the equation all this moisture down in south florida. lifting off toward the north. this will be dragged northward by the storm coming in from the west. hey we are fine a couple of sprinkles possible north this morning. we'll go through the day. midday looking great. sunshine go through the afternoon, looking great. mostly sunny. partly cloudy tonight. tuesday looking good. we are at 5:00.

martinsburg and charlestown coming in at 55 degrees. going to be a chilly evening. we are not going to see a warm up anytime soon. i'll show you the extended forecast coming up. >> thanks, doug. >>> students claim they were grabbed and chokes by a teacher in school. >> the teacher took the witness stand to describe her disciplinary methods. chris gordon is live with more. chris? >> reporter: susan burke has been a teacher since 1997. she testified for the second day in a row, in her own defense against assault charges here at this criminal trial. she smiled at the jury often. they took notes as she told her side of the story. first grade teacher testified she never choked any of her students at green castle elementary school. she taught 6 and 7-year-olds. she was suspended from teaching last january and charged with assault after parents and children in the class voiced complaints. >> it was numerous times. she didn't want to go to school. >> reporter: her trial began monday. five of the 16 children in her class testified she choked, grabs, pinched or scratched them

martinsburg, charlestown, frederick. rain here. i would not be surprised to see the snow come down in your area earlier. rain in the district around 4:30. watch what happens by tomorrow night. starting to see the rain/snow line closer to the d.c. area. i think we'll see a brief change over before moving out. almost no accumulation at all in washington. all the accumulation is off to the west. it's why we have the winter storm warning. loudoun county, frederick county and northern fauquier and places to the west, winter storm watch for montgomery and howard county, nothing now. how much snow? maybe four to eight inches to the west of i-81. it includes wihester. two to four into frederick county. two to four in fauquier and less than an inch from washington to fairfax and montgomery county. not a lot there. to the south and east, it's all a rain and wind event dealing t. the rain will be moving in. most of the evening will be dry. the rain moves in late tomorrow morning. rain heavy at times. snow well to the west. temperatures starti

winchester to romney and hagerstown and charlestown, west virginia.e to two inches of rain there. the d.c. metro area, i'm thinking a half inch of rain. a lot remains to be seen as the storm system moves up to the south. mild. 66 to 76 degrees. tomorrow morning, a mild morning. at least a lot warmer than it has been. down to 54 in the suburbs to 60 inside the city. tomorrow afternoon, clouds on the increase. we'll see a warm day, but not quite as warm. i think the last dry day tomorrow, temperatures between 69 and 74 degrees. a little bit above average. here comes the rain an wednesday. a high of 69. a chance of rain early on thursday. then we dry out again. right now, looking at a good weekend. partly sunny and mild with temperatures average for this time of year. 69 to 70 degrees. >> we love that. >> not bad at all. >>> coming up next, joe the plumber looking for a new line of work. >>> a warning. why you might want to think twice before you leave the electronics on the next time you >>> the ohio man joan as joe the plumber may be running for congre

to the west, our friends in west virginia, a very cool 53 in martinsburg and charlestown. the winds, not too windy in most areas. upwards of 20 to 22 miles per hour. the rest of the area, not seeing too much in the way of winds. nothing on the radar. do not expect rain. a wake up forecast showing temperatures in the city down to the low to mid-40s starting off very, very chilly on our saturday morning. the coolest temperatures we have seen this season and they may go lower. i'll show you how low, coming up. >> if it's friday, it's doug kammerer. thank you, doug. >>> what you have probably seen the red and yellow bikes all over town. it's part of a bike share program in the district and arlington. it's so popular, rental prices are going up to help pay for the bike share. tom sherwood has that story. >> reporter: just over a year old, the capital bike share program is expanding all over the city into arlington and soon into alexandria. >> i see a lot of people on it around the city. i have my own bike. i don't use that system. it's great to see the ability it has to get mor

it is 59 in stafford. 55 in martinsburg and charlestown and inwood.ies the highlighted counties out to the north and west. winds could gust over 40 miles per hour in those locations. your day planner plnty of sunshine, breezy, wind drink sunshine. temperatures climbing to near 70 for a brief time. if you're making the trip to charlottesville, a 3:00 kick off. 70 degrees at kickoff there. it will be windy in charlottesville. be on the lookout for that. if you're headed up to state college happy valley the lions taking on the purdue boiler makers 53 degrees the kick off. most of it's pretty good. very windy up there in happy valley. virginia tech on the road at wake forest. the demon deacons down there. a 6:30 cake off that will be a chilly game. mid 60s at kick off. but way down into the upper 40s before that game the through. cool weather there. more college football and the seven-day forecast still ahead. >>> all right. thanks, chuck. >>> look forward to it. >>> right now police in herndon are looking for a man they say is behind two sexual assaults.

charlestown, west virginia. there is a freeze watch in effect tonight through tomorrow morning because temperatures will settle into the low 30s so there is definitely the possibility of some freezing and damage to crops. today, cloudy skies, showers likely. 65degrees for your high today. tonight, that freeze, early showers. 42degrees for your overnight low. look at the wind you pick up out of the north at 15 to 20 miles per hour. your five-day forecast, tomorrow, our high only in the low 50s. that is your high, folks. friday into saturday, 40 in town. 30s outside of town. saturday, kind. a miserable day. we'll have showers. it will be cold. 48-degree so not a pleasant day. 30s overnight. for halloween, right now, things look okay. a lot of clouds around, 59- degree, cooling off by nighttime as you know. now, let's get to julie wright and get an update on traffic. >> i might have to cook in the crock pot on saturday. >> that sounds good! what are you going to cook, beef stew? >> i'm thinking or like a chicken no

look at the rain entering clark county in virginia, winchester, frederick county and also the charlestownrtinsburg. shower activity is moving toward the east. it's going to have a hard time moving too much farther to the east. it will do so as we make our way through the evening. it's clearing out. down to 47 in washington. 45 in leesburg. tomorrow, a high temperature in d.c. frederick coming in around 67 tomorrow. looking like a nice day. the extended forecast. you don't want to miss it. i'll have it for you at 6:00. the weekend, looking interesting. >> all right. >> thank you, doug. >> thanks for the warning. >>> after the weekend, we have the big day, halloween with ghosts and goblins heading to your door, soon. it's time to think about how to keep the holiday a safe one. >> we have the annual eye-opening demonstration today. >> for children and adults alike, halloween is a time of year to don costumes and become something or someone for the night. it's fun but can be a fire hazard. dressing up for halloween is a tradition and so are the lighted jack lanterns that go along with it. fla

we got reports of the sightings monday night in charlestown, west virginia, damascus, maryland, and highlandyland up in howard county i keep forgetting to look. >> i wonder if we could see them anyway. you see all the lights we have in our area. >> you could still see them. >> you still could? >> even with all the artificial light we have. >> i did not see them the night before last but many reports, a lot of folk here did see them. and you can see them apparently as far south as georgia the night before last. last night, unless we get reports otherwise, we weren't supposed to be able to see them very well in our region. i wish i had seen them. >> i would assume it is like a big concert going o i would not know it was a northern lights. >> hey, it's the pink floyd show, wow! i don't think we'll see them tonight. we'll look into it. >> if you see any big floating pigs, you are dim at the floyd show. >> or who knows where you are. let's take a look at what is going on with our weather conditions around the region as we are seeing our temperatures in the 50s. not a bad start to the day, folks.

it's 41 in manassas. 44 in waldorf and la plata. 50 in winchester. 51 in charlestown, west virginia.here near us. a few lonesome sprinkles across far western pennsylvania. those will be drying up before they come through the mountains. nonetheless, they will be indicative of a few extra clouds coming in by later on this afternoon into this evening. on the whole, your sunday is going to be filled with sunshine and mild weather. highs today running four or five degrees warmer than average. low to mid-70s around town. if you're headed down to the martin luther king jr. he dedication, 8:00 temperature, 53 alongside the tidal basin. 11:00 when the temperature is 62 degrees. eagles and the redskins are playing at 1:00 today. perfect weather for that game. 70 degrees at kickoff. 73 in baltimore when the ravens kick off against the texans. how much more stuff can we cram into a sunday. >> you have no excuse. no excuse not to do anything today, right? >> right. if you can't find something to do today you're simply not looking hard enough. >> thank you, which you can. >> thank you. >> investig

stuff is starting to spread from west virginia eastward from martinsburg, expanding over toward charlestown now and out toward maybe meyersville here north and west of town. it is a chilly morning. temperatures in the 30s in the mountains. rest of us in the 40s to right around 50 down south. monika samtani is stepping in here at 5:00 a.m. with your timesaver traffic. >> i'm starting off with a green light. no problems. here is a look at the beltway. we'll zoom in to the bw parkway. i just got off the phone with park police. they tell plea the accident on the northbound side of the bw parkway at 198 is minor in nature. it should be out of there shortly. southbound, you're good to go heading through laurel and down to the beltway. let's take a live look at 95 coming down from 198. no problems here as well all the way down to the beltway and over to silver spring and 270. back over to the maps, this time, let's go south of town. zooming into 95. no problems out of fredericksburg, all the way into dumfries. we'll take a live look here in newington at backlick road. no problems as you head up on

mar tinsburg and charlestown and ince during up in the panhandle mid 40s. the only real knock on it there is a limit bit of very thick fog out to the west this morning. you folks west of i-95 be on the lookout for some thick fog this morning. that won't last long. bright sunshine start to finish today. high temperatures in the mid up toer 70s. sun doesn't go down until 6:40 this evening. there's a 3:30 kickoff in blacksburg. be ready for perfect football weather. 75 and sunny. maybe the lack of humidity will help the home team. >> let's hope. >> hoping for a hokey win. >> that was a tough loss last week. >> thanks, chuck. >>> today protesters will gather for the third straight day of the occupy d.c. demonstrations. yesterday protesters marched from freedom plaza to the world bank calling for the end of the wars in afghanistan and iraq. u.s. park police say yesterday's march was peaceful and they didn't make any arrests. the demonstrations have gotten so large police were shutting down streets so protesters could cross. the protesters have a permit to stay a

morgantown, charlestown, west virginia, places like that where you could see temperatures in the low30s out there tonight. it is not a warning at this point. there are some warning in pennsylvania but here it is a watch and again, we're not talking about the washington metropolitan area. here is what we are looking at for today though. cloudy skies. showers likely. another mild day. 65 and that is actually our average high for this date. then for tonight, we will see more clouds, some early showers. breezy conditions. winds blowing up to about 15 or 20 miles per hour. the overnight low in town about 42 degrees as that cool air really works its way in. the five-day forecast, check it out. tomorrow, only the low 50s. quite chilly, a little bit breezy. showers on saturday. 48degrees for the high. and overnight lows in the 30s saturday into sunday and then halloween right now looks pretty good. 59degrees under partly sunny skies. we believe it will be dry but becoming chilly during the trick or treat hours. that is a look at what is happening with the weather. julie, not a pumpkin but we

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zoom in over to parts west and north of town where we're seeing areas of snow, i-81, front royal, charlestowning to one of the weather watchers. chantilly, that rain starting to change over a little but around the immediate dc metro area we're looking at just rainy conditions, some can be heavy. also, breezy conditions as well throughout the day but that rain probably changing to snow a little later. temperature now in downtown, 40. gaithersburg colder at 34. middleburg 33 -- martinsburg 33. in the bay, 45 though. by noon it's still rain around the immediate dc metro area, it's a mixture of winter precip heading farther north and west. by late this afternoon, martinsburg, winchester, you'll still see snow according to the model but frederick, maybe a mixture. that rain changing to snow, maybe early this evening towards gaithersburg and leesburg, as colder air moves in. then late tonight, this system moves well to the north and east of us. and will start to clear out and dry out. how much snow are we expecting? according to this model here, around maybe a trace to inch around the district and

martinsburg and charlestown, 45.ok, mount jackson, stanton, virginia, 39 degrees in the southern end of the shenandoah valley. no rain on the radar for us today. the closest rain showers for us are way down on the south side of atlanta. eventually that will bring us our next chance of rain. that will probably be tuesday night or more likely into the day wednesday. no problems for today and tomorrow. bright and sunny. super mild again today. temperatures running 5 to nearly 10 degrees warmer than average. satellite picture bears out the truth there are no clouds for us to worry about here. high pressure is in charge the next several days. sunny, warm, delightful. light breeze. highs today 75 to 80 degrees. might be the best day of the bunch. definitely the best day of the stretch if you have columbus day off. that's the only way you can make tomorrow any better. if you're headed down for a last splash at the beach, perfect beachgoing weather. ing there our extended forecast. beautiful weather for today and tomorrow. c