. >>> plus, storm team 4's chuck bell with a hour-by-hour forecast. >> a few scattered clouds in the eastern skies. waiting on sunrise. it's not up for another 31 minutes. but it's a comfortable start this morning. mid to upper 50s through shenandoah valley. 58 in martinsburg. 59 near montgomery county. near 70 degrees in annapolis. just those scattered clouds around. becoming mostly sunny. hour-by-hour, low to mid-80s. >>> breaking news on the roads, southbound, bw parkway. right now a crash off to the right side of the roadway. chopper 4 over the scene. we have a four-mile backup. it's on the washington, d.c. app right now. right now, it's a pretty good option, 95. two lanes blocked ramp from southbound gw parkway to inbound key bridge that is shut down starting today through friday. take the roosevelt bridge instead. 100 eastbound at route 1, a crash there as well. see slowdowns there. innerloop and outer loop, no major problems. more on this problem on the beltway coming up, eun. >> thank you, melissa. developing this morning. you won't be able to go to the washington monument wh

we'll turn to chuck bell. he's got an update on what we can expect when we step outside this morning. >> good morning, chuck. >> hey, good morning. outside it is a dry start to your monday. so you don't need to worry too much about your early morning activities. here's a live look over national harbor first thing this morning. current temperature 72 in washington. 70 in prince george's county. 65 in calvert county, 65 in gaithersburg. going out to get your early morning run in this morning, run early. easygoing first thing. temperatures will be in the mid 80s by lunch time. up to near 90 degrees for a high today with a chance for a couple of afternoon and early evening thunderstorms. for now, breaking news on the rails with melissa mollet. >> big problem here on the rails this morning on the fredericksburg line here on vre. all trains out of from instithree of -- all trains out of fredericksburg are delayed two hours. as far as travel times 66 inbound, 95 inbound, no problems there. in virginia. 270 south and t

. >> storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is here with the weather headlines. chuck? >> that's right. all the good news in the forecast is that temperatures will be at or below average for this afternoon. and more importantly, the rain chances are gone. and the humidity is leaving as well. last of the drops out to atlantic city. couldn't rule out a few stray sprinkles across southern most st. mary's county. but by and large, 99% of us will be rain free for today. temperatures 71 in washington. 63 in manassas and ashburn. 61 in front royal and martinsburg. a nice start this morning. here's the way your day breaks out hour by hour. temperatures staying in the mid to upper 60s through 7:00. mid to upper 70s by 11:00 and then full sunshine, low humidity. temperatures mid 80s and a perfect night for doing everything from backyard barbecuing. how is the ride on 270? >> it is good this morning. no problems here, all the way from frederick down to the spur. you can see nice and clear, no issues at all. we had some earlier road work in the northern part of 270 that's out of th

storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell watching whether that day will start off wet for your kids. huck. >> first thing this morning, most roads are still dry. but that will be changing as we go through the next couple of hours. a lot of moisture down the our south is promising plenty of clouds and humidity and off and on hit and miss sprinkle and light rain shower chances. most of the rain is confined to southern st. mary's county. sprinkles south and west of the washington area coming up i-95. so as you plan out your day this morning, the sun is up at 6:36. temperatures in the mid to

let's check in with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. good morning. >> good morning, yeah, the cooler, drier air moving in. temperature at national airport is down four degrees in the last couple of hours, so that's nice. a light breeze will keep a beautiful day in place. temperatures will be in the mid 60s through 7:00 a.m. mid to upper 70s by lunch time. don't forget your sunglasses and your short sleeves but on the whole, a great day to be outside. more on tropical storm erica in ten minutes. for now, a new crash from first 4 traffic. >> b.w. parkway beltway at south 100. we see backups, showing a one mile backup. upper marlboro, ritchie-marlboro, lanes are blocked. as far as travel times looking good on 270 and the belt. top of the beltway, no problems. overall, prince george's looking good. 66 east, no major problems there. 95 north also rolling along. remember to listen to our fri d friends from wtop 103.5 f.m. when you hop in your car. >>> not ready for the in school year, why hundreds of virginia kids could get an extended summer

storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell tracking what kind of day we'll have. especially for the kids headed back to school. >> good morning. a fine looking way to get the school year started for the kids in the district and other counties today. the overall weather impact on the first day of school will be nice and low. a little hot, a little humid. there will be a chance for thunderstorms today. so as you're packing the backpack today, put the umbrella in there. nothing on storm team 4 radar yet this morning but rain chances ramp up after 3:00 or 4:00.

especially with chuck bell with our forecast. >> yes. absolutely right. you had so many opportunities. let's go to chuck, but keep stirring it away. outside we have a nice day in place around here. all eyes on the weather, because we're under a quiet weather pattern. all eyes are focused on tropical storm erika. still just a tropical storm, expected to gradually increase in intensity up to about a category 1 hurricane. but it might take the better part of the next four or five days for it to do that. this is the official forecast track. even though the computer draws a center line through that cone, the forecast cone there, literally the storm could be anywhere inside of this area as we get toward early tuesday morning. midnight into early tuesday. so all interests along the southeast coast from the outer banks to charleston, to savannah, they have to watch it extremely carefully. as of now, the forecast track shifts a little bit farther and farther off the coast. let's hope that trend continues. most of the models have this storm rec-curving back out to s

chuck bell, how about that change? >> all right, the change begins really later this afternoon into tonight and tomorrow. for now it's another comfy start to the day. a lot of folks have had the windows open in the suburbs in the last couple of mornings. that cool morning trend is coming to an end. 50s and low 60s now. sun is up at 6:33 this morning. 7:00 to 8:00, low 60s. and then 8:00 to 9:00, 60s. recess temperatures mid to upper 70s. dismissal time, the most important one of the day, you're done. opened of the day. i wish we had a bell here. other than me. >> we'd hurt each other running out of here. all right. still have a problem here on the roads. 95 south there at route 1. now, again, we had this crash, getting by to the left here morning. we have a one mile backup now building. hoping that's going to get out of the way soon. blue line, single-tracking between foggy bottom and arlington cemetery, orange and silver lime between foggy bottom and clarendon. all main routes into and out of town look good with the e

and we'll start with chuck bell and what to wear forecast. >>> a beautiful day outside. you're going to need short sleeves. shorts if you can get away with wearing shorts to school today and sunblock. right now, temperatures in the 60s. 61 in new market, maryland. 61 in olney. 64 degrees in sterling this morning. school day forecast, mid-60s now. it's going to be an a-plus kind of a day today. amelia segal will be out there at the federal credit union coming up in 30 minutes. now a check on traffic with melissa mollet. >>> right now, clara barton parkway, the main lanes, not off to the shoulder quite yet. 270 and old hundred road, you see a tiny bit of volume there heading southbound. bw parkway, 95, everything green there. 95 in virginia, and no problems there. remember, this will be an issue, ramp from southbound gw parkway to key bridge closed until friday. take the roosevelt. >>> more power to police, why d.c. mayor muriel bowser is pushing for just that. >> open or closed? what we just learned about >>> right now, flights are back under after a fire at dublin's airp

expecting the heat to sort of kick back in today as a lot of kids get ready to go back to school. >> chuck bell with what we can expect. how should we get ready, chuck? >> well, first thing you need to know, if you're packing your backpack today, you have the pb and j, lunch money, have your little umbrella ready for later on today. not a guarantee you'll get rained on, but it is a real possibility. so have the umbrellas in the backpacks this morning. weather slowdowns, nothing this morning and this afternoon. a chance for a thousand thunderstorms this afternoon. more about that in ten minutes. >>> placing for another rough day on wall street. and what steps you should take to protect your retirement savings and other accounts. >>> we'll show you a brand-new school and tell you about the lesson plans for this >>> breaking news on the rails in fredericksburg. chopper 4 right now over the scene here where we have a train stopped near fredericksburg this morning because of police activity. so on the fredericksburg line, you are two hours behind this morning. also have some delays on the manassas l

. >> yeah, chuck bell here with a look at what we can expect today. did the rain cool us down a bit? >> it cooled us down a smidgen, eun. temperatures down into the 60s early this morning. more importantly, the drier and less humid air can start to move back into the region. 73 at national airport. 73 at the naval academy in annapolis. out to the north and west, the cooler and drier air is spilling. in 59 in luray. 55 in petersburg, west virginia. better still, the humidity still stickiness left in the air for now. but starting this afternoon and going into tomorrow and the next several days, humidity, vacation return. summer vacation may be over, but humidity vacation lingers on. a mild start this morning. 60s and near 70s. melissa mollet, i think it will be a good hair day today. >> thank you very much. you know it can get humid here and i start complaining. what's going on, chuck? 66 at sycamore street, two right lanes blocked until 5:00. just some construction happening there. seeing a little bit of yellow inbound on the toll road as you approach

storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell watching whether that day will start off wet for your kids. hey, chuck. >> first thing this morning, most roads are still dry. but that will be changing as we go through the next couple of hours. a lot of moisture down the our south is promising plenty of clouds and humidity and off and on hit and miss sprinkle and light rain shower chances. most of the rain is confined to southern st. mary's county. sprinkles south and west of the washington area coming up i-95. so as you plan out your day this morning, the sun is up at 6:36. temperatures in the mid to upper 70s. mid and upper 80s later on this afternoon. a chance of a shower or two. don't leave home without that umbrella and don't leave home without checking out the traffic with melissa mollet. >> that's right. a big back to school morning for a lot of folks. one issue, red line delays to glenmont. not going to affect too many school kids but that's happening right now. 66 east at nutley street, a little slow in that area because of the earlier crash. again it's off to the right side of the r

meteorologist chuck bell has your weather headlines. >> got two thumbs up from the weather department today. the overall impact on your afternoon plans, very, very low. sunshine and mild conditions. temperatures are going to stay in the low 80s later on this afternoon. so couple of degrees cooler than average even with all the sunshine. what great start this morning. open the windows, may need an extra blankey this morning. 59 in leesburg and manassas. 55 out towards luray and new market, virginia. so what to wear? you may need a wrap for first thing this morning. other than that, a pretty little dress. don't forget your sunblock. is up's up at 6 -- sun's up at 6:31. mid 60s by 7:00 a.m. and low 80s when you come home this afternoon. so everything is working out just fine in the weather department. how is traffic doing, melissa? >> a little bit of road work. branch avenue northbound, right now, we have two left lanes blocked at this point this morning. also taking a look, live look, 270 at montrose road, don't have any real problems. inner and outer loop, everything is moving along fi

. >> the storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is in for us. >> good morning. friday is finally here. look at all the 50s on the map. don't get used to it, everybody. this is coming to an end and soon. 55 now, gaithersburg. 54 in new market, maryland. 55 now in winchester. 63 in fredericksburg. bus stop weather then, sun is up at 66:33. coming home later on this afternoon, nice and warm, a mix of clouds and sunshine. temperatures in the low to mid 80s today. today's high temperatures by about 79 in gaithersburg. 84 in washington and in fredericksburg. dry weather for today. and tomorrow we'll start looking into the weekend a little further when i see you next. for now though, have they picked up the pylons yet? >> they have not yet. southbound connecticut avenue at franklin street outside of the beltway, still have some road work happening there in the southbound lanes only. that one right lane is getting by at this point this morning. 66, west of ox road, no problems there. everything looks quite good along 66. again, we have this crash, southbound backlick th

. >> storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is here with the forecast. >> i like the fact that you're looking forward to emilia's forecast. >> chuck, emilia, we're just saying. >> we love you, chuck, we love you. >> 63 now gaithersburg. 70 annapolis. 69 at reagan national. a great day to get outside. temperatures in the mid-60s across most of the area for the morning bus stop. sun's up at 6:31. and another gorgeous afternoon. pretty and perfect is the hash tag for the weather office today. nothing complain about whatsoever, unless, of course, you are stuck in traffic. let's see if they picked up the overnight construction yet. >> not perfect. we do have that for the past couple of weeks here, two lanes blocked until 5:00. and then you can get around it just fine. and right now you can get around it to the left. and 95 in maryland, nice and green. staple thingz]() on 29. and bw parkway this morning. 270, no issues. we had earlier road washing. wtop, remember to listen to them, 103 fm in the car. ramps from southbound gw parkway to the inbound key bridge will be shut down through friday

chuck bell has a look at the forecast. good morning, once again. >> good-bye summer vacation, hello summer humidity. what, the last day of august and the heat and humidity are coming back into the picture for the first week of school for many. don't forget the umbrellas first thing or you'll look like you didn't prepare. a couple of light showers across southern st. mary's county. temperatures outside are muggy already. low to mid 70s across the region. still a possibility of isolated showers. upper 70s by about 9:00 morning. high temperatures, mid to upper 80s. recess grade today, only at a "b." traffic grade, melissa? >> i'm going to give it an a-minus right now. we have a chance yet to improve ourselves this morning. iner loop, the typical construction this morning. and 95 in virginia little bit different. we have this road work in the way again as you're headed northbound there stafford. going about 33 miles per hour at this point this morning. you can take route 1 to kind of avoid that if you'd like. 270 into and out

chuck bell, how is our forecast for today? >> it's been early september preview for the last full week of august and ironically as we go into first week of september, next week, it will feel like august as high pressure and high heat and humidity come back in our direction. what a beautiful morning, mostly clear sky over washington. this is looking eastward towards what will be a rising sun, about 12 minutes from now. it's going to be a pretty nice day to be outside. but our cool pattern is coming to an end. the heat and humidity coming back. beginning a little bit tomorrow, sunday and monday, back in full force and tropical storm erika on the move. just now on the southwest corner of puerto rico now. over the next couple of days, the forecast track maintains tropical storm strength, not hurricane strength. but the track has been shifted, the forecast track further back to the west. this now looks like it may run the entire length of the florida peninsula and the timing on that is during the course of the day monday into monda

i'm chuck bell. sun shining across the area and that sun shine has pumped temperatures now into the 80s in nearly every neighborhood. 80 at reagan national and 84 in leesburg. 84 in fredericksburg and 08 eighty in annapolis. 90 by 4:00 and after 4:00 between 4:00 and 8:00, the best chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms across the area. here's our future weather forecast. by 3:00 showers in the western suburbs. by 5:00, an opportunity for a few showers in and around the metro and that rain threat continues until 10:00 tonight. >> all right. if your iphone 6 plus photos have been coming out a little blurry, it might not be your phones. apple is recalling some devices. >> it's a component that could fail and make your photos look blurry. the phones are mainly sold between september 2014 and jab of this year. the company says it will replace the eyesight cameras on the bad phones. do you think you're having this problem in. >> i did. i assumed it was because my camera was dirty but it's not my fa

i'm chuck bell. temperatures are in the mid 70s now.nd we're in store for a beautiful afternoon today. filled with sun shine. temperatures inching their way up into the low to mid 80s. planning on going to the baseball game tonight? nationals playing the padres. behind the mets. good night for baseball. temperatures will start near 80 and finish off in the mid 70s. >> thank you, chuck. the silver line expected to be open in 2019 or 2020. if you live in loudoun county, you can share input on how it's built. they're holding a public workshop about the silver line tonight. they'll break down three land dropment plans. they're having for help to come up with more plan. >> right now arlington county leaders and law enforcement are dedicating this bridge to a state trooper who died. it will be remained the trooper jacqueline vernon memorial bridge. she pulled someone over near the bridge when a bus struck and killed her. she was the first woman and first black virginia state trooper to be killed while in duty. >> the pain of commuting officia

. >> and i'm chuck bell. sun shine coming back into the picture but for how long? i'll give you a complete check on the forecast coming up. news 4 midday starts right now. >> right now, the first hopeful news of the day after a chaotic trading scene on wall street. the dow jumped. china lowered interest rates. take a look at the numbers right there. up 325 points. they've been hovering there for a good chunk of the morning. we'll let you know via alert on our nbc washington app if the market starts to bounce around. >> at the live desk, right now police in anna bundle county, police are on the scene, this happened in the 8,000 block of mill stone court. we know one woman was found dead inside the house around 8:00 this morning. police responded after a report of an open door. we'll pass along any information as we get it. >> and right now crews are workinto fix a water main break that interrupted the first day of school in prince george's county. thomas stone elementary had to cancel class because of this. we'll have more on the break and what parents have to say a

chuck bell is in the weather storm center. >> a nice day under way. sunrise is coming up after 6:30 this morning. quiet weather for now. our concern on the long range is what happens to tropical storm erika. this is going to be a nail-biter of a forecast here over about the next five to seven days. here's the official forecast track. by the time we get to early tuesday morning, 2:00 a.m., tuesday, what's probably going to be a category one hurricane somewhere off the east coast of florida, but inside this cone is a possible location. so locations from the outer banks to myrtle beach to charleston to savannah, all along the eastern seaboard of florida. it does look like the gulf of mexico is not going to be in play for the storm. but the exact track is yet to be determined. the long range forecast has it curving out to sea. way too close to the coast to turn your back on the storm. if you have plans from the outer banks to south florida, keep that in mind. outside this morning, what a great start to an august morning. 56 now in culpepper and washington

through our area but on storm team4 radar, it's dry, we told but that this morning, meteorologist chuck bellchances very low the next few days, our best chance of more widespread rain not until the early part of next week, monday, again, heat back into the area and with that heat and humidity, we could be looking at stormy conditions on mop day. 80 degrees right now, plenty warm. have a few clouds continuing until i think we get the other side of midnight, we will start clearing out, temperatures drop to the 60s, the 50s by tomorrow morning, cooler locations, haigers up to, 56, 55, winchester, 59 around manassas, warrenton, 60 for herndon and reston. by the latter part of the morning rush, hit the 70s, 73, sunshine, nice conditions with afternoon topping out, 77 to 84. you plan on going to the beach friday, saturday or sunday, throw mid-80s, pick up a few clouds weekend, but it is looking nice this weekend. there's a chance that, eri -- t erika could be producing sur of. a lot more on our low rain chances at 6:00. >>> i'm jason pugh in the newsroom, the regular season hasn't kicked off in th

chuck robbins gets ready to deliver his first earnings report as ceo. ♪ mark: welcome back to the bloomberg market day. reportsisco systems earnings after the bellay, the first earnings release for chuck robbins. mark: as for the business, we will be looking at potential job cuts, the sale of underperforming units and whether cisco is emerged from a long slump. cory johnson is in san francisco. it is the robbins aronow. -- era now. a big giant company, one of the most important companies and technology. unlike the other giant hardware slingers in the world of technology, whether it's dell or hp or ibm, these guys are seeing sales growth and real innovation with product lines. you can see it in the results. what's interesting about this call, where is cisco going to go in the future, how much of that future might we see in the call today? what is the strategy when it comes to acquisitions? that is how cisco has maintained its edge by acquiring a lot of hot young companies and making sure those new products are part of cisco's offerings. in great strength has been managing its sales staff and .ncorporating this acquisitions will that be the future

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the new ceo chuck robbins also says the company's rebound remains on track good news corp. shares trading higher after the bell yesterday. the media companies adjusted earnings beat the estimates helped by cost caused in its news and information service business that includes dow jones and "the wall street journal." head of the environmental protection agency visiting colorado to see the impact of the massive mining waste bill and epa supervised cleanup crew accidentally on latest 3 million gallons of wastewater from an old mind last week. >> epa's mission is to protect public health and the environment. no agency could you more upset about the incident happening or more dedicated in terms of doing our job in getting this right. we couldn't be more sorry. train to the epa chief also says tests show the river is ours during the south. she plans to visit new mexico address the agency users on in the state later today. the latest victim of deflategate. a courtroom sketch artist has to apologize to new england quarterback tom brady. get ready for some golf. >> it's major championship ready. they are as healthy as

chuck schumer saying no to the president, could this be a deal breaker? ambassador john bolton will be here. melissa: here is a look at of major averages, how they end day as closing bell sounds here on wall street, [closing bell ringing] check on oil, ending day below $44 a barrel. david: the market not having a good week, 7 straight days of losses for dow, the longest losing streak in 4 years, we bridge in dan of athenna private wealth, and jason rodman. jason, i am wondering if this market is ove oversold, are wee for a bounce back? >> i think and some people may not like it, but i think we'll see weakness heading into fed meeting, which is next month. i think from now until next month there is nothing really out there that is going to push the market higher, with that said, that will be a temporary period. i feel with holidays and the fed, i think that fed will be more dovish than everyone thinks, ben bernanke in the day, said that once unemployment reached 6.5% that was a threshold for interest rates to go up, but that never happened. david: let's talk about what happened today, and what the numbers mean. it was in a way the worst of both worlds just, goodhuff the

bell. the company beating on the top and the bottom lines. this is the first report under the leadership of new ceo chuck robins that took over for john chamberslking about exposure to china with our own jim cramer last night. >> china is only 3% of our business so our exposure is very limited. however it's the second largest economy in the world. it will become the largest economy in the world. so we have opinion there 20 years. we're committed to china for the long-term. we have spent a lot of time over there recently and we really understand what's going on but right now we have limited exposure. we're very committed long-term. >> let's get a check on where the stock is trading right now. it was higher and still is in the premarket. there's a look up about 3.5%. joining us to break down the results is tim long. managing director and senior reerj analyst. >> good to be here just getting used to a new voice. >> not only were results good following 20 years of john chambers got to be taunting for any new ceo but we have seen a lot of activity from chuck already in the three months since the announcement, a fua quiz situations of underperformin

alarm bell should they decide to vital their commitments and a system for inspections to verify their compliances. that in my view is a far cry from significant dismantling. >> senator menendez joins chuck schumer of new york and many republicans in opposing the agreement. congress is set to vote on it next month. president obama has pledged to veto any effort to block the iran nuclear deal. >> the growing debate over birth right citizenship, why some places are refusing to give birth certificates to children born in the u.s. >> using body cameras in one of mexico's most dangerous cities. why security may not be the only reason to put them on police. >> i've been asked t >> welcome to al jazeera america. 7:41 eastern time. taking a look at today's top stories. thai police released a new sketch of the man they believe carried out a deadly bombing in bangkok. authorities say they will offer $28,000 in reward money for any information leading to his arrest. it's not clear if he is still in the country. police do not have a motive behind the bombing. >> the popular hindu shrine that was targeted will be open today. workers and tourists visited the shrine and posted messages of condolences f

bell. >> thank you for that. come join us. stuart: back to the iran nuclear deal, i think it is falling apart because senator chuck schumer opposes the democrats in the senate and harry reid retires, his vote against this deal is very important and the reaction from schumer's colleagues are coming in. from republican congressman the selden. >> good that he came out against the deal there are more congressional democrats that need to come out against the deal. wanting to be opposed and another to start educating with colleagues. this is a bad deal for america and we need leaders to actually speak up not just coming against it as the next month talking to colleagues. stuart: welcoming the support from his side of the aisle for what charles schumer has done. charlie gasparino is here. kiss of death for the iran deal? >> no. this is the way it plays out. i heard this from his supporters, he definitely over the last three weeks has gotten an earful from his support is particularly people who are jewish, a family in israel telling him if you sign this, this is bipartisan, democrats, republicans saying you do this, that is the kiss of d