culpepper and stafford county. crossing over 95. anybody going south of d.c., i would tell them just to wait right now. >> a storm around leonardtown just ended. >> st. mary's, 6:15 as well. no tornado warnings right now. bad news flash flood warning in st. mary's county. a new severe thunderstorm warning in st. mary's county until 6:15. back to the west, we have severe thunderstorm warnings as well. this is headed toward hollywood at 5:53. still take that storm seriously. flash flooding is as dangerous as anything else, all right? so again, severe thunderstorm warning. also for our friends out in culpepper, and stafford county until 6:15. we're going to keep you posted. if you can take a picture of flooding, or damage and be safe. but for now, thunderstorm warnings south of town. >> so a ton of atmospheric phenomenon. >> absolutely, a lot going on there. >> obviously, we've been following these storms, but let's talk about the eclipse a little bit. >>> we finally got the answer so many of us were waiting for. what does a total sola

also for our friends out in culpepper, and stafford county until 6:15. we're going to keep you posted. if you can take a picture of flooding, or damage

culpepper, falkear and staff order. don't see a lot of rain, wouldn't be surprised to see a flash flood warning. this is headed toward dogrun at about 7:28. they're moving very slowly. still very heavy rain across the river back into charles county. there's no warnings on those. rainfall, look at this. right around mechanicsville. 3.7inches. you're under a flash flood warning until 8:30. we'll come back, and talk about when the storms leave to the south, and talk about a pattern flip later in the week. americans are basking in the glow of the first coast to coast total eclipse of the sun in nearly 100 years. >>> from oregon to south carolina and a 70-mile wide path in between. much of the u.s. stopped everything to get a look at that rare solar eclipse. >> this is just incredible. >> it's gone, we're in darkness. take off your glasses. oh, my goodness! >> that was the reaction in madris, oregon. one of the first areas to witness the eclipse in its totality. >>> wyoming probably provided the most picturesque of the eclip

and now we're looking at another storm right ten miles south of culpepper.this is moving southeast at 10 miles per hour. it's going to continue to move into spots, seeing some rain around fredericksburg. again, most of the area has really, in the rain has moved out or at least it's lin through southern maryland, st. mary's county and also charles county, a flash flood warning continues until 8:30. some of the road are flooded at this time. so, again, please be careful. the heat and humidity are continuing, but then as we're get into thursday, friday, it starts to lower a little bit. temperatures are still in the 80s right now. as we're go through the evening, we'll bottom out with the 70s. now, i've got another line of rain and storms coming late tomorrow and more scattered showers an thunderstorms early on wednesday, some of those could be strong and behind it. the humidity is going to drop, tuesday and wednesday, it will drop and thursday and friday, it gets really comfortable around here. so temperatures, tomorrow, 96. it's going to feel like the triple d

of culpepper right now. it's moving pretty slow. that's what we'll watch. another thing that we're going to watch is the heat index. that is really going to rise. in fact, tomorrow morning when w look at this by the time you head home. if you thought today was hot. you know tomorrow is going to be on the warm side. it's going to be warm throughout the day. the heat and humidity with us tonight. it's with us tomorrow and wednesday and then our frontal system comes through. we'll have some rain it drops off thursday and into the weekend. and amelia, looking at these temperatures as we're get to the end of the work week. >> it's going to be fabulous, thursday, friday on into the weekend. cross our fingers, it's monday right now. you know how the forecast can change. of course, we'll be here all week giving you the latest. here is a look at ten-day forecast. mainly dry during the afternoon and during the evening where we're could see some thunderstorms develop. better chance through the midday afternoon hours th

i'm david culpepper, just ahead >>> well, it seems even white house officials couldn't believe what they were hearing as president trump talked about charlottesville today. a senior official was telling nbc news the team is stunned and says the president went rogue. president trump has made three public statements on the tragedy in a little over three da give you an idea of how his tone has changed. >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms this degree of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the kkk, neo-nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as americans. what about the alt-left that came change charging at the alt-right, do they have any semblance of guilt? let me ask you this, what about the fact that they came charging with clubs in their hands swinging clubs, do they have any problem, i think they do. >> in the last few minutes we're getting some congressional reaction, as ryan tweeted we must be clear, white supremacy is repul

from across into queen ann's county, back to the south and west for la playa, even back towards culpepper. this is 1 to 2 inches of rain so far, and more rain still falling. this area right here is my highest concern for flash flooding, as of what i've seen on radar right now. on city roads, we know it doesn't take much. fredericksburg, prince william county as well. these areas, 1 to 3 inches of rain possible. if you get heavy rain going over the same area over and over again like we have seen this morning in some areas, that's where the flood risk ramps up. if you live in a flood prone area, we could be dealing with issues of flooding. this is a two hour loop, and you can kind of see, we've d the heaviest rain has been in a line right here, stretching back into charles county. that's where the highest flood threat is. up to dunkirk, chesapeake beach, and the heavyist rain is making it northwest. the heaviest, steadiest rain, still see light rain after that. la playa, at 12:45, that heaviest rain beginning to wind down. the rest of the afternoon, more rounds of rain and thunderstorms. ri

pope's scouts reported jackson crossing the rapidan and identified culpepper as the destination and thus sent bank's corps to meet them. the fight that ensued was august 9th. it was become known as the battle at cedar mountain. jackson's men fought aggressively but is was a poorly managed affair as one historian wrote. the victory was only due to the inability of the first corps of the army of virginia to march efficiently to the support of un john soldiers engaged on the field. at the same time, the guns were blazing at cedar mountain, general lee decided that his theater of operations had reached a stalemate and that stalemate needed to be broken immediately. therefore, lee would send general longstreet north to assist in the matter. and by august 14th, five days after the conclusion of cedar mountain, general lee decided to leave richmond, virginia, where he had been in charge and commanding this new effort. and he would take the field himself. by the time that lee took the field, it is clear that he had selected stonewall jackson's wing to be the leading force in his grand strategy o

we'll be low 90s, but i think clouds will keep temperatures down to low -- showers down through culpeppert of i-81 in the mountains. muggy start thursday. mid 70s and almost mid 80s but 1:00. storm on -- hot on saturday. but dry. we should be okay. if we're looking at a hot sunday. showers south of town, but partly cloudy and still hot next tuesday and wednesday. >>> now, wusa9 game on sports brought you to you by xfinity. >>reporter: professional athletes have nicknames. the most popular in dc is ov. major league baseball is going to i am brace -- frank explains in tonight's inside pitch. >> so do you players weekend coming up, august 25 through the 27th where the nationals and the rest of the league will wear alternate uniforms with nicknames on the back of their jerseys like you got your basics, like zim and murph. his name was big kid. i'm surprised by matt going with blue eye and not the obvious, matt max, but the best one is new for shawn dolittle. that's -- yes, baseball will be fun again. that's your inside pitch, i'm [indiscernible]. >> if you lived in the dmv for any length of t

towards culpepper, leesburg at that point. 4:00, we're starting to see things clearing out.y 6:00, it's mainly dry. i think we're going to clear out for the nats game this evening. the good news is, we're clearing out by then. delays there. here's that weather system, pulling in this really deep tropical moisture off the atlantic. by the way, there is hurricane gert. what do we expect the rest of the week? tomorrow, pretty nice. we'll see rain chances going back up again thursday or friday. the bigger story later this week is the heat that's building back in. the last couple of weeks have been rainy. now we're going to flip that rain, and change it into more of a wet forecast. 90 tomorrow, with just a straight shower. and for the ♪ if you have bad breath and your mouth lacks moisture, you may suffer from dry mouth. try biotène®, the #1 dentist recommended dry mouth brand. it's the only leading brand clinically proven to soothe, >>> trending this afternoon, a new jersey bride finally caught up with the her wedding reception. the bride posted these pictures of the uninvited gu

couple of showers and storms, especially headed toward the bay, and also down and south of us, toward culpepper, and fredericksburg. that's about it. these are going to keep migrating off to the east. fredericksburg, you could still have a leftover shower or thunderstorm. after that, it's kind of uncomfortable. by 9:00, 76 downtown. 71 partly cloudy, to mostly cloudy sky. by 10:00, a little late walk after dinner, it's going to be muggy. still 75 downtown. 74 at buoy, and 73 in fredericksburg. we'll come back, and talk about what happens tomorrow afternoon, if more storms fire up, and we'll also talk about times for the eclipse. we'll kind of he remind you of the times and have the forecast for next monday's viewing. >>> a new composite sketch here tonight of the suspect wanted for abducting and sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl in fairfax. investigators say the guy you see here is a hispanic male, mid-20s, or early 30s, about 5'8", and weighing about 200 pounds. this assault happened about 5:00 on sunday on tower drive, that's behind the beacon hill plaza in alexandria. a relative says the

we're keeping thunderstorms in overnight, and future cast has a pretty good storm to the west of culpepper. again, a tropical air mass. the main threat is going to be heavy downpours, and street flooding. we get into the morning hours, we'll have a dry commute to work. the temps in the 70s. 8:00, it's going to be 80 degrees downtown. we'll come back, and talk about our yellow weather alert for tomorrow and give you the timeframe we think is going to be critical once again. >>> some of the pictures we've been seeing out of charlottesville have been particularly distressing. for some of fought the nazis, the sight of american neo-nazis on our soil is especially troubling. our bruce leshan has more on that. >> terrible. >> reporter: at the world war ii memorial, where gold stars commemorate the dead, where people come to remember the massive mobilization against fascism, even the thought of american neofascists is alarming. >> as a veteran, i think what's going on is a disgrace. i think it's ridiculous that people come into charlottesville that are, in my opinion, anti-american. >> reporter:

feels like 101 in culpepper. i'm happy to report that mr. longo took heed of this, and did his job this morning, instead of after news time. that's going to be pretty hot. here's where the cold front is, way out in west potentially across the ohio river now. a tornado warning, also part of pennsylvania too, until 5:15. these are essentially going to stay north of us. there is a severe thunderstorm watch that includes our friends west of the divide, but does not include anyone in the immediate metro area. we're following a couple of showers. one overurbanna. the front has to move through tonight. so we'll tell you our chances for showers overnight, and talk about a change in humidity coming up. >>> thanks topper, still ahead, an icon irk -- iconic d.c. restaurant makes a comeback. >> plus, what caused massive evacuations at a local airport today. >> plus, why someone poured 45,000 tons if you'd have told me three years ago... that we'd be downloading in seconds, what used to take... minutes. that guests would compliment our wifi. that we coul

only in the lower 80's most spots but 87 in warrenton and culpepper and 88 in charlottesville.arm up to near 90 and will feel warmer than that. no storm worse today, rain a dry day and plenty of sunshine and satellite and radar shows areas of clouds passing through but we're in a lull between systems, the one that gave us the rain the past couple days and system coming our way that gives us a chance of rain and storms friday as well. the future cast through this afternoon indicates a possibility of an isolated shower but wouldn't put a lot of stock in it so keep your eyes open and tomorrow it changes and we'll be back to tell you what that will be in a few minutes. adrianna: developing now more confederate statues taken down or covered in cities around the nation. overnight several statues were removed in baltimore. mayor katherine keys said it wasn't the threat of removal by residents that led to her decision. >> i mean, i know what we were planning on doing and i think if you'd check with the city council, i sat down with the president and said what we'd do, move quickly and

the 70s. 76 for culpepper. 76 for manassas. yesterday, we were right on par with highs, 76. this is one of our warmer days in the next seven. here's what we're expecting as we head for the rest of the week, and into the weekend. we're talking near 80 degrees, friday, saturday, sunday, monday. it feels like a fall weekend. so enjoy it. first on live doppler, see a couple of showers here off of western pennsylvania. any showers that develop today are going to be pretty light. we're not talking about these big thunderstorms. the severe weather is just not in the cards today. 7:30, just a few showers off of the maryland panhandle, and also down through charlottesville. overnight tonight, we might have a few showers kind of work their way in through the metro, but this is not going to impact your morning commute. the rest of friday, a good mix of sun and clouds. maybe one or two stray showers, but it's not going to impac not going to impact the nats game. by saturday, maybe a couple of showers through the mountains. but the metro looking good. if you're heading to the beach this

more towards culpepper, central virginia through richmond and we are going to stay dry. see a shower after the sunsets but right now looking hot into the low 90s for the eclipse and partly cloudy. hopefully you are going to be joining us on monday from 1 to 3: 00. mode

down around culpepper county and spotsylvania county.s something we'll continue to watch but most of us will stay dry overnight. 83 degrees. 83 at 11:00 at night. now we've seen this a lot in july. we've not seen that much at all in the month of august after a high of 91 today. it's been 12 days since we've been above 90 degrees but still on the warm side. 77 gaithersburg. 77 leesburg, 77 as well in fredericksburg. there's the showers coming through virginia right now. back to our west, i'm tracking a system. you can see a lot more moisture back here. that will bring more moisture coming into our area during the day tomorrow. expect more humidity tomorrow and expect a l chance of showers and storms. we'll time them out for you. future weather, 8:00 a.m., no worries. we could see areas of fog. i'm not expecting much, but it's something to think about. here's 1:00 in the afternoon. you notice just a couple of scattered showers with partly to mostly cloudy skies during the day. 5:00 in the afternoon still just looking at a couple of showers

warm and humid. 67 martins burg. 64 culpepper and 7 fredericks -- 71 frederiksburg. minutes we will go through the future cast. >> what is ahead is a hectic two and a half hours. now i will do traffic we have a couple areas you want to avoid 1 th street downtown -- 11th street downtown, norths we, g street, h street a fa don't know what time that happened yet. belt way, near central avenue, two of your right hand lanes closed for an accident plus another accident route 270 as you head northbound by shady grove road i am not seeing delays as you head northbound did you might see those eventually. busy morning with accidents and construction 395, hov lanes passing by seminary road watch out for construction there and then a little south, outer loop of the belt way, mike we are also seeing construction blocking at least one lane. >> hopefully friday light. chicago police, evacuated lolapalooza. you see all the people leaving the shows were supposed to end at 10 but storms forced anevacuation at 9. at the vent is expected to see 400,000 people this weekend. >>> the match

humidity is back along with some showers and storms and probably a yellow weather alert day. 88 now in culpepper, leesburg, ahead of the front, 84 down in reedville and baltimore. look in the mountains, only 73 degrees beautiful degrees out there. in town under hazy skies, we've got 85, but still very muggy out there with the dewpoints in the 70s, making it feel more like 91 degrees. but there is relief on the way as we've been talking about. today we're in the low 90s. look west, pittsburgh is in the low 80s, detroit and chicago are in the low 70s. in fact, some areas in the midwest will not get out of the 60s today. they'll be back in the 70s to near 80 tomorrow. we cool off nicely with 84 on saturday and around 85 on sunday. so the front itself producing these showers and storms. see this line right here ahead of the front? that's probably the front right there in toward western ohio. and we're going to track that as it heads our way. this afternoon if you are traveling west -- if you're going to the beach, you're in if you're going out toward garrett county, maybe pittsburgh or morgantown or

concentration of calvary grow, it is the first week of june, he sends orders for an expedition to culpepperounty. remember these words -- to destroy or disperse the great concentration of calvary there. this leads to the battle of brandy station. buford is a wing commander, they end up withdrawing. i'm forcefully, the great concentration is neither destroyed nor dispersed and pleasanton will lie, but that is what he did. he had a terrible allergy to telling the truth, couldn't do it. just like bill sheridan, a common malady. after brandy station, the army's begin to move north. the confederate calvary screaming the advance of the army into shenandoah valley into pennsylvania, and the union calvary will follow. buford will follow behind with the first cavalry division. he has a proximally 2900 men in his division. divided into three brigades aired the first is commanded by william gamble, an irishman, 45 years old, served as a dragoon in the british army. he then immigrates to the united a successfulhe has engineering practice in evanston, illinois when the war breaks house is fair and missi

down towards culpepper, around 9:00 and then fading out quickly as they move towards the east tomorrow morning. could see some areas of fog. that's something we'll be watching out for. tomorrow afternoon around noon, no problem. you can eat outdoors, sure, warm and humid. any of these storms could produce heavy downpours and strong winds, so that's what we'll be watching. warm and humid with the afternoon rain. if you're thinking about heading out. this weekend, looking really good. saturday and sunday, high temperatures in the upper 80s, lower humidity, though, monday, of course, is solar eclipse, pretty good for that. 91 on tuda high pressure builds back in. more on the eclipse, we'll see you back here at 5:45. >>> thousands of drive past it every day. for most of it, it's in mystery. now there's a way to go inside and see it for yourself, we'll tell you how. >> and for pets living in an animal shelter, the physical and emotional journey can be exhausting, sometimes painful. we'll take you to a local shelter that takes in animals from around the country, hoping that they can find som

around fredericksburg, the heavy rain up in manassas over to culpepper and it will keep moving up towards the district. that's the direction that it's heading right now. if we -- as we track it, it's moving around 40 miles an hour at last check so it will be nearing washington about 11:40 and then headed north, gaithersburg, closer to about noon. you see that rain moving in from the south and we go through the rest of the afternoon. one to two inches of rain possible with the possible flood flash watches. always avoid high water, you don't want to drive through i. we go through 2:00 p.m. that still continues. by the evening drive some of it could in fact be winding down. then we'll see huge improvements as we go through tonight, but tomorrow going to be dry. wednesday, thursday will be dry, next chance of storms will be friday. we'll look at the radar coming up. stay tuned. >>> you're watching "news4 midday." >> right now investigators are trying to figure out if a bombing at a mosque in minnesota may have been a hate crime. >> and the powerful blast it shattered windows and damaged an of

louden county, back towards and culpepper, you're done, you don't have any more rain tonight. frederick county, same thing, especially around 7:00, you should be fine. dc under the gun. we're getting hit here in northwest. we've seen a lot of lightning and thunder still has a lot of rain associated with that. just follow this line right over towards northern portions of prince georges county. i'll show you where the heaviest storm is, right now with lightning right over college park, around college park, this is moving towards green belt. very heavy rain. right along the beltway, of course, along 50. here is chevrolet, road and out 50. you're going to continue to see that heavy rain fall. we're had that rain down to the south, look at huesville, mechanicsville, severe thunderstorm warning still in effect until 6:45. this is a very big storm. we've been watching this one move all the way across from west to east and going to make its way toward cal bert county. and then -- another line, this line now forming and i expect to see more storms develop around fredericksburg, more ar

now, there's a few pockets of fog just south and west of d.c., manassas, culpepper around 4-5 miles and better than yesterday and the day before and a pocket of fog around mount eerie north in frederick county, mary 85 and sun glasses in hand today but it's about the umbrella weather for the weekend. starting friday there will be a few passing showers, maybe thunderstorms for your evening and right now on saturday some of the latest guidance that has come in, even upping the chances for rain on saturday. that could be any time as early as 11:00 a.m. up until 5:00 p.m. but tomorrow we're kind of back loaded on the day. after 5:00 your big chance of rain across the area, julie, but at least it won't impact the temperatures and we'll be humid with highs this weekend getting into the mid 80's. julie: right now around the capital beltway your lanes are open as you continue to work your way between college park and bethesda and outer loop leaving college park to 270 is a 21-minute ride but randolph road is looking well as a work-around. sky track 7 hanging out with us above 66 and the pulled

still 90 over towards culpepper. nothing in our area, just back to the west down towards west virginia we're looking at showers there, west virginia, that one is moving up towards the new hampshire county areas, this is actually pennsylvania now under severe thunderstorm warning until 7:15, that includes the city of chambersburg. heads up a strong storm moving in that way, it's part of a system here and it's going to be moving through tonight. it's a cold front. you can see the storm over the great lakes spinning here and yo cold front making its way in our way. it's not going to got here for a while. we've got some time before it does move in. by 7:00 tonight. there's the storm back to the west. watch what happens around 8:00, the computer leaves this one, keeps everybody almost clear to the east of the blue ridge, showers back towards the west. whach what happens as they move in by midnight tonight. and this model, actually keeps dc completely dry. now can't rule out showers and thunderstorms tonight around dc, aro

highs today in your hometown, gaithersburg, 80 degrees. 85 washington. 83 in culpepper. for tomorrow, behind that cold front, it's going to be considerably colder. some 15 to 20 degrees cooler on your friday afternoon than today. a lot of clouds around tomorrow. there's a chance of a shower just about any time during the day. better rain chances, higher rain chances come in after the sun goes down tomorrow and then on into saturday. so saturday, if you're going to the beaches, saturday, sunday, monday, looks like saturday will be the worst of the beach days. sunday and monday are actually looking really nice. ocean temperature 74 degrees. staying home, not much of a rain threat. tomorrow, rain chances increasing. most of the rain from harvey will be before 3:00 or 4:00 saturday afternoon. rain should be gone before the sun comes up on sunday morning. jack taylor, that means two out ofhe holiday will be fine. >> i'll take two out of three. not a bad average. thank you, sir. heavy traffic on 50 eastbound in annapolis. you see traffic continued to move. chopper 4 is headed

clifton region, in through fairfax county, down towards prince william county and more back towards culpeppercounty, too. we have more storms that will

clifton region, in through fairfax county, down towards prince william county and more back towards culpepper county, too. we have more storms that will right here from the storm system we'll have more on that and your weekend forecast coming up. >> thanks, doug. >> and we will keep you up to date on the changing weather situation out there, but first, we're covering lots of news across the area tonight. it's going to be a long road ahead for the rookie firefighters who was hit by a fire truck while he was on the job. as carbon mo sox side leak. >> we have more details on the arrest of the man who held his girlfriend and their two children captive inside their home for more than two years. now, they are free. he's behind bars and we're working to get answers. >> we begin tonight with an i-team special report, a local child protective service agency drops the ball, mishandling the case of a teacher a mistake allowed the teacher back in the local classroom for years. investigation by scott mcfarlane and news 4 i-team reveals the error and experts could put more children at risk, scott. >> doree

winchester and over in lieu ray, 86 degrees culpepper. the dew point levels, 80 degrees.ly ever, ever see that around the metro area. that is why we have heat index values. you might want to sit down for this. at 109 degrees. andrews at 102. 106 in fredericksburg. off toward the north and west of us we've had the showers and the rain. that's where it is a little bit cooler at this time. we do have a severe thunderstorm watch that does remain in effect until 9:00 and includes the district, all surrounding areas, down to st. mary's west of us. loudoun and fauquier county and frederick, in orange that would be a severe thunderstorm warning. it includes baltimore county, a little sliver of howard county, all of this moves on off toward the north and east. on top of that flash flood watch for the d.c. metro area and then where you see the red boxes over here around balk and off toward the north and east would abflash flood warning because of the heavier storms that are overhead right now. very widely scattered showers and thunderstorms around the d.m.v. take away the back shad

we've got a couple now toward culpepper county. guess what, guys, my clicker is not working again, i've got to try to fix that again. having some problems with my computer today. it's nothing that pat or leon did, trust me. i cannot go through any graphics. pat and leon, are you guys ready to take the show back. i cannot do a thing right now. >> all right. >> so i'm going to give this right back to you because, apparently, nothing going on. let me tell you what i can say, here is washington, here is annapolis, here is wall dor f. so that's what we'll be dealing with now. i-95 right here. and there is chesapeake bay, no, i don't -- i've got graphics. all right, let's see if this works now, 89 degrees. see what happens when i see it a little bit. that's the forecast for tomorrow. partly sunny, warm and humid. it's going to be the story here over the next couple of days. we'll see heat indices well into the 90s, i think. a much better pool day. yesterday we told you today would not be a good pool day. tomorrow a much better day and we

, the heat index, 102 in annapolis, 105 washington. 102 annapolis or 102 manassas rather and 102 culpepper. that is dangerously high. take it easy today. hour by hour, mid-70s early this morning. afternoon highs doesn't look that impressive. the atmosphere that's really going to fire up the heat indexes and bring up a pretty high risk for strong to severe storms as well. nothing on radar just yet. but we're under the slight risk for strong to severe thunderstorms. main timing on that is about 3:00 and 9:00 p.m. keep that in mind as you're planning to be out and about. here's future weather. by early this afternoon, thunderstorms bubbling up. it doesn't look that impressive on our model here. but any individual storm that bubbles up with that much heat and humidity to work with, could pack quite a punch indeed. that's the distinction settled down thereafter. beach-bound for the weekend. i thish i was. i'm driving to the carolinas to see the eclipse on monday. if you're a beachgoer, stormy weather the second half of your friday. saturday and sunday look perfect for beach-goers this weekend.

everybody on the warm side, 91 frederick, 91 fredericksburg, culpepper and charlottesville. it's on the hot and humid side for sure. are we in for a change. no rain anywhere in our region. you have to go all the way back towards garrett county maryland to see strong storm there heading right towards the area. what you see, widen it out more. you see all of these storms developing just to our north and west. normally, we'll watch this front come through our area. it late tonight. for us, pretty good dinner and then we see the chance of storms over night. without the sunshine. without that heat and that energy, the storms most likely die off. here they are, 7:00, they're still dry. if you're outside at 7:00, no problem. look back to the west couple of showers moving in. by around 8:00, not much going on here, watch what happens at around 10 or 11:00, there's the line, maybe dipping into northern virginia, but then it's out of here, many of us might not see anything at all and this is the thing i wanted you to see, 8:00 tomorrow morning, sunshi sunshine, beautiful sunshine, i'l

one more look just off toward the south and west of us, this is just to the north of culpepper. this is where we're looking a the a thunderstorm that's beginning to pop up with a little bit of hail. but once again, nothing that has been warned on. for tonight, once we get the storms on out of here, we will see warm and humid conditions. temperatures mid 60's to middle 70's. the warmer temperatures will be inside the beltway, coming up just a few minutes looking ahead to the rest of the weekend. the beach outlook and, of course, the eclipse forecast. don't want to miss that in just a few minutes. >> thank you very much. meanwhile, a crazy chain of events in fairfax county this morning. police are trying to figure out why a man with a pit bull tried to carjack someone. we'll go live to and anddale tonight. police just told you what happened before th reporter: just within the last 10 minutes police identifying the suspect in this case, telling us it is 35-year-old kelly christopher robinson of triangle saying he is now facing charges. this after damage stretching for blocks here i

monday, today is the largest stretch of their 100-mile journey. 18 miles is going to land them in culpepper at the end of today. they'll arrive here in washington on . transportation reporter adam tuss is live along the trail and chevy chase where work is going to have an impact soon. >> that trail is going to close for years, am i correct about that, adam. >> you know people love this trail. it is a widely used trail. what's going to happen is a temporary trail is actually going to get set up. they've got the signs that have. >> that is the trail that's going to be set up and people are a little bit upset because it goes down some busy roads and it goes down tom safe. people here love the ga -- they don't want to have to go off of it. there are a lot of people who want the purple line to come here to montgomery and prince gorg georges county. they're not looking forward to this pain. >> my wife is saying, you're not going to ride on those busy streets. and and it takes you out of the way and -- >> and nobody says you can't go down any certain street. you don't, necessarily, have to follow

they reported him and pope correctly identified culpepper as their destination and sent the corp. to meet them. the fight that ensued was august 9th. it was become known as the battle at cedar mountain. his men fought aggressively. the victory was only due to the inability to march sufficiently to the support of union soldiers engaged on the field. at the same time the guns were blazing general lee decided it had reach add stalemate and it needed to be broken immediately. therefore lee would send him north to assist in the matter. by august 14th five days after the conclusion of cedar mountain he decided to leave where he had been in charge and commanding the new effort. he would take the field himself. by the time that lee took the field it is clear he had selected stone wall jackson's to be the leading force in a turning movement against pope. he sought to maneuver him out in the open on ground that would favor the confederate army. they met on august 24th. lee recalled the meeting and the outline in june of 1863 when he filed his second report. he said in purr sunts to the plan

from dave jackson suggesting he would attack the vanguard of posts army as they concentrated at culpepper. lee approved of the plan. polk scouts reported jackson nothing, thus he said of banks to meet them. the fight that ensued that was august 9 was to become known as --. jackson's men fall valiantly. the victory was due to the inability of the first core of toginia to march efficiently the support of union soldiers engage on the field. at the same point that the guns were blazing, generally decided that the theater of operations had reached a stalemate and that stalemate needed to be broken immediately. lee was sent shock along street to assist in the matter. by august 14 five days after the conclusion generally decided to leave richmond where he had been in charge and commanding this new effort. he would take the field himself. of a time that lee took the field it is clear that he had selected stonewall jackson's wing to be the leading force in his strategy against paul. maneuver polled out of his strong position and then attack them in the open on ground that would favor the confedera

upper 70s and even low 80s in culpepper. just beautiful. at that picture outside of the national cathedral in the background. outdoor eating. fire up the grill with the kids. let them play outside a little longer tonight. tomorrow night and thursday as well. just spectacular august weather in the forecast. take a look at your planner for your wednesday. 7:00 a.m., we start off the day at 67 degrees. it's comfortable. it's windows open, ac off kind of weather out there tonight. gorgeous around lunchtime. 80 degrees at that point. mid-80s for a high tomorrow. 85 around 4:00 in the afternoon. low humidity in the forecast to 81 at about 7:00 in the evening. so, the weather having a low impact on your day tomorrow. it is a picture perfect pool day, outdoor exercise, it's not too hot or humid. back to school shopping, i would definitely hold off with this nice of a forecast tomorrow and even thursday. go friday when there's plenty of clouds and thundershowers impacting your day. good day to play something indoors on friday. take a look at your te

come out and see us in culpepper today. >> herlly heads up we'll be in gaithersburg next week.s get out to culpeper, virginia, kevin mccarthy is out there now. good morning, kev. how are you. >> good morning, steve. i'm here with chef frank. we're here at fodi' as restaurant in culpeper. talk about where you're located what kind of food you serve. >> we're located at 110 east davis street. we're in our 12th year in business now. >> wow. >> great reform matting the business. great powerhouse team and we've built up fantastic front of the house and kitchen crew now. we're putting table beautiful fresh produce dishes. >> what is it about culpeper that you love and just the people here and the food you're serving and everything? >> i came originally from north dakota so that small town mentality with big city dreams. >> right. >> they hold on tight to idealism be there for your neighbor and great to everybody and then at the same time they want to grow they want to be. they want to be somewhere that people from the city can go away and get all the amenities of the city but yet have

finally, the first week of junel he sendspe orders to pleasantont send an expedition to the culpepper county, and remember these words because great they' important. to destroy oror disburse the gra concentration of cavalry there. this leads to the great battle y of brandy station. they spend 14 hours fighting rc that day andefully end up withd. but unfortunately, the great concentration of confederate cavalry is neither destroyed nor disbursed, and pleasanton will of course lie, but that's what . alfred less alfred pleasanton did. he had a terrible allergy, he couldn't do it. just like sheridan, they seemed to have that common malady. so after brandy station, the armies begin to move north. the confederate cavalry screening the advance up the ad shenandoah valley the and into i pennsylvania. the union cavalrythe will foll. buford will follow along behind with the first cavalry division. he has approximately 2,900 men in his division. why did you need three big rmy. bringing asd?es to the first is led by william gamble. he emigrates to the united states where he has a successfun civil

looking at, that area is in a severe thunderstorm warning until 6:15 and we're have that one back in culpepper, that also goes until 6:15, as well. few thunderstorm warnings out there, at this point and, again, we'll continue to watch these. we'll kind of gather our notes, the tornado warning has been cancelled and that is the most important thing, again, severe thunderstorm warning, flash flood warnings still up for charles county and saint mary's county, please do not go anywhere, if you are in the southern maryland area, we're going to continue to get some details on exactly what's going on down there, but i will just stay put where you are and also if you're in the along i-95 you'll deal with headaches next half an hour or so. so guys tossing it back into the newsroom. >> thank you so much for your coverage. this is a reminder, folks of what working for you is all about. we're here to protect you and keep you safe when the weather turns violent out there, as it was in parts of maryland today. this story is not over, we've got more warnings and watches with the floods coming up until 8:30.