meteorologistveronica johnson and we'll start with doug kammerer and amelia segal. >> the nor'easter will be the one that will continue to impact our region as we move on through the afternoon here. we will see winds begin to pick up here later on, but it's friday into saturday and then we look towards joaquin. >> our eyes are really focused especially later in the day tomorrow and that's when we think the most rain will fall. >> that's when we had the flash flood watch that's in effect across the region and storm team 4 radar tracking the rain and we've seen a lot of rain in places like prince george's county and almost none down to the south and down towards southern maryland and you have not seen much in the way of rain and today would not be a huge day as far as rain is concerned. tomorrow, a completely different story. look at the moisture off the coast here and all of this will be brought onshore by those strong, northeasterly winds over the next 24 to 48 hours and those winds coming right off of the atlantic ocean and we'll do a number of things here and we'll cause beach eros

. >>> right now let's go to storm team 4 chief meteorologist doug kammerer and he's in the storm center and doug, what kind of changes are we going to get this weekend? >> we did have a front that came through last night and you notice the changes yesterday. high temperatures in the upper 70s and around 80 degrees today and we're ten degrees cooler and we are still very, very nice. leesburg was at 81 and 68, plenty of sunshine and we have really seen a beautiful afternoon and 70 the high temperature and 71 in fredericksburg and 73 in warrenton and it will be on the cooler side tomorrow after a cool night tonight so that's what we'll be watching and once again, your headlines tonight. very chilly tonight and you may need the jacket especially if you're doing events tomorrow morning and tracking showers for sunday and if you'll be involved in the marine corps marathon, we are tracking showers for that and then watching patricia. one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded and we'll talk much more about that and veronica joins you in the next five to ten minutes on how that storm could i

>> chief meteorologist doug kammerer and veronica johnson is in the storm center. we understand there could be some strong thunderstorms. >> we do expect to see storms this evening and we are not anticipating severe weather. >> an isolated storm. that's what we've seen up in pennsylvania. we've been tracking this line since the early part of the day and trees down there and that's kind of what we could see there, gusts going up about 35 miles per hour for a time period. >> we do have some severe thunderstorm warnings, but they're all north of the mason dixon line, all north of the maryland border. a severe weather watch in effect for philadelphia and notice where we are seeing the storms and they're back toward the west and not a lot around our region now and this will happen over the next couple of hours and you will notice around hagerstown and back toward allegheny county and these are drifting down to the south and head's up in those areas and down towards frederick in about the next hour or so and around the d.c. metro area and we have one line to the north an

we start in the storm center with chief meteorologist doug kammerer and meteorologist amelia segal. >> hey, guys. we're watching the rain continuing to come through the area. today is just a nasty, nasty day, but right now we're pretty much just dealing with the run of the milnor easter and we're not dealing with winds that are too high and we're not seeing the extremely heavy rain that we saw come out of the storm earlier in the week and things started to come down even though we still had the flash flood watch out. >> right. we're not as concerned about flash flooding and talking about everything else and the rain and the temperatures about 20 degrees below where they should be and then you factor in breezy to windy conditions, too. >> we'll continue to see the windy conditions right on through the rest of the evening, too. notice the rain around the region, but also notice here and the other night when we had frederick county and loudoun county. we saw orange and red on the radar. notice, not a single area of very heavy rain and we had moderate rain out toward portions of loudoun c

chief meteorologist doug kammerer leads our storm team coverage in two minutes. >>> the first rescuer to reach that capsized whale-watching boat in canada says some of the survivors are are blaming huge waves for what happened. now, the boat capsized sunday off the coast of vancouver island. five people died. one is still missing. nbc's miguel almagare has more on the investigation. >> reporter: surrounded by majestic beauty, the nightmare runs deep. towed into calmer waters, it's the chaos on this vessel many will never forget. >> they're just laying around the boat lifeless. >> reporter: ken lucas says he was the first to arrive at the sinking ship. the fisherman plucking 13 people out of the frigid 50-degree water. everyone, he says, was in shock, most suffering from hypothermia. 21 aboard the popular whale-watch tour were rescued. five lives lost in these waters. later today divers will resume the search for the one passenger still missing. the owner of jamie's whaling station spoke out about the tragedy on his boat but didn't address any possible cause for the accident. >> i'm ab

let's begin with chief meteorologist doug kammerer. it is not done with us yet. >> no. i'm the only one out of those four that's actually warm tonight. quite cold and quite windy and quite raw. it's been like that all day and will continue to be like that the next couple of days. that's this long duration nor'easter we have going on. the good news is we can see this on the radar, we're dealing with light rain and drizzle across the area. there is no heavy rain. the flood threat has really diminished during the afternoon and moderate rain all afternoon and now seeing that light rain around the region, even where it's not picking up the rain around waldorf we're still seeing drizzle. zoom in and look at the latest picture from annapolis to d.c. and leesburg and warrington reporting that light rain. that will continue for the most part overnight tonight. the wider view so showing what's going onto the south, look at the intense rainfall to the caroli carolinas. this is a major problem, talking 10 to 15 inches to the caroli carolinas. for us, this is what we're waiting on t

. >>> storm team 4's meteorologist doug kammerer. we continue to track the next line of showers and storms making their way through the area right now. this is the last six hours. we saw numerous storms earlier, frederick county, montgomery and loudoun, the same counties getting it again right now. look around frederick and montgomery county and this orange and red. extremely heavy rain that continues to fall here. you can track that down to loudoun county and the airport, about to get hit, too. gaithersburg, continuing to see light rain and gaithersburg, continuing at 30 miles an hour and 11:20 and germantown, 11:26 and the olney area, 11:45. you will see heavy rainfall the next hour or so. in d.c. area south of quantico, fairfax, springfield, we will see moderate to heavy rain but not quite as strong as to the north. that line extending to culpeper and orange and madison counties. this will move across our region the next 1 to 2 hours and should be out 1:30 to 2:00. this is a cold front. behind this cold front is actually very warm

. >> doug kammerer says today is the coldest day of the season. in fact, some areas saw snow flurries. say what? in october, we saw areas of snow up toward damascus reporting some snow. for us, we saw a couple of flurries around parts of the area and most of them to the north. 54 degrees and thanks the high temperature. 15 in annapolis and only 49 in hagerstown and tonight it is going to be one cold night as we move on through the rest of the region and under a freeze warning tonight and that freeze warning goes into effect this weekend and right on into tomorrow and it includes the d.c. metro area and you know it is cold when d.c. is included. the cold won't last and one more chilly day tomorrow as we begin to be under the influence of the cold air and look what happens. we get much warmer, back into the 70s by mid-week and we'll talk about that and show you the cold numbers tonight in just a moment. >> thank you very much, doug. our nbc washington app has all of the information you need to prepare for tonight's chill. you can use our interactive

. >> checking in now with storm team 4 and chief meteorologist doug kammerer and doug, it's starting to look and feel like fall out there. >> you've got that right, guys. waking up with cool numbers this morning and some of you in the 30s in the first time and take a look at the overnight low temperatu temperatures, and 39 toward kull pepper and frederick at 43, but that was 37 yesterday morning. so some very cold air the last couple of days and it's burden quite chilly to start off and plenty of nicely. >> over the next few thais and we're talking about schilly hair making time for the weekend and chelly by the weekend and some areas may see their first freeze by the season. >> jacket, bienen is expected to return, hours before the first presidential debate. it is possible he could squeeze out a spot on the podium and the stage won't be as crowded as the republican venue. so far it will feature hillary clinton, bernie sanders and former maryland governor, martin o'malley. peter alexander will have an update on what to expect from the candidates. >> an annual ceremony celebrating chr

doug kammerer. thank you, doug. >> this sunday will bring 40,000 runners to town for the marine corps marathon and veterans will notice a slight change and the course is a bit different this year, when you get to the end of the race in arlington, it still goes you through the downtown area and between miles 22 and 24 there will be a u-turn. we posted more about the course change details if you want to go cheer on your runners in our nbc washington app and we have live team coverage of the marathon as runners get set to pound the pavement. in a moment veronica will tell us what mother nature has in sto store. and meagan fitzgerald with the countdown to the run. >> reporter: you got that right. we are just two days away from the start of the race and runners are excited and prep got under way out here at the finish line, and i just saw some folks taking a lap around the area here just getting ready for those final days. 40,000 people are expected to participate in this race and we had an opportunity to

chief meteorologist doug kammerer will have an update for you in one minute. >>> we are tracking moren right now. a report of a shooting involving a metro bus. news 4's pat collins is there live. what do you know, pat? what happened? >> reporter: we are at an extensive crime scene at the intersection of bening road and east capital street. it goes on for two or three blocks down the street. involved here, this metro bus. we are told it's the 97 metro bus that goes from east capital to the cardoza area. we are told that two passengers on this bus were shot as they got off here near the shrimp boat. the shrimp boat a popular restaurant here on east capital street. after that, police converged on the area. they have sealed the whole area off. those two victims were taken to the hospital. it is unclear as to what their condition is now, but come over. let me show you how extensive this crime scene is. you can see a number of cops here near the bus and they were talking to passengers near the bus taking statements from them, but then if you go to the other side of the shrimp boat over here

starting to feel like fall and chillier temperatures are now on the horizon and chief meteorologist doug kammereris in the storm center with more. hi, doug. >> we saw cooler temperatures across the region and they were struggling to hit 70 and we did get to in the mid-50s and 50 in pittsburgh and 48 in boston and it will get cool this weekend and we'll talk about how cool it gets coming up in a minute. ♪ ♪ >> i'm julie carey at the fairfax county courthouse where we heard from a mystery woman of sorts in the charles severance murder trial. the woman who bore a son with him in 1999 has remained silent, out of public view until today when she testified for the prosecution. prosecutors contend it was a bitter custody battle with this woman that left charles severance with a deep hatred of police and the courts, a hatred they say later led him to kill three well-known alexandria residents. pamela nichols became pregnant shortly after meeting severance in 1999. for a brief time they lived together with alexandria, and before their son was a year old she moved out taking the baby with her. she soon won

. >> meteorologist doug kammerer is here with our storm team 4 coverage. doug? >> yeah, guys. it does continue to cause minor issues in some of the coastal sections. we've had a lot of flooding over the last couple of days along the chesapeake and this is the pawtuxet river. take a look at this. this is an area that is still recovering from the nor'easter that hit over the weekend. this is halloween point mobile home park in prince frederick, maryland and last night fire fight hers to go over this area to rescue 14 people from flooded homes. it took about two hours to get everyone back to safety and higher ground. >> no one there was hurt and there was flooding along the river and you can see, we still have those advisories along the region and a coastal flood advisories and that includes d.c. and alexandria and you will see more flooding tonight around the downtown area and normal areas have flooded. you will most likely flood tonight and even toward annapolis and around the prince frederick area and this is the pawtuxet right here and a flood warning down toward that area an

doug kammerer and before we get to the halloween, doug, what can we expect when we step outside tonight. we have a cool night ahead of us and as we make our way in through the next couple of hours and temperatures are going to fall and we're 10 to 15 degrees cooler than where we were yesterday. a patio outside across our region and we can take max 2 and show you what we're talking about. they're going to fall quite quickly as we move down through the next few hours and we'll talk about temperatures in the 50s under partly cloudy skies and the sun goes down before 7:00 and we'll be in the upper 40 in the city by 11:00. if you're going out tonight. take the jacket. you will need the jacket for sure and it will be dry and 50s, through 8:00 or 9:00. we'll talk about how cold our halloween will start and we'll take you hour by hour for halloween coming up in our full forecast. >> developing political news. the rnc chairman says several camp cass complained about this week's debate on cnbc and called the questions mean spirited and unfair. nbc news has released a statement saying this is a di

. >> doug kammerer, he's in the storm center. we saw folks in t-shirts and shorts in the mall today. what will we expect tonight? >> you mentioned about the winds in the single digits and that's at the surface. aloft they were at 60 to 80 miles per hour and that's one reason why that blimp did get off its moorings. as far as the weather, you're right. we saw shorts earlier and tonight completely a different story. satellite radar showing a cold front that is moving through. that cold front moving through right now and that is really cooling the numbers down. we were at 73 earlier and now we're at 69. back to the west and only 56 in pittsburgh and that's the cool air that will be making its way again here and tonight's headlines if you'll be out and about falling temperatures for sure and a cool friday night if you have plans to go tomorrow night and we're talking about the halloween impact and we'll talk much more about the halloween forecast for you coming up in my full forecast in just a minute. >>> the speaker-elect paul d. ry

the region over the next couple of days and let's get the latest from our chief meteorologist doug kammerer. >> a really chilly weekend out there and a chilly start to the weekend. as a matter of fact, some areas saturday night into sunday morning and into the 30s for the first time and there are more of those to go and even on the cold side and dulles coming in at 39 this morning and 39 manassas and 39 in culpeper and 50 toward annapolis. look at fort meade coming in at 37 degrees. so a very cold start to the week, and i think it gets a lot colder next week. nice weather is here for today and maybe for tomorrow, but then very dhchilly comes in and almo winterlike as far as the pattern goes and what does that mean for temperatures. well, much cooler toward the end of the week and we're talking about high temperatures for those of you and downright schilly aschil chilly and the first freeze for some, and some of us could be close to freezing by early saturday and sunday morning and we'll talk much more about the cool weather moving in over the next couple of days. some of you have been askin

chief meteorologist doug kammerer and amelia segal are in the storm center right now. >> that's right. you saw the tidal flooding and we may see another round of that as we move on into the hours tonight and coastal flood warnings in effect and advisories for others and obviously, it's nothing like what's happening in south carolina and historic flooding down there and some towns have seen over 20 inches of rainfall. >> it is amazing and this was forecast days in advance and upward of 25 inches of rain and you look at numbers like that and look at that. this is the last 48 hours and you see the trend, and the moisture coming right off the atlantic ocean and it stops in charleston and watch how it moves right back in here during the morning hours earlier this morning and once again they continue to see that all of this moisture coming from a couple of different systems and one, an upper level area and another one down toward hurricane joaquin and right on into the area so directly not affected, but an indirect effect of joaquin and look at that moisture coming into portions of the caro

. >> let's go to storm team 4 meteorologist doug kammerer, as nice as it is today you're tracking changes headed our way. not so nice? >> i still think it will be pretty nice, but not as nice as today. today it is simply gorgeous out there and take a look at our temperatures, not just in our area and we're seeing the yellows and oranges on the map and we'll see a lot more of the greens and that's the 60s. 64 in pittsburgh and 76 in columbus and 80 in roanoke and 75 in d.c. and tomorrow, however, we are going to see a change. the warm air is here and tomorrow we'll see the cool air move back down across our region and we are in for a much cooler weekend and not nearly as warm and still nice and plenty of sunshine. we'll talk about the coolest timeframe and that is overnight on your friday. if you're headed out friday night i have that for you and the weekend forecast, as well. veronica and i are back in a couple of minutes. >> a montgomery teenager is dead after being hit by a car. chopper 4 was over new hampshire avenue just after 6:00. that's where 18-year-old michelle highwaya was hit t

doug kammerer and meteorologist veronica johnson are both in the storm center. i know it will be another cold night. how cold? >> one more cold night and not nearly as cold as last night. the record last night at dulles was 25. we were at 27 and now we're moving in the opposite direction. >> from the weekend where we had the blues because it was cooler, now we get a boost by midweek. we could be in the 70s by wednesday. lows this morning and 28 win chester and manassas and 25 in martinsburg and a very, very cold start to the morning and a lot of you had frost out there on your windshields and needed extra time to get that frost off. now we're into the 50s, but still on the cool side for sure and the 60s just off to the west and that's what we'll see first move in across our region. here is the good news, the chilly air is here today, but the cold won't last and say hello to the cold air and we'll talk about how hot we'll get and how long we'll stay on the warm side and coming up, my complete forecast. >>> i'm meagan fitzgerald where dozens of victims of truck re

my twitter.com/doug kammerer. if you like it, if you don't like it and if you're looking for something else and even if you need a personal forecast and take a look across our region and sun and clouds and current temperatures winds out of the northwest at about 13 miles per hour. they've been a little breezy this afternoon and again in the shade with the breeze it's a little cool, but not bad. this is a pretty nice afternoon especially when you consider this is the average high temperature for this time of year right around 69 and much cooler to the north and 62 in hagerstown and 74 toward charlottesville and 69 degrees towards fredericksburg and very nice for mid-october and as we move on through the next couple of days and it will feel like november coming up for the weekend and no rain, storm team 4 radar is all clear and we don't have a chance of rain. watch this, watch what happens when i widen out here and not a cloud in the sky from portland, oregon. we have the jet stream that you can track it and make it

chief meteor ologist doug kammerer will show you how low the temperatures will be coming up. >>> us airways will no longer exist when you wake up. how the american airlines merger impacts air travel. >>> first tonight, there is a money dispute on between the family of two men who drowned and a local bar that held a fund-raiser for them. >> as news 4's mark segraves found out the family says the bar is taking advantage of them. the bar's owner says it's just business. >> the phfamily is holding up. their mom is as well -- >> those who knew them say they were best friends who did everything together including swimming in the chesapeake bay. last july, the two men drowned off this beach in calvert county. doug brown was a partner in costa brava. >> we had a fund-raiser who doug passed away. that fund-raiser was in august and raised about $3,000. the money raised was meant for the family. >> they said it was going to go to the brown family, and we assumed that it was going to go to daniel and doug's mom and jane because she paid for the funeral expenses and she would use a portion to pay for th

have one word for you as you make those weekend plans and let's get to storm team 4 meteorologist doug kammerer and meteorologist veronica johnson in the storm center. the mystery word is cold. >> yes. >> exclamation mark. >> we are talking very cold air. this is the coldest air of the season. freeze watches are already in effect. >> looking back out last year at the calendar, it wasn't until a whole month from now last year that we saw readings as though as this weekend and they'll be coming in very early and temperatures today not bad at all and 67 in d.c., and 66 in manassas, but it is going to be a very cool evening. if you're headed out make sure you take the cold. the cold air moving in as we speak ask it will stay cold saturday, sunday, right on into monday and overnight low temperatures will be close to the freezing mark and that's why we have a freeze watch in effect tomorrow night into sunday morning and it will most likely be in effect sunday night into monday, as well because we're talking very cold air and does not include d.c. it is still going to be cold here, too and we'll talk

. >> storm team 4 doug kammerer is tracking temperatures. >> we saw temperatures in the mid to upper 20s and not just below freezing, but well below freezing and once you get to 28 degrees that's called a hard freeze, and we saw a hard freeze everywhere. culpeper, manassas, frederick, dougl douglas, winchester, and 31 in clinton and 38 toward the pawtuxet river and just about everyone in the region had temperatures below freezing and that means we will not see more freeze warnings with the exception of the d.c. metro area and current temperatures into the 50s. say good-bye to the cold and say hello to very warm air making its way in just in time for the next couple of days and we'll talk about the 70s. yeah, the 70s. remember them? i'll have the forecast in just a minute. >>> we should know soon whether the vice president joe biden is going to be entering the race for president among the democrats. sources are telling nbc news a decision could come within the next 48 hours. the vice president gave no hints during a climate summit event this afternoon and we should note that mr. biden

and it is going to get colder to get more information from what to expect we'll send it back to doug kammerer. >> tracee, it will continue to be raw out there in prince george's county. look at the rain just out of the south down here toward the northern neck. it's moving your way. we'll continue to track it for you coming up next. jamie wanted a taste of the real new orleans and we just couldn't say no to that face. then we wanted more of that local flavor so betty says... oh yeah, that's betty. you're going to want to do this alligator thing. and betty didn't lead us wrong. a little later we passed some dancing. and who doesn't like dancing? especially when it's followed by fireworks everyone's nola is different. follow yours. >>> this is a storm team 4 weather alert. >> we'll continue to track the rain across our region as the nor'easter continues and it will continue right on through the day tomorrow and sunday. however, the heaviest rain and the most rain will happen as we move through the evening tonight. a lot of you asking about joaquin. it's over the bahamas and the latest advisory i