some of our models are indicating this one band off to the eastern -- parts of eastern carolina to the eastern shore could be in excess of seven, eight inches. locally three to five inches. locally six or seven not out of the question. this is an incredible event we are just beginning. flood advisories. flood watch for everybody through 9:00 and i a do believe you will see the light green light up on the counties throughout the morning and midday as we will get numerous flood warnings. streams and creeks. i hope the gutters are in good working order. 68-degrees is the current temperature. warmer air will be drawn in and upper 50sin the shenandoah valley. even in to the 70-degree range later this afternoon. and the winds are gusting in spots 20 to 2 a off to the south and east. northernly winds in the shenandoah valley, places like manassas, northern virginia. and winds southeast toward southern maryland and the eastern shore. the day at a glance. 88 now. heavy rain and 74 at noon and strong gusty thunderstorms are possible with a light chance of isolated tornadoes in eastern sections l

this is moving into eastern carolina with some heavy thunderstorms and showers. this will move. our region later tonight. this will hopefully get out of here in time for us to salvage friday afternoon and into the weekend. you'll see most of the very heavy rain thankfully fell in the day. if this line has shifted farther west and the city is right in this city, "-- is right in the center, we would have had more problems. the western shore was clipped. in the southern end, down here we see some purple. rain gauges indicated 5-9 inches of rain. this extends the right into eastern baltimore county. tonight's round of rain schists and little way to the east, just a little bit more. looking like the heavy rain tonight will fall on the eastern shore but some of those areas that were hit hard part in that yellow and orange region getting over a three-4 inches. flooding is remaining a major threat through the night. the flood warnings are just about everywhere. the flood watches far where there is not a warning on going. the wind has been strong this on the eastern shore. adjusting to 3

we have eastern carolina getting nailed. virginia, delaware, pennsylvania, new jersey and soon up into areas of new england. take a closer look at the radar. you can see the moisture coming straight from the south. a little swirl here, maybe our area of low pressure crossing down from south carolina to north carolina, getting drenched from raleigh. wilmington has had an incredible amount of rain the last few days, maybe the highest total ever. the moderates, the steady rainfall now over the area and that's extending now just into the philadelphia region. new york city, the rain is still probably another hour or two away. and you notice that new york is probably more scattered during the day today. i think new york city will get the heaviest rain later on tonight. here is the total we're thinking. anywhere in the yellow and oranges, 3 to 4 inches. along the coast, we could see 4 to 5, maybe 6 inches of rain. the rest of the united states looks fantastic. that's a look at your forecast. now here is a look at the weather outsid

it is a very strong tropical low right now, that the main circulation is moving in to eastern north carolina, and so out on te eastern de of this, the circulation is a lot of tropical moisture coming all the way up from the caribbean, and continuing to flow all the way in to eastern norh carolina, and all the way up into virginia, and now maryland, that's moving on up into pennsylvania, as well. now, once again, we have a tornado warning for calvert countynd anne arundel county. this is the cell that is continuing to produce some very heavy rain across most of calvert county now. this is going to be tracking up into anne arundel county in the next half hour or so and there is some indication of circulation in this particular cell that is showing us perhaps there may be a funnel cloud touching down in calvert county. this is continuing to trackff to the north with very heavy rai that's going to be the main issue here, with flooding likely occurring in many locations now in calvert county that's going to track just about due north acoss anne arundel county here in the next few minutes. other p

low pressure coming out of south carolina already produced upwards of 20 inches of rain in eastern north carolina. obviously flooding is going on there. this will be with us for the day. maybe lessening later in the afternoon. you can see how the moisture continues to stream north. look at those deep oranges. the deep tropical rich moisture moving north. with that and a storm tracking to this west. a tornado watch until 7 a.m. this is a short lived one. i imagine this will be replaced after 7 a.m. and basically everyone east of 95 including washington, much of howard county, eastern montgomery, down to the northern neck, southern maryland, eastern shore. tornado watch until 7 a.m. and as far as the flood watch, we have the flood watch until 9:00. the counties in green, which is the entire metro, southern maryland down to fredericksburg out to loudoun, eastern faulkier, prince william, manassas city, fairfax, that is a flood warning. through 9:00 p.m., a flood watch. the flood warnings go until 10:45 this morning. and as far as our rainfall projections potential any way through 1:00 this

dangerous surf from daytona beach to the eastern carolinas. e outer banks of north carolina will see the biggest impact as we head into the night. we could see waves as high as 25 miles per hour on the outer banks into the nighttime hours. we're talking about some tropical storm force winds as well for the outer banks. 60 to 70-mile-per-hour sustained winds and gusts could be even higher. winds increasing across the jersey shore throughout friday. even up to 40-mile-per-hour wind gusts. eastern long island the same story. we could see some heavy rain as well, as unfortunately earl's expected to track a little bit closer to the northeast coast. and this is bad news just in time for the labor day holiday. could look for some pretty yucky weather across southern maine into saturday. >>> now to the rest of the forecast. severe storms in the middle of the country. damaging winds, baseball-sized hail and the threat of tornados from dallas up to chicago. showers in eastern texas and minneapolis. and thunderstorms in south florida. >> another hot day a

tomorrow night, we're watching that once again and around the wilmington area, worried about eastern carolinas where they could pick up six to 10 inches of rain and tonight, a few clouds and some 50s in the suburbs, tomorrow morning, sun and clouds followed by evening showers, 74 and that is not the heaviest stuff. 8 in the morning, sunshine, 63 degrees and noon, mostly cloudy and showers at five:00 and look at the stuff through the carolinas and for our area, a broad brush of four to six inches of rain possible and that should be lighter for the eastern shore and could this band switch more to the east and west? it could and we think we're going to get inches of rain and the final track and heaviest band to be determined still and this is your five-day forecast. tomorrow, mostly dry into the evening, thursday real wet and that is going to be raining to beat the band and not talking about thunderstorms as early as the morning commute, which will require extra time. the evening commute, i think, the heaviest band is shifting to the mountains and we'll have to see what happens and an early-morni

flash flood warnings through much of eastern north carolina. now that heavy rain is making its way through d.c., baltimore and philadelphia. and now the rain is beginning on long island and new york city. it's going to be a very rough morning commute all along i-95. the winds will be picking up during the day today but the heaviest rain looks to be from d.c. to baltimore to philly and eastern portions of pennsylvania are going to see a lot of rain. our computers are estimating anywhere between three to five inches of rain in this area with the bull's eye somewhere near i-95. your forecast today, veronica, middle of the country fantastic. wherever we are on the east coast this is probably one of the worst weather days in a long time. >> excellent, bill. thanks for that. you're going to need an umbrella and then some i guess. >>> oil climbs. scary foreclosure numbers. and mcdonald's threatens benefits. the "first look" at business straight ahead. >>> a first for david ortiz. one of the craziest endings you'll see. ready to try something new? camp

just inland of another funk and back into -- norfolk and back into parts of eastern carolina, unbelievable deluges of rain. that same wet weather tracking due north, really more northeast of north. the heaviest of this may in fact impact the eastern shore as opposed to central and western maryland but it's in central maryland where we have the flood watch. let's look now downtown. looking good. dry, 74. humidity high. uncomfortably so. it's muggy out there. winds southeast around 5 to 10. rain totals have been very high today. not so much right along the immediate chesapeake though we have a coastal flood advisory in these, these areas. rockville, more than an inch, in many cases pushing more than two inches. mount airy may have gotten two inches today as well as well as manchester. in the heavy downpours we had earlier this afternoon. so they were heavy. temperaturewise, mid-70s now. we'll float around 70 degrees through the overnight. muggy conditions, humidity close to 90% right now. that stifling and the moisture level dew points up around 70, even 75 over here in easton. to so a, trem

maryland, delaware, eastern north carolina, southern new england. that's five to six inches of rain. that's enough to cause some serious problems. we'll continue to watch the heat out west. but compared to the flooding concerns we have out there, veroni veronica, in the next two days, not too big of a dill. the 113 was impressive in l.a. a couple of days ago. but we're past that. >> we're going need to borrow some sunshine for the rest of the country, bill. >> not till friday. >>> well, gold sparkles, tech stocks trip up. and getting a beer in tough times. the first look at this morning's business headlines are straight ahead. >>> three teams punch their ticket for the postseason. a rough ride for our rough rider. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. how are you getting to a happier place? running there? dancing there? flying there? how about eating soup to get there? delicious campbell's soups fill you with good nutrition, energy, farm-grown ingredients, and can help you keep a healthy weight. helping you get to a happier place. have a nice trip.

tomorrow we start with a little sun early but look at the clouds and showers in the eastern carolinasthey move northward during the day. here we are at 5:00. yes, light ones in the region and watch what happens on tomorrow night and thursday morning, all of the moisture surges northward through virginia in to maryland. some of the rain on thursday with this system could be locally heavy once again. i expect flood watches to be posted for us then, as well. we have a flood watch until 8:00. here's the seven-day forecast, 83 today. 75 tomorrow with more clouds. maybe a peek of sun early, a late shower. thursday 78. friday clear and 72 and the weekend, look at those temperatures, twin sets, get them ready. >> with all of the rain on the way throughout the rush hour, not a bad idea to leave a few minutes earlier because we will expect more delays, heavier delays than what we usually see because of the rain. i want you to know south capitol street at the douglas bridge we are have ongoing construction. it will last the next 15 to 20 minutes or so and should be clearing after the 5:00 hour.

a lot of heavy rain across eastern carolina and that's going to continue to surge up and move into marylandere. there is more rain building off to the south. this area of low pressure, really the culprit. continuing to spin and churn up that very heavy rain. zooming in a little, showing you our futurecast, we expect heavy rains to be on and off through the overnight hours here. more rain comes up from the south. as we go into tuesday here we clear things out. looks like some showers early tomorrow. then we'll dry out tomorrow night. and then as we go into wednesday we start off dry but we may end wet. as more rain comes up out of the south. wednesday night into thursday morning. so there's multiple chances for rain here. it's been a very dry late august into early september but looks like things are finally starting to turn around on the rain front. 69 tonight. rain with a flood watch. some of these showers coming from the south, heavy at times. tomorrow the 2-degree guarantee, 79. scattered showers, especially early in the day. breezy and muggy, finally tomorrow night we begin to dry out a

but dangerous surf all throughout the day from daytona beach, back across the eastern carolinas.ther, into the night, as we could have gusts of 60 to 70 miles per hour. and the northeast seeing those impacts, as well. now, back to you. >>> our resident hurricane expert, sam champion, will have live updates later today on "good morning america." >>> the headquarters of the discovery channel will be open for business today, after a hostage siege there yesterday. the intruder was an environmental militant named james lee. he was armed with a gun, explosives and a bizarre agreement. john hendren has the story from silver spring, maryland. >> reporter: at the discovery channel building, a nightmare scenario unfolded in seconds. >> at 1:00 p.m. today, a man entered the discovery building. he came in. he was wearing what appeared to be metallic canister devices on his front and back. he also pulled a handgun out, was waving a handgun. >> reporter: police assumed the canisters were explosives. then, chaos as the gunman seized hostages. police, fbi and s.w.a.t. teams swarmed the scene. >>

it's just the eastern seaboard and just this flow of moisture just going south to north. you can see we even have clusters of thunderstorms now in south carolina. eastern south carolina will get drenched. watch out in raleigh. d.c., baltimore, morning. there's a lot of drizzle in new york city this morning. more of the steadier rains are down to the south. that will shift northwards during the day. if you're in especially southern new england today, make sure you have the umbrella and everywhere up and down i-95. appalachians, maybe even flooding rains over the next three days. it was 103 in l.a. yesterday. 105 in phoenix. an incredible heat wave. that continues today. contrast that with 60 degrees in chicago. here's how the forecast looks. the heat wave continues. 104 today in l.a. 106 is the record. we're close. 106 in phoenix expected. areas in the midwest, this is some of the coolest temperatures we've seen in texas in a long time. the front has kicked through. all the moisture goes up ahead. and then behind it, the cool canadian air filters in. so the east coast is where we're going to see some of the worst conditions the next two or thre

rainfall totals could be even higher in parts of the carolina than they will be around washington. some parts of easternalready recorded rain totals over 20 inches. many roads there are already closed. at least one mobile home park has been evacuated. thank you for tuning into in extended edition of 9 news now. howard is here. boy, it's just what you predicted yesterday. >> thank you. you think about tropical storm alicia in houston. that one sat there. this one is moving and we're still getting high totals. we have flood warningings that have been expanded. i want to start with the big picture though. show you the rain continues to pour in off the atlantic. we have some moderate to heavy rain in many, many areas. this is tropical stuff. rainfall at about an inch or two an hour. it is piling up. let's show you the warnings. all these counties in green are under flash flood warnings. that new one off to the west, just west of culpepper, that's nelson and green counties. that goes until 2:15. just a lot of rain, and it's going to continue to be heavy. let's go to the radar. while we have a lot of green, y

here in baltimore, we are keeping an eye on heavy rain coming out of eastern north carolina and southernirginia right now. that will continue to work its way north through the evening so it looks like the rain will pick up here in central maryland. that is why the flood watch remains in effect before the western shore of the bay and through hagerstown. the national weather center maintaining not flood watch. eastern shore not under the watch just yet. it has just been so dry it recently that we can take a lot of rain before the flooding occurs. with that -- we already had about an inch at the airport and an harbor. 74 is the normal high. we made it to 78 downtown and 77 at the airports. temperatures are in the low 70's at the eastern shore right now. we are right around 70 in southern pennsylvania from northern baltimore county. temperatures in the 60's out in the western sections of the state. was the warmth and that helped to trigger severe storms for a while for the middle part of the day. low pressure knack -- down in north georgia will bring -- will come up the last part of the moun

norfolk area, eastern carolinas. that's moving from south to north as you can see it. it's keeping us dry but this moisture is destined to come up. it goes all the way down to the florida coast. it's a matter of time before we start getting the rain filling in. all the tropical moisture overrung the cooler surface, and it's causing the rain to break out and some of it has been heavy with heavy thunderstorm activity. right now we're stuck in the 60s, which is okay. tomorrow we get back in the 70s. tomorrow it will be tropical in the low 70s. out to the west not too bad, chilly. 70 at ocean city. that warmer air will start moving in, just a surge of tropical moisture. winds are light and particularly tomorrow and particularly in the southern areas of the bay where we can see wind gusts along 40 miles an hour. tomorrow flash flood watches and coastal flood watches, alberts, st. maries and along the beaches. that's where you'll see the highest winds. the low pressure that was nicole has become an area of low pressure. there's no nicole per say. also, we have an area of low

up along the coast about 70 miles off the north carolina coast, about 100 miles to 150 up the jersey shore, but only 20 miles off of cape cod. like eastern north carolina, cape cod is just kind of out there, and that's also expecting some devastation from about category 2 winds. on the west coast, everything is clear. high pressure is building in. a nice ridge of high pressure. that means warm conditions. so, when the east coast is looking at violent weather, the west coast is looking hot and calm and dry. up to 92 in san francisco. a return to the heat. 100 in medford today. seattle and portland also you.ing sunny and warm. salem today 85. fallon, nevada, around 92. we'll update your friday forecast coming up, lynn. >> all right, bill, thanks so much. >>> well, stocks sizzle, apple shines and burger king is on the block. your early-morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, you won't believe who turned down "dancing with the stars" and who volunteered but got turned away. >>> a major upset at the u.s. open and fight night in florida. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning and welcome back to "early today." i'm lyn

some areas of eastern north carolina could see over a foot of rain today. >>> fresh from a four-statepaign swing, president obama meets with democratic leaders in washington. they are strategizing ahead of the midterm elections. >>> fed chairman ben bernanke testifies on the progress of inplummeting the new financial overhaul law. congress left much of the substance of the new rules to the discretion of regulators. >>> we will learn the details today about a massive recall from fisher price. it's believed that over a dozen products are involved, including millions of tricycles and highchairs. >>> former president jimmy carter is expected to be released from the cleveland hospital where he spent the last two nights. doctors said a viral infection likely caused the upset stomach that cartered suffered on tuesday. >>> and tour de france winner alberto continued dor tested positive for a banned substance in july. he says it's linked to food contamination. >>> for some of you, your local news is next. when i had my heart attack, i couldn't believe it. it was a real shock. i remember being

it weakened rapidly yesterday evening and that spared eastern north carolina. now the question is how strong will it be and how strong will be winds be around the cape. also beach erosion around the eastern seaboard. it's forecasted close to cape cod as a category one around midnight, then the storm is gone for the labor day weekend. forecast around the country, it's going to be interesting. the west coast, you're still baking in summer, while the rest of the nation is going to be cooling off. look at phoenix today, 111 degrees. seattle around 80. nice on the coastal areas but still hot in the interior sections of california. you notice into saturday, cooler in san red bluff, california, another day in the hundreds for you. tucson easy into the hundreds, 104, sacramento, upper 90s. we'll take a look at the complete weekend forecast coming up. >> all right. bill karins, thank you. >>> wall street waits on job numbers, retailers score in august, and the number two burger chain is sold. early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, will a machete w

eastern seaboard. flooding on i-95 from the carolinas up to maine.nd i-80 will be drenched from new york to pittsburgh. out west, it's wet on i-5 and 10, south of l.a. >> and if you're traveling today, you can expect airport delays on the east coast, in the cities of boston, philadelphia, new york, washington and charlotte. >>> now, to a campus tragedy triggered by a callous invasion of privacy. >> a college freshman has taken his own life after his roommate secretly videotaped an intimate encounter and then streamed it live on the internet. >> it is bringing attention to young people taunted for being gay. more, now, from abc's richard cantu. >> reporter: at 18, tyler clementi was pursuing his love of music a rutgers university. but a betrayal of trust apparently drove him to jump off of this bridge. as clementi had a sexual encounter with another man in his dormroom, police say his roommate sent it live to the internet from a hidden camera. then, boasted by tweet, roommate asked for the room till midnight. i went into molly's room and turned on the

and we have another plume of moisture coming our way into eastern north carolina. leading edge of the rain associated wh a developing tropical storm. very strong upper level windows blowing 75 miles per hour. they're going to string it northward and bring it in this afternoon. we could have heavy rain, enough to cause flooding by this time tomorrow morning and the ponding of water. we'll have temperatures this afternoon before any rain arrives. once the rain commences it will drop back into the 60s. and some of the rain, again, as i mentioned could cause flooding is time tomorrow morning through midday thursday. we could get three or four inches out of this. drying out and cooling down as we get into the weekend. jerry, how is the traffic? >> doing pretty well. that's a good start. 395. no worries. everything looking good. let's head over and check out i-270. at the moment, everything moving along nicely. frederick to clarksburg, south toward the capital beltway. looking good between college park and silver spring. >> jerry, thanks thech very much. as we told you,

circulation from that remnant is now over eastern south carolina. tern sectoof that is where the flow comes in off of the atlantic, and bringing in torrential rain where you see the moving area of yellow and orange. these are the bands of very heavy rain coming in off of the atlantic. now into north carolina and yes we've had some passing right in to our metro area, as stafford and then outs of spotsylvania out of stafford and prince willm county. this band should be moving right into fairfax county in another ha hour or so. farther to our west the rain is not coming down quite as hard right now but you're not out of the woods there yet, either. riht now temperatures around the region, generally in the 60s around washington to near 70 by the bay. mid 70s on the eastern shore, and all of this is going to continue here throughout the daybecause it's going to take awhile for this circulation from the remnants of nicole to pass through our region. the wider view showing that t entire atlantic seaboard from the rolinas all the way to new england will be a

one ribbon of rain extending through eastern carolina, piedmont and georgia, that's wrapped around this area of low pressure. we have both hits today and tonight into tomorrow morning. our forecast model expecting more rain to push through. if not by 4:00 p.m. it could come in a little sooner. we may have another round of heavier rain to roll through tonight into tomorrow morning. around that low pressure, watching it back in towards the mountains and swinging through by daybreak tomorrow. you can expect in baltimore to have anywhere from two to four inches of additional rainfall which could lead to localized flooding. we need the rain. we're in a deficit for the month. this is definitely not the way to do it. it should try to push out of here by wednesday but a second storm is actually going to try to ride up the coast towards the end of the week. for today, 72 as our 2-degree guarantee. even though we're already close to that. it's really the focus on the rainfall. some thunder mixed in with the downpours could lead to flooding overnight in through tomorrow morning. let's check the re

there is so much moisture with this system continuing to train across our region, across the eastern carolinas. they are getting very hard hit. some of that rain is getting wrung out down there. but then it redevelops as it moves across the delmarva from our area up into the northeast. as can you see, it is moving from the south to the north over the same areas where we've been getting it for the last several hours. so that is the problem. that is why we have these flood warnings and watches in effect for this morning. so continued rain being heavy run during the course of the morning. windy conditions developing during the course of the day. by later on this afternoon of course we'll have scattered rain showers hopefully. that is what we believe. the bulk of the heavy rain will be during the morning hours. we'll get you more information on all of this coming up in just a little bit so stick with us. >> okay. thank you so much. the roads are scary out there this morning. >> julie wright is with us with those details. how is it looking out there? >> not good at all, ladies and tony. if you are

to form along this cool front that stretches just to the south of fredericksburg, richmo, eastern north carolina is going to be sweeping through our region here by later on this morning. we could have flooding rains now until noon time. then during the afternoon, we'll begin to see sunshine. highs near 80. there's a risk of some severe storms to our east laterhis afternoon. but clearing from west to east and partly cloudy tonight. upper 50s tomorrow morning. increasing clouds on wednesday. a tropical system system may affect u with rain late afternoon wednesday into wednesday evening. tropical downpour likely after drying out on friday and the weekend. feeling like autumn saturday, sunday, monday. >>> so far between i-95 south to the wilson bridge, everything moving along very, very nicely. no hangu. into town this morning, new york avenue, come on in. had to much in the way of overnight road work. weather washed most of it out. with the weathe coming in, it could all change. we'll keep you updated. joe, eun. >>> the change drivers in maryland need to be aware of. >>> jurors reach a verdict in t

there is still some very heavy rain down in eastern north carolina, moving into southeast virginia. a lot of that will be working its way up to the bay. we have had an inch of rain at the airport and the inner harbor. we are at that 1 inch mark now. afternoon temperatures got up to a few degrees above the normal. even with clouds and what weather around, kind of a warm and muggy afternoon for this time of year. the flood watch continues west of the day. we could pick up another inch or two or more of grain. -- rain. you head toward frost burk. -- " -- lower 60's as you head toward frost burk. tornado warnings were issued earlier today on the boundary of some really warm and humid air coming in. colliding with the wet air from the west of us. that warm front triggered severe storms and tornado warnings. nothing i have seen reported as far as damage. the radar was showing strong location in some of those storms. the area of low pressure will head up the west side of the mountains. you can see these guys begin to clear out a little tomorrow afternoon. -- the skies. the rain arrives aga

carolina. they had over 10 inches of rain yesterday. eastern areas of south carolina, and that's where i think some of the heaviest rain will be with this next storm system comes up. as much as 6 to 8 inch there's, here we could get another 2 to 3 and we too could have windy conditions as much as 40 to maybe 45 mile per hour winds. possibly tropical storm nicole makes its way up to th north let's talk about that track, because tropical storm warnings are up for areas around the florida keys. right around the midd wednesy, makes its w to the south and east of southern florida. as you can see when it comes up the coast, sometime thursday swipinthe outer nks of north carolina. again, that's where the highest wind and heaviest rains will be. here's the next48 hours with this system. want to show you the moisture moving on through. heaviest rains for us, where we could see two to three inches. that's throughout the day on thursday. it's a nice eveng for us, 7 to 74 degrees for your morning. a dry start, 54 to 61. and then, yes, you're going to need

hammering eastern carolina and up to richmond, virginia. information in the weather office and we decided we are going to move the timetable up a little bit with this second batch. now it comes in as early as 9:00 and heavy activity gets out of here as early as 3:00 or 4:00. here is devon. >> if we are moving that time frame up, that could be good news. we want to go to live doppler 9,000. we have an extreme heavy line of thunderstorms. i am talk about these thunderstorms all the way from frederick, maryland, and gaithersburg and in south all the way from manassas and all the way down to west of fredericksburg, virginia. that line right there. if you are west of there, you are really done with all the storms. you are going to see light rain to steadier rain later on tonight. if you are going to be from those storms east, that's where the heaviest rain is going to fall later on tonight. the heaviest storms, montgomery county, you are getting nailed down to gaithersburg. even back over to loudoun county, probably dulles, ashburn area. and dow

we've been watching some of these huge rain totals down over the eastern carolinas where they're now under a tornado watch and yes, this is all tropical moisture that we are seeing. it's beginning to fill in, but you can see north of d.c. they haven't seen much of anything yet. let's look at our max hd satellite and radar. look at the fetch of moisture coming up, all this heavy stuff we've been watching down through the wilmington area moving up closer to raleigh, all of this was once the remnants of tropical storm nicole as well as our tropical storm matthew that we saw going into central america and just an entire sort of a conveyor belt of moisture coming out of the caribbean. that's what we've been watching tonight and that's what's slated to come in our direction. now a tornado watch has been issued for much of coastal south carolina and north carolina right up into southeastern virginia and tornadoes are a real threat when we have tropical systems going by. some of the thunderstorms tomorrow in our area could rotate, although they do tend to be weaker storms. we've got this eas

we have a tornado watch out for eastern north carolina, eastern virginia, much of maryland, including 1:00 this afternoon as this storm system does pass through our region. then it will quickly taper off and end by later on tonight. now, again, let's take a look at the radar where we do have a tornado warning in efect for st. mary's, southern st. mary's county, southern calvert county. this is in effect until 9:45 this morning. this is the storm that m be producing a water out or perhaps even a small funnel cloud that could be touching down right now near st. mary's city. ifyou do see a funnel cloud headingoward you, get to an interior room of your house. if you have a basement, get to your basement. certainly get away from windows, and this is going to be quickly passing by as it does move off to the north. it's moving along at 40 to 50 miles an hour. it is a fast-moving storm, as are all these thers. this training line, a heavy rain east of interstate 95 is about to come into western charles couy and, again, heading up farther to our north. and we will see this continuing into our w

carolina. we had three to four inches of rain. heavy rains, eastern new england.g winds coming in tonight. a lot of problems with power outages here. cape cod and the highlands here. notice along the east coast, gusty winds and a couple showers. back to you. >> okay. mark mancuso, thanks for the update. >>> in other news, science of progress in the middle east peace talks. palestinian president abbas and israeli prime minister netanyahu have agreed to meet again in two weeks to resume negotiations likely in egypt. the leaders also agreed to meet every two weeks after that. secretary of state hillary clinton says she will keep a watchful eye. >> this is in the national security interests of the united states. but we cannot and we will not impose a solution. >>> in the middle east, militant groups have vowed to step up attacks against israel, in an effort to disrupt the ongoing peace process. >>> now, what's being called the largest human trafficking case in u.s. history. six suspects are accused of luring 400 laborers from thailand to the united states. allegedly f

. >> reporter: three people died in north carolina when their car hydroplane into a ditch. this is highway 17 in eastern north carolina. there's three inches of water on it, but more than two feet of water beside it. in wilmington, north carolina, streets were overwhelmed by 22 1/2 inches of rain. why so much rain? three systems combining to bring extreme downpours from north carolina to maine, as tropical storm nicole broke apart wednesday night, a second storm formed, along an east coast cold front. so much rain, it stalled east coast travel, unless you were searching down main street. and we are in norfolk, right now, looking at the traffic not able to drive around the flooding. there is more rain, diane. look at the map. there's a second batch of moisture, this is what was left of the center of nicole, that is going to travel just about the same path as the rain did today. that means two to four additional inches of rain, and that's from maryland up into maine. diane? >> that's right. up to your ankles and climbing. thank you, sam champion. >>> and president obama will make the official announcement

from what is left of nicole and we're still getting very heavy rain through wilmington and the eastern carolinas and not only under a tornado watch but they had over 20 inches of rain setting four and five-day records set during hurricane floyd. the surf is up this morning, we have surfers out there trying to catch some waves. they had a real treat with earl and danielle and we will have the rip currents and the waves today and they'll go asxwa the weather will turn just beautiful tomorrow and saturday. plenty of sunshine and temperatures tomorrow about 80. in the 70s on saturday and, by the way, about 120 gulf courses here in the myrtle beach area, tamron. hundreds of golfers who have been here for four days and have not gotten out on the greens and the fairways. >> that just sounds like whining. i can't golf. but let me ask you, though, seriously, about the warnings of coastal flooding in that area. >> yeah, we're just looking at the high tide coming up here in the next hour or so, water maybe a foot or so above average, just minor coastal flooding and minor beach erosion. that's it and we'll

baltimore into the tide water virginia getting heavier elçrain also heavy show back through eastern north carolinand down the east coast this storm getting its act together. it's going to j tropical moisture right up the immediate east coast and that center of low pressure slow to move through the overnight and early tomorrow. very, very dry, just off to our west. so this is definitely yvngoing be a coastal storm. not impacting even west virginia in a huge way. forecast model check it out. here's our timing on this thing. rain getting much heavier toward 2:00 a.m. tomorrow =/ then we expect those downpours to come through in waves through lunch time tomorrow. we'll begin to see the end in sight some clearing out to the south and west. we're probably looking at tomorrow afternoon towards 5:00, f before we really get the urain out of here and finally get a chance to begin to dry out. still maybe some heavy rain down at the at the beaches tomorrow3l-ñ night then we clear out. tropical satellite tremendous fetch. unusual pattern set up here. it's pulling out a lot of tropical moisture this pattern is

look at the heavy rains through eastern north carolina and southeastern virginia.s what's headed for the morning commute. we'll tighten up to close in view around the immediate metro area on the computer and we'll see moderate rain moving in from the metro area from the south. this is like a tropical conveyor belt, really. we'd like you to help sending them to the website, post on facebook or tweet, and go to twitter and please tag your tweets with dc flood and we'll put them on the air as soon as possible. overnight, rain and thunderstorms go into effect. lows of 60 and 65. i'll come back with breakdown of weather and rain fall amounts for your area. . >> down in alexander ria, crews are clearing drains hoping to clear the potential of high water. they've seen this sort of thing before. earlier tonight, trailer trucks loaded with sand bags made deposits at king and lee streets. meantime over in annapolis, the city is keeping a big eye on a aging dam. that 90-year-old dam's foundation is eroding and there are gaping cracks in the wall. regulators have deemed it uns

is heavy as you get down to parts of eastern north carolina. that is one thing will have to watch for tomorrow, the potential for severe storms embedded in this batch of heavy rain. so far the -- only. 02 of rain so far officially. we are still running cool, 65, frederick county in the low 60s, and it gets chilly out in western maryland in the 50's. tropical like air is already starting to feed up into southern maryland. the air is loaded with moisture, so look for some showers in the region in the morning. breezy, 58-65 to start off thursday. nicole did not last very long. it was gone by 5:00 in the afternoon, but the remnants of it down here are still loaded with tropical moisture and this area of low pressure, combined with new ones on this stalled front will bring all the tropical moisture into the mid atlantic. we are in for some heavy rain and may be severe thunderstorms as well. rod brown baltimore and on to the eastern shore tomorrow afternoon, watch for gusty winds. the possibility of periods of rain lasting into friday morning before

we've already had a couple of tornadoes overnight eastern north carolina.orfolk and virginia beach are the areas of greater concern. the radar, all the green is the rain. the yellows and the reds are more thunderstorms that are moving through. d.c. to philadelphia is the worst of the drive, but new york city is about to get nailed. we're going to see the first bans of heavy rain pulling up through the tri-state area here during the next hour right as we start the heart of the rush hour. there's the area in maroon. flash flood warnings throughout the d.c. area. through philly and new york. it will be a rough day. this will be about a 24-hour event of heavy rain, gusty winds. new york city under a high wind warning. could see winds gusting to 50 miles per hour at times. the airports are going to be a mess. there's really no way around it. the morning commute will be hard enough. >> if you're traveling to d.c. from farther north get on the acela, is that your suggestion? >> trains will do well unless the tracks flood or a tree falls on them. not on the train.

. >> this is the case of about 200 animals in north eastern and north carolina and just a horrific medical research lab. >> reporter: saturday they looked over the rescued animals. the first goal is to nurse them back to health. the second is find them good homes. >> what we saw in the video was really nothing short of abuse. really deplorable. probably about the worst rescue disaster situation we've encountered. >> reporter: but that is just one rescue effort underway at the rescue league this weekend. ten pitbull dogs arrived on saturday from ohio. they may have been used in a dog fighting operation. >> this is tragedy what happens to a really good breed of pitbulls and why people misunderstand them. >> reporter: gary says pitbulls are thought of as mean violent animals. a pitbull was shot by a police officer after alleging attacking another dog. but wysman says it is noted breed that makes them violent. >> pitbulls are great dogs. they have a reputation because of the harm that people do to them but you know they don't deserve that. >> reporter: he says the pitbull dogs brought in satur

eastern north carolina and near georgia.onveyor belt of tropical moisture from the south headed due north. what you see here, the white, yellow, and read is essentially cloud cover. tropical depressions 16 has formed and is pumping a lot of moisture into the atmosphere. that will continue late tomorrow and into the next day. it will translate into rain showers. an increase in clouds and rainshowers. start in southern maryland and head north word. temperatures topping out around 75 degrees. heavy showers between midnight and noon tomorrow. 2 to 4 inches of rain is possible with this system. it will become dusty. -- gusty. >>> growing volumes of 1 debt at09. -- spotted at 109. no problems at the duke street. >>> did you can't -- catch any "dancing with the star's"? >> i did not. >> michael bolton was sent packing last night. some harsh criticism for his jive saying is that when 1010 could have done better. -- rin tin tin could have done better. he had to leave for a concert after the show. >> i did the sound of music on stage.

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that increases as you getown into areas of eastern virginia, north carolina. it could be up to five to ten inches. for us now it's light rain that will be moving in. moderate to heavyain coming our way later tonight, heavy through tomorrow morning and midday tomorrow. >> thank you very much. let's head out to the roads and see how things are looking. >>> for the most part we're doing pretty well. we have construction along i-95 as you he on down through lorton and newington on the northbound and southbound side. they picked up the cones. that's in preparation for the l moving up. right now the lanesre open and one more stop over at the american legion bridge, both direction travel lanes are open. crews have been cleaning the storm drains. right now no worries. we're looking good. >>> thank you. 11:41 is the time. still ahead, stocks gain ground in tuesday trading. we'll lookhere numbers stand now. plus fight addiction the growing one appetizer plus two entrees $20 dinner for two. equas share one of five appetizers, like o famou texas cheese fries. then choose

moderate downpours in eastern north carolina. some of that will be arrivg late this afternoon. heavy rain through midday thursday likely causing flooding. dry after that. jerry, how is the traffic. >> a live look at th hour on interstate 66 where we are certainly loading up very, very quickly as the rush hour picks upace. already beginning to slow down just a little bit. we may have something going on. that was moving better 45 seconds ago. wilson bridge, once you get o bridge span you're okay. report of a vehicle stopped inner loop arod route 210. but that should be out by now. out to the rails we go. doing wel metro, vre and mark, no thas. >>> we are continue to following breaking news in northwest washington where dozens of people are being treated right now after a fire at a high-rise apartment building. news 4 tacee wilkins is on the scene with the latest on what appears to be an arson? >> reporter: they don't want to say exactly how this fire started until they're able to bring in dogs and actually see if there was an act sell rant. this was an unusual location for fire.

look at this, the eastern georgia, the carolina, rate toward us.n upper low helping to get extra spin in the atmosphere. the more spin we have, the better chances for severe weather, and right now we're also watching, as we just lacked at, that storm in howard county, still that tornado warning until 1:45, doppler indicated. front is pushing through. that's helping with the spin in the atmosphere. it's just basically north of that front where you get that better chance for the severe weather. tonight, 9:00, some breaks, but more strong showers and storms through tomorrow morning at 5:00, then we're going to kick this out of here. potentially, though, we have another system with more rain late wednesday into thursday. so as we pick up the seven-day forecast, today 80, tomorrow 82, showers, storms, some strong through tonight. tomorrow, or wednesday, rather, 79. late wednesday into thursday, another system, mid-70s. then the cool-down for the weekend big-time. sunday 62. we're going to be right back with 9news now at noon right after this. >>> welcom

extended to go a lot past that going into the early part of the night because right around eastern north carolina're seng the remnants of nicole. and they're likely to be under a tornado watcas wel >> that tornado tch being extended, it could also be extended toward portions of the eastern shores as well. we're going to watch that very closely. the area that has seen the most rainfall has been down towards north carolina. that's where all of this rain is coming from to north carolina. wilmington, take a look at video here. you think we've seen a lot of in with upwards of five to ten inches. how about wilmington coming in with 20 inches of rain over the past coupl of days? am-=r they needed it as well. they were under a severe drought over the past couple of months. they d need the rain. but once again, you just don't need is much in this period of time. where is the storm system? still down to the south and east. we have to go through the nt hours before we finally get rid of the rain. but it will be a fast mover. it will move through and by tomorrow morning be just to our north and east. then it

carolina. at one time it was tropical storm nicole. the national hurricane center indicated the tropical system has dissipated, but the moisture sources coming right up out of eastern florida through the carolinas and into baltimore. the new low pressure forming on the coast could bring us several inches of rain in parts of maryland. only a trace of rain so far at the inner harbor. the cloudy skies and showers could keep the temperature is below normal today. only 55 degrees of on skyline drive in the shenandoah national park. cecil county at 70 degrees and will stay in the upper 50's to mid 60's through the night. a possibility of heavier rain after midnight heading toward tomorrow morning. the front stalled on the coast will help generate showers as will the remnants of nicole coming north. we expect the new area of low pressure to form down here and track up into the coastal areas, almost like a fall nor'easter that is loaded with tropical moisture. you can see a hint of circulation down here, but the national hurricane center near miami has been watching this closely on radar and with satellite imagery, and they could not find a well defined center to this one

many to southeastern virginia and eastern north carolina. i think we will see more tornado warnings as we go in to mid to late morning ands for a the rain potential, still storm total four to five inches. locally eight plus to the south and east. it is 6:02. >>> angie? >> a couple of problems out there. specifically we know that heavy rains caused a lot of issues for tractor-trailer drivers and we have a jackknifed one on the inner loop. and this is what it is causing. a big stackup approaching old georgetown road. that's where the scene is and the stack up starts at river road and it is growing. on the outer loop, no incidents or accidents. from university over to georgia a good amount of congestion is building. take it to the maps. 70 eastbound. another traffic is overturned in this area has all eastbound lanes closed. drivers being forced to use that exit 87 to get on to 29 and from there they can hop on to route 40 or 99 to get around it throughout the morning rush because it looks like officials will be out there until at least 8:00 thi

caroline county and off to the east and that really goes even further on down to portions of eastern north carolina, raleigh, areas off to the east. so what do you do when we're under a tornado warning? get to the basement if possible, away from the west and southwest walls. get under something sturdy and, of course, even if you're in a high rise make sure you stay away from any windows. no matter how small because glass can fly quite easily with high winds coming through. and here are just some of the road closures through the area. virginia avenue, the latest, 21st street and 25th at virginia avenue northwest. winds could gust up to 25 miles per hour right into tomorrow morning. tom? is. >> thanks so much, veronica. i appreciate that and we'll have this rain tapering off and ending by later tonight and tomorrow into the weekend will be drying out. barbara? >> thank you very much, tom. >>> let's go to pete about a road rescue. >> how are you >> tell us what's happening out there? >> well, we had one of our re units came up on a situation. it happens very often. in fact, the 1,000 block in northeas