all little bit of isolated shower activity in eastern virginia.hreats of the rain around the baltimore area. 82 -- 81 in hagerstown. 70's in the western maryland mountains. it will be nice tonight with a clear sky. 60's in the suburbs. underneath this high-pressure, you can see the white it wipes out the cloud cover. -- you can see the light and wipes out the cloud cover. isaac is working the way into the drought parched areas of the mississippi river. it will bring some much-needed rain into parts of the mississippi river valley. 99 in kansas city, 90 degrees in chicago. that each will be pushing east. over the weekend, we will have to see how rapidly the remnants of isaac get. that is tuesday afternoon and it is still sitting west of the mountains. we may be able to get a good part of our weekend and with a decent summer weather, especially tomorrow. 90 degree heat in many locations tomorrow. a little bit of cloud cover on saturday. the farther west you go, the better the chance he will get some of that moisture. on sunday, showers will start to

the other batch of storms is out of eastern virginia across the potomac into southern said mary's county. most of it will be done for the day. there was a shower that rolled through at dwi marshall. we are over 8 inches below normal. we get the 90 degree mark or higher. the normal of 86, 10 degrees below billick record high which was set in 1955. it was 80 degrees at the airport and in downtown baltimore with clouds and showers moving through. we're still at 90. 87 in southern maryland. hagerstown at 87. the sky will clear after the storms finish out. lows ranging from 70 to 78. most of the systems are to the north. the jet stream tends to free trade at little bit. moving north of the lakes toward new england. the showers and storms blossomed during the heat of the afternoon. high pressure is establishing itself off the mid-atlantic coast pumping in some hot and humid weather for the next couple of days. west of the mountains, near 90 in detroit, 90 in cincinnati. that warm and muggy air will be entrenched across the region for a couple of days. 90's tomorrow, more humid as the southerly

a little bit of thunderstorm activity down in eastern virginia. comfortable temperatures for tonight. 84 in downtown baltimore. we will start to see these temperatures cool off nicely. bottoming out and the low 60's. the winds will become calm and it should be a pleasant summer evening. high-pressure sitting north of us. the high is going to be moving off the coast. the heat in the middle of the country will start inching our way. 100 in kansas city right now, 90 degrees in chicago. expect the temperatures to go up friday and saturday. st. louis and parts of little rock and central illinois, they will get a much-needed rain. you can see the track takes up that way and curbs the to the east and eventually southeast towards west virginia. it does not get into the mountains until tuesday. it means they will get more of our labor day weekend. here is the way it shapes up on our computer model. a beautiful looking friday. partly cloudy skies on saturday. sunday, the rainshowers out to the west of us. we may see some of that letter on sunday night. tomo

ocean city will contue as storm tomorrow but mainly self into eastern virginia. -- mainly south into eastern viinia.sunshine on thursday. these storms will be popping up frequently. we have a new one in the atlantic. it is 400 miles to the east of the caribbean. aac.named is it is expected to pass south of porter rico wednesday night into thursday and probably become a category i hurricane. since it will be interacting with islands and getting more overland, towards cuba, that interaction with the land may not allow it to strengthen. it makes the turn up toward south florida and the next five da. we will have to keep a close eye on it. lots of sunshine for thursday and friday. patchy morning fog over the weekend. temperatures in the low to mid 80's. >> stick around for late night with jimmy phelafallon. >> tyra banks is my guest tonight. tonight on late night after jay leno. >> that's not a fair trade. stick around here find out why the rangers have a great winning percentage at home. the o's have a game in texas. >> hello, america. it is tuesday, august 21. tonight the jackpot is $55

eastern in nor folk, virginia.zer is waking up early with us this morning. glad you're with us, wolf. what do you think? bold move? what do you think he'll bring to the ticket? >> i think he'll really energize the conservative base. they love paul ryan. they'll go out and vote. it will reassure many of them that mitt romney is in fact himself a conservative. this is the post important decision the candidate can make. telling american people who would take over who would take over god forbid if something were to happen to the president of the united states. it says who mitt romney is. he decided to go bold. there's so much speculation that he would ask senator rob portman of ohio or tim pawlenty of minnesota to be his running mate. both totally qualified, both excellent men with relative experience. relatively bland, compared to someone like paul ryan, or if he would have gone with bob jindal or chris christie. he is saying i want to energize the race and want the economy to be issue number one. that's paul ryan's s

eastern in norfolk, virginia.s kicking off a four-day bus tour through four mid battleground states. and romney will announce ryan is his v.p. choice among the "uss wisconsin." and look at this. the ryan/romney website page is up this morning. the websites for other v.p. contend contenders, like marco rubio, have gone nowhere. >>> democrats have attacked the so-called ryan plan. they made him a poster child for a republican determined to cut entitlements like medicare. but he is not backing down from his beliefs. >> well, let's say the ryan plan, even though you don't like to call it that, have become the centerpiece -- the ryan plan has become the centerpiece of the discussion. >> that's right. >> in the -- not only in the congressional debate. but also in the presidential debate. you once told a reporter, i'm going to quote the this back at you. i don't expect it to become the platform of the party. but it kind of looks like it is. >> i never had those ambitions. i tried to move the debate forward, so we can att

the biggest storms are in eastern virginia. they could be up toward 7 seed mary's county. the precipitation totals is fairly light. the shower that moved through put down 6-0.06 of an inch of rain. half the amount that you would expect. the deficit is 0.06 of an inch. we hit 90 degrees at the airport. the record high set on this date in 1955 at 100. 55 in 1998. temperatures are running upper 80's to near 90. the shower drop the temperature down to 80. in downtown baltimore that will bounce back here in the next couple of hours. still in eastern cambridge. it is getting more out west. -- warm out west. the storm is possible until a few hours after sunset and mostly clear. sun set at 8:17 p.m. and the heat in the middle of the country moves toward us. expect a hot one tomorrow. this is where we will be tomorrow afternoon as temperatures climb and the humidity levels increase on the south wind. an isolated storm cannot be ruled out but is less than 20% chance in many areas. a quiet day on the bay. south wind at five to 10 knots and waves around 1 foot. lo 80's in the mountain

right over most of virginia and maryland and eastern and western virginia and eastern shore, all comingrom a trough of low pressure that is triggering some showers and the outer banks. this trough of low pressure is going to be creeping along the atlantic seaboard through the weekend. as a result, we may get some showers as far inland as the metro area. during the day tomorrow, but right now, though, no travel problems weatherwise. just a few high clouds in the 60s throughout most of the region. a few locations in the mountains that dip down into the upper 50s and 60 in western maryland and west virginia. and for us, around our region today and the hometown forecast for great falls in fairfax county, by 7:00, 7:30 this morning, it will be in the mid 60s for the bus stop. watch out for the students around the region. getting off to school this morning. and by noontime in great fall, low 80s and partly sunny. hour by hour for the region today, we'll have highs reaching the mid and upper 80s by mid afternoon. and we'll have some sunshine in and out. by late afternoon for your afternoon com

i'm not seeing lightning right now, but it's way back out in western virginia and eastern sections of west virginia there between elkins and petersburg. it's all moving up to the north and northeast. how much will hole together as it comes across the mountains? -- holds together as it comes across the mountains? it will determine the amount of showers and thunderstorms we have early tomorrow morning. going into tomorrow afternoon, we are in the slight risk for some of these strong storms possibly being strong or even severe. i really think in terms of tomorrow's strong or severe thunderstorms it depends how much sunshine. i don't think we'll have enough sunshine to make it a severe weather outbreak, maybe some isolated thunderstorms is what i'm seeing now. >>> a health alert about west nile virus, at least 10 deaths blamed on the virusin the dallas area. nearly 200 people have been exposed to the disease this summer. in our region the maryland state health department reports a mosquito trapped in montgomery county had the virus recently and an adult was infected. residents we spoke wi

heavy rain showers earlier across eastern north carolina, the bulk tracking towards virginia north.re likely towards the afternoon but already we have a lot of cloud cover and a strong easterly throw. you have the counter-clockwise low but the high pressure system in new england, the clockwise flow, both funneling in easterly winds and with them close to each other, they're competing, incoming winds. 72 at the airport, 76 at annapolis, 74 in ocean city and westminster only at 70. temperatures will have a hard time warming up today with all the cloud cover and rain, we stay instead throughout majority of the day, you upper 70's and w 80's, and showers likely. i've had people on twitter asking about the orioles game later today, rain is a good possibility. forecast tonight, cloudy with showers. we expect temperatures in the 70's down downtown, 60's in the suburbs. ocean city expecting a 60% chance of rain and tonight and a little bit less tomorrow, less into monday. rip currents a big risk today. the on-shore flow, high risk for rip currents. you're better off enjoying the scene towar

a couple of showers and storms down in lower, the lower eastern shore of virginia.aring out. ocean city has been cloudy. other than that maryland's most powerful radar not showing much. 75 in oakland. 86 in dover. winds are generally shifting northwest. that will bring in some slightly drier air tonight. we're seeing the dry air knocking on the door from york to hagerstown, fairly humid. so i think it's going to be generally muggy. where it is muggy, heat plus humidity is up. it feels like the upper 90s. 92 in pape -- in annapolis. frontal boundary has pushed through to our south. storms are focusing on that slow moving boundary. however, i will say this, it looks like we will be close enough to the boundary for still continued cloud cover to blow. we're seeing that, cloud cover coming in out of the south and west but the main focus has been staying to our south. a lot of active weather around georgia and carolina. dry air trying to get in here, knocking on the door but the humid air is pleasant, just fairly but reaching up into baltimore. the most northern spot is

the front coming across eastern ohio and western virginia. will be scattered storms. atmosphere is prime enough any storms that to form torrential rain and small hail as we had 30 evening. no widespread outbreak. is our ford board. the two 10 7 inch of rain, we make it up factions at a time. 88 in culpeper and manassas. 84 in frederick. overnight the storms, showers to when and it. 66-72 by morning. it will be hazy. it will take awhile for the move through. like amountain looks skinny line. reality the funnels funds can be 100 miles wide or so. we could have a midday shower or storm. clear in the will afternoon. give us aure will beautiful day on thursday. as we head into friday, that is andchance of showers storms. warm and humid. showers and thunderstorms. warm and dry on as they and hot humid on friday. temperatures in the low 80's by saturday, sunday, monday, and tuesday. >> tell us what was going on at today. >> these guys were working hard. this is no joke. this was the last day of redskins' training camp. trent williams was back at nowtice with his bruised heal

overnight a couple of storms popped in eastern west virginia, western maryland. came through the northern shenandoah valley. got to loudoun county and said we're done. this morning we're left with partly cloudy skies. here's a quick look at the showers and storms that just fell apart coming in toward loudoun county. we're 63 in leesburg this morning. down to 59 in winchester. still 64 at andrews. cambridge 65. and in manassas and gaithersburg this morning 63 degrees. temperatures this afternoon under the partly to mostly sunny skies with the isolated storm 87 in frederick and manassas. 84 on the bay in annapolis. fredricksburg 86 along with here in washington. it's 5:00 straight up. here comes monika samtani with a look at your timesaver traffic. >> i'm really happy to say i don't have any major news right now. things are looking great all around town. that construction on the west sides of the beltway has been cleared up. so you're good to go coming in on the dulles toll road, 66 in from manassas and through the area between tysons corner and 66. that constructi

best chance for that will be to our south so southern maryland, lower eastern shore, south central virginia, you have the best chance of scattered thunderstorm later today. otherwise, about 90 degrees. a fair amount of humidity and just your typical august day. nothing too extreme one way or another. >> okay. we'll take t we know there is a means to an end. >> whatever that means. >> i'm wait for the weekend. >> she is holding on. >> she has a goal in mind. >> she's working for the weekend. >> yes, so is julie wright. she knows what that is about. >> i'm thinking vinyl records, lover boy, 1982, tucker. >> it was a great time. >> that is when tucker had long hair, everybody. >> i had the headband. >> does that make it any better? >> i can never get past the name of the band though, lover boy. it didn't work. >> tucker had the headband. we had the blind fold. >> exactly. >> on the roads, if you are traveling eastbound on 66, heavy volume trying to make your way past the falls church area. left side of roadway still blocked and traffic gridlocked inside of the beltway headed eastbound along 66

some of that is filtered into northern maryland, western maryland, eastern west virginia. we are still up in the 70s here in washington, especially south and east. 74 andrews. we've got 70 in rockville. there's a 65 in lovettsville. that's pretty comfortable. 69 haymarket and reston but a little bit sticky and 75 in alexandria. outside on our michael & son weather camera, we're in tysons corner right now. you're happening at the high thin -- you're looking at the high thin clouds. 78 degrees. at reagan national with the humidity at 81%, makes it feel like it's already 80. the winds have been variable north, north west at 5. the boundary for the most part is off to the south. the clouds are blowing off the showers here up and over us. a little bit thicker out to the west. don't be surprised at times it's an overcast. other times it may appear to be a good deal of sunshine through the high thin clouds that will be streaming over us at times during the day today with just an isolated shower popping up this afternoon. i think that will be the case again on wednesday as well. b

lower eastern shore south- central virginia the better chance.ashington points north and west generally quiet with partly sunny skies expected across the area. all right. let's do some temperatures. reagan national now we are all the way up to 78 degrees. in fact, we have been there all morning. 80 annapolis. 72 leonardtown with rain showers. 70 martinsburg, 72 winchester. all right. dew point temperatures, i know you scratch your head, what does it mean? the lower this number, the more comfortable the air. so anytime we have numbers in the 70s, that's very uncomfortable. 73 right now in annapolis. 70 leonardtown. north and west, the dew point temperatures have fallen back into the 60s. so it's more comfortable towards dulles and 63 there current dew point in hagerstown. here's your forecast for today. bottom line, more of the same. highs about 90. mix of sun and clouds. could be a stray storm just like we have one now best chance south and south and east of the city. winds out of the south and east at about 5. partly cloudy, warm, muggy overnigh

eastern shore. that severe thunderstorm watch is until 10:00 tonight which includes st. mary's county, maryland, westmoreland county in virginia, basically the lower eastern shore and northern neck. if you look at the live doppler 9000 hd, you can see the counties on the eastern shore highlighted in yellow that is under the severe thunderstorm warning. this including now caroline county in maryland and also queen anne's, talbot county, maryland all until around 8:15 and these storms are also producing some pretty good hail, damaging wind gusts also cannot be ruled out. caroline and queen anne's and talbot counties, under a severe thunderstorm warning. we also saw storms out to the west, included lightning strikes as well, also south of us into culpeper and one more look at those storms, you can see lightning went across just south and east of annapolis and now we're looking at some of these storms -- they're slow moving, so even flash flooding is a concern. here's a look at some of the light rain in waldorf, la plata, also up through dunkirk. not all of this is hitting the ground. live weather cam brought to you by michael and

maryland there, eastern allegany county, central-eastern allegany county, i should say, until 8:00 a.m. a fog advisory for page in warren county, virginia, until 8:00 a.m. grant, eastern mineral, hampshire and hardee county in west virginia, that fog advisory until 8:00 a.m. but you know what? that fog's going to burn off, temperatures are going to be warming up even there. upper 50s to low 60s right now. martinsburg at 59 degrees. get a little closer in, 63 right now in gaithersburg, maryland, 70 degrees right now over in columbia, maryland, and we've got 69 degrees in d.c. so, nice, easy warm-up for today. by noontime, nice conditions, 85 your high. the high today 91 degrees. so, mid-80s by noontime. no problems whatsoever today, but we're talking showers, maybe even a thunderstorm for tomorrow. danella? >>> veronica, right now i'm tracking breaking news on the roadway. if you're traveling i-95 in virginia, two big problems to warn you about. the first one, i-95 northbound approaching courthouse road. two of those left lanes still blocked. you're jammed, looking at a five-mile backup, solid delays. let's head over to i-95 this way as

out ahead of that tomorrow, 53 in elkins, west virginia, and closer to washington we're at the low 70s. around the bay, 60s. eastern shore. ocean city, 65. many of our suburbs, the rural areas of virginia are just in the low to mid 60s right now. dlektful morning. chilly out in west virginia and western maryland where many places are down into the low 50s on this august morning. and by 5:00 we'll be in the 60s still throughout much of the region. cool and calm. then by noontime, the low to mid 80s. low humidity, low humidity through the afternoon, pleasant, beautiful summer day with just a few clouds beginning to build by late afternoon. we ought to reach upper 80s, near 90 by mid afternoon. it will feel comfortable with that low humidity. more humidity tonight and tomorrow. i'll be back in ten minutes with another update. danella has a look at your monday morning commute. >> first traffic report looks good. not too many problems. still have overnight road work taking effect this morning. if you're traveling on the outer loop of the beltway making your way past 29d 5 in maryland, that right lane is blocked by road

that will go until 10:00 and seems like the biggest thunderstorms are to the south of us and to virginia, eastern north carolina. temperatures pleasant now, 84 degrees in town. gaithersburg in the upper 70s and so officially at 7, we'll call for a shower or thunderstorm and otherwise, just comfortable this evening. the temperatures tonight in places, lower to mid-60s. how about that? the full forecast coming up. laura? >> how about that. thank you. see you soon. >>> hundreds of firefighters continue to battle wildfires out west. the largest in washington state. where about 70 homes and hundreds of other structures were destroyed. the blaze consumed at least 26,000 acres. authorities hope calmer winds will help tame the flames. >>> coming up, a popular baby seat being pulled off of the shelves. the risk it could pose to your child. >>> and why where smokers are about to see shocking labels on the cigarettes they buy. we need to look for a new van. yeah. i just don't know where to start. glad you found us. start by test-driving nearly every make and model, all in one place. carmax. start here. bara

numerous thunderstorms popping up now in areas of even eastern virginia. this will be a difficult travel day out there. we're going to see a chance of severe thunderstorms too late this afternoon. we could see hail and gusty winds with those storms anywhere from new england right down through the carolinas. the forecast today, as advertised, the airports will be a mess, especially late this afternoon into this evening. probably lots of cancellations out there too. this will be a ripple effect across the country. much of the middle of the country enjoy your little break from the heat wave, oklahoma. you get one day in the 90s and then back in the hundreds this weekend. west coast will be very warm this weekend too. and for the eastern seaboard, looks like saturday morning the rain will lingering and then it should exit. everyone should have a decent saturday night and i think everyone on the east coast will see a pretty nice sunday. overall, today's the worst day of the next three for travel anywhere in the eastern half of the country. new york city, rain s

eastern shore. this started in virginia last night and drifted east. a sprinkle left over in montgomery county, west of gaithersburg. 74 degrees right now and the district, 60's to the northwest of town. we will make it to 90 degrees today with widespread showers and thunderstorms from becoming the most numerous this afternoon and evening, kind of like yesterday. a repeat performance of scattered downpours. partly cloudy tomorrow, low to mid 90's for the next couple days off and even into the weekend. what is the latest on the commute? >> newschopper 7 looking at a collision north of the beltway in maryland on interstate 95 northbound. they moved the vehicle into the beginning of the safety zone in the middle of the highway at the first exit after the beltway at powder mill road. interstate was closed for about 30 minutes. everybody moved into a safety zone. back to news. >> arlington investigators looking for a man suspected of peeping on a young girl in a public restroom. she was in a bathroom stall at the boston common mall when she looked up and sa

. >> if this was the scene about 9:00 eastern just after 9:00 eastern this morning in norfolk, virginia, in front of the uss wisconsin after mitt romney announced that paul ryan would be his selection to be a vice president and running mate. they barnstormed the state today after this announcement and covered a number of stops throughout virginia. the first of several days of a bus tour. with mitt romney and paul ryan. and more white house coverage coming up for you this evening. we will get to your phone calls and give you a chance to see this morning's events from our folks. -- hear from norfolk. if you want to see some of the other video we covered today and things we have shown you throughout the day, the secaucus speech in speak at the reagan library, all that you can find in our library at c-span.org. we will get your phone calls here on c-span and get your reaction to the pit of paul ryan by mitt romney. we will let you know the numbers in advance before you get to their -- before we get to your calls. for republicans, the number is 202-737-0002. independents and others, that num

the areas in orange are in the low 80s, that includes just about all of maryland and the eastern shore and virginia, too, low 80s. the humidity not too high. across these areas in yellow, shenandoah valley, the panhandle of west virginia, this morning, down to the low to mid-50s, feeling like autumn rather than late summer. for the rest of the afternoon with the high pressure in place, it will be mostly sunny with low humidity. upper 80s by midafternoon and back down to the mid-80s by early evening. the wind will be variable at 5 to 10 miles an hour. overnight tonight, a clear sky, we'll have sunset at 7:41. low humidity in place. the low 80s early evening and back down to the mid-70s by midnight, the calm wind through the evening. delightful summer evening coming up. and then by dawn tomorrow we'll be down into the upper 60s and during the day on friday, lots of sun again. does look like we'll be hotter maybe into the low 90s on friday afternoon, average high this time of year, 85. average low is 68. it's going to be above average here for today, tomorrow and again on saturday. now, the thing on s

you see them toward areas in eastern and western virginia moving towards hagerstown, frederick county. culpeper seeing some sprinkles as well as hours south and east. we don't see anything heavy. we see these light green areas so these are light showers west of martinsburg south of berkley springs. you also see a few showers here north of luray coming in toward the park here and west of culpeper. these will be moving east toward goldvein and bealeton. maybe quantico after that. a couple of hours also from around annapolis down in the bay and scattered about very slight ones scattered about calvert county. so a quiet morning but a muggy morning with a temperature of 77 at the tappahannock airport. we've got 77 at bwi right now. 57 hagerstown. cool spots if you will in the upper 60s and low 70s well west of town. looking outside on our weather camera, good visibility. still quite dark. 6:11 or 6:14 this morning. 80 degrees. feeling like 84 with the heat index thanks to the humidity being way up there now at 76%. here's the big picture. we've got a little bit of high pressure for a chang

and now we are watching that significant rain begin to push up out of eastern north carolina and towards virginia beach. what that can mean is hit and miss rain through the weekend and around here as well. now this is through saturday afternoon a lot of that rain will be for the lower eastern shore and beaches perhaps. maybe not so much from the chesapeake westward. and then on sunday, really looks like the area will spread out a little bit. we may see hit and miss showers stay wide on sunday. i don't think alday soaking rain but the coastal system will bring the threat for showers through the weekend. it's one of two major coastal systems we are keeping ion on. right now it's a -- an eye on. right now it's slow mover and i think it will park off the maryland coast over the weekend and play a little havoc with our weather. with that, let's head down by isaac. still churning its way through the caribbean sea well defined center of circulation. but weakening as it interacts with haiti cominimum can republic -- dominican republic here hispanola and cuba high terrain there as it moves from southeast

across virginia and parts of maryland. mainly on the eastern shore. right around the metro area.e any rain now. but just to our west and south getting the passing showers. don't have any thunder and lightning. umbrella hand yrks we'll have this with us. all the areas in yellow in the 70s. areas in orange near 80 degrees. steamy morning along the bay and tidal potomac. 60s out of the shenandoah valley and parts of the mountains there. later today, around 90. sun is breaking out. a possibility of a morning shower. maybe an afternoon thunder shower. tomorrow, lower humidity. nicer day. partly cloudy, near 90. humidity comes back wednesday and thursday and friday. each day a chance of passing storms. but looking better for the weekend. less humid and a bit cooler saturday and sunday. danella, good morning. >> thanks, tom. if you're traveling along i-95 in virginia, northbound and southbound. not too bad. i'll give you a travel speed as you head from prince william parkway northbound to the beltway. you are sluggish in some areas. 44 miles per hour. that drive right now taking 17 minu

most locations from virginia into maryland, eastern shore in the 70s. some of the mountain regions in western maryland and parts of the hylands in west virginia in the 60s. day planner for this monday, have an umbrella handy. passing shower likely for the next couple of hours. by noontime, mid eight tiz. sun is breaking out. latter part of the afternoon, small chance of an isolated thunder shower. highs around 90. danella has a look at traffic now. good morning. >> tracking breaking news on the roadways. traveling, i-270 southbound, update for you. the crash looks as though it's blocking the right exit ramp to get on to germantown road. you are seeing delays on i-270. in fact, you're jammed from father hurley boulevard. all the lanes are packed. slow as you make your way towards germantown road. the accident of the on the right-hand side, it involves injury as well as police are on the scene. let's head over to i. 95 this time. southbound in maryland. approaching powder mill road. crash there is blocking the left lanes. you have to stick to the right to

other fragment of stars popping up of the eastern panhandle of west virginia. number of small areas of showers and storms. why didn't we not -- why we do not expect

captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the theme this morning in virginia just after 9:00 easterncement of paul ryan as the running mate for vice-presidential candidate for mitt romney. we have been showing you the phone numbers. we will get to your calls a dental and minutes and get your reaction to the pick -- calls in a few minutes and get your reactions to the pit. a big day obviously for the presidential candidate, mr. ryan. and a big day in virginia. alex, what has been the reaction at these campaign stops? >> i think you are seeing for the first time in a while almost two dozen eight level energy at mitt romney rallies. one of the things people have observed about this campaign. both for mitt romney and to a lesser extent president obama, you do not have the same kind of electricity at these rallies that you had four years ago. i think today in the three steps that mitt romney and paul ryan mate, you did such as the conservatives really fall in love with their ticket for the first time. >> what is the reason behind the pick? what are you hearing the number one reason for pi

eastern in norfolk, virginia. msnbc will, of course, have live coverage. use this app to announce the choice, and speculation has been swirling about potential choices. the names that have been bandied about range from rob portman, marco rubio, tim tau lenty, bobby jindal, chris christie. but it seems right now all eyes are on paul ryan, in terms of vice presidential buzz. we want to go ahead and bring in our del kelly o'donnell in high right now. kelly are you with us? >> reporter: yes, i am. >> kelly, let's go over why they would break this on a friday night. what do they really have to gain here in terms of letting all of the news organizations know they're going to do this on a friday night? >> reporter: well, first of all, they want everyone to be in place and make the biggest splash when the event occurs. it is a bit surprising it's on a friday night, this late, and the olympics are still going on. we had been given a lot of sort of indications by people who are close to the process that it would likely not occur during the olympics for two reasons.

thunderstorm, stray thunderstorm later today, off to our south and east, southern maryland, low eastern shore, virginia you have the best chance for a late day storm. 91 here in town, humid here in washington winds south and east at 5, we will feel better as you get farther north and west, mix of sun and cloud, partly sunny afternoon. partly cloudy, muggy, 72, we know that as well. here is your 5 day the good news no triple digit heat on the horizon cooler weather for the weekend in fact after a cold front moves through thursday and friday, this one will take its time too. could bring us good soaking rains friday cooler by saturday, highs only mid-80s. sunshine by saturday afternoon. >>> that is a look at weather let's do traffic and the one and only julie wright. >> yeah, major tie ups to report on 66th, let's go to the crew in sky fox live above the scene in between our latest hit, 16 minutes or so, accident activity medevac helicopter, come and gone, so the medevac has left the scene of this crash right now, eastbound 66th traffic, no one is getting by as you approach the exit for 7100 inbound towar

as you get into southern maryland, lower eastern shore, south central virginia, you have the best chance of a thunderstorm. kind of typical august weather. more of the same for the next couple of days. >> i love that saturday forecast. >> it doesn't look bad when you see the 90s right across the board. >> 90 is fine. >> we don't do triples too well. >> we're not doing triples this week. >> thank you, tucker. now, let's talk to julie wright. how about that for a transition? >> i put sarah on notice. if we get this much snow, she'll be at my house shoveling. >> i'll take it. >> that will melt. >> you don't want people complaining about the heat and then when it starts snowing -- i'm with you. >> have i ever complained about the snow? i never have. >> i do. >> i do too. >> southbound 270, no problems reported out of germantown. overnight construction at old georgetown road has cleared. our lanes are open northbound i- 95 in both the express lanes and main line. we do have that crash that continues to block 59 both north and southbound near the 104-mile marker. again, that is head out toward

to the east clouds and a few passing showers on the eastern shore and the northern neck of virginia is off to the nort and east. elsewhere we have plenty of sunshine into the afternoon hours. going forward with temperatures in the 70s near 80, it will continue to climb. it looks like perhaps into the upper 80s by mid-aerch. it's in the low to mid-70s and into the mountains of western maryland and west virginia. as we go forward these areas in green, maybe a few showers in the eastern shore are dissipating. into the evening hours we have increasing clouds. we have a weak front coming in and predawn on tuesday and around dawn. might get a passing shower as well as perhaps during the afternoon south and east of the metro area, a passing thundershower passing tomorrow. after that lower humidity moving in and a nice break from the steam heat. it's in place here throughout much of the week ahead. so for the afternoon we have steamy conditions. it's rather humid and partly cloudy, upper 80s by mid afternoon and the low 80s by late afternoon and a southerly breeze around 5 to 10. overnight we

eastern panhandle of west virginia. 900 feet up. they made it in full wedding rugallia. anthony even wore her mother's wedding dress. mom, not much of a rock climber, but she made it up there to watch her child get married. is that not impressive? that is a destination wedding. they had a party later down on earth. earth. >> goohe's made his choice. but what choices will women be left with? just like mitt romney, paul ryan would get rid of planned parenthood funding. in congress, ryan voted to ban all federal funding for planned parenthood and allow employers to deny women access to cancer screenings and birth control. and both romney and ryan backed proposals to outlaw abortion even in cases of rape and incest. for women... for president... the choice is ours. i'm barack obama, and i approve this message. for women... for president... the choice is ours. but somewhere along the way, something went horribly wrong. george allen voted for trillions in debt while voting to raise his pay four times, then voted to keep special tax breaks for oil and gas companies and took ove

parts of southern maryland and southeastern virginia, lower eastern shore. 50s in the mountains. hometown forecast herndon in the upper 60s. by noontime, upper 80s. and as we look hour by hour throughout the day we will be reaching the mid 90s by mid afternoon with lots of sun with low humidity. if you're going out tonight, here's your evening planner. it will be clear and warm, in the 80s. upper 70s by midnight. turning more humid as we get toward the weekend. details on what isaac may do to us. seven-day outlook in ten minutes. danella has a look at traffic. >> right now watching an accident 295 southbound as you approach riverdale road. actually just past refer dale road, multivehicle crash in this area. six cars are involved. blocking the left lane. you're seeing delayses right now passing the beltway at 12 miles per hour. jammed even from the beltway as you make your way to just past riverdale road. i'm also checking local roadways along 30 1 and 5 in this area. cameras look very good. very light volume. no accidents to report. back in ten with another update. >>> 6:12. 73 d

virginia. lower eastern shore. low to mid 70s.nd day planner, we'll have our temperatures by 6:00 this morning. it's still hovering in the low to mid 70s. may be an isolated shower to the south of us. otherwise, a dry morning. might have a shower south of d.c. around noontime. low and mid 80s by then. partly sun my. partly sunny the rest of the afternoon. temperatures by mid afternoon, near 90 by 5:00, down to the upper 80s to near 90. and then into the 70s by dawn tomorrow. four-day forecast, humidity returns wednesday, thursday, and friday. and the greater chance of mainly afternoon storms each day. and then maybe saturday morning, a lingering shower. but otherwise, weekend looking better. lower humidity. highs in the 80s. i'll be back in ten minutes. a look at your first 4 traffic now. good morning. >>> good morning. tracking breaking news on i-66 as you head eastbound. approaching george mason drive. crash there. at last check, blocking all of your lanes. live look as you make your wau past the east falls church in metro. hard

just about all of west virginia, maryland, eastern shore and points north and east. later today, 3:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., we could get damaging winds and hail and heavy downpours. and also cause flight delays between washington and boston. and right now we're in the low to mid 70s around the metro area. the air is tropical and steamy now. 60s to our west. here is the four-day forecast. after any storms begin to break up a bit late tonight, might have a lingering shower or thunder shower tomorrow morning. and south and east of washington, maybe tomorrow afternoon. otherwise, clearing west to east, saturday afternoon and turning less humid. highs in the 80s. low humidity clearing out saturday night in time for the perseid meteor shower. sunshine. 60s in the morning. afternoon highs, mid an upper 80s. great beach and pool weather. monday, more of the same. still not too humid. a little bit hotter, 90 in the afternoon. front in tuesday may trigger some storms. after that, no extreme heat and no extreme humidity, i'm happy to report. i'll be back with another look at storm

closer to washington in the 60s around the metro area and much of maryland virginia and eastern shore. day planner for today. sun rise was at 6:28. by 8:00 a.m., partly cloudy. still in the 60s. then by noontime, we ought to be in the 70s. most he sunny. wonderful lunch hour. by late afternoon, from mid 80s mid afternoon to the upper 70s. slight chance of isolated thunder shower. tomorrow, beautiful day. might have an isolated storm in the afternoon and low humidity still in place with highs 80s and morning lows 50s to near 60 on thursday, friday, and saturday and sunday. beautiful pattern. all the way into the weekend. a look at your traffic now. mike is in for danella. good morning, mike. >> good morning. after 95 and also still dealing with that incident westbound 66 ramp and the dulles toll road. left lane is shut down. infound parkway at stint road southeast. five-car accident. left lane shut down. two-mile backup there. a bit slow on 50 on the westbound side inside the beltway. seeing delays here at 202. it's about a nine-minute ride from the beltway to vw parkway. >>> it is 6:5

bob ewing and his bride recently wed in the eastern panhandle of west virginia. the summit is 900 feet up and they did the climb on their wedding day in tux and dress and all. >> we love going out there, so we got engaged out there and anthony said she wanted to get married on the summit and i said absolutely. >> the dress was my mother's and it was a very simple dress that i could tuck into my harness so i wasn't restricting any of my movement because it was jammed into my harness and then when we got to the top, i let it out. >> it would clearly be impossible to fit a whole wedding party up there on top there. so, the ewings held their wedding party the next day for family and friends. >>> our time right now 11:42. coming up, a news 4 midday, the morning wake-up call. how to get your kids up and out the door to school stress free. >>> then, an upcoming book raises new questions into what really happened in the osama bin laden raid. laden raid. stay with us, we'll be back. anncr: it'll start out as concrete and steel... but it'll become so much more. a new world

that would be across much of virginia, all of maryland, the district, up into pennsylvania and the eastern shore. again, looks like prime time for that is 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. now going forward over the next 48 hours, all these areas in green, these are the zones of potential showers and storms. that will be this afternoon. and then tomorrow, we may get another round starting off though wednesday morning should be nice and settled. and the storms that develop today should be done by midnight. but then tomorrow during the afternoon, we could get more storms firing up and then that to be replaced wednesday evening with some nice, dry air, low humidity moves in. we'll be in place on thursday. and it's going to be a delightful summer day then. how much rain are we going to get? we certainly do need it. we're running a deficit of eight inches so far this year. and these zones in green over the next 12 hours, less than a quarter of an inch and includes just about all of virginia and maryland. over these areas in the blue, they may get as much as an inch and a half or so. and that will be areas main

virginia. small earthquakes occur every month in the eastern u.s. but last year was the largest geologists are still trying to pinpoint details, including what fault actually proud the earthquake. >>> continuing coverage of that yowing -- growing west nile virus problem in texas. with texas reporting more than 20 dead from the disease and now they're asking for help. >> reporter: aerial spraying for mosquitoes will continue tonight over texas. planes will spray seven more cities to stop the deadly outbreak of the west nile virus. the crossersal r--- controversiallt began last week. >> they refer to our area as an epidemic. >> reporter: in texas' loan, at west nile.eople have died from on top of that, more than 1100 people have now been infect with the virus nationwide. from minnesota -- >> immense. i mean, i knew i was in trouble. >> reporter: to tennessee. >> we may end up with larger number of human cases. >> reporter: now other states like california are planning aerial spraying. not everyone is onboard. the north texas poison center has received

that's most of virginia, most of maryland, and the eastern shore. over to our west with a low humidity is moving in. temperatures are only in the 50s in parts of indiana and michigan. that's going to continue to move our way here. it's not going to be that cool but that lower humidity will be pushing in by later this afternoon. for the morning commute, have an umbrella handy. showers north and west of washington by 6:00 a.m. low to mid 70s. then by noontime for your lunch hour, beginning to clear west and east. still east and south of washington. might have a few passing showers. by noontime, the upper 70s and low 80s. my mid afternoon, lower humidity moving in by late afternoon. back down to the mid 80s. by dawn tomorrow under a clearing sky, low 60s. beautiful weather thursday, wednesday. highs in the 80s. morning low, low 60s. getting hotter, more humid friday and saturday. right now perhaps some of the remnants of isaac moving our way late saturday night, perhaps into early sunday morning. looks like the timing on that right now. i'll have the v

most of virginia and maryland, eastern shore, 50s out of the mountains and parts of the shenandoah valleynear 70 now at reagan national. later today into the mid 80s. by mid afternoon, lots of sun with low humidity. more of the same on thursday. friday getting a little more humid, near 90. some of that steamy tropical air moving in on saturday and looks like saturday night perhaps sunday, labor day and tuesday, some passing tropical showers from the remnants of isaac rolling through. highs in the 80s. i'm back in ten minutes. your first4 traffic now with danella. >>> still tracking breaking news. if you're joining us, crash on the exit of fairfax county parkway from i-95 northbound. that exit ramp is shut down. and traveling northbound i-95, two right lanes are blocked. delays are growing. first, take a look at fairfax county parkway near i-95, you're jammed in both directions. avoid it if you can this morning. traveling i-95, even t in the hov lanes at prince william parkway, you're jammed this morning. local lanes as well. jammeded as you make your way towards fairfax county parkway. ta

virginia. it wrapped it all round central and eastern maryland. that low pressure will weaken overnight. and finally get kicks out to sea as the next front comes. whether or not we have to deal with isaac, it will depend and how this area of high pressure develops. if it blocks isaac or gets out of the way. we will watch that later in the week. tomorrow, we have a few scattered showers. tuesday, the front drops in from the north and the west and a chance for a shower and the morning. the clear skies to the north as the highest living by. we will see if it continues to block isaac or steering it this way. a thunderstorm tomorrow with high in the 80's. on the bay, wins at 10-50 knots. winds have been gusting over 40 ed key west. the storm is in the open waters of the call for mexico. 54 miles an hour. isaac is getting stronger. maximum sustained winds have been 60-65 miles an hour. the hurricane track takes up towards mississippi or louisiana. some of our computer models are keeping parts of the florida panhandle in play. it's not set in stone, but it does look like the storm is going to t

we have a few downpours right in west virginia, starting .o cover one downpour on the eastern shore of maryland. this littleng at --wers near i'm still frederick. basically between obama and frederick. -- urbana and frederick. was 0.2mum rainfall frederick. here is a wider view. showers in tennessee parts of the southeast. we have some upper level energy that will be moving our way. syria has upper level energy and way -- thissh our has upper level energy and way tonightsh our morning.row afternoon, we have a .tationary boundary as it gets support from this level system in the midwest, that will stir up this front, get it moving, and mix of atmosphere of it all around afternoon.ow gives us a chance of what strong and severe thunderstorms. weather threatre mainly of to the west. maryland, west virginia, ohio valley. tomorrow, that his own slide the abc sevens viewing area. i think the biggest threat is actually localized or isolated gusty damaging winds. maybe even some large hail, as well. course, heavy downpours. temperature was, already 91 at reagan national. in winchester. frederick

that includes much of northern virginia, maryland, and the eastern shore. areas in yellow, they're in the low 70s right along the tidal potomac and near the bay. out of the mountains, many locations are in the 50s right now, western maryland and west virginia. hour by hour today, by 6:00 a.m., patchy fog under a clear sky, mid 60s. sun rise at 6:37. by noontime. hitting the mid 90s by mid afternoon. so a hot afternoon but still not very humid. back down to near 90 by early evening. then by 10:00 p.m. we'll be down to the low 80s under a clear sky. turning more humid by late evening. by midnight, upper 70s. a look at your weekend. the latest on isaac in ten minutes. danella has a look at traffic now. >>> checking the rails for you. penn south train number 40 1. metro, vre looked good. approaching quantico northbound. two of your light lanes are blocked by the accident there. reportedly a car rolled over in this area and you can experiencing some delays out of stafford as you make your way northbound. going to keep watching this for you and give you an update