it will be crossing through frederick county and carroll county. the storms fired through west virginia. there's a storm close to d.c. the storms are starting to encompass much of the area. we are forecasting this evening going into tonight to be rather active. any storm that develops could produce hail and dangerous lightning and downpours as they are slow moving storms. flash flooding could be a concern. 6 in town -- 86 in town. a rain cooled hagerstown. ton of humidity. our dew point values right around 70. our temperatures fall back into the 70s by tonight. probably right up toward midnight. we'll focus over the eastern shore going into the midnight hour and beyond. we wake up to 72. we have a storm threat as we head into your saturday afternoon. notice the showers out toward the west. energy sliding through. there's a huge system situated her michigan. future trend showing the storms through the course of tomorrow afternoon. the best stop is east of town. low humidity, temperatures in the 80s. keep an eye to the sky. keep an eye on channel 2.

western sections of carol county and that is basically where bridgeport is, right there and in frederick county and carl county. the way it's going, it looks like it will hold together and get here to westminster and, again, the way it's working, it looks like it will move across into northern sections of baltimore county and hartford county as well. nothing right around here. the atmosphere is prime, though, and it's very unstable. we have some sunshine and the temperature came up at national to 88 degrees with that sunshine. dulles is 84 degrees. so, it looks like with the arriving cold front overnight tonight, showers and thunderstorms will be ahead of the front. most of the rain tomorrow, i-95 to the east. sunday around here is looking very, very nice and speaking of the weekend specifically, 86 tomorrow. again, it does look like rain tomorrow and on to i-95 to the bay and shore, okay. west of owe-by-notify, that looks better and warm or sunday. a little warm or sunday. the temperatures will go to the upper 80s and it will be less humid and right now, we're talking about it looking like a p

so we are going to zero in a little bit here up to frederick county, where a couple thunderstorms have been moving up to the north and to northeast. these have cruised through frederick and markersville. westminster will be the next place they get to there as they slide out of frederick county over into parts of harold county. it's been exciting tonight up into baltimore where they've had active tornado warnings in place there. right now, this storm that you're seeing is still rotating. it does not look like it's trying to produce a tornado at this time, but still getting reports there that the storm there in north eastern sections of baltimore county continues to rotate. so they are no doubt watching that one very, very closely at the weather service. it continues to move to the north and northeast as well. you can see in the district, maybe light rain from time to time. and we focus our attention down to the south. more showers and a couple thunderstorms headed towards culpeper and then eventually over to spotsylvania and fredericksburg. quickly over to sental radar. we have active f

always say that this is estimated by doppler radar and this is in extreme northern sections of frederick county here and there is that bull's eye. to the west-southwest as well and this is some active warnings, morgan county until 8:15 p.m. and frederick county, virginia, watch out for flooding and streams and roadways and with three, four, five inches of rain and that is into 270, urbana and to green valley and to new market there and to mount ayr. and they have been under that storm and that is no severe severe thunderstorms and we could have some before the sun sets and with that 93 in town and that is cooler and there is not that much and this is future cast and tomorrow morning, it's showing activity in the area and i will leave rain overnight tonight and leaving them in through the day tomorrow and not everyone gets them and that is looks like by widetread is storms and the future cast is showing improving conditions and some rain might pick up into the east and that is not an all- clear situation for saturday, the way it's looking now and see the weekend forecast, 85 with clouds and show

there was a warning for parts of frederick county. now we are left with this vendor storm of rolling through. -- this thunderstorms rolling through. the eastern shore picking up some shower activity or earlier. officially, at bwi marshall, almost half an inch to a pin 86 degrees for the high today at the airport. that is exactly average for ts time of year. warm and muggy all across eastern maryland. it cools off a little bit with the showers and clouds out of western maryland. and the collision of those two air masses, the cool air and the -- the cool air from the lakes and the warm air from the mid-atlantic, are producing some unstable circumstances. by the afternoon or evening around the bay on the eastern shore, the system will file a push off the coast. on sunday, it looks like a sunny day. tomorrow, clouds and showers and storms, hit and miss. tomorrow, the sun willreak through as the front eases passus after the middle part of the day. sunrise saturday morning at 6:16 a.m. out on the bay, keep an eye on the sky. the thunderstor

it could do damage as it moves through parts of frederick county. moving east as 70 miles per hour. a little bit of a heads up for folks in carroll county and the westminster area. that storm is drifting slowly in your direction perhaps beneficial rain associated, but also dangerous lightning and could produce gusting winds. so far officially at b.w.i. marshall on the first day of august 2012, just a trace of precipitation. that is the total for the month. for the year so far, just over 16.6 inches. without much measurable rain officially, the deficit rose to over 8 inches. high temperature 88 degrees. pretty normal for the first of august. record high as 100 degrees. around the region, 86 at the inner harbor in downtown baltimore. temperatures will vary depending if you have had clouds and showers move their your area. 81 degree reading. stevens bill at 82. randallstown 82 degrees. -- stevensville at 81. overnight tonight, storms are one possible through the early evening. bends the guys -- and the skies will clear. like clearing in the skies. sense of this evening at 8:18. the fron

let me show you -- show you doppler radar in effect for you and also for frederick county in virginia around winchester. we'll zoom in to this storm, a pretty heavy storm that we talked about this half an hour ago, right on the border there for you and monroe county. and you've got the heavy rain headed towards dickerson. the storm is trying to move off to the south and east, but not too much movement for any of these storms. that's why they are flood aringing out to the west as these storms are still producing heavy rain from frederick, winchester, all the way up here. we'll come back and talk about whether or not they will last all night and a better chance of severe weather tomorrow. >> you're the man, top. >>> coming up tonight, googling to graduate. why virginia will soon require a sign on for you to get that diploma. >> all right, but the redskins, they will get their first real test of the pre-season tonight. >> live at ralph wilson stadium. the pre-season game number one, which also means that they will make their debut. hear what he has to say about the big game coming up in

same story moving from washington county over into frederick county. they've extended the warning also till 6:15 in washington county. we'll come back. we'll talk about the chances for severe weather here and give you a timetable as well. >> up next, a clerk gets a little feisty as a robber tries to take money from her register. see what she does. >> don't forget, we're always on wusa9.com. so stick around. we'll be right back. over the next four months, you have a choice to make. not just between two political parties, or even two people. it's a choice between two very different plans for our country. governor romney's plan would cut taxes for the folks at the very top. roll back regulations on big banks. and he says that if we do, our economy will grow and everyone will benefit. but you know what? we tried that top down approach. it's what caused the mess in the first place. i believe the only way to create an economy built to last is to strengthen the middle class. asking the wealthy to pay a little more so we can pay down our debt in a balanced way.

. >> for drivers in frederick county, but be wary if you illegally pass a school bus, you likely to pay for it. the first in on busesto use cameras to ticket drivers. >> this bus driver says he gets illegally about once a day. >> i do not have any children in i look at system, but children as mine. >> frederick county is taking fight the violation. >> i think it is a very good idea. we need to protect our children as best we can. >> by the end of the school buses will have cameras. more asty will install needed. >> that is our ultimate goal, to are asre our children safe as possible. >> drivers will be sent a fine for $125. seconds is not0 worth it in danger in our buses or kids. previously, bus drivers would have to report each incident themselves. everything will happen automatically and the funds will pay for fines the program. >> very tragic, do not want it to happen. we have a final look at the forecast, next.

somebody 270, take a look at that ride as you head down into hyattstown out of frederick county. fog is more at tree top level but nothing to obscure you. the volume just building. no brake lights heading to hyattstown to the beltway. prince george's county beltway incident free. check out the ride on 66. folks coming in toward manassas, front royal and making your way eastbound past sudley road into fair oaks, into vienna, looking good here. visibility is good. no problems heading on into falls church in ross lynn. no early troubles for the 95, 395 corridor either. they're looking good. 59 to head past the beltway, passing edsall road, landmark and on towards shirlington, the pentagon and 14th street bridge. your next timesaver traffic check at 4:55. mike, back to you. >> bev, thanks a lot. >>> just about 4:50 now. maryland governor martin o'malley is asking for federal aid to help the state recover from the 2012 drought. he's sent a request to the u.s. department of agriculture asking that 13 counties maryland be designated disaster areas. and that would provide federal drought

this is where we have that severe thunderstorm warning for berkeley county, west virginia, and frederick countywest virginia. a ton of lightning with this storm. now moved right over she said ardstown, over toward washington county, possibly into frederick county, so we'll watch out for that one, too. this is right along route 9. so heads up for that storm. and then the storm continues to form down to the 10u9, right over winchester along i-81, so heads up for these storms as they continue to move to the south and east. another shower did have thunder associated with it, but almost gone. just a couple sprinkles left over. a storm that has been dies out and repulsating, then dying out again and now it's coming back. and then just to the south and east, so this making its way to the southeast as well. you can see the showers and thunderstorms not as widespread, but still quite a few of those. something else that's kind of neat, it is august, the middle of hurricane season, and we have a brand-new tropical depression to talk about, it just became a tropical depression as of 5:00. could become trop

we're looking at severe thunderstorm warnings till 6:00 berkeley county and frederick county in virginia we've been following these all afternoon. these were up in pennsylvania earlier and these were rather heavy up into franklin county and fulton county and adams county, pennsylvania. they've now moved slowly south and east. these are still heavy kind of right through the i-81 corridor between martinsburg and winchester. now they're on the other side over towards charlestown by 340. we'll zoom in. these had hail earlier. i think they still vital hail. the last scan is -- still had a little hail. the last scan is showing very heavy rains, 1.25 inches per hour. they're drifting off slowly south and east. get ready in charlestown for a big storm, leesburg, frederick, middletown. the storm will slowly work its way south and east. it will hold together at least through charlestown as it crosses 340, weaken somewhat heading towards frederick and western montgomery county. live look outside, our live weather cam brought to you by michael and son. downtown it's great, generally clear skies. 88

we're looking at a flash flood warning that is now in effect for frederick county, virginia, and morgan county and berkeley counties in through west virginia. a lot of storms. a lot of very heavy rain and this scenario will be playing out here over the next couple of hours. let's show you what's going to be happening here as we look -- or zoom out. look at all of the thunderstorms back to the west. we're going to see a lot of storms over the next couple of days. and i think tomorrow we could be seeing severe weather. we'll update you on that and let you know how the rest of the weekend looks in just a couple of minutes. >>> presidential politics now. president obama campaigning in colorado for the second straight day. he started the day at a campaign event at the state fair grounds in pueblo and then moved on to another event in colorado springs. mitt romney getting ready for a tour bus across four swing states today. today "the wall street journal" sparked new speculation about romney's vice presidential selection. the paper ran an editorial urging him to select paul ryan. ryan is curr

been watching over frederick county. this is pushing off toward the east very slowly.hey have dropped that warning but we'll watch it in the event it decides to strengthen. ton if i town 6:41. new wins sor, keep an -- windsor, keep an eye on this storm. still a lot of dynamics in the atmosphere that could possibly produce more strong storms. 88 around d.c. eastern shore checking in to the 80s. 68 to 70. any storm this does develop could put down localized flooding. we start off tomorrow morning with a mex which are of-- mixture of sunshine and clouds. we'll go for 85 with the chance of a shower south and east of town. clouds in place. there's another energy, it's a huge power house storm over michigan. that slides toward the north and west. future trend shows a shower over the eastern shore. sunday a mex which are of sunshine and clouds and temperatures will be close to 80. see this little storm? that's tropical depression number seven, could strengthen into tropical storm gordon. scattered showers and thunderstorms, a muggy feel. we'll notice a downtick in the humidit

frederick county is the first in maryland to install these cameras. >> well, our bus drivers have observed almost 450 instances of unsafe driving around school buses, and one is too many. anything we can do, we will do it. >> knows, will get a one of the $25 ticket. >> two days after a republican candidate says legitimate rape causes pregnancy there is a call for him to step down. todd taken is going back with a new ad. >> it is the clock ticking? republicans are trying to push the embattled congressman out of his race against senator clear the castle. >> it is a legitimate right, the female body has ways to stop that down. >> insists he is not dropping out. in a television advertisement, he begs for forgiveness. >> rate is an evil act. i used the wrong words in a wrong way and i apologize. >> in this highly charged election season, it is inevitable that it would spill over to the presidential campaign. mitt romney quickly distance themself. >> his comments about rape were deeply offensive, and i cannot defend what he said. >> president obama also weighed in the. >> the views expressed wer

. >>> frederick county homeowners may be getting an early christmas present. mmissioners will vote today whether to return a budget surplus to county residents. frederick county is $6.7 million in the black. the average rebate check would be about $100. board president blaine young hopes that residents will spends that money to stimulate the local economy. >>> we're turning our attention now to the olympics. where the american gold rush is not over yet. more american swimmers are taking top honors in the pool at the summer games. monica villamizar is in london. >> reporter: american's new resurgence of the title of the world's fastest man on water. in the 100-meter freestyle sprint he got the fingers to the wall just a fraction of a second before the australian world champion. it's the closest race of its kind since the l. a. games in 1984. team usa's women struck gold too. allison smith anchored the freestyle relay team to victory. after the race she was too exhausted and emotional to talk to the press. the team triumph gave missy franklin her second medal of

the warnings have expired to the north of us, there's still a pretty good storm up in northern frederick county. it's about to enter in just kind of push flew franklin -- through franklin and adams county in pennsylvania. we have great video we'll show you at 7:00 and flooding in hagerstown so we know the storm had a lot of rain. there's another storm west of williams port. this is the storm running through thurmont around 15. where will it go in the next hour? well, it's going to go to the east. we'll move out just a little bit and widen out the radar. there's gaithersburg and 2730 in fred -- 270 in frederick. it rolls to the east and still holds together pretty well. right now quiet around the immediate metro area. that said, we have some more showers and storms trying to develop in the mountains. we'll see. one commuter model has everything -- computer model has everything going north and south of us. that would be nice. live look outside brought to you by michael & son, 88. that's the high so far today. it's under 90. that's a victory. dew points upper 60s. relative dew point 68. big storms

not much going on in the city, but there are showers now, northern montgomery county, southern frederick county maryland, all those are eastbound showers at this point in time. not expecting any severe weather during the overnight hours. i can't rule out one or two rumbles of thunder. stanton, virginia, all getting in on the rain showers now. the strongest cells with thunder and lightning are headed out to the jersey coastline. and there's generally an end to the rain moving across far southern parts of pennsylvania. overnight, the rain showers around. all part of that weather front which is going to sag just down to our south. by mid tomorrow afternoon, with the front hanging around, it will act as a focusing mechanism for focusing showers once again. the front inches further down to the south into tuesday. i think it stays just far enough to the south where we're dry for most of tuesday. but again, with it that close by, southern maryland, fredericksburg, may have to worry about rain drops. washington northbound, tuesday is looking probably like the nicest day of the week. if you're headed do

still ahead ow frederick county, maryland -- ahead, how frederick county maryland is protecting students. the incredible shrinking seats. why it might be our fault if the airlines are cramming us into planes even tighter. >>> right now monika has a quick check of traffic. >> not too many problems on the roads. 270 is a good example. no delays at route 121 down to germantown and rockville. i'll be back with more traffic coming up at 6:30. you're watching 9news now. stay with us. >>> good morning. it 1:29. this is the place we can always -- you can always get your weather first. a beautiful sunrise shot as you wake up this wednesday morning. good morning. thanks for joining us. temperatures in the mid-60s. lower 60s depending where you live. a beautiful start to your wednesday. >> thank you for starting your day with us. i'm andrea roane. >>> i'm mike hydeck. meteorologist howard bernstein out on the weather terrace this morning enjoying the weather. good morning. >>> good morning. it's a lovely morning. temperatures in the 60s, even some 50s west of town. we're expecting a nice warm-up. b

and this is beginning to enter frederick county. so around woodsboro walkersville you will see wet weather. some light rain right now. but it will be picking up going throughout the morning and we can have another round as we go into the afternoon. we slide further to the south around culpepper with more heavier rain in the oranges and yellows. madison and even orange. that is the scenario for this morning. take the rain gear as you head out and about. temperatures right now in edgemere is at 75. more of the same in blattensburg and this is what you can expect hour by hour. 74 going through the early morning around 6. by 9, showers and storms possible and we have the chance for more showers and stormsheading into lunchtime with the temperatures at 83 degrees. let's check the traffic with abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren. >> reporter: we have a crash in rapiddalstown on liberty road at offet road. using interstate 795 no delays down towards 695. and for those of you using the beltway this is on west side at liberty road. looking at

germantown west and across the frederick county line, northern loudoun county. also one heavy downpour around sterling, ashburn area. moving off to the north and east. this is moderate rain just now coming into southeast washington. that's going to sweep into northeast. a few pockets of moderate rain farther south in southern maryland and east of fredericksburg where temperatures are in the 70s. farther west, just near 70. 60 in shenandoah valley. for today and this morning, expect the showers to come through, all of the way through 7:00, 8:00 this morning. lightning and 70s. noontime, scattered thunderstorms around in the upper 70s and low 80s. smaller chance. likelihood of more, mid to late afternoon. some could be severe with damaging winds. before that reaching the mid 80s. and damaging winds continues into tonight. a look at your evening planner in ten minutes. danella has a look at your wet friday commute. >> first 4 traffic report, we have a situation. this is southbound route 123. chain bridge road near hill road. the accident there has resulted in downe

line and fred dr frederick county. sweeping over the metro area in the next half hour. all the areas in the yellow zone, under a risk of damaging winds. 4:00 to 8:00 p.m., strong storms to the eastern shore, points north and east. and later today, highs in the upper 80s. might get sun around midday. the storms after that into this evening. tomorrow, partly sunny. less humid. upper 80s. might get afternoon storms. beautiful summer day, thursday, low humidity. friday afternoon, might get storms. right now, saturday, sunday, monday, partly sunny. small answer of shower. >>> danell cha, how is traffic? >> traveling on 95, from exit 22 from the beltway, traveling towards 50, even continuing as you make your way towards southeast in both directions. right now not seeing any accidents for you or major delays just yet. also checking other roadways in prince george's county. 4, 301, 5 as well look good. i'll give you a live look as you travel northbound. northbound lanes of branch avenue at 301 as well as southbound. you are ge

okay, not frederick county, maryland, obviously and to the north of winchester.sty winds and the possibility of some hail and that is moving along. hagerstown, this cleared you now and they moving into the northern sections of frederick county and they're long 15 to thurmont and geties bug and into this mode for you, they reaching high in the sky and the updrafts are high and they building and they should be able to last for a long time and the higher the updrafts and the stronger they are and again tonight, we'll have some lightning producing thunder and be aware of that and some heavy rain, to and dulles is at 86 and in to martinsburg, rain- cooled and 70 degrees and warmer into the heat index. and the temperature at 7:00 around 84 degrees or so and you will be cooler than that and some foggy spots by 11 and that is some thunderstorms to the northwest of us and coming in our direction and we'll have more increasing. real hot over the plains, amarillo, 1dallas, 105; wichita, 106 and that is looks like through august, here, it's going to stay above normal in the

all school buses in frederick county, maryland, will have cameras that will record and ticket drivers who go past them illegally. violators face up to a $125 fine. frederick county is the first in the state to install cameras to record moving violations. >>> well, if you were hoping to win the powerball jackpot, you'll just have to keep dreaming, apparently, unless you happened to buy your ticket in michigan. one ticket, a single ticket was sold there. the magic numbers were 6, 27, 46, 51, 56, and the powerball number was 21. the jackpot was worth more than $320 million. that is the tenth largest prize in u.s. history. now, there is a chance that somebody in our area is a millionaire this morning. eight people won $1 million for matching the winning numbers except the powerball. one of those tickets was sold in virginia. >> hmm do we have any virginia folks in our newsroom? >> i have yet to check the ticket i bought in virginia the other day. >> okay. >> so, if i'm not here after the commercial, you know what happened. >> all right. it's now 4:38, 46 degre. >>> ahead, what has the que

the driver will get a $125 fine in the mail. 40 of the county's bus rest outfit we'd the cameras. frederick is the first county in maryland to install them. charles, montgomery, and washington counties are all starting pilot programs this school year. >>> this week a task force will review how effective those d.c. traffic cameras really are. d.c. councilwoman wants to know if fewer people are speeding or running red lights because the penalties are so high. right now the penalty for running a red light, $150. getting caught at a speed camera can cost offenders as much as $250. it could be several months before the task force though makes any type of decision. >>> this morning we're tracking tropical storm isaac. right now it's headed toward the gulf coast and could make landfall by wednesday. isaac could be a hurricane by then. it already dumped several inches of rain and knocked out power to thousands of residence in florida. gulf coast states are take nothing chances ahead of isaac. they have already declared states of emergency. thousands of people in louisiana are also being told to eva

careful if you're leaving clarksburg right about now or coming out of frederick county. we'll keep you posted. if you're traveling 95 virginia, only building volume to report for you right now. coming into fredricksburg making your way through stafford and through prince william county, volume light heading past prince william parkway to get past the occoquan and on into newington and 395. the ride northbound 395 in toward the 14th street bridge, lanes open there. no problems headed downtown. maryland beltway no early problems for you. that's a look at your timesaver traffic. your next update at 5:31. back to you. >>> you know you can hit the atm machine for fast cash, but a bakery in chicago has an atm that can also satisfy your sugar fix with the press of a button. >> sprinkles bakery has something make we should called an acm. annual automatic cup -- an automatic cupcake machine. it holds up to 500 cupcakes and they're restocked every few hours. if someone could come up with a bacon atm, life would sure be much better. i love bacon. okay. >>> the question of the daytim

frederick clark, warren, shenandoah counties, the light rain. a few more showers and a sunny and less humid by this afternoon, high temperatures near 90 degrees. cool and comfortable tonight in the upper 50's. near 70 degrees downtown. low humidity wednesday and thursday. it will look and feel fantastic with sunshine. now to wendell foster. >> we are starting off with a problem that will create delays. an accident on interstate 95 northbound between triangle and dumphries. just the right lane and the right shoulder were blocked, but you may want to use route 1 if you are headed out in the next few minutes. traveling on 66, we still have construction cones. be aware that you may run into a brief delay. westbound between the beltway and 123, the right lane is closed just past gallows road. on the inner loop at 66 we have the right lane of the exit ramp to westbound 66 blocked. back to you. >> thank you. 4:43. a d.c. task force is meeting today to consider changes in traffic camera enforcement which could lead to lower fines. they want to ensure th

right now back towards frederick county, virginia, this is frederick county, virginia, around winchester, storms forming here just to the west of martinsburg. this is right around i-81 and to the west. if you live in this area, you are most likely getting pounded by these storms. watch what happens when we widen out here. numerous thunderstorms. severe weather back just to our west here. and we've got all of this moisture making its way up. it's going to come together during the day tomorrow. i do think we'll see strong to severe storms. pretty much all day long across the area. so tomorrow is a day you want to stay tuned. here's what wr the moisture is making its way. a very stormy friday as this frontal boundary is making its way toward the area. by saturday, this front will move far enough to the east that even though we'll see a few showers, maybe a few storms early, we should begin to clear out. this should be a one day event during the day tomorrow and then hopefully by the weekend, we start to clear out here just a little bit. this evening, partly cloudy. a few storms to the west.

county, virginia. in maryland, it's also the first day of school for kids in charles, frederick, howard, and montgomery counties. >> some parents spent the weekend hitting the sores after store to get some school supply. we found some here. some parents we spoke to admit they wait for the very end of summer to do their back to school shopping. >> we do this right at the last minute. >> why? >> because we're too into summer. i'm not ready for summer to be over yet. it's just a few last-minute things. i got a couple of things. but usually like at the last minute a lot of stuff goes on sale sometimes. >> drivers can expect to see a strong police presence this morning. they're warning motorists to be alert and slow down in those school zones. >>> drivers and n. frederick county, maryland, can expect to pay. that's if you pass a stopped school bus. new cameras will take pictures of cars who pass the bus when the stop sign is displayed. the drivers will get $125 fine in the mail.

coming through portions of frederick county and loudoun county seeing shower activity. also towards prince william county seeing rain smof into your area. the heaviest rain in warrenton, close to manassas. west of gaithersburg. in the metro area in the next 57 minutes. we'll continue to watch it for you. yes, could impact the start of the nats game tonight. we'll talk about that in a sec. >>> new details of the beating in the area -- on a porch along north carolina avenue yesterday. news 4 jackie benson is live in the neighborhood with a timeline police are working with. jackie? >> reporter: eight hours, eight hours is a very critical time period in this investigation. now, detectives say that is the amount of time that elapsed from when the 29-year-old was found on a porch in the 700 block of north carolina avenue southeast at 8:30 saturday morning. d.c. police first district commander daniel hicks son addressed whether he was a robbery victim. >> we know where the victim was at about 12:30 in the morning. shortly after midnight x we don't know exactly whereabouts betw

. >> a year ago, a frederick county woman vanished while vacationing in aruba. the family of robin gardner still searching for answers but also opening up about their struggle. jummy olabanji is live in a satellite center with more of a continuing mystery in aruba. >> her family and friends gathered last night in her hometown of frederick, maryland for a vigil in her honor. they have not given up hopes that they will get the answers and the closure they need. a year after the disappearance of their daughter, sister, and friend they say that robyn gardner's case seems no closer to being solved than it was at the beginning. >> i would hope to have closure and get some answers. it would help the grieving process. >> we really want answers. >> she disappeared a year ago while on a trip to aruba. the police search has long ended. her family says they have never given up hope despite the lack of clues. >> we have hope she is still out there and will come home. >> i feel she is alive and somewhere to be found. i see her in my dreams. >> the name gary giordano was not m

this funnel cloud, where we also after severe thunderstorm warning earlier in montgomery and frederick counties. here's also a picture from colonial beach, maryland, of that waterspout. we had that video over in southern charles county and on cob island. this is taken by bob hooker. again, this did prompt a tornado warning for southern charles county, but there were no reports of any damage over land. and there are no plans to survey that as of now. according to the national weather service. live doppler 9000, much quieter around the beltway. still more showers out to the east. look at all the lightning strikes and the storms that went through. some places got two to three inches of rain, especially east of 95. right now closer to home we've got just a couple of spotty showers out toward frederick. we can see most of the heavy rain still out toward the delmarva. we'll talk more about tropical storm isaac and take a look at your seven-day forecast a little bit later. bruce. >> thanks, anny. the republican party has canceled most of monday's events because of the storm. it is now kram ago four-da

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when that line came through in frederick county, there were the raindrops. look at where the rains have fallen, 68 degrees. that is in winchester. per the cloudy skies and the chance of an afternoon shower or a straight thundershower tomorrow with temperatures in the 80's. more sunshine as we get into thursday friday, and the weekend. no 90's in our future. >> it looks great. >> the gnats are looking great. -- nats are looking great. they will start a three-game series with atlanta tonight. take a look at the ballpark. we're looking live right now. five games right now over atlanta. jordan zimmermann will go against the braves tonight. it is just business as usual right now. >> it is a new experience, so we are enjoying it. we know we have a long ways to go and by no means is anything even close to finish business, i guess you could say. -- finished business i guess you could say. >> we will hear more from the team coming up at 6:00 p.m. meanwhile, the redskins are 1-1 in the preseason. robert griffin iii looked to be unsettled in the pocket the other night.

the heavy stuff is in the northern part of a frederick county.here can be some lightning near the pennsylvania line. heavier showers near westminster. this is drifting to the east. this is all moving to the east. i think everybody will get a little bit of rain to start the day. the storm is coming through in a couple different segments. there are some thunderstorms across ohio. with all these boundaries stacked up to art northwest, we will see some chances for showers and thunderstorms today. the first one is this morning. another chance for showers and thunderstorms. 74 at the airport. 68 in parkton. the temperatures will probably go down a couple of degrees as the rain comes in. showers likely this morning. maybe some scattered thunderstorms this afternoon. high temperature between 84 and 89. watch for a lightning if you take the boat out today. seven-day forecast -- a slight chance for a couple of rain showers on wednesday. high temperature of 86. 87 on thursday. scattered thunderstorms late friday into saturday. nice weather on sunday and mon

in fact, nothing until you get out to northern frederick county and a little bit on washington countywell. most of it light showers. down just south of charles county, a little thunderstorm activity. right now at the airport, it's 70-74. mild morning this morning. humid. 90% the humidity. the barometer is rising. we have a light westernly wind at 5 miles per hour. the wind will be from a west to southwest direction. keeping the moisture up and leaving us a chance of rain, at least for a while. rainfall yesterday. precipitation today, meaning friday. 2900th of an inch. and for august that's just over half an inch of rain so far. and for the year. 17.2 inches of rain. and yesterday the high temperatures. again we call it today, but yesterday, friday. 86 was the high. 70 was the low. and that put readings on average just about normal for the season, at least for the high temperature. it was a little cooler on average for the morning. the record high for yesterday was 100. we weren't close. annapolis 76, pikesville 76, same at westminster. 68 at haugeerstown. we see the showers. the low i

a frederick county man is facing felony charges, accused of selling rotten meat.eat.janice park is live in north baltimore, to show us how he's accused of getting the tainted at food. janice? janice? rodney sparks been going into dumpsters like this one at foodlions and safeways...and reselling the expired mmat at his discount store.sparks says he's just trying to help the poor. rodney sparks has been running a discount foods store in front royal,virginia for the past year. i went to sparks' home today near frederick.he haa been arrested and charged for selling what inspectors call decomposed and putrid meat. meat."yea that's absolutely disgusting, i don'ttwanna eat anything like that" that""i wouldn't want to get ahold of eating that meat"a state food inspector says sparks sold meat that was misbranded, uninspected and unfit to eattthey traced the meat back to several food lion stores in virginia...where workers say sparks is known for dumpster diving: divingg"i sell milk for 350 a gallon, it's fresh, i don't hide dates and i stand behind it"sparks says he's neve

just up the road a bit and frederick county, a warning in the fact.have a brand new weather watch. this is in hagerstown right near the interchange. take a look at the facts and hagerstown a few minutes ago. it is 83 degrees now. the area is still under a severe thunderstorm morning until 6:15. it is mainly east of hagerstown and now crossing the border into northwest sections of hagerstown town to appear there are a few more elements of showers and storms are taking from the storm's center over the lake just ahead of the cold front. more times than not it will not be raining. maybe an isolated severe storm later this evening. a front will roll through tomorrow but it will probably leave us with mainly cloudy skies in the afternoon. send it will be the date for sunshine in the area. -- sunday will be the day for sunshine in the area. that is said. more for you in a couple of minutes. >> britt mchenry, back from buffalo. >> rgiii debut, he put points on the board. >> it was his first game, but it was good. robert griffin iii had an impressive debut, ca

the farther north into frederick county, some heavier showers. ght on 7 east of frederick coming out of mount airy, toward libbytown, walkersville seeing a little bit of that as it tracks toward westminster. this whole area has been weakening the last hour. where it's been cloudy and some showers, temperatures only in the 70s in leesburg. low 80s in frederick. on the flip side, it's # 9 at -- it's # 9 at an -- 89 at andrews. already 91 at reagan national. a hot afternoon once again. i think this is the 43rd, 44th time we've been over 90. 91 on our michael & son weather camera. look at all the sunshine. feeling like 94 thanks to the humidity at 43%. at the moment national reporting a calm wind so that's not helping us out. lots of showers and storms, a lot of unsettled water, a lot are energy across the great lakes, the tennessee valley and the south n. energy will are moving toward us especially friday night. the moisture is in place with the isolated storms today. the futurecast shows by tomorrow morning showers just southwest of us likely spread

there are a couple of showers moving in to frederick county at this time. we'll see this type of activity during the day today as a cool front is coming through. more on how that's going to treat the rest of the weekend coming up in just a minute. ♪ ♪ >> in lop don, winding down the olympics. two days to go, 50 gold medals to be awarded. here's a look ahead at who has a good shot. >> women's 4 x 100 final. >> it's a pleasure. >> half an hour later, the men's shorter relay in lane 7. >> i think we have safe passes, i trust the guys. we can stick around and turn it up. i'm ready to go. >> reporter: flower power would propel alicia to the stand in women's 800 and the hottest ticket in london right now. three americans take on britain's favorite in the men's 50,000. >> we have to come and try to get that goal that i'm looking for. >> divers who won bronze together here last week compete against each other today. >> that'll do it. >> we could see two more women's teams land on top. volleyball tonight the u.s. versus brazil just like four years ago. brazil won la

even parts of upper montgomery county, southern frederick, parts of northern loudoun we've seen patchy fog there. only storms we're watching is southwest pa and that's falling apart and temperatures running in the 70s in most areas right now. let's go to beverly farmer. what's happening on our roads at 5:00 a.m.? >>> not a whole lot which is great news. friday eve we like to call it easing into the weekend and we're looking great right now if you're making the drive on northbound 95. only building volume north into fredricksburg, making your way past stafford, quantico, into woodbridge and here in springfield, the left side of the screen are the headlights toward you going north. virginia drivers 66, likewise we've got overnight work out of your way and the pace in from manassas and on in toward the fairfax county parkway here heading in past the beltway in falls chump has been great. no -- church has been great. no early troubles. they've pulled all of the construction out of your help. in bethesda, no problems there. 95 in maryland in good shape. 50 the bw parkway, downtown traffic a

same southern and eastern frederick county. all of this lifting to the northeast. yeah, damascus over to germantown, rockville, you will be wet for a little while. here in d.c. we're now wet. this goes into fairfax county. as you get past quantico, you'll notice things are starting to dry out. mount vernon, you're about to get some heavy rain. that looks like it will slip into eastern parts of d.c. and also into prince george's county and the rains up north light to moderate rains thrup but the heaviest -- up there but the heaviest stuff has pulled into pennsylvania. we'll watch out for potentially strong storms later on this afternoon. we'll go inside where it's dry and air conditioned. monika samtani happy about that but not the commute. >> i am happy about being indoors. not happy about the commute. it's been easy in august but this morning a different story. the rain is slowing things down for you. from dumfries to woodbridge and here pretty solid now through the springfield area. at least the lanes are open. we'll take a live look outside and show you what it l

light showers now in frederick county, maryland, eastern washington county. that stretch is down into the shenandoah valley and it's heading east but tending to break up as it does move off to the east. it's going to continue to track toward the metro area. so things are going to be a little wet along 270 in frederick over the next hour or so. right now off to our west and north, low to mid 70s. it's just in the mid 70s in washington, upper 70s near the chesapeake bay on this tuesday morning. farther to the west we are getting that rain. it's right around 70 out in the mountains. still steamy there, too. we do have low humidity on the way. that will be arriving this afternoon. by 6:00 a.m., we will have a few showers west and knot of washington. we will be in the low 70s. by noontime, a few showers east and west of washington.

far western howard county, frederick county. heading east. it will be in the metro area in an hour for haymarket in prince william county. might have lightning there but probably not. early afternoon, sunshine brabing up in the mid 80s and hour by hour for the whole region will have lower humidity moving in during the afternoon. highs reaching upper 80s. a bit of a blustery northwest wind by late afternoon back down to the mid 80s. seven-day outlook in ten minutes. now a look at your first 4 traffic this tuesday morning with danella. >> thanks, tom. if you're taking metro, single tracking. this is on the orange and blue line between eastern market and new carrollton. over to brunswick east, seven-minute delay on train number 87 0. vre not reporting delays that the time. outer loop of the beltway, this time in virginia at georgetown pike. had road work set up. only the left lane was getting by. it's now clear. travel lanes are open. jim and angie? >> danella, thanks. we're learning more about a shooting at a maryland high school. what a father

that's why we have them in effect for, you know, frederick county and virginia and morgan county in west virginia. we'll put this into motion. where will all the storms go for the next hour? this will try to move off to the north as they try to move to the south and the east. we're not so sure about that as they have been at least to the north or the northeast. but again, severe thunderstorm warnings now for loudoun county, montgomery county as well as howard county. all right, here's the deal. big storms again tomorrow. we've got a cold front pushing on through for you tonight and a better chance tomorrow. we'll salvage a nice saturday afternoon. it looks like a pretty decent saturday afternoon and all day on sunday. isolated storms for you tonight. some heavy, some severe. and the winds are out of the south at 10. next three days, code yellow for you tomorrow. stay tuned. less humid on saturday, a nice afternoon. upper 80s, nice on sunday with the temperatures in the upper 80s again, code green. monday, right around, well, 90 on monday and tuesday. isolated storms to keep monday and th

extreme southern sections of frederick county. and over into the very tip of northern montgomery county. that's all we are seeing right now. again, this will continue to sweep on through the area. there is a cold front back out to the west. it will come through slowly overnight tonight, but it will come through. still a chance for showers. still a chance for a spotty thunderstorm during the overnight into early morning. the forecast really has not changed. temperatures right now in advance of the front with the sunshine, they really warm up in the lower 90s. a little bit cooler back out to the west and look how temperatures are dropping off and the clouds and showers there along i-81. hagerstown at 70. now i'll keep showers and thunderstorms in right on through the evening hours. keep in mind, we're not looking for severe weather. we aren't looking for strong thunderstorms. just some garden variety showers and a few thunderstorms possible this evening. temperatures will be dropping. we'll talk about how cool it's going to be during

right now, it's sitting over eastern frederick county.eading out to the east around 18 miles an hour. so in one hour, it's going to be just to the west/northwest of westminster. it's not a quick move. that means some folks could see a quick half inch or more of rain. we have had some reports of hail with some of these. might even see some small hail as well. 84 here now. locally. 78, hagerstown. 75, ocean city. we've had rain most of the day. it's finally ending there. 78 in elkton. 88, lots of sunshine down in d.c. and 76 out in oakland. locally, temperatures where the clouds had been around most of the day. we had temperatures in the low to mid-80s. 83, rock hall and bel air at 81. 88, 71. most people thought it was not even that warm. normal high is 88. normally, sketch. tomorrow -- 67. tomorrow, average high drops 1 degree to 86. record is 2006. 100. the record low, 57, 1895. right now, we have a light southeast wind tomorrow. probably more of a southerly wind. that's going to begin to bring in warmer temps that have been sitting out

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the north have weaken but still producing heavy rains in through washington county, northern frederick county, franklin and adams county in pennsylvania but no warnings on those. satellite picture, radar combined, you can see this spinning here. that's the area of low pressure sitting and spinning. it's eventually going to push the cold front through. it will take all of tonight and a little bit of tomorrow to get this front if essentially the ohio river valley through the metro area. it may end up kind of stalling around the chesapeake bay tomorrow morning. because this is still to our west, we run the risk of thunderstorms pretty much all night. we also have a little trough of low pressure, a little disturbance to the west of us. that, too, is kicking off a round of thunderstorms to the north and west of us. so we're not done just yet. but right now it's pretty pleasant out. a live look outside, 85. high was 88. dew point 70. dew points in the 70s, not too comfortable. winds out of the south at 13. at least you have a bit of a breeze. the head line, big storms are still possible, critical t

flash flood warnings in effect in eastern sections of frederick county. this is a heavy rain. they picked up two or 3 inches and areas. more rainfall is falling. some pretty good downpours. meanwhile, all afternoon we have been monitoring areas of showers and storms to the west. with the movement and warm humid air implies, it is possible some of these will hang together long enough to possibly bring more rain into our viewing area overnight tonight with a little thunder and lightning. tomorrow a much more dynamic system will get started. that will be strong storm center that is going to bring storms to the area. 95 degrees this afternoon that reagan national airport. 87 is the high. eight degrees above average. opposes on chart again. this is the 27 time this year we have been -- it puts us on the chart again. this is the 27th time this year we have been 95 or higher. 44 is the total amount of days above 90 degrees this year. much cooler on the potomac thailand's. 75 in martinsburg. 73 in winchester. is still 91 in gaithersburg. the futurecast shows how things might work out