the rain really favoring parts of northern montgomery and frederick counties. ck to the west, notice that area of rain west of i-81. with the rain in the immediate area, in parts of montgomery county, southern maryland and frederick county, coyou would see a little -- you could see a little bit of development out of that. if we don't, that rain won't move into the area until the late morning hours. so some damp roads this morning. aaron, you might need the windshield wipers but a lot of us are dry right now. back to you. >> thank you. >>> adding more info to the menu. why calories aren't the only nutrition facts you will see in new york. >>> a series of shootings in arizona have drivers on edge. what police are now saying after the tenth freeway shooting in less than two weeks. your time is 6: >>> developing at 6:15. fears that a sniper may be shooting at drivers in arizona stirring up memories of the beltway sniper in our area. police are calling it domestic terrorism and there have been ten incidents in the last 13 days. mostly along interstate 10. janelle bra

our issues have been in frederick county, maryland between emmitsburg and thursday month. there's a southbound detour on 15 for a serious crash. northbound 15 heyward road in frederick, maryland right side blocked with an overturned to be. but from i-70 just the building volume we see heading down into hyattstown past the interchange 109 and the truck scales. then good through germantown and the beltway. virginia 95 fairly typical volume building out of stafford getting into woodbridge, northbound into newington the pace has been good heading up to springfield and on to the beltway. nick, andrea? >>> after six police officers in baltimore were charged in the death of freddie gray, defense attorneys and prosecutors will appear before a judge for a preliminary hearing in the case. >> as you well remember, the 25- year-old suffered a fatal spinal cord injury while in police custody back in april. delia goncalves is live in baltimore with a preview of what we can expect today. delia? >> reporter: the hearing begins at 9:30 just a coup of blocks here from -- couple of blocks her

the alligator is at a frederick county zoo, but how did it wind up here? >> either he came from watershed over there, or he was somebody's pet. : if it was somebody's, that is illegal in the state of maryland, but natural resources police say this is the fourth alligator they have had to deal with in maryland this year. two others were the northeast of baltimore, but the other was in prince george's county, insulin. live in brookville, montgomery county, tom roussey, abc 7 news. leon: climate change? who knows. coming up, an upscale hotel losing president obama's business. why he will no longer stay at the waldorf astoria in new york city. plus, a look at surveillance a formeran arrest of tennis player. a top official apologizing. and also released tonight, video of a crane collapse. we live in a pick choose, choose, choose. but at bedtime? ...why settle for this? enter sleep number ...right now all beds on sale! sleepiq technology tells you how well you slept and what adjuststments you can make. you like the bed soft. he's more hardcore. so your sleep goe

frederick county sheriff todd jenkins said he's putting an end to it. >> we're looking at not so much what's happening in the past, but going forward, the types of things we're finding up there, the people we see coming and going. we're going to do the best we can to identify a suspect, whether it's a hunter trying to keep a biker out or the bikers trying to keep the hunters out. >> this is the latest episode in a series of booby-trap in the watershed dating back to at least 2013. so far no one has been hurt. >>> no serious injuries, but an incredible scary scene after a school bus plunged into a florida pond. it happened just outside tampa and hillsborough county. within minutes of this accident, rescue crews accounted for all students and the bus driver. here's one student describing what happened. >> when the bus started accelerating everyone started screaming. when it landed in the lake, everyone started crying. some climbed out of the top windows, and i -- i got out of the bus first, and i started pulling kindergartens out of the bus. >> no word yet on what caused that bus to end

a cool morning, only in the 50s from frederick county, west virginia to frederick county virginia. here is the hour-by-hour timing of more rain moving through, 10:00 to 11:00 this morning through noontime, a chance of thunder. a greater chance of thunderstorms developing, that's starting around 3:00 p.m. in the shenandoah valley. then into the metro area between 3:00 and 6:00 p.m., some could be heavy downpour, producing an inch or two of rain. watch for ponding water late this afternoon and into the evening hours. by 11:00, it is gone. for the afternoon, the threat of severe weather is very low for tornadoes or hail, but a moderate threat of brief gusts of strong wind and rain that may cause brief ponding of water. you can see from the storm team 4 tower camera. by 6:00, upper 60s. thunder showers may get up to 80 in the early afternoon. a chance of stronger storms going to be between 1:00 p.m. to as late as 6:00 p.m. overnight tonight, storms quickly ending by midnight and dawn tomorrow. beautiful day on sunday. partly cloudy, into the mid-70s. gorgeous weather setting up. each d

i'm scott broom in frederick county, maryland, coming up the invention that has the attention of some engineers at mit. ♪ know you can keep your financial big picture under control. know you can see how much you have to spend and whether you should transfer funds. know you can easily keep track of what you're putting away. and know you're budgeted for the great escape. thanks to virtual wallet by pnc. ♪ >>> there is a bit of a furniture feud brewing in the state of maryland. maryland governor larry hogan is blasting former governor martin o'malley for buying some fancy furniture from the governor's mansion but doing so at a deep discount. meghan mccorkell shows us just how much o'malley shelled out compared to taxpayers. >> reporter: as martin o'malley moved down to the governor's mansion, a new baltimore sun investigation shows a lot went with him. the governor spent 12 bucks on a mirror bought in 1995 for $1,200. for eight bucks he got a table that retailed for nearly 900 in 2003. in all the o'malleys purchased 54 pieces of furniture that the taxpayers paid $62,000 for all for 9,600

. >>> we've learned it was a marine who was killed in a hit and run this morning in frederick county. this was overnight into this morning. investigators say 21-year-old marine corporal william ferrell was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer on route 15 north near auburn road in thurmont. investigators believe weather played a role in the crash. right now midmerchandise state police are looking for a black car carrier with heavy damage to its front right side. >>> no shots, no school. students in prince george's county have to be vaccinated by the end of today or they will be turned away tomorrow. at last check about 2800 students still do not have their shots. the county is holding an immunization clinic to help prevent kids from missing school. the clinic on sheverly hoital drive is open right now through 4:30 today. families can arrange vaccinations regardless of their ability to pay. >>> a temporary funding measure that would keep the government open past midnight deadline has sailed through the senate and should make its way through a badly divided house. the 78-20 vote would

flash flood warning down for frederick county. however, flash flood watch loudounoff to the west, county, frederick, most of western maryland. the latest 11:00 update on what is now tropical storm joaquin. it is expected to become a category two storm by saturday with wind at 100 miles per hour, and could be off the delmarva coast sunday afternoon. more on what this means for our seven day outlook coming up. alison: steve, thank you. stay with abc 7 when rain and storms roll through. stay connected at wjla.com, and watch twitter and facebook, and download the stormwatch app. leon: tonight's reign pales in comparison with what is becoming south,rous deluge in the several states facing serious flooding, and there could be more rain coming. richard reeve has a look at the cleanup and preparations happening now. stormd: this is a massive affecting 20 and million americans -- 20 million americans, up to the coast of maine, causing a lot of headaches on the roads. region made it difficult for drivers trying to get anywhere tuesday night

a little fog up in frederick county, maryland. here's future weather. showers around here first thing this morning, a possibility of more rain at 7:00, and more patches of rain to the south and west at that point in time. by 9:00, a little break in the metro, but another wave of rain showers comes through at lunch time. a sliver or two of sunshine before more showers and maybe thunderstorm chances bubble up after 3:00, 4:00 or 5:00. not looking for much in the way of the severe weather threat, but a rumble or two of thunder can't be ruled out. sunshine and dry weather for tomorrow. that's your threat of rain both days over the weekend. then back into the great september weather next week. here's ms. jalapeno pepper herself, melissa mollet. >> that was not the best idea right before going on air. my nose is running. brand-new crash is starting to cause some delays here this morning. you can see on the right shoulder and the right lane, we have that blocked. so it could be some time before that's out of the bay and traffic is building there. outer loop at

these are students here at this career and technology center high school here in frederick county.good idea when they heard about the 1 billion people on the planet who do not have access to running water. that means they carry their water and then they got to meet a 17-year-old fellow student from ghana who was one of those 1 billion people until he moved here to the u.s. and to this amazing high school. >> it's heavy duty for me. >> reporter: where sava suleman grew up it was a 10- kilometer trip every day just to get water. two years after leaving ghana here he is in a group of high school finalists in frederick county, maryland, hoping their invention will make it easier for 1 billion people to get water from its source to homes more efficiently. that's the team leader britney seckler describing a braking and geared ratchet improvement for a water porter tank called the hippo. it allows people to roll water instead of carrying it, a giant leap forward, but this team in a high school 6,000 miles away could see that without brakes to slow it or a ramp the handle to aid in getting

all lanes shut down in frederick county. problem on northbound 15, and metro delays coming up. >>> but first, not backing down, what's next for a county clerk in connecticut >>> the county clerk who refuses to give marriage licenses to gay couples now headed to federal court. jim davis refused to issue marriage licenses to several same-sex couples yesterday. davis and the staff will have to report to a per court tomorrow. she could be fined or sent to jail for her actions. >>> it's 6:41, time to check out the weather and traffic on the 1s this morning. >> meteorologist tom kierein is in fairfax where the buses are doing test runs today. tom. >> reporter: right now on ol sten, the providence elementary school is off germantown road. the school buses is one of the centers where they do the transportation organization. there's going to be 1500 of these school buses on the roads these days testing out the new routes because many fairfax county schools starting later. new start time for the high school, 50 minutes later. almost a

winds out of the north at 9 miles an hour. 57 the panhandle of west virginia. 55 in frederick county, maryland. 63 in arlington and washington. storm team 4 radar, last of the drops down northern parts of carol county, few drizzle drops around charles town, west virginia. pretty quiet weather up and down most of the eastern seaboard. drying out across southern virginia. clouds stay. i think we'll be rain free for the remainder of the day. the weather improves dramatically as we get into tomorrow. thursday, good too. what to expect today. puddles this morning and clouds this afternoon, but we should dry out a little bit. hourly temperatures, 50s and 60s out the door this morning. staying in the 60s through most of the morning hours to near 70 by noon. and with the thinning clouds, we should be able to bump up into the low and mid-70s for a brief time later on this afternoon. your highs today generally in the low 70s. baseball game got post poned last night. play baseball tonight, the orioles and the nationals, no problem with the weather for this evening. and then planning out the day

this is happening in frederick county not far from fishing creek road.t is where kevin lewis is tonight with the latest here. kevin: police say the traps have been popping up on and off for three years in the woods behind me here. theory crept case have had -- recent case have sharp razors. there is concern at the fedrick watershed forest preserve. monday a hiker nearly slashed his legs on razor blades. the boards were buried in dirt. >> you could hurt kids or anybody out there. whoever is doing it, whatever they are doing it for is uncalled for. >> probably go through my shoe. >> it's located five miles north of downtown frederick. place of peace for keith lewis and his two dogs. police say the sheer size of the preserve will make enforcement tough. >> this is just to target anyone the open. you have to be a special person to do that. alison: there -- kevin: there are two motives. most people here think the perpetrator is seeking revenge for the mountain bikers but some feel bikes are causing damage to the watershed. live in frederick county, i'm kevin

frederick, maryland. there's fog across parts of northern maryland in shenandoah county. side, activities earth today will be okay. once temperatures get above 80 degrees, which will be between 11:00 and 12:00, that's when the temperatures will again to climb. 85 in frederick, maryland and in manassas and culpeper. good night for baseball. if you're headed down to the baseball game or whatever you're doing with your evening. temperatures will be in the 80s and drift back to the 70s. all right thinking about your weekend. a lot of things taking place and the bluemont fair is this weekend. saturday will be a great outdoor day. temperatures will be warm and in the 80s. sunday, breezy and noticeable cooler. a little weather front goes on by. that will start to change. no rain today. if you're doing any traveling, lots of rain across florida and parts of the midwest as well. we'll stay high and dry around here until the early part of next week. here's your seven-day forecast. warm weather, today, tomorrow, and saturday. finally cooler. lots of clouds early next week and chance

lapse line ups -- a time in frederick county, maryland. fog on the ground. that burned off quickly.as evolved into a very nice day. hot and humid with a few fairweather clouds. temperatures rise. pollen count, moderate category. concerns about air quality, as we told you a few minutes ago. code origin effect today. 80 degrees in charlottesville. 88, hagerstown. 91 in the nation's capital. generally, mid-atlantic to south east tennessee valley, everybody in the eastern part of the country will get in on the warmer conditions. a high of 93 today. the humidity will make it feel like 97 or 98. the air-quality alert, code orange. there you have it. a hot day, indeed. here to the south and west of washington. over madison county, one loan shower. -- one lone shower. of all see a possibility shower or thundershower along the mountains tomorrow. with high pressure off the coast, i do not think much of this will come in east towards the metro area. an isolated shower possible. thursday should be dry. friday, another chance of showers and thunderstorms, coming in from the north. it might lead

that is the water intake for frederick county. it's only a few miles down here before you get to here for much of the d.c. area. these photos show how ugly the spill is. described as a greenish yellow cloud in the potomac, moving slowly toward washington. it will soon reach drinking water intake for washington county. then it will be here for frederick county. >> the customers should be assured we are in preparation to make sure that the water system is safe as possible. >> the director of utilities says all indications is the chemical is non-toxics. he will order increase sampling. the spill happening last week. 10,000 gallons of a synthetic latex used as a paper coating flowed in the river for four hours before the spill was discovered. the plume being honored by the maryland department of the environment. depending how much rainfall, it could reach the d.c. area water intake in a matter of days. >> at this point, we will enhance our treatment process out of an abundance of caution. brad: spokesperson says the expected rain woul

in frederick county, i'm kevin lewis. leon: the kentucky clerk jailed for refusing to issue marriage license for same-sex couples set she met with pope francis in the d.c. visit. she said the pope gave her rosaries and told her to "stay strong." davis says she and her husband received an invite from the vatican. the vatican spokesman is not denying that the meetk took place. >> i put my hand out. he grabbed it. i hugged him. and he hugged me. he said thank you for your courage. leon: davis is back at work but refusing to issue any marriage licenses with her signature. a position that pope francis voiced support for in the press conference on the flight back to rome by the way. coming up at 5:00 -- this week's hastier' ero. d.c. program that is building relationships and closing the reading gap. >> coming up at 6:00 tonight, new information on the closure of a hospital in prince george's county. how many positions will be cut steve: i'm steve rudin. if you have outlore plan, think twice about it. 65 in bethesda saturday. h

heaviest activity up to frederick, out in to loudoun county, route 7 and 50 as well. just talking rain, no storms or severe weather but they'll slow you down a little bit. germantown, gaithersburg, clarksburg, everybody has a little bit of rain. some of it is moderate. we'll go a little further north. now we're looking at clarksburg, frederick. if you're going way up 270, you can have rain for the entire trip home. it will be a slow trip home. for tonight, rain and showers for the commuters. bus stop temperatures, 56 to about 68. i think we're going to see dry conditions tomorrow morning. slight chance of an isolated shower early. we'll have new information tonight. we'll talk about that tonight at 11:00. mostly cloudy tuesday. the bulk of the day will be okay. then looks pleasant for the pope. temperatures with sunshine around 80. here's the futurecast. 10:00 tonight, still rain and showers. not going to let up that much at nats park unfortunately. look at the temps, 59 in gaithersburg. 60 in manassas and buoy. 64 downtown. kind of cool. by 6:00 in the morning, futur

tonight, the search continued for the people leaving booby-traps along popular hiking trails in frederick county, not far from fishing creek road. >> i have no idea why anybody would do it. kevin: there is concern at the frederick watershed forest preserve. monday, a hiker nearly sliced his foot on these booby-traps. the words were buried in dirt. >> it could hurt kids are anybody. i don't know what they're are doing it for, it's uncalled for. it would probably go through my shoe and severely injure my animals. it would probably go through a bike tire. kevin: the watershed is located about five miles north of frederick. security.my sense of it is a place i go to get away from everything else. i lose a bit of my freedom. the sizee police say of the park will make enforcement tough. there are no suspects so far. aresually the motives revenge or targeting a specific person, but to just target anyone, it has to be a special kind of evil person to do that, i think. kevin: kevin lewis, abc 7 news. kellye: a big change for students in montgomery county. the school district is rate -- eliminating to our

through most of frederick county maryland we have the temperatures in upper 50's. 61 in leesburg. the metro area temperatures are comfortable. d.c. and the metro area downtown is the warmers overnight low of 7. most others in the lower 60's by morning. warmer near the waterway. the breeze will add a couple degrees. lexington park is an arizona along the bay is warmer than the areas away from the water. as far as what will happen tomorrow, and into sunday. high pressure that is going to move out to allow the cold front to advance tomorrow. but it will wash out. no rain coming through. when it comes through late at night to sunday morning we will see clouds and change in the wind direction to the northwest. what that mines is we will have a breezy day. bottom line for the weekend is sunny with the clouds. 87. sunday. partly cloudy and breezy. cooler highs in the upper 70's. talk about the sunday, for the redskins, it looks good. kickoff time is 73. 75 with sunshine at halftime. 78 as we head through the an hours here. enough breeze to have some effect on the kicking game. as far as

they are well south of fredericksburg and frederick county. muggy throughout the area tonight. temperatures are in the 70's. in the next seven days hot and humid in the 90's. a better chance of thunderstorms friday. colt fronted. the labor day weekend is spectacular. heat and humidity return next week. steve rudin will give you more on the holiday forecast tonight at 11:00. leon: if we drag him out of the ice cream shop. maureen: "world news tonight" with david muir is coming up next. leon: see you here at 11:00. ha >>> tonight, the urgent manhunt widening, the officer ambushed and killed and just now the audio. you will hear the officer's final call. three suspects armed and dangerous, families told to stay indoors. seven schools closed. >>> the war of words tonight, donald trump telling jeb bush to stop speaking spanish. >>> and vice-president joe biden speaking late today. will he take on hillary clinton? >>> the school scare, the student pulling out a gun, face-to-face with his teacher, saying he was going to kill. and now we learn of the teacher's instincts that saved so m

the frederick county sheriff's office said haliburton ran a stop sign hitting another car.he man inside his truck was jekted and died on the scene. police quickly arrested haliburton, two other people in the truck and three people in the second vehicle also had to go to the hospital. chanting black lives matter, protesters rallied inside union station today. earlier, u.s. capital police kept an eye on confederate flag supporters. that group did have a permit for their rally. counterprotesters showed up. things got a bit tense but remained peaceful and there were no arrests. >>> well, we got a break from the heat wave today. pretty nice, right? tom is up next to tell us what's in store for the rest of the weekend. and a deadly outbreak linked to cucumbers. geico has sent me to washington d.c., our nation's capital, to ask this question: what presidential race is run right here in washington 81 times a year? that's right! the washington nationals geico president's race. geico is washington's hometown insurance company, and a proud sponsor of the washington nationals. >> i'm f

now it's hanging out at a wildlife preserve and zoo in frederick county.omething to see, but i'm glad i'm certainly sure the homeowners are glad to see that one go. >>> it's a all for "news4 this week." thanks for joining us. we're going to leave you with more of the thunder birds putting on a preview of their air show. have a great weekend. ♪ . . . . ♪ >>> welcome to the season debut edition of "redskins chronicles." i'm larry michael at redskins park. each week on "redskins chronicles" we take an in-depth look of a legacy. today, hall of famer, art monk. a look back opening day at fedex field, the redskins fell to the miami dolphins, 17-10. here's some of the highlights.

tonight we're already in the 60s in frederick and already 68 in manassas and still 76 downtown and then by morning this is about 7:00 we're dry, prince george's countye district back to fairfax but showers south of frederick and showers popping up winchester along i-81. just before noon we have showers everywhere, leesburg, manassas, fairfax, culpeper, into town and light activity already to byrd stadium. it will get heavier as the game goes on and then by 5:00 that first batch goes away and futurecast is kind of emphatic on developing a second line of showers from frederick to leesburg and i get this. temperatures in the low 70s to mid-70s by then and then those roll through. we dry out pretty quickly. we'll advance the futurecast all the way to sunday at 1:00. this is pretty cool for 1:00. i mean we have 67 in gaithersburg and 71 downtown. so that means temperatures at the stadium will be right around 69 or 70 at game time with a little bit of a breeze. so take a sweatshirt. okay. 77 at 11:00, 77 on the day planner at 1:00 with a couple shower or storms possible, but then just a -- showers or storms possible, but then just a few showers, breezy, g

the frederick county deputy was headed near. >> i saw four or five other vehicles boxing the suspect vehicle in and honking and waving. >> reporter: because of that the deputy detained kelly, served him with a no custody order and little faral is back safe with her mom. >> -- farah is back safe with her mom. >> very lucky. i'm happy she's okay. >> reporter: police have very strict criteria for issuing those amber alerts. one, they have to think that the child was abducted, second the child must be and third, they have to feel the child is many danger among other criteria. we are live in bethesda tonight, debra alfarone, wusa9. >> thanks a lot for that, debra. amber alerts started with a 9- year-old girl who was riding her bike in arlington, texas, when she was kidnapped and then brutally murdered. >>> police are looking for two people who got shot in takoma park. 1 map was hit in the summer, the -- one man was hit in the stomach, the other in the arm. 1 map matching a suspect -- one man matching a suspect description escaped along i-95. >>> a possible break in the series of shootings

there were warnings, we tweeted it out and on facebook earlier this afternoon for frederick county in virginia, everything is quiet now. muggy tonight, little patchy fog late, in fact, if you had a shower, you have a good chance of getting patchy fog. bus stop temperatures 68-80, perhaps isolated shower around 9:00, not a big deal, just muggy. and then hot again tomorrow with some thunderstorms, but more storms on friday and some of those could be heavy. cold front will sink down from the north and that will give us a much better chance of widespread activity. 10:00 tonight, maybe you want to walk the dogs, sparky, 75 leesburg, 72 gaithersburg, 73 buoy, 80 downtown. by morning, we are looking at temperatures, upper 60s low 70s, partly cloudy skies. by 9:00 we are 80 downtown, 76 manassas and 78 leesburg, there is the shower off shore in the bay. not a big chance of shower in the morning, best chance in the afternoon. by then, we are looking at 90 down, 90 in leesburg, 98 dathersburg, 90 fredericksburg, and by 6:00, scattered showers and storms, temperatures upper 80s to around 90, bul

news chopper 7 was there when the man was airlifted from the side of sugarloaf mountain in frederick county. man had fallen during a hike. rescuers climb down the side of the mountain secured him to a stretcher before airlifting him to the chopper. no word on his condition tonight. jonathan: changing emergency response of the district could affect emergency response times. mayor bowser putting a plan on the table. she is submitting a plan that would hire a private contractor to handle non-life-threatening calls. the d.c. fire chief estimates that four out of five calls are night and life-threatening. under the plan, emergency crews would evaluate the patient and transport only the sickest. the second would wait for a private ambulance to arrive to take them to the hospital. the proposal needs to be approved by the d.c. counsel first. alison: the columbia heights have association could gondola like railway above columbia pike, one of the many ideas people have suggested to ease congestion. supporters say the system could be built within a year. the arlington county board canceled the columbi

many areas picking up way more. 4 inches in frederick county and 5 inches in parts and 6 inches at the airport tonight. 1.65 inches was one of the lower totals. the rain came in buckets. we've been talking about the tropical humid air mass across the region, what you need for these types of rain. see that circulation? that enabled this lift in the. to bring out the rain. incredible amounts of rain in this region. see that red area? it moved up. fortunately most of this is out of the area. we are now out of it. still looking at rain to the south, calvert county picked up 2 inches and you can see lightning associated with that. most continues to move out. any rain behind it? there is. but it's very scattered. for the most part the heavy rain is done and we have a flashflood watch in parts of the area from noon to tomorrow in case we see another heavy downpour or two. look at the moisture streaming from the gulf and off the laerk ocean. we have tons of moisture available. we will see a cold front come through during the afternoon tomorrow. first, we will get rather warm tomorrow. high 70s

heavy rain, frederick county, loudoun, parts of fairfax and montgomery county. all of this making its way on through wednesday. wednesday starting off dry, and more shower activity during the afternoon on wednesday. that commuter forecast, cloudy, 68 degrees for the morning rush. but the afternoon rush, rain and some of it will be heavy at times. so expect to be late tomorrow evening. give yourself a little bit of extra time. now to tropical storm joaquin there is so much throughout right now on social media about joaquin. i just want you to remember, don't get too concerned about the hype. it's a tropical storm right now. it just became a tropical storm. winds of 40 miles per hour. it's moving to the southwest at 5 miles per hour. it's going stay to the south for the next couple of days. here is wednesday. 60 miles per hour tropical storm. right up the coast. and notice we are in the cone here on saturday. the storm could be upwards of 65 miles per hour. we are in that cone. i really think it has a better shot of hitting new jersey or parts of new york. but thi

. >>> three frederick county sheriff's deputies disputing the state's medical examiner's conclusion that a man with downs syndrome died from asphyxia as they struggled to pull him out of a movie theater. >> the evidence shows 26-year- old robert ethan saylor probably died from an underlying medical problem. in addition to the asphyxia finding, the autopsy noted that saylor was obese and had heart and lung problems. the off-duty deputies tried to remove him from a frederick theater back in 2013 because he did not have a ticket. saylor's family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the deputies, the state of maryland and that shopping mall. >>> the parents -- audio difficulties ] >>> a family alleges a loaded service weapon was left in a backpack in plain view in his car when it was stolen in june and that pistol was later used to kill katheryn steinle. the sheriff's department and department of homeland security was blamed for failing to keep the accused shooter in custody. >>> joshua royine was arrested sunday after he turned on the blue flashing lights in his pontiac g6 and tried t

for those in frederick county, it has been cloudy, but dry.louds today, a couple of showers here and there. mid-70s. and looks like the clouds are going to hang tough. here's the future cast. by lunch time, not that much green on the map. green represents the rain here. we'll take you to southwestern georgia. better chances of that. tomorrow, we have a cloudy start and perhaps sun here and there, and a couple of showers are going to pop in the evening hours from the east moving our way. it looks like tuesday, as a front approaches -- today, it look like it will be rather wet. later on in the afternoon with showers and storms. 66 tonight. again, just a few shower s. a few showers monday. 79. i do think most of the time it's going to be dry, but tuesday is a possibly yellow weather alert day, and maybe a probably one with showers and storms more likely. highs around 80. as we check out the 7-day forecast, wednesday lingering showers. 72. thursday, cool. it's really going to feel like autumn on thursday which i believe is the beginning of october

in maryland they include kemp town in frederick county. smithburg county in washington county.anuel christian school in springfield. the u.s. department of education will honor all the nation 2015 but ribbon schools in a conference and award ceremony scheduled for november 9-10 in d.c. alison: a few more awards here. this year list of the "genius grant" winners include two names from our area. gary cohen of reston is environmental health advocate. ta-nehisi coates of d.c. is a journalist and blogger who focuses on racial identity and racial bias issues. the macarthur foundation named the recipients this morning and the winners get $625,000 in the next five years. they can use that however they see fit. jonathan: they earn that. you can make more money but you have to get lucky. feeling lucky in powerball jackpot up to $301 million. after taxes, i did the math, it's about $25. but the odds of winning are 1 in 175 million. what we're saying is there's a chance. nice chunk of change. coming up for us at 4:00 -- jonathan: plenty of something -- plenty of parents -- can't figure out

beginning next school year, frederick county, maryland, students can take a class solely about september1th. it would focus on the envents lead -- events leading up to the terrorist attacks and the aftermath. the school board approved the new class this week. it's not clear which high schools will offer it. >>> the adams morgan day celebration is on for this weekend. but it's going to look different this year. homeowners and businesses are banding together to put on that street festival after losing the original sponsor. 11 shops and restaurants are taking part this year, but there will not be outdoor food vendors. 18th street and columbia road in northwest are staying open to traffic. adams morgan day is this sunday from noon to 6:00. >>> a lot of people in fairfax county are not happy with the county parks. many of you think that the basic facilities at the parks are not being met. according to "the washington post" last year the county cut park budgets by more than $700,000. a spokesperson for the park system says there's often not enough space at county swimming pools, gyms and other

. >>> it was a tricky rescue by both air and ground on frederick county sugarloaf mountain today. sky 9 was on the scene where a man took a bad fall and injured himself late this afternoon. rescue crews reached him in some rocks on the side of the hill. they placed him in a stretcher and then a helicopter for transport to the hospital. >>> you'll probably want to hang onto your umbrella really for the whole week. >> i'm getting more concerned about severe weather tomorrow. we mentioned it earlier in the show, but now it looks more and more likely. let's start with 3 p.m. tomorrow afternoon on futurecast. i'm starting here because we feel the biggest threat will be between 3 p.m. and about midnight tomorrow. so 3:00 80 downtown and you see the showers and storms developing out of the south, culpeper to fredericksburg, migrating northward. by 5:00 looks like a wet ride home for most of us and we're seeing yellow and orange out toward luray. it gets worse going through the evening. by 7:00 look at all the red between culpeper and luray moving northward. by 9:00 we got big storms in m

however, in the surrounding dmv, we saw flash floods from maryland, prince george's county, frederickvirginia andment gomry county -- and montgomery county. this is video from charleston, west virginia last night. several roads were just closed all together. but that didn't stop some people from trying to drive through t. even this guy took a risk on a motorcycle. this is not a good idea. even if your vehicle is higher off the ground and the water doesn't appear to be that high, it can still be very deceiving. so with the forecast again, you heard from howard, the possibility of this repeating itself in the next few days and even getting worse with the water not being able to recede and building up and building up, this could be happening once again. so we vitz you to -- so we advise you not to try and risk it. don't drive through the high areas. if you see the trouble spots, let us know so we can spread the word and keep everyone safe. i'm nikki burdine, wusa9. >>> more commute opportunity i near the potomac -- communities near the potomac river are taking steps to protect their drin

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temperatures 64 in frederick, maryland. 74 in washington. at prince george's countyout the door, 92 at lunchtime and a risk a thunderstorm by 7:00 tonight. a check on traffic. tough morning, melissa. >> tough morning especially for

nearby neighborhoods, prince george's county, low 60s to upper 50s farther north into frederick county fairfax county, it's near 60 degrees. the rest of northern virginia, 50s manassas, warrenton, shenandoah valley, as well as panhandle west virginia. low t low to mid-50s out in the mountains. great day for boating on the bay, maybe doing a bike ride on the path. a beautiful day for that. there's the first light of dawn showing up.ç there's a live view from our tower camera overlooking friendship heights off in the distance. the temperatures quickly climb to 70 by 8:00 a.m. lots of sun by noontime hitting the low to mid-80s and peaking in the upper 80s by 3:00 or 4:00. wear the sun block if you'll be out for a length of time. hot afternoon. this evening we'll be dropping right back down into the 70s right after sunset which is just a little bit after 7:00. look at this big area in yellow. this is the abnormally dry zone covering most of our region as we do need some rain and also the pollen is in the moderate range due to weeds. weed pollen will be holding steady in the moderate range

. >> and beginning next school year, frederick county students can take a class solely about september 11th. it would focus on the events leading up to the terrorist attacks. it's not yet clear which high schools will offer it. >> developing this morning, develop buses are being rerouted in arizona to avoid a stretch of i-10 targeted bay shooter. 11 vehicles have been hit by vehicles in the last two weeks and police say the number is likely to rise. there were 15 reports of shots fired yestday alone. the shootings have some changing their routines while others say they don't want to give in to fear. >> we haven't changed anything. we just keep carrying our firearm in case we find them. >> it takes a little bit longer. i have a little girl. i do everything to make her safe. >> despite the frequency of the shootings, police say they don't have any solid leads. >> and a man is dead after leading police on a high-speed chase and taking hostages at an l.a. restaurant. it started after he carjacked someone and led police against the city. she bail he bailed out and told women and children to

now across parts of frederick county, maryland, culpeper, virginia, two inches at shenandoah. be on the lookout for fog this morning. temperatures currently mid-50s in the suburbs to mid-60s in town. 60s this morning but 80s this afternoon. traffic check right now. >> good morning. right now a chopper getting over something we're hearing about something at fairfax county. seeing some inbound traffic. not sure what's going on. this morning prince william parkway at smoke town road, we have an incident there. and loughboro and dalecarlia, roadway work there. in maryland, 66 inbound looks good. remember to listen to wtop 103.5 fm when you hop in your car. >>> a problem that has a father worried and what the school district is telling him to do to avoid it. >>> first, an update on ♪ >>> from the newsroom we're following two suicide attacks in iraq. the bombers set off explosives at security checkpoints near busy markets. in baghdad this is new video after the aftermath there. 14 people were killed including police officers. 69 were wounded. so far no group has claimed responsibili

catch whoever has been laying the traps on the trails scott broom is following this story from frederick county, maryland this afternoon. >> reporter: normally the hidden deer cameras are used to track wildlife. officials are using them to track that potential psychopath who has been laying the booby traps. >> we've heard of it all. they fear they are the targets of the booby traps. >> please stop, we're not out here harming anybody. turning up again. the latest two traps were found by cyclists. >> we're looking at what happened in the past and moving forward. we're going to do the best that we can to identify that suspect. whether it is a hunter trying to keep them out, or some of these types of folks, trying to keep both parties out, we really don't know. >> this is the only latest, so far that there are no injuries, also no arrests. they are hoping that they would turn up some kind of evidence, whoever is laying these traps. scott broom wusa9. >> and for obvious reasons, they're not saying how many motion activated cameras are deployed, or where they are. >>> police are looking for clues in

right now, thick fog in parts of frederick county, maryland and out into parts of the shenandoah valley. here's that seven-day forecast. 87 today. 88 tomorrow. turning breezy and cooler on sunday with highs in the 80s and then there are rain chances. where is chop per 4? >> right there at 66. right now volume looks good. taking a look at the beltway, otherwise everything looking normal. totally typical for this time of day. taking a look here at b.w. parkway. 95, everything into town and out of town looking well. lock breaux road shut down at dalecarlia roadway. now we have the repairs. prince george's county, no major problem. just your normal volume. back in ten minutes. >>> this just in. an international flight has managed the make it back on the ground in the past few minutes after a very rough flight. the philippine airlines flight was headed from honolulu to manila whet it hit major turbulence so bad that 17 passengers have been hurt. not sure how badly. the flight did mappage to land in manila this morning a short time ago am medical team is there waitling for them. >>> thank you

they took it to the wildlife preserve and zoo in frederick county. i don't know what i would do.hey are quick. >> yeah. and three feet. i wouldn't want to do it. >> it's a good size. it's an alligator, regardless. >>> a potential game changer in the fight of high blp. the numbers that could cut death by 25%. what it means for many older patients. >>> we are going to show you how some firefighters who responded on 9/11 had a little fun on the baseball diamond and helped out a great cause at the same time. >>> 9:07. two people dead after a plane crashed into the columbian an deese. an american pilot is in intensive care. the plane was assigned to the crew of a movie starring tom cruise. his spokesperson did not have a comment. the two-engine plane flew into bad weather. no one on board reported an emergency. >> in news 4 your health, a new treatment for high low pressure could be a game changer for millions of americans. they were able to cut the death rate from high blood pressure by a staggering 25%. tom reports on this. >> reporter: a contributor to death, heart attacks and stro

show you in just a moment, we have got isolated shower and thunderstorm now heading through frederick county, maryland, but most of it right down here, it is all southeast again toward madison. very slow movement with these, only 10 miles per hour. keep saying that because these are putting out some moderate, heavy rain. this one around fairfax, a little bit of lightning, but seeing less lightning than i did a couple of minutes ago, a storm that's diminishing or decreasing anyone tensity just over i-95, right around the southern part of the belt wait next couple of minutes some wet weather, at 91 degrees right now, reagan national, look how much we have cooled off to the west, those slow-moving storms, 70s there from luray to winchester. 77, to 77 degrees, 88 in manassas right now. also 74 in hagerstown. there have been some storms up there as well. our heat index today, up to 97. tomorrow, i think it's going to be just a little higher, we come back down to at least some more reasonable heat for friday at the end of the week. again it is late summer. the weekend, say the, even sunday, nice c

warren and clark up toward frederick county in virginia, louden county seeing very heavy rain. this is going to continue. we could see some areas of flooding, ponding on the area roads. that's something to watch now. as we look out toward down to the south, notice this train of moisture. you can actually see it coming right off of the atlantic. and then up from the gulf of mexico. we've got a little convergence zone here. that means extremely heavy rain the next few hours in through virginia. flash flood watch in effect for areas well to the west but will see the potential for minor flooding around the d.c. metro area. the impacts will be big all night long. >> here's what you can expect really from now up until about 11:00, maybe midnight. we're going to see some pockets of not only moderate rain move through but also heavy rain. let's take a look after the system moves out, it gets breezy and, again, we're just getting started. this is just the first phase of it onlying through. so you can see the heavy rain between 8:00 and 11:00 p.m. for much of the metro area as that pocke

warren and clark up toward frederick county in virginia, louden county seeing very heavy rain. this is going to continue. we could see some areas of flooding, ponding on the area roads. that's something to watch now. as we look out toward down to the south, notice this train of moisture. you can actually see it coming right off of the atlantic. and then up from the gulf of mexico. we've got a little convergence zone here. that means extremely heavy rain the next few hours in through virginia. h

frederick county, zero visibility now. really that's the only potential weather slowdown early this morning. got the green lights for later on this afternoon and later this evening. temperatures will rise from the 50s to near 60 now with a little bit of area fog. upper 70s to near 80. check on the increasing weekend rain chances. for now back on traffic. >> the increasing closures that are kind of happening by the mind here. of course, a lot of closures from downtown. a live picture from 15th street there at pennsylvania avenue. a whole list of closures for you. we've been tweeting about it on first 4 traffic. we'll be talking about them all morning as well. green line delays to branch avenue. tramp times, 270 south looks good. 66 in bound, you're on time. 95 north on time. listen on wtop when you're in your car this morning. >>> a front row seat for pope francis's visit this morning. the maryland girl that was there to shake the pope's hand is talking about the experience. >>> plus, asking for his mercy. the message some

jonathan: keeping an eye on breaking news from frederick county, maryland. that is the problem right there. one lane is open as you see the cars sneaking by. the other two are shut. the truck overturned. news chopper 7 over the scene. the maryland state police investigating. there is no word of injuries at this point. but it's an area. you are urged to avoid. we are talking about traffic, especially the slow-going to traffic let's check in with jamie sullivan. it's all slow going. >> it is. you know we have quite a few issues. that in frederick traveling in the area of route 15. traffic is getting by. where it's not getting by, you can see further behind me. this is 270. so we have an interstate closure right now. traffic that should be heading southbound cannot. it's blocked off. this is 121. this clarksburg. we are hearing activity in the trees so it is taking a while. move to mapping system to talk about how slow you are. a great view of rehoboth beach. wish we were there but you are probably in the low traffic on 270 southbound. we have a solid red line.

frederick county getting ready for more local beer.ers approved a contract with the flying dog to sell 31 acres of the empty farm land to air force for $2.5 million. this will launch a study period. the brewers say the new plan to allow them to have seven times as much beer as they do now. 700 barrels a year. alison: well, take a look at this as you head to the weather. joint base andrews, a big weekend there. doug: all week, the weather is cooperating and it is going to be perfect for events at st. andrews. flying or on the ground or anything else. the whole weekend the weather is fine around here. let's get started. look at the conditions across the area. they are fine as fine can be. we look at the rockville campus on montgomery college with the temperature at 82 degrees. all right. so the weekend is coming. give you the story and highlights here for the weekend weather. like tomorrow morning. out at washington dulles. sunshine and warm temperatures through the day tomorrow. just about ideal. also tomorrow, we have another event to

. >>> a frederick county coalition approved a strategic plan that lays out a road map to end homelessness includes housing optionses and improves the homelessness for people. it is according to the frederick news post. >>> now your storm 4 forecast, just a few clouds are drifting in then into the evening hours for walking the dog and temperatures will be in the upper 70s by 8:00 p.m. and under a mostly clear sky and just a few, wispy high clouds and you'll see the autumn constellations beginning to show up and they'll be climbing into the southern sky and by 8:00 in the morning and back into the upper 60s after we bottom out right around dawn in the 50s in much of the region starting out tomorrow morning and a quick jump in temperatures and then for your exercise tomorrow another day with low humidity, but the temperature quickly jumping from the 50s at 7:00 a.m. to upper 70s by 11:00, hitting the mid-80s by mid-afternoon tomorrow afternoon. big change coming our way and here is why we're going to see that big change. the high pressure has been over us now, giving us this gorgeous, warm w