live in fredericksberg, krysten leon fox 5 local news. >>> a number of northern virginia communities got slammed by last night's severe thunderstorm >> we saw hail, heavy rain, knocking down trees, power lines, leaving thousands in the dark, one house got badly battered. >> reporter: this is the worst of what we've seen today. half o croft in falls church destroyed by a falling tree. >> hail started, and stuff falling on the roof and i realized that and i ran into the basement. >> reporter: he was in the house when the storm hit, his wife car men said she was on her way home driving in the rain and hail. >> i thought i was driving home and my car was going to be destroyed and my husband called and said guess what our house was destroyed >> you can see where the tree hit the couple's upstairs bedroom. imagine being in there at the time. that's the mattress protruding through to the tv room down below >> my bed is hanging upsidedown and i normally am there watching tv either on that bed or couch. so god was watching overme. >> reporter: despite the damage, car men and victor tell us th

there you're 60's as you get outside the beltway to the west. 65 in manassas. 67 culpeper, 69 fredericksberge frederick. 72 in leonardtown. temperatures about where they should be this time of year. this map, i don't need to show you but reagan national 73, dulles is 65. and i don't have any clue where my maps are showing me right now. there's nothing on radar. other than fog, and not great visibility. keep that in mind, i was hoping to show you visibility. in some spots, visibility down to about half mile quarter mile or left and you'll see them in just a second. may need to take a few extra minutes on your way to work here. plan out extra time, behind me is gert. there you can see gert. gert is pushing off into the central atlantic. will not be a player for us, other than the continued tides that are a little bit higher, the storm surge a little bit higher and the potential for rip tides and we're going to be nice and quiet this afternoon, this is going to pick up the fog, once we get rid of the fog, we should be in for a nice improvement. dry later. could be a storm. saturday we threw one

fredericksberg is 66 and culpeper is 64.eaming in overhead now again muted. it's mainly speaking most of this cloud cover is what we call debris cloudiness which is coming from west to east off big thunderstorms that happened yesterday. and last night. so once break up these clouds, burn them off, if you will just a little bit. i think some will stay with us through the day, be reenforced with more clouds coming up this afternoon, definitely the clouds will increase by 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, mostly cloudy with limited sunshine. temperature gets up to 84 and winds on it of the south, five to ten miles per hour. southerly winds increasing the humidity just a bit. not outrageous, more than yesterday but really nice for this to him of year and especially temperatures too, 84 for a high here, gaithersburg mainly touched 80 to 81, frederick 82, manassas 83, great day out by the bay in annapolis at 80. even for the eastern shore as well. leonardtown is not bad at 81. here's the deal for tomorrow. we're technically speaking here in dc, a

and the armies don't do anything for a while until frederic fredericksberg. but lee's withdrawal is not even a withdrawal. it's a change of plans. here's lee's idea. september 18th his army is going to cross starting with his cavalry. we'll cross up stream from sharpsberg, swing north as quickly as possible, gets a bridge head back into maryland and then lee is going to swing by with his infnfry, swing is north, recross into maryland and keep the campaign going. from there what is lee's intention when he gets to haguerstown, here's what he says one week after the battle of anticipatetime to jefferson davis. when i with drew, it was my interest to recross and move into hagerstown, but the condition of the army prevented it. in a military point of view the best move, in my opinion, the army could make was to advance upon hagerstown and endeavor to defeat the enemy at that point. lee is still talking to people, but his williams port plan will fail. george mcclellan also has something to do with this. first he does pursue the confederate army and at the battle of

as far as temperatures, 75 in the nation's capit in at 68 at baltimore, 74 in annapolis, fredericksberg. 61 at winchester, 66 at dulles and 60 at manassas. that ridge of high pressure still remaining in charge and large across our area, it will be responsible for the clear skies tonight and for the sunshine for tomorrow. sonny complaints. we're headed into the 80's with plenty of sunshine and low humidity. so your planner for tomorrow you get your day lined up. boy midday, we'll be about 81 with the sunshine and boy the 5:00 hour, around 83. the beaches are looking pretty good. for tomorrow, 77, but on monday, when those storms start to kick in, 78 so you definitely want to keep your eyes on the skies. 64 for tonight, mostly clear, comfortable light northwesterly wind and for tomorrow, worry talking sunshine at 84, fox 5 accu-weather seven-day forecast, well, serving up a greatay end the weekend. we'll see showers late in the overnight hours sunday leading us to thunderstorms on monday. then we get a couple of days where we got dry run going, not bad, temperatures will remain below the

they won't cool off a whole lot more, fredericksberg 68 and tomorrow, upper 80's just about everybodyttle bit less humid tomorrow than what we were today, we continue this less humid trend, humidity will come back on monday, tuesday and wednesday. otherwise, tomorrow is dry and sunny. nice little wind out of the north northwest at about five to ten miles per hour. we'll start with sun, we'll end with sun and looks like tomorrow, no real great chance of a shower or thunderstorm, we could have a little bit back out to the west and southwest. i think here in the metro we stay all dry. 89 tomorrow, 91 for solar eclipse monday, looks like we'll have so hopefully they won't be around until about 1:00 and 3:00. then we get into the rest of the week, stay right around 90. but by thursday, much cooler temperatures coming in here, 82 there, 81 on friday, and next weekend, we could have highs only in the 70's if this forecast verifies, matt is liking that >> did you say 70's >> highs in the 70's, temporarily >> see you in a bit, the annapolis police department is coming together to help one of i

down from a high temperature that will be close to 90 again tomorrow. 87 for quantico. 88 for fredericksbergcast. and let me show you what you can expect because tomorrow morning looks like things will be on the dry side with just clouds around. the noon hour, not a lot of activity. but as we go through the afternoon, one or two of these could have heavy rain with them, and futurecast even wants to suggest around 9:00, there could be stronger thunderstorms still hanging around, we'll do it again on friday as well. so your fox 5 accu-weather seven-day forecast, couple more days to watch storms here thursday, friday, drier days saturday, sunday, again, isolated shower possible but only a very small chance, then monday, looking good in terms of the weather forecast, it's a warm one for the solar eclipse but hopefully not too many clouds to block the view. showers back in the forecast on tuesday and wednesday of next week. that is your seven-day forecast, sarah and jim over to you. >>> we're just five from the solar eclipse on monday, the shadow of the moon will completely block the sun for a fe

because of the humidity feels like 90 in frederick, 87 martinsberg, winchester 86, culpeper 86 and fredericksberging in at 85. hodo combination with the humidity? not out of control but few degrees warmer, feels like 91, evening forecast, we'll kept the threat of the a thunderstorm around, not everybody sees it, kind of like yesterday, if you're under one, heavy rain is a bigger threat. 86 at 7:00, by 9:00, expecting storms to be off the radar, 81 and by 11:00, 77 degrees and a preview of what's to come, here's the weather headline, we'll have more details on thursday and the weekend coming up in a few minutes's jim and sarah? >>> there was a search to find a missing victim >> what caused a school to explode and go up in flames with students and staff inside. >>> and iphone cases are being recalled because they can cause chemical burns. look at those, does it look familiar? we'll show you the entire list at least what they look like coming up next. >>> a marijuana law would free people behind bars for weed offensesly we'll explain behind the bill to legalize marijuana nationwide. faulkier ♪ ♪. >>

we're 88 in washington, about 85 in hagerstown, 84 in leonardtown. 89 in fredericksberg. 91 a little more warm and humid monday, partly mass, thursday, friday and saturday, high temperatures around 80. low temperatures in the mid 60, really comfortable as we head towards next thursday and friday. that's the seven-day forecast. tom, sending it back to you. >>> time is 7:34. disturbing new details in the triple murder. a maryland man killed his little sister and two family members. of kristen live with the latest. >> reporter: tom and annie, good morning, 25-year-old antonio williams is currently facing first and second degree murder charges in the deaths of these three girls. now, this is what we've learned so far in this disturbing investigation. of take closer look at him. police say williams confessed to killing his 6-year-old sister and two second cousins, ages six and nine visiting from new jersey and we're also t was supposed to be watching the three little girls while his mom was working overnight as a nurse, but when she got home, she was the one who made the gruesome discover

you don't have to look at the capitol shot to know that but it did reenfore, leonardtown is 68 fredericksberg 66, indianapolis up to 72, gaithersburg out of the 50 to 60 and winchester is still lagging behind everyone there in the upper 50's, it's been gorgeous, high pressure in control. high pressure coming out of the north and northwest, that means mild conditions plus cool start and then mild this afternoon, compared to normal. we should be basically 86 or so for a typical high temperature, we'll be in the upper 70's to around 80. couple of you may have 81 or 82 before the all said and done and it will be dry. here's the forecast, starts off with sunshine, 75, 80 by about 2:00 or so, we'll back off the high by 4:00, 5:00 and we'll only be about citizen, this is for the city, in the suburbs, cooler, maybe warmer depending on exactly where you are. again, major flood threat down here in southeastern texas. i mentioned earlier, the hurricane center is using words like catastrophic, life-threatening, devastating, you choose the will not be great over the next several days obviously. 20 inches

you don't see it often get down to 0, but fredericksberg, culpeper, martinsberg, hagerstown, visibility is being reported at 0, it is that are thick, dense fog in many spots to start your morning, and certainly likely to slow the commute a little bit. it will take a couple hours to bu t we should be back into sunshine here by afternoon. 73 now in washington. regionally cooler, when we get outside the beltway. 68 up pittsburgh, 68 in binghamton. we'll show you gert in a second you can see it's pushing off to the east. we got quiet conditions locally midatlantic nice and quiet. high pressure will keep things dry this afternoon, once we get the sun out, it will turn into pleasant summer afternoon with highs in the upper 80's to about 90. quickly gert, category one, it's out of here, i do want to mention the tropics are getting active. it's starting to heat up. there may be additional tropical storms we got do watch next coupled days gut gert will be pushing off to the north and east to the united kingdom. our forecast, 89. sunshine this afternoon after the fog is out. storms back by tomorr