that's in fredericksburg it will be the last stop on the fredericksburg line. >>> a man in california is recovering after being rescued from inside of a palm stree. look this video shows a tree trimmer being rescued from inside the palm. he was left dangling about 25 feet above the ground. firefighters are not sure how he got stuck. he was taken to the hospital and is expected to be okay. >>> this weekend's marine corps marathon is barely in the books but one change for next year has a lot of people talking. >>> and a confrontation caught on camera. you might have seen this video from inside a classroom that has a lot of people asking if the school employee went too far and how investigators here in washington could get involved with the case. >>> right now some people and businesses in falls church, virginia don't have water a water main on south maple avenue between wallace street and tenor hill broke around 10:00 this morning. crews had to use shovels to get to the break because it was so close to a gas line. they hope to have it fixed in the next few hours. >>> flooding covering t

fredericksburg was especially bad because it was in the winter of 1862. the confederate army had set up a trap for the union soldiers. it was a losing battle with somebody injured that family members came to their site including walt whitman. like clara barton, he was galvanized by the civil war. he was like a volunteer nurse to soldiers, whom he visited nearly everyday. getting access to the camp's was made easier for clara barton thanks to letters written by her ally, senator henry wilson. even so, barton had to overcome cultural obstacles and bureaucratic resistance to requests to get passes to the front. she spent valuable time here on 7th street, anxious about delays go to the battlefield. where the union and confederate armies crashed, she cooked gruel, soups and meals for hundreds. her own apple pie made a good dessert. she changed bedsheets, even those covered with dysentery. she cleaned and tended to wounds. she walked along the ward and offered sips of water or whiskey. she listened to the lovesick stories of a soldier whose real name was mary.

leon: a nine-year-old girl shot by a bb gun on her school bus in fredericksburg. othersnts say that four were shot in the leg as an 11-year-old pulled the trigger. leon: parents are demanding answers. richard reeve spoke with family members and has the details. what have you learned about this? , you can imagine the parents of this little girl were very upset. she came through the door of her home and said she was shot on her school bus. now they would like to find out why they had to find this out from their daughter. also concerned about what if this had been more serious than just a bb rifle. nine-year-old sophia still has a welt from the frightening ordeal. >> we heard it hitting the metal of the seat. richard: that banging on the bus ride home turned out to be a plastic bb size pellet from an airsoft gun. hours later, they got a phone call from the school principal. >> another student had brought in the air soft gun to school and had been shot. she wanted to know of she was ok. richard: the school principal said it was an 11-year-old boy. sophia said that she

-- fredericksburg to warrenton to waldorf. the front will move out of here and behind at the skies begin to clear. a really nice thursday ahead, with temperatures about 10 degrees above average this time of year. how much rayna we talking about? the latest model shows about three inches in the district. i think that may be on the high side. the general range will be 1-2 inches by this time tomorrow night. the sunshine will return, a bit breezy thursday. tomorrow, 60 degrees by 7:00 in the morning, areas of heavy rain. same at noon time. 5:00, may have some rumbles of thunder. some of the storms have the potential to be strong with gusty wind and heavier downpours. doug hill will keep you updated tomorrow as these storms progress. 74 degrees and breezy thursday. the cooler air friday. halloween right now will be drive. the trick or treat her's will be happy with temperatures in the mid to upper 50's, then we fall back one hour, daylight savings earlyoming to an end sunday morning. that is the full forecast from the belfort furn

have you ever walked fredericksburg battlefield? if you go to the prospect hill line, you go down and you see these markers, confederate trenches. you go a little farther up closer to where lafayette boulevard cuts in, and you see the absence of one of the two core commanders there at fredericksburg, james longstreet. you see the division line or you see pickett. fredericksburg is founded in 1927, part of the remembrance reconciliation, so long street had committed a few sins against confederate memory and chose names left off some of these markers. manassas national battlefield, the north called it bull run -- it is formed, it is saved, preserved, initially called manassas confederate park. or have you gone to the site of lee's greatest victory? not where the north succumbed, where hooker's plan worked -- no, lee's greatest victory. the confederate general did his utmost and came within a hair breath a few times to actually separating the country. go down i-95 and see stonewall jackson's shrine. do we have a grant shrine or a sherm

and fredericksburg. it's still a nice day and a nice afternoon and you probably won't need the jackets this afternoon and you did this morning and you'll need it again tomorrow morning. 44 in the summer and 54 in the city. mostly sunny, cool and dry and it gets colder as we head into the weekend. >> high temperatures only in the 50s. so we'll be 10 degrees cooler than we are today and that's both saturday and sunday. lows near freezing in the suburbs. we fully expect to see the potential for a freeze or frost in our region and definitely feeling a lotmore like november. get out the coats and if you think about hitting the pumpkin patch this week en, the coats will be a necessity. >> thanks, doug. >> an item you have in your fridge right now may be part of an important recall. dole is recalling bagged spinach because it may put you at rick of salmonella poisoning and they are enjoyed by a date of october 15th and they were sold in 13 states including maryland. so far no one has reported getting sick from

fredericksburg come in the 70's. today, we will talk about in the middle 70's. sunshine expected through 5:00. overnight, a few high clouds rolling in as our next weather front approaches. here is our weather story. high pressure today. there is a cold front on the left-hand side, and that will move in tomorrow morning. there will be a chance for showers, possibly during your morning rush. minutes, we will timeout those showers so that you can plan ahead as you are all getting back to work and school. you dear virginia's task force is on its way back home from its deployment in south carolina. the team must apply to the water log state last week after the devastating flooding. water levels begin receding but many roads remained closed. the task force is expected to arrive in chantilly at 3:00 this afternoon. to the skies, where southwest airlines says it fixed the computer glitch that affected hundreds of passengers across the country. sam sweeney is at reagan national with the problems it can't passengers this morning, and when you need to know today. sam: it w

same for southern maryland. 68 in fredericksburg. widen the view out a bit. warm to the west of us. 70's in columbus and indianapolis and louisville. this all moves our way tomorrow. high pressure overhead. that will keep us dry. however probably start to increase as we move to the late afternoon hours at a cold front well north of us that will slide across the area. drop our temperatures for the day on friday. if you have outdoor plans, take advantage of the nice warm temperatures to get out and enjoy it while you can. in town, the nighttime locals fall to 50 degrees. it will be cooler in the suburban areas. we have the middle 40's around 50 for upper marlboro. 44 in manassas. this is our future cast. we move through the day tomorrow. mild push of the air from the south and the west. will is the cold front to the north. that is going to slide across our region late tomorrow night, friday morning. friday the cold front will have moved through. temperatures 67. friday, 65. 70, the marine corps marathon. it will start out on cool side. middle 60's by 1:00 movin

tomorrow, 71 downtown. 73 as far north as fredericksburg and 72 in leesburg.ow much we go up tomorrow and what the cold front means for our weekend. >>> it's the time of the year maryland basketball fans have been waiting for. we speak with both the men and women teams about i'm jeremy mcpike, candidate for state senate, and i sponsored this ad. republican hal parrish claims he improved transportation. but the truth is he was nowhere to be found. literally. parrish holds a seat on the northern virginia transportation authority, but 34 times he failed to show up for meetings. parrish skipped more meetings than any other member. and hal parrish refused to support the bi-partisan transportation bill. why would we want to get stuck with republican hal parrish in richmond? because it works for our patients. here, at cancer treatment centers of america in philadelphia, we give our patients the freedom to make appointments that fit their schedules, even on weekends. because we believe in being here when our patients need us, so they can keep living their busy lives.

fredericksburg at 12:30. fairfax at 1:00 p.m. washington at 1:30. this is an afternoon and evening where you might want to keep the umbrella handy. the metro area seeing sunshine. the white here are clouds. we'll have a mix of clouds and sun heading into the early afternoon hours. tracking a front that will bring the potential for more rain and a few thunderstorms this evening. more on that in ten minutes. >>> i'm megan mcgrath live on the outside side of the suitland parkway. early this morning a tractor trailer plunged off that beltway overpass falling on to the lanes below. the driver was killed. traffic was snarled for hours. the tractor trailer could be seen laying on its side on eastbound suitland parkway. but this was just the truck's resting place. it actually fell off an overpass on the outer loop of the beltway and landed on the lanes below. these nsnapshots were take bin first responders. it's unclear why he lost control. the outbound suitland parkway was closed for hours. >> we detoured around it, went a different way into the city. so,

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fredericksburg. emancipationhe proclamation followed just days later. that shifted the whole round and meaning of the civil war. she caught on to that very quickly. i want you to realize that, not everybody was an abolitionist in 1861, including walt whitman. they just wanted to save the union. i heard that there were several hundred women who disguised themselves as men to be soldiers in the civil war. is or anything that shows she was her attempted to do that or make that hurt conservation? ms. stiehm: -- her contribution? ms. stiehm: did she want to cross dress? a lot of them were girls who were following sweethearts, like mary. there were a lot of girls who just wanted to be fight and be part of it. clara barton never had that desire. she knew that her contribution was unique and that if she didn't do it, nobody else would. the pictures that you see of her, in some ways she looks very stately and refined and delicate. she went to the camps, she went to the battles. i don't think she ever wish she was fighting in them -- ever wished she was fighting

teenagers have been arrested, accused of plotting a shooting at their school in fredericksburg.heriff's deputies said they planned to call in a bomb threat to riverbend high school and shoot students and staff as they evacuated. deputies working with a students resource officer to arrest the team after he allegedly threatened a student via social media, which is when police learned about the plot. >> it was a credible threat. these kids in our estimation, intended to do what they said they were going to. because of the school resource officer program, we stopped them cold. anchor: the students are being held without bond. a body found in charles county friday afternoon maybe that of a home invasion suspect. 18-year-old steven coltman disappeared last week after he was charged with the crime. his home is close to where the body was found. searchers found a gun nearby. a positive identity and cause of death have not been determined. person,ng now, a fourth a two-year-old child, has died after a one crashed her car into the oklahoma state homecoming parade. is suspected of driving

fredericksburg 32. orange, very cold start out under a clear sky.the mountains and look at these numbers. down to freezing. winchester, just below freezing. it is cold. and yes, i know, it is october. but we're running way above average in terms of our temperatures, or i should say below average, just with the cold. and then you factor in the wind. once again, that will kick in tomorrow out of the northwest. so i think we hit a temperature around 50 degrees by lunch time tomorrow. and mid 50s, that puts us just down below where we were today. a little lower temperatures coming our way. you can see tomorrow, there's that disturbance rotating through. that green you see, the possibility of a sprinkle again in the potomac highlands today. a little flurry or grapple, wintry type of precip. very isolated. you could see a sprinkle tomorrow. temps top out in the 50s from 51 gaithersburg, 57 in fredericksburg. it will be a day with some sunshine coming our way. but the wind will make it feel even colder. this is what it will feel like early sunday morning.

one had a listed address at this tiny industrial lot in fredericksburg. no sign on the door. another at a home in an upscale subdivision and this one, address that led to an abandoned lot in the woods. turns out this guy is a cigarette trafficker who bought virginia's low tax cigarettes in bulk and help eed ship them nor where they can be illegally sold for big bucks. paul carey investigates cigarette smuggling for the tax board and knows this guy's operation. >> reporter: is he the top of the piyramid or somewhere in th middle? >> the middle. >> reporter: his name is steve chan and when i-team tipped about his operation and the big buy the feds swept in and arrested him for laundering. i, mr. chen, i'm scott for news4 i-team. before he was caught, he managed to buy $13 million worth of cigarettes in a little more than a year. he admitted to selling 20,000 packs out of that unmarked industrial park building to an accomplice. why did you do it, mr. chen? he didn't answer. investigators say he isn't the only one doing this, there are more. >> the exact same operation, opening a

still 50s. 57 downtown. 56 in manassas and 55 in fredericksburg. then by 9:00 we will follow a little quicker tomorrow night with some 40sin the burbs by 9:00. then back to 54 at 11:00 and the temperatures don't move much tomorrow as they will move in essentially all day. still cool for halloween, but as we mentioned dry about 59. temperatures in the 50s for the trick or treaters. milder on sunday with maybe a shower as temperatures go back to the upper 50s. again the weekend where we move the clocks back one hour. the 49-hour weekend that's a good deal. should be okay for the game in baltimore. upper 70s on wednesday and mid- 70s with sunshine. >>> in 19 days, georgetown and maryland basketball will resuscitate the rivalry that has been dormant for 22 years. wow. local fans are looking forward to the upcoming game, of course. but they are looking back at that night here in 1993. and through the eyes of the player instrumental in their win. >> and it will make the move. they've got it! >> reporter: on the terrapins 1993 team that would beat the big

northbound 130 in fredericksburg, it continues. outbound 66 through the metro toward the area route 28 in centreville. devon: hagerstown getting the heavier rain. there is a creep next to the showers. next up is fredericksburg. charlestown and winchester and loudoun county as well. leesburg, we'd get the heavier showers in the forecast. looking ahead to temperatures we have reached 80 degrees. maybe the cloud cover and the sprinkle activity we wouldn't get there. we had the clouds. the sprinkle activity. what we are tracking here is the movement in the showers and the storms closer to washington. what we are seeing is movement at 30 miles per hour. it is 80 miles away. puts them here in two hours at 6:00. this is a cold front passing our way. the timing of the storms are most important. 6:00 p.m. heart of the washington metro. big picture in the next two days. it's cool irtomorrow. ton of sunshine around this weekend. columbus day, itself, the temperatures go back up. much closer view. we set the forecast and going to tomorrow. low

and 37 in culpeper and 39 toward fredericksburg. you'll need the coats once again tomorrow and 7:00, so the kids can hit the bus stop and tomorrow is one of those days when you put the coats on early and you take them off during the afternoon because we will get plenty of sun and 67 degrees in most of the area and up to 69 for the high after that. 72 back toward winchester and it will be warmer as we have the warm air pushing in from the west and that will maintain itself as we make our way into the next couple of days, too. how about these temperatures over the next few days, tomorrow, 69 and 72 on your wednesday and 76 on your thursday and 63 on friday and we have another cool front that will cool things down thursday into friday, but we're not talking 30s or 20s anymore and we're not talking highs in the 50s. you get to 63. 63 with sunshine and we'll take that. how about the 70s? i'm excited about that. >> thank you, doug. we are, too. >>> we're still following several developing stories this afternoon. kris jenner opening up abo

this flow of this shower is moving off to the west- northwest, coming into southern maryland, fredericksburg, culpeper, fauquier county. you see this very is light activity across calvert county, mechanicsville, moving into charles county. there's also some patchy drizzle. one of the reasons, this persistent northeasterly wind. along the coast, gusting over 40. waves offshore over 15 feet. they've been getting pounded for a couple of days. because of all that persistent wind out of the northeast, we've got coastal flood warnings st. mary's, the eastern shore. waves have been three to six feet in the open bay causing tides to run two 1/2 feet above normal. western shore of the bay, calvert, anne arundel, also around town tides running one 1/2 to two 1/2 feet above normal so that means at haines point, by the seafood market here in washington. a lot of areas are dealing with a lot of high water. conditions will get better over the next couple of days. >>> turning to sports, a magical night for teams that could use good news. no playoffs, but oh scherzer. >> not bad for a meaningless baseball g

fredericksburg is getting wet with a few isolated severe storms and not everybody will see crazy stormsthis evening, but know that this will be impacting roads with the potential for moderate to heavy rain. by 8:00, 9:00, it should exit areas in the northern neck and look at 11:00 p.m. clouds and temperatures are dropping. as far as temperatures go for tomorrow morning it will be quite chilly. the storm chances are highest here around 7:00, 8:00 and we'll start to see the rain chances come down from around 9:00 to 10:00 p.m. this evening and our temperatures have been mild, upper 70s and it got up to 80 degrees and fredericksburg, cooling to 77 and 79. we had some cooling temps here around cumberland where they dropped into the 50s and 60s just behind this line of rain that came through. as far as early tomorrow morning, how chilly will it be? 45 to 55, you will need a jacket this weekend and maybe even a sweater if you plan on being up and out early sunday morning. tomorrow morning will be breezy, as well and it's not until the afternoon when the wind starts to die down. breezy sunshin

up to 78, leesburg and 78 in fredericksburg. 76 in frederick, maryland and plenty of sunshine, tomorrow, another spectacular arch and then a front comes through and that will help to cool things down a bit and back down into the 60s and just the average of 67 and we'll be at 66 on friday and 66 on sunday, if you're headed to the marine corps marathon on sunday, a 30% chance of amp m. showers and it's something to watch out for and we'll continue to watch it for you from the storm center and veronica has the rest of the weekend and next week's forecast coming up in a bit. the delivery giant defrauded taxpayers in virginia and the district. virginia's attorney general announced a 4 million settlement against ups today. it's accused of overcharging for next-day shipping by recording inaccurate delivery times on tax-payer funded shipments sent by government agencies. the attorney general's office says ups now has new training and reporting programs in place. >>> the vatican is categorically denying a newspaper report that pope francis has a brain tumor. the pope held his weekly general audi

traffic now is being detoured at exit 130, which is route 3 in fredericksburg.osed between exits 130 and 126. police are not giving us details on the death investigation right now. just letting us know that the roads is been shut down. alison: a high-tech tip leads to a drunk driving arrest. as ryan smith reports good samaritans called police after seeing a drunk young woman broadcasting herself online while behind the wheel. >> i'm driving home drunk. >> hi there. i just saw a girl on periscope driving drunk. she doesn't know where she is. she is driving really fast. reporter: this morning police are saying a smartphone app helped them take an allegedly intoxicated driver off the streets and put her behind bars. >> how do you know she's drunk? >> she is slurring her speech and going from one to another on the street. >> i know, i know, i am super mean mean drunk right now. reporter: police say she was using periscope to share her saturday night out in lakeland, florida, with the world in real-time starting off at a bar and then getting behind the wheel of her c

mary's, charles county, then from the beltway to fredericksburg and west of there. this is all tracking off to the west, by the way. a few of those sprinkles into prince william, southern fauquier, and culpeper. just a little bit of drizzle around the metro area right now. another cool morning. not quite as chilly as it was yesterday morning. low 50s. western suburbs. eastern suburbs. upper 50s in washington. upper 50s around the bay now. it's in the upper 40s in shenandoah valley. out in the mountains it's in the chilly morning. a look at when we'll finally see that sun. that's coming up in just a few minutes. >> thank you. new this morning neighbors are finally able to go back into their homes after a gas leak in bethesda. this happened on fairfax. several cars and residents had to be evacuates. neighbors were taken to a 24-hour safeway. this one on bradley boulevard. they used it as a shelter. folks were let back into their homes around two hours later. >>> there's a state of emergency right now in south carolina. take a look at this. cars stuck in floodwaters in

. >> low temperatures tonight, cool, and above average. 52 manassas and 54 down toward fredericksburgand high temperatures tomorrow only in the low to mid-60s and 66 in manassas and 67 in fredericksburg. we'll see sunshine, but it will be on the breezy side, too and that will make it feel cooler and as long as you have a jacket you'll be a-okay. now the temperatures in the next couple of days about the same in the low to mid-60s and saturday a high temperature of 65 and notice the low and that's 47 for an overnight low and most of you in the suburbs will be in the upper 30s and saturday morning will be a cool morning and sunday, high temperature of 66 and notice a chance of showers and that coincides with the marine corps marathon and the good news as the cold front comes through and we will see the chance of showers and the big umbrella and the small umbrella and occasional showers and most of us will stay on the dry side and maybe it will take the pod show out there, too and know that you're running into a little bit of light rain and by monday, temperatures are cooler and most of y

justice -- or education department has launched a civil rights investigation into the fredericksburg,virginia, school that comes after a member of the student group feminist united was murdered back in april. her housemate is charged with her death. at a press conference today the group said many of its members received threats on social media before the graceman was killed and they claim nothing was done about it. >> the goal is to make colleges safe for all students, women, people of color, the lgbt community and put it squarely on schools to make that happen. >> late this afternoon the schools responded to our request for comments saying university of mary washington, the prevention of sexual misconduct is an institutional priority. the school says it welcomes guidance by the u.s. department of education. >>> the president says prescription drug abuse and the heroin epidemic are real and the government needs to make it a priority in order to stop the problem. today he visited west virginia, that state leading the nation in overdose deaths. the president said drug abuse is a problem

the same in fredericksburg. 65 at reagan national airport. fredericksburg at 66 degrees. the winds beginning to kick up. sustained winds for you at 10 to 15 miles per hour. some higher gusts are out there. the winds will begin to ease. just a little bit as they move through the overnight. if you have a football game to go to this evening. you want to grab a jacket. sweater. maybe a hat even, as the temperatures at 10:00 tonight will fall from the middle 50's. the winds lower 40's. upper 30's are not out of the question. tomorrow, a cool day considering our average high for this time of year in the upper 60's. we will only be in the middle 50's. i should note a freeze watch. more on that coming up in a few minutes. jonathan? jonathan: steve, thank you very much. did you get a chance to see the video coming out of california with the mudslide? all the video here, these are major interstate where the mud started flowing. the work crews now have been working for the last i guess 15 hours to try to get the roads clear after the flooding and the mudslides covered everything. ev

very light showers and you can see it around fredericksburg and around stafford during the afternoonand with it more sunshine to follow and with those low temperatures at night and you have the fall color peaking in northwestern, maryland. >> and getting out and not just doing things around the house and maybe painting and wait until the afternoon when we get the warmer temperatures and get weather for decorating and it's all about the weekend and just how low those temperatures will be by early sunday morning, look at this. 36 leesburg and 36 in areas like fredericksburg, 35 up to the north around frederick, maryland and not only sunday morning, but monday morning and possibly tuesday morning, as well and it will feel a lot like november coming up, sunday, monday, tuesday of next week and a dry pattern coming up. >> v.j., i have your ragweed right now. thank you very much for that update. >> a warning for those of you who hire help for your computer problems. scammers are after your money offering bogus tech support. >> patrice noted a pop-up on her computer did and it wouldn't go a

areas down through fredericksburg. that rain will continue moving to the north and east overspreading the area. showers now, at 59 degrees. our temperatures will cool a little bit then start rising again as we head into the latter part of the night. i think it's rain everywhere by 1: 11:00. mainly light showers. early tomorrow morning, more moderate rain hits the area, even wind. a nasty morning rush. we get more wind for tomorrow afternoon. the kind that turns the umbrella inside out. so just keep that in mind. those winds could gust up to 40 miles per hour. ef even in a few locationses with storms coming in. slow travel for erly tomorrow morning. temperatures in the as. it's be igoing to be cool. wear the warm rain jacket if you're just going with a jacket instead of the umbrella. heavy thunderstorms for tomorrow afternoon. i think any time after 2:00, 3:00, chance of storms continue, but look at the temperatures. i wanted to show you that we continue in the upper 60s to at least mid 60s by 10:00. it's going to be a

the first time we hit the 30s so far downtown this season and 35 in fredericksburg. bring the plants in tonight if you want them to survive. bring them in tonight. by morning, 7:00, only in the low to mid-40s, again, not the cold night, chilly no doubt but we'll advance the futurecast to 10:00. 50 in ma manassas. the soccer games in the morning, dress for the 30s and the rest of the day, dress for the 40s. at 1:00, drawling into the mid- 50s, maybe 56 downtown and 54 in bowie. there will be a couple of showers, hagueers down, winchester, and coupler with -- cumberland. our friends across the divide, a rain or show shower possible. sunday morning, dropping in the 30s already. for tonight, clear skies, breezy and colder and no frost or freeze, 38 up to 48 and tomorrow morning, mostly sunny, breezy and cold and 38 to 55. the winds with us all day, northwest at 10 to 15 and in the afternoon sunny and breezy and chilly, and highs, 56 to 60. on the day planner, downtown temp, mind you, 49 at 9:00 and 54 at 11:00 and 56 at 1:00 p.m., okay. on sunday, the season will be cold

fredericksburg, 55. 40 in upper marlboro and 42 in downtown washington. southern maryland does better. 41 in leonard town and 41 in fredericksburg. 35 in manassas. there is a lot of sunshine until the afternoon when the clouds will gather. tomorrow clouds but no rain. sunday is cloudy. then look at the temperatures. 70's. reminder tomorrow night before you go to bed turn your clocks back one hour. leon: 32. alison: more than that. leon: tonight's weather should be great for the high school football. knock brings out the emotions like a rivalry game. tonight there is just that. alison: that is right. hawking will join -- erin hawksworth has more on this. leon: hey, erin. erin: hey, guys. this is perfect football weather. as you can see, seneca valley high school student section are blacked out for the big showdown. you can expect the unexpected. >> this has been so great all day. everybody is updating twitter. saying how we'll eat damascus and that they are going down. everybody is motivated for the game. >> it's not just the students. the adults, everybod

also fairfax, arlington, 55 in fredericksburg and stafford. the good news means no weather-related slowdown for this morning or this evening. coming up, as a result could have a weather-related slowdown. here's an exclusive sky cast. hardly a cloud to be found. it's going to be a nice one. your temperatures near 50 with dry pavement this morning and mid-60s with full sunshine coming later on. this weekend promises to be much, much colder. i'll have your seven-day forecast coming up at 5:41. we have melissa mollet mo has coming slowdowns in places. >> continuing problems. unfortunately this is not something i can clear out of the way. rockville pike, the water main break in bethesda. we're going to hear from her in just a minute. between cedar lane and pooksville, we have one southbound lane open. you're going want to take georgetown or connecticut instead. all northbound lanes are open. you're going to be just fine this morning. >>> prince george's county looking pretty f pretty good. inbound going 66 miles an hour. at 95 northbound here when

clinton, 73. 72 for frederick. 75, fredericksburg. mid-, culpeper and orange. here is a look at the thursday. a look at where high temperatures go. we started out chilly, cold. we're going to end up warm. 75 in for washington. a few high, thin cirrus clouds coming in. washington looking east. into the afternoon, the only sky we will test daily sky cover we will see. 74 is going to be nice. 70 forecast, i want to highlight the marine corps memorial. i might try to give you that were cast in a bit. lowered a mid-seventies coming in. saturday into sunday, a mix of a shower coming in. for the marine corps memorial, we are going to look at a chance of rain. holding off until after we get in towards the race. there is a look at your forecast. ideals a little bit above running temperatures. 55 by the time some of the best runners will be getting in. 62 by the time it is ending. rain holding off. should be a nice forecast. jummy: i did the 10k last year and i believe it was warmer last year. was pretty warm. good luck to the runners. a student found 48 hours after goin

fair amount of sunshine should push temperatures into the mid to upper 50s. 58 in fredericksburg andtown. freeze warnings are up for tonight and tomorrow night. how low will we go, coming up in a few more minutes. back to you. >>> the newsroom is working to learn information about a crash that happened overnight. take a look at the scene. this is an annapolis road in bladensburg, maryland. police now tell us medics found at least one person hurt on the street. this is around 12:30 this morning. they suspect the person may be the victim of a hit and run. we are going to share new details with you as soon as we get them. >>> a teenager is recovering after he was stabbed near tenleytown's metro station last night. it happened around 9:30 on the sidewalk outside the station. the 15-year-old is expected to be okay. >> police don't have any information on a suspect as of yet. >>> while it could take days to a state highway to clear in california, it has been smothered with mud between two and six feet deep. fortunately, no one hurt in all of this. nbc's patrick healey shows us how drivers

ten degrees below that in washington at 58. 60 in culpeper and fredericksburg. we'll take those temperatures up into the 70s for today. so it's going to be so nice throughout the afternoon and into the evening. even clear skies as we head into the evening. southerly winds not quite as cold as it was the last few days. mild conditions wednesday, thursday, our temperatures drop a little bit on friday. so right around normal for this time of year and chance for rain showers on sunday, just some light stuff and maybe some drizzle as we start the beginning of the next work week. i know sunday marine corps marathon. we have that forecast coming up inner loop new reaction this midday to oscar pistorius release from jail. for the first time this midday a statement from the mother of the woman he killed. june steenkamp said she has no feelings of revenge towards the paralympic star. he got out of jail this week to serve the rest of his sentence on house arrest. >> when asked to forgive, to move on otherwise you become ill. and you forgive and god expects you to forgive.

wonderful. 75 in fredericksburg. 73 in hagerstown. 77 at cumberland. the temperatures will cool down tonight moving in the 40's. we can see where the cooler air is located. the areas of green. but to the west is the weather for tomorrow. we have another warm day. high pressure to the south of us. stick around tonight and tomorrow to early tomorrow everything. close one. it will signal changes in our forecast as we move toward the end of the week and into the upcoming weekend. clear skies. just a few passing clouds over virginia. the sun is set around 6:30. look for the sun glare to cause issues around the capital beltway. 50 degrees for the overnight lows and mainly clear skies. cool out there. 40 degrees inside the capital beltway. in the suburban areas tomorrow morning will be in the 40's. 50 degrees in upper marlboro. the future cast moving through the next few days. mild day ahead. this is the approaching cold front arriving late tomorrow. behind it we will cooler air. it arrives friday and will stick around all weekend long. look at the 5:00 hours

southern maryland part of the area on the western side through fredericksburg. close to 70. pleasant i. high of 69 tomorrow. the same pattern on shore thursday. friday is the same. friday we will get showers and a cold front. systemly colder. not cold like january or february cold. highs in the mid-to-upper 50's over the weekend. wake-up temperatures sunday, monday morning. 30's. there is a chance we could see the scattered fost for the first time this season in areas well outside the metro area. it looks nice with no major storms forecast. isolated somehowers and sprinkles of showers with the cold front on friday. good stuff. alison: nice fall weather. >> love it. leon: thank you. alison: well, the officers accused in freddie gray death back in court today. leon: still ahead -- why they are challenging their own words. what a judge has to say. >> a new way to pay for parking in d.c. what key piece of information you need to have before you head to the leon: there is confusion brewing over the latest effort to simplify paying to park. >> the new technology aims to make thing

leesburg, fredericksburg, charlottesville 77. tuesday, the front coming in at about 10:00 in the morning. other guidance suggests early afternoon. if it comes in the afternoon, it will be a mild day, low to mid 70's. the current temperatures again, tomorrow, there are some indications there will be a foggy start. off,will eventually burn some high altitude clouds later. the seven day forecast, columbus day looks like the best day this week. a front coming through tuesday, breezy and cooler. we could drop into the 50's next weekend. low to mid 40's in the morning tomorrow. prepare for the layers because it will be wet by the afternoon. not a bad forecast for october. new optionsng up -- for facebook users. mom this is hugely important. is there anywhere in your house i can get a good signal? anyway, you were saying. it's a tragic love story. i love tragedy. what is that noise? what? i'm on set. what movie? i'm shooting a movie about laundry. leave slow internet behind. a movie about laundry? yeah the 100% fiber optics network give

moves through it will get breezy across the area and check out the temperature. 67 degrees around fredericksburg and kull pepper and stafford. the front, with breezy conditions for your afternoon. if you're going out to the game tomorrow evening for friday night lights. 59 degrees by 7:00 and chilly conditions, 52 by 10:00 and nothing like what we'll deal with this weekend from 58 degrees and a high temperature on saturday starting out in the 30s sunday with the possibility of some freeze and frost just west of d.c. this is going to be the first time that we'll be seeing some of the frost and freeze and our coolest temperature of the year so far coming up and a look at your four-day forecast and low 50s for the early part of next week and as far as the forecast goes, and maybe we'll hit the temperatures next week. they just put that out today. >> the national oceanic and atmospheric administration released its winder forecast today and it is a very strong el nino happening in the pacific. nbc's chris clackum has more on that. >> federal forecasters are giving the drought-stricken western u.s. re

outside the belfort furniture weather center, 51 degrees at reagan national, middle 40's luray and fredericksburg. not much wind right now, but a little bit of wind could add a wind chill. this is what we have in terms of a freeze watch, now posted tomorrow night into early sunday morning, northern montgomery county, western loudoun county, all of fauquier county. this will likely change to parts of a freeze warning by this time tomorrow night. the district in southern maryland not included. we will talk about how cold it will get and how long that will stick around, and a warm-up with temperatures back into the middle 70's. the details in just a few minutes. jonathan? jonathan: steve, thanks. mudslides left a mess in southern california. video, rescuers using ladders and tarps to help people trapped in the rolling river of mud. interstate five reopened after mudslides pushed up to five feet of mud across the interstate. southbound lanes reopened an hour ago. that is a major highway. encouraging news about the health of former nba star lamar odom. woke up,ative say odom spoke him even gave a thum

fredericksburg, 71. 73 in winchester. most of us warming up nicely. unless you're by the water the temperatures are in the 60's. the temperatures are back in the 50's and the 40's tonight on average. one of the cool spots could touch the upper 30's. more warmth to linger through the week. how long? i will let you know the forecast coming up. alison: it's that time of year. marine corps marathon is almost here. crews are getting ready near arlington national cemetery and along the route in d.c. area. ahead of the run this weekend. metro is preparing for what is expected to be a big ridership weekend. reminder, metro will open at 5:00 sunday morning. that is earlier than usual. so the racers and the families could get to the start line and save their spots along the course. jonathan: there were changes in the landscape for the race for the democratic nomination for president. a democrat has dropped out. we still yet wait for another to make up his mind. senior political reporter scott thuman is live from the capitol hill bureau. jim webb is out as democ

next week, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, we could be in the 60's. 534 in frederick. 56 in fredericksburg. the cloud will clear away. the gifts will diminish to 5 miles per hour. the weekend is here. the sky conditions will be sunny to mid-to-late afternoon tomorrow. late afternoon the clouds will roll in. the 60 degrees for the high. 67 with cloudy skies. by late afternoon 30% chance of the rain drops and the showers. we head through the everything hours we don't see the weather threat whatsoever. there will be increasing cloudiness. it will be dry. the visibility will be good. temperatures will be cool in the mid-50's after sunset. the sun sets at 6:09 tomorrow. but it sets earlier on sunday. this is all because we turn the clock back an hour before going to bed tomorrow night. the effect will be a 7:34 sunrise tomorrow. 6:09 sunset. on sunday, the sun will rise at 2:350 and set at 5:08. there will be late day showers on monday. wi will have temperatures above average in lower 70's tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday. leon: all right. good deal. robert: i can dream, though. i can dream

low 70's leesburg to fredericksburg. we had a comfortable afternoon, not bad for mid-october.:00, upper 40's leesburg, , 56hester, 52 andrews annapolis. later tonight, northern and western suburbs low 40's winchester, martinsburg some of the cooler spots. upper 40's, near 50 inside the beltway. 48 pax river, 47 leonardtown. virginia, low 40's, some upper 30's in culpeper. skies were clear, we had some high clouds, but nothing major. the next system off to the north will sink to the south, bringing us a shift in the wind. we adjust the temperature slightly the back half of the week, but nothing like the arctic outbreak we had earlier. we slip into the 40's tonight. about 49 on average. 40's all around. tomorrow afternoon, warming up, the high 74. the next front comes through with little fanfare thursday. 74 downtown tomorrow. 80's in louisville. the range from downtown to the western suburbs. we have high clouds that will be with us tomorrow morning, should be pretty. low 50's downtown by 7:00. through the afternoon, warming nicely, a beautiful afternoon. mostly sunny skies aga

two students from river bend high school in fredericksburg were arrested in connection with an alleged plot. investigators say students planned to call in a bomb threat and then shoot students and teachers as they left the high school. >> a serious threat. >> whether they would have succeeded, whether they would have actually carried it out, it's too early to say. >> we learn one student is 15 years old. the other is 17. they're being held at a juvenile detention facility and will be in court next week. it was uncovered through text messages and media postings that led concerned students to call the authorities. parents were sent the letter about the alleged plot. to read the letter, open up the nbc washington app and search "school violence." >>> on month the montgomery school board is going to meet about its holiday calendar. the "news4" i-team broke the story this year. >>> prince harry, he's coming to d.c. this week. he's coming thursday to talk about the invictus game. he'll spend time with wounded servicemembers. >>> and we want to take you back outside live at what was the start

bladensburgn, 69 and annapolis. 74 charles county, la plata. 77 fredericksburg. rappahannock county 75. looking into the forecast, tracking the front coming tuesday morning. could have the arrival of showers, the front coming through later in the day. the high temperature still mild. we go mid 70's, low 70's, 50's earlier. one of the new features, the ycast tomorrow morning, crystal-clear in the morning. beautiful clear skies, may be a couple high-altitude clouds. another fine, sunny, mild columbus day. 79 the forecast. might be the nicest day all week. possible showers tuesday. parisien cooler on wednesday. -- breezy and cooler on wednesday. we could beat down into the 50's next weekend. it's coming. kellye: what a roller coaster for the redskins. erin: if you look at the positives, they really when i suppose to win that game and had a lot of key players out. if you look at the negatives, kirk cousins threw an interception to end the game. mom this is hugely important. is there anywhere in your house i can get a good signal? anyway, you were saying. it's a tragi

chill in the air. 64 in baltimore and 66 in frederick. 64 in fredericksburg at this hour. a lot of areas in the mid-50's. mid-to-upper 50's closer to the bay. low lying areas could see spot in upper 40's. that is the way for tuesday. tomorrow is clear and mostly sunny throughout the day. this is the moisture left over. scattered showers working their way on shore. nothing with the volume or the intensity. the the upper level low causing the rain or has caused it is circulating drifting to northeast. high pressure builds in from the north and west. the future cast keeps it mostly sunny. this is the chance for us to dry out as well. the next weather event doesn't come our way until friday. average wake-up temperature. 59 in the morning. 74 tomorrow afternoon with plenty of sunshine. through the next seven days. the beautiful weather continues through thursday. increasing clouds and 75 degrees. the weekend looks terrific. sunshine and starting next week still in the sunshine with the temperatures in the 70's. that is the latest. back to you. leon: all right. leon: i wonder if

and 79 frederick and 79 down toward fredericksburg and just gorgeous in the area and the only area in the 60s was at 69 and the evening planner tonight, the sun went down at 6:22 and we have a few more minutes left of dusk and nice weather. 62 degrees by 9:00 and 59 degrees by 11:00 and still quite mild. 74 leesburg and 66 down towards manassas and a mild night ahead of the cold front that's coming through right now. the shower activity and you can see some just above the banner in toward pennsylvania and fulton and franklin county seeing showers and these will come through hagerstown before fiddling on out, but we may see a sprinkle or two as we make our way in through the evening. tomorrow's forecast mostly sunny, breezy and cool. temperatures 61 to 67 and temperatures 15 degrees cooler tomorrow and it will be rather breezy. in the shade it will be a breezy day. you may need a jacket early for the marine corps marathon. if you're headed out to the hiv-aids walk bundle up and saturday morning looking quite cool for the marine corps marathon and a sprinkle early and showers around 11:

our area and that's exactly what we have and light rain up through the district and waldorf and fredericksburg. notice the heavy rain just off the coast and that heavy rain will start to move its way our way as we move on through the overnight hours and in through the day tomorrow. we are still expecting very heavy rain during the day on our friday. the nor'easter and its impacts is bringing in the northeasterly flow and coastal flooding will be an issue and we'll talk about that and the potential is there for flash flooding and we do have a flash flood watch up across portions of the region. the nor easter is one thing and the other thing that we've been watching is joaquin which for right now is the buzz saw of a storm and an incredibly tightly wound storm and you can see that eye wall and now a category 4 storm with 30 miles for hour and we expected this to stay off the coast and that's exactly when we'll do now and that is good news for the beaches around the region and veronica johnson live in ocean city and veronica, you'll get the nor'easter for sure, and the impacts from joaquin will o

washington.0, 61 fredericksburg, 61. it is much cooler from the 70's. here is the cloud cover that will return on tuesday. maybe a sprinkle comes later in the day. abc 7 sky cast for you, this is how it will look as you wake up in the morning time frame. a couple clouds could still be around. it should be a beautiful sunrise looking eastward. 48 degrees downtown washington. thin wisps of cirrus clouds make their way in. seven day forecast for you, halloween shows up in the weekend forecast as well. right now it could be a picture-perfect how lwin day of 61 degrees and trick-or-treating at night, temperatures falling down to the 50's. there you see the rainy day coming into wednesday. it's one day only, which is good news. it is gone as soon as thursday. you see 68 and warmer air working in, maybe even a flash of lightning. kellye: what did you think of the redskins performance today? devon: exciting. kellye: we will head out to robert burton for a recap of the redskins sent bucs. inspirational is what i'm calling it, robert. robert: all you have to do i