this is a photograph of east gay street down in downtown harrisonburg in 1957. neighborhood known as new town filled with many african-americans, and harrisonburg, now of course a huge city, but still a city, begins to think about suburbanizing the city. making it more car-friendly. widening the roads, creating retail shopping centers. and you can see the giant hole here is what used to be the neighborhood. and if you want to know how beautiful this place looks today? it's this wonderful parking lot and shopping center that nobody goes to. and it's kind of ugly. but there are these suburbanization elements that creep into the city. and remnants of it are still felt today. every time the city considers some new project, people always go to city council to voice their concern about loss of parking and there's a great concern about how much parking there is. one of the things that the highways do is enable sprawl. which is unplanned scattered bits of the city, that are spread across. and los angeles is probably the most famous example. you can see in the very, very

doppler radar shows rain that stretches from harrisonburg to charlottesville commuting towards the fredericksburg area. there could be a few isolated showers. but i don't think we will see steady or heavy rain in the metro area because of the nature of the dry air. circulation centers still up to the west and southwest, but the dry air is going to be fighting it. in the futurecast, we see a lot of that dry up this afternoon, and overnight through tomorrow morning, we see periods of rain. that story will continue through the afternoon and evening tomorr. pulling out. we will get afternoon sunshine and pleasant weather on sunday and a gorgeous day on monday. a categoryon irma, two storm. it is a little bit weaker now. eventually, it is going to become a major hurricane by all indications. we are not going to really have any clue of what it is going to do in any place like the caribbean or cuba or the east coast or anywhere or whether it is going to stay out to sea. we won't have a clue unto all -- until early next week. fill your home with well-crafted oupieces at affordable prices. now through mon

we find cloud cover over to shenandoah county to harrisonburg. showers there.but for us it is going to stay dry closer to the metro. 6:00 at 84. 10:00 we are around 70. after work if you want to get out for a jog or a long walk, keep in mind it's more summer like. you will get hot quickly. especially the extra humidity hanging around. tonight 6 to 70. mild again and similar to the last few nights. just like the last couple of mornings we could wake up to patchy fog. tomorrow around lunchtime keep in mind if you get out of the office for lunch the temperatures in the mid-80's but feeling closer to 90. so if anything a little hotter than we had out there today. let me show you the temperatures around the area for most of us. we are topping out in the mid-80's. 86 for d.c. and fredericksburg. 87 for culpeper. cooler and win chester is 83. 85 for annapolis. average this time of year is 78. so as far as the comfortable part of the fall as we get ready to start fall on friday. not getting there just yet. 86 on saturday. 87 for sunday. again, that is ten degrees what