. >>> investigators in loudoun county in virginia are trying to figure out what led to an apparent murder-suicide. it happened early this morning on south birch street in sterling. investigators have identified the victims as larry and

actually much of montgomery county, fairfax and loudoun county.m in a little bit and see light to moderate activity around this hour around loudoun, chantilly, also the east side of gaithersburg and 270 over towards damascus. where will this go in the next two hours and will we see any intensity? probably. do you see manassas, that is moderate rainfall. that is going to cross over 66 as we get into the midnight hour and 12:30 as well. so just prepare for a wet commute tomorrow. outside story, well, here we go. wet start wednesday. no doubt about that. the other shocker tomorrow, much, much cooler. we were 81 today. we'll be lucky to be 61 tomorrow. dry evening commute. there is some silver lining there. you'll be able to drive home on dry roads tomorrow as we get partial clearing late. i think we will see the sunset as the rainfall moves out from west to east either late morning or early afternoon. but we'll stop the future cast here. 6:00 in the morning there is rain everywhere. albeit light to occasionally moderate and nothing severe in the morn

. >>> investigators in loudoun county are investigating what led to an apparent murder-suicide on south birch street here in sterling. investigators have identified the victims as larry and mercedes kay perry. both were in their 60s. detectives tell us a man called 911 and told dispatchers there was a shooting victim in his home. when deputies arrived, they found larry perry dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. his wife kay was also shot to death. detectives say kay perry's mother was also in the house at the time of the shooting. she was not hurt. >>> turning to the rush hour. there are problems this afternoon on the beltway in maryland. >> let's get the latest from ashley linder. >> we had an accident on the inner loop around river road. they clearedt pretty quickly. not quickly enough because it did have time to stack up delays. as you can see here, it's wide open. unfortunately, i don't give you much to look at there but that's where the accident was. these are the delays we've got. not too bad coming out of virginia. you've got a little bit of company. those are the

from loudoun county into montgomery county and southern portion of frederick county.ou may need the umbrella for 15, 20 minutes. you may need to turn on the windshield wipers for just a little bit, but it will not be that bad tonight. most areas will be on the dry side. temperatures have been cool. 60 degrees outside and that will be kind of nice if our average high temperature this time of year was at 72 degrees. at the north-northwest of 40 miles an hour and that will make things even cooler. 57 in hagerstown and 54 in martinsburg, west virginia and right now leonardtown coming in at 60 degrees. the wider view shows what's coming overnight. 49 right now in pittsburgh, 51 in columbus, ohio and the cooler air will sink in overnight tonight and we'll see the cloudy skies clear up fairly rapidly once the sun goes down and that will allow the temperatures to cool down in a big way. there's all of the rain, it is now well out of the picture. you can even see it right here spinning in the upper level it is of the atmosphere. that's what's causing the showers to come throug

meanwhile, investigators say that a loudoun county man shot and killed his wife this morning and then turned his gun on himself. receiving a call from inside of a home on south birch st. news choppers 7 flew over that seen in deputies identified the couple as larry and mercedes perry. in the 60's, they had been struggling with financial problems. switching gears to the weather temperatures are climbing today towards stormy weather, not far behind. another summer day with storms? >> storms will be coming later than usual. normally the storms, in the middle of the afternoon but in this situation it would appear to be sunset and thereafter. a little bit later than usual. take a look at the numbers. mid-70's right now. spartanburg, 78. fredericksburg, 79. you will want the air conditioning this afternoon but you will be able to shut it off tomorrow. we will talk about cooler temperatures in our severe weather center. >> new at noon, rescuers found half of a dozen boys got stranded at an arkansas camp ground. the six scouts had been missing since saturday. a national guard helicopter spott

fredericksburg, you're getting here and culpeper county and seeing the strongest for western sections of loudoun frederick and max radar and some lightning and thunder. i will call them thunderstorms for frederick county and we're seeing the light inspection here in northwestern sections of loudoun county and not expecting anything severe here, okay? there is a chance to get some gusty winds out of this and a little bit of small hail would not surprise me in places and we'll continue to watch these move on across. the general movement is to the east-northeast and about 15 to 20 miles an hour. and that is a pretty good likelihood that if you don't get rain on top of your head this evening, you're going to get close to some rain across and some thunderstorms, too. this is the evening's forecast. 68 at 7:00 and some showers. thundershowers, too, for each of the hours across the evening here. 64 at 9:00 and i think some showers at 9 and a few lingering showers, primarily east-northeast of the city and at 11:00 and some temperatures into the lower 60s. 69 degrees. quantico, 70; fredericksburg, 72 and

county as we come down into loudoun county in chantilly, virginia, 79 degrees, the temperature and yesdo have a lot of moisture in the air. so fog for tomorrow morning and some isolated showers coming our way here for the evening. you can see where some of the rain is right now just on the other side of chambersburg, pennsylvania, and coming through washington county and eventually that share will hit maryland. bigger rains to the south. unfortunately, those areas that do not need it. the areas that got hit with the storms really hard around arkansas, tennessee, alabama, mississippi, they will eventually get some storms there late tonight and tomorrow. for us, the timing on this system, well, cloud cover for tomorrow morning we'll start at 62 to 64 degrees and we could have scattered showers during the afternoon tomorrow so coming out of the 50s and low 60s with cloud cover and fog to maybe a few bres in that cloud cover er noon time, there . could be a scattered shower out to the west and the best chance under, too, fter sunset and that because we'll be heating up. fredericksburg in v

those you can see on the radar and they're coming down to loudoun county right now and may last into fairfax county. spots are on i-66 as well as the western side of the beltway and wet and a brief shower and a spritz or sprinkle there. it's 58 degrees right now in the district. it's 59 in greenbelt, 60 degrees in alexandria and around quantico. >> it will be another chilly one tonight. in fact, there are frost advisories for western maryland and freeze warnings for the extreme eastern portion of west virginia. our forecast tonight, we clear out i think late evening and we'll drop to 49 degrees by 11:00 p.m. and a breezy, clearing evening for us and mild, bright sunshine coming our way tomorrow and we'll talk about the prospects for rain, jim and pat, before the week is over. >> thanks, veronica. >>> thousands of people in western tennessee are dealing with massive flooding after weeks of heavy rain and it could get worse. several communities are being warned to evacuate before the mississippi river crests. hundreds are already staying in shelters after several feet of water rushed i

loudoun county. to the dance you have to sign a form and say you will not dance inappropriately. this youtube prom video shows several dances that will not be allowed at this year's freedom high school prom. grinding. straddling legs, moshing. immitateing sexual things. >> reporter: the rules also ban short or tight dresses, cutouts like this. plunging necklines and open backs. and what they call indecent exposure of the chest area. senior class rep put together this powerpoint explaining the rules. >> a lot of the dresses, if you just look at them they look fine, but that added to their dancing some dresses rise up, things pop up and it is just... >> reporter: the school says the rules have always been there, the student leaders decided they needed to be enforced after this year's homecoming dance. >> it is uncomfortable for people that don't dance like that it is uncomfortable to watch. >> reporter: but some parents say the school is going too far and not letting teenagers be teenagers. >> the danc

western loudoun. not out of the question. culpeper a few showers in the next 30 to 60 minutes. likely a lot of the activity will start to fall apart once the sun goes down. day planner for next several hours. going out tonight temperatures still in the upper 60s. pretty fine evening. go out and get a bite to hit. will hit 63 there by 9 p.m. as we head toward the midnight hour down to 60. and tomorrow morning there still could be a light shower one or two spots west of town. we start off generally in the lower to mid-50s. we will come back and talk about mother's day. your seven-day forecast and looks like a pretty nice break for us. back to you. >> thank you. >>> rising river. latest on the flooding from the mighty mississippi. first, riding the rails. the national train day is next. c4g? [ male announcer ] before he changed the world... tear down this wall. [ male announcer ] ...or led a nation... i ronald reagan do solemnly swear. [ male announcer ] ...or governed a state... you and i have a rendezvous with destiny. [ male announcer ] ...he inspired our company... with his op

still moderate rain out to the west in loudoun, fairfax and prince william. yellows here across southern prince george's county, charles county. 301 is a tough ride. even central avenue southbound here, route 5 from clinton to brandywine to waldorf there on 301. also as you head into southern maryland into st. mary's county, into calvert county, the northern neck of virginia. this is where we're starting to see heavier stuff especially from st. leonard and likely, we're seeing a little bit of lightning and thunder there as we're switching it over. this has the lightning on it. we've seen some stuff especially in southern st. mary's county. reedville getting hammered this morning with some thunderstorms down there and some very heavy rainfall. your momslikeme.com bus stop forecast, no surprise. breezy and damp. temperatures anywhere from the mid to upper 40s to upper 50s far south. most of us around the 50 degree mark with hagerstown and winchester at 45 now. 50 in washington. 55 in southern maryland. the winds have been up north- northwest at 14. we've had gu

to the north and west on 270 and i-70 corridor and the northern secs of loudoun county, that is where these showers are thunderstorms and are strong now. nothing severe and we kind of zoomd into that quadrant to show you what is going o. the strongest now into southern secs of frederick county and this crossed over the river and through point of rocks there along 15, which basically connects leesburg to the frederick area and that is fairly heavy rain. the rain rates were two to three inches an our and -- hour and that is moving along, though and to the north and east. clarksburg is probably hearing funder and in the communities and nowhere secs of montgomery county, and going to the north into carol county and they're west of westminster now and that is going to come on across and watching the heavy rain and gusty wind and dangerous lightning with the thunderstorms and some small hail as well. doesn't look look severe weather and we'll keep an eye on it. this weekend, looking better and showers in the forecast and that is not going to be a washout. specifically, temperatures in the 7

marching across loudoun county, across the river into montgomery county. had some hail up near 97.o lightening with these storms. then another trailing storm that will roll into southern frederick county as well in the next 20 minutes or so. that's the big picture. we will kind of zoom in now on doppler. we will start with the storms that are now exiting montgomery county and also exiting frederick county and moving across 70. but this is hail. just across 97. georgia avenue way past sunshine. that is indeed hail. still some pretty good rains back. now, go back to the south and west because there is a trailing storm. this is a pretty good storm right here that also is moving off to the northeast. we will put this into motion. where is it going to go in the next hour? it weakens a little bit and just kind of rolls into poolsville, over towards gaithersburg and alny around 108. in the next hour that will happen. temperatures cooling a little bit especially up to the north. leightonsville 61. 69 in rockville. 67 arlington and downtown. a few showers this weekend but really not a washo

freedom high school in loudoun county is putting strict limits this year on how girls can address and couples can dance. remember no sexually suggestive grind on the dance floor. no dresses with your open backs or plunging necklines. before the students can come into the prom they will have to sign a form agreeing to these rules. we spoke with the senior class rep who supports all of this and a parent who doesn't like it. >> it is uncomfortable especially for people who don't dance like that it is uncomfortable for us to watch. >> the dancing gets a little ridiculous but, again, that's what the chapperons are for to tap them on the shoulder and say knock that off. >> some students have decided to hold on alternative prom. dozens of students are already behind that idea and they have even got some parents on their side. >>> with mother's day just around the corner a local family is honoring marianne myer. she has been here since 1959. she had it make it through the holocaust. she shared her childhood diary sharing her story about what happened to her and her parents. >> my parents were

couple of showers in loudoun county. again, a couple showers pushing through calvert county and st.county just north of leonard town. shower working its way down the river and now in parts of the district headed to national airport and it is not severe but it does have brief heavy rains with it. in fact, where is it going to go in the next hour? weakening a little bit. across 5. eventually into the bay. some brief heavy rains at national airport. big picture. notice we had a lot of clouds roll in. sort of had a cold air mass and we had these little showers develop. won the sun goes down the showers will stop and we will be left with partly cloudy skies tonight. look at the temps. everyone in the 50s. remember the 81 yesterday? how i said that would be a distant memory. it is. 57 right now. 55 in gaithersburg. 57 in manassas. down to 46 in cumberland. down to 39 out in oakland. okay, a bit chilly now. almost cold tonight. grab a light jacket tomorrow. and make sure the kids have a light jacket on too. grab your shades as well. and showers will return on friday not in the morning but

. >> loudoun county police are investigating what they call a murder suicide. they found two people inside the home of 800 block of birch street near west poplar road. someone called 911 after hearing gun shots around 6:00 this morning. police found a husband and a wife both dead. an elderly woman was also inside the home at the time of the shooting. she was not hurt. at this point, investigators are not releasing the names of the deceased. >>> the inmate accused of attacking a guard and making his escape from a detention center in laurel is back in police custody. 18-year-old trevon carey was arrested by d.c. police. he's accused of breaking out of the new beginnings development center and attacking a guard there. carey remains in police custody. >>> prince george's county councilwoman lesli johnson was scheduled to plead guilty to corruption charges tomorrow. but wednesday's hearing has been canceled. who can forget the federal raid last november of johnson's home in mitchellville when county executive jack johnson was also arrested and charged. federal offic

. >>>>> a loudoun county man shot and killed his wife and turned the gun on himself. larry perry said he killed mercedes perry because of her health problems and the couple's financial struggles. >> pepco customers will see a drop in there electrabel. d.c. customers will pay 10% less. >>> ai was so excited because this is what we have been talking about. exercise and moving can be fun. >> hundreds of local students get a surprise as they join forces with other students around the country to take control of their health. >> and new tax for the local county and this is not just for groceries. >> a boy scouts stranded for days ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] before he changed the world... tear down this wall. [ male announcer ] ...or led a nation... i ronald reagan do solemnly swear. [ male announcer ] ...or governed a state... you and i have a rendezvous with destiny. [ male announcer ] ...he inspired our company... with his optimism, his belief in innovation and his entrepreneurial spirit. [ man ] for general electric here is ronald reagan. ♪ ♪ >> , under recall expands to incl

. >>> loudoun county police release new clues to then them find a man wanted for sexual assault. this is a sketch of the man and the tattoo on his wrist. a woman says she asked the man to use his cell phone on march 18th. she got into his late 1990s model black jeep. he drove to another location and sexually assaulted her before letting her go. >>> massachusetts junior u.s. senator scott brown has changed his tune. he originally told fox's boston affiliate that he saw proof that osama bin laden was killed. it turns out that picture was fake and brown was not the only senator fooled by it. his colleagues on the senate armed services committee were fooled as well. we have a report. >> reporter: on my tv, senator scott brown tells fox 5 that yes, he has seen the picture. dead osama bin laden. what faked it should be released, listen to what he told us. >> if they're just trying to sell newspapers, i don't think it is appropriate t could inflame people throughout the world to be more active in what we're trying to prevent which is spread spreading terrorism throughout the region and

. >> attorney general holder testified it was legal for seal team 6 to kill bin loudoun even if he was unarmed. >> if we had surrendered, we would have accepted that. there is no indication he wanted to do that. his killing was appropriate. >> u.s. officials say they are getting useful information from the computers and hard drives and 5 cell phone seized at his mansion and flown back to the u.s.. the cra is putting out an urgent call for more arabic translators. -- the cia is putting out an urgent call for more arabic translators. hoping to find the names of his big donors and details of attacks or after death reprisals ok by bin laden. homeland security officials testified. no special alert so far. >> that could change tonight, it could change tomorrow. >> bin laden's followers do not need a death fatah to remind them al qaeda lives on and they say this could be an image of his successor. >> he is based in yemen but board in new mexico. he is an american but now at or near the top of america's hit list. >> former president george bush will not be present at obama side when he visits

essentially loudoun and fairfax. might take another 30 minutes before it moves toward you., it is well south and east now. don't think we'll see much of that. your momslikeme.com bus stop forecast, it is breezy. it is wet. it is chilly. 47 to 57, maybe even 45 to 55, would be a better range. sun came up at 6:07. it sets after 8:00. noon, 52 with a lingering shower. still mostly cloudy. partial clearing this afternoon. upper 50s to around 60 with northwest winds at times gusting over 20 miles per hour. here is a look at the next three days, today, we start with temperatures which are now in the 40s to around 50. only around 60 with afternoon clearing. 68 tomorrow. after a chilly start. friday, late showers and storms. 68. dry saturday and a few showers possible on moms day. it is 6:46. angie goff has your timesaver traffic. >> thank you, howard. we're cruising close to that 7:00 hour. the green light stays on. what we're dealing with are the slow goes starting to grow across our viewing area. we'll take a camera tour. first in maryland, 270, a whole lot of headlights here. a

if you recognize him or have information, call loudoun county police. >>> we're following breaking news out of organization or. take a live look now. the crews on the scene of a massive fire after a train collision. this is all happening near the city of skapoose. a highway in this area is shut down because fire crews are staging to have water here. there is no word what caused the crash and early reports coming in indicate that two trains hauling wood and tanker cars collided. it appears to number an area that is not populated. at this point, there are no reports of injuries. we will stay on top of the story and bring you more information as we get it. >>> a school bus crash sends almost a dozen children to the hospital. is the road itself to blame for this accident? we're taking a closer look. >>> also, farmer's in the midwest fuming over rising flood waters. their contributes ruined after a forced levee break. what is being done to get them back on track. >> keep it here, fox 5 news at 5 is coming back.  >> 10 elementary school students from montgomery county went to th

the rainmaking its way across the area and even across the thunderstorms and heaviest rain through loudounounty and frederick county and down to the south around fredericksburg where there has been more rain right now, moving along i-95. still right along the beltway, we're not seeing that rain yet, but back to the west, we are seeing the rain back toward leesburg, just to the west of sterling and as we make your way over to frederick around centreville and over toward adamstown and pretty good showers and pretty good thunderstorms. you will see a brief, heavy downpour and also some lightning from these storms and watch out for that. these storms will continue to make their way off to the north and east. i think you'll probably see these storms just to the north of clarksburg, and watch out there as well and over to damascus, the storms could be in your neck of the woods over in the next half hour. some showers starting to lose their punch a little bit right along i-95 down to the portions of staff ford county, just to the north of fredericksburg, all associated with that bigger system and

little bit of a shower just south and lighter activity up in loudoun county and as you stretch over theiver into frederick and montgomery county. potomac. heading away from the town. again, nothing severe but a couple of showers are out there through the evening hours when the sun goes down, the showers will stop. 60 right now. 57 in gaithersburg. 59 in manassas. 64 in fredericksburg. one of the warmer readings. predominantly 50s. hagerstown. martinsburg and leesburg and win chester. a bill chilly now. almost cold tonight. grab a rite jacket on thursday. grab your shades too. make sure the kids have something tomorrow morning at the bus stop. and showers will return on friday. not anything severe. not anything widespread. but we have got showers in the forecast in the afternoon. and evening on friday. for tonight, an evening shower but then just partly cloudy, breezy and chilly. lows in the 40s. winds northwest 10 to 15. look at the lows tonight. even inside the beltway we are talking mid-40s. that's pretty chilly. 42 in rockville. 41 in gaithersburg. 42 out toward bowie. 45 in waldorf,

. >>> investigators in loudoun county in virginia are trying to figure out what led to an apparent murder-suicide. it happened early this morning on south birch street in sterling. investigators have identified the victims as larry and mercedes perry. mercedes also known as kay. both of them were in their 60s. detectives say a man called 911 and told dispatchers there was a shooting victim in his house. and the deputies arrived, they found larry perry dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. his wife kay also had been shot to death. >>> coming up on news 4, there was another tornado touched and another life was lost. >>> former miss usa explaining in graphic detail why a security patdown at the airport went too far. >>> a new terror scare near a nuclear plant. >> we'll show you what led to a water rescue on the potomac. >> lindsay, what's ahead in sports. >> coming up, the nationals get defensive against the defending world champions. also another nfl team begins players-only workouts. and how the capitals plan to [ male announcer ] looking for a complete picture of your money? meet pn

some showers and thunderstorms and loudoun county and frederick county seeing some of those showers andnderstorms. you will hear some thunder and you will see some lightning and nothing severe with these. another system, another area of showers right around culpeper and to southern portion of fredericksburg and we'll continue to watch those moving in as well. overnight tonight, 49 degrees, we'll be clearing out very quickly and temperatures will cool down tomorrow evening and they'll warm up under partly sunny skies and look for highs in the mid-07s. >> thank you, doug. the comcast center at the university of maryland was rocking today as basketball coach gary williams bid farewell to his beloved terrapins. >> let's go back outside with lindsay at the comcast center with more on the emotional sendoff. >> sad day out there, linds. >> gary williams was the most affected. every time he would choke up while he was giving his speech during the press conference, the fan base and the students in their section would start to clap and it would bail gary out a little bit and it would happen two o

points west, mounted 300 feet above northwest washington looking to the west off on the horizon is loudoun county in the extreme foreground is northwest washington. you can see, yes, the cloud cover has broken up and we are beginning to get some sunshine breaking out there but look at the rain that continues to fall. there's the ray dashgs the time lapse over the last three hours showing this conveyor belt of moisture has spread off to the east. now continues to advance across the bay and over the last hour we've actually had a little bit of thunder and lightning, too, on the eastern shore but that has dissipated. the latest radar showing a few lingering sprinkles in prince george's county and in st. mary's, calvert, anne arundel and on the eastern shore. west of us we're beginning to dry out. it does look like a few sprinkles out of the mountains yet so we're not quite out of the woods with this system yet because we still have an upper level disturbance to come over and give us cloudiness. the other thing is how chilly it is. still in the mid and upper 40s though the sun has broken out i

photojournalist john persons will pan loudoun and show you crops here are already flooded out.a we are when a lot of farmers around here thought they would catch a break. thought they would have good crops and maybe be able to recover from lean years and actually turn a profit for a lot of them, because of the floodwaters, that's not going to happen now. we have to talk about cresting because that's a key stage right now. near here in vicksburg, mississippi, it crested on thursday but that crest is expected to hold at least until saturday. top levels. now here in natchez, mississippi, water levels are rising and going to get to record levels probably tomorrow. but in vicksburg it is critical. key flood stage right now, record crest, going to hold until tomorrow. as you mentioned, wolf, what we are told now is that the mississippi river is going stay out its banks, won't recede to within its flood banks until mid june. it is going to be a very slow and painful recovery for the people here, people in vicksburg, mississippi, not far from here. that way. what we are told by authori

. >> a couple of rain drops out toward the panhandle of west virginia, maybe a few out towards loudounounty. these aren't soakers just yet, but they're steadier showers across west virginia that show signs of coming our way. again, not looking for a lost rain, about you a quick passing shower more than enough to get you wet. >> wet and mad as i like to say. >> so you go from your shawl to your poncho. >> here's a look at the top stories of the morning right now. the focus for rescue crews in the tornado-ravaged south has turned from the dead to the missing. nearly 600 people are still unaccounted for in tuscaloosa, alabama, alone. officials fear that could add to the 342 already confirmed dead in the worst tornado outbreak in the nation's history. >>> libyan government officials say the youngest son and three grandchildren of moammar gadhafi were killed in a nato air strike. nato says it did hit a, quote, command and control building, but it does not confirm the death of gadhafi's son. hours before, the libyan leader called on the nato leaders for a cease fire. >>> and the catholic chu