mary's county line, around mechanicsville. extreme prince george's county, calvert county and up toward the north, around the clinton area, we have seen a lot of showers around the oxon hill region toward clinton and upper marlboro, another shower just to the north and east of marlboro. now, i want to show you what's causing this, a little boundary helped by the bay breeze here. look at these showers developing along this line so we could see more of these over the next couple of hours. and there's actually new little line developing just off to the west, maybe mount vernon, waldorf, see showers there i mentioned the temperatures. how about this? 95 degrees right now at the airport. that heat index, close 100. i will show you when we see some cooler weather and comes in time for the weekend. guys? >> thanks, doug. >>> human error, what they are calling it. we are learning a lot more about why a metro train derailed at the smithsonian station last month. metro held its first public hearing on the derailment today and learned a

the heaviest rain mechanicsville, take another couple hours to move across the bay into the delmarva. no surprise, we had flooding. look at the rainfall near frederick 4.4 inches and earlier today in shenandoah she had 2.4 inches of rain -- they had 424 inches of rain. -- 4.24 inches of rain. by 6 a.m. clouds, maybe a sprinkle, by 8:00 69 in gaithersburg, 70 in bowie, 71 downtown, by 10:00 low to mid-70s with just a few showers, maybe an isolated shower late morning around lunchtime. we'll talk about a yellow weather alert on thursday and have your 3-degree guarantee. >>> now to more of those amazing pictures out of james madison university in harrisonburg, the flooding turns to streams, pretty much to a river and you can see the high water running right through the campus here. top is cringing because he watched these students here carry an air mattress out into the water. thankfully they thought better and just turned around. the flooding damaged the transit center and some other structures. so far no reports of any injuries. >>> it was a similar scene today in several surrounding s

east of route 6 and moderate rain in waldorf and a good storm, too, towards mechanicsville. we'll zoom in and look at all the lightning in the last 30 minutes or so. rainfall rates 2 to 5 inches per hour with this storm system. flooding is possible. flash flood is possible asking it drifts off to the north east at about 14, headed toward la plata at 6:09 and hughesville at 6:52 on our storm tracker. muggy tonight with showers and storms, some locally heavy. bus stop temperatures in the 70s, a few showers possible in the morning. a yellow weather alert through tomorrow. there's a cold front that will go through tomorrow and that could affect the morning commute and evening commute as well. kind of an on and off deal tomorrow. it's going to keep temps way down. i stop this at 8:30. look at the magenta. that could really affect southern maryland, st. mary's county and the lower portion of charles county. look at the temps, still in the low to mid-80s across the board by 8:30. by 9:00 still 84 downtown, still getting hammered into southern maryland. that's going to be the focus

mechanicsville, virginia, fletcher. go ahead. caller: yes. as far as the spending bill goes, it goes around and around and around all the time, but i'd like to bring up the fact without truth, when sworn under oath to tell the truth to congress, if we don't hold these people accountable, then the whole system is broke. james clapper sat before congress, told a bold-face lie which was proven to be a lie and no one is taking any action. now, when we allow this, the whole system's broke. if we can't expect people to tell the truth when sworn under oath, how do we get anywhere with any of this? host: what are the clapper comments that you're referring to? caller: he said he wasn't -- that the n.s.a. was not -- well, you know what it was. he said that nobody was checking mass data on the american citizens. yet, the snowden documents proved they were. he knew this when he stated it. he even came later claiming he misspoke. this is ridiculous. the man needs to be held accountable. martha stewart did not go to jail for insider trading. she went to ja

susan swain: i want to take a call from david in mechanicsville, virginia, who's been waiting and then we'll talk more about the experience at the marion star. hi, david. you're on. david: hi. this is a great program. i just finished a book, i guess, couple months ago called the teapot dome scandal, very good book by mccartney, i believe his name is. anyway, it begins with an individual from oklahoma who, i think, donated a tremendous amount of money to harding's campaign initially, really saw harding is being the man for the '20's election. and this individual is rather a profligate, i think. he enlisted a nephew to marry a woman who became his mistress and bandied around the country with her. however, when it became evident that he wanted to be, i believe, the secretary of the interior , and they were all set to do that, to make him secretary of the interior until the duchess put her foot down. apparently, this individual's wife was a friend or perhaps a relative of florence kling. and she made no uncertain terms to president harding firm -- a firm statement that if he were to come t