actually compared to cities that we like to compare ourselves to, whether it's chicago or new york or philadelphia, or boston or washington, we have many fewer, substantially fewer, historic districts than those other cities. there are very, very few historic districts. when you walk around the city, there are areas that are spectacular that you would think would be historic districts and aren't. i would say that i have maybe a little bit of a response to president miguel's response to the history of the city. when i walk around the western addition, i think of the city in different ways. when i go to the western edition, i think, what would this neighbor be like if it had not been completely demolished and devastated? would we have had preservation controls that have kept the character of that neighborhood and kept its community intact? so i think that there obviously are places the city has improved and changed and developed, but there are large parts of the city where we have not had good planning. and the destruction of these historic resources has had a terribly negative impact on the city. i

if you are headed to philadelphia or new york, you are getting some rain or will be in the next couple of hours. here, we'll stay dry for the morning generally. the frontal system will sag south through the day and we have an increasing chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. we can't rule it out during the morning hours. it is fairly close to the region. temperatures are mild. not a bad start at all. 64 at reagan national. our forecast, it is a day of transition. we'll still be on the mild side with high abouts 80. but as i mentioned the possibility of a few showers and thunderstorms, this will lead to a much cooler day tomorrow. daytime highs tomorrow will only be in the 60s. i'll have detail on that in just a couple of minutes. >> thank you, tuck. we'll look for that. let's head to the roads with julie wright. >> we are starting off with a crash tying up the southbound stretch of 270 at montgomery village avenue. traffic is squeezing by to the left leaving germantown headed to the scene. you guys may want to bail out, use 118 to 355 as a workaround. no problems to report

baseball division series kicks off with three games, philadelphia and minnesota hosting wildcard times while the texas rangers will be in either tampa or new york. friday new unemployment rates will be announced. the rate is 9.6% as of august. that's a look at the week ahead. i'm marianne rafferty, fox news. >>> finally tonight we are taken off the edge with a cast of superheros. >> from superman and wonderwoman to batman and beyond, over 1,500 people in l.a. showed up dressed as an easily recognized superhero to bracket world record for the largest gathering of superheros. the event was organized by dreamworks animation and in honor of the upcoming film mega mind which opens november 5th. >> you know who could have been

new england is going to get heavy rain. during the day today, it's more or less d.c. to baltimore, whack into areas around philadelphia and new york city. tonight, new england will have a rainey start to friday and a very windy end. the storm really intensifies in the gulf of maine. if you're watching us on wect news 6 wilmington, north carolina, where can you find rides, games and lots of food? at the columbus county agricultural fair, of course, at the columbus county fairgrounds in nearby whiteville. that's your "early today" event of the day. >> bill, thank you. >>> now here's a look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. game blogger perez hilton is vowing to stop outing celebrities on his website. he tells ellen degeneres that the recent string of gay suicides have inspired him to rethink his writing, including any materials that could be deemed as bullying. >>> actor david arquette says he regrets his racy overshare on the howard stern show. in a tuesday interview, arquette opened up about his split with wife courtney cox and he gave some details about their sex life, or according to him, lack thereof and revealed a

from philadelphia, around 4:00 or so. new york city, around 8:00 p.m., the heaviest rain. overnigh into the morning rush, providence to boston. it's a timeline of the heaviest rain of when you can expect them in your area. the rest of the forecast looks fabulous today from the canadian border down to texas and the gulf for a very nice thursday. that's a look at your forecast. now heres a look at the weather outside your window. birmingham, alabama, today looks nice. same with st. louis. austin, texas, at 81. baltimore, on and off rain. the best chance of rain will be about mid morning in the early afternoon. lynn, we'll talk more about that stormy friday forecast coming up. >> bill, thanks so much. >>> stocks spike. intel takes a hit and how to blow $671,000 in one night. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, jean kol joan collins proves she still loves a good cat fight. >>> sydney crosby tries to rally the penguins and the cavs just can't let go of lebron. fight. >>> sydney crosby tries to rally the penguins and the cavs just can't let go of

sacramento one on the road to cleveland portland also came out when is it new york or chicago and indiana and high winds every detroit philadelphia spectacle. of elsewhere memphis easily beat minnesota truck home court hundred nine eighty nine denver and you only have no problems when they're away games. and that's all the sports news for a couple of hours the weather is next. to . technology update. the future covered. for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get the cuban voice face to face with the news makers. which brightened. soon from funds to pressure these. stunts on t.v. don't come. to. russia seals the deal to build vietnam first ever nuclear power plant in a bid to boost the country's economic growth. the deal was during president invaded first official visit there i know it for all the details of the trip they would actually. also we're taking a look at this week's top stories and fresh tensions flare as georgia reportedly foster a spy network gathering information for russia to be nice he refuses to confirm or deny the claims. and success in unity russian big u.s. destroyed for drug labs on their first e

baseball division series kicks off with three games, philadelphia and minnesota hosting wildcard times while the texas rangers will be in either tampa or new york. friday new unemployment rates will be announced. the rate is 9.6% as of august. that's a look at the week ahead. i'm marianne rafferty, fox news. >>> finally tonight we are taken off the edge with a cast of superheros. >> from superman and wonderwoman to batman and beyond, over 1,500 people in l.a. showed up dressed as an easily recognized superhero to bracket world record for the largest gathering of superheros. the event was organized by dreamworks animation and in honor of the upcoming film mega mind which opens november 5th. >> you know who could have been in costume and looked just like she did years ago is lynda carter. >> she is amazing. >> that does it for us. fox 5 news always on www.myfoxdc.com. >> keep it right here. sports extra two minutes away. they got a lot to talk about. take care. >> they sure do. bye.  >>> this is fox 5 sports extra. >>> everybody makes mistakes in their lifetime and they made one last year. >> donovan mcnabb revenge best

some of the bigger city the like providence, hartford, new york, philadelphia, winds about 40 to 50-mile-per-hour at peak. that's mostly tonight orrrow morning. it could be sunny with this wind. rain ending in new york, probably pretty much over with. northern new england will be rainy pretty much all day long. as we go through saturday, everything clears out slowly. the rest of the country looks fantastic this weekend. for high school football games tonight and college games tomorrow, everyone doing anything outdoors in the middle of the country and southeast, a nice weekend. the worst of it, the wind in new england. >>> now for some sports. there's nothing going on. we will talk about what's happening tonight. the american league championship series kicks off tonight. texas rangers playing the yankees in texas. yankees were the wild card team. c.c. sabathia will pitch for the yanks. rangers going with c.j. wilson. this will be the rangers first trip ever to the american league championship series. the national league series, phillies and giants starts in philadelphia tomorrow night. to football, not really football but it's loo

re's the best chance of rain toward philadelphia, new york as well. watch as these storms or showers are moving back in, so this is why we may see a shower during the day tomorrow. most of us, however, should remain on e dry side. i told you about the cool weather. look how cool it is, a cl pocket right arod western portions of pennsylvania. 49 in buffalo, 61 in new york. 61 in washington, d.c., right now, and again, some areas are seeing temperatures in the lower 50s ck here. a very cool afternoon, but things are going to improve. our areas of low pressure will continue to move off taking the cool air associated with th off to the north and east. we'll see our winds die down by tomorrow. by thursday, we'll see fairly nice weather out here, before the area of high pressure starts to move on in during the day on friday. we're going to be talking about fantastic weather toward the end of the week. when do you want to see bad weather? probably monday, tuesday and wednesday. when do you want to see great weather? ursday, friday, saturday and sunday. that's the forecast i'm giving

our district capitol, washington, d.c., close to 6 inches in rich mon and up towards philadelphia, new york, close to or over 4 inches, albany, 5 inches and as you mentioned we're getting rained on across new england. this has been quite an event. we had the tropical choiceture -- moisture from what was nicole, a storm that lasted only six hours, megyn, then we had a frontal system that really enhanced all of that moisture and gave us the thunderstorms as well. flood advisories from the mid atlantic, all the way to new england. even though the rain may be out of the way it's going to take time for the rivers and streams to recede, i'm afraid we'll probably see more pictures out of pennsylvania, upstate new york, new england, where we're dealing with high waters and as you mentioned, do not pass over water you can't see the bottom of. very dangerous. also, wind gusts in excess of 30, 40 miles per hour for parts of new england. the wore -- worst of it is over but we're still dealing with winds across new england and delays, delays, delays, across the 23450e69 -- northeast, across the airports. megyn: if y

philadelphia are ill waiting for floodwaters to recede. airports in new york, new jersey, and massachusetts are still experiencing delays of 45 minutes or longer because of the weather. let's get right to chief meteorologist doug kammerer, tracking yesterday's rain totals. doug? >> simply amazing. you mentioned some areas received as much as they have in a couple of months. st. mary's county received 12 to 13 inches of rain that would normally be three to four months of rain, natural a 48-hour period. just amazing how much rain we have seen. and amazing what a day does. take a look a this. what a change out thereight now. bright blue skies. it is just gorgeous outside right now. but it is rather windy. and a little bit on the cool side. current temperatures are int the low 70s right now. on the live digital doppler radar not a drop of rain. very good news. look at the rainfa total others the last 48 hours. five inches in the district. 4.2 in clinton, maryland. 4.7 in la plata. there is st. mai's a coming in at 12.73. annapolis at 9 inches. frederick, maryland at almost 6 inches of rain. and just to think, about two weeks ago we were talking ab

have the cleanest water in the country coming into new york, philadelphia, and parts of new jersey. 5% of our population could have their water poisoned or this process and there's no way of regulating it. >> i amazing. >> the delaware river commission, charged with keeping the watershed safe of the delaware river, is on the fast track to begin drilling asap. they want to put 30,000 wells in there. >> you hollering about it may stop them there doing that, i'm getting the sense. >> don't make me mad. you wouldn't like me when i'm mad. >> mark ruffalo, actor, director, and big-time activist on this. pleasure to meet you. >> thank you. >> from fracing to t.a.r.p. also several other wortds i never now existed until last year. please stay with us. is their financial life. people wake up and realize i better start doing something. we open up that box. we organize it. and we make decisions. we really are here to help you. they look back and think, "wow. i never thought i could do this." but we've actually done it. [ male announcer ] visit ameriprise.com and put a confident retirement more within reach. an everyday moment can turn romantic at a

news. more rain heading into this area. west of there, it's fairly chilly and coastal area or inland areas are certainly seeing flooding right now. or not flooding but frost. new york, hour delays, that's from the rain. philadelphiaan hour and 55 minutes. san francisco, an hour and five minutes with the stemt. also i want to talk about what's going on here. across the caribbean, this thing may develop into something over the next couple of days but we don't really think it's going to get toward the u.s. at least in the near term. western caribbean looks good, gulf of mexico looks pretty inactive. this we're not too concerned. right now we're pretty protected by this trough which is keeping temperatures, well, a good 10 to 15 or in some cases 20 degrees below average. if it doesn't feel like fall at least the eastern half of the country, drew, just wait, it will feel like fall in the next couple of weeks. >> thanks, rob. one nation working together, that was the message behind a weekend rally in washington. democrats hoping it was the tea party antidote, help them keep their majorities in congress. in 1968, as whaling continued worldwide, the first recordings of humpback songs were released. public reaction led to

have the cleanest water in the country coming into new york, philadelphia and parts of new jersey. 5% of our population could have their water poisoned orminated by this process. and there's no way of regulating it. >> amazing. >> the delaware river basin commission who has been charged with keeping the delaware river watershed safe is on the fast track to begin drilling asap. they want to put 30,000 wells in there. >> you hollering about it may stop them from doing that, i'm getting a sense. >> don't make me mad, you wouldn't like me when i'm mad! >> mark ruffalo, actor, director, big-time activist on this issue. good to meet you. >> it's a pleasure. thank you. >> from fracing to t.a.r.p., several other words i never knew existed before last year. please stay with us. [ male announcer ] you are a business pro. lord of the carry-on. sovereign of the security line. you never take an upgrade for granted. and you rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle. and go. you can even take a full-size or above. and still pay the mid-size price. i deserve this. [ male announcer ] you do, business pro. you do. go

new york city. it is pouring out here in manhattan and probably for the next hour or so. the heaviest rain will shift over towards hartford and out here on long island. philadelphiaweather is already improving. your morning commute looks better. d.c. is fine. philly, baltimore and d.c., the heaviest offer the rains, the worst of the morning commute would be new york up to hartford. heaviest rains shifting into new england. by tomorrow, everything clears out. this is it. we probably have another six to 12 hours of this, thomas. everything will improve. weather across the country looks great. >> my noon flight to los angeles out of jfk is going to be all right. >> as long as your plane gets here, it should be fine. >> thanks, bill. >>> coming up, we will tell you without a doubt which film will win the box office this weekend. you won't believe how much mel gibson's ex is getting in child support and what she actually asked for. you are watching "first look" on msnbc. we had a new side to our business. [ male announcer ] when the martinez family saw an opportunity, the hartford was there. protecting their employees and property, and helping them prepare for the fut

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you go from the washington area up towards bosto philadelphia, new jersey the windier of a date will be. if you're taking a flight up to new york city oroston first of all buckle up. there ma besome flight delays because of the turbulence especially up towards the boston airports. so for us, breezy and sunny for today. high pressure building in for the second half of our weekend. even though we have a few clouds coming in late tomorrow no real rain chances for all of our weekend. that's weomed news. next chance for a shower shows up on tuesday. fall foliage a lot of people heading out towards the blue ridge. next weekend wl be the peak. plenty of sunshine, northwest winds 15 to 30 miles per hour. great kite flying weather for today. tomorrow more suhine less wind and a bit warmer with highs in the throw mid-70s. that will be the nicer of the outdoor days this weekend. when we get back to work and school on monday and tuesday, clouds coming back. risk of a shower on tuesday and wednesday. more dry weather as we finish out t weekend. is smu mustangs take on the midshipmen of navy. 64 degrees at kickoff. tough day. plenty ever wind and th

or two. you cannot leave the umbrella at home for -- you can leave the amber alert at home for the day. most of the heavy rain is now moving towards philadelphia, new york to 73 degrees. the day tomorrow is looking nice. partly cloudy and very comfortable, 65 to 70. not a lot of humidity. let's get an update on the rush hour commute with lisa baden. >>> a lot of you use white fairy and that is open for business. if you take the really express, vre manassas trains are canceled today because of power lines that are hanging over the tracks at edsall road. to meet power is on the way. however, -- dominion power is on the way. vre fredricksburg trains, expect up to 45-minute delays. we will see more action on 66 and on 95 because the manassas trains are canceled and the delays -- i do not know what you're thinking. i would hit the roads. could shape on 95 right now. back to the news desk. >>> breaking news justin. vre is cancelling all manassas service because of low-hanging power lines. website fork vre's more information on that. >>> the remnants of nicole have left the d.c. area. this was the scene in chesapeake beach. streets and parking lots were floode

new york and fox 29 in philadelphia. fox also called nat geo wild and fox deportes. 3 million households in the northeast can't watch their local fox stations or game one of the nlcs. plus, if the dispute isn't resolved soon, no world series either. as for the timing of this, the contract between cable vision and news corp expired at midnight last night leading to the blackout. cable vision pays $70 million per year to carry 12 fox channels under the current deal, but news corp now reportedly wants more than $150 million per year for the same programming. but both sides are lashing out at each other. cable vision calls fox's feed demands outrageous. news corp and fox say they've made numerous reasonable proposals to cable vision. in the end, thomas, no deal was reached. >> lynn, you had me when you said no "glee." >> it wasn't the baseball. a lot of people are screaming, especially the yankee fans here in the studio. >> obviously, this is a big time for all baseball fans, but let's talk about the fact that this dispute is not unusual, correct? >> not at all. actually, if this sounds familiar, it should. abc yanked its programming from cable vi

new york city. a quick two inches fell in the last hour or two. the good news for d.c., baltimore and philadelphia is the worst of the rain is over with for you, just scattered showers this morning. your morning commute shouldn't too bad. the worst of it up here in new england. we're watching the heaviest band of rain now beginning to move through the new york city area and onto long island. this will move through long island and connecticut through the peak of the rush hour. as far as the rest of the area goes, not much rainfall around d.c. or baltimore anymore. boston hasn't gotten the rain yet. that will move in about mid morning for you and last into the afternoon. we could pick up an inch or two in boston. as far as the flooding rains go and the river warnings we're going to have over the next two days, it's really baltimore, philly, d.c. that's where we got five to six inches of rain. we got nailed in eastern pennsylvania. many of the small streams and rivers are in flood stage. flash flootd warnings around syracuse, binghamton, around the scranton area. we have the areas of flooding in mary

the forecast for today, there will be a shower or two, not a lot of heavy rain from new york to philadelphiae fine. forecast for the rest of the country, a fantastic weather pattern from the southern plains through texas. looking great in florida and also minneapolis looks really nice. as far as the forecast, it will dramatically improve. look how nice it gets around new york city friday right into the upcoming weekend. you're watching "morning joe" on this wednesday, brewed by starbucks. wall street is getting back on its feet. but the financial landscape is still full of uncertainty. in times like these, you need an experienced partner to look out for you. heads up! and after 300 years we have gotten pretty good at that. with stelara® for adults. stelara® helps control moderate or severe plaque psoriasis with 4 doses a year, after 2 starter doses. in a medical study, 7 out of 10 stelara® patients saw at least 75% clearer skin at 12 weeks. and 6 out of 10 patients had their plaque psoriasis rated as cleared or minimal at 12 weeks. stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and incr

new york yankees last night, 6-1. as you can see, the rangers won before a jewel land home crowd. the rangers are going to play in the world series against either the philadelphia phillies or francisco giants in the nlcs. >>> the government is investigating how mortgage companies evicted struggling borrowers for their homes. several banks are accused of signing off on documents without reading them and all 50 attorney generals are banding together to investigate. good morning. >> good morning. >> what do you think investigators are going to find when they pull all those documents? >> this is the good question. it will determine whether this blows over after a few weeks or whether it will become a much bigger pb. this could threaten another housing bust or trigger another recession. what they're looking for is were these foreclosures basically legal? we've heard these are mere technicalities that hung up their foreclosures, but the question is was all the documentation in place that gave the banks the legal right to do the foreclosure? these are the loans that got secure advertised, bundled into a security and sold from one investor to another. and the real question is did

philadelphia and new york city as well. this storm will have a huge impact on air travel. those heading out today oreep a watch on the nor'easter. there will be lengthy delays in washington, atlanta, charlotte, a lot of places. the miami/ft. lauderdale delays, that is due to paula and the wind associated with that. elsewhere, tracking nice conditions across much of the west coast. l.a. up to 81, showers in the northwest with a high of 60 in seattle. much, much colder, though, temperatures in the 40s and 30s in south dakota this morning. the cold front coming through, is really going to make a difference where you are going to need the coat if you are up and out early in the morning, and colder and much more wet for new york city. >>> staggering new numbers this morning. a record number of foreclosures, 1 in every 139 homeowners received foreclosure filings last quarter. some states better than others. josh levs can tell us which is the worst? >> yes, we will. the usual suspects. these numbers are just awful and telling about the state of the economy. i'll give you too national stats and look at how

philadelphia got 2 1/2 inches of rain in three or four hours. that has since moved out. now new york and parts of connecticut, that's where the heaviest amounts of rain are falling and pushing off to the east. but you can already start to see back through jersey and allentown, a bit of a dry slot. so we'll take that for sure. but the damage may very well be done as far as way we're dealing with at the airports. ground stops until at least 7:00 a.m. for laguardia and jfk. it'll be on the increase for boston, as well. what do we expect to see for flooding? another 1 to 3 inches as this last bit of rain comes through. there is a little bit more in upstate new york. flash flood warnings there, also flash flood warnings posted for new york city and also parts of southwestern connecticut as this last batch of rain moves through. generally speaking from canada all the way down to almost florida, the ground's saturated. we went, guys, from drought conditions across much of the eastern third of the country to pretty much busting that drought in a hurry. virginia, maryland, and eastern pennsyl

new york times." thank you for joining us. our question for you is, should the courts or congress decide the fate of "don't ask, don't tell?" you can see this headline from the associated press -- "the philadelphia inquirer. curve -- "the philadelphia inquirer work." remember, a special line of military personnel, 628-0184. donna, independent caller. caller: i have am a grandfather -- i am a grandfather. i was in the infantry from 1957 until 1963. i am an independent person. i did vote for president obama. i had some very firm thoughts on this. only people who have served in the military should give a thought on its because it is not like a 925 job where this person's private life, where they can go home, do what they do, and come back. and the military most times for a lot of times, you live together. you might be in a pup tent together. you shower together. this is not like -- well, you can live your life, i can live mine. this should only be decided by people who actually understand how the military people live. host: does that mean going to the folks who run the military? waiting for this report, for example? caller: no, i don't care if it is a private or just a day of semen or who, it shoul

international, this involves philadelphia international airport and we should go ahoead and say that a couple news organizations are talk about a u.p.s. truck spotted or detained at new york'sf any trucks or planes that carry that cargo or were operated by the same shipper, that's the critical connection here at this point. and nothing suspicious found so far according to what i've been told in the u.s. but they're being searched, if they had any connection with yemen or the shipper. >> and pete, this raises questions, especially those of us in the news media who have just become attuned to the potential weapons of those who would do harm to civilians, to use cargo aircraft, potentially, as a delivery system of harm or explosives, in the kind of heinous business of discussion of soft targets, of human casualties, it's not at all like a passenger plane. there is main malcra minimal cr board. >> right. i don't think anybody has any idea why that package was shipped to the uk. whether that was an attempt to threaten the cargo flight into the uk or an attempt to get into the uk a device that could be used. in other words, was first of all, we need to know that device sent to th