on and denton looking onin southern maryland a few hours in newland tosaint mary's and northern neck. showers today and highs around 70. good morning, angie goff. >>> it is thursday and we are getting closer to the week. we kick off a report with a tie up in virginia. >>> moving to 95 outside, heading northbound, okay to the mixing bowl. no delays so far as you make your way past duke street all the way to the district. let's skip over to maryland and say hello to outer loop drivers. they are doing fine, zipping by at speed at colesville road. andrea, over to you. the fight for a major overhaul of our system is far from over. senate finance committee negotiators resume talks to come up with a bipartisan agreement an the nation sits back to resume debate over president obama's speech. armando trull is live from captiol hill with more. >> reporter: all summer long president obama allowed just about everyone in america, including his critics, to define his version of health care reform. last night, during the most important speech of his presidency, president obama finally told the count

quantico 54. 52 newland. we have a chill going on and manassas to catlick in the upper 40s.ter martinsburg a little breeze and temperatures in the mid-50s. same story at reagan national. 55. the water is helping them. southwest wind at three. dew point in the low 40s. the air has dried out. this is thanks to the storm system spinning in southern canada. a line of shower and maybe a rumbling of thunder from toronto and buffalo back to northwest pennsylvania to cleveland. for us this is bringing in a stiff northwest wind. so we will have that breeze today at times. these winds will gust close to 30 miles an hour. clouds up here today but a disturbance rotates an this big storm tomorrow and that's why i think we have a chance of a few sprinkles. we see this on microcast nine how the clouds are increasing this afternoon and tonight, ahead of this. in the mountains some showers are possible today and tonight. some sprinkles any way and on wednesday, you see them popping up here and there. nothing too organized but a passing sprinkle is not out of the question. look at the seven-d

computer models showing just some clouds, leftover showers around bill's house in newland, one of my weather watchers and then a dry day, a nice finish and great way to kick off the weekend. as you watch the time line in to saturday, the rain comes from the west throughout the day, including during the football game and your saturday night plans at 11:00, some moderate rain all around the region. so, plan accordingly if you are going to be out and get your hair done and go to an even on saturday night, just wear it back. that's what i say. seven-day forecast, here we go. back in touch with fall again on tuesday and wednesday. with highs only in the 60s but looks to be dry by then. angie, good morning. >>> good morning, kim. hello, everybody. thanks for joining us. let's begin with a live look from sky nine. this is the accident situation we are following on the inner loop in maryland. here's a live look at central avenue. it looks like it has been pushed to the shoulder. traffic is getting by but it is getting by pretty slowly. factor in extra minutes for your commute if you are trav

generally i start writing something at around 11:30 or newland. i don't eat breakfast. if i eat lunch it tends to lieve and it depends because i do a weekly column for the new york sun and writing day is usually tuesday or wednesd so ift is one of those days i g working on that. it generally takes about one out re for me to do a column. usually i will have done some sort of a broad outline the night befor if i am writing a boothan it is a matter of working on a kind of east which usually for me is a 60 page outline festooned with first draft text samples and then making them into a book as a matter of taking the part of the outline that will correspond to that chapter and flhing it out into something and that is a matter especially with word-processing technology tha is a matter. d't know wt my process uld have been 20 years ago when there was a matter of longhand and typewriters. but now 's a matter of taking the word processing document and massaging it on till it's right. but actually, i think of myself primarily as a writer. it's what i'd really like to do. i think

lots of nice people from newland, north carolina.in iowa and mississippi state university represented right there. let's talk about the weather out there because really some tough weather in the midsection of the country. midwest trouble, flash flooding, large hail, high winds from saunt cloud down to mason city. it's that clash of cool air and warm air and where that comes together, you have problems. the bigger picture we'll show you, well, you saw my picture standing out here, it's not nice around the northeast from atlantic city to -- and here comes the rain. from new york city down to atlantic city, that will be the toughest of it and here comes the rain right now. that is >> announcer: this weather allergy report sponsored by claritin allergy products. live claritin clear. >>> not very pasant here right now. let's talk about the pollen report because there's a large area extending from the hentral and southern rocky across the plains in the midwest. moderate to high levels of pollen, very high pollen levels extend from salt lak

the ares 5 light friday to go in the early 2020 s if you went the flexible path, if he went to the newland the moon first. of course the president said in the campaign he wanted to be on via moon by 2020 so that is pretty much out the window according to your panel, isn't it? >> that is true. >> since you are talking early 20s you could have ares 5 ready and have a scenario by which you could get ares 5 with a crew as also with a lunar vehicle or but vehicle? >> we are speaking to the larger budget level of course and the answer would be yes. >> do you want to for the record get any comments about the alternative e. -- eelv? expendable launch vehicle? >> yes, it is one that has been with us for many years and traces back to the icbm program in fact and it has been extended by the department of defense. visa vehicles have been he used in various forms. some not yet carrying the full weight that would be needed for this mission. and the vehicles are improving. they are not here rated and they would require additional development. they offer legitimate alternative. they also offer the advanta