most of northern maryland in the low to mid 60s. mid 60s in northern virginia, upper 60s are to low 70s in the d.c. metro to points south and southern maryland where there are a couple lonesome rain drops. southern calvert, across st. mary's county. steadier showers in central pennsylvania headed for northern and northeastern maryland over the next bit and a few showers in the mountains as well. hit and miss rain chances out there. we'll be dealing with those off and on through much of the day. no need to cancel your plans. warm and humid, today temperatures mid to upper 80s and an unsettled pattern. >> thanks. >>> state of emergency. back to what missouri's governor says is going on in ferguson right now. heavy rain and state imposed curfews did not do anything to disperse protesters. one person was shot overnight while protesting. that person we've learned is in critical condition. state highway patrol officers said while they were responding to the shooting scene, protesters refused to leave. officers began firing tear gas into th

maryland. more rain across northern parts of maryland and southern pennsylvania. so there are hit and miss rain chances that will take you all the way through your afternoon today. mostly cloudy skies. passing showers. temperatures today mid to upper 80s. it's going to be a warm and humid day. back to work and for some back to school tomorrow. your monday look ahead, cloudy, 69 in the morning and another day like today only a 30% chance of rain tomorrow but passing showers there. plenty of warmth and humidity. the rain chances will go through the upcoming week. more about that when i see you in a few more minutes. back to the news. >> thanks. >> one man fighting for his life this morning after being shot while protesting. the man was reportedly shot by another protester, but officials don't have a suspect. state highway patrol officers said while responding to the shooting scene, protesters refused to leave. officers began firing the tear gas into the crowds. the victim was taken to the hospital by other protesters and that's because ambulances could not get to th

best rain chances will stay across primarily northern maryland. everybody has a chance of getting hit by a rain shower today. don't turn your back on the rain chance. 70s this morning. mid to upper 80s for highs with humidity. how long does the humidity and rain chances stick around? that is coming up in a few minutes. >> thanks, chuck. >>> state of emergency, that's what missouri's governor says is going on right now in ferguson. police donned in riot gr fired tear gas into the crowd for another night. blain alexander has more from ferguson. >> reporter: overnight we saw a clash between law enforcement and protesters here in the streets of ferguson. this came out after early saturday the governor instituted a curfew for the city of ferguson between the hours of 12:00 and 5:00 a.m. now we saw the standoff start a little bit after midnight because several hundred protesters were still in the streets after the curfew began. police formed a line and moved in toward the protesters. first warning them and eventually firing tear gas at the protesters. w

80s with a better chance of showers as you can see on the futurecast down toward the northern neck, southern maryland, down 95 this afternoon. see you in about six minutes with your seven-day forecast. >>> the u.s. military conducted almost two dozen air strikes on militant targets in northern iraq this weekend. >> as wendy gillette reports, kurdish forces say they are making some progress when it comes to retaking areas from the militants. >> reporter: the u.s. military released new video sunday that it says showed two air strikes on islamic extremist targets. one strike on saturday blew up an isis humvee. another hit an isis truck also near the dam. 14 more strikes near the dam sunday including the use of u.s. land-based bombers for the first time. kurdish security firms say the air strikes have helped its forces recapture parts of the dam which isis fighters took control of two weeks ago. in other parts of northern iraq, the militants continue to threaten civilians. relatives of hundreds slained by isis fighters are telling their stories. this man says they separated women and children from the me

by 10:00 a.m., sprinkles in northern maryland.as we go through the afternoon, the overall coverage of the rain will start to diminish just a bit. then a little back door cold front will turn our winds back to the northeast. that will bring in drier air. by 11:00 tonight, the rain should be over and skies will be trying to clear out a bit. and by tomorrow morning, still a partly to mostly cloudy start. by tomorrow afternoon, things will be starting to improve quite a bit. so for today, cloudy skies, indeed, all across the region. there will be a chance for showers at almost any point in time throughout the day. redskins and ravens play at 7:30 tonight in baltimore. i think that game is going to be dry. couldn't completely rule out a drop or two as the game is getting started, but on the whole, there will be no reason for a skins loss. >> what's your prediction? >> 20-17. >> wow. okay. you heard it here first. >> i'll forecast anything. >> just forecast the good stuff. >>> from the red carpet to the food, hollywood is getting ready

best rain chances in northern most maryland.oday, and for tomorrow, at least a 30% chance for showers hit and miss chances today and tomorrow, highs mid to upper 80s. >> and that's your latest forecast. erica? >> dylan, thanks. >>> when a beloved atlanta chef found himself in need, the local restaurant community quickly gathered together to help. what began as an effort to help one man and his wife focus on his cancer diagnosis and treatment quickly became much more. in december 2012, atlanta chef brian hidinger was just hitting his stride, closing in on his dream of opening a restaurant with his wife jen. then the 35-year-old learned he had stage four cancer. >> being diagnosed right before christmas of 2012 was definitely a hit to the soul and the heart. >> reporter: friends including ryan's boss mobilized almost immediately. >> essentially we said, can we have your permission to raise money. the last thing you need is financial distress. the goal, raise enough money so the hidingers could focus fully on ryan's treatment, not

a little chance for some showers in northern maryland early tomorrow. but i think most of us will be dry until at least into the afternoon hours tomorrow. then between 3:00 and 7:00, hit and miss rain chances starting to come back in. it's not going to be a washout. and not everyone's going to be rained on tomorrow. but there will be those chances of rain showers and a rumble or two of thunder coming our way. luckily no severe weather expected tomorrow either. and eventually things will get a little bit more settled down towards monday afternoon. highs today will be in the mid-80s. with that little chance for a shower or thunderstorm coming in tomorrow. second part of the day. here's your seven-day forecast. today sunny and mid-80s. tomorrow warmer, more humid. 40% chance for some showers tomorrow. only a 30% chance on monday afternoon. then a much better chance. i think our best chance of rain this entire week comes on tuesday. and another chance coming up on thursday. but still no 90s. >> but today are we going to enjoy another winning day. >> thank y

so if you live in northern maryland, don't forget your sunblock, the uv index is at a high 8 for yourday. radar shows not much rain out there just yet. here's the last little chance for showers, well down to our south and west this could sneak north with time as far north as luray, page, shenandoah county, can't rule out a sprinkle along interstate 81. around town, our rain chances are pretty low. here's our future weather forecast. the little rain chance, warrenton and manassas down towards fredericksburg and leonard town and hit-and-miss rain chances to our west into the shenandoah valley. rainfall amounts will be very, very light. .1 inch or less, one or two spots getting more, but not much. if you're headed to the beach, good choice, it's a much better beach weekend than a mountain weekend for sure. plenty of sunshine, temperatures in the 80s. don't forget your sunblock if you're headed to the beach. the seven-day forecast, small chance for rain south and west of town tod i think everyone stays dry tomorrow. best chance for rain will be tuesday and you'll notice another seven-day

we started with fog across northern maryland and the clouds do not want to break out.they are starting to pull in across the region have the best chance of thunderstorms will be south of the district because this is where more of that instability will be. the rest of us will just see some shower activity today. everything we have been getting this morning has been on the light side, not much more than sprinkles. you see a shower through northern loudoun county, hagerstown has seen some light showers, and a couple of sprinkles as we head towards baltimore. if he a few in silver spring. at me know if it is hitting the ground. it looks like it evaporates before it reaches the surface. a cold front is getting close to our region and this is the trigger mechanism that we need to provide the wet weather across the region today. it will be short-lived as the front should past the region through the evening hours and then high-pressure behind it will fill in by tomorrow about bringing in less humid conditions and a beautiful end to the work week. here is futurecast -- most of

south winds at 6 miles per hour and mostly 70s around the metro area and back in the 60s in northern maryland. here's the future weather for rest of the overnight. things will be drying out. dry start for sunday morning. up through lunchtime, mostly sunny. 4:00 and 5:00 tomorrow afternoon, there's a little hint of a shower chance. even fewer showers to contend with tomorrow. by the time the moon is coming up, everything will be drying out just nice. more sunshine and only a spotty shower chance tomorrow means a warmer day. we made 85 today. will be 87 tomorrow. increasing clouds monday with chance of rain monday afternoon and monday night. tuesday looks rainy and wednesday morning could be wet, wednesday night into the rest of the week looks great. another seven-day forecast with no 90s in sight. >>> still ahead, with the preseason game in the books, jay describes his head coaching debut in one word. jason that's that up next. ñoñí >>> you know, it's funny, they say you get first preseason game out of the way and then things get interesting for a game or two. >> we should count it. >> wish we

thunderstorm activity even though there's a front coming except for the mountains of west virginia, northern maryland perhaps as well and part offed shenandoah -- parts of the shenandoah valley as well. 92 at reagan national. easton 89. many of you in the upper 80s. we get a little break tomorrow and friday, but the weekend into labor day looks very much like the heart of summer which hasn't been that summery. i'll have the full seven-day forecast in just a few minutes. andrea, back to you. >> thank you, howard. >>> we've been talking a lot about back to school and staying healthy this school year. dr. melissa wisner of inova is answering your questions live at wusa9.com. her colleague is joining us here. he is a pediatrician at inova children's hospital. doctor, thank you very much for being here with us. i think one of the biggest concerns we've been talking about is the sleep schedule for young children. they've been on vacation all this time. sleeping in late, getting up late. how do you get them back into their normal sleep schedule? >> andrea, gently. that's the word. medically, we will tell pe

metro area through the northern neck and southern maryland, still dry, but that heavy rain impacting of loudoun, northern prince william and frederick counties, parts of montgomery and the district at 6:00 p.m. notice how southern maryland could potentially remain mainly dry for the evening, even into the overnight hours. but at 10:00, it's not dry in montgomery county. in fact, heavy rain potentially at that point by the brighter colors there on future weather. now as we get into our labor day holiday, maybe you're heading to the beach today, well, mainly dry at the beach today and a little breezy. an afternoon thunderstorm is possible there on monday. back at home tomorrow, chance of an isolated morning shower at 7:00 a.m. but most if not all of the morning and midday hours, then a widely scattered thunderstorm possible during the afternoon and evening hours. a high temperature tomorrow of 91. we're talking about our fourth heat wave of the year and starts today. the 90s. the heat wave continues through friday. for tuesday a high temperature of 95 degrees. it's still humid. weather

northern maryland a little bit better chance of seeing some sunshine the farther north you travel. 77t reagan national airport. it's a steamy day, though. temperatures in the 70s. humidity is still at 74%. and that east wind is going to do nothing to help our sunshine chances for later on today, that east wind coming off the ocean. as a result, these low marine layer clouds will be sticking with us all day long. on the whole it's clouds and drizzle drops. overall impact will be fairly low. cloudy. chance of any measurable rain only about 30% at the most. any break of sunshine at all. we'll make it up into the low to mid 80s. the rain intensity today really not all too crazy. may need your umbrella for five to ten minutes. on the whole it won't add up to too terribly much. better chances for substantial rains farther out to the west. going out to dinner tonight, can't rule out a stray sprivengspriveng sprivengle sprinkle or shower. good weather for the baseball game. i can't rule out a little bit of wetness there as well. take a look at it on storm team 4 radar. d.c. metro area. these

wet and gray tuesday morning right now getting some showers and thunder parts of northern west virginia into western maryland. that will stay well west of the metro area this morning. right now northern virginia, the district, nearby suburbs getting some light rain. this is tracking northeast. it will be with us off and on through the next several hours. there's that low, gray cloud cover over northeast washington. now, by 8:00 it will be near 70. by noon, mid 70s. during the afternoon, upper 70s. the heaviest downpours between noon and 5:00 p.m. with thunder and lightning and it does look like the heaviest rains will taper off during the evening and then end by midnight and we'll take a look at big changes on the way beginning tomorrow. a look at the weekend next weather and traffic on the 1s at 6:51. alexis, how are roads now? >> good morning, tom. we have that accident southbound 270 before route 109. left lane is blocked. here's a live look at 270 after clarksburg road where traffic is moving once you get past the accident zone. earlier accident in the clearing stages but causing a major backup all of th

team 4 radar continues to show the light rain moving through the shenandoah valley and parts of northern maryland this is all inbound into the d.c. metro here for the second half of the rush hour this afternoon and evening. it will be a wetter rush hour in virginia than in maryland, but not by much. it's arriving later in maryland. moderate showers northwest. martinsburg, west virginia. i-81 and i-66 is wet. into the city of fairfax, then dry from there on in. everyone is going to be wet by 8:00 or 9:00 at the latest. have your umbrellas ready to go. overnight loys generally holding in the upper 60s and low 70s. it's going to be a mild night. cloudy, mild, light to moderate rain. be ready for the morning commute. tomorrow afternoon, high temperatures hold in the upper 70s to barely near 80 degrees. there will be rain, heavy at times, possibility of strong to severe thunderstorms tomorrow as well. keep that in mind as you are planning. how much rain might we get? a lot of rainfall. some places could get north of two inches of rain or more. be ready for the potential of moderate to heavy rain durin

towards harrisburg moving into western lancaster county and this one just developed over i-95 and northern marylandand that one could head into delaware here within the next hour or so. so temps are in the 80's, cooler in dover at 77. cooler down the shore with that east wind, showers and storms popping up throughout the the area this evening and even into the overnight hours we will have some showers and storms, tomorrow morning showers down the the shore and then everything fills in throughout the the afternoon and evening hours. even on the saturday we will have the risk for spotty showers, at anytime, so it looks like a showery pattern here tonight, tomorrow, and as we head into the weekend. i want to draw your attention to the tropics, this area has a 50 percent chance of tropical development but model spread is pretty insane. look at this getting hit with some have of them bringing it in the gulf of mexico, others take it way out to sea with no consensus just yet that is early next week we would be looking for a threat with that system. we will keep you posted. your taney dragons forecast 74

our rain chance officially is 30% but rain chances are just a touch higher out across northern maryland and the panhandle of west virginia. so your wednesday afternoon planner, storms mainly to the west of the metro area. 85 at 1:00, hot and humid. mid to upper 80s by about 3:00. showers and thundershowers likely to start bubbling up until 7:00 or 8:00 this evening. if you're planning dinner out on the town, mostly dry dining in d.c. but you do need to know that there will be an opportunity. if you're going down to the baseball game, possibility of a delay but they should get the game in. any rain we get over the stadium at game time tonight won't be an all night inundation of the rain chances. so if you're looking for an umbrella, just a casual umbrella, nothing too crazy. any of these showers could last 30 to 45 minutes or so. rain chances today, everybody has a chance of getting wet. lower chances into southern maryland, higher chances across skyline drive and the shenandoah valley out to the mountains of west virginia. you can see on the radar data, it's sort of in and out. most of

off the mason dixon line and those clouds and rain chances will be primarily impacting northern and western maryland can't completely rule out some of the sane drops will make their way into the metro area mid to late afternoon tomorrow. skies are mostly clear now and partly to mostly cloudy by the time you wake up. mid and upper 60s around town. quiet start. more clouds than we've had the last couple of days and nowhere near as cool as it was this morning when we had a lot of 40s on the map. a warm day once again. mid to upper 80s with shower and thunderstorm chances coming back into the afternoon. rain chances tomorrow. everyone has a chance but a low chance in the metro and medium chance for rain out to the north and west. so just sort of keep that in mind tomorrow, don't turn your back on a rain chance. i've lowered our chance from rain from 40 to 30. i don't think it has a lot of moisture to work with. another 30 on monday. 60% chance of rain on tuesday and wednesday. tuesday, wednesday look like the rainiest of the stretch. there's another 7-day forecast in august with no 90s in sight. >>> tod

look north up wisconsin avenue a lot more clouds across northern maryland than out on the western shoree bay and by the time you get into prince george's county looking westbound, notice how much grayer the skies are looking west and even farther out to the west, reston town center under full cloud cover. no shadows being seen out there at reston just yet as the clouds are still a lot thicker. upper 60s and low 70s for out the door weather first thing this morning. it's going to be a nice day. afternoon clearing is on the way. today's high 82. tomorrow's high 84 with near 100% sunshine. the commute in and the commute home tomorrow, both look amazing. rest of the week looks good too. more about that in a few minutes. >> all right. thank you so much. >> two big earthquakes hit overnight near a volcano that right now is starting to erupt. the earthquakes both had a magnitude over 5.0. take a look. this is the volcano. it's in southwestern iceland. scientists say soon it will fully erupt and begin spewing ash into the sky. right now planes are banned from flying within 100 miles around the

heaviest activity south and west of town, southern maryland northern neck, i-81 and west into the mountains. we'll open up futurecast. this is 4:00 saturday afternoon. see the showers back in the mountains and into southern maryland. everybody else is in pretty good shape. 8:00 at night showers pushing through parts of the metro area. then it will move through. midnight sunday great, showers south and west. sunday morning going to church dry, showers even south of fredericksburg and back into the mountains and by 4:00 showers continue along i-81 and south down toward fredericksburg and stafford county. for the most part we're dry in the immediate metro area on sunday. by 8:00 probably cook out again sunday night, 11:00 again all the showers back to the west. this model really illustrates it nicely. all the green is to the west and south of town. all the gray which are clouds, not a huge deal. partly to mostly cloudy, comfortable tonight, low 64 to 70, winds southeast 5 to 10. 70 downtown, 66 in bethesda, 65 in fairfax, comfortable really, 64 in laytonsville, rockville 66, college park 66 an

still northern neck, fredericksburg, southern maryland especially more st.mary's and southern charles, calvert, a chance for that shower popping up here this afternoon and this evening. then tonight here we are at 3:30. a passing shower overnight. tomorrow we've got a chance of showers, especially west of town and south of town as we head into the afternoon. i think it will be west of the blue ridge. same story wednesday. by thursday, now i'm thinking thursday may be the wettest day of the week. looking at the forecast, 85, 86, in that range today. a little more muggy with a couple of showers. best chances south of washington. tonight 73 but mid-60s. winds northeast, east at 5 miles an hour. tomorrow mid-80s with a chance of an afternoon storm mainly west. same story wednesday 87. by thursday scattered storms 87. friday a chance of storms 83 and drier and cooler, looks nice for the weekend, highs in the >>> don't give up hope if you're a homeowner and are under were. you still might be able to refinance and save your house. dan is senior mortgage consultant

so 7:00, scattered showers again mainly in southern maryland and northern neck. by 9:00, most of the area will be mainly dry but cloudy. then as we work our way into the late evening and overnight hours. we'll see more scattered showers developing. 73 degrees is the temperature right now and you can see for the most part you can expect temperatures for your evening to be in the low 70s. heading out this evening, grab the umbrella and know you're not dealing with anything too crazy and could actually go -- move throughout the evening for the most part mainly dry. tomorrow big improvements with our weather. i'll have updates in your forecast on sunday in ten minutes. >> thanks a lot. just up i-959, the battle of the beltways is heading for kickoff, the redskins and ravens get it on 90 minutes from now. diana is in baltimore tonight. diana, with all of the buildup, you would never guess this is preseason. this seems like a buildup to a late push to the playoffs. >> reporter: i know, you know, chris, it's really more like a dress rehearsal. this is the most we're goi

locally thick fog across northern virginia and parts of suburban maryland.r inside the city we have relatively good visibilities. once the fog is burned away we will be left with sunshine today and the uv index is back up into the high range. burn time, 15 minutes or less. don't forget your spf on your way outside today. a much lower rain chance than yesterday. most of us didn't see rain yesterday. had a couple showers here in town. manassas got rained on, fairfax did. not everybody got rained on yesterday and even fewer folks will have to worry about rain this afternoon. currently it's a nice morning. cool, though, in a few spots. shenandoah valley, upper 50s. andrews air force base 63 degrees. our future weather forecast. fog burns away. full sunshine by late this -- into late morning today and tons of sunshine into the afternoon. so much so that we may be able to bubble up one or two more stray showers. it's certainly not much of a rain chance. it's 10% or less on the rain chances for today. just don't be completely surprised. you won't be able to say to

we could get a straight one in northern maryland this morning, but most of us will see action this afternoonrm and uncomfortable in the mid to upper 80's. you will see more wet weather tomorrow off and on into saturday morning. >> ok, jacqui, thank you. a big endorsement is excited today in the d c mayor's race. he will officially endorse independent candidate david catania this morning. he will face off against muriel bowser and carol schwartz in over him or. thank you for watching. we will have one final update coming up for you at ♪ work of art your smile can light up new york city after dark okay coverboy pretty with a beauty mark but such a pity a boy so pretty ♪ ♪ with an ugly heart ♪ hey ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >>> can you see why it's such a big hit? grl performing "ugly heart." platinum their latest single and we'll hear live from them in discuss a little bit. >> wow. that hair, man, whoo. all right. >>> also, i was just inside talking to this man, oh. here's pierce brosnan. live. ♪ >> all that weather brought to you by panera bread and a nice wipedown. george? >> earning his de

heavier showers across southern maryland into northern neck.altimore, gametime not too faraway, the better weather will be sneaking in. the storminess pushed away. a pattern begins to emerge. the tropical storm center, we have a tropical depression number four. it is not named yet, but number four is down here near honduras, churning. could become a hurricane early next week. taper, cloudsrs clear. tomorrow, near 80. pleasant >> and now the toyota sports desk, brought to you by your local toyota dealers. redskins-ravens getting ready for the battle of the beltways . plenty to look forward to. washington looked sloppy last monday against the browns, but the starters know this will probably be their last game before the regular season. they want to take advantage with the season opener just two weeks away. >> the ravens are very, very tough, very good defense. it's another great test for us as an offense. we want to get positive place. we will find those ways. >> it will be a challenge for us. they are a good team, but we are also a good team. we

those of you in southern maryland and the northern neck, you will have some showers at times overnightonight. that will continue into the early morning hours. 5:00, 6:00 a.m. isolated cells are dying as they continue to move towards the east in prince william, fairfax, and loudoun counties. a better chance you're dealing with a shower or thunderstorm tomorrow. i'll have the timing coming up. >>> a young man died after he apparently overdosed on drugs at a maryland music festival. more than a dozen others had to be hospitalized. paramedics rushed 20 people to the hospital for possible overdoses, including a 17-year-old from woodbridge who remains in critical condition. this all happened yesterday at the mad decent block party at meriweather post pavilion. investigators are looking into which drugs may have been involved. the man who died is a 20-year-old from north carolina. >>> police identified a man shot and killed near the goddard space center in prince georges county, shane snipes. officers found him in a parking lot along green belt road. we're told someone shot snipes several tim

by 10:00 just clouds, low to mid-70s, maybe showers into the northern neck in southern maryland. then by midnight we see a growing area of showers and storms south of us. we'll come back, put that in futurecast and tell you what that means for your saturday forecast. >>> the star witness in the corruption trial of former governor bob mcdonnell took a beating today. defense attorneys have been poking holes in the testimony of jonnie williams. >> peggy fox said today on the stand jonnie williams suddenly couldn't remember much. >> reporter: after hours of talking in detail about his life and conversations he had over the past few years with the mcdonnells, today jonnie williams seemed not to remember what he said five days ago. court ended about an hour ago. here's mr. williams flanked by his attorneys pushing media away leaving the courthouse. he was cross-examined by mrs. mcdonnell's attorneys who wanted to know what he told investigators in several meetings including one last sunday, but williams responded over and over, "i can't recall." mr. williams said he gave the mcdonnells

the humane society says they'll try to look for adigit homes in northern virginia, western maryland and harrisburg, pennsylvania. and the human society sent us that video of how the dogs looked when they were found. some of the animals are extremely underweight. and they have untreated medical conditions including broken legs and open wounds. >>> well, a pregame tradition at penn state university is no more. the school's athletic department has ended the blue van tailgate pep rallies. those were held before the games at penn state's basketball arena. officials say they're looking at new ways to get the fans involved with the football team including accompanying them as they arrive at beaver stadium. >>> from our trenton bureau, new jersey high school students are now required to learn cpr. under a new law, lessons will be taught to all charter students in the ninth and 12th grades. the students will not have to be certified. >>> 5:49 right now. mo'ne davis and the taney dragons face a must-win game. joanne played two games for the broomhal reds. a letter from williamsport arrived explai

heaviest activity will be south and west of town, so south, fredericksburg south, southern maryland, northern neck and west in the mountains and west of i-81. here's futurecast 10:00 in the morning we've got temps in the 70s, 75 downtown, low 70s in the bushes, some showers even in the morning out 66 around culpeper and toward luray, nothing crazy heavy. by 1:00 showers showing up into southern maryland and this is where the action will be most of the day. at 3:00 a couple showers get into the immediate metro area. it's possible. fairfax county, loudoun county and the district but nothing crazy heavy. see all the yellows? that stays south into southern maryland. by 7:00 showers begin to wane. you'll be able to cook out tomorrow night with temps in the 70s. by 9:00 75 in gaithersburg, 79 downtown, some showers south down toward fredericksburg and showers in mountains again saturday night, not a bad weekend for us. 70s to start, 78 by 11:00 and 82 by 1:00, dry in those time periods. don't worry about that. next three days a few showers saturday, sunday, pair of 85s, 87 monday afternoon storms.

lighter showers toward southern maryland. northern neck seeing showers on and off. this goes around to oxford. huntingtown over toward shady side, north beach, chesapeake beach seeing a few lighter showers. waldorf south 301 through la plata, nanjemoy. in d.c. we've got plenty of clouds, a break or two. the sun came up a few minutes apg. we're not really going to see it -- minutes apg. we're not really going to see it today. temperatures will be down in the upper 70s and low 80s. got to 89 yesterday with the sunshine after the nice cool days we had tuesday and wednesday. this morning isolated 50s but more 60s and 70s. so the air mass is completely turned over from just a couple of days ago. much more humid and much warmer. cool spots in the low 60s in upper montgomery and loudoun counties. lovettsville 62. 73 in alexandria. it's 70 degrees on the nose in manassas. look at that fill month 64. -- philomount 64. national 76 with a dew point of 68. it's certainly a muggy morning. there's another look at it. there's a little kink right there. we can see that is moving up

northern prince william and fauquier counties. pushing east by 8:00 p.m., most of the area is dry by 10:00. southern marylandhern neck will finally dry out. you can see cooler temperatures showing up. washington though still at 86 degrees and it is humid outside. once the rain moves through the district we'll also see your temperatures drop a little bit. so the commuterukt impact for t rain and evening commute potentially slow especially if you are leave organo someone leaving within the next hour. stimming around tonight the road should be fine, just wet hat that point. tomorrow morning, dry roads. temperatures will be in the low 70s. highs tomorrow, hot. near 90. 89 for a high in washington. 87 in la pla da. it's humid out there. especially when the sun does make an appearance and we can't rule out scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms. about a 30% chance you are dealing with late day shower thunderstorm activity for your thursday. heading to the beach. friday storms are likely. not a great beach day. showers ending saturday morning at the beach, likely breezy. 78 for a high on saturday. 75 only on

northern maryland, this is one of the locations where there could be some heavy rain moving through andstorms this afternoon. areas like hagerstown and martingsburg where your high temperatures will reach the upper 80s. for tomorrow, your grilling forecast on labor day, be prepared for a thunderstorm but the threat that you're dealing with severe weather tomorrow is much lower, even the threat you're dealing with a thunderstorm at all decreases tomorrow. it is hot and humid. a high temperature of 91 for your monday. make sure you're drinking plenty of water. tuesday a high temperature of 95. showers and thunderstorms are possible later in the day and like y overnight and for wednesday thumidity is lower. plenty of sunshine. great day to get the car washed. we'll keep it dry thursday and friday. only a chance of thunderstorms next saturday. >> we get a little break throughout the week. >> the humidity at least lowers this week. >>> this weekend, maryland is celebrating its role in the war of 1812. 200 years ago the small town provided refuge to president james madison while the british o

under the code orange alert that includes all of southern maryland and nearby suburbs, northern virginia and into maryland, up to philadelphia and delaware, they are under the code orange for unhealthy air quality during the afternoon. a little bit of cloudiness in the eastern sky. a little bit of a summer haze over the metro area. a live view from the storm team 4 tower camera. temperatures outside heading out the door, rather cool near 60 for shenandoah valley. we are generally in the low to mid-60s near washington and right by the chesapeake bay. a look at dramatic temperature warming throughout the day hour by hour over the next 12 hours is coming up at weather and traffic on the 1s. >>> we are learning more about the death of cecil brown found dead in his backyard on colby avenue. investigators now say the death could be a homicide. neighbors heard a disturbance and called police just before 12:30 yesterday afternoon. police say brown was not shot. the autopsy report is pending. >>> security changes are on the way for a popular maryland concert hall after two people died from drug o

we're getting that northern neck of virginia, now moving in to southern maryland. area of rain getting closer to washington is this batch near charlottesville. leading edge of that just coming into fredericksburg, woodbridge and into washington going to be getting wet in another hour and 50 meainutes. by noontime, still a few scattered light rain showers around. and into the afternoon for the afternoon commute, scattered light rain showers will be moving through. so pavement dry now, but it will be getting wet. >> it will be a little bit of an issue as we progress. right now, though, looking good. this not the best example of dry pavement. this is a water main break in hyattsville, rhode island at crittenden, both northbound lanes closed. one southbound lane getting by. save yourself the headache and take kenilworth instead. 66, 95, everything moving very nicely. beltway at colesville, moving. like to see that of course. and then right now chopper 4 over the beltway 66, no problems there. >>> a knock at the door, but the family inside couldn't tell what was there u

the dry air in place from new england nosing all the way down into west virginia, northern virginia, maryland dew points have dropped into the 40s in many cases. sticky november folk south. dew points 60 to near 70. the longer nights we have now allow temps to cool off nicely. 40s in the blue areas. cumberland 54. still 65 in d.c. but when you really look at the temps and you get away from the bodies of water, now you get this widespread feel for what's going on with 57 in rockville, 66 centreville. look at all the 50s. some lower 50s at white oak. it's 54 in bowie. look at the difference between owings and north beach. almost 10 degrees. that's what the bay does for you this time of year. beautiful skies out there. we've got 65 degrees. a north, northeast wind at 6 and the barometer at 30.15. high pressure is in control now but a front comes back at us as we head into the day, tomorrow bringing us a chance of showers. sunday and monday afternoon storms and hot. at the beach 78 today. 85 tomorrow. excuse me, 78 tomorrow. 85 sunday and monday 83. you'll also have a chance for a thunderstorm al

threat will be till we get to the afternoon tuesday, that rain still falling in the southern maryland and northern neck area and then a line of thunderstorms and showers develops west of the beltway in the afternoon tuesday. wednesday we start out dry and then another line of showers and thunderstorms develops, this appearing to be west of the blue ridge, but we can't rule out some of those thunderstorms drifting through the beltway as we head into the overnight hours wednesday into thursday morning and then thursday afternoon we'll get kind of the grand finale with another line of showers and thunderstorms, this time right in the beltway. overnight tonight just a quick passing shower possible, 65 to 71 degrees. tomorrow morning temperatures in the 60s and 70s under those partly to mostly cloudy skies with the possibility of a shower and then in the afternoon highs will be in the mid-80s, an isolated thunderstorm, most of us completely dry and wednesday that isolated storm chance west of the beltway mainly with a high of 88, more widespread rain and thunderstorms thursday. that's the day most of u

but east of i-95, down towards southern maryland, the northern neck, around fredericksburg, that's where we see heavier rain come through. this is a more moderate rain. no areas of heavy rain. we're not talking about thunderstorms with lightning, anything like that. this is just plain rain down around the northern neck especially, along st. mary's county. this is the area that will see the rain most of the night. you may get a tenth to a quar r quarter, maybe half an inch. to the west, you may not see much at all overnight tonight. this system continues to move up. this say wave. here is the wave right here that's making its way through the region right now. behind it is some clearing, at least aloft. cloudy ton y tomorrow. but a chance of some dry period. tomorrow will be similar to what we saw on our friday. 8:00 in the morning, clouds, maybe a few breaks in those bro clouds. in the afternoon, a few showers. do not expect a lot of rain tomorrow. carry the umbrella, but don't expect a lot of rain. we may see air little bit of sun. rain comes sunday. sunday could be a washout. still a li

you but one last batch of showers still holding together right over the northern chesapeake bay moving into cecil county marylandr county. eventually this moves into new castle county delaware as well. moving pretty slow. nothing heavy the this point. few lightning strikes but a lot of those thunderstorms have diminish as well over the past hour or so. again southern chester county near east nottingham get down towards northeast maryland in the cecil coup tow area that will see showers extends all the way out to port deposit that heads eastward. overnight not out of the woods just yet. but you may have to dodge a shower or two if you're doing traveling otherwise partly cloudy skies. pretty mild though we're empty 6060s to low 70 as lot of clouds across the region that's acting as blanket keeping in the heat at the surface. temperatures really not going to fall a whole lot more may get down to the mid and upper 60s for the morning temperatures so mild start to your monday. still on the humid side that will be the trend over the next few days but we get the sunshine back up are, back out. 86 degrees for a high in

in pennsylvania in the afternoon you notice the showers up here which will sneak down into maryland, northernlley, northern virginia here late afternoon to early evening with just some isolated storms and that will all diminish overnight. we have cristobal now a hurricane but not a threat. heavy rains to the bahamas. this has obtained hurricane strength last night with winds 75 miles an hour. the forecast track takes it north, northeast and then northeast going right between bermuda and the u.s. as we head towards the middle and latter part of the week. other than some surf action along the coast, no real problems. 88 today, warm and dry. tonight light winds 68 with upper 50s to near 60 in the cool spots. hot and humid, 92 tomorrow. light chance of a late day storm especially north and west of d.c. friday looks good, too. mid-80s. over the weekend into monday, low 90s with a chance for afternoon storms saturday through the holiday. monika samtani, it's almost 6:19. got some big problems out there. >> we really do. in fact, take a look at your monitor if you can on the northbound side of 395.

out the door a few showers possible west of the beltway and towards the south to southern maryland and the northern neck of virginia. noon time the next line of showers and storms is developing west and north of the beltway. the bess potential for any showers and thunderstorms during the -- best potential for any showers and norms during the day on tuesday is kind of -- thunderstorms during the day on tuesday is kind of surrounding the beltway from the west. wednesday morning back to sunshine but not all day. there's the potential for thunderstorms wednesday afternoon. overnight we do have the potential for a shower, lows between 65 and 71, winds out of the northeast at 5 to 10 miles per hour. tomorrow morning temperatures in the 60s and 70s. we have the potential for a shower, but the greater potential is west and south of the beltway. if you live in those areas, you'll be on the lookout for those thunderstorms and showers especially in afternoon with a high in the mid-80s. the next three days weather alerts are green. there's the potential for another isolated storm wednesday, but most of that ac

the humane society says they'll try to look for adoptive homes in northern virginia, western maryland, and harrisburg, pennsylvania. the humane society sent us this video of how the dogs looked when they were found. some of the animals were extremely underweight. they have untreated medical conditions including broken limbs and open wounds. >>> overseas, american fighter jets and drones have launched more than a dozen air strikes in iraq in the past 24 hours. this comes despite a threat by isis militants to kill a second american journalist if those strikes continue. yesterday isis released a video showing the beheading of u.s. journalist james foley. today president obama spoke about the death of foley, who was taken hostage nearly two years ago in syria. >> and as nbc 10 national correspondent steve handlesman reports now, mr. obama vowed to be relentless as the u.s. considers sending more troops to iraq. >> reporter: 21 months of hope that foley might be freed ended tragically. >> he was a great american. >> reporter: the foleys hold out home for another u.s. journalist held in syr

downpours to move on through and notice how it's lining up along i95 basically between the northern panhandle of maryland and down into the d.c. metro. again, areas that are prone to flooding could see localized flooding by later on this afternoon and then off and on showers again through mid afternoon, your drive time home is hit or miss. some of us will have steady pockets of rain. others will have light rain but definitely be a slick ride home by about the 5:00, 6:00 hour and then steady thunderstorms even tonight as you go to bed. things improve though overnight, partial clear, partly cloudy skies early on wednesday morning but that wind shift for wednesday definitely going to be worth it when we secure out the humidity at last. so our highs today will stay well below average only near 80 degrees inside the beltway upper 70s elsewhere and tonight, still a little muggy and takes awhile for front to move through but you can see the coolest air toward oakland and petersburg where the temperatures are dropping into the lower 60s for most of us we'll stay close to the mid and upper 60s for overnight low,

9 futurecast predicts those showers will graze the lower parts of the northern neck of virginia and southern marylanddon't see that. so here goes off into the delmarva beaches. that could be impacted. you could see rain in ocean city, rehoboth as we head through tonight. here come those wind out of the southwest to help warm things up saturday. sunday is when the humidity starts to come back. notice a few showers developing just in time to head to services sunday morning. most of the heat and humidity building will produce those thunderstorms in the afternoon and i think that 9 futurecast is overdoing this a bit, but make sure you know we could see some thunderstorms in the afternoon on sunday, more arriving monday. overnight tonight we're looking at a pleasantly cool night with 53 to 62 overnight lows, winds out of the west 5 to 10 miles per hour. 60s and 70s tomorrow morning, mostly sunny skies, a great start to the day. it's going to be a touch warmer tomorrow afternoon with highs in the mid-80s under those mostly sunny skies and the humidity remains low. the beaches will be a little unsettled thi

he decides he's going to extort capital from all these northern cities and particularly by '64 maryland cities like hagerstown and middletown and frederick. he wastes a lot of time when the primary mission is to get to washington, change the scope of the war, capture the city, disperse the lincoln administration. but he's dialing around in frederick extracting 200 grand from them. okay. priorities. a second factor, on july 10th, the thermometer out here at georgetown university or up in maryland at a farm near sandy springs stood in the mid 90s. drought had been in the region for weeks on end. water was in short supply. and the marching columns went through six inch dust on even a concrete highway. probably took them just as long to get as it takes us to get up 270. just about as unpresident anlea. but all the delays get to our main point about the battle of fort stevens. i don't want to go on too long because we have other things we want to talk about this afternoon. fort stevens had been set up as fort massachusetts based on a camp bright wood out here in the bright wood section of wa

and the temperatures elsewhere in the metro area, generally in the upper 70s northern virginia. much of maryland in the mid to upper 70s. right near the bay, mid-70s. beautiful day on the bay as well. as we look at the latest satellite and radar, we don't have any storms anywhere nearby, but hurricane bertha, there it is churning away east of the bahamas. well east of the bahamas right now with winds of 80 miles an hour. and it is now a category 1 hurricane. we'll stay that way through the day today and stay well off the atlantic seaboard. well east of the outer banks during the day on tuesday into wednesday. a category 1 hurricane and east of our atlantic beaches and the eastern shore, maybe some heavy seas, could get some rip currents there along the beaches the next couple of days. then it quickly really weakens a lot and just becomes a tropical depression and an area of low pressure by the time it gets off the canadian maritimes. i took this photo yesterday morning. i was hiking along the creek running pretty low. most of this on instagram, facebook and twitter. that's where you can share yo

maryland. there's the stuff over toward norfolk, virginia beach. in st. mary's county coming out of the northern neck, newland, back toward reedville though jan said she hasn't seen much rain down there. north and west of us, not much going on yet, montgomery and loudoun and howard and northern fairfax county. in the mountains of west virginia, western maryland, we're seeing a couple of showers starting to pop. here in d.c., i was in the rain, light rain at noon but last few minutes we're just on the edge. notice southeast seeing it over toward prince george's county. most of that county is seeing some light rain now. a little heavier shower has popped up between amissville and front royal trying to drift up toward upperville in northern fauquier county. kind of cloudy and murky out there. certainly much more humid than it was earlier in the week. upper 70s to around 80. low 70s by 9:00. the nationals and phillys are trying to get a game in. well very to watch the doppler. there's a chance of showers mid- 70s at 7:00. low 70s by 9:00. right now temperatures are in the 70s to near 80. 80 in phill

area into northern virginia through the pan handle and down towards southern maryland.if you are north of the potomac and through maryland you should be okay the rest of the night but there are still a few more showers. you can see down to the south what's happening. and one thing we notice here not a lot of lightning associated with these. a few of these storms have some lightning. these storms here came through and are weakening a little bit. through fauquier and making their way through stafford. and prince william, around i-9 a also seeing shower activity. and you can see as we widen out, this is the back boundaryújpy a it's just sliding to the south. this is a cold front currently moving through that. will set us up for a couple very nice days but then the weekend. if you have weekend plans, you are going to want to see it. >>> now been six months since the murder of a popular music teacher in alexandria. still no /cç charges. ruth ann was shot when he opened her front door back in february. another woman inside the home was also injured. charles severance was bein

northern fort. we're now at ft. foote on the potomac river in maryland. we came from ft. ward across the potomac river to ft. foote. and on this map you'll see it was the anchoring, the defenses on the potomac river down here. across the river is in alexandria was battery rodgers and the two of those then covered the potomac river in case ships or raiders would have come up. this fort was actually built and constructed between 1863 and 1865. unlike most of the other forts, it was not abandoned at the end of the civil war. they continued to maintain this fort and man it until 1878 because it was on the river. the only other fort on the river, of course, you had battery rodgers across the river, but on toward the chesapeake bay was ft. washington which is basically located about across from mt. vernon, george washington's home. at the beginning of the war, it was manned actually by marines and was manned in one sort or another during the war but was not actually part of the civil war defenses of washington, the circle of forts. but if there would have been ships trying to come up, it would have had an effect a