krajina slows at potomac mills to get into lorton. -- virginia slows at potomac mills to get into lorton. good out of leesburg on the greenway, the toll road. 28 is the underpass. coming at of leesburg on the seven east bound by pass, there was a minor crash. a huge warwater main break. julie and alison. >> thank you. >>> a developing story. relief is on its way to american samoa days after a deadly tsunami wipe out entire towns. military planes are flying in supplies. >> another earthquake has hit the island of indonesia. courtney robinson has the latest. good morning. >> thousands remain trapped under rubble in indonesia. the number of those debt will continue to climb. it could be several weeks before a note exactly how many are missing. devastation and death in samoa after an 8.3-earthquake. waves were sent over the coast of samoa. >> the bridge has been wiped out. > at. 119 people are dead. -- at least 119 people are dead. more help is on its way. >> i have declared this a major disaster to speed the deployment of resources. >> the samoan community of southern california is sending

the high temperatures, 62 potomac, way below where we should be for october 1. of 55 degrees annapolis, high of 66. of 54 degrees springfield, high of 47. the official numbers at reagan national, 65 and 50, well below the averages. we will see temperatures get warmer as the warm front is coming across the appalachian mountains. cool weather, clear skies, but just to the west the clouds are rolling in. the clouds will stabilize the temperatures overnight. the push of warm air is on the way, behind the warm front. it lies right there. as it pushes to the northeast, we will get the clouds and chance of isolated showers. the cold stuff will be pushed to the northeast. that matches the satellite image, the clouds expanding to the east. this cold front is developing, which we will deal with saturday. locally, the clouds in motion, sunshine most of the day, fair weather clouds. the overcast comes in, shower stretching acss western maryland, back up to pennsylvania, ohio, and michigan, possibility of isolated showers in the morning. most of the activity will stay to the

we have a few high level clouds here streaming in but areas to the far west and northwest over the potomac highlands and along the then then valley area -- -- the shenandoah valley area could see some showers. in the rockies one to three inches of snowfall for them. to the deep south georgia once again dealing with flood situations with plenty of heavy rainfall. we on the other hand will stay very dry. that ridge of high pressure is going to bring us into some sunshine for tomorrow. we've got a series of frontal systems to deal with, though, as we move through into the week. tuesday night into wednesday expect to see some rainfall as a result of a warm front lifting in from the south and another frontal system heading in from areas of the west. and then by the end of the week we'll be dealing with another frontal system. in the meantime ridge of high pressure is what we're talking about. plenty of sunshine tomorrow. temperatures in the low 70s. upper 60s pretty much across the board. here's a look at your five-day forecast. seasonal temperatures all through the week. winds will be pretty b

in addition to inspecting the bridge that carries yellow line trains over the potomac, metro plans to replace the hundreds of fasteners that hold the rails on to the ties. the bridge will likely be out of service for the entire three- day columbus day weekend. but rather than end yellow line service at the pentagon, metro decided to reroute yellow trains on to blue line tracks. yellow trains will run from huntington to stadium armory. another part of the project, replacing the switches at the lane fant plaza station metro passengers will have to use shuttle buses between gallery place and anacostia. when metro shut down the national airport for similar maintenance, some passengers complained. >> 45 minutes extra. >> reporter: metro officials say it makes more sense to schedule major maintenance over a three-day weekend. >> if we do it normally, it's four weekends to do. it's measuring the customer impact if we do it over a three- day major holiday weekend where ridership on that holiday is 60% of a normal weekday and we affect less people >> reporter: the archive station and waterfron

lindsaymurphy is live in potomac, maryland. >> we will talk about the match- up >>> the university of florida backtracking over the latest emergency response plan, how to deal with a flesh-eating zombie attack. the school posted the response plan on the web site alongside emergency plans for real disasters like hurricanes and pandemic. the plan laying out how school officials would handle an outbreak of the undead has been removed. a gag by creative employees. you wantedore. you wanted videos and photos... email and broadband. you wanted to run your business from anywhere... and instant messaging to stay in touch with everyone. you wanted apps to find music, news, or the way home. ok your wireless companies... grow your world. >>> good evening. i'm lindy murphy. churchill is 4-0 on the season. they are one of seven teams undefeated in montgomery county. that record is on the line in about five minutes. in the nfl the redskins take on the third winless team of the season, the tampa bay buccaneers 1:00 at fedex field. it has been a tough week for sure for the skins who are stewing from

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there is a small craft advisory for the bay and title potomac. next seven days, 75 tomorrow. slight chance of a shower. a little shower on saturday. then quite nice. returning partly cloudy and warmer behind the cold front. a little counter intuitive. it will not get cooler until sunday. almost 80 on saturday. low 70s for the redskins on sunday and we are looking at low 70s on monday. warmer again next week. look at this. in the 70s and low 80s on wednesday with that will come a chance of a shower or thunderstorm. >> all right. guess what we are talking about? we haven't talked about the caps in a while? >> a lot of people believe it's going to go well past the second round. ovechkin is a lot to be excited about. is this the year they move up to great? caps open their season tonight, amid huge expectations, they will hear from their newest star, plus greg puts himself under the bus with a quote you will not want to miss. here at 9sports coming up. >>> it's time for 9sports with brett haber, the best sports in town. >> taboo years ago they made the first round of the playoffs.

we have some fog over the potomac valley. it's 56 in washington and now warming.sing clouds friday. could get showers late friday night. maybe a passing >> and that's your latest weather. ann? >> all right, ann, thanks. >>> phillip garrido is back in the headlines this morning. the california man accused of kidnapping and holding jaycee dugard hostage for nearly two decades has sent a letter from prison to a local nbc reporter in sacramento. nbc's michael okwu now has the details. >> reporter: the letter is handwritten and full of misspellings and musings about how authorities have mistreated jaycee. "she's been repeatedly denied access to have an attorney present during questioning," the author writes, "her civil rights have been clearly violated. please consider this request to contact her at your earliest possible date." >> all psychopaths love power and control. so, by sending out this letter, he's still affecting people on the outside and telling them what to do and to do it his way. >> reporter: the return address on the envelope is the county jail where gar

out in the potomac high winds, they could see some patchy frost, but nothing for the immediate metrorea. clouds will start to roll went by midday tomorrow. we will see showers tomorrow night. high temperature around 70 degrees. the temperatures are cooling quite a bit. windy conditions on wednesday. highs only in the upper 60's. nighttime lows in the upper 40's. there you haven't. a nice day for a monday. mondays are always nice. >> thank you. >>> the traditional newsstand could get an upgrade. >> facebook just wants you to be happy. we have more in tech bytes. >> the newsstand is about to go digital. publisher time, inc. it's leading a venture to create a digital store for magazines. it would deliv titles to mobile devices like cell phones. it would not be free. the service is expected to launch next year. a new jacket will go on sale to keep you warm and charge your gadgets. this winter jacket has a built- in battery pack. the battery can be used to charge phones, cameras, and ipods. it costs about $375. 's mefacebook is a good way to measure how happy we are. there is a prototype

that is the potomac mills sign. northbound 95 with the standard backup to get up to springfield.his is the beltway. plenty of traffic. lanes are open up to the pentagon. >> thank you. >>> 6:13, up 55 degrees. >> wall street and main street are bracing for the latest unemployment reports. some experts say we could hit double digits. >> quality not quantity. the latest on the president's pitch for the olympic games. the latest on the president's pitch for the olympic games. what kind of person writes a thesis calling working women "detrimental to the family..." then lies about his opponent to cover up his own record? the post said bob mcdonnell took office and began passing his social agenda... and the post confirmed that he voted to deny access to birth control. they said mcdonnell even opposed equal pay for women. no matter what his ads say, bob mcdonnell can't cover up his record. i'm creigh deeds, candidate for governor, and my campaign sponsored this ad. >> you are watching abc 7's "good morning washington," with doug mckelway, alison starling, meteorologist brian van de graaf

some showers moving from around the potomac river in st. mary's and charles county and over the bay. a cold front is west of the city right now. it is a slow mover. not most -- not much moisture. it will be in the neighborhood today. the further east you go, the greater the rain chances are and the further west you go the lesser the rain chances are. let us look outside. 62 at the airport. in a harbor, 65. -- inner harbor, 65. 100% humidity. later today, the front will move over to the eastern shore. our predominant brees today is going to be from the south to southwest direction. 54 bay bridge. 58 degrees across the bridge. middle river 64. notice that we have a line here across howard county. to the rest -- west of that line, in the 50's. that is where the front is. slightly cooler air behind the front. there are fewer cloud. the temperatures are going to drop. there is some clearing ahead of that. it is mostly cloudy. the more significant rain making clouds are over the atlantic. a lot of breaks in the clouds in western maryland right no

. >> it is typical that we get the morning fog over the potomac.degrees a reagan national. we have warmed up from 50. the sunshine will holocaust warm-up close to 70 today. stafford, 43. bridgewater, 41. lexington park, 53. leesburg, up 47. high pressure. a lot of sunshine. light westerly winds. that will help increase our cloud cover. rain by saturday. >> thank you. >>> a baltimore teenager is the ninth person in maryland to die of swine flu. desiree parker collapsed in her middle school and was taken to the hospital. she was diagnosed with swine flu last week. she also had double pneumonia. >> for something just to hit like that. she was healthy. very healthy. pneumonia? where did it come from? h1n1? where did it come from? >> per se school has been thoroughly cleaned since she was diagnosed with the virus. >>> a new survey finds republican candidate bob mcdonnell is gaining momentum. the latest poll shows bob mcdonnell has a nine-point advantage over creigh deeds. seven% remained undecided. >>> new driving laws take place in maryland today. thos

. >>> a needed face lift is on the way for a historic memorial in west potomac park. the world war i memorial is located onhe national mall. it will be restored and plans are being drafted now. today the national park service asked the national capitol planning commission for their input on design. the park service plans to use federal stimulus money to patch up the memorial and beautify the landscaping around it. >>> a southeast d.c. tennis program has been saved in a settlement. the youth program run by d.c.'s former first later cora masters barry will be able to keep using the facility. the fenty administration had planned to kick the program out of the building for failing to file the proper paperwork after a heated legal around court dispute, barry and d.c. officials say they're all pleased with today's outcome. >>> we're less than 24 hours a way from finding out who will host the 2016 summer olympic games. michelle got the royal treatment today while pushing for chicago. the family hosted a lunch for world leaders who gathered for the olympic committee vote. pre

. >> reporter: in addition to inspecting the bridge that carries yellow line trains over the potomacer, metro plans to replace the hundreds of fasteners that hold the rails tonight ties. the bridge will like i be oust service for the entire three- day columbus day weekend. but rather than end yellow line service at the pentagon, metro has decided to reroute yellow trains onto blue line tracks. so yellow trains will run from huntington station to stadium armory. another part of the project, replacing the switches at the l'enfant plaza station. that will effectively stop continuous green line service into prince george's county. metro passengers will have to use shuttle buses between gallery place and anacostia. when metrshould shutt down the national airport station on labor day weekend for similar maintenance, some passengers complained. >> 45 minutes extra. >> reporter: but metro officials say it makes more sense to schedule major maintenance over a three-day weekend and get it done all at once. >> if we do it normally, it takes four weekends to do. it is a measuring the customer im

there was fog over the potomac valley this morning. now we can do this in time lapse. between 8:00 and 9:00 watch what happens to the fog as the sun gets higher unthe sky. it only took about 45 minutes for the fog to disappear. beautiful blue sky has been with us. now it's filled wi clouds. there's the rope. they are painting our tower. i think that's a safety line. and we have a beautiful morning under way. yes, a typical autumn morning. look at the view from our city camera. clouds and a blue sky. at thisour it's 59 at reagan national. where the october average are, for rain, about 3.25 inches. a trace of snow in october. don't have any of that in the foreseeable future. it was sort of cold enough for snow, temperatures down a few degrees above freezing in many locations in virginia and west virginia. as we look at the radar now, there is no precipitation coming from that beautiful blue sky, a few clouds around. it's in the 50s from the shenandoah valley to the atlantic beaches. montgomery and fairfax and prince george's county and near the chesapeake. look around th

north coming across the 14th street bridge, all of your lane are open right now crossing over the potomacnew york avenue traffic slow. and northbound i-95 not so bad right now in springfield but traffic does slow in woodbridge. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. >> thank you so much, julie. >>> just about 7:48 on this friday morning. holly if having fun with fungi this morning. >> i was just wondering, is it fung guy or fungi. we are with the mycological association of washington as they gather for the 8th annual mushroom fair. we're all about mushrooms this morning. it's going on at brookside gardens where we are live this morning. how you can get in on the fungus fun, i'll just say that, life next on the fox 5 orning news. stay with us. you wanted more. you wanted videos and photos... email and broadband. you wanted to run your business from anywhere... and instant messaging to stay in touch with everyone. you wanted apps to find music, news, or the way home. ok your wireless companies... grow your world. >>> there's a fascinating fair going on at brookside gardens this sund

weapons inspector and now a director of the potomac, david, good to see you. >> glad to be with you. >> just outlined a plan and we have a lot to chew over here because what he is talking about is iran proposing that some of the very low enriched uranium from its research reactor in tehran be transported out to other countries, russia and france we're told are the countries, they would further enrich the uranium up to 20% and then go back to iran for medical research purposes. this is a small deal, but couldn't it become, couldn't it set the stage for a larger program. long ago russia was suggesting it would take over the fuel from iran. this would be at least setting up a protocol that could be expanded on. >> andrea, i think you ought to recognize that this was a clever diplomatic trap by the iranians. when they offered to the washington post editors and the security council this offer if the u.s. and the other western powers said, no, we're not going to do it, iran would have had a primaphasia case for saying, look, that's why we need our own larger enrichment capacity because you

the churchill bulldogs hosted the northwest jaguars in potomac. the matchup grabbed 32% of the vote. who came out on top in the x 5 game of the week? lindsay murphy is back now with all the highlights. >> churchill's perfect 4-0 record was on the line tonight against 1-3 northwest. would bulldogs remain one of the few unbeatens in montgomery county or would they see perfection go by the wayside? only the highlights will tell. the fans were rowdy for the big homecoming game. everybody decked out in their school colors. first quarter no score at this point but it's the bulldogs getting on the board. 7-0 churchill. on the ery next possession, northwest with an immediate answer. jared butler rolls left. he hits tyler for the score. they would go for two and come up short. it's 7-6 churchill. in the second quarter here come the bulldogs. the block in the northwest end zone. that's a safety. on the ensuing drive, the bulldogs start to pull away. you've got to love that catch. he's in the end zone. 23-14 dogs at the half. the homecoming crowd, they like

. >> reporter: in addition to inspecting the bridge that carries yellow line trains over the potomac, metro plans o replace the hundreds of fasteners that hold the rails on to the ties. the bridge will likely be out of service for the entire three- day columbus day weekend. but rather than end yellow line service at the pentagon, metro has ecided to reroute yellow trains on to blue line tracks. so yellow trains will run all the way from huntington station to stadium armory. another part of the project replacing the switches at the l 'fante plaza. metro passengers will have to use shuttle buses between gallery place and anacostia. when metro shut down the national airport station on labor day weekend for similar maintenance, some passengers complained. >> 45 minutes extra. >> reporter: but metro officials say it makes more sense to schedule major maintenance over a three-day weekend and get it done all at once. >> if we do it normally, it takes four weekends to do. it is a measuring the customer impact if we do it over a three- day major holiday weekend where our ridership on that holi

temperures into the upper 40s and low 50s and over areas of the potomac highlands could see some patchy frost there and a lot more clouds definitely in t forecast. so speaking of clouds, some very high level clouds scooting their way in across the south of us across the area. but other than that, not much happening. let's take a look at radar for you. to the south, poor georgia once again getting hit with plenty of rainfall. they've had flash flood watched throughout the entire area. this is all continuing to push its way out towards area of the east and to the west a totally different story. take a look at this. in the western portion of the country, that's where we're actually seeing some snow. let's have a look at the western portion. one to 3 feet of snow in the high err elevations. -- higher elevations. let's go back to our weather maps. ridge of high pressure building in. that's going to hold us stead into tomorrow as well we're going toandz up seeing plenty of -- to end up seeing plenty of sunshine. a couple of frontal systems we'll have to deal w looks like we'll see some rain a

here's a live view from our city camera showing a clear sky over washington and the potomac river. sun will be up in about 25 minutes. dress for a chilly autumn morning. in fact, it is the chilliest morning of the autumn season so far. only near 50 in washington and prince george's counties, montgomery, fairfax, arlington counties only in the 40s. many locations just near 40 degrees this morning. afternoon highs in the upper 60s, lots of sun. near 70 torrow with increasing clouds. we could get a shower after midnight friday night through perhaps mid-morning on saturday. then drying out saturday afternoon, highs in the 70s. sunny sunday, mid-70s. again on monday into the 70s and sunny, maybe rain tuesday and wednesday. back in ten minute was the national travel forecast. ashley, how's the traffic this morning? >> starting off with chopper 4 live over the top of the scene, queens chapel road northbound between queensbury road and 410 is shut down due to the water main issue. you are forced to take a left on bellcrest road. no major delay but it would definitely be an area that you wa