buckets of rainn,oming dow slowing down the commute to a crawl.ugh to drive when it'sni raing this hard. we may not be out of the woods quite yet. >> chuck bell, maybe a little more than atoittle rain ay? >> i don't think the rain will be as heavy as it was yesterday. that's t good news 23467 the super soakers the last few days are a little less likely today.a that's little by of good news. a little extra cloushcover today ould help keep temperatures a littl cooler to reduce our chances for strongerto ss and the heavier downpours of rain. so, there's a little good news. that being said, take your umbrella withod you ty to look like the smartest kid in school. 72. now in washington, 68o in frnt royal and 68 in leesburg. 68 also in columbia, maryland, this morning. 73 at quantico. your pnner for your wednesday, hump day is here. rain chances are increasing as we get into the afternoon, but nlike the last couple of days i don't don't see a big chance fow ther today. periods of brief to heavy rain possible but you can see on our graphic the severe wea

midday hours, storms.ternoon we're going to walk you through with future weather. 6:00 a.m., notice rainn still place. as we move toward 8:00 a.m., still seeing showers out there. lighter in intensity. future weather wts to hold on to this rain until about 10:00 a.m. noon, i really think by about 10:00, 11: a.m., most of us will be getting a break. maybe sunshine during the early afternoon hours at 2:00 p.m. any sunshine is going to help to fuel afternoon thunderstorms as angh upper level trou moves through the area. we'll see storms moving through today later from west to east. i want to show you the timing here. i mean, you can see it catches your eye. 4:00 p.m., noti the bright colors. that's heavy rain, the potential for strong, gusty winds, and hall of fame, as well. 5:00 p.m., noticing storms moving through montgomery, frederick counties, moving through the metro area, between about 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. once hit 7:00, 8:00, the rain is even east of southern maryland over on the eaern shore moving through delaware. as we look to the weekend, mainly dry. tomorrow it's going to be fabulo

we're still seeing thi heavy rainn the district. arlington, alexandria and prince george's county, this could have a big pact if youre traveling in the district tonight. the nats game could be delayed arybe even postponed once again. areas in pink ender severe thunderstorm watch. most of us under a flash flood watch through late night. much more on our nbc washington app. i'll have more on the storms and what you can expect next week coming up,t we're looking at hot and humid conditions again. thursday showers and storms once again. best chance for stonk torong toe thunderstorms on thursday. especially with the high of 91. beautiful on friday. and gorgeous on saturday. >> doreen and i are watching our backs tonight. >> big shelf of a cloud occuut there lurking. >>> and when we ce back, they found their choice right here at home. >> big announcement from one of the biggest school systems. and what it means for students. >> reporter: it has been seven months since a father and were shot to death in their home and still no arrests. inv

there has been rainn our southern zone. by southern zones, areas south of 56d down arounhe fred rings burg area. this is really is. you can see what's been happening in the last couple of hours. a couple of isolated showers. charles county. but the bulk of the rain has been from fredericksburg south. very heavy rain. even a flash flood warning in effect along i-95 close to richmond. if you're driving on i-95, watch out there. o you're driving trd the eastern shore, you will see rain there as well, although most will be on the lighteride. the clouds, the expanse of clouds from boston all the way back down towards the new orleans area, all the way through florida, a very unsettled weather pattern, but for us actually have an area of high pressure that's dominating our weather. it's just to our north.wh that's doing, that is keeping the rain to our south and will continue to do so during the day on your saturday. however, on sunday the pressure starts to move off. that allows the rain to fill its place and that's why we have a