the highest one i could find was reedville virginia. la plata about 8 inches. in washington d.c. we had 5 inches. it is 43 degrees this morning. still a pretty modest. when about 5 miles per hour. lots of 30-degree readings. 39 in winchester -- 37 degrees at this hour. here is your forecast. they are not giving up their candy tonight. mostly cloudy, chilly, temperatures in the mid 40's. sunset -- you should be able to get in dinner quickly before you had out there. sunset is 6:08 p.m. >> such great news -- marc trains metro virginia rail express are running on a normal schedule. marc rains may see some delay -- you might want to check that before you go out. a stretch of sligo creek parkway, little falls parkway kensington parkway at beach drive is closed as well. interstates are doing great. 95 from stafford,3 395, no troubles. repairs continue on the board -- georgetown pike at old dominion drive. light volume not causing too much of a backup. a belt the crash in the inner loop has been cleared. debris cleanup continues at 108 in the sandy spring area. one more thing -- new jer

jennifer says we're in fleeting beach which is near reedville, virginia for a weekend away until sundayould we cut the trip short and come back saturday or will we be okay leaving sunday at noon? >> i always err on the side of caution and i would say if you can finish up and have a nice day today and come back late this evening or first thing tomorrow that would probably be best. weather conditions will get worse and worse very rapidly during the day tomorrow. so if you've got stuff to do and especially if you had a planned trip out of town monday or tuesday the airlines are already being very flexible with their waiving of change fees. if you are going to be on the amtrak commuter rail up to new york city, if you have a plane flight out monday or tuesday, call your airline. be flexible with them and they'll be flexible with you. travel could be really, really, really bad around here. air, ground, and train. >> pretty much everything. >> whatever you're on. >> when you don't want to pay the $150 fee. make those plans right now. >> right. we'll take more questions through the morning. we

reports of over 5 inches already in the reedville area, northern neck of virginia. heavy rains continue now moving frts bay and the eastern shore over to the metro. in the mountains, we've got snow. not going to talk much about that. above 2500, 3000 feet, blizzard warnings in effect from garrett county through the highcountry in west virginia. could be a foot or more of wind-driven, wet snow there. >>> here's the latest on sandy. 7:00 right now, 5:00 advisory, the last one we have. we'll have another advisory, intermediate one at 9:00 a.m. 946 millibars. this dropped 4 millibars between 2:00 and 5:00 a.m., sign of a very strong and strengthening storm. that is a very low pressure, moving north at 15. we talked about the turn it would make. notice the northwest path, become northeast, now moving to the northwest. looks like it could have winds even stronger a little later today. forecast has 90 mile-an-hour winds. landfall at 10:00, 11:00 tonight south of atlantic city. devastating to the jersey coast. raritan bay, southern manhattan, could have storm surge up to 10

virginia. it's going to be somewhat active with the rain and maybe a rumble or to of thunder. temperatures in the low to mid- 60s. we're still 72 in town. 73 in reedville and 70 in newland from our weather watchers. outside on our michael & son weather camera, cloudy skies. 72 here at the noon hour with winds south, southwest at 14. that's bringing in the low level moisture. it's also bringing in some of the warmth we've had where nighttime temperatures stayed in the 60s. you can see a wider picture, a push of the showers and some isolated thunder moving north and east. behind it cooler, drier air coming in behind the front. that's what's going to move in for tonight. south and east of town we're also worried about the threat, maybe a strong thunderstorm or two especially -- actually, this is even better news. earlier this was in southern maryland. not really concerned about the severe weather threat. that's good. but we are looking at some nice weather once we get past today. today the yellow alert, 73. scattered showers. isolated thunder for the afternoon but nicer tonight as we dip into the 40s to around 50. cool tomorrow but a good day, 66. a few c

virginia-north carolina boarder now. still some rains just getting into the outer banks in northeastern north carolina. raining heavily in norfolk. our weather watchers in reedville over five inches of rain already since yesterday. 3.2 overnight. you can see how the heavy bands of rain continue to move off toward the west. here's the latest on sandy. hurricane with winds of 85 miles an hour. gusting to 105. pressure down to 946. this is stronger by 4 millibars than it was three hours earlier at the 2:00 advisory. that is a sign of rapid intensification. 90 mile an hour sustained winds at 2:00. expecting even further strengthening. the question is it 90 or 95 as it comes ashore tonight at about 11:00 p.m. just south of atlantic city. on this track even at 2:00 75 mile an hour wind. by 2:00 p.m. it only weakens to 60 miles an hour winds. that is a long time to be battered by damaging wind gusts along with the heavy, heavy rains that we'll be looking at as sandy comes ashore. i mean rains could be in excess of six inches here in the metro and more east. it could be a foot or more in some spots. here's a look at the winds and rains. hatteras 30 feet. virginia beach 2

rainfall totals -- reedville virginia just about 10 inches. la plata, 8 inches. ocean city, 7 inches. it is the 5 to 10 no. we were talking about. here are temperatures -- 43 at reagan national. culpeper at 41. 37 degrees in winchester. the clouds just do not want to budge. we -- they will stick around through the day. we will get some sun peeking through tomorrow. as we approach the weekend things will look a lot better. that's now will last throughout much of -- that snow last much of the week in west virginia. high temperature is 62 -- 52 to 56 degrees, well below average by 10 degrees. let's check on the roads and see how things are going. are they getting back to normal? >> we are trying. crews are working diligently since the storm arrived. georgetown pike, they are trying to restrain wires that came down. georgetown pike, old dominion drive, is close to each direction. roads in fairfax and loudoun county are closed because of standing water. the beltway add 395 -- no problems. across the 14th street bridge checks out fine for everyone. a portion of little