in the roanoke area, heavier showers extending up into west virginia. harrisonburg going to see it first, and temperatures mild now, but going to be much cooler by the end of the day. monika samtani, lots of commuters out and about this morning. >>> especially if you travel on the eastbound side of 495, this morning it is different because we have a confirmed fatal accident on the inner loop right here at the 95 interchange traffic is being diverted on to i-95 northbound. turn around at the park and ride and get book to the inner loop with no problem, but some delays now forming as you can see. no problems in virginia no, ma'am from the west on the dulles toll road, 66 on 95 northbound all the way to 395 and the 14th street bridge, a live look outside on 395 at seminary road. still nice and quiet heading up into the downtown area. back to you guys. >>> today marks the end of week one of the federal government shutdown. >> there is no sign of progress on getting a budget deal done, but some federal workers get to come back to work this week. delia goncal

there's a bigger area, a broader area of rain, downpours near roanoke. they stretch up into wf

a few isolated pockets near roanoke. you could encounter some rain starting at 10:00 a.m. his will last until 7 :00 p.m. 79.ghs today will be 74 to the raint will show continues to press into the baltimore area after 10:00 a.m. and then moves off to the east. possibly up to three inches along the eastern shore. then it moves off the coast. the chance for severe weather. it is a slight risk but it is still there. these areas in yellow have the potential for steady downpours. we cannot rule out isolated tornadoes. there is enough's been in atmosphere that some small tornadoes could pop up. the rain will be the biggest concern. dry tomorrow. we do have some showers into midweek. temperatures into the 60's. for now saturday looks dry. morning, tensay of thousands of runners will hit the streets for the 13th annual baltimore running festival. >> join us this morning is leak e corrigan. good to see you. how many runners you had and how much this has grown? >> we started out with about 6500 runners and this year we will have about 27,000 runners. the growth has been consistent an

some of it on the hefty side, roanoke is getting hit at the moment. 64 west of 81.arrisburg, showers up that way. showers in the area eastern west virginia approaching maryland. temperatures right now in the 70s. you don't need a jacket early, but tomorrow morning i will have a jacket for sure with 40s and 50s tonight. >>> a rough morning? >> it has been. at least i have good news for you right now. the problem was a deadly overnight accident over on the inner loop of the beltway in college park. first just normal stuff on the northbound side of i-95 in virginia. kind of spotty as you head up to springfield. no big incidents to report this morning. inbound i-66 at route 50, you are still in good shape here off and on as you head toward centerville. i'll tell you what i'm talking about it was a two-car crash. left one person dead. right now all the lanes reopened on the inner loop. just to show you the lanes are open. back to you guys. >>> secretary of state john kerry is defending the weekend capture of an al qaeda member that was on the fbi's most wanted list. >> t

bull run of manassas several months later william henry johnson participated in the capture ought roanoke a end in the autobiography. >> but it's those who served this to you and is. >> a second to category existed. >> because there were black soldiers such as a private james from the infantry he fought at bull run. again not knowing how many soldiers were with that war southern territory with the employment in freedom and softy -- safety alone or with family is benjamin brother introduced the term contraband rationalizing favors sees to just like other goods due to the rapidly growing it number 8261 to authorize for some that had included slaves. and that means the river rebellion in against the united states and at the same time a military act was passed empowering the president to use those free slaved in any capacity such as for the purpose of construction of the entrenchment or camp duties or any labor or any military or naval service. despite the pleas from the northern abolitionist abolitionist, president abraham lincoln and continuous. breaker of this but speaking of free persons

in his autobiography, he wrote that other new england features of independence on roanoke island not known as the number of pitchers who served the union before blacks were officially allowed to become bona fide soldiers. a second category existed during the early months of the war because there were so holy mustard and lack soldiers such as private junes reader of the first rhode island might country. key to find a bull run. again, not known is how many soldiers were this category. as the war progressed, southern territory under union control would provide the largest number of black soldiers seeking the employment and freedom and safety offered behind the federal line, epstein did in droves, alone or with family. general benjamin butler introduced the term contraband for those runaway slaves, rationalizing that they received in the property just like cotton, machinery and other good. due to the rapidly growing number of contraband, the first confiscation act was signed on august 6, 1861, authorizing the seizing the union forces defending confederate property and such property inclu

roanoke coming up here the shanendoah valley will get it in the next few hours. temperatures this morning still mainly in the 70s. monika samtani, happy monday. >> it is a

courtesy fromus roanoke. >> we have republican and attorney general, mr. ken cuccinelli and democrat terry mcauliffe. thank you for being here tonight. our panel, dr. harry wilson, the director of policy at roanoke college and political analyst, and by co-anchor, chris, will be asking questions that came from you, the viewers from across the state. each candidate will have one minute 30 seconds to answer each question followed by a one minute rebuttal by the first candidate. on a viewer candidates, each -- viewer questions, each candidate will have 30 seconds to answer. i asked the candidates to remain in the allotted time. we have timers to keep track. first, we began with opening statements. determined by a coin toss, terry mcauliffe goes first. you have 90 seconds. >> thank you to virginia tech for hosting us this evening. there has been a lot of back and forth over the last 11 months. there is a simple question that virginians must answer over the next 11 days. who will work with both parties to focus on jobs and education. i have been honored to earn

but virginia state senator john edwards of roanoke is reclaiming the name john edwards in democraticics, and for the zillions of guys all over the country who have been saddled with the name which makes every wonder whether you're sleeping with your videographer, also, what's a videographer? the virginia john edwards, the centrist state senator from roanoke, virginia, he recently wrote to ken cuccinelli, to the tea party republican, virginia state attorney general, who's now running for virginia, he wrote to cuccinelli to ask if it wasn't a conflict of interest for mr. cuccinelli himself to be presiding as attorney general over any legal disputes in the gubernatorial elections since mr. cuccinelli himself is one of the candidates in that election. mr. john edwards noted that this is the first time in a generation that an attorney general has not stepped down from the ag job in order to avoid that potential conflict of interest when they wanted to run for another statewide office. if there's any sort of legal dispute over your election, you cannot simultaneously be a candidate in that

see the 30s down to roanoke this morning. 49 at reagan national. don't let that fool you, they are right on the water, they have the urban effect from all the concrete and asphalt from the city. white oak 38. germantown 37. you may be scraping a few windshields for the first time this season. good morning monika. >> good morning howard. >>> it is early monday morning, volumes increase early on. there are no problems to report know. as you come in from the west looking great, no issues to report. once you are on the beltway heading south to springfield or north. let's go over to a live picture now here's what it looks like. in springfield no issues to report. as you come up main and hov lines. looking good on the beltway, 270 incident free early this morning. heading for the beltway. we'll end with a live look at georgia avenue. all lanes are open on the top side of town. back to you mike. >>> if you are a redskins fan you have to love mondays like this. rg iii is back, he is the triple threat once again, just like he was in his rookie season. the g

there's king's port and then there's roanoke, and we're in the middle. and there aren't any big cities around us. so we're not anybody's market. we had a couple of local issues of the paper that come out a couple times a week, but that's it. if there's a tornado, we get the warning 20 minutes afterwards because we're not on the stream. so there was no way to advertise. well, we had found a local church in the community, and we had met a woman there named terry who ran the local chiropractor's office, and she home schooled, and she really wanted a bookstore for her kids. she was really excited we were in town. she said, tell you what, when you open, i will get free books from you, and in return, you can use your photocopier for free for anything you want. she had a color photocopier. so we quickly sealed this deal, and we went and made hundreds of photocopies and drove around leaving them at local businesses, hi, there's a bookstore starting. i went to yard sales, hi, i see you like books. and everybody said pretty much the same thing, a bookstore? you're

roanoke starting to get the leading edge of it. it is very mild ahead of this. we have had warm air in place. a cool down is starting tomorrow. 70 in parkton and westminster. low 70's across the eastern shore. the rain will develop after 10:00 a.m. and continued through the early evening. high temperatures will be in the early 70's. the forecast shows how this rain will advance into the western part of the state. the leading edge is starting to reach westminster and moves into the eastern shore. the afternoon commute will be worse along the used to ensure. drying see trying -- conditions into tonight. there could be some stronger thunderstorms today across northeastern maryland. maybe an isolated tornado. we cannot rule out severe weather and there could be localized flooding. all this moisture is not related to tropical storm karen. that dissipated and basically fizzled out. sunshine returns tomorrow. cool into wednesday morning. there could be some rain building back in. summiteducation nation gets under way today in new york city. >> teachers will discuss wha

where you see the yellows and oranges, it's coming down hard near roanoke and it's advancing up the shenandoahlley, maybe getting closer to front royal and winchester perhaps in about another three hours or so. and then into the metro area later today. another shower here in the mouth of the chesapeake bay that may be getting close to cambridge or near salisbury over the next couple of hours. between now and then a lot of clouds around. a mild and muggy morning. we're in the low to mid-70s all around most of the region and the upper 60s shenandoah valley naer 70 in the mountains right now and we'll have this humidity and a bit of a blustery north, southwesterly wind. temperatures will be warmest by around noontime, in the upper 70s. then, when we get the rain falling, we'll get thunder and lightning with that. temperatures will plummet back down into the 60s this evening. now there is a risk of some severe weather associated with this. details on that, we join chuck bell. >>> good morning, tom. good monday morning. the folks at the storm prediction center have put us in the slight risk categor

it comes courtesy of wdbj 7 in roanoke. >> we have republican and attorney general, mr.en cuccinelli and democrat terry mcauliffe. thank you for being here tonight. panel, dr. harry wilson, the director of policy at roanoke college and political analyst, chris, will beor, asking questions that came from you, the viewers from across the state. each candidate will have one answer eachconds to question followed by a one minute rebuttal by the first candidate. on a viewer candidates, each -- each candidates, will have 30 seconds to answer. i asked the candidates to remain in the allotted time. we have timers to keep track. first, we began with opening statements. determined by a coin toss, terry mcauliffe goes first. you have 90 seconds. >> thank you to virginia tech for hosting us this evening. there has been a lot of back and forth over the last 11 months. there is a simple question that virginians must answer over the next 11 days. who will work with both parties to focus on jobs and education. i have been honored to earn the support of an historic number of republicans,

a crash south 101 at roanoke park.ck look toward the south bay. 880 shows a smooth flow. >>> we have new details on the man arrested in connection with two dry ice bombs out at lax. police say the 28-year-old is a baggage handler at the airport. he got the dry ice from an airplane and then made several bombs, two of which exploded at the airport earlier this week. nobody was hurt in either explosion. he has been booked for possession of a destructive device near an aircraft and is being held on $1 million bail > >>> 5:40 now. the clock is ticking on capitol hill. >>> we'll get you an update on sharks defenseman and dan boyle and his condition after this violent and dangerous hit during last night's game. >> time is running out. in almost 15 hours, america will hit the debt ceiling and a default will likely follow. tracie potts is live in capitol hill. lawmakers are scrambling to put together a last-minute deal. does it look like it, tracey? >> reporter: it looks like there is scrambling but we don't know if it is going

it's done for the growing season with temperatures in the 30s. 32 in louisville right now and 29 roanoke and charlotte, north carolina, 28 degrees. this is cold air that will stick around the rest of the weekend before next week, we will see things warming up. lester? >> see you again shortly dylan. now to more trouble for the nsa. it's website went down on friday as it is facing increasing criticism from world leaders about its spy program. kristen welker is live at the white house to tell us more about it. >> reporter: good morning to you. thousands of people are expected to march on the national mall a little bit later on today to protest the governor's -- government surveillance program and this comes as there are no revelations due to leaks by former nsa contractor edward snowden. those leaks show the u.s. may have tapped into the cell phones of 35 world leaders. now united states' closest allies are demanding answers including germany and france. i can tell you that german officials are scheduled to come to the united states in the coming weeks and talking about the nsa surveillanc

so the science museum of western virginia in roanoke is taking them in.eum visitors were surprised at the release of more than 140 guest butterflies. >> neat things going. 5:41. more sun over the next few days. not so much today, though. howard says it's also going to get cooler, too. the seven-day forecast coming up. >>> a popular former redskin gets help from local players to help women fighting breast cancer. >>> birthday time. >>> 5:45. a good day yesterday. a so-so day today. tomorrow not so good. >> but the timing is going to work out so unless you have some plans late tomorrow, tomorrow night, that will be the wettest period. today we have clouds. not as pretty a yesterday. if yesterday was a 9 and a half, we're 9 because of the morning fog. maybe a 7. generally dry, just cloudy. here's a look at your day planner on this wednesday morning. it's only wednesday. gosh, i wish it was friday. 69 by noon. very comfortable for lunch time. perhaps a peek of sun this afternoon with a high of 74. by 8:00 still comfortable. 68 degrees. going to be all right a

these areas of yellow and orange coming up hard north of roanoke and that stretches up into eastern west virginia and around a bay over to st. michaels they're getting a few sprinkles there. and further to the north and west of us there are some showers about to come into western maryland perhaps over the next hour or so and some of those showers southern shenandoah valley may make their way into front royal, up to winchester, by around 8:00, 9:00 this morning. right now we're in the muggy low to mid-70s throughout most of the region including our nearby neighborhoods and right in washington. we'll stay in the 70s with a lot of clouds through the morning hours. our warmest temperatures may be around noontime. by then we could have showers commencing. a look at the threat of severe weather and the timing on your afternoon coming in about ten minutes. >>> we are now in day seven of the government shutdown but some of you are heading back to work this morning. nearly half of the workers furloughed, 350,000 will be returning to the office. this weekend defense secretary chuck hagel classifie

. >> this fire in sonoma county came close to at least one home in roanoke park. firefighters stopped the flames after they charred about 130 acres of dry brush sky 7hd shows a fire along interstate 880. it briefly threatened some buildings around 3:00 yesterday afternoon but no evacuations had to be ordered. you could smell smoke in just about every part of the bay area yesterday with all of the fires. viewers tweeted us all day and reached out to us on facebook and said they saw haze and smelled smoke, even miles from the fire. the haze almost made alcatraz vanish. some folks felt disappointed. then trying to enjoy the view from the hills above berkeley. >> it's a bummer when you don't see the blue sky, but it's sad to know it's from so far away and it affects here. >> i looked up and thought something was burning in my house or something like that. >> plenty of smoke was still visible in the area. see in this panorama that was taken at sunset yesterday from our sutro tower cam. san carlos because of a pg&e pipeline beneath the city, similar to the one that caus

it came close to one home mere roanoke park. firefighters stopped the flames after they charred about 130 acres of dry brush yesterday. >>> there was a fire long eastbound 780. it briefly threatened some buildings around 3:00 yesterday afternoon but no evacuationings had to be ordered. you could smell smoke in just about every part of the bay area yesterday with all of the fires. viewers tweeted us all day and reached out to us on facebook and said theya haze and smelled smoke, even miles from the fire. the haze almost made alcatraz vanish. some folks felt disappointed. >> it's a bum ehrhoff when you don't see the blue sky but ice sad to know it's from so far away and it affects here. >> i looked up and thought something was burning in my house or something like that. >> plenty of smoke was still visible in the area. see in this panorama that was taken at sunset yesterday from our sutro tower cam. >>> the state of manufacturing has been declared in san carlos because of a pg&e pipeline beneath the city, similar to the one that c

reported around roanoke and into southern west virginia and as we look at our temperature graph todayoks like our warmest temperatures will be late morning and around noontime in the upper 70s. but then once we get rain in the afternoon, the temperatures will quickly drop back down to around 70 degrees and we do have a risk of some severe storms and right now with that severe storm zone, let's take a look now, chuck bell. >> the transition from 91 yesterday over to much cooler weather tomorrow will come at the price of severe weather, all of the shaded area here, everywhere east of the blue ridge mountains under the slight risk for severe thunderstorms coming up primarily early afternoon to about dinner time or sunset this evening. it does include all of the immediate metro area, montgomery, fairfax, loudoun and the district as well as arlington and alexandria. no impact on our local airports just yet but anytime you have this kind of thunderstorm activity up and down the eastern corridor could see big flight delays later on this afternoon, tom. >> thank you, chuck. and then the big c

a roanoke college poll hasterry mccoloradoive with a lead over ken cuccinelli.h a smaller lead over the attorney general. no matter which poll you're looking at, this is so clear. social issues matter. and women could make the difference in this election. and, of course, turnout. now, according to quinnipiac, female voters in virginia backed mcallive over cuccinelli. the "washington post" finds the margin bigger with kuch necessarily trailing by what, 24 points among whelm.cuccinelli trailing by what, 24 points among whelm. this could be the reason. cuccinelli was one of three attorneys general who did not join a bipartisan push for reauthorization of the violence against women act. also cuccinelli was the first attorney general to sue the federal government over obama care, which expands access for women health care. he voted against a senate bill, stating that contraception is not abortion. he sponsored personhood bills, which would give legal rights to embryos from the moment of fertilization and potentially interfere with access to basic birth control. as a

roanoke,bara from virginia. a tweet.hutdown means uncertainty and it may be good for the gop's electoral interests, but affects negatively the world and u.s. leadership. manretirement of commerce young of florida. here's the front page of his hometown paper. young to end storied house career. florida's second-longest serving house member will retire after his 22nd term. his decision made after several years of cheery rating health, caused mainly by back problems. it will cost the tempe area one of its most effective advocates in washington. areaso in news -- tampa one of its most effective advocates in washington. up next, talking about the shutdown. we will go to larry in georgia on our line for independents. for taking myyou call. c-span, you are the only station willing to let americans be -- americans yet be americans. i am so tired of this colored thing. i grew up hungry. hunger knows no color. illness knows no color. is one of my comments. my next comment is the socialized medicine they are trying to implement upon

we're talking about in the red zone, from roanoke, to wilmington. and almost to charleston.to three inches of rain. and everyone else is clear from that thing. you're still under it. look how much of the country is beautiful today, though. another day where the highs are in the 80s in oklahoma city. albuquerque is morningasant fault like with cooler temperatures in the d c area. the 7:00 hour. we should make it into the upper 60's to lover >> just checking out the board. minneapolis is 74 degrees. but it's tuesday. it's not wednesday. so -- no humpday. >> thank you, sam. >>> and coming up, the doctor who has been called the love of princess diana's life. >>> and tom hanks, revealing the lifelong condition he's been battling. what his doctor is telling him now. come on back. [ male announcer ] there's a story behind the fresh taste of philadelphia cream cheese. we make it daily using fresh, local milk, real cream, and absolutely no preservatives. when it comes to fresh taste, philadelphia sets the standard. is sweatier and messier than my family on the field. so like the nfl

election day less than two weeks away, the final virginia governors debate is dbj int, hosted by w roanoke and virginia tech. we will have that for you at 9:20 on c-span2, and we got a preview this morning from a richmond political reporter. what do you expect from tonight's debate? recent polls suggest mr. mcauliffe is way ahead. the republican nominee clearly ofying catch up in the argot contemporary politics. he is hoping that tonight he can use this debate to change the narrative. one of the things we have been seeing a lot of in recent hours is a new, fresh, and more vigorous attack on health care reform. this seems to be more an effort to rally the republican base than really reach to vast numbers of swing voters, independents, who typically decide elections in virginia. host: what have you seen in the past few hours from the cuccinelli campaign? host: this morning, another statement from operatives trying to link the muff-up in the obamacare rollout to mr. mcauliffe. the republicans who control the house of delegates are dead set against it, or so they say, and it promises to be a b

lucy is in roanoke, virginia, on our republican line. you are on c-span. caller: they need to do something. i have voted for bob goodlatte every year he has been in office , and i think he is a great man. if something is not on and done fast, for the next election, i do not care who they are, i'm going to vote democrat. i do not care, i'm going to vote democrat. these people do not understand that twice this president was elected by the american people, and they are making a farce of this. and i think it is wrong, and i think it needs to stop. from mike is calling alaska. hi, mike. what do you think about all of this from up there? caller: it is pretty embarrassing when you realize that we are at war at this particular moment, and our enemy is literally laughing at our troops, when our government cannot even get their stuff together to vote in their own pay. a reallyhis is ridiculous situation. the budget should have been passed back in march. these guys should be able to work together and actually get this stuff done a long time before waiting until the l

eric is joining us from roanoke, virginia, democrats' line. good morning. aller: good morning. >> good morning. you're on the air. caller: i wrote an editorial. i guess i'll call y'all and let y'all hear it. i pulled up oath of office for both the house and senate which are identical. it says in the oath that they're supposed to do the will of the people. and if they would go and read that, just to hear the specifics of it, they'd find out that they have to do the silliness away. get rid of the mandate of -- shutting down the government, actually. i don't know what to do. i have no power. but i've gotten in touch with my senator and representative, but this can do us some real serious, serious harm. if they would adhere to the oath that they took, things would be fine. >> ok. thanks for the call. we also have cameras around capitol hill as we monitor the movements of house and senate leaders. we do expect to hear from senators reid and mcconnell as they announce details on their agreement. again, the initial plan for the senate version was put on hold yeste

host: this is ryan from roanoke, virginia, talking about taxes in an e-mail this morning -- another e-mail, asking you to give us your thoughts to -- asking you to give us your thoughts on what congress should do next? -- should do next -- alan from los angeles california, democrat line. hello. i want to congratulate mr. obama on a victory over the republicans. [indiscernible] in the end they were defeated by president obama, the most powerful president history has seen in america. our country is interest. [indiscernible] the times of new jersey highlights a story, taking a look at gay marriage -- it's arthur from alabama, thank you for holding on on our republican line. caller: here is what i would like congress to do, i would like them to reread the u.s. constitution. there are twoe words that seemingly have ignored. those two words are general welfare. general is defined as all and welfare is need. if everyone needs a cell phone, why doesn't everyone get a cell phone free of charge echo the 10th amendment to the constitution, they have ignored that also. there is a federal department on

downpours heading into roanoke. showers entering the interior northeast. all thanks to a cold front that will march its way in and help bring us rain for the i-95 corridor. we'll see storms fire up particularly later today. thunderstorm activity and some of those storms could pack a bit of a punch. areas shaded in red from east to north carolina has the risk of damaging winds and hail. the main risks but you can't completely rule out isolated tornadoes. active weather. keep the rest of the weather situation across the northeast. that's your national weather forecast. more "squawk box" coming up next. so she could take her dream to the next level. so we talked about her options. her valuable assets were staying. and selling her car wouldn't fly. we helped sydney manage her debt and prioritize her goals, so she could really turn up the volume on her dreams today... and tomorrow. so let's see what we can do about that... remodel. motorcycle. [ female announcer ] some questions take more than a bank. they take a banker. make a my financial priorities appointme

there's king's port and then there's roanoke, and we're in the middle. and there aren't any big cities around us. so we're not anybody's market. we had a couple of local issues of the paper that come out a couple times a week, but that's it. if there's a tornado, we get the warning 20 minutes afterwards because we're not on the stream. so there was no way to advertise. well, we had found a local church in the community, and we had met a woman there named terry who ran the local chiropractor's office, and she home schooled, and she really wanted a bookstore for her kids. she was really excited we were in town. she said, tell you what, when you open, i will get free books from you, and in return, you can use your photocopier for free for anything you want. she had a color photocopier. so we quickly sealed this deal, and we went and made hundreds of photocopies and drove around leaving them at local businesses, hi, there's a bookstore starting. i went to yard sales, hi, i see you like books. and everybody said pretty much the same thing, a bookstore? you're