they are affecting rosslyn, alexandria, and southeast d.c. coming up, the extended outlook, the thunderstorms tonight, and the rest of the weekend. >>> our other top story, president obama's trip to africa. the president praised ghana as an example of democracy, but had tough words on corruption. >> the people were bursting with pride at the honor of hosting the first visit by the first african-american president. it was to the young africans that he passed on his signature chant, yes, we can. >> you have the power to hold your leaders accountable. you can and conflicts and make a change from the bottom up. you can do that. yes, you can. >> there is some disappointment that the first african-american president chose to come for less than one day and only one country. he decided against his father's troubled homeland, kenya, and came to west africa, to which millions of african-americans trace their own roots. tape coast holds a bad history. -- cape coast holds a sordid history. this is still called the door of no return. president obama made

wind beginning to pick up in rosslyn. we will look for temperatures that will rebound through the 60's, edge into the 70's and 80's. downtown right now at national mall. potomac, nice outside. a little light fog. we have a dense fog advisory off to the west of us and to the north. it does include frederick county and luray, virginia, winchester also, until 9:00 this morningment for us within the beltway no advisories to speak o of. temperatures a bit cool. look at wha we have on the weather bug networ only in the 50's and 60's. chantilly, virginia, 58 degrees. beltsville, rymaland, 61. we are well on the way to a daytime high of 85 under mostly sunny skies. repeat performance tomorrow and then we will throw some showers and thunderstorms into the mix wednesday and thursday. let's get an update on the rush hour commute. >> on 66 looking at inbound from bill michaels in news chopper 7. he has heavy traffic for a short stretch at 29 in centreville. other than that not bad. into maryland now and looking at the beltway actuall

-rosslyn positions on these issues can be reconciled -- u.s.-russian positions on these issues can be reconciled. >> president obama said that would require breaking down longstanding suspicions. >> nobody is saying that a missile defense system is harmful or posing a danger. the question is linking the configuration of missile defense with the interest of other countries. >> the obama administration has not conducted its own strategic nuclear review yet so he is negotiating on i don't know what basis. >> at the white house, sally kidd. >> later this year, the center for disease control is expected to balloon -- expected to release new data on autism. a woman now wants answers whose six children have it. >> families will tell you the diagnosis of autism raises a lot of questions, including where did this come from. what happens when you find out that your close friends are asking the very same questions? when stephanie received a letter from an old friend, it was both comforting and alarming not only was stephanie raising a son with autism but

it fell across the westbound lanes of the roadway in rosslyn. we're told two people with minor injuries were taken to virginia hospital in arlington. traffic was blocked more than an hour while crews worked to remove the tree. the scene is now clear. >>> a bus operator was busted for driving on a suspended license. why didn't metro know about it until an accident yesterday that's one of the questions asked by our digital correspondent scott broom who's following this still developing story. >> reporter: at a busy intersection, 25th and southeast on thursday -- >> a second fender bender. >> reporter: witnesses say a metro bus hit a car pulling in to traffic from the curb, a minor incident that turned in to a big deal. >> shouldn't have been driving in the first place. >> reporter: because the bus drive driver's license was suspended and she was arrested. >> i'm surprised. >> it is up to the bus operators to share that information with their supervisors. >> reporter: metro spokesman explained today there was no way for the agency to know its drive

. >>> 6:44 right now. 71 degrees and rosslyn. >> cows may not think it is the real thing, but we willl you about a new product that could have your serial >> you are watching abc 7's "good morning washington," with doug mckelway, alison starling, meteorologist brian van de graaff, weather, and lisa baden, traffic. this is "good morning washington," on your side. >>> 6:46. time to check our top stories. >> michael jackson's doctors is being identified. officials say authorities believe that dr. gave him the intravenous drug that killed him. >> robert gates is in iraq. he is getting a firsthand look what the military mission is supposed to become. his first stop is a command post. >> investigators are trying to figure out what caused an overnight fire in oxon hill at the knights of columbus hall. the roof collapsed. nobody has been injured. >> the crew on board endeavor is heading home. astronauts will undock later this afternoon. the crew is expected to return to earth on friday. >>> let's get to the stories that people are talking about. >> philip stewart is joining us. >>> we have go

. >> plans are moving along for a cultural see him at the old museum site in rosslyn. will be an exhibition gallery and retail space. the secured free rent for more than 15 years. funding will come from money already allocated to those programs. it is expected to open in the fall of next year. >> it will be nice to see it turn into something great. >>> your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. you have said it all. again. >> we could use some shellers. we are beginning to get into a deficit, especially for the month of july. we have not had much rain. brs isas turning brown. >> mine re ittss -- grass is gr >> chantilly, 71. winchester, 73. where we have the pick the's and 40's the past couple of mornings, we are bac in the low 70's this morning. a cold front should hit us later this moving. it is a slow-moving front and will stall. right now is moving through the ohio valley. later on, closer to the drive home time, it should move through the metro. highs near 90 with a chance of storms. partly cloudy tonight near 70 tonight. a repeat performance tomorrow wit

rosslyn. yi to peektr ng ghtouhr it will be mo uggy this afternoon. >> i just heard you mention rain in southern maryland. a guy tell me that rain in waldorf and there is a got broken down at 301 where the circuit city used to be. the guy is now in the center of the roadway. he just popped the poet. we were in the southern pattern. i know -- he just pops the h ood. it is fabulous on 270. things good in springfield up to the beltway. >> thank you. >>> lawmakers will take another look at nancy pelosi's version of a massive reform plan. the president making a prime- time pushed for his plan. >> the president is turning up the heat, or you could say he is returning fire. republicans were against the plan. the president is losing public support. some conservative democrats are even backing off. at a town hall meeting where estimates are one hour to 50,000 residents are without health insurance, the senator was taking the heat. >> are you telling me an individual protected by the ninth and 10th amen

. >>> 6:13, 74 degrees in rosslyn.ooler heads prevailed over a couple of cold ones. >> gentleman agreed to disagreed on some issues. we will check headlines around the region, including a geico's been saving people money on car insurance for over 70 years. and who doesn't want value for their dollar? been true since the day i made my first dollar. where is that dollar? i got it out to show you... uhh... was it rather old and wrinkly? yeah, you saw it? umm fancy a crisp? geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. >> you are watching abc 7's "good morning washington," with doug mckelway, alison starling, meteorologist brian van de graaff, weather, and lisa baden, traffic. this is "good morning washington," on your side. >>> in our top stories, a fairfax county man who fled the scene after a deadly hit-and-run accident was scheduled to eight years in prison. the man was speeding when it hit a jeep. he drove for a mile before fleeing on foot. search warrants show, authorities investigat

we have 70 degrees in rosslyn. how would she like to spend the year at never having to take out the garbage. we will have the story coming up. woo-hoo!!!! woo-hoo!!!! woo-hoo!!!! woo-hoo!!!! kobak. mr. miller (announcer) everyone's heading to arby's for the official $5 combo of summer. featuring arby's new bbq bacon cheddar roastburger with curly fries and a drink for only $5. big on bbq taste, it's the $5 combo done better. >> you are watching abc 7's "good morning washington," with doug mckelway, alison starling, meteorologist brian van de graaff, weather, and lisa baden, traffic. this is "good morning washington," on your side. >>> checking our top stories on this tuesday. some senate republicans are still divided on whether to confirm sonia sotomayor. they could stall a vote until next week. there is a possible delay and she is expected to win confirmation. the obama administration has missed a deadline in deciding what to do with the detainees at what, mope bay. the administrations says it is still on track to

one of those trees fell onto several cars in rosslyn, shutting down the highway and creating long delays. john gonzales has a look at the damage. >> traffic is once again moving on route 66, for about an hour, all westbound lanes were closed along with two lanes going the other way after the storm caused a major accident involving three cars and about seven people. the driver of this car was headed west on route 66 when the storm picked up. that is when they felt the earth shake. >> i looked at my rearview mirror and a tree was crossing the road. the violent storm brought down this enormous tree clear across the highway and onto oncoming traffic. it smashed this white construction van and shattered the windshield of this small car. the driver was able to get his family out safely. >> believe me, we will remember this for the rest of our lives. >> with traffic completely shut down on westbound lanes, emergency crews rushed to the scene to get drivers out of their vehicles. the driver expenses to firefighters how fortunate he is. this massachusetts family avoided a possible tragedy. they r

mca on top of our rooftop here in rosslyn.ice a fair amount of cloud cover so far early this morning. a few breaks and holes in the clouds locally thus far, but north of the metro area, mou airy, sun vise and cloudy. we'r vse cover across the region to start our saturday. olney is at 67. otsylvania, 63. front royal at 62. and dew points will rise a little bit today, so you'll feel a little increase in the humidity, but it's not going to be bad or that uncomfortable or oppressive. it's a little closer to what it should be like this time of year. beltsville, 67. bowie at 63. and manassas right now at 66. let's go to our almanac, get the numbers from yesterday. 81, the high temperature. most of last week was spent in the low 80's. average high yesterday and today, 88 degrees. record, of course, 99, last set back in 1988. we will be far from that, not just today, but for the foreseeable future. here's the cloud deck that's rolling through the midatlantic right now, and there are a few sprinkle that is popped up earlier this mornin

there are similar work zones and slowdowns from foggy bottom to rosslyn. courthouse to clarendon and fort totten to takoma park. the general manager john catoe talked about what is being done to address the problem. >> we have identified circuits that are not within the parameters we think they should be. we either adjust those or because of the heightened condition we are under we will go and remove those circuits and replace them with new equipment. >> reporter: catoe takes issue with "the washington post" report which says that the technical failure at the heart of last month's fatal crash might be widespread. >> there's no comparison between the two whatsoever. what occurred in fort totten was that we had a circuit. what we know today, that would not attack the train. what we are finding today is that -- one belief over, let's say, three-hour, three-day period of time. for less than a second. >> reporter: slowdowns in these new reports of track circuit failures have some metro riders concerned. >> everybody is afraid. no one is comfortable anymore on m

. >>> fire crews were called t to rosslyn earlier this morning for reports of smoke coming from a buildinguarded they found an electrical box on fire. it was in a parking garage on north lynn street. >>> investigators are waiting for the autopsy results of two men found in a burning home in upper marlboro. their bodies were discovered after the home caught fire on saturday night. authorities are trying to determine if they died as a result of the fire. >>> marion barry plans to fight the stalking charges against him. matt brock brings us more on the story. >> marion barry was arrested saturday night. today, he is expected to tell his side of the story. it was dark at anacostia park saturday. a woman in a car flagon officer down and told the officers she was being followed by a man in another vehicle. witas marion barry. they pull them over and he faces a misdemeanor stocking charge. >> the residents believe that marion barry has been in the aggressive pursuit of the accuser and has harassed her. however, this is not the case. >> the spokesperson says his accuser is a close friend and confi

let's go to rosslyn, virginia. we are moving at a better pace.id again today i>> is a sticky day. it is typical for july and may be our ninth 90-degree day. 78 degrees right now in the district. suhine today mixed with clouds from time to time and partly sunny with, and in humid conditions with may be isolated thunderstorms. tomorrow, we have a better chance of thunderstorms. they might be severe tomorrow. thursday and friday and weekend, hot and humid end near 90. >>> a popular knights of columbus hall has been destroyed after an early-morning fire. it broke out after 2:00 this morning. this is on southern avenue in oxon hall. nobody was injured and the damage was estimated at $1 million. thank you for watching and we will be back at noon. i capturing the beauty of nature. that's my vision. every day, transitions lenses are there to help care for my sight. announcer: transitions lenses adjust to changing light to reduce glare and help protect your eyes from uv damage so you can see better today... and tomorrow. live your vision. transitions. hea

check out the key bridge, no big deals, headed that direction toward rosslyn, okay. >> thanks. toay. it's july 8th, 2009. to make it easier, it is 7-8-9 today. >> 7-8-9. yes, it is. yes, it is. >> 7-8-9. >> and then at 10:00, at 10:11, it will be 7--9 10:11. >> so will you mark it at 10:11? >> what is that on the mayan calendar? we've got three years left. >> we've got plenty of time. >> let's just party then. yesterday was an interesting day, as well. because, apparently tmz reported that it was exactly seven years to the day that michael jackson signed his will, to the day of his memorial. >> mm-hmm. >> i don't know if you put stock in anything like that. >> those kind of things are interesting. i don't know why, but they are. i cried, i know a lot of people did watch the memorial. >> i watched the whole thing. >> i caught it, i came in right when jennifer hudson was singing and i got to see brooke shields and some of the other performers. >> then you saw some of the best stuff. >> i thought it was incredibly, incredibly moving. i really did. i thought -- >> magic was aadorab

let's look at rosslyn traffic.washington parkway. i will take you into maryland with a live picture of traffic on 270. that looks decent on the left. there is a little bit of volume but open all the wa down to the beltway. >> it is a gorgeous day. total sunshine in the district now and 68 degrees at reagan national airport. we have northwesterly winds pumping in the less humid air. it is probably the best day of the week today. here is our forecast -- mostly sunny skies, patchy clouds this afternoon, 86 degrees and warming up the next couple of days hot and humid thursday and a chance of storms. >>> a virginia doctor has pleaded guilty to a prescription-writing scandal. the doctor wrote tens of thousands of prescriptions on line for three years without examining the patients or telling the irs, to money he made. he faces up to five years in prison. we thank you forp

. >> there is an accident for drivers out of rosslyn to get into northwest. bridge. this is in found on vote roosevelt bridge and it looks like this crash just happened and traffic gets bike to the right. -- gets by to the right. everyone emerges onto the bridge. it looks like it is in the left leg. we will next te you to bethesda, maryland. this is an investigation of eight vehicle fire and bradley boulevard is closed at arlington road. >> we are looking at muggy conditions out there. losec in the's right now. we have high do points and it is very muddy. let's show you the bigger picture. the clouds will fan out a little bit. sunshine will try to come in. we'll let scatte ered thunderstorms possibly later. it will be in the lower 70's tonight. tomorrow, it looks like a chance of showers tomorrow and low 90's. >>> we will be right back. ca >> montgomery county police are investigating it disturbing discovery. they discovered a body inside a burning minivan. they discovered the body on bradley boulevard or around 4:00 this morning after putting out the flags.