shutt, there was a golfable day coming up. >> oh, there's several actually. next monday it will be fantastic. even tomorrow will be okay, cooler behind the cold front but seasonable. we're still in late march. let's start with a love look outside. we're in great shape if you are north -- a live look outside. we're in great shape. you are north of 5th 6 and 50 you are out of -- 56 and 60 you are out of showers tonight. the front itself is still to the north and west of us, probably won't roll through until around midnight. let's talk about the radar. we have tremendous showers and thunderstorms. we've seen them all afternoon and evening through portions of kentucky and also west virginia and also back into parts of western and southwestern virginia. some areas just north of charlottesville near culpeper have been hit a couple times, but for the most part they've been light around the immediate metro area and now they're done around the immediate metro area. if you're headed way down south into fredericksburg, more showers possible into the northern neck. some

you can opt for the lump sum, 389 million bucks before taxes. >> topper shutt has your forecast just ahead. >> plus our weird news is a little buzzy tonight. we'll tell you about a texas farmer who set up a unique sting operation. >>> i'm starting to worry we're falling into that pattern where the week is really nice and great sunshine and the weekend comes and it gets a little funky. >> yeah, a little funky, nothing crazy. the better of the two days does appear to be sunday if you're making plans, put i think you can sneak in a -- but i think you can sneak in a round of golf saturday, too. crystal clear now, gorgeous, winds are died down, live weather cam brought to you by michael and son, temperatures in upper 50s downtown, looking at dew points falling a bit, 33. we'll watch that tonight. i'm not concerned about any kind of frost or freeze in the metro area, winds north, northwest at 12, pressure rising. mid-50s, 54 in gaithersburg, 58 in rockville, 57 ins about, do upper 50s in great falls and reston, -- 57 in bethesda, upper 50s in great falls and reston, 58 at andrews. here's t

as far as i know, there is no topper shutt version, but if you make it, i promise you, we will show it. >> it's too bony. >> i agree. >> we want to hear what you think. send your e-mails to mcginty's mailbag, the address mailbag at wusa9.com. 9 news now will be right back. >>> in the mailbag tonight response to that wisconsin state lawmaker sponsoring a bill that basically says single parenting is a big contributor to child abuse and neglect. our good friend deb in arlington says in a perfect world sure, everybody would have two loving parents, but what world are you living in. ideally yes, it would be great if everyone was raised by two qualified caring parents, but all families aren't the waltons or the crosbys, but i have known so many cases where a great mom raised great kids and oppositely two parents with so many issues their kids turned out warped. everything is an absolutely individual case. then we heard from jg who claims to have been raised by a single parent in wisconsin and they are not nearly so nice about this. i want to know what makes him think he has the right to impo

. >>> topper shutt is here with our first look at the weather. not bad today at all, my friend. >> no, 67 in the bank. we'll start with winds. it is windy to breezy out here. they will be with us for a while, but they are from the south. that's a warmer wind. 18-mile per hour wind gusts in manassas. 20 in leesburg and 22 in frederick. downtown, we've had winds over 30 miles per hour this evening. temperatures still 60 downtown. 61 in gaithersburg. 67 in manassas and put this into perspective. average high is 53. so, for tonight, partly cloudy, breezy and milder. one blanket night barely. lows 45 to 50. winds continue southwest at 10 to 20 and gusty. we'll come back and talk about stronger winds tomorrow. also talk about milder air tomorrow and then return a little temperature correction. we'll tell you how drastic it will be over the weekend. >>> coming up, heart disease and basketball. we'll hear from a washington wizards who is reaching out. >>> plus, peyton manning cut loose today by the colts. we'll hear from the four-time nfl mvp when we com

. >> then, of course, there is our seasoned professional here topper shutt who along with your entire team are very serious about making sure people get these alerts. >> we'll wake you up. we put it on our facebook and twitter and our weather app is pretty good. i'm not just saying that. it's pretty good stuff. we had snow south of town. does that sound weird, south of town and it's march? let's have a live look outside. we're looking at really clearing skies across most of the metro. most of the snow showers are south of us and temps are on the brisk side. if you're headed out, bundle up, 40 officially downtown, winds still out of the northwest at 9. it will calm town even more. dew point is 24. so -- calm down even more. dew point is 24 and has dropped and pressure continues to rise at 30.26 inches of mercury. here's a look at radar. these are all snow showers. some are green which indicates rain, but trust me, they're all snow showers. everything is pushing off south and east moving through southern maryland and the northern neck. the folks in the northern neck had 3 inches of snow

thank you, topper shutt. i like the family stays together. >> proven fact. >> big game at the verison center for the caps. kristen berset is live. hey kristen. >> reporter: the battle for the playoffs is tonight at verison center. but what's going through the players minds as they prepare for tonight's big game? plus, brenda frieze and the lady terps face off against notre dame. sports is next. >>> 9sports with kristen berset. the best sports in town. >>> welcome back. we are live at the verison center. one of the most pivotal games of the season. it's an interesting scenario that it has come down to these two games. the caps were chosen to pick it all. the sabers were thought to give them a run for their money, but were all but counted out in january. now they won four straight to stay in the hunt. >> everybody is pretty fired up. excited because we know how big this game is. >> right now, we are in the playoffs race and it seems like the playoff game for us. it's going to be huge and an interesting game. >>

topper shutt will have your full 9 news now forecast. >>> but first. >> reporter: i'm scott broom in northeast washington where coming up i'll have the surprising story behind how a crime fighting truck driver ended up smashing into this safeway to stop a fleeing suspect. >>> a truck and an suv smash into a northeast d.c. grocery store today after a man took action to help out a police officer on foot in hot pursuit of a suspected thief. now the sequence of events unfolded like a scene straight out of a hollywood action flick. it happened at east river park safeway off benning road. scott broom has spoken to several eye witnesses and they paint a pretty dramatic picture. >> reporter: what happened out here this morning was crazy and it was dangerous and it started right at this door with a suspected shoplifter running outside with a police officer who happened to be in the store in hot pursuit. there was a dodge durango truck parked here. the suspect jumps in the car. the police officer is trying to smash the windows out. while all that's happening the driver of this ryder rental tru

let's go to topper shutt and talk about what's going on. >> we have a live shot now from henryville, kentucky, 40 miles north of louisville. it's very close to the kentucky/indiana border and you can see devastation with this storm. we have reports of damage to the henryville high school. kids were kept there today, but there are reports of no injuries from that. so they took shelter and were okay. we're losing the pictures, but you can see roofs gone, buildings gone. it's just another mess. it is sort of reminiscent of 1974 when we had a big tornado outbreak. you can see the half of one building is gone and looking at probably an n excess of 150 mile-per-hour wind -- in excess of 150 150 mile-per-hour winds. this is a live shot. the storm is through them about 40, 50 miles north of louisville, kentucky. we'll show you the radar. this is cincinnati. there's national. there's the line of showers and thunderstorms. the deeper red filled in, that's actually tornado warnings at this hour. we'll zoom in more. these are storm reports. all these red things are the tornado reports, numerous

. >>> i'm meteorologist topper shutt. here's your wake up weather. another mild start. 48-56 at 7:00. another warm start. we'll talk about the breaking record highs tomorrow and celestial treat you could see tonight. . >>> nearly five years after the virginia tech massacre families of two of the victims won their wrongful death lawsuit today against the university. >> the families say the verdict proves the school's response to those shootings was inadequate. virginia tech administrators continue to insist otherwise. >> awards and damages in the sum of $4 million. >> reporter: it was a release of emotion several years in the making after an 8 day trial and 3 hours of deliberations, a jury awarded the families of two slain virginia tech students $4 million apiece. the wrongful death lawsuit was brought against virginia tech by the families of are own peterson. >> she couldn't speak anymore. so we had to do it. >> reporter: and julia pride, who was a 23-year-old graduate student from new jersey. >> certainly was an end of a long process for us. >> repo

we're not talking about topper shutt here. we're talking about the capital city diner in northeast. owner says he's auctioning off the place on ebay since he was forced to close about a month ago. ashburn says he lost a lot of business because a national chain of breakfast restaurant moves in. and right now the price on ebay $20,000. so far only one person taking the plunge with a bid. you have until march 9th to place one. topper. >>> unfortunately we might all bid on that. we were all 49 today. a little on the cool side. here is the wakeup weather. one of the days where you're going to need a winter coat in the morning. 30s at 5:00. 38-48 by 9:00. a cold start. we'll come back and let you know if it's going to be a mild finish. back to you. >>> let's take another quick look at the result from the 9news now election desk. gary. . [ no audio ]. >> it will work a lot better if gary had a microphone. we'll get back to him later on. >> some very closely watched races. >> we'll get the former governor's impression on what tonight's results mean and check in again on the tightest >>> sup

. >>> and i'm topper shutt. 72 today. temps are still in the low 60s. this here is your wakeup weather. some fog in the morning, especially by the water. temps in the 50s both at 5:00 and 7:00. maybe a shower by 7:00 and temps in the 50s by 9:00. we'll tell you if we're going to clear out and talk about the prospect of thunderstorms and warmer air later in the week. rz -- >>> such a beautiful day that >>> hundreds of homes damaged, dozens more destroyed. by the strong earthquake that shook parts of central and central mexico this afternoon. the survey puts the intensity of the quake at 7.4. it was centered near acapulco. in mexico city, it sent office workers streaming out into the streets. >> all of a sudden lots of people running along. and so we joined and we got to the front entrance. we could feel things going back and forth. we looked out at the trees, saw the trees moving. said this is an earthquake. >> in oksaka, the quake knocked out power. the president's daughter is vacationing with a school group but she is fine. >>> the lawyer accused of ki

for a look at what we can expect overnight, let's get right to chief meteorologist topper shutt. >> mainly good news. i'm going repeat myself, do not cross a street or road that's flooded. it comes up very quick and goes down very quickly. we still have some showers north of town, especially up towards frederick and to the west of us, also. we'll zoom into this storm back toward flint hill. rainfall rates an inch an hour. we already had flood warnings earlier. this is a big storm from urbana back to 15, all drifting off tolt east at a pretty good clip. that's the good news. we will widen back out and put this in motion. for the most part we are going to see these storms weaken, then move off to the east at 20 miles per hour. so we are going to be done with the rain and showers very quickly. so the same system that brought us flooding tonight spawned tornadoes last night and this morning from kansas to kentucky, killing nine. 40 miles southwest of topeka a tornado touched down last night at 10:30 in harveyville, kansas. the line of storms marched east ward. another tornado touched down shor

chief meteorologist topper shutt has the latest from the 9 news now weather center. >> if you're headedsee rain has ended in your area, but bring your umbrella because another round is on the way. let's start with live doppler 9000. it made for a messy commute home, but for the most part the rain is now between d.c.ken and baltimore and down across southern mayor -- d.c. and baltimore and down across southern maryland. we have a little bit of a respite. another batch of showers and eventually thunderstorms will develop, but if you're just south of baltimore into southern maryland, that's the only place we have showers of any consequence this hour. that

topper shutt just left the set to order more. >> did you read hose for bros with a straight face? is manty hose. >> i thought the spanx for men pushed the envelope. you could put on one of those and it would make it look as though you had a six pack or 5 1/2 pack. >> topper and i don't know about that because we are so buff already. >> oh yes. yes. >> no manty hose needed. >> okay. 67 today. i can't even go there, i mean, it's not happening. 67 today and even warmer air on the way tomorrow.  let's take a live look outside. this is the white house. we're looking at temperatures still in the 60s. winds are really howling. the good news is, it's a warm wind. 66 downtown. winds south, southwest at 20. that's the sustained wind. we'll show you the gusts in a minute. pressure steady, 30.38 inches of mercury. the weather cam brought to you by michael and son. temperatures in the 60s. 64 in manassas. down to the south, 65 for belle belvoir. check out the winds. 33-mile per hour wind gusts downtown. winds are howling out of the south. that's a warm wind and continue tonight and tomorrow.

we have team coverage tonight beginning with meteorologist topper shutt in the weather center and i looked out the window. i got a little giddy seeing some snow. >> it was kind of nice, didn't cause any problems around here, but i think this may be the last gasp as you mentioned. let's start with radar. there's still snow showers in parts of the area. in fact, 10 minutes ago we had a pretty good snow shower here in northwest, most of which are west of i-81 and near on their way. one more gasp as we go through the evening hours. so if you're driving down south 95 towards fredericksburg you'll probably see a couple more snow showers before we begin to clear out. live doppler 9000 is pinpointing some of the activity mainly down south 66 right now. they were up 70, but everything is pushing off to the southeast, even into southern maryland and southern prince george's county snow showers possible during the evening hours. temps, 41 downtown, 39 gaithersburg and upper 30s in manassas and also as you go west out toward winchester. factor in the winds, it feels like it's 30 outside. dress like it

. >>> let's get back to topper shutt for more on those deadly storms sweeping through the midwest, adestruction out there, top. >> this is incredible stuff especially in early march. we zoomed in the radar. look at the line of storms that already pushed through louisville and now headed toward eastern kentucky and southwestern sections of ohio. there are tornado warnings all over the place. these counties in red are under tornado warnings. that means they either have a tornado or it's a doppler radar tornado indicated within them and with what we've seen the past 20 or 30 minutes we know most of them do have tornadoes in them. check this out. this is the unofficial storm reports. these are all tornadoes. this is all hail. this is all wind and flooding. so a tremendous outbreak once again, really from kentucky through southern sections of indiana into ohio and even into west virginia they're trying to watch those extending into western west virginia. we'll keep you posted, give you some live pictures as they become available. we'll slight eastward now and look at our radar. the good n

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