also tidewaterin vi, south side virginia and south western virginia.noke valley can all be very severely impacted by this. our severe impactspe epend on what the storm does after la landfall. if it comes up the coastline we'll be hit a lot harder. it will be real problems for flooding there. we obviously j wt had akend with a ton of rain around here. your today plan, cloudy skies, 60 to 70% chance for more rain today. flood warnings still in place across a lot of northern marynd. do your best to stay away from it. it will be warmer and more humid as well back into the low to mid 80s, tuesday, wednesday, andsd thuray. we'll see what florence has in ore for us later onn the week. let's see what's in store for us right now. >> trafficlert right now, we are slow in several spots. so outerloop at georgia avenue is one of them. two other problems on the beltway, left side blocked and local lanes at the woodrow wilson. both slow with the red lines snaking along. maryla city, after 198 crash there on the shoulder but we're seei delays northbound and southbound

and then sta out over western north carolina and south western virginia. that could lea to catastrophic flooding. any variation in that track could bring that heavy moisture to us. after a soang rai this past weekend that could be big trouble here. stay with storm team a nbc washington. >> chuck, thank you. stay with news 4 t for latest on hurricane florence and it's potential impact. for up to the minute information n this storm, open the nbc washington ap >> now breaking news, d.c. olice need help finding three missing children. >> angie goff is at the live desk with more. what's going on? >> these children are under the age of 6. we want to get straight to their photos. we did just speak with d.c. police. these kids disappeared yesterday. they were at their hegrandm home in northeast but there was some type of dispute. police belie they are with the woman who you see here on the screen. she i the mother of one of these children but does n have permission to have her child with her. we'l continue to stay in communication with them and bring you updates t

unfortunately, the western carolinas, heville, the upstate of south carolina and south western virginia are all in store for the potential of ma ar flooding then the storm, whatever is left of it arrives here probably on monday. we'll keep you posted on that. it may try to pick up speed once it gets on ore. we'll find out as it gets closer in. for now i don't think there's going to be much rain here on sunday. stay with us. we'll update the forecast as we get closer to it. i was just interroting the radar data. dead calm winds as you would expectn the middle ofhe eye. but near 100 miles per hour winds right now. that is only ten miles from a dead calm center in the middle of the storm to nearly 100 miles per hour wind. that's over a distance of onl about 10 miles. so here it goes. the storm scraping along theli north ca coastline here eventually heading down toward the grand strand andac myrtle there and look how little the storm goes. this is 9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. so 24 hours from now thetorm may have only gone a very short distance and then finally starting to curve. atlanta and

could get 4, 5 inches or more across parts of south western virginia. here's your ten day forecast.oday breezy, cloudy, showery. take the umbrellas today. temperatures in the 70s all day. more of the same tomorrowal ough it's not quite as breezy. sunday still a chance for a few showers butost of sunday there should be plenty of usable dry outdoor hours and then h thevy rains arrive here monday into early tuesday. stl have some sparkling blue september skies by next week. >> can'twait. as we're speaking 66 westbound out here at sycamore, that crash has now completely cleared. it's gone. also activity in stafford county on 17 northbound after plantation drive. that crash cleared from the right side the roadway. vre will operate in full service today. white's ferry, unfortunately that's still closed due to high water. we had one broken down on the far right side the roadway. unclear if that's been removed because thatight shoulder does become a travel lane. >> just a heads up this we yend, girself some extra time driving on the beltway through prince george'scounty. crews will be worki

it then stalls and rains itself out across southern virginia, western north calina, and western south carolina. that is a huge problem for there. any viance in that that would bring the storm farther north would bring the possibility for severe flooding for us. late thursday night and into fridaywend the end. for now, though, what's left is bringing heavy rain to new york, pennsylvania and headed on up into new england if you're traveling today. pittsburgh, philly, new york or boston, there cou be a lot of slow travel or air travel. it will be along and to the west of i-81 but everyone has a pretty high chance of at least getting some amount of rain today.re future weather. by 3:00 in the afternoon, you might actually get a little peak or two of sunshine today. then overnight tonight, staying on the cloudy side and then for tomorrow, less rain until maybe later on in the afternoon. most oftomorrow's rain chances later on in the so showery weather today and hit and miss for tuesday and t wednesday an we'll have to wait and see thursday and especially friday into the weekend where flore

talking about catastrophic flooding thugh parts of north and south carolina and potentially parts of we're talking about western parts of virginia through the next several days here so we' be watching that closely too. temperatures for us, if you're about t wake up and walk outside it's breezy outside. it's misty too so you'll need the windshield wips in areas this morning. and there you see it. this is the far northern edge ot florence the cloud cover in the area. showers along 95. they'll keep moving mainly to the west and northwest. through the daytoday,here's future weather. scattered showers have the umbrella. it will be breezy. still mostly cloudy skies and rain chance for tomorrow afternoon inly. but so far sunday doesn't look too bad. it's monday andt tuesday t we'll be watching for the impacts of florence. we do expect rainy conditions and some of thee rain could locally heavy and once this thing moves on land a little more computer models will have a better idea of how it's interacting and how it's going to effect the storm and the speed of the storm. wooem we'll talk more about that coming up but let's get over tj wit

you might be far inland in georgia, in south carolina, in the western part of north carolina where this is going to be felt, in virginia, and you need to tell people, this might come your way. you'll be out of power. you'll be flooded. you may need fresh water. take a look at where these shelters are. get prepared for this thing. >>> coming up next, i'm going to talk to a hurricane hunter who just landed after flying directly into the storm. he's going to tell us how this looks compared to other storms he's seen. i'm live in wilmington, north carolina. i'll be back in a moment. needles. essential for the cactus, but maybe not for people with rheumatoid arthritis. because there are options. like an "unjection™". xeljanz xr. a once-daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well enough. xeljanz xr can reduce pain, swelling and further joint damage, even without methotrexate. xeljanz xr can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections, lymphoma and other cancers have happened. don't start xeljanz xr if you have an infection. te

virginia and the western carolinas. all of that water has to go downhill that means not only is there a coastal problem but a huge fresh water flooding issue. especially just downe to south and west. overtime the remembnants of tha are likely to stay until monday or tuesday of next week. this is going to be a long duration event. more about today, cloudy skies and fog thismorning. temperatures are in the 60s and 70s now. w am and humid day, around 80 degrees. a little warmer tomorrow but off and on rain shower chances. nothing heavy for the next couple of days. what florence decides to do on friday and the weekend is a big qu mark. we'll be keeping an eye on it. sheena has the ten day outlook coming up. >> you can see some of the folks heading southbound when they're right up o the camera. after the rosslyn tunnel left lane is getting by. work zone there. 395 after duke street, right lane blocked by that work zone and riverdale between campus and river road, work zone lef lane. >>> a couple of weeks ago we introduced you to an incoming georgetown freshman kicked out of his parents house because 's gay. >> he feared he wouldn't be able to pay for school until the communit

south carolina and thenng into eastern tennessee. if you had travel plans down th81 to s western vginia or the western darcarolinas, eastern tennessee, i delay that trip. it's in ohio, pennsylvania, and parts of west virginia. that will be our rain yesterday around here will be monday. rainfall amounts are going to bi extreme with storm. check this out. down across parts of southern north carolina. ybe as much as 25 inches of rain. for us at least, i think we get at least an inch to two inches of rai aroundhere. doesn't sound very impressive compared to that but our ground is already saturated so we could have significant high water issues around her on monday. there's your ten day forecast. clouds and showers and breezy today. more clouds tomorrow. not a whole lot of rain on sunday but monday and tuesday could be on the west side around here. let's go to jack >> hey, chuck, thanks. good morning, we have one crash aring fromuthorities now. they just cleared 123 northbound. there had been a crash blocking the left side of the roadway. both travel lanes areop now . we have wind warnings in effect. there's no vehicle restrictions' so at least w good to go at this stage. just watch your speed. whiteserry due t

south and went to segregated schools through the tenth grade. in west virginia that i went to coastal virginia it went to western minnesota 1974. so now i am the chairman of the board from con cordia college. i remember how race and religion began to connect. and i was at a lutheran church school. i didn't know anything about trends. long -- lutherans i remember going to the yellow pages to see if there were any lutheran churches. here i had lived next to what all my life but did not notice it because it was out of my orbit of my world. talk about american life. as it was through all measures. so we find yourselves coming back and the military doing something we don't ever do anywhere else. so those with the military or the university. and we didn't have their range of experiences. so those that were embedded with those religion problems. and then to see where people live. it's okay they don't get to know one another. but sometimes they do things in ways that there is conflict but other times they learn to live and experience one another. race is the american story. also i am president of the organization. so i remind my collea

in florence, south carolina, and we're expecting to see more of this as we move further inland towards appalachia and that's where the storm is predicted to move northern into western virginia and north carolina. >> so, matt, you were able to drive, though, from myrtle beach toward florence. you haven't encountered problems where your vehicle couldn't get through? >> there hasn't been a single real problem since we left myrtle beach. we saw a lot of utility vehicles, some emergency vehicles block ing some of the lanes and the highways clearing debris, clearing some of the trees that had fallen. but others, this state has been spared the worst. >> all right, matt, thanks very much. matt bradley for us on his way to columbia, south carolina, which is the major population center that we are concerned about. charlotte, north carolina, they're not going to get a tropical storm, but what they are going to get is a fairley serious rain event in populated areas. obviously, drainage is not sometimes as good as it is in other areas. we're going to be watching charlotte, raleigh, columbia, south carolina. let's go to north carolina now to carolina island. again, up the shore here wher