in the mid-50s in southern maryland. a good deal of sunshine today. a nice day with highs in the upper 60s to around 70. 6:31. good morning, angie. >>> hello, everybody. we come to you live from sky nine. we are hovering over a water main break situation in hyattsville, maryland. maryland 500 is closed in both directions at the east-west highway. a lot of standing and running water on the roadway. a good crew presence out there. do not expect this to be cleaned up throughout the morning rush. follow me on twitter, oh my goff is my name. i will keep you updated on-line when things open up. 500 in maryland closed in both directions at the east-west highway. 95 northbound looks like the sun is starting to rise. thing are clear as drivers approach the beltway. we are seeing congestion between the prince william parkway and lorton. to 395 from duke to seminary. man, the taillights are stacking up. past this point you are okay approaching the 14th street bridge. finally fly with me. 50 westbound from the bay bridge to the capital beltway. andrea, we are fin

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he was sited for reckless driving and taken to southern maryland hospital for drug testing and detox. police say dui charges are pending. >> here at the fairfax hospital, people are quickly learning that h1n1 precautions will affect their visit. they are being screened. >> their loved ones don't want them to get flu on top of what they are being treated for. >> starting today, visitors will be screened. >> you have a fee or have you been ill? are you sick now? >> if the answer is yes -- >> we respectfully request that you not come to visit. >> the hospital is also prohibiting anyone under age 18 from visiting. >> we felt that this is the group that may be harboring the virus and may be the ones that would pose greater risk. >> other changes include two people in a patients room at a time and they are reducing visitors hours. >> i think that limiting the hours during all this epidemic and things that are going on is really a smart idea. >> in fairfax county, i'm lindsey, 9news now and wusa9.com. >> every single state has been touched by the flu or h1n1 and a new report by the trust for

good out of southern maryland. good morning, burtonsville. it looks like things are smooth for you.ice ride on 270, 340, dulles greenway, dulles toll road. headlights heading of leesburg to get into reston and down to the beltway. we will have more on the traffic side. hopefully newschopper 7 will be able to fly today. >> thank you. >>> metro riders can expect delays on red and orange lines over the weekend because of maintenance lines. the work is being done between the medical center and the groves near stations. writers should end up to 30 minutes of travel time -- writriders should add up suit 30 miles of the extra travel time. >>> 5:42. >> we have big celebrity stories. john gosselin pulling the plug on tv fame. >> we are counting down the hours to an official olympic announcement. hours to an official olympic announcement. >> 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. president obama lo

mary's counties and southern maryland. it is just spotty sprinkles and showers. most of the rain has been across the coast. there have been sprinkles across ocean city in virginia as well. but again, nothing significant. the front is west of us. it will be slowly moving east during the day. we can't totally take the rain out of the forecast, but stick around. >> taking a look at our top stories. police are looking for the suspects who left a bomb on an mta bus. happened after 2:00 friday afternoon while the bus was on howard and fay et streets. mta officials say it exploded and released a strong odor of ammonia. no one was injured. >> baltimore city detectives searching for answers after the decomposing body of a woman was found in a manhole. around 10:30 a.m. a verizon technician found the body. they removed the body to bennighouse. the question is, how did the body get there. a witness explained to her, there was no way the body could have floated there. >> he said that the sewer only goes -- like each block has a pipe like this far wide, so i say it could it b

in southern maryland, east of i- 95 that we have showers. the front has drifted slowly through the area overnight. it has produced some of those light showers. our focus today will maybe he still i-95 with some shower activity. as far as the big picture, let's go to the graphics computer and moisture was abundant during the early morning. . we have a broken batch of clouds, north of town. we will have some peaks of sunshine. clouds will be slow to depart through lunch time. by the afternoon, they will head toward the eastern shore. things will clear out and high- pressureorks its way back and across the region. it is an improving for test as we head towards the weekend. we will have a pretty nice looking weekend. high pressure builds in the hyde and mostly sunny skies will be toward sunday. the overall weather pattern will be progressive, taking the system would quickly by the afternoon and evening. some early morning showers, mainly east of i-95, that front will trigger a couple more sprinkles. up to 79 degrees today. clearing skies and we

only in the 40s in montgomery, fairfax, arlington, prince george's counties as well as much of southern maryland and the northern neck and the eastern shore. 40s across the rural areas of maryland and virginia west and north of washington, even a few areas where it's down into the upper 30s parts of the shenandoah valley. out in the mountains, a few of the deeper valleys have scattered frost this morning. from adams morgan to suit land, arlington, and kensington we've got a mostly clear sky. just a few clouds around today, highs reaching near 70. increasingly cloudy friday and a chance of a shower late friday night into early saturday morning. then the weekend's looking dry, saturday and sunday afternoon, highs in the 70s. a look into next week along with the national travel forecast in ten mines. how's the traffic? >> here we're taking a look at 270 southbound at falls road. everyone's doing just fine headed toward the beltway. the b-w parkway and 95 in maryland are also in the clear. capital beltway, no signs of early volume to no problems leaving greenbelt, headed past andrews, to and across

that bay keeping folks around the bay and into southern maryland a little milder there were spots into the 30s. right now we're only into the 60s. colors beginning. a little bit around here. here's where it looks in far northern new hampshire. color is just about peaking. i'll tell you about the weekend foliage and where you can see it, and also our weekend weather when i join you downstairs. >> that was 32 in culpepper? >> that was the report. thermometer in culpepper had some issues with it. there were spots certainly in the 30s in the low protected areas. >> thank you. >>> a huge headache for homeowners and commuters in the hyattsville area. a water main broke sending thousands of gallons of water rushing down queensbury and queens chapel road and into nearby houses. megan mcgrath has more. >> reporter: the 16-inch pipe broke early this morning. sending water gushing downhill and into homes on queensbury road. this house was flooded. the water rising three feet in the basement. the family had to be evacuated. fernando was allowed to stay in his place, but ten inches of water created

washington we've still yet to see a morning low below 50. 52, but baltimore 45 and folks into southern maryland, clinton was down into the 40s. right now 67 degrees as you can see, and our winds are beginning to turn into the south now so that's been bringing back milder air. and what a difference from yesterday when we had that howling wind on us. winds have settled down also around new york. there is a bit of storminess and i'll show you where it is. but the moisture -- you can see those clouds heading more to our north. once again i think we're really going to be missing anything in the way of significant rain. a cool evening, that's ahead. clouds primarily to our north for you folks especially across the mason-dixon line up into northern parts of maryland and pennsylvania. but for us, still a dry pattern although there may be a few raindrops by the time we get around to saturday. i'll explain that and also the weekend foliage map for your travel plans. join new a few minute zbls got that big three-day weekendor some out there. thank you, bob. >> colorful leaves. >>> when news 4 at 4 continu

and southern maryland in the mid 55 -- 50s and here in town a temperature of 52. just a couple of clouds an this morning. but for the most part a partly to mostly sunny day today. pleasant with less wind than yesterday. at noon we will be 64. the temperature will be. 5:00 temperatures 65 and highs upper 60s to around 70. it is 5:00. time for angie with the traffic. >> overall traffic not looking so bad. but we have one tieup out there we are watching. we are going to begin with 95 heading northbound out of dumfries to the mixing bowl. looks like you are going to find the lanes open. drivers are moving at speed. the realtime graphics and showing you hyattsville in this area, maryland 500 is closed in both directions. crews are working hard this morning trying to repair a water main break. moving it outside and take a look and see what we are tracking. i believe it is the capital beltway. north of the district, live from new hampshire avenue. taillights moving without incident and wrap it up with 95 and the bw parkway out of baltimore, no incidents or accidents alon

he was taken to southern maryland hospital for drug testing and detox. maryland state police say he was sited for reckless driving, dui charges are pending. audrey barnes, 9news now and wusa9.com. >> state troopers are now in charge of that investigation. >>> laurel city police continue to search for two men who attempted to abduct three children. it happened last night at thomas drive. the kids were playing outside an apartment complex when the men called them to their truck. a mother of one of the children happened to be outside and yelled at the children to come to her. two of the children did, a third child ran a block away to her home. the men then followed and parked outside until that third child's mother came outside. a neighbor described the vehicle as a beat up small light blue pickup truck with a dent in the driver's side fender. it had a maryland license plate with a partial number 416-41w. >>> tonight at 6:00, we are going to talk to the mother who saw the whole thing. you'll hear what she is doing now to protect her children. >>> the larges

i've been working with the american red cross, baltimore chapter and with the southern maryland chapter working with the lance armstrong and live strong foundation and helping others overcome adversity and live your dreams. >> is there a way for people to be reached to not give up regardless of the challenge they are facing. coming back literally from the dead, how do you tell them to deal with what they're dealing with? >> that's tough. because everyone has their own adversity but every day is a good day when you're not in a coma. but trying to get back and enjoy life, live your dreams. be thankful for what you have and always say thank you, let everyone know how much they mean to you. >> that attitude has a lot to do with it. >> that's what it's all about. >> congratulations on the red cross spokesperson of the year. the book is called iron heart. it's an amazing journey. back from the dead. congratulations, i know you have a lot more ahead of you. >> thank you. >> brian boyle, you can check it out on myfoxdc.com. >> awesome story. thanks for c in. >>> a boy sneaks on to a flight and

here's the scattered showers, have already interned western portions of maryland but the heaviest rainfall now southern pennsylvania. monkton 61. 66 edgemere. annapolis also 66. catonsville 64. kingsville 62. chestertown 66. here's your forecast for tonight -- continued thickening clouds, showers, scattered as they will be in the the early morning hours, a chance tomorrow afternoon. but then saturday more gem rainfall. ---- general rainfall. tomorrow, variable clouds, a high of 79 degrees. the showers continue into saturday. things start clearing up but cooling down on sunday. monday, tuesday, wednesday, sunshine but as you see temperature continued to drop and showers likely thursday. see you tonight at 11:00. >>> local favorite kimmie meissner has withdrawn from two competitions. the figure skater has been bothered by tendonitis in her right knee. she dropped out of the cup of russia and trophy skating competitions. that could keep the bel air native off the u.s. team for the vancouver olympics. >>> lace up the sneaks. the annual running festival is this saturday. we're told 20,000 people signed up t

. >> you can see most of the states are in the southern part of the united states. maryland, of course, among them. >> communities are beginning to take action. >> some colorado schools are shutting doors for the week. middle school in colorado city has about 40 percent of its students out sick. tonight with flu-like symptoms. >> about half of the children in a preschool class in an elementary school also absent with similar symptoms. a family in ft. worth, texas is questioning some of the advice concerning medications. 14-year-old khloe lindsay died sunday after diagnosed with h1n1 just five days after she started to feel sick. her mom took her to the doctor. and was sent home without the medication tamiflu. she was told the cdc advised doctors not to give tamiflu to people that were otherwise normally healthy. >> i was scared for them to put her to sleep. you know, i was afraid she would never wake up. and she didn't. >> well, the school where khloe was in middle school is sanitizing all of the classrooms. and lockers. >> a study by the centers for disease control shows ma

southern pennsylvania. a little bit warmer to the south in sorn maryland. we have some rain to talk about. i'll do that in a few minutes. >> it's about time stan has an ally. >> right. >> he needed some help. >> i had to call in reinforcement. you especially. >> we like to gang up on stan. it's all in good fun. we have some late clearing construction. i had to go out there and clear it myself. sometimes we do that in the traffic department. east bound i-70 at security, an accident clearing there. also st. paul at 25th in the city, an accident. looks like that one may be gone. some delays lingering on the west side outer loop due to that earlier construction. if you're going to be heading out, east joppa, some fire department activity. the volume that you see on the west side, 17 minutes creating that delay there because of the earlier construction. that's gone so hopefully that will filter out soon. 11 minutes on the outer loop. five minutes from the 895 split to the fort mchenry. i-70 look better than last check. a live view at frederick, where things are moving better also with that late

maryland this morning. and near 60 on the eastern shore. some of the counties in southern west virginia did have scattered frost this morning. and it was only a few degrees above freezing in the shenandoah valley in the southern part. and as we look at the view from space, there's quite a bit of cloudiness that popped back up and it will begin to break up in the next few hours and then we'll have a mostly sunny finish with highs reaching mid to upper 60s and it should be a clear night that almost full moon will be coming up after sun set. and our temperatures will be back in the 50s by then. and then by dawn near 50 with clouds on the increase during the day friday we should warm to around 70 or so. and we may have showers late friday night into perhaps mid to late morning saturday. then clearing out saturday afternoon. highs in the mid 70s. sunday should be mostly sunny, good weather for the skins and bucs at fedex field. as we get into monday, should be still dry with lots of sunshine, morning lows, 50, afternoon highs low and mid 70s. which is about the average for earl

southern parts of wisconsin and also for northern parts. it's a color coating for you and you get back over to the east and rain started towards maryland and washington, d.c., philadelphia getting in towards new york, as well. notice the white shade. that's where the rain is falling into the colder air mass and all turning into snow for northern pennsylvania and a lot, too, over the next 36 hours or so. 4 to 12 inches of snow mainly on the highest elevations. still looking for a roughly rainfall around the valleys and you get to the mountains, 4 to 12. that's a lot for this time of year. plus, the fact that we still have the leaves on the trees and those leaves will act like catcher's mitts and the limbs will come down and a lot of power outages starting this afternoon. a follow-up story i told you a couple days ago. caused a massive landslide in washington state and shut down a section of highway 410 and now the question is how officials will deal with the road and also the rerouted river. state of emergency right there, richard. >> they're getting more rain. >> it's unbelievable. you hate to see that kind of thing. more rain in the forec