it includes all of southern maryland, the heavy hijack of storms from richmond. some very heavy i rain some areas. i want to take you into this areaere around the university of maryland. they have an alert fg out about a tornado warning. there is to warning for the university of maryinnd. we're gea lot of calls on it. they're taking kids and putting them that interior rooms. that does not need to happen. it is a strong warning but no tornado warning. wre to the south. a tornadoch for areas in yellow. >> thank you.

the outerbands are starting to each southern maryland and lower parts of the shore. it's still a category 1 storm t i always have to tell you, don't focus on themb category . it's a 90 miles per hour sustained wind but the winfield is enormous. it has huge amount of wind to push water on shore. the rain and the flooding does all the damage. so this storm now expected to stay farther to the north than what the hurricane center thought yesterday. yesterday they thought it might graze into northeast georgia. by monday at 5:00, the heart of the storm moving into parts of west virginia. that will leave us on the very rainy sidehe so as a result biggest impacts here are likely to come in the monday-tuesday time frame. land falling in northern and south carolina. beer news for georgia but the southern appalachians are going to take aard hit from flooding. sheena has the local forecast now. >> good morning. we are watching some clouds locally because of florence. down to the south like chuck showed you. stationary front is going to be slowing florence down once it moves on l

now, you notice it's not down around fredericksburg and southern maryland. folks are going to get the least. if you're winchester, d.c., points north, it's coming down now the next 24 hours or so. heavier rain towards front royal. leesburg, gaithersburg, towards herndon, fairfax, heavy rain, there, too. all pushing east. watch what happens as we move west. this is just a line of storms, a line of very heavy rainfall. this right here, you can see a little swirl, bigger thunderstorms. that's the remnants of tropical storm irdon. that going to move across our area,o, just to our north and that's why we're going to see all this rain here. take a look overnight tonight, here it is 11:00 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00 a.m., more rain. southern maryland, down around fred aicksburg points south, lot less for you. watch what happens all day long. 00, yeah, sti raining. tomorrow afternoon 5:00, everybody still raining. that's why i think wre going be dealing with the potential for flooding. national weather service putting out a flood watch different than a flash flood watch.

includes all of southern maryland. most of i-95 including fairfax, princeta william,ord county and everybody to the south and east. we look towarext year. look right here. wee got some very heavy rain. this rain coming down. making itsay justo the north of the wheaton area. south and akeast, ming its way to the north. so headsup. some very heavy rainfall. more rain around alexandria andw into dow and then along the beltway right toward falls church. now again, tornado wat in yellow. the good news is we're not seeing as many storms in our area. speaking of thing we' watching. we're watching the heavy rain. >>> we have flood warnings in effect. from around winch. the areas in gree that are under the flood warnings, in effect until midnight. and under a flash flood watch and this flash flood wash will be in effect until late tonight. we'll track a few more thunderstorms out there. tomorrow we do see the threat coming down. a pretty low threat. the best will be some heavy rain. some isolated flooding out there. it has been

now, we have this rain that's moving right intolaces of southern maryland.es county where we still have some ongoing flood warnings. fax, this is getting ready to move into the district. if you're going to line the streets to say your final farewell to the late john mccain, you might want to bring anumbrella. i think by the time they get down to thetnam memorial, most of the rain should be out of here, but storm could pop up any time throughout the morning. i'm keeping an isolatedro chanc hout the morning. thes storms are weakening. they're lining up along 30 1 and storms out by i 66 in fair fax right now.de ng out the view, that's all we're seeing. i was telling david about uis's delaware. it has moved off the store and off to the ocean. a nice lightning show. we'rery with isolated showers. ongoing flood warnings.ui fa county and prince william county south of the city of manassas. ngat flood war goes until 8:ha a 45 -- 8:45.t' the area t impacted by this flood warning goes until 7:45. don't drive across anylooded roadways out there. bbq forecast for the ne

5:00 in then ound the city and after about 5:00 or 6:00 it starts to push further down into southern maryland. everybody should be dry. by 9:00 this evening skies will clear out and we'll have a sunny daytomorrow. rainfall potential could be an inch or more in many spots. an 80% chance for more rain, heavy at times today and then dr sunny, warmer than average days in a row. 85 tomorrow, 82da thu and near 90 on friday. rain chances are mtly focused on sunday night. >> chuck, thank you, it's 6:55 now. one of the moments everybody is going to bealking about from the emmys last night. >> a surprisepo pl for millions of americans to witness. >> you wonder why i don't like to call you my girlfriend, because i want to call you my wife. >> love her reaction. that'sit univeof maryland grad glenn weiss t thatk the time to award his girlfriend with his mother's wedding ring. >> the thought and t thought picked up steam as we got here and this was coming. just the timing just lined up very nicely and it was a really magical moment. >> couldn't have worked out better. she said yes. >> coming up on 6:56 no

closest actual storm right now is all the way down in southern maryland on t peninsula near salisbury's where it's going to stay. future weather showing the future clouds anduture radar, not much happening the rest of this evening. just some clouds and some patchy fog forming overnight tonight, especially down in some of the river valleys. that will dissipate by tomorrow afternoon, maybe one or two isolated thunderstorms could pop-up. most in some of the higher elevations. that is because of the heat. an humidi in this type of atmosphere, we don't always get the storms forming toech forming. atmorrow afternoon, the weather is going to coop heading into tuesday afternoon, a chance of an isolated storm here or there. the rain outlook for the next several days is not. impressi maybe a chance monday and tuesday. mostly in the higher elevations. heading into the middle part of the week, high pressure will get stronger. really diminish the chances more. to get one more pool day in tomorrow, no problems for the most part. 86 by noon. about 90 degrees by mid afternoon. definitely stay hydrate

mary's county and areas in southern maryland. >> i think right getting word there's a press conferencearding fema. >> theemnants of florence make their way into the southern and central appalachians,iversnd streams flowing out of the mountains will experience moderate to major flooding. the details of this will become more clear early next week. rivers will stay in flood stage for an extended period of time. the next update from the national hurricane center will be issued at 11:00 eastern time. >> good morning. noaa is moving into response and recovery mode. the weather service forecast office in this particular area of north carolina and south carolina have been dealing with some significant flash flooding. i'dike to take this opportunity to extend my deepest appreciation and gratitude toward the c hurricaneter and the weather icservice, paarly the mother head city and wilmington officers.vi inals have been sheltered in place for many days but the offices have remained operational. fice of coastal survey is surveying the storm surge magnitude. we're dealing with a major flooding and

that could also be the case across southern maryland. here's 4:00 in the afternoon. rain chances today are generally under 20%. i'm not talking about it a whole heck of a lot. but there could be the isolated little shower chance today, either by the bay or on the f stern facese blue ridge because of the upsloping moisture there. so tt's today. tomorrow, another day with a mix of clouds and sunshine. i think most of the tomorrow is dry for most everybody. rain chances tomorrow below 20%. however, as we get into the weekend, things do start to ramp up just abit. 30% chance for some showers, especially later in the day on saturday. sunday is looking very cloudy and a bit on the showery side now. monday a little rainy as well. obody cares if it rains on monday. melissa? >> that's right. monday, who cares. waeastbound, southeast fr the ramp there to 6th street closed because of a fire investigation. this is a fire investigation from yesterday. so we are still shut dn there. we'll let you know when that reopens here this morning. taking a look at the beltway, no major issu

look at southern maryland. more rain into this area. now, n expecting severe weather tomorrow, but we could, just like today, see heavier storms move on through. by tomorrow nigh it's moving out. tomorrow, 81, rain and storms. best chance, i-95 to the east. some of that may be on the heavy side. 85 on youry. wednes let's finally say good-bye to florence. it does move to the northeast. they could see some problem there, too, tomorrow. but then, it's out of here, brr.ging nice weat 82 on thursday, 89 on friday. we get on the hot side. and then weee a front come through and that gives us a chance for showers starting with the first day of fall on saturds, but also bri in much cooler weather. we're only in the 70s next week. >> all right, here w go. right straight into fall. >> yeah, big time. up all right, thank you, doug. >>> coming , the redskins trying to turn boos into woos is sunday. thsp >>> this is the xfinity sports desk. >> the list of disappointmehts sunday ntarted with the way the redskins played, extended to the number of fans

down towar southern maryland, saint mary's county, calvert county, temperature there 80 degrees. esburg is only 60. that's a boundary sitting around our area and weee will more of those showers and storms in our southern zones during the day tomorr f. so heads u that. tomorrow afternoon a high of 81 in the city. cooler to the west warmer down to the south. some sun in the areas, south and east, chance of humid tomorrow.s ated chance of storm, but most of the day dry. it's thursday night into friday that we start to watch for florence ourselves in this area with rain, and again, friday, saturday, sunday, monday, possibly even into tuesday that's how long we're going to have to watch that storm system. that's why this is such ale big pr here. it's all about the rain. it's all about flooding. it's not about win >>okay. is there anything that could happen that could make the scenario look betr for u >> the one thing that could happen, it could stall around the cape hatteras and not move inland much. if it does that,e would be better off cape hatteras unfortunately would not. >> all ri

temperatures generally in the low 70s across most of prince george's county a southern maryland. the daily grade for today, a-plus for your weather grade today. 82 degrees, a fair amount of sunshine. not much, ifhi an, in the way of a rain chance. what to put the kids in today, well, back to shorts and sunglasses. don't forget that sun block as well. a good looking day today and a go night for baseball tonight down at nats ballpark. game time temperatures in the 70s. let's go to melissa and pdoase t tell me there's trouble on u.s. 50. >> outer loop afr 50, aittle bit of an issue. two left lanes get by the work zone there. he rest of the beltway looks good. as we look at 270 from fredrick down to the spur, going a little quick here. 72 miles per hour is going to get you there in 25 minutes as you're headed southbound. northbound, no worries here morning. you're looking good on 270 northbound eastbound southeast freeway, the ramp to the 6th street there in southeast still shut downe for thire investigation. aaron? >> all right, melissa. thank you. >>> now to that developing story i

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shomari stone it was all a siaial medl experiment for a class she teaches at the college of southern maryland. the actual nike adhows kaepernick with the words "believe in something even if it means sacrificing everything." president trump weighed in telling the dailye caller thinks nike's ad sends a terrible message but saysni 's ability to make its own business decisions "is what this country all about." kaepernick's famously protested police brutality by kneeling for the national anthem. he's been unable to get a job in the nfl the past two seasons and his protests have become the favorite tart of th president. >>> doug is back with more about our weather. closing schools early and it's really hot out there. >> it's really serious. this is middle of july, the kids en't in hool. this is september. we're not used to there heat this late in the oason. closeecord highs as we make our way through the next couple of days and right back to where we were today. the tnumbers,se are the high temperatures across our region.5 c., quantico, fredericksburg, 97. warrenton, it washot. all you have to do i

serious right now though we're dealing with a couple of showers across southern maryland.owers will be with us. thicker fog out onte the e shore. visibility down to 1.1 mile ere at joi base andrews. future weather carries that rain out onto the eastern shore. there will be a 50% chance you can get hit with a rain drop. umbrella in the 60s and 70 highs in the 70s and 80 degrees. not much sunshine today and the ten day. for now, let's hear from melissa mollet who probably has nothing wt good news. >> ih i could. i would be a rich woman. upper marlboro, in bound between rich marlboro road and wood lawn road there's a crash investigation. , note means we're clos just slow with the red and orange colors. 30u can divert on to water street to old marlboro pike to get back on to 4 here. that'souhat will get around that. another problem 3rks 01 at heather moore. hyattsville ridge road, university of maryland, crash reported th southbound g.w. parkway, delays northbound and southbound. pothole causing flat tires. after smokeef town,t side blocked due to a crash there. eun. >> your t

you can see the the line, the front is moving through parts of southern maryland. new jersey as well. behind it, nothing. we want nothing around here. down to the south and east. we're still seeing s thewer activity. across the bay, saint mary's county, leonardtown, still seeing some showe activity. we'll be dry the rest of the night. notice the cloud cover giving way to that sunshine. clear skies. the remnants of florence giving them a flash flood warning. we won't have to worry about that around the chicago land area. that won't be impacting us. what wil is the little thing called the sunshine. nice and warm, too. but with warmer humidity, it will be a very nice afternoon.nd thursday friday. some schools out tomorrow because of the jewish holiday. 78 deees, recess, 81 by the time we're picking up thekids. maybe even a little warmer. a really nice day. nice on thursday. thursday and friday could be some clouds early. then more sun late in the afternoon. a little more humid. 82 saturday. and as we look toward the rest of the weekend, the redskins are home taking on

right down toward southern maryland in the northern neck.l not need the umbrella three or four ledays. s take a look down to the south. we are dealing with some shower activity. you will seers some shooving through over the next two hours before it gets out. you can see the cloud cover getting out of here. that means sunshine during the day tomorrow. a lot of sunshine coming. and boy, do we need it. even the asnort the flash flood warnings. it is all bause of florence. 85 degrees. finally sunshine tomorrow night. it will be a beautiful day. the humidity is lowering with the wen out of the north so wednesday is lookinggood. the forecast for wednesday, a lot of kids out of school but degrees at the bus stop. now montgomery county out of school. for pick-up. that should say wednesday. i wanted to say all this sunshine that i have across the region and it sticks around thursday and friday. i think we m see many clouds early. maybe even some areas of weg. l see sunshine in the afternoon. 85 on friday. watching the front for this weekend. 82 degre

we have heavy rain out there no storms towards southern maryland. a much wider few showing the torms in the schennendoah valley going to be a wet weekend here, now and into sunday. i've got youreekendorecast plans. we are tracking the latest on the tropical storm felons. it is expected to become a major hurricane. the latest thinking on this, i'll see you bac hear in about 15 minutes. >> thank you, doug. >>> another child in the district caught in the cross fire after gunshots ring out in the neighborhood. ten week's the latest victim is a 6-year-old girl. more on the growing concern about all of this violence, especially targeting chilen. chris. >> reporter: fear is gripping parts of our city. the d.c. police department tells us so far this year, 11 children have been killed by gun tifireg. theyo not have the exact number of children wounded. last night, officers here were calledo a neighborhoo blocks away for the report of a child being shot. d.c. police and firefighters rushing to the scene of the ooting. a 6-year-old girl is wounded in the left

and southern maryland. it will be breezy monday and tuesday with rain chances and we will seeice weather wednesday, thursday, and friday. low humidity. next chance of rain will be the first day of fall on saturday. >>> well, primary season is officially over and it's been a long one. starting with texas back in mar march. and the one storyline thatas dominated the narrative is this -- women rule. >> female candidates have been running for office in records numb according to data for the center for american women in 'spolitics. whmore, they're winning. >> 476 womenan for u.s. house. smashing the previous record of 298 in2012. 53 women ran for senate breaking the previous record of 40nd 61 filed for governor. the previous record was 34. >> for all three offic -- house, senate, a governor -- women also won their primaries in record numbers. >> but for theirs, victor here's an important reminder. even if every female candidate wins inny race in which she's favored orit's a tossup, women would only make up a qua

you see the showers into charlen county southern maryland, fredericksburg, that's the only area seeing somey shower activ right now. we will continue to see it making itsghay thr here but most will be on the light side.r temperise tomorrow, about 80 degrees tomorrow. about where we are today. upper 70s to around 80, a showers, not a bad day saturday. 81, i wouldn't be surprised to see some sunshine. monday and tuesday. the best chance of rain from florence. and then really breaking out into a lot of sunshine some of e very nice weather next week and fall feeling like fall. we're in the 70s next weekend. >>hat will be eat. >> that will be heaven. thank you. >> in e meantime, before we can get to that, we have to get through orence. now tropical storm florence and the winds at myrtle beach, as you can see, this storm will be here to stay the next f days. >> and these are live pictures from the storm team 4 by 4. we'll have more on the weather in our washington area from thi faliable internet is crucial. does it every go down? yes. can't do my josi ss grinds to a halt. our gig-speed netwo

only places left out,rince george's county and southern maryland because rainfall amounts will be higher the further west you go. daytime tseperatures up c to 80 degrees. dog walking forecast and the ten day forecast. good morning, melissa. >> good morning. taking look at eastbound 66 here. riow getting by just that left lane here. take a look at what it's doing 6 to6 right now. that back up is just building for us so we're going toeep our fingers crossed and tell you to allow some extra time if you can. in t district or heading into the district, inbound 14t street bridge. disabled vehicle on the right side of theoadways and you can see the delays. the ramp to 3rd street tuel, beltway up top. other stuff that could get slow on the beltway, camp spefngs. two lanes and the right sort of splitting around the work zoneer bridge work you have to stay right before it's too late. >> all right. thank you. we continue to follow breaking neon inomery county. five people are shot and two are dead inrehat police calling a murder-suicide. here's what we know. inside the home on amberleigh drive on s

i70 degrees southern maryland to get your day going. no early dismissal today.peratures will be way up, near 90eges by lunchtime, with heat indexes closing in on 100 for recess. afternoon highs, low to mid-90s. heat indexes up by 105 grees. miserably hot. changes are coming starting tomorrow. more about that forecast coming up. >> all right. thank you, chuck. it will be a little wet this weekend. outer loop lookingter than it was. that's our slow spot around town, because of some road work blocking the road. itill be wrapping up here. you see that delay at the top of the beltway. the rest of the beltway, we don't have anythin in your way right now, finger s crossed it stays that way. you can see a little orange and yellow. moat southbound approaching quantico this ing, a tiny slowdown 53 miles per hour is your speed there. going to take you about 22 minutes. >> thank you. >>> it's 5:32. we're following a developing story in herndon this rning. police are trying to figure out what happened in this woman where a woman and two childrenr found dead last night.s inve

metro, we're looking at showers and coastal flooding and that's theame dealor our friends in southern marylandybody ong the potomac river. that where we see coastal flooding from now until tuesday. by the time we get toes wey, thursday, friday, it's so nice. temperatures are going to be in the midos0s for the part. next chance of rain saturday. that's the first day of fall.e we have m news right after this. . i put criminals in prison during the day i'm jennifer wexton, and as a prosecutor, and changed diapers at night. later, when i had a law practice, i volunteered to help moms collect child support. then, as state senator, i worked across party lines to target sexual offenders and take guns away from domestic abusers. in congress, i'll stand up to president trump. i approve this message because, like every working mom, what's ahead is as important as what's in the rearview mirror. >>> our coverage of tropical storm florence continues next on the "today" show. and speaking of which, it is not over yet. some people are dealing wit serious side effects. >> yeah. >> and the flooding down there

it pushes farther down into parts of southern maryland.aybe as early as 4:00 or 5:00, i have a suspicion that it might take a little bit closer to 5:00 or 6:00, but the high resolutn mode updating is hinting that the rain is over by 4:00 or 5:00. ere could be breaks in the clouds just before the sun goes down. sunset is 7 just after0 tonight. but by 8:30, 9:00, the skies should be startin to clear out rather nicely. i think you'll appreciate the change tomorrow. there's the flood watch that continues for the met area until 6:00 this evening. again, lalized up to an inch are possible. t'sh each successive run, estimating lower and lower amounts of rain possible to the end of what seems to be a three week long rain event. not a big change in temperatures. we're getting an f today. 80 degrees our high today. hances of heavy rain, fortunately, starting to diminish. the chances of getting rained tn now a the end of the day are 80%. all sunshine the next couple ofs that will be nice. weekend rain chances, starting late saturday night. ten-day fo

>> i saw a lot of cancellations starting tuesday for the games southern maryland and high school games in the area. again, this is not going to be a very impactful event for us, but friday is the day i expect to see the most rainfall from the storm, so, you know, getting it done today, yeah, get it done while we can for s te, but i got l ya, i went to the store, and they have a hurricane coming here. no, no, we don't. we don't. i want to make sure you -- we reiterate that to you, but tell your friends. es nsis its way? wrightsville beach in north carolina, and, guys, they are ing to take a punch over the next coupl days. the satellite picture shows a strong hurricane 3 major hurricane now, going through an eye wall replacement cycle. i lked about it yesterday. you can see this one very clearly. you see the eye there, you see the eye in the center of twa screen, anh what happens here. you have two openings here, two openings, outer eye wall and inner eye wall. once it comes back together one eye, that's when things could start to intensify again. we're going to be watching out for that

that's ant storm southern maryland right now making its way across the poet imagine. portion that have cloud. you can see it right here. the storm goes up and then the anvil comes out. if you ever want to take a look at that, it's a cumulus cloud. temperatur around 95, showers came through and helpedo cool things a bit. 97 in frederick. you can tell areas d that not see the rain. huntingtown 84 degrees or 83 degrees as a result of the clouds and the differencen the wind there from that one storm. >> the storm itself was severe and waldorf down to laplata. it's gone. it's not providing a more rain to any parts of the air. >> you can see what happened earlier. right about there where the storm started up. storms around the d.c. metroar . and storms to the west, dealing with some cloudiness right now. >> all this because of an area high pressure sent it right here. that's where the hot and humid conditions reside and look at this. this goes way up and over the high pressure area right on dn to the south, and that's why we're going to stay in the hot and humid side into t

prince ll move to geory and southern maryland. your umbrella. no heavy rain expected today.ly this emrning. aftenratures with a mostly cy sky sticking around, low 80s for then your saturday much like today. a lot of clouds around. not much of a rai threat tomorrow. rain chances go up big time on y > thank you. another localpd news uate in 25 minu back to ". >>> it is 7:30 now on a beautiful friday inmo septembe, 2018. will is in for savannah this morning. as good to be with you. want to get down to washingt, where craig is sitting down for an exclusive live interview with former vice prest joe biden and his wifel dr. j biden. craig, goo willie, hoda, good m washington d.c. here for a fantastic cause, the biden canr summit. i want to talk about that in a mome.s start with the news of te day. e confirmation process. ju brett kavaugh here. dr. ford has said now she wants to testify, as you know, m vice president. but now the battle seems to be over how versus when. she wants to make sure she is protecte e wants to make sure she isea d fairly. how would you suggest that the sena

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where the rain is eased up a bit e the southern maryland and areas that might see a little bit of sunshine late today. e ndrmer. lp with a high of 79 and 85 tomorrow before more storms move in. >> that's your latest weather. i saw ken burns in the orange room. kept coming up to t ken burns affect. i kept saying, move back, and he kept coming up. >> burns and brokaw. you are goi to be in the documentary. > coming up, the e frc search for a missing 6-year-o boy who vanished du a walk. we will hav the latest overnigh> a new warning f kids y that could be exposing them to an alarming danger. fi he i put criminals in prison during the day i'm jennifer wexton, and as a prosecutor, and changed diapers at night. later, when i had a law practice, i volunteered to help moms collect child support. then, as state senator, i worked across party lines to target sexual offenders and take guns away from domestic abusers. in congress, i'll stand up to president trump. i approve this message because, like every working mom, what's ahead is as important as what's in the rearview mirror. >>> just ahead, ken b

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now in 2018, i don't care what you think about maryland, it might be all this and all that, it's still a southern state, maryland, we're not new york, maryland, georgia and florida, three african-americans are poised to be, potentially be governor of those states. i have never seen this. there is a reaction to this. so people are not -- it is not just black people. people are seeing what's happening and they are upset. so it can be a southern strategy all it wants. for every action, there is a reaction. i met andrew gillum last week. he reminds me of first and second term barack obama but he has this theme of everyone. universality. i met stacy abrams over the summer. we communicate. same thing. universality. known ben jealous. i want to see what happens. i don't know what's happening in each state but i want to see because anything can change, because you've got this quiet move of african-americans voting but then you got this other move that could come up and say we're not going to let it happen. that's what happened with trump. that's what really happened with andrew gillum because they didn't

it's about 540 miles as it is starting to push rain up into southern jersey, delaware, maryland, andsome issues with flooding there as we head through the latter parts of the weekend and early next week. back here at home, gorgeous sunrise. high clouds will hang around. low clouds at the coast. autumn breezes keep us cooler than average. a little bit warmer next week. a bowl of cold air sitting on top of us. the reason it's not moving to the east, florence. florence developed a roadblock. it is stopping all traffic. 81, san jose. oud certhe ast. not as breezy as yesterday. low to mid-60s for you. mid to upper 70s through the north bay. and then you head over to the east bay shore. a few upper 60s richmond and berkeley. as you move into the valleys, we have upper 70s to low 80s. still very comfortable. tonight you can see a little deeper penetration of the lower clouds. temperatures in the you mid-40s, mid-50s. because of the extra cloud cover tomorrow morning, slower sunshine. tomorrow our coolest day moving forward. sunday, monday tuesday a lot like today. a little bit warmer wednes

we'll be talking about power outages from maryland, the interior sections towards the southern appalachiansrnor mountains, throughout much of south carolina. the worst of it here along the coast from the prolonged period of wind and rain. the storm surge you've been talking about, take a look at the wind bars, this is saturday. we're going to continue to see the same on-shore flow here. so the water piles up there past cape fear-wilmington and in the pamlico sound, goes towards new bern. towns far inland that are on and inlet or a river like the pamlico river. all the water will stay in there and the storm surges are going to be really extreme all the across the interior section. factor in the rain. this is the gfc model putting out numbers like 45 inches. this is incredible rainfall. because we're so close to this time frame, we start to get a little more reliance on these numbers. the european model stretches farther south in towards parts of south carolina. the point is, we don't know who it will be that gets these numbers. but you have a big swath of area that is getting a lot of rain a

. >> we have more rai across loudoun county, headed up towards frederick, maryland, and more rain across southern grades the western and southwestern side of the metro. temperaturewise we're in the low to mid-60s this morning. afternoon tempetures getting up near 80 degrees. off and on hit or miss showers. tomorrow lower chances for rain and slightly higher temperatures. 83 cwae you >>> check of trefk >>> right now firstrt a traffic alert, some slowdowns across the area. you're taking some delays at the 0,p of the beltway. northbound the local lane at shady grove, we still have delays, had omedebris. southbound we're slow this morning. southboundgw parkway at bellevue before the key bridge, we have lanes blocked. >> thank you. >>> another local news upda in about 25 minutes. >>> now back to the "today" s >>> 7:30, now, on a maonday morning. and that happens >>> to be your 2018 u.s. open champion naomi osaka. we're so excited. we cannot wait to talk to he'l speak to her in just a little bit. it was quite a match. >> it was. >> it will goown in the record books. >> one for the history books. it's g

i go from the maryland line to the northern carolina line, so on the eastern shore, there are parts that had been ordered to evacuate. parts of virginia beach along the coast, southernirginia beach where it is pretty marshy and wet, and low lying. so there's parts of it. emergencyt for coordinators and the state government, they don't want to cause a panic, of course, and don't want to just evacuate people without it being absolutely necessary. i would encourage folks who are to maybe pay attention, listen, and please follow the orders. of military installations in that virginia beach area. how are they preparing? caller: my district alone has eight major military installations. for several days, ships have been going out to see to be able to -- obviously, not worry about the potential winds. we have claims in oceania -- andving planes from there langley air force base, moving them inland to avoid potential damage to our military assets. host: when it comes to the work of the house, will it be affected by hurricanes and preparations? host: i'm not sure -- caller: i'm not sure. as far as i understand, we are still voting in the house. i'm not leaving my district. we

i go from the maryland line to the northern carolina line, so on the eastern shore, there are parts that had been ordered to evacuate. parts of virginia beach along the coast, southern virginia beach where it is pretty marshy and wet, and low lying. so there's parts of it. emergencyt for coordinators and the state government, they don't want to cause a panic, of course, and don't want to just evacuate people without it being absolutely necessary. i would encourage folks who are to maybe pay attention, listen, and please follow the orders. of military installations in that virginia beach area. how are they preparing? caller: my district alone has eight major military installations. for several days, ships have been going out to see to be able to -- obviously, not worry about the potential winds. we have claims in oceania -- andving planes from there langley air force base, moving them inland to avoid potential damage to our military assets. host: when it comes to the work of the house, will it be affected by hurricanes and preparations? host: i'm not sure -- caller: i'm not sure. as far as i understand, we are still voting in the house. i'm not leaving my district. w