also further south, heavier showers from southern virginia. that's all moving off to the west as well. all of this coming in from the atlantic ocean. due to that storm we have been telling you about. it's going to take a while to get to the baltimore region. but we'll see rain tonight in varying intensities. and looks like even more rain probably on your friday. kai? >> all right, bob. thank you. >>> let's check on the roads now with sharon gibala at traffic control. >> overall, we're not doing too bad. but it's note to say -- not to say problem-free. one accident on southbound lanes, approaching o'donnell street. a few more wrecks in the city. north haven at pulaski highway. and one more in pasadena, on southbound richie highway. watch for some debris on 95 northbound at southwest side of the beltway. there is also a water main break if you're traveling in parkville, that's blocking the northbound lanes between lambroas and platman avenue. traffic being dwoarted there in -- diverted there in the southbound lanes. as far as delays go, there's

we have over the last six hours seen a few showers pulling north out of north carolina into southern virginia. they tend to dry out as they head off to the north and east. most of the afternoon shoulbe dry. a small chance of a passing shower. otherwise, partly sunny and highs reaching the mid-80s. a wind out of the southwest around 5 to 15. i will show you the forecast for tomorrow. we will take a look at friday and the weekend as well, and that will be coming up as well. and the latest photos from my school visit, too. >>> and we have the latest on the midday traffic out there now. steve? >> thank you, barbara. we want to draw your attention to college park maryla, marylan. and there are two instances. north of that, there was an accident after 198. only the shoulder was skraezing by. if you are heading up to the bwi, an accident. and south of the springfield interchange, the roadwork is back just south of here near lorden blocking the lane. and barbara, back to you. >> thank you, steve. >>> construction on the enter county connector is under way. tracee wilkins joins us about details about

severe thunderstorm warnings down in southern virginia and parts of north carolina. but nothing severe here. just decent rainfall. and bigger picture here shows breaks in the showers back to the west. and it looks like things quiet down through the overnight. mostly clear right now. 64 in baltimore. cooler temperatures off to the west. we have more cooler air on the way. next day planner shows sunshine. starting off tomorrow. and we will see a niceable breeze out of the west. as we get through the afternoon tomorrow. you may need the jacket. i will tell you more about what's coming our way. as far as the temperatures are concerned in my seven-day forecast. >> thank you, vytas. >> you can be in charge of your own personalized forecast. i-radar is available at foxbaltimore.com. use the interactive tools to track any coming storms down to your street. go to foxbaltimore.com/i-radar. and if you have something happening in your community you can share it with all of baltimore. upload your pictures, videos, anything you have written about, to neighborhood news. go to foxba

eventually getting down to southern virginia. temperatures 60s to low 70s. as you can see the wind direction for most places is out of the east northeast now. and that means bringing in moisture off the atlantic ocean. much cooler temps. probably tomorrow and again on thursday. so plan on much cooler temps. good news is, looks like by friday it's out of here and we'll get sunshine and dry conditions with nice temps in the 70s for saturday and again on sunday. >> check in with don scott tomorrow morning on eyewitness news for the updated first morning radar forecast. >>> and mark has sports, that's coming up next. >>> game two of the ravens coming up. >> they'll be on the field tomorrow getting ready for that trip. the first road trip is across country to southern california where they will face a premier team that is considered a super bowl contender. the san diego charger. they kicked off their season last night. coach john hardball on those chargers. >> you know they are one of the premier teams in the nfl. you know they're explosive. i know riv era very w

at this hour, the rain seems confined across north carolina and just traveling the southern virginia border and we'll give it time before it tries to work its way up here. the temperatures are on the move. we are at 73. baltimore 72. even west of winchester 71. you have to go out to garrett county, maryland in to the mountains before we ease back to the middle 60s. game plan today. keep it warm, both today and tomorrow. we will reach prosecutor a high of 84 and 85 tomorrow. both days very similar. more clouds than sun. a spotty shower. no washout. then on friday we will kick off the weekend, cooler and 75 but some sunshine. patranya bhoolsuwan, good morning. >> good morning. how's everybody doing this wednesday morning? we have an accident to tell you about. start off 50 westbound. looking at an accident there at 197. a disabled vehicle is blocking the left shoulder. beaware of that as you head to that area. the inner loop is jammed 95 to georgia. give yourself extra time to go through that area. 270 southbound better 194 to the split. about 16-minute delay through there. 66 eastboun

this computer model showing a little bit of light rain activity, perhaps some southern virginia by late thursday. so it's possible friday briefly, some clouds, maybe some drizzle, then it moves off, actually right now the forecast for the weekend into next week looks very, very nice. 79 is your bay temperature. northeast winds on the bay at 10 to 15 knots. sunrise 6:35, sets at 7:37. tonight clear and cool. how about 54 by morning. downtown probably closer to sick. tomorrow lots of sun, just a few clouds here and there, very pleasant. a high in the upper 70s. just beautiful day. 80 on wednesday, 81 on thursday, 80 on friday, and 81 to start the weekend. maybe some clouds friday night into saturday, perhaps a little bit of rain. right now it's only about a 20% chance. we're looking like a very nice start to september. >> boy, i should say. thank you, bob. >>> check in with don scott and marty bass tomorrow morning on eyewitness news starting at 4:55 a.m. for the updated first warning forecast. >>> and coming up, the hits were hard to come by for the o's as they take on the yankees. mark

we have a few showers to our south and southern virginia. in the 60s in shenandoah valley and the blue ridge weather watchers are reporting this morning, montgomery, fairfax, prince george's, arlington and district of columbia near 70. northern neck and eastern shore near 70 degrees. in the cool mid 50s out in the mountains and now 71 in washington. over the last six hours we've seen a few showers eastern north carolina through central north carolina. those may make their way up here later on today. but just a far small chance of a passing shower. otherwise partly sunny and humid with highs low 80s. tomorrow a small chance of a passing shower. friday should be sunny and much cooler. lower humidity, highs low 70s. only near 70 on saturday could get showers saturday night into sunday, a look at that as well as the first part of next week coming up in ten minutes at 5:11. >> thanks very much, tom. let's go to ashley linder and take a look at the roadways. >>> things are off to a quiet start. the capital beltway at new hampshire avenue, the brea

in fact, we have some showers now coming into southern virginia out of the carolinas. those may arrive here later on this afternoon. highs reaching upper 70s. mostly cloudy, mostly cloudy tonight and maybe a passing afternoon shower, maybe a little thunder on wednesday. otherwise, partly cloudy and warmer, into the low 80s. mid-80s on thursday. could have a passing shower. friday looks like we'll be mostly sunny, near 80 and increasing clouds saturday. maybe some showers saturday night through midday sunday. that's the way it looks. i'm back in ten minutes with another update at 5:41. >> we don't normally get our first freeze until the end of october, do we? >> not until november or december here around the metro area. >> oh, wow. >> yeah, comes that late. >> how quickly one forgets. seems like -- anyway. we'll wait for november then. >> i always tell her, if she wore socks, her toes would not freeze, either in october or november or december. let's go to ashley linder now and the news 4 traffic network. good morning. >> as we travel around the roadways we're in pretty

virginia and some of the mid-atlantic including western pennsylvania but you see maryland down into southern virginia, north carolina. we're dry here, just fair weather clouds drifting in. i think we'll stay that way for the most part as we go into the day tomorrow but i think late tomorrow we could bring a couple of showers. you see the cloud cover does build in, after clearing a bit overnight, a little more cloud cover, southeast breeze bringing up the humidity a little bit. we could see a couple of showers tuesday afternoon. i'm not expecting a lot. even on wednesday we could see showers on and off throughout the day but our forecast model not picking up on a lot of rain. i don't expect a lot of rain the next few days. it will get a little warmer though with the south wind. tonight, 62 degrees, clouds on the increase, milder at daybreak. might want a light layer in the morning. the 7-day forecast -- first three days of fall, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, we warm up. it's a warming trend in the early fall but we do also see some sunshine toward the end of the week here and a little cooler by the we

, into southern west virginia. this low pressure system is heading off to the north and east and will be moving in tomorrow. here's the bus stop forecast for this morning. a passing shower likely, temperatures in the 60s. sunrise just a few minutes away. and then overnight tonight should be good weather for the high school games as we get into the afternoon hours, actually may get a little bit of sunshine breaking out. falling out of the low 70s, into the 60s. partly cloudy tonight, good weather for the high school games and 50s tomorrow morning. then clouding up. looks like wet weather for the high school and college games tomorrow afternoon and into tomorrow evening, passing showers are likely. highs only the mid-60s on saturday. and maybe some lingering showers sunday morning, then drying out sunday afternoon, highs upper 70s. partly cloudy, mid-70s on monday. front coming through might trigger an isolated shower monday afternoon, just a small chance. after that front goes by iwill usher in several days of cool

there has been a bit more rain across southern virginia. all of this because of that northeasterly wind that we have. that will be settling down later on tonight. look at the temperatures to our north. down around southwestern virginia in the 70s. even though we'll have an ercast, damp evening, some sunshine will be back by tomorrow afternoon. the best news is i think the weekend looks great. a lot of sunshine. good football weather for the first game at home down at redskins park on sunday. temperatures into the low to mid 70s. back to you. >> that is indeed. thank you, bob. >>> coming up, ways to save. a great deal you share. >> and paying the bills. how the tough economy had thousands lining up for a little relief today. >> up next in sports, we'll rewind in redskins' history. go back in time to a game of hall of fame. >>. >> making ends meet is tougher and tougher for folks in our area. big numbers turned out at washington convention center looking for discounts and assistance on their monthly utility bills. they lined up early, by the t

but could be a little rain across southern virginia. maybe extreme southern maryland late tonight. as it passes by to our nowght. most areas, however, look like friday for the most part, will be dry. it's saturday afternoon, into sunday morning that has my concern for some pretty decent rain. all because of low pressure sitting over to the midwest. it's finally going to be heading out to the east. stuck out there for days. spinning around and around. it's brought up this moisture from the gulf of mexico. a warm front. most of the stuff in ohio is going topaz to the south. but -- to pass to the south. but we'll wait for the bulk of the rain to pass through our region. and saturday afternoon, maybe 2:00, 3:00, it starts. through sunday at noon. it's possible that we'll still see some rain activity on sunday for the beginning of the ravens game. hopefully it will be out of here by noontime. looks like it could be pretty wet. saturday afternoon, saturday night. not a great-looking saturday afternoon. and saturday night. hopefully we'll see improvement here. on the bay tomorrow, north w

clouds and a couple of showers an mainly well west of town in to extreme southern virginia.t morning. weather should not impact the morning commute. temperatures in the 60s. 63 easton. 68 annapolis. looking for highs in the 70s to near 80 with a slight chance of a shower. we say good morning to angie. >> hello, everybody. it is, what, tuesday. >> only tuesday. >> that's okay. we will make it a terrific one. outside, we have one tieup to tell you about. begin with maryland 194. some crash activity. be careful. outer loop, drivers are moving at speed on 270 past 121. 66 eastbound in virginia doing fine through centreville all the way to the beltway. back to you. >>> for those who doubt the cost efficiency of going solar one community cooperative is out to prove you wrong. in dc's mount pleasant neighbors are using their collective bargaining to make solar pawer cheaper. >> reporter: on one sunny saturday, visitors tour a dozen houses in mount pleasant. this is no real estate event. it is a green one. >> homeowners share with strangers why they are investing in solar energy. >>

showers across new jersey and the carolinas and southern virginia.ix of clouds and breaks out there. a couple of stars but mostly cloudy. 72 in town. in many places in the mid-60s. culpeper the cool spot at 63 and cambridge 73. like yesterday no real fog to tell you about. mostly sunny day with sunny breaks and partly sunny at times a slim chance of a shower this afternoon. it will be highs in the low to mid-80s. patranya bhoolsuwan is in for angie this morning with the traffic. >> good morning. let's take a live look outside from dumb fridays to the beltway. as you can see open roads. a smooth drive out there. as we look at the maps, no problems, drivers are at speed. on the outer loop in maryland from 95 to georgia no incidents or accidents. back to you. >> thank you very much. >>> as the green movement grows effort to make products from eco logically sensitive material is growing. a government agency is helping to move to biopreferred items. the u.s. government has been buying biopreferred products in growing numbers but -- >> on the consumer side

. >> his most famous movie, "dirty dancing," was filmed in southern virginia. chef who spent some time with him said he was a down-to- earth guy. >> you talk about what a beautiful area of this was and what a beautiful area for horse farms. i think he was a good course person. he really liked the area. he would come in and ordered a beer in the dining room and come back and chat with everyone in the kitchen. >> "dear dancing" was filmed 22 years ago this month -- "dirty dancing" was filmed 22 years ago this month. >>> 67 degrees outside. drinking beer on a budget. why alcohol have survived e recession. why alcohol have survived e recession. ♪ growing up we didn't have much, but education was always a priority. my mom sent me off to college with just four 20-dollar bills. so i knothat education is the best investment virginia can make for our children and in our future. narrator: endorsed for governor by classroom teachers for his record protecting our schls... creigh deeds' plan to rebuild our economy starts with education. more accountability... and expanded c

and we have had other showers on the eastern shore, down through southern virginia, and in the carolinas, we had a weak front passing through us, and it stalled just to the south. we will have the clouds around as a result. we are at the peak of hurricane season, but we don't have hurricanes or tropical storms or anything that will likely be developing into hurricanes or tropical storms. this is the remanence of what was hurricane fred. it does not look like it will redevelop in a tropical storm. there is another low cluster of pressure in the far east. this is a trough of low pressure off the coast. that does not appear to be any sign of development as well. so thankfully from washington, we should not have any tropical storms developing in the next day or two at least. >>> for us, we have had the showers here, and they are just south of the front. and they stretched down not only to the carolinas, and tennessee and down through arkansas. and it's associated with low pressure spinning away there. and the front allowed cooler air and moisture coming off the north atlantic. this front wil

most of it is around southern virginia. coming in behind this will area of rain and clouds, is a sum much cooler air that sets the stage for autumn which is what we will experience for the rest of the week. the rainfall was not a lot. wind gusts were up. let's take a look at the current conditions outside. temperature was, you can see how the rain cool things down. -- cooled things down. 79 at cambridge and 81 at ocean city. temperatures bounced back a little bit behind the front. it was 72 in westchester. satellite pictures show where this front isstemperatures or mn we have seen. 47-52 is the overnight range. we see a narrow band of rain. but then again, in the afternoon, there will be some clouds and maybe some sprinkles in pennsylvania. west winds gusting to 55. wind advisories in the mountains to the west. when gusts could be up to 40 miles an hour. the insta-weather for 7 day forecast shows a 68 on wednesday and 65 on thursday and close to 70 on friday and into the '70s next weekend. the might be a frost in the mounta

if you are doing traveling down to the south, southern virginia headed down to blacksburg for the game down there today, cloudy skies. maybe a shower in far southwestern virginia. no chances for rain around our area for today. as high pressure continues settle on in, we will keep that northeasterly wind around the area for today. good kite flying weather. if have you a kite you haven't had a chance to get out recently. high pressure moving closely to us overnight tonight and skies will remain clear. high pressure moving in and that means the winds will die off tonight and could see a little bit of patchy fog first thing tomorrow morning. then tomorrow afternoon, winds coming back around to the southeast. little warmer tomorrow. but still a beautiful day. for today, plenty of shine and beauty of a saturday. highs today mid to upper 7 ons. all important college football forecast. middle tennessee state. coming to college park to take on the terrapins today. 75 degrees. full sunshine in college park. go terps. huskers, university of nebraska. going to blacksburg today to take on virginia

looks like the carolina and southern virginia have a better chance of showers.ere's our seven-day forecast. we are showing you a chance of a shower or thunderstorm really today, tomorrow and thursday. friday looks okay. saturday should be okay. although saturday night may see shower or storm and then sunday some clearing and highs in the 70s. 67 degrees. good morning, angie goff. >> hello, howie b. happy tuesday to you. we begin with a tieup we have been watching since this morning, 193 in maryland between glendale and u.s. 50. watch for crews. taking it to the outer loop at route 1 where we have a report of crash activity. but overall you are doing fine from 95 to georgia avenue. to the inner loop we go. this time we take it down to virginia and we show you we are doing okay from 95 to 66. it is like this to the american legion bridge. volume is light. that's the same situation eastbound on 66. here's the trip outside. we are checking it out through centreville to the beltway, no problems to report. and no delays on 395 either. here's the northbound trip past d

down across extreme southern virginia. this is all going to be one big massive rain by tomorrow night. we'll keep tracking. to our north today, generally from baltimore north, philly and new york, clear as a bell over new england. beautiful. gorgeous sunshine up there. cool nights. they'll start seeing some increasing clouds. probably some rain here by either late saturday night or sunday. looks like the rain will reach our region by later afternoon on saturday. so you can kind of plan on that for saturday night. looks pretty wet. eventually, this all slowly passes off by sunday morning. it's off to the east. things start drying out, sunshine and milder temps coming in for sunday afternoon. monday, another front moves through. really bona fide fall cold front with a shower or thundershower. then kind of chilly again after monday. east winds on the bay, 10 to 15. gusts to 20. and a small craft advisory through saturday afternoon. bay temp around 73. sunrise, 6:58. sets at 6:57. yes, the days and nights. nights are getting l

anticipated and little sunsne if you are driving as far south as roanoke, lynchburg or danville in southern virginiafor today mostly cloudynd chance of a passing shower. that rain chance comes to an end after sundown this evening. and then during the course of the overnight hours skies will try to clear out a little bit and tomorrow, believe it or not, sunshine will return. for today, though, we will call it a mostly cloudy day. 30% chance of few sercaedtt shower better rain ed oedadut tutheo the beaches a cloudy beacho day today. good day to finish up your all important summer ok . the game of the week, uscoming to ohio. hoe in xwrus, ohio. big game. i think usc will win that one. 6 degrees the kickoff hoere. idaho state coming to beautiful norman, oklahoma to take on sooners. very stormy in norman today. rain, i think, will favor the sooners to a victory. that's definitely welcomed news. and mike duncan in d.c. said go sooners, of course, wanted to know how his minnesota golden gophers would get here today. air force academy coming in there to golden gophers. i think the goeflers win that thing.

. >>> a fast-moving storm is left behind some big cleanup projects this morning in southern virginia. authorities are urging people around the town of south boston to stay indoors while emergency crews try to clear away downed trees and power lines. thousands of people are still without power, but no serious injuries are reported. >> a lot of times you get the winds aloft. but when you get the thunderstorms or the strong showers they can take the winds upstair and bring them down to the ground. >> yesterday was weird. one minute it was light and the next minute it was very dark and then light again sun shining and rain and whatever. >> it was exciting. >> wow. >> i didn't know what to do. >> it is fall now and we are getting in to it and the temperatures of then cold side. the rest of the week is jacket weather for sure in the mornings. it may be jacket weather all day tomorrow. and even a rain jacket may not be a bad thing. i have had to produce a shower because an upper air disturbance will be rotating down and that will touch off showers, especially in the mountains. one or two may

is well out to the west across portions of kentucky and tennessee and starting to push into southern virginia. can i not talk today. i apologize. -- i cannot talk today. i apologize. 65 here and in roanoke. 61 in new york city. raleigh, north carolina is at 66 degrees. your forecast for today, a lot of clouds this morning. i do think we'll get sunshine in here in the afternoon and if we do, that will help take our temperature up to 78 in washington. we'll see how things go. hopefully, that is what is going to happen. >> i hope so too. >> a nice start to the weekend. a great question and i learned something for ask the weather guy. i learned something today. i was flabbergasted. >> is it weather-related? >> somewhat. >> either way, we'll look forward to that in a few minutes. let's get to allison oakley with a look at traffic. >> that medevac situation was in waldorf right around the western parkway. that is come met lie gone. virginia, we are talking about a different story. we'll show you here 66 at 28. between here and the fairfax county parkway, now you have an accident. it is pretty heavy

and his brothers felt the way they did about west virginia vament i remember a picture of bobby kennedy sitting on a slag heat, a pile of coal in southern west virginia, just, sort of thinking. home wasn't shaking handse was doing a typical bobby kennedy-type thing deep in thought, wondring what to do in the world. over the last four decades ted's frequent vits strengthened west virginia's bond with him and the kennedy family but he also provided enormous color, interest and fun. him at political rallies in west virginia when a politician was going on and on. iave an album of photographs taken at different phases of the very long, large speakers, long and large speech, and he's this way, wiping his brow and he enjoyed all of it. it was the kennedy courthouse. he loved it. wher he went he found common ground, and listened, and spoke eloquently. he didn't hesitate to plunge into the crowd or jump uin the back of a pickup truck. ined, the american worker knew a strong friend in ted kennedy. that much was clear in the tireless work he did as an advocate for our minders our ou. we had a min seval years ago and johnny isakson speaking not lon

but the heaviest rainfall remains back over sections of southern portions of virginia. the larger picture shows that area of low pressure kicking out moisture into the carolinas and virginia. around the baltimore area, again, just scattered showers around and that is basically the way it's going to be for the next 24 to 36 hours. right now maryland's most powerful doppler radar indicating a little shower activity along 70. on the howard/carroll county line into the fredrick county area. also up in harford and cecil county getting a few scattered showers. northern carroll county getting a few scattered showers but they are going to be very widely scattered overnight and through the day tomorrow. towson now 66. 64 westminster. damascus now at 65. 65 havre de grace. elkton currently reports in with 63 degrees. your forecast for tonight -- a few scattered showers across the region. then during the day tomorrow, again, more scattered showers on and off but the heaviest rain remains wack to the west in the ohio valley. all things considered though, weekend right now looking p

toward fsb fckriurg from de ck city all then way t dowo ts northernerse'ome moderate neck of virginia. southern maryland get ago few sri.nkle now temperatures in the 60s around the region. more on the way. coastal low pressure system will pump in more rain all the way into early afternoon. after that, we ought to dry out a bit this afternoon, into tonight. i'll have the forecast for the rest of the week coming up in a couple of minutes. >> see you then. thank you, tom. >> thank you very much. let's go to jerry edwards now and the news 4 traffic thet work. this is terrible traffic tuesday, isn't it, jerry? >> indeed. good morning. good morning, everyone. yeah, look out. could be a tough morning out there. we'll have to watch i very, very carefully. stt on the beltway north of town. the inner loop of the capital beltway, well, okay, then i'll do the radar. had an earlier accident. that has been cleared out of the roadway. there we go. lanes are open, but look for the slick roadways. you can see a lot of road spray there. at the bay bridge, no worries. south of town, wilson bridge off to a quiet s

we're watching this rain that has been coming through north carolina and on in through southern virginia. this rain tries to ride north we have a unstable environment and all the flooding continues across the deep south. we're watching our chance of showers, some could be heavy this afternoon with our two-degree guarantee back up to 77 degrees. >>> let's check the roads with kim. >> we do have there -- delays on 95 southbound approaching the whitemarsh boulevard area. a pretty decent backup, slow as you make your way towards the beltway and harbor tunnel thruway. and delays on southbound 795 from owings mills between westminster pike and 695. traveling to the capitol beltway and heading to dc, a heads up, 495, outer loop near silver spring, a bad crash has the three left lanes blocked. that is causing significant delays as you make your way to dc. our area, we have a crash off to the shoulder southbound of the harrisburg expressway at belfast road that is causing slowing starting from the mount carmel road area and northbound on the jfx after cold spring lane, that crash on the shoulder.

heavier rain shower and even thunderstorm activity in southern portions of virginia. what is causing it all? we talked about it yesterday. a stationery frontal system or a frontal system that will become stationery stretching right through this region there. and across that stationery frontal system little areas of low pressure will continue to move into the region. that will be causing the scattered showers that we see across the area now. mostly right here in northern delaware and also just south of the dover area. some scattered showers but as we go through the evening and into tomorrow even more scattered showers. don't forget you can always go to our web site, to abc2news.com. to check out our interactive doppler radar. right now we got a little bit of a light sprinkle around the stern sterna park area -- severna park area about you if want to see the larger picture, you can scroll around. there's the heavier shower activity, just south of the richmond area towards the greenville area. down just east of rocky mount. also heavy shower and thunderstorm activity ove

sunshine from the carolinas and southern virginia, passing to the south of washington. meanwhile, this is the height of hurricane season. thankfully we don't have any hurricanes. these are just a couple of areas of low pressure. this is what was hurricane fred. that's all broken down now. this is a tropical wave, a trough of low pressure with scattered clusters of thundershowers to the north and east of the bahamas towards bermuda. nothing looking like it's going to develop. there's washington, there's florida. here is the tropical atlantic. this is the zone where we normally see hurricanes forming this time of year, especially in mid september. this year, due to el nino and perhaps some upper level winds that are stronger than usual for this time of year, we thankfully don't have any tropical systems forming and none in the foreseeable future. if you're traveling today, we may have rain around the midatlantic states, up towards new york city. maybe flight delays in the west coast of florida, gulf coast and up through the tennessee valley as well as oklahoma, down to te

they're down in the southern sections of virginia and the carolinas. the high pressure will squash them down to the south and that is where they will stay. low humidity all the way through the afternoon. we are normally around 84. this afternoon, mid 70's. tomorrow, more of the same and just gorgeous. maybe a few showers on friday. partly sunny and low to mid a's next monday. that is a quick look at the weather. >> thank you. >>> looking forward to that. >>> big tobacco is taking on the government. >> jeremy hubbard has the "money scope" report. >> we begin with another major bank looking to return taxpayer money. bankamerica is out to get under the microscope. they want to pay back $20 billion. it would ease some of the restrictions placed on the company. they will auction off parts of the homes of bernie madoff. this is a $7 million beach house. it has four bedrooms and three bathrooms. the money will go to repay the victims of his massive fraud. some say the law violates their right to free speech. they say they are restricted to market their cigare

talk about up there anymore west of middletown about to move in to west virginia and near the pennsylvania border. but in southernyland over to the northern neck of virginia we have scattered light showers from lusby, just to the north of leonardtown coming to colonial beach and dahlgren here. all moving west northwest a and a few spotty showers in charles county that will cross the river in to stafford, prince william, faulkier counties and even fairfax may see sprinkles in the next few hours. we will be wet late today in to tonight and friday. it will be breezy and temperatures struggle to get close to 70 and saturday is looking better with sunshine some clouds, isolated shower and high of 78. at the bus stop this morning, some spotty showers. most areas are dry. breezy and cool with temperatures in the 60s and northeast wind five to 15. the winds pick up and steady rain arrives late. rainy and windy on the with more rain north. less south. we have readings now low to mid- 60s in most spots. quantico 67. 64 cambridge. 63 winchester and frederick and manassas at 64. even charlie at cat lick said it is dry and 64

caller: i am a retired coal miner from southern west virginia and realize that coal is part of our futureown here, but people do not understand what is happening in southern west virginia. it has had a circle drawn around it to be destroyed so the rest of the world or the u.s. can enjoy cheap energy. 62% of our streams are now contaminated. that is with heavy metals. we produce water to send to the entire eastern half of the u.s. over 1 million acres of one of the most diverse ecosystems has been destroyed hear from mountaintop-removal money. our people are suffering severe health effects from this. "the new york times" in monday's paper ran a full-page article on this. the coal companies are violating the u.s. clean water act. one company violated its 4600 times in a quarter-year period. they did not even receive a single citation. they did not even have an employee who looked at thousands, thousands of clean water act violations that coal companies reported. it is not fair the west virginia is paying such a desperate price for the rest of the u.s. to enjoy clean energy. if they can do t

i conducted over 100 hours of town hall meetings in my district in central and southern virginia.e disagreed passionately on ideological grounds, and there were the rare cases where very racist remarks were made. sometimes they were called out by neighbors in the audience, sometimes they weren't. clearly, race remains a factor in america, but there's a lot of disagreement here that is genuine and not based on race. i think we have to have both conversations. but i think what you also saw was a shift between sort of a debate from the '60s about compassionate liberalism versus anti-government conservatism, being replaced by the post-boomer debate, which is the problem solvers versus the political partisans. i think that's the new line in washington is not really republicans and democrats, but the division between people who came here, to get this thing done, to solve these problems that are handicapping the american people and instead go forward with solving the problem. >> congressman periello, thank you so much for being on the show. we'll see you soon. up next, editor of "the new

but showers work the way into parts of north carolina, southern portions of virginia. we a frontal boundary back over indiana, and ohio. this is going to continue to converge over the area, by tomorrow afternoon, so chance once again for shower activity. through the afternoon. into the evening. and then that willinger also into thursday. looking at mostly cloudy. skies right now. few drops out there across the state it looks like we will see, on the future scan, that potential, once again, scattered in nature. tomorrow, expect to see the showers popping up here and there. model data seeing it randomly across the area. potential for showers. how much rain are we talking about? well, depending on where you are, depends on where you get the rain. in fact, the future scan, as far as predicted rainfall. shows a 10th of an inch to light precipitation or heavier south. but it looks like right now, not a lot of activity. but still this will be widely scattered in nature as we go through the day. so you folks on the eastern shore. it looks like temperatures around 82 degrees. m

soaking rain across southern ohio, west virginia on the way towards pennsylvania.rting to see a lot of that rain moving in towards baltimore and dc. eventually new york city. we are going to get some rain tonight and by the time we head to the dwroefr night hours we will move toward boston. slow travel especially from the i 95 corridor. little to the west we are tracking that upper-level low. this is the same system that brought some snow earlier this week toward the colorado rockies. st. louis as a result ahead of that prompted a severe thunderstorm watch. 9:00 central daylight time. they will clou damaging wind gusts. across the west it is so hot out there. high pressure overhead. we are looking at 90s in los angeles and of course thr throu the central valleys. 102 and more triple digits. it will be the 6th day in a row we will see that above average. annalise, take it back to you. >>> thank you so much. the white house saying it will miss the own self-imposed deadline to close the military prison. >> they are closing that camp within a year. administration offic

there's more rain expected maybe in southern portions of virginia. and then for the bulk of the region, we do expect to see rain here by saturday afternoon. take a look at temps around the area now. with partly cloudy skies. -- 72 in oakland. dew point in the mid-60s yesterday. had the same kind of temperatures. dew points were around 70. it's beginning to dry out. slowly but surely, it will get a little nicer. winds out of the west and northwest. looks like tomorrow will be a pretty nice day. out to the west, however, this has been moving. that means by the time it gets here. early afternoon. you can see probably a good batch of rain. if it continues in that same movement. it should be over by game time maybe. this is going to dry up. we're getting a flow here ahead of it. but expect some of this rain later tonight. baltimore, washington area should stay dry tomorrow. saturday, that's when we expect to see the rain moving in. we'll have to keep watching for that. some of the models may be an irv of rain. northeast winds. and eventually, busting as h

and southern tip of the state. over to virginia. heavier showers. this is all moving ahead of an area of low pressure to the south. and that low will continue to move up to the carolinas. lots of heavy rain toward myrtle beach. heavy rainfall there. and continue to see activity pushing in to our area later by tomorrow those winds are coming in from the east. and that's where the clouds will come from. and that shower activity. so expect to use the umbrellas for the next couple of days. looking at a cool day tomorrow. with temperatures in the mid to lower 70s. with rain showers across the area. closer look at how long the rain will stick around, coming up in the seven-day forecast. >> thanks so much vytas. >> you can be in charge of your own personalized weather forecast. i-radar is available at foxbaltimore.com. use the interactive tools to track coming storms down to your own street. go to foxbaltimore.com/i-radar. >> for many folks labor day means the last unofficial day of the summer season. >> yeah. so thousands may the most of it. by taking in

you have to travel up into pennsylvania or well to the south across southwestern an southern portions of virginia to find any clouds. not much going on here. temperatures around the region generally speaking in the 60s. 65degrees at reagan national. also 65 at dulles. bwi marshall coming in at 61 degrees at this hour. your forecast for today, mostly sunny skies. a warm afternoon with the high well above normal. our normal high for this date would be 08 degrees. we are looking for a high of about 85 degrees downtown. more details on the forecast coming up in just a little bit. >> hard to believe it is already the middle of september. >> it is. yeah, as a matter of fact with the nice warm temperatures, but we'll take it. >> that means about one more week of official summer left. >> officially, yeah, like a little more than a week, that's right. >> very good. julie wright standing by with a check of traffic. >> i'm hling onto summer for as long as i can. >> let's do it, julie. >> between summer and the nutty buddy, i don't know which one i hold on tighter to. but now the pace is good headed over tow

virginia. but sunshine breaking out in southern maryland. as well as the blue ridge west, where it's cooler.nd then up towards martinsburg and hagerstown. they have sunshine breaking out. in chantilly, the cool was 61. a little sun trying to break out there. look at their monthly rain. only over 1/3 of an inch. they do need rain. out of the mountains, they are getting sunshine now. temperatures are in the low 70s. and eastern shore, the temperatures are near 70 degrees. the wide view showing other cool temperatures around the great lakes into new england. just to the south, it's near 70. really pleasant autumn weather temperature wise throughout much of the eastern half of the country. as we go forward over the next 48 hours, we have high pressure building over the great lakes now. it will push the clouds out of here. by dawn tomorrow we ought to see quite a bit of sunshine on saturday as the high pressure sinks over the top of us. we will have increasing sunshine in to saturday afternoon. and far to the west, as we get into sunday morning, here comes another front with rain. it looks like t

going to feel like the middle of the summer in the mid-atlantic, especially from virginia up towards about philadelphia, southernew jersey. it could be the mid-80s in some areas. so that's where the warm air is. ohio valley into areas of the mid-atlantic, back to our cold front, that's going to cool off new england during the day today. and down in the southeast, scattered showers and storms. kind of just like what we had yesterday. a little bit of light rain toward the tampa area and sarasota. kind of dissipating moving onshore. the wet weather possible, the west coast of florida, the deep south, but just a day to enjoy with the heat in the mid-atlantic. that's a look at your national forecast. now here's a look at the weather outside your window. look how warm it's going to be in areas like baltimore today, 86 degrees, in richmond, we could hit 87, this may be one of the warmest days we see until next spring. you always start to wonder this time of year when the fall weather is here to stay. well, that's a look at your tuesday forecast, dan, and mid-80s. enjoy it while it lasts. >> all right. we'll take it now

virginia piedmont. upper 60s in lower, southern maryland. the rainshowers are moving in your direction as well. lower southern maryland, you are getting a little bit of a rest. the rainshowers are coming your way. here is the i-95 corridor. the city of washington there. steady to light, moderate showers there. stretching toward the blue ridge and mountains of west virginia. the rain extends back to southwestern virginia. this mass of rainshowers has to come here before we see anything in the way of a drying trend. it's going to be sometime after the sun comes up. the rain is going to be persistent for all of the overnight hours. one to two inches of rain are a possibility. the moisture is extending down to alabama and georgia. saturday night soaker around here. two areas of a low soaker. this next area of low pressure may generate one or two lonely showers during the afternoon hours tomorrow. can't give the all clear, but tomorrow afternoon will be better than today. then a break sunday night into monday. a chance for a shower. tonight's rns into early tomorrow morning on average an inch and a

some of that, i think even tomorrow morning, may be slipping into southern maryland and into western parts of virginia. right now the only couple of showers, there is one around culpeper and then down around charlottesville and that's it. we've been on a dry kick. the other area that we've been keeping an eye on is down to the south. you can see for the folks down into parts of north carolina and georgia, they are not getting any more of those rains. there are still flood warnings out. finally the flooded rivers and streams are beginning to recede. look at the area of rain from louisville around cincinnati. heavy rains. for us, some of that rain will be coming in. once again in turkey of all places, remember a couple of weeks ago the terrible floods around istanbul? this is in parts of northeast turkey where they had torrential rains. one fatality and that is reminiscent of some of the scenes we've seen in atlanta. one building collapsed in the rising rivers. folks in parts of europe and spain and turkey have been suffering with terrible floods. for us, here is what's going on. overnight tonight tt we

. >> the president hasn't visited any southern states yet, outside virginia which is just across the r. and politically, has seceded from the south. he hasn't spent a lot of time in southern states that he didn't win. would you like to see him show up there? would that cut down on the hostility? >> it is so. and it is south carolina would be a good place to do that. >> your district, i'm sure. is that what you're saying? >> his wife, her roots, her grandfather was from south carolina. and i think that there are many instances, requests have been made for eats one of them or both to come to the state. and i think the president could do a whole lot of good in this regard if we were to take a hard look at when he and she, or he or she would come to south carolina. >> spending time in the south will you're the vote counter. you're the guy in charge of saying we have the votes, we don't have the votes. health careful are we going to see somebody introduce the health care bill? hey, we have to put the president's plan on the floor. is that going to happen? >> yes, that's going to happen. >>

we do expect to see the bulk of our rain in maryland, virginia, delaware, southern pa coming in on saturdayfternoon into sunday morning. the quicker it get here, the quicker it's going to get out of here. behind it you'll get cooler and drier, temp rarely we are getting a wind out of the west- northwest, most of the moisture heading to our south, south of washington, down to virginia, maybe a little rain late tonight tomorrow morning for most of the regions baltimore north, partly cloudy and cooler and drier, only around 75 degrees tomorrow compared to the low 80s today all because of a warm front setting up to our south. eventually that front will clear the region but not until it gets out of here sometime sunday afternoon. it may actually be raining start of the ravens game. hopefully by the end of the game or at least maybe by the first quarter you get the rain out of here hopefully. northeast winds in the bay, maybe a gust as high as 20 knots. a small craft advisory on the bay friday morning through saturday morning sunrise. sun sets at 6:59. the days are certainly getting shorter. toda

virginia at southern miss trying to turn their season around. the terps at home against mtsu, middle tennessee state, a team that shocked them on the road last year. last night, howard had trouble in tallahassee. due in part to this guy. this is florida a&m punt returner leroy van back to catch this thing. this is not the way he wanted to start the return. he's 5'9", 185 pounds and he can absolutely fly. one of two kick returns for a touchdown in the game. he's had four in the last two weeks. famu beats howard 48-10. our high school football game of the week at prince george's county. suitland players with a heavy heart after head coach nick lynch died in a car accident last december 31st. they did make him proud today. guys playing well honoring their fallen coach with stickers on the back of their helmets. suitland up 6-0 and on the move. kevin williams getting the handoff and taking it to the house. 15 yards for the touchdown. his second td of the game. the two-point conversion. 14-0, suitland. how abouter who? this is a 20-yard touchdown. su

heavy showers in southern highway ohio. and west virginia. this activity continues to sink southwest of us. it breaks up. more intense earlier today. but dry air here thwarting the progress east. and more down southwest that will continue to ride along the front that pushes in by saturday afternoon. saturday night. into sunday. so that's where our activity will be coming in from. here is what it looks like closer here. you can see high clouds across the area. heavier showers and thunderstorms. lightning bolts down there, southwest of the dc area. north of richmond. back in west virginia. shower activity. and we will continue to see those steering winds coming down from the northwest. so that is another indication of some cooling out there. that will take place over the next 24 hours, to 2006 hours. here is hass happening future scan. rain stays south. sunshine through the afternoon into the evening tomorrow. then we will see the next system push in by late saturday. so you see by 6:00, 8:00, it is just hitting the western portion of the of th

mary's, southern calvert county crossing the tidal potomac heading to the west and moving toward the northern neck of virginia other precipitation except one shower here in southern frederick county, maybe a few sprinkles here in southern loudoun county at this time. and temperatures all around the region, low and mid-60s from the blue ridge all the way to the atlantic beaches as we're under the influence of this very strong coastal low. in fact, through tonight we've got gale warnings in effect for the bay. where you see this pink area as well as tidal potomac. gusts to 45 miles an hour. the waves on the bay can be two to three feet. look at ocean city. they had a wind gust there at 33 miles an hour. they've got a steady wind there at around 20 to 25 right now. well, if you're traveling today, could be some delays around the four corners regions, texas and oklahoma as well as the south land and florida. otherwise shouldn't have any travel problems. this morning's bus stop forecast, cloudy, maybe a passing shower, a small chance. in the 60s. and then by noontime and into the afternoon hours we ve a n increase

virginia. those may be moving up towards southern maryland in the next couple hours and other showers out in west virginia. partly sunny afternoon. a chance of a passing shower and a light breeze out of the southeast, as highs reach the upper 70s. we will show you the forecast for the rest of the week. we will take a look at the weekend as well. we do have changes on the way. that will all be coming up in just a few minutes. so stay tuned. b >>> and now we have the latest in the midday traffic. >> good morning joe and barbara. we will start with a map. over on the left you see the cones flashing there. that means roadwork on the inner loop of the beltway on 495 just after the exit 66. it's blocking a lane. and then on your way from springfield up to tyson's corner, and over to the beltway to river road right now. montgomery county, that is moving nicely. no delays there. over toingfield now that the fog has lifted so has the heavy traffic. looking good in both directions. springfield, you will find roadwork near norton, and blocking lanes each way. back to you. >>> police investigating a deadly w

west virginia, and now the southern edge, south western edge of virginia. all starting to move in this direction, but nothing here just yet. this rain does pack a punch with it. as it gets the direction overnight, we are going to see the potential for some really heavy rain involved. we could see some flash flooding as a result. nothing here just yet and it looks like the overnight hours will be the optimum time. your sunrises at 6:59. the small craft advisory remains -- at 15 knotts. your next high tide is at 12:54. i put this in here to get an idea. we have a dying tropical depression out in the far eastern atlantic. we will keep an eye on that, but it's going in the opposite direction. we want to mention it, because it is named and it is out there. 65 degrees today. rain heavy at times. 75 tomorrow. a little more rain in the morning and then clearing. breezy and warmer by the time the boys in purple are on the field. things start to look good. >> good, just in time. so we can get another win. >> still ahead on eyewitness news saturday morning, close call