the swatch continues in southern virginia. for our area, a nice summer weather is about to stumble in. it 88 at the airport, 91 downtown. the record is 99. to the north and west, a whole lot to learn. the current temperature, 62. this is the air fighting in tonight. low 50's downtown. northwest wind at 6-12 miles an hour. behind this front, the weather will be spectacular as this deliver sunshine and comfortable temperatures. later in the week, one of two in denver. but-- 102 in dallas and denver. with this front goign through, it protects us from debby and beautiful weather in the mid- atlantic. nw wind with an occasional gust over 25 mph. a small craft advisory on the bay, 2-3 feet waves. low 40's in the suburbs. 65 tomorrow. a cool summer day. lots of sunshine and 73 on wednesday. dry conditions and 81 tomorrow, 85 wednesday. nice beach days. cooler there, btu a comfortable 82 wednesday. lows in the 50's -- just about perfect. the weather will continue befo tre it heats up again. mid 90's again by saturday. >> kicking off t

virginia here. the thickest cloud cover in southern maryland, the eastern shore, over the bay, and southern virginia. a lot of sunshine just a short drive northwest of washington, especially in frederick and west virginia and parts of the shenandoah valley. this little marine layer is affecting us. the clouds are variable across the region this midday. that's what you get when you get that easterly flow of the ocean. high pressure to the north. due to the proximity of those two to washington, a perfect scenario for a little bit of convergence. the the storm system in the upper midwest, that is really get around us right now. that's not going to affect us any time soon. beautiful, pleasant weather is like to continue. is it really june in washington? it does not feel like it at all. it's not going to warm up until maybe the middle of next week. 75 in the district. that is the sunshine. 73 at dulles airport. two points are down to the upper 50's. in june, that says a lot. near a the is the high. 78 to 82 for afternoon high temperatures today and into the weekend. the average high is the mid 80's. we a

plus the first round of storms -- guess where they're coming from -- southern virginia and north carolina. they moved to the northeast into the washington area later today. not much happening out there right now. a few showers and thunderstorms propping up around raleigh- durham, and southwest of washington. a cold front off to the west, and that will move in later tonight and along that front we will have another line of what should be some strong thunderstorms with some heavy rainfall. temperature-wise 80 degrees in the district, 72 in winchester, 80 degrees in -- 82 in lexington park. do points are up, humidity in the air. 69-degree dewpoint in the district. numerous showers and storms coming and going between 4:00 and 11:00 p.m. a good chance of seeing strong and severe storms. you seriously want to consider plan b if you have outdoor plans this afternoon. i think the highest risk will be a straight line wind damage, then the potential for flash flooding. coming in third place is the tornado risk, a low to moderate risk of small tornadoes, and some slight chance of large hail later to

you go down to north carolina, southern virginia, you're going to have a much better chance of showersis piece of energy is coming out of southern west virginia enhancing the lift and the rain showers down there. we do have one shower to tell you about. this is kind of hanging out -- there's belle view road. here's oxford. trying to drift in from oxford. cambridge, it's sneaking in your direction. this is barely moving and it's the only thing on radar. 50 in williamsport. lots of 40s. well down in the 40s in pennsylvania. we're sit neerg 60. locally -- sitting near 60. locally we have 46 gaithersburg. lovettsville also in the 40s. we have 55 in culpeper and fredricksburg right now 58 degrees. looking outside on our michael & son weather camera, look at the beautiful pink colors showing up with some of the clouds this morning. we've got a nice picture. 59 at national with calm winds. mostly cloudy skies and the humidity at 75%. want to show you quickly something kind of neat here in machine machine. this storm -- in montana. this storm system, butte is 33. mile city 86 at 2:00 local tim

noticeably more humid and rain chances start to sneak in southern end of the shenandoah valley, southern virginiathe day tomorrow. where is the rain coming from? right down here across the deep south. another heavy rain day across mobile and pensacola, places that smashed rainfall records yesterday. they're getting inundated today. if you have friends and relatives flying, big airport delays at hartsfield-jackson. all this rain is racing towards parts of central georgia where they really do need the rain. a couple thundershowers just to the west of downtown new york city. that may slow down some shuttle flights in and out of new york airport, so a lot of challenging travel around the mid-atlantic here for the next couple hours, at least away from us. for us, high and dry in our area. that's welcome news. a little weather boundary off the delaware coastline. it's never going to make it to us but it will focus on another little chance of showers to our north and east. mugginess moving in and rain chances starting to increase by 5:00, 6:00, 7:00 tomorrow afternoon out to our west. by tuesday morning

. >> reporter: in the other virginia, small town, southern virginia, federal spending and jobs are harder to come by. >> and they don't like government particularly. they don't think government helps them. they don't understand how dependent the state has been on government money. >> reporter: for mitt romney, that discontent with washington spending is an opportunity. so too, is the fear of losing federal spending. defense spending is critical to the virginia economy and the threat of automatic spending cuts scheduled for early next year could worry voters this fall. >> it might point to the failure of leadership on the part of the executive branch. it shouldn't have let this happen. and so you throw out the guy who let it happen, thinking the new guy may be better. >> reporter: the president will have a tough time keeping his job in november, if he can't keep at least one of virginia's economies happy. darren gersh, arlington, virginia. >> tom: our coverage of election 2012 continues tomorrow, with mitt romney's scorecard on jobs and the economy. >> tom: if you use linked-in, listen up.

the water in southern virginia came alive today. >> more than 100 boats on the elizabeth river. navy, ships from around the world taking part. the sail past virginia beach. they are going to go to baltimore on tuesday. it is a yearly event meant to draw international good will. >> what a beautiful sight. good weather for all of that. >> beautiful weather on the bay. all across the region. let's start with a look at the atlantic ocean by way of the boardwalk. people are running to get french fries and pizza all afternoon. there is no cloudiness. absolutely gorgeous weather. it will be that way all weekend long. temperatures and below 80's at the mid-atlantic beaches. water temperatures 69 degrees near atlantic city. around our region we are in the mid 80's. 85 degrees at reagan national. the air is dry and the sky is clear. beautiful weather. it will continue through the weekend. the numbers will be a bit higher. around 90 degrees on sunday. a touch more humidity in the air on sunday. a pretty typical june weekend ahead. the next cold front approaches tuesday and wednesday. what

i heard a number this morning that in the mid-atlantic region, when you go into southern virginia, over 800,000 people without power. it is approaching a million. of that stuff -- all of that stuff into virginia. >> your phone is ringing. >> that this tax support. >> it seems unfair we did get their rain and it did not corliss off. >> if you live downtown, you have it -- you may have smelled a strange order. -- odor. it is a oxygen levels. hydrogen sulphide is creating the motor. it is turning the water green. >> id does stink a little bit. if not one thing, it is another. >> will break down some of the new laws coming up. >> a last-minute scramble on capitol hill. >> here is a look at last nights winning lottery numbers. >> several new laws take effect this weekend. anybody who makes more than 100 grand will see more taxes and flushing the toilet is about to get more expensive, too. >> the abundance of a choir that life is one measure of the healthy chesapeake bay. several laws are aimed at reducing pollution pouring in from a number of sources. >> this legislation is going to make sur

you see a few showers this morning that are coming up into the area from southern virginia. lots of showers and storms from the carolinas and georgia all the way up through michigan and that area is moving east slowly and when we heat up our atmosphere with the daytime heating we're going to increase the threat for severe weather later on. along i-66 and south but in southern maryland a few heavy downpours here. east of la plata. not too far from benedict and huesville into baden and southeastern prince george's county, northern st. mary's going to calvert as well. you've got some rain headed your way and the morning temperatures in the 60s and low 70s. now monika now at 6:00 a.m. with the timesaver traffic. >>> as howard's been saying with the severe weather coming in i think it might be a good idea to head out to work early and head home early as well. and avoid what that could do to the roadways this afternoon. in the meantime right now, the beltway looks great and coming in from the west no issues to report on the airport on the toll road or manassas. you have the delay

sort of scattered in nature, an isolated storm might pop up mostly through parts of central and southern virginiaower southern maryland in the course of tonight. as we head into tomorrow that chance increases because we've got a frontal system that will move through. early in the morning and by late afternoon it will have cleared us, but ahead of it and along that front is a chance of some storms. we also have a chance of some gusty winds up to 25 miles per hour tomorrow. so keep that in mind if you're heading out anywhere, anything you might have sitting around outside. a chance of a storm and gusty winds, that combination as we start your monday. be prepared. here's a look at futurecast. we can see by monday as we look about midday we get a little action to the south. some of you may see this and some of you may see absolutely nothing. don't be surprised. here's our tropical outlook with debby. just really stationary now, but we have tropical force winds extending 200 miles from the center, a lot of storm surge and of localized flooding. and we'll keep a close eye on this as it does look like i

particularly in southern virginia and central north carolina that is moving basically up to the norththeast. and i do expect to see some showers late tonight. but tomorrow, looks like a pretty wet day. most of the day. right now, we're at 85 degrees. got up to upper 80s and low 90s earlier. 90s still in easton. ocean city, only 76. winds off the ocean there. 80 in elkton. showers close by that region. 72 in oakland. and 78 up in cumberland. and 83 over in hagerstown. locally, temperatures in the mid-80s for the most part, as you can see. and running 5, 6, 7 degrees above average. normal high now is 81. you can see temperatures have been quite a bit above normal. now, tonight, shower activity. and a lot of moisture from the south. a lot of this was along the gulf coast. not nearly as strong as it was. but there's also a front to the west. behind that front, cooler and dryer air coming in for wednesday. but in the meantime, here comes that moisture, up along that front. showers and thunderstorms. could be heavy downpours tomorrow. somebody could see more than 2 inches of rain with the s

virginia beach, nor full getting hammered. still a storm in the vicinity, but these are still on the extreme southern tip of virginia. it only 200th of an inch down at the inner harbor. from here for the next few days, temperatures should settle back to near normal. there is a hint of that and only 60 degrees, 64 in oakland and garrett county. 72 in pittsburgh. this is where it is coming from, so expect to temperatures overnight. the lower the dew point, the drier the air. a dw point is rare into the 40's, but that's an indication of how cool and dry the air will be. down to near 50's as a matter of fact. some of these areas in allegany in garrett county will see temperatures into the low 40's overnight tonight in far western maryland as this pushes this out and settles in for a nice summer weather. the front moving through here blocks tropical storm debby for moving our way, but it's been a drenching couple of days. 48-hour rain fall total, this is really start getting a foot or more in the past two days and the heavy rain will continue because this is very slow moving. it looks like it will drift across northern fl

if we mined all the coal in southern west virginia, it could be 3%. aisle telling you, we can make it on 97% of the mountains. second fact. i chair one of the most instrumental groups in america, atv, hatfield mccoy trail system. we occupy it in the same mountains. we've had visitors from all 50 states. we want to be a tourist area and mine coal too. the way we do it, we can do both. don't take data and put it back on us where we can't compete. bring a committee down. let me take you to some post mine land that's been re-done. i had the "60 minutes" crew in an airplane and they said where is the reclaimed area. i said you've been over it for 12 minutes, but they wouldn't believe what i told them. the deer and the land is better on post mine land than before. with that, thank you for the opportunity. let's be sensible and put america back to work. thank you very much. >> thank you for your testimony. >> thank you. let's be clear what the mine discussion is not about. it's not about mountaintop mining. it's not about whether coal or should not be part o

we've got lighter rain showers, northern virginia, western maryland. a couple other once southernest virginia. from northwest pennsylvania through ohio back to eastern kentucky, that's the cold front that will be arriving later. but you see the light showers which are coming up i-81 here, weakening as they get toward winchester, cross junction. you may see a few sprinkles that way. in western maryland, we've been watching the activity coming through from paw paw to berkley springs toward green castle and toward the west side of harrisburg this morning. other than that just awfully sticky out. temperatures in the mid-70s in fairfax county. leesburg is 79 at this hour with 75 for gaithersburg. 78 in columbia and crofton. university of maryland college park 80 along with alexandria. 76 at fort belvoir. as we look outside on our michael & son weather camera from tysons corner looking east, hazy skies out there. temperature 83 with a heat index already 87. that humidity 65%. the air still very muggy but drier air is on the way. behind this front, the air dries out. temperatures have dr

virginia, arlington, fairfax, loudoun county. and across the potomac into montgomery and southern frederick. scattered sprinkles farther south. t there's a large risk zone that covers all of west virginia, delaware, pennsylvania. >>> this is the zone with strong storms, damaging winds, perhaps hail, maybe, yes, enough heavy rain that we could have isolated flooding. the prime time is 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. as we look at temperatures, 60s from the mountains to the atlantic beaches except around the bay. in the low 70s as well as in washington. going forward the next day or so. areas in yellow and orange are the zones of potential heavy downpours. that may occur by late afternoon, especially around the district, into maryland. then it's later this evening, this is the zone here when we'll likely get some of these strong storms. this is going to be around 9:00 or so into the metro area this evening. then heading east after that. things should settle after midnight. improving weather for saturday, saturday night, sunday. partly cloudy, settled weather pattern as we get into the weekend. so for the rest of the day today, afternoon

virginia. that's how you keep cool. as we look at temperatures around, you might want to hang out on that fence. right now 88 in washington and upper 80s near 90 and southernmaryland and into virginia and shenandoah valley beginning to dry out. little bit of lower humidity beginning to move in there, near 80 degrees there, but we're still in the steam heat around the bay and now near 90 degrees. how does it feel? mid-90s to upper 90s on the eastern shore and that combination of humidity and temperatures and just 91 in washington a lot better than it was yesterday. we were at 105 for our heat index a lot of yesterday afternoon. this morning, a few sprinkles coming through early this morning, but, now we're beginning to see breaks in the clouds and a lot of sun and eastern shore and that's where it is hotter now and some more clouds over the shenandoah valley and that's why it's a bit cooler, too. showing a developing line of some showers and storms here along the ohio valley. that is what may be moving in later today. one shower in montgomery county and just to the north of silver spring and that's drifting over towards ashland and maryland and crossing ove

. >> reporter: in southern virginia, friday's storms came sweeping in, moving a yacht from the dock into a nearby parking lot. in maryland, one tornado left nearly 20,000 people in the dark and businesses cleaning up. one twister was briefly spotted by the control tower at baltimore's airport. the storms caused flight delays at several airports throughout the day. high winds above 50 and 60 miles per hour caused more damage. >> i saw the wind pick up, trees in front of the house were bending over. it was panic. it was just panic. you know, my wife's screaming, trying to find the cats. water seeping down into the family room. >> reporter: but it was the rain most people had to deal with. flash floods covering up country roads, forcing highway drivers to plow their way home and making others abandon their cars all together. >> i went from 3 feet to 5 1/2 feet just like that. luckily for me, my car windows was down, so i jumped out of the car. >> reporter: three teenagers in suburban washington, who were not able to escape from a fast-moving river after playing along its banks h to be rescu

speckles of green are light showers now in southern maryland, across the tidal potomac, into the northern neck of virginia. and in southern parts of -- looks like calvert county, they're getting a moderate shower there. farther north, a lot of clouds across virginia and maryland. they're producing scattered sprinkles. drizzle here and there. that may dampen some of the roadways. watch out. roads may get slick over the next hour or so. temperatures are certainly cool. in fact, we're down into the mid 50s across montgomery county, into parts of prince george's and most of maryland and northern virginia, in the mid to upper 50s. and right near the bay and northern neck, right near 60 degrees. here's the day planner. you may need an umbrella through mid morning. a small chance of a passing shower or sprinkle. cool, in the 60s. a northeast wind through the rest of the day. a little sun breaking out this afternoon. highs only reaching, though, the low 70s. that's about ten degrees cooler than average. i'll be back in ten minutes. danella's here with a look at traffic. good morning. >>> good morning. roadwork is

thosere all zones that are getting some heavy downpours, and this includes the southern city of fredericksburg in central virginia. spotsylvania, culpepper, west central king george. southeastern stafford. southern madison county extreme east secentral. rapidly moving to the east and we don't have any around the metro area but later could get some in the yellow zone. the severe risk zone includes all of virginia, maryland, west virginia, the maryland shore into the evening hours. late evening, a possibility of strong storms. the heat, into the mid-90s across most of virginia and maryland right now even after 6:00 in the evening, still mid-90s and it's going to stay hot all wait until late evening. by then, by midnight or so, down to the low 80s and any storms around will rapidly decrease in intensity and dissipate after midnight tonight. then tomorrow, we have a partly cloudy day. still hot and still rather humid. up near 100. 1yu69 a slight chance of an afternoon storm and maybe a greater chance of afternoon storms on monday. tuesday looking like a nice day only a slight chance of storms and not quite as humid.

. >> around here we have a slight chance of a few severe thunderstorms, southern maryland towards tidewater, virginia, the northern neck. we are talking the next couple hours. the cold front is quick to push through. we are feeling the changes already in washington. >> it already moved through here? >> smooth sailing behind it. here's a great time lapse from upper montgomery county. we had a beautiful sunrise. you can see the clouds increasing. and then there's a quick rain shower. then it dries up. we now have sunshine again and dropping humidity levels. a little breezy behind a cold front. feeling changes already in the metro as the cold front has moved through the 95 corridor. not much rain to speak of. the one downpour that crossed over 5 and developed near mount vernon in virginia that crossed over the potomac and is now light to moderate showers crossing the patuxent river, moving into northern calvert county. no. fauquier county, prince william county, seeing a few sprinkles along and south of 66 of moving east, but showing signs of falling apart. 85 in washington. 88 a few hours ago. then the

virginia and allegany and approaching western washington county, around berkeley springs and martinsville. moving to the north. it may take awhile to get to the mountains, you can see two basic areas of precipitation, southern va to northern virginia, then is this big break and the funnel system out to the west becoming, let's say, between 8 and 11:00 tonight. it will move across the state as we continue to track the storms, right now the strongest activity, once again around the owe denton fort meade and millersville area, northwest aacounty and extreme southeast howard county and northern pg county and that warning in effect until 7:30 tonight. >>> thank you very much, bob, there are reports that there was a possible tornado touch down in hartford, damage that indicates that may have happened. pat ward is in the newsroom and has the latest information. >> that's right, the tornado went through the fallson area. we have emergency coverage on bell year, four people are being covered for injuries. buildings are damaged. drivers are being warned to avoid bellair and no traffic is allowed. west grove avenue and utah are also impassable. we will continue to monitor the updates throughout the night. now, back to

scattered showers and thunderstorms from western new york to virginia, the southern appalachians, louisianatheast texas. >>> in sports, the thunder couldn't get any lightning in miami. game three of the nba finals. second quarter, dwyane wade's reverse layup gave the heat a lead but not for long. third quarter, derek fisher. he hit a three. oklahoma city led 64-54. in the fourth, lebron james drove for a layup and a foul en route to a game-high 29 points. the heat went on to win it, 91-85, and take a two games to one lead in that series. game four tomorrow in miami. >>> to golf now and a guy who is starting at the top taking the u.s. open for his first major tournament win on the notorious olympic course club. webb simpson used his short game to great effect, landing approach shots on green after green, including a chip from the rough on 18. that led to a short putt for par. at 2 under 68 for the day, 1 over 281 for the tournament. then he watched from the clubhouse as well as all the big names fell by the wayside. >> the type of golf course this is, you can't expect to shoot 3, 4 under. an

thing starting to pan out and green energy is something we will continue to push not only in southern virginiauntry. >>> and so those facts and figures in martinville. unemployment is 15.7 . national is.2 and people are struggling in that region and interesting to hear the reaction to the president's response and whether or not that is good enough to vote them in. maybe clean energy is the way to go. >> circle that on the map big-time. not only electorally. he has to oner if tim cane is going to beat joe jalon. they are one point away. >> why di you go to wisconsin? >> you have to understand how busy i am, >> really. you were fund raising in new york and flew to los angeles and then you golfed all day. >> and right. and giving endorsements. and i think it is yourr definition of in or busy. >> he's busy? >> and so is our next guest. getting hot in the sunshine state. florida and the united states locked in a struggle because of the florida trying to make sure no illegal voters are voting. >> anding us from miami is florida governor rick scott. rickwhy do you have a problem with the federal gove

look at the activity across virginia, southern maryland moving northeast. we have a tornado watch in effect until 9:00 tonight and flash and flood watches also in effect. any of these cells could produce flash flooding this evening. please stay with us and on our website we have a lot of information to give you. >>> thank you very much. first warning weather continues with vick. vick is in the newsroom with more on how this is affecting the area in maryland. how do things look as you came into work? >> coming in today traffic had stopped many, many places along the way. there are a lot of places where there is no storm yet but people are getting the word that there are storms on the way. they're slowing down, taking their time. this is a little flooding we have been seeing now on clark's bourg road. of course all throughout the area we'll see more pictures like this as evening moves along. this is west of democracy as cuss. the dark dirty mud is flowing. people will have to stay away from that area, away from that rode that's covered now. water is running u

it was a problem in this area because these were union forts, and most of these people in virginia had southern sympathies. they couldn't see any good reason for saving a northern fort. we're now at ft. foote on the potomac river in maryland. we've come from ft. ward, across the potomac river to ft. foote. and on this map, you'll see it would be anchoring the defenses on the potomac river down here. across the river in alexandria was battery rodgers. and the tour of them covered the and the two of them covered the potomac river in case ships or raiders of some sort would have come up. now this fort was actually built, constructed, between 1863 and 1865. unlike most of the other forts, it was not abandoned at the end of the civil war. they continued to maintain this fort and man it until 1878 because it was on the river. the only other fort on the river, of course, you had battery rodgers across the river, but on towards the chesapeake bay was ft. washington which is basically located about across from mt. vernon, george washington's home. at the beginning of the war, it was manned actually by m

and it hits -- hit the low to mid 70s across southern maryland, much of virginia, and the lower eastern shore. to the north of washington, though, still just in the mid 60s right along the pennsylvania border. and out into west virginia, parts of northern shenandoah valley. it is in the low 70s and upper 60s. right now upper 60s in montgomery county and in the low 07s, arlington, fairfax, prince george's counties. and right near the chesapeake bay. now as we look at what has been happening the last 12 hours, some of the overnight sprinkles and between now and then we had clouds rolling in from the north. we have a big deep area of low pressure sitting over new england. we are on the southern side of that. and we are just going to be get something clouds rolling through from time to time from that system during the rest of the afternoon. slight chance of an isolated shower. perhaps thundershower popping up otherwise. partly sunny, mild and breezy afternoon with temperatures holding steady in the 70s throughout much of the region. winds out of the northwest gusting to 25 miles an hour. lo

, last several days, look at the rain coming up through the carolinas, and up into the southern section of virginia, deeper moisture, pooling down and collecting and kind of on the march in our direction. the thought is, later on this evening, and overnight tonight, some of that will get here, in the form of showers thunderstorms, by tomorrow morning, some of that could be lingering around, and see some fairly heavy rain in spots, then do it all over gain tomorrow and tomorrow afternoon with more showers and thunderer storms. we don't expect flooding rain or anything like that. in some of these showers and storms, next couple days, and the next 24 hours, 87 down in the city, shower and thunderstorms dry, a few more at 9:00 p.m., a little more coverage by 11:00 p.m., look how mild it stays, and a little muggy tomorrow and even though we will be cooler we will be a lot more muggy and have showers and storms, we will go through it all in just a sec. >> pack your umbrella, come prepared. >> definitely. >> thanks very much. >>> remember you can check the weather any time with fox 5 weather ap download i

lots of it off to the south moving into southern maryland and now northern virginia coming out of the shenandoah valley and also up into caroll county. let's go to live doppler 9000 hd so i can show you what's happening. we can see it to the south. we have to advance the computer that will help a little bit. off to the south the storm in calvert and st. mayor yes's. you have the warning -- mary's. you have the warning till 6:15. we're talking about winds potentially in lexington park gusting over 60 miles an hour. this thing is about to clerical vert and move into the bay. i want to go -- clear calvert and move into the bay. i want to go back north and west of town. about 6:04 in colony square. we'll go up to this area. the storms in calvert county could affects the nats-o's game in a little while. this stuff coming out of winchester pushing through charles town and harpers ferry getting into western loudoun county, this is pretty strong. northern warren and fauquier, you're not under any warnings right now, but these storms certainly could be clipping those areas right along 66 into

texas was one of the southern states from virginia to texas that tries to prevent and keep people fromting in the democratic process. the voting rights of 1965 wanted to make it simple and convenient for all of our citizens to become participants. i'm sick. i tell you, al. 50i78 sick and tired of people lecturing to us, those that were never denied the right to register to vote. those who never, ever had to pass a so-called literacy test or the number of jelly beans in a jar. to tell us we don't know what we're talking about. if the state government around our country fails to do what is right and just, it is the responsibility of the federal government, for the attorney general to enforce. there's no such thing as wholesale fraud taking place. voter fraud. >> congressman, your book is very, very inspiring. i want to read you a quote from the final chapter that really kind of summed up your vision for future activists. you said we can be way showers, light bearers and mentors of the light who encourage others to flourish, create, manifest and glow. as each person turns on the illuminat

we've got patchy fog, especially in parts of virginia and around southern maryland where temperatures are in the low 70s. 75 at reagan national. low to mid 70s near the bay waters. away from the waters hovering around 70 for most of the region. out of the mountains, 60s. it will heat up rapidly. by 9:00 we ought to be in the mid 80s. and then by noontime the low 90s and then soaring to the upper 90s by mid afternoon. that is when you need to stay in the ac or get to a pool. definitely have to be outside, take frequent breaks. take time in the shade and drink plenty of water. i'll be back in ten minutes with another update. >>> got to gv you an alert. in beltway making your way by new hampshire avenue, no accidents but someone hit a skunk. very smelly, very hot. let's head over to road work in virginia. i got to look out for you any way i can. traveling, taking the beltway. the ramp to the beltway to the dulles toll road is shut down due to road work there. also seeing road work, this time the ramp to little river turnpike is closed from the inner loop of the beltway in that area. also

southerners interpret it as a declaration of war. here's one quote from south carolina. racializes lincoln saying he's an orangutan, to battle. which is the signal of our freedom. a virginia editor says -- many southerners characterize lincoln's vice president hannibal hamlin as a mulato. so some of them would joke around, we'd like to assassinate lincoln, but if we do that, he's in mulato's presence. but they hated it, they hated it because he calls slavery evil. and remember that southerners, the very idea that one calls slavery evil is a threat to southern honor. it's also -- southerners understand that the laws depend on morality to a certain degree. higher law proliferates because northerners believe in slavery's evil. so when lincoln i think brilliantly summarizes the central debate of the war. one side believes slavery is right and nought to be -- the other side believes it is evil. no one disagrees. they are just outraged that he would call slavery evil. they're also outraged lincoln says secession is treason. it's insurrection, a revolution, it's anarchy. and from the southern perspective he's thumbing his nose at the supreme court, particularly the dred scott de

big storms yesterday across southern and southeastern virginia. they missed us. this morning we've cleared out nicely behind the front and temperatures have responded in kind. low to mid-50s here in north central maryland. 40s in the mountains. we're holding on to some 60s in d.c. over at andrews, southern maryland, the eastern shore. right around the bay. those are the warm spots and a quick look at today's highs upper 70s to low 80s. enjoy. big heat by the end of the week. here's monika with a look at time saver traffic. >>> we've had a couple of incidents to report. one on canal road and another near falls church and seven corners. here's what it looks like on canal road. no issues to report here at arizona avenue or fox hall road but canal road at clark street between arizona and reservoir, you want to watch out for a tree and wires down in the roadway. that's been an issue from overnight. let's go over to our maps. the beltway looks fine. no problems to report. if you're traveling around town right now, all of your overnight construction should be okay. we'l

sooner or later maryland, delaware, particularly virginia and southern pa you're going to see storms moving through. more severe weather possible between 8:00 and midnight across central maryland and southern maryland. the good news is all this will be gone by tomorrow morning. looks like a very nice cooler kind of breezy weekend shaping up the region, denise. >> all right, we just have to get there. thank you bob. our first warning weather coverage continues with christie bersland. she's been very busy with back ups and accidents. >> it's definitely been a traffic mess. let's go back to i95, the delay is still very heavy back to eastern avenue so you may want to go in another direction. as far as the rest of the region goes. if you're traveling on the topside of the interloop we're still looking at a 20 minute delay there over to 95. on the west side of the inner loop still heavy in that direction over to 95 and security boulevard. we also have massive delays in the outer loop from providence road to national pike. as far as the harrisburg expressway goes just bumper to bumper still

closer to washington, northern virginia, southern maryland, charles county, across the potomac, this area of color is light rain. get sprinkles in northern prince george's, southern montgomery, arlington, fairfax, along 95 from prince william to fredericksburg. clusters of moderate showers advancing north. this area in yellow is the severe risk zone. it looks like the prime time for strong storms 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. this friday. some could produce damaging winds, hail, and enough really heavy rain to cause some flooding. and that would be, again, between 5:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. things are settled. 60s around the region to near 70 in the metro area and right by the bay. and as we go forward over the next several hours, maybe a few sprinkles. here we are at 4:00 this afternoon. this is when we could begin to see some of the thunderstorms developing. probably not the severe ones. those don't appear to be moving in until perhaps around 7:00 or 8:00 into virginia. then after that, between 8:00 and midnight, the district and maryland, strong storms with the heavy downpours as well as

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maryland state police say it was just a military aircraft being moved on a flatbed from west virginia to southern maryland. >> it is comforting to know our 911 operators cannot get on to twitter. chunks of ice the size of baseballs came crashing down in dallas, texas last night. witnesses said it came down like rain. people and cars were stuck in rush-hour at the time and in its path. it knocked out light at the dallas mall. entire neighborhoods were covered in hail as far as the eye could see. fortunately and no one was hurt. look at that. if we have to vote, we would go for the ufo's and not the hail. >> look at that. >> the fight is raging in colorado. more than 1200 firefighters are working to contain this fire that is only 10% contained. it has already killed one person. hundreds have been forced out of their homes. some people could be allowed to come back as early as this evening. if they do not get rain soon, they could be fighting this fire for months. >> i kind of wish it was a ufo. if we had it, we could find some alternative use of energy somehow. bank of that. >> [unintelligible] [la

besides boeing, defense contractors are clustered in southern states like virginia, alabama and southina, and in california. republican challengers in those states in the affected districts are scoring points against incumbents who won't fight against sequestration. one toss-up race in pennsylvania is very much about this one issue. democrats in the affected districts are pushing for a deal to break the sequestration plan but most of those democrats still demand revenue hikes to make up for any continued defense spending cuts, but who wins the white house and congress is sure to determine who wins this battle over automatic cuts. so larry, look for a lot of action in the lame duck session after the election. >> all right, steve handelsman, thanks very much for that tough update. >>> up next, a prominent obama supporter, a clinton democrat as we talked about earlier, jumps ship, actually changing parties because the president's anti-business excessive regulation tax policies. who is this gentleman and are many others going to follow his lead? we will talk to him next up. still ahead af

right around 70 around the bay but inland away from waters it's in the 60s in southern maryland and throughout the rest of virginia and into western maryland. parts of central shenandoah valley into highlands of west virginia in upper 50s now. by 9:00, ought to be into the 70s with high clouds and quite a bit of sunshine. sunrise at 5:42. by noontime, we'll have the clouds thickening and we'll have it up into the low 80s quite likely throughout much of the region and then by late afternoon, perhaps around 6:00, 7:00 or so, there's a chance of some thunderstorms moving in maybe around 5:00, 6:00 farther to our south and west but mid 80s mid afternoon to low 80s after that with perhaps thunder and lightning along with showers and thundershowers moving in through the rest of the evening this monday evening and then likely tomorrow. some of the downpours tomorrow afternoon and evening could be heavy and then we'll dry out. it does look like on wednesday. highs today and tomorrow mid 80s. wednesday's highs with lower humidity into the low 80s. and a cooler end to the end of the week. partly sunny on thursday and into t

and view from space showing that cloud cover just south of washington across much of northern virginia, southernand, northern neck eastern shore and north and farther to the west of washington, it is mostly sunny. temperatures right now into the 70s most of the region and then later today into the upper 70s to near 80 with clouds coming and going and just a small chance of an isolated sprinkle from those clouds mid to late afternoon and then overnight tonight, partly cloudy and down to the 50s by dawn on friday. some clouds tomorrow morning, sun in the afternoon, highs reaching near 80 and low humidity and a delightful weekend to follow, saturday and sunday now looking terrific with sunshine both days. cool in the mornings and afternoon highs around 80 with low humidity. then first part of next week getting more humid and wednesday, by then, might have a shower, clouds around, highs mid-80s. i'm back in a few minutes with another update. barbara? >> we'll see you then, tom, thank you. >>> we'll check on the mid-day traffic. danella, anybody going to have problems if they're heading out right now

virginia and maryland. reagan national, 83. while the areas of yellow are in the 70s. that includes eastern shore. much of the rest of southern maryland as well as much of virginia and the panhandle of west virginia, northern shenandoah valley. comfortable 60sthis morning. into the mountains. and closer in as we look at what's been happening over the last several hours. there are all the clouds coming in. speckles of green are slight rain. prince george's county. that's drifting off to the north and east. a few other sprinkles in mountains. a small chance of a shower this morning. here's your day planner. by noontime, greater chance of a shower or thunder. by then, low to mid 90s. early afternoon. then mid to late afternoon is when we'll likely get thunderstorms. some of them could be severe with damaging winds. we'll fall back in the 80s once the storms do get going. those storms will likely continue into this evening. friday evening planner ten minutes. danella is here with our traffic trouble. >> right now following breaking news on i-95 northbound in virginia. this is just past route 1. chopper four is flying live over th