but the main area of rain is in southwestern virginia, kentucky, tennessee. that will be arriving here later this morning. temperatures are chilly. we're in the mid 40s in town and right around the chesapeake bay. hour by hour in the afternoon we'll stay hovering through the morning hours, just into 40s during the afternoon hours as the rain moves on in. so four things to know. rain moves in by about 9:00 this afternoon. up to an inch of rain by the time it ends. then turning colder by the end of the week and into the weekend. vial your commuter forecast coming in about ten minutes. what's going on on the road? >> a couple of things have cleared. after 197, that broken down vehicle causing an issue because of no flashing lights is now out the right lane getting by as well. i won't have to worry about that either. this is still hanging around. they're on the woodrow wilson bridge. the work zone is still blocking the left lane sometimes shutting things down, but you're going have to stay to the right to get by if you're headed out that way and going to the loca

southwestern virginia, another couple of hours but not until this afternoon right into the metro area. so hour by hour today, starting to get wet here in the metro area by 10:00 this morning. then by 2:00, that heavier rain starts to move in from the south and west and heavier rain for the afternoon commute. ponding of water, holding steady in the low 40s. then the rain really tapers off by 10:00. lingering light rain. we'll be in the mid-40s by late evening. dawn by wednesday, 40 degrees. sunshine returns during the afternoon. highs reaching the low 50s. then clouds return on thursday. there's a small chance of some sprinkles on thursday. afternoon highs in the upper 40s. then another weather alert day for friday. windy and cold on friday. temperatures only in the 30s during the day. dropping into the 20s in the evening. the winds may be gusting to 40 miles an hour on friday. down into the 20s. then afternoon highs in the 20s with lighter wind. what's happening now? >> one i want to talk about. vre fredericksburg, a train has hit. means vre recommending alternate transport on the fre

there is, however, across southwestern virginia, a much larger area. it is not even that far southwest. it is moving out of the area of charlottesville, fredericksburg. we will see more of these elements of heavier downpours coming this afternoon. by the time the rain ends late tonight, little bit more in some spots. this is time lapse to 5:30. areas of yellow and orange show heavier downpours, from richmond to fredericksburg, to washington, to baltimore at the height of rush hour. we do see some signs that later this evening, most of the range of talk to the ease by 9:00 to 10:00 tonight. clearer skies developing tomorrow, already showing up in 50 degrees or so. rainfall totals, somewhere between six to an inch of rain -- between six inches -- between the inches to an age of rain. we look out to the next 10 days, a little bit cooler on thursday with a cold front. friday and saturday, very cold with the arctic air moving through. by sunday we hit early next week it looks as though we will have temperatures kind of do a roller coaster monday, tuesday, a

notice all the showers here up through chicago and out in the midwest, had a couple showers in southwestern virginia, but the clouds are coming back. we had a beautiful sunny day here, but places like culpeper never saw the sunshine. they stayed with the clouds and that's coming back towards us tonight. with the area of warmer air kind of coming over the colder air could be a little light freezing rain across parts of mainly pennsylvania. north of the mason dixon line we've got a lot of freezing rain advisories up for the overnight period. three things to know for monday, one, a lot more clouds, not nearly as pretty as christmas day was. it will be a dry day, 40s to around 50. we may shoot into the 60s tuesday, but that will be short lived. see you in a few with that seven-day forecast. >> thank you, howard. >>> british pop his england home. he was 53. ♪ i got to think twice and i know all the games you play because i play them too ♪ . >> the cause of death was not released, but the publicists said the singer had not been ill. he played with the duo wham before moving on to a stunning solo career se

but it's raining all the way into southwestern virginia. here is the break in the rain across we were and northern maryland. not quite done with the rain chances just yet. let me take you hour by hour through future weather. 5:00 this morning, here we are stuck in the rain. by 10:00, most of the rain will be from washington southbound into parts of southern maryland. by early this afternoon, the rain will be gone. might even get a peek or two of the sunshine before the sun sets just before 5:00 this afternoon. then tomorrow another mostly cloudy and kind of a chilly day for sure. so planning out today, plan on temperatures rising into the upper 40s to near 50 degrees with things drying out later on this afternoon. and then get ready for it, there is another shot of legitimate arctic air coming our way, it arrives wednesday afternoon, might wring out a snowflake or raindrop. but the cold will be a slap in the face thursday and friday. high temperatures may stay below freezing both days. >> and with that wind, not a pretty situation. 66 is ok

parts of central virginia, down to culpeper and southwestern virginia, we're in the low 50s for today. here's a check on the ten-day forecast planning out the long near 50 today. low 50s tomorrow. a lot of clouds around. some on and off rain showers. no heavy rain, but showers likely on christmas eve. they should be dry by midnight. christmas eve is going into early christmas morning. christmas day, a little more optimistic for sunshine. and milder weather for the last week of the year. things are going downhill on the roads fast. here's melissa mollet with first 4 traffic breaking news. >>> take a look at this problem on the top of the beltway this morning. chopper 4 first helicopter on the scene here, this is the outer loop before rockville pike. and chopper can sort of zoom out for us here and show us, we have a two-mile backup right now with everything on the right side of the roadway. no difference because this has started to build here quite quickly for folks, even though it's out of the roadway. another problem, inner loop or inbound 395 before the 14th street bridge, police an

national now at 39 degrees near 40 right by chesapeake bay and storm team 4 radar doesn't have a southwestern virginia coming in out of tennessee. that's doing to be arriving here later tonight and into early tomorrow morning. a look at other chances for the rain, next 10 days in just a few minutes. >> thank you very much. in custody in connection with brutal murder of clerk. david watson questioned as a person of interest but not been charged with the crime. early yesterday morning 54-year-old sunoco clerk killed it's not clear how that clerk was killed. >>> an 82-year-old man and his cat were killed in a fire in fairfax county as a frantic neighbor tried to help. fire officials say electrical issue sparked flames and filled the man's home with smoky yesterday. this happened on logan court in alexandria in the section of the county. a neighbor ran to the home but inside -- they couldn't get inside. the man died on the way to the hospital. >>> today cubans will say good-bye to fidel castro. the same cemetery of cuban revolution leader. >>> as david explains it's an invitation only funeral but thousand

will tell you in the eastern part of the country, in west virginia, in pennsylvania, ohio and southwestern virginia, there's an awful lot of work to be done, and we do that work. and we have done that for quite some time. we're saying listen, we're not denying you all are getting your money, but you shouldn't get first dibs on it and then hinder us from taking care of the responsibility we have to the miners where we have -- who have given you the opportunity to live in this country. that's what it really comes down to. so i have been asking all of my colleagues, you know, this is not a fight that is going to be damaging to anybody. this is the only time-sensitive issue we have before us. nothing else we have before us, all the bills before us right now. not one will has -- bill has time sensitivity. we can come back and do it again. we have no problems doing it over and over. we have been here a long time. this is the only one, the miners health care, they lose it, 16,500 lose it december 31. you show me anything else we have in here that someone is going to be that harmed at a time specific, then

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the little clinics we have in the coal communities around west virginia, southwestern pennsylvania, those clinics will not survive. this has a ripple effect. now i'm understanding they're going to give us a four-month extension. four months. let me tell you what these people have gone through and i'll read these letters. they were told in october, the first of october, that you will lose your benefits of health care. 16,000 were sent letters. you're going to lose them by the end of the year, end of this year. now what we're about to do, which i believe is totally, totally inhumane, we're about to now send them another letter if it passes the way it's going to be presented to us in the c.r. that i'm sorry, mrs. smith, i know we told you you're going to lose your health care on december 1, but now we're going to tell you that on january we'll send you another letter and tell you you're going to lose it in april. now you tell me if there's anything fair about that. you tell me how you face people that have given everything and now we're just going to extend it for another four months with no

virginia coast and jet out to sea tonight. we'll continue to see this rain stream up here while it starts to end in the southwestern portion of our area. again, it will end from southwest and eventually end from the north to northeast as we continue evening. but we're dealing with this rain. even a little wintry mix. i know we had some people that saw it today. dulles and places in loudoun county recorded just about a trace of some of that wintry mix. winter weather advisory for areas to the west and into western maryland for wet rain and sleet. most areas are above 1500 feet. it was a cold rain out there. temperatures in mid-30s to low 40s right now. visibility down and that will stay down, as i said, throughout the overnight. it will improve tomorrow as we get some sunshine. thank goodness we'll get some sunshine tomorrow. 52 will be that temperature. we'll be drying out through the day. 6:00 we're continuing to see that rain push out of here. it starts to end to the west, i-95 seeing heavy rain. we will see showers throughout the overnight, north and east of the d.c. wednesday looks good. through. light snow showers or lig