upper 50s in much of the region to 60 in tappahannock. go through lunch time, we're looking at sunshine. mid-60s here. winds will pick up, too. if you're going to be outside or run, you'll notice the wind. in southwestern pennsylvania some showers for the afternoon. we'll still be looking at partly sunny conditions at 3:00. more sun south and east. upper 60s to around 70 with drive home temperatures in the upper 60s. here come the showers after dark. andrea and mike, over you to. >> thank you, howard. >>> if you've never seen our colleague derek mcginty's "let's be real" segment, you're in for a treat. >> he took the opportunity to share his thought abouts what one designer is hoping to make a new trend in men's wear. >> his name is amelio, an italian designer. he would really like it if you would buy a pair or two of these. yeah. some call them manty hose or gylons or heel tards but what they are are tights for dudes. just putting some skulls on them does not make it any better. gentlemen, one of the great things about being a guy is no

richmond and the tappahannock airport at 60. here in town the upper 40s in montgomery county to the low 50s in springfield. 50 in crofton and also in leesburg. pretty uniform temps. you can see the low clouds on our michael & son weather camera. not too much higher than the capitol dome this morning with 52 degrees. dew points in the upper 40s and the northeast wind at 9 miles an hour telling us that front has slipped to our south. look at all the showers back to our west. this is all moving off toward the east. on and off showers, a couple of thunderstorms possible as we go through the afternoon and evening hours but it should start to clear out for us by tomorrow. 75 really late tonight. tonight in the 50s. 60s in the morning for the race tomorrow, low to mid-60s but 74 by sarch. cooler on sunday -- by saturday afternoon. cooler on sunday. back to the 70s by monday. let's check in with beverly farmer at 5:18 with time saver traffic. >>> good start to friday. if you're heading north on 95 up from fredricksburg heading in toward

it's 63 at the tappahannock airport and some upper 50s there across southern maryland. a nice mild start and with sunshine today way above average. average high is 58. look at the forecast highs with the east wind maybe the west side of the bay you guys stay in the 70s today. 81 here in washington. beverly farmer's in this friday morning, we say hello. beverly's here with timesaver traffic. >>> trying to head into chevy chase. here's our issue, connecticut avenue ongoing crash investigation as we've been reporting in chevy chase. the overnight crash clean-up. southbound connecticut avenue diverted at bradley lane. this is sid owe we shot earlier of the crash at chevy chase circle. you can go around the circle and access up to kensington but southbound traffic diverted at bradley boulevard until further notice. also 410 a better option over to wisconsin avenue early on. now if you travel in the district northbound i-295 they've been deal with a crash up at the suitland parkway. northbound lanes are still blocked and diversed there but they're in the process of clearing t

to our south we've got 25 out of the tappahannock airport. 50 this afternoon here in d.c.chester. and 48 on the bay in annapolis. let's go to monika santami at 5:29. >>> if you're planning to head outside right now, besides the chill in the air, there are really no problems to report i'm happy to say. you have a bit of slow traffic forming in the usual spots, including on the outer loop here after college park into silver spring but no big deals to report on 95, route 29, 270. let's take a live look outside. if you're planning to head over on the beltway near route 50 in prince george's county, that entire eastern stretch of the beltway is running free between 95 and the wilson bridge. back over to the maps. this time let's head over to virginia on the gw parkway you're going to be fine. inside the beltway no delays on 66 inside the beltway. a live look at 66 at the fairfax county parkway coming in from manassas and centreville. right now you should be fine. >>> while voters head to the polls in super tuesday states today, president obama will hold his first news conferenc

tappahannock 58. fredricksburg, you're already almost up to 60 degrees at this hour. the satellite and radar picture showing us a little disturbance. a lot of it losing its steam as it's coming over to our area, but with that and the cloudy conditions, we're looking at still chances of sprinkles this afternoon and through this evening, but nothing heavy duty. you can still be outside if you want to get that evening walk in. the future cast picking up a slight chance of scattered sprinkles for the rest of today, maybe this evening. otherwise generally cloudy for tonight. chance of some showers overnight as well while you're sleeping and also early for your saturday. but nothing is expected to be heavy. no widespread rain expected. our zone forecast, we start in western maryland. mostly cloudy, 54 degrees. winchester, martinsburg 60 and 59. warrenton and manassas around 60 degrees. in downtown we're going with low 60s. that's seasonable. around annapolis 64 degrees. here's a look at your next seven days. a little cooler on saturday in the lower 60s. again cloudy and a s

tappahannock 62. that warmth should lift back north as winds turn to the southwest. mid-70s here.still well south of town but only the low 70s on the basement monika is off but leverry is in. -- beverly is in. she has a look at traffic. >>> we're hoping for a light commute but with basketball and all that sort of stuff going on. in springfield you have to go north on 395, can't access it for now. the detour is in place. 395 north to edsall road. northbound through traffic coming up out of newington into springfield and on to 395. you had lanes open. road work on the outer loop as you head south in gallows road towards springfield clearing out soon. the beltway at the american legion bridge running freely. in landover they're still picking up the road work on the right side of the ride. >>> we begin with breaking news in an oo and an amber alert which was issue -- and an amber alert. the child has been found. >> he was picked up from a landover elementary school yesterday. the mother does not have custody of her son which led to the alert. delia goncalves is live with happy news. >

got a quarter mile in tap tappahannock and little at the -- and also at the pax river naval air station. lots of reports of fog. as of yet no advisories from the weather service. your temps are in the 50s and low 60s fredricksburg our warm spot at 63. here's a look outside on our michael & son weather camera. that is the u.s. capitol dome shrouded by some fog right now. we'll see if this thing completely disappears in the next hour or so. 61 with the fog around. east, northeast wind at 7 and dew pointses upper 50s. they're not much of a spread between the temp and the dew point and light winds. speaking of temps, we still have wintry weather in the west. chicago at this hour 66 degrees. unbelievable warmth there for the last week as well with lots of 80s. the other thing going on, look at this moisture just flowing in from the gulf of mexico. upper storm parked in west texas like a firehouse. there's go -- there goes all the rain from the gulf. it's flooding many areas of western louisiana and arkansas. around here just these weaker disturbances which produced indicational showers and s

anywhere from the upper 20s in tappahannock and 33 at the patuxent naval air station. clear skies, good visibility. 32 degrees. dew points have dropped into the teens. so the air nice and dry and currently a north, northwesterly wind at 9. we have a slight windchill feeling like 24 out there. you see the arctic air toward quebec and ontario toward caribou maine. more importantly us for, the rise of the 50s coming up toward dallas, oklahoma city. that push of milder air is going to get this cold that's with us now out of here so that never the next couple of days we're going to see a significant warm-up out our way thanks in part to this storm system coming into the northwest. there's rain and snow with this but this thing with the southwesterly winds ahead of it will take those warmer readings we just saw and kick them in our direction. so that while we're going to struggle to get around 50 today, i think we'll be closer to 65 tomorrow and closer to 70 by thursday. a couple of snow showers in the mountains yesterday afternoon and evening and right now it's up in the fl

we still have 62 in tappahannock. there's the warm stuff. we're looking at 52 here in d.c. look at this shot on the michael & son weather camera. clouds low but above the capital dome with 52 degrees. winds out of the northeast at 10 miles an hour so there's a little bit of a chill this morning. kind of an interesting satellite and radar composite. little clusters of thunderstorms. a backdoor front. all of this is drifting off toward the east. we will at times see some showers, see an occasional thunderstorm, but we should get temperatures back into the 70s today. 75. a shower or storm tonight. we're dipping back into the 50s. tomorrow partly sunny, 74. south of town in the mountains you might see a shower and then a cooler sunday with winds out of the east. i think we're going to stay in the mid-60s. look at rest of the seven-day. in the 70s here. spring begins tuesday at 1:14 in the morning so still above normal. let's go to beverly farmer and check on time saver traffic. >>> flipping ought the construction barrels out of your way on the beltway south of 50 near 202. work

it's 6 will at the tappahannock airport. pax river naval air station. with the fog are 57 and with the dense fog york, pennsylvania down to 50. looking outside on the michael & son weather camera, we've got a little bit of moisture in the air but not bad at all this morning: generally clear skies and northeast wind at 5:00 and dew points in the upper 50s. the air is pretty humid but not seeing the widespread fog. still seeing the storm spinning across areas of eastern kansas now. southwestern missouri and northeastern oklahoma. that band of moisture off the gulf. again southeast louisiana through alabama this morning and this is the storm that i've been talking about for a few days that's going to be here for the weekend. so while today we're doing all right and should see a good deal of sunshine, looks like this shower action over the ohio and tennessee valley that's going to come to us after dark tonight. in fact we go through the day looking pretty good. going out to garrett county late you may see a shower and then tonight here come the showers. iso

oakland down to 30 and 59 still at the tappahannock airport and 51 here in washington. gaithersburg now down into the 40s. so yeah, jackets are back after the lovely # 0s yesterday. -- 70s yesterday. right now looking outside our michael & son weather camera, we've got good visibility. white house there with the washington monument just in the background on the upper right of the picture. light showers on the hour at reagan national. next hour they will be dry. north northwesterly wind at 12 and the dew points are down to 41. the numbers are going to drop and nationally we're seeing a big ridge on the west coast and their weather is going to be quiet today. a lot of rain in parts of east texas. they had a lot yesterday. another piece of energy's coming across, watch back here, see how this area? see how this area just redevelops all the moisture once again? so that rain will be hitting texas and you have all this rain, louisiana, mississippi, alabama, big rainstorm for them. for us we just have the showers overnight which are now pushing through it. holding us still for

we have near 60 down south and tappahannock. also cross junction heard from steve up there, northern frederick county, virginia, 58 degrees. just a hint of fog down towards southern st. mary's county. good visibility with a reading of 56 at reagan national and a light southwesterly wind at 3 miles an hour. fairly quiet today on the future cast. expecting plenty of sunshine around here. tonight we'll also be quiet as we dip back into the upper 40s to mid-50s for lows. then tomorrow in the afternoon, we've got the threat stopping the clock here just before noon, the threat for consume of showers to pop up with -- couple of showers to pop up with the warmth, the daytime heat. looks like a better chance of some showers will be here for friday. so as we look at the forecast, today 79. gorgeous. tonight we'll be back in the 50s and upper 40s. 81 tomorrow. watch out for an afternoon shower or storm. on friday i think more clouds and a better chance for some showers or isolated storms. still warm, though. mid-70s. this weekend we've got

tappahannock is 54. 47 for steve up in cross junction.arlier prince frederick and bowie were reporting 55 degrees. locally arlington 53. cooler but not much. leesburg, lovettsville 52. very uniform temperatures with college park being one of the warm spots at 56. you can see some of the high clouds on our michael & son weather camera, that are out there this morning. not doing much except muddying the sky a little bit. 54 at national with a dew point 47 so the humidity 77%. this frontal boundary right here, this is what's coming through tonight. it will bring us the showers but out of here by early tomorrow morning. as we look at the forecast today temperatures 71 degrees but only 56 tomorrow with the showers tonight as we dip into the 40s. saturday a cooler day, 50 degrees. by sunday, toe, we're back in the low 60s. this is the time change weekend. then by monday temperatures will be into the upper 60s. could be some showers monday night and then 70 or better tuesday and wednesday. andrea, over to you. >> thank you, howard. >>> our time

you can see the slightly milder temperatures with 60 down in richmond and tappahannock.to 57 and to the north and west lower 50s now in the shenandoah valley and hagerstown as well where they're zitting at 53. locally mid 50s 234 most of the areas in montgomery county with 58 for centreville. form bell voir still 62 and outside on the michael & son weather camera. clear skies just a few minutes before sunrise at 67 degrees. reagan national, a few clouds and north wind at ten right now and we are going to watch -- there's the front from yesterday. these showers well out towards st. louis and northern missouri. they're going to be coming here tomorrow night and might get a few of them here tomorrow afternoon. but a better chance tomorrow night into saturday morning. today 64. tonight 30s and 40s but watch those frost and freeze advisories. 65 tomorrow. with the afternoon shower possible. more likely at night into saturday morning. saturday 62. sunday the pick of the weekend though with highs in the low 70s and 80 again on monday. andrea over to you. >>> thank you howard, a

we've got 40 on the bay and across the bay in cambridge. 37 at the tappahannock airport and this afternoon nice. temperatures in the low 60s on the bay to low to mid-60s everywhere else. it's now 5:00 a.m. monika is stepping in with a look at your time saver traffic. >> thank you so much, howard. good morning, everybody. looks are looking great for this morning. no problems to report all around the beltway. most of the construction is cleared up i'm happy to say and it's a good ride. coming in from the dulles toll road from the airport no problems out of 66. you'll be fine. looking good on the beltway through gallows road why the overnight construction has also been cleared up. on the northbound side of i- 395, nice and light here at edsall road. barely feign is out right -- anyone is out right now. across the bridge span i'm be just fine. back over to the maps. this time we'll head over to the other side of town. coming in from southern maryland, route 4, route 5, route 301 in from brandywine, no problems at the andrews air force base. a live look at route 4 at pennsylvania avenue which i

look at tap tappahannock and culpeper, winchester half mile. martinsburg a quarter mile. watch out for that. 5:00 a.m. monika santami good morning. >>> good morning, everybody. i'm happy to say at 5:00 things are looking good close into town. no problems to report in the district, over the potomac and anacostia river crossings. if you're planning to head out of baltimore or near baltimore southbound on i-95, a funeral procession for a maryland military officer has just begun at 5:00. they're coming out of parksville down into towson south on 95. they should reach our beltway by about 6:00 this morning and head west over into virginia. i'll keep you posted on that situation. it will cause some traffic problems later this morning. we'll go over to the south side of town. no problems to report on 95 out of dale city into woodbridge all the way up into spring field. we'll look right there live right now on the northbound side of i-95 where you're going to see things just bunching up as you travel to the beltway on the northbound side of i-95. again no problems to report. just