of the bush years on the middle east." that should take us through the whole program. i am joined by my old friend george lobsenz, editor "the energy daily," which i was happy to be associated with. gil klein, nice to have you on the broadcast. we are joined again by michelle jamrisko of the "kyodo news, the japanese news agency likely associated press in britain. and she does write in english. well, she is very clever, so maybe she writes in japanese as well. i do not know. i have always been fascinated by japanese translators doing the translation. it is very difficult, but there you are. claude salhani, what are we going to do in the middle east? your book, does it tell us? >> yes, it touches on what -- >> should we wait until it is published and the whole thing will be resolved? >> no, i think there is room for -- >> continuing to live off this and this story. >> the book talks about the bush years, the impact it has had on the middle east, and where president obama is trying to go with his plan. >> and how is he succee

the rain continues to push off to the east. temperatures drop behind a frontal boundary pushing through. and heavier in the carolina and virginia. and back west, breaks in the clouds. and decent day tomorrow. 63 in baltimore. 64 in hagerstown. it looks like we will see the cooler air start to move in. so get the jackets ready. high of right around 67 degrees. as we get into the noon hour. breezy conditions. windy conditions to talk about. coming up in my seven-day forecast. >> thank you, vytas. >> freak accident kills a maryland woman in her backyard. a large tree fell on 63-year-old diane leach. she was doing yard work at her home last night in rockville. she was taken to the hospital where she later died. officials there say the rain may have up rooted the tree. >> we did not know really what the cause was. and then he explained that the tree had fallen down. so, you know, it was sad. >> well, the neighbor said he wants to cut down a few trees of his own as precaution for the future. . >> did you know that changing where you s

more sunshine to the west, less sunshine to the east. so this forecast is very dependent on where you're located. the high temperature here in washington in the low it mid- 70s. more details on the forecast and a brighter looking forecast for the weekend. >> now, we go to julie wright. >> the wipers may be working intermittmently this morning but it is wet pavement. the crews along 270 were able to get a little work down done last night. they are in the process of picking up the cones and barrels. not so busy as you travel south of clarksburg. lanere pen on the top stretch of the beltway between college park and bethesda. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >>> we are following a developing story this morning in prince george's county where hazmat crews are trying to figure out what caused several drums of chemicals to explode. this happened late last night in a building in the 9000 block of hampton overlook in capitol heights. the force blew out windows and doors. nobody was injured. >>> metro want to know if a miscommunication

coming in from the east. t now on radar we don't have precipitation, we have temperatures in the upper 60s to near 70. all of this potential rain is lurking off the atlantic seaboard now as an area of low pressure will be coming closer to the coast today stoxt, a cloudy afternoon, showers likely by late afternoon and overnight after a high near 70. over an inch to 1 1/2 inches by tomorrow. drying out into the weekend. see you tomorrow morning. back to you. >> thanks very much. they say people do stupid things for love. this may be an example. police in columbus, ohio say a group of three men robbed a couple in their house sunday night. two hours later one of the robbers returned to the home and asked the woman out on a date. she immediately recognized him and had a relative call 911. the 20-year-old suspect is now in jail on $100,000 bond without a date. >> needless to say she said no. >> that's "news 4 midday." thanks for joining us. >> tune in at 4, 5 and 6 for all of the day's news. on

here is the the front extending down, making its way to the east. nd the independent withs, cooler air and drier. that's coming our way. tomorrow starting with sunshine, clouds will build up and evening hours but it should stay dry. trier around the area and the cool air will come in. in the 60s. and lows are down into the 40s. here is how it looks for the forecast tonight. dropping to 52 tonight. rain or storms will be ending. windy and cool. 68. breezy and cool. clouds will build up in the afternoon. and a shower or two. and the cool air continues we'll have the life day coming up. >> we look forward to it. >> and don't miss the lineup tonight at 10. another episode of csi: miami followed which the news at 11. >>> we have a preview of what is coming up tonight. >> a family thought their pet died in a car crash but the dog refused to give up. she escaped death but found her way home. that was the start of this tale. assignment america on monday. now only on the evening news. >>> thanks. >>> embryo errors. is the problem far reaching? >>> doing yard

asia and the middle east, then they must be held accountable. >> in an interview with the associated press, iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad said that he expects next week's discussions with the west about iran's nuclear program to be free and open, but called on the world's nuclear powers to give up some of their weapons, too. is it likely nuclear negotiations with iran will succeed or are harsher sanctions against iran inevitable? joining us is mansour farhang, a professor of international relations at benington college. professor farhang was revolutionary iran's first ambassador to the united nations. welcome to the program. >> pleasure to be here. >> do you think that these talks, which are going to be starting next week, are they going to succeed or are harsher sanctions inevitable against iran? >> regrettably, the talks are not going to succeed, but i'm not so sure if we are going to see harsher sanctions. they will not succeed because iranian regime at the present time is going through a significant shift in the centers of power from the conservative c

here are the showers just off to the south an east. the winds are out of the east this morning. i thinke will see some shower activity. a better chance at the beaches than here in washington. even here in washington, a little later this afternoon, we could see light shower activity return much as we did last evening. it is cool are out there and still comfortable. 72 in fredericksburg. 68 is the winning number in frederick and in hagerstown. i mentioned he cloud cover and the winds out of the east. highs later today only in the mid-70s. there is a small craft advisory along the bay. if you are out on a boat and you are in a small boat, be warnedded that the winds will be gusting out of the east here as we have a big area of high pressure off to the north. there is the hour activity that moved through during the oong hours yesterday. notice all cloud cover that has started to move in overnight. it will be slow to get out of here. we have a couple of areas of disturbed weather. a lot of showers out to the west and west virginia. our focus is really this area of storminess, an area

the next half hour or so. it will remain south and east of washington. temperatures right now around the region are in the upper 60s generally. it's now 67 in washington. near 70 on the eastern shore. upper 60s out of the mountains. and overt last six hours, we see the system giving us this moist flow that will keephe t clouds. a look at the rest of the week and the weekend, that will be in a few minutes. >> thank you, tom. >>> the rain made for a messy morning commute. let's see how things are shaping up with jerry edwards. >> despite the fact we have dry pavement, we have issued to deal with. the stretch is basically from the robson terminal running slowly by the way of the enter loop. and elsewhere, heading for downtown. are looking good at this hour. along 395. to and across the 14th street bridge. no issues here headed into downtown. back to you. >> thank you, jerry. >>> three metro stations are back open this morning. the pentagon and the crystal city and the reagan national airport stations have been closed since friday night. crews were doing trac

more to the east as well across the bay and all of this is kind of tracking from east to west around pressure. we'll expand the view and show you true view and give you an idea what is taking place now. the area of low pressure offshore here and bringing moisture back off from offshore to onshore and this is the onshore flow here and you see a lot of this coming up into pennsylvania. and then wrapping back earn. that is the area of low pressure at the surface. you see the showers and thunderstorms from west virginia into extreme southwestern parts of virginia. this is from the upper level area of low pressure. sitting basically to the west of us and we're right in the middle. a big question is will the surface area come back to the west over the next 24 to 36 hoursing inning our chance for rain and will the upward level system creep over to the east a little bit and that going to allow a better chance for showers and perhaps the thundershowers, too, before it's said and done. a lot we're considering and looking at. when does it get out of here in this is the forecast for 11:00 and hav

during the day tomorrow, more pop-up scattered showers, again the heavy stuff to the east. also on saturday, a chance for scattered showers but most of it will be down in virginia. here's your forecast for the overnight period -- showers and storms but not as heavy as on the eastern shore. still going to be breezy, overnight low of 61. during the day tomorrow, a mostly cloudy day, a few showers, no torrential downpours. high tomorrow 78 degrees. the next seven days -- partly cloudy on saturday. sunday looking pretty good with lots of sunshine and 81 degrees. that 81 is also going to be repeated once we get along into the monday region. now as far as what is going to be happening on tuesday, wednesday looks like lots of sunshine around. mild temperatures. thursday a chance for choice and scattered showers. don't forget, you can always go to our our web site, abc2news.com to check our interactive doppler radar. it's in the process of updating. you see part of it cut off down there. but if we actually kind of back out a tiny bit and show you the entire eastern seaboard it's a v

up to the north and east in general. t as much of a problem. the lightning to the northeast it looks like new jersey. you have seen the wraparound moisture around the low pressure center that has moved around inland. we keep an eye on that. as it continues to move north and east, we see the showers dissipate. as far as tornado watch, still in effect for delaware, but i have a feeling that will expire as the system continues to move north and east. right now it continues through noon and new jersey, too. up in the northeast part of pennsylvania and the philadelphia area, a flash-flood watch there. we had thunderstorm warnings earlier but that has expired. 10-mile opinion hour winds in baltimore. we have 10-mile-an-hour winds in the northeast. around here breezier, that low pressure center that continues to move north examine east but out of our way. it continues to bring a chance of a shower passing through as early as tomorrow. let's see what we expect as we move along here. temperatures at 60 degrees at baltimore of the

the middle east crisis might have bn played differently. in the aftermath of its annexation of gaza and the wt bank in 1967, israel could have negotiated with jordan's king hussein and because it didn't, it ended up being confronted by arafat and the plo and because israel refused to deal meaningfully with arafat, it was faced by hamas. in refusing to deal with hamas, we can only wonder about the nature of the movement that might supplant today's islamists. it's worth noting that for all the talk and all the seeming participation i peace processes israel has concededly virtually nothing since 1948 and more recently since 1967. against a backdrop of u.s.-managed on again/off again dialog, the reality of the process is that more and more palestinian land has been taken for more and moresraeli settlements, roads, and checkpoints, all of which serve to shrink palestinian hope and dignity. through this innovating process, hamas has fought its way to a seat at the top table, it recognizeds a player or not. any doubt about its state has evaporated

may have to worry about erica. -- the east coast may have to worry about erica. omorrow, perhaps our record low in the morning to buy 50, and then we are up to 80. very comfortable weather through the last big holiday of the summer. >> now 11 sports with jerry sandusky. >> terrell suggs says he plans to use thursday night's preseason game to test out the khiel that has kept him on the sidelines since day 3 of this year's training camp. but we will not see mark clayton in action until the right year's season. -- until the regular season. kalle washington, no. 15 kva looks like a rock solid addition -- no. 15, looks like a rock solid addition. do not look for any new worry lines on deroche mason's face. >> i think we have a very -- derrick mason's face. >> i think we have a very strong core because we have marked an kalle and dmitri and myself. nyah the other guys coming along as well -- and you have the other guys coming along as well. if you want to call a soft, so be it. >> somebody is looking for a challenge. maryland has a couple of easy gains in september, but

you can see here all of that activity pushing well off to the east. n is relatively precipitation-free at this moment. now, let's get to the graphics and we'll show you how things are shaping up across the region. here is a bigger look at the satellite-radar for the eastern united states. things look pretty good out here. we do have some clouds moving in and we do have the areas of precipitation. this does not look like it is picking up any radar image so it is just the satellite image that we are seeing here. we are showing you where the clouds are. but there are some clear skies out to the west across western portions of maryland. so we've been day saying the forecast for today, a mix of clouds and sun. that is exactly when it will be with predominantly clouds but some sun working its way in here as well. here is a look at the temperatures around the room on. 69-degree in wash. 68 up in baltimore. # 7 at dulles. fredericksburg at 7 # degrees at this hour. forecast for d.c. for today, a mix of clouds and sun. mostly clouds. scattered showers are possi

and big thunderstorms there, just to the east of the virgin islands and antilles. let's take a look at our weather. temperatures, beautiful. 70. dew points low. extremely comfortable weather will continue. really, beautiful, beautiful skies. and clear, cool nights. really for much of the end of the week. northeast winds now, rather light. but a nice breeze along the coast. and there may be pretty high surf and rip currents along the east coast because of that constant east/northeast wind going on. down along that region. there you see, the pressure is sitting off of there. and that's causing some winds along the eastern coast there. west of us, high pressure building in. that means beautiful, beautiful weather will continue for us. some of these clouds might get in here by the end of the week. we'll have to watch that. as that low moves off. the computer showing just a little bit of rain, maybe reaching as far as delmarva by thursday or again on friday. but for us, looks like a pretty nice weather picture shaping up. tonight, then, looking beautiful. clear and 52 t

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wet weather activity pushing off to the east, offshore. you can really see that at the wider perspective here. a really weak cool front pushing offshore. what we're watching right now is cooler air beginning to build in off to the west. we will continue to see a front marching across the midwest through the overnight hours into the day tomorrow. that's going to move into maryland, and begin to really drop the temperatures as we get into monday evening, and especially tuesday on into wednesday. you see that on the seven-day forecast. the forecast in detail, we might see a a couple more showers around here tomorrow. afternoon cloud cover builds in. if you look at this narrow strip here. up through some precipitation. this is our leading edge of much cooler air. maybe a spritz or two of rain monday afternoon, clear it out monday night. partly cloudy skies into tuesday. but cooler west to northwest winds will make a difference. the winds up quite a bit tomorrow. could see peak winds tomorrow at 20 miles per hour plus. a mostly cool one tonight.

bases in the middle east. the country wrapped up two days of war games by test firing the longest range missile. it can travel up to 1200 miles. that launch came on the heels of other tests. iran's revolutionary guard fired hundreds of shorter-range missiles. a government spokesman insists these tests are not -- it has nothing to do with peaceful nuclear technology of iran he told reporters. the tests come as the obama administration is drawing up new sanctions it will use against iran if that country doesn't come clean about the nuclear program. on friday the administration revealed it knew about a secret iranian nuclear site and warned iran to open it up to international inspectors. over the weekend, iran gave in, saying it will give the united nations access to the facility. the secret site and the missile tests are sure to dominate talks beginning on thursday. iranian officials will sit down with the u.s., china, europe and russia. >> they have to come to this meeting on october 1st and present convincing e

winds out of the east at 5 miles per hour. as we look around we're seeing temperatures from 56 to oakland, 73 around the shore. around the immediate metro area, we're seeing 59 at rock hall. 16 miles per hour winds around ocean city. pretty gusty as the storms will roll off to the east. this is the while bit of moisture. the radar composite shows how it is starting to move off to the east. the front that is going to push it out of here is going to be moving through overnight and into tomorrow. we'll start to see clearing by tomorrow afternoon late morning early afternoon and then we'll start to see a bit of a warm-up before the next front comes through bringing us cooler air by monday into tuesday and another chance of showers. sunrise tomorrow at 6:59 and sunset at 6:56. small craft advisory through tomorrow evening. 10 knots gusting up to 20. if you plan ongoing to the ravens game this is what we're looking for. clouds giving way to sun. kickoff 70 degrees. browns in town at 1:00. john john will have more in a moment. 75 degr

didn't get quite so lucky in the east and the high was 68. as soon as the rain rolled in the temperature fell through the bottom. 61 in york, 63 in downtown, 62 in pax river. watch this rainfall as it makes its way. this was early this morning. the showers were off-shore and then they rolled in. and they've been rolling in throughout the evening, heavy rainfall just kind of stuck right there. and again, the dividing line is the chesapeake bay to the east. it can rotate some of those showers into our region but the heaviest is going to be to the east and to the south of the baltimore area. take a look at our radar. past couple of hours, showing that heavy rain hay cross southern delaware, up in new jersey, down through the ocean city area, no precipitation in the baltimore area. but some of it could make it in overnight. if we get anything it's going to be on the light side. all the heavy stuff will be on the eastern shore. right now in riser'stown, 60 degrees falseston 69. annapolis at 62 degrees. your forecast, that big slug of moisture cont

we are watching these bands of rain moving from the east to the west. out west things are quiet but we e argoing to do a radar revi few you. looking at a windy day with the ra f especially this ndars ou s around here in the ndst70 n iricte district montgomery county through southern mahland getting light to mora teinra now, out west still waiting for it but east some of e rain locally wiy thav with rainfall rates approaching d ancoming into annapolis half an inch to an inch an hour. ha southern maryland ncement from baden toward leonard and stwest of enedict all moving eastto west at 20 miles an hour so the morning commute is going to be effected greatly and with more on that a traffic update at 5:01 from angie. >> yeah, tgif everybody, we are kicking off this 5:00 hour and i am happy to report that everything looking pretty crystal clear. 95 and the bw parkway nice

tonight, showers and storms, the heaviest stuff east of us. ng the day tomorrow, looking for a mostly cloudy day, few showers with a high of 70. on saturday partly cloudy, sunny on sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday looking like lots of sunshine. thursday mostly cloudy 75. see you tonight at 11:00. >>> the ravens fight have home field advantage but it never bothered the chiefs before. c kc3-0 all-time in baltimore. the chiefs will likely be a run first team, playing into the ravens strength. since 1999, the ravens had only 18 players to rush. the fewest in the nfl. lewis doesn't seem concerned about larry johnson of the chiefs. >> we understand as a bottom line, a defense you don't let nobody come run the ball on you. we've been good at that around here. hopefully we can continue that sunday. >> reporter: on the flip side, the ravens had the fourth best rushing offense last year but if the preseason is an indicator they plan on mixing it up more this season. joe flacco looked comfortable throwing downfield hitting on a number of deep balls. the

economic forum meets in an increasingly economically resilient china how will the bullish growth of the east benefit countries in central asia? >>: china also feels confident to lead. but the confidence is also responsibility. and that's the best message that i've heard these days >>: and we meet with anies baswedan one of wef's young global leaders for 2009, and one of indonesia's most respected thinkers. >>: in the context of indonesia, islam and democracy is walking hand in hand. >>: and in the third part of our series on egypt -the obama effect - how the country is investing in itself for the future. >>: we are adding to our power grid network every year the equivalent of what the aswan high dam did to egypt - every year. >>abirached: hello and welcome. i'm raya abirached and this is world business, your weekly insight into the global business trends shaping our lives. it's almost a cliche, but in the world of business, all eyes are on the east as asia, led by a bullish china, delivers growth, while the developed world flounders.but is this just a temporary blip, or are we witnessing a s

we can see that easterly flow, winds coming in from the east. d we have a area of low pressure wrapping around the clockwise spin so shower activity picks up. and heavier showers right now along the tip of virginia. and then also the southern tip of the state of maryland. so continue to see that pick up as that low moves further north. future scan shows potential for rain and we could probably get decent rainfall. especially on the eastern shore. anywhere from an inch, inch and a half over the course of the next day and a half to two days. as we see the moisture out of the south. scattered in nature but folks getting heavier rain than others over the course of the next couple of days. here is what it looks like on the eastern shore forecast. 74 degrees tomorrow. easterly wind at five to 10. with showers for easton, denton and cambridge. central portion of the state. much of the same. so get the umbrellas ready. 74 degrees. and easterly wind at 10. and for folks in columbia, as well as westminster and frederick. what is also controlling factor. is

the gulf coast. precipitation east of the coast. by the end of the week there may be moisture to see the clouds by thursday or friday and mainly south and east. it looks like most of it will be suppressed by a big area, you can see how clear it is, big area across the great lakes and that will guarantee us really nice water, probably in to and including labor day. at this point you see the cloud moving out. beautiful conditions around the entire region and hopefully it will stay that way. we will say nice conditions and it will hold all of the way through labor day. it is possible, maybe some cloud for the weekend and some of the moisture may creep up but right now keeping our fingers crossed. night so great down here east of the leeward island, not a big storm but erica will be getting a little stronger to the northwest by sunday. it is only just to the east of the baja mas, about 250 miles. it has a long way to go and will only be maybe category one storm. a lot of dry air and a lot of sheering of westerly wind which will help pro

their magic number to clinch the east is five. rays and mariners. tampa trying to salvage anything from a disappointing season. sacks full. bj upton would score two. last guess for the mariners. bill hall, long drive to center. it ties the game. upton made the leaping grab at the wall. rays go on to win 5-4. that's your early look at sports on "early today." i'm fred roggin. >>> how brittaney spears ex-husband turns his weight gain into financial game. your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >> if diamonds are a girl's best friend, we're about to introduce you to every girl's bff. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back to "early today." a cold front across the deep south stays far enough to the southeast. but in the northeast this front may kick off early morning showers. nice weather just in time for the weekend. new york might see an early morning shower. 88 in charlotte. 84 in atlanta. mid-80s tomorrow in atlanta. detroit, d.c., new york, even into the northeast, highs 65 to 70. if you're watching us this morning on

a couple of spots of rain off to the east. much to the west. >> there is a leprechaun in here. >> i don't know why that happened. we mentioned some fog. that doesn't show up on the radar. you want to slow down here and there. there are no fog advisories. just a couple of spots at this hour. relative humidity, 84%. here is your planner for today. more clouds than sun but there will be some sun. highs does only in the 70s. that is below normal but guess what, it is not that below normal as starting today our average high for the next couple of days is 79 degrees as -- it is our first day out of the 80s. >> love it. >> there you go. >> all right. >> and -- >> and you will have more weather coming up in just a few moments. >> yes. >> let's get to julie with a first look at traffic. >> sorry, my computer was down. thank you though. traveling around the top stretch of the beltway, you'll find the lanes are open leaving college park headed around towards 270. still have two left leaps blocked off there for the construction. they are

now we have rain to the south and east of us. you can see it moving from delaware toward the west. om east to west. jersey, cape may, atlantic city. breezy. ocean city has picked up 6/10ths of an inch down there. it's all headed off to our wreath. poe sew i think about 7:00; we're in for at least a wet night, at least at times. may pick up more. some of it this southeast of us and northeast of us. and down around achima county virginia. >>> 70 now. east/northeast as high as 24. humidity as 50%. temperatures around the state, actually very pleasant. 50s to low 70s. nice this time of year. about eight or nine degrees cooler than average on this date in september. >>> and our winds, you can see anywhere from 5 and over, 7 in elkton. 20 in baltimore city. it's going to be a breezy night. and probably rain in some places. visibility will be reduced. and on the western shore of the bay, because there's winds pushing the water across the bay. we do have coastal flood advisories. tides running one to maybe 1 1/2 feet above normal. you can plan on that happening. also, along the coast, with

low pressure to the east. for saturday afternoon and sunday, sunday looks great. temperatures around 82 for the football game. but forth winds in the bay. a gail warning for the southern bay over the few hours. overnight, probably see some rain developing. eventually mid-70s on saturday. 82, 83, 82 warming up and drier for next week. >>> thank you bob, counting down to the start of the >>> there's no turning back now. football is back again. >> here and it'll be here for a while. steelers tangling with the titans. baltimore won't see the steelers until the final weekend in november. right now the ravens getting ready to open against kansas city on sunday. at practice today, l.j. smith limited. still recovering from a leg injury. wide receiver mark clayton has said he will play sunday. he's missed the entire preseason. but the coaches say they plan to use him. >> he's healthy. he's ready to go. just like we're running back by committee, we're receiver by committee. >> there might be additional receivers for flacco to throw to. >>> the first of 16 regular season game

the east showers are moving off to the east and northeast and will be passing perhaps up towards wind chester in the next half hour or so and then perhaps near hagerstown. after that perhaps in another hour or two. and then in the blue ridge we don't have precipitation. there is one lonely shower there in the central part of the northern neck. now the temperatures have hit the mid-70s from the shenandoah valley all the way to the atlantic beaches. now mid-70s in principles joernlprince georges county. and around our neighborhood network, it's 78 now in alexandria. the dew point is 69. that's steamy. and it's feeling like summertime humidity. they only had 1.4 inches of rain so far this month, which is below the average. as we look elsewhere, the eastern shore in the mid-70s. and mid-60s in the mountains now where they had passing showers that have been coming through since late last night. over the last six hours, we have other showers coming up from eastern north carolina, and tending to dry out as they head to the north. and those showers will past to the west here over the next cou

and upper 60s here along the east coast. now, of course, you have to check out our eastern event of the day. and if you're watching us on whdh 7 news in boston, be brave while getting up close and personal with the beehives. you can see the amazing insects at work. that's at the bee exhibit and that's your eastern event of the day. >> and good to remind it's glassed in. >> right. so there's no problem there. >> sign the waiver as uh you enter into this exhibit. thank you, ginger. >>> now an early look at this morning's headlines and entertainment. the "tonight show" host conan o'brien is back at work after a scare during friday's show. while he was taping his show, o'brien was racing teri hatcher when he slipped and hit his head so hard he suffered a minor concussion. he's already, though, doctors checked him out. he managed a few laughs last night from that whole ordeal. >>> well, did you know that the late paul newman actually liked being on the enemies list of president nixon. newman's daughter shared that detail about the

winds out of the east at 6 with humidity levels 76 percent. ue to see those clouds like i said just kind of filter out a little bit as the system continues to push to the south. few pop up showers in the area early today. a little rain, drizzle most activity left over the past few hours but to the west break in the clouds over western maryland. temperature wise a little bit warmer back to the west also a little hint to the west also a little hint of things

it's from the west to the east affecting the eastern shore of the delaware area right now. as far as what our forecast is for the next couple of hours, mostly cloudy, a few sprinkles, we'll see temperatures hovering around 70 degrees. more rainfall is on tap for tonight and during the day tomorrow but what about the weekend? we've got the answer coming up in a couple of minutes. >>> the economy is forcing bwi marshall airport to make some cutbacks. the maryland aviation administration says they are closing the communications center at the airport. that means eight staffers including those who deliver announcements in five languages are losing their jobs. officials say the use of cell phones and automated system for the airport's 800 number deals with most problems. the cuts will save about $450,000 a year. >>> a baltimore raven gives back possibly to the world. in a bold way. hear from matt berke who pledged to donate his brain for research. >>> we're following the recover of a little boy saved in the rescue caught on tape. we have the latest. >>> and a leisurely drive turn

these are heading to the east. elsewhere, don't have any precipitation as we look at the view from space we have quite a bit of cloudiness around this morning. might have a few breaks in the cloud cover this morning. sunshine in and out. a cloudy afternoon. a small chance of a passing light shower, maybe a little drizzle this afternoon. highs in the mid 70s. by dawn tomorrow, looks like a likelihood of passing light showers, maybe drizzle as well. that may linger all the way through midday tomorrow. drying out thursday afternoon with highs near 70. looks like a couple of dry days to follow. friday and saturday, only a slight chance of a light sprinkle friday and saturday. dry pattern on saturday and most of sunday. late sunday afternoon and sunday evening, chance of more rain around. jerry, how's the wednesday morning commute? >> could be tough in silver spring. northbound route 29, this is at dale drive, but northbound 29 at franklin avenue, the northbound lanes are blocked. accident hit a power pole. you want to s

across the state, we're seeing the winds coming in from the east. ain, courtesy of that low pressure that is offshore. kicking some of that moisture and the winds off the bay. and the ocean. 24-mile-per-hour winds here in the nation's capital. 13 at the airport. and a little lighter, the farther away you go, heading out toward the western counties this. is how it all shapes up. this dynamic is sitting here, spinning off the mid-atlantic coastline. and it's kicking off that moisture. it's going to get pulled in, courtesy of another system that is moving in across the midwest and another system pulling in, low pressure, upper-level low we'll call it. moving across the ohio valley. it's going to be pulling in just toward virginia and make a run up. these two are going to kind of mix. and they'll bring us rain, better chance of rain tomorrow and into friday. but as they do, we're going to start to see more and more moisture. this rain is going to be potentially heavy tomorrow afternoon and evening time. and it will start to lift out of here. and by satur

these are heading off to the east and not making much progress down to the south. iding east into baltimore county. there is some light showers around. mainly across north central maryland. temperature now is 79 degrees. it's 77 in manassas, 76 quantico, 78 in pax river. showers around for the overnight. nothing too heavy for us and looks like wet weather for the morning as well as fog. 68 to 69 degrees. let's take a look at the seven-day forecast. high temperature tomorrow up to 82 to 85 degrees. same thing for thursday. just a 40% chance of some passing showers tomorrow. humid conditions, then thursday we could get a break. a little bit of sunshine. maybe a shunneder shower. friday dry with a high of 79 and coolindown to the 70s this weekend. more wet weaer moving in late saturday. pat? >> thanks, veronica. >>> swine flu took center stage at george mason university today. federal health authorities went there to spread the word and show how they've taken their campaign against the swine flu to the internet. >>. ♪ don't touch your eyes mouth ♪ your nose or face >>

the southeastern u.s. >>> rerival meeting. president obama tries to restart middle east peace talks but the two sides are largely unmoved. >>> job jackpot. thousands of people with new jobs and new hope, in a city that's been down on its luck. >>> and, catchy ads to help that's been down on its luck. >>> and, catchy ads to help people avoid catching the flu. captions paid for by abc, inc. >>> good evening. there are locations throughout the u.s. where flooding would be no surprise. but when the atlanta area becomes a lake, that is a surprise. atlanta is inundated with water, lots and lots of it. at least nine people have died in southeastern flooding. schools are closed, major roadways are closed. fire trucks can't move. it's a mess. all the result of more than a foot and a half of rain in some areas. steve osunsami is in autell, georgia. steve? >> reporter: good evening, charlie. the flood waters have reached so many homes here, including my own. i can tell you first hand, this is overwhelming. this is what it looks homes and roads flooded with dirty water. across this

the roll. he's got nowhere to go. but out. and there's a silly penalty for east carolina. s outside the tackle box and the throw was okay as he threw it out of bounds but a roughing. >> ray: yeah and that's c.j. wilson didn't put the brakes on there and yates was standing there, knew he had nothing, just tossed it out of bounds and wilson -- >> referee: personal foul. >> ray: -- just came and whacked him. >> referee: roughing the passer. defense. half the distance automatic first down. >> ray: here's the thing. look, there's no cross fire. you know what, he got blocked into it. anthony elzy blocked him into it. so that's not the fault of c.j. wilson. you would hope the officials could get together and maybe somebody saw that because that really should not be a penalty. >> pam: you would take back any interference that it was wilson's faumt. you're absolutely right that was not a true roughing. elzy with the late block. skip holtz upset. instead of a third and 12 with the penalty, it's now first and goal. huge, it's a huge, huge call. houston takes it down to the 5. >> ray:

so the surface winds come from the east but the actual radar and rain bands are coming from the southwestto this upper level system off the edge of the screen that continues to plague most of the deep south. we're going to take some of these bands of moisture, run it over the old boundary, surface winds from the east, combining on top of baltimore for a wet day. not a complete washout. we won't have a full soaker though could be a few heavier showers, generally, today, cool, wet, two-degree guaranteed high of 67 degrees. that will come with developing drizzle, light rain and periods of rain, maybe a heavier shower at lunchtime or this afternoon. tonight, 61. and tomorrow morning clouds give way to -- at least a clearing afternoon at 76 degrees. stick around. we'll have the weekend forecast in a bit. or you can see it as the our wake-up window at the bottom of the screen. here's kim brown. >> traffic is beginning to pick up around the area, especially southbound 83 approaching the away >> the -- approaching the beltway from the timonium area. and southbound 95 from the whitemarsh area, a l

you have the taliban that has regained foot holds in parts of the country, in the south and in the east, and they've gotten better at what they do. >> mccrystal's report was supposed to be confidential. but parts of it were leaked and that is creating a political headache for the president. many the fellow democrats want to put the breaks on u.s. involvement in afghanistan, while many republicans want more forces to fight the war. >>> dc firefighters are investigating a fire out at the gabon embassy. it broke out shortly before 3:30 this morning and fire officials say it appears to have started in the basement and spread to a portion of the first floor. they say no one was in the embassy when the fire started, and this is the second fire at that embassy in just the last month. >>> tonight, president obama will become the first-ever sitting president to appear on the late show with david letterman. you can watch it tonight after 9 news now at 11:00. >>> massachusetts could soon have a new u.s. senator by the end of the week. the massachusetts senate is expected to debate a bill tomorrow,

receive the proposal of joining that pact, and there was a proposal for poland to join a march to the eastbut poland renounced that proposal and did not join, steadfastly adhering to its treaties. the war that broke out lead to defeat. there was no possible -- no other possible outcome. this was followed by a tragic occupation, exceptionally tragic not only in poland. 5.8 million citizens of poland's, of those polish and jewish and nationalities, were killed during the war. there were the victims of this war, just as 50 million people all over the world. the holocaust was the crime that was committed during that war, but before, the outbreak of war between germany and soviet union, other crimes were committed. that account also calls for reflection, not so much because facts which are mostly non today, but the causes should be discussed. why several dozens of thousands of officers of polish army and others were sentenced to death? this was a token of revenge for 1920, for the fact that poland withstood the aggression of 1920. it could be claimed that is communism that is to blame. no, this

. >> reporter: on the middle east, the day after mr. obama urged both sides to compromise the israelis objected to u.s. demand. >> there's never been this precondition of freezing settlement. >> reporter: but the president pushed back. we call on palestinians to end incitement on israel and america does not accept the legitimacy of continued israeli settlements. >> reporter: arabs and their friends trust this president says one arab journalist. >> as a son of muslim he is a muslim. they are happy with him and will give him the benefit of the doubt. >> congratulations to our son obama. >> reporter: even libyan leader moammar gadhafi had nice things to say before he blasted the united nations for failing to prevent wars. street demonstrators protested against gadhafi. others protested iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad being in new york. he struck a defiant tone before his u.n. speech. >> translator: and reminded mr. obama is not the first president he here. >> the united states stands ready to begin a new chapter of international coop

we've got a few showers, a gusty wind from the east. the wind picks up and the showers become more widespread. this is our day to deal with the storm off the coast. so plan for the wet weather and it could be steady and heavy this afternoon and tonight. high only 68 degrees. that coastal flood advisory, look out for high tides, about 11:00 this morning. give or take an hour up and down the chesapeake from baltimore and about 11:00 to 12:00 tonight, high tide could give some flooding. rain through tomorrow morning, showers in the afternoon, 72. we'll dry out over the weekend with temperatures near 80. should be good for the home opener on sunday. >>> let's check the roads with kim. >> traffic is starting -- definitely starting to build here on the outer loop. a peek at the beltway, that is pretty much a backup making your way towards the baltimore national pike. i believe it's just volume delays at this time. a couple of crashes, one on southbound 95 at route 175 in howard county. that crash is off to the shoulder. also in harford county

moving to the east at 20 miles an hour. that's it for the morning but as we look at the forecast for the next three days, showers today, mid to upper 70s. and a couple of peeks of sunshine. tomorrow mostly cloudy. upper 60s north an west of town with an isolated shower. on friday, sun a few clouds and a dry day with highs in the mid 70s. at the bus stop looking good. mostly cloudy. showers east of the bay is where we are seeing some stuff. heavier stuff cambridge south to route 50. patchy fog in one or two spots. we start 64 to 72 and we top off with cloudy showers this afternoon. northeasterly winds at ten to 15 will keep us cooler than the mid 80s. isolated shower or sprinkle and 58 to 64 and then tomorrow, as i said we will be in the low 70s with a chance of a shower. you can see the activity. that surprised us. popped up ahead of the front. now mainly east of the bay with temperatures running in the mid to upper 60s. 69 annapolis. i spoke to scott in sperryville. he said it has been really dry there. the ponds are drying

the last direction blowing was from the east. now you see the direction is still there, but the wind speed has decreased. 30.27 and rising. we have high pressure really dominating the forecast right now. across the state, we have 55 in oakland. we have 69 in ocean city. everyone else falling somewhere between the two. we do have no temperature registering right now. you see the temperatures changing. 55 in rock hall and 57 in westminster. we do have calm winds around central maryland and we have a 4-mile per hour wind in elkton. and some double digits. 12 down in ocean city. both coming in from the east. now this is what we had roll through here yesterday. how that all started to die out and we started to clear out. all that rain is simply out of here. what we are watching is a system that is pushing in from the west and as you see, it is right at our doorstep. the clouds ahead of it steaming into the region. we have rain down in the southeastern edge of ohio. the ohio valley. west virginia, and now the southern edge, south wester

secretary of education joining americore members to paint in the north east. members of the dc central kitchen job training program preparing meals for the homeless shelters and soup kitchens in our area. >>> dc public schools lost three teachers and three students on 9/11. today the former students and classmates planted a memorial garden at the school in their honor. >>> tonight at 11:00 p.m. in a bare arlington conference room, nothing more than a clock, box of soda and tissues. part of the september 11th museum only on 9news now tonight at 11:00 p.m. >>> okay, we finally got the rain you have been promising us. now can you get it out of here? >> we are trying. showers pushing away from town night. sounds like someone is having the first fire of the season. temps are in the 60s. showers will linger to the north but then they too will taper off. taper off. partial clearing d- mi50s mid-60s. aterat 10. thh it wer e cooler with the ouands gi in indato6565 downtownl er. 62l 62 eplp inn 73 iculper. 73 in fredericksburg. very nice day south and west of us as the c

but by and large, the heavy activity is well to the east of us. we've seen a few showers up in prince george's county and charles county. but the beaches have been pounded. ocean city had two inches of rain today. wind gust to 40 miles an hour today. and for the most part, we'll put this into motion, it's going to slowly drift to the east. i think some of the activity will get into our northern suburbs late tonight and mr. bernstein will be here tomorrow at 4:55 in the morning. vienna, woodbridge and 63 in gaithersburg. 57 in great falls. 59 in tyson. 61 in bethesda. you go up 270, 59 in rockville. you go past that going to gaithersburg or germantown, you'll be in the mid 50s tonight. 59 in silver spring and 58 in bowie. so kind of a cool night. now, tomorrow morning, becoming partly soun sunny. showers -- sunny. showers still possible. best chance for showers will be early, right around rush hour time. winds will turn. by afternoon, partly sunny, breezy and cool. more showers possible. but not a bad day late in the day. high temperatures between 7

as we head further to the east, from charlotta montgomery, we've seen significant rainfall in the last 72 hours. atlanta has seen eight inches this month, five in the last 24 hours. we'll be looking for ground stops across the region, as this deluge of moisture, is bringing even more moisture from the gulf. unfortunately, more wet conditions and flooding concerns, as we head into tuesday. jeremy and vinita, it's back to you. >> and abc news has teams in the flood zone this morning. sam champion will be live in georgia, later on "good morning america." >>> in other news, it is a busy day for president obama, who is in new york for tomorrow's opening of the u.n. general assembly. first, the president speaks at a u.s. climate change summit. next, he meets with israeli and palestinian leaders. lunches with the african leaders. and sits down with the president of china. all in a day's work. >>> as he meets with world leaders, president obama seems to be considering his strategy in afghanistan. one day after a leak that the top commander says he needs more troops. the white house says the pe