most of us areng not g to have to worry about that in the showers perhaps lingering into the shenandoah valley. those are the reason why i n't give you 0% chance of rain. most of us won't have to worrya about drops today. temperatures are going to be way above average. 66 at naas. 65 next to the

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there is the tiniest little chance for a few rain drops in the shenandoah valley. melisse mowly i done think have to worry about that? >> i like what you're thinking. not so great here. tiny branch road. that's because of a large tree down. they think the road will be closed tough the rushour because of this problem. they do have a detour po ced. yo get around it. we'll see how that neighborhood goes. white's ferry shut down. inner loop and outer loop beltway looking quitegood. earlier road work is gone. in green belt northbound b.w. parkway, that should clear here pretty soon. aaron? >> melissa, thank you. 5:01. right now a woman is in grave condition after a violent stabbing in dc's logan cire neighborhood. >> this happened last night carryoutside of a popular out restaurant. news 4's justin fly on how this attack ocrred? >> well, eun, yang, this is so frightenin people who live and work and hang out in this area. this happened near 11:00 last night. a woman stabbede multiimes on the 1400 block of 11th street. she ran looking for help at this tiny carryout restaur

more organized rains in the shenandoah valley. with time, that moves in your late friday night plan, likely to be impacted by rainfall. current temperatures, 60s a 70s. 77 in arlington. 80 degrees, still, in annapoli taking the dog out for a walk. bella is available for adoption at the humane rescue ealliance. ould make a great buddy to walk with. best time to walkarith this weather, always in the morning time. there will be cnce for thunderstorms by 5:00 or 6:00. but higher rain chances into the evening. your tomorrow planner, highs in the mid-70s tomorrow morning. temperatures by 8:00 tomorrow night, down into the low 60s. that will almost feel chilly. not much of a recovery on sunday, high 72. back to the warm air and the thunderstorm chances o. mond and we'll talk about florence and the potentialhances next week. >>> good morning, melissa mollet. >> fredz riericksburg, this is we have left.ou sout, after 3, blocking the right side. inner loop and outer loop for the beltways behaving here this morning. and 270 from frederick dow

frid saturday look good in the shenandoah valley and the mountains of west vginia. sunday could be cool and sunday could be cool and howery. i put criminals in prison during the day i'm jennifer wexto and as a prosecutor, and changed diapers at night. later, when i had a law practice, i volunteered to help moms collect child support. then, as state senator, i work t across party lines toget sexual offenders and take guns away from domestic abusers. in congress, i'll stand up to president trump. i approve this message because, like every working mom, what's ahead is as impretant as what's in thview mirror. >>> it's now 6:15. police are working to find out more information about two major shootings. >> the first happened inside a municipal building in pennsylvania about 50 miles south of pittsburgh. a man who was scheduled for a hearing on charges of violence blasted through the front door there. witnesses say he appeared to be chasing a woman. three people were injured before the shooter was killed byli poce. one officer was shot at well but is expected to be okay. >

most of us areng not g to have to worry about that in the showers perhaps lingering into the shenandoah valley. those are the reason why i n't give you 0% chance of rain. most of us won't have to worrya about drops today. temperatures are going to be way above average. 66 at naas. 65 next to the chesapeake bay. dog walk being forecast, you could adopt peach. dog or no doing, the morni i walk not going to bother anybody. plenty of sunshine. rain chances on the hold are below 20%. melissa mollet, i'd say most of us don't need to worry about that today. >> like that, i have to say ilom ing forward to it. taking a look at it at this video in tacoma park. this is tiny branch road shut down both ways betweeneast-west highway andastern avenue. theoad could be closed through rush hour. mclean, some parts of the road could be closed and there's high water on the dpotomac. >>eloping this morning, d.c. police are looking for a man who stabbed a wom in the logan circle neighborhood. the woman is in grave condition. >> police say ted man sta her on the sidewalk outside the asian-american 2 tiny carr

temperatures into the mid 80s toda here you can see the chance for storms firing up around 2:00 3:00 in the shenandoah valley. it comes in about 4 or 7 p.m. on therms could b strong to severe side. here's the extended forecast. stormy today. cloudy, cool. showers gradually ending.ck o-back sunshine for saturday and sunday. sunday is the 30th of september. that will be our last best chance to get below 60degrees. >>> i cannot believe we are heading into october. the first 4 traffic alert here is going to be wiped off thep. in northeast, that officer involved crash investigation, all lanes have just reopened. live report from that area here in just a second. taking a look at the beltway. inner loop, outer loop of the beltway, no complaints. northbound 395 before the 14th street bridge had the left side blocd by a disabled vehicle. that has cleared out of the way. 66 is fine. quiet. southbound 95 after harrisonville road. have the left lane getting by the tractor-trailer crash badt one t happened before noon yesterday. guys? >> angie goff here at the live desk with this breaking news out of los angeles.

a few more clouds later on in the afternoon and a tiny little chance for a few showers in the shenandoahy int. [ applause ] >>> good morning, everyone. welcome to the show. i'm megyn kelly. happwednesday. as we like to call it, it's actually swednesday. >> it's really catching on. savannah guthrie is here. she's helping me break down making the rounds today. and we begin where we first met. >> when we say hello, we're too stressed out. >> she's so tall and so smart and so igpretty. >> back at you. >> depends on the heels. things are goi on athe supreme court. that includes the nomination process of judge kavanaugh.

the potomac, the shenandoah, as well as the creek, to name a few.heeeing water in those locations, you will gee some minor flooding as well as if you're by the water. highlighted in green including athe tidal basin. at least midnight tonight. wee warmer today and the clouds have moved out. not jus the range. temperatures going in the right direction. it was chiy out there yesterday. today, tls in the 70s and we're 50 to 20 degrees wmer right now. about 15 degrees warr in district.n 59 college park and 70 at this point in reston. we started at 62 comfortable degrees in washington. 50s in the suburbs. so tomorrow, a perfect morning to go for the run, take out the bicycle around lunch time. it's gorgeous. 73 degrees. a mix of clouds and sun. 4:00 p.m. tomorrow. not only is wt thekend but we'll have temperatures around 77. really nice. then tomorrow evening is looking spectacular. we're looking at dry, comfortable weather. as we walk the the humidity levels over the weekend. . the throughout this weekend. monday, dntuesday, day. it starts tol f a little

especially in the shenandoah valley it's down. lear to a whole real quickl as you make your way out to the church o the farmer's markets, keep your eye on that. grhe the sunglasses and grab water bottle. i don't think you'll need the we'll have some isolated storms out there today. temperatures a80 degrees by 10:00. again, dense to patchy fog. just depending on where you are. nothing happening rightnow. we have a little storm off to the eastern shore, but for the mot we are dry across the region. and we're going to be dry for a good deal of the day today. so 6:30 we're stuck in the cloud cover right now. we'll start to little bit.kup a by 10:00 or 11:00, that's when we'll srt to get some sunshine and then again we'll continue with some sunshine today. a few storms are tryg to pop up. i think they're going to stay nost of the region as we head through the aft into the evening. but we'llavclear skies headed into the overnight. temperatures around 90 degrees wand the isolated chance of an afternoon storm. tomoow, 93 grees. very hot. w

of note in the shenandoah valley, they had union counterparts. a guy named allan pinkerton. you have to found the detective agency with the eye that never sleeps. there are security services now worldwide. then there was lafayette t. baker, who was one of the most interesting people i ever came across, because i'm not sure he ever told the truth. i will get to a quota about that in just a bit. there are sometimes truth-challenged and lately self-promoting narratives. they became the people that read about it and everything the road people said this must've been but intelligence was like. they were better stealing the limelight than they were enemy secrets. this is a quote. these tall tales have been reworked again and again by popular biographers and historians until they have long since been hardened into mythology, or what he used to call the magnolia blossom school of intelligence history. one london newspaper actually said something about belle boyd's book. this london newspaper said she must have had the brain of a poor white to invent such a silly story. or to suppose t

like the bellies spy of washington, a bellboy was a spike of note in the shenandoah valley. they had union counterparts, a guy named pinkerton who went on to found the pinkerton detective agency. they are -- they have security services worldwide. baker,ere was lafayette was one of the most edges and people i have come across, because i am not sure he ever told richard. [laughter] i will get to a quote about that in just a bit. there are blatantly self-promoting narratives. people who wrote about it, and everything they wrote, people thought that is what intelligence was like. they were better at stealing the limelight and they were stealing enemy secrets. these tall tales, have been reworked again and again by popular biographers and historians until they have been hardened into mythology or what he called the magnolia blossom school of intelligence history. one london newspaper said something about the book when she wrote and said, which he wrote a book it came out after the war, the newspaper said bell must have had the brain of a poor white to invent such a silly story or

we could have a chance of a small tornado tomorrow as well if you're in the shenandoah valley. dynamics push throughpennsylvania. i want to get to the forecast. our fends to the west, monday and tuesday, possibly heavy rain, up to three inches in that arar . ere there will a sharp line of who gets heavy rain and who gets light showers and our western zones could have areas of moderate rain. in the d.c. area, showers tomorrow, maybe an inch over monday and tuesday, coastalos floodingble and through southern mississippi you guy have seen that through fredericksburg. low humidity and then we are looking at some showers for satu day of fall. mo connected... shouldn't your internet keep up? it's time for fios. because fiber optics move crazy amounts of data at even crazier speeds. and fios is the 100% fiber-optic network, so you can get phenomenal capacity for your tech. we'll even help you get another device to put it to the test. right now, get $200 toward a range of google and nest smart home devices plus the fastest internet available, plus up to 200 tv channels, plus phone, with

a lot through west virginia and the shenandoah valley. w passing showers as we continue through the day. expect cloud cover with peeks of sun and tomorrow same as today. then weet into sunday overnight. that's when the moisture rides up the mountains and into our area. if you're rest of the blue ridge mountains, probably more rain. temperatures in the 60s and 70s. today 80, passi showers, peeks of sun. for sunday, not at.wash it's going to be breezy at times. tomorrow is similar to today. forecast for the mountains. monday tuesday possibly heavy rain. you could get up tnc 3s locally. i think it's more like 1 to 2. moderate rain through manassas, even up to frederick. this is monday, tuesday. areas of moderate possible. we couldave a few thunderstorms in the mix. for the d.c. metro, we're looking at showers and coastal flooding and that's theame dealor our friends in southern maryland. anybody ong the potomac river. that where we see coastal flooding from now until tuesday. by the time we get toes wey, thursday, friday, it's so nice. temper

but the steadierain moves into the shenandoah valley. and that rain comes here int the city.perature-wise, in the mid-70s now. we'll get 80 to near 90 today. if you're going to try to garden this weekend, good luck with that. temperatures falling into the 60s tomorrow afternoon. and barely getting above 70 on sunday. ght not rain every minute of your weekend. but it will rain for a lot of the minutes. >> thank you, chuck. >>> right now, chopper 4 you unbelievable pictures from above this morning. this is a fire in downtown baltimore. a lot of people go on 90. th is south boeadway. a bigsurclosure. oxon hill, a n crash reported ere. northbound through that section is a little slow. inner loop and outer loop of the beltway,o complaint there. travel times in maryland looking ood here, no matter where y are. and 66 inbound. 95 quantico to the beltway, miles per hour. that's not bad this time of day. listen towtop when you hop in your car today. >>> the wrong message. that's what some parents think a for teens show made could be sending. what you need to know about "insatiab "insa

more showers dotting the landscapecross parts of loudoun county and the shenandoah valley. rain chances remain about 80% for the rest of the day. flash flood watch until 6:00 p.m. localized rainfall amounts of heavy rain could be possible. but not eryone is going to get a deluge like yesterday. it is incredibly warm and humid. upper s to near 80. the dew pointde was 7ees. that's ridiculously high. planning the next couple of hours. rumbles of thunder early. rain should end at 5:00 and6: . maybe sooner than that. it should be all over by 8:00. you'll get sunshowe tomo more about that in the ten-day forecast coming up. >>> can't wait. we were talking about that. we need to see the sun again. >> need sun rays. thanks, chuck. more on the problems that aln that r causing. this is forest glenn road early this morning. you can see that road was closed off becau of high water. >> it's not just the high water we're talking about. justin finch is in fairfax right now with a look at conditions there. hi, justin. >> reporter: hey there, angie. this has been a patterne've seen played out

in the shenandoah valley and blue ridge, maybe 2 inches or more of rainfall. mg up for tomorrow before much warmer and dryer air moves in for thursday, frida and saturday. a little chance for rain over the weekend as well. >> chuck, thank noyou. >>>er local news update for you in 25 m butes. for no. >>>t's 8:00 on "today." rescue o first responders working around the clock to get people still traps water. >> we just got savedd by g samaritans. i'm so thanksful. >> the storm still causing catastrophic flooding. officials warn the worst is still to come. >>> an aspirin a day. a new study says the daily used taken by millions to prevent heart attacks could cause more harm than good. should youtop takin it? dr. oz is here with more. >>> live from l.a. it's emmy>> night. we're proud to be hosting the emmys. >> we'll catch up with hosts colin jost and michael che as they honor tv'sbe. >> are nerves starting to set? >> i couldn't do thisho w michael so i'm very happy. >> i could do it alone. >>day," september 17, 2018. >>> here from u.m. of >> the hoosier state, india

flashl flood watches for the shenandoah valley. doesn't affect the d.c. metro area yet, but the flash flood watch may have to be expanded. there's your forecast showery and cool weekend. warm ahead of florence next week. >>> looking at the btway here. no problems right now. inner loop or outer loop. 270 southbound,own to the spur, nice and clear here. had earlier roadwork that's now good evening. northbound on 270, that's looking good, as well. 66, , no major isfes. speakingorthern virginia. the spring field golf and country club had me out. they meet each months. all over the area t haves of interesting event events. alked about my career path, and the station and i was honored to chat with them. ♪ >>> yes. remember these guys, the step team from elean roosevelt high school. made their mar on the national stage. roosevelt high school appearing on nbc's "world of dance" earlier this year. >> the raider boyz. later this morning, the team will be live to talk about the competition, what's next for them as they startl new sch year. molette green will introdu

all the areas here in green are flood warnings for various waterways, including the potomac, the shenandoah, seneca creek and these are going to last into the weekend. can you download our app and click on weather for the latest alerts and more information on those if you live near any of those creeks offr rivers. but right now moist of st of us enjoying cooler temperatures. tomorrowt 00 arg.m., refreshing. there are rain chances in the forecast, i'lle have m on that plus when the humidity returns in the full forecast. >> so much. >>> tonight federal prosecutors sa local u.s. postal carrier stole several iphones for delivery and resold them on his own. court filings show anthony reed started working for the postal service in 2013. he's accused of stealing and selling at least 15 phones. they were taken from a mn post office, the one off washington boulevard. he is nor lon a postal employee. >>> the white house will avoid the badptics of a government shutdown before the november mid term elections. the president signed an $854 billion bill to fund the government throu december 7th. the bill

i a lot of the heavy rain is going to fall aund the shenandoah valley nats game, but then the rain moves east. it weakens but we couldave a few thunderstorms and flooding concern.in we'll keep a chance for rain in through the late evening for tonight. and smaller chances tomorrow. i think we'll have a little more sunshine tomorrow. temperatures around 90. a chance of a isolated storm. tuesday, wednesday, thursday, low 90s and the heat index low 90s and the heat index around as your home becomes more connected, you need fios to keep up and fios is the 100% fiber-optic network... which means you get phenomenal capacity for your tech. now, get $200 toward a range of google and nest smart home devices plus the fastest internet available, up to 200 tv channels, phone, and a 2-year price guarantee, all for $79.99 per month with a 2-year agreement. plus order online by september 30th, and you'll get a $150 verizon prepaid mastercard. go to getfios.com. 100% fiber-optic network. 100% phenomenal. so you went online... prescriptions... and got so lost in a mumbo-jumbo of co-pays, coupons and codes

they also had scouts placed along the railroads running north out of richmond, poking with the shenandoah valley. was a guy scouts named isaac silver, the old man. he lived in spotsylvania. unionists some other in the area, he tirelessly moderated confederates applied trains. his activities were phenomenal. usually there were confederates in the area. they never knew what he was up to. he put in an affidavit at content -- confederate troops cams on his property and burned his trees for firewood. he wanted compensation for the loss. they asked him, how do you know it was confederate troops? he said i don't. i have been taken by the yankees. i only have it on the word of my wife. he said the yankees came and took me. they paid him compensation for the rails that were burned. isaac silver had not been taken by the yankees. he was with the yankees giving them information at the time. , once compensated twice by the union commander and once by the confederate commander. bmi wasong, sharp's getting astute and efficient at what it did. will dohe things sharp is make contact with the richmond uni

flash flood watch for areas t thewest, including parts of west virginia and then down towards the shenandoah valley and the blue ridge. maybe 4 to 2 west of the blue ridge. 1 to 2 possible in certain areas closer to i-95. butot everybody is goingo get that. it's going to be few and far between. 81 degrees tomorrow. rain likely, a w storms too. heaviest near the blue ridge. we could see sun metomorrow. eal on tuesday. it will be early rainfall we'll see on tuesday with a cple of storms. then we get some nice weather in here. wednesday a high temperature of 85 degrees. same deal on thursday. really nice. some sunshine. a lot of sunshine actually. and then friday weo warm 89. first day of fall comes in on saturday, and jus like clockwork, those temperatures come crashing down. only in the low 70s. many areas in the low 50s. >> i'm ready for it. all right, doug, thank you. >>> a virginia church is giving new t meani the term organ transplant. calgary presbyterian in alexandria just got a new organ, the musical kind. ♪ the church's old organ had gotten worn out over the years, and members were wo

light wind out of the south and 6 millo per hour. 70s in the shenandoah valley. andwn hage is sticky 77 this morning. napolis, 78. and 72 in fauquier county this morning. forecast for today, miserably hot. 95 degrees do even the northern shenandoah valley in the upper 80s and low 90s today. this is the beginning of the end. ng tohigh pressure is g give way and move offshore and allow more for t cold fro in the upper midwest. and what's left of gordon spinning its wheels across the mississippi river. that will bring the rain chances to us. that will lead to a rainy finish to your friday. rain chaes today are between slim and none. most of our rain chance is along the i-80 corridor. most of us are not get a cooling rain drop today. cooler weather rol in for tomorrow. and way cooler for the weekend, saturday, low to mid-70s. rain likely could be breezy, as well, on saturday. that will be the opposite of today. let's gover to first 4 traffic and hear from melissa. >> outer loop at georgia, this is the only thing happening. one lanti is g by. that's why we're so slow t

today's chance, can find west of i-81 in parts of the shenandoah valley.ith all this in mind, here's your ten-y forecast now. it's going to be a hot one today. cooler weather tomorrow. we shave about ten degrees off tomorrow's temperature, only 85. and mid-70s for highs over the weekend. rain chances keep creeping up for saturday and sunday. >> not what you want to hear >>> silver spring, outer loop, left lane gettingy the wor zone. we're having a lit 8 slowdown up top, as people squeezeby interloop before the toll road. that works some. alexandria, southbound 395 after semina seminary. tw left lanes are getting work there. 95, southbound, a little slow as you're approaching quantico this don't have a report of a problem. we'll keep an eye on that. looking at 95 southbound, 32 to the beltway. a little quick there. going to get you there inen minutes. >>> an update, now, this morning on thee pur line, the new tram-like train system being builtn maryland. once completed it will run from w bethesda to carlton. until then, there's going to be construction acro

tokets of moderate rain out the shenandoah valley. that will gradually be encroaching on the i-95 corridor as well. here's 5:00, just in time for the afternoon rush home from work and school. eaviest rain, here's 10:00 tonight. likely to be rain, maybe with some embedded thunderstorms. not any real severe weather threin because it's c during the overnight. 2:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, well, most of you are asleep. the rn will be coming down pretty hard. here's 6:00 tomorrow morning. rain coming to an end. we may actually get back to sunshine tomorrow afternoon. lo and sbehold,shine on a friday. and checout that weekend forecast. really nice weather. so we haven't been below 60 degrees y o for the mon september. our best chance will be on the 30th itself, sunday morning likely to get below 60 degrees. open window sleeping weather for the weekend. all right. the weather is a mess. how about traffic? >> not looking so bad right now. inner loop after the dullesl tol road, two left lanes getting by. taking a look at 270, not bad. going 69 mi

re's a look at some of the rain showers over the shenandoah valley and blue ridge mountains. they're heading east coming down 270 and around i-66, getting ready to move into portions of fauqui shower chances tonight and tomorrow coming up in 15 gnutes. >>> we want to back to the busy night in the district. two shootinst under ination in fact one of them deadly. let's get you to derek ward live in southeast washington. a lot o pfeiffegfr overnight. >> yes. we're at the intersection of 51th and f street southeast. one of the signs of gunfire, there's a dent in this truck made by the bullet. the shooting happened -- this is the scene at about 9:45 last night in the section of 51th and f southeast. when police got here they found two adult males shot. died.as no information on the lookout or motive or the identities of the victims yet. now, a short time later at about 11 p.m. another shooting, a quadruple shooting in the 1700 block of benning road northeast. what we you saunderstand is thee two adult males and two adult females shot. no lookout or motive or identities of any of t

so we have a dense fog advisory for early this morning for the southern parts of the shenandoah valley and a bighunk of northern-central virginia. most of the metro area just warm nufz where we havengh enhere we haven't had to worry about too much fog. as long as you're closer to the road glareave som this morning. plenty of sunshine today. clouds mixing in later i day. rain chances today remain delightfully low. that rain across the upper midwest does have intentions on coming here, especially for the second half of your weekee. letalk you through it on future weather here. a fair amount of sunshine early today, but we have a bit of an easterly component to the wind. laterrther east you go today towards the bay, they have a little bit more in the way of cloud cover. if you're going out on the eastn shore, there's a chance for a stray shower our two today. that could also be the case across southern maryland. here's 4:00 in the afternoon. rain chances today are generally under 20%. i'm not talking about it a whole heck of a lot. but there could be the isolated little shower chance toda

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especially for my friends in the shenandoah valley. this is what we're talking about. hester through front royal mond tuesday, possible heavy rain. leesburg, culpeper, those areas moderate rain for the track of florence for monday and tuesday. but around the d.c. area colombia, the d.c. metro area showers and coastal flooding is the same for st. mary's county and areas in southern maryland. >> i think right getting word there's a press conference regarding fema. >> theemnants of florence make their way into the southern and central appalachians,iversnd streams flowing out of the mountains will experience moderate to major flooding. the details of this will become more clear early next week. rivers will stay in flood stage for an extended period of time. the next update from the national hurricane center will be issued at 11:00 eastern time. >> good morning. noaa is moving into response and recovery mode. the weather service forecast office in this particular area of north carolina and south carolina have been dealing with some significant flash flooding. i'dike to take

a little fog ross par of central virginia in the shenandoah valley. no real weather related travele ishis morning. 71 in arlington 64 at dulles airport. temperatures generally in the low 70s across most of prince george's county a southern maryland. the daily grade for today, a-plus for your weather grade today. 82 degrees, a fair amount of sunshine. not much, ifhi an, in the way of a rain chance. what to put the kids in today, well, back to shorts and sunglasses. don't forget that sun block as well. a good looking day today and a go night for baseball tonight down at nats ballpark. game time temperatures in the 70s. let's go to melissa and pdoase t tell me there's trouble on u.s. 50. >> outer loop afr 50, aittle bit of an issue. two left lanes get by the work zone there. he rest of the beltway looks good. as we look at 270 from fredrick down to the spur, going a little quick here. 72 miles per hour is going to get you there in 25 minutes as you're headed southbound. northbound, no worries here morning. you're looking good on 270 northbound eastbound s

most of these are scooting toward the eastern shore and winchest and shenandoah valley. s with frontal system. that frontal system will stall across the areas we head through th reminder of the weekend. mid 70s. increase in chances of rain. more rai. >>> and that's you lat forecast. guys. >> thank you, dylan. still to come, a campaign ad with the twist at the end we can pretty much guarantee you have never seen before. ec baldwin ready to return to "saturday night live" and play president trump? [ phone rings ] hi, tom. hey, how's the college visit? you remembered. it's good. does it make the short list? you remembered that too. yeah, i'm afraid so. knowing what's important to you... it's okay. this is what we've been planning for. thanks, bye. that's what's important to us. it's why 7 million investors work with edward jones. ( ♪ ) stop dancing around the pain that's keeping you awake. advil pm gives tossing and turning a rest and silences aches and pains. fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer with advil pm. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the things that matter most happen one morning and

the afternoon here's a tiny chance for some of those showers in ohio now to make it down into the shenandoah valley. they stay away from the d.c. metro usarea, but know if you're traveling i-81 or towards prap hannah county or culpepper county, you have a slighthance forgetting a rain drop. temperatures well above erage. average now at 78 degrees. the next four days all well above average. next chance for some showers that will roll in on sunday. ten day forecast next half hour. for now let's go over to first four traffic. >>ood morning. taking a look at roads. parkway.d b.w. just before nasa, but as we zoom ut, thank you, brad, for circling for us. you can see where the crash was on the left shoulder. as we zoom outou can see the delays headed southbound. it should get betterretty quickly. for now it's a 3 and a half mile backup. big delay for folks. if you have to take the b.w. parkway southbnd, backed up. piney branch road closed between east-west highway and eastern avenue, large tree down. that will stay that w the rush hour is what they're telling us this morning. outer loop between co

thick fog in parts of the shenandoah valley. utside today. s in the upper 70s and low 80s. return to sunshine later today. a nice day. saturday's outdoor plans are probably safe. sunday's outdoor plans, not so much. >ge you. the latest news and weather any time in the nbc wash

seeing road closures throughout blue ridge and the shenandoah valley. turn around, don't drown. ee it to the by 8:00, most of the activity off toward the east.ti we'll ce to see more showers in there tonight and into the day tomorrow we expect more shower activity there as ll. an % channel of showers. then we see some show nice sunshine. wednesday, thursday, friday, we get into the 70s to start next week. some shower activity but not nearly as bad as what we've got out theretoday. >> all right. thank you. >>> we've controversy. judge brett kavanaugh will have another hearing. and the vote scheduled for this thursday will be delayed. next monday, kavanaugh and the woman who accused him of sexual assault will testify at a public hearing. the woman's name is dr. christine blase ford. her accusation dates back to the 1980shen she was a student. he strenuously denies the >>> thousands of fans were displeased with the game. the home opener not great for the home the lowest attendance in the 21-year htory of fedex field. mo than 21,000 from last scene's opener. the play on the field, n

from the shrpb dough, then -- shenandoah and jessica west of harper's ferry. that is the plan that he draws up. the confederates begin to execute there the union army is on hing across maryland and september 12 the leading elements river and occupy frederick. september 13 the army of potomac begins to close on frederick and the town and some of the troops river south of the town the 27th indiana. they march into the field and ridgement stacks arms and n.c.o.'s look down and see an envelope. pick it up. paper igars in it and wrapped around it. i have it tell you there is pretty awards. the army of northern virginia issue armies rom headquarters in envelopes rapid around cigars, or orders around the cigars. strange. be that as it may, they find a spaniecial er with orders 191 the areas from to d.h.l.rs everybody points fingers as to who lost this. there entire affair reeffects well on the way of did business at army northern virginia headquarters. they should have known that that order order, there should have been a d.l.l. will received it and signed for it. her

mid to upper 60s around the city.he low 60s in shenandoah valley with the heavier rain coming in later in the day. that's it foremperatures today. there's your planner. your commute, maybe not a wet ride in, but more likely a wet ride home today. >> thank you, chuck. not looking forward to that. right now, here is an issue we have on the r ods. just got the phone with police. they're saying that one lane is now getting by. this i greenbelt southbound bw parkway near greenbelt road. we did have all traffic stopped because of this vehle fire. it's a car fire. they say one lane is now getting by. beltway, inner loop and outer ro loop, no pblems there. white's ferry closed today, high water on the potomac the reason there. and5 here in virginia, you can see northbound and southbound rolling along just fine. >> melissa, thank you. >>> is 5:02. just hours before what could be a contentious and historic hearing on capitol hill, another woman has come forwaremaccusing sucourt nominee brett kavanaugh of sexualnd mist. this makes four women all making allegations that judge kavanaugh has denied.

any time in the shenandoah valley,e'll see many storms get underway. but really, you were saying about 8:00, 9:00. after 10:00. then behind the frontal system the temperatures start to drop, drop.umidity start to looking a lot cooler and even into the weekend. >> withhe roller coaster temperatures, 60s, near 80s today. tomorrown the mid 80s. a good chance of storms. a 30% collapse showers thursday and friday. sunday looking good. 75 degrees there. andhat looks like it wants to stick around. and you can stick around sunday not monday, tuesday. i'm focusingy eyes, i'm focusing on the sun, guys. >> focus on this. >> it's supposed to be 59 degrees sunday night. 59 degrees?t >> t could be really nice. >> i think so. >> open the windows. focus on the sunshine. focus. >> thank you. >> there i a big sail happening but not everybody is into it. michael kors is buying the italian brand versace. the price tag, more than $2 billion. it is known for bold,lamorous designs. mike kors indicators to m an stream hotel at much lower prices. >> fashionistas are all over so

it's goi to be a cloudy and rainy day, already rang birthday and more n the shenandoah valley now. of the flood warning there for the rock creek park area. be on the lookout forpe that. 70s now. we will be around 80 degrees for a hi >>> 8:30 on tuesday morninr septembe 18th. nice to have you out here on the plaza or watching at home. a b dutiful fall. good to have you along with yod moment. l i belie i do. i amking for thes. middleton oh, the middletons. hello. owod mornin how are you? >> good, are you? >> this is a big day for you. what's your name? >> asia. >> and? >> jacob. >> and this little guy? >> dominic. >> not a big fan of cig melvin right now, dominic. i know. happy birthday. it's a big birthday. you are a super fan of the show, so much s that when you were going into labor you asked? >> an epidural and you guys. >> she asked for an epidural and "the today show" as she was going into labor eight months ago. thank you so much for stopping by. >> thank y dominic, we will kee down for kau, o buddy? there he is. we are going to quiet down. >> oh! he is a dol. >> we have anothe

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as i was talking about the visibility down quite a bit, t itough montgomery county and through the shenandoah valley. i expect the numbers to go dow abit. i saw fog in d.c. early this morning. the heaviest r wn isl to the north of us. we are looking at just a few light showers out there.ro remnants gordon still hanging out. look at this right here. that's gordon. what's going to happen is this is going to continue to move up toward maine, the new england area, but we are going to see heavier rain out of that and that's going to be on tap for us tomorrow. go.in, here we 6:00 a.m. a few showers possible. but look at this. we're socked in.av we plenty of clouds out there. areas of drizzle. areas of light rain. a lot of dry timut there today. heavier rain moves in later tonight, and then we will have some heavy rain through the overnight. showers possible through the today tomorrow, but again, heavy rain likely, and then we'll see maybe a few thunderstorms even as we get into sunday night and possibly into monday. shower continue o monday. today 60s and 70s. dry times but plenty o clouds. i want

having to fight simultaneously on two fronts in virginia along the richmond petersburg corridor in the shenandoah valley, her operatives provided key information on the movement of confederate reinforcements back and forth between lee's army and in the last. -- west. there's been to have he was insight to howt he was moving them. being transferred to be valley, grant could strike plus at the richmond consensus conversely when the unit underground is able to say divisions were to arrive in richmond. charity can strike. this is a set of tactical insight. it cannot be emphasized enough this limited stuff. men were moving back and forth between these two fronts. in truth got on her off the railroad cars, that was information the thought grant should have. van lou and her fellow unionists knew they relied on this information. they relied on military intelligence. also for assessment of the political atmosphere and living condition in the rebel capital of richmond. together, unionist reports from the last year of the war provide it picture of increasing desolation as grant is laying siege to it. rampan

and we saw 20 inches of rain toward the shenandoah valley with isabel. so hopefully that's not something we'llsee. 81 degrees on tuesday, 84 wednesday and thursday withed isolhances of showers and storms but tracking florence, right on into early nextek this will have an impact on our yafrlt how big? that's the question. that's what we'll beatching so close. >> stay with us. changes used to affect schools and changes made by the schools. >> it was great to find out.e f the me at the end day is an indication. >>> coming up at 5:00,sc tching, growling, the walls of a local home practically alive. >> infested with bats. >> i gave birth june 4thhe and bats arrived the week i arrived get to the ross fall fashion evrat... ...and get thes you want... check this out. ...at "oh, yeah" prices. from the latest trndds to your favorite b it feels even better when you find them for less. at the ross fall fashion event. yes for less. z2ydoz z16fz y2ydoy y16fy you know when you're at ross and you ...for how much?.. yes. that's yes for less. fa's best accessories areen b

and this is likes areas of the piedmont into north carolina, into parts of the blue ridge, the shenandoahss is really, really critical. so this is going to be something that will probably continue to be tweaked in the next couple of hours and the next couple of days, as the system slows down. >> and tom, you mentioned houston. houston saw massive flooding last year when it was hit by hurricane harvey. how does that terrain there compare? >> houston has problems, kate. sometimes if you get a 5, 6, 7-inch rainfall, but that condition -- harvey was a named storm for almost a week. it was feeding off its own rainfall. this is different in pa way, because, yes, it is marshy and it may do that, with but some of these areas we're watching, from wilmington down to southport, you're looking 9 to 10-feet surge smooumoving into the area staends upward. the angle of the coastline is what's most detrimental to this part of the u.s. >> tom, thanks for laying it out, i really appreciate it. >>> "outfront" for us next, bracing for a national health crisis. how north carolina's pig farms could lead to a to

the high terrain, when you get up toward raliegh, into the shenandoah, all of the community that is live in that topography, from the blue ridge down to the northern part of the smokies. really a big concern, dropping 10, 15, 20 inches of rain. it's a multifaceted problem, it's quite a distance away, still looks to be late thursday. it could fluctuate north or south, i want everyone to know what evacuation zone you are in so you can heed the warnings. >> heed those warnings. i know you're going to be watching it. >> there's another developing story tonight. shooting the messenger. president trump and the white house lashing out tonight against two individuals, two people who have come out with scathing critiques of this president. ledgen daretry journalist bob woodward and the senior administration official behind the anonymous new york times op ed. the president focused not on their message, but the messengers. trump tweeting five times today about woodward and the claims inside the explosive tell all, which hits book stores tomorrow. the president calling woodward a liar. a democratic

any little chance for rai today comes across parts of the shenandoah valley. 7:00.between 4:00 and mostyt .f o oshodathy,lle wi ten degrees co tomorrow and ten degrees cooler than that for the weekend. both days this weekend have high chances for rain,, big if, florence were to make it to the east coast, we would watch it in a thursday/friday time frame. >> chopper 4 over this problem here. i this 270 southbound. you see the delay in the main and local lanes headed southbound because of that. calve calverton, all lanes open now. 270 southbound has other pain as you're headed out of the urbanah area and s a little slow because of an earlier problem. inner loop and outer loop, the slow spots will be up top there. travel times, 270 from german town to the spur will take you about 0 minutes. top of the beltway, going just 21 miles per hour. 66 inbound, going 33 miles per hour. and 95 north quantico to the beltway, 38 miles per hour. listen to wtop 103.5 f.m. when you hop i your car today. >>> a lot of people love chocolate. it's one o their favorit treats, including me. there's a great event

operating in the shenandoah valley, used materials from the commission for constructing a chapel that doubled as a schoolhouse. in the evenings, the soldiers gathered for preaching and prayer meetings. during the day, it became a schoolroom. according to reverend edward p smith, who had become the commission's field secretary, forms and rude desks were on the walls. from morning until night, from 100-200 boys in blue set and read and wrote under direction of the professor and assistance. the chaplain parlayed the popularity of his basic lessons into an opportunity for evangelism. when the school day ended, preaching and prayer soon followed. it is important to know that instruction and conversion were not restricted to white soldiers. in the army of james, large numbers of black troops were eager to learn. they encouraged the general in command to propose building schoolhouse facilities for these soldiers, if the christian commission agreed to provide the books and instructors. sensing, the commission accepted the proposal and furnished the resources. the schoolhouse is declared the a

temperatures are into the low 60s in parts of the shenandoah valley. mid-70s on the western shore of the csapeake bay. low 60s as you get up towards germantown. 64 in new market, maryland. your planner for today's commute could little bit of sun glare on the roads for you eastbound commuters morning. some fog across parts of central tirginia. a really pleasay coming your way. watch out, that fog could be a little thick here this morning. visibility down under a mile for parts o sthenandoah valley and central virginia. one of my weather watchers on twitter near front royal just said the fog was real thick there. so b on the lookout. otherwise, look at how nice and quiet the weather is up and down the eastern seaboard today. that n unsettled weatherthe upper midwest, that is what's going toer in interfere with ou plans particularl on sunday. a nice dry monday tay. maybe a spot on the eastern shore. also an isolated drop in the mountains. not really much of a rain chance around the city. partly cloudy overnight tonight. during the day morrow, a little more

simultaneously on two fronts in virginia, along the richmond petersburg csrdoba this quarter and the shenandoah valley, van lew operatives provided key information on the movement of confederate reinforcements back and forth between easily -- lee's army in the east and the other army in the west. so when the underground is able to report to grant, but the troops are leaving the richmond parameter and being transferred to the valley, grants can strike blows at the richmond defenses. conversely, when they are able to say that divisions of relief have arrived in richmond, charity can strike low. again, it cannot be emphasized enough that this was primitive. van lew new that chess pieces were being moved. men were moving back and forth between both fronts. and when troops gone on -- got on and off, that was information she thought grant should have. van lew and her fellow unionists new that grant relied on this information, and that he relied on them not only for military intelligence, but also for assessments of the political atmosphere, and living conditions in the besieged rebel capital of richm