55 accu weather seven day forecast. 82 tomorrow with more sunshine. 80 friday gets better into the weekndhighs dropping into the upper 70s. that's weather. erin is back with traffic this morning. >> a bunch of new issues. >> oh, boy. >> oh, boy. >> exciting. >> so excited. unfortunately we have an outer loop crash at bw parkway delays back to 450 so you can see the outer loop there really start to go back up once you get off 50 tee if you continue on through cheverly inside the beltway backed up if you continue on the outer loop you're backed up. so that's not so great. gw parkway northbound new crash blocking the right lane near spout run parkway. because of that, northbound delays building back to the memorial bridge. southbound side typical volume constitution avenue northwest two right lanes blocked at seventh street northwest. metro bus is experiencing delays to archives and foggy bottom because of that crash. traffic slowing as well if on the freeway case bridge there's a crash on the westbound side right lane blocked. heavy traffic across the 14th street bridge inbound 11th street

that on day when the woman who was killed over the weeknd was remembered in a memorial service.ther heyer's mother with an empassioned plea for others to follow her daughter's example. >> i'd rather have my child. by golly if i got to give her up we're going to make it count. >> pressure on the president continues to build. after his comments that both sides were to blame for the clashes in charlottesville scene more defections from his business counsels to the point where the president decided to simply disband them, tweeting -- rather than putting pressure on the business people of the manufacturing council and strategy and policy forum i am ending both. thank you all. >> democrats broadly condemned the president and while some republicans have carefully joined the chorus others in the administration were supportive including secretary of veterans affairs david shulkin. >> i was with president trump on saturday as these events were unfolding. he was upset. he was outraged. >> reporter: controversial presidential adviser steve bannon gave a rare interview to the american pros s

the rallies and protests this weeknd... saturday in san francisco...and >>> we've been talking about the rallies and protests scheduled for this weekend. saturday? san francisco and sunday in berkeley. the right-wing group in the east bay was denied a permit but they will show up anyway. and counterprotesters expected to confront them. jodi hernandez is in berkeley for us. >> reporter: we learned late today that the city of berkeley denied the group to hold their rally here. the city manager said the group filed its request too late and failed to submit an explanation of their security arrangements and didn't submit the needed photos of the organizers of the event. but as you mentioned, the group plans to hold its rally anyway. >> we are saying you have to fight. so fight from where you stand. >> reporter: racial justice leaders gathered on the steps of berkeley city hall this morning. and a call to the community to counter demonstrate. >> do everything in your power to stop them. >> we are going to chase these people out of

it malfunctioned this comes after heavy rain put the city underwater over the weeknd with severe floodingere's more rain in the forecast and if they did not fix the system in time the flooding could be very disastrous. >> google t canceling company wide town hall meeting. it was supposed to address diversity and gender issues in the company. after a distribution of a controversial memo written by former google engineer. he wrote that men are biol biologically superior to women when it comes to tech and leadership. google says the meeting was canceled because many of the questions set to be asked at that town hall had been leaked. >>> well do you have your lottery ticks yet i'll be purchasing mine later today. two major jackpots in the united states continue to grove jackpot for tonight's mega millions drawing increased to whopping $393 million. and the powerball jackpot for saturday's drawing stands at $356 million. so keep that in mind. if you're considering playing. >>> take look at this incredible video right now. a car plumping from the seventh floor of a parking garage in austin texa

dip low says another time he had a session with her and future and was -- also invited the weeknd thatith, this sounds like a reggae song at the airport and she laughed. >> oops. >> he says said he was disappointed. rihanna responded publicly took a screen shot of a paper magazine article that pick up on that story posted it on her instagram page on august 8th it said my bad. >> my bad. >> go ahead. august 8. >> my bad. >> she capture the snap along with the hash tag -- >> with the crying laughing emoji. there you go. >> she doesn't like your music. okay. move on. it doesn't matter. finally, you don't have to be steadman to have oprah for dinner. ut-oh. the former talk show host is now launching her own line of comfort food including refrigerated soups and side dishes she teamed one with craft heinz ps i didn't know they teamed up craft and heinz but they did. you know how i feel about heinz for the new venture called -- that's good. the comfort foods will include a healthy twist despite the venture has no connection to winfrey's weight watchers deal. she does what she wants to do. >>

complete a home visit sounds really lengthy and long but we can usually get it done in the week by the weekndt your dog. >> that's good on your half, too. if you're going to adopt a dog we want to make sure they're going to good homes. >> yes. >> families are ready for that. >> exactly if folks want to take a look where can they find you? >> on all of the different social forums. and, yeah, visit our website at lucky dog >> he can't length. thank you so much for coming in today. we hope you all find great great homes. they're making themselves right at home here. [ laughter ] >> all right. i think we'll do little bit of weather real quick. we do have some things happening in the world of weather. aww i'm going to miss you guys. thanks for coming in. hopefully they all get great great homes here. >>> quick look at tropical tracker because we want to talk about harvey down in texas not yet in texas within the gulf of mexico. it's about to cause trouble in texas a strength they know storms winds of 65 -- yeah it looks like 65 miles an hour. i'm sorry. it's going to continue to track its way towa

i like the weeknd. >> hi, indicate lip good morning. >> that's a lot of good news. 8:00 veep a coupleng in. inbound new york avenue crash blocks the right lane at north capitol street. always a difficult area for commuting for coming in out of town. and so that's going to be jammed pretty much from north capital street it look back at least a few blocks to very heavy traffic on new york avenue. there always is this time inbound we've got that accident only compounding the traffic. westbound southeast southwest freeway after the 11th street bridge an accident that has been cleared to the left shoulder but you still got at least moderate delays extend across the bridge back down on to 295. 95 southbound we're going all the way up towards baltimore right now we've got a crash that blocks the two right lanes at route 100 here on the southbound side of 95. the delays are extensive jammed all the way back up to the baltimore beltway coming out of baltimore towards d.c. on 95 got big problems there. once you break free of that& accident you'll start to hit the d.c. traffic just the congestio

plowed his car into a crowd of people protesting the white supremacistrally in charlottesville over the weeknd police records 20-year-old james fields, jr., was previously accused of beats his disable mother and threatening her with a knife. former high school teachers said fields admired adolph hitler. he's due back in court august 25th. >>> north carolina protesters toppled a bronze statue of a confederate soldier during a rally against racism. protesters used a rope to pull down the nearly century old confederate soldier's monument. last night's rally was in response to the deadly white nation lotsville over the weekend. violence in virginia has sparked a nationwide debate of removing symbols of the confederacy there's a law in north carolina that protects them. >> in baltimore the mayor said she wants tore poe confederate statutes from the city. baltimore sun reports the mayor has talk to two contractors about the removal of four monuments. city council member brandon scott agrees. >> we should ever never had a monuments that honoring traders to our country and we shall just immediately de

the rain won't ruin our weeknd, right. >> absolutely not. have overnight showers and thunderstorms, dawn, then clearing. lower humidity and really comfortable for the upcoming weekend. but well off to the west right now, around harrisburg moving toward lebanon, and pottsville we're looking at some severe thunderstorm warnings clipping northwestern sections of lancaster county until 11:45. so some gusty winds and torrential downpours with these slow movers out ahead of the cold front that will bring our weekend relief. so let's put a tracker on the slow movers. you can see moving toward mount pocono 11:40. bethlehem 12:23 and moving toward lower providence after 1:00 a.m. that's how slow this activity is moving on off to the east at about 20 miles per hour. behind the front drier air, more comfortable conditions. a lot of this activity will start to diminish as it moves toward the poconos and the lehigh valley overnight tonight. so we'll go hour by hour. by 5:00 a.m., you can see it moving through sections of montgomery bucks county chester,

un sanctions effort over the week weeknd may only go so far.op shop would seem to involve pressuring china to lean on north korea. >> this is very much a showdown with china we're not worried about north korea in zen. they cannot stand up to the international community if they didn't have backing. >> reporter: then there's the question of kim how far will he go? because any north korean launch would almost certainly invite a u.s. counter strike. >> there is always a military option. that's why you pay $600 billion a year. um -- [ laughter ] >> to have military option it is an ugly, ugly option. >> reporter: and lawmakers back home during this august recess are weighing on this some of them calling the president's words reckless, blustery and provocative and possibly bringing the us closer to serious confrontation. guam delegate feels confident her island will be protected and safe. live on capitol hill, mel 93 alnwick fox5 local news. >> and thanks mel. this morning there's more president trump doubling down on his comments about north korea on

the weekend though looks fantastic. so a total air mass change as we become cooler and drier less humid. a lot of sunshine expected. it will be a beautiful weekndking up for some of the last few weekends. as we get into monday we're still going with our mostly eclipse meaning skies should be mostly clear here. mix of sun and clouds. 90 degrees so that should provide operate mal viewing in the mid afternoon hours. t showers and thunderstorms return to the forecast on wednesday. again, strong storms are possible later again today fl flooding rains but then we shall clear it out late tonight. kevin, over to you. >> thank you caitlin. >>> zip trip we like to take a moment to honor the men and women who risk it all to save others. it's a segment we call first responder friday, and this morning, erin is hanging out with the team from montgomery county fire and rescue service. erin, good morning to you. >> good morning to you, kevin it is such an hahn are in to be out here in gaithersburg chief goldstein is joining me with station i was, right. >> station eight and 32. >> and this is one of the busiest departments in the country. tell us a little bit

the 80s and a dry weekend to look forward. you got outdoor plans this weekend going to be beautiful weeknd for it. all right. talk to jim with the smoke house. caitlin, i'll toss it back inside >> we'll check back with in a little bit. meantime a few accidents just popped up fast and furiously. one theirs eastbound dulles toll road 2672 left lanes are block after the fairfax county parkway but we've got delays from the parkway and you're jammed just about all the way back to 28. outer loop crash after green belt this takes out the left lane here in maryland and you've got delays on the outer loop all the way back to 450 annapolis road into the lanham area getting on to the outer loop it's going to take you some time. finally, marc train delays at penn brunswick and union stations. go to mta maryland if you use marc just about all of them are on a delay. some are cancel. all right. that is look at the roads. steve and allison, back to you. >> caitlin, thank you very much 8:37 right now. still to cup this houringing. >> grocery stores are gearing up for the fall with the unofficial flavor of the season. >> i t