70 tomorrow, 77 in cumberland, mid-70s in hagerstown, upper 70s winchester, low 80s in culpeper, warrenton, manassas, leesburg, reston, might not make 80 tomorrow. you will on sunday. downtown 80, 80 in rockville,

. 72 warrenton to fredericksburg. 69 at pax river. watch the cloud cover on future weather. as i take you through the next 48 hours, watch the clouds move out of here. then as their skies clear, that's going to allow some fog to form. and i do think it will be throughout our area. areas worse maybe around warrenton, fredericksburg, charlottesville. this afternoon, mostly sunny, to partly sunny sky. maybe a few sprinkles will try and kick off but i doubt any make their way down to us. just too dry. so our model here showing that, our future weather showing that. but we're dry tomorrow. could pick up a shower or two on wednesday, and that even during the morning as well as the afternoon. here's frederick, hagerstown, leesburg. here is your afternoon, 3:00, 4:00, in annapolis and even the evening hours. a rain threat for midweek and again at the end of the week. impact forecast for tomorrow is a low because of the patchy fog. so we're not going to take it up to moderate. temperatures tomorrow, warmer than today from 77 degrees areas like

warrenton has been in and out of the fog. a half-mile there and headed up to york in pennsylvania, they currently have half-mile visibility. we're in for a fantastic day with temps in the 40s and 50s in most spots. by 9:00 50s to low 60s. lunch time fantastic. a great day for recess too for the kids. 60 to about 70. this afternoon winds will turn southeast at 5 miles an hour. highs in the mid-70s. chamber of commerce style weather today. over to bemply. >> reporter: we're checking -- beverly. >> reporter: we're checking out the ride for travelers on 395. northbound a crash at washington boulevard has been blocking the right half of the roadway. as a result, delays are back toward shirlington. word after new crash northbound 95 in springfield. we'll keep you up to date on that. back to you. >>> some schools have been closed because officials in pennsylvania are searching for a man who shot two state troopers just outside of scranton. >> one trooper was killed. the other one seriously injured. now the search for the suspect is

the heaviest of these right now right around the warrenton area. i would not be surprised as these move off towards the east, however, to pick up a little bit of lightning, in the way of heavier rain. we're not talking about strong storms. all of those stay just down to our south. and i do mean just to our south. look at roanoke. seeing a line of storms there, lightning associated with those. this is all part of the cold front that is now drifting across our area. and the rain is really only one side of the story. the other side is going to be the fact that we're dealing with some much cooler temperatures. 9:30 tonight, most of the rain out of here. maybe southern maryland seeing showers. tomorr waking up to some cloud cover, some sun to the north but then watch what happens during the day. we get cloudy again as another little system moves over. so i'm expecting a lot in the way of cloud cover. some sunshine. and what i think should be a nice friday afternoon. saturday, a different story. if you have plans on saturday, this is a forecast you want

notice heavier activity showing up around warrenton and headed toward 95 and just to the north of townig storm. there are no warnings, but they're heavy. that's a heavy storm south of manassas going to cross over in quantico across 95. we'll go up to baltimore first. now we're in pretty good shape, some showers south of the stadium. that's where the pamstadium is located, shower down toward glen burnie, that's moving away. that's good news. look at this storm. it's a very heavy storm now around college park headed to the south and east. get ready if you're going out east west highway headed toward kettering and hardesty the next half hour and so, will produce heavy rain and possibly street flooding. we'll come back and look ahead to the weekend. right now we'll send it up 95, derek and jan. >> reporter: thanks, top. you mentioned tweeting there and you can tweet with us as well. we'll tweet with you all night #tnf @wusa9. >> reporter: we'll hope for the sake of those fans playing beer pong and our own mola lenghi that topper says the rain stays south. we'll see you in just a minute. >

upper 70s in winchester, low 80s in culpeper, near 80s in leesburg, warrenton, manassas and reston. just great, 80 downtown, rockville, gaithersburg, upper 70s by the water and no wind to speak of, nice weekend to be on the bay. 65 on the day planner at 9:00, upper 70s and sunshine by 1:00. beautiful tomorrow, beautiful again sunday, low 80s, still nice on monday, got a shower on there, still a good day, temps around 80. next seven days still 80 on tuesday, upper 70s on wednesday, kind of trying to hang our hat on something thursday and friday, a couple showers possible, but right now not a huge system heading our way. >> looking good, top. >>> the nats' last regular season game is sunday. after that it's all about the playoffs. in tonight's inside pitch holden kushner talks about the highlight of this past season clinching the nl east. >> reporter: it was right here at nats park where the team celebrated their 2012nl east crown. this time around it was in atlanta where they celebrated. so what was it like inside the clubhouse? i talked to some players to let us know. >> just breath

some of those are on the heavy side he is -- especially around warrenton. this is the one just northwest of frederick that could make it to m&t bank stadium, doesn't look heavy, headed toward mount airy in the next few minutes by 7:12. by far and away, this is the heaviest activity headed towards nokesville at 5:19, daly city ataz 6:45. don't see much lightning with it or wind, but that's pretty heavy rainfall and these storms will become heavier as they move south and east, talked about this last night. the best chance for widespread activity and certainly heavy activity will be south and east of town, southern maryland, charles county, st. mary's county. some showers and storms tonight, best chances again south of town. dry for the kickoff, cooler late in the game and much cooler to end the week tomorrow. here's a look at futurecast. 6:00 tonight there are the showers right around m&t bank stadium, nothing heavy, just shades of green, which is light, but tailgaters may have some showers. by 8:00 showers are gone. clouds are in place, but they're gone and

warrenton, 62 degrees. we'll look at the chillier lows moving in late tonight as we say hello to autumn later the. now a look at construction around. here's melissa. . >>> tom, we have construction of course. first of all, 66 westbound at lichaj, the left lane is blocked there. 95 northbound, two lanes blocked as you head through dumfries and it opens back up again. both expected to be out of the way by 5:00 this morning. no major problems. a wider look at things. no problems inner loop, outer loop. everything looking quite nice for us this morning. 95, fairfax county. also moving right along. follow us on twitte twitter @first4traffic. >>> the trial begins for a former day care worker accused of abusing toddlers in woodbridge. she helped assault three toddlers at minnieland academy. she and sarah jordan stomped on toes and covered their mouths with blankets. . >>> police arrested a man in connection with a deadly stabbing in the district. mark bowser jr. is charged with murder of 39-year-old tracy womack.

we have a quarter mile in petersburg and a half mile in warrenton that will slow you folks down. the rest of news pretty good shape with highs from the mid to a few upper 70s. so a really fine start to the week. annual dray ya and mike? >> thanks -- andrea and mike? >> thanks, howard. >>> secretary of state john kerry is in paris today for a conference of world leaders pressing for a global statistic to fight isis. on sunday secretary kerry said some arab nations have offered to launch air strikes beginning the militant group. >> but so far the u.k. has held back from authorizing british air strikes, even after isis beheaded british aid worker david haines and threatened to kill another citizen. this week congress will take up president obama's $500 million request to train and equip moderate syrian rebels. >>> two out of control wildfires in california are forcing hundreds of residents to flee from their homes. one blaze in central california led to the evacuation of roughly a thousand residents from 400 homes. >> farther north a wildfire about 60 miles east of sacramento has fo

warrenton, leesburg, frederick.round fredericksburg, leonardtown, annapolis, areas near the bay, there will be some fog early tomorrow morning. chantilly, lake ridge, quantico, right around i-95, again, you might want to get an early start tomorrow. that fog probably burning off around 9:00 a.m. in the morning. and that's when i think we're going to have more sun. so at the bus stop early on, because of the cool conditions and the fog, i'm using caution for recess, for dismissal time. we've got the green light. it's a go with some sunshine and higher temperatures than what we have seen today. 69 degrees, your commuter forecast between 6:00 and 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. tomorrow. 82 and even a little humidity. so if that ac is not working in your car, might be a little sticky and uncomfortable. we take it up to 82. 83 degrees for a high temperature tomorrow. as we get into the end of the week, 81. your weekend, 75, 77. best day out of the weekend right now is sunday, because there to be a few passing showers on

culpeper the north side of 80, 79 in warrenton, manassas and leesburg. if you don't make 80 tomorrow, you guys will on sunday, probably 79 also in reston and tysons. downtown 80 on saturday, 80 in rockville and gaithersburg and 80 to low 80s in through southern maryland. by the water upper 70s, but what a great weekend to be on the water, no wind and temperatures in the mid-70s to upper 70s both days. the day planner, 59 at 7:00 saturday morng, 65 at 9:00. look how fast it warms up, 73 at 11:00 and 78 by 1 p.m. next three days beautiful tomorrow, beautiful again on sunday and then still nice monday, a shower possible but not going to ruin the whole day. next seven days still warm on tuesday, 80s, upper 70s on wednesday, maybe a shower on thursday and friday and as dave pointed out, the nats playoffs will begin a week from today. we'll be right back after this. >>> finally tonight who in the world would earn a check for $1.45 million just forget about it? >> that is what happened to tennis player carolyn wozniacki. she lost the u.s. open championship to s

going on weather- wise except the muggy atmosphere over us with 68 in orange and some fog in the warrenton area and in petersburg, west virginia. with 68 in smithburg. 74 in prince frederick and 75 in reedville going into the upper 80s and low 90s. full weekend forecast coming up in a few minutes. back to you. >>> thanks howard. here's what's in the news right now. the third american missionary to become infected with ebola virus is being flown to the united states for care. >> dr. rick sacra contracted the disease while delivering babies in liberia. he's going to undergo treatment at the nebraska medical center in omaha. the ebola outbreak has now killed about 1900 people. >>> former virginia governor bob mcdonnell and his wife have been found guilty. the mcdonnells were found guilty on 11 of the 13 charges the governor against him. >> his wife maureen stands convicted of nine charges. during the trial, businessman johnnie williams who was given immunity admitted to providing if the former couple with more than $177,000 the loans, gifts and trips all in exchange for political benefits fro

cold spot in warrenton. low 50s. low 50s to near 50 in shenandoah on this thursday morning.s afternoon, a dramatic warmup. partly cloudy sky. a few chance of a few scattered sprinkles in the afternoon. gorgeous day on friday. mid-50s in the morning. warming up for the weekend. looking terrific saturday and sunday. we'll have warm afternoons and cool mornings. high near 80 on saturday. up into the mid-80s. a small chaps of a shower in the afternoon. a greater chance of showers sunday night, into monday morning is the way it looks right now. then drying out monday afternoon is the timing on that. that's our next chance of any significant needed rain. not a lot coming from this. but maybe a half inch or so. drying out mid week next week. highs reaching the 70s tuesday, wednesday. here's alexis davies in for melissa. >> we have good news out of gaithersburg. the earlier water main break between russell and lost knight road has been reopened. the crews have cleaned up that area. looking good. no delays to speak of. as you continue southbound 270 to the outer loop, into maryland,

hagerstown, martinsburg, maybe 78 in winchester, 81 in culpeper and knocking on the door of 80 in warrenton, manassas, reston and fairfax. 80 downtown, gaithersburg and rockville. great weekend to be on the bay, warm and no small craft advisories. day planner by 9:00 warm, sunshine, low 70s by 11:00 and 1:00 upper 70s. beautiful tomorrow, beautiful sunday, 82, maybe a few clouds south and east sunday and yes, i have a drop here, but we can call the day nice, temperatures around 80. next seven days, 80 on tuesday, back to 70s on wednesday and mid-70s thursday and friday, a couple showers possible, not a very organized system and again on sunday ravens home, great weather, more like baseball as the nats finish up their ready for a great career? devry university's merit-based career catalyst scholarship can help you get started with up to $20,000 for qualified new students. apply now and start working toward your career, like devry grad, shelly joseph. as a student at devry, a business career was my goal. this was my career training ground... my professors, were also my coaches. their guidance

leesburg, warrenton.igh temperature of 87 degrees. 30% chance of scattered storms and any of those could deliver heavy rain. we're watching saturday closely. a lot of heat. 93, yes the storms strong, potentially severe and then the heat breaks on sunday. got to love that. we've got more on the weather at 5:00. >> thanks veronica. a the woodbridge man is in jail now. he tried to kidnap a 2-year-old girl at the playground. prince william county police say patrick rooney picked the child up on a playground up. we're told the girl's 14-year-old brother stopped him before he got away. police arrested him four blocks away. they say he was drunk and he's charged with attempted abduction. >> what caused this explosion and fire on a bus heading down i-95. >> what exactly are the duties of the school crossing guards? christian wright joins was with what cross-ing kbards can and cannot do. >> when you need emergency help the weight makes seconds feel like hours but modern life puts many obstacles in the way of them

the easterly wind and the same with the temperatures. 70 degrees right now in winchester. 75 in warrenton. that east wind, close clouds, keeping things on the cool side. a few showers towards fredericksburg down i-95. there goes the windshield wipers. just a couple times, though, because just a few sprinkles and light showers coming in along with that easterly flow. we are watching the main storm system begin to move away. but this is all really from an area of high pressure to the north that's bringing in the east to northeasterly flow. we're going to watch that move out and then we'll watch this next system move in. it's going to bring a chance for severe weather into the middle part of the country tomorrow. and then it's going to transfer that energy to our area during the day on thursday and on thursday we're talking about hot and humid temperatures with a high temperature close to 91 degrees. now, tonight, once again, just a few light sprinkles, if anything. tomorrow, no real worries. could see some fog early in the morning, but that's really the only thing we're going to be seeing.

so you can see, warrenton to opal just getting sprinkle, at this time. i was standing outside on the front lawn about ten minutes ago, and not a drop landed on my head, so a lot of these light rain drops not reaching the ground now across montgomery and fairfax in the district. there's an increasing chance for the rain drops to make it to the ground as the day wears along. higher rain chances from the metro area into southern maryland. so when the kids come home, scattered light sprinkles and light rain showers. temperatures low to mid-70s. have the umbrella around just in case. tonight, the braves are in town. we need to stay in first place. beating the braves will be a great way to do it. cloudy skies. a delay is a possibility. the rain shouldn't be heavy enough to cancel the game. i think the game will be played to completion. you can see rain chances, through the remainder of the overnight hours tonight. a little chance of expanding northbound. out the door tomorrow morning. another day, umbrellas needed. start off, light to potentially moderate rain

wellelow where we were yesterday by some 15 to 20 degrees in some locations. 73 in leesburg. 76 warrentonn d.c. yesterday many areas close to the 90-degree mark. so a lot cooler. and take a look at this. 78 in d.c. 61 in pittsburgh. so we still have some cool air that's going to try to filter in across our region. a lot of cloud cover towards the west, too. and we right now are sitting in a drying patch. to the south, clouds and rain. back to the west, clouds and rain. and eventually overnight tonight and into early tomorrow, that's when we see it move into our area. the sunshine gives way to cloud cover early tomorrow morning. 6:00 tonight, no problems. get out there and enjoy it. as i mentioned earlier, take the light jacket or the sweater with you. it is going to be a little bit on the cool side. starting off tomorrow morning, on a pretty nice note. watch what happens here as we move through the morning hours. 11:00 a.m., just some cloud cover. but here come the showers back toward i-81. the showers move into the d.c. metro area, and most of the region by around 1:00, 2:00 in the after

. >> from warrenton, virginia.estion the effectiveness of a 1,000 broadside circulation to a population that cannot read by reality, the effectiveness of their inability to read and i also question the notion that white virginians, marylanders, would discuss the circulation of this broadside to their enslaved people. can you address that? >> yes, i can. one is, there is much greater literacy among the slaves in this period of time than i think we've recognized. this is probably the peak period for literacy among enslaved people. a couple of reasons. one is, it's not illegal yet to teach slaves to read and write in virginia. that will become illegal in 1832. until then, there's an actual fair amount of teaching slaves to read and write, particularly art ti sans and house slaves. the other thing is, this is also a period in which the vast majority of enslaved people in chesapeake have become christians and they are usually methodist or baptist and they are class leaders or their preachers would like many of them to b

a little more intense with shower and rain, 68 in winchester, 75 in culpeper, low to mid-70s for warrentons, leesburg, reston, tysons, probably 74, 75 downtown, 74 in gaithersburg. break this down. showers possible by 11:00. 1:00 we're only 72 with just light rain and showers, nothing heavy. we turn the tables on sunday for the home opener, mostly sunny, pleasant, a gorgeous day, temperatures in the 70s, tailgating in the 60s. in fact, 77 for a high sunday, still very nice monday, back near 80. next seven days a little cold front goes through monday night, maybe an early shower tuesday, but then nice, upper 70s, mid-70s wednesday and low 70s thursday and friday, cooler but with lots and loss of sunshine. >>> the washington nationals are in the battle for the national league's best record and the incentive having home field advantage throughout the national league playoffs. the curly ws bearing down on its second nl east crown in three years. how did they get here? that's the subject of this week's nats inside pitch. >> reporter: joined by mike rizzo here. this team through the first couple

much of fairfax county, mid to upper 80s to near 90, warrenton now is at 90 degrees. and we are going to have the heat getting into the mid 90s by mid afternoon. a look at when the heat wave will finally end. and our timing on storms today. that's all coming up in a few minutes. aaron? >> tom, thank you so much. the september slowdown, it is here. a look again for you from chopper 4. traffic was pretty heavy throughout the area during the morning rush. more school buses, cars, trucks on the roads. that means major delays for your commute on the roads and the rails. news 4 transportation reporter is live on the streets. how is traffic moving, aaron? >> definite signs that the september slowdown is here. let's look at our windshield camerri we are moving pretty well, as you would expect, for 11:03 on 395 north. over the next couple of days and weeks, you should definitely expect that the transportation picture will change. slow roll, stop and wait and wait and wait. september slowdown is starting. >> usually have to give myself a buffer of about 45 minutes because, you

leesburg, warrenton, d.c., waldorf. a few showers here. watch what happens during the afternoon. there will be more rain moving through, so occasional showers, definitely cloudy and again saturday cool. there might be a few pockets of some heavier rain at times that come through during the late afternoon, early evening hours on saturday. again, a split weekend for us. 78 your temperature for tomorrow. 77, that is it, la plata, waldorf. 79 around manassas and herndon. 76 around silver spring. and even in columbia, a high temperature tomorrow where we've got cool conditions, filtered sunshine, but no impact for tomorrow. let's take a look at the storm team, four-day forecast for your friday. 78 degrees. that puts us just below average. and as you take a look at this seven-day forecast, this is the first time we've got 70s running all the way through all seven days here. your weekend where it's 74, again on saturday. 75 degrees on sunday. it's going to start feeling a bit like fall starting tomorrow. your rain chance, again, saturday, 50% chance. mainly noon onward. the ikefall-ltem

afternoon, aiding the warm-up for later on. 59 degrees in virginia this morning, 62 in quantico. 6 warrenton, virginia. state of maryland, 66 in thurmontt. 63 in annapolis. temperatures will rise quickly thanks to all that sunshine. up into the upper 70s to near 80 degrees most of the afternoon. if you're fth be outside a lot during the course of the day, sunshine and warm. almost no impact from the weather. don't forget to put your sunblock on. storm team 4 radar, no rain in our area just yet. a couple of showers off the coast. i think that's where they're going to stay. traveling this weekend out towards the outer banks or the eastern shore, you will have a mostly cloudy weekend and a risk for rain showers, ocean city to virg virginia beach. that coast staying out to sea and not bothering us. that is welcomed news. if you have stuff to do outside today on your saturday, sunshine, 80 degrees. keep on mowing, everybody. mowing season just about done. rag weed season gets going. warmer day. chance for a little shower late in the day tomorrow. boy, do we need the rain. it has, indeed, been dry

leesburg at 64. 66 down towards warrenton. manassas, though, still on the warm side at 72 degrees. coolest spot, huntingtown at 61. the onshore flow coming off the chesapeake and atlantic is going to be on the cool side, bringing in cooler weather tomorrow and especially on thursday, i think. look at the rain toward the south. again, we're watching this storm system down here. it's going to continue to develop, and it's going to continue to move our way. as it does, it will interact with an area of high pressure to the north, that's what's going to help us create those northeasterly winds. so you'll see the clouds move in first. here is future weather. tomorrow at 8:30 in the morning the clouds are here and here comes the rain right around 4:00, 5:00, 6:00. so yes, tomorrow night around this time, you will need to have those umbrellas and you might need the big umbrellas, if you're going out, say tomorrow night around thursday morning, 2:00 a.m. that's what some of the heaviest rain could be falling. and that's going to last i think right on through early morning. thursday morning'

there it is, frederick, leesburg, warrenton, until 4:00 p.m. there it is around 2:00.d 4:00, makes its way east. not going to get a lot. so calling it scattered showers for mainly tomorrow afternoon. again, i say just full speed ahead with whatever big plans you might have. on the other side of this system, we start clearing out late tomorrow, and yes, those temperat will really start bottoming out. what kind of rain tomorrow? the big umbrella or no umbrella at all. it's going to be there in between. nothing t crazy. but yes, pack the purse-size umbrella. should be just fine for tomorrow. the high up to 74, 75 degrees. 73 around gaithersburg. around areas like hey market, 75. college park, 74 degrees. which, yeah, i know, college park university of maryland taking on uva tomorrow. so could be wet. you're going to need the poncho. for sunday right now, we've got a partly sunny sky at 75 degrees. so for game time tomorrow, let me show that forecast. partly cloudy. i think a gorgeous afternoon with light wind. temperature at 75 degrees. as we head into the early part of n

low to mid 80s winchester. 90 in culpeper, but we'll keep warrenton and manassas and reston in if the upper 80s. 89 downtown. 88 in gaithersburg and rockville. only 84 in annapolis. so, temperatures 70s to start. 75 by 9:00. a little bit better. the low this morning was 77. that's an improvement. 81 at 11:00. 85 at 1:00. now the next three days, isolated shower or thunderstorm tomorrow. mainly west. more storms on friday. per happen as yellow alert. and showers and storms on saturday. yellow alert already. temperatures in the upper 80s. now the front is going to go through. early on sunday morning, leaving us with a nice day. nice for the nats and ravens, low 80s and low 80s on monday and tuesday and back in the mid 80s on wednesday. >> starting to cool down after this weekend. some impressive video of the volcano erupting in iceland. of course, getting pictures not an easy task. a reporter drove for an hour and a half and walked for three hours with a gas mask to get these pictures. really? lava was spewing from the volcano since friday. spectacular to see, but that's a lot of work.

about 400 fewer students showed up for classes at fauquier high in warrenton today. students posted on twitter claiming today to be fight day. they later said it was a joke. school leaders say the students just wanted attention, but had extra security at the school any today, just to be safe. there have been four fights at the school over the past week. >>> well, expect some new signs at fairfax county parks starting tomorrow. no smoking signs will join the other don't signs at parks throughout fairfax county. officials will kick off the new policy and hang the first signs in annandale tomorrow morning. they will also appear at skate parks, playgrounds and athletic fields. this move follows surveys that support smoking bans in places where children are likely to be. complying with the new tobacco-free zones is voluntary. >>> a magic adventure for two local children. why they're being treated along with their moms to the trip of a lifetime at a world-class resort. >>> and he's one of the world's most eligible bachelors. new video as oscar winner george clooney and his

manassas, warrenton in the mid and upper 40s. sun just coming up. live view from the storm team 4 view tower camera. temperature 59 at reagan national. still in the 5 50s by 8:00. lots of sunshine. have your sunglasses ready. here is a look at the skycast for the morning hours. just a few wispy high clouds coming through by noon thyme. a few of the high clouds as well. during the afternoon, going mostly sunny all around the region. a lot of the cloud cover should be gone by then. i took this photo over the weekend. posted this on instagram, twitter and facebook. i'd love to see your comments too. over the next couple of days, we'll keep this dry pattern going. on thursday, afternoon highs upper 70s, upper 70s again on friday. then over the weekend, feeling a little touch of summer back. low 8 os on saturday afternoon. mid-80 s on sunday afternoon. our next chance of much-needed rain. the lawns could use it. that may not be until monday. melissa here now with breaking news and delays on the roads on this wednesday. >> still real delays in fum f s dum

warrenton at 9 is degrees. sni would not be surprised, though, if some are able to make their way over the mountains and then in towards portions of northern virginia. that's what we'll be watching. right now the strongest storms in through frederick county, virginia, back down through harding and ham shire county, west virginia, and down to the shenandoah valley. down to the south a little in the way of thunder and light nipping down around st. mary's county and west moreland county. haetsdz up along the northern neck and down towards portions of southern maryland. you're seeing that rain now. once again, we could see some in and around the portions of the metro area a little later this evening. it's all part of a system that's right over the area now. tomorrow another system moves in, and that system is going to create some problems, i think. hot and very humid conditions with storm chances late in the day. >> we've got the c circumstance du soleil, and ed sheerhan. all of them at 7:30. could have an impact a

early, 75 cumberland, mid-70s in hagerstown, martinsburg and winchester , culpeper 81, upper 70s for warrentoneesburg, fair next and reston upper 70ss and small craft advisory for the bay and tidal potomac. 60s to start, 70 by 11:00 and 74 with sunshine by 1 p.m. next three days still nice on wednesday, 76 and thursday yes, we've got a sprinkle, but still a darn good day, mid-70s. next seven days friday night cool, low 70s, 50s downtown, upper 40s in the burbs. we'll keep the weekend dry. i'm concerned about some clouds, mid-70s saturday, upper 70s sunday and perhaps a shower early monday with highs again in the mid-70s. >>> i'm kristen berset live at redskins park, the washington redskin coming off one of their best and worst games they've played in some time. the good news, the defense had double digit sacks, the offense put up 40 plus points and the redskins got their first win in nine games, but the bad news, a rash of injuries including one to robert griffin, iii. >> reporter: when robert griffin, iii twisted his left ankle in a different direction five minutes into sunday's game, it was

coast tomorrow as the front moves west to east, 85 martinsburg, 86 winchester, 90 in culpeper, 87 warrenton upper 80s in manassas, 87 in leesburg, 87, 88 in fairfax. downtown 88, gaithersburg and rockville 88, in annapolis and 90 down toward waldorf and la plata. 70s to start, city temps, 73 by 9:00, fair amount of clouds, 78 by 11:00 and 84 by 1:00. clouds are coming in by 1:00. yellow alert thursday, 88, showers and storms late, much cooler friday, 78, looks nice for high school football and then more showers saturday, 75. we'll monitor saturday for the potential of a yellow alert day as well which means some showers and light rain possible for the terps as they host the mount nears. for the burgundy and gold maybe an -- mountaineers. for the burgundy and gold maybe a shower during tailgating and then very nice tuesday and wednesday and sunshine and our nats come back next tuesday. >>> the star spangled spectacular is underway now in baltimore's harbor. sky9 flew over the scene this afternoon to see the parade of tall ships making their way into the harbor and it's a celebration of 200 ye

really see that fog just kind of right to the west of the i-95 corridor, quarter mile visibility in warrenton of a mile -- three quarter of a mile visibility in leesburg. one-quarter mile in frederick. some of those visibilities are tough to say i guess. satellite and radar looking good. we have high pressure moving in from the west. it's going to give us a fantastic weekend. today will be very nice as well. you can see we'll have all that sunshine by about noon. here comes that area of high pressure. it's going to direct our winds more northeasterly on saturday but it's not going to bring us any moisture. the area of high pressure is big. it's sprawling covering a big area. take will lead to sunshine from saturday until sunday afternoon. then a few clouds start to approach. sunday evening more clouds moving in. it will be a partly cloudy monday but still dry. focusing on the weekend and the beautiful weather that we have in store today we'll see partly sunny afternoon with a high of 78 degrees in leesburg and manassas. 76 in gaithersburg. 77 at andrews. 78 in downtown washington. and 77 in h

a student at fauquier high school in warrenton made a twitter account, claiming there is a fight club. and many parents were worried. so worried, in fact, that about 400 fewer kids showed up for class today. school leaders say the students just wanted attention, but had extra security at school today, just to be on the safe side. there have been four fights at fauquier high school over the last week. >>> when your doctor writes you a prescription for medication, most of us are pretty good about following doctor's orders. so why not use that prescription pad to help patients with more difficult tasks, like losing weight? doreen gentzler has details now on one physician's new program that's having a lot of success. >> reporter: this is jean hillsman just two years ago. overweight and struggling with a list of health problems. >> i started developing high blood pressure. cholesterol issues. lack of energy. and just kind of became a little bit more sedentary. >> reporter: jean also developed atial fibrillation, that can lead to a stroke. she underwent a procedure to fix the problem, but h

to the east of haymarket along 66 or i should say just to the west of haymarket and the east of warrentonbig pocket of steady, heavy rainfall. a little bit closer to town in fairfax and in fairfax county, some spots of heavy rainfall mixed in with the steady rainfall that is in the green shading. a big area from frederick county down through montgomery county of very heavy rain. you can see this extends up into caroll county as well. and this heaviest rain cell just to the north of mount airy along route 26 and just to the north of i-70 has been making for some treacherous commute issues out there. and it will continue to be a treacherous commute through the rest of the morning rush. on the weather cam, you can see how miserable it is out here. it's just dreary and it is going to cause lots of slowdowns out there. look at all the red brake lights out here, too. by noon we'll start to see the rain tapering off to showers and we will see those temperatures stay consistent throughout the entire day because of the clouds and rain. right now it's 61 in culpeper. 58 in martinsburg. 61 fled rick

the aaa website a gallon of regular unleaded $3.30 a gallon at the interstate service center on warrentond. but if you go to the wawa on harrison road, there regular unleaded is going for $3.02 a gallon. >>> 6:51. time to answer the question of the morning. the according to a survey doctors get this wrong over 90% of the time. is it a, due date, b, appointment time or c, the bill? >> our facebook friend cheryl jones wrote c because doctors' offices are never on time for their appointments. you have to wait for them but if you show up 5 minutes late, the reception will reschedule your appointment. >> but the answer is a, the due >> i'm nikki burdine on capitol hill where it was just announced yesterday that next week a hearing will take place to determine if d.c. will become the 51st state. the issue is backed by president obama and harry reid and although this has been around for a long time, it's been 20 years since a hearing has been held. vanessa? >> reporter: good morning. police say 53-year-old charles severance is responsible for the murders of three alexandria residents. he's accus

. >> reporter: about 1,200 students attend fauquier high school here in warrenton. for the past week, those students and their parents and teachers have been talking about the rumors that there's a fight club amongst students here at the school. officials say it's just a hoax. but they do acknowledge there have been a high number of fights here this week. so they're not taking any chances. >> kids talking about four separate random fights we've had this week here at school. >> reporter: principal burton says he has no reason to believe those four fights this week have anything to do with the fight club twitter account that popped up recently, or the social media chatter that there will be more fights tomorrow. >> everything that we've learned, everything we have seen, everything that we have found out is that it's just that. a rumor. >> reporter: he says he has been following the tweets and knows they're a distraction for students and parents, but doesn't think there is a club of students who frigighting each or for sport. >> i know there is a #, but we don't have a

there's been some activity here from fredricksburg up towards stafford this morning, even toward the warrenton and culpeper areas. boy, these showers are really falling apart. you can barely track that one just to the west of i-95 north of stafford. this other light one toward dahlgren is falling apart. we'll watch that guy. visibilities not too bad but we do have a couple of spots where fog is trying to form up in frederick at a mile and a quarter. temperatures, you'll feel that this morning. 60s and 70s and still a little bit muggy going well into the 80s. >> thanks, howard. >>> today the justice department is expected to announce it will open a civil rights investigation into the police department in ferguson, missouri. >> police in the st. louis suburb have been under scrutiny since last month's deadly shooting of teenager michael brown by police officer the investigation is going to look into patterns of arrest used by the police force. separately the justice department and the missouri grand jury are conducting vegs into the incident -- conducting investigations into the incident that ki

cable town and martinsburg, west virginia. 48 wind chester, 45 in front royal and lar ray. 49 in warrentona little warmer in southern maryland whteur are in the mid and upper 50s. the weather impact on your sunday, nothin worry about. cool septemr is here. what will be impacted is the parks half marathon in rockville. sunup at 6:49. it's a chilly start but is going to be a good day for running. i did my eight miles in the rain. so if you held off, today is a far superior running day for us. no rainy where near us today. yesterday's showers have been blown down way into the carolinas anof the eastern seaboard. here is our future weather forecast. by 1 is:00 a.m. to sdarks not even a few fair weather clouds. might see one or two puffs of cumulous clouds around the afternoon. it's going to be a nice day to be outside. another chilly evening coming our way. if you're planning to go outside and eat dinner on the patio, you may want to bundle up. the game today at fedex field is a 1:00 kickoff. in the 70s. high today, 70s in gaithersburg, 73 downtown. 71 you high in waldorf and la plata. this en

. >> clifford from warrenton, virginia. i question the effectiveness of a 1,000 broadside circulation to a population that cannot read by reality, the effectiveness of their inability to read. and i also question the notion that white virginians, marylanders, would discuss the circulation of this broadside to their enslaved people. can you address that? >> yes, i can. two very good questions. one is, there is much greater literacy among the slaves in this period of time than i think we've recognized. this is probably the peak period for literacy among enslaved people. a couple of reasons. one is, it's not illegal yet to teach slaves to read and write in virginia. that will become illegal in 1832. in the wake of nat turner's revolt. until then, there's an actual fair amount of teaching slaves to read and write, particularly artisans and house slaves. the other thing is, this is also a period in which the vast majority of enslaved people in chesapeake have become christians and they're usually methodist or baptist and their c

clifford from warrenton, virginia. i question the effectiveness of a 1,000 broadside circulation to a population that cannot read by reality, the effectiveness of their inability to read and i also question the notion that white virginians, marylanders, would discuss the circulation of this broadside to their enslaved people. can you address that? >> yes, i can. two very good questions. one is, there is much greater literacy among the slaves in this period of time than i think we've recognized. this is probably the peak period for literacy among enslaved people. a couple of reasons. one is, it's not illegal yet to teach slaves to read and write in virginia. that will become illegal in 1832. in the wake of nat turner's revolt. until then, there's an actual fair amount of teaching slaves to read and write, particularly artisans and house slaves. the other thing is, this is also a period in which the vast majority of enslaved people in chesapeake have become Ñcgez christians and they are usually methodist or baptist and t

. >> clifford from warrenton, virginia.i question the effectiveness of a 1,000 broadside circulation to a population that cannot read by reality, the effectiveness of their inability to read. and i also question the notion that white virginians, marylanders, would discuss the circulation of this broadside to their enslaved people. can you address that? >> yes, i can. two very good questions. one is, there is much greater literacy among the slaves in this period of time than i think we've recognized. this is probably the peak period for literacy among enslaved people. a couple of reasons. one is, it's not illegal yet to teach slaves to read and write in virginia. that will become illegal in