little bit of sunshine trying to pop through in the the afternoon, and you get over there in the western maryland, a and west virginia, and just like that it becomes sunny and pretty warm, too with temperatures intp the 60s in the lower 70s there. and it does look like we're we'e going to begin to see some of that sunshine coming on through. 59 degrees for washington,washi, manassas right now 61, we're we just kind of socked in, this ths marine layer that we call thee clouds and occasional shower,al and some light drizzle, and itdt looks like that will be the case right on through the evening hours. temperatures just kind of dropping down into the middle physi, bu50s, but again encoura forecast coming our way with thh full forecast and the accuweather seven day. y. will, that will be straight ahead. >> thank you.>> i t promise i wasn't making that up. >> i just don't know what it was. i have no idea. >> nexti'm taking a picture. p >> you do that. d we like weather watchers.

in the western maryland mountains, temperatures will be relatively mild. upper 60's to the low 70's. some better chances for scattered showers and storms wednesday and thursday. spotty showers, 20% chance tomorrow. partly cloudy tomorrow. thursday at the coast. to see seven on wednesday and thursday. a little cooler there because of the expected strong sea breeze. 71 tomorrow, only a slight chance of a shower. not about looking his day -- tuesday. the rest of the weekend looks like we will get some sunshine but it will be cold again. lows in the 30's over the weekend. >> a look at the other top stories. >> an investigation into a deadly accident involving a pedestrian. what authorities know so far. +ç22 >> alive to coverage of the boston marathon bombings will continue in a moment. now the case of robert jerr arrett, accused of killing his wife and bearing her in the shed beneath concrete. state prosecutors introduced a piece of evidence, a concrete slab that was found underneath that shed with the outline of a female body believed to be wife.ine jarrett

so everybody in western maryland, all blacks in western maryland that could were either buying their freedom of getting their owners to free them before the law took effect. and, of course, you know, so the humanity takes over these things sometimes. >> we need to let the -- >> request interesting if you reflect on it. it is possible then to reflect on john brown as a form of patriot. >> right. >> we have another question, so i want -- we only have about five minutes left in the program, so we really -- this gentleman was ahead of you, and then we'll take yours. as you can tell, we tend to talk a lot up here. >> yeah. i want to applaud mr. johnston's book, because i think he did something that many people don't do, and that's operate to see a relationship from very difficult circumstances to some surviving possible accomplishments. we all are -- african-americans like myself have come from slavery. we were affected by slavery. and much too often we hear about slavery with no association to the end result where people have come through extraordinary circumstances to accomplish great e

those include central maryland and even northbound maryland -- northern maryland, as well as western maryland. the bulk of the rainfall, however, over the past 24 hours, occurred down near the delmarva coastline and in southern maryland. places down there saw three- quarters of an inch. let's go over a few specific spots. saw some significant rainfall. vienna, maryland, just under 1 inch and one quarter of rainfall. ornold, maryland, around 4/10ths of an inch. and reisterstown, just under 4/10ths of an inch. and bwi marshall, just under 3/10ths of an inch. we're still at a deficit as far as the month of april and the entire year so far. but we will expect to see some clearing. we'll have bob with your full first warning weather forecast coming up. back inside. >>> still ahead on wjz eyewitness news at 5:00. sweaty smalls be -- smells be gone. coming up, the state of old workout gear disappears. >>> wrong side of the law. a baltimore police officer, criminally charged. i'm derek valcourt, coming up. i'll explain why his case could be good news for dozens of criminals, including the man accused

western maryland will be in t 60's with sunshine wednesday and thursday. eastern shore locations, maybe some clouds early. city, even though we do expect some cloud cover to return, it will be cool. seven-day forecast around baltimore, the upper 60's-low 70's through the weekend. we will see increasing amounts of sunshine up next few days. susquehanna bank center, this is 11 sports. >> the orioles will finish the month of april with a winning record on the road. do that every month, and they usually invite you to keep playing in october. that will take a little sting out of the 6-2 loss to seattle. watch this homeland. eight two-run shot. two-one orioles in the fourth. the mariners know the part well. fair ball down the left-field line. jason day with an rbi double that would tie the game at two apiece. a chilly night in seattle. mariners break it open. michael saunders barrels around third and scores. he wound up irritated if he stayed up late watching because the orioles 6-at 2. hammels winscole this season have come on the road. game didt's baseball not

you see how the clouds really go back here toward western maryland.hen we've got sunshine and all of the moisture streaming in from the east. little area of low pressure. see the swirl there? that's throwing the moisture back our way. you see the radar echoes across delaware and the eastern shore. going to show you a little different view. this is the radar without the satellite. look at this flow of moisture coming in now and how we're seeing all of this light rain, mist, drizzle if you will extending from frederick right down 270 toward calvert county. the eastern shore, easton over to denton. this goes all the way back to rehoboth. crossing the bay with on and off drizzle right toward the metro now with the scattered heavy mist and drizzle here from areas around upper marlboro, up through capitol heights into d.c. here 270. this goes up toward frederick. not the prettiest day. it's not a deluge but just enough to keep things on the soggy side. temps have been struggling under the clouds. it is 62 in fredricksburg and 63 in culpeper and luray. we're

here we see the park it -- pockets in northern virginia and western maryland. trying to squeeze them in your around manassas. this is working its way in. what is fighting the high- pressure is we have a cold front approaching from the west. that will start to push in more clouds. this will likely squeeze out a chance of showers. what about showers today? i think the chances are very minimal. maybe a stray showers to our north. only putting it at a 20 percent chance. we be umbrellas at home. -- leave the umbrellas at home. here comes the cold front. this is trying to squeeze out a little bit of rain. the best opportunity of showers tomorrow will be after the noon hour. most of that will stay to the north. we will see a stronger storms, and on friday. most the cloudy skies. high temperature in the upper 60s to lower 70's. tonight mostly cloudy. chances of rain. then returning. and this is the best chance all week long. friday lake and into saturday morning. this is a strong cold front. we will really feel the drop in temperatures. conservative,ng but a very stron

even late this afternoon some of these might just make it in toward western maryland.wing you the futurecast. we'll burn off some of these clouds. here we are at 6:00. slight chance of a shower hagerstown down to win winchester. tonight as the boundary comes through, there will be a shower here or there. tomorrow the boundary sort of near us but it's going to sink south and west. that's where the better chance of showers and maybe an isolated storm will be than in d.c. on wednesday. but wednesday night, thursday morning, this is the boundary that returns. we'll be on on the warm side of things i think to finish out the workweek but colder this weekend. so 70 for today. some areas will make the upper 70s. 60 tonight. we do have a chance. even tomorrow an isolated shower. more likely south and west of us. mid-70s. 80 on thursday. i'm going to keep it dry for now but could be a shower early in the morning. friday night showers and storms with the next cold front. that's a strong one. soggy field conditions for saturday morning sports. cooler and drier for the weekend. we'

however the threat of a shower really confined to western maryland and valley. metro area remains dry tuesday. high of 75. for wednesday, notice we are warmer. 79 for wednesday. 30% chance that everybody is dealing with an afternoon shower. or even a thunderstorm. otherwise we'll have a mix of cloud. sunshine, wednesday. feeling more like sum r that day. than spring. much of the same for thursday. keeping the slight chance of a shower out of the forecast. thursday. high of 78. friday, 77. we have that rain moving through later in the day. looking awhat th aing aat what our weekend. breezy. cooler. 65, saturday. 61,sunday. >> little roller coaster there. >> spring. >> thank you, amelia. >> extra excitement during the president's race mascots and professional teams tried to join in the fun and get in the way. the fighting blue hen from delaware. slap shot, the capitals mascot, the hoya, the list goes on. tom did make his way to the finish line for the win. coming up. reports tonight a terps star is leaving for the nba. plus the masters, decided by a playoff. the t

northern maryland, as well as western maryland, is going to be mainly dry other as we head into the late evening and overnight tonight. here's what you can expect as we head into the next couple of days. all of that moisture is going to start to push out towards the atlantic and then south, as i mentioned. in an area of high pressure will continue to build in, as we head into thursday and even friday. we'll look at plenty of sunshine in the forecast, as we head into the end of the week. your bay forecast, goes like this. water temperatures around 58 degrees. we have an east wind, 10 to 15 knots. and patchy fog and drizzle likely as we head into the rest of the afternoon. for tonight, temperatures will be around 49 degrees. some drizzle, then clouds will start to break during the wee hours of the morning, let's say around 3:00 a.m., or 4:00 a.m. we'll expect sunshine and clouds as we head into tomorrow. it's going to be a much more pleasant day, with temperatures normal for this time of year. around 70 degrees. >> finally, right? >> exactly. >> let me get that sunshine. thank you. >>> don

. >>> a warning to western maryland residents to be on the lookout for bears. dnr says the bears are just coming out of hibernation and might be on the hunt for food. so they're urging everyone to throw away anything that might smell of food around your home. and they also suggest cleaning your outdoor grill and taking down bird feeders to keep the pairs it from coming too close to your home. >>> it was really a lovely, nice spring warm day out out there. let's take a live look outside. a mix of sun and clouds today. but it was a nice temperature, for me anyway. wjz has weather ask traffic together. bob turk is here with the updated numbers from first warning weather. >>> and a few spots had a couple of sprinkles around 9:00, 10:00 this morning. but that did see sunshine. temperatures rebounded nicely. right now, we are at 72 degrees right here. 71 in d.c. 81 with sun there in cumberland. even oakland at 72. the cool spot with the breeze off the ocean. ocean city is only 59. but temperatures right now are running 13 degrees warmer than yesterday. it was a littl

here's 11:00 in western maryland. then across areas especially north overnight. tomorrow that boundary over us and that's why we're looking at the threat for a couple showers to develop with the daytime heating. your forecast, 76 today. mix of sun and clouds. 60 tonight with a shower north. tomorrow -- by the way, it will be a little breezy today out of the south 10 to 15. 78 tomorrow with an isolated shower in the neighborhood. 80 on thursday, a warm, dray day. friday 80. dry most of the day but friday night overnight will be some showers and storms. if you have plans going out friday night, keep that in mind. cooler this weekend, temperatures topping out in the 60s. overnight lows in the 40s in most areas. let's go to monika samtani now with traffic building. that's not good. >>> it's not good and also we have some incidents as well. prince william parkway at route 234 for the accident. let's go outside and show what you it looks like on the roadways. first of all, northbound i-95, that's been incident free this morning unlike yesterday trying to get over to qu

out to the west if you're out it west virginia or western maryland you will see sun firsts your temperatures will get well into the 70s, you will have will more in the way of sunshine suni later. you should remain dry, high temperatures in the low to mid-70s by 5:00 p.m. lots more on the weather, a nice warm up by the middle of theeid week. we will have details in an a minute, and take a look at look traffic and get the latest fromm julie wright. >> reporter: we will start l off in virginia. this is where we do have ve problems to report, northbound 395, definitely below speed eed leaving the beltway and and continuing toward seminary road. they're checking in the back upu why for a stalled vehicle near edsall road tying up the left lane. lane. eastbound 66, heavy volume heav coming in from 234, and headed past the rest area. i do see something stopped on sp the shoulder. we will keep an eye on this ares for you and update on our nextrt report. we will continue with the maps,, westbound on the dulles toll tol road. this is where we had a car fire on the right side of the highway, lanes are o

maryland's most powerful radar. nothing going on but out to the west, western parts of pennsylvania into ohio, there are some big old thunderstorms firing up. we'll see if these hold and maintain going over the mown tas. carroll county toward frederick county could be a gust thunderstorm. the reason for the thunderstorms, is this cold front out to the west. this is slowly pushing to the south and east. that's going to be the deal for the next 24 hours. this front on top of us means we'll stay kind of cool and clouds will be part of the forecast going into tomorrow afternoon. 72 in town. we are so, so close to this real mild hair to the south-- air to the south. if we can switch that wind direction to a southerly direction we'll get into mild air. i think this will happen thursday into friday. tonight really mild. lots of clouds and watch this cold front overnight. it will cross the state, could trigger a shower, even a thunder shower. then it's hung up to the south of the city. what it will do is keep the clouds in place and we'll struggle to get to the 70, 70-degree mark. here's radar and temperatures, 6 a.m. keepi

maryland's most powerful radar. we don't see thunderstorms right now but out to the with the we go, severe thunderstorm watches over western pennsylvania. you notice big storms firing up around columbus. these are testing limits. we have to see how intact they stay going over the mountains. that will dictate whether we'll see storms. there is a threat north and west of gusty thunderstorms. not real lit biggest threat but there could be showers. the cold front that's responsible for the storms, this is as it slowly inches its way to the south. 58 to 63 degrees. it may struggle to get out of the 60s for the city. a lot of clouds. here comes the front for the overnight hours. it will bring in a shower or storm. this is a northeasterly wind flow. clouds will be in play for your day tomorrow. limited sunshine. eventually, this will economic further offshore for thursday. we'll see more sunshine. more sunshine means we'll warm up. thursday and friday will be much warmer in comparison to wednesday. the call will be unseasonably mild, 60 degrees. a thunderstorm is possible northland west. tomorrow afternoon 72 degrees, but it's go

she was the midwife there in western maryland. the third-generation of the family included mary's nephew simon turner. he was born a slave near yarrow and joined the army and the civil war and fought in the civil war and the fourth generation was simon's daughter emma turner. she was born after the civil war and the first in the family to get a college degree. i want to dwell on emma and her pictures in the book. these women here knew emma so that short of span of time that goes back to 1752. emma married a minister and she married a minister named robert ford. they settled ultimately in baltimore. they were the fifth generation. their son was admitted to harvard in 1923 and graduated in 1927. it had been 175 years almost to the day that the slave ship brought yarrow to annapolis. i'm going to introduce the ones that are here and i think they're cousins will come later. the six generation includes robert turner ford's nieces cynthia richardson. stand up. denise and emily willis. [applause] they just walked in, great timing. stay s