a coastal flash flood warning for -- actually, through wednesday along the coast, so annapolis, you're definitely in that as well. and look at the rainfall totals, over a foot in easton. we'll talk more about that and break that down coming up. but right now let's get a check of the traffic with lauren cook. good morning. >>reporter: good morning, lynette. we are still dealing with some tree limbs and many roadways debris covers the highways as well. if you are traveling, do be aware that you could very well run into an intersection without a working traffic light. if that does happen, be sure to treat that as a four-way stop. if you are traveling on 95 this morning, no problems to report, heading into the city everything will remain up to speed through the fort mchenry tunnel. and if you are using 83, as we check in and take a live look just north of the beltway, you'll notice everything just moving right along, no problems to report. the roads are going to be pretty wet, though, so definitely take it slow. there are no delays right now on 695, traveling the outer loop, you're looking

thankfully in the last hour or so the rain in annapolis has let up and so have the wind gusts. they aren't nearly as strong as they were one and two hours ago. because the wind came from this direction out to that way, the bay is that way, the water got pushed out of annapolis. so there was no flooding, but as you mentioned, high tide is at 5:45 a.m. and now that all the water has fallen down in all the streams and creeks heading toward the bay, who knows what will happen in annapolis tomorrow. for the bay today annapolis was a rather quiet town. gusty winds blew through maryland's capital city much of the afternoon. that apparently did not stop the movement of u.s. mail. streets remember largely empty of pedestrian -- were largely empty of pedestrians, probably because of the steady cool rain, but a few souls braved the elements, some of them unhappy to learn most of the city's shops closed for the day. given the days of warning over the coming high winds, some store keepers tamed their windows or covered -- taped their windows or covered them entirely with plywood. some store

in annapolis we had quite a bit of rain on and off. ugly looking day. your classic october gray rolling in with downpours. take a look at the mountains. in frostburg tough to see and this fog is something we're looking to overspread central maryland as well. you get the idea of reducing the visibility out there. it could be tough to drive. this could last into your early morning commute. take a look at the current conditions in baltimore. we've got 70 with humidity at 90%, very muggy air, very little wind. that, plus the rain, a recipe for more fog. temperatures low 60s to the west. 70 in baltimore. we have 80s on the eastern shore. warm air has moved in from the south. here are the visibility reports, 10-miles to the horizon. we don't have that. we have 20% of normal in baltimore, york. in dulles less than a mile. declining visibility as you go west into the high country. some dense fog possible. still patchy fog lingering potentially into the early morning, so watching out for. that other than that a misty evening. the main wave of rain has pushed to

thanks so much, athena jones in annapolis, maryland. we will continue our coverage of hurricane sandy right after this. >>> welcome back to our continuing coverage of hurricane sandy. i'm fredricka whitfield. tens of thousands of people on the east coast from north carolina to maine is on alert as a huge storm threatens to cause major destruction. they are pounding the carolinas right now. the storm is about 250 miles east of cape hatteras, north carolina carrying about 70-mile-an-hour wind. it's moving north and expected to turn toward the east coast tomorrow. we'll be right back.

annapolis 69. so we did get those borderline hurricane winds. huge surf, probably 20 plus feet into the beach and the ocean city pier destroyed. you can see it in our hd weather view from the plim plaza resort. a couple of the stilts there, poles. that as all that's left. waves are much call memplet a rehoboth beach -- calmer, rehoboth beach. in kent island watching it carefully. tough boating the next few days. annapolis, the water is relatively quiet. here in the harbor, we're watching for that next high tide. we'll be in the safe zone. we still have to watch havre de grace the next several days. water is whipping down the susquehanna. all the runoff. we've been watching that very carefully. 43 mat bwi -- at bwi. cold air funneling out of the north. what's left of sandy will continue to drift. there she is, large, power house storm around here and one for the record books. no question about that. let's give you that seven-day forecast. breezy sunny conditions will be the story. it will be clearing each day. i will say this. there is the possib

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perhaps not so good news on the eastern shore. then after the storm blows through with hurricane force winds, you get to the back of the store. the winds shift around. that's when they may see the tidal flooding here in annapolis. they haven't seen it yet. people are anxious about it but they're also pretty naught nautically oriented here in annapolis and know the wind directions so they're pretty confident they're not going to see tidal flooding in the next few hours. they're worried about that the day after and the day after that. why don't i take you on a little drive just briefly off of my dashboard camera. i'm going to hop in the car. you can hear me as i get in and get myself oriented and get the seat belt on. just going to take you for a little trip here around city dock so you can see what's going on and see the conditions are in pretty decent shape here. i mean, this is a section right here at city dock where traditionally even a strong thunderstorm in the summer can flood streets here. the only flooding we're seeing righ

lattensville had a wind gust of 76 miles an hour and 69 in annapolis, so generally upper 60s and even some 70s across the region. winds currently gusting here in town, 22, 30 in ocean city, 30 in new york. it won't be as windy as it was last night, but we will occasionally see winds peaking at about 40 to 50 miles per hour. so while i would say the worst of the wind threat is over, some of the trees, some of the branches are probably loosend up, of course, the soil is saturated from the rain, so a 40 or 50 mile per hour wind could still cause some issues out there. we're under a wind advisory as well for your tuesday. there's your seven-day forecast. 47 this afternoon, and then finally we'll see a little sun tomorrow with temperatures into the 50s for halloween. that's weather. let's do some traffic and get the latest from julie. she, of course, is -- she's got her hands full. >>reporter: i was waiting for what add jective you were going ad jective you were going to throw in there. cleanup continues, that's important to know. if you can stay put, we strongly encourage you to do so bec

we've got folks in fairfax county as well as annapolis so we'll be checking with our crews throughout the morning hours. >> we've got also some high standing watter in lots of different areas. we'll go now to gwen tolbart who has some of the latest information on hurricane sandy. >> good morning. this is a huge, huge very dangerous storm here. let's have a look at our inpractice red satellite shot and show you what is happening. occasionally, you can notice a little bit of an eye here, just a slight indication of t so this does bear watching. but this entire is huge. you can see just how far it is all spreading and right now even up to areas of southern new england, they are already starting to feel the effects of this storm system. so let's talk a little bit about the winds and the storm surge and show you exactly what is happening there with it. let me get this clicker to work a little bit and there we go. here is a look at the rainfall. here is what we are anticipating may possibly anticipate. from d.c. to the inorganic and south here, we are talking -- to the north and south here,

tomorrow things starting to cool down ever so slightly. currently 56 degrees at annapolis. 50 at baltimore. 54 in the nation's capital. 45 at dulles. and 43 at culpeper. skies not too bad. clear sky tonight out there. cool as well as temperatures dip down to the upper 40s. winds pushing in from the west 5 to 10 miles per hour. overall, not bad at all. we are looking forward to a pleasant week ahead. i'll be more than happy to show you our accu weather fox 5 seven-day forecast later on. back to you. >>> thanks. coming up, he was considered a leader of the democrat's liberal party. the life and death of george mcgovern. >> and our fox 5 political analysts join us to break down the big issues. >> metro cuts the ribbon on dupont circle's new escalators. those stories are up next when the news continues. as governor, i cut fifive billion dollars in spending and balanced the budget every year. and tim kaine and i both cut our own pay as governors to lead by example. mark warner and i reached across party lines to get things done. we were a great

so they're dealing with flooding there in some areas of annapolis as well. back to you all in the studio. >> holly, thank you. >>> well, a woman who was among the crew of a ship stranded off north carolina has died. the coast guard rescued 20 people from the hms bounty off cape hatteras yesterday, but they are still looking for the captain. they did pull the body of a 42- year-old woman from the water, but she was not responsive and was later pronounced dead at a hospital. the search for the captain continues. >>> sandy is the worst storm to hit the biggest city in the u.s. in recorded history. battery park in lower manhattan is flooded and sea water damaged subway lines under the east river. there is no electricity south of 39th street. in midtown a dangerous construction crane dangled menacingly and forced people nearby to evacuate. and for the first time since 1888, the new york stock exchange is closed for a second day in a row due to weather. several hospitals are working on backup generators and were evacuating patients overnight, from washington to bo

about .06 in sparrows point and towards annapolis .08 so lots -- .08 -- .80. so that's the trend continuing through the day. let's check the traffic with lauren cook. >> reporter: good morning. the worst is yet to come. we are starting to see the effects out on the roads. in ocean city, route 50 is completely shut down heading into ocean city. checking in and looking live at the draw bridge, winds going to be a factor. that camera is shaking right now. we have a wind advisory in effect for the key bridge as well as the bay bridge. and big problems in howard county where we are starting to see some downed trees in the area. route 40 now going to be shut down at rogers avenue. and several roads in baltimore city are now shut down in anticipation of heavy flooding. this includes meadow mills business park and alsanna at carolina streets falls road near the streetcar museum and dundalk north point boulevard at cane street. that's your traffic. now over to you. >>> hurricane snd sand -- sandy is affecting air travel in and out of bwi. >> linda so is live in ann aid

>> thanks so much for annapolis, maryland. we'll bring you the latest right after this. >>> momentarily we'll be getting an update on the storm hurricane sandy from the national hurricane center. plus all the other breaking developments after this. ♪ ♪ one, two, three, four ♪ you say ♪ flip it over and replay ♪ we'll make everything okay ♪ walk together the right way ♪ do, do, do, do

we have annapolis, 5:58, fells point 7:44, port deposit 11:39. this is what is going to be happening as we go through the morning hours on the bay. also speaking of the bay, chesapeake does have a high -- has a hurricane forced wind, warning in effect for today as well. we are going to be breezy, now, sustained winds in easton, 20 miles an hour, we have the gusts a little bit higher coming in at 25, this will be the scenario throughout the day. tropical storm forced winds persisting and also plenty of rainfall. now a check of the time saver traffic with loren cook. good morning. >>> good morning. the heavy winds causing power problems, now, approximately the hundred thousand marylanders are in the dark, harford county, a fallen power line shutdown route 2 4, route 136. many downed trees throughout the entire region, want to watchout for that. there is one, reisterstown road. flooding going to be anish shy as we take a look -- an issue as we take a look. ruxton road, towson, that's shut down. many other roads affected b. careful if you have to hea

. >> so much better this morning. kim dacey is in annapolis. how are things looking this morning? >> it is a lot better today. things have really eased up. we have a steady rain falling. nothing like we were seeing like yesterday. i spoke to the emergency management folks. crews have been out since about midnight, looking for any kind of damage. there will be an update around 6:00 a.m. we saw some localized flooding and some standing water on the roadways. it still continues to rain here. the shelter is still open. 50 people and pets are there. and the call center is still open if you need to call for assistance. they can give you transportation to the shelter. high tide is expected around 5:45 this morning. they are watching the high tide this morning. it will's any flooding, happen between 5:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. this morning. kim dacey, wbal-tv 11 news. tim tooten is in baltimore city. >> i haven't gotten closer to the jones falls. there we go. the water has subsided some. the water was up to about my knees in terms of the level of water. you can hear the rage of the jones fall

once. >> every ten feet or so she was looking behind and kept going. she's still not convinced that that one is not real. >> ed's gator has gotten a wide variety of reactions from disbelief, to laughter, to cheer terror. he has a whole family of gators to play with and he does that. he's not afraid to chaz down boats that come into his territory. >> i wish i had bread to feed it. >> i i wanted to get out of the water. . >> that was best prank i've seen. >> next time you're in annapolis and you see a gator, don't be too alarmed because they're not real, or are they? >> that's crazy. ed hopes to have a few more by this spring so he can let others in on the fun. >> tomorrow night on abc two news the results of our investigation months in the making to school buses getting busted running red lights. we have videos of bus drivers breaking several rules and speeding over 40 miles an hour over the limit. we'll have part of that investigation tomorrow morning and more tomorrow night on the news at 11:00. clear night out there right now, conditions are quiet he

we are so mild. 73 degrees right now in annapolis, 74 in chestertown, upper 60s in elkton, federalsburg mid-70s. as we look to the west across westminster, 67 degrees there, more of the same in iamsville. 69 in colombia. so this is the culprit, this is that storm system that's been bringing all the unsettled weather across the area. and we are in the warm sector. that's between the cold front and the warm front. the reason why we got some showers this morning, well, that warm front pushed through the area. it's going to continue to do so as we go through the morning hours. then we're going to be waiting for this cold front to move in as we go through tomorrow. so with that i'm still going to keep the chance for maybe an isolated shower or storm by tomorrow, and then for the weekend another cold front slices through. that's what's going to be bringing some very cool air. now, future trend picking up on some scattered showers as we go through the afternoon today, but mainly we will get a nice break of dry weather, although it's going to be very humid outside once again. and then as we hea

for every dollar we sent to annapolis, we get 18 cents back. are we now going to say in addition to that? tax the citizens of montgomery county for transportation? no. i don't think so. >> the state already has a 23.5-cent per gallon gas tax included in the price we see at the pump. how much of an increase would we be talking about? >> most people talking about a statewide gas tax, we're talking about between 5 cents and 10 cents. >> the reaction among drivers was mixed. >> i would certainly support it. if it would help improve the transportation. >> i think that just keep raising rates right now and so many people are struggling to get by is not always the answer. we can't keep taxing people. >> now the earliest we would see any action on this would be january. he hopes to meet with the governor and state legislatures to discuss what can be done in time for the next session of the general assembly. brian, over to you. >>> prosecutors will not seek the death penalty in a montgomery county murder case. that decision revealed today during a pretr

downtown annapolis is very cute. however, the officer said no way, beat it and he basically escorted them to safety. >>> your abc 2 news to go is straight ahead. >> stay with us this morning, we have live team coverage of sandy's aftermath. >>reporter: before you hit the road for work or to take your kids to school, an important thing to keep in mind, i'm linda stow live in towson. there are still a lot of traffic lights that are out. you need to treat these as a four-way stop. we'll have details coming up. >>> and some schools are still closed because of the power outages. i'm sherree johnson. i'll have an update on those school closings coming up. >>> and sandy has come and gone, but i'll tell you how you need to dress for trick or treating coming up. >>reporter: lynette, it's definitely going to be a cold night to go trick or treating. unfortunately we are dealing with storm damage across the region. i'll have all the delays and everything you need to know as you head out the door coming up on "good morning maryla

to moderate flooding tomorrow with the high tide in annapolis. potomac, that is the e where so much rain came. fortunately a lot of it was ground. by the s around little falls. be a moderate flood crest, one or two feet above the stage, for the potomac. in alexandria, you have the urge-- tidal surge tide. high for triggered treating, it will but chilly. -put faugh- for trick or treating, it will be in the 40's. >> residents of new jersey are working to recover. a huge swell of water hit after e broke. had been evacuated. in national guard brought in people to a staging area. towns were under four-5 feet of water in 30 minutes. the massive damage in queens, york, after more than 80 last night. fire 200 firefighters worked to the flames under control, but the it tough for them close enough. at least two hurt and they say started by downed wires and high winds. still ahead, the rain and gone, but to the west -- snow. much of the mountains getting. >> from the west to the east, see what ocean city like the day after. >> alexandria is looking like oce

we'll tack you down toward annapolis. flood sge being 2.4. we're above. so we're above one to two feet. i think we go about a foot, maybe a foot and a half. not an epic flooding event, nowhere close to where we were. what was the storm? isabelle. it's getting to be that. that's kelly. you're jamie. >> you're mike. >> there's concern about the conowingo dam. they're going to re-evaluate tomorrow. >>> it's not just the people hunting down during sandy. >> the animals were protected. we'll tell you how the critters at the national aquarium fared during superstorm sandy. >> and sandy still bringing snow to the area. some mixed showers. we'll talk about how to things will develop into the rest of the week. it's oysternomics 101. you start with a u.s. senator named ben. by helping restore thousands of acres of oyster beds, he kept hundreds of oystermen on the job... which keeps wholesalers in business... and that means more delivery companies... making deliveries to more restaurants... which hire more workers. and that means more oystermen. it's like he's out h

and annapolis we were watching the high tides but so far so good and the wind pattern is not supporting a big push. and also as we look at grace, we will still continue to watch the flood stage which has been above normal but not above peak normals and we have thursday to monitor this as well as out in federick. i do want to show you the weather to the west, still coming down the snow. a feet of snow in garret county and flood warning continuing there again for federick and a high rain surge in the area and the coastal flood ad viseryy but they will expire and winds, nothing to push in the bay. we have the enhanced lunar cycle. how bad was sandy, 74 and edge water beach at 9. 59. over 12 inches of rain in easton and queen town almost 10. and there was the ocean city pier as she was take skwn this was off the delaware bay and north of the beach and the pick char that stands out the most is this one with the roller coaster out into the ocean. just to show you sandy in motion, this is worth taking a look at, this is an unbelievable storm structure, you can see the center eye wall and here

so wind restricts for those out on 50. because of flooding, there is a portion of 50 already shut down between gulf coast road and philadelphia road but as of now. 90 remains open. >>> we continue to track hurricane sandy this morning as wild weather begins to pound the coast. >> lauren demarco is live in ocean city this morning with the latest. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. definitely feeling those bands that tucker was talking about so the rains starting to pick up more. as i was waiting for the live shot, it was a lot lighter. now getting heavier. the wind picking up. we have seen a little bit of of that sea foam coming across the seawall and i did see a wave crash over it here near 16th street. police still patrolling the boardwalk. they are will continue to do that until the sustained winds reach 50 miles per hour if they do get that high. we are seeing wind gusts up to 47 miles per hour. earlier, we headed over to the pier and pier still standing. there were some rumors that it had collapsed. there

if it is not there yet, tucker barnes says it is on the way so get ready for it. meanwhile, in annapolis. >> let's take a look at that now. this is a live picture there. you can see it kind of there on the right, the streetlights kind of illuminating the road there. you can see the rain is starting to come down. it will only continue to come down harder. issues of flooding over there close to the bay as well, don't you think, tucker. >> not today. the winds are out of the north appear northwest. the water will get blown out of the bay today. tomorrow, the winds will shift and they will have a big problem with flooding in annapolis. >> look like everybody is in the path no matter what. >> not just locally. never mind what is going on in new york city and along the coastal areas of new jersey where they will have the direct landfall here maybe atlantic city, perhaps cape may, that part of the world, later today. they will be dealing with hurricane-force winds, no doubt about it. very serious and we all know that at this point. the worst yet to come. it will steadily

so though we do not have flooding in downtown annapolis, there's because of the heavy rains water on the roads. do not try to go through it if possible. if you need a shelter, it's annapolis high school. and we are told it is a pet- friendly shelter thanks to the help of some volunteers. that's the latest from downtown annapolis. >> hey, john, i saw a car there driving down city dock, and hopefully you can hear me. and i'm just wondering on a rainy night, and we're right now facing a category one, almost two hurricane coming to shore north of us. are you getting a sense it's because of the winds and the way the winds are blowing that's keeping the water. >> reporter: i don't know. these people are coming down to look. they were getting out of their cars and looking around. now the rain is so cold and so stinging, almost everyone is staying in their cars. as you can see at the end of the dock, nobody is out of course crazy tv reporters telling you about the storm. >> all right. john hanrahan, reporting tonight in annapolis. >>> hurricane sandy expected to make landfall, of course, in

and also annapolis at 56 degrees at the moment. so these temperatures are still milder than they were at this time yesterday. satellite and radar shows the cold front that's on the way. some severe weather in the southern plains today. i don't think we'll see severe weather, but we could see a thunderstorm as this cold front makes its way toward us. as i mentioned before, as it moves this way, we will see a mild push of air in front of that approaching cold front. and then we'll have to deal with the rain as we head into monday. so enjoy the nice weather tomorrow while you can. overnight tonight, it will be clear and not as cold with a low of 38 degrees in suburbs and 48 downtown. sunday morning looks good. mostly sunny but chilly with temperatures in the 40s and 50s. south/southwest winds at 10-20 miles per hour sunday afternoon. a few clouds out there. will be much milder. 65 to 73 for your high temperatures tomorrow. here's a look at the zones. we're going to see highs around 69 degrees in winchester. 67 in hagerstown. 71 in lee

in the city of annapolis, the garages are open and free to residents. let's check in with lowell melser. >> the wind has really picked up in ocean city. we're seeing gusts up to 45 miles an hour. we're seeing waves from 9 to 12 feet. the water is starting to come up to our legs. this will likely be the last live shot on the beach. we are at 32nd street. earlier, we headed down to check out the storm watches. we hope to talk to the mayor who has declared a state of emergency in ocean city. heavy surf in ocean city. the national weather service reporting 40 mile an hour wind, 10 foot waves, and the worst of hurricane sandy is still a day away. >> we're very concerned about it when it gets here. >> the mayor has declared a state of emergency closing the beach and initiating phase two of the emergency evacuation plan, meaning a mandatory evacuation for residents south of 17th street. we even noticed flooding by midday on the bayside. >> we think the real issues will be in the downtown areas. if we do see tide levels we expect, we could lose power in that ar

so we'll share those pictures with you. our first pictures comes to us from annapolis. this is elizabeth toe, her two cats, bo and addy, hunkering down together, protecting each other from the storm. and julian doyle checked this out. this is gizmo. he has his rain gear on, checking it out. our next, you is evie, this beautiful cat like leave me alone, i want to go to sleep. our next one is my cousin's. this is rosie. he's she's all bundled up, protecting herself from the storm. and this is ward sigler. he tweeted this to me with and his dog butter is saying what storm? what storm? keep the pictures coming, especially once the sun comes up. we want to see what kind of damage sandy did to you. you can e-mail them to us at wusa at webproduction@wusa.com. >> i have a friend meg began, and her husband keith in virginia, they were all sleeping in the basement, and for the first time, the cats and dogs, not exposed to each other, everybody's down in the basement. >> no. cats and dogs sleeping together? >> i'll have to find out. >> that's a headline right there. my dog say lov

nearly six in annapolis. nearly six towards pax river. about 1.8 inches in fredericksburg. so, once again, we're going to continue to watch as this rain continues to come down. over the next couple of days, we dry out by thursday, friday, saturday and sunday, we've got some sunshine. >> all right, thank you, doug. it has been quite a day. a storm that doug has told us is one for the ages, in fact. we are going to now go to change everything and we'll go from this storm to jay leno. have a good night.

the flooding has been a huge concern for us so far. look at the rainfall totals from the past 24 hours. annapolis, pushing 6 inches now. just over 4 inches at reagan national. 5.5 at dulles. about 3 inches in gaithersburg. just over 2 inches in fredericksburg. flood watches and warnings remain in effect across pretty much the entire viewing area. the wind is something we will have to deal with mostly this morning. we have seen cuts in the range of 25 or 30 miles an hour. a gust of 26 miles an hour just reported recently at reagan national. the high wind warning has been dropped and replaced by wind advisory until 2:00 today. occasional gusts of 40 m.p.h. can be expected. sustained winds of 15 to 25. your expense forecast, cloudy skies, wind with showers, 44 degrees at 9:00, at noon, much the same with very little change in temperatures. drying up by 5:00, still breezy, 49 degrees. -- your express forecast. we will show you the peak wind gusts in a few minutes. first let's a check on traffic and weather jamee whitten. >> a lot going on

for every dollar we send to annapolis, we get 18 cents back. are we now going to say in addition to that, we are going to tax the citizens of montgomery county for transportation? no, i don't think so. >> reporter: the state already has a 23.5 cents per gallon gas tax included in the price we see at the pump. so how much of an increase would we be talking about? >> most people, when they were talking about a 747-8wide gas tax, we are talking about between five cents and 10 cents. >> reporter: a action among drivers we spoke with was mixed. >> i would certainly support it if it would help improve the transportation. >> i think to just keep raising rates right now when so many people are struggling to get by is not always the answer. we can't keep taxing people. >> reporter: in montgomery county, lauren demarco, fox 5 news. >>> coming up a dip in the fool with some rather interesting company. -- a dip in the pool with some rather interesting company. kids and tigers in the same pool. >> we'll tell you where where this is happening and the strong

annapolis. we're 62. let's check in with monika samtani. when i come back again we'll have more on sandy. >>> thank you so much. if you're planning to head into virginia, a couple of early morning incidents. one happened at about 2:30 this morning. it was a single vehicle, deadly accident insides the beltway right -- inside the beltway right here in annandale. i'll step out and show you what it looks like from our live shot. backlick road is still blocked at john mar drive. i would suggest you go ahead and use little river turnpike as your alternate route in annandale inside the beltway. it looks like hopefully they should have everything clear from the roadway within the next few minutes. that car was on its side and it looks like it's been uprighted and being loaded on to the wrecker as we speak here on backlick road and john mar drive. there's another situation you'll want to know about. this time it's on the northbound side of i-95 right here in aquia harbor. northbound side of i-95 with the

annapolis dropped a degree down from 55. overnight tonight 41 degrees. this is here in town. out in the suburbs it will be even colder than that under these mostly clear skies and winds right around 5 miles per hour or so. if it gets up any higher than that, i think the temperatures will stay up just a little bit, but it does look like by early tomorrow morning we're talking about freezing conditions and some frosty conditions as well. tomorrow looks beautiful, though, high pressure in control here. we have still cool air in place from the wake of the front that moved through earlier this afternoon. temperatures tomorrow will be in the 60s. changes will be coming for sunday. i think they're good changes because we'll go from the lower 60s up to the lower 70s for highs sunday and it looks like we'll be dry with a good amount of sunshine, too, temperatures on sunday lower to maybe even middle 70s, 62 tomorrow, lots of sunshine, a few more clouds on sunday, but still very, very nice. again here in town lower 70s, a few of our neighbors down to the south pushing 74, maybe 75 with

so check out the highs that we expect to hit. 84 for quantico. annapolis coming in at 79 degrees and a quick look at your weekend planner because quite a contrast. saturday, 76 degrees, a few showers in the afternoon. not a lot, not a wet day. sunday, a different story. chilly, overcast most of the day. off and on showers and temperatures dropping down, maybe into the 40s at night. so here is your fox 5accu weather seven-day forecast. we are expecting those two warm days, saturday's temperature about 76. we cool things off and it's must have more fall-like and below average. sunday, for columbus day on monday, and our tuesday about 65 degrees. a couple showers expected on wednesday and a temperature of 71 degrees. so, we have wrapped up a wonderful regular season with our nats and now it's on to the boys of october. scott smith has more. here is sports. >> this is the verison sports desk with scott smith. >> before they enjoy a well deserved home field advantage, the nats hit the field first between the braves and cardinals. it will be a sunday s

so those winds are very strong and gusty already. 54 miles per hour in pax river. we expect the winds to end up somewhere in the 60, maybe even 70-mile an hour range for peak wind gusts heading into the overnight hours. when you have the winds, you have the waves. that's why we have 16-foot waves off the coast of virginia beach, 18-foot waves about parallel to the ocean city coastline and up towards rehoboth and lewis and you can see some other wind gusts here. 53 miles an hour is the peak wind gust being reported at dover air force base. >> the waves down a little bit. i guess that westerly wind is doing its thing now, but still -- >> 67 miles an hour. >> just off the coast of rehoboth about 15 miles or so. temperatures, we're in the 40s to around 50. look at oakland 32. you jump the divide it's a whole other world. 49 in fredericksburg with 46 in manassas and gaithersburg. i'm not going to show you a wind chill map. massive amounts of moisture and rain rolling. in we have actually saw a picture on facebook in martinsburg. there's flooding in martinsburg. they had

in annapolis, jackie bensen, news4. >>> police are looking for these two men in connection with an armed robbery at a 7-eleven in wood bridge. it happened early sunday morning at the store on daily boulevard. the men had guns and demanded money at the counter and then took off. the clerk was not injured. >>> a cell phone video clip remains the key piece of evidence in day two in the trial of two prince george's county police officers. they're accused of beating an unarmed university of maryland student. but today, testimony focused on a phone call as chris gordon found out. chris? >> reporter: excessive force was used in this case. that is the conclusion of the prosecution's expert witness. an officer who trains police. he said he counted a minimum of 12 baton blows by two officers in a matter of seconds. he said they had the legal right to bring the student to the ground, but once the student was down and not resisting, they should have stopped. video from this incident led to an investigation which resulted in this trial. the defendant james harrison denied to internal affairs that he

it's 54 on the bay in annapolis and cambridge. 44 in fredricksburg. so you get away from the bay or downtown, temperatures are a lot chillier. looking for highs a little later in the low 60s. let's check in now monika samtani. it is 5:32. timesaver traffic. >> thankyou so much, howard. i was on the phone with ray from state highway. he gave me great information about what happened overnight on the eastbound side of route 50 about five miles east of the chesapeake bay bridge. let's take a live look at the bay bridge. it was a tractor-trailer and a car at about 7:50 last night. hazmat situation ongoing right now on the eastbound side. you will have to exit at 41 kent narrows bridge and take that as your detour. exit 42 is where the accident happened. westbound if you're coming inbound this morning, you need to stay to the right to get by the activity. ray tells me everything should, be reopened at 7:00 a.m. i will keep you posted on that one. let's take you back over to the maps, this time over to the west side of town. no problems to report here on the

they have opened a shelter in annapolis high school. if you need to leave your home for any reason, power outage or flooding or unsafe condition, you can go to annapolis high school on riva road. you can bring your pets, cats and dogs. that is good. you can bring the whole family. that is open since yesterday and continues to be open. we will bring you the latest and see how conditions shape up in annapolis. now we go to tim tuten. >> it is raining and i can tell you that school is out. you know that by now. it is coming down at a steady clip. we are at the giant food on 41st street and falls road. on the way in i passed a big truck with their logo which means they have been busy trying to make sure that the shelves are stocked. i'm sure you have been to a place like this the last couple of days. but right now that this place be jumping at some upon the once folks begin to assess their own inventory. no school today. right now in the city it is a steady rain like this. i can tell that you it has been steady from the time we came in this

i'll step out so you can soak them all in. we're at 37 degrees in em etsburg, sparrows point coming in at 40, annapolis more of the same. gaithersburg 49, 42 in goldsboro and 40 in federalsburg. you get the picture this morning that we are chilly outside. this will continue for the next several days. so chilly this morning, even as we go into the afternoon we're still going to be dealing with chilly temperatures, so you really need that coat this morning and keep it as we go throughout the day. we do have the remnants of sandy still churning some snow, still a very large system, dropping rain north all the way back toward the south and west, that's where you're seeing the snow, west virginia getting in on about two to three feet of snow across that area, even western maryland also seeing that. i pull it in, you can see what's going on around our neighborhood, our neck of the woods this morning, mainly dry, but we are dealing with plenty of cloud cover this morning and that's going to be the name of the game as we head througho

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so again, chilly start to the day. kids going out tonight. we should be fine for halloween. it will be cool but we're in the expecting any rain showers. mostly cloudy skies. we should have one more cloud in there. 55 today. winds south and west five to 10. still cool this time of year as mentioned. we are head in the right direction. it should be dry again for trick or treater going out during the evening hours. there is your accu-weather seven-day forecast. tomorrow look a lot brighter. partly sunny skies. highs in the mid- to upper 50s. right now, the weekend looks nice and dry with temperatures in the 50s. these temperatures for the next week trending a little below average. that is a look at weather. let's do some traffic and get the latest from julie who got busy again this morning. >> yeah, very busy out here on the roads. the crew in sky fox is with us. show us what you got. outer loop of the beltway before you reach new hampshire avenue at the rig road overpass. that is where we had the crash with only the left side of the roadway squeezing by. we are told from autho

because there's so much to do on here. if you want to get the temperatures, annapolis right now coming in at 60 degrees under mainly clear skies. but also you can get the radar, we will be tracking some storms later this afternoon. it's going to be a good day to go and download our app. don't go anywhere. "good morning maryland" will be right back. >>> lance armstrong, may have lost the nike contract and stepped down from livestrong. but he will still be involved with a local cancer organization. the cancer fund for young adults says armstrong will continue working with the group supporting those affected by cancer. armstrong was part of the group's triathlon fundraiser in columbia a few weeks ago. amid controversy he was doping during the cycling career he stepped down from live strong the same day nike cut ties with him. >> he felt that in order to protect this organization, its mission, the team members here, from any kind of effect as a result of controversy from the cycling world, he would step down as chairman. >> th

so strong winds and what about the rain, top? >> impressive with the wind so far. here is a look. the good news is the hurricane force winds, the red has gone down a bit however, we still have other wind to contend with, tropical forest winds for sometime and by 1:00 a.m. sol stronger winds will be back into the northeast counties and maybe georgia county and baltimore and those winds could be 59 to 70 and then we go through the morning by 8:00 in the morning it could be another round of significant winds. in fact, it's possible that some of these gusts could top the gusts so far and that list we just showed you from philadelphia down through dc all the way in fact all the way to points to the south almost to fredericksburg 59 to 70-miles per hour. we're not done with the storm and tropical storm forced winds through tomorrow afternoon. winds 39, 40 up to 50 and then finally, we get to 10:00 tomorrow and the winds start to be -- start to lift northward and looking at by halloween, the tropical storm forced wind the will be gone but breezy. temperature-wise cool, 45 and 45 downtown

so the entire area has cooled off overnight. 49 in annapolis. here are all your 30s north and west. it will be be a cool start to the day. i guess i'm he not telling you anything you don't already know. it will warm up a little later today. yesterday, our high temperatures are in the mid- 60s. today, we'll get closer to 70s. a little warmer than yesterday and still should be a lot of bright sunshine for your wednesday. should be a nice-looking day. got a little cloud cover to start your morning moving through the mid-atlantic but this will generally push out to sea and it won't be a perfectly sunny day but mostly sunny conditions expected. off to the north and west that, area of rain shower activity will scoot up into canada, not impact us. our next weather maker is a cold front which is well out to the west. by we'll out to the west, i mean it hasn't even developed yet. it will drop down towards st. louis today. hopefully, it won't impact the game later this afternoon. here we are at 5:00. here is st. louis and there is the rain shower activity. we'll see how close it gets. notice

we had 69 mile per hour gusts in annapolis. the high wind warnings they expect will be dropped while they're still in effect across the entire viewing area. our winds diminishing down to about 15, 20 miles per hour this afternoon. temperature widse, chilly. we're only in the 40's right now. in fact, so cold that we might see a few snowflakes off to our west. the higher elevations getting hit hard with blizzard conditions and several feet of snow. it's going to be tough to measure that snow in west virginia because it's blowing all over the place. another update in just another few minutes, but from the belfort furniture center, let's head over to traffic. >> good morning. we still have a lot going on, so we need to keep all this in mind if you're planning to head out. for starters i want to remind thaw no marc trains, no v.r.e. system, and metrorail closed to the day. again, they made that decision. flights at the airport the amtrak northwest corridor trains, they're also monitoring that very closely as we are as well. taking a

you know, the folks in old town that are always flooding, 9:30 or so. wind are still gusty. we can handle 36 mile an hour gusts. we can handle a 28 mile an hour gust in dc and annapolis. flood warnings everywhere. there's a lot of high water. there's going to be high water for a couple of days. be advised, don't try to drive through water that you can't see the road. it takes very little water to push a car off the road. snowing in the mountains. we have the heavy rain falling this morning. there might be some mix. temperatures are 39, 40. it's not switching over completely. there may be a little wet flake mixing in. you can see the moderate rain showers in fairfax this morning across the southern side of the district as well with light to moderate showers as you head up into montgomery county. we'll be back with more 9 news now right after this. >>> welcome back, 6:54. we're going to take you up into frederick county. a flood stage 15 feet. it's going to crust this afternoon at 23.5. that's 8.5 above flood stage. you can imagine the flooding that's going to happen. moderate

. >> get out your down loaded app so you can know what's going on. mild under mostly cloudy skies. 61 degrees in annapolis this morning. we will see if we have rain in the forecast. don't go anywhere, good morning maryland will be right back. good morning! wow. want to start the day with something heart healthy and delicious? you're a talking bee... honey nut cheerios has whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol. and it tastes good? sure does! right... ♪ wow. delicious, right? yeah. it's the honey, it makes it taste so... ♪ well, would you look at the time... what's the rush? be happy. be healthy. >>> a man attempting to break into cars was thrilled when police arrived. and that's because the guy got him off his back. look at this. she heard that the car alarm was going off. went outside to check it out and that's when he says he saw a man named michael chavez and another man rummaging through his suv and he chased him down the street and fought him and then sat on him until police got there. this is video of the officers arriving to the