there are some mornings now in western maryland for parts of frederick county. gusty winds are possible and of course that dangerous lightning associated with a cluster of storms as well. you can expect one last little shot of some thunder and heavy downpours as the storms cut across the baltimore metro area in the next hour or so. we have not had a whole bunch of rain at bwi marshall, but it was a warm enough day to get these thunderstorms popping up into the mid 80's in most spots before the showers cool things off. warnings in effect for frederick and washington county. computer model data shows the last of the storms winding down and moving down toward ocean city by morning. we may see a little patchy fog will form as we head toward dawn. we can see this front coming in from western maryland, picking up the storms ahead of the front. high pressure stretches back to chicago, delivering a beautiful star to the upcoming weekend. -- a beautiful start to the upcoming weekend. it looks like we are back to a dry pattern after tonight's rain moves out. sunshine, bre

live doppler 9000 hd zoom in to western maryland. cumberland, get ready it is not raining now but will be in a few minutes. 68 to frostburg and out to friendsville and grantsville seeing all of this rain and could be a rumble 0 thunder mixed in with this as the area is moving to the east at 25 miles an hour. back on the weather computer, you can see the different where it is raining and not raining. cumberland 63. petersburg 72. where the sun has been out, look at the temperatures down south. tappahannock isle 8 degrees. -- 88 degrees. 87 fredericksburg. 67 martinsburg. big temperature differences. and here in town we are at 80 degrees with mostly cloudy sky and a south wind at 13. dew points are creeping up as more moisture heads this way. there's the showers we are watching the with the storm system out of the great lakes. rains from western new york down to parts of tennessee. turnly for us this will break up a bit as it moves in our direction. so we won get, i don't think a lot of rain, but we will take whatever we can get. big p

do you think we'll get a lot of rain out of there in time for you to go out in western maryland. wet weather in the tropics. karl hit mexico, back over the water, strengthening, you've got hurricane igor at 34. currently 56 degrees, your start point on the thermometer and bel air. let's see what's happening on the roads right now. >> well from cumberland to cambridge and from cockeysville to columbia, everything's looking pretty good so far on the roads this morning. we don't have any delays or accidents. just fire activity in glen burnie at baltimore annapolis boulevard and mountain road. you could see fire equipment there blocking the intersection. as we look at 95, the whole 95 corridor is pretty much incident free. no problems at the tunnels and we're looking good on the harrisburg expressway. 695 is going to be all clear so far on both loops. megan and jamie, back to you. >>> 5:33 right now. later today the city board of elections will begin counting nearly 2,000 absentee ballots that could decide the race for baltimore city state's attorney. late last night, the campaign fo

maryland, west virginia. on the bay, on the eastern shore, around 60 degrees. right near the waters i's in the mid and upper 60s. he view from space showing a mostly clear sky. a few clouds producing showers in eastern kentucky. that is a little bitf a disturbance that may be drifting up into the shenandoah valley. east of the blue ridge, sunset,

generally warmer until you get way out into western maryland. wind have quieted down, a little breezy, north wind, that's one of the reasons we didn't warm up more than we did today. humidity comfortably low, just very, very dry numbers. in fact, as we go in the overnight hours, skies are so clear that the humidity is so low we will probably see one of our coldest nights of the season so far. many spots the upper 40s tonight under a crystal clear sky. but that will be about it for the chill so to speak if this week because things are going to begin to warm up after the day tomorrow. take a look at this. high pressure in control, we're on the chilly side of the high now with a bit of the north breeze. clockwise flow, as this high slips further and further east we're going to get in the warm sector, mid-80s later this week, pushing 90 on foregive, clear skies tonight, clear skies tomorrow, into the day wednesday, another day of sunny skies. although i take we may see a few more clouds roll in and maybe some rain out towards western virginia but we

it seems like more in western maryland. let's talk more about what those temperatures are showing across the region. it looks like we will continue to see those temperatures very comfortable out there. across the rrgion looking at 83 in hagerstown, 85 in d.c..33 -s we cross the mountain over in western maryland looking at 72 degrees. not too bad there. satellite and radar composite across the mid atlantic, not a lot of activityythere. scan we can see that it willture continue to head our direction and that shower activity will start to gather aalittle bit of strength over in wessern maryland but by the time it gets here it looks like it will kind of fall apart. so it looks like not everybody will get raii but we will have a @%neighborhood.ctivity in the i'll have the detailed look at your beautiful weekend forecast coming up. >>> and you can be in charge of your own personalized forecast. iradar is now available at foxbaltiiore.com. use the interactive tools to track storms right down to your street. go to foxbaltimore.com

at the moment at least it's here in western maryland. from hagerstown southward back through areas in the northern virginia, just west of the dc area. west of rockville to be specific. but, much more rain beginning to develop here, and we're picking up it on maryland's most powerful doppler radar. heavy showers and storms down here into southern virginia. just inland of another funk and back into -- norfolk and back into parts of eastern carolina, unbelievable deluges of rain. that same wet weather tracking due north, really more northeast of north. the heaviest of this may in fact impact the eastern shore as opposed to central and western maryland but it's in central maryland where we have the flood watch. let's look now downtown. looking good. dry, 74. humidity high. uncomfortably so. it's muggy out there. winds southeast around 5 to 10. rain totals have been very high today. not so much right along the immediate chesapeake though we have a coastal flood advisory in these, these areas. rockville, more than an inch, in many cases pushin

western maryland, west virginia, it's in the 50s. in the 60s on the eastern shore. the view from spaceover the last 12 hours showing a w, high clouds from the north. they will be with us from time to time. otherwise, lots of sunshine. low to mid-90s. record high, 94. we may tie or exceed the record this afternoon. then the cooler weather comes in on a fresh northwesterly breeze. highs reaching the low to mid-s. even cooler on sunday with increasing clouds. could get showers passing by late saturday afternoon, saturday evening. let's check traffic. ashley, how is it looking? >> 270, no problems two report there. heaights at a healthy rate of speed. springfield de, no problems to report on 95 as you leave frederic fredericksbu fredericburg. lanes are open. eun and joe, back to you. >> thank you. you may be able to breathe a little easier the next time you take metro. debbie says the transit agency made major progress since last june's deadly crash. megan mcgrath has more on the story. megan, goodorning to you. >> as you can remember, there was a deadly crash on the re

it continues to rain out in western maryland. to most important for us is the shower activity coming out from the south. much of central and eastern maryland will get in on some more heavy rain as we head to the overnight hours. there remains a flood watch for our region overnight. >> thank you. when severe weather strikes, our interactive radar is at your fingertips. you can track storms by logging onto wbaltv.com. >> police are investigating if weather played a role in a serious crash on rte. 50 that 34 people from their vehicles. toolbox trucks crashed shortly before 1:03 victims were taken to shock trauma. it's the other was rushed to baltimore washington medical center. >> we are following the race for maryland governor. bob ehrlich is accusing martin o'malley of using a state agency to deceive maryland residents for political purposes. >> he has seat -- he says he has the documents to prove its. >> they are calling for an investigation in what amounts to a cover-up and censorship. >> job loss as a result of hostility and ne

western maryland and west virginia over the last 12 hours we have had high pressure giving us clear sky. plenty of sunshine with highs reaching low 80s, low humidity. increasing clouds on thursday. a shower after sunset thursday evening. drying out by friday afternoon. details on that in just a few minutes. >>> tom, good morning. as we get under way, wre doing pretty well along the 95 corridor as you head north from stafford to the capital belays. both directions, no really hangups. and travel lanes are open. bay bridge, overnight road work at th bay bridge and then an accident after that which forced authorities to shut down the bay bridge for a while. everything has been cleared up. the accident is go. looks like construction should be out by 5:00. weep keep you updated. >> okay, jerry, thanks. >>> this morning marks a new era in the district. the city will have a new mayor. gray defeated fenty in the primary. gray will be speaking later today. tracy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it turns out the polls were right. it looks like vcent gray has won the nomination for the dem

we have cloudy skies you have to go through western maryland to get the heavy rain as we scan the skies but putting the ssuth and continne to see the frontal boundaryydrive the pressure that isshelping liftw that and warm front bringing in tte atlantic moisture and all the rain that is going to continue to ride up from tte south and we are not done with the rain byyany means through the overnight.. prrblem is that we have saturateddground until 8:00 a.m. tooorrow morning as we have the potential of heavy amounts of rainfall overnight tonight and into tomorrow. noo how much have we seen o far. inch around baltimore. a little over 2 and quarter inches and 3 quarters nch innhagersttwn depending on where you are. some folk heavv amount than other areas. projected model on the future scan. the rain from last night into today anywhere from 2 and 3 quurters inch potentially around the baltimore area so there's a real problem especially along the urban areas downnown around the centtal portton of the city as we haae that heavy rainfall with the ground being saturaaed water kind of sits on top o

today you will find him checking out cumberland all the way over in allegheny county in western maryland. jamie, what are you doing out there? >> reporter: wear on baltimore street in the heart of cumberland. a lot of you may have gone to frostburg, may have worked at the paper mill out there in luke and a lot of you are going to the lake today or stopping for a pit stop, but come to cumberland. we were invited and that's where we are. we're talking to ed who runs main street. he said the only thing missing is the mouse. doesn't it look like main street usa in disney world? they have a lot of shops, restaurants, nightlife galore, new restaurants opening up in town. also, we're here for the beauty of allegheny county. we were out here and went to rocky gap. they call it the mountain side of maryland. we're going to show you what's up and what we're missing. that's why we're here in cumberland today. at 9:00 we'll meet all of the friendly people in cumberland and frostburg and everybody in between. we're on the go in cumberland. allegheny county. >> the video is just beautiful. we'll have

maryland, and western pennsylvania all over the mountains now. the cloud echo moving in may be a sprinkle were that activity out in the mountains. it looks like that's behind this. a much drier air mass is what the map will look like this evening. the front will move off to our south. slightly cooler air today, but a wave will move along that front and that means a chance of rain moving into the area. our forecast today, mostly sunny, clouds this morning, unseasonnably warm, still 83 to 87 the high. about 10 degrees cooler than yesterday. west winds at 10 to 15 miles an hour. 66:59 the sunset. -- 6:59 the sunset. we start picking up clouds. by late in the day, probably after sunset, we could see shower chag chances, with rain chances going up on monday and tuesday and tapering off wednesday. this is welcome. we need the rain. temperatures stay in the 70's for high all week long. >> john, thank you. nbc is turning rockefeller center. >> one baltimore principle taking part in the incident. details in this morning's education alert. >> prescription

that is good but we're seeing a little more in the way of wet weather out into western maryland. and some pretty heavy downpours just quest of washington now. this -- west of washington now. this wet weather likely to move north and more wet weather well south of this area is likely to hit us later tonight. with all that in mind, here's your forecast for the evening -- more rain likely into the later part of the evening. a flood watch into the overnight into tomorrow morning. some of the downpours could be heavy. if you get into flooded roadway and the rain is coming down hard, do the smart thing, find an alternate route. more coming up. >>> as always, you can track severe weather and the latest forecast on-line at abc2news.com. >>> western high school in north baltimore was closed today because of flooding. we're not sure if the flooding at the school is weather-related. the school in the 4600 falls road area. no word on whether there will be classes tomorrow but we'll let you know as soon as we find out. >>> a man who told police he idolized adolf hitler and didn't like black p

and a lone shower in western maryland. hagerstown is 68 and we are holding on along with annapolis to 71. mid-70s by 9:00. en90 for the drive home. a hot day ahead. >>> hey, everybody. we are cruising to the 6:00 hour. watching a lot of incidents or accidents clear out of the roadway. we like it like that. moving to 95 northbound. we take it outside and that's where we have watching volume build between the prince william parkway to route 1 woodbridge. next as we continue to 395, nothing but volume between duke and seminary and the accident at seminary is out of here. route 4, route 5 and 301. we zoom in. no incidents or accidents on the roadways and finally wrap it up with 270. seeing a lot of head lights out here. more drivers hitting the road. congestion from germantown road to 370. that's the latest. back to you. >>> at the top ott hour, here's a look at the stories happening today. president obama speaks to the united nations this morning. he will address the general assembly. topics include the wars in iraq and afgha

at least toward pennsylvania and western maryland for better chances of showers. even west virginia where the drought conditions are the worst. 58 in martinsburg. 57 in petersburg. 54 is our cool spot at cumberland. almost 70 down in southern maryland, pax naval air station. cambridge and easton 73. naval academy 69 an 57 comfortable ones in frederick. 72 by 9:00. i might be a little optimistic on the cloud cove here but thicker clouds this afternoon with the chance of a shower. breezy, too. drive home temperature 84 with highs between 84 and high as 89 in southern parts down to fredericksburg and tappahannock. how's the thursday traffic looking. >> overall not too bad. we are watching the slow goes set in the usual spots across the region. but our eye remains on this. this is a bad accident. a fatal one. one involving an ambulance. it happened early this morning after midnight. plus 15 minutes for drivers here. main delay stretching 50 to nutley and no incidents along the way. back to you. >> angie was just talking about this. it is a triple fatal this morning af

we saw that in through western maryland. the winds pick up today as we start stirring up the atmosphere. really, most of that active weather out of here with just an indication with energy with the cloud being across the mountains that may try to act on some of the sun heating you up on the east everyone shore. there is a possibility this afternoon you wind up with a few showers. otherwise there's not much else going on across the eastern seaboard as we set the stage for a quiet weather pattern. as we head towards this afternoon there is a possibility that some of the clouds try to fire up showers pushing towards daybreak tomorrow out towards the delaware and maryland beaches. in fact, tomorrow will be a day where we'll have sun in the morning and a sunny afternoon. again, there could be lingering moisture along the beach line between ocean city up through delaware. otherwise, here's the way it stacks up today. sunny to partly cloudy. hour or two degree -- our two tee agree guarantee with the dry direction with clouds left o

the panhandle of west virginia, western maryland will be about .25 inches of it. we will see some clouds today. scattered showers anticipated late this afternoon. most of the rain will be further north and northwest of the metro. tomorrow it will be cooler. >> a serious accident overnight. we are about to tell you more in the news portion of the show. this is on a stretch of the moral burden drive. -- more drive. be very careful as you travel to that area. we do not have any accidents to report. traffic is in pretty good shape on the 270. the loop looks good from college park to silver spring. back to you. >> let's get more on that breaking news from prince george's county. three people are dead after an ambulance and suv collide. we are live now on the ticket 600 block of marlborough plight. >> i want to give you an idea of exactly what happened here on a marlboro pike. an ambulance was responding to a call when suv is traveling in the same lane was traveling eastbound. according to the video, you can see the suv going in a high rate of speed. it is an extremely

out in west virginia in the low to mid 50s, as well as western maryland. on the eastern shore, temperaturesn the mid 60s. near the water upper 60s as well as right in washington. we have some of the clouds drifting in from the midwest ahead of a front moving throu ohio with some rain that extends into kentucky and tennessee. that will likely arrive into the mountains this afternoon a later farther east here around the metro area after sunset, maybe with some thunder and before that into the low to mid 80s. then tomorrow we'll dry out after any of those showers do produce some rain andget a terrific weekend to follow. how is the traffic? >> time to take a live look as the sun slowly thinks about coming up at the wilson bridge. kind of a pretty picture. so far so good. the sun not a factor moving along very nicely between alexandria and oxon hill. right now both ways travel lanes are open. elsewhere the rush hour really loaded up. i looked as close as i could. i couldn't find anything blocking. just a lotof heavy volume. 66. several long stretches including

to west, upper 60s, parts of western maryland, shenandoah valley, far western maryland and west virginia, many locations in the higher elevations only near 60 so it's a coolmorning there. eastern shore near 70. mid-70s in southeastern and southern virginia. now it's near 80 degrees on the carolina border. over the last 12 hours we've had this high pressure pushing down from nada at's cleared out our sky. meanwhile in the tropics it is active. hurricane igor passed just 17 miles from the center of circulation from bermuda over the weekend yesterday. now it's rapidly exiting north and east about 20 miles an ur and the winds have diminished from 7 sustained to higher gusts, but it continues to move away out to sea. tropical storm julia is weakening well and this may be a new tropical storm, lisa. it's now a cluster of clouds. we have to keep an eye on that. but it may become a named tropical storm in anotr coue days. meanwhile, a couple waves heading toward the central islands, the leeward islands to the east of there, and then to the west of there, south of hispaniola, theres another clust

. >>> a large brush fire is now under control in western maryland. the flames broke out in a wooded area in allegheny county. the gas fire consumed about 20 acres. today's rain should make sure it's out for good. >>> a new approach to teaching african american men about cardiovascular disease is working. jessica cartalia has details on the study out of the university of maryland. >>> african american men are four to five times more likely to suffer from high blood pressure. but there's good news when it comes to cardiovascular health. the dean of the university of maryland school of pharmacy says an effort to try to educate african american men about heart disease has worked. >> the most common cause of a heart attack is high blood pressure. >> our mission is to lead the way as far as education, scientific discovery, patient care, and community outreach. >> reporter: a new study found african americans between the ages of 35 and 44 saw nearly twice the prevalence of cardiovascular disease including heart attack and stroke. the stroke rate is 32% high

we are still in a drought in virginia, west virginia, western maryland. an extreme drought going on in the west virginia and parts of western maryland. there is only one category worse than that. locally, we're just dry and could use some showers. they really need it for the west. no rain in the forecast until maybe wednesday. a 30% chance of a few isolated showers or thundershowers. high pressure overhead. northerly wind today dropping the humidity levels making it comfortable. however the high will slide eastward and out to sea. as it does that, temperatures will warm up as we get the southerly winds on the back side of the high. 80 degrees the high temperature locally. a few degrees cooler out west, especially in the shen doe -- shenandoah valley. wednesday and thursday summer-like. high temperatures near 90 degrees. a slight chance of a storm wednesday and thursday. traffic rvings lisa. >> and traffic is moving nicely now. route 4, route 5, no problems to report on 28. route 10. we'll take you over to a picture of traffic on the beltway. we move the g

maryland. that is where we got most of the rain yesterday. reagan national all was only 3/1 hundred of an inch. that makes of the 63rd 90-degree day of the year yesterday. it does not look like we have any more and 90's in the immediate forecast but we may get close at the end of next week as we warm-up. there is a new storm brewing in the midwest area that will push our way this weekend. saturday will be a great day with high pressure over head and a lot of sunshine. as the front moves through on sunday, it looks like a dry frontal passage in the 50's tomorrow morning with a lot of sunshine through out the dead. it will be comfortably warm. los humidity but we will be in the mid-80's this weekend. >>> distracted drivers can be as dangerous as drunk drivers on the road. a rally was held this morning in d.c. to encourage drivers to turn off their cell phones before they get into their cars. seventeen magazine and aaa sponsored the event called national two-second turn of dead. >> we hope that pe

though tomorrow, here's some showers and even by the afternoon we could see a few in to western maryland, scraping northern maryland. overnight, here's the showers in to friday morning as the front is coming through. mountain showers but we should be dry much of the day on friday. also igor, 145-mile an hour winds. that's heading to ber move that on sunday and julia, this is up to 135. you have two major hurricanes in the atlantic. julia won't be a problem but igor really could hit bermuda maybe as a category two on sunday. here we go. 82 today. 85 tomorrow. there's the showers on thursday in to friday morning. friday cooling down to 79. low to mid-80s over the weekend. looking good for the bluemont fair and redskins game and tuesday warm in the 80s. 6:47. how about some traffic? >> how about some and how about new problems to tell you about. we have an accident on the beltway. we want to take you there out there live on the outer loop at new hampshire avenue. we will take a live shot from sky 9. the good news is in the last three minutes or so everything has been pushed to the right sho

by thursday, tomorrow afternoon, western maryland could see stuff much more in pennsylvania. then in to the overnight on friday morning you see the showers ahead of the front. the front a few hours behind that and that will set us up for a nice weekend. the tropics, karl is in the caribbean, that's a tropical storm heading to the yucatan. igor a strong strong hurricane heading to bermuda potentially by sunday and julia, another hurricane, not as strong. this one going in that direction. that won't be a problem. igor the big problem karl a lesser problem. unless you are going to cancun or belize you have to watch that. 82 today. 85 tomorrow. tomorrow in to friday morning some showers. we need them and will take them. friday 79. saturday 84. friends in blue month has their fair and it will be beautiful. sunday 83. monday near 80 with a chance of a shower. angie goff, how are you? >> i'm doing great. the roads no megaproblems to report as we take a wide view of the area. just a couple of issues out there. we will get to them and begin with inbound new york avenue approaching flo

mountains, chilly morning, near 50, much of west virginia and western maryland. and we have a few clouds drifting in from the north and west that will be with us this morning. otherwise, lots of sunshine today. we'll have afternoon highs climbing to near 80 degrees. we have low humidity and northwest breeze 20 miles per hour. overnight it will be clear and chilly, in fact. in the 40s throughout much of the region. afternoon highs intothe upper 70s with bright sun on tuesday. wednesday, increasing clouds and warming up into the upper 80s. and then moisture wednesday night, thursday, may bring us passing showers with highs, again, hot on thursday, in the upper 80s. morning lows near 70. jerry, good morning. how is our traffic? >> good morning, tom. good morning, everyone. smooth sailing. live pictures of interstate 270 from i-70 toward the capital beltway. no worries. southbound has been wrapped up. a couple spots clearing up on the northbound side. in from the west along interstate 66 toward the capital beltway from fair oaks in, light volume. west of that point i

hagerstown.cross baltimore only upper 60s out there in western maryland. and heeeeis what it looks like right now. in the comfortable 60s. drop into the lower 60s. upper 50s across the statt. so feeling ike that fall like weather just inching in, and we -rr goinn to see the warm up though, start to move back into theeweekend. sooclear skies tonight. down to 64 degrees. and heat will build in toward the weekend. shhw you 410-662-1456, oming up in the seven-ddy forecast. >> later on fox 45 news at 10::0, the dramatic rescue of a man as this boat was sinking. >> meters are rrnning back wards. >> but next. find out why windmmlls are meeting introducing the samsung fascinate powered by verizon. super amoled screen. six-axis 3d gaming and access to thousands of free apps. all in one ultra-thin package. you want it, we got it. the samsung fascinate. only at verizon. >> as demand for energy grows, turning to wind power to generate electricity. -n their own. >> ut ately some proposaas to into trouble.rbines hhve run ú% tonight's cover story, jeff abell examines wi

the temperatures have dropped into the low and mid 60's and in western maryland. even a 90-degree reading in southern maryland. distraught will change the pattern just a little bit, but -- this front will change the pattern. the computer models weekend the second batch of showers, so we should see the last of the showers winding down and in showers clearing as we head towards friday morning. a couple of showers and maybe some thunder overnight. the area of low pressure will stay to the north and head for new england, but it does drag that front group. behind it, the temperatures cool a little, but westerly winds tend to compress the air and warm it up. it is not going to cool off that much, but it will dry out. it should feel more comfortable for most folks tomorrow afternoon, and it looks like the dry weather pattern will hold into the weekend, especially on saturday. there is another week for an indicated to the north sunday and should come through here sunday night and monday morning with just a few clouds. does not look like a substantial rain threat. tomorrow

maryland. western pennsylvania and west virginia. this activity will continue to head our way. -ut it breaks up alonn the front. so the chance will be about a 50 percent chance to see if we get rain. some folks will get some. some will not. clear conditions string back to the pledges. so reeatively quiet pattern once the front moves through. hhaddng to the tropics. igor,,this is a ategory 4 storm. winds at 132. gusting to 161 miles per hour. the track of the storm from the national urricane cenner will go up ver bermuda and it could cause problems. but it looks like we will have ú% worry about it on the mid-atlantic, or the eastcoast other than maybe rip currents out there along the waterways. but as far as the tropics, again, looking at the category 3 storm. this is julia, which ill curve back to the atlantic. and not affect anybodd. down south, karl, tropical %-peninsula and makes landffll s a category one storm in mexico. but it looks like it may not affect us here on thh mainland in the u.

we start the day with 60s and even 50s out in parts of western maryland by 9:00 in the 860s 860s. -- angie has the maryland tuesday traffic. >> that's right. sky 9 is hovering over the roads. a live look at conditions on 4 t 5 near the georgia avenue exit. right now we are watching congestion build on the outer loop. that's the right of the screen making your way from new hampshire avenue to this spot. we are lacking a plus five minutes and growing. as we switch our cameras over and show you bradley and connecticut, obviously the commute is clear. nothing to stand in your way. very volume light. and ending with a shot of 355 and shady grove, stopped at a red light because green light to a nice commute right now. we remain incident free. it is 6:09. you are watching 9 news now. we'll be right >>> we are back with a hidden warning about a health danger. a blood vessel disease that million of americans have and many don't know it until it is at an advanced stage. we have more on pad and how you can get checked free for pad. >> reporter: that's the sound of blood pumping through the body

out of the mountains of western maryland, many locations in the 40s right now. and we have a clear sky than to high pressure nosing down from ontario that will be with us throughout the day today with plenty of sunshine. wming us to near 80 degrees with the strong, late september sun. tomorrow, winds shifting into the southwest will bring in summer like warmth. near 90 tomorrow afternoon. lots of sun. after midnight wednesday night through midday thursday, a chance of a passing shower as the warm front comes through. warm temperatures again thursday afternoon and friday afteoon near 90 degrees. jerry, how is the traffic? >> tom, unfortunately things have gotten ugly very quickly on the beltway in virginia. live pictes of the inner loop beginning at route 50, arlington boulevard. it is at a stand still. multicar crash inner loop of the beltway just above i6. right side of the roadway and left side of the roadway are blocked. not only will i affect traffic to the beltway, it will jam things up on 66 trying to get on to or beyond 495. so heads-up for that. we'll ke

even out west into west virginia and western maryland, temperatures are above normal and it will stay that way through tomorrow. under the cloud cover, in northern virginia, a few isolated showers. very minimal activity drifting toward pg. mostly clear tonight and warmer than normal. the sense that this evening at 7:00 to. just to our west, you see a lot of low to mid 90's across the ohio valley. 96 degrees in louisville, ky. in chicago and detroit, temperatures are well above normal. there is a cold front moving to the plains states with showers and storms associated with it. it will be dreyer approaching our region but it will bring in fall-like temperatures. a hot friday tomorrow with lots of sunshine. temperatures in the low nineties for most areas. the cold front drying up across ohio and arriving in baltimore. not quite as hot as tomorrow. temperatures coming down on saturday. we will see a significant cool down. provide -- said -- with the cloud cover, temperatures will be a little below normal. we will watch the showers to our south. they may move into our direction next week.

in four western maryland, it has been a fall-like day. computer models continues to show a very nice weather pattern unfolding for this weekend. expect comfortable, late summer conditions. 51 in the suburbs, 58 in the city. we will see of this nice weather pattern will last through the weekend with the complete forecast, coming up in just a minute. >> cleanup chores mark the end of the work week for several states. new york was one of the hardest hit. it is not confirm whether it was a tornado across all that damage. chris clackum has a closer look at storm damage across the nation. >> authorities suspect this is one of at least half a dozen tornadoes that torpor central ohio thursday evening. daybreak brought proof of just how damaging that word. area southeast of columbus like athens were hard hit. five of 13 people injured during the storms here were still in hospital friday. a meteorologist said it had winds of up to 135 miles an hour. toppled mobile homes and caused widespread damage to other structures. >> the neighbor's garage blew

western maryland, west virginia. tidewater, the pay, eastn shore, 60s as well. view from space showing a clear sky here. a little disturbance in eastern kentucky. showers may come in later this afternoon and give us showers. don't have much autumn color here but look out in the rocky mountains. aspen are now at ak color. aspen glow it's known as. cathy sent this in to us, grand lake, colorado, 8,000 feet right at then trance of the rocky mountain national park. students waiting for bus this morning, it will be in the 60s. then by noon time, low to mid-80s. a few clouds popping up. late afternoon, into early this evening a chance for a passing thundershower. six tomorrow morning. thursday a friday, again, like summer, near 90. over theweekend, cooler saturday. sunny, high 80s. how is the traffic? >> tom, continuing to follow breaking ne in northern virginia in what was reported to be a motorcycle accident. southbound i-95 near route 1 in woodbridge. left half of the roadw remains closed. two lanes appear to be squeezing by to the right. there is a southbound dela

you can see this swath of rain in western maryland and southern virginia now. the yellows and red is the heaviest of the rain. moderate downpours. plu prince william county. clifton, a light little shower. there is the rain -- the heavier showers and embedded downpours are headed your way in frederick and hagerstown. even down towards charlestown. take a quick look at this. the rainfall total. msm airy, mod sunny as well. high temperatures in the low 80's. becoming less humid and the chance of heavier showers wednesday through thursday later on this week. looking great again by the weekend. back to lisa. >> things are looking relatively good on the highway until that comes in. on the beltway, route 4, not too bad now on the wilson bridge. if you're headed to andrews air force base, they had some lingering road work. stay to the left. montgomery county on the beltway, things uneventful. no shine of rain. things looking a little bit damp for us this morning msm in frederick, things are quiet on 270. back to alison. >> your time is 4:41. still to come this morning

this afternoon, only 75 in the mountains of western maryland. abundant sunshine here in baltimore. blue skies are prevailing, 79 degrees and light wind. if you take a look at tomorrow, it will be significantly warmer. no problems on the bay. light winds with the waves are churning only up to 1 foot. 55 degrees is the average club tonight. this morning we were in the upper-forties. the chill is starting to enter the airport sure. the record low was set in 1962. it is 63 downtown with clear skies, beautiful and quiet. tomorrow, the highs will move offshore. it will be bringing in some of the heat from the deep south. we are going to surge to at least the mid-80's. we could see temperatures by the end of the week even higher than that. we may even have eight scattered shower or storm in the late afternoon hour. tropical storm lisa is not too impressive yet, but has plenty of room to materialize. as we take a look at the first fall today, it will be about 85 degrees with a slight chance of a thunderstorm. thursday, 84 with a slight chance of a thunderstorm. friday, 86 or 87. upper-70's

cooler in the western maryland right now. satellite imagery indicating clear skies from mature new york, for baltimore, to the virginia, north carolina border. winds will be less than 5 miles per hour leading temperatures cooler into the 40's in the outlying suburbs. bwi marshall has not been below 50 degrees since june 11th. nav the first time in 100 days or so that we go below the 50 degree mark. warmer, more humid air coming this way and eventually some of that will come back our direction, but not until wednesday or thursday. another gorgeous day tomorrow. a few thunderstorms showing up off to the west of us. wednesday afternoon, there may be some hit or miss scattered storms with hazy, hot humid weather. tomorrow, very comfortable. light southerly winds with lots of sunshine. 77 degrees in the afternoon. sunrise at 6:53 a.m. on the day tomorrow, a gentle day on the chesapeake. fort mchenry is at sunrise -- we rebound nicely. sunshine and a westerly breeze will get them into the 70's. over to annapolis and down into south

we have cool and comfortable conditions out in western maryland where a few showers are approaching during the late afternoon and early evening. these clouds are associated with a cold front that will come through here and not the temperature back a bit more could imbedded in these clouds, there may be a few isolated showers. it will not be much more than a brief sprinkle, perhaps. once the wind shifts to the northwest, temperatures will settle back into the upper-50's 2 low-60's by dawn. it is the cold front of to the north and west of that will make it past our region tonight, move off the coast, and bring in more direct conditions as we head into monday and tuesday. we expect a good deal of sunshine and very comfortable for the first part of the workweek. by wednesday, the wind will shift back to the south and southwest. it will heat up again. we may be talking about temperatures in the 85 degrees to 90 degrees range. there may be some scattered afternoon thunderstorms to contend with on wednesday and into thursday. 77 degrees to 82 degrees tomorrow, maybe a low cloud cover early on and

where we needed it the most up in parts of west virginia and western maryland, that's where we got it. as much as a half-inch. dry weather forecast today all the way through the middle part of next week. we'll start the day with some clouds. becoming sunshine. gradual clearing as well. high temperature in the mid-to-low 80's. this weekend, in the 80's. it will be a warm weekend but sunny and pleasant. dry until the middle of next week. now breaking news on the traffic. >> we have good news now. we're looking at the beltway in montgomery county. the outer loop traffic has just been reopened. those are the headlights you see going from upper right to bottom left of the screen. the truck accident that occurred last night at about 10:00 has been cleaned up. the beltway is back open. you can make your plans now for the morning rush hour to get from college park to 270. most of the construction being picked up. there is a crash on the interloop exit to college park along the left side. back to you. >> thank you so much. it is 4:54. we have 67 degrees on this friday morning. >> maybe you don

weather-wise, but we are starting to see some showers pop up in western maryland. i thought we would get for the drive time completely dry. that may not be the case. 80% of you will have a dry thursday morning commute. very summer-like temperatures. 60's to around 70 degrees. we can see something popping up on the satellite. this is just across the pennsylvania line. most of the activity is off to our west. this is the same front that winds through last night that triggered the thunderstorms and produced severe weather. it is still there right now. it will dissipate. we will keep a slight chance for a shower or thunderstorm in the forecast. that is even a possibility this morning. high temperatures, around 90. the average high temperature is 76. partly cloudy tonight. temperatures will drop back into the system's to around 70 degrees. i think friday will be the hottest day. a big push of hot air will move in. low 90's in most locations. then it this front will move through friday night into saturday morning. i do not think the front will make it pushed all the way

maryland, partly cloudy, beautiful sunshine here, mostly sunny and 82 degrees. across the bay bridge, over to the lower eastern shore, we are looking at 77 degrees, a little chillier down by the shore. rip currents will be an issue thanks to hurricane igor. we will check that out in a moment. things are quiet on our banks, weighs only of what -- waves only 1 foot. the front is not going to do much except lower our temperature by monday and tuesday. the cool canadian high will set up shop. here's a look at igor, still a category 2 storm. it is on target, moving north- northwest about 40 miles an hour, to hit bermuda. the squalls are already starting to affect it. it is a large hurricane, with hurricane winds extending 9 miles out from the center. it has 100 mile per hour sustained winds. actual and follow be like -- late tomorrow night into monday morning. it looks like 82 tomorrow here, upper 70's monday and tuesday, then a high pressure will move offshore and breakdown. we will see a herd of -- search of humidity and warmth by wednesday. >> that is a great fore

statewide, a slight chance for some shower activity in the mountains of western maryland. they hide their of 65 degrees. 83 degrees in baltimore. we could see gusts up to 20 5 miles per hour. beautiful with abundant sunshine not only here but at the lower eastern shore where there will have a high of 84 degrees. we have northwest winds and 5 to 15 knots and waves of one to 2 feet. we topped out at 84 degrees before rain pushed into the area. we are a few degrees above normal. 97 was the record high. 44 degrees was the record low. tonight is typical. seasonable temperatures. 55 in the outlying areas. 62 down time. great for friday night football. we have high pressure trying to build in. the front is moving offshore. we will be high and dry once the front moves and this weekend. we will not see any showers this weekend. we will remain dry for the next several days. i court is still a major hurricane, category 3 -- igor is still a major hurricane. it will affect bermuda. it could still skirt to the west side of bermuda and it will suffer the greatest impact of the storm surg

there are still some rainshowers to contend with a round of baltimore area back into western maryland. one final batch of strong storms that prompted tornado warnings earlier this afternoon in parts of eastern ohio. so far the rainfall amounts have not been impressive. we will take what we can get. nothing measurable at bwi .arshall, just a trace theire mid 80 cozy with the normal high down to 78. temperatures running in the low 70's of i-95 into harford county. even cooler out west, parts of allegheny and garrett county, upper the's and low 60's. one more batch of showers coming across eastern ohio arrives later tonight. the last of the shower should be clearing by 2:00 or 3:00 and heading for the coast. a shower or storm through about 3:00 in the morning and then humid conditions give way to a west wind. drier air moves in and a cooling trend toward dawn tomorrow morning. another storm this project high pressure builds then friday afternoon. the futurecast indicates lots of sunshine returning in the afternoon tomorrow, holding on for saturday. a weaker front drugs out of pennsylvani

in western maryland, it will feel like fall. a high of about 75 degrees. issue the right to run the 80 degree mark. you could have some strong once around the sun a day. the rip currents because igor is moving toward the shore. all eyes will be upon igor as and is close to bermuda. is continuing to move in that direction is about five pfennigs 60 miles. you can see it go right to warn that island. by saturday afternoon or send evening, it give a passing. it begins to flow away. it is good news for us. it is bad news for folks in bermuda. 80 degrees in bermuda. of bird-7's on monday and tuesday. >> week three of high school football delivers the clean is it we have seen since ray lewis. the story is coming up next in sports. >> is an estimated $54 million for the led to begin may be a millionaire. 14 is followed by 27, 18, 4, 3. the mega ball number is 13. everyone knows a fee is a tax. you raised some taxes during that period, particularly the property tax as well as a lot of fee increases. as you know, there's a big difference between fees and taxes. but.

los 60's in far western maryland this morning. the warm front has not come through yet. this is a warm, humid air mass. it will phillip summers time. the cool front will not come through until saturday morning. we will bake or broil. it will be mostly sunny. hot and humid. forill be in the low 90's the dew point. more humidity in the air than you like to feel. southwest wind 5 to 15 miles per hour. the front will be coming in about 8:00 in the morning west of us. we do see some clouds. any indication of rain is slim. less humid air comes in. we could see some showers off to our south saturday morning. rain off to our southeast on sunday. it looks like we could be dry on sunday. probably just some clotted this with a disturbance off to the south. 95 to today. football day on sunday. monday, tuesday, and was the, the rain chances increase and we do need it. >> there will soon be more space available for wifi signals. the fcc decides to open up on used airwaves for wireless broadband networks. they will be called super wifi because of those signals will travel further than

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it's in the low 60s and upper 50s on the eastern shore inhe mountains of western maryland and west viinia. near 60 this morning. a few high clouds drifting from the northwest. we'll have quite a bit of sunshine today. a few high clouds fm time to time. highs reaching the low 80s. a bit of a northwest breeze. tomorrow more of the same although a bit cooler. a chance for rain moving in after sunset, thursday evening and rush hour friday morning and drying out after that. how is the tuesday traffic? >> tom, good morning. good morning, everyone. starting off quiet and dry. good visibility this morning. unlike yesterday. interstate 66 yesterday this time was shrouded in fog. not the case this morning. moving along nicely. germantown along i-270 southbound around the bend to 118. so far so good as we get under way. >> well, thank you, jerry. >> today voters will decide prince george's cnty executive. it is expected to be a highly competitive race. >> i have a proven record. i brought resource toss prince george's county. i have provided leadership of an agent that was almost extinct when walked

we have flood warnings back in western maryland and also n the eastern shore. the arninnss% will be until 7:45 p.m. and it looks like we are goiig to continue to deal with. that we also still have a tornado úatch until 7:00 p.m. juss alonggthe central portions of city and county untill6:15ore becauseethere's potential for instability throughout in the -úatmosphere and untii weather service has thought this is we have to watch it closely. across the area until 7:00 o'clock tornado watch until 7::0 o'clock. looking at the hd radar. we can sea we had a little bit of break. ound 1 earlyythis morning with the heavy rainfall. some folks gettiig aa much as 2 inches andd5 inches some areas up as much as 15 to 17 inches and now we have the next batch of rain moving up to chesapeake bay anddkind of taking the towards harper county and folks up there once again have to deal with heavy rain and that's not all. look down to richmond. large batth of rain what was ttopical storm nicole and this low will continue to move along frontal boundaryy6 3 right through north ccrolin

a beautiful day out in the western maryland mountains. near the bay, sunshine in abundance with temperatures right around 80 degrees. brands will be lighter out of the west mark. lower eastern shore, of warmer with mostly sunny skies. ocean city and surrounding areas should have beautiful. tomorrow. hurricane eagar has been a car packed storm. -- hurricane igor has been a power-packed store. the eye of the storm is well- defined and continues to produce with estimates of 145 miles per hour at the center. 155 miles per hour and above this category five. it might even get a little rubber deceiving. further to the north, you can see the clouds moving from west to east. it will encounter this wester the share which will start to weaken the story a little bit. this will generally move in the direction of bermuda. and little further east, julia has become a hurricane. it is now a category one. the big what is hurricane igor. a category four storm about 180 miles from hamilton, bermuda. it does look like we will see this storm weakening but movi