we won loudoun county last time and if we win loudoun county this time, we will win virginia and if we win virginia, we will win this election. >> but not without a fight. tonight was the president's 11th trip to virginia. his 10th political event here just this year alone and the romney campaign is here with a romney bus tour on the state now on the drawing board. this cannot be said enough. this year, virginia is key. anita. >> clearly it is. gary, thank you. mitt romney spent part of his day in golden, colorado, hammering the president on the economy. the republican white house hopeful is working in the swing state where the unemployment rate 18.2%. he brought along his own report card. >> look at the results. and you look at the results and it's been a disappointment. his policies have not worked. they have not got america back to work again. my policies will work and i know that because they have worked in the past. >> now romney unveiled a new commercial today airing in florida, blasting the president for focusing on healthcare instead of the economy. both campaigns will be looki

county. >> and president obama won loudoun county by eight percent age points last time. he hopes to repeat those numbers, but it will be a little tougher this time. in 2009 during the gubernatorial race bob mcdonnell won loudoun county by over 20 percentage point. president obama is asking supporters to join him in that pat and hopefully get him -- battle and hopefully get him reelected. maureen umeh, fox 5 news. >>> mitt romney campaigned in the toss-up state of colorado today, his first u.s. rally following his overseas trip. the gop presidential candidate focused on jobs and the economy and threw in a few jabs at president obama. >> he said i'll measure success by whether someone who has a good idea will go out and start a business. yeah, i hope he understands that actually the people that have a good idea and start a business are the ones that actually build the business. >> also slamming the president's handling of the economy, in a slew of television ads in battle ground states. coming up tonight at 10:30 fox 5 political analyst mark plotkin joins us to talk more a

and if we win loudoun county this time, we will win virginia. and if we win virginia, we will win this election. >> the president also unvailed new campaign ads continuing his message that the republican plans will hurt the middle class. from colorado, another important state in the election, mitt romney made a bold promise. he said he will create 12 million new jobs in the next four years if he's elected. >> i understand what it takes to get america working again. i understand it's small businesses that create jobls in america. that people great jobs, not government. and i'm going to get america working again. >> virginia governor appeared with romney tonight at an event from the public governor's association. mechanic dona mcdonald is said to be on the short list of running mates. >> d.c., home to the type a obsessive-compulsive personality. those traits can bring people success at work, but it can also cause some unhealthy disorders. namely, over-exercising. >> my goal was to try to come in under 21 minutes for a 5k by the end of the summer.

that's just not crossing the potomac and loudoun county. farther south, another batch of rain that's falling to the east southeast of fredericksburg. that is continuing to advance to the north and east. that's going to move into southern maryland, charles county in the next half hour. right now getting heavy downpours around burke and fairfax county and farther north around great falls is coming down hard. this is a huge area. it is back in northern prince william, advancing north and east into montgomery county. maybe parts of northwest washington may get some moderate downpours over the next half hour. the rest of washington may be a little bit of light rain. right now in the 70s. near 70 where it's raining hard. day planner showing some lightning, too, with this. by 6:00 a.m., mid 70s. still showers moving through. noontime may settle down a little bit. likelihood of storms this afternoon. some of them could be severe, 3:00 to 9:00 p.m. lingering into this friday evening. the evening planner in ten minutes. danella looks at the traffic.

there's heavy rain especially in loudoun county. no. fauquier county. prince william county, particularly in manassas, that's where you have the downpours pushing north. and in reston, downpours stretching towards winchester. that's all moving to the north and northeast. the rain is starting to spread over the 270 corridor and down to gaithersburg and rockville. as will continue pushing northeast. what we will have throughout the day today, the rain will be coming in two rounds. the first is this morning. the second is currently in ohio. we will have the rain through the morning. then by lunch time there's a break and rainshowers with a little sunshine. the sunshine will destabilize the atmosphere and add to the and a strong potential for later on today. 80 degrees right now in the district. much cooler off to the northwest. 67 in martinsburg and 83 degrees in quantico. mid to upper 80s today for the high temperature. midday sunshine after morning rain. we have the most sunshine is where we have the highest potential for a stronger storms later on today

just over the loudoun county-clock county line east of snickersville turnpike. one lane able to squeeze by on the shoulder callers tell you us. >> thanks, beverly. >>> the time right now is 6:19. next in sports, you're going to want to stop what you're doing right now and see the nationals' game ending play from last night. >> first, we want to get another check of the question of the morning. it is a recent survey suggests a majority of women believe this is the most romantic thing their significant other can do. is it a, a candlelight dinner, b, a random text or just call her beautiful, or c, a surprise weekend get away. >> facebook friend steven reached out to us and he's going out on his own here. he writes d, admitting they're right even when you know they're not. >> bad answer. keep the guesses coming. find out if you're correct at 6:49. >>> 6:23. your weather first on this wednesday morning. another sticky morning out there with mostly cloudy skies. we had a spotty shower south of town this morning. those things have fallen apart. we could still see that

. >> the loudoun county sheriff's office is asking anybody with information about erica smith's death to give them a call. >>> attention virginia shoppers. you have but one day to take advantage of the state's tax- free shopping days. those tax-free savings apply to school supplies under $10 and clothing and shoes under $100. the savings also apply to baby clothing and diapers, men's and women's formal wear, golf cleating, lingerie and -- clothing, lingerie and wedding apparel.

a fairly strong storm here in portions of loudoun county. let's take you right in, you can see right around the warrington area. right around 66. that's where we're seeing the heaviest rain right now. look at this right here, you see this little boundary? that is a boundary of wind with probably 30-40 mile an hour winds getting ready to make its way through restin, oakton and right over toward the city of fairfax. take a look at these storms off to the west. this will come through tonight. this will come through tomorrow. numerous severe thunder stochl warnings and even tornado warnings. i'll show you what that means for your friday. >> robert griffin, iii's debut with the skins. robe robert griffin, iii would play in three series in the first quarter. 0 for 1 on his first drive. the first completion of his nfl career. to the skin's third drive, griffin getting in a groove. hooks up with the new wide out. two new guys kept it in fact. later in the drive, griffin hit garcon again. you can see why the team brought him in. the first touchdown p

he won loudoun by 8 points four years ago but in 2009 republican candidate bob mcdonough won loudoun by more than 20 points. president will present his vision to rebuild the economy, from the middle out, cut taxes for middle class families and reduce the countries deficit. mitt romney supporters held a counter event where they slammed the president's handling of the economy. republican presidential candidate mitt romney campaigned in colorado where he was hoping to focus after what some called his foreign stops overseas. the crowd is waiting to get inside to the arena where the president is expected to see. it is a ticketed event and if you don't have a ticket, you will not be allowed inside. the president expected shortly. but people waiting to get in as are the media. the event beginning at 7:45 and we'll bring you the latest tonight happening on fox 5 news at 10:00. that is the latest from here in loudoun, maureen umeh, fox 5 news. >> mitt romney campaigned in colorado today. he introduced his five point plan for strengthening the middle class, including education, cutting the tra

. >>> school is out already for a substitute teacher in loudoun county. the middle schoolteacher is charged with being drunk in public after officials said she was intoxicated after she showed up for the first day of class. >> august 27th was the first day of school for loudoun county, including stone hill middle school. minutes before the bell rang, staff noticed a substitute teacher act aing intoxicated. >> we look after not only our staff and he and the staff noticed that one of our substitute assistant teachers was acting a little differently. >> 50-year-old jack lean barnes charged with drinking in public had been with loudoun county schools for six months and school officials want to emphasize she had no interaction with any kids that morning before her arrest. >> no students had any interaction with the substitute assistant teacher and as far as we know, everything went off as normal. >> reporter: this isn't the first time loudoun county had dealt with staff showing up to work drunk. she was arrested last year as was this physics teacher at jane mi

and loudoun county also seeing an increase in enrollment. one new high school and one new elementary school and they are projecting enrollments to get evening abouter. coming up for ashburn yard people, they will be in the same schools this year but they are anticipating opening new schools in ashburn next year so one of the themes coming up for them in the coming school year is some of the redrawing of the school lines there in the ashburn area to move kids around and get them into classrooms that are a better size for them. so again, higher enrollments are the theme all throughout the area. you can kind of hear the school buses. we are seeing one of our first school buses right here coming up behind us. 6:30s when they start to get going and underway. nderway. >>> a look at this morning's other top stories actually viewing will be held for fallen prince george's county police officer adrian morris. he is killed in a car crash on i-59 near beltsville last week as he and another officer were chasing two men in an alleged stolen vehicle. offi

even along the blue ridge and in county and theer county,ound in loudoun especially in western loudoun county. over the blue ridge. scattered light rain this morning. the 70's attures in moment, 76 at reagan national, you still feel the humidity. that will change behind rainfall. will shift. s afternoonclear thi and we will have sunshine. for the high temperature. there is the cold front behind it,. more comfortable air in place. this will be a beautiful middle end to the workweek. tomorrow through humidity.h low warm.l still be there's tropical storm isaac. the latest still has it as a high end tropical storm. should become a hurricane later today, making landfall in louisianai and tonight and early tomorrow morning. it is going to bring much-needed some communities in the midsection of the country. folks it will be in too a good thing especially along the coastline of and and mississippi where they could see up to 16 inches of rain between tomorrow and saturday. of isaac will us sunday into monday in upcoming labor day holiday what we will keep an eye on. now to angela >> . 270 is sl

coming through portions of frederick county and loudoun county seeing shower activity. also towards prince william county seeing rain smof into your area. the heaviest rain in warrenton, close to manassas. west of gaithersburg. in the metro area in the next 57 minutes. we'll continue to watch it for you. yes, could impact the start of the nats game tonight. we'll talk about that in a sec. >>> new details of the beating in the area -- on a porch along north carolina avenue yesterday. news 4 jackie benson is live in the neighborhood with a timeline police are working with. jackie? >> reporter: eight hours, eight hours is a very critical time period in this investigation. now, detectives say that is the amount of time that elapsed from when the 29-year-old was found on a porch in the 700 block of north carolina avenue southeast at 8:30 saturday morning. d.c. police first district commander daniel hicks son addressed whether he was a robbery victim. >> we know where the victim was at about 12:30 in the morning. shortly after midnight x we don't know exactly whereabouts betw

out to the west loudoun county back into northern fauquier really seeing it. there's some of the heavier showers in olney and silver spring headed toward columbia. that will be approaching i-95 in a few minutes. another batch of heavy showers here on 17 north coming out of fauquier county up toward upperville and southwestern loudoun county. going toward 90 but showers over the next couple of hours. 6:00 a.m. here's monika with timesaver traffic. >> good morning, everybody. the beltway is looking good all around town. no issues to report. we're going to zoom up to the northern side of montgomery county. rockville, aspen hill, burtonsville. everything is looking good down into bethesda. no issues to report on 270 as you come in from germantown down to the point where the lanes divide. i'm show what you it looks like live here from our sky 9 and these are the brake lights forming right now at route 109. that will extend to 121 before your pace improves. on the southern side of maryland no problems to report from 210 to the wilson bridge. northbound route 5 in wa

showing an area of rain from loudoun county into prince william, stafford, spots spotsy. by 7:00, 8:00, it will still be in the upper 70s. by nontime, mid 80s. a smaller chance of passing shower or thunder shower this afternoon. reaching the low 90s, maybe by 3:00 or 4:00. sunset is at 8:13. by then, any thunder shower activity will be pretty much diminishing and ending. after that, lower humidity moves in. i'll have details on how long that's going to last. we'll look at the rest of the week and the weekend, too. that's coming up in ten minutes. coming up right now is danella with a look at our traffic. >> thanks, tom. if you're traveling along i-270, earlier this morning, crash on germantown. nice and open really. live look as you make your way past germantown road. no issues here as you travel southbound. northbound as well. nice and clear. southbound will continue southbound and here's a live look. a little volume increasing in this area. but no accidents. you're not really slow as you continue to the beltway and make your way on to the beltway inner loop and outer lo

again, loudoun county and howard county, severe thunderstorm warnings. >> but not what will go away at some point tonight? >> yes. because you can see it right here. >> you're the man, sir. thank you. we'll be back. >>> reaction to the story yesterday regarding the possibility of stop sign, cameras coming to d.c. and the little town of maryland. our good friend, deb in arlington has no problem with all the increased surveillance. two vehicles ago, friends got bashed by a car in maryland that ran a red light smashing into their suv. if it saves one life, then i think it's worthy. the other thing that bugs me, people put all their businesses on out there on facebook and twitter, yet they will be going all aclu on these cameras. didn't they help solve the murder of the jewelry store owner in arlington? you cannot have it both ways. nobody says that they could not help some time. that's the question, what are you giving up? if you are not sure about that, imagine the other extreme. i have a great idea, let's get rid of stop signs, speed signs, traffic lights. let everyone drive like they f

her case was featured at loudoun county's first ever child victim awareness day. sheriff michael chapman is hoping his new cold case squad will be able to catch her killer. >> we believe this is not a random act of violence, but rather erica knew her assailant. >> major richy heads the unit dedicated to closing unsolved murders in loudoun county. some dating back to 1969. he says the public has a role to play. >> i'm asking you to reach out to your family and friends and acquaintances and trust detectives. we know there's information out there that we don't have yet. >> new focus on erica's case is welcome news to her parents. >> we feel optimistic now, more so than we ever felt at any point in our investigation. >> why is that? >> because the amount of experience and manpower. >> child victim awareness day wasn't just about erica smith. it was one stop shopping for any parent looking for the latest innovations to keep track of their children. the fbi's free child id app is one of them. >> the best thing about this application is you are able to keep current pictu

it's showing up in loudoun county, northern montgomery. far western howard county, frederick county. heading east. it will be in the metro area in an hour for haymarket in prince william county. might have lightning there but probably not. early afternoon, sunshine brabing up in the mid 80s and hour by hour for the whole region will have lower humidity moving in during the afternoon. highs reaching upper 80s. a bit of a blustery northwest wind by late afternoon back down to the mid 80s. seven-day outlook in ten minutes. now a look at your first 4 traffic this tuesday morning with danella. >> thanks, tom. if you're taking metro, single tracking. this is on the orange and blue line between eastern market and new carrollton. over to brunswick east, seven-minute delay on train number 87 0. vre not reporting delays that the time. outer loop of the beltway, this time in virginia at georgetown pike. had road work set up. only the left lane was getting by. it's now clear. travel lanes are open. jim and angie? >> danella, thanks. we're learning mor

loudoun county and down 66, commuting inbound is light rain. a sprinkle in north arlington and falls church at this time. 75 degrees at reagan national. 88 this afternoon. scattered, light rain will be confined to the morning. then clearing and becoming sunny from lunchtime and thereafter with lower humidity levels later on today. a cold front is dropping in. there's not much action with it, but it will stir a the atmosphere to cause the light rain locally. heavier showers in new england. that will clear out. bright sunshine behind at a later today all the way through friday with lower humidity, but the humidity will return. tropical storm isaac will become a hurricane and could bring heavy rainfall to the midsection of the country especially the lower mississippi valley. some of the left over rain may move nearby sunday into monday. until then, nothing but sunshine tomorrow through friday. now to angela. >> it is already slow on southbound 270 in maryland. coming out of frederick, down through germantown, there is rain. father hurley boulevard

tomorrow the president speaks at loudoun county high school. dozens of people lined up to see the president yesterday. in 2008 he was the first democrat to win a presidential contest in loudoun county in more than 40 years. want to be among the first and all republican presidential candidate mitt romney's running mate will be? the campaign says people will download the smartphone application will be the first to find out. he is expected to announce his choice before the republican national convention in tampa on august 27. 5:06 on this wednesday morning now. >> a new project in the works aimed at easing your commute. which area is getting high >> heavy rain caused major problems in parts of suburban phoenix today. the town of santa received up to two inches of rain in our work, causing drivers to get stuck in flash floods. >>-- town of anthem. >> now to adam caskey. >> we are attracting heavy rain on the eastern shore. most moderate rain over southern maryland still lingering. a few sprinkles. in sprinkles you will see the yellow on the screen

. >>> ten years ago, a loudoun county teen found murdered near redskins' park. now the crime getting a fresh look as part of a new cold case initiative. erica smith's family held a vitch until her honor last night. the 14-year-old left home in july of 2002. she wasn't seen alive again. today the sheriff's office announced a plans to use new technology to try to solve the case. investigators believe smith knew her killer. they also think someone knows something, and has not come forward. >>> coming up, a breast-feeding battle by hundreds of mothers who are nursing on the national mall today. >>> plus, the half price sthael left southwest airlines customers paying thousands of dollars instead. >>> and how president obama's celebrating his birthday today. with nice weather, chuck. >> yeah. a nice day to be outside as long as you like it hot and sticky. a couple isolated storms for saturday evening, but we may have more storms to contend with on your sunday. on your i got the chance to start my own business. i know what it's like to hire people and to make ends meet

for the democrats for the first time since 1964 and they're really zeroing in on prince william and loudoun county. bob mcdonnell won those counties when he ran for governor in 2010. virginia did very well in house seats in those areas, but you know how much money is being spent on this network and other networks and the whole election might come down to two counties, prince william and loudoun if it's a tough race because the way they go as bellwethers is the way the state might go. >> let's turn our attention to how this race has turned so ugly recently looking at pennsylvania, now about to see the first court battle over pennsylvania's new law requiring voters to show valid photo id. what's the status in that fight? it's become so controversial. >> well, a state judge, judge robert simpson didn't grant anne junction. the republican legislature -- an injunction. the republican legislature which controls both houses signed a law which said you have to have a state approved voter id and the state judge said that it's reasonable, nondiscriminatory and a nonsevere burden. the democrats feel t

be aware that the loudoun county officials are on the scene. the closure will be in effect for quite some time with the overturned tanker truck on the dulles greenway. back to you. >> thank you. still to come, a big honor for a prince george's county school and helping students achieve the dream. isaac is losing steam but still drenching louisiana. we wil >> you are watching abc 7's "good morning washington" with cynne simpson and steve chenevey. this is "good morning washington," on your side. >> 6:15 on this thursday morning. three-quarters of a million people without power now along the gulf coast. the blame falling on isaac. here's a look at the high water. search and rescue crews will resume their mission once they get daylight. lot of the damage is out of new orleans. that's where a lot of the rescue operations were yesterday. now more reports of damage to the north of new orleans and across the state of louisiana there's flooding. we have seen rainfall totals over 20 inches in some areas. there you see some of the wind damage. still wait

. >>> several roads in leesburg will be closed tomorrow for the president's visit to loudoun county high school. that event starts around 7:30, but closings begin at 2:30. shuttle buses will be provided to and from the high school from how dow county fairgrounds. >>> player -- loudoun county fairgrounds. >>> maryland senator mike miller says the senate will convene next thursday at 11:30 a.m. and a bill to expand gambling will go before the committee. next friday the full senate should get the bill before sending it on to the house. >>> still ahead 11 new speed cameras hit the streets of d.c. we'll talk about it. over the next four months, you have a choice to make. not just between two political parties, or even two people. it's a choice between two very different plans for our country. governor romney's plan would cut taxes for the folks at the very top. roll back regulations on big banks. and he says that if we do, our economy will grow and everyone will benefit. but you know what? we tried that top down approach. it's what caused the mess in the first place. i believe the only way to

southern loudoun county as well. closer to washington, just now starting to get a few sprinkles in northwest and in fairfax county, montgomery county, just a few sprinkles. this is heading off to the north and east. moving into charles county, southern maryland, and anne arundel county over the next half hour or so. low 70s. ahead of the rain it's in the upper 70s to around 80. it's not going to warm up much with all the clouds around and rain moving on through. day planner showing afternoon high of 85 or so. between now and then, some passing showers, thunder and lightning. by 5:00, still in the 70s. by noon time, most of the region will be around 80. 50% chance of storms. then a greater chance of scattered storms this afternoon. some could be severe at 8:00 p.m. friday evening planner in ten minutes. danella has a look at the friday morning commute. >> thanks, tom. happy friday. first 4 traffic report, road work that's happening right now on the beltway. both work zones in virginia on the outer loops. dulles toll r

shuttle buses will be provided to the high school from loudoun county fairgrounds. mitt romney is expected to be in virginia as part of a bus tour next week. >>> house republicans have pushed through a bill to extend all of the bush era tax cuts. the president has promised to veto the bill if it reaches his desk. the cuts are scheduled to expire at the end of the year. >>> congress is going after iran. both chambers overwhelmingly approved a bill which puts tight sanctions on iran's energy, shipping and financial industries. the legislation penalizes any companies which help iran sell or transport its oil. the bill is designed to force iran to give up its ambitions of nuclear power. president obama is expected to sign the bill. >>> and maryland is clear to enforce its gun permit law while it appears a ruling which over turned part of it. the u.s. fourth circuit court of appeals reissued a stay in the case. the original ruling in march found the law's requirements for people to show a good and substantial reason to carry a gun was unconstitutional. arguments in maryl

that was the goal of the first annual child victim awareness day in loudoun county. at the junction plaza shopping center in ashburn, parents got electronic child identification kits and other information. part of the day was also dedicated to the memory of erica heather smith, a 14-year- old who disappeared in 2002 and her body was found 11 days late near a grave near a creek. her killer has not been caught. >> it's so important we try to get this child murdererrer off the streets and try to get some legal justice for our daughter erica heather smith. she does deserve justice. she was just a child. she did not deserve to be murdered. >> the loudoun county sheriff's office is asking anyone with information about erica smith's death to give them a call. >>> researchers believe they figured out how cancerous tumors become resistant to chemotherapy. a study in the journal nature says chemo damages the d.n.a. of some healthy cells and this allows cancer cells to invade vital organs and block the effectiveness of cancer drugs. scientists say the findings could lead to the

more to the south and a little bit kicking up in loudoun county now. i'll have the details and what you can expect with isaac coming up after the break. stay with us.  whoever said that "less is momo" is more or less mathematically challenged. less isn't more, it's less. and the only thing more than more is a lot more. which is exactly what i get at embassy suites. more space... more down time. more family time. more me time. more me time. more me time. because the more more i have, the more i have to have... more. [ female announcer ] more room. complimentary drinks. free breakfast. embassy suites. get more. >>> break from all the heavy news of the day. let's have the high energy dave ross. we can talk about the redskins about to make cuts i guess? >> and the nats not doing so hot lately. i want to talk about the nats and how, you know -- >> we'll go nats first. >> i'm little worried about our boys. >> don't fret. they're going to be okay. >> i think so. >> today the series finale against the phillies. nats hoping to avoid being swept s

he is hoping an event tonight at loudoun county event in leesburg. the city is suggesting you avoid that area if possible. >>> the president is secretly authorizing the cia to help rebels in syria. >>> across the country wednesday, chick-fil-a supporters lined up outside the food chain as part of chick-fil- a appreciation day. >> this was in answer to chick- fil-a's financial support of group opposing gay marriage. tom fitzgerald has the story. >> reporter: steady lines stayed in place most of the day. some customers made special trips to support the company. >> i made a very deliberate trip down here. live about 15 minutes away. >> reporter: others were less interested in chick-fil-a's politics than they were in its poultry. >> i haven't let it affect me as much. >> reporter: the chick-fil-a appreciation day was sparked on facebook by fox news host mike huckabee and his reaction to recent protest against the restaurant. the turnout was much bigger in maces like georgia where cars wrapped around the building and large groups are seen walking in. >> w

. >>> in loudoun county today, parents and law enforcement officials took part in the first annual child victim awareness day. that event at the junction plaza shopping center in ashburn featured information on how parents can help their kids keep from becoming crime victims. representatives were on hand to provide parents with cell phone identification and id cards. today's event also remembered erica heather smith. you might call the 14-year-old disappeared back in 2002. her body was eventually found 11 days later in a grave near a creek. her killer still at large tonight. >> it is so important that we try to get this chill murderer off the seat -- child murderer after the street and get some legal justice for our daughter. heather smith and again she does deserve justice. she was just a child. she didn't deserve to be murdered. >> the loudoun county sheriff's office is asking anybody with information about erica smith's death to give them a call. >>> attention virginia shoppers. you have but one day to take advantage of the state's tax- free shopping days. those tax-free savings apply

part of loudoun. centreville 68 along with laurel this morning. bethesda 71 and arlington 73. looking outside on our michael & son weather camera, this is wisconsin avenue in northwest d.c. a quiet morning. 75 degrees. humidity is up at 87% and the winds are south, southwesterly at a miles an hour bringing in some of that moisture and some of that heat. we're still looking at isaac, tropical depression isaac right now spinning west of little rock almost near the oklahoma- arkansas boarder with these bands of showers and storms. some of these have about severe this morning in eastern louisiana. this is bringing moisture some 2 to 6 inches of rain across areas of missouri and illinois over the next 36 to 48 hours. but for us, high pressure coming on down. you can see the clouds how they get pushed off to the south. so we're in good shape now but the humidity at the low levels will return. those clouds out west are going to start to creep in here over the weekend. no problems today, sunny, just the heat.

she's been with the loudoun county public schools for less than six months. schools says she had no interaction with students the morning of her arrest. >>> this fall an incrisp on the martin luther king jr. memorial will be fixed. right now the words carved reetsz, quoed, i was a drum major for justis, peace, and requiresness. critics including poe oat maya angelou makes dr. king sound arrogant. the memorial sculptor is expected to change the inscription next month or in october. >> caused a lot of debate, a lot of controversy. glad it's going to get cleared up. >> they were saying they were wait for after the summer tourist season to die down to work on it. >>> all right. it's about 4:51. time for weather and traffic on the ones. start with meteorologist tom kierein. isaac made landfall overnight? >> just a couple hours ago. the gulf course is getting whipped with near hurricane or even higher than hurricane force winds along with heavy downpours those bands of yellow and orange. already had several inches of rain. the center of circulation has moved inland

. >>> in loudoun county today, parents and law enforcement officials took part in the first annual child victim awareness day. that event at the junction plaza shopping center in ashburn featured information on how parents can help their kids keep from becoming victims. parents were videoed with cell phone electronic child identification and child i.d. cards. today's event also remembered erica heather smith. you might recall the 14-year- old disappeared in 2002. her body was found 11 days later in a grave near a creek. her killer has not been caught. >> it's so important that we try to get this child murderer off the street. and try to get some legal justice for our daughter, erica heather smith. again, she does deserve justice. she was just a child. she did not deserve to be murdered. >> loudoun county sheriff's office is asking anybody with information about erica smith's death to give them a call. >>> coming up later on 9 news now, tonight we're used to getting cash from the atm. what about a sweet treat with the swipe of a card? >>> count down to mars. a $2.5 billion landing, just a

loudoun county is a key battleground area within virginia. president obama won that area by just eight points in 2008. he's also scheduled to campaign in florida today. >>> to counter the president's appearance in northern virginia, mitt romney will campaign today with virginia governor bob mcdonnell. the two will be in colorado together, along with several other republican governors mentioned as possible running mates. they include louisiana's bobby jindal and chris christie of new jersey. >>> new developments in the colorado movie massacre. a psychiatrist at the university of colorado denver reportedly raised some concerns about accused gunman james holmes back in june, and several weeks before 12 people were killed and nearly 60 others wounded at a midnight screening of "the dark knight rises." according to "the denver post," the psychiatrist notified the campus threat assessment team. it's unclear whether they contacted aurora police, where holmes lived. the university is not commenting on the reports. some are now making comparisons, tho

got to loudoun county and said we're done. this morning we're left with partly cloudy skies. here's a quick look at the showers and storms that just fell apart coming in toward loudoun county. we're 63 in leesburg this morning. down to 59 in winchester. still 64 at andrews. cambridge 65. and in manassas and gaithersburg this morning 63 degrees. temperatures this afternoon under the partly to mostly sunny skies with the isolated storm 87 in frederick and manassas. 84 on the bay in annapolis. fredricksburg 86 along with here in washington. it's 5:00 straight up. here comes monika samtani with a look at your timesaver traffic. >> i'm really happy to say i don't have any major news right now. things are looking great all around town. that construction on the west sides of the beltway has been cleared up. so you're good to go coming in on the dulles toll road, 66 in from manassas and through the area between tysons corner and 66. that construction is now gone. let's take a live look outside and show what you it looks like if you're planning to head here on the beltway near the ame

it will probably make it into loudoun. as we look at this in three dimensional view, the updrafts in this storm, there's a lot of real good updraft energy here. i just looked at this in terms of the radar, our own live radar and how much lightning it was producing, again very electric storm here. so no doubt this is loud and it's carrying with it a lot of very heavy rain. again nothing around the district tonight. most of the thunderstorms and showers are back out to the west. earlier this evening we had a lot of rain up into montgomery county, big bull's eye here. i want to show you there's rockville, 270 going up into the northern sections of montgomery county. this bull's eye right there, that prompted a flash flood warning earlier this evening. a doppler estimated amount and it's not perfect, but doppler does a fairly good job estimating how much rain has fallen in a particular area and right there, that bull's eye 4.8 inches of rain. a little farther north of clarkbsurg towards damascus a little more than 2 inches the

waking up to a temperature of 58 degrees back into central loudoun county. kind of a cool start when you wake up on your wednesday. i'll have your complete forecast and let you know about the rain and also about those temperatures coming up in a minute. >> nice, cool start to this morning. and everyone is back to school morning for students in our area. in maryland, schools reopened in calvert county. in virginia, kids went back to school in spotsylvania county. in class with a new superintendent. schools reopen tomorrow in culpeper county and sait. mary' county, as well. >> count on lots of company if you plan an end of summer get-away. aaa is predicting 33 million people will hit the roads over the last weekend of summer that's up nearly 3% from last year. and marks the highest number of travelers for the weekend since the beginning of the recession. 85% will travel by car. 8% are expected to fly. >>> the white house party crashers. remember them? they are officially divorced now. a judge okayed the split yesterday between tariq and salehy. he filed for di

, loudoun counties as well. the sprinkles i'm talking about, they're few and far between. i'm not sure any is reaching the ground. 85 this afternoon. right on the bay in annapolis. 85 also in winchester. a high today of 88 degrees. monika samtani has your timesaver traffic. >>> overall you've just got a bit of volume forming on the major thoroughfares but no big deals i'm happy to say. if you're traveling inbound on the dulles toll road or 66 or just heading out the door and planning to do that you'll be fine. no problems to report coming in from centreville or dulles airport on the toll road. we'll take a live look from our sky 9. southbound on i-270, this is at i-370. overall delays 109 toward 121 and then here off and on as you head for rockville. back over to the maps this time to the north side of town. no delays yet from college park into silver spring and bethesda on the outer loop 95 looks good in from baltimore. we'll take a live look there as well on the southbound side coming in from around route 198

right through loudoun and prince william and western fairfax now. show you south of leesburg here in to western fairfax between chantilly and reston, you're going to get wetter here on the western half of montgomery county in a very short period of time. upperville to loudoun and right down fauquier -- look prince william though is really lifted out of prince william. the heavy, heavy stuff. now on top of manassas and headed to centreville as well. gainesville, haymarket you're seeing that and well to the south, now down from fredericksburg over to lady smith, we've been seeing some other showers and storms and that's going to be tracking off in towards southern maryland here in the next little while as well. look hat this thing coming right up 301. let's talk temps this morning. they're warm in town. we're 80 out west and upper 60s thanks to the rain in the area and still 79 at the pax river naval air station. sunrise at 6:16 and quite dark on the michael & son weather camera. humidity way up and 79%. and it's another very muggy morning. several ba

jacqueline barnes has been with the loudoun county public schools for less than six months. the school says she had no interaction with students the morning of her arrest. >>> families of the victims in the colorado movie mass shooting are upset over a relief fund. the families say they vefd very little financial assistance. they have raidsed more than $5 million. so far only $450,000 has been given out. it is supposed to help the victims and families effected by the july 20th shooting rampage. 12 people died and 58 others were injured. 24-year-old james holmes is charged in the shooting. his attorneys say he is mentally ill. >>> officials at yosemite national park are issuing a warning to people who stayed in the curry village this summer. they may have been exposed to a deadly hantavirus. there are four confirmed cases connected to yosemite this summer. two victims died. all of those at risk visitors stayed at the signature tent cabins. hantavirus systems include fever, aches, and dizziness. if you stayed at yosemite this summer and have any of these simp m tos, call your

she has been working with the loudoun county area for less than six months. school officials there say she won't work there any more. >>> all eyes on the gulf of mexico as hurricane isaac makes his way towards land. new orleans and other parts of the gulf coast are getting strong winds and heavy rains. conditions are only expected to get worse. late this afternoon the u.s. coast guard closed the mississippi river to all traffic between new orleans and baton rouge. it will be closed through at least tomorrow. >>> roll call is now completed and mitt romney oicially has enough delegate votes to become threpublican nominee for esident. here's a live look iide the convention in tampa where in just a couple hours we'll hear from mitt romney's wife, ann and new jersey governor, chris christie. aaron gilchrist and julie carey are live inside the convention. >> they just wrapped up the roll call and we're now in a recess and sort of the exciting moment of the afternoon where we listened to the states and territories assign their votes. the final count today was 2,061

one hour he'll speak to supporters at a loudoun county high school. maureen umeh has a preview. >> reporter: hundreds of he people are waiting in line to see president obama speak at 7:45. it was a ticketed event and if you don't have a ticket you won't be aloud inside. this is the president's latest stop here in virginia which as you know is a battleground state and very important in the campaign. the latest stop here in virginia, which is the battleground state and fast- growing loudoun county is a

where you see the yellow, moderate showers there in southern loudoun county, northern prince william. that's about to enter fairfax county. another moderate shower now just moving out of northern prince george's county and northern anne arundel. a few sprinkles. across the region we are going to have this passing shower activity for the next few hours. lower humidity moves in. it's already in place in the ohio valley. and closer to the mountains it's beginning to turn less humid now. and that will be moving in during the afternoon hour by hour. by noontime, the mid 80s. maybe a few showers south and east of the metro area. partly sunny elsewhere. turning less humid and mostly sunny during the afternoon. blustery northwest winds. i'm back in ten minutes with a hometown forecast. danella has a look now at your first4 traffic. we have a crash along route 1. i'm watching it for you right now. northbound lanes are blocked. this is at forest place. all your linebacker lanes are blocked. your work around is going to be a left on sacramento drive. make a right on pole road. another right on f

western montgomery county, western portions of loudoun and central loudoun county. now this is the area that we're really watching back toward the west. let's zoom in first to the district. you can see what i'm talking about. big time storms around columbia, maryland, around baltimore. then back toward the west. this is western portions of montgomery county. poolsville and places like that. winchester right now. we're looking at a flash flood warning that is now in effect for frederick county, virginia, and morgan county and berkeley counties in through west virginia. a lot of storms. a lot of very heavy rain and this scenario will be playing out here over the next couple of hours. let's show you what's going to be happening here as we look -- or zoom out. look at all of the thunderstorms back to the west. we're going to see a lot of storms over the next couple of days. and i think tomorrow we could be seeing severe weather. we'll update you on that and let you know how the rest of the weekend looks in just a couple of minutes. >>> presidential politics now. preside

farther northwest of there, northern loudoun getting some mod showers. the whole area in yellow is severe risk zone. covers northern virginia, the district, all of maryland, eastern shore. this is a chance for damaging winds. looks like the time for that will be 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. if you hear thunder, get inside. turn on nbc4. temperatures around the region, 70s. much of the area, 60s farther west and north. 77 at reagan national. here's the day planner. by 7:00 a.m., a few scattered showers coming through the metro area. could be moderate. that's fender bender weather. roadways are going to be getting wet in the metro area. we'll be in the 70s. by noontime, a little sun ought to break out. warm and humid. low to mid 80s by then. then it's mid to late afternoon when we could get the strong storms. and maybe could be severe. some of them could be producing damaging winds. before then, the upper 80s. and we do get the storms going, it will drop back down in the 70s by later this evening. all that ending. tomorrow, partly sunny, less humid. four-day for

we did have someone shower dissipate over loudoun county two hours ago. now just a few scattered clouds around the metro area and virginia and maryland. and out in west virginia. many locations are down to the 50sthis morning. low to mid 50s. this is really feeling more like autumn in western maryland and west virginia and central and western shenandoah valley. farther to the knnorth and west in frederick county. closer to washington, though, southern loudoun county and fairfax, arlington, montgomery, and prince george's. generally the low 60s. upper 60 nasdaq washington and by the bay and southern maryland. later today, by noontime we ought to be in the mid 80s and by mid afternoon we will be not too humid. maybe an isolated shower or thunder shower popping up by then. by late afternoon, coming home from work and school back down to the low 80s. a delightful summer day coming up, enjoy. i'm back in ten minutes. another update coming your way. right now, a look at your first 4 traffic. mike is in. good morning. >> good morning, tom. right now taking mass

loudoun county is a key bat eel grnd area in virginia. president obama won that area by just eight points in 2008. >>> mitt romney will campaign today with virginia governor bob mcdonnell. the two will be in colorado along with several other republican governors mentioned as possible running mates. they include louisiana's bobby jindal and chris christie of new jersey. >>> day six of competition in london is here, and the u.s. is still near the top of the leaderboard this morning. we have 29 medals, 12 of them gold. that puts us one medal behind china. and taking a live look at the olympic cauldron in london this morning, team usa could pick up some more medals today. and the pool will be the focus of much of the action. already, two local swimmers, bethesda native katie ledecky and kate ziegler will be competing. a big soiler alert now. dan is going to talk about the results. hi, dan. >> reporter: hey, guys. spoiler, spoiler, spoiler. if you don't want to hear what happened to katie ledecky and kate ziegler, don't change the channel, jus

we had a little bit that was kicking up before in loudoun county. it's out of the way. i can't say we're out of the clear 100% for tonight yet. let's go to our weather maps and we'll show you what is happening elsewhere. we have a lot of moisture that's going to be pushing up from the south, as a result of this weak low pressure system. that is what will set us up for a chance of getting more wet weather into the course of tonight. we have this weak low pressure system here. next thing is a frontal system moving in from the west. a combination of these things happening leaving us a little bit unsettled. rainfall totals today, taken from earlier today. over .25 inches for reagan. same for dulles. bwi thurgood marshall, over 3 inches of rainfall. this is a record-breaking day for them. this amount breaking a record set back in i want to say 1984 or '74. that's where they had a lot of the heavier storms that moved through today. some of those storms crawled their way across. tucker barnes sent me a picture from annapolis, because they were getting a lot of water there as w

. >> loudoun county sheriff has a plan which he hopes will finally solve the murder of a teenage girl. 14-year-old erica smith disappeared ten years ago. her body was found 11 days later in a grave in ashburn. sheriff michael chapman announced details of his new cold case initiative today. the county's first ever child victim awareness day. >> we believe this is not a random act of violence, rather erica knew her assailant. further more, we have reason to believe there are individuals who have information pertinent to this on going investigation that for whatever reason failed to come forward. >> sheriff's office has a tip line dedicated to erica's case and there is still a reward available for information that leads to an arrest. >>> a speedway race car driver is using his car to help keep the focus on two missing cousins from iowa. we are everywhere at 11:00 tonight. michael is an iowa native and he is racing with eight-year- old, elizabeth collins and lyric cook's pictures on his car. those bikes were later found near a lake and that's why he is showing photos will help bring them