now, it's heading to spotsylvania and that is to the west of i-95. this is fredericksburg there. they will probably get rain. you guys getting rain. the heaviest of this with is with all of the lightning and gusty winds and all of the heavy rains to the south, spotsel vainia, we'll get some of that, though, and it will move to the south-southeast and as i mentioned, technically speaking, we do have's severe thunderstorm watch for parts of the counties here and have one, saint mary's county and to westmoreland county and king george county and that is it. across the bay there and farther to the south and this afternoon,y saw tornado warnings and south of rich mand and that is -- richmond, that is calming down. the majority of the storms would be south and east of the area and that is a cold front coming through and that will dry us up a bit. take away the humidity and that will allow lows overnight tonight and if you're fairly comfortable. sunny and warm tomorrow, not too humid. the dew points, talk about that a lot. and they will be in the low 50s tomorrow. and any time you coupl

students in spotsylvania county will head back to class. students will reopen tomorrow in culpeper county and st. mary's county. for many children back to school means new school supplies. backpacks 4 kids campaign helps students in our area help get the tools they need. we are collecting backpacks and school supplies today. you can stop by the kings town branch in alexandria from 6:00 a.m. until noon. you can also donate money online at nbcwashington.com. just mail us a check. >>> 4:38 is our time right now. ahead on "news4 today," the drastic measures being taken this morning on a busy shipping channel as the extreme drought takes its toll on the midwest. >>> plus, how a book is providing new perspective on joe paterno. >>> might want to grab a light jacket this morning. how these cooler temperatures, [ male announcer ] since 1996 welfare recipients were required to work. this bipartisan reform successfully reduced welfare rolls. on july 12th president obama quietly ended the work requirement... gutting welfare reform. one of the most res

, many locations in the low 60s as well as rappahannock, madison and green, and stafford, spotsylvania, mid-60s there. much of southern maryland, charles, calvert, st. mary's, anne arundel, generally mid-to-upper 60s. forecast for haymarket in prince william county, by 6:30 this morning, mid-60s there and partly cloudy. by noontime, for the lunch hour, should be into the mid-80s there. elsewhere, the hour-by-hour look here for the day today. we'll have patchy fog around probably for another two or three hours. then lots of sun as we get into the afternoon hours. by 3:00, we should be hitting the upper 80s. but again, another day with not a lot of humidity. then by the time you're coming back home for the afternoon commute, we'll have lots of sunshine. we'll be back down to the low 80s. sunrise today 6:29, sunset at 7:51. we'll take a look at the latest track for tropical storm isaac and your seven-day outlook, the weekend and into next week. that's coming in ten minutes. now a look at our traffic, "first 4 traffic," danella sealock back. good morning. >>> good morning, and thanks, tom.

spots l le -- spotsylvania join others in opposition. >> it's a free ride, but governor bob mcdonnell's plans to add a toll are picking up speed. the cost $4 for cars, $12 for trucks. the roughly 40 million a year raise would be used to maintain and improve the heavily traveled road, but this week the spotsylvania's board of supervisor include ejoined seve jurisdictions opposing the plan. >> these roads have been built with gas taxes already. the people who drive on them have paid for them, and now we're asking them to pay again for transportation improvements elsewhere that will benefit others. >> several national trucking organizations have mounted an online petition drive. secretary shawn ko notten says it's not something the governor wants to do, but something that must be done in the face of declining gas tax revenues. >> we're not seeing revenues to keep up with the needs for both maintenance and reconstruction. so we believe this is a viable mechanism for us to move forward. >> some drivers sayed toll could pay off in i-95 improvements, but others say there are better ways than a

must be from stafford, a spotsylvania, king george, or counties and you bring identification. prince william and montgomery county are kicking off their -- fairs today. >> today is your last day to the contest to win tickets tickets tofair -- fair ongomery county facebook page. we will announce the winner in hour.00 >> at the arlington county fair night.here last i had a chance to be there with officials andd folks and the good the. military the they will be in business through night. >> i have been waiting for the races. >> those will start today in south arlington. outside it is about 75 degrees. >> loved ones preparing to say six people killed in sikh templeing shooting in wisconsin. sikh templeing shoo♪ i dare you to dare me what's today's dare? erase the damage of 100 blow-drys [ female announcer ] with daily moisture renewal from pantene. the pro-v system nourishes to lock in moistu"e erasininthe damage of 100 blow drys for a silky, soft touch. think only salon brands can n that? i took the dare...will you? [ female announcer ] daily moisture renewal from pantene. hair

there and fredericksburg, there is some more showers and thunderstorms to the south of you, east of spotsylvania as well and east of i-95 and spotty in nature and where they go, they capable of heavy, heavy rain and they growing along. means the possibility of fairly heavy rain in some spots and a chance to zoom down and that is the speck there. that is what you're seeing and maybe another speck to the north of la plata and that is what we're expecting and look at the numbers in the city. the temperatures, 84, 79 in gaithersburg; 79 fredericksburg and to 80 degrees and father to the west. at 7:00, 80 degrees, spotty thunderstorms. i can't tell you exactly where they going to pop up, they will be spotty. comfortable at 9:00, all of the thunderstorms should be gone and with the setting sun. fair skies at 11:00, temperature lower 70s. here's where most of the rain is staying offshore and we're close enough to have a couple of thunderstorms pop up here and there and high pressure is trying to build in and it will do so the next couple of days. as we go to the weekend, we're going to warm up and be n

all, if you are traveling 95 southbound in spotsylvania, mile marker 127 still deal with the accident activity on both shoulders. over to you. >> thank you. >>> an unlikely guest checked into new mexico's angel fire resort. there he is. a bear. it was all caught on camera as you can see here. surveillance footage shows the bear wandering down an empty hallway before just taking off. he just walks out the door. it likes he entered the hotel through the back door that was apparently left open. just three weeks ago in the same up to, ablack bear was found in someone's kitchen. >> we did a story about a bear in a mall a couple of weeks ago. >> they are probably out looking for food before they hibernate. >> make me nervous. >> a little bit. >> not yogi bear. >>> a boxing congress roos -- a boxing kangaroo is attracting a lot of attention. >> we have more on this. >> reporter: he is the star of the show at the warren county fair. the boxing kangaroo entered the ring gloves on and boxer trunks ready for a heavy weight bout. >> i don't have any problem with t i thought it was awesome. >> the

more showers and a couple thunderstorms headed towards culpeper and then eventually over to spotsylvania and fredericksburg. quickly over to sental radar. we have active flash flood warning in effect for howard county and baltimore city. this is going to go until 11:30 tonight. that's a pretty big complex of thunderstorms. some places they are thinking as much as 2 inches and caused flash flooding. so, keeping up to date with the storms, looks like overnight tonight, these will settle down. a chance again tomorrow for some thunderstorms and then big changes for the weekend. full forecast is coming up. >> all right gary, see you in a bit. an update on a story you saw first on fox 5. verison will hand over its 911 failure tomorrow to the washington council of government. the report details the company's emergency line failures during june's storm. verison says it will improve communication between 911 directors and auditors. >>> no i to the developing story in annapolis tonight, debating a bill that will expand casino gambling in the state. the marathon session is focused on whether to add

. >>> honoring heros tonight in spotsylvania county. seven weeks after a microburst ripped apart a gym, it was a storm the sheriff says would have ended in death. if it not for the quick thinking of the parens in the gym that night. laura evans joins us with the story. >> it was july 8 in fredericksburg. a crowd was headed for that gym. 26 people, students and parents were at cheerleading practice with a group called cheer fusion. the violent winds that suddenly hit knocked down the walls and ripped off the roof sending it flying 250 feet through the air hitting a nearby house. seven people were injured, but no one was killed and tonight, at the baptist church, the sheriff recognized the parents. because the parents were watching the weather conditions so closely, all the students were moved into a more secure interior room just before the walls collapsed. >> we have some heros in our community. not only the citizens and parents, but the sheriff's department, the first responders. the emergency responders from the spotsylvania county. c

schools are in session in colvert county in maryland and spotsylvania. today the backpacks for kids call pain. we're collecting backpack and school supplies for needy students in our area. angie goff is live in fairfax county with details. angie, good morning to you. hope you're filling up the crates. >> reporter: we're working on it, eun. can you believe summer is over? we're talking back to school. i know you have kids so you can believe it. but let me tell you, it is early. tom mentioned it's cool outside. it feels great. we've got the music pumping courtesy of wmcq. the vibe is awesome. we need you. we need your help. take a look. this is what i'm talking about, folks. we have a crate here. we've got a few backpacks, a few of our viewers have stopped by to drop off donations. but we want to fill this thing. we want it overflowing because there are thousands of kids in our area, across d.c., maryland, and virginia, who are starting the school year off without even the basic of tools. school supply, papers, pencils, book bag, and now you have the oppor

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 divorce after his wife ran off with the lead guitarist of the band journey. according to tmz, the couple had a prenuptial agreement that quickly divided their assets. tariq told the website he wishes mchale the best and now plans to focus his efforts on his run for governor of virginia. >> whoa. >>> news4 just getting started. "the hunger games" out on dvd and still setting records. >>> michael j. fox makes a return to tv in a

from stafford, spotsylvania, into parts of culpeper, it's just in the low 60s there. loudoun county into frederick county and wis and nor, many locations are in the upper 50s to near 60 degrees. high pressure over us now. that's what's brought the low humidity and it's going to be placed throughout the day today, tomorrow, and much of tomorrow. here's your storm team4 four-day forecast. a wonderful summer day. highs reaching the mid 80s mid afternoon with low humidity and lots of sunshine. then on thursday, we should be starting off with another cool morning tomorrow if low 60s, afternoon highs, upper 80s. still w humidity in place tomorrow with lots of sun. on friday, partly cloudy. may be getting a little more humid. upper 60s. highs near 90. looking steamy on saturday with increasing clouds. ahead of the remnants of isaac, yes, some of isaac's tropical showers may move through off and on sunday. labor day, and again on tuesday. highs in the mid 80s each day. i'm back in ten minutes. danella has your first4 traffic in just a minute. >>> now it's 25g 23. breaking new

storm 4 radar showing showers in montgomery county and spotsylvania county. otherwise, partly sunny, hot and humid and more of the same tomorrow. could get some showers and thundershowers off and on from friday morning all the way into the evening. some of the storms friday afternoon could be severe and then lower humidity for the weekend, highs in the 80s. that's the way it looks right now. back to >>> we're back now with more "today" on wednesday morning, the 8th day of august, 2012. it's a great day in london's olympic parks. the nice people gathered behind us waving to people back in the states. we're always thankful ty stopped by. in the plaza i'm matt lauer with savannah guthrie and al roker. coming up, an emotional end to the olympic games for lolo jones. >> yeah. she was very emotional this morning. she came in fourth in the 100 meter hurdles last night. she was disappointed in that finish. that came on the heels of her disappointing finish in beijing, which really opened up about how difficult these games have been, some of the criticism she endured.

. >>> now, two women in spat sill vain yay spotsylvania county are facing charges. arrested after a two-year-old was found wandering with no clothes near their house. once the officer took that little girl home, she found seven other children ranging in age from 7 months to 16 years old living in squaller. there was also rotten food in the kitchen and animal waste around the house. >> every room in the house was covered in filth. kids were sleeping on mattresses and hall ways and that type of thing. >> three of those children belong to craig, the other five belong to lamb. all eight were taken into custody of child protective services and released to their grandparents, seven dogs and two kittens were also taken by animal control. >>> coming up at 7:00, party push. a maryland democratic congress member joins us live to weigh in on the race for the white house and break down what the president has to do to make the campaign work for him. anita. >> we'll see you at 7:00. still to come in this half hour, a monday at the end of august means more kids heading back to sch

we'll watch that, too, and that is out of prince william county and that is going to spotsylvania and everything is in motion. while we have had some activity at the shore, what we have seen here locally and not as widespread as last night and have to keep an isolated chance of storms and with that 91 degrees and warmer still tomorrow and with that 93 degrees for thursday and looks like it will be storm free unless something isolated pops up. friday, 95 degrees and the august dog days are here and we'll have some thunderstorms around on friday and maybe a few on saturday with the temperature of 92 and that temperature and the high humidity in the upper 90s and get ready for a hot one tomorrow. the code orange air quality day as well. the current temperature, 88 degrees in the district and cooler near water and into leonardtown, 81; annapolis, 83 and that is still humid out there. keeping the storms isolateed and separated around and late tonight, perhaps a touch of fog with a temperature of 72 and hotter, drier day for us on thursday and the temperature up to 93. as mentioned, the hea

culpeper and spotsylvania got grazed, but it all stayed south of the district here. we had nothing more than a sprinkle or two earlier this morning. high pressure is building in back out to the west. it will bring us nice low comfortable humidity levels. we'll be warm and a lot of sunshine, highs 86 reagan, dulles 84, bwi marshall 85 degrees. so real nice with the clouds helping to keep temperatures down a little bit. great evening, too 78 degrees right now for national. relative humidity is 62%, the winds out of the north at 7 miles per hour. drier air will be coming in tonight through the morning hours tomorrow. that will lower the humidity. it will make for a real comfortable temperature. it's already 66 gaithersburg and frederick, 64 degrees for culpeper and tonight's numbers will drop down to the lower 60s to mid-60s out in the suburbs. this weekend we're watching colder air coming down. this is one of the most refreshing air masses we've seen in a while. it will cool down in the midwest. it's going to come down to the northern sections of the southeast as this

let's take you to fauquier county, western spotsylvania toward goldvein. this is lifting to prince william. you guys in another 20, 30 minutes, the rains are really going to pick up. we might get a little bit of lightning out of that. right now not seeing anything on the lightning detectors. in the shenandoah valley still. some moderate showers. temps range in the upper 60s to the west no the northern then down ya valleys to the upper 70s in on -- northern then down ya valleys to the up err 70s -- upper 70s near town. the muggies are back in a big way after enjoying a nice break here for the last couple. here's the bigger picture. we've got one batch of rain showers this morning. there's a lot of energy still out to the west. that's going to come through for the afternoon and even the evening hours. so we can't rule out not just a morning shower around here but the threat will be for some afternoon showers. see how quickly by noon most of that morning activity is in eastern pennsylvania sort of falling apart. then this afternoon we'll pop some scattered sh

farther south, a few other pockets of moderate showers now in southern county into far western spotsylvania county passing towards prince william over the next hour or so. just a few sprinkles in fairfax, arlington, montgomery. and only just a few light sprinkles around the beltway in prince george's county. and all this area in yellow is a zone of potential severe weather. it includes northern virginia, the district. just about all of maryland, eastern shore. for this afternoon, from 4:00 p.m. to as late as maybe 8:00 p.m. we could get damaging winds from isolated storms in this area. so stay tuned if you hear thunder, get inside. turn on nbc4 and we'll let you know if any storms are threatening the area. just the rain west and north of the metro area. 70s there. farther west, it's in the 60s. shenandoah valley in the mountains in the bay. in the 70s. day planner. by 6:00 a.m., showers in the metro area. in the 70s most of the region. and then by noontime, might get a few breaks in the clouds. sun breaking out. warm and humid. low 80s by then. in the latter part of the afternoon, does look

beginning to move into fairfax and montgomery counties and farther down to southern prince william and spotsylvania. all of this area in yellow under a severe risk zone. 3:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. chance of damaging winds. it covers a huge area from west virginia all of the way into virginia and maryland. temperatures right now are in the low 70s where it's raining. out ahead of that rain, upper 70s to near 80. by 5:00 a.m., we'll be in the 70s and some showers coming in with a chance of some lightning. and by noontime, we might have a few scattered storms around. temperatures in the upper 70s and low 80s. then a greater chance of storms, mid to late afternoon. some of them could be severe. highs reaching mid 80s. and some of those severe storms tapering off by mid to late evening. we could have heavy downpours tonight. then for the weekend, maybe lingering shower saturday morning, clearing out tomorrow afternoon with highs in the 80s. low humidity will begin. beautiful day sunday and monday. not too humid. sunshine, highs upper 80s near 90. could get storms tuesday. settling down wednesday, thursday.

in spotsylvania, news 4. >>> continuing our hurricane isaac coverage. it did make landfall in louisiana this evening. storm team 4 meteorologist veronica johnson with a look at impact for our area. we'll head back to new orleans and doug with more on high wind and rain lashing the crescent city. doug. >> yeah, guys, we are watching the storm right now. once again. here on bourbon street central new or leans, bourbon street and canal street. wind starting to pick up. watching the latest band come close to our area. expecting wind to pick up. as they were earlier. 60, 70 miles an hour. show you the radar. the storm has been making its way to the northwest. also a little jg og to the west. computer models going farther west. the national hurricane center track. that will be the case. passing new orleans, tomorrow during the day, by just off to the west. that does put us in toward the potential for not only flooding. but the potential for tornados tomorrow and very strong wind. this thing has become a lot org. a ragged tropical storm the last couple days. t

here's culpeper and fauquier county and spotsylvania county up to prince william county. this is all kind of coming up from the southwest. it's hard a hard time staying together once it's crossed over the mountains there, but it looks like it may try to reenergize a bit farther down to the south and west. you can see it tracking up to northeast, a little lightning in place here, not much, but if it keeps coming on this trajectory, if it holds together, it should at least stay together to bring some rain to prince william county back up maybe as far north as fairfax county. who knows? if it stays together and it's forecast to stay together, could bring rain into the district. overnight tonight there's a chance we could have more showers and maybe even thunderstorms, certainly still possible till this frontal system gets closer to us and tries to push through overnight tonight and early tomorrow morning. otherwise temperatures in town will make it down to about 72 degrees or so, perhaps a little cooler in the suburbs. some showers tomorrow, high 86, but again most of the sh

was found wandering naked in a convenience store parking lot today in front of white house road on spotsylvania. the child pointed out her home nearby. officers say there were several other children living inside the home in unsanitary conditions. crystal craig and amy lam are charged with felony child neglect. child protective services is investigating. >>> a violent first day of high school in battle means extra police officers on campus in the morning. will thomas is everywhere at 11:00. >> a teenager was critically hurt in the shooting at perry hall high school. a 15-year-old student walked into the cafeteria, pulled out a gun and fired a shot at random. a 17-year-old student was hit. another shot went off when teachers grabbed the teen, but no one was hit by that bullet. police believe the teenager acted alone but are going to step up presence at the school tomorrow just in case. >>> the next archbishop san diego has been arrested for dui. reverend salvador cordeleone was arrested after being stopped at a check point. he was selected by the pope to take over when the current archbishop ret

culpeper stafford, fredericksburg spotsylvania, la plata, waldorf, st. mary's county, you could see some isolated thundershowers later today. the clouds will be coming and going. throughout the day. temperatures are in the 70's and 60's northwest of town, on our way to 92 degrees. the rest of the week, we have daily storm chances but the best chance should come late friday and into saturday. >> the plan was to pave the interstate 95 between ladysmith and king's dominion. overnight southbound, there was a dump truck driving through that area with thebed up and brought the wires down across the interstate. they have the accident vehicles out of the way and the wires out of the -- off the interstate, they can start paving because they have a huge truck full of expensive asphalt and they will lay it down. southbound i-95 coming out of fredericksburg toward richmond, when you get to ladysmith carmel church, they are laying down the asphalt and one lane is getting by to the right. 66 eastbound has complications with the crash at nutley street in the left hov l

they were arrested at that you are spotsylvania virginia home after a wah-wah store employee spotted a 2-year-old girl wandering naked near courthouse road, when officers found her house, police say it was full of rotten food and animal waste. the children are now living with their grandmothers, and animal control took away seven dogs, two cats. >>> family friends and colleagues are gathering to remember a prince george's county police officer who was killed in the line of duty. adrian morris was killed a week ago today. his police cruiser crashed on i-95 during a chase. he was only 23 years old. a second hearing is about to begin at a funeral home. jackie benning has a look at this young life. >> reporter: jim, the family is taking a dinner break, but all afternoon long, people have been lined up to pay their respects to the family of a young man who represented the best of the changing face of prince george's county. 23-year-old officer adrian moreries was born in jamaica, but he was raised in prince george's county, went to his public schools, and he grew into a passionate protect

it came through culpepper, a strong thunderstorm making its way through -- it will clip portions of spotsylvania form this is moving 30 miles an hour, if you're moving at 60, when do you think that? about an hour and 20 minutes. that was answer b on that test. the storms are moving out quickly. here goes our front at boundary. we're going to see nice conditions. look at the temperatures to the west. 79 in pittsburgh, 79 in morgantown. that was with some sunshine today, you can expect nice conditions tomorrow. there goes the front, here comes the sunshine. it will be warm again. i think we'll get above 90. most of you should stay in the upper 80s, but still with low humidity, tomorrow will be a great day. we'll watch another boundary move through on friday, late in the day we could see some storms, some of those could be strong, most of friday, however, should be fairly dry. this evening, mostly cloudy, scattered showers mainly down to the south. tomorrow afternoon or tomorrow morning, a great start, cool in the suburbs, down to 58 to about 70 in the city. tomorrow afternoon. warm with low humidi

. >>> the spotsylvania county sheriff's office will honor some heros from a vicious storm last month. they helped get people to safety after a building collapsed. several people were hurt but thanks to some quick action, the situation did not get any worse than that. >>> our time 16:54. time to -- is 6:54. time to reveal the answer to the question of the morning. according to "u.s.a. today," 26% of teenagers have never tried doing which of these things? is it a, check out a book from the library, b, write and mail a handwritten letter, or c, ride a bicycle. >> the answer like andrea said was c, ride a bike. i was wondering if that was maybe kids live in urban areas where it's not safe to ride a bike. >> or they're driving. when you think about e-mails and whatever, probably none of us has ever done that and the same with checking a book out of the library, they do it at school. >>> one more check of traffic and weather when we come back. >>> one more thing before we go. take a listen to this. >> hello. this is charlie bold din, nasa -- bol din, nasa, speaking to you about the curiosit

the 24-year-old of spotsylvania pleaded guilty to felony dui. and faces up to seven years in prison. the court records show he has six previous dui convictions in mississippi, three in alabama and two in virginia. >>> very generous donations from a carmaker tonight. hyundai's hope on wheels campaign gave $75,000 to dr. scott meyers at the georgetown lombardi center. and he does research on the long-term needs of young cancer survivors like zoe chen. >> and we have allergies andmed. and some tough procedures and radiation to undergo. also, we have -- scars on our body. one more time, thank you, hyundai, making -- for making our journey easier and less painful than the past. >> kids attended the event to put their handprints on the vehicle. they will give out money to those working with pediatric cancer. >>> and the day started out nice and got hot. >> yeah. >> and some rain clouds overhead. >> the temperatures into the mid-ittys and 86 was the high and feeling that humidity there, brian and as i heard lindsay saying, day three of that and go to r

a little bit of fog in spots toward manassas and spotsylvania, warrenton watch out there. temperatures by 9:00 still in the 70s but some, look at this, we've got 80-degree readings already headed toward 90 by noon. might see a couple of storms basically in the mountains through mid afternoon. highs 90 to 95 with just an isolated storm expected. much better chance, though, for storms on friday. michael? >>> a couple of government workers have been using basket basketball as a means to keep d.c. youngsters out of court and on the court instead and out of trouble. bruce johnson reports the founders of metro ball could use a lot more support from the d.c. government, however. >> we have the 19 and under division. >> reporter: kevin jones works for the airport authority. >> this is 15 games we have on saturday. >> reporter: terence judge for the fcc. together in their spare time they run the metro ball league and they'll tell you that's their most important work. >> 12 years ago the kids in this neighborhood were killing each other. they had kids from this side of the park to t

elsewhere, just a few scattered sprinkles in fairfax county and down 95 torts stafford and spotsylvania. all of this coming from a trough of low pressure centered over cape hatteras. that's going to be tracking along the mid-atlantic coast through today, tonight, and into tomorrow. as a result, we're going to have a lot of cloudiness as well as scattered showers coming through from time to time. we need the rain. how much rain? all these areas in blue might get an inch or more. that includes eastern subshaurs. some of these areas in lavender could get over two inches. farther to the west and north, there may be an inch or so here in the western and northern suburbs. out of the mountains, probably not much at all. here's your hour by hour forecast throughout the day. by 9:00 a.m., scattered showers in the mid-70s. by nighttime, likely showers moving through in the upper 70s. maybe flashes of lightning reaching near 80 by midafternoon. sunrise 6:31. sunrise 6:48. if you're going to the game at fedex field, kickoff at 4:00. there may be showers and lightning around. they might have to susp

we say good morning to the kids in spotsylvania and calvert counties. they go back to school today. >> everybody, one by one, going back to school. >> look at him. too cool for school. with that little lunch box. >> got the backpack, the lunch box. >> he is adorable. >> when they head outside, you can take a look around and it looks kind. greys and hazy. will it be a decent enough day to get the kids out to the bus stop, that type of thing? oh, yes, definitely. the rain chances a little less and it looks like it will be later in the day if we get anything at all. let's take a look at our numbers and see where things are starting out this morning. a pretty mild start to your day. at reagan national airport, we have the double 6s going on. 84% humidity. the winds will shift a little bit to the south later on by this afternoon. here is a look at some temperatures for you. 60degrees at martinsburg. we have 62 at baltimore. annapolis at 69 this hour. the same at quantico. 64 at man aas. 59degrees at gaithersburg and we've got 61 at hagerstown and winchester.

prince william county, southern fairfax county through stafford and spotsylvania county in fredericksburg. that's where the rain is now moving to the east at 20 miles an hour. quantico, heads up over you right now. indian head, 13 minutes, waldorf in about 45 minute for you folks. up to the north, this is through howard county, eastern portions of montgomery county and in through the district and the alexandria area soon. about 14 minutes in washington. that's downtown. bowie coming in in about 42 minutes too. we'll watch these showers go over nats park. taking on the braves. there will be showers at least early in the game. temperatures around 70 degrees. maybe in the upper 60s. you may need the umbrellas quickly and to take out the jacket just in case. now to sports with dan hellie who got a fresh haircut. >>> i'm not going to talk about dan's haircut. i do want to talk about the fact that one of the inevitable fact of life in the nfl and unfortunately, is the fact of injury. that's part of our problem down there, right? >> well, it is. it's not as bad as we thought it was going to be w

. >>> these two spotsylvania mothers are facing child neglect charges. they arrested craig and lamb after they found them living with eight children in a filthy home. they say the house was filled with rotten food and animal wastes. child protective services took away craig's three children and lamb's five. they are now living with their grandmothers. animal control also took seven dogs and two cats away. >>> today d.c. councilman tommy wells will hold a public hearing into the high priced tickets from the district's traffic cameras. wells is not against the cameras themselves but he tells news4 the fines that go up to $250 are too high. by comparison, violations in montgomery county are $40. last year cameras in the district generated more than $50 million. wells plans to propose new legislation to lower the fines after meeting with community and transportationed a no indicates. >>> d.c. will resume installing new smart meters in taxicabs while the lawsuit to stop the installation makes its way through the court system. a judge ruled the d.c. taxicab co

manassas, this has gone into western fairfax county, especially down when you head in toward stafford and spotsylvania coming out of southern fauquier. there was a little bit of lightning with this but this is moving off to the northeast. anybody along 95 south of town, watch out for that here's monika samtani at 5:28 with more on traffic. >>> i'm going to show you a live picture down on 95 in just a moment. in the meantime the beltway is looking great all around town right now. of course we're still in that summer traffic pattern which is a good thing, especially when the rain is coming down soon. on the northbound side of i-95 you will still find the lanes open. let's take a live look down in the dumfries area northbound on i-95 on our traffic camera. you can see at least the volumes are light although as howard is saying, the roads will be wet very soon. keep that in mind if you're just heading out the door. this time we'll head over to the west side of town on the inbound side of the dulles toll road. still looking great out of sterling and the airport. no problems on 66, manassas into centreville

in virginia, kids in spotsylvania county are back in class. schools will reopen tomorrow in culpeper county and st. mary's county. >>> meanwhile, prince george's county students are almost halfway through their second day back in class and in just two weeks they'll have a new superintendent. alvin crawley is taking the place for height. he'll run the school system there. he has been an educator for 32 years and has spent 17 as assistant superintendent. earlier this morning in an interview you saw first on 4, tracee wilkins spoke to crawley about the challenges the county is facing, including declining enrollment and below average test scores. >> we are making gains and we continue to focus on those areas and then look at specific areas where we're having some difficulty and make adjustments there. so, i think we're well on track and in terms of student achievement, we'll continue to focus on making sure that all of our students are provided a ric experience. >> if you'd like to meet crawley in person, you can do that tonight in bowie high scho

spon spotsylvania, getting a few shower there's. farther to the north, right around the metro area. no sprinkles yet. over the next half hour, you will need your umbrella. it is a steamy morning. 70s throughout most of the region now. later today, by noontime, the 80s. a few breaks in the cloud. 30 % of an afternoon thunder shower. ought to be reaching the low 90s late afternoon. tomorrow, lower humidity and near 90. partly cloudy. humidity returns with a chance of showers and thunder showers. the weekend issing looking great. lower humidity and cooler. partly cloudy, saturday and sunday. >>> still checking on the rail it is you're taking the metro. have a track problem. this time just outside arlington cemetery and it's causing delays not only on the blue line but also the orange line as metro single tracks between foggy bottom as well as arlington cemetery. over to the roadways. i-66 eastbound, fairfax county parkway, disabled vehicle just about ready to get towed out of the roadway. it's just in the right shoulder lane. let's check travel speeds. i-66 fairfax county parkway to th

. >>> the spotsylvania sheriff's office is getting a special honor today. deputies who rushed to the scene of a collapsed dance studio last month are getting recognized for their heroism. the building collapsed july 8th during a microburst tw two dozen cheer heeders still inside. only a couple of parents needed to go to the hospital out of that. a special guest will get a special award today. >>> if mangos have been in your summer fruit bowl, you may need to look at where they're coming from. giant supermarkets are part of the recall. giant says the mangoes were sold between july 12th and august 24th and had the look up code sticker of plu4959. >>> it is that time again, panda pregnancy watch at the national zoo. mei xiang, the zoo's female giant panda, is showing high levels of pregnancy hormone. but it is not easy to tell if a panda is actually pregnant. it will take 40 days or so to be sure. now, officials will try to inform an ultracounseled sound later this morning. they tried -- an ultrasound later this morning. they tried yesterday but smog would not

arlington, prince william, stafford, spotsylvania, all in the upper 60s, near 70. it's in the 60s shenandoah valley in the mountains. here's the latest now with isaac. you can begin to see the radar is now picking up the center of circulation. there's the eye of isaac. this is the latest. it has winds of 65 miles an hour. it's still a tropical storm. moving west northwest at 14. here is the very latest track. this was just updated within the hour. does look like it may not be quite as strong as it makes landfall somewhere east of new orleans. looks like the time frame for that, here's the position at 1:00 a.m. wednesday just now making landfall. then perhaps near new orleans, wednesday morning, very early, perhaps around dawn. and then moving inland after that. providing some needed water for the mississippi. that might help to put some water in the mississippi and take care of that barge problem they've been having. morning commute this morning, by 7:00 a.m., students at the bus stop might need an umbrellumbre. by noontime for your lunch hour, partly sunny, humid,

he helped dozens of children, coaches and parents get to safety as a roof blew off a dance studio in spotsylvania. a wall fell on him bricking his leg, back, and risk. it's going to take a few months for him to fully recover from his injuries. he says it was all worth it. mullins also received an award from state senator brice reeves, commending him for his dedicated service to the community. good for him. wish him a speedy recovery. >>> the time is 6:49. we just were live in new orleans and we saw that we lost the signal. that's going to happen when you have these strong winds blowing through. they are trying to make the best of it out there. >> it's still a hurricane. and it's creeping just southwest of new orleans. now, here is the latest radar and cloud composite. and it is showing heavy rain. those bands of yellow and orange, you see spinning there in the northern part, that's what's pummeling new orleans now with winds up to 80 miles an hour. and rain falling at one- to two-inch-per-hour rates. it's going to unfortunately move very slowly throughout the day today, creeping through southern

a few showers in stafford, spon spotsylvania. hometown forecast, front royal. right there along the blue ridge mountains. by 7:00, 6:00, upper 60s. nice fresh start there. then by noontime, into the low 80s. now, here is the day planner for the region. maybe a few scattered showers south of us this morning through noontime. and mid afternoon, ought to be around 90 degrees. rather humid but not sweltering humidity like we've seen. sun rise at 6:15. the sunset will be at 8:12. through the evening hour, partly cloudy. the 80s back down to the 70s. and by dawn tomorrow, humidity is back. it's going to be swelteringly humid day on wednesday and again on thursday and friday. and each day, there's a possibility of scattered afternoon, mainly afternoon showers and thunder showers. looks like a greater chance on friday of that. we need the rain. we're running about eight inches below average for 2012 so far. then as we get in the weekend, friday night into perhaps saturday morning, we might have some showers lingering. but then looks like the trend is for lower humidity

mary's and south of washington, prince william, stafford, spotsylvania into faulkier and culpeper and loudon counties, it's in the uupper 60s with patchy fog there as well as parts of montgomery county, howard and frederick. shenandoah valley into the mountains, too, it's in the 60s and patchy fog there, too. watch out for that. right now, got a clear sky, weak high pressure over the region right now. this is the satellite view. don't have any clouds around. hazy sunshine through the day. we'll be in the upper 80s by noontime. by midafternoon, the mid-90s, hot and humid day. just a slight chance of an isolated thunder shower shenandoah valley and the mountains. by late afternoon, near 90. sunrise 6:11, sunset 8:18. i'm back in ten minutes with another look at your weather, another look at traffic now with danella. good morning. >>> good morning. in your "first 4 traffic" report, we had road work at route 123 on the ramp to westbound 66. it's now clear. that's good news. let's head over to chopper 4 and take a live look. chopper 4 is over the beltway, the outer loop making your way to

much of fairfax county and prince william and loudoun and stafford and spotsylvania in the low 60s. elsewhere out in the mountains, many locations there again this morning are down into the 50s. western maryland, much of west virginia, parts of the shenandoah valley, 60s to around 50. southern maryland, eastern shore generally in the 60s as is much of northern virginia. don't have any fog around this morning. just some clouds now moving from south to north over the region. rain around the outer banks. this is a weak trough of low pressure. going to be tracking along the atlantic seaboard over the weekend. unfortunately giving a chance of rain over the weekend. but for today, not today. by 8:00 this morning, still mostly cloudy. mild. low 70s. and then by noontime for your lunch hour, partly sunny and warm. low 80s. may hit the mid 80s late afternoon. yes, as that coastal trough of low pressure gets closer to us, we'll have a lot of clouds around. might have a morning shower tomorrow. maybe an afternoon thunder shower. highs around 80 as well as on saturday night and perhaps on sunda

in maryland, schools will reopen in calvert county and in virginia, kids in spotsylvania county will head back to school. schools will open tomorrow in culpeper county and st. mary's county. today is day two in prince george's county. later this morning we're hear from the but interim superintendent for the first time. at 6:30 alvin crawley will talk to tracee wilkins. >>> today's annual backpacks for kids campaign. we're collecting backpacks and school supplies for needy students in our area. you can stop by the apple federal credit union kings town branch in alexandria 6:00 a.m. until noon. you can donate online at nbcwashington.com or mail us a check. >> great cause. want to make sure the kids have everything they need to get the school year started. >>> 5:51. time for weather and traffic on the ones. >> just like back to school weather. really autominal around the region. that is a live view from our hd city camera. right now, 67. reagan national, but it's not too humid. low level humidity. many locations around virginia. open fields there. it is getting a little foggy this morni

there have been a few more toward spotsylvania county and king george county. watch out. these could make their way through the northern neck and over towards portions of st. mary's county and maybe southern maryland. so you may see some showers well to the south of the d.c. area all because of a system that's still around the region. it's down to the south but still moisture associated with it. and that's why you see the shower activity mostly in southern virginia. another system back to the west, bringing rain towards pittsburgh. that one, though, will bypass us to the north. what are we seeing as far as the next couple days? a couple areas of low pressure and a frontal boundary stalled to the south. that's where it will remain. tomorrow it moves north so that boundary will shift to the north as well and we'll see a better chance for a few showers tomorrow. i still don't expect to see many, but it's good idea to keep the umbrella handy, maybe in the car as you make your way to work. thursday, the area of low pressure, another one moves up but stays far enough south that

fairfax, and into prince william, falk here, and then it breaks up a little bit down 95, stafford and spotsylvania but it is heading off to the nor north-northea north-northeast. most of the heavy rain is going to past west of washington. getting a few sprinkles in the district. prince george's county. it's going to be with us here for another couple of hour or so. temperatures are in the 60s to near 70 with the rain coming down. near 80 ahead of that. north and east of washington. later today we'll have highs reaching the low to mid 80s early afternoon. may settle down a bit later this afternoon and midday. but then some more storms popping up this afternoon that could be severe. 3:00 to 9:00 p.m. some could produce damaging winds and hail and brief heavy downpours that may cause quick flooding. that would be 3:00 to 9:00 p.m. after that, some lingering showers and thunder showers perhaps through midday on saturday. then clearing out west to east saturday afternoon. highs reaching the mid and upper 80s. lower humidity moving in. beautiful saturday night. low humidity will be down to the 60s by da

it looks good in the district out of the district. 95 at longstanding accident in spotsylvania northbound on the they but nothing metrorail andr pictures heading river frompotomac withnia into the district and across the bay bridge, no delays. we have a cold front on later today into the hours and look for increase throughout afternoon. degrees at reagan national airport. for today, near 90 degrees with showers and thunderstorms developing west to east with my time lows in the 60's and tomorrow, sunshine near 80 degrees. >> thanks for watching and we will be back at noon. "live! with kelly" is next. [ obama ] i'm barack obama and i approve this message. i think mitt romney's really out of huch withhe average woman's health issues... this is not the 1950s. contraception is so important to women... it's abobout a woman being abe to make decisions.s... i don't remember anyone as extreme as romney... i'll cut off funding to planned parenthood. i don't think mitt romney can even understand the mindset of someone who has to go to planned parenthood. planned parenthood. we're going to get rid of

. >>> a special honor for the spotsylvania sheriff's office who responded to a microblast. 2 dozen cheerleaders were inside the dance studio when wind brought it down. no one was seriously hurt. >> congratulate to them on that honor. >>> 8:13. we go to tucker barnes for the latest on today's forecast. >> and a little relief, some cuteness, please. >> we need it. "my first 5" photo, today we say hello to... ♪ [ music ] >> hi beautiful melody. >> she just arrived. she is from oklahoma. >> wonderful. >> welcome! >> this is the deal. she currently lives with her grandparents in virginia while she waits for her father to return from his deployment. >> very good. >> as you can see, she cheers for the one and only washington nationals. >> already bought into it. >> yeah. >> we like that. >> oh, my goodness. >> now she's a fan for life. >> cute. >> when i look at that picture, that's an invitation for me to get on that cheek. the cheek to the neck in that little sweet spot right there. >> you know what happens, the grandparents said smile, this is what she did. [ laughter ] >> to send us pictures of

mary's county, across the tidal potomac toward the northern neck into spotsylvania. these are advancing to the north. they'll be moving over the metro area the next couple of hours. during the afternoon hours, passing showers, maybe thunder and lightning, highs reaching near 80. if you're going out tonight, might get passing showers through the evening with thunder and lightning. sunday, partly sunny into the mid-80s. small chance of a morning shower. greater chance of an afternoon thunder shower on sunday. monday, partly sunny. back to work and school. upper 80s and humid. might get storms on >>> welcome back to "today," saturday morning, the 25th day of august 2012. a nice crowd on the plaza stopping by to wave hello to their friends and family back home. our thanks to them for spending part of their saturday with us. beautiful, clear day here, but certainly a different story in the caribbean. i'm lester holt along with tamron hall. isaac right now just pounding parts of haiti with rain this morning. wet weather will continue throughout the day there, up to 20 inch