forecast with adam caskey. >> chance of storms on sunday, but especially into monday. we have some rain right now. lower southern maryland, crossing over the potomac moving to the south and southeast. western loudoun county just west of leesburg and moving into northern fauquier county, crossing over 66. and along interstate 81 in the shenandoah valley. and then becoming partly cloudy this midday and afternoon. 85 for the high temperature. near 90 on the weekend. added humidity in the air with a few isolated storms sunday afternoon and evening. a better chance throughout the day on labor day. it will not be a washout. i will have the beach forecast coming up. now to lisa baden. moving nicely from frederick into montgomery county. 270 near 109. moving well as the beltway at the american legion bridge. in springfield no problems. mixmetro well as normal service. two disturbing stories involving d.c. police. one officer is accused of witnessing a murder and doing nothing. >> and another officer is accused of shooting a dog in a separate case. both bring up questions for the metropolitan police department. brianne carter is live in northwest with details. >> good morning. the metropolitan police department confirms it is conducting an internal investigation after an officer allegedly fired shots in during a dog, the latest in a string of events involving officers. this three-year-old pit bull has injuries to the shoulder and buthip. the shots came from the gun of an npd officer -- mpd. for the district officers were pursuing a man on a bicycle. the dog was not on a leash but the owner said that he would never hurt anyone. >> he began to shoot at my dog. as i was grabbing my dog. he still shooting my daughter. >> this comes as we're learning another officer is off the job and under investigation. police believe one of their own a 12-year veteran witnessed the murder of wyatt robinson and did nothing. first the officer said that she did nothing and then admitted that she witnessed it. >> she should no longer be a police officer. >> i don't see a culture of corruption. maybe they does need to be a little more selective. >> the dog owner would like an explanation or apology and for the department to look into this further. 23 officers have been arrested so far this year. reporting live in northwest brianne carter, abc 7 news. we want to get to developing story from indianapolis. authorities caught up with. an escaped with barksdale escaped from the courthouse yesterday afternoon. authorities found him around midnight in the animal heights neighborhood. he was arrested last week in connection with a shooting in north carolina. now to the mystery in aruba. a lawyer for gary giordano said he will appeal the latest ruling by an aruban judge. on wednesday a judge ordered him to be detained at least 60 more days while police investigate the disappearance of his travel companion robyn gardner of maryland. gary giordano said she was swept away while they were snorkeling, but police say there are inconsistencies in that story. taking a look of the data. a preliminary hearing is set for the man accused in the death of his georgetown socialite wife. 47-year-old albert smith is trust with second-degree murder, arrested after an autopsy showed his 91-year-old wife camilla dr -- wife viola drath. he has denied any wrongdoing. some people in our area still don't have power. we will show you a burtonsville neighborhood that has been without power since the storm. at last check that area is still in the dark. you can get an updated list of closings and power outages. just go to wjla.com. >> my goodness. it's been almost a week. september could be a fresh start. for the start >> august began with rising fears that the recession was about to hit and the stock market was shaky. the jobs report will come out later today. john hendren has more from northwest. good morning. >> good morning. economists expect those numbers to show a modest bump in the unemployment numbers, a little improvement. expected to show employers will have added 93,000 jobs to the economy. not enough to slash the nation's 9.1% unemployment rate. the jobs plan president obama will lay out next thursday will cut the rate before the 2012 presidential election. the idea is the government's task tohas to be good spender of last resort. republicans are likely to disagree. americans cut shopping in august and manufacturing expanded, but not enough to cut the unemployment rate or reverse the housing slump. reporting live in northwest john hendren, abc news. back to you. >> thank you. 5:07 65 degrees. >> still ahead -- >> sometimes i look at my phone while i am texting and i wonder, did i send that while i was sleeping? >> there's a new phenomenon, sleep-texting. >> and a new york city official arrested in his georgetown home. welcome back. time for look at traffic and weather every ten minutes. >> some more rain this morning. i hope it's out of here for the weekend, adam caskey. >> i think we will have a few areas of rain mainly on labor day, but also little on sunday afternoon and sunday evening just an isolated stretch a shower. we have areas of rain right now along and west of the blue ridge especially in the shenandoah valley and moving into leesburg no. fauquier county, that's moving to the southeast going to hit prince william county. a little action. we are in the 60's for the most part. 70 annapolis -- in annapolis 69 in quantico. by lunchtime the rain will be over today. becoming partly cloudy, high temperatures in the mid 80's. near 90 this weekend, warm and muggy with a few isolated storms on sunday. better chance of rain on monday on labor day. not all day. here's a quick look at the beach forecast. we still have chances of rain especially on labor day at the beach. on sunday may be an isolated lateday storms. 72 degrees for the water temperature. i am hearing about the disabled vehicle on the door to washington parkway northbound in the area of the memorial bridge. park police are there. felt bound getting down to reagan national airport is all quiet. we will take you to a picture of some road spray. drying out quickly 270 at 109. 270 into the germantown and gaithersburg, good. and in virginia, not bad, 95 and 395. back to you. >> thank you. 65 degrees. >> coming up, a warning about a possible sleep disorder linked to your cell phone. i think i have that. >> hundreds of thousands of people from the washington region have travel plans this labor day weekend. aaa says few americans will be traveling this year compared with last. mike conneen live in northwest. i will have the complete travel forecast. >> go redskins. >> fans cheer on the washington redskins through preseason you said you'd get me on the field. i did get you on the field. you are brian orakpo all-pro linebacker surely you can do better than this. come on sunshine. it's game time. squad's waiting. this is embarrassing brian. they've got me on the bottom of the pyramid. you know what else is embarrassing? pangng too much f/r car insurance. geico. fifteen minutes could save you 15% oror more on car insurance. checking our top stories investigators are looking for the person behind a bizarre incident at a southeast d.c. high school. a man wearing a black dress spurred students with pepper spray during a fire drill. 10 students were taken to hospital as a precaution. no one was seriously hurt. crews are reckoned to fix earthquake damage at the national cathedral. they're putting up nets catching bits of mortar falling from the ceiling. no real structural damage. redskins fans or task dead -- fans who attended last night's preseason game have high hopes for the season. there were split between john beck and rex grossman to be the starter. >> thank you. it is hard to imagine. last week we were hunkered down for hurricane irene. now after the cleanup, many of us are packing up for the beach. mike conneen is live in northwest this morning with the labor day travel. many people rethinking your plans now. >> actually, more than 730 people from the washington region or rather 730,000 washington residents will take trips of the dial50 miles or more. that is down 2.2% compared with last year. analysts blamed the bad economy and rising airline prices. for destinations sounds and resort cities like ocean city already hit hard by hurricane irene, if it is a tough time for them and they are desperate for business this holiday weekend. in the wake of hurricane irene of ocean city is welcoming visitors with open arms. those businesses lost $30 billion in revenue because of the hurricane. -- $30 million in revenue. up to 10 days of lost business. many water fund hotels sustained water damaged and there was some beach erosion. but there's plenty of sand to a share. many businesses say the town is in better shape than where they traveled from. not only do those businesses lose that revenue from thursday night through sunday, but they are losing the typical vacation crowd from monday through wednesday night. there's a glimmer of hope, aaa mid-atlantic thinks gas prices, which have declined recently in our area, we are looking at $3.57 a gallon, they are saying there could be an increase in last-minute trips as americans see the drop in gas prices. reporting live from northwest mike conneen, abc 7 news. many of us cannot live without our smartphone. so much so that we text when we cannot call and sometimes at strange times. tanya rivero has more. >> some good news for verizon wireless customers. the company will offer early upgrades to many of them. that means there won't have to wait until the end of their contract to get the new iphone 5 or any other new phone debuting this fall. there are more and more applications for smartphones every day. many of them tried to get us to buy something. but we are not. we use the applications to look up locations and compare prices only. that could change in the next few years. now most of the time using a smartphone is about playing games and socializing. many people, especially teenagers, send message during the night and then don't remember doing so when they are awake. is called sleep-texting. there's even a facebook page for people who do this. the only danger is the potential embarrassment for what your subconscious sent out. i am tanya rivero. >> ok. >> sometimes you have a lot in the middle of the night and you need to send it out when you are thinking of it. >> you are sleep deprived. >> sometimes i forget that i sent a message. i am not the only one. this has happened. a man in michigan is proving you don't need a musical instrument to play music. >> he uses a saw. >> ♪ >> larsen demonstrated his skill at a concert in a partk along lake glenmonhuron. he also plays the banjo monica, and other instruments. >> that's nice. adam caskey, you are very tech savvy. do you text and night? >> i cannot say i do. you need to turn the phone off and that will probably keep you from doing that. >> when you go to bed at 6:00 in the evening... >> i want to get to the beach forecast. something i have been doing all week the upper right side of your screen. you see that's funny looking design of the upper right side of your screen that is a modern-day backlick road. what you can do is take your smartphone or your tablets computer and with one of the many free applications out there you can hold it up to that code and scanned it off your television and that will bring u street to our web site. in today's case that would give you detailed look at the beach forecast. it will invest in high definition. that will shoot you write to the blog that we wrote about the beach forecast. we have some isolated rain late on sunday. then on labor day, added cloud cover with a few scattered thundershowers. 72 degrees for the water temperature. tropical storm katia still out there. we also have a tropical depression that will likely turn into a tropical storm later on today, tropical storm lee, giving heavy rainfall to especially the central gulf coast around louisiana through the next several days. a few spotty showers this morning mainly in loudoun county, in the shenandoah valley, and in southern maryland. becoming partly cloudy today, 85 degrees. warm and muggy this weekend near 90, a chance of lateday storms on sunday, a better chance into monday. not a washout. moving well of the beltway no accidents to report. suitland parkway is good. good on 66 and 95. giving you the green light. quiet is out of ashburn all the way through reston and tysons on the dulles toll road. 270 moving nicely as well as the top side of the beltway through montgomery county and across the american legion bridge. 95 in and out of baltimore is uneventful. b-w parkway is quiet. george washington parkway has a stalled car northbound before the memorial bridge. a good ride out of southern maryland. metro rail is on normal service. >> thank you. all the guys out there, this is some bad news for you. it appears washington is becoming less manly. sorry about that. that's according to a new list. >> what do they know? d.c. dropped to no. 45 in the annual list of manliest cities. it ranks the concentration of -- it measures the concentration of home improvement stores, manley occupations steakhouses and motorcycles. baltimore dropped to no. 28 on the list. really? >> i disagree with that. >> but i don't think being a feminine city is a bad thing. >> i go to home depot all the time. >> 5:23 right now, 66 degrees. >> john beck completed his preseason audition for the redskins' starting job. did he shine or get blinded by the bright light? >> today on "oprah," a candid conversation with rosie o'donnell, 4:00 and abc 7. this was double-a baseball. steven strasburg was simply fantastic in his final rehab start last night. just one hit. he reached 99 on the radar gun. >> is expected to make his return to the majors tuesday night at nationals park. >> tim brant has a look at last night's redskins game. >> baby the buccaneers last night so they complete the preseason with a 3 and 1 record. there is some improvement. let me take you to fedex field. rex grossman did not play. john beck struggled. he went 10 for 21, one interception, one fumble. his rating was 43.4. he never looked comfortable in the game. the defense played well. they had a goal line early. this marked as why it picking the ball up and he gets all the way down setting up the redskins touchdown. the play that had everyone talking was brandon banks ball to the goal line. he gets to the goal line and flipped the ball. they had to review to see if he did so before crossing the goal line. it does count. tgif. have a good day, everybody. 5:27, 66 degrees. the news continues at 5:30. >> still ahead in the next half- hour the deputy mayor of operations of new york city has resigned, stemming from an incident in georgetown. >> the metropolitan police department investigating a number of incidents involving its own officers. i am brianne carter. that story's coming up. >> adam caskey in the belfort furniture weather center. we have areas of rain to up about this morning. is there rainfall in the weekend forecast? live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >> they need to do more background checks. >> straight ahead shocking scandals emerged from the d.c. police department, one involving the murder and the other centers around the shooting of a dog. good morning. 5:30 on friday, september 2. i am cynne simpson. >> i am greta kreuz. we have one school closing this friday morning. marley glen special school in anne arundel county is closed today because of continued power outages. all the other schools in anne arundel and surrounding counties and the district are open today and running on a normal schedule. traffic and weather every ten minutes. lisa baden in a moment. here's meteorologist adam caskey. >> a few areas of rain this morning will be isolated, but moderate at times throughout the morning. in afternoon becoming partly cloudy. heavy rain right now moving into the blue ridge and parts of the shenandoah valley south of winchester. southeastern loudoun county approaching dulles airport a shot is falling apart. there is a moderate showers in warrenton and that just crossed over 66 and is moving southward. and from southern maryland into the northern neck. hagerstown as a sour as well. then partly cloudy this midday and afternoon. 85 for the high-temperature with humidity. as for the weekend saturday will probably be the best day warm and muggy near 90. still near 90 on sunday with a writer humidity. chance of a few lateday storms on sunday. on labor day is the best chance of rain. not a wash out, just added showers here and there. a beautiful ride in virginia and maryland around the beltway. george washington parkway northbound before the memorial bridge as a stalled car. metro will on all service systemwide. taking you to the guy go traffic center camera, moving well and on dry pavement. about 395 to the pentagon and 270 southbound from urbana two hyattstown. newschopper 7 in a little while. now to news. 5:32. as fauquier county vice principal is charged in child pornography and is expected to plead guilty next week. there's a report that joshua myers will enter a guilty plea in federal court in alexandria on tuesday. he was arrested last june and charged with possessing and distributing child pornography. he was an assistant principal at greenville elementary school in beltsville. a growing scandal inside the d.c. police department. >> another officer of the job and under investigation. brianne carter is live outside headquarters with details. >> good morning. metropolitan police the product confirms that it is conducting an internal investigation after an officer allegedly fired shots hitting a dog. this is just one of a number of incidents that have happened in the district. the honor said that her dog was injured in the shoulder and hip after an officer fired his service weapon around 1:00 in afternoon on thursday as police were pursuing a man on a bicycle. the dog's owner and neighbors said the dog would not dare to anyone and that the dog knows the officer and the officer no a dog. this comes as we are learning more about another officer of the job also under investigation. police believe one of their own a 12-year veteran with the department witnessed the murder of 33-year-old wyatt ro robinson, and did nothing. first she says she saw nothing and then later admitted she did witness it. over 20 officers have been arrested this year, minor offenses to murder. this number certainly is startling and concerning for residents in the district. reporting live in northwest brianne carter, abc 7 news. new developments this morning in the death of maryland congressman elijah cummings' nephew. police are questioning a person of interest in christopher cummings' murder. the 20-year-old was shot in his norfolk home in june. he was a student at old dominion university. islamic was also shot and injured. no arrests have been made so far. questions are selling this morning about the sudden resignation of a top new york city official arrested in georgetown. stephen goldsmith quit his job as deputy mayor yesterday. his resignation comes weeks after d.c. police jailed him for two days after authorities say that he and his wife got into a heated argument at their georgetown home. his wife said the whole thing was a misunderstanding. taking a look a day ahead the woman charged with murdering a co-worker at lululemon store in bethesda has a status hearing today in rockville. the defense is seeking to suppress statements that 28- year-old brittany norwood made to police. she is accused of killing jayna murray in march. her trial begins after the 24th. prosecutors believe accused tucson shooting suspect jared loughner r can eventually stand trial for murder. they're asking the judge for more time to get his mental competency restored. he is currently being held at a prison hospital in missouri. prosecutors want him to undergo another four months of treatment. a hearing on the issue will be held later this month. indiana is announcing plans to divide up a $5 million fund set up for the victims of last month's state fair stage collapsed. priority will be given to relatives of those killed and those seriously injured. victims' lawyers say damages will probably be far greater than $5 million. in just a few hours many families will be hitting the roads for the labor day weekend. right now as you can see, the roads are clear. by late this afternoon the drivers will be filling the highways heading for the beach. >> if you are going to the delmarva peninsula expect to pay about $3.46 a gallon for gas. in virginia beach $3.49. $3.52 at the jersey shore. mike conneen is live this morning with more on all the holiday travel. good morning. >> good morning. aaa minuteman excess 730,000 people from our region will trouble at least 50 miles this holiday weekend. that is down 2.2% compared with last year. experts blame the bad economy and increasing airline cost and for destinations like ocean city already hit hard by irene they are desperate for business. in the wake of hurricane irene ocean city is welcoming back visitors with open arms. >> little if any damage you can find anywhere. the beaches are in great shape. officials are anxious to get everybody back to town. >> businesses lost nearly $30 million in revenue because of the hurricane. business owners are scrambling to clean up, but cannot recover what irene took. >> you cannot take seven to 10 days out of a 120-day business. that hurts. >> there was some beach erosion and some water damage. most visitors say that ocean city is in better shape than where they live. >> of the electric went out for hours, 36 hours. all the trees came down because the ground was saturated. >> and here? >> nothing. >> not only did ocean city businesses lose revenue on thursday friday, saturday, and sunday because of the hurricane those businesses also lost the typical monday through wednesday. vacation wednesday if there's a glimmer of hope, aaa mid-atlantic says with gas prices that seem to be declining recently, we could see more last-minute travel and most of these folks driving to their destinations. reporting live in northwest mike conneen, abc 7 news. >> let's hope people get back out on the beach. lisa baden says the roads are clear, so now's a good time. 65 degrees 5:39. >> arch campbell has the hits and misses at the movies. >> i never call myself the godfather. the fans and the radio stations do that. that is what happened. >> but you are the godfather. >> yes sir. >> he is the godfather of go-go. chuck brown will do something he never thought he would. >> imat the boardwalk in ocean city. there's always surf in los and city. give us a call. >> good morning, washington. it's friday morning. i will start with the beach forecast. then jump into our local forecast. if at any time throughout the newscast you want to get a detailed look at the beach forecast on our blog at wjla.com, use one of those free scanning applications on your smartphone or tablets and hold it up to this code. that will take you directly to the detailed the beach forecast. temperatures in the low to mid 80's throughout the weekend. mid 80's on sunday. pretty humid. strays from possible at the beaches on sunday, same-store locally. better chance of rain on labor day. a few showers this morning and partly cloudy, 85. as i of relief, and george washington parkway northbound has moved a stalled car out of the way near the memorial bridge. everything is open. nothing on the suitland parkway clara barton parkway, george washington parkway. let's go to the clara barton parkway. beautiful. nice drive on 95 in and out of baltimore and on 95 in richmond and springfield. green light on 270 66, dulles greenway, and dulles toll road. back to you. >> thank you. 5:44, 65 degrees. >> coming up -- it starts with hammering. baltimore's first-ever grand prix will be rev up. >> robert duvall will be in one of the captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- it is being billed as a three-day festival of speed. preparations underway now for the first-ever baltimore grand prix. that begins today and runs through sunday. the cars will be racing along city streets in and around the inner harbor and camden yards. concrete barriers and fences will protect spectators. should be a good time. a special honor for a d.c. music legend. chuck brown this sunday will perform with the national symphony orchestra at the labor day concert outside the u.s. capitol. there will be a musical salute first to brown who then will join in. >> we will be inviting the godfather himself on stage with the national symphony. >> it will be an experience of a lifetime for me, something i never dreamed i would do. >> he had brushes with the law when he was young and learned to play guitar when he was in lorton prison. he went on to create a sound that made him hometown legend. the concert on sunday starts 8:00 and it is free -- 8:00 p.m. that's amazing. he's getting up there. >> everything goes with go-go music. it will be great. >> good morning. >> is the search going to be back to normal -- the surf? >> it should be elevated a little. and do watch for recurrence. if there's anything in the atlantic remotely close to the sunshine. lee could turn into a depression later on over the next couple days. speaking of the tropics there's katia on the right side of your screen. highlighted on the left side of your screen, that is tropical depression 13, which will likely and quickly turn into a tropical storm lee. katia is moving still off to the west and northwest. 100 expected to slowly developed into a hurricane by the middle of next week. and lee will become a big rainmaker for the gulf of mexico. we have a few showers of to our west. that's all. partly cloudy today 85 this afternoon. front royal has heavy downpours just to the west of them. moving nicely in traffic. connecticut avenue at 410 police were looking for crash but there's not much happening. 66 eastbound in manassas, slow traffic again at 50. this is 95 in springfield. looks good on 395. to and from dulles airport, all clear. 28 looks good between sterling and tysons. a beautiful ride on the george washington parkway here. colorful picture just north of reagan national airport. back to you. >> thank you. 5:50. the company behind twinkies and wonder bread may be in financial trouble again. >> business news and a closer look at the jobs report today. linda bell is live at bloomberg headquarters in new york. good morning. >> hello. we have president barack obama running for reelection next year. the jobless rate to likely stuck in 9% as the recovery still gets its footing. according to an update from the office of management and budget. they say the rate likely will not fall below 6% until 2016. after today's jobs report, economists predict that only 68,000 jobs may have been added last month. stock-index futures are indicating a lower open. as more americans nationwide are hoping to win the lottery financial records for 41 state lotteries showed 28 had higher sales than the year before. 17 of those states have set all- time sales records. with only two years out of bankruptcy protection, posted its brands continues to struggle. sources say that it is carrying. $700 million in carrying higher costs for sugar flour and other ingredients are hurting the company as well as higher fuel prices for its delivery trucks. that's business news. live at bloomberg headquarters in new york, linda bell reporting for abc 7 news. have a great holiday weekend. >> you do the same. >> i hope twinkies don't go away. a lot of people would be disappointed. >> we don't need those twenties like we used to. fog and clouds 52, 65 degrees. >> stay with us. a new movie out this week surrounds itself with golf and an all-star cast. >> will this movie find itself on the alex with moviegoers. "seven days in utopia." >> i have your weekend movie guide and i am arch campbell. >> where have you come from? >> argentina. >> best known movie honors go to this one. a young israeli spy on her first mission. so i think goes wrong. 30 years later, she must deal with the loose ends. 3 stars rated r, a solid thriller. also opening, "7 days in utopia." robert duvall gives life lessons to a young golf professional. i loved the movie but it is slow. one star. here's the weekend movie guide. four stars for "the help." and for "harry potter," and " sarah's key." 2.5 for "tjhehe guard." have a nice weekend, everybody. i am arch campbell, abc 7 entertainment. >> thank you. we appreciate it. we have more still to come in the next hour. >> coming up in this down economy everybody is looking to get lucky. now some are. hitting the are >> also, d.c. police officers under investigation. i'm brianne carter. i will have that story, coming up. >> and lisa baden is coming back to help you navigate your friday morning commute whether you are off to your bro coming up, on the run now back behind bars. police caught an escaped convict. >> and i am john hendren in washington with the latest on joblessness. >> and starting the season with a winning record, but still no answer to the big quarterback question. "good morning washington" continues right now. >> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >> good morning, washington. it is 6:00 a.m. on friday, september 2. i am cynne simpson. >> i am greta kreuz. . almost every local school is back in business except for one. marley glen special school in anne arundel county will be