Jacqui jeras. We are enjoying comfortable conditions and watching the hurricane. A lot of things could factor forecast as we butoached the weekend, at some are looking patchy fog. It will be tranquil today overall. Paula deen threw 9 00. Cloudy skies for the morning. 9 00. Through it was 84 degrees yesterday, a record high. The big question is what will happen with Hurricane Sandy and whether it could interact with a front this weekend to bring us some bad weather. 71 degrees by noon, 74 by 5 00, partly cloudy. To traffichead over with jamee whitten. Not at around the beltway. D. Oks goo overnightwrapped up onstruction in tysons schedule. On 95 between step afrika and the beltway in each direction. Reported on 395. Quiet is to and across the 14th street bridge. In fairfax theres a serious crash. An investigation is underway. Backlick road inside the beltway annandale, south of the little river turnpike. Backlick road is closed at john marr drive. Looks good on 95 between. Tafford and the beltway back to you. Thank you. Just 12 days until the election. A wellknown virginia is dealing with a scandal involving his own son. His son resigned from his campaign after he was howht on camera describing to commit voter fraud. John gonzalez is outside jim morans office. Sdrs a couple blocks away from that offe that at this restaurant with a damaging place and wasook videotaped. Patrick moran released a statement this morning saying he crazy and hean was he not taken seriously, but becauseed to step down not want to become a straction. Is on damage control after this undercover video surfaced showing his son and field director discussing voter fraud. The son of the congressman has effective immediately. The man behind the camera, james fraude, known for his as a days, is posing discussing a plan to ballot. Udulent but its going to have to legit. Opponent Patrick Murray is asking the Virginia Attorney general for a full investigation. Think we do need an investigation, because this is integrity of our nation. Just two days ago, jim moran asked the attorney general to investigate a consultant firm. Or voter fraud live in arlington, john gonzalez, abc 7. Ken cuccinelli is expanding allegedtigation into to destroy Voter Registration applications. A pennsylvania man working for a company republicans hired to registration drives is facing charges that he several completed iner registration forms rockingham county. The maryland state board of the pageswant to know some absentee in an enemy and prince georges county. Governor omalley issued a boardent saying the less than 20 ballots were issing a page containing key as expandedch. Ambling, sex marriage turning to the president ial day for, another busy president obama. Be in tampa, florida. Then denver. Richmond for a then to. Ent and chicago to. But First Lady Michelle Obama in los angeles and on Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight. Mitt romney is on the road holding a Campaign Event in ohio today. Crisscrossing that state. N the in virginia will rallies in. Harlottesville and bristol new revelations that sniper , 10 years after the sniper shootings, he said he was sexually abused by his accomplice john Allen Mohammed. He said in happen from when he years old until he was arrested. The felt a sense of shame and that it took years for him to come to terms with the abuse. John Allen Mohammed was malvoed 2009 and lee boyd sentence. A life the School System in Montgomery County will consider implementing a later start times for the highs schools after a push from parents. They are skeptical that such a measure would pass. An online petition to push back the 7 25 start time has gathered 6000 signatures so far. 5 06 on this thursday morning, degrees. Still ahead, local Utility Companies and homeowners in are not takingas with 13 sandy. Are not takingas with 13 sandy. We have a oh, please dont call me pumpkin. No, thats White Chocolate and pumpkin. Oh. Pumpkin. Ha ha youve never tasted pumpkin like this. Try new pumpkin White Chocolate or pumpkin mocha coffees and lattes today. Time for the forecast. We will check in with adam in old town alexandria. Storm chaser down there. , at king street near the starbucks, next to the torpedo , not faron the corner from the water. It is a warm start. Short sleeves. The temperature is will be next coupler the days. As high as be yesterday. We hit a record High Temperature degrees atf 84 Reagan National. Currently 61 degrees here at old town. So it is a mild start. Look at the numbers to start the day. In the 50s to about 60 degrees. Along the waterways we have 60 degree readings. We have an easterly flow, so maritime influence of the atlantic ocean. Clouds areel of illy along and east 95. Apart throughout the day. , the city will get amount of clouds to start day, then sunshine. Highs in the mid 70s today. We will talk more about sandy in a few minutes. Traffic. To good morning. It is good for most of the in maryland. 95, bw parkway, 50 through annapolis and bowie, nothing to tell you about. 270 is quiet out of germantown. Down to the beltway. Theleaving gaithersburg to beltway, looking good. One problem spot in virginia, a annandale. S crash in backlick road is closed south of the little river turnpike. It closed in each direction. Accident investigation is under way. Back to you. Thank you. Degrees. Its a preview of the this between theme its a[ female announcer ] its deliciously dark just before dawn. Its a rainy morning becoming a caramel drizzle. With fthgers gourmet selections, you can turn any day gourmet. New roasts, new flavors, and a new look. Woman oh tullys. How do you always have my favorite coffee . Well, inside the brewer, theres a giant staircase. And the room is filled with all these different kinds of coffee and even hot cocoa. And youll always find your favorite. Woman 2 with so many choices, keurig has everyones favorite. I just press this button. Brew what you love, simplymp keurig. Welcome back. Now to the live desk. More information from jummy. Labanji regarding wikileaks we just received word of leak of classified documents. We want to show you these newest leaks, detainee policies that the d. O. T. Uses when they have prisoners in military custody. Wikileaks says it will release classifiede next month or the so. Have about five right now. For ude sop disorder emergency plans. Julian assange, the founder of wikileaks, is still at an Ecuadoran Embassy in london. Are concernede his health and are asking london officials that they be so he canlease him get medical treatment. If he leaves the embassy, he could face arrest. This is a story we will keep a close eye on this morning. We have not seen any reaction the department of defense officials. We will update you as we get any morenformation. Back to you. Thank you. Hurricanes and the clashing cuba going across jamaica. Utility companies and homeowners in the d. C. Region preparations. Homeowners can hope they avoid a repeat of past storms. Carter is in bloomingdale in northwest d. C. , area than has been prone to pass flooding in the past. Getting aeople are little concerned. Absolutely. Flooding problems are familiar residents of this neighborhood. Year they have had find ways to get more than a of theirater out basements. Are worried about what do and whether it another flooded basement. With her cane sandy moving the east coast, people worst anding for the. Oping for the best i just hope it does not happen. That can stopg the water. To flooding. Ranger huntington, virginia. Dumped 60 of water basement, damaging everything. Where else am i going to go . I cannot afford to buy another house. Sandy crashed into cuba as a category two. Responsible for two caribbean and is for the bbahamas. This man is planning to clear out the storm drains. It came so fast. I had to go and rescue people houses. Ir we spoke with a number of localities including the scene. Already had a his Emergency Management team to get preparations underway. Local Power Companies are doing the same. With a number of d. C. Ities including thanks very much. Jacqui jeras is joining us now. What are the chances we could see the remnants of that storm . The chances of us getting something is very good. We have a larger than normal level of uncertainty. O do witht has t will look up with a front. That does not behave like a typical tropical system. We know that the hurricane has strong wind. When the ducks up with a jet stream, the wind really spreads out. Is a large storm. Hurricane hooks up with the jet stream. Arvin is out of the east today. We have a marine influence today. T moreeans a little bi cloud cover can be expected. Our wind is out of the east today. 62 at Reagan National, 61 dulles. We just have a little cloudy now. Right a strong cold front will be a ,layer in our weekend forecast in the midwest. There is snow on the backside of from nebraska to the dakotas and into minnesota. That will bring our temperatures down when it arrives. Sandy has made landfall twice in the last 24 hours. First over jamaica and now over 2 storm. Egory once it emerges off the coast of cuba and kids into the central r today, we will have a better idea on the forecast track. Cuba andcoast of bahamas today. L what about the timing . We are looking at sunday night into tuesday for a potential of this to impact us. We could see flooding. Of 50 . Has a chance there is the bulls eye of heavy. Ain morning fog giving way to some sunshine by this afternoon, 7277. Tonight, clouds developing again drizzle tomorrow morning, 5258 degrees. Theres a decline in temperatures by the weekend. The rain will be saturday and and we done by the be middle of next week. Now to traffic. Its pretty quiet on the front. Around the beltway, virginia, report. , nothing to this looks good at the American Legion bridge. Quiet over the chain l road, anda georgetown. In virginia, a serious crash. In annandale inside the beltway road is closed south of the little river turnpike. Nobody can get through that. Across the 14th street bridge, from virginia into the Nations Capital without any trouble. Back to you. Thank you. Microsoft is getting ready to punch to the competition. Paula faris explains. Countdown to a big friday for microsoft. Its latest operating system is windows aid goes on sale redesign a complete lot ofand introducing a apps. Friendly microsoft begins selling its first tablet computers. The software is a little but joanna is impressed n kickstand andi innovative cover. The cover has a builtin keyboard. Smart coverr to the that apple makes for the ipad. You can type really well on it. Its about 600. Google taking street view to the grand canyon using truckers , to shoot ks ever 2. 5 seconds. Maryland schools are number one in america because we invest in them. But we can do even more. Every year marylanders spend five hundred and fifty Million Dollars at casinos in other states. Question 7 keeps that maryland money in maryland through expansion of gaming in maryland. It will mean hundreds of millions of dollars for our schools. As governor, i can promise you, that money will go to education. Thats the law and thats what well do. Vote for question seven. Ts the wall. Rewba Pablo Sandoval was a oneman wrecking crew. Three home runs, joining reggie jackson, babe in thend Albert Pujols record books. The giants defeated detroit 83 will play again tonight at 8 00. The steelers could get some before sundays game against the redskins. Are wearing a throwback that are called the bomb. Ill be jerseys the redskins played the steelers year. Back then in that i like those jurors east. Its 5 27, 60 degrees. The news continues at 5 30. Jerseike the anncr every president inherits challenges. Few have faced so many. Four years later. Our enemies have been brououghto justice. Our heroes are coming home. Assembly lines are humming again. There are still challenges to meet. Children to educate. A middle class to rebuild. But the last thing we should do is turn back now. President obama im barack obama and. I approve this message. Live and in hd, this is good morning washington, on your side. People all ahead, along the east coast are watching hurricanes and the closely. Utility companies in our region some homeowners are preparing for the worst as questions remain about where the storm is headed after striking jamaica brianne carter. S a report in a few minutes. And why this paper led to the resignation of a congressmans son from his campaign. It thursday, october 25. Now to meteorologist jacqui jeras for the latest on sandy. Its a category 2 storm over cuba and still days away from g us. Tin always best to prepare for the worst. Meantime, it is 62 with a dew point of 59, east at 5 miles hour. Temperatures mostly in the upper 50s. 61 degrees at dulles, 59 in manassas, 59 in gaithersburg. A more clouds and sunshine this but we will see more than clouds by the , High Temperature down 75. Start of a cooling r hitting a record high of 84 yesterday. Now, traffic would jamee whitten. No problems heading into account in down 53 cheverly, 295 from California North avenue. Kenilworth avenue. In annandale, a serious crash inside the beltway. Southck road is shut down of the little river turnpike. Closed for a while with an accident investigation. 5 has an accident northbound between quantico and the triangle area. 70 maryland is quiet from germantown to the beltway. Back to you. Thank you. Election. Til the the president ial nominees spending long hours on the road battleground states this week. Obama visiting richmond. Mitt romney will be in ohio. Tahman bradley has the latest. Theres no rest for the president ial contenders. Work with me. President obama along with held ar katie perry. Ighttime rally in nevada the president also stopped by leno. Night show with jay whats this thing with you and trump . What does he have against you . This all dates back to when growing up together in kenya. [laughter] he spent the night aboard air headed to florida will start the day. Leading the t by one point in an abc news tracking poll. They will vote he will focus on ohio today. He sounded confident yesterday. The Obama Campaign is because it cannot find agenda to help american families. But our campaign is going into a movement that says we will get america back. The mathematics are still obama. G president if he hold traditionally states and picks up just three battleground states, winner. Be the ony will spend 81 million tv ads in battleground states. Spots like these featuring obama and clint eastwood. Tonight mitt romney and events atobama have aout the same time in ohio, state thats increasingly looks to decide the election. The son of virginia congressman jim moran resigned amid scandal, tape advising a man on fraud. Commit voter the hidden camera video was by james okeefe. He set up a scenario in which Patrick Moran advised a man to fake utility bills. Just going to have to have the address, but its going legit. To look moran was a field for his fathers campaign. Statement saying he anyr has or will endorse illegal or unethical behavior. Clerk of viewing today for former democratic president ial candidate and senator george mcgovern. Vice President Joe Biden will friends forand Service Tonight in sioux falls, south dakota. Funeral is tomorrow. He will be buried at rock creek n washington. In prince georges county, a University Maryland student could threaten to go on a shooting rampage will find out the state today. Alexander song was arrested an online quilt to shoot up the campus. He pleaded guilty in august of peace and the misusing a telephone. Prosecutors recommend he be sentenced to Community Service probation. Sed still adults accused of giving alcohol to some teenagers shortly before they were killed in the car crash, the trial begins today. 19yearold Brittany Walker was driving when she collided head bmw and was killed. A girl and a boy or also killed with the driver of the bmw. The trial of the francos will be in glen burnie. Looking at 60 degrees outside. Brianne carter will join us explain how some local Utility Companies for the impact of sandy. Ne new details on the deadly shooting at a megachurch led by dstor creflo from butlers orchards in germantown, maryland, hap the t time happy harvesttime. Good morning, washington. Many questions remaining Hurricane Sandy will impact our region. Some homeowners ling in w takingone areas are no precautions. Brianne carter joins us now. Rom an area known to flooding many across our region are whether they could have to clean up their basements again. We have already seen the impact in theicane sandy caribbean. Questions now if it affect us this weekend in tour early next week. From d. C. To areas aren many out if what they need to do, clearing gutters, talking to local officials whether it their basements could be flooded again. Havebeen a year since they that in thisith neighborhood. Now they are concerned that they could once again be dealing flooded basements and flooded cars. The mayor has already met with team and isy for any possibility if impact in have an d. C. Power companies are talking getting other contractors and working with police to ready if they are needed. About pepco, bge, and virginia dominion power. Will take the necessary precautions if the hurricane any impact in the d. C. Area. Reporting live, brianne carter, news. Another area that take precautions against flooding is old town alexandria. It looks good this morning. Is there. Y all it takes is a strong southeasterly wind and you see on union street. Brianne carter had the key word earlier if. It could have a major impact or minimal impact. Dont know yet. It is too early to tell. It could go completely off shore feel breezy just the weekend and early with a few isolated showers. Rainfall. D be heavy we will keep you posted. Lets look at the fall colors of our viewers. My facebook friend elizabeth in vintier county, taken at hill, beautiful colors on the trees. There will be gusty wind next week. Now at Reagan National, at Reagan National and 61 at dulles. Deal with clouds through in the metro area eastward. Then we will start to see some sunshine. Theay ineratures 70s, 10 degrees cooler than aboveday, but still time of year. Is l have more on sandy coming up. Whitten for the commute. Inaround the beltway, maryland, no problems. Looking at some cameras, 5, somea, northbound 9 volume building out of towards the beltway. Accident between quantico and triangle, left lane blocked. Connecticutay at good. , looks slow. Aving frederick is look at this iran and hyattstown. A look at urbana and hyattstown. Back to you. Thank you. Is a comfortable 60 degrees morning. Hursday not a bad start. Trouble for the rev. Je we were skipping stones and letting go over the river and down the road [ female announcer ] at Nature Valley, we know nature comes together in amazing ways. Thats why we bring together natural ingredients, like dark chocolate with toasted oats, or sweet golden honey. Perfect combinations of natures delicious ingredients, from Nature Valley. I was thinking that i hope this never ends [ female announcer ] Nature Valley granola bars, nature at its most delicious. Tonight at 5 00, a convicted offender paroled after for molesting a 9 old. He was given permission to show local festival where he was asked to speak to children. Conditions of his role prohibit. Irect contact with children o happen . His allowed t we get some answers tonight at 5 00. Coming up in a few minutes, involving thetest booster seats. Which models get a fair tests. N crash we will get the scoop on that. Of the talk with one about whichhers are safe and how to install properly, coming up at 6 00. Nfl is changing the of penalty flags this week. That and it will get a lot of attention. And warning them from the fda licorice,dangers of halloween. E for thats all ahead at 6 00. We are taking news around the region. The suspect in the deadly shooting at a georgia has ties to our region. Palmer shot and killed a at a suburban atlanta by evangelist creflo dollar. Court records show floyd palmer s committed to a maryland Psychiatric Hospital after pleading not criminally responsible to charges in 2001 related to an incident in baltimore. Teenager expected in court connectionlorado in with the abduction and murder of 10yearold jessica ridgeway. Old intoook a 17 year custody after receiving a phone call from his mother. Found. Ls body was they think it is linked to the of a 22yearold runner in the month of may. Jesse jackson has been arrested freeport, illinois. He and about a dozen workers rallied to save jobs. The auto parts plants is down and 170 jobs are moving to china. Mitt romney started the parent company. A robbery at a restaurant in kansas city. Caught on surveillance video. Hes wearing a dark gray hooded sweatshirt. Its not clear how much money he stole. A sword, but no injured. In brazil, another bizarre story. A man attended his own funeral. Of happened when family members identified the body. Roberto come on down . And that everyone thought he was decided to show up funeral and say hello. Family members started screaming fainted when they saw him. Some people ran out of the church. A scary situation. The mystery is who was in the casket . A new hiring plan taking off at bankrupt american airlines. Is still considering breakfast items. Linda bell has more. Hello. Higher indicating a open. Chipotle is looking to boost their bottom line. For a stronger marketing campaign. Theyre considering drive h and putting the Breakfast Menu in more places. Its being tested in dallas airports. Theres a report that american is looking to hire 2500 next five years after it added more. Nternational routes if you are headed home for the holidays, consumers are 752 per person on travel during the holiday season. A quarter of adults have avoided to lying to seeing family during the holidays. So if you are not alone. Live at bloomberg headquarters york, linda bell reporting for abc 7 news. I lied once about holidays. Coming clean. It is thursday morning. Lets check traffic would jamee whitten. A very seriousy, accident in fairfax county. Police investigating the fatal. Rash we have some video. This is in annandale inside the beltway. My goodness. The car is poult on backlick road just south of the little this car is totalled. A fatal crash. That will be closed for a while. That is out of the little river turnpike. Raven ands to get around this. 905 at the scene of a crash northbound between quantico and triangle. The left lane is blocked. From slow every morning down towards about 8109, as usual. We are keeping an eye on things this morning. A tranquil start, but it could be the calm before the storm. Thats all about is talking about, the possible impact of sandy. Sure that you are keeping in touch with a trusted meteorologist. It is still a few days away, things could change. Some models go in one direction and some go in another. Uncertainty this otheraround than with tropical systems. For the worst and hope for the best. You always want to have an emergency plan and an emergency. It power could be off for few days. 62 degrees currently, dew point of 59. Start once again. 61 at dulles, 57 in manassas, 59 in gaithersburg. Its foggy this morning in some areas. Part, that will be through the morning. Clearing by this afternoon. We have a strong cold front in r midwest as part of a level system with cold air behind it. Snow in the midwest. This is a cold front that will headed our way and potentially interacting with to bring usndy changes. Been moving over cuba. It is intensifying over the last 24 hours. Jamaica and cuba impacted as a category two storm right now hour. Inds of 105 miles an it packs a punch. Once in the explorer the s once its heads for know whats, we dont means for us. Theres a large column of uncertainty. Models have been moving coast. To the either way, we will have some storm. From the it is large. This is a google the earth image the cloud shield from north south and then end to end. Its about 1,200 miles. O create a large storm surge. And heavy wind. Partly sunny skies this afternoon, 7277. Mostly cloudy tonight with a drizzle overnight into morning, 5258 degrees. Temperatures are sliding down over the next couple days. That could impact with the cold d potentially sandy. Changesed for any now and the end of the weekend. Back to you. Thank you. Back to you. Thank you. We wilnow this is a party. Mmm. I dont know, i think i might bail. Yeah, its pretty dead. [ male announcer ] one is never enough. New kfc dipems. Freshly prepared tenders dipped in irresistible sauces. Try a 20 pc bucket with 6 sauces. It is never too early to t planning that thanksgiving meal. Tips ongreat trips tasty dishes. Of course, we are going into the holiday season. Huge time for food. Thanksgiving can be a little bit daunting, even those who like to cook. R entertaining or extended family as well. About preparing thanksgiving in an hour. We do an entire a meal, including breast. U can cook 144 people. We could the entire meal in one hour show. Is great. You can cook one for 4
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