greed. they say having her husband killed would reap a cash reward courtesy of their insurance company. her name is sonia guerrero kuske. she's 34 years old charged with trying to hire a hitman to kill her husband. the couple lived in this townhome on spring branch boulevard in montclair. neighbors say they have two young sons and that the husband was in the army. >> i would see her when i'd go pick up my daughter from school. she would pick up her son and -- but she never looked at me. we never made eye contact or anything like that. >> reporter: never even spoke to her? >> no. i tried to wave once, but she just sort of darted into the house. so i never really got a chance. i thought maybe she was shy. >> reporter: prince william county police say a northern virginia violent crimes task force headed by the federal bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearm and explosives first caught wind of kuske's alleged plan back in february. >> it was learned through the investigation that the accused had made arrangements with who she believed was the person that was going to carry out the act when, in fact, it was an undercover officer for the task force. the arrangements were made. everything was set up and then we made the arrest. >> reporter: police say the husband was never in danger. guerrero kuske made her initial court appearance tuesday, ordered held without bond until her next court date at the end of may. police say at least part of the motive was moneyful investikuske want -- money. investigators say kuske wanted her husband dead so she could collect on a life insurance policy. >> i don't know. i really don't. it's sad. i feel sorry for the kids. >> reporter: the county's top prosecutor tells us he believes the children are with their father. nobody was home tonight while we were in the neighborhood. brian, you there? all right. tonight police are in two states and they're investigating a possible link in a wave of burger king crimes. last month the store manager was shot to death inside the frederick burger king. weeks later police say two men robbed a hagerstown one and a martinsburg west virginia restaurant was hit back in january by an armed robber. police in all three jurisdictions are teaming up to find out if there's a connection. another developing story at 10:00 we're following, the budget battle on capitol hill. president obama called the major players to the white house today to hammer out a possible deal. keep this in mind, though, the stopgap measure that keeps the government running runs out friday. that means the shutdown threat is starting to look very real. >> we're fighting for the largest spending cuts possible. we're talking about real spending cuts, here, no smoking mirrors. >> the house republican budget calls for $60 billion in cuts while democrats are proposing 33 billion. after a meeting with the speaker the president said both sides will continue to negotiate. >> the only question is whether politics or ideology are going to get in the way of preventing a government shutdown. >> there are also deep policy divisions. the gop wants to curb spending on healthcare reform and environmental regulations while democrats have blasted the republican budget, they still haven't offered a full version of their own. >> if you look at the republican plan, it is simply a recycled rigid ideology. >> by removing the anchor of debt that weighs down our economy and by an advancing pro growth tax reforms this is a jobs budget. >> with no deal yet federal workers could be furloughed. in fact, several offices are already taking steps to prepare for a shutdown. >> we have to work out a schedule of people who have to come and do the work, but some would be fur load, too, if that thing -- furloughed, too, if that thing happens. >> i am concerned. especially when i step outside the federal government role, i'm still a citizen and so will be relying on the government to support me. >> the calendar is another obstacle. both the house and senate would require three days each to pass a budget deal which already pushes them past friday's deadline. so as you can imagine, a lot of unanswered questions here beck actually what would happen if the government does shut down who's considered essential and works without getting paid or would they get paid and who stays home? america's largest federal employee union representing about 600,000 workers is suing the obama administration to get some answers. the general counsel with the american federation of government employees filed the lawsuit about a week ago. mr. boric, thanks for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >> what is the union looking for in this lawsuit? >> the lawsuit we filed last week is under the freedom of information act just to find out the details of the government's plan for thedown. they haven't released the details yet and so in -- for the shutdown. they haven't released the details yet and so in order to get that information and prepare hundreds of thousands of federal workers for what lies ahead we filed a lawsuit. >> i understand you filed this lawsuit with the office of management and budget to get a contingency plan for operating the government. you didn't get a response. do you think there just isn't a plan perhaps? >> no. we know there's a plan and so the plans that underway and will be implemented in the next few days if the congress cuts off funding, the employees simply need to know. they're dependent upon their paychecks. they need to know whether they're going to need to come to work, not come to work how they'll be paid or if they'll be paid. >> who would generally be considered an essential government employee and would they get paid? >> well, the term essential is a term from the law and it's a little unclear given the history of government shutdowns exactly who would be essential. that's part of what we hope to find out from the government's plans, but essentially it deals with protection of life and property. so those employees would be expected to come to work and know they would not be paid and that's why our next lawsuit comes into play. >> certainly we can all agree that would be just a financial mess for so many thousands of federal workers, many of whom you represent. david borer, thanks for coming in. >> thank you. >> severe storms creating a mess in our region today. one driver lucky he wasn't hurt after strong winds and rain sent this tree crashing onto his car. the man was driving in bethesda, jones mill road this morning. down in the weather center with sue palka, that was just one of the many problems we had overnight. we even had some tornado warnings. >> most of those were in southern maryland, it was for run run, calvert, st. mary's, a little -- for anne arundel, calvert, st. mary's. i understand chris strong from the national weather service went down there and followed those paths. he did see some damage, nothing catastrophic. that was the final report on him. here's what it looked like today in northwest washington. if you had your window open, this is what greeted you pounding rain and ferocious wind. this moved through northwest around 5:30 in. clinton this storm knocked down trees in temple hills road and a tree landed on this car parked in the driveway, high winds ripping the underpinning out from under this house. crews arrived this mother to cut up trees to clear the road and this large tree crashed on a house in waldorf. it pulled off part of the roof. another tree fell in front of a house nearby. this homeowner said he's so lucky he parked on the street last night instead of in his driveway where it would have been wrecked. he believe that protected his car and saved him from a huge repair bill. we didn't even mention the temperatures. yesterday 85 degrees. we came crashing into the 40s after this very strong threat moved through tonight. would you believe it will be close to freezing in some areas tonight? >> i would. >> you would. check out the temperatures. you won't be running to the car without a jacket tonight. we're looking for 31 in frederick, 32 in winchester and in arlington about 38 degrees. there are even frost advisories for the eastern shore and delaware where the growing season has started. you definitely don't want to plant too early around this town and one last thing accident we weren't the only ones with terrible -- thing we weren't the only ones with terrible wind yesterday, 21 reports of severe wind damage in 19 states, the most since 2000 in a 24 period and more than we receive in an entire month across the entire country. in kentucky look at this. this is a manufacturing plant that took a direct hit from a powerful storm. 100 employees were inside when the front of the building collapsed and the roof peeled off. the flying metal and glass hurt several people, plant now closed indefinitely. in memphis strong winds toppled this huge old tree onto a house. bizarre items including a cooked crocodile confiscated at dulles airport this weekend. you'll want to stick around to see what customs found. this is a first. i've never heard of it. plus the piece of broken fuselage from a southwest jet is here in washington, an update on the airplane's plane problems. hundreds of flights canceled and more southwest airlines planes grounded after finding cracks in the aircraft. inspections were ordered after the roof ripped open on the southwest boeing 737 above arizona. tonight we're getting an up close look at that piece of broken fuselage. fox 5's sherri ly has the story. >> this rupture occurred on the left side of the fuselage near wing. >> reporter: this is the section of the southwest airlines plane that ripped open midair leave leaving a 5-foot long 1 foot wide hole. investigators with the ntsb say initial investigation found fatigue cracks in the alum newspaper skin along the rupture. >> the safety board is very concerned about a rapid depressurization event like this one. this is not something that's common and this is not the way that we would like to see aircraft perform. >> reporter: the federal aviation administration issued an emergency order to inspect older model 737's. southwest airlines inspected 76 of its 737-300's, the same as the plane that ruptured and discovered five planes with cracks. >> those aircraft have been taken out of service and are being repaired. the others are being put back into service. >> reporter: in 2009 the same thing happened on pastor alvin kibbles southwest airlines flight. >> i knew exactly what they went through. >> reporter: on kibbles flight a football size hole ripped through the roof. now this. >> i am certain that someone has dropped the ball and they will have to take responsibility for that. >> reporter: earlier in 2009 southwest was fined $7.5 million for missing required safety inspections to look for cracks. the ntsb will now review the airline' maintenance records and procedures as -- airlines' maintenance records and procedures as part of this investigation. >> we will be on a close watch for any aircraft exhibiting similar characteristics to this. >> reporter: kibbles feels south we have airlines has violated his trust, but he remains a loyal customer. >> i'm still an a list border and i'll be on the plane the -- boarder and i'll be on the plane the end of this week. >> reporter: he has six flights booked and he's counting on them. the emergency order by the faa is not expected to disrupt travel. most of the boeing 737 fleet in the u.s. belongs to southwest airlines and those flights have already -- planes have already been inspected. sherri ly, fox 5 news. some passengers coming through dulles this weekend brought more than a change of clothes. two passengers from ghana fined for bringing in cooked cows feet. they also paid up for a packet of a couple of pounds of cooked antelope. that's not the only passenger who brought cooked antelope through dulles this weekend. a woman from ethiopia brought 7 pounds of it and she was also fined for cooked crocodile she had packed. the chairman of the d.c. council is back in the spotlight tonight and once again more questions are raised. an audit of kwame brown's 2008 reelection bid has gone public. the audit shows his campaign was not in compliance with the campaign finance act. chairman brown blames the issues on bad bookkeeping, but fox 5 is learning questions about money transferred to his brother's company could launch a new investigation. matt ackland is following this one tonight. >> we should tell you right off the top the chairman says every dollar that his campaign raised for his reelection bid was spent properly and he says there was no wrongdoing here, but tonight council member jim graham says the chairman needs to prove where every dollar was spent, especially when it comes to his brother's company. if not, he says an investigation might be needed. it hasn't been a good couple months for chairman kwame brown. there's the expensive fully loaded suv he ordered and then returned and now the results of an audit are distracting him as he tries to work on the city's budget, but the chairman wanted to speak about the audit tonight. >> we're excited that this audit is finally over which showed that there was no money missing from my account. >> the audit points to several issues. for example, the brown campaign committee failed to report 53 expenditures, close to $170,000. also there was an issue with cash, eight checks written for cash totaling over $31,000. the audit reports only three of those checks had proper documentation. brown blames a volunteer doing his campaign record keeping. >> you go from a campaign where you raise no money, which is my first campaign to, a second campaign where you raise a whole lot of money and using a volunteer to kind of enter into the information and that's just not the right way to go. we knew that about a year and a half ago and made those change moving forward. >> reporter: the audit noted another issue, payment to banner consulting services. banner consult is was paid nearly $380,000 -- consulting was paid nearly $380000. the audit points out $240,000 was transferred to a company called partners in learning. that company is owned by brown's brother. >> i've seen my brother out there working hard on the campaign. so it's not a shadow person no one has ever seen. running my field operation which was less than 27% of all the campaign contributions. >> the chairman's office presented us with its response to the audit as well as giving us several pages showing documentation for some expenses and contributions not included in the audit. the statement also points out all campaign funds were spent properly including those paid to kwame brown's brother. >> matt ackland tonight. former virginia governor tim kaine officially setting his sights on the u.s. senate. he could go toe to toe with another commonwealth heavyweight. up next we're looking at the national implications this race could have. r. dnc chairman tim chains makes it official. he has his -- tim kaine makes it official. he has his sights set on 2012. first it was in a tweet, then in this campaign message. >> i'm running for the united states senate because america has big challenges and i'm convinced that virginia has answered to help strengthen our nation. >> kaine is seeking the seat now held by senator jim webb who is retiring after one term giving a boost to the democrats' prospects for keeping that seat in next year's election. on the republican side former governor and senator george allen faces opposition for the nomination from tea party activist jamie radtke. wtop political analyst mark plotkin joins us now. this is turning into a battle of the titans, the tea party candidate not withstanding. do you think president obama's friendship with tim kaine was the deciding factor here? i think that tim kaine felt that he could win. that's why politicians run, they think they can beat the other guy. >> why is he consulting so much with obama? he said he couldn't make final decision until he talked to the president. >> they have a close relationship. their mothers literally were raised in the same town in kansas. he was the first governor outside of the illinois governor to support barack obama. barack obama hand appointed him as his guy at the dnc and brian, there's a positive and a negative. the positive is that obama on the ballot will help him because it will increase turnout and especially democratic and african american turnout, but at the same time it also portrays tim kaine as maybe went too partisan and maybe too much of an obama supporter. >> wouldn't people say it will help president obama because virginia is a swing state and expectations nor are he's going to need every swing -- now are he's going to need every swing state he can get. >> i think obama helps kaine. as you know, virginia hasn't went democratic. you have to go way back to 1964 and i want to remind everybody that bobby scott is a very attractive engaging candidate congressman from newport news in hampton, portsmouth and chesapeake has said he very well might run and he is imposing his own deadline of july 1st. i talked to him today and he said that governor kaine called him and he wasn't calling him just to say hello. he was calling him, i'm sure, to encourage him not to run. the democrats don't want a primary which would divide the party. >> what about george allen here? can he recover from the macacaw comment. >> that's the $64 million question. all bob marshall has a following and cory stewart running for the senate and as you said the tea party radtke. if the republicans who come out are ideologically committed, they're portraying george allen as a censurist. allen is not assured of the nomination. >> we all like to connect the dots and have things make sense in our world, but do the midterms really provide any sort of tea leaves for the general election which would bode well for republicans? >> no, they don't because democrats like general elections because there would be a greater turnout and especially minority turnout which, you know, african americans are about 90 95% vote democratic. they didn't vote in the off years. they didn't vote in the midterms and they feel that with obama at the top of the ticket that turnout will increase and their chances will improve. >> it sounds like it's going to be one of the best races in the country to watch. we're looking forward to seeing it. mark plotkin, thanks for coming in. >> thank you. what i can a billion dollars do for a -- what can a billion dollars do for a section of fairfax county? plus the followup to the bizarre artwork attack inside the room where it all went down coming your way next. h ou rth6 you're watching fox 5 news at 10:00. things are getting back to normal at the national gallery of art after a bizarre art attack. witnesses say a woman went off on a painting last friday using her fists to ruin it. now that painting is back on display and a hearing for the woman has been rescheduled for tomorrow. fox 5's karen gray houston has a closer look. >> reporter: if anything, all the attention over the incident has brought more visitors to the national gallery of art to check out the gauguin collection. there are 114 works of eugene paul gauguin here on loan from the metropolitan museum of art in new york now notorious because susan barnes apparently flipped out and took some bunches at this one showing two bare breasted tahitian women. >> she was screaming and yelling this is evil. >> reporter: the gallery's spokeswoman said barnes caused quite a ruckus. >> she stood in front of it and attempted to pull it off the wall and she hit it. she hit the plexiglass covering of the painting with her fist. >> reporter: it's still the talk of the museum. >> i think that some people are not very well balanced and it causes them to do crazy things. >> she probably had a little screw loose i'd say. other than that, don't know. >> reporter: there are other works of art by gauguin in this room that houses the two tahitian women, other paintings, works on paper. there are sculptures. none of them were damaged. this wasn't the first time the gallery has been the victim of an art attack. there was that time back in the '70s in an incident involving a painting and a renaissance chair. >> we have different stories. according to many accounts the painting was grabbed and smashed in the renaissance chair. >> reporter: what was it that susan barnes found so offensive about this piece of art? >> art is controversial. >> in no way shape or form. don't think so at all. >> reporter: partial nudity? >> yes, but i don't see anything wrong with it at all. it's art. >> reporter: karen gray houston, fox 5 news. staying in the district, council member jack evans is calling for a boost in police staffing. today he introduced a bill that would require at least 4000 sworn officers on the force. evans cited police chief cathy lanier's claims fewer than 3,800 officers would put d.c. in trouble. right now the district has just under 3,900 officers. fox 5 continues to monitor metro. tonight a billion dollar project was unveiled. the new stop at fairfax county was the ceremony groundbreaking for the reston project being built alongside the new wheelie avenue metro stop which should open in about two years. fox 5's john henrehan was there. >> reporter: in the planned community of reston, virginia, with its woodsy home sites, hiking and biking paths and prosperous business community there's a bronze statue of the community's creator robert simon who is now 96 years old. simon always envisioned that reston would have some kind of transit system. >> in 1956 i was in negotiations for light rail. but it never materialized. >> reporter: well, 45 years later rail is coming to reston, metrorail, which will open this wheelie avenue station in 2013. >> i think it's wonderful. i could actually walk to the station. >> reporter: will you use metro? >> oh, yeah definitely. >> reporter: this rail construction will be metro's silver line which will eventually go to and beyond dulles airport. none of the four stops at tysons corner will have parking. customers will have to walk, bike or take buses to the metro stops here, but right at the wheelie avenue station in reston fairfax county had already been operating a commuter parking lot. the 860 parking spaces in this lot will turn into 2,300 parking spaces, but there isn't going to be a parking structure here. the parking is going underground seven stories. fairfax county has leased this nine acres to a development company which will build the garage, apartments, condos, retail and office space all within walking distance of metro. christopher clementi of comstock partners estimates his company will spend a billion dollars on the project. >> there will be hundreds of tens of thousands of new restaurants and new jobs, ultimately capturing 1/3 of all the washington metro poll tan area's economic growth -- metropolitan area's economic growth. from tyson's out to the airport is what's projected for this corridor. >> reporter: 90 6-year-old robert simon who always want -- 96-year-old robert simon who always wanted rail in reston will finally get it. john henrehan, fox 5 news. this is ridiculous! this is crazy! look, nobody is in the metro. i can do what i want. >> a metro rider's youtube video going viral. the poster claims his name is yonathan from california and he's just excited to have the metrorail car all to him. >> amazing what goes viral these days. how much time are you spending on the clock? >> coming up next it's not just a saying overtime is hazardous for your health, why those extra hours could put your heart at serious risk. but first the crisis in libya has sent an investment to an all time high. we're not talking about oil. fox's neil cavuto has our business report. >> forget about oil. look at gold. it's surging as libya keeps raging, the shiny stuff rocketing to a record high as unrest over there is setting investors to the safety of gold right here. meantime those cracked planes not stopping southwest from doing more business with boeing. the airline saying that it still plans on ordering over 100 new jets from the aircraftmaker. shares of both southwest and boeing are down. wall street and a quiet day, the dow down about six points. a deal in the can for kimball. the diamond snack business is tripling in size and a new report showing america's service sector expanding for the 16th straight month, but at a slower rate than expected. that is a big deal, though, because the service sector employs nine out of 10 american workers. that's business. i'm neil cavuto. rth6 this fox 5 stock market report is brought to you by your lexus dealer. live life heroically. should gay couples be allowed to adopt children in virginia? right now it is illegal, but former governor tim kaine wants to change that. he does not want child welfare agencies to consider sexual orientation or religion when someone applies to adopt. today on fox 5 news at 5:00 we talked with virginia's 13th district delegate robert marshall and ellen kahn with the human rights campaign. >> they want private adoption agencies like catholic charities to be compelled to accept applications from individuals whose behavior constitutes a violation of the 6,000-year-old moral code. >> may not like the idea of children being raised by families other than a father and mother, but there's no real basis for than that other than you don't like it. children do fine in a family where they have one or two parents who love and munch you're and support them. >> right now -- and nurture and support them. >> right now the virginia commonwealth says it cannot discriminate on race or national it i. a -- nationality. roxy kurtz posted a plea on her facebook page asking if anyone knew a willing kidney donor with type o blood. her husband jeff had been on dialysis two years and needed a kidney badly. ricky cisco had only met roxy a couple times at work and read her post. he started thinking and then decided he would be willing to donate. >> i knew i was a type o and that was what got me to even think i could be somebody who could do it. >> i was so in shock and awe and hardly could breathe or anything, just so excited this was actually going to happen. >> they had the surgery last week in a michigan hospital. both men are out of the hospital and jeff says he feels great with a knew kidney. coming up tonight on the news edge at 11:00 we are days away from a possible government shutdown, but federal workers aren't the only ones who will be forced to stay home if congress doesn't pass a budget. several d.c. agencies will be affected. and a news edge exclusive, a lawsuit has been filed in the district after two men claim an fbi employee struck them with their car. 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are laboring longer than almost any other country in the world. bill cajoles studies health issues for the country's largest habe union. he said some industries such as healthcare -- labor union. he said some industries such as healthcare and transportation are recognizing safety havers force employees to work long days. now the -- hazards force employees to work long days. now the health hazards are being discovered, too. those workers who work 11 hours a day on average have a much higher risk of developing heart disease. >> we know now as evidence long hours of work is a health and safety hazard to workers. how do we implement programs and policies to reduce those hours of work in the workplace? one way of doing that is to increase the number of workers in the workforce so that the existing workers there aren't required to work so much overtime. >> reporter: he believes that's good also for our economy and the companies. he'd also like to see more laws that allow workers to refuse mandatory overtime. meanwhile some companies do go above and beyond to take care of their workforce. the container store has been named fourth on the list of best companies to work for in the last 12 years. manager ellen anderson said open communication is essential. >> workers need to let us know what's going on so we can help support them as well as the needs of the business at the same time. >> reporter: long days are sometimes required in retail, but higher than average pay generous benefits and flexible schedules keep the good vibe going and capital this company keep a lead on workplace stress. >> are there behavioral issues along with this as well? >> it's interesting and probably a bit intuitive. researchers also found working overtime is related to type a behave. so people who tend to be competitive and tense and -- behavior. , so people who tend to be competitive and aggressive and also they say people with less sleep are at risk of heart disease. >> so what if you work all the time but are convinced you're not type a? then you're in denial along with everything else, right? >> you got more problems. >> note to self melanie alnwick, thanks for that. japan's economy is now in even more danger, this time over worries about contaminated seafood. for the first time ever tokyo is now setting radiation standards for fish. it's taking action because the seawater near the fukushima nuclear plant is several million times over the legal limit. india has stopped importing any food from japan for the next three months. one fish vendor in tokyo says none of his fish are coming from northern japan. the fear could wind up damaging the seafood industry throughout the country. did you see this? the virgin group founder richard branson is embarking on his latest adventure far beneath the sea. the billionaire is launching an expedition on an 18-foot long aircraftlike craft. branson will use it to head to the deepest points in each of the world's five oceans. he spoke about his upcoming adventures on fox business news. >> we're actually going down, you know, further down than everest is high and i think it will be quite an adventure. >> branson and fellow explorer chris welsh will take turns over the next two years piloting the solo craft. >> that guy leads the life doesn't he? >> yes, he does. >> i guess if you have that kind of money you can get out of dodge when the weather is like it has been. >> do pretty much whatever you want. >> you know it's a big deal because they had him on saturday night live. >> i've interviewed him before no pr people there, really cool. >> very down to earth, just like our sue palka. >> so nice of you guys, didn't even slip him a mickey yet, but i will. last night at this time it was about 32 degrees warmer than it is now. it's so crazy, isn't it? did you have your windows open last night? >> i did. >> a lot of people said the wind coming through really shocked them. >> i closed them when i went to sleep. >> you listened. it was nice to have the warm weather, but that wind started up last night and it was pretty shocking. >> you heard that from shawn yancy who was caught off guard. >> a lot of people were telling me they had their windows open and they were in shock had the wind started. it was around 5:00 this morning when the worst of this stuff moved through. it's much more settled tonight, but a very dangerous line of storms that moved up from the south last night ahead of a power of front and the speed at which it moved through the region was kind of staggering. lots of severe weather reports, lots of trees down but luckily no major damage in this region and so far no reports of confirmed tornadoes touching down. could there have been something very weak in southern maryland? yes, but only a few trees were knocked over here and there according to chris strong from the national weather service. big weather news tonight as we head towards the 30s, if you have done early planting, take care that they don't freeze. this will be a couple spotty showers wednesday no, big deal. most of these will be to our north maybe along the mason dixon line. clouds will built a little in the afternoon, but we'll start on a bright note tomorrow. i think thursday looks really nice, already advised the sports department that's their day to do some golfing. there will be showers moving in friday. we may have a couple of dry hours, but by and large friday will be more wet than dry. plan accordingly. our big storm has now departed. we've got clearing skies, a little snow trying to linger in the mountains where 1 to 2 inches accumulated on the western facing slopes of the appalachians. most of us will see skies clearing overnight. we haven't been really able to ditch these big wind gusts. we had damaging winds around 60 miles an hour this morning and most of the day they've continued to gust close to 30 miles an hour and we're still getting a 29-mile an hour gust at this hour. in the next few hours they'll get better and generally be about 10 to 15-mile an hour overnight. without wind we'd be even colder than we are now, down to 46 degrees, hagerstown 39, manassas 43 degrees, but most places heading down to the 30s and we're already there on the other side of the mountain. in terms of lows overnight, 31 frederick, 33 chantilly, 38 in arlington, the district and baltimore, a really chilly start for you on wednesday morning. plan for that with the low 30s in the suburbs, not as much wind chill by morning, but it feels a lot colder than 46 degrees with the winds gusting tonight. wednesday starts out sunny, chilly morning and maybe a couple hit or miss showers in the afternoon as the cloud deck builds up. a little disturbance will pass to our north in pennsylvania. most of the showers will be up there. get up to about 61 degrees during the day wednesday. we started out at 8:00 in the morning, 43 lots of sunshine, cloudier by noon, 56 and a temperature of 61 north of the district. here's your futurecast so you can see what we're talking about in terms of those few showers tomorrow, pausing this at 3:00. we have may see those clouds building up and a few showers frederick up toward maybe northeastern maryland, maybe pop a little shower around winchester. most of those continue to move away. thursday is a bright generally very nice day, pausing this at 3:00 in the morning on friday. more showers develop overnight. we might have a break by the morning rush hour and a few dry hours in between. in the afternoon it looks like more scattered showers around as well and they will continue into the evening on friday. here's your five-day forecast and we have basically a five- day full of temperatures in the 60s with thursday being the warmest, close to 70. we drop back down to about 62 friday with the showers and maybe a few more showers late saturday and into the first part of sunday and sunday might be another fairly mild day at 66. all things considered kind of typical april. what was atypical was the crazy storm reports we had today, might have been a new 24 hour record for storm reports across the country. coming up next here on the 10:00 american idol finalists learning to deal with newfound fame, how they're connecting with their fans, plus one contestant addresses rumors that have been swirling about the haunted idol mansion. and an exclusive on the news edge, the girl once famous because she couldn't stop hiccuping now faces murder charges, her jailhouse interview and the story she says you haven't heard before at 11:00. >> today's five-day forecast is brought to you by your local dodge jeep and chrysler dealers. 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