Services had sent six ambulances, a mass casualty truck and supporting officers and equipment to help. Reporter what you see down there . What was the storm like . It was just pouring down rain real hard. It just came up real quick. And then it was a lot of hail and a lot of damage. Wind blowing, trees blowing. Its been a lot of stuff. The area was under a Tornado Warning this morning after a National WeatherService Radar indicated a water spout over the chesapeake bay. Howard, were not going to have problems like that here but we certainly have seen some rain this morning. We v. I want to take you to southeastern virginia at 8 00. It seemed to be happening about 8 00, 8 15. This is the storm. This is norfolk, the Virginia Beach area, richmond. We had some heavy storms down here. Not so much by us. You can see all the lightning popping with it. This came across, certainly had some wind and rotation with it. Whether or not its a tornado, the Weather Service will go and do a survey. Look at the trees and see how things were damaged and broken. You still have two fatalities so its more after technical thing at this point. For us, well, were looking at doppler. We have a few showers now still going on, especially south of 66 and 50 in toward Charles County. You see this activity with moderate showers that are coming down through la plata headed for aquasco and southern calvert counties. Were also looking at heavier showers down south of culpeper. Were not seeing any lightning with this stuff toward culpeper and orange. Even to the west, just south of the strasburg area toward woodstock, this is all moving east, southeast. For the most part were just dealing with mostly cloudy skies and a much more comfortable day. Temps are in the 70s now. Well get into the lower 80s but we were in the 90s, 94 yesterday. Soso far for the rest of the afternoon im trying to say is it looks like improving conditions headed our way. Ill come back in a few minutes and well talk about the weekend and let you know how things are going to be and which day will be best to be outside. Thank you, howard. A search is under way for yet another commercial airplane that just vanished from the sky today. Algeri flight disappeared from radar after taking off from africa. Reporter flight ah5017 flying to algerias capital when it disappeared from radar early thursday morning. Officials say it may have gone down in the saharan desert near the northeastern town. The plane asked to change its route because of heavy rains. 116 people were aboard the flight, including 50 french citizens. Two french fighter jets based nearby were dispatched to locate the plane. [indiscernible] private Spanish Airlines swissair. The plane was missing for hours before the news was made public. An official in marli says the planes flight path went through an area that was hit by a powerful sandstorm overnight. There was discussion of poor weather in the area but clearly lots of aircraft managed to fly successfully through poor weather. Reporter the defense minister said its not ruling out terrorism. Lucy mcdonald for cbs news, london. There has been unrest in parts of marli in recent years. It seems unlikely fighters have weapons that can shoot down a plane. More remains of the victims of Malaysia Flight 17 are arriving today in the netherlands. All 298 people, most of them dutch citizens, were killed when the plane was downed over Eastern Ukraine one week ago. U. S. Officials believe russian separatists hit the plane with a surfacetoair missile. International investigators continue to find human remains as they comb through the massive crash area. The federal Aviation Administration has lifted its ban on american flights into israels main airport. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry is back in egypt after failing to secure a ceasefire. Meanwhile the death toll in the 17day conflict keeps rising. Don champion has the very latest. Reporter the damage and death toll mounting in the middle east. Overnight israeli tanks and planes pummeled the gaza strip, these homes destroyed in air strikes. More than 700 palestinians, mostly civilians have been killed in the fighting. We have to try and doing our best to minimize civilian casualties. Reporter this morning israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu claimed hamas militants are using human shields firing rockets from schools and other civilian areas. We cannot give our attackers immunity or impunity. We seek as best as we can to target them. Reporter as fighting continues, american airliners can once again fly into tel avivs bengurion airport after the faa lifted a ban on u. S. Planes flying there. The agency said the Israeli Government is taking enough steps to ensure the safety of flights. The ban was put in place tuesday after a hamas rocket strike in a neighborhood nearby. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry flew back to cairo wednesday without brokering a ceasefire in the 17day conflict. Kerry and the u. N. Secretary general worked both sides of the fighting. I can tell you that we have in the last 24 hours made some progress in moving towards that goal. Reporter a goal People Living in the war zone hope is met soon. Don champion for cbs news. Israel has also lost many. 32 Israeli Soldiers have been killed. Intelligence sources say theyve received information on a concrete terrorist threat in norway. The head of the Norwegian Security Service says the threat comes from people with links to islamic fighters in syria. Sources say nearly 50 people have traveled to syria from norway as foreign fighters. About half of them have returned. Intelligence Officials Say theyre going public with the information in hopes of averting a terrorist attack. Here in this country arizonas governor has ordered a full review of the states execution process after it took almost two hours for a condemned inmate to die. Attorneys for Joseph Rudolph wood say he was gasping and snorting for more than an hour after the lethal injection process started. He was sentenced for killing his girlfriend and her father in 1989. He closed his eyes and went to sleep. Then he started gasping and he did. He gasped for more than an hour and a half. Everybody is more worried about did he suffer. Who really suffered with my dad and my sister when they were killed . This is the third time this year that a condemned inmate has taken far longer than usual to succumb to a lethal injection. In new york police have reportedly identified the trespassers who replaced american flags on the bridge with white ones, but thats only part of the pizzle. The New York Post reports investigators only know the culprits by their nicknames and theyre working to determine their proper names so they can bring them in for questioning. The bridge has long been considered a top terror target and the incident is being considered a major security breach. The post says the nypd has assigned nearly three dozen of its top detectives to crack the case. Changing gears now, it is considered the holy grail of comic books. Whats being called a pristine copy of the first superman comic is going on the auction block. Action comics number one introduced the world to the man of steel. It first hit store shelves in 1938 for just 10 cents. Analysts predict it could go for about 3 million. Some of the proceeds will go to the christopher and dana reeves foundation. A 1963 rollsroyce phantom is going up for auction. The limo includes luxury features that we may take for granted today, like a car phone. That was back in 1963. The auction house says the rolls was repainted because chickens belonging to elvis mother peculiared away at the shiny finish. The car is expected to fetch anywhere from 200,000 to 300,000. Coming up on wusa9, it wasnt, quote, the gunpacking getaway a colorado criminal was hoping for we have details ahead. And youve heard of a breakfast burrito. When we come back from the break, a breakfast bandito. Its quite a bit different. Were back a wild crime spree ended with the arrest of an armed man on interstate 70 in colorado. When the man couldnt get away in a plow truck, the suspect forced his way into a home, stole an suv and backed out the garage door. Then the car got stuck in a ditch. Armed with an assault rifle, the suspect tried to get drivers on i70 to pull over. A Jefferson County motorcycle cop about 15 miles west of denver arrived on the scene and chased down that gunman. A citizen who was also stopped on the highway helped the officer take down the suspect. Also in colorado, cue call it the case of the breakfast bandito. A couple in Colorado Springs awoke to find an intruder whod cooked up breakfast in their kitchen. It was around 3 00 a. M. When john and Anna Appleton heard something rummaging around in their apartment. In the living room they found the intruder eating tortillas and beans that she just cooked up. Just curled up with a bowl of beans right here. I was like, really . No, this was here when i went to bed. Reporter air laughing about it now but is it one of those things take all you can do is half about it . Yes, because it was so stupid. Appleton said nothing was missing except the beans and tortillas. No word if there was anything extra made for them. Lets send it on over to howard so we can get a check of the forecast. Lots of clouds out here but thankfully at least in washington we seem to be mainly done with the showers. I want to show you doppler 9000 before we go to break. We see showers passing out of Charles County and toward calvert and st. Marys, south of culpeper and the Shenandoah Valley south of strasburg. Looks like it will stay mainly south of interstate 66. As far as the weekend is concerned, well, looks like we have a little trouble. Ill tell you which day i think is going to be the better one for your outdoor plans its a scam thats been around for some time but the Internet Complaint Center says it still receives reports for this kind of consumer fraud. Wusa9 call for action director shirley rook kerr is here to rooker is here to tell us about a scam known to some as the grandparent scam. Computers are generating calls. Some of the computer calls are going to reach people who have relatives traveling abroad. So you get a call and the person says, your nephew john or your grandson john is in the hospital. Im calling for him. You need to wire money so he can pay the hospital bill. Or it may say, well, hes been robbed. It may be john pretending to be call. Very no money, i cant get money. Please send me money. Dont tell my parents because i dont want to scare them. They give thousands of dollars in some cases. Whats the best way to avoid this . The thing is ask questions. If its really your nephew or grandson or relative calling, ask themes what ate nickname of some Family Member whats the nickname of some Family Member or ask pertinent information that no one else would know. Find out how the person is, where you can reach them. Suppose it could be true, remotely possible that the person might be in the hospital, dont wire money. Once you wire money, its gone. Very good information, shirley as always. And we have more on our wusa9 call for action page. If you want to volunteer or laint, go to our itwebse. Its wusa9. Com. Click on the call for action link. The last thing you want on your commute is gas prices driving you crazy. So were checking gas prices for you. With the help of aaas fuel finder in woodbridge, the most expensive price we found for regular unleaded, 3. 80 a gallon at the shell on Jefferson Davis highway. If you go to the fast fuels on old bridge road, that gallon costs you just 3. 40. In just two days, count them, two, im be able to start riding metros silver line. If you plan on driving to any of the new stations, youre going to need to plan ahead. We have for you now a list of which stations have and dont have parking. The mclean and wiehlereston stops do. All day parking costs 550 and at wiehlereston it will cost you 4. 85. Tysons corner, greensboro and spring hill all have no parking. For a complete guide to the new silver line, go to wusa9. Com and look under the driving you crazy tab. Well, let me ask you this. Are you stressed out at work . I know im never stressed out. A new study finds you can relieve some of that stress with your smartphone. Researchers at Kansas Kansas State University studied employees who took a break from work by using their smartphone. The respite is called a smartphone microbreak. Workers who took the break were happier at the end of the day. They credit the smartphone with keeping workers refreshed and less stressed because they can briefly talk with Family Members or play a short game during the day. Short game being the operative phrase. Short game, exactly, yes. Why dont you take weather while i play a game because i definitely dont want to be stressed. Is the weather going to stress me out . Not too bad. We were talking about the top of the broadcast about the two deaths at the campground on the eastern shore. If you go camping and dont have a Weather Radio or wusa9 weather app or some form of Weather Information to you, youre really taking your lives in your hands because these storms come on quickly. Also at catch grounds you have catch grounds you have to know where the safe places are. Its important to be knowledgeable about whats coming your way. Such a sad situation today, howard. Whether its a tornado or Straight Line winds, again, thats a technical classification by the Weather Service, but the damage is done. Two people are dead, scores are injured. Well have a lot more for you throughout the day and online. Scott broom is on his way down. Coming up at 5 00 well have a report from southeastern virginia. Lets talk about our weather for the afternoon. We do have clouds around. That means its a much cooler day today with temperatures only the low 80s. 82, maybe 84 which is a good 10 degrees or more cooler than yesterday when we hit 94. Still going to be a couple of showers around for the afternoon, but most of that is going to be south of i64, south of 50. That doesnt mean we cant get a stray shower up here or even in the motor tre but the activity metro but the activity, the big activity is to our south. Things are moving east, southeast. Southern maryland the la plata area had a shower toward you. Thats coming down 235 and weakening as it gets toward the patuxent river. We are showing you mechanicsville. Some light showers here as they try to get over toward williams wharf. We go west now. Heavier showers, much heavier showers south of culpeper. This stuff is moving to the east, southeast. Places like spotsylvania will have to watch this. No lightning with this but this is again moving toward spotsy and south of fredericksburg. Skyline drive from front royal back toward east of woodstock, watching this activity as it moves east, southeast. Its going to stay south for the most part of interstate 66. The key, though, for us for tonight and friday, are the dew points. The drier air shown by the dew points in the low to mid50s here. Weve got northerly winds. The really sticky stuff norfolks dew point is 72. That is uncomfortable. We were 7 on this morning on the dew point. We dropped to 62. It is drying out. Were also waiting for a little more sunshine. The visible satellite shows some thinning of clouds as we get to the north but still plenty of clouds. Well be partly to mostly cloudy with maybe a little more sun as the afternoon wears o. Were also a lot cooler. Temperatures are 20 degrees cooler from 24 hours ago. Baltimore 15 degrees cooler. Most temps now in the 70s. In fact, its only 70 in orange with the showers around. Mid70s from easton and here in d. C. Were at our michael son weather camera, cloudy skies out there but its dry. 77. In fact, reporting a couple of breaks at Reagan National the top of the hour. Winds generally out of the north and the dew points continue to drop, a sign of the more comfortable air mass moving in. Behind the cold front which is off to our south now, a little disturbance behind the front kicking up the showers back into central west virginia. Thats what well watch for the amp. The threat for a few showers mainly to our south. Then some clearing tonight. At the beach the forecast the next few days not bad today or excuse me tomorrow or saturday with sunny skies, upper 70s and low s on. Could see a low 80s. Could see a few storms sunday with the high of 85. Checking out the threeday forecast, today the showers. Most are gone but will be south of us for the afternoon. A little sun late. 50s and 60s tonight. Great day friday. Warm and dry, 86. Saturday hot, humid, 92. That storm returns in the afternoon but sunday a better chance of storms. Saturday the better day of the weekend. 94 sunday with scattered storms. Then we cool off again on tuesday highs in the low 80s. Stick around. Well be right back after this. This is mary, a woman who loves to share her passions. Grandma mary has atrial fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. That puts her at a greater risk of stroke. Rome . Sure before xarelto® mary took warfarin which required monthly trips to get her blood tested. 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Reporter fitness trackers not only count our steps calories burned, many provide sleep steps. Can you trust that data . We asked an expert at the Stanford Center for sleep science. It puts greater emphasis on sleep. Most adults in the u. S. Are actually somewhat sleep deprived. Reporter but are they accurate senate devices offer rel accurate . The devices offer little data as compared to the Gold Standard of measuring sleep. Polysonography. Its a collection of different physiologic measures that we use to define and characterize sleep. We start with eeg which are little electrical wires that measure your brain waves. It also includes measures like a snore mike, belts around your chest and abdomen that will also record your breathing. Reporter fitness trackers on the other hand use excel rom teres. Theyre measure an indirect approximation of sleep through movement. In order to make these estimations of deep or light sleep, they are probably using an al go rich al go rich that takes into account the amount of movement a person is having during the night. Reporter it motivated us to get our steps in but they could help us get our zs in too. Cnn. Com for cbs news. That is it for wusa9 news. Well be back at 9 00. Have a great day. Well have all the information you need later nikki i suppose im as ready as ill ever be to have my entire life put under attack. Paul well, give that ian is the one doing the attacking, i dont think michael well, the man has zero credibility. Dylan less than zero. And its not gonna change the opinion of anyone who cares about you. Nick and you have a lot of people who care about you. Nikki oh, my god. Nicholas, you came oh nick i know you told me theres no reason for me and vick to come, but honestly theres nowhere id rather be. You need all the support you can get. Nikki thank you so much. Thank you so much for coming. And all of you. Thank you for being here and supporting me. Believe me, i am acutely aware that all of your lives have been turned upside down because of me. Avery hi. Traffic was terrible. I thought i was gonna be late. Dylan oh, no, the fun hasnt started yet