tell you about. a tornado watch is in effect. and we will go over to meteorologist amelia seigel in the affiliate. how serious is this? well, betty, it is a isolated or weak tornado until 5:00 this morning according to the national weather service, but we will see it lifted a little bit earlier, and retracting some rain and it is intensifying as it is moving to area, and the areas in yellow including d.c. and montgomery county and prince george s until 5:00 tonight, and we are looking at this to impact southern maryland and as well as down to fredericksburg and virginia and to the east of the i-95 corridor. the rain, as it is encountering the warm air the temperatures are 70 degrees in some areas, and causing this rain to blow up. we are starting to see the thunderstorms develop. we are really concerned about some damaging winds across the area, and those would be scattered and maybe like i said, an isolated tornado to develop this afternoon. i think that the threat of
seeing the isolated tornado will be until 2:00, but you can see that the line of rain, just starting to enter into washington, and so it is very concentrated and very intense and maybe going to the last an hour as it makes its way through, but we can t rule out the isolated what i would say weak tornado this afternoon, betty. all right. wrc s amelia seigel thank you for that. developing right now, president obama making yet another pitch to raise minimum wage. i want to give you this new video in moments ago. he is meeting right now at the white house with the democratic governors across the country, and he told them that raising the minimum wage is not just good policy, but good politics. and the president says he is going to be seeking republicans who are willing to work with the kem democrats on this issue. we will be right back. it s time for advil cold and sinus. [ male announcer ] truth is that won t relieve all your symptoms. new alka seltzer plus-d relieves more symptoms than