I guess the rain probably not helping things but generally the rain is winding down. Most of your morning commute, the roadways are still wet from the rain overnight. At least it is not actively raining. Lets get to the radar and make sure what i said is true. Im pretty sure it is. A few leftover showers off to the east out towards annapolis pushing out towards the bay. We are winding things down across the immediate washington area. We are not expecting a whole lot of additional showers. There could be a sprinkle or a few light showers here over the next few hours. But then the trend will to be start to quiet things down and eventually clear things out. I think the clouds will hang tough for most of the Morning Hours and by afternoon, well be part hi sunny. Temperatures are nice and might partly sunny. Dulles, 60 degrees. High temperatures later this afternoon, back in the mid70s for much of the area so that will be nice. Upper 60s if you are north and west and once again, we should s
Position. This is a status quo candidacy. His is a message of Going Forward with the same policies the last four years and thats why his campaign is slipping and thats why ours is gaining so much steam. Reporter you know the president also made a bit of news last night for our region during the debate on the subject of defense cuts, the president said flatly that the sequestration cuts that could result in a loss of thousands of Defense Industry jobs in our area, the president s words would not happen. However, ryan during an interview today with an Obama Campaign spokesperson, they would not be able to tell fox 5 how the president can guarantee that these congressionally mandated cuts are going to be avoided in the president s words. All right. Tom fitzgerald tonight and now to the tight senate race in virginia between former governors george allen and tim kaine. Today allen appeared on fox 5 morning news and says hes confident hell pull out a win in two weeks. People are responding t
I or will i ever endorse any sort of illegal or unethical behavior. At no point did i take this person seriously. He struck me as eing unstable and joking. And for only that reason did i humor him in hindsight. I should have immediately walked away making it clear that there is no place in the electoral process for the suggestion of a legal illegal behavior, joking or not. As can you imagine, we had a few keys for patrick and his father and spent the day looking for them. We started for headquarters for arlington democrats around the corner from where the video was shot in hopes to fine someone who can put us in touch with patrick moran. No one knew how to reach him and a spokesperson didnt return phone or email messages. From there, we went to his shirlington apartment and where none answered the door. The next stop is the Campaign Headquarters on North Washington street in alexandrea, where the only thing we found was a locked door. The congressmans pyrotechnic was not returning call
Our local forecast here and beyond. See you in a few. Utility companies preparing for sandy. Baltimore gas and electric is planning for hundreds of thousands of potential outages. The company is putting workers on standby and plans to make excuse me, is already making plans to bring in at least 500 workers from other states. Utility companies learned from past storms. And keep it here with fox 5 for the next 90 minutes as we track Hurricane Sandy. Can you also follow the storms path on myfoxhurricane. Com. The website features enhanced satellite images, interactive mottos, a live chat and a lot more. And another big story, a legendary swim coach under arrest accused of sexually abusing one of the students decades ago he was the cofounder of the swim clog club that grow into one of the largest in maryland, d. C. , and virginia. This summer, a new 43yearold woman came forward and said he sexually abused her when she was 13 and later grew into a sexual relationship. Fox 5s beth parker is
Lets go become to sandy real quick. Still a hurricane. Category one hurricane. Maximum winds 80 Miles Per Hour moving off to the northwest at 13. So remains intact. You can see the satellite signature not as impressive as it was 24 hours ago when it was emerging off the coast of cuba but this is still a very strong storm and as it pushes to the north and west, it is forecast to interact with what we call a little short wave, some much colder air and as it does so, that will reenergize as it gets up into the midatlantic. That is why were concerned. Time frame for us as the storm gets closer will be the second half of sunday, monday and tuesday. Well be just fine today. Well have no issues tomorrow. This will be the second half of sunday, monday and tuesday when things will start to fall apart. That will be gusty wind around here, likely locally very heavy rain as well. Lets do some local forecasting as well. Were doing fine this morning. 63 at reagan national. Our highs today will be ab