let s get a quick check of the weather with tucker barnes. good morning. it is warm, humid outside and even a better chance of showers and storms today as the real remnants of isaac start to move in from the west. you can see those live there on the radar out in west virginia and ohio. they will be pushing in later today riding along that frontal system. it is stalled across the region. lots of clouds. i know there are a lot of barbecues planned today. not going to be perfect for it. we ll have more details on the forecast coming up. we ll take a look at the seven- day forecast. in politics, the democrats get their turn this week. their national convention gets under way tuesday in charlotte, north carolina. melanie alnwick has more on what they had to say on the sunday tax shows. reporter: the message machine for the democratic national convention was out in force sunday. one big question, how to defend the president s economic record. on fox news sunday, chris walla
makes landfall sometime later today or early tomorrow. there are mandatory evacuations to people living in low-lying areas outside of the levee system. good morning. i m sarah simmons. i m wisdom martin. welcome to fox 5 morning news. time to see what is happening here in the weather as well as with the hurricane. the pressure continues to fall with isaac and we ll get you a further update here momentarily. still a strong tropical storm moving very slowly t will be a big rainmaker down there as well. we ve got a little rain moving in from the north and west. you can see the rain showers. these are very light, frederick out chards win chest are and front royal pushing up into western howard county getting some light showers. frederick out towards winchester and front royal pushing up into western howard county getting some light showers. it will be warm with highs in the upper 80s to about 90. a really nice looking afternoon. more details on the forecast and give you a
way. fox 5 weather team has your forecast. we begin with new details about the 911 outage during the derecho storm in june. verizon is detailing its failures in a new in depth report. thanks for joining us tonight. i m shawn yancey. i m brian bolter. several lawmakers are asking for the fcc to step in to improve service. verizon conducted an internal. it came up with this 10-page report acknowledging failures, failures with backup batteries and generators that disrupted 911 calls that weekend after the storm june 29th. now verizon says it s conducting an audit of its power backup system, but three northern virginia congressmen say that is not enough. the powerful winds swept derecho did tremendous damage. verizon 911 service centers in fairfax county, prince william county and manassas got no 911 emergency calls for several hours on june 30th. manassas park did not receive any much of the weekend. the largest problem was power failures of generators in two of our cent
comes face to face with one and a gun. she s the latest victim of a disturbing trend in d.c. but first storms threatening our friday night. thanks for joining us tonight. i m brian bolter. i m maureen umeh. both of the storms fell apart but we re still watching a few spots on the radar tonight. let s start with gary mcgrady in the weather center. earlier tonight we had some warnings basically up to the north and west. tonight we re watching. some things are trying to move on. in sentinel radar, we ll show you where we see the activity. most of this is up into pennsylvania. it stayed just basically wes of hagerstown. there are west of hagerstown. there is more back to the west. notice the trend has been up to the northeast now the last several hours with these storms. up north and west of hagerstown just south and southwest of chambersburg, a little bit of lightning in this. as we bring the view further out, there are some storms trying to gain speed and gain a little
dramatic day in court. we re in new york talking to fans as the caps prepare for game 7, a showdown with the rangers. we ll begin with the brutal attack outside of fairfax county school and church. good evening. i m brian bolter. i m shawn yancy. two men beat, robbed and sexually assaulted a 50-year- old woman at a school on gallows road next to a church in merrifield. fox 5 s maureen umeh is here now with the details. the holly brook montessori school is run by the church next-door. the two suspects viciously attacked the woman behind the school hitting her with a brick or rock. tonight police are warning neighbors to be on alert. fingerprint dust on the doors of the holly brook montessori school, fairfax county police combing the scene for clues that could lead to two attackers who viciously assaulted a 50-year-old woman just after 1 a.m. friday morning beating her, sexually assaulting her, then robbing her. she had to go to the hospital because of these injuries.