Winds. Something that a lot of people will be watching as we head into the labor day weekend. Back to you. Erika, thank you. 4 31 is the time. A reminder, the redskins play tonight at 8 00 p. M. Well air that game here on nbc4. The final preseason game against the buccaneers was moved up because of weather concerns in florida. As a result of the game tonight, americas got talent will move to tomorrow night at 8 00. For other changes, check out the nbc washington app. I watched that last night. Stayed up way too late. Watched what . Americas got talent. Chuck bell is here. Thanks, angie. Amazing, a strong word today. Clear skies this morning. The u. S. Capitol in downtown washington, 75 degrees downtown. Mid to upper 60s in most of the outlying suburbs. Four things to know about the weather. Another summer sizzler. Weve had 22 every this month. Today will make it 23. Thats the most ever. Tomorrow begins september, a new month. It will feel like a new month. A new feel to it. The tropics
Im angie goff in for eun yang. We want to talk about the hometown high where you live. Chuck bell in the Weather Center with that. Good morning to both of you and everybody. Off to a quiet start. Very mild, 76 in washington. 69 in riverdale. 66 in centerville. 73 towards manassas. Planning out our day, temperatures in the 60s and 70s. Another hot day coming your way today. There will be more and more clouds as the afternoon wears along. Theres a slight chance for a few showers today. You cant find the umbrella, probably get away without it today. A better chance for isolated shower towards the shenandoah valley. Highs today, 87 inga gaithersbu. 96 in annapolis. How about the rest of the weekend . Well give you the jout look coming up later. 5 02 now. The organizers of the marine Co Announcement about the timing and the route of the race. Its scheduled for october 30th. Well alert you on the nbc washington app as soon as that announcement is made today. Yesterday, transportation reporte
Question of whether to legalize marijuana. There is one Early Voting Center in each ward and they will be open every day, except for sunday, until november 1st. You can visit our website, nbcwashington. Com, to find a complete list of locations. Now in maryland, early voting began on thursday and in virginia, qualified voters can get a head start by casting absentee ballots. Well, he has played with motown greats like mar slip gaye, stevie wonder, but then, a health scare back in august, we introduced to you a local drummer who needed a leg. Now, he is getting a new lease on life, thanks to some of you. Marcy grace caught one woody woodson and shares his story. Reporter he has played with some of the biggest names in music and is credited with creating the iconic feed for the Isley Brothers hit its your thing. One of the greatest drummers of all time and deep influence on my playing. But after losing his leg to die beat oh the drumming legend was up able to he were a living. Its rough.
Corps, but just as they were about to step off the bus someone said halt, stop what youre doing. Get back on the bus. They warned up to stay away from the media, but obviously that didnt work. Reporter a couple of relieved marine corps colonels after a four hour ordeal alerted by the pentagon Emergency Operation center. Dozens of police and Public Health workers surrounded the bus and questioned the driver and 21 passengers one after the other. At first it was it seemed like an overreaction. The more i thought about it im like this is important. Lets determine if anybody had any physical contact with the passenger in question. Reporter it turned out no one had. The woman had been on the bus only briefly, used the restroom and then got off and was sick in the pentagon parking lot. Rescue workers say she told them she had recently traveled to sierra leone at the heart of the ebola outbreak. I would say this im concerned about her health to see how shes going to be. Im less concerned abou
Not necessarily an indication of the presence of the ebola virus. Hazmat team and command center on site will stay here until the results are back. The patient was placed in isolation and according to county Health Officials, tests were being done to determine whether or a test to detect the ebola virus would be warranted. Those tests can take up to six hours. Really, thats what were sitting here waiting on. Right now we dont know what we have been exposed to. But certainly we took enough precautions and were encapsulat suits and so were comfortable. At the south lot of the pentagon, police cordoned off the portion where the woman became ill and threw up and hazmat crews came and cleaned the area. All measures in place, being taken out of an abundance of caution, given the womans possible travel to wes. Authorities also say investigate tea are working to locate anyone who may have had contact with th and we have some information now from the associated press, and they are quoting a mil