his out of control drinking. court observers say it is clear the jury is taking a close look at the accused killer s state of mind. jurors must decide if huguely intended to harm love when he kicked in her bedroom door, assaulted her and left her bleeding or whether her death was an accident. state of mind is extremely important. so the words that someone writes, the words the defendant writes is very important in the jury s overall consideration. reporter: jurors several choices before them in deciding what role huguely played it love s death. even in closing arguments, prosecutor dave chapman seemed to back away from calling the killing premeditated first degree murder but jurors can consider a different first-degree murder, felony murder, that s killing in commission of a robbery and huguely took love s laptop. second degree murderer is another option. it is a killing with malicious intent. . malice is the attempt to maim, disable, disfigure or kill there is very ar
currently. 83% relative humidity. it doesn t feel like it did last week because the temperatures were so high. 45 in college park right now. we ve got other locations like palmer park coming in at 45 too. ft. belvoir at 47. good morning to you folks in montgomery county. gaithersburg at 43 degrees. one of our chillier spots. here s a look at the blobs on the radar. those are light showers. they are spinning around. that s because the area of low pressure right now is around charlottesville. so you can see the rotation taking place. that low will be spinning around our area all day today. you ll need the umbrella. will get up to a high of 56 degrees. showers continue overnight. temperatures dropping off to 50 degrees by 11:00 p.m. let s hit the road now and see what s going on. if there s any traffic backups. danella? still looking really good in our area. taking the drive along 395, no problems there. continuing down 95, we can see in all directions, both directions on 95,
warning up. baltimore county, flash flood warning. we have seen a lot of rain in isolated locations. i think we very likely will see flash flood warnings posted coming our way for the late afternoon, evening hours and early part of the night. a lot of the warnings are going to be over southern maryland. it s where you are seeing the heaviest of the rain right now. very heavy rain coming into the counties of charles county now. for st. marys, once again looking at the flash flood warning extended past 1:00. to the south, look at beaver dam and richmond. further south, more rain. it s the reason this is going to last for awhile. pockets of moderate and heavy rain. the entire area under a flash flood watch here through the overnight. a lot of rain is going to wind down and move east by 8:00 and 9:00. overnight, more fog forms. tomorrow, more rain but we ll talk about the probability of rain and how much more we could get out of it for the weekend. thanks. see you in a bit. p
martinsburg, 58. 55 in frederick. 88 for the high temperature today, sunshine with low humidity, gentle breeze out of the north. saturday will be the better day on the weekend. possibly strong storms on sunday. nice to hear that things will be nice this weekend. right now on the traffic side, things are beautiful. 66, we want to start there. there s a long-term project westbound after glebe road. we are watching light volume. headlights in this camera are eastbound out of falls church to get to the roosevelt bridge. this is rockville s mixing bowl. looks like a starfish. looks good on 355. 270 is off to a quiet start. mass-transit is running on time systemwide. back to you. thank you. new this morning a driver under arrest after a crash near a construction zone. this happened at 1:30 this morning at central avenue and and gaylord drive. authorities have not announced if anyone was injured or whether the driver faces any charges. the fbi is joining the investigation su
fishing and bowling. prosecutors objected. it brings back the fears of 18 years ago as he drove the streets randomly shooting people including a young woman who did not want to be identified. i parked my car and was walking into my house and i was shot by drive-by shooter. he shot out her eye. sector for the safety of the community. i do not what happened to me to happen to anyone else. he was 29 at the time of his arrest. he is 47 now and his lawyers insist he is a different person. it came out in the testimony today that at st. elizabeths hospital that he is no longer in the maximum-security but is allowed to walk around the campus. according to his psychiatrist he has no problem with unauthorized leave. the chief judge who has retired and will decide after testimony tomorrow whether or not swan will be allowed to have a 12- hour pass from the hospital. reporting live from d.c. superior court, sam ford come abc 7 news. temperatures moved back down today, but thing