political headlines. there are a few of them amidst a lot of other news. mark murray s nbc news deputy political director. mark, let s start, it s been a quiet week. mitt romney, though, out on the campaign trail. we talked about this. a little bit of an up-and-down summer for mitt romney. there was good debate performances. michele bachmann, tim pawlenty fighting, but there s been some bad, too. let s look back on the summer that was for mitt romney. so, in a large part of the summer we had of kind the sense that mitt romney was the nominee in waiting. he has the laser light focus on the economy. his debate performances have been very strong so far. and, look, he s raised more money than any other republican out in the field, but there are lingering weaknesses and potential vulnerabilityvulnerab. and the news that he s doubling the size of his la jolla home. and a lot of republicans are saying, who cares, he s got a big family, who cares. but those kind of things matter
60s here in washington. 66 in baltimore. 73 in ocean city. and look at hagerstown, 60 for you this morning. winchester as well. so we have a cool start in the north and west. a few clouds in the forecast this morning. our frontal system that came through yesterday with the cool air is hanging up across the carolinas and spotting cool air across delmarva. the clouds will push out to sea during the mid to late morning and we should be left with mostly sunny skies this afternoon and just about perfect conditions around here. high temperatures expected to top out in the low 80s with a lot of sunshine and low humidity. perfect way to end the month of june. that s a quick look at the forecast. i ll have more details on the holiday weekend coming up in a few minutes. let s get to julie wright with the latest on traffic. the big story was the tractor-trailer along 395 northbound at edsel road and sky fox was showing us delays out of woodbridge toward lorton and slow toward edsel ro