day. we are on storm watch tonight. it will be a real cold winter. how long will be cold and wet weather stick around? a balloon that was believed to have carried away a double boiler. i thought i would get in trouble. find out where he really was and what his parents are saying. can you hear me now? more metro riders are able to talk on their cell phones. bundle up, the cold and rainy conditions in the area right now will stick around. chief meteorologist doug hill is tracking the latest conditions. at the moment, the steadiest rain is moving out. let s check out live super doppler 7, patches of rain mainly to the north and west. locally, we have drizzle. most of the rain is moving well to the north and east. pennsylvania, it is snowing. winter storm watch, winter weather in advisory, a gale warning on the coast. another storm system will bring steady rain tomorrow. how long will that last? we will let you know. for now, check out these numbers right now. 0.55
empty. it is feared that the boy may have fallen outside of the balloon. the debt is said to be an amateur storm chasers. his kids would accompany him on trips. he has no fear factor whatsoever so for him to climb into an air balloon is not out of his character. and intense, frantic ground search is underway as we speak. there was not a basket found at the crash scene. authorities are searching the boy s house, neighborhood, and the flight path to determine if he fell out or if he got into the balloon in the first place. more details on our top story. the balloon traveled 50 miles before it floated to earth. the balloon had some kind of electric power unit run by batteries. the family takes their three sons with them whenever they chase storms. we will continue to follow this story. steady rain and unseasonably cool temperatures have the stock around all day long and they are not going anywhere just yet. doug hill has details now. i think the most we can hope for wi
how you can take one home. dogs and cats downtown. we ll have more on nbc 4. good morning and welcome to the 9:00 edition of news 4 today. it s saturday, october 9 october 10th, rather. we re going to look at the forecast with chuck bell. good morning, chuck. good morning. our weekend getting ready to get underway. plenty of clouds this morning and light rain as well. very light rain. sprinkles moving in. a few sprinkles moving int fairfax county and toward charlottesville. not much in the way of rain expected. less than 1/10 of an inch. 73 in downtown now. 69 degrees in fairfax county. 67 in germantown. dew points, upper 60s to 70 in town. signs of drier air moving in. most rainshowers will be gone by noontime. generally, the skies become sunnier and sunnier. sounds nice, thank you. we are continuing to follow a story in bethesda. police are searching for a gunman who shot an economist inside his own garage. we talked neighbors on edge. reporter: residents of ke
6:00. anher hour of news and sports starts now. an economist shot in his garage in his home. why police are telling neighbors stay inside. plus [ inaudible ] for the first time, we are hearing the shocking audio tapes at the center of the d.c. cab scandal. who could say no to this face? dogs looking for loving homes in our area. how you could take one home. it s saturday, october 10, 2009. the news is straight ahead. first, i want to look at the forecast. chuck, yesterday, was like summer. what are we going to get this weekend? typical for october. 85 yesterday, far more typical of august than october. i didn t hear too many people complaining about it. we are waiting on the sunrise at the nation s capital. no rain downtown now, but a few sprinkled in portions of southern maryland. our downtown temperature, 72 degrees. 70 in fairfax and prince william keocounty. 66 in martinsburg. dew point temperatures, mid to upper 60s out there. it feels like summertime, still. we
will you be part of the solution? chevron. human energy. i will accept this award as a call to action. the president receives a world price for peace, to the shock of many. i think all of us were surprised. what though board really means. metro construction over the weekend with three stations affected. important information that you need to see. and michael s music after his death, how to get a new single that is about to be released in hours. captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org we begin tonight with the international accolades for president obama and the criticism that has come shortly after. the president received the nobel peace prize today, but many have questioned whether he deserves it and the motivations behind the move. cynne simpson has the reaction here and abroad. no one was more surprised than the president himself. he said today he does not think he deserves the 2009 nobel peace prize, but he is taking the recognition as a