bachmann s top staffer. rollins stepping back into an advisory role kroointing health concerns. and, deputy manager leaving the campaign entirely. unclear who s taking either man s place. joining us right now is james carville. it s not outside the realm of possibility that he does have health issues. and also, these differences in campaigns happen. it would be early to call this significant. it may be, but there s probably a lot more to find out about it before i deem it significant. if it is health, that s one thing. if it s not, could this also just be the growing pains of a campaign? campaigns start off one way and often evolve into something else? yeah. this often does happen in campaigns. anderson, as james knows, campaigns are probably the most grueling thing you can do to yourself. it s a labor of love but intensity. it s ridiculous hours. low pay, grinding, difficult work and it ends, hopefully, in joy if you win. i m 50 and i m do too old to do a campaign. it
decision. we ll begin tonight with the wet weather. good evening. happy labor day, brian bolter. and i m shawn yancy. we are under a a flash flood watch right now. the heaviest rains are expected to hit overnight. fox 5 s sue palka a is tracking the wet weather alert tonight sue palka is tracking the wet weather tonight. now that it s here, you ll be saying let s get it out of here. we ve got heavy downpours tonight and i think they ll increase. we re looking at a pretty wet tuesday and a pretty wet week. we ve got a huge tropical moisture plume down to the gulf coast up to the northeast and we can see very heavy downpours around that front. that front won t move much over the next couple days and where it sets up shop is where we ll have the heaviest moisture. we ve got some real heavy downpours pushing east of 270 heading into columbia. you ll pick up a good 1/4-inch to 1/2-inch out of some of those and down towards manassas and culpeper we have a really big batch.
barbecue right now. as the day progress, a better chance of rain. out towards front royal, we have shower activity south and east of waldorf. there is more out to the west. the bottom line is we ll get more rain in the forecast during the day today and some thunderstorms as well. let s do some temperatures, 77. we are off to a warm and muggy start. humidity, 74%. here is your forecast for today and again, showers, thunderstorms, rain at times and high temperature in the low 80s and i think by this afternoon, we ll have a lot of cloud around. on again, off again shower activity. more detail in just a minute. thank you. police step up patrols in one northeast neighborhood. officers fanned out near 10th and f street following an incident last night where two teens on bicycles chased a motorist firing a handgun at the vehicle. police believe the victim was targeted after a failed robbery attempt. a manassas park police officer is recovering this morning after he was run off
push on and we will show you that into the the afternoon hours. this goes into effect at noon it will be a combination of a cold front and remnants of tropical depression lee. we could look at potential for 1 to 3 inches of rain by tuesday evening. potential for more flooding, flash flood watch for washington starting at noon. let s take a look at our maps and current temperature regan national, in the 70s, 75 degrees, humidity 76%, winds from the south, cooler than yesterday 82 your daytime high not going to rain all day but if you are out and about bring an umbrella and be ready for rain a little later this afternoon. lauren. hey tucker we do have an accident to talk about 95 virginia travelling southbound this will impact you after dale city, a live look from traffic land as you head toward the weigh station the right lane is blocked everybody getting by, we have the lighter volume because of the holiday, good news, if you are headed northbound 95, 395, hov lanes wor
techbth anniversary of the deadly 9/11 attacks. it involves airplanes much smaller used to attack the twin towers and the pentagon. this is one of 4,000 airports across the country that officials are trying alert. they say al-qaeda may have its eyes turned on small planes like the ones that fly out of this airport. officials are telling pilots that al-qaeda is planning to use a general aviation to harm americans. the new alert says terrorists have considered renting private planes and loading them up with explosives. they won t be able to put a huge device on them but the other side, if you put some biological or chemical agent in one of them, clearly that could cause major damage, depending on your target. authorities say there has been no specific or credible terrorist attack but they are stepping up security as the precaution and a that bulletin they just put out about small airplanes. the possibility of using small planes isn t new. in 2002 they uncovered an al-qaed