a family found dead in this maryland home. with a investigators say they think happened. mr. claim the message to iran was the nation's defiant leader says about the secret nuclear facility. what happened that landed the last night host in the hospital. good morning, everyone. welcome. it is sat dashgs september 26th, 2009. i'm eun yang. the news is straight ahead. first a look at the forecast. meteorologist chuck bell is in storm center 4 with the latest. good morning. >> good morning, eun. happy weekend. it was beauty of a day outside yesterday. but now the clouds a on their way back just in time for your weekend activities. here is a check of live doppler. no rain around the metro area now. you can see down in the lower left-hand corner of your screen, few light sprinkles from harrisonburg to charlottesville. the trend on the rain is in our direction. don't stray too far from the umbreallas. many more hours to come. rainfall has been very light. we will get more than that later on tonight. most of the day, first half, will be dry. clouds continue to increase. might even see a ltle bit of sunshine first thing in the morning. it will be rainy by that time to 6:00 tonight. >> thank you, chuck. a deadly discovery in maryland. four family members, including two children, found dead in the home and police believe this may be a murder/suicide. officers first checked the house of that area last evening after receiving a call from a concerned friend. jackie bensen spoke with neighbors and has the latest from frederick county. >> reporter: the house sits at the end of contour road in mairy, maryland. a for sail sign planted in the front yard. something sad and terrible happened here. discovery was made about 5:40 p.m. >> 911 call was received from a friend of the family, come by the house and check on the welfare of the family. looked in the back window and seen a body. our troopers responded. >> reporter: maryland state police troopers fou the bodies of a man, a woman, and two children, boy and a girl. investigators were called to the neighborhood. mobile crime van was brought to the scene. detectives areplied for an emergency search warrant to center the home and gather evidence. >> troopers initially responded new it was an obvious -- appeared to be abobvious murder scene. the procedure to secure the scene, make sure there is no further threat and get a search warrant to go back in and properly possible tess scene. >> reporter: within hours, the crowd of neighbors gathered and shocked and bewildered by the scene. >> i have been here 42 years. this is the saddest thing i have ever seen. very close neighbors around here. it is nothing violent around here. it is all a happy family and it is really sad. >> reporter: this investigaon is just beginning. investigators will go through the family's financial history and medical history and the history of their relationships, trying to figure out what contributed to this. in mt. airy, maryland, jackie bensen, news4. two more arrests made in a murder of a man killed last month inside of his pizza mart store in northeast washington. police arrested 26-year-old robinson days later. investigators say he was paying her to marry his brother but the money stopped when he he found out she was having an affair. yesterday police arrested two men. robinson's alleged accomplices. leon robinson and 26-year-old isaiah. now to the surprise showdown that took place at this week's g-20 summit. world leaders taking a stand after the scoffry of a secret nuclear site in iran. the country's president responding to the accusations and president obama is stressing diplomacy. steve handelsman reports from the g-20 summit in pittsburgh. >> reporter: revelations of the nuclear summit rocked the g-20 summit in pittsburgh and prompted tough talks from the host, president obama. >> iran is on notice that when we meet with them on october 1st, they are going to have to come clean or will they continue down a path that is going to lead to confrontation. >> reporter: u.s. officials say that the plan is underground and almost rdy to start purifyingure i don't knowian at two atom bombs a year. western intelligence learned iranian president ahmadinejad's secret in 2007. and by the time of this u.n. speech wednesday, ahmadinejad knew his plan had been discovered and informed the u.n. now he's defiant. >> translator: what business is it of yours? >> reporter: he claims no u.n. violations. the u.n. nuclear agency demanded to see the plan and lining up behind president obama other nations demanded iran comply. >> deception of many years, the international community has no choice today but to draw a line in the sand. >> reporter: sarkozy of france predicts tougher sanctions by december and this time the russians and the chinese are onboard. >> how tough might those sanctions be, how serious is thiscrisis? president obama said wait until after next week's talks with iran and give diplomacy a chance and en we will know. steve handelsman, news4, pittsburgh. >> a man accused of plotting the biggs terror threat against the u.s. since 9/11 is now in new york awaiting a court hearing early next week. he went to a jail in brook are in. zazy planned on blowing up trains. they say surveillance video shows him buying gallons of supplies over the summer. >> the only unusual comment was, of course, you know the reason i'm buying all this is because i have a lot of girlfriends. >> reporter: the investigators say zazy was planng th attack in new york for two fridays ago on september 11th. they say he dropped his plans after being stopped by police as he entered the city on september 10. president obama's plan to close guantanamo baby january probably won't happen. that word came from senior key officials. the delay is because it is difficult to finish a lengthy review of detainee files and unresolved legal and logistical questions. you may not havto wait longer to receive the swine flu vaccine. the first batches should be arriving in some doctor's office as week from monday. the initial batch will protect 6 million to 7 million with most of the initial doses in nasal spray form. most will be shots. the government hopes to have 250 million doses of the vaccine eventually with 10% of them going to other countries. the cdc is warning swine flu is spreading with the virus now widespread in 26 states. that number was 21 a week ago. 6 million or 7 million doses should arrive at the clinics within a few weeks. it is not a name the redskins fans want to see on the injury report. dan hellie has this morning's "sports minute." good morning, everybody. "sports minute" begins with the nationals. you have to feel for john land. he is the nats best pitcher. seven innings last night and didn't allow a single earned run against the braves. his reard, how about his 1th loss of the season. 101 for the nationals. their defense, suisse cheesesque as they fall to the braves. football, redskins injury report yesterday contained a bit of a surprise. clinton portis listed as questionable for the lions game. portis struggling with bone burs in both ankles. jim zorn says c.p. will be on the field sunday. portis will be running behind the right guard that has never played before. chad will get the start and suit up for his first nfl game. high school football. game of the week. lovely sandy spring, maryland. the warriors shut out the colonels. they extend their winning streak to 18 games. they came out strong. very first possession. taking the inside handoff. finds open space and cuts it back right about here. and 59-yard touchdown. sherwood shuts out magruder 10-0. hop in the car and take a trip to prince orchard. kugers busted through their banner and taking on northwest. doing some damage. scores the touchdown. 33 carries, 2 50 53 yards, 3 touchdowns. just another day at the office for big ben. 37-15. that's your "sports minute." i'm dan hellie. everybody have a great weekend. >> 61 degrees. do it yourself can be intimidating white comes to you car but you don't have to empty your bank account whenever that check engine light comes on. we will show you a device that claims to crack the car code. plus, two gargoyles stolen from a front yard and returned. conan rushed to the hospital. what happened? next. conan o'brien is trying to laugh off what could have been serious accident. "the tonight show" host hit his head during a stunt while taping last night 'episode and production on the show had to stop. nbc isn't commenting on his condition or plan for next week's shows. the injury does not appear to hurt conan's sense of humor. he jokes the last thing i remember, i joined the play for mrs. lincoln and the next thing i remember is i was in bed being served cookies and juice. justice ginsburg didn't waste any time getting back to work. the 76-year-old justice felt sick at the office and spent the night at washington hospital center. she was leased yesterday morning and went to her office in the afternoon. ginsburg had been treated for an iron deficiency before she became sick. paul kirk is officially the interisenato from massachusetts filling in the seat for longtime friend ted kennedy. vice president joe biden swore kirk in. skishg a former democratic party chairman and served as adviser to ted kennedy. kirk takes over the seat until voters have a special election in january. charges of officially filed against the 16-year-old boy suspected of starting more than a dozen wildfires near los angeles. police arrested him wednesday afternoon here the scene of a fire. his name is withheld because he is a juvenile. investigators aren't saying what he is charged with because he is under age. they do say that the team may have been involved in p more than a dozen wildfires dating back to 2006. vice president joe biden getting a firsthand look at the devastating flames in georgia. biden took a helicopter ride to survey all of the damage. hundreds of holmes are still under water. the vice president says it may take time but the white house is ready to help those in the flooded -- those of the flood displaced. >> we are going to have people come to see you, go see your holmes while you are here, to get you relocated as quickly as we can. >> after surveying the damage, the vice president said that seven counties in georgia now qualify for federal assistance. it happened to all of us. driving along and all of a sudden your car starts making a funny sound or strange light appears on your dashboard. what's the problem? these days you may be able to find out the answer before you even take your car to the mechanics. liz crenshaw has more on cracking the code to your car. >> reporter: this 2004 chevrolet malibu has a problem. how do we know that? because we broke it. or rather the good mechanics of precision auto in germantown, maryland, broke it on purpose. >> unplug unof the sensors on this car and set a check engine light. >> reporter: the device where unplugging is the absolute pressure sensor. no, i don't know what that is either. but as soon as it is unplugged, the check engine light pops on. so if this happened to your car, what would you do? well, the makers of automative devices such as this $35 code kae hope you will plug it into your car to diagnose the problem. >> these devices interact with the computer in the car to read the trouble codes that are set by that computer. >> reporter: can these devices save on your car repairs and eliminate unnecessary repair costs? to find out, we go back to our broken chevy malibu and precision auto technician andy wildman. all right. how do we do this? >> first, plug it in. >> reporter: to that little thing under the dash. now what? >> we will turn to the key to the on position. >> reporter: all right. i just push the ready for read you about only here? >> that's correct. >> reporter: a few moments later the code key tells us the problem. >> 20-107. >> reporter: when andy plugs his $9,000 master techno compute near the same plug, it reads p0-107. same code. after you get the code you head for the internet. now we have to go to code key unlock.com. punch in the code that came up on the device. search. and it says man fold absolute pressure, barometric pressure low. now i know what's wrong with the car. i just have no idea how to fix it. jeff boone of aaa mid atlantic says the answer to that come when the consumer contacts the repair shop. >> tn when they take it to a shop they are choosing to use, when that shop calls them and says this is the problem we are having with it, it is in this system, then they can say well, that jives with what i'm looking at from home. so they have more sense of security in dealing with the shop. >> reporter: boone says this information is what he calls a pre-second opinion. it tells you that there is a flaw in the particular system but tells you nothing about the fix. so our code readers, are they worth the money? >> knowing the code is away for you to feel comfortable with the shop you are dealing with. other than that, that's the main purpose i see in this device. >> reporter: liz crenshaw, news4 today. >> most common mistakes that turns on the check engine light is a loose or missing gas cap so readers can help there and save you a trip to the repair shop for problems. you can fix it yourself. see, all that money wasted goes to the mechanic for putting your cap back on. >> i did know the gas cap trick. now we want something nice for the weekend. we want a little sunshine. we would like it to be 80 degrees. >> you know, not all wishes come true. complete check of your weekend forecast is coming up. you can find deals north of the border in canada. one of the biggest yard sales in all of north america is there. treasured collectibles, it extends for 07 miles. sellers are offering everything from antique toys to tea towels. the yard sale event has been a draw on prince edward island for 12 years. 70 miles. how could you see everything? >> would have to have your car and drive from place to place. >> map it out. >> think of how much time could you spend. >> make tyson's corner look like nothing. >> not a good weekend for outdoor yard sales and garage sales. >> get it done early. that's the best advice i can give you for this weekend. it is not going to be a total waste. but it is going to rain tonight for sure. and the rain could arrive as early as mid to most likely late afternoon. right around the time the sun goes down. once the rain starts, it could rain heavy around here. late tonight into the first part of your sunday. the weekend will start dry. and it will finish dry. we will have a whole lot of wet right smack in the middle. outside now good looking sunrise under way. great looking picture. staring off to the east, sunrise. 7:00 this morning. so it is a good ways away. 61, current temperature. east wind blowing at 7 miles per hour. so far, september rainfall, 1.6 inches of rain. that's only half of average so far for the month of september. and more rain is on the way. temperatures outside for you this morning around most of our neighborhoods. in the upper 50s to near 60. 61 degrees in frederick, maryland. 57 in the inner harbor. 64 in annapolis. virgin piedmont, temperatures moving close to the 60-degree mark as well. a check of doppler. no rain around our area just yet. there are a few showers along interstate 64 to our south and west. a look at the bigger view. little area of light rain in west virginia. mainly off to the east, southeast. this will graze our southwestern counties over the mid to late morning hours. bulk of the rain is still way back here across central kentucky. that will be arriving in our area especially as we head towards late this afternoon and this evening and then overnight tonight into early tomorrow. temperature, 40s up to our north. caribou, maine, 27 degrees this morning in caribou. 74 in atlanta and a lot of moisture. dew points in the mid 60s to near 70 degrees. deep batch of moisture coming off t gulf of mexico, that big plume of moisture coming our way for later today and tonight. dry start but a wet finish to your saturday. heaviest rain will be coming down mainly overnight tonight and could see an inch to in some places as much as two inches of rain before all is said and done. for today, increasing clouds, rain becoming more and more likely the later in the day you go. by sunset everyone should have had at least their first raindrop or two. 7-day forecast looks very wet for overnight tonight into the first part of the day tomorrow. i think tomorrow afternoon can be salvaged. if the rain leaves early enough, sunshine and up near 77 degrees tomorrow. a nice finish to the weekend. quick shot of a shower moves through monday night and tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, looks very nice. it is going to really start to feel like autumn around here as we get ready to welcome in the great month ofoctober. it is going to feel a lot cooler. >> lot of people will be happy about that. >> i will be one of them. >> thanks, chuck. when someone swipes would gargoyles from her front lawn, taking a scene out after movie. it seemed to have worked. >> ugly face ofrime has come to a leafy london suburb. there's wickedness and witchcraft in west hamsted. someone unspirited auighur goyls belonging to mother of actress emma thompson. incensed and inspired by her daughter's spellbinding performance in the harry potter films. >> you are in grave danger. >> reporter: she cast her own spell. >> i made -- laminated a notice and said would somebody please return the person's statues or i would lay a curse upon them. >> reporter: who is the mysterious gargoyle thief of west hamsted n more importantly, have they lived to tell the tale. this was all two years ago. just a few days ago, left on the doorstep held a magical is your police. >> two gargoyles inside. with a very sad letter to the householder. i am so, so sorry. please, please lift your curse. i didn't men to cause you upset. i have been very ill every month since i stole from you. i am very sorry. what if i killed it? >> reporter: do you know you were capable of putting a curse -- >> no, i'm worried about that. >> reporter: so we should be. thieves, you have been warned. >> now that the statues are back, she has lifted the curse on the crook. today is the perfect day for fall cleaning and includes cleaning out your old personal records. head to the montgomery county fair grounds in gaithersburg for the annual nbc 4 safe community shred. you can bring up to five boxes of personal papers and we will shred them. all of the shredded paper will be recycled. best of all, it is an absolutely free event. it is going on from 8:00 thi morning until 11:00 a.m. 61 degrees. ahead, new developments in a heartbreaking medical mix-up. the woman implanted with someone else's embryo has given birth. what's next for the couple? libyan leader moammar gadhafi comes face to face with family members of those killed on pan am flight 103. what he told them and a shocking find inside a maryland home. a family found dead. the latest from police. normally quiet maryland community. what terrible find police made. nuclear fallout. iran denying allegations of the secret facility. what president obama says needs to happen next. . why the district wants to shut a school down. good morning. welcome back to "news4 today." i'm eun yang. a wet weekend. let's get the latest with meteorologist chuck bell in storm center 4. what's going on, chuck? >> i can tell you one thing. we will start dry and then turn wet around here by late this afternoon and this evening and overnight tonight, it is going to come down by the bucketload. if you have something you need to know outside this weekend, giddy on up and get going outside. the way -- wet weather is not that far away. beautiful sunrise, though, first thing this morning. radar around town is still dry. there are already a few sprinkles towards harrisonburg and charlottesville. if you are traveling down towards the virginia tech for the game today, expect cloudy skies and rain in southwest virginia and that rain is coming towards our area as well. temperatures on your way out the door. upper 50s to 60 degrees first thing this morning. clouds will be on the increase. they will lowe and thicken during the course of the day. any time after about 3:00, 4:00 this afternoon, rain becomes more and more likely. a 100% chance that it will rain tonight. >> all right. we heard it from you. thanks, chuck. in the news this morning, horrifying crime has shaken one quiet maryland community. the police found the bodies of four family members last night. two of the dead were children. investigators are not releasing their ages. officers are investigating the crime as a murder/suicide. police came to the house after hearing from a concerned friend that hadn't heard from the family in a few day. neighbors are still stunned. >> i have been here 42 years. this is the saddest thing i have seen. er very close neighbors around here. nothing violent around here. it is really sad. >> police plan on looking at the family's finances. medical history and relationship with each other as they try to determine how and why this tragedy happened. pressure is continuing to build on iran after the revelation the country may have a secret nuclear facility. president obama joined other leaders of the g-20 nation yesterday in calling for iranian president ahmadinejad to come clean about his country's nuclear capabilities and last night u.n. secretary general moon made some of the strongest statements yet during a meeting with ahmadinejad. president obama says new sanctions are likely but how tough the sanctions are depends on how willing iran is to cooperate during talks next week. he says the diplomacy should be the of action. the man accused of plotting the biggest terror threat against the u.s. since 9/11 is now in new york awaiting a court appearance early next week. najibullah zazi flew from denver to new york yesterday afternoon. then went to jail in brooklyn. prosecutors say zazi planned on blowing up new york commuter trains. they say surveillance videos shows him buying gallons of hair kemptales from a beauty supply store in colorado this summer. the store's other than sad he tried to explain the large quantity by stating he had many girlfriends. a woman whose brother died in the 1988 bombing of pan am flight 103 over lockerbie, scotland, met with moammar gadhafi in new york city. they arranged the meeting through a libyan bams door and spent ten minutes with gadhafi. she says the leader said threw an interpreter he was sorry for her loss. her brother was stationed in the army and was coming home for christmas when the plane blew up, killing 270 people. police in fredericksburg need your help finding a brazen bank rob their pulled a gun on a clerk. police say this man carrying a handgun walked into the virginia part mers bank in the 2100 block of plank road just before 10:00 yesterday morning. they say he force ad teller to open her locked drawer and empty the cash into a bag and then took off. witnesses say they didn't get a look at his face because he was wearing a baseball hat and a mask or scarf over his face. frustrated parents upset over a plan to shut down a school at that serve special needs children from the district. it has many puzzled. darcy spencer has our report. >> reporter: dozens of parents angry that the district plans to yet their special needs children from a private school in virginia met this southeast washington to figure out a plan to fight back. >> i refuse. it is the best for our kids. >> reporter: the district plans to pull 170 students from the accotink academy in springfield and place them in other schools. officials say they are concerned about the quality of education the students are receiving. the district pays about $10 million a year to accotink for education services. >> teachers are awesome. they help us with every little thing. and it is just -- it should stay open. >> reporter: parents expressed support for the schools and want proof accotink isn't meeting their children's needs. >> accotink. >> some parents were puzzled over the timing of the plan just weeks after the start of school. >> this is crazy. you wait until after school started. i think this is czy you did not inform the school and have the school inform me. >> reporter: in a statement the district says that officials made numerous visits tthe skal and had a monitor on site to observe operations. we have serious concerns about the quality of services being delivered to our students at accoti accotink. we will work closely with parents to transition each student to an appropriate school setting. we have not been monitored. we have never been given a monitoring report. >> reporter: many parents left the meeting still with many, many questions on their minds but now they are more hopeful they can get this decision reversed. in southeast, darcy spencer, news4. the swine flu vaccine supposed to be available soon. some experts are still raising questions this morning about how and where -- how quickly that would happen. robert bazell has the latest. >> reporter: centers for disease control is anticipating problems. when the first small amounts of swine flu vaccine become available in the next few weeks. >> it is going to be a little bumpy because in different states, there will be different levels of preparedness and readiness and planning. there will undoubtedly be places people to get vac innated. >> reporter: make that as more challenging and initial doses of vaccine will only be flu mists and nasal spray. recommended only for healthy people aged 2 through 49. not for pregnant women who are near the top of the list of those to be vaccinated. >> government anticipating intense demands of the vaccine and fears about its safety. the officials say they have every reason to believe that it will be safe and it will be monitoring it closely. but they expect reports of people having adverse reaction which may turn out to be nothing more than coincidence. misinformation spreads more rapidly even than the flu. so any rumor has a risk of creating concern and we need to deal with that as it arises. >> reporter: the latest numbers out, the swine flu epidemic in america continues to grow. the virus is still in every state with widespread outbreaks in 26. the american college health association finds 91% of the campuses its surveys now report cases. the doctors and hospitals for flu-like illness, crilimbed aga last week. robert bazell, nbc news, new york. a woman that was implanted with another couple's embryo at a fertility clinic has given birth to baby boy. the statement says the healthy baby boy was delivered thursday at a hospital in toledo, ohio. the fertile clinic transferred embryos belonging to a michigan cumbie mistake. they agreed to give the baby boy to his biological parents. as for future contact, they told the "today" show they are leaving that up to the other parents. it is now 6:38. 61degrees. we will tell what you ingredients you can find in mishet melt and why you can do good despite trying one. major oops on the road. how a mother and daughter ended up in this mess. a family with a great story and big car repair bill. a mississippi woman driving to work went right into a sinkhole when she didn't show up at the office her workers called her house. her daut went looking important and sure enough, she wound up in the very same sinkhole. she was able to call 911. both of the women are expected to be okay. it was a down week on wall street. the dow jones industrial lost 42 points yesterday closing at 9,665. the dow lost 15 points for the week. and a mixed back r bag of economic news points to a slow bumpy recovery for the u.s. economy. the g-20 summit in pittsburgh was on the minds of many investors but it wasn't the only thing driving the market. cnbc's bill griffith has a look back on this week in business. >> a week that brought the world together at the united nations and the leaders of the world's strongest and emerging economies to pittsburgh to the g-20 summit. on the agenda, steering global economy towards recovery and outsized paychecks for bankers and great voice for asian and latin american countries. no change in rates. federal reserve policymakers left rates oun changed at the historically currently low levels. jump start spending by consumers and lending at banks. meantime, americans are squirrelling away more money. personal savings rate has risen to more than 4%. up to 1 million americans could get another 13 week of unemployment benefits under legislation that's already passed in the house. generamotors is calling back 2400 workers at three midwest assembly plants. first bank of america and then jpmorganchases and wells fargo, all of them tapping fees for customers that overdraw on their accounts. still too early to tell if real estate market has hit bottom. new home sales figures were a bit higher in august but sales of existing holmes were surprisingly lower after four months of gains. nintendo lowered the price of wii game console by 20%. that will set you back $200. i'm bill griffith. get all your business news on cnbc. 100% chance of rain this weekend. >> right. most of it will come overnight tonight. but you have a little bit after dry start today and dry finish tomorrow. we will get the detail on how much rain and exact time frame of the rain. coming up, the full forecast after this. the "today" show is coming up next on nbc4. amy robach joins with us a preview. good morning. >> good morning to you. come up this morning on "today," all the latest on the showdown with iran. and ratcheting tensions after the country admits building a secret underground nuclear facility. chilling new details about the alleged terror plot. some analysts are now calling the most serious planned active terrorism since 9/11. actress mackenzie phillips the firestorm she created when she published her memoirs. more about her life, the book, and the strong reaction it is receiving especially from her own family. a mother and daughter both crashed their cars into a sinkhole one on top of the other. we will find out how it happened and how they are doing when lester and i see you later on "today." now back to you. >> amy, thanks so much and we ll see you soon. you have to love that video. >> got to love the video. luckily no one was hurt so we can laugh about it. nothing to laugh about when you mention rain on the weekend. >> no. people are upset with you. >> very serious stuff that we are talking about. you know, we don't want it to rain to weekend. today i can tell you one thing, if you have something to do on your saturday, up before 7:00 a.m. on saturday, you have time. have you time to get outside and do it. >> get out there. >> enjoy the dry weather while we can because the rain is coming around here by later this afternoon and this evening as well. so be ready for that. rainfall heaviest coming overtonight tonight into the early part of your sunday. and then i thinkunday afternoon also turns out to be very pleasant. a little bit of rain sandwiched in the middle of your weekend. outside on a beautiful saturday morning so far. look at that great looking sky out there. sunrise, 7:00 a.m. this morning. latest sunrise in nearly six months. what a beautiful and colorful sky it is this morning. sun still down below the horizon. nice shine of light on the bottom of the clouds this morning. 61 degrees in town. so far we had only half of our average amount of rainfall here in the month of september but i think overnight tonight and into early tomorrow we could easily see one to 1.5 inches of rain in town. i wouldn't be surprised if a few spots didn't get more tornado warning inches of rain before the weekend is done. 58 in springfield, virginia. 56 degrees in prince george's county. 64 for annapolis. 61 degrees in frederick right now. 55, though in damascus, maryland. live doppler. very dry weather around here for now. light showers now showing up for harrisonburg and charlottesville. broader view shows us this little area of moderate rain moving out of central west virginia. that will graze our western and southern sections here by early this afternoon. the mother lode of the moisture way back across parts of the parts of central kentucky will arrive late tonight and into the first part of tomorrow. right now 27 in caribou. 61 here. 73 in atlanta. dew point is very high dew point down to our south. that's an indication of how much moisture is in the atmosphere. that big plume of moisture coming off the gulf of mexico, streaming now into kentucky and tennessee, area of low pressure crosses through our area late tonight and high pressure moves away. off to a dry start. we will have a wet finish to your saturday. high pressure moves away, the rain sneaking in here by 8:00 tonight and most everybody should have had their first raindrops by 8:00 tonight. the heaviest and steadiest of the showers between 8:00 tonight and 8:00 tomorrow morning. tomorrow afternoon, things start to clear out very quickly. and we will have a dry finish to your sunday afternoon. how much rain? inch to an inch and a half around town. few spots further west. two to three inches of rain. forecast for today, increasing clouds. rain is likely today. good day to watch your college football. and speaking of which, there is your 7-day forecast. you see there, best chance of rain late tonight and early tomorrow. another quick shot of swer comes up monday afterman and evening before cool breezy october weather blows in here for the middle parts of the week. saturday into fall. and if you would like to see your game's forecast on the 9:00 version,chuck.bell@nbccom. all the local teams and and if you have a team you would like the forecast for, send me an e-mail and i will get it to you. 61 degrees. michelle melt named for the first lady. it does more than just fill you up. it fights homelessness. the redskins' motor has two bum wheels. the redskins are facing another should-win game buthe team is banged up. nationals are consistent if nothing else. here is dan hellie with sports. >> good morning. we are starting with nationals. you really have to feel for j n landen. his reward, how about a 13th loss of the season? loss number 101 for the nationals. their defense, suisse cheesesque which isn't going to do much against the braves team playing great lately. not getting much help. chipper jones hits the liner to josh willingham. and ruh-roh. loses it in the lights. the inning continues. two batters later following a walk to mckean. escobar and that goes through the wickets. he can't believe it. jones scores to put the braves up 1-0. 2-0 braves. chipper jones at the plate. ryan zimmerman slashing the leatherman. it is good to see a jump from zimmerman with all the errors going on. despite the gem, nationals fall the braves 4-1. 101st lost of the season. high school football. our game of the week in lovely sandy spring, maryland. sherwood shut out colonels. a taste of what is on our high school football smorgasbord this morning. let's get it going. warriors trying to extend their winning streak to 18 games. they did come out strong. first possession, taking the inside handoff. and right about here, he says i think i'm going to cut it back and 59-yard touchdown. sherwood shuts out the mighty magruder colonels 10-0. hop in the car and take a trip to prince orchard. cougars busting through their banner. q.o. with the ball. they give it to saso sxu he answer it is call big-time in this game. punches it in for six. 33 carries. 253 yards. three scores. 37-15. now we are in the chopper. flying over virginia. loudoun county against liberty. this is the opening kickoff. liberty's spindle collects it and he is gone. i believe he was untouched and he takes this all the way for the touchdown. 91-yard score. up a couple levels. latest redskins injury report contain ad bit of a surprise. clinton portis listed as questionable for the lions game. portis is struggling with bone spurs in both ankles. jim zorn says he will be on the field on sunday. portis, of course, will be running behind a right guard who has never played in a game before. chad rinehart will get the start and suit up in his first nfl game of his career. the redskins defense, the most physically gifted wide receiver in the nfl. cam vin johnson, 6'5", 240 pounds. also fast. if you are not careful, johnson is a player that can beat a team all by himself. although he hasn't done it for 19 games. redskins receiver malcolm kelly knows johnson well. >> he is a real humble dude and never thinks that -- as good as he is, he never thinks he is that good. i say -- he is a cool today and a big dude that can run and jump. amazing athlete, man. really, really amazing athlete. that's the thing. he continues to get better. >> malcolm kelly, calvin johnson trained together in the offseason in atlanta. all right. make sure you tune in to "showtime" at 7:00. talking skins, lions. hot seats and more. "the jim zorn show" follows at 7:30. sneak peek. everybody have a great weekend. coming up tonight at 7:30, folks. detroit lions are the opponents on sunday. a team that lost 19 straight games. just tell me they are not about -- >> no. the record, their record, all those things makes no difference. every team including us prepare for them as though -- it is a brand-new day. brand-new game. >> don't pay attention to that. don't read that stuff. 19 in your mind. >> i zn have to. you are the first -- i'm hearing it. i'm hearing it as we go. it doesn't matter. >> it doesn't matter the lions had a 10-0 lead on the minnesota vikings just last week and held peterson to 92 yards rushing. line defense is not going to be easy and it is a road game. we are talking about all that and more tonight on "the jim zorn show." as the president and first lady have shown a good burger can be hard to resist. mao michelle's love for burgers will help needy folks in our area. michelle melt was unveiled on capitol hill this week. that's the restaurant run by former top chef contestants mike mendle son. it is made with the same herbs found in mrs. obama's white house garden. proceed prosecutors the sale of burger will be donated to the d.c. central kitchen which feeds the homeless. that does it f us. quickly, the forecast. >> beautiful way to start the weekend. nice and dry and sunrise coming up. rain does arrive late this afternoon and rain hard overnight tonight. then it should be done by lunch time tomorrow. 12, 18 hours. that's it for us. thanks for joining us. the "today" show is next. be sure to join us at 9:00 for e latest news, sports and weather.

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