Low to mid70s in washington as well as right near the bay and the Shenandoah Valley its near 70 and thats the leading edge of rain beginning to advance up the valley from the south, right now near harrisonburg getting some sprinkles. Further north up around winchester, front royal and martinsburg youll be getting that rain likely in another couple of hours and for students at the bus stop this morning, you dont need a coat but youll need an umbrella as you are heading back home from school will likely have some rain moving in but not for much of the morning around the metro area, cloudy and mild in the 70s. Near 80 by noon. By then we could have some showers and maybe stronger storms this afternoon. Details on that in ten minutes. E eun . Tom, thank you. Well see you then. 6 02 now. A week after being forced off the job, hundreds of thousands of federal employees are heading back to work this morning. But with no deal in sight, it could be days or even weeks before their colleagues join them. Melissa mollet is on capitol hill with are more. Melissa, good morning. Reporter well, good morning. 350,000 people will be back to work this morning, eun. But still thousands of them on furlough. All of them, of course, wondering when they will be getting paid. The house back in session at noon. The senate at 2 00. When the Senate Reconvenes very likely will take a look at the back pay bill the house pitched saturday that would reimburse government workers. Still on capitol hill lots of fighting and finger pointing. House Speaker John Boehner saying he lacks the vote to pass a temp rather spending bill without conditions that would keep the government operating. There are not the votes in the house to pass the clean co. I would bet there are the votes to pass it. Reporter now according to an nbc news count, 200 democrats say they would vote for it. 22 republicans say they would as well. That would be a 222 total, more than the 217, of course, needed to pass a bill like that. Live on capitol hill this morning, Melissa Mollet, news 4. Thousands of Lockheed Martin employees wont be at work today because of the Government Shutdown. The defense contractor is furloughing about 3,000 workers. It says that number could go up if the shutdown continues. The furloughed employees include those who work at government facilities that are closed right now. This shutdown could hurt your kids schools if it drags on beyond today. The shutdown will hurt the cash flow to school districts, colleges and universities if it lasts longer than a week. Today is day seven. The Education Department hasnt elaborated on how many schools will be affected or which ones will stop receiving money. Stay with news 4 and nbcwashington. Com throughout the Government Shutdown. Well keep you up to date until the crisis is resolved. 6 04 now. Police are looking to Surveillance Video to provide answers whether street racing led to a crash that injured 11 people in brandywine, maryland. Take a look at the mangled wreckage. State troopers say a car traveling north crossed the median and hit a pickup headon. That caused a Chain Reaction that involved as many as six cars. Two people were flown to the hospital, at least four children are hurt. The road was shut down for more than six hours. Troopers will look at security video from businesses along 301 to see exactly how the crash happened. Right now the new parking garage is open. There are 426 spaces at the new metro west garage. It will still cost youed 4. 75 to park there on weekdays and you can get into the new garage from chapman avenue, the existing parking lot will now be converted into Retail Office and residential space. Today a growing Group Pushing for the redskins to change their name will bring their fight to the district and right to the doorstep of nfl owners. Members of the Oneida Indian nation will greet the members as they gather for annual meetings at the ritzcarlton in georgetown. The group is spearheading a change to change the mascot the campaign and will hold their own conference in the same hotel to encourage change. Delegate Eleanor Holmes norton is slated to attend. Redskins owner dan snyder says he will never change the name. One more time now at 6 06 we want to update you on the breaking news weve been following this morning on the inner loop of the beltway. The lanes have now reopened. It will closed for hours this morning because of a deadly wreck there. But if youre heading this way all lanes are open again. Also, finding missing children. The valuable resource that just went off line because of the Government Shutdown. Plus, why a face in a commercial may convince your kids what theyre eating is healthy even if its not. And prepare for the rain. 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February, 2013. A landmark transportation bill is up for consideration. Even though its backed by republican governor mcdonnell. Ken cuccinelli joins Tea Party Republicans to block the plan. But Terry Mcauliffe believes its time to break through the gridlock in richmond. Mcauliffe presses democrats to support the bill. And the bill passes. Terry mcauliffe. Putting virginia first. Im Terry Mcauliffe, candidate for governor, and i sponsored this ad. The government closure is keeping an nfl player from launching a bit of a protest against nfl fines. San francisco 49er Donte Whitner planned to change his last night name to hitner to protest what he says are fines for illegal hits. He wanted to have his name on his jersey last night but the shutdown means the name change cant be processed for at least a month. Whitner was hit with a 21,000 fine earlier this season. A team of researchers wants athletes to think twice before endorsing a particular food on drink. They are disturbed how many athletes are pushing fast food and other products high in calories and sugar. They say many target teenagers. You think these pro athletes are healthy and fit and you want to follow their example. And i wonder if they eat the fast food because they have to be in tiptop shape. Time to get a check of weather and traffic on the 1s. Here is storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein. We were looking at the live view. We do have clouds producing rain much further to the west and southwest of us in the sorensen tral valley that will be advancing closer to the metro area by noontime when we could get heavy downpours with thunder and lightning. A slight risk that between 2 00 p. M. And 7 00 p. M. We could get storms producing damaging winds and a slight risk of an isolated tornado. We could get is Severe Weather h some heavy downpours. It may cause flooding. Sevenday outlook is coming in ten minutes. How is our traffic, danella . Tracking a new incident on the beltway, taking the ramp to i95. A disabled vehicle was blocking your left lane. It has moved to your right shoulder lane. A live look from chopper 4. Delays as you travel to i95, you are going to see them as you pass New Hampshire avenue. Rich around richard and eun . A construction accident on the red line 6 14 as we head to a second week of the Government Shutdown. Some federal employees are heading back to work this morning. Defense secretary chuck hagel ordered nearly all 350,000 back it to the office. The house returns to the hill at noon today. The senate will be back at 2 00 to tray to reach an agreement. People across the country are taking their shutdown frustrations online particularly over websites that are off line. Angie goff has more on that. Richard, good morning to you. We knew that some government websites were going to go dark with the shutdown but right now a lot of people up and arms, about one in particular that just went offline, this is what you get when you go to the governments amber alert website. No critical missing children bulletins, no urgent alerts, just a white screen with a message showing its unavailable as a victim of the Government Shutdown. We do have calls in to find out if we will get those email alerts that are sent out to the media when a child is, indeed, missing. Another site, meanwhile, ignited a twitter storm after an earthquake struck San Francisco sunday. Usgs originally did not post any update about the quake. The flood of angry tweets appear to have worked. The site has posted an update. They did that within an hour. Another tremor that happened this morning was posted as well. Richard . Thanks, angie. Some of d. C. s popular food trucks are feeling the pinch without any federal workers to feed. Of the Washington Post reports that sales at many of the citys gourmet food trucks are down 50 or more since the start of the shutdown. Some have even had to lay off employees and others decided not to operate at all until the standoff is over. Military families are getting a helping hand from a big warehouse store during the shutdown. Sams club is offering free temporary passes to all members, retirees and their families. Sams says that they are offering the passes because commissaries are closed during the shutdown. For deals and discounts being offered to federal workers head over to our website nbcwashington. Com and stay with news 4 all week as we work to bring you the latest on the shutdown. 6 17. A fatal crash in leesburg killed two people when their suv lost control and missed a curve in the road. The vehicle slammed into a tree and burst into flames. Both people in the car died at the scene. One man who lives nearby called 911 after he heard the impact and tried to put the fire out before the rescue crews arrived. The accident usually starts at the bridge. People come flying down the road and you cant see the people turning left and if theyre stopped because other cars are coming the other way, theres a lot of rear ends always right there. Police havent released the names of the victims. About an hour ago metro resumed service on the red line following a deadly accident during some track work this weekend. Investigators say a large piece of track hit and killed a contractor and sent two other metro workers to the hospital. The three were working to replace part of the rails and the tunnel. Investigators confirm a small fire and a loud noise when the rails shifted. Metro says one employee was treated and released from the hospital. Today metro is holding a grand Opening Ceremony for the new entrance at the Rosslyn Metro station. It includes three new highspeed elevators, a new station manager kiosk and pay stations. It includes a new walkway to help with passenger flow. The project was completed on time and within budget. The ceremony will happen at 9 30 this morning. The u. S. Military is holding one of al qaedas top operatives. U. S. Special ops forces captured anas al libi in tripoli. He is now at a secure location outside libya. Al libi helped plan the bombing in tan zania and kenya 15 years ago. Secretary of state john kerry is defending al libis capture. Libya called it a kidnapping but kerry says he was a legal and appropriate target for the u. S. Military. Kerry also says al libi will receive a fair trial. This morning were getting a look at the damage caused by record rainfall in kentucky. In louisville about 7 inches of rain fell in just 3 hours. Emergency crews rescued 12 people from the floodwaters. More than 80 people had had to leave their homes. Right now no reports of any serious injuries and this years wet weather is not affecting virginias pumpkins. State agriculture leaders say big orange pumpkins and white pumpkins are available. When picking the perfect pumpkin look for one that doesnt have any soft spots. Nationwide the pumpkin crop is down about 50 . Oh, no. That would be a problem, right . Especially this time of year. We have to get our pumpkin picking soon. Our team of meteorologists is tracking rain moving into our area. Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein has the very latest. Tom . We are seeing a large area of rain that is advancing closer to washington and out ahead of that we have some mild and muggy air. It is humid this morning. We are in the low to mid70s across most of virginia and maryland as well as the Shenandoah Valley. And out of the mountains its near 70 degrees now. Our Storm Team Radar showing this rain advancing up the Shenandoah Valley. Closer view of that radar showing the leading edge of that rain is right near harrisonburg. And near winchester in about an hour youll be getting some of the rain. Reported around roanoke and into southern West Virginia and as we look at our temperature graph today, looks like our warmest temperatures will be late morning and around noontime in the upper 70s. But then once we get rain in the afternoon, the temperatures will quickly drop back down to around 70 degrees and we do have a risk of some severe storms and right now with that severe storm zone, lets take a look now, chuck bell. The transition from 91 yesterday over to much cooler weather tomorrow will come at the price of Severe Weather, all of the shaded area here, everywhere east of the blue Ridge Mountains under the slight risk for severe thunderstorms coming up primarily early afternoon to about dinner time or sunset this evening. It does include all of the immediate metro area, montgomery, fairfax, loudoun and the district as well as arlington and alexandria. No impact on our local airports just yet but anytime you have this kind of thunderstorm activity up and down the eastern corridor could see big flight delays later on this afternoon, tom. Thank you, chuck. And then the big change comes in later tonight. Into the low to mid50s by this time tomorrow morning and itll feel like october again tomorrow and for the rest of the week. Highs near 70 tomorrow as well as again on wednesday and on thursday with morning lows in the 50s. Then as we get into friday and towards your weekend, storm team 4 sevenday outlook could could get some rain friday and again saturday and sunday. Highs over the weekend near 70 the another look at storm team 4 rad radar, the rain getting closer coming in ten minutes. Danella looks at traffic. Still tracking it delays inner loop of the beltway. As you take the exit i95 making the commute in maryland this morning, disabled vehicle off to your shoulder lane. The lanes, as you travel i95, you are seeing delays on the inner loop of the beltway especially in the right lanes. Theyre pretty solid. So once you pass New Hampshire avenue you are going to start to hit the brakes as you continue on the inner loop heading to i95 those travel lanes are finally open. Going to head down to dumfries now. Route 1 this is at wayside drive. A broken down car. Up to i95 still seeing delays from woodbridge. Once you pass Fairfax County parkway had an earlier crash in the shoulder lane. Well talk about your drive time, 19 minutes from Prince William parkway to the capital beltway. Richard and eun . Thank you. 6 22 now. New this morning, north korea says a new military pact could threaten a final destruction. The latest threat comes the day before the u. S. , south korea, and japan are set to begin a joint naval drill near the korean peninsula. Last week the south and the u. S. Signed a military agreement to deter the north from using Nuclear Weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. Now take a look at this. An indycar champion is expected to get out of the hospital after a massive crash at the houston grand prix. Dario franchitti was part of this terrible accident in the final lap that sent his car airborne. Franchitti was awake when he was transported to the hospital. A spokesperson for his racing team says he was only complaining of a sore ankle and back. Debris from the accident rained down on race fans that sent two people to the hospital. Theyre expected to be okay. We will be watching the Supreme Court in the coming weeks. The nations highest court begins its new term today, one of its biggest cases focuses on how much you can contribute to a political candidate, campaign, or Political Action committee during a twoyear election cycle. Another case could help determine who gets into college. The court will decide if a state can amend its constitution to prohibit race or sex from being a factor in admissions to public colleges. The justices will also take up twof caseses that deal with our First Amendment rights, one case challenges a Massachusetts Law that will not allow protesters within 35 feet of abortion clinics. The other focuses on whether a town council can hold a prayer before its meetings. Consumer advocates want to warn you about scam artists trying