roads. we have a crash slowing things down quite a bit. a 2 1/2 mile backup as you are headed northbound on crain highway at branch avenue. the left lane is blocked and those backups are building here. really have increased quite a bit in the last couple of minutes. in silver spring now, chopper 4 over this problem, a pedestrian struck northbound georgia avenue at dennis avenue. another shot from the ground there for you this morning. also outbound 11th street bridge, still have the two left lanes blocked, overturned truck on the bridge. >> thank you, melissa. a developing story now in prince george's county. police are searching for the man responsible for a deadly shooting at a gas station. police say surveillance cameras may have caught the shooting around 7:15 last night at the bp station on walters lane near chavez lane in forestville. officers say this attack was not random and did not happen during a robbery. they hope any other customers inside at the time can help them to a suspect. 50 more jurors in fairfax county will be screened this morning as part of the charles severance murder trial. he's accused of killing three alexandria residents over a ten-year span. lawyers are trying to find jurors who can handle a six week trial. they have already gone through half of their 100 person pool. once jury selection is done, opening statements could start as early as thursday. and right now, the death toll continues to rise in the carolinas. 13 people have died from storms there in south carolina. several neighborhoods are still under water this morning. more flooding could happen and dams continue to fail. nearly two dozen dams have breached state wide. more than 500 roads and bridges washed out by the flooding. 1300 national guardsmen are in that area performing aerial rescues. officials are asking people to donate water to the 40,000 people who don't have clean water this morning. virginia task force one is on the ground this morning in south carolina helping out first responders. the team from chantilly in west columbia now. they have been assigned to the clarendon county area. the team was called in sunday night by fema. the 80 member team and 59,000 pounds of equipment left yesterday morning. they'll be down for 10 days total. we're keeping an eye on the dam breach situation in south carolina. we'll check in with kerry sanders late are in tr in the s. the cargo ship that sank is now the subject of an ntsb investigation. a team of investigators is on its way to jacksonville, florida. we're learning a baltimore man is among the 33 member crew believed to be dead. the coast guard says the el faro sank off the coast of the bahamas. yesterday crews found a heavily damaged lifeboat from the cargo ship. a body and a survival suit was also pulled from the water. the ship was on its way to puerto rico when it sank. video of a big announcement. we now know the winners of the nobel prize in physics. looking at the video here, japanese physicist and arthur b. mcdonald win the nobel prize in physics. they were honored for their discovery of nutrino oscillation, the most abundant particles out there. show they have maps. nobel week continues tomorrow with the prize in chemistry to be awarded. it is 6:04. a contentious debate over pesticides will likely come up today. council members should decide whether to allow residents to spray their lawns with pesticides. a lot of people want to protect their lawns against mosquitos, with the chemicals and the bill the council will debate today will ban or regulate them in some way. the company that owns the hospital plans to open a walk in center for patients and lay off close to 120 workers. the union is hosting a forum tonight at 6:00 at partnership hall on fifth street. the d.c. council will vote on the proposal to use private ambulances in the district. mayor muriel bowser and d.c. fire chief gregory dean want to use the private ambulances to respond to your 911 calls. they say it will improve response times and give d.c. fire and ems crews more time to train. the private ambulances would only transport low priority patients for issues like colds, cuts and twisted ankles. if approved, the plan will last for one year. police in arlington are investigating another sex assault this morning. a woman was pushed into the bushes early saturday morning on north scott street. megan mcgrath is live. there has been a recent string of sex assaults in that area. what is going on? >> reporter: that's right. there have been several sexual assaults in the arlington area over just the last couple of months. no indication if the same person is responsible that the incidents are linked. however, it is a disturbing trend, one that has women in arlington on edge. the latest incident happened over the weekend in the 1800 block of north scott street. it was right around 2:30 in the morning. police say that a man began to follow the victim as she walked home. he pushed her into the bush and touched her inappropriately. and implying he had a knife. this is the eighth assault that happened in the areas. days before this latest incident there was another one, two miles away, a woman pushed into the bushes there. certainly something that police want to get a handle on. women are asked to be careful, to avoid walking and jogging alone. back to you in the studio. >> thank you, megan. a new case of a referee being targeted on the football field. the altercation caught on camera after it ends with punches thrown. one person is dead and close to 20 hurt after an accident involving an suv and bus. what we're learning about the late night crash in philadelphia. and two brand-new crashes on our roads, one here in grand view, details coming up. without the internet i would probably be like a c student. internet essentials from comcast has brought low-cost high speed internet into the homes of hundreds of thousands of low-income families. it lets students do homework and study at home. so far more than two million people across america have benefitted. internet essentials is going to transform the lives of families. i see myself as maybe an entrepreneur. internet essentials from comcast. helping to bridge the digital divide. at least 19 people are recovering from a crash between a trolley bus and an suv. one person died. in happened in philadelphia late last night. the bus was stopped at a stop sign when an suv hit it from behind. the driver of the suv died. everyone on the bus including the bus driver were all treated for injuries. 70-year-old homeless woman is recovering after being rescued from rising waters in las vegas. we don't have the video of that rescue, but look at this. lightning, hail and heavy rain affected the las vegas valley and sur rounding area yesterday. the woman was plucked to safety as her couch and her cat were being swept away. the area is dealing with power outages and nevada highway patrol responded to 76 crashes in southern nevada. guessing they don't deal with a lot of rain in the desert. >> what is happening there and south carolina, folks need a break. closer to home, a bit chilly this morning, looking outside. it is, what, mid-40s? >> in some spots. >> i'll go call that cold. >> enough to throw another log on the fire this morning. some wood stoves going on in the mountains now. you need the furnace on. at the bus stop this morning, waiting for metro, you'll need your jacket, in the mid-40s between 7:00 and 8:00. mid-50s between 8:00 and 9:00. quickly warping. wear your fleece this morning, you'll need your sunglasses later today as well. a look at the warmer pattern on the way, coming up at 6:21. we have breaking news on the roads. >> breaking news now. we're talking about this crash in branch avenue. the crash is off to the left side of the roadway. looks like one vehicle is pulling away perhaps there to be towed out of the way. but major backups. 3 95 very slow as you're headed to town. 270 south, no problems. top of the beltway, looking pretty good there. and on time overall. 66 inbound looks good. and 95 northbound quantico to the beltway, no major problems from quantico to the beltway. if you want to break it down, 13 minutes, 123 to the beltway 11. remember to listen to our friends when you hop in your car. coming up, passengers recounting a frightening trip after the trains come crashing off the tracks. what we're learning about the derailment and the impact the accident is having on amtrak service this morning. a craigslist post is causing a stir on social media this morning. the missed connection that one man is crediting with saving his life more than 40 years ago. the time is 6:13. stay with us. amtrak is running modified service between vermont and washington today and tomorrow because of this train derailment. take a look. officials say rocks fell from a ledge and on to the track in north field, vermont. a crew member is still in the hospital. six other passengers were taken to the er to be checked out. the engine and one passenger car went into a ditch. three other cars left the track, but stayed upright. >> all of the most able bodied people adopted a person and got them down the train tracks and out. >> other passengers had to break windows and help each other get to safety. federal safety rules require two inspections every week. new developments in the wake of the tragic shooting in oregon. president obama says he will visit umpqua community college in roseburg later this week. he's traveling to the west coast for four days. at the campus right now, there is a private memorial for the victims open only to students and staff. nine people and the shooter christopher harper mercer all died. we're now learning more about him. a witness said harper mercer gave one student an envelope with a flash drive in it. a law enforcement official told nbc news they found writings that indicated he believed everyone around him was irrational. he wrote he was the only sane one. >> i'm not going to use my strength and my time to be mad. i'm not going to hate him. i just -- in all honesty, i feel sorry for him. feel bad for him. >> school is open today for students to receive counseling and see each other. classes don't begin again until next week. anne arundel county mees are investigating a pair of suspicious deaths. a man was found shot to death inside a home in lothian, maryland, yesterday afternoon. police identified him as 40-year-old anthony anastasia jr. during a search of the house, officers found a woman dead in the basement. she had suffered trauma to her body. that's according to investigators. they also say these crimes were not random attacks. an exclusive look at the man police say shot at buildings. one of them the office where he worked. fairfax county detectives are trying to determine matthew malacarne's motive. search warrants show the 29-year-old had an arsenal of weapons, four guns and more than 30 boxes of ammunition. police say he fired into buildings overnight, shootering windows at seven facilities from herndon to leesburg. a building engineer identified him after he recognized him driving the same car, a surveillance camera caught leaving the site of the shooting. less than half of maryland residents agree this people of all races get equal treatment by the police. the poll from goucher college asked neighbors questions about police in their communities. 27% black residents said all races receive equal police treatment. compared to 60% of white residents. the poll also found 82% said they were paying some or a lot of attention to the freddie gray case. a top u.s. commander may be facing some tough questions on a recent u.s. air strike in afghanistan. general john campbell will appear in front of a senate armed services committee this morning. this comes after an air strike by u.s. forces that hit a medical clinic. 22 people including doctors and patients were killed. the general is also expected to answer questions about u.s. troop levels in afghanistan. did you see it. the nfl admits the ref blew a call that cost the lions a game last night. in the final minutes, seattle safety punches the ball out of megatron's hands as he crosses the goal line. a seahawks linebacker slaps the ball out of the end zone. an nfl vp says that's an illegal bat of the ball and the lions should have gotten the ball back, first and goal from the 1. instead, the seahawks win the game 13-10 and the lions, poor detroit, they stay winless. that game had a similar ending to a certain game that ended on sunday. >> i'm just, you know, adam is an eagles fan. i'm a redskins fan. we'll leave it at that. coming up, a high school football coach now facing charges after investigators say he punched a referee. >> that coach says he pushed a ref to break up a fight before deputies saw this video. you see the coach appears to instigate a fight. this is in kissimmee, florida. the referee aparentally made a call that upset several coach and parents. he was hurt. not seriously, though. and the coach is now charged with battery. released on bail, though. >> you see more and more of these things. >> awful. especially at school games. what kind of example are you setting for the kids. >> do the right thing, people. whit is rare to find somethg on craigslist that is heart warming. this letter is so beautifully written, you hope it is true . you read something, it is just too good? in this letter, the vietnam veteran writes about the woman he met, courted for an hour and never forgot. the veteran was in a dark place after getting back from war and was contemplating suicide. he said he saw the woman on new year's eve taking shelter from the rain and spoke with her. that talk convinced him to keep living and the veteran says he just wants to say thank you. as for the skeptics, according to reddit, it did rain in boston on the last day of 1972. >> there is that. >> yes. >> might be telling the truth. >> could be. imagine if that story were true. imagine if there was a reunion. how beautiful would that be? >> it is a love story. everyone loves a love story. you know what people don't like? super cold temperatures. mid-40s today. mid-40s. >> this is more look a morning in december. not early october as we look outside. we also have some fog beginning to get dense in the shenandoah valley, out of the mountains. if you encounter that, slow down, use your low beams. closer to the metro area, a little wispy fog in some of the suburbs north and west. warrenton down to 41, near 40 in much of the shenandoah valley. montgomery, fairfax, prince george's counties in the mid-40s. right downtown near 50. mid-50s around the bay. there is that midnight blue and tangerine dawn showing up. live view from the storm team 4 tower camera, predawn glow. off to the chilly start and then it will quickly jump into the 60s noon time. then mid-70s by mid to late afternoon. lots of sunshine, gorgeous autumn day. rain exited the carolinas. pulling away. we're still dealing with the lingering effects of high tide times with flooding at times, high tide around the bay. these counties near the bay. including alexandria water front, east potomac park, high water. high tide time in washington channel at 4:23. highs mid-70s today. upper 70s on wednesday. and we'll keep this wonderful autumn weather going open thursday. could get shower, thunder, afternoon and evening. drying out in time for weekend. turning cooler. now melissa has breaking news. breaking news on the beltway. inner loop ramp to northbound georgia avenue, we're shut down because of a crash. this is so jammed and folks started coming off to the ramp. the ambulance cannot get through to where the accident is. pretty serious situation there. slow there top of the beltway. north bound crain highway, everything off to the right side of the roadway, we have about a three mile delay there on northbound crain highway. also very slow, no reason, just lots of volume, northbound 395 at seminary road. northwest, beach drive and in the city, we have a crash there. looks like it should clear out of the way here soon. big look at the beltway. otherwise running along pretty smoothly. praise this morning for an american airline co-pilot who landed a plane safely after the pilot died midflight. michael johnson became incapacitated during the trip from phoenix to boston on sunday. the plane started to descend and that's when the co-pilot jumped in. he spoke with air traffic control, diverted the flight to syracuse, and wasn't until all 147 passengers were on a new flight that they actually found out what happened. american airlines released a statement saying they're focusing on caring for the pilot's family and colleagues. mcgraw hill education is apologizing this morning for something it printed in a high school textbook. slaves brought to america workers. the misprint was in a geography book used by school districts in texas. mcgraw hill said the wording wasn't intentional and it will improve the editing process. we may learn more about a big lottery winner in michigan today. >> have family in michigan? >> i don't. >> the winner of the $310 million powerball jackpot. co-workers say the woman was working an overnight shift at an industrial plant when she realized she had won. the ticket was sold in three rivers at the town of just 7,000 residents. think she'll move out. >> is that the same woman who quit midshift, like -- >> she should. see ya . >> i'm done. >> bye. coming up, putting his training to work, how an off duty emt went above and beyond to save the life of a little girl. and doing more to help working families, a proposal on the table in d.c. that could mean more paid leave time for you. a chilly morning out there as you get ready to leave for work. look at that shot. some of you are seeing temperatures in the 40s. how warm it will get where you live with your neighborhood high temperatures at 6:31. breaking news on the beltway. chopper 4 over this problem right now. this is the inner loop ramp to northbound georgia avenue. that ramp is shut down. starting to see some backups because of that. we just pushed this out on the nbc washington app as well. two mile backup, off to the right side of the roadway. out of the way. we still have delays here this morning. 395 northbound at seminary road. you can see the volume we're seeing there. 66 overall looking pretty good. same thing looking at 95 and virginia. right now it fells like we skipped over the month of october and jumped into november. >> we want to do halloween. not all bad news. storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein is here with the high temperatures that we'll see in our neighborhood today. it is going to warm up. >> dramatic change. temperatures jumping by 30 degrees between where we are now all the way to the afternoon. county by county highs right around the metro area, montgomery, in the low to mid-70s this afternoon with lots of sunshine. plenty of sun as well across northern virginia. gorgeous autumn day there from loudoun county to stafford. in the mid to upper 70s. southern maryland as well into the low to mid-70s this afternoon with lots of sunshine, just a gorgeous autumn day on the way. a proposal to make one of d.c.'s employee benefits the best in the nation. for first time this morning, council members will officially consider a plan for 16 weeks of paid family leave. someone is going to be paying for that time off. kristin wright joins us live from the wilton building downtown with more on the benefits and the costs. good mornin >> if you've ever had a baby, and taken some time off and had to rush back to work, you understand why this is so important. if you ever had a sick relative and had to rush back to work, you understand why this is so important. so here is the proposal. 16 weeks of paid family leave to bond with an infant and adopted child. six family members to recover from an illness. or after a military deployment. that's all according to the washington post. the post also reports that workers earning up to $52,000 a year and this is employees in the district, earning up to $52,000 a year would be given 100% of their pay during this leave. those making more than 52 grand would get part of their pay, just not 100%. and a new tax on d.c. employers would fund this benefit. it would work differently for federal workers in the district. but this meeting is, today, at 11:00, and this bill, this family leave bill, paid family leave bill will be introduced to district council this morning. we'll see what happens. the district plans to slash income taxes on lower to middle income workers. for those earpi iearning betweed $50,000, overall it is an 8% tax break for most in the district. that could put hundreds of thousands of dollars back in your pocket next year. >> you can have a cushion, you can save. because never such a thing as extra money because there is no extra money, but you need to have some in reserve. >> tax rates will not go down for the people making the most money in the district. they will actually go up. it is a story you saw first on 4. a virginia businesswoman accused of making off with more than a million dollars by creating fake charities and companies even ripping off virginia a senate minority leader. linda wallace is scheduled to appear in federal court next week. she goes by the name lynn miller. prosecutors say she was a campaign treasurer and wrote 73 fraudulent checks from the senator's account without his knowledge. they say she helped create shell companies, move that money around into accounts she controlled. no comment from defense lawyers or the senator. a strong response from members of the montgomery county school board. they criticized a report that said the district basically misspent $47 million last year. that's the call according to the washington post. the report from the montgomery county office of legislative oversight said schools could have used that money for working class students and families instead of budget operations. the members of the school board said it didn't recognize what they were doing to help all students. three officers will be able to use body cameras in your children's schools. the county council approved a plan for school resource officers to use the cameras. this use will be heavily regulated. police will treat the data from cameras as juvenile school records and in most cases it will acquire a court action for release. also anytime someone assesses the video, it will leave a traceable electronic trail. you might be noticing more empty seats on metro ridership at the transit agency is down. and metro leaders say it could be a big problem if this guess on. look at the graphic here. shows declining ridership over the last seven years. metro has a smaller budget. they may have to raise fares in response and that could drive even more riders away. a little life saved. an emt from arkansas stepped in to help police save a baby girl. >> was the right place, right time situation. i can assist the officer in what he was doing and help save a life. >> amazing how fast the baby came back, the eyes came back, the baby became responsive, started tracking our fingers. >> 9-month-old kenzlee mae is okay this morning. her parents say they're very grateful. she was in the car on 27 sunday when her grandparents say she stopped breathing. a montgomery county police officer and brody channell were on 270 as well and stopped to help. channell was in town for a memorial service to honor his father, a firefighter who died last year in the line of duty. a terrific story. >> thank goodness he was here. great story. breaking news on the roads now. we're talking about the top of the beltway inner loop ramp to georgia avenue. still shut down. have this problem and a couple of others around town. details coming up. a plea for help in south carolina as they deal with historic flooding. the request first responders are making this morning. an update on the local emergency team. that's down there to help. a warning you'll want to know about before you make breakfast. the problem that has general mills recalling hundreds of thousands of boxes of cheerios this morning. 6:36. stay with us. breaking news on the roads here. inner loop ramp to northbound georgia avenue. we're still shut down this morning because of an earlier crash. crain highway, branch avenue, three mile backup crash out of the way. got it out of the way quickly. 66 from fairfax county to the beltway, 270 southbound on time. and top of the beltway, 95 to 270, that's taking you 30 minutes, way longer than it should. listen to wtop when you hop in your car. before you eat your breakfast this morning, you want to pay attention to this next story. general mills is recalling nearly 2 million boxes of cheerios and honey nut cheerios cereal. some of the boxes labeled at gluten free contain wheat. the recall affects honey nut cheerio boxes with better if used by dates of july 12th, 2016, through july 25th of 2016 and original cheerio boxes dates of july 14th, 2016 through july 17th, 2016. it is the day you've been waiting for. mcmuffin lovers, listen up. you can get your favorite breakfast sandwich for every meal. it starts nationwide today. more than 100,000 of you have retweeted, requesting the all day breakfast. dunkin' donuts is trying to cash in by saying they have been doing that all along. a little friendly rivalry there. important thing here is that breakfast is here all day. >> right. i could use breakfast right now, during breakfast time. >> oh. >> that beautiful view of the sky. tom kierein, 6:41, weather and traffic on the 1s. credit for that too. >> blueberry banana. i'll have a smoothie this morning. starting off early, your dog's paws will get wet walking in the dewy grass there are dewy windchills and cars. i took this picture of the parking lot at nbc 4 a few minutes ago. for the morning, midday and afternoon, drive time commute, no problems weatherwise. dry pavement, driving into bright sun, heading east on 66 this morning, in the 40s for the morning commute. leave the heater on in the car. in the afternoon, may need the ac. in the mid-70s with dry roads. look at our next chance of rain coming up at 6:51. back to you. >> thank you, tom. coming up, new developments in the search for the missing cargo ship, the one that disappeared after getting caught in hurricane joaquin. what we're learning about one crew member's ties to our area. virginia community is on alert this morning after another woman is sexually assaulted. what we're learning about this latest attack and the possible connection to other cases in the area. 6:42. stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ right now, tracking new developments overnight in south carolina where people are trying to cope with historic flooding. this morning, the death toll is climbing as emergency teams make a plea for help. we'll take you live to columbia after this breaking news on the roads. breaking news here top of the beltway, iner loop ramp to georgia avenue, still shut down because of an earlier crash now. we're seeing some of that volume building up. coldest morning since last spring. temperatures, autumn chill near 40 degrees. predawn glow there now. sunrise at 7:08. temperatures quickly climbing today. jumping by 30 degrees into the mid-70s by late afternoon. back to you. thank you, tom. right now the rain in south carolina has stopped, but the aftermath of the storm is just beginning to settle in. take a look at the video here. several neighborhoods are under water this morning. officials are asking people to donate water to the 40,000 people who don't have clean water. president obama signed a disaster declaration that makes federal funding to people in the hardest hit areas. 13 people have died from the storms. officials are also hoping several dams in south carolina hold up against floodwaters. state wide nearly two dozen dams have breached sending water na already flooded neighborhoods. kerry sanders is live in columbia this morning with more on this dangerous situation. good morning. >> good morning, eun. this is a neighborhood that was hit by the floodwaters. the water actually went up to the roof levels here. you can see over my shoulder that the homeowners here have started salvaging the materials that are in their houses, trying to get family pictures, getting the ruined furniture out of the home. while we were here with them yesterday, there was an emergency order to evacuate. people scrambled as fast as they could because there was word of another dam upriver here that may again breach and they thought it had breached. people were scrambling out. it turned out it was a piece of false information, but it shows how tenuous things are. the weather today will be good. no need for a rain jacket. it will be sunny. but the officials here, the governor all the way down, figures that will send a false signal to residents that things are okay. when it rains, and there was more than 20 inches of rain over three days, that rain collects and it is still flowing into areas that were hit those dams. so the fear is people won't recognize that there is still a serious danger afoot here. and that if they are not paying close attention, they could find themselves in a precarious situation. >> very dangerous. kerry sanders live in columbia this morning. thank you. virginia task force one is on the ground in south carolina. the team from chantilly is in west columbia now. they have been assigned to the clarendon county area, an hour south of hard hit columbia. the team was called in sunday night by fema. the 80 member team and 59,000 pounds of equipment left yesterday morning. task force one will assist in swift and still water rescues, down there for ten days. coverage of the historic flooding situation in south carolina will continue in a few minutes on the "today" show. both kerry sanders who we talked to and al roker will give us updates. the cargo ship that sank during hurricane joaquin is pat of an ntsb investigation. a team of investigators is on its way to jacksonville, florida, where all we're also learning a baltimore man is among the 33 member crew believed to be dead. the coast guard says the el faro sank off the coast of the bahamas. yesterday, crews found a heavily damaged lifeboat from the cargo ship. a body in a survival suit was pulled from the water. the ships with on its way from puerto rico when it sank. developing story in georges county. police say surveillance cameras may have caught a shooting around 7:15 last night at the bp station on walters lane near chavez lane in forrestville. officers say this attack was not random and did not happen during a robbery. they hope other customers inside at the time can help lead them to the suspect. 50 more jurors in fairfax will be screened this morning as part of the charles severance murder trial. he's accused of killing three alexandria residents over a ten year span. lawyers are trying to find skwlorz c jurors who can handle a six week trial. once jury selection is done, opening statements could start as early as thursday. 6:49. developing in arlington police are investigating another sex assault this morning. the most recent happened early saturday morning on north scott street. megan mcgrath is live in arlington now. we have seen a spike in sex assaults in that area. >> yeah. there have been several sex assaults in the last several months. while police don't believe there are any links between them, that the same person is responsible, certainly it is an alarming trend. women in arlington are on edge. the latest incident happened over the weekend. we're here in the 1800 block of north scott street where the latest incident occurred. it was right around 2:30 in the morning. very early in the morning, police say that a man began to follow the victim as she walked home. he pushed her into the bushes and touched her inappropriately. and implying he had a knife. this is at least the eighth sexual assault that has happened in the area since july. just days before the late esst incident happened, a woman was pushed into the bushes two miles away from here in ballston. no indication it is the same man, but certainly a very, very disturbing trend, police are asking women to be cautious, to report suspicious activity and certainly if you can avoid it, not to walk or jog alone. important voting today on whether private ambulances could be used to take you to the hospital. mayor muriel bowser and gregory dean want to use private ambulances to respond to low priority incidents like cuts, sprains and cold symptoms. they say it will improve ambulance response times overall. if the plan is approved, it will last for a year. the union that represents health care workers is trying to keep the hospital from closing. the company that owns the hospital plans to open a walk-in center for patients and lay off close to 120 workers. the union is hosting a public forum tonight with community members and public leaders happening at 6:00 at partnership hall on fifth street. breaking news on the roads. we have just reopened here. inner loop ramp to northbound georgia avenue. that is very good news there. a lot of folks were kind of waiting to make that turn there this morning. crain highway and branch avenue, a 2 1/2 mile backup there in brandy wine this morning. looking better than it derrylid earlier. 95 quantico to the beltway, going to take you 28 minutes now. no major problems. a little bit slow here as you past wood bridge and up to the beltway a little slow 395 not looking so hot inbounds this morning. b.w. parkway southbound 26 miles per hour after you pass route 32. 270 at montrose road, no major problems, southbound, your typical volume for this morning. >> i love your new map, zooming along there. that he's awesome. patchy dense fog. watch out for that visibility, down under a quarter of a mile, 40 degrees there. look at luray, only 39 there. winchester at 41. closer to washington, montgomery, fairfax, prince george's county, mid and upper 40s. chilliest morning this autumn season near 50 in washington. mid-50s near the bay waters. sunrise is coming up here at 7:08. clear sky, gorgeous morning, see a little bit of a breeze on the potomac. it will be cool but quickly warming by 9:00 near 60. by noon, near 70. and then mid to late afternoon hitting the mid-70s. a dramatic change from where we are now. lots of sun throughout the day. and thankfully the rain has exited the carolinas off the coast and will pull away. tidal flooding, these counties in green around the bay and coastal area, again, during times of high tide. high tide this afternoon, alexandria, water front, 423, haines point, same time, maybe under some water with the high tide there. we have got gorgeous autumn colors showing up out of the mountains. they have peak autumn color there now. we're beginning to see a tinge of autumn color here locally. we have our peak color in the metro area around halloween. highs mid-70s today. upper 70s on wednesday. gorgeous day tomorrow. mid-70s, another gorgeous day on thursday. next chance of rain, friday afternoon, and evening, might get showers, maybe thundershowers. cooler for the weekend on saturday. sunday, monday, back to the 70s. >> 19 people are recovering right now from a crash between a trolley bus and suv. suv driver died. this happened in philadelphia late last night. police say the bus was stopped at a stop sign when the suv hit it from behind. a 70-year-old homeless woman is recovering after being rescued from rising waters in las vegas. we don't have video of that. but look at this here. lightning, hail, heavy rain, affected the las vegas valley. and the surrounding area yesterday. the woman was plucked to safety as her couch and her cat were being swept away. the area is also dealing with power outages and nevada highway patrol responded to 76 crashes in southern nevada. it is now 6:54. a contentious debate over pesticides will likely come up in rockville today. council members should decide whether to allow residents to spray their lawns with pesticides. a lot of people want to protect against mosquitos. the bill would ban pesticides or regulate them in some way. good morning. i'm landon dowdy at is y at cnb headquarters. retailers and shippers are gearing up for the holiday shopping season. gas and jet fuel prices have dropped in the past year. fedex says the increase is in response to heavier packages and a rise in residential deliveries, which uses more fuel. october 6th, are you done with your holiday shopping yet? if not, don't worry. consumers are being cautiously optimistic. 53% will spend the same as last year, a third say they'll spend more. overall shoppers plan to spend about a thousand dollars on gifts, travel and entertainment. the most popular items, gift cards, toys, clothes and electronics. with your business report, i'm landon dowdy. four things you need to know before you head out the door this morning. an announcement is expected today about the winner of the $310 million powerball jackpot in michigan. workers say the woman was working an overnight shift when she realized she had won. d.c. council member will consider what is the best paid family leave plan in the country. up to 16 weeks of paid time off. police in arlington don't think sex assault this weekend is expected to six other recent cases. police say a man pushed a woman into the bushes, threatened her with a knife and touched her inappropriately. this morning, 13 people are dead in the carolinas because of storms. in south carolina, nearly two dozen dams have failed. thousand s of people under mandatory evacuation this morning to avoid the potential flooding. our biggest problem now, still in brandy wine, branch avenue, we still have a big delay. but a 2 1/2 to 3 hour delay because of an earlier crash. crash to the right. delays remain. >> chilly morning. >> yeah. >> grab the jacket. >> thanks for joining us this morning. hope you're having a great day. >> the "t good morning. on the edge. in the carolinas the death tell rises as the flooding gets worse. nearly 20 dams now breached. more ready to burst. >> we've got so many that's breaking. they're tlaking as we're speak. >> homes under water. hundreds evacuations and roads washed out. we're there live. scare in the sky. >> medical emergency. captain sin capacitated. >> a pilot dies in the cockpit right in the middle of a cross-country flight. the american airlines jet forced to make an emergency landing. this morning the pilot's family speaking out. >> we've cried on and off today and just kind of feels like he's still on a trip. >> how the quick thinking crew averted