Came out an hour ago and ive been going through the information and im getting more and more confident as i go through the data that our weekend may have very little in the way of impacts in this storm. A different story out of the beaches obviously. Well be detailing that as we go through the hour. Whats new with the storm track is little bit farther off shore. It has a very large wind field. Its breezy around here. Most of the wind and east of the bay. The storm could sit off the jersey shore for 3 or 4 days. Today, nothing to worry about. Plenty of sunshine. Temperatures now. Low 80s later. Washington metropolitan area. Heavy rain stays well east of the i95 corridor. Theres a chance we get hardly a drop from i95 westbound, but still looks like we could get 3 to 6 inches of rain down toward the beaches. A very tight gradient between at all. Download our nbc washington app. Lets good to jack taylor who is dealing with a huge mess of problems. This is not good. Its the baltimore washington parkway northbound. First of all, weve got a big delay thats going to start back near powder mill road, rolling northbound 198. Good news what is left in activity northbound was over on the left shoulder, two vehicles, the truck just left. He had been in the median. All your travel lanes are open. The southbound delay with those headlights you are seeing, huge problem. Southbound lanes are open but you are still going to find it very heavy and extremely slow both directions. Southbound will recover first. Northbound, unusual delay. We still have some flashing lights. Authorities still have to deal with the accident that is before 197, that the right now over on the left shoulder. That will change soon. Just be aware its going to cost you extra time. 95 nudge, wink wink, without any kind of a delay. Back to you. Today kicks off the farewell to summer Labor Day Weekend, but everyones eyes will be on the weather. We want it get out to megan mcgrth with when you should head out for your holiday. Traffic on everybodys mind this morning. Reporter that is absolutely right and right now its looking pretty good. Look over my shoulder here. You can see the bay bridge, the head lights, those are folks he had headed eastbound toward the beaches. Were not seeing any traffic delays at all. Its still very early. 353,000 vehicles crossing the bay bridge during the course of the weekend. How will hermine affect your weekend . Its not going to be good as youve heard chuck explain all morning long. High winds, pounding surf, the potential for riptides and heavy rain, all of that saturday evening into sunday and we could see an impact in term of your we could see some Wind Restrictions on the bay bridge. If the win gets high enough saturday night and into sunday, sometimes they restrict the kinds of vehicles that can travel across. Those high profile or tall vehicle like trucks will of course be posting updates on our nbc4 app. If you are going to be headed to the beach, the best times to go, take a look, today, before 10 00 a. M. Or after 9 00 p. M. , saturday before 7 00 a. M. Or after 6 p. M. , if you are headed out sunday or monday, go before 10 00 a. M. Or after midnight. We are expecting a lot of folks to start hitting the roads here over the course of the next couple of hours, so we are expecting traffic to begin to build. Keep in mind, there will be extra Police Patrols out there on the highways. They will be doing a number of different things, including pulling people over for dui, aggressive driving, seatbelts. Bottom line here, give yourself a little extra time. Leave early or leave late. Ba all right. Thank you. 5 minutes after the hour and right now an investigation is under way after a derailment at a virginia storage yard. At least one train went off a nonpassenger track at alexandria yard last night around 9 40. No one was hurt there. Metro Transit Police say it does not appear to be affecting any Machine Systems and trains appear to be running on time in that area. Expect some trouble, though, on the red line today. The rhode island avenue station is closed after concrete fell from the ceiling again. The station did reopen yesterday after concrete fell from another part of the ceiling on wednesday. No one was hurt. Shuttle buses will be available to take passengers from rhode island avenue to brooke land today. Were following breaking news not far from that station. Police are investigating a deadly shooting about a mile from there. We know a man was killed. Police havent said who they are looking for. Derrick ward will have a live update for us at about 6 30. Stay with us for this morning, students at Anacostia High School will return to school to learn one of their classmates has died. The 17yearold was killed in a double shooting yesterday afternoon on 16th street southeast. D. C. Police are not identifying the victim. A pizza delivery man was also shot and seriously hurt. One mother had to help her kids with their homework outside because the crime scene was blocking the entrance to her apartment. Im pretty frustrated right now. One, its hot and my kids have been in school all day. They want to relax and do their homework, they want to eat diner and just do things normally as a normal family would do, but we cant. Police are offering a 25,000 reward for information on a suspect that leads to an arrest and conviction. Now, to a developing stoirg in laurel. Howard coin police are investigating a double murder there. They found two people dead inside a home on queensguard court last ni has been taken into custody. We want to show you some video from the scene overnight as detectives collected evidence from that home. Police have not identified the victims or the suspect. A Uva Fraternity is moving forward with its 25 million lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine. A Virginia Judge denied the magazines attempt to throw out the lawsuit. Its a widely discredited article that seven Fraternity Members raped a student in september of 2012. Colin kaepernick takes a knee. This time he has some company. He also tried to explain himself. How the football fans are reacting. Breaking news, were keeping a close eye on the weekend forecast as Tropical Storm hermine moves up the east coast. Chucks back when our w iea good morning. 10 minutes after 6 00 on a friday morning. After some showers late last evening, things have cleared out nicely and it is a cool, comfortable start to your friday morning. Temperatures in the mid 70s around most of the metro area. Even some upper 50s in the Shenandoah Valley. It depends on where you are going to be spending the Labor Day Weekend as to how much the storm will impact. Shenandoah valley and the mountains, hardly a drop. Almost no impact at all in the Shenandoah Valley. In and around the d. C. Metro, much of the i95 corridor certainly going to be breezy saturday night into sunday and monday and theres a period of showers possible, but our rain chances are dropping fast here in the d. C. Metro area. The Chesapeake Bay, particularly the lower bay, windy and rainy at times. The delaware and maryland coastline are going to take it on the chin. Around here over to 50 around the d. C. Metro. Theres a 20 chance we could get missed by the rain altogether. Not so at the beaches. More about the impacts on the coastline coming up in ten minutes. Jack taylor with big impacts on our friday morning traffic. Good grief. At least at this point, the accident is clear on the baltimore washington parkway. Chopper 4 has been on scene for a while and were tracking the delays northbound. Southbound rubber necking delays gone. Northbound doesnt look great, unfortunately. Weve got very heavy and slow traffic trying to roll northbound. Now, 20i7, live look down near 109, nothing wrong. A little volume this morning. Also the rail riders, unfortunately with rhode island avenue station is closed throughout the day. Shuttle buses will run between rhode brookeland. Back to you. 6. 13 right now. Donald trump has been king the rounds to defend his immigration speech which fired up his base but disappointed many hispanic supporters this week. Yesterday, he was asked about what he would do about undocumented immigrants who have not committed crimes. After its all stabilized, everything is done, the hardened criminals and killers and drug dealers are gone, then well make a determination what were going to do. Trump also emphasized that mexico will pay for a border wall. After meeting with him earlier in the week, mexicos president said that will never happen. Hillary clintons biggest backers, like Vice President joe biden, are taking over on the campaign trail. It looks like the democratic nominee spent most of the past month fundraising. New totals showed that clinton raised a combined 143 million last no month for her campaign and the democratic party. Its the biggest a maryland blogger is in a lawsuit filed by melania trump. They had retracted one of its articles and apologized for this lawsuit. Six people from prince georges Head Start Program are banned from the classroom. Three have been fired. The others recommended for termination. The program if youll remember lost 6 mill in federal funding after an investigation into allegations of student abuse. The board of education has vowed to keep the program going. Its ceo released this statement yesterday, saying, quo te i have taken discipline action against six individuals, including certified teachers, classroom aides, and an administrative supervisor. These individuals will no longer be in front of any child. A baby is inri after her mom was attacked by an 18yearold who said he didnt want to be a father. Brothers choked and stabbed the victim in wheaton on wednesday. He intended to kill the woman and the baby. The 19yearold was six months pregnant. The infant was delivered prematurely. This coming weekend, in memory of officer noah leotta, police held a traffic checkpoint. A truck driver a drunk driver hit him during a similar checkpoint last year. D. C. Police need your help finding three people who broke into a school to steal electronics. They just released the video. The thieves pried open the basement door in the middle of day on saturto equipment into a red car and took off. Anybody who thinks they recognize the suspects, they are asked to call police. The zika virus keeps spreading in florida. 49 home grown cases in the state so far and officials are doing pretty much they can to stop the disease. Now they are blaming plants though for the problems. They say mosquitos often breed in tropical pants. Some in particular. Crews have started removing from the ground. Officials say they finally caught mosquitos that are carrying the virus. All eyes on Northern California today. 20yearold sex offender brock turner is going free there. He was sentenced for six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman after a frat party. He is being let out for Good Behavior after just 90 days behind bars. The county Sheriffs Office is expecting protests especially from people who thought the original sentence was too short. Once hes out, turner will be on probation for three years. He will also have to attend drug and alcohol counselling and register as a sex offender. Quarterback Colin Kaepernick says he doesnt want his protest to be taken out of context. He was on his knee during the anthem during the 49ers preseason game last night. This time, a teammate, eric reid also refused to stand. It was the San Diego Chargers military salute night and his protest was booed. We have a lot of issues in this country that we need to deal with. We have a lot of people that are oppressed. We are a lot of people that arent treated equally, arent given equal opportunities. Yesterday, kaepernick pledged to donate the first Million Dollars he earns this year to organizations that help i want to go back to our breaking news this morning. Hurricane hermine made landfall around 1 30 this morning in florida. Right now, the biggest worries as it is now a Tropical Storm, are the storm surge and flooding effects from the heavy rains. It hit florida with sustained winds at about 80 miles an hour. The storm is losing strength and expected to drop down back to a Tropical Storm before pushing down to dpaxt and the carolinas georgia and the carolinas. I want to show you cedar key, florida. Huge trees toppled over on cars and houses. There are mandatory evacuation orders in some parts of florida, but nbcs Gabe Gutierrez reports, some people refused to leave. Reporter in these conditions, we want these island. All these storm are serious, because they are unpredictable and the scary part is when tornadoes spin off of them. Despite the risk, they have chosen to stay. Weve done everything we can to prepare and its too hard to pack up and leave and this is home. They plan to ride out floridas first hurricane in more than a decade. Gabe gutierrez, abc news, apalachicola, florida. Wipt to turn to storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell who has been tracking this changing storm this morning and looking into the forecast for the weekend. Im getting very optimistic for the Shenandoah Valley and the mountains of west virginia. I remain pessimistic for the Eastern Shore and the beaches. After showers last night, what a gorgeous sun rise coming our way. Clear sky over washington early this morning. Whats the latest with hermine, whats ne shore, that brings more dry weather off metro. Coastal flooding is an issue and beach impact could last lee or three or more days. Its friday, everybody. Plenty of sunshine early. A couple more clouds coming in later today but on the old, a good day for exercising outside. High School Football tonight. Nothing to worry about. Now, as far as the storm, hermine is about 600 miles south of ocean city now and the forecast track brings the storm off the outer banks by early saturday afternoon by late saturday night on to sunday. Its slowing down. By monday, tuesday, wednesday, the storm just sitting off the jersey coast. This is going to be a long for us locally, the rain chances are dropping. Showers possible but no heavy rain. Breezy saturday. Could be on the windy side sunday, any flooding concerns are confined to the coastline. Breezy, a chance for showers, but a lot of dry hours during the weekend, and then the weather really starts to improve monday into tuesday. Ill give you the tenday outlook at 6 51 which has blazing heat back in here by middle of next week. It is a slow go on the roads this morning. Heres jack taylor to help you navigate it. Were hoping it gets better. Chopper 4 has been flying over the baltimore washington parkway. State highway is going up there to try to assist. They may block that left lane theres a lot more space between the cars. Its getting better. Beltway itself relatively quiet. This is a nice friday pace and before the weekend, we should find weve got all travel lanes open. Its been described a mattress on the roadway on the inner loop before you get into the legion bridge. Hopefully by the time you get out on the roadway that will be clear. It is not causing any kind of delay. Back to you. We have smart phones, smart watches, and now news of a smart belt . What the new technology can do to help your waistline. And breaking news this morning. Tropical storm hermine starting to cause problems for georgia. Jay gray is doing live reports from tis location in savannah for lots of stations around the country this morning. When he started this morning, no rain. Now, you take a look here, you can see its sort of dried out a bit since he was last with us when the rain was really coming down. If you are not a fan of the fitness tracker you see everybody wearing on their wrist och times, how about a fitness belt . The device is called a welt and sam supg will begin shipping them next january. It uses a sensor and monitor to measure activity and food intake. Its available for both men and women and will cost 69. I dont want to know. Interesting. Just put on a pair of spanks and that will limit your intake. D. C. Commuters know they have it rough. Auto Insurance Centers found people in our area has it the worse when it comes to money and time. Traffic delays cost the average d. C. Commuter 1843 every year. Thats nearly double the average american who loses about 960 per year. Charles county marylanders have it the worst when it comes to time. They spend an average of 43 minutes commuting. Warren county, virginia, made the top ten with an average of a 42minute drive. Rising in the ranks, outgoing d. C. Police chief, cathy lanier says it wasnt easy for a woman. She explains how she beat the odds. How a 40 marijuana deal led to a sho it is the first hurricane to hit florida in more than a decade. Hermine roared assure as a category one hurricane. Now were getting new video of the storm surge causing massive flooding. Breaking news in the district. Police are working the scene of a deadly shooting. Were live with new developments. D. C. Police chief cathy lanier says it is her city but as she prepares to retire, she reflects on her challenges a moment a captain told her this. Everybody here supports you, but youll never go past the rank of captain. It is and were watching it all for you this morning. 6 31 just about now. Here at home going to be a sunny start to your Holiday Weekend. A pretty sun rise there but as we monitor hermine, it looks like its going to be a rough week at the beach. Chuck. You bet it is. If you are planning on going to the coastline, just know its not going to be very good weather for you at all. Outside thork what a great looking way to get things started. Labor day week will start sunday didnt sunny today, wide impacts. Theres a real summer sizzle coming your way. Weather under ground temperatures this morning, low to mid 60s under a clear sky. Oh, does it feel nice outside this morning. Well be in the upper 70s and low 80s for high temperatures later on this afternoon. No problems on your friday. Friday night football will be good but the