little while. some of the areas under the gun, washington, d.c., prince george's county will get more moving in. anne arundel county eventually, alexandria, arlington, fairfax, prince william, rappahanock, places like that getting in on the action. there is now a coastal flood advisory in effect for portions of hartford, southern baltimore and anne arundel county today for high tides for the wind and the high tide action. we had the full moon this weekend so be aware of that. 45 degrees in washington. same in baltimore. dulles airport at 43 degrees. ocean city is 49. winchester is 44. forecast for today, mostly cloudy skies, periods of rain and thunderstorm activity early this morning and then again a possibility this afternoon around 2:00 with isolated thunderstorms. temperatures though will be fine. in the mid to upper 60s, depending on where you are. winds could become gusty today, gusting up to 30 miles per hour or so. that's a quick look at the weather. now let's find out what is happening on the roadways. we have julie wright standing by with that. tony, wet pavement means a number of accidents and checking for yet another crash, this one possibly in the inner loop headed for the wilson bridge. so out of oxon hill, watch out for fire and rescue responding there. 295 in a jam, up toward the suitland parkway, only two left lanes able to squeeze by at the scene of the accident. inbound along south capitol street, a lot of slow traffic there for folks headed across the douglas bridge. eastbound along route 100, approaching, 295, accident tieing up the right lane. and on 295, accident at 197 left lane. jammed up out of jessop into laurel. and 95 on the brakes at potomac hills toward the occuquan. 395 from the beltway toward duke street, slow traffic across the inbound 14th street bridge. also finding delays traveling the inner loop toward 66. beach driver over at the tunnel reported. the outer loop below speed at 95 college park through silver spring. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. and check out myfoxdc.com for the latest updates on traffic and weather from all around the region. we've got interactive maps, live cameras on the traffic page plus our radar and forecast on the weather page. you can also find out how to down load our apps to your iphone, droid and blackberry so you are always connected to fox 5 morning news. another night of air strikes over libya. in the capitol, gadhafi forces fired heavy anti-aircraft fire in the area. it hit a trent in tripoli. the u.s. insists gadhafi is not a target. and gaudy a did declare another -- gadhafi cleared another -- lek laired another -- declared another cease fire. >> reporter: the u.s. military said this has been successful so far. but gadhafi vows this is the beginning of a long way. anti-aircraft fire in the skies over tripoli. but there is little to do to stop cruise his -- hisles. on his way to russia, robert gates sought to play down the u.s. role. >> we will continue to support the coalition and be a member of the coalition and have a military role in the coalition, but not the preeminent role. >> reporter: but some have questioned what the goal is. the air strikes have gone beyond just targeting air defenses. advancing columns of his forces have been hit and part of his personal compound was struck. although the pentagon said gadhafi is not a target. rebels in the east has cheered the attacks, hoping the tide will turn in their favor. but the president has continued with his tour of latin america, taking in the sights with his family. it may be another part of a white house effort to deemphasize the role in libya but critics wonder if the goal could expand to include getting rid of gadhafi. >> that is quite important because if we turn this into a war to remove gadhafi, who knows where it could go. >> reporter: and there is gumbling -- grumbling on capitol hill that the president needs to explain exactly what u.s. intends to do in libya. >> the crisis is causing more energy spikes. oil jumped to almost $1.03 a barrel after gadhafi vowed a long war over the weekend. average price of a gallon has jumped other 7 cents over the past two weeks and up 70 cents since this time last year. and you can find the best prices on myfoxdc.com by clicking on prices at the pump under the traffic tab. more problems at the tsunami damaged plant in japan. workers evacuated after smoke was seen. they are trying to restore the electrical lines to avoid overheating. government has design described to scrap the complex. the death toll now expected to top 18,000. an amazing story of survival in japan. nine days after the earthquake and tsunami, a 80-year-old woman and her teenage grandson were rescued from their flattened home. the boy said he was able to reach a refrigerator for food and water during the ordeal. fairfax county urban and search rescue team arrives back home early they are morning and all 74 members of virginia task force 1 spent the last seven days in japan on a search and recovery mission. they say the devastation is much more magnified when you see it up close. the team was thanked by japan's ambassador to the u.s. when they returned home. >> all americans are so proud of you and people in japan are so grateful to you. >> to walk through there and to see the devastation, when you first pull up, and to look at everything is overwhelming. >> everything was very devastating. you can imagine -- you can't imagine losing all of your possessions to include family members. yeah, it was very devastating. >> the team found many victims but did not find anyone alive while in japan. there are still many opportunities to help the people of japan. we have links to several charity organizations on our website, myfoxdc.com. the suspect in a crime that shocked the bethesda area due in court today. for days police were on the lookout for two men they believed sexually assaulted two women in the lulu lemon store. >> that story was a cover-up, the surviving woman is now under arrest. and there is more on the truly bizarre murder case from sherry. >> i'll take it. more than a week ago everybody thought brittany norwood was the victim and not the suspect. and she's due in court today. she'll be facing murder charges. norwood was arrested on friday charged with killing her co- worker at the lu lu lemon store. one woman was found dead. police say the two women went back to the store after closing it that night to get norwood's wallet. she claimed two masked men attacked and left her tied up. police say her injuries appeared self-inflicted and a witness inside the apple store next door heard two women arguing. >> we are able to say that a motive could likely be a work- place dispute involving those two employees. >> police say other things didn't add up and that norwood left valuable evidence inside murray's car after moving it. there were also only two sets of footprints inside the store. a review of court records show norwood had financial struggles a few years ago, including a lien for student loans and an eviction. >> we'll have more on this information coming up later this morning. at 9:00 we'll talk with montgomery county police chief tom major. that is going to be in our 9:00 hour this morning. for more coverage of the lulu lemon murder go to myfoxdc.com and click on the hot top picks tab. and an alleged pay for play deal facing intense scrutiny coming up. and george mason facing off against number one. the deal was win or go home. we'll update march madness coming up later. and as we take to you break, we'll look outside. we'll get the latest weather and traffic from tony and julie next. 7:14 now. we're looking at tower cam and there is the lightning we've been talking about. right on cue. and we'll see maybe more of that. and tony perkins joining us now. and the one benefit is that the storm is moving very quickly. any chance it gets out of here as quickly as it got here? >> yeah, the storms are moving through the region at about 50- 60 miles per hour. so they are fast-moving storms. we're seeing that activity as we speak and that live shot there really showing you the lightning strikes that we're seeing across the region. now what is interesting is we're also getting some hail, some strong gusty winds and downpours with these thunderstorms as they come through. so it's wreaking havoc across portions of the area but it is moving quickly. let's take a look at the radar image. we'll show you the latest image that we're seeing. and again, it's a wider area of heavy rain. the thunderstorm activity really embedded where you see the areas of red and orange. there you go. up to the north of baltimore and around baltimore, there they are getting hit hard right now. the heaviest thunderstorm activity has now come through the washington area and going through prince george's county and moving into anne arundel county -- in fact it's moved into anne arundel county. and to the north still getting rain in montgomery county and again down to the south, fairfax county, places like that, where we are continuing to see the heavy rain and thunderstorm activity with lightning and some hail being reported as well. let's take a look at temperatures across the region. they remain consistent. in the 40s, cool with the winds blowing. right now current temperature in washington is 45 degrees. we have 43 at dulles. 45 in baltimore. fredericksberg 46. ocean city 49. hagerstown 42. here is your wind gusts. as the storms come through, winds now gusting up to 17 miles per hour in washington, 21 mile-per-hour in annapolis. 21 in manassas, 22 at dulles airport. so another part of the storm system coming through. the forecast for today, cloudy skies and periods of rain and more thunderstorms could develop during the course of the afternoon, again with gusty winds and lightning. high today in the mid-60s, possibly the upper 60s down to the south. we'll have more on all of this coming up in a little bit and we'll continue to monitor it as it was happening. >> it was just 70 something the other day. >> and by the end of the week highs will be in the 40s. >> okay. >> man, that's pretty depressing. >> you know what that means? earmuffs, julie wright. and not to keep them warm, either. >> you can't handle the truth. >> not when it's like that. not with 75 or 80 degrees on friday. i was in love with you then and then it changed. on the roads, wet pavement causing problems out there. but the crash on 295 northbound at suitland parkway has cleared. big delays from the naval research lab into southeast washington. we also have the delays on the southbound side leaving the 11th street bridge toward howard road. southbound bw, crash at 197 still in play, delays before 175. crash at route 100 at 295 has cleared. beach drive at the sousa tunnel crash, follow police direction to get by. and falls road before the pace improves. westbound 50 at the severn river bridge, authorities checking for a crash there. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. 7:17 now. the d.c. mayor's office feeling the heat of several investigations, including a house oversight committee probe for the pay for play investigation with sulaiman brown. joining us now bob mccartney to talk about this. bob, happy monday. >> thanks. >> a little wet outside today. you escaped the rain? >> no, i got caught in a major thunderstorm. >> that's what we're dealing with. and city probably wishes that is the least of our problems. >> amen. >> and congressional over sight going on now. are we just not getting enough information in this case? >> i don't feel like i have enough information. since sulaiman brown, the former mayoral candidate first made the allegations that he was promised a job and slipped money secretly by the gray campaign in order to make these attacks against adrian fenty, the former mayor, since he made those allegations we've heard nothing new since then. we've had sort of routine denials from gray and then the two key campaign aides who allegedly did the wrong things, all according to sulaiman brown. but lorraine green, the chair of the campaign, she hasn't said anything. we haven't heard from howard brooks, the consultant who was supposedly brown. and sulaiman brown is talking to the fbi but then he comes out and he won't tell us what he said or what they asked him. thous oversight committee has announced investigation and haven't scheduled hearings yet. the d.c. council has not had any hearings on this. so basically all we have are these allegations hanging out there and no sponsor nothing to advance the story over crucially let the public know whom to believe. the public doesn't have enough information yet to make a credible judgment about whom to trust. >> and no guarantee even if they do testify before the house they wouldn't take 59th any way and not say anything. >> but that would be anything. they haven't said anything, much less under oath. i want to see the people who these allegations are against go under oath and i want to see sulaiman brown go under oath and repeat these incendiary things that he say. and if others come and take the fifth, we'll know more about what they are saying. >> now let's talk about the mayor now, vince gray. he's taking the heat because everybody happening since he took office a few months ago. has he taken any steps forward now to try to clear things up or at least lead this city? >> well i think that you have to make a big distinction between the sulaiman brown stuff, the allegations about the campaign, and then the other scandal about the hiring and over paying of people on his staff. because this was one of the most explosive things that first came up, that they were paying more money than they paid to people who had similar jobs in the fenty administration, that they hired four children of top officials or aides or campaign people of gray's and i think he has taken steps to deal with that. of the four children who were hired, three are now gone. the several top officials' salaries have been reduced and he's instituted a much stricter vetting procedure and emphasized they would look more carefully than before but he has taken steps to deal with that. >> there is movement there. and kwame brown, everything coming out about the suv situation but you say this could be something bigger? >> we've been waiting for a long time for an office of campaign finance report on the campaign finances not in last year's election but in the election in 2008 when he ran for d.c. council and there were questions then about his finances and his campaign. and we're expecting an official report, along-awaited official report on this soon, and it was released mistakenly -- an early version was released mistakenly and we got a look at it, and if that holds up, we're talking about a lot of money. we're talking about a quarter of a million dollars of questions about a quarter of million dollars or more of campaign finances. that's more money than involved in the suv. >> they were leased at government rates in the district, then maybe it's two or three suv's. >> everybody wants to talk about the suv's because it's so crass, spending of government money so you can have a fully loaded lincoln navigator. it seems so selfish. but the money is $1,900 a month times two, versus a quarter of a million dollars and that's a big difference in money. >> we'll wait to see what happens with that. bob, it's good to talk to you. you can read more of bob's stuff in the post and on myfoxdc.com. we'll link you there. stay dry. 7:43 now and 45 degrees on a monday morning. while facing an uncertain situation in libya, the president is visiting brazil. and one of the president's possible opponents makes a trip to the holy land. more on sarah palin's jerusalem visit coming up. 7:26 now. president obama's five-day trip to latin america takes him to chile today. he spent the weekend in brazil where he received three briefings on libya. there have been lighter moments. he stopped by a neighborhood in rio to play soccer with some youngsters. and later he spoke to the nation of brad ill and touched on -- brazil and touched on what was happening in the middle east. sarah palin is in israel. she and her husband arrived yesterday. she was coming from a trip to india. there is word she is brushing up on her foreign policy credentials before returning to the united states tomorrow. it is 7:27 and we are continuing to track the developments in libya this morning after another night of punishing attacks on gadhafi forces. a no-fly zone over libya still in effect. we'll get more on the situation just ahead. and a live look outside. wet roads slowing down the commute. we'll have julie's word on that and the latest weather from tony when we come back. 7:27 now. 7:30. and look at the water on the road this is morning, on this monday morning. an hour ago nothing was falling and then the thunderstorms moved in. so be aware if you are getting out the door this morning. >> how long is it going to stick around, tony? >> that's interesting. >> the precise minute. >> i can't give you the precise minute but they are moving at 60 mile-per-hours so they'll be here through quickly. in the meantime we're dealing with -- with the effects of the storms. this is a picture of hail this morning. agnes vannic sent this in. and it is small hail but collected quite nicely there and we've had reports of hail across the region, in rockville earlier and farther out in maryland and now report of hail in pea-sized or in some cases dime-sized hail. and we're going to radar. we have the lightning scan turned on so you can see where the most recent lightning strikes are appearing. for the most part they are to the east. they've come through the washington area but still quite a bit of lightning. in fact we showed it being picked up by our camera in oxon hill. there you see the lightning showing up near easton, to the east of baltimore, heading toward delaware. across the washington area, we continue to see areas of heavy rain occurring and still hearing some rumbles of thunder. but as can see, this is tracking to the east. once the heavier rain gets through here we'll be left with lighter to moderate rainfall. to max 2 to show you another radar image and another view of what is happening. there you go with the strongest precipitation coming through as we speak. most of the thunderstorm activity now off to the east but we do have a bit more to get through in terms of rainfall. and then once we get through that, we'll see clouds and then we could get more rainfall moving in here later on today. maybe some more thunderstorms as well. high temperatures yesterday into the low and mid-50s. that was it. 54 degrees at reagan national. 53 at dulles. bwi marshall is 50 degrees for the high yesterday. today we'll see higher temperatures than that. right now we're in the 40s. 45 in washington, 47 down in fredericksberg. baltimore is at 45 degrees. the forecast for today, you know this, it will be cloudy all day. rain this morning and some isolated thunderstorms, rather gusty winds when the storms come through. maybe gusting up to 30 miles per hour later on today. then this afternoon more isolated showers and thunderstorms are possible. we're looking for a high of about 65 degrees. for tonight, an overnight low in town of 48 degrees. clouds continue and some showers, maybe a couple of thunderstorms during the evening as well. the winds will gradually diminish. and then your five-day forecast, we begin to cool off. tomorrow 63 degrees. not too bad with morning sun. but mostly cloudy for tbulk of the day. chance of showers late on tuesday. and then a cold front on wednesday, a high of 50. and the low 50s on thursday and by friday a chance of showers again with a high only in the upper 40s. kind of