Spewing into the sky. Back in 2010 volcanic ash from an eruption in iceland shut down europes air space for six days stranding hundreds of thousands of passengers and costing the airlines billions of dollars in canceled flights. Howard, how is it looking out there . Right now pretty good here in toward pennsylvania, ohio, parts of kentucky and West Virginia. Showers and storms. These are matching east. I expect the Southern Area to kind of fall apart as it approaches the appalachians later this morning. But this afternoon refire. And thats what were going to watch as we head to the early to mid afternoon west and later afternoon here in d. C. So a 1 00, 2 00, 3 00, the Shenandoah Valley, the blue ridge. 5 00, 6 00 by us. Out toward stafford and toward tappahannock and cumberland, quarter mile visibility. The rest of us are okay. Its a warm, muggy morning. Readings in the 60s to 74 at reagan national. 66 in la plata. Well up in the 80s, mid to upper 80s for highs this afternoon. Lets bring in olga in, in for monika with the latest timesaver traffic. Were definitely looking pretty good right now. We are dealing with one accident to tell you about. This one is northbound on connecticut avenue right around georgia avenue. You can see the traffic is getting by to the right, but we have that left lane blocked. Also at the Woodrow Wilson bridge, i95, 495, were looking great on both the inner and the outer loops. Now finally picked up the construction on i95 through the lorton area but still a slow ride from quantico to dumfries. Mike, andrea . Thanks, olga. The family of an American Photo journalist reportedly murdered by militants in iraq are confirming his death. But u. S. Intelligence officials are still working to determine whether or not a video of the incident is authentic. Militants from Islamic State of iraq and syria released a video tuesday allegedly showing the beheading of james foley. He went missing in syria two years ago while working for the global post website. In a Statement Released on facebook tuesday, james foley mourned her sons loss and called on kidnappers to spare the lives of remains hostages. The World Health Organization says 84 more people have died from ebola. 113 new cases have also been confirmed. This brings the overall death toll to 1229 people. Yesterday the who requested that countries affected by the virus conduct exit screenings at airports and other border crossings. The Organization Says theres no need to ban international travel. U. S. Attorney general eric holder is heading to ferguson, missouri later today. His visit comes on the heels of another night of clashed between protesters and police. The protestors are demanding justice in the shooting death of michael brown. Vanessa herring joins us with the latest. Reporter holder will meet with f. B. I. And other officials that are investigating browns death. In an oped in the st. Louis dispatch, holder said, our investigation into this matter will be full. It will be fair. And it will be independent. Meanwhile officials in ferguson are urging protesters to stay off the streets after dark. This was the scene last night. Dozens of protesters ignoring that plea marching and chanting hands up, dont shoot reinforcing their claim that brown was surrendering when Darren Wilson shot him. The protest started out calm but it took a violent turn when Police Ordered everyone, including media to leave the area immediately. Police arrested those who did not obey those orders. Over the last two days, county police have made more than 50 arrests. Officials say peaceful protests often take violent turns after dark. We need to let our innocent people for a moment go in their homes, not let these agitated and criminal elements hide behind you and mask themselves. Later today a grand jury could begin to hear evidence to determine whether officer Darren Wilson could be charged in bournes death browns death and browns funeral is set for monday. Vanessa herring, wusa9. Thank you, vanessa. In maryland a greenbelt man has been arrested and charged with murdering his ex girlfriend. Prince georges county Police Believe tor campbell killed 36yearold shauntelle lewis inside her home on west forest road early tuesday. Lewis mother found her body. Police say she had been stabbed several times. Today 3yearold knijah bibb will be laid to rest. Police are still searching for Davon Wallace in connection with her murder. A reward of up to 25,000 is being offered now for information leading to wallace arrest. Todays Funeral Service is at Unity Baptist Church in northeast. Knijah would have turned 4 next month. Police are the publics help finding a woman who went missing while visiting fairfax on business. This is a picture of 43year old wendy fougy of philadelphia. Her brother says she was last seen on the 7th. She works for an engineering firm. She didnt show up for work. She may be driving a red hyundai with tags jks3697. If you have any information, please call police. Workers at the tsa are being trained to recognize d. C. Drivers licenses. This training comes in the wake of a Washington Post report that d. C. Teacher was questioned about her license when she was boarding a plane in phoenix. There have been more than a few stories that have surfaced like this. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes norton asked for a meeting between the tsa officials last week. Its 6 00 after the hour. One of the countrys most Popular Department stores is ordered to make some changes. Newest member of the big ten conference will soon honor all four years of vo ours is a world of passengers. The redeyes. daughter im really tired. vo the transfers. Well, thats kid number three. vo the copilots. All sitting. 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They claim they were detained even though they hadnt stolen or even tried to steal any items. Under the settlement, macys promises to beef up worker training to prevent profiling. General motors is expanding its website in an effort to get more vehicles with faulty ignition switches fixed. The site will now include all 20 models involved. Previously it only focused on small cars that had ignition switches that could turn the engine off and disable airbags. The problems have been linked to at least 13 deaths. Check the label. If you have Peanut Butter or Almond Butter in your pantry, hanes Celestial Group has issue add recall because of possible salmonella contamination. It effects arrowhead Peanut Butter and maranatha. There have been reports of illnesses four times that may be related to the nut budgeters. The university of maryland calling it an historic announcement. The school says its becoming one of the few division one schools to offer a lifetime guarantee lifetime degree guarantee, excuse me, for student athletes which means students in all sports will receive multiyear scholarship commitments even those who suffer serious injuries. The athletes will be able to return to school on scholarship at any time to complete their degree. 6 11. Gas prices dont have to drive you crazy. Let wusa9 help out. Right now were checking prices in laurel, maryland. According to aaas fuel finder, the citgo on 2nd street is selling regular unleaded for 3. 29 a gallon. If you go to the scotts bp on baltimore avenue, legal unleaded is going to cost you 3. 61 a gallon. Heres another look at the question of the morning. Researchers say this is the single most persuasive word you can use at work. Is it a, please, b, urgent, or c, yeah. Wusa9 facebook friend marsh george says i say please, this is urgent. Ill say a, manners are always in style. Well have more of your responses and the correct answer it is 6 15 on this wednesday morning. Howard bernstein is here. Hes been looking at his radar. Nothing over the immediate metro area. A beautiful sky this morning. Looks gorgeous. Well hear from him in just a few minutes. Well, ice bucket challenge fails. Thats a proper term to say. Theyve raised millions for charity, but the ever so popular challenges dont always go off as planned. Jeanne moos throws some cold water on the challenges gone wrong. Reporter maybe youre feeling just a little bit inundated. Like Britney Spears and ben afleck. And lady gaga who was iced taking the als ice bucket challenge, but if toronto mayor rob ford thinks his challenge was rough, thats not being almost knocked out. This is. Being clocked by a metal pale, creamed by a cooler. Theres a whole new category called ice bucket challenge fails. Sometimes its the dumper who fails. Sometimes its the dumpee. Sometimes its mans best friend. Who despite being tied to a sawhorse, runs for its life to avoid a bath. Hey, come here. Reporter heavy containers of water are hard to hold on to and even harder when they hit your head. We checked. She wasnt hurt. Maybe the smart thing to do would be to wear protective gear gear. See, im fine. But theres no protecting dumpers from themselves. Dont fall. Dont hurt yourself. Reporter sometimes you can blame the container. And sometimes you need a bigger bucket. Some ice bucket challenge fails can be attributed to structural defects, say, when a gutter gives way or a swimsuit top topples. Did you get it . Reporter this woman decided to take the challenge into her own hands and she figured the intended target wouldnt do it himself. She waited on the roof till he left the house. Als what are you doing . Reporter but theres no use crying over spilled ice water. Jeanne moos, cnn, new york. Oh. Feel their pain . The bucket that lands on their head is really rough. Its a gutter that landed on a guys head. Okay, try again. Or not. Just make the donation. Were trying again with howard and whats happening in weather . What are you seeing on the radar . Im seeing an afternoon thunderstorm threat here in washington. In fact, areas west youll see it early to mid afternoon. When i say west, talking the mountains first. Shortly after lunch time. By 2 00, 3 00, Shenandoah Valley. Then 5 00, 6 00 p. M. Approaching d. C. From the west. Not a yellow alert today, tomorrow or thursday, but depending on how things develop, any of these days could actually be upgraded to a yellow alert. Were monitoring that very closely. I want to start with doppler 9000 this morning because theres a bunch of showers and storms from ohio moving toward pennsylvania. That is a Flood Warning across parts of ohio, west of pittsburgh this morning. So a very active morning there. Some of the showers have snuck into Garrett County. I point this out because i know a lot of you folks travel back and forth between western maryland and West Virginia with family plans, make you have some Business Travel today. Keep that in mind. Theyll be dealing with this early. Well be dealing with this by mid to Late Afternoon. This morning look at that it looks beautiful outside. Our day planner does have the threat for clouds increasing and thunderstorms later on. 87 by 4 00 with storms west of washington. Blue ridge and west. By then 83. If youre going to the diamondbacks game tonight, first pitch at 7 05. Nats go fotheir ninth win in a roa. There could be an early in a row. There could be an early shower to dodge. Garrett county zero visibility. Orange to louisa one half mile. In the d. C. And baltimore metros, no visibility issues but a warm morning. Its warm across much of the east with 60s and 70s. You have to go well up into new england to find 50s right now. Locally kind of a difference. You dont see this often where east is the cool spot like bowie at 62. Thats our coolest on the board locally to 73 in haymarket. Centreville is 71. And newspaper chevy chase this morning 68 and up in chevy face this morning 68 degrees chevy chase this morning 68 degrees. Reagan national 74 with no wind to report and the dew point still in the low 60s. So its somewhat muggy. Futurecast watching the showers and storms for the elto mid afternoon. Popping in the Shenandoah Valley. Heading to the blue ridge by 3 00. Approaching d. C. By 6 00 or so. Whats lekft comes through earl this evening, falls apart overnight and were going to pop them up again tomorrow afternoon and again on friday the way it looks. So again any of these days we may have to upgrade to yellow alert days with 88 this afternoon. A late storm possible. 65 to 70 tonight. A patch of fog cant be ruled out. Tomorrow 8. Friday more showers 8 88. Friday more showers, 85. Cooler this weekend. Another comfortable weekend with a chance of a few showers, 80. Sunday looks like a nice day with a high around 80. Heres olga. Monika is off but olga has you covered with the latest timesaver traffic. Some steady traffic to tell but right now. Were starting to pick up the pace at the beltway. Youre looking at both the inner and outer loops at connecticut avenue. The beltway is accident free but not the same can be said for some of the other areas. Lets grow to our traffic maps. Were working with a pocket of slow traffic. This is accident related but earlier construction caused some slowing. Weve looking at 13 minutes making your way northbound 95 from quantico up to dumfries. Another slow pocket of traffic as well through that springfield terchange basically taking you about 7 minutes to get from lorton to springfield. Good news inbound 395, weve cleared out the construction that was prior to edsall road before duke street. All that has been picked up. Were looking good at the 14th street bridge but now a pair of accidents in Prince Georges County. Thats going to complicate your trip northbound on i210 this is i should say route 210 indian head highway as youre heading past farmington road. Youll find an accident blocks a lane. Theyre waiting on a tow truck and also an accident northbound 301 at route 5 in Prince Georges County as well. So thats going to make it a slow trip headed stormed the beltway. Toward the beltway. Lets take a look at how things are flowing in and around the outer loop of the beltway. So far so good at the Woodrow Wilson bridge. A fairly good trip as folks are making their way into virginia. Not too bad going around the virginia side of the belt ware. Again some pockets of heavy traffic mainly along the inner loop before you get to 395. Other than that were looking good through Montgomery County. Stick ar hey can you fix this . You bet thats our new interactive speaker wall. sup . Thinks its a speaking wall. 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I think Late Afternoon. Then weve got some problems. If youre traveling toward western maryland, western pennsylvania, youll run into this activity here. In somerset toward accident and oakland some isolated showers but the activity picks up as you approach the pittsburgh area. For us looks like the Shenandoah Valley will be seeing some of this potentially by 2 00 or so. Blue ridge 3 00 to 4 00 and here in d. C. I think after 5 00, 6 00 p. M. Is when our threat for storms will be going up. Lets go over to olga now. She has your very latest timesaver traffic. A lot going on right now. Were looking good on the beltway at connecticut avenue, but still working that accident endian highway just before farmington road. We also have an accident on 301 near the route 5 split and as well now, an accident on the showltder of the outer shoulder of the outer loop of the beltway right near the bethesda area near connecticut avenue. Mike, andrea . Thanks, olga. 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