look at the color on the screen this morning. all those amazing storm shots yesterday. some rain boughs as -- rainbows as well. mother nature delivering this this morning. we'll have clouds around. mostly cloudy to start and even a sprinkle of clouds but sunshine will build in by noon. a little less humid. yesterday we were in the mid-had the strong storms. we're looking at just a few sprinkles. you see them here. not much going on but from fredricksburg to colonial beach into the northern neck, that's it. that's the area that's rained. this is ground clutter north of it. if it heads together, it will head toward st. mary's county, charles. upper 60s to upper 70s. here's what's in the news right now. president obama has authorized a request for 350 additional troops in iraq. the white house says the troops will help protect american diplomatic facilities and personnel in baghdad. the additional forces will be about security at the u.s. embassy in baghdad. a video showing the beheading of an american journalist steven sotloff, they say it was in response to continued u.s. air strikes against isis targets in iraq. the pentagon says the target of its air strike in somalia was the leader of the al-shabaab terror group. it hit an encampment monday night. pentagon officials are assessing the strike. they couldn't confirm whether the leader was killed. the first humid safety -- human safety trial for an experimental ebola vaccine begins this week. the food and drug administration gave the green light for researchers at the national institutes of health to give the vaccine to 20 healthy volunteers. the drug is developed by glaxo smithkline and the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. we're following a developing story out of ukraine. russia and ukraine have agreed on a cease-fire in eastern ukraine. >> let's check in with nick giovanni live in the newsroom with the latest. >> reporter: the announcement just came down about an hour ago from the office of ukrainian president petro pore chen company. he said he and vladimir putin have reached an agreement on a permanent cease-fire. but no details of the agreement were provided. contrary to that statement, beau "the wall street journal" and cnn reported minutes ago that putin didn't agree to a cease-fire but did discuss how to, quote, resolve the conflict. this is certainly still a developing situation. we're sorting through these reports for clarification at this point. also still waiting on reaction from russian separatists who ukrainian forces have been fighting since april. we'll certainly keep you posted when we get more information. a boil water advisory is in effect for 11 communities in prince george's county now. >> this all comes after a water main which broke open yesterday in hyattsville. take a look at this map from wssc. it is the entire area at the bottom right of your screen in pink. >> vanessa herring is live outside the giant on east-west highway in hyattsville with more. are they even open right now, vanessa? >> reporter: they aren't open yet but of course last time there was a water main break in the county, we did see a lot of people heading to any area grocery store to pick up ready to make do until the advisory is lived. this advisory is affecting about 100,000 customers this morning. i'm joined by lynn of the wssc. the location where we are highlights the importance of plugging your address in for that map. >> boil water advisories are sometimes difficult to definal. the -- define. the interactive map on wssc is a key tool in helping customers to find out if they're affected or not. there's a search box in the upper right hand corner. type in your street address, your city and it will tell you if you're in that red area. if you're in the red area, obviously that's the affected area for the boil water advisory. >> reporter: this is sort of on the cusp here in hyattsville. >> we are on the fringe of it here. putting the address into the map is probably the best way to say for sure if you're in the affected area. i can't stress enough that the affected area, those folks are under a precautionary boil water advisory. it doesn't mean that there are any issues with the water. it just means when you have a water main break like we did last night and we lose a lot of water and a lot of pressure in the system, there's a possibility and i can't stress that enough, possibility for contamination which is why we do a precautionary boil water advisory which is what's going on right now for this area of prince george's county. >> reporter: it's a 24-inch main that break. crews have not started working yet on that site. could you just explain what that repair process is going to be like? >> it's a 24-inch water main that broke. it's in a grassy area near a stretch of the anacostia river. so we've isolated the broken section of pipe which means there are no customers without water. so we're not rushing to get it repaired, to get customers back into service because that's the not itself case. we'll take our time and make appropriate repairs. some repairs are more difficult than others based on their location. this one is not right down the side of a road which is a good thing because it's not impacting traffic. but it's near a grassy area near a waterway so we have to take precautions, take our time and make the appropriate repairs. if you're in the affected area you can expect 48 hours approximately. we have to do water quality testing to make sure the water is fine and wait till a certain point to start that we have not started that. later this morning we will be collecting water samples when our system has returned to normal. that's what we need to wait for we'll continue to update everyone. we'll update the media and our website. keep checking to find out. as soon as we can get the all clear, we'll lift it. in the meantime customers in the affected area should boil their water. >> reporter: lynn, thank you very much again. 100,000 customers are affected. you'll want to boil your water for about a minute before you use it for cooking, drinking, giving it to your pets. we'll keep you updated on the boil water advisory as soon as we have more information. the affected areas are on your screen right now. 11 communities here in prince george's county under this boil water advisory for at least the next 48 hours. and i will send it back to you in the studio. >> all right, thank you, vanessa. the jury in the governor bob mcdonnell corruption case starts its first full day of deliberations today. the former virginia governor and his wife, maureen, are charged with doing special favors for jonnie williams, the former ceo of a dietary supplement firm in exchange for more than $165,000 in gifts and loans. defense attorneys argue mcdonnell made a bad decision but never gave any special treatment to williams. if convicted the former governor and his wife could face decades in prison. regulate ears fine pge more than $1 billion for a deadly pipeline explosion in california california. >> some of your favorite fast food restaurant employees are planning a strike because to prove a point about internet speeds we slowed down an up escalator this is crazy like i don't get it, this one is working ladies, shouldn't up be as fast as down? 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hundreds of residents are without running water. >> just last year this was all green. >> reporter: adriana marquez says three years of drought dried up her garden and her water supply in the town of eastporterville. he she and other families in the area have had their private wells run dry. >> water is precious. you take it for granted until it happens to you. >> reporter: scientists at cornel university predicts there's an 80% chance a ten- year drought will strike california and other southwestern states due to climate change. this tank has been set up as a short-term solution. residents here in porterville are bringing the water back home for their basic necessities like showering and flushing tear toilets. since june volunteer donna johnson has passed out thousands of donated bottles of water to homeowners in need. >> drought is kind of like a silent killer. it doesn't register on how serious it is and what the long- term effect of this is. >> reporter: marquez recently started using a hose to get water from a neighbor. like many she can't afford the $15,000 to $30,000 needed to drill deeper wells. local officials say building a new water system in the area would likely take at least three years and nearly $10 million. bigad shaban, cbs news, porterville, california. >> researchers at cornel say the odds of a megadrought could last as long as 35 years is up to 50% now in the southwest. >> in california lawmakers recently passed an unprecedented piece of legislation that would regulate ground water for the first time in the state's history, but governor brown has yet to sign any ground water management policy so far. >> our producer was telling us to go to google and look for california after drought. the pictures are stunning. it's obvious there is no water. >> i read something in the last 40 years the population went from 20 million to 48 million but their storage capacity has not changed. they're really going to pay a heavy, heavy price. >> what's the price we're paying as far as those storms that rolled through last night? >> a couple of outages here and there but we're doing a lot better. the front is coming through now. the humidity is still up. frizz alert this morning. the humidity will drop a little bit and temperatures will drop a little bit. not as oppressive. >> no more 90s? >> it it will be the first time we hit 90 four days in a row if we reach that. it's been a good summer overall, even though it's been a tough week. a great picture this morning. look outside with me. we're going to share the skies on the michael & son weather camera with the sunrise coming up in 21 minutes. oh, my goodness, a beautiful looking sky this morning. even though it's mostly cloudy, we'll turn partly to most si sunny later on. on our way to upper 80s to perhaps 90. t think we get much more than that with winds out of the north this morning bringing in the slightly drier air. doppler 9000 watching the last of a couple of sprinkles. tough to even tell if it's hitting the ground anymore. looks like this is slivering up as it -- this riverling up. this is it right now. the northern neck maybe a sprinkle but that's it. won't be seeing too much in the way of showers today. just beautiful, beautiful skies. we need to dry out a little bit. it's ragweed season so the weeds are high. with all the moisture the mold is high and the tree pollen, the grass pollen, that's come up into the moderate category. allergy sufferers, i'm with you. we are under assault right now. a little bit of fog up in frederick. there was. their visibility is up to 10. the only real foggy spots are in garrett county of oakland visibility at one-quarter of a mile. the dew points are still way up. starting to come down a little to the north. dew points in the upper 60s and low 70s in the metro with our temperatures in the low to mid- 70s. national is at 78. gaithersburg has fallen to 68. wow. this color is ridiculous this morning. i don't even want to put the graphics up. 78 degrees, mostly cloudy with a dew point 69. feels like 80 now. so this front is coming through. the drier air sits to the north of it. it's not a lot drier but it is a little less humid. that's what will move in for the afternoon and evening hours with the cloud shield also thinning out as we go into the mid- to late morning. isolated showers to our southwest today, especially closer to charlottesville and harrisonburg. highs 80s, maybe 90. tonight 72. could see a patch of fog late. 90 tomorrow. isolated afternoon storms on thursday. isolated afternoon storms friday, low 90s. saturday i know it's the weekend but a better chance of showers and storms saturday afternoon and night. 93. should be an early shower sunday. fine for the ravens and nationals games. monday and tuesday looking great around here. monika samtani, all right, give it to us. >> we are in big trouble on the beltway. in fact, i'm going to ask our producer to take us straight over to our ipad camera if we could. a free traffic feature by the way on our ipad as well where you can find out what's going on with traffic. take a look at this. there's an accident on the outer loop at route 29 colesville road. only the two right lanes are getting by. this just happened within the last couple of minutes and delays already well before new hampshire avenue on the outer loop here on the top stretch of the beltway in montgomery county. so please keep this in mind for your travel plans. if you are just heading out the door and headed to the beltway, you might want to reconsider and use the icc. pay for t. you'll get to work faster. let's go over to our maps now. there's another situation that developed early this morning on the bw parkway southbound. it was a broken down construction truck in a late clearing work zone in the left lane. southbound side at route 410. inside the beltway things are beginning to improve but look what it did to traffic. almost a 40-minute ride from laurel to the beltway. bw parkway southbound, that is not pretty. so you have options. you can use route 1. you can use kenilworth avenue. you can use route 450 or even route 50. lots of options for you. please don't get on the bw parkway. in fact, we have a live picture i believe over on the beltway now. they moved over from our sky 9 and again here's the accident on the outer loop at colesville road. you can see the equipment has arrived on the scene. you need to stick to the right to get by. once you're beyond this, you're free and clear past route 29. so for those of you who head on to the beltway past colesville road, you'll be fine. it's those who come around if college park, this is the situation as we speak. i will keep you posted. we will be right back. you're watching wu at perdue, we pride ourselves on the freshness of our chicken. well, not that kind of fresh. but i can guarantee the freshness of our chicken because we go beyond what the usda requires... with extra inspections in american family 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remains there blocking the left lane. outer loop westbound i-495 at colesville road with delays beginning now in college park. back to you guys. what happened to relisha? the d.c. government has concluded there's nothing the city could have done to prevent relisha rud's disappearance -- rudd's disappearance six months ago from a family shelter. >> officials say the girl's family deliberately hid important information about her missing school and their relationship with the man they allowed to take her. >> we talked with her mother. she disagrees with d.c. >> i believe there's more she could have done. >> reporter: shamika young no longer wants her face shown. six months after their daughter's disappearance, they can no longer stand the criticism, the judgment of others. >> my issues with the school board is if she missed all that school, why didn't they call our phone. that is your job requirement. >> reporter: the d.c. government issued its report into how city agencies performed in relisha rudd's case n. summation it says no justifiable government actions would have prevented relisha's tragic disappearance. why are you changing things, doing things differently if you've concluded there's nothing more you could have done? >> the review team looked carefully at all the facts of this case and determined in terms of the policies and procedures of district government, there's nothing that the government could have done that could have prevented what was a tragic outcome. at the same time, the mayor is very clear that we need to constantly work on improving the systems that we have in place. >> reporter: the criminal probe into relisha's disappearance focused on kahlil tatum, a scud toad january at the shelter and his -- custodian at the shelter and his relationship with relisha and the he was allowed to take the child at home for days at a time. while looking for relisha and tatum, authorities found tatum's wife murdered in a local motel. two weeks after that, tatum was found dead in a park from a self-inflicted gunshot. shamika young no longer lives here at the city shelter at d.c. general hospital. turns out she picked up the keys to her new apartment today and she tells me she's determined to be reunited at some point with her three sons who are still under the custody of the city government. there is a criminal investigation into the disappearance of relisha rudd. d.c. police chief cathy lanier said today that investigation is continuing. bruce johnson, wusa9. >> relisha's mother and father claim they never gave kahlil tatum custody of their child. >> they say relisha was sent to stay with them because she was sick and they say that relative put her in the custody of tatum. opappropriates after plan which would have -- opponents of a plan which would put a shooting range near sugarloaf moment can rest this morning. >> the agency has dropped its application. the proposal caused a stof controversy in frederick county. it's 6:29. this is a live look outside. it will still be humid out there to start off our day but it won't be as oppressive as we've experienced the past few days. >> more on weather in just a bit. we start, though, with plenty of trouble on the roadways. monika has timesaver traffic. wait till you see this, especially in maryland. we'll go to our maps right now on the outer loop of of the beltway at colesville road. it's been blocking off the left side of the roadway long enough to cause delays from college park into silver spring and again that single left lane is blocked. we can take a look live again on our sky 9 on the outer loop where the traffic is going to slow down because of this accident. it looks like hopefully that one vehicle is moving on on and that means it will open up all lanes shortly. but the damage is done, i can tell you. again all lanes now just opening up. but if you're just heading out the door and you think lanes are open now, well think again because of that delay. so at least from 95 if not more from route 1 heading westbound on 495 with that earlier accident there. let's go back over to the maps. i want to tell you about the bw parkway where late clearing construction southbound side at route 410 caused this headache on the southbound side. a little bit improved now. it's about a 20-minute ride from laurel to the beltway. if you're okay with sitting this that, go ahead but i subject you use 450 or even route 50 at this time. now over to virginia. looking fine on the dulles toll road. fine on i-66. we'll end with a live look at the 14th street bridge. no issues right now along 395. still a bit muggy out there. it is still a bit muggy. waiting for drier air to come in from pennsylvania. mostly cloudy skies now but we've had some stunning pictures in the hor roy disoon this morning as the color approaching sunrise -- horizon this morning as the color approaches the sunrise. look at that. that is something nice. it is going to turn out to be a sunny day after starting out with mostly cloudy skies. 83 by lunch time. highs fear 90. if we get to 90, it will be the fourth day in a row and the first time all summer having four straight 90-degree plus days. we've had a couple of sprinkles well to the south. very light sprinkles across st. mary's county right now. not shower how much of that is reaching the ground. leonard town you may have a sprinkle toward ridge, scotland beach. 75 in martinsburg. we're sitting in a muggy 78 but it will get a little bit better this afternoon. mike and andrea, back to you. >> howard, thank you. time to see what our partners at cbs this morning are working on. >> our partner gayle king is standing by live in new york. good morning, gayle. >> and we're working on a lot of stuff. good morning. good to see you boat. ahead insider mike morel joins us with what's next on the fight against isis after a video was released showing the beheading of another american hostage. plus, home dee mow may be the -- home depot may be the newest victim of a massive credit card breach. why the credit card companies cannot seem to stop the attacks. and the recent incidents over reclining seats are getting very expensive. we take a closer look at the jump in passenger-related flight diversions. the news is back in the morning. we'll see you at 7:00. if you've been in an irplane and when -- an airplane and when somebody reclines the seat in front of you, you have just this much room t. is annoying. >> but why all of a sudden we're having these violent outbursts that are diverting planes. >> because people are mad as hell. they can't take it anymore. >> they can't take it any more. opening statements in a case in corpus christi began yesterday. the obama administration along with rights for minority groups claim the laws are motivated by racial discrimination. conservatives say the voter -- requirement for vower i.d. is no different -- voter i.d. is no different. the government's massive collection of americans' telephone 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showing us that because i have the exact opposite. take a look at how ugly and horrible the traffic is. this is from the southbound i- 95 merge in college park. all the way to colesville road in silver spring where the accident has been cleared but wow, the damage is done well before college park right now on the outer loop. this is westbound 4 495. i just can't even believe how bad this is, guys. back to you. >> all right, monika. looks like a game day i would imagine. week one of the regular season calendar. the washington redskins name debate still has hot button status, arguably even more so at the beginning ever football season. last night dan snyder and his wife, nytaa, sat down with espn's "outside the lines ." once again, snyder was on the defensive explaining why he's standing firm on his decision to not change that name. the show also featured native americans on both sides of the debate. >> what question really feel and i hope you respect is the fact that the name of our team is the name of our team and it represents honor. it represents pride. it represents respect. >> we can call ourselves whatever we want to call ourselves. you cannot, dan snyder. you cannot refer to us in that matter. >> i'm very proud of the redskins because they gave me hope. so my story is quite simple. i identified with the redskins because they are proud and i'm proud of the redskins. >> the debate obviously continued on. espn conducted a poll of just over a thousand people asking them if the name should change. it found that 71% of people are in favor of keeping the name, 23% opposed but those in favor of changing the name has risen 9% in just the last year. in the hunt for october, the nationals magic number to clinch the nl east now stands at 18. for the orioles that number is 17 in the al east. how do you calculate that? in today's inside pitch, our very own baseball professor holden ciewch near crunch -- holden kushner crunches the numbers. >> reporter: through the magic of math we figured out that the nats have a 99.2 % chance of making the playoffs. that's a smiley face. on the other hand just a .8% chance of not making the playoffs so ultimately, the smiley guy wins. bryce harper is one of 15 players to hit 50-plus home runs by his 21st birthday. interesting note about this, 7 of the 12 retired players with 50 home runs by their 21st birthday are in the hall of fame. that means 58% of those retired players are in the hall of fame. and that's good news for brycey. in the first half of the season, denard spann got on base just 32% of the time but in the second half of the season, he's gotten on base a whopping 41% of the time. extrapolate that over the full course of the season and he would be number one in the major leagues in getting on base, something very important for leadoff hitters. back to this magic number. take 163 minus any number, divide it by 2 square plus 8 equals mc to the 12th, i sure do love this math stuff. it sure is fun. >> 99% chance of making the playoffs, i think we'll take that. >> when jerry lewis found out his real self, even he was sexy at the end. >> that's a little too much information there. thank you, nick. >> it's a movie. it was a movie. 6:42. the e channel is forced to cancel episodes of "the fashion police." >> there's a new study out that says we should get used to more polar sore tek ev it is 6:46 on this wednesday morning. it may be muggy outside but at least it's a beautiful, beautiful start to the day. >> we've got mostly cloudy skies but enough breaks to allow the light of the sun, the refraction of the clouds and the sun came up about eight minutes ago in washington. let's go right to it. it's a gorgeous looking sunrise this morning. you can see it there. it's going to go behind the clouds for a little while. as the morning wears on, the clouds will thin and will end up being a good deal of sunshine. temperatures mid-80s. on our way close to 90. if we get there, it will be the fourth day in a row. it's been a hot week but not a bad summer at all. 85 by 7:00. back to 80 by 9:00. we'll be back to the upper 60s, low 70s tonight. allergy index is attacking us right now. mold spores are high. ragweed is peaking this week. we have grasses and trees that have shot into the moderate categories so that has not been any fun. a little bit of fog. we thought we'd have more of this with all the showers and storms we had yesterday. visibilities are down toward the stafford airport. garrett county has the worst of it down to a quarter mile visibility. just a little haze when you get to fort meade, parts of howard county. dew points are still way up there. this is a real true measure of how much moisture is in the air. when you see these numbers above 60, it's agent uncomfortable. 70 is tropical. we have quite a few dew points above the 70-degree mark but they're starting to drop off a little bit in western maryland, southern pennsylvania, parts of the northern shenandoah valley with temperatures in the upper 60s to mid-70s. here we're generally in the 70s although in montgomery county, 68 coming in from the airport. look at the sunrise. the air is pretty quiet. now how flat the potomac is. we've seen a few crews out this morning doing their morning exercise, their morning practice. 78 degrees feeling like 80 already. dew points at 69. that's slightly less than it was. the wind north, northeast at 6. this front is really coming through. a couple of hours ago it was up near the mason-dixon line. starting to come troop. the eis the air -- come through. the key is the air is starting to get drier. early sprinkles south. then more sunshine. can't rule out a stray shower culpeper, luray, south and west toward charlottesville today and into the mountains but for the most part we'll be in good shape. 5:00 good deal of sunshine. should be comfortably warm into the upper 80s. i know it may be a little sticky but it's still going to be a lot better than yesterday's 95 and all the storms we had. our forecast three days first. today 89 if not 90 with the isolated morning shower. more sun in the afternoon. tonight we should see a patch of fog. by the way the winds are going to be fairly light north to east at 5 to 10. tonight 72 with upper 60s north and west. tomorrow 90. isolated afternoon storms in a few spots. also on friday 92. by saturday, yeah, saturday may end up being a yellow alert day with low 90s. scattered afternoon and evening showers. an early shower sunday. the redskins are on the road. the ravens have their homeowner. sunday afternoon it soon really nice for that. also the nats monday and tuesday. hello september. where have you been? monika? >> it looks really good for next week. i think we just want to get this week over with. we have the muggies and really, really bad traffic. in fact on the outer loop of the beltway, it's going from bad to worse because of an earlier crash at colesville road route 29. let's take a live look from our sky 9. it slows down from here, the 95 interchange well before this point actually if college park all the way over into silver spring. again, that accident has been cleared. in fact, we'll go to our ipad right now. our traffic feature. you can get maps on there for free. i'm checking out cameras as well on the outer loop at colesville road. all the activity sitting on the shoulder but again the delay you saw if our sky 9 is continuous from at least college park heading westbound on the beltway this morning. it is really ugly. let's go over to the maps again. if you're planning to head southbound on the bw parkway, your update is that there was late clearing construction inside the beltway at route 410 on the bw parkway. it is much improved here, although it's still pretty slow, about a 15-minute right from laurel into the beltway but earlier this morning, even just half an hour ago, it was double that time. so, yes, it's improving. route 50 just slows inside the beltway through cheverly. there's been a crash by the way on bladensburg road northeast where the lanes have been blocked and police on the scene there. over on 66 on the inbound side, your ride from manassas to centreville is about 34 minutes right now. beyond that you're okay into fairfax and over to the beltway. no issues to report right now on i-95 northbound. it's just going to be sort of that slow stop and go traffic as you come up from dale city to woodbridge and through springfield. let's go to the 14th street bridge northbound 395 which is -- going to be okay along 395 from duke street it's going to be off and on to the potomac river. no problems on the southeast- southwest freeway. back to you guys. >> thanks, monika. now that everyone is back at work, back to school and hitting the road, even though they're stuck in traffic like we just saw, wusa9 wants to help you find the best and worst gas prices in the area. this morning we're checking fairfax county where the most expensive or fairfax, rather, the expensive gallon of regular is at the shell on west lee highway. gas there is $3.50 according to aaa's mid-atlantic website. >> the best bargain cheapest gallon of regular gas on fairfax boulevard. at the sunoco at $3.29. 10% of people admit to stealing this at work. is it a, someone's lunch, b, toilet paper or c, copy paper? >> facebook friend larry wrote, must be c. paper around our printers just seems to evaporate. >> well, it's the answer that was most popular from the start of the morning. a, stealing someone's lunch. we'll be right back. to prove a point about internet speeds we slowed down an up escalator this is crazy like i don't get it, this one is working ladies, shouldn't up be as fast as down? yeah. shouldn't internet speeds match as well? yes. do your socks match? my socks match. do your eyeballs match? yes. cable does not match the speeds. makes you want to go mad. erggggh. only verizon fios comes with speed match. upload speeds as fast as your download speeds. join 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48 hours. back to you. the world is losing the battle against ebola. that's according to the group doctors without borders. the group says treatment centers in west africa have been reduced to places where people go to die alone. 1500 people have died from the outbreak so far. be prepared for more polar vortex weather events. researchers say it's all because of a shrinkage of ice in the seas off russia. less ice allows more energy to go from the ocean into the air. that weaks atmospheric forces which usually keep cold air trapped in the arctic. the study is publicked in the journal of nature communications. we're looking beautiful at the moment. still mostly cloudy to start. better this afternoon. we're going to have less heat, less humidity. temperatures will be in the upper #s on to around -- upper 80s to around 90. tomorrow as ian i laced -- tomorrow an isolated storm. look at that next monday and tuesday, fall finally arrives. >> look at what you get to talk about and for me, it's brutal. >> you have extra time to watch the beautiful skies. >> on the outer loop this is what it looks like from basically greenbelt past the 95 interchange right here into silver spring. you have one accident and that's what caused this delay. >> just one? >> it just takes one. let's go to the 14th street bridge. >> profound, howard. >> wow, howard. on the northbound side of 395 to the 14th street bridge, off and on delays through landmark. it really has not been bad at all in virginia, believe it or not. >> deep thoughts from howard bernstein. well done. >> cbs this morning is next withed dedication to preservation. -- with the dedication to preservation. >> meet a woman trying to save a bird species. >> that guy over there and i will be back in 25 minutes with traffic and weather. >> don't forget wusa9.com, facebook and twitter m tweeting out beautiful pictures from this morning. >> we'll be back at noon. >> take care, everybody. see you tomorrow. >> bye-bye. were you eating smoked sausage in here? no! could have gotten me one. i did. grab a spicy smoked sausage breakfast sandwich. it's the smoked sausage you crave, now spicy. good rnmoing. it's wednesday, september 3rd 2014. welcome to "cbs this morning." justice will be served. the vow this morning from president obama after the second isis execution of an american. >> the president also takes aim at russia as there's word this morning of a possible cease-fire in ukraine. plus a potentially massive