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Through culpeper. Youre the coldest spot on the map, 32. Highs today upper 60s. By lunch time were already at the 60degree mark. Larry, over to you. Metro riders, were on schedule this morning. No issues on the rails or the buses so youre certainly good to go there. Were taking you out into Southern Maryland this morning, in clinton on branch avenue northbound. We have an accident thats causing delays all the way to the 301 interchange. Sky 9 is making its way there and will be there within the next ten minutes. Meantime around the beltway still fairly quiet with no issues around the whole capital beltway. No issues on 395 or 295 this morning. Your next trafficup date coming up in traffic update coming up in roughly ten minutes. Over to you. Following the road to the white house, all signs point to former virginia senator jim webb taking the road less traveled. The floor was his for all of 15 minutes during the first democratic primary debate. You compare that to 31 minutes for Hillary Clinton, 28 for Bernie Sanders. Webb made it clear he was not feeling the love. We bring in delia goncalves. What can you tell us about what the former senator is expected to do . Reporter he is expected to make an announcement today about his candidacy for president. Hes staying in the race but hes changing course and ditching possibly the Democratic Party and hopes to revive his president ial bid. Were hearing from the jim webb camp that he could possibly be running as an independent. Currently the democratic candidate is trailing in the polls with just about 1 support. His campaign is billing todays News Conference as a discussion of his, quote, the candidacy. The campaign and his views of the Political Parties in the current election cycle. You mentioned during the last debate he did not get a whole lot of time. The other two candidates. The front runners double the time he received. Jim webb says it was rigged toward those two candidates. Ill tell you how his displeasure may have led to this announcement later today. Ill see you in a halfhour, delia goncalves, wusa9. Vice President Joe Biden and former president carter will pay tribute to Walter Mondale at the white house today. As biden continues to mull over a president ial run of his own. Hillary clinton gears up for her testimony before the House Benghazi Committee this week. On the republican side the secret service is reviewing requests for protection from the donald trump and ben carson campaigns. Federal officials are investigating a high level Security Breach involving the e mails of two Top National Security officials. Authorities are trying to locate a hacker who allegedly broke into the emails of john brennan and homeland secretary jeh johnson. It appears to be a High School Student who released information of 20 people connected to the ceo. They say it was being done because, quote, innocent people in palestine are being killed daily. In a response the white house called on congress to pass cybersecurity legislation which has been held up in the senate. New details are coming out about the latest q wave of violence in vies. A gunman israel. A gunman killed one person and injured another. Soldiers mistook an african immigrant for an attacker and shot him. Then he was beaten by israelis who believe he was a terrorist. That man later died at the hospital. Alarming new numbers show most americans are afraid of having their identity stolen. According to a new bankrate. Com survey almost half of the country has actually become victims of Identity Theft or know someone who has. Children fall victim to identity thieves more often than adults. Nikki burdine joins us with more about a campaign in maryland to stop child Identity Theft. Nikki . Reporter thats right. So chances are your 1yearold doesnt need to secure a loan or a credit card but more than 140,000 kids across the country have had someone use their information to apply for something just like that. This kind of fraud has a real impact on the rest of their lives. One 9 yearldzs identity was stolen. The theft totaled about 1. 5 million. The fraud wasnt detected for ten years. Now a new Program Kicks off today to help keep that from happening. Its called kid safe maryland. Heres how it works. Parents can go online to the website and request a risecuty freeze be put on their kids information. The program also makes it easy for new parents to protect their kids. At 6 30 ill explain how hospitals are getting involved. If youd like more information on how to place a freeze on your childs information, we have a link to that on our wusa9 mobile app. Back to you. The focus will be on medical marijuana today at a public hearing in frederick county, maryland. The county council there is asking the public to weigh in on whether Marijuana Production should be allowed on land that is now zoned for agricultural use. The land in question is located in middleton. Middletown, rather. Right now regulations allow the growing of medical marijuana only in industrial areas. The state of maryland plans to award 15 licenses to grow medical marijuana by the end of january. A piece of washington history came down just a couple of hours ago. Were talking about the sign outside the Washington Post 15th street northwest headquarters. The Washington Post reports the old sign will accompany the post to its new headquarters. That will be at one Franklin Square at 1301k street in northwest. At least for now looks like the nfc east is shaping up to abtwoteam race. The redskins not one of them. Eagles and giants tied atop of the division coming out of last nights meeting in philly. This was ugly. Manning was saked three times. The eagle itself sacked the eagles sacked the giants put [ inaudible ] 6 07. The european migrant crisis appears to be getting worse. People are forced to deal with even more mud slides out west. Its not bad out here temperature wise. From time to time theres a little bit of a breeze that makes it feel pretty cool. Were in store for a great afternoon. Temperatures will warm up. By lunch time were already warmer than we were yesterday. Into the upper 60s today. Lots of sunshine. A great fall day. Well talk about even warmer weather coming up. Sky 9 giving us a live look right now at branch avenue at surrats. Trying to find this accident. Doesnt look like theyre seeing much of anything. If anything theyre seeing volume. For folks that would normally travel along this corridor, add additional time to the morning commute because we are seeing minor delays. We also have delays going on in other parts of the dmv. Stay with us okay. So everyone is saying, hey you gotta get fios but why . 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It is chilly this morning but we are doing a lot better than yesterday. Take a look. Temperatures at 36 for manassas. Ashburn at 39. Lovettsville 34. Laurel 39. Bowie 37. Temperatures today will increase to the upper 60s and tonight not too bad either. The warming trend continues. Details coming up. Larry, over to you. Thank you. So it looks Like State Police telling us the accident is cleared. This is on branch avenue south of surrats so good news there. Traveling northbound, we can see the increasing volume on the northbound side of branch avenue there. But again just allow yourself additional time to account for those delays this morning. Well have an update for you in roughly ten minutes. Well send it over to you. After ten years of conservative rule, canadians respond with an overwhelming liberal way. Electing the s son of a for Prime Minister into office. Were back with for the girl scout meeting. Ok for the soccer team. For the girl scout meeting. How many meetings are you having . giant just dropped prices on thousands more items. Which makes the checkout lane, victory lane. My giant. Like a lot of little circular dots. Itchy, burning. Its pretty much everywhere, where i have pants. Define very active . Then maybe yes. You know, im gonna have to call you back. Okay bye. Find and book a doctor in private with zocdoc. Just in case you dont have that heavy winter coat, you have a bit after reprieve. Allyson has a warmup a nice one coming glit going to coming. Its going to be pretty nice wednesday and thursday and then well see temperatures fall off again. This is fall. Temperatures go up and down a lot and thats exactly what the seven day has in store now. Take a look how were starting off on your michael son camera. It is a little crisp but were not frosty and were away from the 20s. No 20s on the map this morning sos that anne improvement. In some areas were almost 15 degrees warmer than we were this time yesterday. 45 degrees here in the district. Those winds out of the southwest are keeping us a little bit warmer and thats going to be the trend this afternoon and in the coming days. It is still a little cool for culpeper. Youre at 32, the cold spot on the map. Right through the 81 corridor, martinsburg youre 42. Win chester 46. Thats not too bad. Temperatures continue to climb. Were at 80 this afternoon for st. Louis. That warm weather is headed our way for tomorrow and into thursday. Thursday will be our warmest day of the week before things change again. High pressure is in control for today and tomorrow. Parts of thursday. So expect a lot of sunshine for today and also towhat happens o thursday. Clouds will increase thursday into friday morning. This is overnight. We see a couple of stray showers. Not a rain maker but near the marylandpennsylvania state line through the mountains, through the maryland panhandle, you can see a couple of stray showers overnight but youll be sleeping and wont notice them. By friday a little cooler. Back to fall weather. Upper 60s today. 70s are here for tomorrow and also into thursday. Thursday will mainly be in cloudier and maybe a little breezy at times. Friday cooler, maybe breezy at times as well. Upper 60s, a nice weekend. Our only chance for a good shower might be sunday night. Larry, over to you. Thank you. 6 16 is your time. Looks like we have another issue out in maryland, this one along 210 indian highway. This is the northbound side where we have an accident there. Police have not given us any indication at this point whether there are any lane closures associated with this accident but if youre going to be heading out within the next 10 or 15 minutes you will see this so make sure youre being mindful, use caution and make sure you slow down as you approach the crash site. Sky 9 giving us a live look at route 5. We had an earlier accident that is now cleared. The problem is the the residual delays associated with that. Youll need to get out the door sooner as opposed to latetory account for the growing residual delays. We expect it to ease up with the next 20 or 30 minutes or so. Of course once we start to see some progress, well be sure to let you know. We get a look at how things are shaping up on kenilworth avenue at eastern avenue. Increasing volume as you make your way into d. C. Luckily no accidents and or incidents to slow you down. Well send it over to you. Turning now to the latest on the migrant crisis, slovenias government is pleading for help from its european neighbors as it struggles to cope with thousands of migrants arriving from croatia. About 2,000 migrants and refugees crossed the border earlier today. They were taken to the Border Crossing by train. Once in Slovenia Police escorted them on an hours long walk to a Reception Center which is already overcrowded. The death toll from last months stampede at the handle in hajj in saudi arabia keeps climbing. Almost 2200 pilgrims were killed in the disaster on september 24. Hundreds of others were injured. But the official saudi death toll remains at just 769 despite this latest ap report. Canadians have voted for change and they did so by turning to the son of a are forker Prime Minister. Of a former Prime Minister. We report on the Longest Election Campaign in modern history. This is what positive politics can do. This is what a positive, hopeful vision and a platform and a Team Together can make happen. Reporter the polls suggested a liberal win late in the campaign and monday night Justin Trudeau and his party got that win with the majority governance. Steven harper says he has no regrets. For 78 days he campaigned with his sights set on illusive fourth term. The canadians denied that wish. The disappointment you also feel is my responsibility and mine alone. But know this for certain. When the next time comes, this party will offer canadians a strong and clear alternative based on our conservative values. Reporter harper didnt say it in his concession speech but his party put out a statement he requested the conservatives start looking for a new leader. Several high profile conservative candidates spoke about the red wave, including joe al vary and chris alexander. When theres a way, its very hard to stop it. Thats what we as conservatives have confronted. I think a message of change was very much there. And that is a powerful message after three terms. After years of drought the rain is coming too fast to handle in southern california. Water is pooling along some streets in Los Angeles County and this after more heavy rain overloaded drainage systems beyond their capacity. The Highway Patrol is hopeful highway 58 can reopen soon. The last of the cars caught in the mud slide there last week was pulled out early yesterday. I turned and i looked and up the mountain there was just a river of water coming down. I was really concerned that we were going to get washed away. Dozens of car owners showed up at the mohave airport where their vehicles were towed trying to scape off the mud and see if any of their belongings inside could be salvaged. Most of the vehicles had been totaled. They need the water in walker county, texas. Thats where fortunates have spent the night trying to fully contain a wildfire. It started from sparks when a truck hauling hay blew a tire. The flames quickly ripped through some 700 acres and burn add handful of nearby buildings. A couple subdivisions with some 300 families in them were evacuated just as a precaution. Time to check on your money. Are you paying with plastic or paying by phone . Apple pay launched one year ago. Now Android Users can opt for samsung pay. But according to Industry Analysts pay by phone isnt catching on as quickly as you might think. It accounts for only about 1 of all retail transactions in the u. S. That said this might be the safer option. You look at the technology underneath mobile payments, it actually has the potential to be more secure than a traditional credit card transaction. Thats because your actual credit card number is never transmitted. A onetime number is used instead but Industry Experts suggest your phone pay source be a credit, not a debit card and use additional protections like pins and fingerprints along with unique passwords for each account. Your favorite Science Fiction fan, relative or coworker may be especially geeked this morning. Thats because the longest trailer yet for a star wars movie debuted last night at half time at the monday night football game. Right after the trailer with sound effects aired rkt tickets for star aired, tickets for the star wars movie went on sale and theyre a tough get even for some hollywood celebrities [ inaudible ] can you hold to tickets for me . Make it happen. Jj being jj abrams. The seventh film in the franchise arrives in theaters december 18. Its expected to break all kinds of Box Office Records if this is any indication. I wish i had that voice in the commercial. Its epretty much awesome. The faa takes steps to regulate drone use across the country. If you drive along 66 outside the beltway Transportation Leaders want to hear from you. The president ial campaign makes its way to downtown d. C. Im delia goncalves. Coming up at 6 30, ill tell you who could be ditching the Democratic Party. Reporter childrens identities are being stolen at an alarming rate but i have good news. Theres a way to help prevent it and its free. Ill explain coming up. Were in store for a great looking day. Warmer weather and cooler weather. Ill time it out for you coming pumpkin excitement is back at dunkin. Pick up your favorit pumpkinflavored baked treats and beverages, before pumpkin season is over. And beverages, dunkin has a dark roast coffee thats deliciously roasted just right for a bold start and smooth finish thats never bitter. Put down the dark roast youve been putting up with and reach for the one you deserve. The Obama Administration is cracking down on the growing use of recreational drones. The faa is developing new rules that will require owners to register most unmanned aerial vehicles. Kris van cleave reports. Reporter the number of drone complaints to the faa has surged from 238 for all of 2014 to 969 and counting so far this year. One of the Biggest Challenges is finding the operator, something this registry aims to make easier. Transportation secretary anthony foxx. How do you plan to enforce this, particularly with people who already own drones . Whats their incentive to register them . We would expect retroactive registration. There may be a grace period the task force will have to come up with those solutions. Reporter how are you going to enforce that . Are you going to send the drone police after them . Signal is when you enter the national air space, its a very serious matter. This isnt riding your atv on your own property. Reporter a new task force will have just a month to recommend how the system should work and which drones should be registered. We cant continue to vilify this technology. Its incredible. It will be a game changer in terms of the economy, in terms of entertainment. Reporter michael runs the small coalition. Some of its members will be on the task force. Can they do that in a month . Do i have concerns about how short a timeline this is and what it will mean for the industry . Of course. Reporter secretary foxx gave very few specifics about the registry or what kind of information would be required and who would have access to it. The faa hopes to are the registry up and running in time for the holidays because it expect as million drones like this one to be given as gifts. Kris van cleave, cbs news, washington. A march is planned this evening to protest mayor muriel bowsers new policing plan. They say mayor bowser has used the current conversation about crime to propose more expanded Police Powers and increase surveillance. The march is set for 7 30 from Congress Heights to the 7th District Police station. Speak up, speak out. Its everybodys business. Thats the plea from organizers of todays Domestic Violence town hall meeting in Prince Georges County. The event takes place at suitland high at 7 00 p. M. Thats on silver hill road in district heights. Among the speakers states attorney Angela Alsobrooks and Police Sheriff melvin high. Up next at 6 30, former virginia senator jim webb is considering a bold move of going at it alone in his bid to become the next president. Questions are being raised after a delayed response to a series of shootings in southeast d. C. Good Tuesday Morning to you. Women come back into the rush hour edition of 9news. Im nick giovanni. Im andrea roane. Larry miller has your timesaver traffic. Things are picking up on the roadways. We begin with first alert meteorologist allyson rae with todays forecast. You may not need the heater in the car this morning. I think maybe this morning but definitely in the district it is a little bit warmer. But this afternoon i think youll be able to shut it off for sure. I had my heat on a little bit and then i got a little warm. 36 degrees for leesburg. 34 for manassas. 32 for culpeper. The warming trend continues. Were warming up this afternoon. Temperatures heading back to average highs this time of year. Upper 60s, lots of sunshine. By noon were already warmer than we were yesterday. Thats a big improvement. Temperatures tonight will stay a little bit warmer again due to southerly winds keeping a nice and comfortable pattern. High pressure is here. Of course its not here for too long. A cold front is headed our way. Ill tell what you that means for your weekend coming up. Heres larry million gler thank you. Your time right now 6 30. Metro ridessers everything is running on riders, everything is running on schedule. Well continue to let you know no blue line trains will be stopping at stadiumarmory this morning. Again were keeping a close eye on this accident on endian head highway, mid indian head highway, maryland 210 at palmer road where we have an accident. Not much in the way of delays but be mindful as you head out the door. Up towards the capital beltway, noishes but you will see volume no issues but you will see volume approaching the occoquan making your way into springfield. Next ten minutes well take you along i66. Reporter the president ial Campaign Comes to downtown d. C. , specifically the National Press club. There will be an announcement made later today by former virginia senator jim webb. You may have heard and you may remember that during the last debate he was not happy about the time that he did not receive to speak. Well, it appears that the displeasure has led him to possibly ditch the Democratic Party. Thats right. The former senator of virginia now considering an independent run for president of the united states. Currently the democratic candidate is trailing in the polls with just about 1 . His campaign is billing todays News Conference as a discussion of the race and his candidacy, but he has been very vocal in his opposition and his disagreement of the debate that aired last week with cnn, the first democratic debate. He said it was rigged towards the two front runners Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton saying, quote, its very difficult to win a debate when you dont have the opportunity to speak the same amount of time on issues as the other two did. They had both 30 minutes. Jim webb had about 15 minutes. His announcement at the press club scheduled for 1 00 this afternoon. Well stay on top of it on our wusa9 mobile app. Back you to. While webb speaks, the nation is still waiting for word on whether vice. Joe biden will launch a president ial bid. The latest University Poll shows support for the current Democratic Front runner Hillary Clinton would dip if biden were officially in the race. The Vice President is said to be in no rush to make a decision, though. Yesterday he mentioned his late son when he spoke to members of the military at the white house. Our son was a good man but no different than every one of those in that case soldiers who got off that flight with him. On the republican side, donald trump continues to lead. Hes wound virtually every National Poll for four months. The secret service is reviewing requests for protection from trump and the better Carson Ben Carson campaign. Reporter somebody might be using your childs Social Security number right now to apply for a loan, a credit card, to buy a house, even to stay in the u. S. Legally. In fact this kind of Identity Theft happens to children even more so than adults but now in maryland there is a way you can prevent it. Today a new Program Launches called kids safe. Heres the idea. Parents can go online and simply put in a request to freeze your childs information. Hospitals are getting involved in the program now, too. Now, new mothers will be given information as they leave the hospital. The staff are clear and the stats are clear and shocking. More than 150,000 kids identities are stolen each year and the victims are getting younger and younger. The percentage ever victims under the age of 5 has doubled in the past couple of years. The good news is this program is available now and all you have to do is go online and put in that request and its free. We have a link to all this information on our wusa9 mobile app. Back to you. The relative of a shooting victim says it took 20 minutes for a rescue crew to pull up to the shooting scene in southeast d. C. Two people were shot just minutes apart last night in southeast. Boapts were said to be con both were said to be conscious when taken to the hospital. Winfield robinson tells us one of those victim is his 25year old nephew who was shot in the stomach and back. Four fire trucks and Police Officers got to the scene relatively quickly but not the rescue crew. Police are also investigating a shooting near southern avenue and 23rd street. Its not clear if these two cases are linked. Kevin davis has been sworn in at new head of the Baltimore Police department. Davis was the interim commissioner till the city Council Voted to confirm him. Last week a group of protesters stage add sitin at city hall to protest this appointment. A 48yearold man is charged with stabbing and killing a teenager in oxon hill. Police say Sean Crawford stabbed and killed 14yearold Keyshaun Mason at a home they shared. Crawford is the livein boyfriend of masons mother. Police say crawford got into an argument with mason along with an 18yearold and stabbed them both. Mason died at the hospital. The 18yearold is recovering. Crawford is now charged with firstdegree murder and attempted murder. The charles serving answer murder trial re severance murder trial resumes today. It was suspended yesterday because defense attorney joe king had a death in the family. He is charged with killing three persons over the course after decade. Police are asking for your help to find nation elderly man. Tough seen him, they if youve seen him, they want to hear from you. 2yearold kenneth huff 82 yearold kenneth huff was wearing a blue shirt, blue jeans and gray shoes. If youve seen mr. Huff, please call Prince Georges County police. Tonight vdot plans to meet with commuters to talk about what it wants to do with i66 outside the beltway. State transportation officials will go over the preferred plans for improving 25 miles of the interstate between the beltway and u. S. Route 15 in haymarket. The meeting starts at 6 30 at vdots Northern Virginia District Office at 4975 Alliance Drive in fairfax. You can also watch a live stream of the 7 00 p. M. Presentation at transform66. Org. Zac efron, tommy mcfly and wax . What do they have in common . Were about to find out during this mornings mcfly report. This breeze is just add something chill to the air. Temperatures are not too bad. Near 40, into the 40s for the district and a couple of 30s to the suburbs. Were headed look where were headed. A nice recovery and winds will relax this afternoon. 65 to 70 degrees. Were getting warmer and were not done warming up yet. Larry . Were off to a great start this morning. We had a few issues pry fail in Southern Maryland but primarily in Southern Maryland but looks like theyre starting to ease up a bit and traffic starting to pick up and causing some delays all over parts of the metro. Well get you around yeah ahh. You probably say it a million times a day. Ahh. Ahh ahh. Ahh but at cigna, we want to help everyone say it once a year. Say ahh. Ahh. Cigna medical plans cover one hundred percent of your innetwork annual checkup. So america, lets go. Know. Ahh and take control of your health. Cigna. Together, all the way. Welcome back. The wind is picking up making it feel a little bit chillier. Ashburn youre 39 degrees. Well head to the 50s. By lunch hour were past where we were yesterday. The southwesterly winds are doing us a favor as far as warmer weather today. Upper 60s for your highs. A good bit of sunshine. Well talk big changes come the weekend. What that means for your weekend coming up in a bit. Lets go over to larry. Good morning to you at home. Wants to let my marc train riders camden 843 is running from 30 to 35 minutes late this morning. Make sure you get out the door a little bit earlier and account for that this morning in terms of your morning commute. Vre is running on schedule. Sky 9, how much, giving us a live look at how things are shaping up on 50 at 202. Traffic is starting to pick up as you approach the capital beltway but no accidents or . Efnts to slow incidents to slow you down. Were off to a great start. From our trafficland cam, we get a look at how things are shaping up over the key bridge as you make your way from rosslyn to georgetown. No issues this morning. Traffic is flowing freely in all directions. So were off to a good start. Earlier issues in southern merchandise midhave all but wrapped up maryland have all but wrapped up so were good to go there. [indiscernible] educates teenagers on driving safety, distracted driving and ways this can he empower their peers to make smarter decisions on the road. They talked about how technology is contributing to a culture of unsafe driving. One teenager shared his experience. At the age of 17 i was in a traffic crash when a distracted driver hit our School Vehicle head yo. I was headon. I had a traumatic brain injury and other critical injuries but the most important thing is my life changed. Reporter gl in 2011 more than 3,000 teens were killed because ever distracted driving related crashes. Its officially halloween in one california community. Also coming up, the twinkle in his eye and those wash board abs. Our producer is quick to point out most commonly known as zac efron will be on display in the district. Well explain after this. Mom this is hugely important. Is there anywhere in your house i can get a good signal . Anyway, you were saying. Its a tragic love story. I love tragedy. What is that noise . What . Im on set. What movie . Im shooting a movie about laundry. Leave slow internet behind. A movie about laundry . Yeah the 100 Fiber Optics Network gives you the fastest wifi available when you need it the most. Get out of the past. Get fios. All of our legendary racing heritage. All of our pioneering four wheel drive experience. Come together in one amazing new vehicle. This is the allnew gle coupe. A mercedesbenz suv with the heart and soul of a race car. A Popular Halloween attraction is back in river siedz, california. It has more lights and music than ever before. This years version also includes pyrotechnics to go along with the thndousas of led lights and singing pumpkin faces synced up with hit tunes. Last year you may recall a show a little different from this one was shut down because of noise complaints. This year the creator has a permit and will only run the shows on weekends. Couldnt stop at music and lights. Kick it up a notch with pyrotechnics. All there for you. Time to see what our partners over at cbs this morning are covering. Our favorite partner and friend is going to tell us all about it. Thats gayle king live in new york with a preview. Good morning, gayle. We are here live and in color. Dont you find everybody is trying to kick it up a notch with something. Thats what im say. Aint no party like a halloween house party. So true. Ahead we are tracking down claims that teenage hacker targeted the c. I. A. Director and the Homeland Security secretary. The latest on that investigation. Plus, amazon fighting back months after a major New York Times expose. We explain why the online giant is taking now taking a stand. Chelsea clinton, usher . Ledge taker linebacker ray lewis, what do they have in common . Theyre all here today in studio 57. Wow. Thats what i said, too. Its going to be crowded up in here. The news is back in the morning. Well see you at 7 00 on the dot. In the words of ed full advantage, youve got a sullivan, youve got a really big shoe on this morning. [indiscernible] you know, nick, you have to keep hope alive. Come on. Thats what its about. Much appreciated, gayle. Well definitely be watching. You have a good morning. See you guys. Allyson rae back with us now talking about temps going up on a tuesday. I knew you were going to say that. [ multiple voices ] i almost said it this morning when i saw the temps. But i said i was just going to wait for nick to say it. Temps are going up on a tuesday. Temperatures looking [ multiple voices ] they continue to climb on wednesday and thursday as well. Beautiful start this morning from our michael son camera. Nice sky, kind of a water painting there. Its going to be a nice afternoon. Lots of sunshine, a few fair weather clouds, 45 degrees. In some areas this morning were almost 15 degrees warmer than we were at this time yesterday. But still pretty cold out there for culpeper 32. Thats our coldest spot. No 20s. Tomorrow morning well add another couple degrees as well. 45 in d. C. Well head to the upper 60s. Thats a nice recovery. When you add at least 20 degrees to the daytime temperatures its a good day but temperatures off to the west are even warmer. Were going to get even warmer come wednesday and thursday. High pressure is in control. Its going to stay in control for today and tomorrow. And with that well get the swer winds. Our warm southwesterly winds. Our warmest day comes on thursday ahead of the cold front. Thursday night into friday, not a lot of rain but it will bring a drop in the temperature. Not too much. This one is a little more manageable. Still feeling like fall and not a sneak peek of winter this weekend. It will be pretty g. Upper 60s. No pretty good. Upper 60s. No weather problems. If you are looking for rain, i dont really have it now. 73 for wednesday. 76 for thursday. This weekend pretty g upper 60s pretty good. Upper 60s. Sunday night is our best chance after shower and it doesnt look that impressive. Ill keep an eye on it for you and keep you up to date. Larry, over to you. Thank you. Those of you hopping on the camden line train, train 843 returning 30 to 35 minutes late, one of our colleagues checked in with us and told us about the delay. We hadnt heard it from marc so good news there. We appreciate that. Vre is also running on schedule as well. Traveling southbound. 270 from middlebrook road to the capital beltway now a 15minute commute no major issues. 66 but volume starting to pick up primarily in manassas at this point and its starting to work its way eastbound. It starts to get heavy as you get in the beltway. From Fairfax County parkway to 20th street northwest a 27 minute commute. Northbound on i95 on the virginia side from dale delivered to i395 a 16minute commute. If youre traveling on the bw parkway, no issues but expect volume as you approach the 11th street bridge. Over to you. Zac efron has come a long way from his days on high school musical. Just ground up right before our eyes. Today efron turns 28 with a party here in d. C. Tommy mcfly has all the details in the 94. 7 fresh fm feud crows. Hes getting waxed for his studios. Hes getting waxed for his birthday. The wax statue is being unveiled to the world today in downtown d. C. Which is kind of exciting. They say that 20 different artisans took over 250 different measurements of the real zac efron to make the wax zac efron. He wont be half naked like most of his movies. He will be in a tailored gray suit. The real efron for his birthday was asking his peeps on social media to make a donation to stand up to cancer in honor of his cousin emily who lost her battle with cancer very early on in life. Zac is turning on his  . Birthda and making it something pretty exciting for everybody. Hes also right now on the set of neighbors two. Happy birthday, zac. Enjoy the wax. No birthday candles should get too close to his waxed face. Word to the wise. Keep the flames away. I dont know. I just dont get it. Temper your enthusiasm, andrea. Great abs, though, for sure. It 16 62 it is 6 52. Well soon have to deal with higher shipping rates. [ female announcer ] Business Travel isnt just about the going. Its also about the going home. And being connected all along the way. 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That announcement will be made around 1 00 this afternoon and well stay on top of all the action on our wusa9 mobile app. Back to you. Vice President Joe Biden pays tribute to former Vice President Walter Mondale at the white house today, this as he continues to mull a president ial run. The buildup comes as Hillary Clinton gears up for her testimony before the House Benghazi Committee later this week. Pretty soon youll have to pay more to ship with ups. Rates across the board will increase by nearly 5 . Starting december 28, ground rates and other charges will go up. The new prices are being implemented as revenue has slowed. Take a look at your seven day forecast. Not too bad at all. Well see temperatures slowly clip. Upper 60s today. Today is probably the biggest jump. 70s for wednesday and thursday. A cold front doesnt bring rain but cooler weather for friday and a nice looking weekend. 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