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today looks like a fine day to be outside. may have a chan for a shower out in the mountains and to the west of washington, but most of us will have a dry day today. that s well i don t news. and for those of you that are construction handy, you may want to start getting out the through prints for the ark because it could get very wet around here. but we don t need to worry about that on your saturday. right now a very pleasant way to get your weekend started. 71 in town, 66 in manassas, virginia, 69 in falls church and vienna, 6 in gaithersburg and german town. still dark outside, sun coming up at 6:39 this morning. we ll have a partly to mostly cloudy sky, much like yesterday, but not much in the way of a rain threat. it will be plenty warm and humid, so if you have stuff to do outside, it will certainly feel like a summery weekend for sure. a check of live doppler. plenty of sunshine back into the area, so we ll call it partly cloudy to partly sunny. warm and quite h ....
first as we head here into the labor day weekend with a brutal report on the job market. basically, it has come to a grinding halt. the unemployment rate for august didn t budge an inch. here you have the number. it is still sitting at 9.1%. the net number here, that s the important part. the net number of jobs created in august. zero, none, goose egg. private employers did add 17,000 jobs last month. but do the math. government eliminated 17,000. so the net change is zero. this really is a once in a blue moon event. if you think about it. the last time the bottom line on jobs was zero was all the way back in february of 1945. 45. that s before the baby boomers were even born. the weakest jobs report in almost a year comes amid consumers wavering confidence in the economy. we ll been following that jumpy volatile stock market. on the heels of the big debt ceiling fight and washington s credit downgrade. you throw all that together, then you look ahead here. we re less ....
that s where this bizarre shooting incident occurred. members of the transgender community most upset by what happened here. we know this is a widespread problem. and there s mistrust among the community of police officers, and this is an example of why that is. reporter: now this case has been sent to the grand jury. the officer has been sent back to jail, being held without bond. wendy, back to you. thanks, pat collins. the search for a man who escaped from district court is over now. he escaped from the courthouse in annapolis about noon yesterday. 12 hours later, police finally caught up with barksdale. that neighborhood was locked down for hours as people there still didn t have power because of hurricane irene. barksdale was arrested last friday in connection with a shooting in north carolina. he s facing multiple charges including assault with a deadly weapon. today a judge heard arguments over evidence in the lululemon murder case. she s charged with ....
it turned beach towns into ghost towns. businesses lost an entire weekend s worth of revenue. and it wasn t just beach shops that were hurt. kent island just on the eastern side of the bay bridge was also under a mandatory evacuation order. at chesapeake outdoors, they had to close their doors while irene moved through. and they re hoping for better things this weekend. we lost three days of business. you know, hopefully it comes back this weekend. reporter: aaa is expecting a slight increase in people traveling by car this weekend. only a .1% rise. but they say we could see a bump in that figure if people decide to hit the beach at the last second. linda carey is on her way back from ocean city. her advice go for it. we had a beautiful time. beautiful. reporter: and if you are going to be headed to the beach this weekend, the advice is the same to avoid traffic, either leave early or leave late. from the bay bridge, megan mcgrath, news 4. people are hitting ....