joe biden ahead of the stop in detroit a u-haul truck with equipment has been stolen. the skies got dark all of a sudden and it was like some drizzle to pouring down. it happened again. for the fourth time this summer a northwest d.c. neighborhood was left under water. storms flooded a metro station. good morning, washington at 5:00 a.m. begins right now. captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org good labor day morning, monday september 3. good morning to you. we want to start with a busy night for metro workers and residents. crews were pumping flood water out of the shaw howard university metro. officials hope to have it reopened this morning. storm watch begins with skwrpb gonzalez live outside that station in northwest. the flood came and my car flooded. residents are once again flooded out. cars were under water overnight and basements are a sloppy muddy mess with storm and sewer backups. the manholes are about a foot and a half of
using star power to get message across all week long including appearances by eva longorria james taylor mary j. blige and foo fighters. later michelle obama and former president bill clinton will speak leading up to a large celebration thursday inside bank of america stadium. enough is enough. reporter: hundreds protested the big banks on the streets of charlotte sunday. on his road to charlotte tour, president obama continues to criticize the republican opponent s convention speech. governor romney knows the secret to creating jobs and growing the economy. nobody ever bothered to tell us what they were. this president cannot tell us that you re better off today than when he took office ruers gallup poll shows the race is a dead heat and another poll after the republican convention that showed romney with a slight lead now shows the two are tied. with two months until election day. in tampa in tampa paul ryan said without leadership why should the next four years
water off the tracks. fortunately it is a holiday and so we will not see as much morning traffic as usual. the storms brought headaches for northwest d.c. it marked the fourth time this summer parts of the blooming dale neighborhood flooded. the flood came and my car flooded. he is one of a number of folks whose car was under water on rhode island avenue. the manholes are off the ground because of the power of the water. this is the fourth time this summer parts of this neighborhood have been under water after heavy rain. a number of residents have seen basements flood all four times. this is the worst since we have lived here. we had one or two other floods before but there summer i have never seen anything like it. it sis frustrating. the president of the civic association says this is getting ridiculous. although she is part of a city task force formed after it flooded three times in 10 days in july she says more needs to be done because people can t keep livin
we are looking at a fairly uniform start with numbers in the 50s. by noontime it will be partly sunny and numbers climbing through the 60s. so the sunshine starts in the try valley, work being its way westward. by 4:00 notice the afternoon highs, pretty cool. count on plenty of clouds there with mild numbers, just near 80 inland. once again, temperatures will be below average. the fog moves quickly across the bay again tonight, but the wind shift tomorrow is going to allow for earlier clearing. a big warmup on the way. terry. thanks very much, lisa. we begin with breaking news in concord. contra costa fire investigator district is trying to determine the cause of a fire that burned two homes. started about 3:00 this morning on the 1700 block of margo drive off concord boulevard. firefighters had it under control in less than an hour. no reports of injuries. we will bring you more as the information comes bail. the dumbarton bridge is closed this entire labor day weekend. ta
mainly in the 50s. by noontime we are going to see some sunshine. but still the 50s at the coast, the upper 60s around the inland valleys and the warmest numbers just touching 80s. we will be mild gin land but we will be a good, five, eight degrees below average today. more fog across the bay tonight. then there s a wind shift and that will set the stage for warmer weather. terry. thank you very much. break news out of contra. the contra county fire investigators are trying to determine the cause of a fire that burned two homes. it started at 3:00 this morning off concord boulevard. firefighters had it under control in about 50 minutes. there are know reports of any injuries. we will bring you more details as the information becomes available. the dumbarton bridge is closed this entire labor day weekend. take a look at the last cars crossing the dumbarton bridge between menlo park and fremont last night. about 30,000 vehicles a day cross it. on any given weekend it s shut