the dome annapolis' most recognizable symbol almost as soon as it's put up. truly most spectacular thing guilded acorn, a reproduction of the original 18th century acorn. and it is topped by a lightning rod which was designed to benjamin franklin specification. in the 19th century during the war of 1812, the state house dome is used as a lookout. it's the tallest point in town and forwards a commanding view of the river and chesapeake bay. so we have tremendous documentation of william barney, son of maryland's hero joshua barney going to the state house dome and using his excellent glass to observe troop movements on their way back and forth up the bay in september of 1814. we have now ventured out of the 18th century portion of the state house and into what we call the new annexed part bimt between 1902 and 1905 by baltimore architects. the new annex, as we call it, certainly added a grand entrance to look at the outside you see a very grand set of steps which lead to a pair of massive bronze doors adorned with state seal and important state symbols. we are

morning" breaking overnight a statue of former chief justice roger tawny removed from the state house in annapolis. >> aunt a terror forces are searcging for multiple suspect connected to two separate attacks in spain. >> looking outside heat and humidity and chance of scattered storms. three things we're all expected to deal with today. hey, at least it's friday. good morning to you thank you very much for joining us i'm maureen umeh. >> i'm wisdom martin. >> it's friday, august 18. >> we have a tea this friday. we're going to see -- >> we're teasing them, through go. >> one half of the team. >> caitlin roth is here to talk about weather. erin como will do traffic. you're talking weather favorite. >> caitlin they're not making you do traffic and weather are they? >> maybe erin did a half our to start her weekend. no she'll come up in a moment. heat advisory expected 11 a.m. severe thunderstorms expected this afternoon. all out ahead of a georgous weekend. that's on the other side. details coming up. >>> all right we want to bring you now up to date on breaking news we've been following at 5 a.m.

point in annapolis. and the surrounding landscape. this would have been the tallest building in town. it is still the tallest building in town. the state house was built in the middle of the war. which complicated efforts to build the state house and direct the government. the first session of the general assembly was held in november of 1779. every session of the general assembly has been held in this building since then. making this the oldest state house in continuing legislative use. we're in the north eastern corner of the building. we're deep in the original portion of the state house. this is a space that while he was in primary use by the yands gains most national attention, when george washington stands before the members of congress to return his military commission to congress. washington's resignation which took place in this very room was an event without precedent in the history of the world. there was some question as to whether washington would become king or what he would do to move the new nation in a new direction.

first, john gonzalez live with the latest from annapolis. john: another civil war era statue has come down, this time here in annapolis. the statue of a calvert county native, a supreme or justice, is gone. coming up, we will show z2fxnz zi0z y2fxny yi0y >> now, "good morning washington," on your side. 45 on your friday morning and waking up to a very busy morning. --ria: two breaking stories a controversial statue is gone as people are waking up at the maryland state house. larry: and the death toll in spain rises. autria: we start in annapolis and the statue of roger taney coming down. live: john gonzalez is after a busy night at the statehouse. john: good morning. a busy night m.v.p. or. a statue vested here for 150 years on the ground that the house in annapolis, in fact, right in front of the main entrance of the state house has now been reduced -- well, look for yourself. now a box covering the stone base. crews are doing their best to a small group of spectators literally cheered when it was delicately hoisting the statue of supreme c

removed the statue of former supreme court chief justice roger tawny from state house circumstance until annapolis and a few people were on happened to watch the statue being taken away. tawny wrote the dread scott position that said african americans could not be citizens. this comes after governor hogan ordered the statue to be removed in response to the violence that was in shar l lotsville this weekend. >> there is debate whether a confederate statue should be left alone o in florida, tampa residents raised 140,000 to have a confederate monument removed. >> there is historical significance to some but it doesn't belong in a public square where people walk by the courthouse expecting justice. >> in george athe mayor of savannah announced city is in process of adding confederate monument to the city park. >> one of two virginia state troopers killed in a helicopter crash last saturday ill will be be laided to rest. bert bates was remembered and h.j. cullen will be in chester field virginia. they were monitoring in charlottesville and going to cover the motorcade when the chopper went down. >> a

by 4:00 in the afternoon, the heat index, 102 in annapolis, 105 washington. 102 annapolis or 102 manassas rather and 102 culpepper. that is dangerously high. take it easy today. hour by hour, mid-70s early this morning. afternoon highs doesn't look that impressive. the atmosphere that's really going to fire up the heat indexes and bring up a pretty high risk for strong to severe storms as well. nothing on radar just yet. but we're under the slight risk for strong to severe thunderstorms. main timing on that is about 3:00 and 9:00 p.m. keep that in mind as you're planning to be out and about. here's future weather. by early this afternoon, thunderstorms bubbling up. it doesn't look that impressive on our model here. but any individual storm that bubbles up with that much heat and humidity to work with, could pack quite a punch indeed. that's the distinction settled down thereafter. beach-bound for the weekend. i thish i was. i'm driving to the carolinas to see the eclipse on monday. if you're a beachgoer, stormy weather the second half of your friday. saturday and sunday look perfect for b

out 50 towards buoy and mitchellville and then annapolis. annapolis got -- was right on edge of big rains south of them across the bridge over into the eastern shore can island -- here inside the beltway through parts of college park and headed to closer to just out norm west just northwest up bwi parkway they had as much as two inch of of rain ben forecast looks dry. we'll have a little fog f forming in places and temperatures upper 70s at 1 a.m. and we're dropping down. generally speaking the lower to mid 70 oez night tonight and cold front comes through well won't cool us off much but will lower humidity a bit. awful today with the humidity. it will be less humid into the weekend. we'll talk more about that in a bit. tony right now all this bad stuff getting out of here. >> gary, thank you much. steve, bannon has returned to bright mart news at executive chairman. the move comes after president trump accepted his role as chief strategist. his depart your and he was behind many of his most controversial efforts including travel ban. earlie

temperatures outside right now it's 77 in washington, 78 in annapolis. it's still kind of humid. 70 in frederick, 72 in culpeper but i think you'll notice as we go through the afternoon increasing drier weather coming through so it will feel less humid as we get into the afternoon hours and definitely better than yesterday. look at these temperatures off towards our west. much more comfortable as that cooler air mass is evident west of the mountains, temperatures there only in the 60's. 67 pittsburgh and 62 in binghamton. here's you were forecast for today. we are mainly again, just a slight chance of a shower which i think will be mainly west or north of town. it's hot still. temperatures rise into the 80's. we'll hit a high temperature of 90 degrees. that's 90 in washington, 87 in annapolis, 89 in manassas and 91 in culpeper. here's your seven-day forecast. the weekend again very quiet. mostly sunny on warm, 88 degrees on sunday. and tomorrow sunday i think will be really nice because we'll have that drier air mass in place. it's less humid. clouds inc

there's a new batch over annapolis and baltimore. d.c. drive and annapolis strong storms there and charles county a storm in your area. spotsylvania and st. mary's and those have active and strong storms. as we put them in motion we're moving southeast 10 miles an hour. let me tart with the most recent one a severe thunderstorm warning for an arun dull and part of baltimore going until 6:30 in the bay really soon. st. mary country we were watching closely there was a tornado warning for a while. we have not heard of damage and severe thunderstorm warning in effect for you until 6:15. charles county no warning at the moments but you have a flash flood warning as does s mauri until:15 tonight and we're hearing there's multiple trees down in the la playta area from a strong storm th there. and last up culpeper and talk ear and stafford starm warning for the area you can see it starting to of talk ear and that goes until 6:15. storms should be winding down as we lose sun for the day we'll talk about hot are day tomorrow if you that today was

annapolis and manassas, 83 for culpeper. out towards winchester they could get showers this afternoon or mr. consistent showers this afternoon. only 76 degrees for daytime high. that's a check of your weather forecast. erin como is back this morning with a look at those roads. hey, erin. >> 5:26 right now. taking a quiet look at 95 northbound from fredericksburg to aquia. we're wide opened, we're at speed. route one looks really good as well. no issues in stafford as you head out by courthouse road. seeing no problems on 395 right now from the beltway to the 14th street bridge. at speed on the main lanes and hov lanes. southbound side just as quiet. the 11th street bridge looks good. in fact all area bridges moving at speed. problem free on memorial bridge, key bridge from rosslyn into georgetown. really like what we're seeing on 66 inside the beltway through falls church in arlington this morning. we're not seeing any issues on our secondaries through arlington or alexandria. as you make your way out in alexandria in old tn

we have a few showers in charles county and also in annapolis. i think it will be clearing as we get closer to the commute. as you go towards your school day, by this afternoon, looking pretty good. temperatures unseasonably cool. we'll take a closer look at the forecast coming up. let check the roads with jack taylor. good morning, jack. >> sheena, good morning. we had a couple of spots that are wet and our f everything has been moved over to the shoulder. again, plan ahead for this, please. keep speeds down. roadways are a little bit slick. in the beltway, between pennsylvania and branch avenue, crews have been working along the roadway. they should be wrapping up on the beltway near georgetown pike where that work was along the right side of the roadway. back to you. >> thank you. it's 4:28. now we want to get to the latest on the track of the storm. storm team 4 samarra is here. >> there's a lot of reasons it's dangerous. i want to give you a view of the hurricane. it's lighting up the coast in watches and warnings of texas. let's get to that

bob will stay out in anna annapolis. mayor of of charlottesville, virginia will make ann announcement of the robert e. lee statu a national debate of whether to reprevb over call down. the mayor will speak at noon and is expected to talk about public safety and leg say of heather hyer killed in last week's violence. >> in spain there has been a third arrest to the terror attack in barcelona and overnight another attack nearby. five tourists wearing bomb belts shot and killed by police. this started less than 24 hours ago when a popular tourist spot was packed with people. this morning lass ramblas was reopen entered. >> i heard many people screaming and saw the van going down the boulevard. you see the bodies laying through las ramblas. >> bystanders say the van was deliberatel lily going back and forth in the crowd. it's full of restaurants and shops packed with locals and lots of tourists. >> this truck just gets to ramblas that's maybe boulevard in barcelona heart of barcelona just smashes people under the truck. >> w

we'll get reaction from people in annapolis. basically roger taney a statue here for 145 years east front of maryland state house is gone this morning. >> bob barnard reporting thank you for that. 7:03 is the time happening today mayor of charlot charlottesville, virginia will make major announcement about the robert e. lee statue in one of the city parks. last week national debate of whether to tear down on he is also expected to talk about public safety and legacy of hyer was killed last week. >> now we're showing you moment of silence. >> way woman died after she was hit by car in a sea side town south of barcelona. back in barcelona 13 people killed in yesterday's vrana tack a third suspect arrested overnight and driver of that van remains at large. >>> police in the spabish sea side resort town of cam breeze responded to latest attack. a vehicle that struck peded eds and police. five suspect were reported killed in a shootout. all of this after hover ivk attack in barcelona van screening into famous lass rambas ram dad. >>

annapolis 80. mostly cloudy skies there's possible shower here or there and far between otherwise humid, 82 to 86 skies brighten we will droy out any chance of showers today or well south of us southern maryland through hitch rond petersburg and it will stay warm, trending ral, real nice. check out temperatures this morning so you know lower view places still upper 70s and annapolis now sitting muggy 0. baltimore now sitting at 75. i didn't get a chance to show the 7-day last time. the looks nice tomorrow, 8 and check out friday, 80 for a high temperature. believe it or not i think my pressure rules this weekend sunshine temperatures only in the upper 70s how great is that. here's ernest campbell. >> 5:26 now we're seeing a lot of green on roads not dealing with any problems right now on 395 this is north ever etsell road volume building main lanes and hov and still at speed as you make your way poingt pentagon. roz lip, garage tune noise of that point congestion by the truck scales and northbound

this is in annapolis. this happened a few hours ago, about 2:00 in the morning when this video was taken. he was a supreme court justice who wrote the dred scott decision. it upheld slavery and denied citizenship to african-americans. governor larry hogan called this, "the right thing to do." . this is days after baltimore removed four confederate statues. back to you. >>> erika gonzalez. at 6:32, one of the virginia state police troopers killed near the violent outbreak in charlottesville will be laid to rest today. bates and lieutenant jay cullen were in a chopper that went down cullen will be tomorrow also in the richmond area. >>> part of the lincoln memorial will be scrubbed and power washed to remove the spray paint left behind one of the pillars. the letters m and e were also carved into that pillar. they will not be able to be removed. >> there's a new clue in the search for the man wanted for attempt sex a sult. fairfax county police say a man who looked like this attacked a woman on a sidewalk mo

73 in the nation's capitol, 66 at baltimore. 72 at annapolis, dulles and to, frederick 63. 70 hagerstown and a cool 59 at winchester. overnight, 64, clear skies, not bad and tomorrow, we're serving up more sunshine, i'll have the donates and the full later. >>> developing in montgomery county, an elderly couple recovering after hit boy a car in a church parking lot. the victims are both 86. evan lambert has more on what may have caused this accident. >> montgomery county police tell us that those victims hit were a man and a woman, both 86 years old. right now, medical personnel according to police, believe that they will survive. here's what the scene looked like when this accident happened just after 4:30 this non. you can see in the aftermath the car has very visible damage to its windshield, a cane an shoe left behind after the mac. it appears from the video and where the car came to rest that one of the victims may have been drag add distance down the driveway. the crash happened a the river road they're investigating what led the driver to hit those to 86-year-olds. it appears to b

moving east at ten knots gusting thirty three knots was reported in annapolis recently hazard wind gusts thirty four knots or greater source radar indicated impact person small craft could be brought overboard by suddenly higher winds and waves capsizing their vessel locations impacted crude parson island can't narrows bridge chester river eastern b. greenbury point academy caring b. highland beach seven river room koch bloody point light chesapeake bay bridge matter peak thomas point light poplar island shadyside annapolis and deal. that's quite a low number for the types of attacks we see in other countries particularly in syria and iraq and what we've got to do in the west particularly is make sure that these vehicles don't have bombs in them because when a bomb goes off then a lot more people don't just put your expertise chris give us a sense of hope police security forces actually go up by closing in a live scene to ensure safety because in this particular area i mentioned it would be particularly difficult because you've got a lot of tourists but you've also got a lot of residents

brad bell broke the story first and is live outside the state house in annapolis. brad? brad: this is the statue. it has stood here for many, many years since 1872. it's in a prominent location but it doesn't look like it will be here longer because today, governor hogan said now is the time to remove it. the statue has stood in this place of honor since 1872. but governor hogan said, "the time has come to make clear the difference between properly acknowledging our past and glorifying the history." and so, he said removing the statue should start immediately. >> goodbye. it should go. brad: ev lin johnson among those -- evelyn johnson among those visiting the state house applauding the decision. >> whatever you have at the state house should be indicative of the ideals of the people that it represents. >> it seems like a step in the right direction. >> as the fifth chief justice of the supreme court, maryland roger b. taney wrote the so-called dred scott decision that african-americans could not be citizens in 1857. dred scott was a slave denied his freedom by that deci

. >>> maryland governor, larry hogan is calling for the removal of a statue in annapolis. >> after recent events in charlottesville, lawmakers believe it's time for a change, and marcella robertson join us now with more on what is going to be changing. >> state senator c anthony mews asked for it to be taken down, and the governor is standing behind him. the monument honors roger b tany, he's the 5th chief justice of the supreme court who believed african americans should not be considered citizens. mews has been pushing for removal for years, but says the events in charlottesville over the weekend made him want to try again. he ys to rewrite history, he just doesn't believe that this kind of history needs to be out in the open. >> i think we have to find a way to nip this in the bud. we have to find a way to say, yes, it's our history, but we do not embrace it, and we certainly do not embrace it at a house that belongs to all the citizens of the state of maryland. >> and mews says there have been talks of a compromise to probably bring the statue to a museum in the area. the time has com

naval academy in annapolis, maryland. now, annapolis right now experiences about 50 nuisance floods a year. under the best- ccase scenario, in 30 years hene it could be as high as over 240, abobout, high tides a year. if we have a highest-emission scenario, it could be as high as 380 tides a year, many of those twice a day. we think, there's only 365 days in the year. pretty much, that's almost... you know, it's inundation at thatat point. >> and in this country, we have encouraged people to build on coastal areas, barrier islands, and other high-risk areas that inevitably raise the risk level and the exposure, not only by property y values, high-valued prproperties,s, but the c cost f repair d d recory, , bo for the homeowne a as we as the blic infstructure atat supports them. sohink roads and brids and at kind thing.o it--the st of clime changeas to factored in both in public and private insurance and pupublic d privatete financial support for the structures thatat support people's hhomes and where t they live. >> when

lower southern maryland and central virginia and annapolis area we don't have warning in annapolis area but you have strong thunderstorms very close to naval academy now. our warning though again down in the culpeper orange and spotsylvania county region either second or third time you had severe thunderstorm warning. this storm is moving south 15 miles an hour lots of lightning and heavy reign and just while you're trying to drive home it may have winds gusting to of 0 and hail to the size of quarters. over towards charles county area here's another storm storm is this second or third tonight it may be number 3 not a warning on that one. storms were under flash flood warning until 8:00 that area. and we already had flash flooding in chatco area and that flash flood warning for charles and st. mary goes until 8:30 and storm st. mary you weaker now. the report of flash flood came out of chatco with foot of water on one road bay down there. if you travel to st. mary county be so careful. meanwhile our high temperature today 89 degrees dulles and big headline for tomorrow is fact it will b

seventy-two at baltimore, 77 at annapolis this hour. seventy-six at quantico. 70-degrees at west martinsburg and 68-degrees at winchester. seven # at culpeper. overnight tonight our lowe's will be in the 60s and 70s. we've got this system to deal with and storm predisiks center has us in a slight risk of severe weather for tomorrow. that frontal system will move ahead and along of it. we do anticipate to see some of the storms firing up tomorrow. it will be a pretty active day. let's time things out for you. looking at rain moving into tonight. tomorrow 7:00 hour we start to see a little bit of activity here. take a look once we get to nine really just firing up over the west and then here we are here with heavier rainfall and i can't rule out that we won't get tomorrow. here it is, it tips right through. we don't get much of a break until we get to 11:00 until tomorrow. 70-degree s, mostly cloudy skies. tomorrow we're talking the storms at about 830-degrees. your fox5 seven day forecast showing you we're going to break tuesday, wednesd

tawny was removed about 2:00 this morning from the statehouse in annapolis. tawny was a supreme court justice. he wrote the dred scott decision that upheld slavery and denied citizenship to african-americans. governor larry hogan called this the quote, right thing to do. this is days after baltimore removed its four confederate statues. thank you, guys. >>> thank you, erika. >>> one of the virginia state police troopers killed near the violent outbreak in charlottesville will be buried today. the funeral for trooper pilot berke bates will be in richmond. bates and cullen were in a chopper that went down saturday. the funeral for lieutenant cullen will be tomorrow, also in the richmond area. there was no distress call from crashed. investigators are trying to figure out the cause. >>> happening today, charlottesville's mayor is expected to call for the removal of the robert e. lee statue from his city's downtown today. organizers of last weekend's unite the right rally have -- charlottesville is also reporting that the mayor will call for a community meeting h

warmest in annapolis at 79. we don't have much shower activity now. but over the next couple hours we are going to see one system moving out and another system moving on in and we may see rain develop in between the two. that's something i'm going to be watching closely here. you can see the roanoke area making it way our way. we'll time it out in a second. take a look at hurricane gert just off the southeast coast. this frontal boundary is going the help steer gert out to sea. winds of 75 miles an hour moving to the north at 8 miles an hour. on that track it comes close to our region and moves out to sea fairly quickly. could become a category 2 storm by wednesday morning. one thing it will do is produce rip currents along the coast. that something to think about in the jersey show and delmarva and virginia and north carolina beaches. if you are going down there, have friends down there, watch out for rip currents. tonight, watch what happens here, you mention the rain and chance of thunder. at 2:00 a.m., one of the computer models is giving us a dou

annapolis, joint base andrews, manassas, warrenton down to zero visibility. be very careful in the next couple hours. once we get sunshine back, we get back in the upper 80s to near 90. only use the nbc washington app. follow me on social media at chuck bell. no system terribly close to us. nice and dry most of the afternoon today. outside chance of a shower, but rain chances are really low. here is future weather, maybe bubbling up here or there. rain chances today 20% or less. there you go. there's the planner. highs today up near 90 degrees. near 90 again tomorrow. rainiest day of the week is friday. rain out early saturday, leaving weekend plans untouched. good morning, ck start at point of rocks bridge, mile south of the bridge, 15 closed both directions because of tree and wires across the roadway. inner loop of maryland, down near 450. right lane blocked with emergency road work. crash near barnabas, and 28 eastbound reopened, left lane getting by. edison park drive with wires down. back to you. >>> today is a special day for thrill seekers. it is nati

you're getting a lot of rain out in the annapolis area. and then we're continue to travel to the south, this area, flash flood warning, now it's not raining any more because that's where we're had some tornadic activity, that's slipped to the south and st

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annapolis at 67 degrees. so as we go through your thursday, the weather is really just going to stay mostly in the 70s through the day. we'll be peaking into the low 80s for a very short time. most of the area stays dry. it's going to be really comfortable outside. i'll show you the weekend forecast and what's happening with tropical storm harvey coming up. >>> sheena we'll check back in with you. other breaking news. a man who openly describes him search as a white nationalist and who gained notoriety during the charlottesville violence is off the streets. christopher cannot well turned himself into police in lynchburg, virginia. he became the face of the rally after appearing in this documentary. he was wanted by uva police for his actions during the friday night torch rally. before saturday's deadly rally. at some back to charlottesville to face three felony charges. meanwhile, the confederate statue at the center of that deadly rally is still causing controversy. yesterday a man with a gun tried to cut a

naval academy in annapolis, maryland. now, annapolis right now experiences about 50 nuisance floods a year. under the best- ccase scenario, in 30 years hene it could be as high as over 240, abobout, high tides a year. if we have a highest-emission scenario, it could be as high as 380 tides a year, many of those twice a day. we think, there's only 365 days in the year. pretty much, that's almost... you know, it's inundation at thatat point. >> and in this country, we have encouraged people to build on coastal areas, barrier islands, and other high-risk areas that inevitably raise the risk level and the exposure, not only by property y values, high-valued prproperties,s, but the c cost f repair d d recory, , bo for the homeowne a as we as the blic infstructure atat supports them. sohink roads and brids and at kind thing.o it--the st of climate change has to be factored in both in public and private insurance and pupublic d privatete financial support for the structures thatat support people's hhomes and where t they live. >

this also includes the annapolis area near the naval base. so chesapeake area too. just be careful here because we don't want to you get into any daink rear. these storms fire up ahead and along a frontal system moving through. that will move through ton we'll see them become fairly widely scattered. there's the line reaching all the way back to the back as you can see over parts of northwest. but clouds with it as well and some of those clouds linked to the early morning hours of tomorrow before we start to clear out. it's a frontal system and we have a risk of severe weather from the storm prediction center. so tonight, 70 is overnight low and winds will pick up with the storm system once we get to tomorrow. however, and a bit on the gusty sides from the north, northwest and it's going to be much cooler as well. and we'll get rid of the humidity and heat but as we get into tomorrow for the weekend, sunshine ahead for your saturday and sunday. tony. >> all right. gwynn, thank you very much. this fairfax country daycare owner is behind bars tonight. and aus kood of

naval academy in annapolis, maryland. now, annapolis right now experiences about 50 nuisance floods a year. under the best- ccase scenario, in 30 years hene it could be as high as over 240, abobout, high tides a year. if we have a highest-emission scenario, it could be as high as 380 tides a year, many of those twice a day. we think, there's only 365 days in the year. pretty much, that's almost... you know, it's inundation at thatat point. >> and in this country, we have encouraged people to build on coastal areas, barrier islands, and other high-risk areas that inevitably raise the risk level and the exposure, not only by property y values, high-valued prproperties,s, but the c cost f repair d d recory, , bo for the homeowne a as we as the blic infstructure atat supports them. sohink roads and brids and at kind thing.o it--the st of clime changeas to factored in both in public and private insurance and pupublic d privatete financial support for the structures thatat support live. >> when floods and hurricanes happen, a l

we'll take a 71 in washington, 73 annapolis. temperatures a little closer to d.c. particularly close to the bay are in the 70's this morning but plenty of 60's even some 50's off to the west. winchester 59 this morning, 64, dulles 64, manassas culpeper 64, 64 in leonardtown much you get outside the beltway and temperatures fairly comfortable. beautiful yesterday. wish i could promise the same for today but we got cloud cover moving in from the south and west and you can see it and moisture back into kentucky and parts of west virginia and this will kind of try to sneak into our area but again the best chances for a shower this afternoon will be in the mountainous areas so what's happening here is you got a little frontal system that's just off to the south. this is what came through as that cold front this weekend and it's kind of hanging up here and with it just to our south we're going to have some cloud cover and again temperatures top out in the mid 80's with a few showers around a little later this afternoon. all right, to the tropics. we've got number -- we g

annapolis, 78 degrees. frederick is 68. we have a bit of a temperature difference across the area. 71 manassas. 77 in quantico. 68 front royal. as you walk out the door, by 7:00 a.m., still the chance of a shower mostly south of the district but quickly near 80 degrees by 80 we'll check the rest of your forecast into the weekend coming up. let's check the roads right now with jack taylor. good morning, jack. >> good morning, sheena. for the most part, as you said, they're dry in virginia. for now, the work zone in virginia on the inner loop, the georgetown pike, two right lanes getting by. should be wrapping up quickly. couple work zones on 32. first west 108 both directions. tras traffic alternates by. back to you. >>> jack, thank you. we know d.c. has pretty diehard sports fans. >>> oh, yes. >> which of those fans has the best experience when they go to the game? the poll that may or may not surprise you. >>> chances are you drive by the outside of it often. now you can see what it's like on the inside. the rare chance to

temperatures are warm. 80 in annapolis, 76 in manassas. 76 in frederick. if you plan to go to the pool today, big changes from yesterday. humidity falling through the afternoon. we start to see more sunshine later this afternoon, too, but temperatures will only be topping out in the mid-80s. here's what's going to happen. there's a cold front this afternoon, moves through, we dry out. tomorrow looks good. there's a chance some computer models may have a couple of light sprinkles north and west of the district tomorrow. st high pressure moves in from canada. this is dropping down from canada, holding in a cooler, dryer air mass. this will be hanging around for the rest of the week into the weekend and even into next week. the forecast is looking spectacular after today. even today is pretty nice when you compare to yesterday. tomorrow, lower humidity. 82 for a high. humidity low through the weekend. look at these numbers, 82 for a high tomorrow. 80 for a high friday. the weekend is on the dry side. sunshine sticks around, around 80 degrees into next week. w

we have some showers in annapolis. these will be moving away but some moderate rain right near 95 and woodridge down to parts of fredricksburg. we have some moderate to light rain showers there. as you wake up this morning, temperatures will be pretty comfortable, but again, some showers around as we go through the next several hours. let's take a look need to know before you walk out the door. good morning, chuck. >> yes, indeed. the umbrella ready for today. download your nbc washington app. we can push alerts should we have some flash flood warnings throughout the day. flash flood watches have already been issued. anything from mother nature today will be primarily a rain issue, though there is a slight chance for stronger thunderstorms down toward fredricksburg and southern maryland. keep that in mind as well. four things to know about the next couple of days. the possibility of some heavy rain, again, one to two inches a possibility today. after a cloudy start tomorrow, the sunshine is back on tuesday afternoon. w

. >>> community members were devastated when the annapolis yacht club was destroyed by fire. the capital gazette reports the renovated building will have an all grass facade in the sprinkler system. the work will last until next summer. lights on a christmas tree malfunctioned causing that fire and the building not to have a working sprinkler system. if you want to help decide the new name for highway, you can hetd ad to a meeting tonight. an advisory committee will take suggestions. if you can't make that meeting, you can fill out a survey online. head to the nbcwashington app for more information on them. >> crews are going to have to start all over on a building in northwest washington. yesterday, that building collapsed. you can see crews and bulldozers on sherman near p tthe area. the walls crumbled. nobody was hurt. >>> there is a ten-foot deep sinkhole swallowing a woman's garden. prince george's county says heavy rain caused this problem and the county is not responsible. the homeowner says she has no idea p h >> we get a lot of rain. the water goes somewhere. >> the

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that taney statue removed from outside the maryland state house in annapolis to be put in storage. the 1857 case, taney, supreme court justice, ruled against dred scott, upholding denying citizenship to anyone of african ancestry. the arlington board hopes to convince virginia lawmakers to pass a bill permitting the name change or giving the county the authority to do so. >> and i think it has come to be a divisive reality. not that we want to eliminate history. it is to be learned from and embraced at some level but where and how? richard: there are no guarantees this will happen. state lawmakers meet in january and february. they will be the deciders on this. coming up at 6:00, we will hear from a descendent of roger taney his thoughts about all the changes. reporting live in arlington, richard reeve, abc 7 news. larry: high tensions over all things civil war is prompting manassas to cancel a tradition. the city says it will not hold its annual civil war weekend this year. it was supposed to be next weekend coinciding with the 155th anniversary of the second battle of bull run. n

annapolis was wet a little while ago. conditions beginning to improve a little now as this moves to the east.walking the dog this evening ? temperatures in the 80's early on dropping down to the 70's through the 9:00 hour. patchy fog later on tonight. 68 to 75 degrees. your futurecast shows a better chance of showers and a few thunderstorms moving into the afternoon hours of tomorrow and early evening. we will get the worst of it out of here before the weekend officially begins on saturday. highs tomorrow around 90 degrees. heat index values close to 100. your 10 day outlook above average temperatures for the clips on monday. jonathan: tonight, the ravens are taking on the dolphins for the next preseason game, a y it sta alison: it is kevin durant day. the nba star now champion of course with the golden state warriors comes home to a heroes welcome. john gonzalez was in the middle of the electrifying crowd. john: what an exciting day county as kevin durant comes home even if it is just for a day or so. everyone is so exci

you can see in the purple, in the red, annapolis, d.c., leonardtown, even fredericksburg, an inch to possibly an inch and a half of rain. and our temperatures today on the cool side. we stay in the 70's with downpours. so, again, i think it's the big umbrella day, rain boots, too, all needed when you head out the door. julie: right now we are looking at delays around the capital beltway. again, it's going to be one of those days ark the rain continues to fall. be prepared. allow extra time. a crash reported coming out of prince george's county on northbound 210. heads up, we can already see the yellow mat pushing northbound toward the capital beltway from palmer road. on the outer loop, 15-minute ride from college park headed over to 2706789 all lanes are open, traveling between college park and bethesda. so far no problems to report on 95 or 295. just a reminder, the capital improvement project continues through august 20. that affects your green line commute with the stations at branch and suitland closed until august 20. they will provide shuttle buses for you between branch and n

annapolis is gorgeous this morning at 69. leonardtown is up a degree to 64. and eastern shore for stevensville at 70, cambridge 63 and good measure, fredericksberg coming in at 62. the due points creeped up a little bit but some cases holding in the upper 50, which is nice, you'll notice i would say a little bit more humidity but still comfortable. few spots in the lower 60, when the due points are in the 50's, it's a comfortable air mass. lower 60's, you start to feel a little bit of humidity out there. but all things considered, not too bad for this time of year. clouds have been coming on across but they will break up once the sun gets higher in sky. will burn off a. lot. initial cloud cover, later on more clouds will begin to settle in, we could possibly be mostly cloudy by 5:00, 6:00 tonight. not as sunny as yesterday but not a bad day at all. big thunderstorms down here in oklahoma overnight. severe weather maybe a few tornados, reported there was damage, they're going to see if that was due to tornado, all the rain spreading up. we're just getting the

annapolis are working a homicide right now. a call came in for a shooting last night. a man dead from gunshot wounds. police have not released any suspect information or what may have led to the homicide but this morning they are asking for the public's help. as we get new information on this homicide, we will pass it along. adrianna: new developments -- larry: new developments in the civil suit around taylor swift. the radio personality of roping her during a meet and greet. on friday, a judge throwing up the claim against swift that she tried to get mueller fired at the judge is allowing claims to proceed against swift's mother and radio manager. are out ofia people their homes because of a fast-moving brush fire. in just a matter of hours the fire grew from 200 acres to 850 acres. multiple agencies are on the scene trying to put out the flames. as of now there is no word on how the scots artist. larry: a groundbreaking -- adrianna: a groundbreaking ceremony today and manassas, with hazmat units and a whole lot more. it will help the crews covering emergencies decept

seeing heavy rain, right over towards annapolis, heads up there, upper marlboro just got it. now, this boundary here, this line, it could actually see some showers fill in. we're bethesda area. watch out in those locations. i think we'll see more showers pop up in this region here between the bethesda area, dc. this is the area that i'm watching. this is where we're have the heaviest rain. right along 50. again, wet go of things. we've got a little bit in the way of lightning. you've got it there. and here is the area that i menti mentioned sunshine downtown, you can see the clouds and you can see the dark skies here with that rain to the north and east. 83 degrees after high temperature, winds out of the south at 17 miles an hour. they're giving us humidity out there, as well. 90 in leesburg. look at this, some weather. 83 dc after some shower activity, we'll continue to watch that activity move up to the north and east. very small area of showers right in through the region. back to the west this is what i'm tracking tomorrow. it's a potent storm system. we've got a chance

chief justice roger tawney outside the annapolis statehouse. he wrote the infamous dred scott decision in favor of upholding slavery. the trust board will either to storage or it relocated. they're working to figure out would you hold public hearings on the issue. larry: continuing coverage of the development out of charlottesville and across the country in the wake of this violent weekend. stay up to speed at wjla.com. news, there is no winner for last night's powerball drawing which means we're doing it all over again this weekend and there is still a chance for you to win. the jackpot for saturday's drawing is up to $510 million. good luck. prince george's county will celebrate its very own nba champion kevin durant. a parade from 10:00 to 11:00 in his hometown will depart from the montessori school and finish in goodwin park. it was supposed to be an all day event, but the rest of the festival was shut down at the last minute. permits were not secured. game against the miami on our sister station beginning at 7:00. autria: hbo hit by hacker

comes from overnight in annapolis, mary. maryland residents waking up to find the statue of former supreme court chief justice roger taken 93 has been reposed from outside the maryland state house. taney wrote the dread scott decision which said african-americans could not be citizens. this comes several days after governor larry hogan ordered the statue to be removed. >>> and president trump is pulling the plug on plans to create inn from structure council. the first council to be eliminated this week after backlash from president trump's comments on the violence in charlottesville. in the meantime president trump will be at maryland's camp david location today. he's meeting with his defense and foreign policy team to discuss the 8400 u.s. troops fighting in afghanistan. which the president has been questioning for awhile. >>> all right. let's talk sports for minute turning to preseason football. ravens second preseason game last night ta taking on the dolphins starting quarterback joe flacco he's out for unspecified amount