military academy at west point. >> west point traces its roots back to the american revolution. general washington considered this the most important military location in america. he called it "the key to the continent." >> both the british and the americans knew that whoever controlled the hudson river would probably win the war. the best way to move a lot of people -- men, soldiers, supplies, provisions -- was by water, using ships and boats. so controlling the river networks in america was an important aspect in the war. >> massive fortifications were built and crammed with continental soldiers. >> show us your bayonets! >> all: huzzah! bayonets! >> to keep the british from traveling upriver and dividing the colonies, a giant, 100-ton chain was stretched across the hudson. these here are links from the original chain. each link weighs about 200 pounds each. >> yes, it did work. even though there was no attempts to get past the chain or to come up the river with british ships. it was deterrent to the british. >> in 1779, washington moved his headquarters to west point. it was

rebecca west was nothing if not iconoclastic. sicily, the youngest of three daughters, was born in 1892 on the outskirts of london. her father, a gifted journalist and cartoonist, soon revealed to be a notorious gambler, thief and womanizer. abandoned their family when sicily was only 8 years old. devastated, she was unable to recognize -- to reconcile his apart adoration with the shame into which his leaving had cast them. this, i believe, was the defining moment of her life. her father's betrayal forever destroyed her faith in people and in god. permeating every aspect of her life including her writing. she would search for him in all her relationships with men, and in her own way she set out to become him. aware that her beauty, intelligence and verbal acuity was akin to his, she methodically cast aside extraneous attachments in service to her overarching ambition. her life became a game of chez. chess. believing that the formal schooling of a woman such as herself was a waste of time, he educated herself in classal literature

to get the west out of west berlin, trying to get the west really to recognize east germany, once he launched that crisis, he increasingly lost control over it to his overeager worried unilateral ally on the ground in berlin. remember the map you've seen and the fact that west berlin, capitalist democratic west berlin, was an island surrounded by a sea of east german communism. khrushchev and ubrecht hated that there was this place in the middle of communism where people could see the other world and by the way, there were of course a lot of spies. berlin was spy central which is partly why we have so many cia documents. the kgb hasn't been as forthcoming on their documents. this special location was very important to the west. we knew we had a listening post and it was the greatest show window as we called it of capitalism. and democracy. so we wanted to keep it and they wanted to take it away from us. khrushchev started this crisis in november of 1958 and quickly developed sort of broader aims. as is common between a great power and small power, the super power has a far broader ag

joint chiefs of staff began other plans for the main roadway into west berlin. at 10:00 pm on 25 july, kennedy addressed the nation on the situation in berlin. he emphasized that the united states would never allow the soviet union to drive it out of berlin, either gradually or by force. he asked congress for an immediate additional appropriation of $3.2 billion for the armed forces and an increase in the total authorized strength of the army from 875,000 to 1 million men. he requested similar increases in the navy and air force active duty strength. he also called for the activation of some reservists and the extension of tours of duty for soldiers, sailors and airmen scheduled to leave the service in the near future. finally, the president postponed programs to retire or mothball older ships and aircraft and delay the deactivation of a number of b-47 bomber and arial refueling wings. shortly thereafter, secretary of defense mcnamara announced that 50% of the strategic air commands bomber wings would be placed on 15-minute ground alert and three of the army's d

and in particular west germany. they could not keep up about so that by 1960, the per capita income of the east germans was half of that enjoyed by the west germans. another point to be made is the question of legitimacy. i think in the eyes of many germans, the regime never had the that legitimacy that the west german government enjoyed. it rode in on red army tanks. they were maintained in power by soviet bayonets. so nobody in east germany had a chance before the fall of the wall to vote on the government they really wanted. it is a very interesting thing and the german mentality, we go back a few years before east germany, adolf hitler through the years he grew power, many of his closest followers urged him to seize power. they said you have the men, you have the support, why not go through berlin and take you power. why are we going through these elections? and hitler always stood firm, he says when i get to power, i want to be legitimate. because when you have legitimacy, that gives you everything you need to

wade sizes up west. wants to take it from the elbow -- rebound, west. 3:10 to go. five-point game. >> hubie: right now, when they look at this film, meaning the pacers, they've had so many fastbreak opportunities today where they have not made the proper decisions for the easy shot. >> mike: chalmers picks up the foul, that is his fifth. free throw coming for the pacers after this time-out. >> hubie: when that ball rebounds out long, come on. you have to rotate back. this is the most critical time of the game. this is just a strong move and you know that either wade or lebron is going to be running the outside lane. now, keep an eye on the middle of your picture. here's a bad decision and there is a great play. >> mike: what hustle. wow. ♪ [swing music plays] ♪ [swing music plays] in your fight against bugs. ortho home defense max. with a new continuous spray wand. and a fast acting formula. so you can kill bugs inside, and keep bugs out. guaranteed. ortho home defense max. [ man announcing ] what we created here. so you can kill bugs inside, and keep bugs out.

look to the west. 76, 81, 82. this is where the shower activity developing, heading down into west virginia and virginia. mainly staying south of potomac, where it's pretty warm. as you head east, look at this. 54 now. 59 in elkton. 64. tomorrow, we have a chance of getting back into that warm air. if we do, there will be an increased risk of scattered showers and storms tomorrow. 50s to the mid-60s to low to mid-70s, south and west. huge contrast. we still have these east winds. we'll probably stay in that cool air or basically marine air tonight. but probably get into some of that warmer air tomorrow. that will help fuel some. >>> s. this morning, had some showers move across the region, mainly north of the city. right now, just a few popping up in the mountains. there's another one coming through tomorrow afternoon. again, chance of scattered shower or thundershower activity. looks like friday will be the warmest day. saturday, weak front coming true. it will begin to dry us out and cool us out. cool down by th

don't touch west berlin. don't touch our access to west berlin. don't touch the freedom of how people live in west berlin. but he didn't say anything about east berlin and four power control of berlin and he didn't say anything about free access back and forth between east and west berlin. so fred kempe's thesis is that if kennedy had had a firmer line and hadn't sort of given khrushchev an easy out -- as long as you don't touch our access to west berlin, you don't touch what's going on in west berlin, your side is your side. you can do what you want. fred wonders a very big what-if question. would the wall have been built if kennedy had had a harder diplomatic stance in advance with khrushchev, because he had resisted for so long that maybe if -- fred's argument is that if kennedy had been firmer, maybe they wouldn't have built the wall. secondly, there was mention about contingency plans in the west. it's very frustrating that we have not been able to get access to any contingency plans in moscow because when i read the documents between khrushc

of west berlin. he is basically holding west berliners prisoners. nothing is coming in, nothing is going out. he's trying to basically starve west berlin, meaning the americans, the british, and the french, to get our countries out of west berlin so that he has complete control over the city. it's a blockade, if you will, of west berlin. what does truman do? is he going to allow our interests, our ally's interest in west berlin to be eliminated simply because stalin has this ability to close us off by land? no. truman is going to respond with almost an entire year of an airlift of goods and supplies, food, fuel. anything that the people of west berlin needed will now be flown in. they are going to have to fly from -- take off maybe from a base in great britain, fly across the channel, across friendly air space in western europe and then they have to fly over eastern germany before they can get into west berlin. they are actually flying into soviet controlled air space. truman says, they won't be shot

they didn't venture west. keep in mind, too, as swung mentioned in the last class about the world being flat. europeans did not believe that. 13th and 14th century europeans knew the world was round. this map which is not meant for navigation shows you this is a 13th century european map of the world and you might not be able to make out the continents and the countries certainly but you can see indeed they saw the world as round. the question was not how the shape of the earth, the question is whether or not you could actually make it around the earth, that they knew theoretically if you sailed west you would come to the east and how far that would be and what dangers they would encounter, none of that was known to them. none of that was known to them. while the portuguese were working their way down the southern coast towards the tip of africa there were another group of people pushing off in a different direction onto the atlantic and these were the vikings as they're sometimes called. in the common image o

the exterior of west berlin. he is basically holding west berliners prisoners. nothing is coming in, nothing is going out. he's trying to basically starve west berlin meaning the americans, the british and the french to get our countries out of west berlin so that he has complete control over the city. it's a blockade, if you will of western berlin. what does truman do? is he going to allow our interests, our allies' interests in west berlin to be limited simply because stalin has this ability to close us off by land? no. truman is going to respond with almost an entire year of an airlift of goods and supplies, food, fuel, anything that the people of west berlin needed will now be flown in to that part of the city. i love the map simply because it shows you that in each of the three sectors, each of the three sectors has an airport. and so we can fly in cargo planes into each sector, loaded with food, medicine, supplies. walmart gift cards, aa batteries, whatever they need, they are going to have access to. and t

west berlin. up until this point, you could freely and easily move from one sector to the other much of a problem or an issue. you show proper identification, you can cross from the american sector to the soviet seccor or back and forth. in june of 1948, stalin puts a stop to that. we are not building a wall yet. that comes later. what stalin will do is to put up a perimeter that separates east from west and around the exterior of west berlin. he is holding west berliners prisoners. nothing is coming in or going out. he is try stog starve west berlin, meaning the americans, british and the french to get the countries out so that he has complete control over the city. it's a blockade of west berlin. is he going to allow our interest and allies and interests in west merlin to be eliminated because stalin has the ability to close us off by land? no. truman is going to respond with almost an entire year of airlift and goods and supplies. food, fuel, anything that the people needed will be flown in to

of us, way west of us in toward the ohio valley on the west side of west virginia with the heavier ones but locally you can see as we get west of hagerstown here, out 70, you get out toward hancock, we've got some wet wetter. even sneaking through northern frederick county, virginia trying to come into west virginia, west of i-81. this is where we've got just a few light showers. temps this morning upper 50s to even mid-60s. annapolis is 64. lots of 59s on the map from cumberland, hagerstown, gaithersburg. 57 in manassas, leesburg and culpeper for the cool spot. so in spite of the clouds, some sunny breaks and even showers and storms a. mild to almost warm day with highs mid- to upper 70s. maybe 80 town tarred the tappahannock airport. it's now 5:30. monika santami, you have a list i see. >> i do. we had one serious situation in southern maryland on branch avenue that was cleared up and only to be replaced by another serious situation. this time in loudoun county. it's closing belmont ridge road. use the claiborne parkway instead. we'll take you outside live. no problems to report at th

you get west of leesburg, there's not too much to tell you out west of route 15. let's look up into howard, montgomery counties coming down from 95 through columbia. also from fairfax down 95 right toward quantico into fredricksburg, into charles county now. this is going to head into prince george's county. east of town while it may be quieter, heavy rains are going to be moving in the next hour. 67 in d.c. right now to 63 in leesburg. and 66 in cambridge. this afternoon highs upper 70s. monika 5:00 a.m. wet roads, not good. >> not good. in fact, we're beginning to see the effects of the rain and the wet road conditions. an accident, this one just in on the northbound side of i-95 in virginia near the harbor. it's blocking the two right lanes northbound on i-95 near route 610 so be aware of that. i'll keep you posted on that information as -- on that situation as the information comes in. on the northbound side of i- 395, we've had this police activity north of duke street for a while. we'll take a live look and see if it's still there. it is on the right showedd

when we talk about the east and west and the shift of power from the west to the east, what do we really mean by the west, and what do we really mean by the east? >> in a sense it is simple. by the west, we mean that part of -- >> not just the united states? >> no, not just the united states. we in europe. the east means far east -- that is to say asia, southwest asia, to the extent that one includes in the east india, pakistan, bangladesh. >> that is a big area with an awful lot of people. >> it is a lot of people. it is not such a huge area. it is roughly comparable with the west. the community is pretty large, too. how do you draw the divide? who is in it, out of it, and who is in between? >> you suggest a strategic vision in your book, a bit of education for me, and it is always interesting to see your take on the world, that the west down the road should really include russia and turkey. >> absolutely. they are in different ways increasingly partaking of the democratic tradition, and certainly the turks want to be part of europe and are practicing increasingly, and pervasively so, d

what we've got is shower activity sitting just out to the west. it's going to try and migrate east this morning and midday. i don't think it's going to happen. i've got frederick and mount airy on the right hand side of the screen there. to the mountains and west, i want you to take an umbrella to work and school with you. you're going to need it because this afternoon and this evening and overnight and tomorrow, showers and thunderstorms around. 75 the high. it is 60 degrees right now. ron matz, good morning, how are you? >> we're doing great don and marty and we're taking a little baseball this morning. we're live at marriott's hunt valley inn. big benefit coming up saturday for the negro league baseball museum of maryland. we're going tell you all about it when the eyewitness news morning edition rolls on. ,,,,,, on my journey across america, i found new ways to tell people about saving money. this is bobby. say hello bobby. hello bobby. (laughter) hello bobby. do you know you could save hundreds on car insurance over the phone, online or at yo

we have storm activity west. take a look at the radar west minister west. that's where the activity is now. some of these cells have had their winds and remains up to an inch in some spots in less than an hour. we'll be watching this stuff about 7:30 or 8:00 it will probably be impacting the baltimore region. >> we have a look at tomorrow's forecast. >> this is such a slow moving storm. couple of showers and thunderstorms around tomorrow. very warm. in the afternoon a shower or thunderstorm and still warm and muggy as 86 for the high. things calm down tomorrow night. >> really dry air coming in tomorrow night. 59 and beautiful, perfect day on thursday. 76 friday and probably a shower or thunderstorm late at night or on saturday. back up to 80s and partly sunny. >> okay bob. thank you. a massive wild fire burns through nearly 100 buildings in michigan. they scorched more than 36 miles in newberry. they're determined to keep it away from other houses in the area. >> an airplane engine falls apart in midair sending hot chunks of debris falling in canada. it ca

some storms fire off to the west and the mountains. now we're talking about 5:00, 6:00, we've got some storms potentially getting in toward northern virginia just on the north and west side of the mote row for the evening hours coming in. it's not going to be raining everywhere all the time but any of the storms that pop this afternoon and evening have the threat to be on the strong side with the strong winds can the hail. this will be around 9:00. overnight the storms start to wind down. still could have a few of them. quieter saturday morning. how about your saturday? that front is going to sink south of us and the better chance of showers and storms will be south and west of d.c.. not to say that we can't bubble up a few showers or isolated thunderstorms here and there through the afternoon. tobago down to sharp -- but if you go down to charlottesville, maybe rich mondays. a better chance of storms than here in washington. by sunday hey great shape. sunday looks fantastic around here. temperatures on sunday will be in the mid 70s. t

you see the showers well west of us but as we zoom in, you see here this is west of hagerstown now. this is i-81. so a couple of sprinkles between the stateline, williams port down toward martinsburg and out west they're scattered about. that's it on the rain. nothing near the metro as temperatures have dipped to 61 in town. 56 in leesburg. annapolis 63 and 59 in la plata. we'll have sun mixing with clouds at times. today mid-70s but watch out for the afternoon showers and storms approaching. let's go to monika santami at 6:00 a.m. with your time saver traffic. >>> i have to give credit to police and crew on the scene of a multivehicle accident on the westbound side of route 50 at route 202. they were able to move everything to the left shoulder pretty quickly. i'm going to take you to a live picture from sky 9 on the westbound side. you can see that everything was moved to the shoulder but it was there long enough in the rush hour to cause at least a mild backup. we're zooming out to see that delay on the westbound side of route 50 approaching route 202 in landover. keep that in mi

this is the west corner of 30 and -- of third and stillman. the west approach added an ankle corner, -- an angled corner, so we are making it safer. director kim: so, you are doing this for pedestrian safety and traffic calming measures? >> yes. director kim: i am happy to see that. >> there is no further public comment. [roll call vote] 4 ayes, and item 9 is approved. item 10 is authorizing the executive director to execute an agreement for. of five years. >> good morning, directors. this is a contract for the temporary terminal. in your packet, you can see what they are advertising and what it is projected to look like. it would be advertising space on 48th on the windscreen panels in the temporary terminal. there would be additional space in the future. they think it would be cost- effective or produce more revenue to use more locations. we would negotiate additional revenue at that time. there will also be space reserved for the transgendered bay project on this flight. all the advertising -- for the transgendered bayt -- ransbay project.

if i move west, of looking at a rotted? that is a fire hazard. there's like a cavity underneath it and it's all combustible material. that would be directly adjacent to our deck if we give to the back. the idea of putting it in the middle of to make it visible from the backyard at the street. icommissioner antonini: this is an issue that i see. the second part of my question is in regards to the lower deck of the bottom level home. it has already come in 3 feet, i would like to see it come in 6 inches to minimize it a little more and answer some of the concerns that the adjacent neighbors -- may be round the corners a little bit. you still have a good-sized pack. >> we offered that at one point. -- you have a good sized deck. >> i was told of privacy was what he wanted, he could do a privacy screen and put bars of his daughters window. that's what he said to me. commissioner antonini: that is something i would be interested in looking into. my only other thing on the upper one is we have one of the situations where views are not protected either

plenty of rain to our west. showers into west -- and ohio. that will catch up to us eventually. you might get some sunshine to start the morning. the clouds will thicken up as we go through the morning. 60 at the airport. 59 degrees in rising sun. we should be able to sneak up to around 74. later this afternoon, a better chance for some showers or thunderstorms. it might run into that on your home from work. that front will stall in our neighborhood tomorrow. we have a chance for thunderstorms on wednesday. it gets kind of cool behind the system. temperatures will drop into the 60's on thursday and friday. low 40's on thursday night and possibly some frost in western maryland. 30% chance for some rain on mother's day with a high near 74. >> police arrest a man they say is a peeping tom. kim dacey is live in towson with the details. >> 20-year-old zachary campbell was arrested after a student chased him down. this happened last week. police say he was spying on women in building a. two women reported run-ins with him. last week, detectives tell us a third victim caught him in the

look to the far west of us, west of interstate 81. we've got a couple thunderstorms popping up and most of those storms should be west and north of town. the heat advisory is still in effect until 9:00 tonight for the d.c. metro area. you see all those counties highlighted in orange. here's what it feels like, 95 in downtown, manassas feels like 98, fredericksburg 96, even hagerstown 91, cumberland 94, winchester 94. in fact, cumberland, allegany county, maryland, that flash flood warning has now expired. that's the good news there. we're looking at a chance for some isolated thunderstorms west of 81 and parts north of town into northern maryland. i think most of those barbecue parties should go off without a hitch. if you do hear thunder or see lightning, plan on bringing your barbecue inside till that storm passes. the rest of the night partly cloudy and muggy. it's steamy out here, isolated storms possible north and west of town, lows 69 to 73 degrees. when i come back, we have a better chance of showers and storms tomorrow. we'll

once again the showers, thunderstorms are off to the west if i do moon juean just of the west. go, two hours, three hours along the road. pick them up. morganstown. west virginia. charleston area. close to elkins. see a lot of lightning associated with this. bigger storms back to the west. potential for flash flooding. seeing flood warnings here. once again the, the need is there for the rain. we need to see that rain come through. the mountains once again. will help to kill these, just a little bit. i don't think they're going to make it in their entirety. i do thing we are going to see rain early tomorrow morning. here is what future weather forecast has for us along the frontal boundary. here come the showers. look at 5:00. when i expect them to come through. between, 4:00, 6:00 a.m. 4:00 to the west. 6:00 to the east. could be enough to give us rather wet roadways. give yourself a little bit of extra time tomorrow. frontal boundary. meanders around the region. chance of showers. strong thunderstorms during the day tomorrow. we could even see some severe weather. and then an

that's west of town in the mountains of western maryland and west virginia where some of the visibilities are close to zero. we're okay here in the metro for the most part with partly cloudy conditions. sunrise at 5:54. it will start to get light very shortly with temperatures running in the upper 50s to upper 60s. a good looking day planner. lots of sunshine. spotty thunderstorms this afternoon. i don't think we'll see anything like we saw yesterday. by noon upper 70s with a west to southwest wind 5 to 10. pretty nice lunch hour. 3:00 83 if not 85. that will be close to the high for the day with low 80s still at 6:00 p.m. going to the nats game tonight, pirates are coming to visit for a couple. 81 at game time. 7:05, falling into the mid-70s in the latter inning, southwest winds at 7. we should be in pretty good shape weather wise for that the last six hours toward midnight, 11:30, you can see we had some big storms well south of us. some of that rain clipped southern maryland. this morning we've cleared out. fog a real problem. stafford half-mile, culpeper. we're down a half mile in mar

west wind at five to 10. on the bay, a south breeze averaging five knots will shift to the west and continue at five to 10 knots. storms tomorrow evening. as we head into the weekend, the showers possible saturday morning before it clears up and turns more comfortable on sunday. high temperatures around 75. >> thank you. we're getting a chance to read some of osama bin laden's in your thoughts while he was in hiding in pakistan. >> a new documents being released by the tourism center. some revelations about what was found inside his compound. a closer look when we come back. >> in this last school year, chesapeake high school has lost three students to traffic crashes. with summer around the corner, they're trying to give kids a message that will not just go in one ear and out the other. details are next. details are next. does the combatting terrorism center at west point has released classified letters and documents found in osama bin laden's compound in pakistan. >> they give scholars and others insights i

and while it's going to be sunny here in the metro area at 1:00, out west out to the west virginia and virginia border i- 81 some thunderstorms popping by then. this afternoon, boy we get to the middle of the afternoon, things start to move in from west to east. and when i say things i'm talking about permly strong to -- potentially strong to severe storm with some hail and possibly damaging wind gusts, storms this morning in west virginia locally moving into ohio. it's southern garrett county seeing some rain coming out of this one cell south of oakland here. so that's about it. and this is weakening a little bit. other than that nice quiet morning except for some fog. that's a problem areas to the south and west from warrenton to culpeper and orange and over to stafford. visibilities there a half mile or less. quarter mile in martins bug and half mile in baltimore. patchy dense fog in spots that will be around for a couple of hours. temps 59 in easton. 58 lewis and georgetown delaware with mid 60s in d.c.. low 60s in winchester and gaithersburg and culpeper and outside on the michael

west l.a. -- >> jimmy: west l.a. type of vibe. and you love it in new york. now, it's your home.

equal to the west and to russia and it didn't depend very much in this tendency conserves and and it doesn't depend very much on the relations. ups and downs and relations between russia and miller so. you know it's one fact and another fact is as you mentioned that it may move maybe emotional that. if you paid attention when it was the relation of relations with the west and those sanctions which we cannot accept and that's very time not only russia kazakhstan as well within the. asian community they were quite united in the in condemning the sanctions moves were interesting that you a politician speaking speaking about high ranking politicians mention the world emotional well isn't it true that mr looking shimko is probably. probably the last really emotional leader in europe at least. to some extent you know he's a very bright person and as any break person he he is judgments and. quite emotional and they draw attention more. whole over the world as a matter of fact especially those who are involved in the relations with our investment in the east. so long and he's a very good spe

that the west end doesn't have the activity it should. we need to bring more positive activity to the west end and activate that space. the master plan considers adding a fifth soccer pitch where the treatment facility used to be. it also recognized that a 30 to 40-car parking lot should be added at that area. it contemplates the addition of a 2,500 square foot pavilion which would be a community space, a place for roller skating, bike rentals -- those are all great and we think that our project dovetails with that goal. obviously with our field -- field and increased use the need to expand another soccer field to the south isn't necessary, adding an additional parking lot at the south end isn't required. we're achieve all those goals and that's clearly articulated in the master plan as a direction we should be moving. we shouldn't be expanding our recreation facilities, we should be improving the foot print are -- of where they exist now so they meet the demands of the public. you have have information in your packet. i don't want to rea

is going to be very good for the world as it's been a key aggressive west check as indeed russia has done so far in relations to syria and iran. as you say so indeed having having been back at the helm may be good for certain parts of the world not particularly to the pilots of some in the west let's let's bring up some of those issues that have been indigestible for example unsolvable issues between our russia on the west our syria iran the missile defense plan in europe how will the issues do you think these ones in particular play out in the hands of putin and his western counterparts well i think it's up to the west to be in the aggressors in all of these instances that you talk about it's up to the west to change their behavior and not up to russia the computers standing up to aggression regard to syria and iran. i think the western elite must accept there can be nobility in those countries but except that they do except except that they won't be a problem we've got to see they saw the fences to it going i think the ball is in the west's call the west has got to realize this is

sailing west, boy was columbus lucky. he is sailing in august and september across this part of the world, kind of not quite the south atlantic and what does columbus avoid? he is blessed. hurricanes. think about it. he didn't know. columbus didn't know it was hurricane season. he sailed in the hurricane season. no hurricanes. at least he didn't encounter any. very lucky. does another wise thing, too. as they're sailing west, they begin to see stuff in the water, birds occasionally, so like the vikings, well, there must be land somewhere near and columbus is on a course nearly due west. then he decides because he has seen stuff in the water that seems to him to be coming up from the south, so he veers course and instead of heading due west he veers slightly to the south. that's a great move, too, even though he doesn't know it. what might have happened had columbus continued on a due west course, what would he have encountered that probably would have caused him difficulty? >> civilization. >> not civilization. what's the

might be showers well north and west. andrea and mike, over to you. >>> this year mike shanahan is not waiting until august to name the redskins starting quarterback. >> good morning everybody. the caps seem to be sticking to a script this most season. lose game one. tie it up in game four. against the rangers if they don't stray from what's being let out, from that harry potter breaking triple overtime loss wednesday night at the verizon center. now they have a chance to take the lead when the series heads to new york tonight having just two home wins this post season. the caps have proven they can win on the road. the two will square off at 7:30 tonight. >>> one guy that need in worry on the redskins about making the roster is r gi i i. after three days of practice, mike shanahan named him starting quarterback. griffin looked like he was adapting just fine. >> they brought me in for a reason and i plan to go out and do what i'm supposed to do. >> he is great. you can see what an incredible ath allete he is. i thought it

this time all the way west. no problems to report on the dulles toll road coming in from the airport. you just have that overnight construction which should be clearing up now in the tysons area and westbound at the beltway as well. no problems on 66 as you can see coming in from are inville to fairfax. the -- centreville to fairfax. no problems to report here on the beltway. south of town at route 4 pa pennsylvania avenue past andrews air force base headed for the wilson bridge. in my next report at 4:55, we'll tell but the situation in northwest d.c. first, public bus drivers in montgomery county want a bus model they say is dangerous. they want to take every 5 champion shuttle bus. five of the vehicles have caught fire since 2009. none of the fires caused any injuries but they are being investigated by the national highway traffic safety administration. >>> according to a new study by travel and less sur, dulles international is the accepten t most disliked airport in the -- is the seventh most disliked airpo

far west you have a couple of showers, light ones this morning. looks like it's going to be late afternoon, maybe evening till some of us see anything. if you're sniffing a little bit, the grass pollen got into the high category yesterday. looking at the bus stop forecast on this tuesday morning, we have mostly cloudy skies out there. it's mild. we're 62 in washington. we've got some 50s out there but 56 to 66, that general range with the sunrise just a couple of minutes past 6:00 a.m. this morning. it's going to set at about 8:08 this evening. we will see some sunny breaks here. noontime temps 73. winds also are going to pick up. you'll notice the breeze if you're going to be outside. winds may gust 25 or so. by the middle and latter parts of the afternoon, that's when we'll see a few showers, maybe a rumble or two of thunder that will move in from west to east slowly as we go through the later and afternoon hours. by 8:00 tonight 72 degrees. winds out of the south at 12 miles an hour. looking at the bigger picture, we've got the showers in penns

the west. all of this is confined to the west. we're clear in central m more than likely we'll see a round of moderate to heavy showers. so be ready for. that all right. right now 73 degrees. humidity is moderate, 50%. winds with the at five. not a lot of wind. the sun is trying to break through. show you this morning a couple of showers, cloudy and gray but, again, tough to find much sunshine. briefly brought in bel air and clouds thickening up. we expect later this evening to see some rain. dundalk, sunshine and an extreme premium with that pesy boundary hang -- pesky boundary hanging out to the west. humid conditions continuing. and the temperatures are much cooler to the west. deep creek lake flirting with the 40s. 60s hagerstown. knocking on the door. we're still warm in baltimore, dover and easton. downtown today pushing up close to 80 degrees early on. 78 for our high temperature downtown. we did hit the mid-70s in frederick and d.c. all right. here is that active weather to our south. i

we started seeing some of the clouds move in today and the rain is just west of us, frighteningly west and close by some of it getting in the mountains of west virginia right now. so you would think that the way the radar looks, oh, tomorrow is a ger. not really. it will take some time for the atmosphere to get moist enough for the rain to come down and by the time that happens, it might be evening. but we have to allow with this storm approaching for a slight chance for some of you to be included in a little rain chance tomorrow afternoon. all right. keep that in mind. if you will be out wact tiveties, check us here tomorrow morning on our newscast or check out wbal.com and look at the radar and see how much progress is making or lack of progress. and more details how forecast turns out in a minute. >> john, thank you. baltimore city police officers are looking for clues in into two acts of early morning violence. the first happened before 12:45. authorities say a 25-year-old man showed up in an area hospital suffering gunshot wounds to the shoulder and leg. officers in the southern d

you see the storms popping up to the west. as we look at the radar, here it; big line of storms, tremendous amount of lightning coming through to the hagerstown area. we'll continue to keep a very sharp eye on those storm clusters as they move west. you can see how hot it; a heat index of 97 fueling those storms. much more on the line when it clears and a look at a reemerging tropical depression beryl coming up. >>> now the latest on a breaking news update. fire spread quickly gutting a structure and leaving the family homeless. jeff hager is back from forest him and joins us with more on the fire. >> reporter: if a-- it appears three generations of the family lived under one roof. it's lucky they escaped with their lives. heavy smoke filled the neighborhoods surrounding disc sip lane as -- dixie lane as firefighters battled the flames. >> the reports indicated there were personnel trapped inside. >> reporter: fortunately, by the time the fire trucks pulled up the family had made it out. the homeowner was awakened at 4:30 in t

out to the west seeing the rain. up on the i-70 corridor have seen rainfall that makes things slow early o. we'll have another look at your time saver traffic at 6:18. back to you. >>> three american college students studying abroad are dead after a car crash. investigators are left to piece together the clues. >> all three victims were boston university students studying abroad. police say their minivan flipped over on an isolated road early saturday. at least three of those injured remain hospitalized this morning. >>> wildfires are under way in arizona. this is the sun flower fire which went from ten acres to a thousand acres saturday alone. there's another fire in the state about 350 acres big. there's a voluntary evacuation order currently in place. >>> the prototype space shuttle enterprise is moving closer to its new home now. it was taken off the back of a 747 sunday morning. it will eventually be moved to the intrepid museum. enterprise was housed at the center here before it was moved to new york last month

we've got some showers to the west. we're going to take ow a tour of live doppler 9 -- take you on a tour of live doppler 9000. the numbers just coming in for the allergy update. not good. weeds and mold are low. trees and grass talking about rain chances and the upcoming weekend when 9news now at noon returns. >>> a maryland court ruling says it is unconstitutional to collect d.n.a. samples from people arrested for violent crimes. and this particular situation could end up in front of the supreme court. that's a topic of hot debate that i'd like to discuss with the state's attorney john mccarthy. how do you feel about this? maryland is kind of standing alone on this issue, isn't it? >> we're really out there on our own. the taking of a genetic profile, a d.n.a. print, you take -- we're searching peep at the same time we're taking fingerprints. we're standing alone. we're hoping the supreme court steps in and corrects this. >> why is it that maryland is standing alone and other states have said it's constitutional, it's