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WTTG Fox 5 News Edge At 11 October 27, 2012

Now. Theyre definitely talking about this taking over the characteristics of the hybrid storm it is predicted to become. They keep it as a category 1 hurricane and its moving faster now to the north at 10 Miles Per Hour. So that picked up a small amount of forward motion, but they think the center has been wobbly a little bit as weve gone overnight. In the short term the track has shifted slightly to the east in the next, oh, say 24 to 48 hours. After that they still keep that hard westward motion as it likely will still make a landfall somewhere around delaware, southern new jersey. So the track essentially in the later hours did not change very much. It is well inland. You can see there tuesday at 8 00 with 50mile an hour winds in South Central pennsylvania and it moves up to new york state by wednesday evening with strong winds of 40 miles an hour, but again very heavy rain expected with the system. So essentially in the later hours and for our intents and purposes that cone didnt change too much, might have got expanded a little farther to the eastern side of it. It looks like its going up almost to the line with maine there. So that cone remains a very important part of the forecast because there will still in the next 24 to 36 hours be some fluctuations in that. Wanted to show you also the spaghetti models. We saw this just happen at 10 45. A lot of them now are again a little bit to the north of d. C. The red line being the National Hurricane center track, but they still all take that turn. They still all have it meandering and kind of doing a loop de loop somewhere over pennsylvania. That is an interesting shift, cult, but a lot of those models subtle, but a lot of those models are a bit farther north than they were. Quick look at the headlines, going downhill mainly sunday evening with the rain and wind picking up, peak effect monday and tuesday. We expect torrential rain on the order of several inches, damaging wind gusts Strong Enough that we should be preparing for the possibility of Power Outages that could last a number of days. Well have much more in a few minutes. Currently maryland, virginia and the district all under a state of emergency. That means local and state governments can activate the National Guard and provide extra assistance if needed. D. C. Mayor vincent gray joined us on fox 5 news at 10 00 to tell us how the district is getting ready. Were also really working hard to get as many leaves off the ground as we possibly can because if those leaves start to go down into the catch basin and storm drains, theyll clog it up and cause even more flooding than we otherwise would have had. Gray said hes spoken with pepco about how to prevent another massive power outage like this summer. Pepco is bringing in additional crews. The rush is on at local Hardware Stores as homeowners race to get ready. There are some key things you can do to weather this storm with minimal dang. Will thomas has that now. Damage. Will thomas has that now. We spoke with the manager of bethesda hardware tonight. He said people tend to do the bare minimum like stock up on batteries and flashlights, but this time he gave us a checklist you can run through before the weather turns bad. First up buy a generator or make sure yours is working. Wen theyre not cheap, but he says we know theyre not cheap, but he says if you can swing it, in the long run it will pay off over many uses. You want to make sure there arent any leaves blocking the water flow to your storm drain and if you have a basement, make sure you have a backup battery for your sump pump. Everybody panics, but its like the winter is early this year. Last time we lost power it was two or three days before it was restored. So hopefully it wont be the same this time. Heres another suggestion that could save you a messy cleanup later. Bring in your halloween decorations or political signs. You can always put them back up after the weather clears. Some folks are beginning to stock up for sandy. We caught up with some shoppers at the brentwood giant in d. C. This evening buying essentials they say theyll go through during the storm. Well, we have french fries, pizza, chips, hamburgers, cereal for breakfast thats good for you. Reporter how worried are you about this storm coming . Im just going to deal with it as it comes. I put everything in gods hands right now and everything is going to be all right. Besides people stocking up on food, some area Hardware Stores say theyve had a lot of customers today, people buying up flashlights and batteries. Metro getting ready for this big storm. Joining us right now on the phone is metro spokesman dan stessel. Thanks for joining us. You are still continuing to do track work this weekend. Is that right . Yeah, hi, brian. We are planning to proceed with track work as scheduled, though we will closely monitor conditions thugh the day sunday. If conditions deteriorate significantly, we may reevaluate that, but from a customer perspective, they should plan on the scheduled track work taking place as scheduled. We know the heat and snow impacts you and heavy rains and flooding affect some of the train stations and tracks. What are you doing to protect those . Right. Thats where weve been focused the last 48 hours. Last night crews laid sandbags at some critical locations, vent shafts around some of those locations where we have a history of water infiltrating the tunnels. Weve checked all our drainage pumping stations to ensure theyre in good working order and will have personnel monitoring those through the storm. Can you share with us some of those stations that have a history of trouble during flooding . Yeah. The two most significant are Cleveland Park on the red line and federal triangle as well where if you go to those stations now, youll find sandbags around the vent shafts to prevent water from going into the station. Closer to the storm you may find sandbags ringing the escalators to prevent water from flowing down the escalators into the station. You can follow the storms path on myfoxhurricane. Com. There youll find enhanced satelli images, interactive models, a live chat and more. Breaking news from maryland a husband and wife were shot while walking down a quiet street, the live report next. And sue is tracking the storm. Dont be surprised if tomorrow you hear sandy is down graded to a Tropical Storm. That is expected, but as it get closer to americaning with that system, it is expected merging with that system, it is expected to get gonger again. Well have your fox 5 accuweather sevenday forecast in just moments stronger again. Well have your fox 5 accuweather sevenday forecast in just moments. Stick with us. This is fox 5 news edge at 11 0 anncr their ads, hopelessly untrue. A West Virginia casino launching the biggest ad barrage ever. Dont be misled. The Washington Post says question seven is just. Common sense. Itll create 4,000 permanent jobs. And stop maryland from losing millions to other states. Every year. Thats why business, labor, and teachers all support. Question seven. And so does the Washington Post. Vote for question seven. Its just common sense. Following breaking news from charles county, maryland where a wife was killed in front of her husband tonight, the gunman still on the run. Fox 5s Audrey Barnes joins us live from the scene in waldorf. Whats the latest . Reporter a couple in their 40s was out walking their dog about 7 15 tonight on this popular footpath that leads from the neighborhood to westlake high school. There was a Football Game going on at the high school at the time and officers working at that game heard the shots and rushed here to the scene to help and they found the couple that had been shot multiple times. The man was able to give them a very disturbing account of what happened here and we just heard that account from police just moments ago. They tell us that he and his wife encountered a lone gunman on this path and when their dog, a boxer, barked at this man, he unloaded his gun shooting them multiple times. Now the wife did die at the hospital. The man is in serious condition and this community is on edge. You can see the presence of the Police Department all over the neighborhood and its tragic, the first time that Something Like this happened. Its been a very quiet neighborhood for 24 years. Reporter now police do have a very vague description of the suspect, but they believe someone in this community might have seen something as well. There were a lot of people out. It was a beautiful evening, a lot of people out walking their dogs and playing with their kids. So someone might have seen someone fleeing from the scene. They would love to hear from you. There is a 5,000 reward for information that helps police catch the suspects in this case. Back to you, brian. Incremental news tonight, but some of the tracks are shifting northward a bit. Interesting now. Hurricane center didnt make any changes. It will be interesting to see if they make any changes tomorrow. Were still a couple days away. The worst of this we believe will be monday night through tuesday. Live look outside, a beautiful evening following a fantastic week, but the clouds tomorrow will stick thickly with us. There might be a couple sun breaks, might be a spotty shower or, so but your saturday is going to be good for getting a lot of extra work done around the house to get yourself ready. Will thomas went through a big list with you earlier. Make sure you gas up your car just in case we have Power Outages. That was something that took a lot of people by surprise during the derecho when gas stations couldnt pump gas. Maybe get a little cash, too, if stores are out of power and you need to buy something. Its still a hurricane with winds at 75 miles an hour 395 miles to the south, southeast of charleston, definitely looks raggedy. Theres a lot more thunderstorm activity on the north and western side and its encountering wind sheer which is kind of blowing it apart. Even though it may weaken tomorrow and you hear about Tropical Storm sandy versus Hurricane Sandy, dont let down your guard because we do believe it will intensify back to a hurricane before it becomes this monster storm, the noreaster were expecting. We definitely have some clouds, a couple spotty showers to our south. I think thats how it will look for a good deal of tomorrow and then you can see our stronger cold front producing showers. Some of that rain will be in pittsburgh sunday. So its going to be a cold rain for them, about the its when these two systems merge that were talking about increasing rain and importantly increasing wind and thats where gary mcgrady will pick up this part of the forecast because wind definitely will be a big deal. Absolutely. As this comes ashore and gets closer to us, thats when i think the winds will really begin to kick up on a broad scale. Showing you this, we have one of our models in red, the closed off circle there indicating the center of circulation. Thats going to come up. As we see this big trough digging out to the west, thats actually going to bring the storm in and provide cold air aloft and strngthen the storm and expand the wind field. The way it looks right now most of the wind that we get here in the midatlantic will be coming from the west and northwest and even theres a northerly component as well. Right now the wind coming up from the south and southeast will be piling up all that water for jersey up to long island and up to providence and around towards the cape. Thats the way it looks right now, but again this could all changed based on the differences in the models and what this storm will do. As we get into wednesday and thursday while the storm will still be present, hopefully by then it will begin to weaken. Tuesday morning 8 a. M. These are wind gusts projected by our models, 59 Miles Per Hour, 60 Miles Per Hour. Theres hagerstown 63. Keep in mind this is not a specific number. It gives a range of the wind gusts we could be seeing and that continues right through the day tuesday. It will weaken a little bit, but after several hours 50, 60 mileperhour wind gusts once it comes down to 45 to 50, thats not a whole heck of a lot. We will be in probably a 24 to 36 hour period here where we can actually end up with wind gusts anywhere between 30 and 60 Miles Per Hour and that is no doubt the kind of wind thats going to bring down trees, bring down power lines. It will cause some Power Outages, huge impact with this storm from the midatlantic up to the northeast. Thats why were potentially saying this is going to be historic because not just here, but multiple states seeing this with potential wind damage from those prolonged winds and well get a lot of rain out of this thing and it will weaken these trees. Be aware of that. Thats my biggest concerns are those trees coming down. 63 degrees is our temperature now. I wanted you to see the contrast, the colder part of this system coming into may over the weekend, 47 in columbus, 43 degrees in chicago and its destined to fall. We have winter storm watches in the western portions of the appalachians, but rainfall will be a big story. It will begin sunday. Weve got a couple showers saturday as well, but the bulk of it especially to our south and east, 6 to 8 inches or more in the metro area, 4 to 6 inches and off to our west it could be 2 to 4 with 8 to 10 inches of snow potential in the mountains, maybe even a foot of snow in the mountains. For tonight 58 degrees, a few clouds, maybe a little fog overnight. Saturday looks okay, a lot of clouds around, maybe a bit of drizzle or light shower, late day sunshine possible. Our temperature tomorrow gets up to 70 degrees and your fox 5 accuweather sevenday forecast looks like this. Again forecasting 70 tomorrow, get your running around done and preparations finished, showers and breezy sunday. The rain will be heavier into the later portion of the day and especially after the sun goes down. Rain and wind monday and tuesday. Thats when well get the bunt of what well get with our hurricane brunt of what well get with our Hurricane Sandy. Showers are possible, 53 degrees. Thursday and friday looks a whole lot different than this week. And its going to look a lot different in pittsburgh where the skins will be having to play nd temperatures in the 40s. Lindsay murphy has more. This is the verizon 4g lte with lindsay murphy. Well hit the road tomorrow for pittsburgh without wide receiver Pierre Garcon and safety brandon meriweather. London fletcher is questionable to may battling a sore hamstring and balance issues. Fletcher does not have a concussion but is still being watched for balance problems. Fletcher did have a full practice today, the first time all week. He will continue to be watched the next 48 hours to see if hes able to play. At this time, though, his streak of 231 consecutive games played could be in jeopardy, but as always safety first. Well, no. 1, hes got to feel comfortable because you cant go out there if youve got balance issues and play. Everybody knows that, but relative to the hamstring i cant tell you until probably 48 hours from now or close to it when he works out before the game and he tries to push it harder than he did today. It does not get any easier for the defense this week. Their next task, to try and slow down big ben roethlisberger, the steelers signal caller coming off a solid sunday performance in cincinnati 27 of 37, 278 yards and this touchdown to tight end heath miller. He has won two super bowl titles since joining the steelers in 2004 and the redskins know he will not be pretty easy to take down. Ben is a guy that can extend the play. Hes not going to scramble, but hes creative in that backfield and he has a decent line youve got to rush, six, seven seconds as opposed to two or three when you expect the ball to come out. The play is going to keep going. Well have a lot of bodies rolling in and out. Switching gears today was the wizards final preseason game. They entered the game against the spurs with a 34 record so far without john wall. They will tip off regular season tuesday at the cleveland cavaliers. And the wizards, this is their final preseason tuneup tonight in san antonio. It was the second year guy john vesely off the pick and roll. The wizards had a 13 point lead, but in the 2nd half the prosecutors would take over. Good Ball Movement here, back to the top of the key the spurs would take over. Good Ball Movement here. Back to the top of the keys. The season starts for real on tuesday. When we come back, fighting night is tomorrow night at the Patriot Center. Well hear from local product jimmy lang, that guy, after the break. In this country. And we face this deficit could crush the future generations. And republicans and democrats both love america but we need to have leadership leadership in washington that will actually bring people together and get the job done and could not care less if its a republican or a democrat. Ive done it before, ill do it again. Im mitt romney, and i approve this message. 326 nhl games have now been lost. All games through november 30th have been canceled and the prospect of a full regular season has now been lost. As of right now, 26 of the season has been wiped out. The leagues most recent offer including a 50 50 split of revenues with the players has also been taken off the table because this will not be a full regular season. Switching gears, good crowd on hand at the green turtle in fairfax for the official weigh in with jimmy lang, the middle weight bout at the Patriot Center tomorrow. Lang came into the fox 5 studios a week ago when dave ross caught up with him to see how things had changed. A week and a half ago we had you on. Now were 24 hours away. How do you feel . Im a little nastier than before. Thats a good kind of nasty, right . Absolutely. Were not going to the homecoming dance. It will be a good night. Were not going to homecoming dance, final words from jimmy lang. Congrats to our producer rich dunn into i ducks into the hall of on his induction into the sports hall of fame today. Well be right back. Where others fail, droid powers through. Introducing the new droi

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