That it will able to tap into. That will reenergize it as it approaches the midatlantic. Even as it starts to fall apart here over the next 24 hours. It will be a very strong storm when it approaches the mid atlantic later this weekend. This you can see it moving off to the north and west at 13. Time frame for us would be later on sunday. I think by sunday afternoon, sunday night, well start to get some rain in here and monday, tuesday will be the main event us for. Right now, it is looking like landfall could be as close as the delaware bay. That would be a major impact across the midatlantic. Lets do some local weather and 63 at reagan national. Your friday forecast looks fine. No issues today. No issues tomorrow. It wont be beautiful outside but we wont be looking at any rain. A little fog to start your day. Might be a little drizzle in a spot or two. Lets see if the fog is doing anything to the commute this morning. Lets check in with julie wright and get the latest. So far, so good. We are off fay quiet start around the capital beltway. Southbound bw parkway and nursery road checking for accident activity here at this location. If you are traveling 359 at the 14th street bridge coming out of virginia headed over to the southeastsouthwest freew crossing over the pat over the potomac. Traffic volume moving at speed south of father hurley boulevard moving into rockville. Thats a check of your fox 5 ontimetraffic. Imetraffic. Thank you. Some are dubbing it a frankenstorm due to its potential to bring high wind and rain right before halloween. Hurricane sandy is heading for t east coast. The forecast has people from our area up to new england getting ready for the worst possible scenario and the storm has already slammed into several caribbean islands. The death toll from jamaica, haiti and cuba now stands at 22. Right now, Hurricane Sandy is pounding parts of the bahamas. The Emergency Management offices in d. C. , maryland and virginia and up to all the way up toking now are beginning to take action in advance of the storm warning the public to get ready. We know our area Utility Companies are preparing for this socalled frankenstorm. Both pepco and bge are planning for hundreds of thousands of potential outages so workers on standby. Pepco says they have 400 contractors ready plus an additional 150 local crews. Bg. Says they have 500 contractors ready to go. Here are some things that you can do in order to prepare for the storm. Might be a good idea to clean up the fallen leaves that are probably already on your lawn right now. They can clog storm drains, making flooding even worse. Also, bring in the bikes, lawn furniture, other loose items inside that could become projectiles in high winds and all check smoke detectors. You will need for charge your cell phone, make sure to have a full tank of gas and an emergency kit with batties, flashlights, nonperishable foods, springs and some cash on hand. Stay with fox 5 as we continue to track this potential superstorm. You can follow its track on my fox hurricane. Com. Check out enhanced images, a live chat and much more. You can download the free fox 5 weather app. It is available for apple iphones and droids. Also, police some leesburg say they are looking into a suspicious death this morning that they learned about overnight. Investigators say a woman in her early 20s was found inside an apartment at the fields of leesburg on edwards ferry road. That was around 1 00 this morning. Police say they were contacted by relatives of the woman who had not been able to make contact with her for a few days now. Unclear how the woman died. Investigators say there is no threat to the public scientist former fbi agent is found guilty on all charges for killing a teenager while driving drunk im Prince Georges County jury convicted Adrian Johnson of homicide by Motor Vehicle while intoxicated. He crashed into lawrence garners vehicle killing him and seriously injuring his best friend. Johnson faces up to 13 years in prison. He is scheduled for be sentenced in d. C. General though his attorneys say they will appeal the verdict. Police in Prince Georges County are looking for a possible serial arsonist after they say nine cars were lit on fire in less than 24 hours. This happened in kettering and Upper Marlboro and as you can see, some of the cars are just a total loss. Neighbors say they heard loud popping noises before the cars caught on fire. Police suggest leaving your outdoor lights on at fight and ask anyone with information to call them. 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A new fox news poll of likely voters in virginia showed governor romney with 47 support compared to president obamas 45 . There is some more fallout now from that undercover video that has rocked the rehigh pressure Election Campaign of republican congressman jim moran. Arlington police have now al anbar. Ed a criminal investigation and the chair man of the Arlington CountyRepublican Committee is calling for congressman moran to step down. Someone from a conservative group asked morans son how to cast ballots in the name of 100 voters who rarely show up at the poll. Patrick moran showed him how to do it and he has since resigned. We continue to track Hurricane Sandy and the superstorm it could help create. People from florida and up to maine and everywhere along it is east coast are getting ready for this. Tucker has the storms latest track when fox 5 morning news continues. Continues. [ edmonds ] he doesnt r really care where a good idea c comes fro. 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The beaches there look pretty. Not going to much longer. We continue to keep an eye on Hurricane Sandy. People from florida to maine and inland ohio are preparing for a possible hit from this. There is a chance sandy could mix with a winter storm and it has already killed 21 people across the caribbean. New york mayor Michael Bloomberg is among the officials monitoring the situation. We dont know when or if or where the storm is going to hit. The forecasters say it could be dangerous but i think the word that theyve been using most is it is unpredictable. Now, of course, our area is also preparing for sandy. That includes local Utility Companies both pepco and bge. They say they already have hundreds of workers on stand by. Lots of people on the roadways this morning. Hopefully, they are not all going to the Grocery Store just to stock up on everything right now. We have plenty of time here. We want to emphasize the time frame with this would be second half of monday, we start to get rain showers in and monday, tuesday would be the main event. We still have several days. No need to set off the panic meter quite yet. And a lot could still happen with the storm. This is a very interesting storm and something that the Hurricane Center has been emphasizing is that the storm is forecast for become what we call a hybrid. It will have characteristics of the Tropical Storm that were all familiar with and a mid latitude storm. Our computer models dont handle that very well. These storms are relatively rare. Many people familiar with the perfect storm back in 1991, this was sort of similar to the one today. These are very uncommon im lot could happen. We could have serious impacts around here starting monday morning. So that would be the time frame. Well take a look at it right now. Lets start with a look at lets talk local conditions first and just let you know. Today will be another fine day. No issue with your friday. We are looking at highs today about 70 degrees with afternoon sunshine. 63 right now in washington. 6 in quantico. These temperatures arent too bad. 52349 frederick. 63 in quantity you co. 59 in frederick. A repeat from yesterday. Remember the fog we had across the area . It is back. Our wind are out of the east and that is pushing it off the ocean. It is a shallow layer so we should start to see breaks of sunshine by afternoon. A partly sunny afternoon. Might be a the drizzle or a lone some shower in a spot or two today. Out to the west, that is a cold front. That is a strong cold front. There is some seriously cool air behind it and dry air. Guess what, cool, dry air does not like tropical moisture and when those two interact later this weekend right across the midatlantic, that canada cause some issues. Here is your tropical satellite picture. Your signature here with sandy not looking as impressive as it was 24 hours ago. We still have a strong storm and still maximum winds of 08 Miles Per Hour. The forecast is for it for weaken here for the time being. Over the next six to 12 hours, this storm may weaken a little bit. As it interacts with the cooler and drier air off for our west, that will reenergize it. It will have characteristics of both storms. Lets talk about a possible track of the storm. Maximum winds 80 Miles Per Hour. Northwest movement at 13. Pressure, 968 millibars. Watch the track t look like it want to go out to sea. It gets picked up and pulled back toward the midatlantic. This would be a very unusual track. It doesnt mean it cant happen but it hasnt happened a whole lot in lift. Well see if it does verify f it does and if this hurricane were to come on shore here along the bay of delaware by early tuesday morning, this would be some very serious impacts across our viewing area. If it does. We could have hurricaneforce winds across the lower eastern shore. He can freemenly heavy rain, five, six, eight, 10 inches of rain across parts of the area. The worst part, the storm will very slowly fizzle out. It will continue to batter away at the Washington Area here for a couple of days time before it finally gets forced to the north. A lot to be concerned about. A lot could still happen with it. Let me show the spaghetti tracks real quick. More and more of the computer tracks are taking it closer to the Washington Area. Today, no problem. 71degrees. Early fog and afternoon storm. This is the calm before the storm. There is your accuweather sevenday forecast. A couple of showers later tomorrow as the coal frond gets in here. Question mark, monday, tuesday, how much rain, how serious will the impact be. We are not quite sure but that would be the time frame, monday, tuesday. Hopefully, well get it out of here in time for halloween. Lets do some traffic and a great big good morning to julie. On the roads, you will find your lanes are open. So far, so good, no problems to report around the capital beltway. Southbound 270 coming in out of hyattstown. The beltway looks good traveling between college park and bethesda. We have received word there is a fellow missing a tire here so he is in need of some assistance. No incidents to report headed up to the beltway. Thats a check of your fox 5 ontimetraffic. Etraffic. Coming up next, well go live to Fox Business Network in new york. Get ready for sticker shock if you are shopping for colleges. For the looking forward to that. As we go to break, a few ideas if you are shopping for halloween candy and want to be the cool house on the block. Skittles is the most popular candy. It has to be the chocolate. Reeses cups. Starburst comes in in second place and reeses Peanut Butter cups come in in third place. There is some of your chocolate. Number three . Number one on my list. Okay. Well be right back. 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. No surprise here that College Costs are going up but wait until you hear the tab for some schools. Well have more on that in just a minute. First, lets talk about the markets. Lauren simonetti with Fox Business Network is live in new york with business beat. Happy friday to you. Happy friday. It is a bad friday. Its bad friday. Lets go ahead and you expound on the bad friday. Well, we finally saw some positive territory yesterday, right . We had the suv and the nasdaq up four points. The dow up 26 points. Small gains after some big losses but come in this morning, dow is off 95 points here in the premarket. So it is very possible we lose the 13,000 level today. We get Gross Domestic Product today. And we all get how consumers feel about things with the Consumer Sentiment numbers coming out. Lets talk about college. I went for a asmall college, it was 7,000. Now, im reading this report about some colleges with 0,000 a year bills. Whats up . Try 61,236. That is how much sir alawrence college in new york costs. Its liberal arts school. 61,000. If you look at this list here, new york university, columbia here in new york, wesleyan in con cop. All of these cast more than 5 ,000. All in all, 151 colleges in the u. S. Cost more than 50,000. Were going to start telling our kids to be artists and actors and i mean well revert back because you know, who can afford these bills . Yes, this includes tuition, room and board, all the fees but still. It is a lot of money. Its lot of money. Afond a fiscally conservative guy like me, we have to get scholarships in my house. I bet you all three of your kids go dad, i want to go to sarah lawrence. That will happen too. Well see how mr. Fiscally conservative deals with that request when it happens. No telling how much it will be by the time they get grown. Well have to figure out something. All right. Always god to see you. Have a great weekend. We know the storm is coming so batten down the hatches. I know. You too. See you monday. Back to the mornings big story. A potential superstorm heading our way. There are concerns it could become part of a dangerous weather combination here in our area. Well have more on that when we come back. 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. 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