A yellow to another color alert today . A possibility. Yellow alerts for us, are nuisance, inconvenient weather but whether it becomes more of a threat, thats when we go to red. This may be something were doing this afternoon. We have a little more shear in the environment so we have the potential for more damaging storms this afternoon. Heres the big picture. Were seeing a cold front in ohio and pennsylvania. Ahead of that its warm enough that weve seen isolated showers riding up from montgomery county. But in the immediate metro, just partly to mostly cloudy skies. Once you get west of 81 are seeing it now and will see it first. For us, you see these showers . Theres a sprinkle south of frederick now. Weve had showers in western howard county. We will see this stuff increase as we go over the next few hours. And in West Virginia and western maryland, those showers and clouds are keeping your temperature down a bit. The futurecast for the afternoon, a scattering of showers and storms mostly north and west by 2 30. When you see the oranges and relds popping up here a reds popping up here as we go to 4 00, 5 00, 6 00 p. M. , were talking about the potential stronger storms. By 6 00 another cluster approaches from the southwest for the evening hours. So while north and west after 6 00 p. M. Could be quiet, d. C. South and east, the showers and storms may linger through the evening hours. Once we get rid of this, it gets a lot better. Full details on a nicer, gentler forecast coming up in a few minutes. Andrea . Howard, thank you. It may be july but it could be in the 50s tonight when the summer classic, the allstar game gets under way in minneapolis well below average temperatures are spreading through the south and east today. Susan elizabeth little has more from target field. Reporter the mercury only had about 65 degrees here yesterday in minneapolis. That was the coldest july 14 on record here. And on this field behind me tonight, the allstar game is expected to be played. It is of course a mid summer tradition but tonight it will be played under falllike conditions. Oh, manual. He gets the ie oh, man. He gets the iron man. Reporter the cold conditions monday night werent enough to cool off the bats at the home run derby. It was a soggy 57 degrees in minneapolis, well below the average high of 83 in july. Im freezing. Reporter people were bundled up, even in a city accustomed to cold winters. Many areas could see record lows as temperatures dip into the 40s. Super typhoon now gerry nou neoguri appears to be the culprit. The pattern has drawn comparisons to january when much of the country suffered through a deep freeze because of the polar vortex. Some forecasters say this chill is not the same phenomenon. Going into tonights allstar game, fans will need to find a way to keep warm. Again, that cooldown is coming our way. Well hear more from howard on that. In other news this afternoon, charms severance made another appearance Charles Severance made another appearance in a Loudoun County courtroom. A grand jury indicted him on account of possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. Police call severance a person of interest in three high profile unsolved murders in alexandria but have not charged him with any of the killings. If convicted on the gun charge in Loudoun County, he would face a mandatory minimum sentence of two years in jail. Former Virginia GovernorBob Mcdonnell and his wife, maureen, were also in court this morning. The mcdonnells are accused of 1e7ing lavish accused of receiving lavish gifts from the ceo of a dietary company in exchange for promoting his products. Prk and Defense Attorneys are making arguments over what witnesses will the prosecution and Defense Attorneys are making arguments over what witnesses will be allowed. Trial date is set for july 28. Are d. C. Roads driving you crazy this president obama says highways here and across the country are in need of attention. A report just released shows of the 1500 public roads, 95 of d. C. s are in poor condition. And youre looking at a couple of good examples here. Connecticut Avenue Northwest and military road. The president is urging congress to take action to avoid a lapse in funding of the Highway Trust Fund which could be wiped out as early as august. If that happens, the president says nearly 6,000 jobs will be in jeopardy and 290 active highway and transit projects will be slowed or stopped. The d. C. Council has delivered another rebuke to mayor vincent gray. The Council Voted 121 to overturn his veto of the citys 10. 6 billion budget which means items like the socalled yoga tax are back in effect for next year among other items. Phil mendelson disputed the mayors plan that the cars streetcar project would also be in jeopardy if the bucket was allowed budget was allowed to stand. More than 150 employees of the cochran gallery of art are facing layoffs next month. Its the result of a merger between the institute and the National Gallery of art and George Washington university. Thethe corcoran estimates two thirds of its employees have gotten a job already. The majority of the layoffs will be parttime employees. A federal judge is banning the name redskins from his courtroom. Judge Peter Messitte presides in greenbelt, maryland. He said he declared the redskins would be referred to as the Washington Football Team in his court. While this judges opinion has no direct impact on the name fight, it could influence public opinion. Still ahead on wusa9, israel accepts hamas hamas reject as proposal to bring peace to the middle east so whats next . Plus, bystanders come to the rescue of a woman and her daughter during an attempted carjacking and its all caught on tape. Those stories and more israels military says its resumed its air strikes on gaza after hamas militants rejected a peace proposal brokered by egypt. Heavy smoke could be seen rising over gaza. The egyptian ceasefire called for a halt of hostilities followed by negotiations on easing the closure of gazas borders. The deescalation period was meant to end a week of fighting thats killed more than 190 palestinians and exposed millions of israelis to rocket fire from gaza. Israel accepted the plan but somehowed to hit gaza hard if hamas rejected the deal. At least 20 people were killed when a rush hour subway train derailed in moscow. Several cars jumped the track following a power surge. Tina krause has more. Reporter rescue crews cut through crump palled train crumpled train cars to reach passengers trapped after a subway train derailed during moscows morning rush hour. This man says the sharp impact took me off my feet. The lights went out and everybody fell down. As medical teams rushed the injured to the hospital, some russians worried terrorists had struck the capital hubway system again but authorities said it was a technical problem, a power surge triggered an alarm that caused the train to suddenly stop and fly off the tracks. The deadly accident happened inside moscows deepest subway tunnel 275 feet below ground making it extra difficult for crews to save people. Tina krause, cbs news. More than 100 people have been killed in terror bombings on or near moscows subway system since 2000. Here in this country, bystanders are credited with preventing a carjacking in california. Several men came to the aid after defenseless woman and little girl as a man fought to gain control of her minivan in san diego. A man in a nearby restaurant filmed the chaos on his cell phone. The attempted carjacker was wrestled to the ground till police came. The mother and child were scared but unharmed otherwise. Germany celebrating its world cup victory in a big way today. An estimated 400,000 people turned out as the team paraded the trophy through the streets of berlin. This is germanys fowght world cup title. Incidentally, washington has the companys top english rating for world cup rating testimony was the top rated Television Market for sundays germanyargentina final. Steamy out here, andrea, all the heat and humidity is going to help aid and abet the strong to severe thunderstorms well likely see this afternoon. Right now we go to break with a look at doppler 9000. Some showers to the Shenandoah Valley with thunder developing between pittsburgh and garrett county. Well look more at doppler 9000 in detail, the fupt cast and the sevenday futurecast and the sevenday forecast believe. Wusa9 is hoping to help with the gas prices that are driving you crazy. So were checking the aaa website every day for the cheapest gallons of regular unladied across our area. This morning were checking germantown, maryland where the w express at 20510 frederick road is charging 3. 66 a gallon. The most expensive station this afternoon is at the 7eleven at number 3 professional drive where youre going to pay 3. 71. We want to hell come our newest viewer to wusa9. Our Delia Goncalves and her husband welcome baby Dorian Lydia Elaine into the world just before 2 00 this morning just about the time her mom would have been getting up to come to work. Dorian weighs in at 8 pounds 4 ounces and shes 20 and a half inches long. She joins her two big sisters and we wish them the very best. It might be dreadfully hot but wearing long pants and long sleeves could be a life saver in summertime. Here is to explain here to explain is a nurse track televisioner from practitioner from minute clinic. I still wear long pants when going into wooded areas because im worried about tick bites. What do we look for . Do you feel it . The long pants are a good way to start. Make sure theyre tucked into your socks. They are on the ground and can come up through the pant leg and infect the rest of your body. Ticks are a very huge problem, especially if youre out in wooded areas. If you do get a tick bite and the tick has been on your skin for less than 36 hours, you dont have to worry. If you can take the tick off with a pair of tweezers, thats great. If not, seek a Health Care Professional or come to a local minute clinic. Well take the tick off for you. If youve had a tick on for more than 36 hours, you definitely need to seek care. You may not feel it which is why you should do a tick check when you come out of the woods. Check your scalp, your gentles and in between the buttocks. Those are places ticks love to hide. Again, if you can take it out, thats fine. Otherwise seek medical attention. A rash is definitely a sign you should seek help. Lots of poison ivy in my backyard. Im so worried when i pull weeds i may pull that. How do we prevent the irritants there . Coverup is the best prevention. You want to make sure you have long sleeves, gloves, long pants on. If you do get exposed to the poison ivy, wasnt to wash the area, take a shower, take off the clothes that youre wearing because they probably have the sap on the clothing itself. Then if you do have a rash, you want to use things like hydrocortisone cream or maybe even aveeno bath that really helps with the itch. If you have a rash on the facial area [ inaudible ] what is swimmers ear and how do we prevent it or treat it . Its common in children and actually pretty common in adults as well. Its usually when you get water thats stuck in the area and a bacteria like a warm, moist environment you can get a bacterial infection in the year. So preventing again is covering up with a cap or earplugs. The other thing that you can do when you get out of the shower or the pool, you want to make sure you dry the ears out thoroughly with a towel. If you do have ire station in the ear, redness or you irritation in the ear, redness, you want to seek medical attention. You can come to any of the clinics seven day as week. Thank you. During the hot summer days, covering up, good advice. Weve been feeling some sun. When we get it, we get some powerful storms and thats where howard comes in with what is now just a yellow alert day. Still yellow alert. Were contemplating going to a yellow alert because we have a few more parameters today which means we may get some stronger storms than weve had around here and we have had strong storms around here sunday and monday. While we need the sun to heat things up, you also need strong upper level winds. We have strong upper level winds. When they all come together is when you get the Severe Weather. Upper 80s for highs. 86 by 3 00. 81 by 5 00 as were expecting showers and storms by then and by this evening well drop back into the 70s. That means the commute home for many, yeah, youll be dodging some rain. Dodging some rain now, especially west of us when you get west into the Shenandoah Valley. Not much going on in the immediate metro. Weve had an isolated sprinkle toward frederick and caroll counties. Were seeing more activity out to the west. I just want to zoom in here. When you get west of route 15, west of the blue ridge, charles town some light showers there. Down along and west of i81. The actual cold front, this is starting to produce some bigger cells here in eastern pennsylvania western pennsylvania, east of pittsburgh, coming through morgantown right now. Thats the cold front. And all this stuff ahead of it, if we get the cloudiness like this, that will tend to limit these temperatures and the ability to get really strong storms but the upper level winds, theyre just going to be moving toward us for the afternoon. Expect this area to really expand. Right now between front royal and sperryville, a moderate shower here but theres nothing strong or severe anywhere near at the moment. The picture, though, shows weve got a lot of dry air just off to the west of the appalachians now with dew points down to 51 columbus. This dry air is moving in toward us. Our dew points are still in the low 70s so it feels muggy, feels tropical. Like the gulf coast, south florida, temperatures also big range from 71 in cleveland to 90 in richmond and norfolk right now. Locally weve got temps which are mostly in the s on. Thats 93 80s. Thats 93 yesterday before the storms came in in the amp. Today were up 207 in college park. 87 fairfax and waldorf this afternoon and joint base andrews at 85. Reagan national is also 85. So weve got an area of low pressure spinning in the upper levels bringing in much colder temps. Only going to be in the upper 60s in chicago today. Theres that front. We saw the dew point difference and the storms. Theres the front. The front is coming toward a pretty rich atmosphere so we have that risk of Severe Weather all in yellow. Main threats will be damaging wind gusts. Minor threat will be large hail. The futurecast shows the storms by 2 00, especially north and west of town coming through 3 00, 4 00, 5 00. By this evening weve got some strong storms developing, potentially south and east of town and its going to be around for several hours this evening, especially d. C. South and east. Hopefully by 6 00 or so, north and west the threat is over. 89 today with the yellow alert. Might have to go to red. 69 tonight. Tomorrow early clouds east of i 95 but really turns out to be a Beautiful Day with a high of 83. Delightful on thursday with a high around 85. By friday could see a shower or storm late 84 and a couple of storms over the weekend. Were broadcasting both nats games saturday and sunday. St welcome back to wusa9 at noon. Can a crumbling cupcake be saved . Theres word the bake shop could be making a comeback so what will it take to succeed . Here is the ceo of the list nikki. Good to have you back. Its nice to be back. It was a surprise it seemed to everyone that the 48 crumb stores were closing because theyre all across the country. Were you surprised . I was not surprised. I was surprised they lasted as long as they d. Crumbs was not known in the cupcake world as the best cupcake place. Their cupcakes were enormous. They were very big, over 600 calories a piece and they came in really ridiculous flavors. The cupcake trend when it started, these are supposed to be little gems, little indulgences. Guilt free. Not guilt free but the cupcake is supposed to be this little indulgence. If you talk about local cupcakeries like of course georgetown cupcake, baked and wired, sprinkles, georgetown cupcakes i believe are 300 calories or less. Sprinkles are depending on the kind of cupcake, 500 or less. I just think that crumbs just went bigger is better. They went on this big sugar rush. And they spread out across the country. Totally extended themselves. As you know, somebody is going to buy them. The cnbc guy is making a bid for them. But he a he but hes going to have to diversify. Its just not enough. I personally dont think the trend is the end of cupcakes anyhow. I think people like to blow smoke. They like to make a big deal over nothing. People love cupcakes and theres nothing wrong with that. Especially if they have great icing. Great icing and great cake and good use of quality products. I think thats what you were missing from crumbs. At least thats my take on it. Before we end the segment, i want to talk to you about fire lake grill. Something you dont see in upper northwest in the commercial area. All of their stuff was on the sidewalk on wisconsin avenue. What happened to them . I dont really know what happened with them. Im not familiar with their story. Im sure somebody in legal could tell you something but quite frankly d. C. Is having an explosion of restaurants. If your restaurant cant make it, it just means youre not doing good product. Were finished with our product. Well see you again tomorrow starting at 4 25. Were always on at wusa9. Com. Have a great day. Were back at 5 00 more summer austins out on bail. You cant just walk in here harding can you step aside, please . Summer no. Austin summer, it will be all right. Just get leslie to straighten things out. Summer no, this is wrong. Sharon noah and courtney went to the station to find out whats going on. Nick thats good. Harding we know whats going on. He shot a cop, he thought hed get away with it, he wont. Jack on what charge is austin being rearrested . Harding like i said, he violated the terms of his bail. Nick committing what crime . Harding fraud. Nick what kind of fraud . Summer thats not true. Sharon how is that possible . Harding well, considering that were in a church and youre dressed for a wedding, im guessing you did. Summer jack, please, do something. Harding oh, he already did. Mr. Abbotts the one who tipped off the d. A. About this bogus wedding and how its just a sham so that you dont have