he says he hit the back ups in ashland. made a call to vdot and say an overnight project is to blame. they say it will take you an hour and a half right now and is scheduled to be picks up in an hour. they will talk to new jersey chris christie about how the state is recovering after super storm sandy. that is coming up right here starting at 7:00. >> we turn t tom klerein. >> it is going to be 60 degrees right now. here, not much warmer. first, let's look at what is going on. as you are heading out the door you might need an umbrella. those speckles of green, areas of light rain and one of my twitter followers. says if we are going to have sprinkles, i don't want them on my donuts. and into the area heading off to the east. have an umbrella around the area we may get showers over the next hour. cloudy sky. live view. 64 at reagan national. the wins are going to be increasing. it is only in the low 60s. eastern shore out of the mountains in the 50s right now. hour by hour today. here is your temperature scale. through noon

but before you get to 295 around ashland this was all of this construction and paving so they narrow it down to one lane and i saw all of these folks from jersey to new york and all of us sitting in the same traffic mess added two and a half hours. it took me over five hours to get here. and they are saying a hot of the construction is not going to be halted until noon. a lot of people getting a head start. but they need to be prepared. >> get some sleep or get to the beach. >> i'm hoping these two moun dane dews wear off. >> the popular mobil a px p we are going to have something about that coming up. first we want to get to the weather with tom. you were sighing listening to that. after he gets to the beach it will be too cool to do anything. look at that color on storm team four radar. we had heavy downpours. just a few scattered showers. and on the eastern shore there is the sky overwashington now. we've got the wind coming in out of the south. it is going to be getting stronger too. right now it is in the low 60s. that includes most of virginia and maryland and the eastern shore

about an hour earlier, shots rang out on ashland avenue in east baltimore. officers found a man lying on the ground with several gunshot wounds. he later died. there is no word on a suspect or motive in either of the shootings. police are asking anyone with information to call them. >> investigators say 52-year-old patricia hart died from her injuries. after she was rescued in the 1800 block of the fire on tuesday investigators are still looking for a cause para >> president obama spoke this afternoon in a wide-ranging speech in washington. nikole killion has that story from our washington bureau. indeed thet president stressed that our nation is still threatened by terrorists. finish.e >> the president involved in a testy exchange as he dended his record on national security, including the controversial use of drones. simply put, these drugs have saved lives. >> did knowledge it is not a cure all. >> for the record, i do not believe it would be constitutional for the government to target and kill any u.s. citizen with a groan or with a shotgun without due p

ashland, i should say, 15 1/2 here in minnesota and ashland, wisconsin, barbara, they've had 16.2 and counting. that will likely be a new state may snowfall record. i mean, and these records go back to the 1800s. and notice the weight on these pine trees. now, this is one of the problems with these evergreens. they're collecting the snowfall and they lean down. so we have had some power outages through the morning hours. but not massive power outages because it's been so cold out here through april just until last weekend when it finally hit 70 that the trees that have leaves on them, like in most of the u.s. right now, don't even have a bud on them. because of that we're not going to get another snotober situation like a year and a half ago. the trees and the limbs come down. temperature is 32 degrees. the snow has lessened. but we picked up eight inches of snow in five hours. typically today we should see highs in the mid 60s. they won't see that until sometime next week. it's just going to be cold and damp and slushy right into the weekend. back to you. >> mike, i know the big mayo

almost a foot and a half in may and this picture is from ashland. they didn't have a foot and a half. it looks pretty. what the lady on twitter said and comparing a place i grew up, holland, michigan, were in the 70s all week to iowa where their tulip festival not so nice. >> can we say with any certainty there will be no more know that we're into -- >> no, still flurries this morning in parts of the south. >> unbelievable we're already in may. ginger, thanks. >>> we'll turn to a mystery that has everyone guessing. the sudden death of a doctor found with cyanide in her system but no official cause of death. police combed through the house overnight as neighbors were left wondering what is happening and what role, if any, her husband may have played in her death. abc's tai hernandez is here with that story. >> hey, bianna and dan. she seemed like a woman who had it all, a successful career in medicine, a family, a beautiful home but now that home the subject of an intense police search. the home she shared with her husband and daughter before she die

north of hayward, ashland is where we have an issue on hisperian. the chopper was just over the intersection. we see some flares. a major interchange there off 880 and 238. we'll track that as the chopper circles around. the roadway at the intersection was blocked there. back to the maps, we'll look to another issue. the bay bridge is not so much of a problem. the north bay, westbound 37 we have a sig alert past 121. there's a crash involving a big stall as well as another vehicle that crashed into it. that's goings-on in the westbound direction. we'll send it back to you. >> thank you very much. >>> 6:22. this is one of the stories that makes you go, really? a growing crisis in italy. >> the country is short thousands of pizza makers. an italian business group says the country needs about 6,000 more pizza makers to accommodate the booming business. despite the worst unemployment rate in decades, many italians don't want these crucial jobs because they're considered manual labor in italy. >> maybe manual labor, but it is a crucial job. >> it's essen

attended college in ashland, virginia. lastly, we would like to welcome arturo rodriguez, the president of united farmworkers, a position he position he has held since 1993. he has more than 35 years experience organizing farm workers and negotiating ufw contracts. he went to the university of michigan. welcome to all of you. we will start with you, mr. wicker and recognize you for your five minute opening statement. >> good afternoon committee members. i am lee wicker, deputy rector of the north carolina growers association. also a member of usa farmers, the largest ag guestworker employer group. thank you for holding this hearing on a critical issue for labor-intensive agriculture. h2a has been the largest user in the nation for more than 50 -- 15 years. in previous hearings, i have highlighted the chronic problems of the program. it is expensive, overly bureaucratic, unnecessarily litigious and excludes some farms and activities. creating a new program that all ag producers can use. the proposal is evidence that the u.s

alameda county's celebration also starts at 10:00 this morning at the ashland community center in san leandro. >>> apple's app store is about to hit 50 billion downloads. to track the milestone, apple has put a countdown ticker on line. the person who downloads the 50 billionth app will win $10,000 and an app store gift card. at last check, apple had about 49,321,000,000 downloads. still a little ways to go. >> nice gift card to get! >> fun. >>> 8:56. let's head over to rosemary for a check of how things are warming up today. >> yes, hello to you. we do have a transition that will take place as we get into the afternoon. a few stories to tell this morning. red flag warning in the hills. we had patchy fog along the coast, and our temperatures, again, will be cooling as we get into the afternoon. so the ridge of high pressure still in place, but this low over idaho is actually going to be pulling our way, eventually hanging off the bay area coastline there and it's going to, well, park itself there for the next few days. today, into the afternoon, we're going to be cooler. red flag warn

it shows you a good amount of ice on the bay and ashland last week. watch the temperatures coming up. chicagoland into the 70s, that yellow area all the way up into the u.p. of michigan, 81 in new orleans, 80 in jacksonville. it's all across the country. west happening here as this low steps off the coastline and kick up stronger storms during the texas, oklahoma all the way into missouri area. we'll show you more closely in >> good morning, partly sunny around the bay at 62 to 71 and mostly cloudy abilities the coast with low 60's. tomorrow the temperatures are same with more sunshine and look how >> so not only this area of storm, there are storms moving into the new york city area, as well. all that weather was brought to you by keurig. >>> the jury deciding jodi arias' fate right now. did hundreds of questions asked by the jurors give us clues to their decision? oh, you have a keurig vue brewer! it's great! now i can brew my coffee just the way i love it. how do you do that? well, inside the brewer, there's this train that's powerful enough to car