safe. begins withverage chief meteorologist doug hill. doug: hey there. we are keeping an eye on the snow. getting heavier and now on the doppler radar we can pick out some of the areas that have the heavier bands. lighter color here. as we get through the teeth, through the strong part of the get in the middle of it late tonight you will see bright colors all over the place. telln use technology to you north of the area, west of -- well, i can't see anymore what it is but a town maryland. west of frederick the snow is falling inch and a half per hour. a good snow rate developing there. we will continue to see the across thencrease tonight.ea temperatures are on the cold side. in the lower 20's. everything is sticking, nothing is melting. as we get through the night the temperatures may start to rise. well southll be and the east of the metro area. there is no sign already. ocean city right now and snowing. when the winds change, it will

all change as well. visibility, .3 of a mile in manassas. one-half mile at reagan national airport. be the story. we have the snow heavy, widespread but when the winds the stormn ramp to developing tonight that is when the winds will move snow around. the visibility may come down zero. we call that white-out conditions and that is why we are under a blizzard warning. satellite and the radar, the darker blue. heavier area of the moisture up. any ice or sleet is down south. we don't see it coming to our direction soon. storm, the big storm, the main focus of the storm energy is just now and beginning stage of forming off the south carolina/north coast.a not until it will get to virginia beach when it will deepen and then the high wind and the hier rate of the snowfall -- heavier rate of the snowfall. see it two or three inches an hour. it will pile up in front of you. isfar as the future, this the future cast model. it's stopped early in the

timeng, 2:30, 3:30 frame. heavy snow across the area. little intrusion of air and of thunder over the south, lower end of the bay and the sleet. the snow will back fill in as the colder air comes in. because northeasterly winds turn north. icy will turne back to snow. watch the pattern continues as to pullings offshore in gulf moisture and the itantic moisture to crank up. 30 million people from long island new york and spotsylvania, virginia, are blizzard warnings. that is because of the high wind. we will talk about the went. in metro washington, and arlington. wind gust of 40 to 5 miles per hour. the westerno portion of the bay, anne arundel, western shore, they should have the wind gusts of 65 miles per hour. zizzability will be zero. light -- the visibility will

be zero. of theht at the end tunnel is sunday. the snow will move up i-95. we will get to see sunshine i day oneveloping in the sunday. ahead.e is improvement wind gusts, this is what we look at from this model. the computer model says early the bigorning when storm starts to crank along the ocean, the winds gusting to 48 miles per hour. to annapolis. 39 miles per hour at lynchburg. speeds are high for ground. on the the wind chills are in the teens. theg league blizzard in beginning stagings of it -- stages of it. 51-mile-per-hour gust before sunrise in the morning. 55-mile-per-hour gust for thepolis at 7:00 in morning. this is a combination of heavy snow and high winds. it will be one for the record books for sure. take a look at the alerts. here we have the high wind warning on the western shore bay.e high wind warning on the atlantic ocean where i wouldn't be surprised if we

didn't have the wind gusts approaching 75 miles per hour. this is how big of a storm be. is going to the blizzard warning from spotsylvania to the spine of mountains.dge everyone else in pink is under winter storm warning. difference between winter blizzardning and the warnings are the winds. winds are highest in the way. that is why it's blizzard same amount of snow. we are talking about 20 to 30 inches. the just right outside district of north and west as the range of snowfall. and we gether east the issues of mixing in with forth.et and back and that will tamp down the snowfall amount. we look at the doppler radar. plenty of snow around the area. whitespread. to time of it stopping soon. we'll be with you throughout the afternoon, evening, night, overnight tomorrow and do it is finished.rm alison: nonstop. all right, doug. you. leon: time is running out for folks trying to get supplies.

not much time left for folks working to keep the roads clear and get readied to do that. alison: the conditions changed in springfield, where we find jeff goldberg. jeff, tell us what you are now?g jeff: the snowfall is getting with every minute. the visibility is getting worse as the sun is starting to set. this is the picture we have all afternoon. the plows heading out to the main roads. that is springfield by the mixing bowl. then the clearing of the parking lot here in springfield. on all night and all day tomorrow. video from earlier. we saw the plow truck drivers their trucks ready. doing the necessary repairs. they will be on the road all dayt tonight and all tomorrow. snow will keep falling, they will have to keep plowing. falls, the plowing won't stop. they are making requests for the other drivers to get off the road. of equipment are in at work in northern

virginia alone from vdot doing their work. had a lot of last-minute shoppers. no surprise. trying to get provisions and the biglies before storm really starts to bear down. people will hunker down for the days ahead. roast food for pot and other vegetables and a little bit of beer to keep me warm at night. roast and beer, a pretty good combination. what is the plan for the next few days? hang out with, the family. we respected move vies -- we we'll move vies and stay warm. >> we want everyone to stay off the roads. it will be horrible with the tople on the roads trying drive. like repeat from the other night. the quick storm that came in. cars everywhere. get where they needed to go and couldn't do work. jeff: the storm, inch, inch and a half. point.h at this the fluffy stuff. listening to the plow truck driver, that is the biggest advice. stay off the roads. the state police dealing with

hundreds of crashes and the vehicles across the commonwealth of virginia. dozens in the virginia area. the lawfrom enforcement agencies and the elected officials throughout the region. stay off the roads. snow startsas the to pick up. the intense city starts to get starts- the intensity to get going and time to go home and stay off the roads. live in springfield, jeff goldberg, abc7 news. alison: thank you. virginia state police saying befored 516 crashes 3:00 today. leon: yeah. alison: two more hours now. many more. don't gobers we hope up too much higher. if people follow advice and they aree counsel getting to stay off the roads maybe numbers will stay down. we will keep an eye on that. is the folksow that need rails to get home. metro shut down the bus service already and will shut 11:00he rails at tonight. alison: kevin lewis -- actually, we'll get to kevin a minute. because d.c. mayor muriel bowser is approaching the podium now. conference about the situation in d.c. listen in.

mayor bowser: good afternoon. muriel bowser, the mayor of washington, d.c. we are coming to give a briefing on the that is descending on the district of columbia. predicted, it started snowing. and it started snowing about in washington, d.c. the snow has been accumulating hours. past several we are still seeing a lot of people on the road and driving. we are reminding everybody a firstou are responders you don't need to be on the roads. we are urging residents and the roads. get off

staya safe place and there. we continue to think the true andwill hold this is a 36-hour storm with winds.d dangerous we expect that unless everybody does and acts as they should it could be a dangerous situation. ofexpect two feet at least snow in washington. the snow is coming down wet and heavy, which means that we see trees and power lines down and a loss of power. every measure of precaution this morning. as i reported to you earlier. we stood up our emergency here.ions center at our homeland security and emergency management center. fully deployed district's snow team. i declared a state of us toncy to allow secure whatever resources we need to keep our city and

safe.nts i have also called on the national guard to support our transporting essential and emergency personnel in the district. men and women of the d.c. guard have reported to duty and will be dispatched as needed. morning our snow muslim went into effect at 9:30 a.m. is in effect in the district of columbia until notice otherwise. onmeans you can't park snow emergency route. if you are parked in a snow emergency route you will be ticketed and towed. it's critical that we keep our routes open. as i said we want the residents to stay in place during the duration of the storm. don't want anybody driving in a blizzard. it's dangerous to do so. can prevent our first responders and our road

roadsfrom making the safe when the storm passes. i want to turn to the director now who will talk more operations. about questions.o direct >> thank you. i'm chris keller, the director security andand emergency management agency to give update where we are right now. the mayor just covered the has started in the district. we are looking at what this continuesdone and to do on the track to here to keep up to date and ensure we resourcesppropriate moving in the right direction. the lasteen over several days reaching out to jurisdictions and states to assistance with all sort of manner of things to removalsnow equipment, as well as support for our human service areas. right now we are watching the

are to seeyou where we will end up like this. reiterate again to folks as the mayor just has, this is a dangerous storm. there are way too many people out on the roads now. we need to make sure folks are getting where they need to be. we ask folks to be off the road, be where they will be by 3:00. that. past if you are not where you need to be, please get there. worse andg to get get worse fast. you can see the initial bands we have had. of accumulation snowing. we are getting accumulating snow on the roads. again, this is a dangerous storm. we are asking folks to make sure that you are where you be now. that is all i have. take questions. you rate the government's response and the public's response? sounds like mayor is frustrated people are still out on the roads right now.

rate both? how you are keeping up with it public ise responding? >> we have the preparations and today the preparations we andin place are holding what we need to do. we will continue to watch the storm and continue to ensure thingstalking all the we need to -- tracking all the things we need to. we'll plow continuously event to make sure we get the emergency crews where they need to get to and make sure we get roads, roads as we the can. is in place where we need it to be. as far as the public we are geturaging everybody to off the roads and be where they need to be. outset, this the is a dangerous storm. it's coming fast. realized iten't now, you all i'm sure realized it coming here. get wherelks to they need to be.

anything fromrn wednesday night drama in the rush hour affecting how you are handling tonight? and reinforcing to get people off the roads? >> sure. the mayor addressed this earlier today. talking about two different events. you are talking about what was supposed to be a half inch of became almost two inches of snow. the pretreating we need to do it for that, it was not in place. this is a different event. we treated 100% of our roads came in.is storm we have done that. we are now at the point where goingetreating is not to be able to sustain with the amount of snow in the time length the snow is coming in. that.w which is why we are going to plowing now. we are talking about two different types of storms so i don't think you can compare the response that we had earlier in the week to what we one.oing for this >> you were complaining about having vent and things

morning. this is your advice heeded? >> the recommendations we gave folks, the march happened and they were able to hold event. we have many cancellations in folks scheduled tonight and tomorrow. and i think that the folks are understanding this is a severe storm. dangerous. and i think that we have got where we need to with that. hearing something about streetcars practicing up and down h street. correct, mayor? practicing runs? director ofhe ddot. why don't we have a public transportation update streetcar. forhe simulated service the streetcar has been suspended. streetcars were operating as the hazardous conditions moved in the area

they suspended service just bus service did at 5:00. when you simulate service you simulate the operational plan that you have in place, if you passengers. >> they stopped at 5:00? >> they stopped at 5:00. >> take a question. at what point is the snow a problem for emergency response? point does it become difficult? >> obviously the challenge is different for law enforcement than fire. lasthrough the snowmageddon, we found we could get to every service and the s.u.v.s and the vehicles we had. we moved to some humvees and the tougher areas of the city the storm.d of they had to get out and walk to some of the last calls but

it to every call for service. >> crime does go down in these events? >> it does. getets more difficult to around. >> the fire trucks are heavier and moving around to get through the neighborhood. but they are doing a great job to there and it allows us get around. for if narrow streets we have to thes and access around.to move >> could you give us an update constituents are doing? >> i should note we have been of theby a member council of the district of columbia who represents ward eight. eight the district's wards. this center is located in ward eight. councilmember may? >> thank you, madam mayor. i have been out. still people out on the streets which we are

encouraging them to get back inside. here, i have been riding around the ward. you can tell that the streets have been treated and the a little bit safer, but again not safe enough for people to be out. my team and the team of volunteers are calling around to the seniors and the disabled residents checking in on them to make sure that they have any needs that we are respond. >> councilmember may's road that is a grocery store had the most supplies of the astrict of columbia and helpful staff. any owe -- other questions? >> we talked earlier about the possibility you might have to r.f.k.ow at can you talk about the efforts problemsure that the and the pollutants that run off anacostia minor problem in

?nowmageddon >> working through the environment, the with ddot and the crews we doe sure whatever we will for our snow removal when we do dump it that we are doing accordance with all weulations for e.p.a. and are not violating anything as we do that. we have done extensive things we need to do. off the phone with the department of environment director before we came down here for one last measure. we will be good to go. barriers down between the lot and the river. we have fence along that as well. >> blue jersey wall i see there, those are new? you put those up? >> yes, sir. >> thank you. >> yes, sir? there was talk about the homeless. homeless that the around say 7th and

are stillon, they there. is there anything that you can do or not do? policy?the >> sure. we have had an extreme cold weather emergency in effect as know we have had cold weather the entire week. that has been in effect. what we did even though it up beyond what our criteria is for that yesterday and going into today we maintained that cold weather does put usich out there on the street and give opportunity for folks to come in and more shelter space for people to come in. we do a constant engagement the the folks out on street. we have several measures we can take. first and foremost one we go with is we try to encourage them to come in and make a place close to where they are to being so they can come in and they feel comfortable doing that. do that.ntinuing to another call before we came here is to continue to get crews out there to have that with the folks to get them in throughout the

storm. >> there are things we can do with that. verynnot, it's difficult. a situation we handle delicately. to get forceful, more enforcement within that, we do it. but we try not. is the last effort in there. >> let me just say that we, we regularhave a briefing throughout the event at 10:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m. we will evaluate what the conditionsat the are in the morning to see whether we will be able to do a pressperson or by conference call. if is it in person we will also evaluate the conditions to see what the location will be. our first choice will be to meet here at 10:00 a.m. not, we will get the word out of the location as early

as possible. you, everybody. >> mayor there is another tonight? >> that is correct. leon: it sounds like our sam wordgetting in the last there. mayor muriel bowser's press conference here. theheadline being that storm and the preparation for it all seems to have hit on asedule and are going on planned. however, there is way too many people out on the roads. alison: yeah. that was the first thing out if mayor's mouth. basically, to sum it up, if first responder, you should not be out. hopefully people from here on will heed that. conditions are certainly going downhill quickly. homeland security and the emergency management director said this is a dangerous storm. out there get to where you need to be immediately. makeso had a comment to about the comparison between this storm and what happened wednesday. two completely different storms. two completely different

preparation. ready for this one. alison: good. that is good to know. we have had big changes as far as public transit goes. metrobus service shut down about 20 minutes ago. metrorail will shut down at 11:00. we want to go ahead and check in on how things are moving. shady groveat metro station. hi, kevin. there.hey it's in the 5:00 hour right now. check out the platform. sole beside a myself and the photographer and this gentleman we will introduce to you in a moment. on here. walk on to the metro car with me. guy down here. you are headed back to d.c., sir? coming back from work? is going to work. where do you work? to him. talk pretty sparsely ridden metro train. where do you work? >> contracting work. kevin: they have you working tonight? >> yes. kevin: what are your thoughts

about that? >> it is what it is. paycheck to paycheck? >> yeah. kevin: what did you bring to prepare for the weather ahead tonight? >> extra clothing. night.e kevin: at least you have a private charity to take you to d.c. >> oh, yeah. yeah. until 11:00. kevin: best of luck. stay warm. will walk out here to keith. he is coming back from capitol hill. metro line like? people coming off. okay.was pretty smooth. i was surprised. it was great. it was good. kevin: you work today. do they have you working this weekend? >> yes, but you can't get there. get there. way to because i rely on public transportation so i cannot get there. shut: everything is down. >> yes. there is nothing i can do but

stay home. is in the plan? hot chocolate and netflix? relaxation. and enjoy. there is nothing else i can do but enjoy. what can i say? can't go anyplace. you can't do anything. eat, sleep, basically. that's it. the phone. that's it. all i can do. kevin: old fashioned relaxation. >> yes, sir. it is what it is. snow.n the i was a kid i did that. stay home. kevin: stay warm. point out -- no problem, keith. metro is going to put many of metroain cars in the system tunnels so that if the wind gusts and the sustained such a high intensity, the train cars won't be damaged. so that is an interesting out. to pass metrorail shutting down at p.m. tonight. it will remain shut down saturday and sunday. metro bus serviceending at

5:00. the -- service ending at 5:00. they end the last route but the routes may take them to the 6:00 and the 7:00 hour. from thehe latest shady grove metro station on the red line. kevin lewis, back to you. you explained where the trains will spend the night. i heard people asking us why metro isn't running the underground portion of service. the area toed store the train. alison: and the chance of a power outage being so great. problem fore a metro. let's go see more of d.c. be specific.to stephen tschida is standing by there for us now. hey. stephen: hi. snow really coming down. accumulatingt's here on the sidewalks. a couple of hours ago, i have you, peach treat here was jammed packed. crowds of vehicles, crowds of people trying to get in to whole foods over there. you can see the traffic in the cleared out pretty much. still a lot of foot traffic

coming through here. mostis one of the vibrant neighborhoods in the metro area. theecked in with all of establishment up and down this street. the restaurants, the bars. they plan to be open as much as possible. through the weekend. you can see good crowd in here. of people stopping in for a little congenial action outdoors.e snow the establishments do expect to stay open throughout the weekend. because they expect a lot of will get cabin fever and will want to be heading out on foot. lot of action here in this neighborhood. at least on the sidewalks. reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. leon: before we let you go, you are our resident dog whisperer. have you seen anybody out there with the pets? stephen: all over the place! walking up and down the streets. we just saw a woman with a pitbull or something like that. its feet were cold so she carried himp and in. you have to be kind that there

is a lot of salt on the sidewalks and the salt can affect their paws. to be onpeople want the news right now. all right. you guys have fun. of here. to get out all right. have fun. there you go. a lot of action down here. so much for people having a sense of panic in all of this. they are out there enjoying it. is, showthe thing you. a lot of apartment buildings all around here. people living within a few feet of these establishments. so it's a very different story here in downtown d.c. as out in the suburbs and across the metro area. alison: they can just talk a walk down the street -- take a walk down the street. check back in with us soon. party on, man. alison: let's go to steve rudin now with the latest models. seems like everything is following what you said would happen. steve: exactly. everything is gelling together. we are look for more moderate snowfall to continue through the late evening hours and early tomorrow morning. this is what it looked like

earlier. we are hoping that delaware on the weather bug network, time you. for now snow will overspread the region. arrivedded here and will arrive there as they move through the next several hours. look at the cute picture. gus' long lost cousin. it's joy in the snow. enjoying it. to figure out waldorf, maryland. thank you for sending this in. appreciate it. from stafford, virginia, the reed family. you can see how the snow beginning to accumulate on their deck. the next one, see it, send it. we need your pictures. send it to us at pics@wjla.com. you know what would be really cool is if you could set up a time lapse at the porch or a picnic table and see the snow pile up. if you get 20 inches of snow or so it will be dramatic. the snowfall reports so far as 5:00.

of snow.le half inch almost a half inch at the northwest d.c. and the national zoo. satellite and the radar. the rain hugging the coast. the colder air over our region all snow for the overnight in the day tomorrow. radars what doppler looks like. the heavier bands of snow. darker green. they have the district and through college park to annapolis and across the bay. this will be the trend. of heavyee the band snow and even heavier snow later tonight moving through the overnight hours. this is the future cast. notice the time. 5:00 where we are now. overspread the region. we may see a brief lull for a couple of hours but then it will pick up again early tomorrow morning. look at the dark blues. fredericksburg, warrington, gaithersburg, baltimore, winchester and woodstock. you get the point. snow upward of two or three inches an hour.

then that will continue hours. the morning then finally begin to ease a little bit toward the afternoon. by tomorrow night things really start to settle down. sunday, i wouldn't be surprised to see sunshine here. good news. light at the end of the tum. the tunnel. look at the forecast wind gust. in the morning. 48 miles per hour projected wind gust in annapolis. 55, maybe 60 -mile-per-hour wind gusts. that is why they have a high wind warning in effect. here. this includes counties hugging the bay. the rest of us are the areas including the district, arlington, alexandria, montgomery county. you got it. everyone inside the capital beltway. even outside. under the blizzard warning. early sunday morning. how much snow? 20 inches.

we might add a plus to the end of 20 inches. areas may see more or less. but at this point we are 20, 25 orth the 15, 30 inches it is all the same. i will be a mess out there. one that could potentially make it to the record books. i will take you out and look at the weather bug camera once again. a live shot from delaware. swimming out there today. but just think how beautiful look.l we are all gearing up for memorial day weekend and a lot of folks will be having fun there. but no fun right now. if you are inside, stay inside. if you have plans to go outside, reconsider. .tay with us here on abc7 and wjla.com. we would love to see the pics@wjla.com. send user your shots of the dogs, cats, babies. order. in that leon: that shot of the white

house looks like a postcard. beautiful. staged. alison: it is beautiful. a live picture outside. the snow has been coming down for hours now. some areas could be seeing 20 morning.hes by the leon: that is right. so no matter how lovely the pictures look. deceiving. we have the abc7 and the newschannel8 team all over the area. maryland, d.c. we are out there for continuous coverage of the blizzard for you. officials just wrapped up the latest briefing. busesove ground metro stopped running at 5:00. all metro trains will stop at 11:00 tonight. they will remain closed throughout the weekend. alison: in order to ensure thety for the community, national guard is now assisted with any type of emergency support. to be sort of your latest headlines now. go ahead and get to jamie sullivan. headlines as it comes traffic. we heard mayor bowser

complaining how many people were out on the roadways. seeing with crashes? jamie: we are not seeing as many accidents. i'm happy to report that. still cars here. some areaing where the cars are pulled over to use the flashers. but we heard from metro if you travel on the red line, you may have delays now between wheaton and glenmom. that is where they are under blizzard preparations. some of trains, they are going to pick off. for thepreparation blizzard. keep in mind on the red line delays.w you will see move to the maps. the bigger picture is mostly yellow. we are not seeing as much red or asould have expected much red as i saw wednesday evening. a lot of yellow spots now. nothing as far as again, big crashes on our interstate. we go ahead and we take a live maryland.de through let's talk. so georgia avenue, through can seeprings, you the road.

but not great. we are not able to see the lines anymore. so everyone is using the best stayent and trying to straight. a little closer to chevy chase and bethesda. to wisconsinhway avenue, you are okay. same thing here along the beltway. this is through the green belt area. we are not too bad right now. some areas we have seen bumper-to-bumper traffic. that is behind the plow trucks. stayin mind you want to behind and do not try to pass the plows. here is someone with the flashers on. see this a lot. people aren't that comfortable driving right now. south side of the beltway near new hampshire avenue. again, the flashers on. be careful out there right now. the streakthat continues where we don't have as many accidents. nothing to worry about if you are going to be traveling right now on the roads. the interstates, 95 in maryland. 95 in virginia and baltimore. we're clear. that is a look at traffic. back to you. alison: very good. all right. thank you, jamie. leon: jonathan elias is

outside on the streets of watching to see how things are shaping up at this hour. since the last tame we checked in with you a lot more has come down. what does it look like now? jonathan: it started to kick up. the wind is kicking up. coming down.snow the hard part to get my head around is we heard steve rudin say we are getting 15 to 20 inches. i'm dusting off a little here. maybe a half to three-quarter inch. that is nothing compared to what we have on tap. heartwarming thing to think about look over my shoulder and see the road maybe one or two cars go by. thaner there were more that. so hopefully people are where they need to be friday night stayunker down and inside. things to pass along. governor mcauliffe of virginia said a while ago, an hour ago 1,400 people were without power. if you lose your power, we are specifically told us you need to call them to let them know the power is out. call them and tell them. have a database set up to start programming who losing to dispatch crews to the areas. as long as the winds stay

hour, theyles per can get the cherry pickers up to fix lines. pass alonglse to to you. a lot of folks are staying in. but some restaurants, delivery openurants are staying and delivering the food. make sure they are braving elements to bring you food, take extra care and give them a better tip tonight. this is one of those nights that they should get a better tip. alison: wow! leon: they will have earned it. three or i have seen four car goes by. alison: surprising. leon: that hill behind you is one that will get really dangerous for anybody trying to drive up and down. saw it in snowmageddon and saw a fire truck almost lose over the hill. alison: a lot of those over town. urging everyone to stay home. alexandria, virginia, jay korff is standing by. he is near a supermarket. running instill there? interesting you should

say. a much different story from what we showed you an hour or two ago. the city is really hunkering down. is harris on madison. smattering of people. you can see more people. but before, you know, 60 to 90 slammed.go this was gettinges and people the basics and finally getting the message at this hour they need to determine where they day be for the next three at least and to hunker down at that point. concerns asrious the flakes begin to fall about outages. alexandria has a lot of flat roofs and people are concerned andt the power going out roof collapses. this is a measuring stick.

look like two and a half to three inches already here in the city of alexandria. one thing i should say the roads, other than the side streets that are getting expected.t is a lot of the primary roads are in good shape. driving around and vdot has been tackling the route 195 aggressively. that is in good shape. is doinglexandria the best they can. the good news for the most part people are staying off the roads. carsven't seen a lot of out there. back with you live in korff, abc7jay news. leon: you got it. alison: thank you very much. we want to remind you that you can stay connected with the abc7 team throughout the blizzard 2016. ofwill be streaming all our coverage at wjla.com. plus, we will have constant facebook page and the twitter feed. download thes stormwatch7 app if for your smart phone.

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leon: live shot and pictures of white house now blanketed in snow. bucolic as the seen looks we have dangerous conditions settling in over the region right now. alison: we have been talking about this for a week and it's now in full swing. we have teams to let you know are whereonditions you live. out to ashburn, virginia, and richard reeve is there to seeing.what he is richard: the snow is coming down at a good clip. car.ve a check this out. this is like a drifting pattern on the cars here. that is true of what is the roads.n

clear. we found a story where we discovered that love really does concur all. their snowiest day is happiest day. they got married at a winery ahead of schedule because of the blizzard. going to get married sunday and the venue said they should do it tomorrow. if not we make no guarantees. last-minute wedding. pretty well. richard: the happy couple in the wedding clothes, there is the ring, will make camp in showed how they humor is essential ingredient married blitz. >> we either get married this

weekend or wait a long time for it to happen. well?as why not? most of our friends and family were local and it was a small anyways. richard: so not even a megastorm can get in the way of love. this is the snow accumulation seeing. so in the suburbs to the west snow here.ng live this ashburn, richard reeve, abc7 news. the fellow earned major points and went ahead and went through with the wedding. your princess down. alison: they will never forget it. what a memorable experience. leon: maybe they will send us their pictures. we have been getting pictures from folks out there pics@wjla.com. kimberly suiters is in the newsroom right now and has a folkst some of the people have been sending in. kimberly: we are putting a lot of them on twitter. with this one.

spinning out on the beltway. we love these. the before and the after. in fairfaxt kevin will send us another picture tomorrow because the snow could be above the bushes there. georgetownideo of from one of the producers. have you ever seen reagan empty?l airport so capital bike share bikes. not that everybody is out closed in they are the storm. this is cool. kathryn sent a video in of ice on her pool. dad doing crazy 8. get out of the way. over.get knocked then the hardworking anchors leon and alison. show two more picks to you. breaking news cute alert. it really doesn't get cuter this little guy. braelin in culpeper. you for the cute picture. something you might not give thought so. but the television station we lot of satellite dishes on the roof as you might

imagine. the engineers had to climb up there. have to climb up there periodically and scrape off the snow. so the signal is powerful from us to your home. suiters.rly back to you in the studio. alison: good stuff. the: they'll be busy in next few hours or so. doug: sent a tweet out. inning. in the first a long game. alison: when you put it that way. doug: the rate of snow is picking up. it's on target and behaving the way we thought it would. have a long way to go here. take a couple of minutes and give you what you need to know you are just joining us in the blizzard 2016. blizzard warning went into effect at 3:00. timing is perfect because that's when we saw the snow the regionund here. georgetown. as we get through the evening hours, thisttime is starting to change.

people on twitter and instagram are doing the time lapses. see a lot of changes here in the next several hours. all right. as far as the numbers go a lookthe area, take at wind gusts. we have had berlin, maryland, 36-mile-per-hour gusts. they will go much higher. it's 29 degrees. berlin.in of worcester county. the winds again are gusting to 20. gustsl have the wind over the next 12 hours or so. big storm to accelerate the development. and take place position off coast. for now we have cold air still in place. will get cranked up late tonight and overnight. sleet might mix in. areahe majority of the for the foreseeable future is

snow and nothing but snow. sustained winds. 14 in reagan national airport. we are just beginning with this. you will see the winds continue to accelerate. the satellite radar has a good storm.re of the steady snow extends from east of delaware to nashville. rain andthere is sleet and ice conditions. in the piedmont, triad of north carolina. areas and plenty of rain. that is the area we will see it consolidate. areashough the coastal will change. northeast along the coastal areaals. we will see it come to an end but when? based on the modeling we think taper off att to all until tomorrow afternoon and slowly still have light snow. the winds. wind warning in effect along the western shore of the bay. high winds everywhere. will blow the snow around. take a look at the wind gust

forecast. 46-mile-per-hour gusts as we early morning hours. in annapolis. 56-mile-per-hour gusts by 5:00 a.m. can look at the numbers. this is a spectacular amount of wind combined with the bitter cold and the exceptionally heavy snow. that is why we call it a blizzard. the blizzard warning continues until 6:00 a.m. sunday morning. for the friends along the bay worst of the winds locally. the blizzard warning as it is right now. island new to long york. 20 to 30 inches for us. 15 and 20 south and east. farther south and east because of the possibility of the sleet and coast.oser to the news. it won't turn to spring but sunday and monday we will be wel above freezing and will start to melt it away. but beware of nighttime refreezing.

alison: we remember that with the snowmageddon. >> whatever progress you make in the day with the melting and the sun you refreeze at night. not good. alison: first inning. thank you. for: as we watch, wait the inning to change, let's change locations to go to maryland.e, suzanne kennedy, wow! it looks like it's coming down there. suzanne: both of you know me am a hugehat i baseball fan. i am not enjoying the game. hill's analysis of this being the first inning is true. we have only seen an inch and a half in chevy chase. have a long way to go. take a look here. of in the 5500 block connecticut avenue here. this is normally a busy road. especially on a friday night around 6:00. but there are very few cars on the street. we have a plow truck here that to be out and about this evening. a private citizen there vehicle.is we heard a while ago the mayor

and the director of the department of homeland here in washington saying please get off the road. you can see still there are people out here. there are some walking around and enjoying the weather. enjoying the storm. see here we even out bicycling in this on connecticut avenue. another person behind him walking in the middle of the road. motoristl you as a that is a disaster. you just can't control your conditions. if you come along a pedestrian roadway it's of tricky to navigate around them. the conditions here are not great on the road. not been through with plow trucks yet. obviously the conditions are dangerous for driving. we drove two miles to get here earlier today. slick.very very dangerous. leon and allison, back to you. do appreciate baseball analogy better than anyone. hang in there. leon: thank you. connected connected with the a7

team through social media. search or use the #blizzard2016. keep you up to date right there.

alison: welcome back, everybody. a live traffic camera. u.s. 29. very few vehicles on the roadways. still a few. but that is how it should be. as little traffic as possible. leon: yeah. it still looks like quite a should bemore than out there. big vehicles, heavy vehicles out there. that may be one thing. but the small cars out there should not be out there in these conditions. >> to give you a sense of how changed recently, one of our interns just brought this huge icicle up. leon: we say in this business, "this just in." literally. off thehat fell building outside. see it? andttle over a foot, foot a half. alison: amazing that it formed already. withhat dough do you do that -- now what do you do with that? take that. steve, alison: thank you. leon: all right.

despite stuff like that and the weather coming in as scheduled, the storm hitting us. annualers for the march for life abortion protest did not cancel any of their events today. alison: right. of thousands of people marched from the washington monument to the supreme court just as the snow started falling. mike carter-conneen joins us live from the high court with a look at the current conditions there. hi, mike. alison and leon. the snow is falling sideways if you can see from the win. i'll have ron, the photographer i'm working with, spin around to show crews that are out here trying to clear from the sidewalks in seconds of the pieces of the machinery clearing the sidewalks. they are coated again. the snow is piling up. deteriorating since the snow started to fall around 1:00. many of the march for life participants drove to washington in cars or buses. many are now on the road tonight trying to beat the blizzard.

huge crowd of antiabortion protesters from across the country gathered on the national mall at noon for the 43rd annual march for life, theing the anniversary of roe v. wade decision on abortion rights. showed aast blizzard, organizers said they have held it in rain, sleet, would be nos year different. included republican presidential candidate carly fiorina and iowa senator. we also spotted this man walking barefoot. money andout any providence of god. he has protected me and take care of me all this time. you have feeling in your feet now? yeah. it hurts. but it's a sacrifice. mike: they did expect dip in attendance because of the weather, dangerous driving conditions and the cancellation of flights but the event went on unchanged. >> somebody has to be here for the babies. fromng can stop us coming. it's my first time. i was determined this year.

mike: some skipped the march to the supreme court. extra supplies in case they get stranded here. >> we have food with us, extra clothes. we have lots of water and medical supplies. >> we are bringing back pack basic stuff. wing it. happens. mike: carly fiorina told the crowd the weather is colder on the campaign trail in iowa and new hampshire. i don't know if that was feelsed to make anyone better today but it got a big laugh at the march. aren live tonight we seeing capitol hill a ghost town. normally this time on friday withuld be bustling people heading home for the weekend trying to get out of town, lawmakers, federal hill workers. peoplein, maybe heading to capitol hill with sledding and several kids with the sleds. police areapitol allowing that in the blizzard. people walking their dogs and taking pictures.

a guy using cross country skis here along capitol hill heading to the capitol building. it's a majestic sight with a fresh coating of snow but definitely chilly. we are looking forward to getting back inside our car. leon: you do that, mike. you're watching stormwatch7 coverage of blizzard 2016. maureen: you are looking live at the white house. so pretty but deceptive, too. hours inw about five the storm, what we are calling "the blizzard 2016." been coming down nonstop since 1:00 this afternoon. we still have a lot ahead of us. right.hat is we have the abc7 and the newschannel8 team across the d.m.v. we will bring you 24/7 coverage throughout the storm. bus service stopped running an hour ago. train service that will be 11:00 tonight. maureen: after that, metro will