we're back to all snow here. while when the mix showing up on the radar it's going back to all snow. tough to pick out who's going to get what. we know we have a heavy band coming through. this is really for academic purposes because the issue is the fact we've had snow on top of the snow we already had last weekend. then we got the layer of ice for a lot of us. move snow on top of that and the stronger winds kick in. the blizzard warning. i think the main story of the day will be downed trees and power line and power outage and unfortunately i think there will be structural damage this afternoon with the weight of all of this stuff just pushing its threshold. temperatures dropping staying in the mid-20s. windchills, single digits or teens with those strong winds literally howling at 40 miles per hour or stronger and the heaviest snow pretty much now until early to mid afternoon. that band of snow will actually shift itself off to the east and you can see that pocket. this is the pocket that computer models were picking on. it looks like it's racing through central virginia into the coast which means the coastal areas turn into snow. we're watching the cold air turn back in. we're watching rapidly deepening low pressure off of the del mar of the coast. this is what is pulling air in from all directions like a vacuum. this is what is going to increase the winds and turn

everything back to snow. the thing is the computer models picked out this band of heavy snow to literally just sit right on top of central maryland for at least six hours. if that happens, we could be throwing some of these snow forecasts out of the window but basically we're looking for the temperatures going from near 30 or freezing now eastern shore into the 20s. there's temperatures of 16 in charleston and pittsburgh. very cold air in rapids and there's our computer model highlighting as you can see that eye, the clearing off of the coast. very slow movement with this storm. that heavy band of snow by this afternoon and this evening moves east of baltimore, but sits on hartford and cecil county. your heavy snow conditions will last a little bit longer so i'm sticking with that forecast of you having more snow even though you're not winning the snow race right now. hartford and cecil county up towards southern p.a. will be pushing the higher end of our forecast. hopefully by 10:00 or midnight most of the stuff gets off of the coast and gets out of here

and more sunshine should give us a chance to clean things up still an average of 12 to 20- inch for central and southern maryland. slightly more to the north. they've already cracked the one foot mark in new freedom and you could be -- i'm saying you could be doubling that. we're looking around baltimore city southbound, pushing close to a foot. a little lighter amount towards the south but heavy snow will come down during the course of the day and into the afternoon. you go from rain over to snow even towards the beaches. our forecast for today. we drop into the mid-20s. looks like almost a repeat of saturday. and i'm really not trying to grandstand, folks, but i want you to understand this is a harder-hitting storm than we've dealt with over the weekend. even though the snow amounts aren't as high there is still respectable snow amounts and winds gusting from 40 to 50 miles per hour in maryland. should be coming to annd. how about an extended forecast. we haven't done this all

morning long. 35 tomorrow. 36 friday with temperatures actually dropping into the teens overnight. so melting, refreezing problems and a chance of more snow sunday night and monday. but let's get through this first and we'll handle that. but it looks the potential of a few more inches early next week. all of that said and done it's a mess out there. in let's see what is happening on the roads. >> if you're heading out now, the main roads are for the most part passable if you drive slow and definitely take your time. the side streets are definitely going to be worse but as justin mentioned for some of the areas in the boston metro where the snow tapered off and got replaced with freezing rain. the freezing rain really did us no favors as you're coated with a nice glaze of ice that the snow is falling on top of. so where you think you may be driving through all snow could be ice underneath that. could have reduced traction and could get yourself into a slippery and dangerous situation.

now here looking at 95 -- at 195. you may see areas where a plow has hit a couple of times or may be just one pass on the plowed roadways but everything is not going to be all clear, especially look for slick spots the on and offramps as you make your way onto the beltway. in terms of accidents we're kind of light. we do have incidents working. you're going to see a crash on the on the scene at pikesville in old court road. in patrol 50 westbound, route 450 accident there. traffic is able to be diverted onto ry dell road and 95 northbound at riverside parkway. a disabled vehicle is blocking the right lane and right shoulder as we look downtown i see tire track. i'm not sure if a plow was hit around town. you definitely want to take your time as you make your way out. i anticipate we're going to have lighter than normal volume as a lot of school systems, a lot of governments are closed.

today is a furlow day. except if you drive a salt truck. the federal government has closed again today. that's going to cut down to traffic as you make your way southbound headed towards the d.c. metro. if you have to go out, might want to head out now while the roadways are still fairly passable because the conditions are going to continue to deteriorate as that blizzard warning kicks in as we make our way towards mid morning. roads are going to get a lot worse. visibility is not so hot. as justin said you're only going to get about .25-mile in front of you. take your time if you head out. if you take public transportation we're going to toss it to mta's mark jones. >> once again providing limited service on the local bus. right rail trains are operating every 30 minutes from hunt valley to cromwell station including bwi but no penn station every is.

metro station operating every 30 minutes between owens mills and hocking station. no commuter trains service. no marked train service on any of the marked lines in transit is only transporting medical dialysis customers today. for the mta transit team. i'm mark jones. osteoporosis you don't already know.

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please volunteer if you have four wheel drive and can get people in. the numbers at the by the screen. the ones you syringes just mentioned and we'll keep them coming. if you work for a hospital feel free to call into us and we will chat with out air about what is going on. what it's like to work there.

>> we have john leo polled our elected official. as an elected official i'm waking up here this morning. i work in anne arundel county, what should i do? that we're getting swamped with e-mails about people wanting to know should i go to work, risk being fired for not showing up here today? >> well county government is closed today, of course but i want to give you some good news, our salt barns are now at capacity. we were at 2500 tons of salt yesterday. we made a number of calls and now i can report the good news that our salt barns are now at capacity with 12,000 tons of salt. i can tell you that some of our roads are closed because of downed trees and lines. i know one such road is 424 at newman way in krofton. i know we're out helping some utility employees who were stuck at parkway drive in hanover. as you have stated several times, there will be blizzard

conditions, starting at 10:00 a.m. we have 52 people without power and trying to get to those as soon as possible. you mentioned needing personnel to drive medical personnel. we've been trying to do that. yesterday i went for first time out to residences to give citations to citizen who's are helping their neighbors. who are going over and above the duty. i call them snow angels because this brings out the best in folks who are reaching out to help neighbors. getting them to the medical personnels to the hospitals and i thought that service should be recognized. >> i think if you live alone or have an elderly neighbor this is the time to reach out to them.

are you seeing a lot of that. we're seeing quite a bit of that. the county has had programs in the volunteer programs. one is called snow patrol. the four-wheeled drive vehicle and just yesterday eight people did call up to volunteer for those programs. getting back to my original question. if i work on richie highway and i know the place is open and you're telling me and the governor is saying stay off the roads. what should i do? >> you should follow that advice unless it's absolutely necessary to get out there. obviously when there are abandoned cars our crews having difficult time clearing the roads. >> i think our viewers are frustrated because they're hearing from government officials, stay off the roads which is appropriate and good advice. the problem is their boss is saying get in here. there's a real con flick as far as that goes. i know you can't offer any -- i can tell you county government is closed so i can speak for that. >> let's say a road in ferndale hasn't been touched. >> a residential street -- >> a residential street and joe schmo has a snowplow. can he plow that street without getting into trouble.

a private plow taking over a public road. >> i've seen example where's people are contracting with private lows to do that. >> that is being done. that is being done. >> a aliability is turned the on other way. >> we're having a lot of people saying how about some people going into burglar city and helping out the people that are stuck. >> there are private contractors out there. >> john will give you a citation if you do that. >> john leopold. >> we wanted to update you on a asituation we saw earlier. it's a news-related story so we're going to break from the weather. first on the scene. a shooting in tolleson earlier this morning. if you saw this on 695 trying to get off on delaney valley. here's what happened.

police say that it started as an armed robbery call and officers spotted the suspect's vehicle on delaney valley road. stepped out of his car but that suspect we're told tried to hilt the officer who fired his gun before getting hit. police then caught up with the suspect we're told that suspect was arrested after a very brief foot chase and then the suspect now facing armed robbery and first degree assault charges and then in the meantime that officer was taken to shock trauma, being treated for non life-threatening injuries. and the officers is expected to be okay. >> let's look at some of the more pictures you're sending in here to us. this is bobby and snow pics. but we have jeff hager. he's standing by live to tell us how the weather is. >> we're in owings mills

shopping center at owings mill boulevard and reisterstown road. driving over here at 5:00 in the morning. the roads were relatively clear around the baltimore beltway and reisterstown road. .5-inch of stuff on the road. it wasn't so bad. it's intensified a bit. we've already got people out early working in this lot. this is about the third time he's gone over it since we've been here and began setting is up our operation as we see him scraping it off and seems like he'll go around after about .5- inch and maybe have another inch, roughly that he has to go back and kind of retrace. we wantedded to help establish where we're at as far as our operation here for the next couple or several hours. bill fink, my videographer is handy with a shovel. he's cut out this little fox hole here. we're going to bunker down from

this position i guess throughout the day and from this vantage point you can see the intersection here at owings mill boulevard and reisterstown road. there are vehicles that are out. there's a truck out plowing but here we've got a car that's taking it slow, which it should be doing now and we've got another suv coming up off of the ramp. the ramp is obviously a little slicker. starting to get a little bit more accumulation than you'll see on the roads themselves. for instance here i'm presuming they had a green light -- yeah, i think they had a greene light -- so everybody is taking it slow as they should and trying to try to get to where they're going but not go too fast put and as it intensifies. you really shouldn't be out on the roads and don't let the fact that they really haven't become impassable fool you in some fashion make you think you should be running out to work because it doesn't seem to be the case. i wouldn't even call it so much of a snow or sleet or what we like to call wintry mix coming

down. there's going to be icing on these roads but that's our scenario for now. we'll keep you updated as we go through the morning. reporting live in owings mills, jeff hager, back to you. how was your drive in. >> reporter: wasn't so bad. just kind of a thin sheen. when we got on reisterstown road which obviously isn't as big as the beltway. i think the bigger the road the better you are for now. as you get into the smaller secondary roads or side streets it's going to become more difficult, depending on the size of the road. >> we'll check in with you in a bit. >> speaking of chilly, we have chilly pictures to show you. not of chile, but of chilly people. or chile dogs. >> this picture was sent to us from adonia. she shows us how her friends have come through. this looks like the snow dogs.

her friend bobby drove all the way from middletown to woodbine to make sure her two dogs, amber and charm, go the to the vet in baltimore. >> it was funny the chili line. >> i don't know if i'm punch drunk. >> picture of my chili. here's grandson jenna who posed the question "is this how the people that drive snowplows feel." look at them. not too happy. all right, hey, listen. thanks for sending it in and continue to do so. all you have to do, we made it real easy for you. abc2news.com and just upload your pictures and we'll get them lickty split here on the air. the weather is the big story. we'll continue to cover it all day long. in the meantime we'll take a break. head up to new york and take a look at the business headlines and we'll be back with more pictures and more weather chat. good morning. we begin your money scope report with the outlook for interest rates in. the federal reserve will release a statement today

outlining chairman ben bernanke's strategy for eventually raising rates from historic lows. the fed faces a delicate balancing act. are a rates too quickly and choke off the modest recovery. wait too long and spark inflation. no matter what the fed says it's months away from making changes. the man who helped engineer the financial bailout says taxpayers will recover neve spent. henry paulsen open was interviewed by warren buffett. both agreed the government may turn a profit from the bailout. another reminder of just how tough the rob jacket is right now. the numbers show there were just under six unemployed people for every job opening and the problem may get worse before it gets better. a separate survey finds more small companies plan to cut workers rather than add them. add the camry to the list of toyotas experiencing brake problems. the automaker is recalling about 7300, 2010 camries

because of a possible fluid leak that increases stopping distances. this came after toyota announced it's recalling half a million dollars hybrids and it's reviewing complaint busy steering problems with the controlae to determine if an investigation is warranted. hopped was has experienced problems of its own, extending a global recall for faulty air bags. the recall covers more than 430,000 vehicles, most of them in the u.s. honda says it will replace the drivers side air bag because they can deploy with too much and pressure. the bad economy is claiming high-profile victim. the ritz carlton is shutting down in lake las vegas resort in may. the first time any ritz has been closed down. the highly-rated hold is less than 0 miles from the vegas strip. that's your money scope report.

welcome back. a winter storm warning but that will change to a blizzard warning as we go through the morning hours. wanted to show you some imagery across the area. it's been a while since we had to take a look at weather across the region in this impending weather situation. first off on our widespread weather net this is glen burnie and we're going to do a time lapse you can see the visibility off on the horizon and starting to lose it a little bit as we hit daylight. the intensity of the

precipitation and the turnover from the freezing rain to sleet to snow is starting to take place. maybe not a pure snow but once you go pure snow the flakes actually spread out and that actually reduces the visibility as something we're to look forward to. this is owings mills and you can see the freezing rain briefly and as we get daylight we're looking at about .25 to .5-mile visibility. snow and snow greens coming down there picking up in intensity. the heavy stuff sitting to the west and let's show you baltimore from yesterday as the snow came in on a partially frozen harbor. we had freezing rain and drizzle overnight and that just caked up our lens. you can see the ice on the lens and the issue is really going to be that layer of ice. i wanted to show this to you because that's what we have. old heavy snow and then we've got this new snow. then a layer of ice. then a layer of snow on top of that. temperatures 2 terry hall. 28 lutherville. 29 ander do not that's dropped in the last half hour. you're back to 30 at aberdeen. 32 in centreville and you're just dropping below freezing

new mexico ---'s most powerful doppler radar and we're following the snow passing through and watching this progression of moisture. you can see that from bottom right to upper left. that's the coastal storm taking over. now this storm is really starting to take hold. you can see all of the moisture back to the left. you can see the deep dark blues. there's the heavy snow to the west and pockets in between. the heavy snow band expected to move over baltimore and sit on top of us for quite a few hours and that's when we really get dumped on. 30 baltimore. 37 york, p.a. our blizzard warning kicks in at 10:00 a.m. and goes through 7:00 and we're expecting winds over 40 miles an hour. snowfall still in the 12 to 20- inch plus range. more up northward never turned over and big ice problems baltimore southbound to the eastern shore. ice with new heavy snow and wind. here's kim brown with a look at traffic. >> well off the top we just want to let drivers and commuters know if you don't have to go out then you probably should stay in.

with that said we've had a lot of people writing us at abc2 news saying they have to go to work. the roadways are passable at this time. the major ones anyway as long as you take your time, reduce your speed and drive with a lot of sense, but as megan pointed off if you can get to work fine. how are you going to get back home. that's something you may want to consider before you go to work. a blizzard warning will kick into mid afternoon and could get stuck where you are as you try to make your way back home later this evening. as we look at 95. visibility is getting worse. road conditions getting worse. plow may or may not hit the major roads depending on where you are or you can online get one pass, maybe two at the most. here we go with crashes. southbound on the harrisburg expressway pass bell fast road.

we have an accident there florida that crash remains the scene. 50 westbound at -- that's going to be at route 450 in parole that earlier crash has been cleared but a new one in glen burnie that's going to be route 10 at baltimore indianapolis boulevard. remains closed in both directions at newman way. take your time before you head out. it could be a little treacherous. we'll be right back with more of good morning, maryland, next. my work here is done. [ male announcer ] now try perdue oven ready bone-in breast and cornish hens.

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