warrenton, around fairfax, towards manassas and it is all moving off to the east. so southern maryland and fredericksburg, that's the area that is still going to get the most snow. and that's the area that is under a winter weather advisory. it includes anne arundel county, prince george's county, calvert county, st. mary's, back towards s wrles county, stanford, l as fredericksburg, towards king george and the rest of the northern neck that is through tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m. what are we going to be seeing over the next couple of hours? well, about 12:00, about an hour from now, the snow is going to be coming down. in some places, it's going to be coming down at a pretty good clip. these are nice big flakes with a very dry air mass. 17 degrees for the temperature. 15 degrees at 3:00 a.m. still snowing around 3:00. but then getting out of here. and by early tomorrow morning, the snow is gone. skies are starting to clear. temperatures, though are, on the cold side with temperatures around 14degrees. i do expect to see some delays. possibly school closings too. we'll keep you updated on all of those right here. >> thanks, doug. as the snow falls, crews are out

treating the roads. it could be some problems for tomorrow morning's commute. shomari stone continues our coverage now. he is in la plata, maryland. shomari? >> reporter: well, jim, as doug just told you and as you can see, it is coming down. let me show you real quick. it's sort of like a light type of flow. it's really flaky. of course, around 30 minutes ago, it was little heavier. doug told you that a lot of folks are going to have to be cleaning off their cars like this one here. speaking of cars, tomorrow morning's commute, a lot of folks are concerned about it. it's here. renee good doesn't feel good about it. >> this right here don't do nothing but close things down, make traffic bad. >> reporter: tonight the snow begins to punch la plata and charles county in southern maryland. >> it's very, very bone-chilling. we've had this cold weather here for the last couple of weeks. and it's just been miserable. >> reporter: tony quaid plowed snow for charles county public works. he is ready for the white powder. >> we'll salt and push as long as we have to.

usually we take a break after a few hours. >> reporter: and right now we're showing you inside of a salt truck. a lot of the crews plan on taking salt like this, dropping it on the ground to make the roads safer. but they can also make up to a thousand dollars tonight. >> i can make money, put food on the table. >> reporter: or dash cam captured this truck dropping salt on treated main roads in mechanicsville. >> the salt makes brian when it gets wet, and it lowers the freezing point of wart. >> reporter: as for renee good, well, she hopes the snow shuts the whole town down. >> if it's going to snow, bring it on. >> reporter: those are tough words. you're now looking at a live picture of charles street in la plata. a lot of the crews tell me they are prepared to work overnight. they're going to be monitoring the roads to make sure that a lot of that snow and ice, possible ice doesn't accumulate here on the roadway. live in la plata, shomari stone, news4. our team coverage continues with jackie bensen. she is live in brandywine, maryland, a look at the conditions there. jackie? >> reporter: doreen, we are

getting pelted with snow now. and i want to show you. it's kind of an odd snow. and i want to know if doug kammerer knows what you call this. it's very granular. and i'm going to show you. it almost looks like fake snow, the kind that you would see on a christmas display in a store or something like that. now earlier tonight, people were driving around doing, you know, their errands and things like that. no big panic in this area because, again, for the predictions of just a couple of inches they've had, certainly a long winter here. and they're just a short time ago we talked to some folks and asked them about their thoughts about snow coming yet again. >> snowing again? i don't mind it. i like the snow. it's fun. it looks nice. it looks good. besides on the car. >> it's winter. it's going to do what it's going to do. >> reporter: and you can see here the parking lot in this shopping center. the snow is definitely sticking to the ground. they got lots of plows ready in this area. but mercifully, as you heard

doug kammerer say earlier, a very light snow, very easy to clean up. so people will be cautious tomorrow. but i don't think a lot to worry about. live in brandywine, maryland, jackie bensen, news4. >> thanks, jackie. infrared technology helped fairfax county police rescue a man who was stuck out in the bitter cold. the air unit saw the man in distress. this happened earlier this month. they used the infrared cameras to zero in on his location, and they sent ground crews in to rescue him. that technology probably saved that man's life. last week the same technology was used to rescue an elderly woman who was lost outside in prince george's county. as the temperatures fall and the snow moves in, be sure to stay with news4. we'll be on the air beginning at 4:00 tomorrow morning to bring you the latest on road conditions and any school delays or closings in the area. our other big story tonight, the state of the union address. president obama telling congress the country refuses to stand

still. he won't either. chris lawrence is on capitol hill with some of the highlights from the president's speech and react from the republicans. chris? >> reporter: yeah, doreen. the president basically implored congress to give hourly workers a pay hike, but on other issues, he was clearly indicating that he is ready to go it alone. >> you know i won't. how are the folks doing? good. >> mr. speaker, the president of the united states. >> reporter: president obama says if he can't find compromise with congress, he'll push his agenda through executive orders. that's why tomorrow i will direct the treasury to create a new way for working americans to start their own retirement savings. my ira. >> reporter: a new plan for workers who can't invest through their jobs and raising the minimum wage on new federal contracts to $10.10 an hour. >> because if you cook our troops' meals or wash their dishes, you should not have to live in poverty.

>> reporter: a local congressman says the demands to make that wage mandatory for all workers has spooked some small business owners. >> i've talked to businesses. what they say is make sure they have the flexibility to bring people in at starting level jobs. >> reporter: the district, montgomery and prince george's counties are raising minimum wages to 11:50. >>. >> thing is a concern about what it does to job creation. >> reporter: a senator speaking for the tea party says our area is doing just fine. >> government-driven inequality is the reason why as hardworking american families across the country struggle to make ends meet, six of the ten wealthiest counties in america are now suburbs of washington, d.c. >> reporter: and he wasn't just taking a shot at maryland and virginia. republicans argue that after five years on the job, the president owns the very income inequality that he criticizes. tomorrow president obama will be in prince george's county at the

costco in lanham to push some of the ideas we heard here tonight. jim, doreen? >> thanks, chris. three new developments in the wake of that deadly shooting inside the columbia mall. tonight police handed out fliers to shoppers with a picture of the gunman. that's because darion aguilar went to the mall often. detectives are hoping anyone who came in contact with him will come forward. we also know aguilar was having mental health issues and wrote than in his journal. and the other development comes from the cabdriver who took aguilar to the mall on saturday. erika gonzalez is working on that part of the story. >> reporter: it could very well be a critical clue in this investigation tonight. barwood cab company says one of its drivers dropped aguilar off here at the mall and then called police. what compelled him to do that? plus, the one thing detectives say they have ruled out of this investigation. we'll have those details coming up in just a few minutes. a scare for some shoppers at

the westfield montgomery mall in bethesda tonight. a man who allegedly threatened others while claiming he was armed was taken into custody there. police say they were called to the montgomery mall just before 7:00 because the man was acting suspiciously. officers say he had no weapons when they searched him. but because of his mental state, he was taken to a hospital for an evaluation. now to silver spring as police investigate a robbery at a pharmacy. there it happened a few hours ago at the medicine shoppe on hampshire avenue. so far nobody has been arrested. police say it's too soon to know if this robbery has been connected to other holdups across montgomery and prince george's counties. there is a new plan to change the face of the new york avenue corridor. today developers broke ground on a project to turn the hecht warehouse into a 300-unit apartment building. that development would also feature a grocery store, a gym, and a garage that will hold a thousand cars. that art deco warehouse was first built back in 1937.

it's been vacant now for about ten years. the developer says the project will revitalize the ivy city area. and people who already live in that neighborhood will not be forced out. next, breaking news as the deep freeze impacts the deep south. students in georgia are stranded inside classrooms as snow piles up outside. >> the snow continues to move in and develop across the area. i've got the latest snowfall totals, next. and we'll tell you why metro signs designed to get riders to their destination only created their destination only created more confusion.

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now at 11:00, yet another dose of winter weather. snow already falling in some places. we'll let you know how much you might get in your area and when it will move out. also, the mall gunman's journal is offering new insight into his mental state before that shooting rampage. we'll tell you what we know about his final hours. first, though, howard county police are taking a new approach to generate clues in that shooting at the columbia mall. there is still no clear motive, but some things have been ruled out. erika gonzalez is at the mall now with the latest on the investigation. erika? >> reporter: hey, vance. one thing that investigators have told us is that aguilar used to come here to the mall. he was seen smoking cigarettes. another thing that they are really looking into is the cell phone that was found on his person after the shooting and also a computer that was confiscated from his home. darion aguilar. did you know him?

did you have any contact with him? that's what howard county police want to know. tonight this flyer is circulating throughout columbia mall. the day of the shooting, police say aguilar came here in a cab. here is something new. a source at barwood cab company tells news4 one of its drivers called police after the shooting, said he had taken a, quote, weird looking guy to the mall. we've not heard from howard county police to confirm or deny this. but the other thing to note is aguilar was picked up in burtonsville. if he lived and worked in college park, what was he doing in burtonsville? meanwhile, investigators still tight-lipped about the contents of aguilar's journal, but confirm he knew he was having mental health issues. what the journal does not show is a link to breanna benlolo and tyler johnson. the number one question in this investigation, motive undetermined. and the one thing that has been ruled out in this investigation is a number of people had tipped

off police to a picture of benlolo and someone that allegedly looked like the shooter. it was not him. that has been ruled out. in columbia, maryland, erika gonzalez, news4. some of the platform signs at the metro center metro station won't be much use to riders in the coming days. they've been covered up following an embarrassing mistake. it started after metro put up signs featuring the route of the new silver line. but the signs also incorrectly showed the blue line going to east falls church. metro took the signs down after we alerted them to the problem. but that revealed older outdated signs underneath that were also incorrect. >> it's their own system. they should be able to label it correctly and make sure the people can get around easily. >> a metro spokesperson says the agency is now working with a contractor to get new signage up by the end of this week. the mistake cost the agency about $2,000.

news out of georgia right now. this winter storm is wreaking havoc down south. it's also stranding some kids at school all night long. atlanta has received about 2 inches of snow so far. some roads are so bad that school districts canceled bus service. many parents could not navigate the snow-covered roads to pick their kids up. the school district says they are prepared to feed the children and keep them warm overnight if they have to. some of the home depot stores in the atlanta area are staying open to provide shelter for stranded drivers. from texas to louisiana to georgia and up into north carolina, icy roads are causing countless accidents and traffic jams. some cities with as few as nine plows in their fleet struggled to sand and salt the roads. some had to be closed because they were just too dangerous. >> bad weather also canceled thousands of flights today. most of them were down south. the airport atlanta was one of the ones hardest hit.

that one is the busiest airport in the world and a major hub. all the flights out of new orleans also grounded because of the weather conditions. >> and we're just getting word of our first school closing. spotsylvania county schools in virginia planning to close tomorrow because of the snow. >> i think there will be more closings early tomorrow morning, especially for the folks down towards southern maryland. i think you're going to get it, also around spotsylvania, maybe even fredericksburg and stafford and some others. we'll get into that in a second. but this storm really a bad storm down toward the south. but for us it's also starting to cause problems. this is out towards brandywine out in the target right there. and notice the roadways, because of the cold temperatures. this snow is sticking immediately. it only takes about a half an hour. and everything is covered. you can see that parking lot right there covered. and out towards the airport right now, look at the temperature. 16. if this is not a wintry night in d.c., i don't know what is. 4. that's the current windchill with the wind out of the northwest at about 9 miles per hour. not only is it cold, but now we're dealing with the snow.

and it's coming down everywhere. from frederick right on through leesburg and down towards fredericksburg and waldorf and leonard'stown. a lot of you out there asking is it a little farther west than you thought. well, the accumulation is not. the snow, however, i do think is coming down a little bit. you'll see a coating out towards leesburg. maybe frederick. but that's just a dusting. the accumulation, though will stay down towards the south andie as we talked about throughout the afternoon. and that's where it is right now. really coming down in through portions of southern maryland, down through fairfax county, places like that. and look at norfolk. look at rally. ocean city, all of which could pick up not just 3 to 6 inches, but potentially upwards of a foot of snow. this is going to be a major storm for them. and we will continue to watch it in our area. i want to take one more look at our region, show you where the snow is coming down the heaviest. look at the white bands in through prince william county, through fairfax county, even right through the district. and we'll continue to see the snow through the next one to two hours. let's show you on future weather what we're expecting here. as we did see that snow make its

way up. right around 1:00, it's back to the i-95 corridor and off to the east. so still seeing that snow in prince george's county down through charles county, st. mary's calvert county. those are the areas i expect to see significant delays early tomorrow morning. but also spotsylvania county, stafford county, king george, westmoreland, the northern neck also seeing some of those delays. by early tomorrow morning, though, it's out of here. and it's just cold. remember, just about all of us are going to clean off our cars, but with the very fluffy snow, it's going to be very easy to do so if you don't get a lot of it. tomorrow afternoon, well, it's just cold. we've got some snow on the ground and the temperatures will remain well below freezing. the winter weather advisory in effect until 6:00 a.m. includes anne arundel, prince george's, calvert, st. mary's and charles, back towards stafford, spotsylvania and parts of the northern neck right on through 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning for the potential of a couple inches of snow. and even includes the ern shore and out treardshe eastern shore, including ocean city right along the atlantic. we're talking about the winter

storm warnings out that way. what are we going to see? how much snow? well, a coating to an inch. and i have moved that back just a little bit in flew loudoun county, northern fauquier county, a coating to an inch around d.c. 1 to 3 inches to the south. waldorf towards brandywine, camp springs, up towards annapolis and right back towards fredericksburg. 3 to 4 inches for calvert beach, huntingtown. i fully expect maybe 3 to 4 inches in parts of that area. so we'll continue to watch there too. something else to talk about, the windchill. not in d.c. we're going to see a cold windchill tomorrow morning. but look back towards the west. 5 to 15 below along the i-81 corridor, back along winchester, up towards martinsburg, even around frederick, maryland. 5 to 15 below zero early tomorrow. breezy and cold tomorrow. windchill for the rest of us. 5 above to about 10 below. actual temperatures 9 to 14 degrees tomorrow morning. so starting off on a cold note. but here is the good news. we finally start to move in the

right direction. 33 on your thursday. 44 on friday. and friday looking like a pretty nice day. saturday not bad with a high temperature of 47 degrees. then a chance of showers coming up on sunday. we'll talk about that coming up a little bit later on. and as always, you can always stay ahead of the weather. download our storm team weather app. and i just love this picture right here. >> isn't that a beautiful scene? >> i want to recor that and play it at my house all the time. >> even in the summer? >> it's snowing again. >> we ought to remind people that we'll be on at 4:00 a.m. tomorrow with any delays and closings. >> there will be some. >> we'll be up for that. >> we got sports coming up. caps spr