this just in, national weather service issuing a blizzard watch for the metro d.c. area starting friday at noon and early sunday. all the latest on what to expect coming up in the updated forecast. d.c. is putting out the plans ahead of the storm. we'll fill you in to get ready. inside the grocery stores, as people prep for the storm, what is flying off the shelves and is it's not just the firewood. neighbors tell us they're nervous after a deadly shooting in their complex. we'll take you to prince georges county. news 4 midday starts right now. here's the latest from the national weather service. the counties here in purple, the

entire d.c. metro area under a blizzard watch. this blizzard watch begins friday at noon and going to run until 6:00 a.m. on sunday. if you're in blue here, you're under a winter storm watch in the same time period and looking like a double digit event. a historic event for the d.c. metro area. what exactly is a blizzard watch? well, we are tracking heavy snow and blowing snow, reducing visibilities. there's a wind component, as well. sustained winds at 20 to 30 miles per hour and gusts up to 40 miles per hour. that's going to lead to dangerous travel. the time to prepare is now. go out today and get ready and then plan on staying home for the weekend. road impacts before this large system comes in. we're talking about some light snow tonight and isolated slick spots and see by friday, roads start to deteriorate throughout the day. head out early friday morning and then hunker down into the afternoon but especially the evening hours. it looks like the worst time

period is going to be friday night and then throughout the day on saturday. i wouldn't be surprised if there are actually road closures across the region on saturday tracking blizzard conditions across the area. also in d.c. right now, mayor bowser is kicking off the city-wide plan for the coming storm. she is holding a news conference in northwest washington and here's what she told us she's going to be covering. >> a preliminary discussion of of what residents should do on their own property and what the law allows. >> now, the conference is about to begin. the mayor is also planning to hand out shovels to some members of the resident snow team with 2,000 volunteers this year. she's also going to show off 20 new snowplows and we'll tell you what the mayor says later. this winter, the district is listening to your complaints. the city can hand out tickets

similar to parking tickets to violators. homeowners face $25 fines if the sidewalks aren't cleared 24 hours after a snowstorm. for commercial and multi-family buildings, $150. they must be cleared eight hours after daylight of a storm. you've seen the forecast and you just recently got the alert about the blizzard watch. now, it's time for shopping for one of these and one of these and one of these. a lot of this stuff. >> have you seen the forecast? >> of course we heard about the snow. >> reporter: snow, epic amounts of snow. >> yeah. everyone's going crazy about it. >> reporter: now, you're at the store stocking up. this is a scene at the safeway in georgetown. what are some of the items you say i have to get this, this and from this? >> fruit, toilet paper, sot chips for my kids. >> reporter: there's the essential salt. lots of salt. shovels and wiper fluid and then

of course the firewood. but that's not all that's flying off the shelves. >> lots of beer, lots of wine. chips. frozen pizzas. >> timing of the monster storm have you trying to figure out what to do? >> supposed to work saturday. >> reporter: stay close. they're working for you. cozy up and watch news 4? >> exactly. >> reporter: as amelia mentioned, with that blizzard watch going into effect by noon on friday, you better get out here sooner rather than later. live in georgetown, erika gonzalez. >> thank you. download the news 4 washington app. there's a shooting death of a man at an apartment complex. it happened around 9:30 last night in the 4300 block of west village avenue. police secured the complex with tape last night. we'll have the latest on the investigation coming up in about

15 minutes. another hearing for the baltimore police officers facing charges for freddie gray's death. today a judge will rule whether officer porter must testify in the trials of four colleagues. prosecutors want to call him to the stand in all of their cases after porter's own trial ended in a hung trial last month. however, there could be some confusion with the ruling today. questions about the testimony already delayed a trial of officer goodson facing a murder charge. and baltimore police will have an extra set of eyes. the department is launching a body camera program after testing the cameras with more than 100 officers. baltimore's mayor says it takes two years to outfit every officer. we are just getting started. live to the storm that's heading in our direction. plus, some tips to stay safe using a

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right now, temperature 26 degrees and high today of 34. not as cold as it has been and not breezy to windy conditions. keeping it dry around 2:00 and late afternoon and evening hours, we will be tracking some light snow, flurries impacting the area. little or no accumulation and could lead to isolated slick spots. here's the timing with future weather. 5:00, snow showers. by 6:00, toward the end of the evening rush, notice that snow

moving into the d.c. metro area. 7:00, continuing to track light snow should recalls and by 10:00 p.m., pushing east out of the area. midnight, we're dry with a mix of clear skies and clouds overnight tonight and then tomorrow we'll be tracking a quiet day, the calm before the storm. the time to prepare is now. head out today, get what you need tomorrow, as we. again, heaviest snowfall will be overnight tonight throughout the day on saturday and mentioning, guys, i'm streaming live on facebook right now so you can hop on and ask me your questions about the storm. here's the latest check of radar. this is the snow moving in to the area later today. >> thank you. the cold weather is here to stay at least for a while. if you're planning on using a space heater here's some of the tips that will keep you safe. space heaters need space. keep the heater at least three feet from anything combustible to catch fire. that means three feet away from the bed or a couch, dresser,

drapes. and the heater is not the only thing posing a fire hazard. >> but space heaters also contribute to fires because of how they're plugged in. if you use an electrical space heater, with an undersized extension cord, we have a hazard. >> the consumer product safety commission reports thousands of fires associated with those portable heaters. next, we are going to take you to nashville where families seeing the storm we are about to get and catch news 4 midday anywhere. you just need a smartphone or t tablet.

so if you haven't stepped out of your door yet, don't let that sun fool you. it is cold out there. take a look at the current temperatures that we're also tracking major snowstorm. you should know that. see the temperatures on the green map there? >> oh, it is cold. to stay ahead of the storm, ween vit you to download the nbc washington app and track when the storm is approaching your neighborhood when the interactive radar and get breaking news alerts. you will need those. >> right now, snow is falling in the midwest and it could bring us action today. >> yes. this is only a preview of the blizzard we're all waiting for. weather channel's maria la rosa is in atlanta to show us when's coming. >> we had a little blast of snow

here in music city. you have beautiful iconic broadway and that hour or two of snow for a little bit of a coating and the problem was, of course, started this morning as sleet and freezing rain and you have an icy coating and enough to wreak havoc on the commute. all saw people sliding off the roadways. good news is with that winter storm warning still in effect through 6:00 p.m., the precipitation, the snow, the freezing rain has let up here so an evening drive in much better shape. the storm becoming the blizzard triggered your blizzard watches will be bringing rain, potentially heavy rain by this time tomorrow and into tomorrow evening for nashville. on the backside that nashville could once again see a little bit of accumulating snow so this is indeed the precursor and tomorrow night it's mostly rain so heads up. back to you.

and this just in to the weather center. winter weather advisory for later today from the light snow i was talking about. this advisory starts around the evening hours and continue until about midnight. this is the system moving through and only tracking light snow for the most part but the timing, i just showed you future weather and that could definitely cause issues around the evening rush tonight. an inch or less accumulation is possible. tomorrow, dry conditions. 7:00 a.m., 25 degrees for your thursday around the midday, low 30s and mix of clouds and sun. high temperature is 3:00 p.m. at 37 degrees. a lot of folks asking questions on facebook about the bigger storm arriving later friday, impacts us saturday and pulls out of the area on sunday. you can see temperatures still chilly tomorrow and as the snow moves in late in the day on

friday it will start to immediately stick. road conditions will quickly deteriorate. high today 34. tracking scattered light snow showers in the evening hours and enough to cause a winter weather advisory. i'll have more on that in the next weather hit is about ten minutes. tomorrow, dry, high of 37. friday, saturday, d.c. metro under a blizzard watch beginning friday at noon and running through early sunday morning. you can see temperatures with this storm system at or below freezing, not only that but also dealing with impressive winds that will be also causing blizzard conditions. especially on saturday, pat. >> all right. now to a developing story in prince georges county where police are investigating a deadly shooting. the victim was found in an apartment building this morning. residents tell us they heard the gunshots. news 4's molette green join us

us live. >> reporter: good morning. this community is a short watch from the branch avenue metro station and new construction going on right now so people who live here really want police to find the shooter and they have a lot to say about the man who lost his life here last night. shots fired inside this apartment. on the third floor, the front door is marked with red evidence tape and padlocked. neighbors said they heard the gun fire. >> all i heard was a gunshot which i thought somebody with us just kicking on the door. looked out the hallway. didn't see nothing. came back in the house, like two, three more shots. >> reporter: police say they found a man shot at the carmel midtown square apartments on west village avenue. he was pronounced dead at the scene. this woman who didn't want to appear on camera says a swarm of cops got here right away, even the new interim police chief

showed up. >> less than two minutes of that time i saw -- i went to take my puppy outside. and the whole neighborhood was filled up of detectives, police, fire. >> reporter: this building appears secure. there are cameras and you need a code to gain access. but neighbors say the man who died had a lot of visitors. >> well the dude did have all kinds of people running in and out of his house. >> reporter: it's a secure building but you don't feel very secure? >> yes. >> reporter: prince georges county police will only say at this time that this shooting is not random. no identification on the victim. no information about a motive or suspects in this case. or any information about the circumstances that led up to this shooting. now, just this morning, i spoke to the county councilwoman from the district, karen tolls who tells me that she wants residents to allow the police

investigation to play out and there will be some information coming soon. we're live in suitland, molette green, news 4. >> thank you. the man accused of a stabbing at a religious retreat is in court. he is accused of stabbing a man in south korea last summer. in the hearing, the judge will reveal the findings of a mental health evaluation. kim pleaded that he was not criminally responsible for that stabbing. the man accused of hitting seven people with the car in the district on new year's day facing a judge today. police say he was drunk jumping a sidewalk and hit a pole january 1st. lloyd is accused of dui and leaving the scene. he'll be in court for a status hearing to find out if a judge will allow him to post bail jirks budget battles ahead to affect how you get around town. stay with us.

i'm at the live desk. take a look at this. chopper 4 over the scene here. we're talking about white ferry right now. the potomac, so much ice that white ferry is not running from maryland to virginia today. no word on when they might be able to reopen and just chunks of ice making it far too dangerous to get the ferry from bank to bank. we're talking about kids and stress. is it possible that a 12-week school based mindfulness program to reduce high levels of stress that many young people experience? a newly released study suggests the answer to that study is yes. dr. joshua winer joins us. what is a mindfulness course? >> it means having moment to moment awareness of yourself, your thoughts, your surroundings, your bodily ens s

ensensations and feelings and nonjudgmental of yourself and others and having a sense of acceptance. so these courses, these mindfulness bases help people achieve that way of being and thinking. >> how do they achieve that? >> teaching people meditation. you're going to be teaching them different ways to reduce stress or techniques to take to try to calm themselves down. a quick example would be instead of just eating something, you examine what you're eating, you put it in your mouth slowly, move it around your mouth, feel the sensation, the smell, et cetera. just slowing down and trying to appreciate each moment. >> how do they conduct the study? >> this was an interesting study, it was a 12-week study in inner city baltimore with kids in tough situations. kids getting free lunches, lots of socio economic challenges.

half took the lunch, the other half took a stress reduction coursement they did a bunch of tests ahead of time to assess their psychological functioning and then after the course they did it again and what they found is that the group that got the mindfulness-based stress reduction program had a significant reduction in the levels of depression, anxiety, overall stress and levels of post traumatic stress symptoms compared to the other group. >> very interesting. i want to talk about the grades improving and we'll talk about that when we come back. pat, back to you. all right. things are heating up in the presidential race as two big names join forces. how the latest end

today montgomery county executive wants to hear your thoughts about the budget plan, recommending planning $1.9 billion on education and $192

million on purple line related project. it starts tonight at 7:00. tonight will be the first of three hearings on the budget. and the national weather service issuing a winter weather advisory. this is for today. this is going to begin at 6:00 p.m. and run through midnight. it is for the areas in purple. all of the d.c. metro area, fredericksburg and southern maryland. an inch or less of snow but the timing in the end of the rush hour to the latest evening hours could cause slick roads. 5:00, tracking the light snow in the area. 6:00, tracking snow in the metro area. you can see here at 7:00 we're tracking some snow showers still and then pushing east around 10:00 p.m. now, we are dry throughout the day tomorrow. mix of clouds and sunshine. the calm before the storm and then stop this friday 3:00 p.m. this is when the big storm starts to move in.

we'll have totals and also more on the potentially historic storm coming up. >> thank you. well, believe it or not, a new twist in that investigation of the hillary clinton's e-mails. plus we'll go to the live desk with more on d.c.'s plans for the blizzard heading in our direction. it's all happening at 11:30. stay with us.

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be about 48 hours from now. let's take you to storm team 4 meteorologist lauren rick etts. >> yes. it's a nice day out here. we have that winter weather advisory for tonight. but really, all eyes are focused on what we're going the see as we get into friday and saturday. so we have a snow map for you. again, this is a first edition from storm team 4 as totals can change. but plan ahead. this is the time to plan ahead. because it looks like on average we're going to see at least a foot around the region. yes. a foot of that white stuff. so we will have a lot of it fallen by the time of saturday night before it's all said and done. and with more on that, amelia, back to you. >> well, we have been talking about the timing, too. people wondering will schools close on friday? new information continues to suggest snow moves in late

afternoon and evening hours on friday. we'll see the heaviest and most snow fall friday night throughout the day on saturday. also dealing with gusty winds at that point. blowing snow around. causing drifting snow. and then snow starts to come to an end early sunday. still light showers possible on sunday and we won't be adding much more accumulation at that point. this storm system definitely has a potential to be a top 5 d.c. snowstorm. double digit totals and blizzard conditions with gusty winds. thanks. at the live desk, with the serious snow preps underway, d.c. mayor bowser talking about the weekend snow plan, specifically your responsibility. >> we haven't had a forecast that storm of 24 inches in my memory. and i heard somebody say today it's only happened twice in the district in a single storm.

and our approach, it is important that we clear sidewalks. that's why we're here today to remind every resident that that is your responsibility and required by the law. >> now bowser's office is handing out shovels to member of the city's resident snow team, volunteers that shovel for the elderly and disabled neighbors and says d.c. has 14 new dump trucks to salt and plow major streets. several other plans focus on the smaller resident streets. the dome is packed with tons of salt. pat? all right. you should make sure your car is tuned up and ready to go. when the temperature drops, keep in mind that you need to have a full gas tank and check your tire pressure and tread before you hilt the road. aaa says you should never jump a frozen battery or try to warm your car in an endozed space. also, set of new windshield

wipers help you see where you're headed. >> if you can't remember the last time you changed your windshield wipers, it is probably time to do so. remember, your windshield wipe erps are probably one of the most important safety items on your car. make sure you can see. >> aaa says the best thing before any storm is to be prepared. and to track school delays and closures, plus the changing forecast, download the nbc washington app. now to decision 2016. a democratic state senator from fairfax wants emergency legislation to stop primary voters from having to claim their party affiliation when they vote. senator john chapman peterson says asking voters to sign a pledge at the polls causes confusion, especially as some of donald trump's supporters might be new voters. state board of aelection last month approved the order to sign to cast ballots in the gop

primary. we know that secretary of state hillary clinton had some high-level classified e-mails on the home server. the information part of the top secret special access program which is meant to protect some of the most sensitive u.s. intelligence. a letter obtained by nbc news did not specify whether clinton sent or received the e-mails. latest controversy could as some critics believe affect clinton's presidential campaign. meanwhile, former alaska governor sarah palin endorsed front-runner donald trump. >> the next president of our great united states of america, donald j. trump. >> reporter: sarah palin endorsing donald trump and his message. >> dog gone right we're angry! justifiably so. >> we'll give them hell. >> reporter: the palin endorsement could help win points with women and conservatives. >> this just might be the kind of move that excites someone that supporting donald trump but wasn't sure if they were going to go out and caucus on a cold

night. >> reporter: closest rival ted cruz rhee fused to badmouth palin. >> i love sarah palin. she is fantastic. without her friendship and support i wouldn't be in the senate today. >> reporter: he is introduced in saturday in iowa by glenn beck. meantime, bernie sanders is itching for general election battle with trump. >> on a very personal level, it would give me satisfaction to run against donald trump. >> reporter: both trump and hillary clinton are in iowa today. just this morning on msnbc trump was asked if he would consider palin as a running mate and said several times he doesn't think she is interested but would not rule it out. a controversial budget plan that affects our students and take a look, another major drop on wall street.

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we are back with dr. joshua wiener talking about stress reducing programs in schools and one in particular studied kids in inner city baltimore schools. you're looking at this now. do you think this is something that could work in other areas, schools that are not in that type of depressed area? >> absolutely. you know, i firmly believe that what this country needs is this to be a regular part of every kid's education. you know, i don't care so much about my kid learning about the french revolution. what i care about is having a healthy, well adjusted child. and i think these are inexpensive programs just going to help kids with life skills. learning how to moderate your stress, learning how to deal with conflicts. stress management, et cetera. these are skills that everybody needs and, you know, study after

study has shown that teaching kids these things not only helps them with the academics and also helps with their overall performance in school. one really quick example, just to show the adult it is power of this. more with meditation and associated with this mindfulness stuff, they did a study with a bunch of men having heart attacks. half followed for five years and putt on very strict exercise and diet programs. the other half just told eat and exercise as much as you want but what we really want you to do is meditate twice a day for ten minutes. the group of men this meditated had significantly lower levels of mortality compared to the other group. this is both really positive physical benefits as well as really positive emotional benefits for people. >> really quickly, did the kids' grades go up as a result of this? >> the study didn't look at grade performance but many studies that looked at meditation in school settings found improvements in academics and wouldn't surprise me to find

that kind of result with this study. >>al of us could use a little meditation once a day. maybe consider that. >> i try. it's hard. >> thanks a lot. >> you are welcome. >> pat, back to you. >> all right. gun law reform taking shape right now on capitol hill. we'll bring you the update.

today fairfax county school superintendent garza is drumming up support for the plan to give teachers raises and lower your child's class size. garza took a step earlier this month refusing to make cuts to the school budget. she still faces an uphill battle with a large short fall in the county. the budget must be approved by the school board and by county supervisors. today's listening tour meeting with garza at edison high school at 6:30 this evening. students at as many as elementary schools in prince william county shifted to a new

school still under construction. parents encouraged to weigh in tonight. there's a school board meeting at the kelly leadership center on bristol road and starts at 7:00. d.c. council member wants to give your youngsters more digital privacy. he'll ask the colleagues to support a bill part of a multi-state bipartisan effort to help americans take control of the privacy protections. there's 15 similar announcements throughout the country. and a winter weather advisory from 6:00 p.m. this evening until midnight and more importantly the national weather service issued a blizzard watch for all of the counties here in purple, including washington, arlington and alexandria friday at noon until 6:00 a.m. on sunday. so road impacts tonight, slick spots are possible as we track

some light snow showers through the area. inch or less of accumulation. tomorrow, just fine. deteriorate friday in the afternoon and evening hours, the morning and midday hours, should be just fine. saturday, stay off the roads and of course storm team 4 has you covered with the system. out to lauryn storm truck and sending it to pat right now. >> thanks. we are learning more about the twins and their grandparents killed in the awful fire this week. we want you to get the update.

right now, we are working big stories, three big stories. d.c. leaders explaining their plans for snow as the weather team tracks the storm coming. and you're hearing the warnings. many of you hit the grocery store and picked up a shovel or two ahead of the snow that we're expecting. plus, neighbors unnerved after a late-night homicide. right now, temperature's 26 degrees and a high today of 34. not as cold as it has been but a heads up. we are tracking snow showers in the evening hours that could lead to slick spots. the timing here in the district mainly about 6:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. and an inch or less is possible but the next big change coming friday night. snow moves in friday late afternoon and evening hours. see temperatures in the upper

20s and by midnight tracking areas of heavy snow, some thundersnow is possible. 7:00 a.m., continuing to track not only heavy snow in spots but blizzard conditions with strong, gusty winds. gusts up to 40 miles per hour during the event friday night on into saturday. and sustained winds at 20 to 30 miles per hour. so we could impacts, if you're traveling, plan to stay home, especially on saturday. we are looking at a likelihood of some power outages and maybe even structural issues tracking heavy snow coming down and then just sitting on roofs. now, weather alert friday and saturday, you can see temperatures at or below freezing in this entire event. in total, in the district, we are forecasting at least a foot to 18 inches of snow to fall later friday, saturday and come to an end sunday morning. on sunday, a high temperature of 36 degrees. as we look to next week, monday, keeping it dry. tuesday, there will be a chance of rain but of course storm team

4 is here and lauryn is out in the storm track right now. >> yeah. i like you said that, safe for us, we won't want to be on the roads telling you not to be on the roads but we do have our storm 4 x 4 equipped and keeping you safe and us, as well. as you know, this is going to be a very impactful storm and definitely disrupting travel. it is equipped with the weather station on top, we have the radar in here and the cameras also and the back there's the camera on the inside so you probably seen amelia or tom do shots from the inside in the morning and then we also have, again, just a latest technology with the cameras. we can see what's going on from all sides of it. we'll be driving this thing as long as it's safe and keep you up to date with the information. guys?

at the live desk, right now, attorney general lynch is testifying on capitol hill about the new executive actions on gun control. that's a live picture. earlier this month president obama announced the plans of hopes of reducing gun violence. background checks and mental health treatment some of the measure pros posed that day. take a listen to what attorney general lynch said a short time ago about weapons being more often purchased on the internet. >> they are increasing. not only do we see an increase in sales at the typical commercial level at which the average consumer may, in fact, appropriately by a number of commodities including firearms, we also see firearm sales growing on the dark net, the particular part not accessible to the average consumer of where transactions are primarily held. >> today's hearing is to figure out the justice department's role in the new action.

pat? president obama is headed to detroit today to check out the north american international auto show. he'll see some of the latest in vehicle technology, talk about the recovery of the auto industry and see firsthand the progress made in the city of detroit. last year, automakers sold more trucks and cars in the u.s. than any year in the industry's history. and since the 2009 bailout, more than 640,000 jobs have been created. many unanswered questions this morning about a fire that left four people dead as family members of the victims try to come to terms with the tragedy. we spoke to vincent who lost his brother sampson in the fire. also killed, sampson's wife and two grandchildren, 2-year-old twins. firefighters found all four of them on the second floor of their home. they're still trying to find out the cause. >> was very nice to everybody.

he said it shows -- goes to church and he is very godly. >> the twins' mother jumped from a second floor window. she is now at a relative's home recovering. a 17-year-old this morning facing assault charges for an attack on board a metro train. metro transit police say a man hit in the face and knocked out last month. he was on a red line train near the noma station at the time. transit police say they identified the teen from one of these pictures. however, they didn't give us his name or say how he was involved in the attack. we are hearing from the three american prisoner just freed by iran in that prisoner exchange. >> "the washington post" reporter jason rezaian made a brief appearance outside a u.s. military hospital in germany today. >> he and two others are being treated there. nbc's keir simmons has more on how they're spending the first

day of freedom. >> reporter: we're hearing more this morning and they ul appear to be doing pretty well. jason rezaian appeared in a video filmed by "the washington post" laughing with his wife. amir hekmati, the marine walking out of the u.s. base saying he can't wait to get home and that his military training helped him survive in that iranian prison. another of the freed americans from boise, idaho, saeed abedini saying he is a different person today. in other news, local hero gets the time in the spotlight this afternoon. see if you recognize her. we're back in just

we are following the stories you're clicking on this morning. starting with chipotle. it wants you back. they plan to give out free food to win back the customers.

this is according to business insider. chipotle ceo announced this week it's doubling the amount of free food to give away. the company also plans to close all the stores on february 8th for company-wide safety meeting. the stocks fell by 37% in october. apple denied a widow access to her late spouse's account. widow wanted to download a car game app to the device but couldn't do so without the apple i.d. pass word. the company told her she would need a court order and have to provide a death certificate in order to get the password. we spotted this story on tmz. kanye west saying he had no plans to record a cover album of david bowie's music. fans were not happy after multiple reports claimed kanye recording a tribute with covers of bowie's biggest hits. tmz said west had a ton of

respect for the icon. they tweeted but never had plans to work together. back to you. our nbc washington app will surely come in handy getting ready for the blizzard this weekend. take a minute to download in the

. story first on news 4 northern virginia teen charlotte lifted a truck off her father and saved her family from a fire, as well. ellen saw her amazing story and invited charlotte and her dad to be on the show. >> there are some very special surprises in store for both of them. watch today at 3:00 right here on news 4. and here's our first edition

snowfall for later on the day friday and saturday. snow comes to an end very early sunday. a foot to 18 inches in washington, arlington, alexandria, the west, 18 inches to 2 feet or more. southern maryland looking at 6 inches to around a foot. we have new information coming in. we'll have an updated snowfall map at 4:00. you can always keep up with me on facebook and twitter. road impacts, though, today, tracking snow should recalls in the evening hours, 5:00, 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. to lead to isolated slick spots. roads deteriorate on friday. saturday you will want to stay off the roads as we track blizzard conditions across the area. friday, saturday storm team 4 weather alerts tracking a historic snowstorm impacting the area, pat. >> all right. thanks so much for joining us this morning. we are back at 4:00 this afternoon. >> remember, we have been reminding you, get your news, weather updates any time with

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