a liv look outside. the snow has moved out already and anyone in district hoping for a snowy monday will be waking up sappointed. >> but plenty of snow did come down in other places. good morning, everyone. >> thanks for waking up with us. the snow was enough to cancel school in some tplaces. weather is causing a number of school closings and delays. virginia, prince william county, stafford, king george, page, culpepper, fredericksburg county public schools are all closed. >> in maryland, calvert county and st.mary'sounty public schools also closed. melissa has her eye on the

traffic situation this morning. >> let's start though with chuck bell and what c we expect this work week. >> we'll have to get the melt wn going here later on. just down to our south, we saw nothing here in the city but there were quite a few spots from southern maryland and fredericksburg southward many places in the 3 to 6 inch range for our viewing area and farther into the south, they were measuring it in the feet across parts of south western virginia and a good chunk of north carolina got hit as well my sister in charlotte got 5 inches of snow. yesterday, where you had snow yesterday, there's going to be slushy roadsnd slipperiness here this hamorning. keep in mind but the advisories are being allowed to expire it will be a mostly sunny afternoon. that will really help and

temperatures near 40 degrees today, tven wherere's snow n the ground, that will allow for quite a bit of melting, but freezingall down below again tomorrow morning. >> in the district, right now diverted at r stantond there in southeast. this is a crash investigation from overnight. so we'll let you know once that reopens, but for now, that is shutdown. downed wires there with all lanes shutdow this morni and through prince george's county, no major issues. >>a, melihank you so much. our team coverage of this latest winter weather begins in virginia. >> nicole is on the road for us this morning in stacoord ty. what do you see? >> i can tell you, not a major impact on the roadways. so drivers are lucking up, if you will. the drive so r has been pretty

easy going for us. we are in staffor county right now going south of course. ndu can see the roads have been treated off to the side you can see a light dusting of snow and with the roads being re treated, wet seeing a major impact there. to the fredericksburg iarea,s been slow going or easy going i should say. schools are closed there. we'll show you what we're seeing in that areahere they received 3 plus inches of snow. we'll show you that when we arrive back to you. >> thank you. >> we continue our team coverage of this winter wther in prince william county. >> as we mentioned the prince william county public schls are closed today because of the weather. justin has been checking out the situation for us. justin, whatre you seeing? >> all around the prince william and stafford county areas we're seeing a lot of this. this is what is on the ground n

right here i parts. this is just off of route 1 here go the roads are mosy clear. not all roads will be good. stl back from that storm here last night. the temperature right now just below freezing as we speak here right now. so a lot of people waking up to scenes like this. cars covered in s aw ando ice in some parts. and perhaps causing more problems than needed on a day like today. a lot not going to school today. peopleill still of coure on the roads and for those people, vdot and virginia state

enforcement saying to be safe, take itlow and build more time into your commute, especially this morning. we're live here in stafford county, i'm justin finch, news 4. >> thank you, justin. >> 4:05 right now. irring the worst part of the storm,nia state police responded to more than 2,000 traffic crashes and disabled vehicles across the state. u're looking at the aftermath of two crashes involving state troopers. the first one last night around 6:45 the vehic hit the trooper's cruiser. the trooper and the driver were not injured. about 20 minutes later on 95 south in hanover county, a vehicle slammed into the back of the trooper's vehicle. he was taken to the hospital with m injuries. >> the storm that hit us dumped several feet of snow, ice, and freezing rain in much of the south. take a looken at what happ in

north carolina. you can see the dangerous mix adanketed ro trees and brought down power polls.rm the s is being blamed for at least four deaths. >> we have not had a snow like this in rentmemory. we're getting more snow in one day than we normally the entire year. >> north carolina's governor declared a state of emergency. >> news 4 will beracking road conditions all morning for you. keep it here for updates on wist th winter weather system is doing t your commute in a few minutes and for up to the minute updates throughout the day, open our nbc washington app. >> it's now 4:06. eady to ws are getting reopen the arlington memorial bridge to traffic. it was shutdown late friday night but is set to reopen at 5:00 this rning.

the line reopens this morning after a two week shutdown. crews replaced cracked and crumbling concrete during the shutdown. hat stretch of track been called one of the worst in the metro system. >> today sentencing begins for the man convicted of driving his car into a group of counter protestors at a unite the right rally lastyear. james alex fields jr. was one of the white nationalists protesting the removal of statue of confederate general robert e. lee. found ay, fields was guilty of ramming his car into the crowd killing heather and injuring many others. he fac 20ears to life in prison forr the murde charge. is mother and 8 survivors are expected to provide testimony. >> also happening attoday,r urbano vazquez will be in court

this morning. he's accused of abusing a child. the abuse happened in 2015 and she was 13 years old at the time. court documents suggest there may be other possible victims. accords to the archdiocese of washington he worked at the sacred heart starting in 2014. >> police are investigating a dog attack, this one involving one of their k-9 dogs. she was walking her dog when she saw a police car. moments later a dog latched on to her leg and she was unable to free herself. >> i was terrified. i've never had a bad encounter with a dog ever. she suffered serious cuts to her hands. eventually the dog let her go.

she was taken to the hpital where she received 21 stitches. police tell us the dog has been taken out of active service as a precaution while they investigate. d happening today at how university, a coach with plenty of pro experience is set to take over t bison program. the school introduced ronas prie the new head coach today. he is coming from michigan. before, th he held several coaching positions with the detroit lions, the indianapolis colts and the jacksonville jaguars. as we go to the football field now, the a redskins waking up with yet another new k. quarterb >> i have nothing to say about this game. it was horrible. it w one of the worst home losses in franchise history. it was t ugliest game. sherry has more now from fedex field. >> one of the worst defeats of the season could not come at worst time for the redskins.

a 40-16 loss for thes gia pushes them further out of the playoff picture and gives fans m new ne to learn at quarrback. first quarter, schez pass tipped and then intcepted by reilly. return for a touchdown. the skins gave up 34 pointsn the first half alone.jo hnson, the team's new starting quarterback, he threw for one touchdown and ran for another, but an overall performance to forget. >> what happens next, the redskins taking their 4th starting quarterback of the year to jksonville to try to snap their four game losing streak. >> a virginia teacher may head

to court to try to get his job reback. >> thedent is searching for a new chief of staff. coming up details on who may be replacing john ked y. >> gmorning, everybody. temperatures and wind chills now this morning very cold.

right now arlington county finding ad help person that attacked a woman on saturday night. woman and stabbed the then bolted. surveillance video captured this image. the attack happened on fort my drive in arlington. the woman was walking in the area when the suspect pulled out a knife and stabbed her. ble victim is now in s condition. >> political backlash at a virginia school. the superintendent says he der sed to use a transg student's preferred identity o noun. this was in october. the principal put him on leave.strative when he returned his continued

using the incorrect pronoun for th transgender student. he was fired. the school superintendent chief calls it discrimination. he says it was a slip of the tongue. >> i'm totally happy to use the name, the new i'name. happy to avoid the female pronoun so as not to offend. >> that was discriminary. >> the man widely expected to take over as the white house chief of staff says he will not expect the job. nick ayers is serving as chief of staff for mike pence. after a week of conversation ayers and the president couldn't come to are ent. ayers wanted the position to be temporary and the presi nt wanted a two year agreement.

he has plans to move back to georgia to be with his family. no word on whether any candidates are under consideration. the president announced that john kelly would be leaving by the end of the year. the top democrat on the house judiciary committee says president trump could be impeached. jerry nadler says if president trump ordered illegal hush money payments to women durg the 2016 m ka pai 2016 campaign, that could be grounds for impeachment. president trump denied wrong doing. we'll have more later this hour. he told the washington post he plans to run forno gover in 2021. he easily re-election last year. wreaths will be placed on theav

gr of our heros on arlington national cemetery. volunteers now loaded the wreaths on to tractor-trailers and that convoy of trucks is making the 740 mile journey to arlington. they'll arrive on saturday. and so manyolunteers go out there and lay the wreaths on the graves and a it's beautiful sight to see. >> in years past i have taken picturesnd used it ins my christrd. >> fredericksburg city schools are closed today. >> what a cutoff. didn see alake yesterday. >> not a flake. >> this snow loverouldn't buy snow yesterday. >> i thought i saw a flake. mayb it was my imagination. >> maybe so. it was cold. the snow line was just down to

south. they got hit hard. my sister in charlotte had more otsnow than we around here. western north carolina really took it on the chin.lo at the snow totals. winter green ski rest in virginia, 21 inches of snow. fredericksburg aolid 3 to 6 inches there. glendie 5.8. park hall, maryland, 5.5. cutoff indeed, the sharp made this a very tricky forecast. hard to ramp up snow talks around he when it's going to be literally south of us. 32 now in washington. north winds at 12 and that northerly breeze is the reason that we didn't getenything in ay of snow around the city.

adowsories are well to the south. but none in the news 4 nation to get your daystarted. a partly to mostly sunny afternoon and a lot of melting. if you're waking up this morning and your kids aren't going to school and you're seeing a little bit of snow, there will be a lot of melting today. current temperaturesre mostl below freezing. if it looks wet this morning, just assume that it is ice and slow down, but the sunshine will really help today with temperatures in the upper 30s to near 40 degrees. this sotuld be 27 and 37. i needed another cup of coffee this morning. clouds come back on thursday and the next storm on friday. that will be 100% rain. melissa, good monday morning. >> morning to you. taking a look at charlottes county, wanted to find a camer

with some snow. here it is along 244 this morning. a couple of miles away, you see nothing. that's now cleared out of the way. all lanes blocked there for downed wires. i'll let you know when that one clears out of the way. no other major issues at this point. >> thank you so much. of thet wonderful time year can very easily turn into the most depressing time of the year. we hav h tips on to i'm alex trebek here to tell you about the colonial penn program. if you're age 50-85 and looking remember the three p's.n a , the three what? the three p's? what are the three p's? the three p's of lifgeinsurance on a fixed b

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this weekend the maryland health connect hopes to more than 100 people. if you have not enrolled there's key dates to keep in mind. >> individualsave until december 15th to get enrolled for coverage that starts january 1st, 2019. the 15th is this saturd. in 5 maryland residents get tax credits to help lower their insurance premiums. >> for people in our area, a fresh blanket of snow. >> but the holiday spirit

doesn't bring joy to everybody. what causes the holiday blues and how to get through them. folks get a real taste of the holiday blues. >> it creates the enormous t expectatiot are almost impossible to live up to. >> our brains are in two sections. one focused on what we have and the other on what we want. when we anticipateet sng we use dopamine. when the csistmas seasono longer anticipated but it's here, we switch outnto the present oriented chemicals and that can actually feel like a crash. >> look, for mostks f it's perfectly okay to say bahumbug to theholiday. >> holiday blues could tip them

over into another episode. >>hat's when it gets dangerous. >> if it's starting to interfere with your ability to work, interact with loved ones, then that's a sign there might be a problem. >> it's hard to pull out of a pu funk, but not impossible. >> you say what's the point. i'm tired. i don't want t go out to this party. the most important thing is to try to push through it because it will hlp you fee better being with other people. >> talk to friends, face to face. >> they lead to an absolute symphony of chemical release of happy chemicals. if you have the holiday blues, hugging is a very good idea. >> that holds true no what time of the year. chris lawrence, news 4. >> good morning, everybody. storm team 4 weather alert because we had seen snow south of the washington w area,ll talk more about that in the melt down, you're already starting to think about this comingweekend. well, here's what you need to

know. it's probably going to be raining on your saturday. rain slowly ending on sunday. more about the melt down for today coming up. >> we're also keepingnn eye the impacts from this weekend's snowstorm. these are live pictures from fredericksburg, virginia. we're also tracking multiple school closuresnd road conditions in the d.c. area. >> plus moving on, johnelly is stepping down from his job as white house chief of staff. whis will take h place? news 4 today wl be rightil

a late weekend snowstorm hit portions of our region hard. they're all closed. >> in maryland, calvet and st. mary's are closed today. we have it scrling at the bottom of your screen and the nbc washington app. roads became slick our team coverage of the storm a it's impact continue this morning. justin finch and nicole jacobs will join us live with look at

conditions and missa has a check on the commute. >> we want to begin with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell tracking the latest on t weather. chuck. >> that's right. snow just barely south of t d.c. metro area but it added up. anywhere from 3 to 6 inches across st. mary's county and charles county, a few spots cn charlenty picking up three or four inches. meanwhile, if you came north of the prince william county parkway on i-95, hardly anything more than a conversational flake and today if you're traveling, today if you're flying and plane is changing in charlotte oral lee, be on the look out. temperatures are below freezing. assume that i is ice and take it easy out there this morning. a fair amount of sunshine coming our way for today. look at those i