in some areas, nearly a foot of snow accumulated. >> i didn't think it would ever stop snowing. reaganfast look from international airport. the storm has moved on. but icy conditions has forced e closure of schools, businesses and government offices. you may not havek to w today but you may be outside with a ovel, cleaning up from the worst snowstorm that our area has seen since 2016. you need to shovel and shovel again. and there's still snow. >> that's what i hear. you homeowners have i rough. >> i do miss apartment living for that reason only. >> my car, not a lick of snow on it all weekend. >> i am never going to see the prius. i'm eun yang. >> i'm iraaron gilchrist.ni good m to the people that are watching this morning. this is all for the essential personnelhis morning. things appear to be settled outside. we remain in weather alert mode. snowy, icyonditions are making

roads treacherous. >> d.c. public schools are closed. federal offices are also closed. emergency works employees and telework employees. this doe not apply to furloughed employees who aren nonwork status. now, to schools in maryland, montgomery. colliver, st. mary's, anne arundel and schools are closir. >> now, tonia. west virginia, grant, mineral, hampshi hampshire, hardy, morgan berkeley schools close today, as well. >> if you're looking to take a

metro bus today, you're out of luck. last night, news 4 cameras filmed this bus getting stuck ih northwest gton. yikes. team 4 has the winter storm and the rmafh. we're looking at snow totals and road conditions for you. melissa is going to join us in a moment. look athuck bell has a where things stand right now. >> good news is, the snow is quicy coming to a end. basically done across most of the area. there's lingering flurries out there, especially across prince george's county, calvert county, st. mary's county. the bulk of i the snow finally over, on what has been an overperformi m snowstorm. e the totals up on saturday morning 6 to 10 inches for the forecast. we should have gone 8 to12. was a solid 8 to 12 inches across most of the area. temperatures below freezing this morning. if it is wet, it isn frop solid this morning. be ready for a slippery start

today. we'll get enough sunshine today to bringemperatures in t 30s. mid-30s at that, above freezing. with the combine of sunshine and above-freezing temperatures today, it will allow for a lot of successful melting. but another efreerefreeze comin tonight. and maybe a chance for winter weatherp coming later in the week. >> these roads are just a mess. connecticut avenue at east-west highway. if it looks wet, it probably is icy because of the temperatures. right degrees out there now. the bridges and overpasses are kind of yucky here right now. college park, southbound, 95, to the interloop of the beltway. a jackknifed truck is blocking the ramp. there's a second truck there, as well. journal e germantown, a crash on the right side of the road. service is resuming on a snow plan later today.

metro trail, planning on a wrmal schedule. >>ll check back with you in a little bit. the roads started early. but many people avoided them a together. before the snow arrived, the crews treated the road and they were plowed.ho this was by a crew heading into manassas. they did not spot a lot of trouble spots. as the sun went down, the temperatures kept falling and snow kept fallingus untila few hours ago. >> the entire dmv saw snow and plenty of it. we're kicking off live covage inirginia and maryland. >> justin finch is headed north through prince william out. how are things oking? >> well, aaron, so far looking so gd on 95 north. we're just outside of dale city. you see much of the black top wide-open here on 95 north. only a few cars on the road.

not seeing much on the way of ny snow oring else on 95 so far. vdot is warning of icy nonditions out here on the highway to be alert for that. we began our morning in fredericksburg. we saw side streets and neighborhood streets had snow on them. also, too, what was diffeasnt from night is that snow has a bit more of a crunch to it. perhs some ice mixing now in there, as well. as you make your way out on to the highways and roads today, bear in mind that you're not just contending with snow there. there could be slicker spots underneath. as we look live on the road, school closed in many places, inworkplaces, too, not' s a big rush on the road so far. the good news is,95 is looking clear. back into you. >> justin, thank you. if you have a sligflight schedule for today, yo might wantheck with the airline before you head to the airport. according to flight aware,

there's delays andancellations at area airports. dulles international has eight belays. bwi marshal has no bdelay four cancellations. and a live look for you at reagan international airport. there are delays and 55 cancellations. double-check your flightwi stat your airline before you head to the airport. continuesam coverage in southern maryland. molette green has more on conditions. how is it looking out there? >> good morning to you. you know, we'reight here at 301 and cedarville road here in the brandywine/waldorf area. when irene pans the camera over there, there's black top. thck t have been really working. the crews are out on the roads full force this morning. we've been seeing them. salting the road,

snow.ing the this stretch of 301 looks really good. we checked out 228, which is another main stretch in this area, slushy, icy. they have aot of work to do. good things the schools are closed. it's too dicey to be out at this time in the morning and to geth het in t hours that remain ahead because t crews need to work on the roads out here. when we were driving, we saw plenty of stcars who had gone o the road. so of the truck snow blows have come into the convenient store parking lot to take a break. they had been working really night.through the we have some snow coming down in the area. there's people out driving. some of the people are blazing right by those plow trainsis which is notto do.

the strucks are unprioictable. cautn if you go out on the roadways. 301 looking good. there are cars on the road, trucks on the road. plenty of plouc . they are salting and treating the roads in this stretch. a lot of work to do on route 228 in this area, as well. that's the latest, live from charles county, back into you now. >> molette een, thank you. hopefully you'll bable to get outside and enjoy the snow today, if you're that kind of person. if you do, snap a picture or video and tag us in your post at nbc washington. here's one of my snow posts. guess who that ? >> that's your dog. >> that's leo. he had so much fun w sking in thnow yesterday. >> is this a f first snow him? >> there was that little snow in november. but this was the first big snow, as it is for so many people, because we haven't seen this much snow since 2016.

he's so cute. we want to show you snow pictures. be sure to tag us in your po post @nbcwashington. it was pretty to int. >> from the window. >> this is in fairfax county. a news 4we v took this drone footage showing us the conditions there. the covere of the stormnd the aftermath will continue all morning long. you can see t school closures and see more photosonline at nbcwashington.com and on our app. that's a lot of snow. as pple dig outrom the snow, we enter day 24 of the shutdown. >> this is the largest government shutdown in u.s. history. federal foodnspections have stopped. miami's buairport. international airport in houston, both closed terminals aftera ts workers called in sick. many employees are turning to

bo food banks for the shutdown.a couple unable to afford life-saving medication. >> he can't get my wife's medicine >> it's childish. >> members of congress are expected to return to washington today. president trump spent his weekend at the white house tweeting about an explosive "the new york times." the newspaper reports the fbi opened an investigation into whether the president acted on behalf of russia.he "t times" says the investigation began shortly after the president fired then-fbi director james comey in 2017. "the times"ays no evidence has surfaced that trump was in contact with or took direcon om russian government officials. the president said, it was t most insulting article i've had written. mike pam pompeo who is travelin

calledhe report ludicrous. >> the fbi was afraid that the firing of comey was a w for the russians to stop thebi from figuring out what they did in the election. also, in "the washington post," the president w of concealing notes from a meeting with vladimir putin. the president told the interpreter not to share details administratio officials. democrats are calling for an investigation. happening today in isconsin, the man accused of kidnapping jamye closs and killing her parents is set to be in court. poce say jake patterson killed her parents before kidnapping her in october. oss was held captive for nearly three months. people at the church where jayme grew up celebrated her survival this weekend. the parking lot was full just before sunday mass at st. peter

catholic church. our coverage of this weekend's major mrast of wiblas weather continues. i h> plus, wasn't only our area hitard by snow. a look at the mess folks acro the country are dealing with. good morning c we're off tod start this morning. the finishing touches on the ten-day forecast, which inc cdes anothence for winter weather later on in the week. and a big drop into the deep freeze next week.

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expect. emergency employees and teleemployees can work. this is not for furloughedee empl at the bottom of your screen, we have the list of school closures running. you can check nbc washington's app for the teup-to-the-mi closures. the district had about ten rinches dumped on it o the weekend. adam tuss is live, driving the streets of northwest. were you rapping snoop dogg for a mic check? >> reporter: was i rapping snoop dogg thismorning? absolutely. isn't that how you do your mic checks? 100%. you might want to sin a different tune this morning. this is warning street. you're seeing the side streets around d.c. that haven't been really cleared. they probably made one or two

passes through hereh w the snowplow. but it's the side streets that te a problem. you havedig your car out and get to that. on the main street, you start to see you start to get closer to roads like nebraska avenue, which we are close to right now, and pulling up to there. it's really a tale of whatever roade you on. roads are salted and a lot of slalh. of the crews were saying they were going to wait until all of this fell and attack it. today, you will see a plan. crewsilay they get to your street. d.c. officials were telling us that ifan you to report your street, you can call 311. in the age of social media, it's

good to tweet dpw or ddot and they can help you i will spare you the rapping. this is a long show. we have until 7:00. >> i was going to say, you have to keep it up.am thanks so much. that's one of the reasons why it's helpful when the schools close. it gives the plows and the crews a chance to do some work. >> i s a lot in my neighborhood yesterday, from my window. >> it's a lot of work. >> from your window. >> six floors up. >> i went outside and shoveled snow >> look at you. >> i know. it's not only the d.c. region that's cleang up this morning. >> across the country, hundreds cities and towns saw snowstorms of their own. an intense swstorm caused a delta plane to slide off of the tarmac after sliding off an airport on cincinnati.

the plane ran on to the grass on sunday moating. is scary. everyone was taken off of the flight. no one was injured. can you imagine being on the tar m mac and you are sliding across? >> they don't taxi all that fast. but it is a true testimony to mass. it takes a lot of time to stop sothing that weighs 50 or 100 tons, even going 10 oril 12 mes per hour. it's like't this, i stopping that fast. >> they do the best they can. i got a chance to drive the plows at dulles airport. that was a ton of fu snow totals across thearea. finally. a lot of times, the computer models overestimate the amounts. this time aund, they tended to

underestimate it. first thing saturday northern i srning, we move that up to 6 to 10. uld have gone to 8 to 12. that's where most of the area ended up. 11 inches in bethesda. russian town center, nearly nine inches there. 10 inches in leesburg.es a solid six inr more into parts of southern maryland. if you have gre pictures of the snow, tweet them to me. or fd me on facebook. >> i got t walk to and from the convention center. both days, in the snow on the way home. right now, withom the snowg to an end, 30 in washington. most of the suburbs are in the mid t0 uppers this morning. it will be a cold day today.

it will be above freezing. and the combination of sunshine and temperatures above freezing, athere will be lot of melting going on across the area for today. fr there will be a e refreeze. ect a boatload of closures and delays. a chance of rain thursday. that could turn into a winter weather chance on friday. winter is here, melissa. >> obvious this morning. 270, w have the roads that are very slick. the snow there has been cleared off of the roadways. college park, sthbound 95. theackknifed truck is blocking the ramp. crews on the scene0,

northbound germantown road. service suspended on metro bus right w. metro rail on a normal schedule. maryland snow emergency, maryland counties. no under that emergenc parking on the snow routes. and major arteries, same thing in d.c. >> thank you. when a snowstorm hits, a certain.f things are roads need to be plowed. driveways nesh to be eled. and pat collin's snow stick allenge begins. >> a winner is announced today. will go through some of the will go through some of the wildest (alex trebek) $8,000. over $8,000. now, why is this number so important? because $8,508 is the average st of a funeral. if you've already planned how to help cover your final expenses, this one, great. but if you haven't, i'm here to tell you about

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welcome back to news 4 tod on thi weather alert today. looking at a live look outside. it was all about the snowfall. it fell and fell and fell again. today, it is about digging out. the first snow of 2019 means the first snow stick challenge of the year. as usual, people are getting creati out there. >> pat collins announced thek best p would win a snow stick. passed.line has today, the winter will be chosen. for now, pat collins walksso us throug of the best submissions.

>> strike a pose. we call it the sunday snowcute challenge. put on your best snow outfit. go outside,nd strike a pose. best picture gets the stick. hold the pose. we got scores and scores of entries. the off the wall category, how about the woman in the gown with the minknd a snowplower at the ready? or the woman in the wedding dress. talk about a whiteout. we call this, back to the '70s, bell bottoms a all. strike a pose. in the animal section, the dog. the dog with the trapper hat and scarf. and the one dresseds a shark, chasing snorkelers in the snow. and this. you might call this unbearable.

strike a pose.ho that pose. then, there are the kids. there is nothing more adorable than kids in the snow. the smiles,mihoses have a way of making us all happy. in northwest, pat collins, news 4. you know, give it to people. wedding dress? a ball gown? you're starting to get creative. >> i saw a baby almost falling out of a stroller. seeing snow for the firsttime. >> the kids are in hog heaven. the rest of us, it's a lot of work. >> we dale with >> 4:26. >> i want to see the picture of aaron in a onesie holding a glass ofwine. >> no such picture exists. >> that picture is out there.es temperatelow freezing this morning. it is an icytart to a monday

morning. we may not be done with winter weather this week. stay tuned. >> i'm not saying it didn't happen. there's just no picture. we're working for you with team coverage all over our gion. a live look at the roads in charles county, maryland. we'll check in with the team for what it's like in your area next. stay with us.

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right to that storm team 4 weather alert this morning. after more than 24 hours of nonstop snow, it looks like it's stopped falling for most of our area. we will be dealing with this storm for several days. this is a look from northwest washington. some of you maybe have a footowf o shovel. if you didn't start yesterday, even roads that were pretreated may be a bit of a mess. m eun yang.