western fairfax county, loudon county, i'll show it to you here. it's in the darker purple. look at the line there. in d.c. not much happening right we're looking at light snow outside our studios. we've seen about an half inch to an inch here. but when this line comes through, even downtown you're going to see a qui half an inch to an inch out of this over the next hour possibly. leesburg, winchester, martinsburg, you're done with the snow. up to 2 to 3 inches fell but it's done now. waldorf, moving south. once again it's the temperatures we're going to be watching. look at this picture. this is 270 around clarksburg. it is just nasty out there tonight. we'll continu to seehe cold air move in. 30 with the wind chill. 5 in cpittsburgh, thatd air moves in tonight. but the arctic air moves inrr to. wait until you see how cold we're about to get. >> all right. thank u, doug. we'll see you in a bit.

>> right now the rain and snow mix is making for a dangerous drive. >> we're working for you, keeping a close eye on the roads out urthere. >> team coverage continues with your first look at traffic. melissa? >> we can see that's a stand still camera there. >> reporter: at the dulles this morning, it is jammed. 270 at clarksburg road, that's almost white out this evening. looking at the beltway you can e soo oubd, 6 miles per hour, looks like most of the beltway covered in snow. no major crashes on thebu beltw a lot of delays between 270 and 66 inner and outer loop. headed toe, centervi we are jammed there. people sitting right now between thetw b and fairfax county parkway. if you're headed out boundg on 6 talkbout a one hour drive.

95 in virginia same thing, heavy delays down to the bridge, going just 12 miles per hour. and brandywine, let's fin you shall up there. sohbound 301, overturned tractor trailer still blocking all of the southbound lanes. if you can stay inside, pleased be careful. >> you've been warning us for a cole of days now, a lot of people left early and they're still stuck.mu thanks s. we'll check back with you in a bit. road crews spent t s day trying to get ready for this moment. >> chris gordon continues our team coverage. he's live along old ox road in fairfax. there, t looking out chris? >> reporter: it's been snowing here for about the past four hours. accumulation e behind me here along west ox road. but the road itself is just wet. it had been a slushy mes abo an hour wago.

it is just wet here. people in this area got an early jump on preparing for this storm. drivers here at costco in fairfax gassing up ahead of the snow and cold. they're prering even though many will heed the warnings >> stay off the roads. >> that's yourplan? >>es, stayff the roads. >> reporter: the parking lots at food stores are packed with people shopping for snowstorm necessities. >> trying to get some salt for thnd driveway just get ready th milk and bread essentials. >> reporter: schools l out early, students, teachers and staff sent ho school buses trying to get off the roads before the snow causes problems. vdot treated the roads with brine. >> it's going to give us an hour or two at the beginning of the stormto prevce from bonding to the pavement so e

with can get the trucksovg and dumping rock tesalt. >> rep in maryland, they're filling 260 trucks with salt. >> we have to keep in mind temperatures aren't going to get above freezing for the next few ilys. so it wbe a challenge of reicing if things start to melt because of the treatment. >> reporter: the cold is caung montgomery county health officer to issue warning. >> minimize exposure, minimize exposure to being frost bit and rtunities and risk of being hy hypo therm you can. >> reporter: west ox road is wes the temperatures go down below freezing tonight, we could have a a refreeze it could be hazardous for theus morning hour. that's the latest in fairfax. wendy, back to you. >> storm team 4 is working to keep you and your family safe as this winter weather hits and

moves through. we have live radar, up to the minute forecast, a full list of any school closings or delays for you all on our free nbc waington app. just hit the weather tab. anyone w drives on i 95 south in prince willint c will tell you one of the worstl bocks they face is near the bridge. that could soon all change. julie carey reports on improvement projects set for there and several other traff nightmare locations around our region. >> reporter: witness the aquac n bottlenec bottleneck. it looks like rush hour but it's 1:30 in e afternoo and there's no accident. these backups every day all day. impacting 100,000 commuters. howard harris is one of them. he hits the slowown every time he returns home. >> you spend anywhere t from 15 30 minutes to get through there.

>> reporter: in richmond today, governoralph northam detailing four major projects designed to reduce congestion andne of them would break open this bottle net by addingn auxiliary lane to so95 h. lawmakers who represent the area and make the drives themselves ar thrilled. >> this is fantastic for prince william county. >> reporter: some commuters wondering about the headaches of more construction that could begin here as soon as next year. >> i think it willefitely help. but how long will it take and how much more traffic will it add? >> reporter: there's news on th- express lanes too, a reversible ramp is coming. the deal with the company that operates those lanes, moving ahead to add the final ten miles to fredericksburg. over on theeltway the green light to build the final 2 1/2 miles taking the express lanes

to the bridge. >> what it does is puts pressure on maryland to step up to the plate and figure out their side of the road. >> reporter: the constructionn the virginia side set to begin next year. in iavirg i'm julie carey, news4. changing gears a little b we have twiends, teammates on a high school basketball team, both college grads, promising futures. >> last night their lives got cut short in a bizarre set of circumstance in montgomery county. >> the victims were found dead in a car, this wa just off stewart lane in white oak. and police are now calling it a double murder. >> let's get to pat collins live with new details for us. pat? >> reporter: jim, an suv ce down this road, bumping into parked cars as it went along. one here and then one over there, and then yet another there. it finally came to a stop when

police got to the scene they thought they were responenng to an acc it turned out to be a double murder. inside that suv, 24-year-oldn christia roberts and -year-old jordan radway. they were good friends, teammates. peyyed basketball together at paint branchigh school. police say both men have been shot to death. today i talked to jordan's godmother. >> what has this done to the family? >> crushed them. crushed them. crushed. >> what are you going to rememb most about jordan? >> his fun loving personality. his sweetness.

>> reporter: both men had cently graduated from college. christian roberts went to stephenson, jordan radway went to umbc. >> jordan is aonderful young man, a recent graduate of um, graduated with honors he went to paint branch high school, was a star basketball player. he has so many friends who have house. the >> reporter: police say when it happened jordan radway was behind the wheelha and tt christian roberts was in the passenger seat. >> you't d know, were they shot multiple times? one shot? information. >> you don't know if they were shot inside thear or outside e car? >> i have no idea right now. >> reporter: i went to the homes of the two victims today. as you might expect, it was a great sense of sorrow. a great sense of loss.th e's a vigil scheduled for the two friends this friday at

paint.ranch high scho after the basketball game. jim, back to you. students for all those there. pat, thank you. new tonight, an arrest made nearlyive months after a woman was killed in a hit and run in northeast d.c. 20-year-old marquel ford is charged with involunty manslaughter. d.c. police tel us ford was making a left turn onto kennel worth avenue back in august when he hit two women crossing the street and took f. 51-year-ol shi ron pressley dy died her friend was seriously injured. donald trump'selong-tim political adviser roger stone here in washington for an appearance in federal court today. stone facing mulhaple ces in connection to the specialpr counsel's e. he's accused of witness tampering, lying t in testimonyo congress about his interactions

with wikileaks during the 2016 campaign. stone ent ped a not guiltylea and he's scheduled to be back in court on friday and is limited to traveling between d.c., florida, and new york. we are getting a better sense of the economic toll the -day shutdown took on the district. a new report from the city'sin chiefcial officer found that d.c. is taking a $47 million hit overall reven revenue. a large portion of that in lost sales a lot of it won't be regained because contractors won't be pay.iving back the furloughed workers make up 18% of people employed in the district, among them 15,000 who live in the city. we know the shutdown had a rippling affect on businesses. restaurants saw a drop inales as much as 60%. hotels also had losses compared to the year before. and with fewer workers and ,

visito the city saw a loss in parking revenue. we're just getting started on news4 at to5:00. ght a plan to ease the parking squeeze in the district. the i team talked to frustrated residents fed up with the lack of neighborhood parking spaces. now a new law and oversigh after our investigation. some areas the snow is gone. but look at ts band of heavy snow coming through fairfax along 66, parts of the beltway, d.c. light snow now, especially you folksround southeast. here it comes making your way, you'll get another quick coating of snow from this o maybe a half an inch. and we'll talk about southern maryland coming up. but right now, look at yeah, seeing the big stuff. 270, it is coming much more on this and what it much more on this and what it mean for yours

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you know that even the smallest bit of snow, it can really challenge drivers onn evening commute. and right now we are in weather alert. news4 working for you across the dmv, these are live pictures from gaithe sburg. with t about to set, the temperatures dropping, the snow making the roads dough tove on. doug will be back in three minutes to tell us how long this is going to last. from driving to parkg. big changes for a parking program in the district at the center of a news4 i team investigation. we found rampant abuse of visitor parking passes clogging up a lot of neighborhoods. you know how tough it is to park in these parts. as scott macfarlane shows us a new law and new oversight that thosecrack down off of profiting from d.c.'s parking

squeeze. >> reporter: circling for a spot in thedistrict, you might have spotted these parking passes stuffed into dash boards, cars. people who live in d.c. can obtain these permits from d.c. police stations for theirguest. they have to be renewed every two weekso but there's limit on getting new ones. and we found that's led to abuse. >> we're not talking one extra car? >> no. we're talking even. >> reporter: last year we heard from frustrated homeowners talking about neighbo using the passes over and over for their vehicles for months a t a time. we found this man profiting the program. >> call me at the last >> okay. >> and i'll get you a new one. >> reporter: illegally selling passes in the downtown area. >> the idea is not to make this a small business o cottage industry. >> reporter: after ort re pam said things improved in her neighborhood for a while. >> a few w weeks the people

who you had identified, they kind of like disappeared. but then i guess when the heat died down, they came back. rh reporter: at a recent advisory neighbod commission meeting she said the passe have popped up again. but new legislation first introduced by d.c. council member charles allen could stop thosein exploit the passes. >> the reason this is necessary hiere's nothing in the code that stops them or pts mpd from reuping the 14 days. >> reporter: the new bill sets a limit on the use of the passes. peoplee will only b able to use them for 90 days per calendar year. >> it's not efficient. >> reporter: there are other changes coming to. the department of transportation is looking to take over thera pr that could mean a new electronic system where drivers can go online to request visitor passes rather than inperson. right now the system for getting the passes is a pap stem. the digital program would make

enforcement easier. >> that itil cur it. >> reporter: a transportation department spokesman said the new plan is expected to be iny place 2020. >> parking is still 40 minutes of wait to get a parking place. >> reporter: a plan that can't come soon enough for people like pam. scott macfarlane news4. you can watch the i teams undercover investigations into pat parkigram by visiting our nbc washington app. you can also send them any tips there. let's take a look if you're about to head out. this is the soww coming right now in fairfax, i-66 at the fairfaxounty parkway in front of you. westboundli traffic cr. first 4 traffic said it's taking more than an hour to g from the beltway to centerville. it's pretty too look at, but i hope you have some good tunes to sten to, because it's going to

be a pain in the butt. >> yeah. >> the timingouldn't be worse, right? we've been through this before. >> that's why the government said, leave two hours early, the schools closed two hours early. that's a great call because we knew it was coming in right before the rush and create some problems. one thing we've seep across the d.c. area. weaw a good bout of snow then to lighter snow anlook outside, it's really coming down. we have an area of snow coming through. till rain down towards most o southern maryland, parts of charles county, waldorf rightn the rain/snow line. back to the west, it is over for you folks. but right through here. i want to show you this in a fferent way. this is radar depiction with rain and snow highlighted here. i want to take you to reflect i'vety this is what i show you with rain events. look at this line. it shows up so much better right

here. this is very heavy snow coming through parts of our area. look at the yellows here up around the only areahrgh aspen hill through betheseda. this could could you a half an inch of snow coming through our station here about the next ten minutes and through fairfax, it's been on the lighter side on the eastern half of the beltway. haven't seen as much snow there. but leesburg, it's just about over. there's shomari stone, i wantmao him smaller. you're out there in the storm team 4 by 4. you're on the east side of this storm and you haven seen nearly as much as places back towardsut leesburg you get in on it too in the next 20 to 30 minutes. heads up. >> thanks for the heads up. right now i'm he onhe beltway. we passed the baltimore washington beltway approaching 95, but traffic is moving well. as you look, you can see the snow coming down.

people are driving relatively slowly. weaven't seen any major accidents whatsoever. however the big concern as you stated, doug, is that this could become freezing overnight. the refreeze, and that's the big concern from people we have talked to. also, drivers tell me that -- we talked to say they're doing what they can to slow down because they say you just want to make it home safely. back to you, doug. >>thanks. the big thing overnight is the cold temperatures that come in here. the arctic air doesn't come tilo rrow. this is the cold air behind this front. i want to show you this line. look at that bright white, that's the heavier snow coming through. behind that that is about it here. 35 d.c., 41 patuent river. no problem there tonight. but they get colder as we get through the night. look how cold, it is now 20 below zo in chicago.

44 below in minneapolis. our windhills are going to be a problem too. by 11:00 tonight we'll be ithe single digits, down to 15. tomorrow morning into the teens but not too bad. i nt to take you to tomorrow evening. 5:00, teens but that's when the cold air comes in. 14 below in frederick. 5 below in d.c. that's tomorro night at 11:00. that's why we think we could have school delays or closures on thursday because of the arctic air. another chance of snow showers on friday. saturday a high temperare of 42. we have cold air over the next three to four days. but the heat believe it or not, comes back next week. much more on that at 5:45. >> if we can make it there. >> i can hear the pipesin break as we speak. stay with news4 as the conditions change, the temperatures drop throughout the night. next at 5:00, the shutdown is over and today some of d.c.'s most popular attractions are back open for business. back open for business. >> it's goo to bed b

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fresh grab and golking salads and sandwiches. they're not talking, because th're eating. oh, hello. li at giant, it's thle things that make mealtime easy, so you have more time with the people you love. this is something we have not seen in more than a month. >> that's right. bustling museums and people mixing with then animals d the national zoo. all the smithsonian properties are back open toda back in business after closing because of the shutdown. >>ews4 derrick ward talked to visitors who are happy things are getting back to normal. >> how are you doing?

>> good how are you. >> good. nce to rter: it was a c get up close and personal with patrons at the afternoon african-american museum. >> it was good. >> reporter: the director can joke now. but a missed t visitthe w smithsonian's t museum is a missed opportunity to inspire visitors. >> people love what they do here and feel not gettingaid was horrible but noto being able t engage the public is more difficult. >> reporter: at the national zoo keepers and volunteers cam in to make sure the animals were okay during the shutdown. >> we have a great staff here. >> reporter: think the animals didn't notice the lack of visitors >> some of our more intelligent animals they notice when the ttsitors aren't there. and there was moretion

between the animals and the keep as. >> reportethe national air and space museum. they were among one of the few museums ableo stay open into the shutdown but with major work going on it wasn't interrupted. >> the systems, and exhibitions will be renewed. we're jt getting going in a significant way, at least visible to the publicn >> reporter:e upside that work could go on during what would have been business hours since tre closed the public wasn't in the way. but if the plic wasn't ere, neither was revenue. that's an important source of funding that can't be madeup. it's estimated the smithsonian institution th the museums and the zoo lost about $4.3 million during the course of that shutwn. no way t get that back. we are live at the national zoo, derrick ward ns4 back to you. what a backdrop. derrick, thanks so much. >> it's nice to know the

elephants missed us. that's kind of cool. and the great apes, that's kind of cool. >> coming up next, a sour note for apple. >> a rush to fix a jaw dropping glitch in one of its apps that allows others to eves drop on your eye phone. hear from the family of a local thirdrader killed at his school. the unthinkable accident and their passionate plea for. chan and doug is coming back to time out the snow, the cold ff the reste evening, the re of the st right now at 5:

weather alert. >>rovided by brooks, our photographer. the snow isameal pictulire f fn of our region. >> it'san lovelpretty too look at but the bigger concern tonight, the falling temperatures. our chief meteorologist doug kammerer is tracking theold d snow. it's going to get a lotolr overnight. >> yeah, that's why we think an area like that insb gaithg could bring montgomery county to close or delay schools. we expect delays and cancellations because we saw 2 tonches of snow in parts of the area. now we'll see the feze on the

secondary roads. i want to show you, ain, leesburg, frederick, back towards winchester, you're done. the snow is out of here. we told you this would be a quick hitting look at the line, though. through purple extends d.c. as a matter of fact right outside our studios look at this right outde now, where earlier it was lighter, starting to see the big flakes igain as makes its way through. we've gotten about an inch,nch and a half in the parts of d.c. shomari stone live driving around the capitol heights area. fu're going to get in on this heavier band the next half hour or so, but the roads you've seen so far have been okay? >> reporter: we're in prince george's coty, just passed upper marlborough. we don't see a lot of snow.re what's interesting. when we were coming from northwest d.c. into silver spring we saw flakes falling and

people on the roadway. but right now weust see people heading home, this is their commute in the evening. ople are slowi down, they're not going too fast. right now you can see all the folks on the road right now. haven't com across any major accidents, nerfender be people are basically slowing down. the good news is that the school systems got out, early dismissal today, you don't have as people out on the roads right now. we did see a couple snow blowsi on the of the road. those crews are ready. we are monitoring this weather event that's happenin also theypre-treated the roads. it looks like they've done aet good job. as you've been stating, doug, the concern tonightshe refreeze. last things you want is kids to go to a bus stop and they could slip and fall or have car accident that's the concerns. i hope the school systems in the dmv are paying close attention to this. back to you.

>> reporter: i'm tracee wilkins he in collepark, and as you can see behind me, pretty much e what shomari sust said, wet roads on the main road here. we're looking at route 1 where it's just pretty wet. the snows still coming down very consistently. but it's not the snow we'reab concernedt. it's the overnight freeze. >> see you later, alligator. >> reporter: at whitehall elementary, parents and buses were lined up to pick up the little ones two hours early. the prince george's county school system announced it would be closing early yesterday. >> i think they made a safe decision, in case everything was to ice up and then snowop over of the ice. >> we're in for the rest of the day. that's it. t chocolate, homework, and fun. >> what are you going to do? >> eat at wegman's. >> reporter: as promised thesn ow began at the start of

evening rush. university of maryland students were crowded at the bus stop waiting t gethome. the school closed today at 2:00 p.m. due to weather.s some stude were happy, others not sooch. >> i'm from new jersey this is standard winter weather. from where come from, if there was 5 inches of snow we'dvetill school, this is silly. >> i'm glad they gave us of it shows they care about us and are concerned that not only students that live on campus are safe but also students commuting. >> reporter: we have the large snow flakes here.d and the r crews weren't able to pretreat this because it came in as rain and it would have washed all of that stuff away. so a lot of those road crews, as you just heard, are standing byn wa and some are working with a sand and salt mixture, trying to kee up with the storm to keep the refreeze from becoming a huge mess. c

20ws on the road right now and they'll start a secd shift at 9:00 p.m. reporting live from college park, i'm tracee wilkins. it'll be a long for a lot of people. tracee be careful. from maryland to virginia, this is a live look at the roads in fairfax county. chris gordon is there monitorind ions. we'll check in with him at the top of the hour. an updatet. toni a man entering a female's dorm sparked safety concerns. now police tell us he went into the wrong room while staying withie s. that man who said he was drunk and stakenly entered the young woman's woman in the elkton hall dormitory. he told police he fell asleep on the floor and brushed against the woman on the bed. after speaking with campus police, there was no inappropriate contact between lhe two. the school w handle the

situation administrativel a major glitch in the iphone's mor popular apps. it allows people to hear you and maybe see you on face timet withou know it. someone accesses your microphone by addingheelves to the same call through the group chat feature. if you try to dismiss the call, your video feed will pop up. laple to release an update later this week. in the meantime it's advicing you go into your settings and disable the face timeapp. do it now. coming up, a clash between d.c.'s mayor and metro's gm oves how late metys open. >> i think metro needs to do a little bit more to make sure this region has what it needs to stay open >> we need to do what it takes to keep our employees safe. we're on oscar watch. will a super hero movie win best

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. back now at 5:45, a live ok atur drive cam in montgomery county, a neighborhood in germantown. as you can see the roads still have some snow on them. we'll have more from chief meteorologist doug kammereom about what'sg later tonight and tomorrow. but it's pretty. >> yeah. tonight, folk w for the first time we are hearing from the family of a fairfax county third grader killed in the tragic accident inside his scho. >> he died last may while he was helping a teacher operate large motorized wall. now his grandmother is pleading with state lawmakers, pass a bill that will help prevent

another tragedy like the one that claimoung wesley's life. >> susan hogan has been following the story from the beginning. she joins us in the studio with the update you will only see on news4. >> jim and wendy, this is such an emotional story. as a parent i can'tegin to imagine what this family is going through. we were in richmond late yesterday as a state delegate introduced the bill he drafted following wesley's death and our investigation. wesley's parents and a large group of their friends and w familyere all there all to support wesley's grandmother as she made her passionate plea for change. >> this is his third grade picture. >> reporter: as most oved mhers do, sally showing off pictures of her itandson, wesley. thee boy who brought so much joy to the lives of everyone he knew. many of them here in richmond to

support sally as she testified in front of the house education subcommittee. >> please, helptop these tragedies from occurring in our schools. >> reporte she's supporting house bill 1753. the legislation would require school districts to have formal policies and training in place when it comes to motorized partitions. it would also restrict when the dividers can be operated, unless they have an additional safety device installed with them. >> one of our news annels, which is here today, has been doing a lot of investigadry work arohe region and in the three-state region and has found out that there's a lot of -- a lot to be i desired our policies. >> in the northern virgini area alone, according to nbc news4, there are 202 electronic partitions in schools. >> reporter: nearly 500 in the

entire d.c. region. our news4tionsumer invtion has found there are very few rules and training when it ces to these powerful devices. >> it does not see that we can depend on school district administrations or school boards to voluntarily act adequately to protect our students. >> reporter: so he's depending on his colleagues to make it law. >> i'm sure it will pa. m looking forward to taking over the senate and getting the governor to sign it. thank you for the research you've done across our region in bringing this to the forefront of all your viewers a channel 4. >> reporter: and he tells us he plans to name this bill the wesley charles act. it will go before the house ucation committee tomorrow morning and, of course, we will continue to track this bill ande we will you updated. in the meantime, you can check out the interactive map that we

made for you. it's in our nbc washingto to find out if your child's school has one of these motorized partitions in it. all you have to do is search partitions. the grandmother's testimony was somoving. >> i can imagine. >> reporter: we have posted the whole thing on ourebsite for u to listen to. she was a former teacher ari boy does she that point across. >> what a different she made today and youe beenaking throughout this. >> but also, more than 500 here? >> yes. >> if i was a parent with a kid in one of these schools, i'd be paying attention. >> and i am, ande are. >> well done, susan. our team coverage of this storm team 4 weather alert day continues. but firstlet's go back to shomari stone circling the beltway with photoal jout beth brown. >> how are the roads looking where you e? >> reporter: we just passed alexandria, we're making our way

towards tyson's corner and t roads are pretty good. we haven't seen any major accidents when we started in northwest d.c. to betheseda, to silver spring to prince george's county. we're in virginia. we're waiting for the snow to come down. we saw some flakes when we were in the northwest d.c. area. it's picking up a little rigs now, that' exactly what chief meteorologist doug kammerer was telling us about. it's lick on thebeltway. so if you plan on comin out, which i personally don't think you should, just to be safe, make sure you are careful. and as doug has been telli you, watch out for the refreeze overnight. back to you. >> thanks, appreciate that. weent shomari out there knowing he'd be on the east side of the d.c. met area and getting most of the rain, snow and sleet mix, where off to the west it's been a nightmare as far as travel is concerned.

66, 270 all looking bad.ut 750,owards parts of fairfax and loud county. a l of our photographers up in montgomery county where the secondary roads are a look right now, here's the latest radar. you see how this is quicklyf moving out here. it is almost done in the d.c. area. but i want to showhi you vantage point here, taking away the snow depiction. what i'm swing you is nothing left in frederick, leesburg, to the left nothing left at all. but right where shomari sb starting to see some heavier snow. bowie howvier around the college park area, seeing good snow in that region too. betheseda you're about done. gaithersburg you'rut aone in your air wi

in your area too. right now our temperatures are bord borderline. 32 leesburg, gaithersburg. once we get below 28 we could see everything freeze up quickly. you get below freezing you have some ice but later tonight we're talking about a hard freeze and that's why we think tomorrow we could see cancellations inarts of our area. >> this is an outlook for potential delays and cancellations. i have to say we have heard prce william county schools will be closed tomorrow. but other potential delays or even cancellations here in red, i think the most likely delays are going to be where we've seen more snow. especially ccellations as well. including loudon county, ic fred maybe even montgomery county although we know they don't typically make the call into early in the morning. parts of fauquier has seen quite a bit of snow. ntd back the panhandle of

west virginia.he 's the potential for delays or nothing at all. if you live in the counties in yellow, get the homework done tonight. this includes fairfax, anne arundel county,calvert, maybe a cl delay tomo ow. i'm not seeing a school cancellation in those counties. as we look towwds tomor morning there is going to be ice in spots, especially north and west of washington on the untreated side roads, sidewalks and driveway, thursday it's about the dangerously cold air out there wind chills from about 15 below zero to around 0 on friday. maybe light snow showers out there. i've posted this graphic mn facebook and twitter panls. but it's about the dangerous air with us tomorrow and especially thursday >> that's why thursday we could see some delays out there. we saw some delays o cancellations from the last bout of cold air from a week ago. there could be another one with

this blast coming through. thursday 26. 29 on friday. and a chance of snow showers on friday. and then how aboutthis, how about 50s and 60s, we have ower activity next week as well but going 61 next tuesday. 65 next wednesday ahead of a storm system that will bring cooler air as we head towards the end of next week. to getht now we have through the next couple days. >> yes, we do. >> 65! . next, metro and the dtrict at odds over hours. >> boy, are they. mayor bowser wants metro to extend the why the gm thinks it's too soon for athat. >> at 6:00 we're checking in with a federal employee we met during the shutdown. she was forced to choose bween paying her

finally, a breakfast meeting show dow today betwe d.c.'s mayor and the head of metro. >> this is a fight over extended hours for metro rail and what's at stake, your tax dollars. >> mark segraves witht the mayor is demanding and the tions metro's gm is giving

d.c. council members. >> safety trumps service. what that means is that we d ne what it takes to keep the festem, the people, our employees >> i think metro needs to do a little bit more to make sure has what it needs to stay open. >> reporter: for the past year and a half metro rail has been running on a limited schedule, with no lat night service. so metro crews could perform muchd maintenance work. >> i'm frustrated. i know they have to do tra maintenance but we have a lot of hours toohere the subway is closed. >> reporter: that late night service i scheduled to be restored july 1st but the general manager told the mayor an d.c. council he needs more time to do more maintenance on the system. >> we are getting ahead of a lot of these issues, but we're just not there yet. >> reporter: today he gave the mayor and the d.c. council members four options, one revert to the original hours including staying open till 3:00 a.m. on

friday and saturday. two open the system later, including opening at 10:30 sunday mornings. three,lose late on weekends, at 2:00 a.m. or fournt mn the current limited schedule. >> those optio to me need a lot of work. i think we know when an agency doesn't want tongo somethi they present the worst possible scenarios. my challen with metro is go back ando some more work. >> reporter: they could vote o the hours in their meeting next week. if they don't take action, the late night hours would be restored automatically july 1st. now at 6:00, a winter blast hitting at our evening commute. >> we're in for the day. >> schools out early. we're tracking conditions in d., maryland and virginia, preparing you for tomorrow

morning. >> anything that lands on the ground and is wet is going to freeze. >> tracking a deep freeze later this week. >> announcer: news4 beginsit a storm team 4 weather alert. steady snow falling on us for hours now. the back edge starting to move out if you're on the west side of the beltway. i'm doreen gentzler. >> i'm leon harr. roads all over the area are wet right now. temperatures, though, are dropping and that could lead to problems tonight and tomorrow morning. >> we have team coverage starting with doug and amelia in storm center 4. >> the snow came down quick, some areas picking up aouple inches in a couple hours. and we're still seeing heavy bands of snow through the metro region now. >> but the snow is winding down and temperatures dip into the teens and 20s for overnight lows. >> that's why we think tomorrow morning a going to be tough go of things. the snow has ended in areas like