where you live. maryland, anne arundel charles and prince county. >> manassas, manassas park city and alexandria city schools as are shendoah, page, warren, clarke, prince pileum, fairfax, king george. all the schools are closed. >> in west virginia grant, mineral, hardy, morgan, jefferson schools are closed. all theay d and cancellations are at the bottom of your scen. >> good to familiarize ourselves with all the school districts in the area. crews spread out thrghout the region to keep an eye on the conditions. first to lauryn ricketts and chuck bell. >> start with chuck, though. >> the o school district i did

not hear on that list was the district of columbia. are d. schools open or closed? >> holiday week here in d.c.,o they're already closed. >> i justasoticed it not on the read on list. >> you can put a lot ofby thing me, but not that. here's what you need to know about the forecast. becominging rain in the ternoon and rapid melt down tomorrow. in the mid-50s with sunshine in th yes, indeed, snow showers are moving on in. you can see there from our live macture near the fredericksburg area. be coming down as a mix of rain and snow now as temperatures in fredericksburg are at 35 degrees and over to drops of water after they land. so, this will happen eventually. temperatures are lower out of outhern virginia and as the precipitation falls down into the dry air, that will cool the temperatures down to about 30 degrees for most of this morning

and stay in the low 30s most of the day long. total accumulations, lauryn, we haven't had to update our map. most everydy in the d.c. metro area in the three to six inch >>hey, chuck, yeah. range. we're looking at three toix inches but not only talking about the snow, but talking op about ice on of that snow. so, you'll have treacherous travel in the morning with snow until lunchtime b after tha we'll deal with the ice and the bigshgest impacts of ice. you can see up to a quarter inch of ice. this is on top of that snow accumulation thathuck just showed you. four to seven inches for the areas shaded in red. here in the d.c. just to the he beltway.est of coding and then d.c. and snow looking at low chances. truck rolled through you with thetimeline and it will be slick travel. i will stay off the roads and p thews can get out and salt the roads, they've been doing it

all night. on s the snowrts falling, they'll need to push it to the side. so, again, a littley. me not only in the morning but this afternoon when it's more ice and then slushy tonight. as chuck was saying, a lot of thatel as we head into the overnight and tomorrow and we'll talk warmer temperatures. hopefully it's an increnjoyinabe on those roads. >>hat is a very good thing here this morning. let's take a look at the rails here as we get into the 5:00 hour. a lot of people worried about what will happen there. line stations open and service running every 12 minutes. metro bus limited serce on the main roads is what they're ng sa penn and camden line running on an r scheduleo and brunswick line. 29 here in thculpeper. is not 29 in culpeperes although it ook a little snowy.nh

eier blocked by a tractor trailer. our team coverageonnues now with justin finch. >> he is live in northern virginia with a look a the roads. where are you and what are you seeing? >> we have just made our way here into mosnnases. road crews standing by for the way. that is coming our we are not seeing a lot of cars on the road. number of schools are closed today and as a result, people are staying inside. we ag see that salt treatment down on the road. that brine, as well. vdot crews have been working around the clock to get the roads ready for that storm. virginia state police have been saying, hey, if you don't have to go oy, to stay inside until at least midday so these vdot crews cane out here and work ahead of this snow and ice in the forecast today. also, too, virginia state police are extending shifts when needed

to be on standby for any kind of road issues.es clos or perhaps even crashes on the road. that's why thenyre urginge who does not have to travel to stay inside today. we're not j seeing snowt yet, but we know it's on the way. back inside to you. >> thank you, estin. meam coverage in fredericksburg, virginia. that's where megan mcgrath is this morning. >> megan, you're seeing some snow already. >> yeah, yeah, we started to see the snow half an hour ago. we pulled off to a parking lot to see theccumulation. it's stacking up and coming down very lightly. j i'p back in the truck here and go and drive around and all the roadsave been really well pretreated. we're not seeing anything sticng to the road surface at all. all thpre, the pretreatment was done last night.

this just started. we expect the snow t come down rather heavy at times and we'll start to see that accumulation. right now so far so good. a if you look the camera here on the road, what you're seeing actually is salt on the ground. that's not accumulation. atey have been out here really salting and tg the parking lots. this, obviously, was done by a contractor. we're seeing those tell tale white ripes, therine stripes on the major roadways. they did all of that lastan nig the night before. they are very, very prepared for this storm. just starting to see the snow coming down. people should just keep in mind it has begunnde'll keep watching it and give you the latest on the road conditions coming up. back to you. >> megan mcgrath, megan, thank you. stay us as the weather alert day continues. we'll continue to see snow falling in all these places around the ygion. do have to head out, download the nbc washington app

and find o full forecast and warnings about any crashes or trouble that can pop up o the roads. and you can watch uelive. what m could you want? 4:37 and here's a look at our top stories this morning. new details on the latest deadly crash on indian head highway. we brought you this as breaking news yesterday morning. the victim is 59-year-old juan castillo after a car slammed into the back of the car he was riding in monday night. the drivers of all three cars were hurt and oo wordn what caused the crash or charges will be filed. teachers in west virginia are strikg forecond day today, even though statepp lawmakers d legislation the teachers opposed. that would have created the state's first charter schools believe that would ha traditional education. teachers are staying out another day to make sure that legislation isn't revived. virginia elected its

youngest delegate dr. ibraheem samirah won last night. so the second muslim member. he could be sworn in later this week. it's now 4:38. coming up from viral video to lawsuit for the family o a teen at the center of this clip is taking legal action against. more of that teamag cov on this weather alert snow day. it started snowing inks frederrg already and going to be moving north as the

4:40 right now. from viral video t wsuit. you may remember this video of an encounter between a native american and a group of students from a kentucky catholic school. the student was face-to-face with native american activi at e memorial video. the video was widely condemned by saying the teen mocked philips and now his family is suing "washington post" for $250 million. attorneys for the teen say the newspaper falsely accused him of instigating the incident and that"the post" wrongly targeted the team because he was white and wore a red make america great agaicap. new details about the m accused of starting a fire at

d.c.'s comet ping-pong restaurant. he was in cou yesterday to answer to arson charges. his mother was seen sitting during a g curiorge stuffed animal during the hearings. he attempted to set curtains on fire twice at that restaurant last montti the i attempt failed but a second attempt was successful. police arrested him two weeks later after he jumped a fence at the washington monument and started a fight with officers. he pled not guilty in court on tuesday. well, snow is pushing into the area right now. not everybody seeing it but getting ready to move right inside the beltway. this will continue to push through the north e at through the morning. we have winter storm warnings up for areas in pink. those go throughhis evening. winter weather advisories for stafford and down through the northern neck and southern marylan maryland. we'll talk about the timing not

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a new allegation of obstruction of jtice against the president. president trump denies a report that he tried to i interfere the justice department's investigation into hush money payments during his 2016 campaign. >> "new york times" reports the utpresident tried ton ally in charge of the case looking into his ng-time lawyer michael cohen. tracie potts joins us live now. what does the report say the president did? >> according t "the times" aaron and eun the president called up his acting attorney general matt whittakerndaid i would like someone different in charge of the cohen cascase. whether the president was link under to the hush money payments that cohen made. the president wanted someone, more of an ally in charge of that who would be jeffrey burrman. he said in testimony that he wa

never pressureto put someone else in charge of any case, according to "the times." berman had already been recused, so this never happed. but jus making that request, if it was a direct order, if it was a phone call. some legal experts say could be considered obstruction of justice but the presteent is abso denying he ever made that phone call. >> tracie potts for us this morning. thank you. president trump is nomi rting jeffreyen to be the next deputy attorney neral. currently deputy secretary of transportation anderved in management and budget. he was a partner at the same law firm as genal willi barr. he would replace rod rosenstein. rosenstein is planning to leave the administration next month. he would oversee mueller's russia probe. gettinghe change they fought for. virginia's governor is expected to sign the bill to prevent

another tragedy like the one that that took wesley's life. the 9-year-old waselng the teacher operate an electric room divider when his head became caught between it and the wall. news 4 susan hogan sat down with leslie's grandmother to talk about her mission to protect other studentsn rginia. >> nothing that i do will bring wesley back. nothing can be done to do th. but i will do and haveer done hing within my power to see that a tragedy like this never happens to another family, at least in virginia. >> the new law bans the use of motorized partitions if students are in the rm unles they have additional safety devices such as a motion sensor. require annual training for

operators of mote orized petitions. chicagoolice are dismissing a tip that jussiu smollet was seen inn elevato with the two brothers questioned in the case. the brothers were questioned and released. they now claim they were hired to strage the attack on smollet, again. so far he has not reed to speak with investigators. back now to our storm team weher alert. hundreds of flight in our area have been canceled or layed. new 4z molette green is at reagan nation pretty empty right there now, right? >> actually quite the opposite. people are coming in pretty steady and stopping right here at the rddeparture's b behind me checking out their flight. as you can see on this board, lots of cancellations there. so folks are trying to get in get onaaron, so they can their flight and get to their destination. i want you to take a look at

what we're seeing right now on ivightaware.com. this is a tracker of the flights in the air. we have seen lotsf cancellations into and out of e washington airports. all three major airports, but most of them a coming here reagan national airport where we are this morning. and the airports have been bracing for this bad weathe for part e, which is the snow, for part two which is the ice. doing what they can to make sure that as many people get to their destinations ass le. we were able to speak with many pele who are happy to get out of town early this morning. one gentleman says he is happy to go to warmer conditi in the miami area. let's hear what he had to say. it's better than here. >> key largo. going to play golf with my brothers. visit my dad for his birthday. >> were you worried about the

storm and all of that? >> i wil be in the air and out of here, you >> and as you can see, people are steadily h flowinge at reagan national airport and then behind me, what you can't see, is a whole bunch of people tting on the escalator to go to their gates. quite funny this mning i talked to a lot of people who are going to warmer io destin, to the caribbean for vacation. they had the right idea.so before you head here to the airport, your best bet iso check with your airline to make sure your flight is still going to make it, going to happen. that is the very latest from agan national. back into you. >> all right. if you were smart, you would have been listening to chuck and lauryn and book that flight. >> we had the snow chance eight days ago. you could seven-day advance. that's all right. a lot of us have to work for a

living and pay for these crazy vacations. still not looking fo crippling blizzard around here. it will have a big impact on your wednesday. a ltle bit above average snowfall for the winter so far at reagan national and dulles. see if we can get that turned 36around today. now in washington. now, don't be fooled. oh, that's above freezing. it is above freezing for now, but the air that is outside is relatively dry so as moisture falls down through that dry air, e 25 cent phrase for it, evaporation aal cooling. as you evaporate moistu down cool air, it lowers the temperature. this will easily fall down to the freezing mark or below as the precipitation moves on in. it will start as sn. snowflakes falling down into that and even above freezing air will eventually drop temperatures to 30 by 7:00 in the morning. all snow through the of the day and then the mixing starts to take place as warmer

air aloft moves in. so t will change thisr o from all snow at the onset here to a little bit more of a mix little bit later on as the warmer air moves in. not had to update our snow forecast at l. the m that we drew yesterday is still fairly accurate one, indeed. here's a look at future weather. again, that may start as wet snow with a mix of rain early becoming all snow by 7:00 and me metro area until at least noontime. then here comes the switch over get rom snow to rain as we into parts of the afternoon. by 4:00, our high resolution model here has everything in the form of rain. some wet snowflakes mixing in. these brighter yellows out here in the shenandoah valley, pockets of iciness. we have to watch that very carefully. e could be a glazing. american model pretty consistent now. day this was cranking out nearly nine inches of snow here. a great amount of temptation

yesterday to move the numbers up and now it's saying about one to two in southern marylandnd three in the city and slightly higher amounts. the map thatrd we drew yes still in place. maybe a quick one to two to three inches in southern maryland and when rain switches over to there, that will lower that mount. of the d.c. metro area between the three and six inch range and probably closer to three on the southern sbaurbs and py closer to five and six in the northern suburbs and takeonger to switch it all over. all this and more on our nbc washington app. i also tweeted out some of the numerical predictions. lots of information available when we're not on t air giving you the forecast. there's the ten day. low 30s today. mid-50s tomorrow afternoon. so, all the snow will be gone in a flash. near 50 friday with a l of clouds. rain likely saturday. very breezy on sunday with some morng showersnd we may be able to make a run close to 70 on sunday afternoon.

melissa. >> that looks really weird when we're thinking about what we're going to get in to today.hb nond, southbound, everything looking great right now and niceor and dry. noes there on 95 in virginia quite yet except the southern ction. you a starting to see some of that snowfall. alexandria eisenhower connector right side was blocked by a broken down tractor trailer. inner loop and outer loop of the beltway nice and open. w whzoom out, you can see where we have the snow falling this morning. ltway nice and dry and 270 is nice and dry through maryland northbound and no problems there quite yet. aaron? >> thank you. 4:54 right now. a heads up forrs drin virginia. the cost of your annual car inspection is expected to go the general assembly has given preli preliminary approval for a bill that would raise the price. the increase would help make sure that mechanics are fairly

compensated. opponents say a 25% increase is too much. looking for a new job or know someone who is nbc 4 and telemundo is holding a job fair this friday with nationalareer fairs and the university of the district of columbia. from6:00 a.m. to noon at the udc student center on connecticutvenue northwest. you can come meet some employers and make sure youring your resume. the nationals had the right idea of heading out of town for warmer weather. practice for the full team started in westalm beach, florida, yesterday. >> we are sti waiting to find b out whetherryce harper join the team or another team. former oriole shortstop many machado signed a ten-year, $300 million deal with the san diego padres. it is the biggest free agent deal i american sports history. now,ar hper is the last pig fish left in the free agent pond wght now. the teamts him back, but

they are getting ready to move on without their power hitter. >> we like inteam we hathe team, look at it thilkway. we'll ta about and worry about the players we have. >> whether he' there or not, my throws are the same and it's good and separates usav mentally, weto be focused on what we have to do every day and focus on who isround us at the time and that's our job. >> well said. players we talked to all said they would welcome bryce harper back into the locker room with open arms. em pretty s most people would want him on the team. >> if they could make it happen, good thi> for sure. cbd oil is advertised all over social media. a hemp prosict pro medical benefits with no high. >> doeit work? live look outside. winter weather is coming. team coverage continues next. stay with us.

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this is where the storm is already starting to make wns presence k sglits. >> it's snowing hard. >> i'm eun yang. this is the forecast we have been watching for and sreparing foce the weekend. the roads have been salted and the bread, milk,ap toilet and all the necessity flown off the shelves. >> emergency employees and telework employees should continue to work. every major school district closed this morning. we'll run down the list for you maryland, allegheny, frederick, st. mary's, prince george's county closed. >> in virginia manass, falls church, and alexandria city schools a are loudoun, waen, clarke, culpeper, stafford, fedric and king george county schools. >> wvi