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. west vigrant, mineral,

hardy, morgan, >> closings are all found on the bottom of your screen and the nb washingtonapp. >> nobody is going to school. we do have team coverage of the storm and its potential impacts and the steps already taken to get the roads ready. melissa mollet standing by. lauryn rkets and chuck bell with the latest. >> the coating of the ground already in fredericksburg. a quick burst of one to three o inch snow here with this first leading edge of the moisture. i'mlad we didn't move those numbers out. look at the big dry slot athere. ould mean a bit of an end to the precip before it changes ba over to rain later on in the afternoon. so, everybody, i think, has a chance of getting a one to three inches of snow here between now and noontime.

additional amounts of snow, maybe more likely north and west. here comes the snowflakes. if you see the snow outside, se me a picture of it on twitter @chuckbell4. southern maryland viewers say there wasn't snow in there yet. curious to see if they have snow at this poi intime. where the snow has started now, temperatures are falling down to at or below the freezing mark here. lso, this w be all snow here during the morning hours. temperatures hovering around 30 to 31 degrees between nownd noon. inching just high enough to make this rain, the warmer air arrives aloft first. that's the reason we're pretty optimistic a cut thenge over. doesn't mean we couldn't get iciness. let's go t my colleague outside in the cold. good morning, lauryn. >> chilly right now.t s you explained evaporational cooling so perfectly. the temperatures still, you coul see on the bottom of your

screen, 36 degrees here in d.c. but onc starts snowing, temperatures will start to drop. we talked about the snow chances and we'll have that befor noon but as we head into the middle part of the day right around luncime into the early afternoon, that's when we can start to s o this changer to some ice and then ice on top of the snow that we were talking so, again, north and west of d.c., possibly up to a quarter inch of ice. scattered power outages and around the d.c. metro areas and to the west of i-95, we could have a coating. low chances fod.c., southern d.c. and south and east mainly because a lot of that will turn to rain. you could have a few slick spots out there especially with snow and small, small amounts of ice. slick travel once the flakes start falling down. we're already seein that in fredericksburg where chuck was talking about and the grass has already turned white. icy mess and then slushy mess tonight. so, the roads are going to be a

littlee iffy o that snow starts falling. talk about the roadways already right now. we turn to melis mollet. >> lauryn and i have bee talking about where to see these things happen. in virginia north of washington drive, you can sort of see it. little bit of wetness onhe roadway and very tiny flakes falling there. that is the situation this morning as things start to really move in here. in the district, northbound 295 inbound to 11th street bridge and as we zoom out and you can setway looks nice and clear and dry at this point and so does everything here up through the maryland area.ig virginia now is where we are seeing a lot of that snow falling here this morning. taking a look at 270. right now 70 down and it is nice and open and get you there in 27 minutes and dry, as well. aaron? >> melissa, thank you. storm team 4 has been tracking todas winter storm for several days. many local areas have been

paying attention, of course. spent yesterday treating the roads and snow will make things slick and add the rain and maybe some ice and the problems can only get worse after owthat. right we're already beginning to see snow falling. >> megan mcgth joi us live from downtown fredericksburg with details on what she's seeing. hey, megan. >> we have been seeing the snow come down for about an hour here w. if you look down on the ground, tu can see i is accumulating. light cumulation on the grassy areas. if you look at the sidewalk that i'm standin. on this has apparently been tr ted. you can see this is just wet and then we can pan over here. this ist williams stree in sburg and youeri can see that we have wet pavement. i don't know if you can make out in this lighting, but a lot of salt that is laid down on the road. you can see it was pretreated and all that treatment is doing exactly what it is supposed to do when thi snow hits the ground, it is just melting it at this point. i would say that we hav a moderate snowfall at this point and some pretty big flakes mixed

in, but we not seeing any problems out there on the roads, not as of yet. but, of course, as we continue to see the snow accumulate, we are expecting to see slick spots and sidewalks and things that haven't been treated could get pretty slippery out there. an hour with the snow here and it's actually quite pretty out here, you guys. ofs is kind of the best time a snow because it's pretty but not causing pblems yet. back to you. >> it does look nice. thank you, man mcgrath. local power companies are also prepared for today's snow storm. if you don't feel like you are, you stillave time to get ready if you lose power at home, check on your loved ones and the elderly to make sure they're okay. make sure you turn on water to t trickl prevent pipes from freezing. double check your cell phones and make sure they're fully charged and keep a flashlight on hand. power crews aren't the only

ones getting ready for the storm. road crews have been very busy treating highways and roadways. >> justin finch is ive in northern virginia with a look at the roads. justin, where are you? what do you see? >> i'm on route 17 right now going north and looking at the roadway here, it was as if someone turned on a light stch and t snow began falling down. take a look out here. you can see that snow is falling right now and if you look clely there on the roadway, you can see it is accumulating some black spots are due to tire tracks inf front us right now live. the pretreatment in this area yesterday. crews working overnight to get these roads ready for this event. we are seeing rightow the beginning of this snowfall. we o know thatvdot, as well as virginia state police have been asking everyo, if they can, to stay home during the brunt of this storm so that means crews can get out here and begin to

further treat theseoads as the storm begins to intensify. that snow will turn into slush d all that we know is coming our way here. as we look out here live, you can see that snow isghalling now at a pretty moderate clip and also accumulating on the roadway here. we do know they have been treating these roadways, but, still, with that snowfall, we are seeing it stack up on the roads. so, now, is the time to begin that long sleep in and stay inside kind of deal because it is falling andin sti on some roadways out here, guys. back inside to you. >> justin, thank you. 5:08 this morning as our area is getting ready to deal with a lot of snow, other parts of u.s. are in snow cleanup mode. >> david is live at the desk with more of the snow. >> images from further west giving us alimpse of what exactly is headed our way. chuck bell and lauryn ricketts

says the same storm system that caused this i the one we will feel the impact of. you saw whatnd justin megan saw coming down. wichita, kansas, they're talki a big range in snowfall from two inches to nearly a foot. ten inches in some spots. it caused quite a mess out there. mounded snow and even folks having to deal with it as they head out for a walk and schools there are closed. this is the most snow they experienced in aut three years. you can see the blanket in other parts of ourountry whi indicates travel may be an issue for those of you today. molette green will have a look at how this is impacting flights in our area in about ten minutes. new 4z is wos 4 is working and download the nbc washington app. y>> pat collins will tel what you need to do to win an official pat collins sw stick. ten minutes now after the

argument. an argument may have triggered t deadly and run in northwest d.c. two weeks ago. one person is facing murder charges. daniel was hit crossing fourth street and t street and later died. the driver morris harley argued with him just before he hit him. harley is charged wh first degree murder. a triple shooting in the concern has residents and police asking the community for help in finding the suects. the drive-by shooting happened yesterday afternoon in in southeast. you can see a car covered in bulletholes. a 19-year-old is in critical condition. two other victims are expected to be okay. in a separate shooting, about 1e mi away from there on otanton road, police found a 17-year-old sh. he is expected to survive. no arrests have been made in either shooting. we turn now to the ongoing crisis in the commonwealth. virginia republican house speaker kirk cox says lawmakers should come togethe decide how to address the sexual orsault allegations against the

lieutenant gove two women have accused justin fairfax of assaulting them. lcox tweett night that a legislative forum for hearings should be seriously considered. he is hoping to get democratic support, however house democrats released a statent saying law enforcement should be the ones investigating the assaults. fairfax has denied all allegations and refu step down. still ahead, our coverage of today's blast winter weather continues. >> we are getting an updated look at the forecast local airports are preparing. chuck? all right. the commute such ast will be today, thankfully a lot of places will be closed, but if you have to get out on the roads, which is not necessarily recommended. it will be all snow for the first part of the day and mostly just a of messy snow and rain later on in the afternoon andspecially into this evening. optimism about tomorrow and theg weekend, t at redfin, we charge you a 1% listing fee.

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welcome back. 5:14. it is a weather alert day here on news 4 today. the d.c. rion bracingitself for wintry weather filled with snow, ice and rain. we're seeing some snow falling heavily in virginia already. schools and government offices have closed in advance of this storm. you can see all thatnformation running on the bottom of your screen and on the nbc washington app. we're also monitoring the situation in the skies ahead of th snow headi our way. this is a live look at ig aware.com. plenty of flights but some may be surprised when they arrive at the airport inur area. molette green is live at reagan tional at the number of flights that are canceled and delayed and some flights getting around this storm,right, molette. >> the early morningso flights. me folks are coming to the airport early and finding that they are in luck. they are checking the departure board. many folks told me they had

evening flights today, but they ere able to cha it for an earlier flight this morning so that they could get out o dodge before the snow arrives. and we are seeing more cancellations among all three major airports here in the washington of course, most of those out of reagan national and bwi marshal. now, many folks are wleavin are finding, going to warmer destinations from a little r and r and little charity work.ha here's they had to say. >> we're going to the dominican republic andt we're p of a travel basketball team and prince george's county fire department and we're going down republic to can play in a basketball tournament to raise money. >> hey, so, all for a good cause going to warmer destination. one lady who just walked past me said, where is all the snow? is coming. she is one of the lucky ones able to get a fght out o town

this morning. of course, before you even come out to the airport, you should check with your airline to see how things are looking for this morning. ore we are seeing cancellations. so, that's a good idea before you even make your way out here toti reagan al. that is the latest. back in to you. >> all right, good idea to go ti don republic at this point. molette. not the only ones dealing with the snow this morning. take a look atno this in pike's peak near the rocky mountains in colorado springs, colorado. >> don't do that. >>ome snow drifts are eight feet high. this area is known to get its fair share of snow and crews have cleared every day so visitors can travel into the mountains there. >> i'm sorry, did you say eight feet high? >> that looked higher than eight feet. there.ouldn't be going i'm sorry. i'm not taking the risk. i'll go out on a limb and i'm

going to say 100% chance we're not going to see that. >> don't they tea you meteorologists to say that. >> we're eight-foot snow drifts around here. >> and i believe you. >> hey, listen, we will get a couple inches of snow out there and we're already starting to see that snow fall and stick and thank goodness for t crews out there that have been working relentlessly over the last couple days, not just last night. the snow not quite sticking to the roads just ye but it will start and start moving into the d.c. beltway s here anyond and continue to push to the north and east from here. so, yes, we are going to see snow. you might not be seeing it yet by about 7:00. definitely by 8:00 a.m. all of us wilos have snow a the region and you will see flakes flying at your house. once they start flying and settling down to the ground, the temperatures start to drop a little bit and we're seeing that through the deep south, deep south in our area. frederickurg and coming through manassa an

temperatures in the mid-30s that's where we're staying the first part of theday. the first part of the day, that's when you want to get the kids outside if they want to go enjoy the sw or enjoy the snow yourself because after lunchtime that's when itn turns into icy mess and then later on through the middle part of the afternoon and into dinnertime, that's when it turns into a slushy mess. hrough the e snow morning and could have areas of dryness around there for the morning hours. but for the most part, go sledding. get the kids out early and playing in the snow because, as lunchtime,n for that's when we'll start to see it switch over to ice and stay inside after that. our snowfall forecast in great shape over the last couple of days. four to seven inches to the grth and west of d.c. before that ices here. two to four really along the i- corridor from baltimore to washington and down through centra virginia and one to three for down through the northern neck and southern maryland. now, ast far as w we're

looking at, here comes the snow. snow for the first part of thee day could heavy at times. inch of snow in some places and then that warm air starts to push in from the west. that starts is to change everything from sleet. spotty, freezing rain as we head into the afternoon, as well. this is where we get the ice accumulation. the warm air switches out and could have decentamounts of rain here and there and it startt starts to taper off tomorrow and believes we canmoet sunshine ow and that will help melthi ever. ice accumulation up to a quart of an inch and ang coa and little less to the south and east. mainly the rain event. temperatures stay steady and go up by day break tomorrow. and sunshine later tomorrow afternoon and a lot of this will be melted at tt poin friday upper 40s and look at

this rain for the weekend and 6e by the t we get into sunday. but, no 60s out there today. just some snow on the ground. melissa, how are the roads looking alrey? >> right n looking okay. northbound 15 in warrington startingo see it come down. be careful. these roads will get slick very quicecy. right nowse it is so early on, it's not so bad. 95 here in virginia. northbound, southbound at the weigh station. it is snowing here and little hard to see and the roads just look a lite bit wett this point. 70 east of frederick. sort of more of a sline shot and not seeing much ofn issue there right now. northbound 295 and the ramp to the bridge and right side still blocked bydi bled vehicle and as we widen the beltway overall looks okay. everything still dry right now. more news, weath and traffic raighthead. a

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storm team 4 weather alert. >> were ineather alert mode as the snow starts falling. a live look outside right now. micong down a bit theren warrington, virginia. justin finch riding along with us, someone else is driving. hasn't made its way to the district, but it is. comi >> the storm system is expected to hitur up hereg what would normally be the morning rush hour n but it going to be very crowded on the roads. a lot of schools and offices are closed. good morning, everybody. as we approach 5:30, i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eun yang. federal government tloseday and emergency employees and teleworkers should continue to work. >> every major school district closed in the area.in allegheny, waon, frederick, montgomery, anne

arundel and st. mary's. >> manassas park city, falls church, fredericksburg and alexandria city schools are all closed as are loudoun, frederick, shenandoah, page, clarke, rappahannock, prince william, william. >> grant, mineral, hardy, morgan anefrson county schools all closed. in the nbc washington app. let's get right to our team coverage. crews spread out throughout the region keeping an eye on conditions and the roads. lauryn ricketts is outside and chuck bell with more on this forecast. >> yes, indeed. the forecast is hang itself very well. this time around, we're just going to go ahead and o with it.

winter storm warnings remain in place for d.c. metro area and points north and west. st. mary's county anded icksburg and along the northern neck there. will continue to be all snow here during the morning. you can see on storm team 4 radar. there's the advancing line of snowflakes now. we will start getting pictures from our weather watches and already had pictures from down into southryland where we have already started to see the the ground get coated. am i supposed to be standing over he? temperatures now just observe t the freezing mark. temperatures have fallen to at or below the freezing mark. so, plan on a snowy morning. it should be all snow coming down between now and noontime. thereafter, warmer air alof will make this change back over to a wintry mix and eventually all over to the form of rain. total accumulations, most of the d.c. metro area will be i sthat three inch range. probably closer to three for the

southern suburbs and probably closer to five or t six for northern suburbs but plan on a three to six inch amount bore it changes over to an ugly mix. unfortunately, the mix means, l lauryn that snowball makin will be best done before lunchtime. >> we will have some of that mixes in and that's not going to be fun at all and then later on throughout the afternoon, that's when we're going tee start to really that slushy mess get in here. listen, h nobody school today. when i didn't have school the night before, i would sleep all the way until noon. if you sleep until noon and those kids want to go play in the snow, they may miss their opportunity because this ice is coming midday. north and wt of d.c., a uarter inch of ice and could have scattered powtages and just west of i-95 that is where we will have a coating o top of the snow. that, chuck just showed you. that map, the winter storm warning pretty much for everybody with winte weather advisories down to the south and

east including northern neck and our friends in southern maryland. so, ain, as chuck was saying snowball making, sledding, get out before noon. because then we'll start to se those changes. now, we have that snow stick challenge, that's going to be vealed this morning. but one other thing i want to talk about, travel. it's going to be messy all day. again, the morning is snowy mess by this afternoon and icy mess and later on this evening, a messhy just, i know you can't see them now, but we just started to have the first flakes fly. probably by the next time i come out here, you'll start to see them fall. aside the beltway and push to the north and ea updated timeline coming up in just a little bit. guys back to you. lauryen, thank you. >> we'll check in with melissa mollet. >> megan mcgrath has been there all morning.

what are you seeing now?he >> guys. we're starting to see that accumulation. if you look over here at the grassy area,ou can see we've got an accumulation of snow. it's not anything major, but everything is coated with white and quite beattiful. am noticing is that it is starting to get slippery. they have treated the roads and things are starting to get a little slick. i'll make myay back to the live truck and we'll start to drive and show you what the roal conditions looe. actually, not terribly bad. a little bit of slush starting to accumulation there because it's been coming down for an hour and a half now. let's take a live look a that road there. you can see the conditions that we're deang with here not a lot of traffic out right now. that's always good news we haveen a ton of road crews out there this morning. they are loaded withsalt. many of them were standing by the side of the roadway just kind of lined up waiting. at this point, not a lot they

can do. we do have accumulation on the grassy areas, but really not on the roadways yet. you need two inches before they can start pushing it around with the plows and we're just not the yet. l the pretreating that they did. they did it last night and the day before. all of that is working out very, very well because most of what we're seeing fall is just simply melting as soon as it hits the road surface. now, this is a lesser traveled road here in the downtown old part of fredericksburg. buture'll make way to 95 to give you a better idea of what some of those major roads look like. back to y guys. >> megan, thank you. now, we have been talking about this snow storm all week long. many crews ared prepared treating the roads as megan mentioned. the road will create slick spots for several drivers across our area. >> justininch is tracking snowy conditions in northern vianinia. give uupdate. where are you and what are you seeing? >> hey, we're on lee highway

ing west and take look at this snow. it is really coming down out here. really picked up in just the past couple minutes here. as i look here on the ground, what is standing out to me is that the snow is accumulating on some of the streets out here. ites you a sense of how cold is out here and how quickly this ndowfall is accumulating on the ground, the grass the roads, as well here. news. have seen good salt trucks out here working out here patrolling and also clearing where they can. but thiss why residents are being asked to stay at home. so, that they can o get here and get these roads clear ahead of this snowfalls well as part two of this storm that we know will include more of thatin r e and ice. i am driving around and seeing a lot of this snow fall pretty quickly and stack up quickly on the streets, as well, guys. back inside to you. >> all right, justin, you and

nick be carul out there. we'll talk to you in a little bit. stay with us as the weather alert ountinues. if have to head out of the house, be sure to download the nbc washington app and find our full forecast and warnings and any trouble that mn pop up the roads and watch us live from wherever you are. 5:37. here is a look at our other top stories this morning. learning new details about the deadly crash on indian head highway we brought you as breaking news yesterday. the victim is 59-year-old juan castillo. he died after a car that slammed into the back of him and his car collided nearby on berry road. no word on what caused thehe crh ther charges will be filed. teachers in west virginia are striking for a second day today, even though state lawmakers dropped legislation the teachers opposed that legislation would have created the state's first charterho s and teachers believe that would harm traditional public education. unionepresentatives say teachers are staying out another

day to make sure that legislation isn't revived. virginia elected its youngest delegate. ibraheem samirah and also the second muslim member. erhe could be sworn in lat this week. 5:38. coming up from viral video to f a teenfor the family at the center of this viral video taking legal action against. plus, more team coverage as the snow falls across our region we're seein mostly in the southern part of our viewing area. other live picture her from other live picture her from freder

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new details about the man, actually it is about 5:40. so far snow in southern parts of the area. les check in n with fredericksburg, virginia. to get a look at the roads there. we'll check in with our crews throughout the region. let's go toth aaron with a news story. >> all right, eun, thank you. we' talking about the viral video you see here. this has now led to a lawsuit. you may remember af video an encounte betweenabetween. tudent nick sandmann was face to face with nathan philips. some say the teen mocked and intimidated philips and now his family isas suing hington post" for $250 million. the newspaper false accused him of instigating the incident and they targeted the teen. the third-party investigation

found no evidence of racist or behavi behavior by the students. it is now 5:42. new detailshe aboutan accused of starting a fire in comet ping-pong restaurant. 22-year-old ryan and his mother was seen sitting near a curious george stuffedhe animal during hearing. he aattempted to set curtains on fire two times a r thetaurant last month. the initial attempt failed but a second attempt was successful. he jumped a fence at the washington monument and sta fed aht with firs. he pled not guilty in court on tuesday. snow is already starting to take ove and you c see it pushing to the north and east right now. we will all have snow as we

continue through t 6:00 and 7:00 a.m. hour. look at this, mainstreet, there's the courthouse right there in warren county. you can already see plowable snow from what sco is telling me on twitter and, of course, connect with me and chuck on twitter. m here at lauryn ricket and i would love to see you all's this is what it will look like. more of an icy mess this ternoon and evening and we'll talk about the timing of the ice and how much snow and ice we'll get together. that's coming up with chuck just after this. >> we'll take a look at those look at chopper 4 over an issue here. 95 at the beltway. talking about plows. they are at the

5:45. we are in weather alert mode this morning. this is a cool view from chopper 4. you can see maybe ae litnow high above the district right now. it is just starting to fall in ourarea. >> little concerned about that big red light in the back there.

snow has been falling for more than an hour further south. live look here at the roads in warrington, virginia. this is just the nnbeg of the storm, folks. the federal government, most school districts are closed today in anticipatio what is to come. those closures running at the bottom of your screen and bottom rf the nbc washington app. check on y full forecast in a couple minutes here. a new allegation of obstruction of justice against president trump denies a report that he tried to interfere in thear justice dent investigation into hush money payments during his 2016 campaign. >> "new york times" reports the president tried to put an ally oin charge the investigation of michael cohen. tracie potts joins us live now. what exactly does this report say the president did? >> it says tha the president called his then acting attorney generalatt whitaker and asked to put someone friendlier, charge of the cohen case.

the person that the president reportedly wanted in charge was jeffrey ,bermhe u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. some peoplehe debateer he would have been an ally because berman's offe is investigating the trump inaugural committee. telling "new york times" that the president wanted to switch at the top of cohen's investigation. t it didn'thappen. first of all, matt whitaker said that berman had already been recused, so, he said no and this never happened. could it be obstruction even if the preside asked and i didn't really happen? that's what legal experts are debatinghe of course,resident is absolutely denying that he ever made that phone call. he's calling itake news. >> all right, tracie potts for us this morning. thank you. 1 before the hour now. president trump is nominating jeffrey rosen to be the next deputy attorney general. rosen is currently the deputy secretary at theepartment of transportation and also served

as a white house adviser in the office of management and. bu he was a partner at the same law firm as now attorney general william barr. if confirmed, rosen would replace rod rosenstein. rosenstein is planning to leave the administration next month. rosen would oversee mueller's russia probe. the family of a third grader killed by a motorized petition at his fairfax county school is getting the change the family fought for. virginia's governor will sign the bill to prevent another tragedy like the one that killed wesley. he was helping a teacher operate an electric room divider last may when his head became caut between it and the wall. news 4 susan hogan sat down with wesley's grandmother to talk about her mission to protect other students in virginia. >> nothing that i do will bring wesley back. nothing can be done to do that.

but i will do and have done everything in m 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 room. the partitions can b used if it has an additional safety device like a motionensor. training for anyone who opates the partitions. the "empire" actor who claims he is in the victim of a hate crime. dismissed a tip that jussie smollett was seen in an elevator. police want to question le tt, again, but so far he has not agreed to speak to investigators. back now to our storm team 4 wethher alert. storm is already having a major impact on air travel. hundreds of flights in our area have been canceled or delayed

already. >> molette green at reagan national this morning. good morning. >> good morning to you. i want to give you a bter perspective of how busy it is right here. check out all the folks to check in and get out of town before the weathergh gets t and more flights are canceled. i do want you to take a look at the map. the flightaware.com map. you get a good eperspectf the cancellations and what is going on in the sky, as well. what we're seeing at all three major airports. lots of cancellations. particularly o here at reagan national and bwi marshal and those hhave, wee seen an uptick as the morning has gone on. airport officials say they are prepared for partne of the storm, which is the snow. and then, of course, that part two that o meteorologist, storm team 4 has been talking about. the ice that is onhe way. so, here's how the washington airport authority is preparing.

>>abundant deicing equipment and abundant snow plows and our dulles toll road. we willave our trucks out and they started pretreating the roads. they will be on standb as well. >> okay. so,nd a lot of people that we have talked to are excited to get out of town and many of them are going to warmer destinations, including my new friend here anna. anna is years old. nge's going to disney. ine is goi to be running at disney and s you're going away, i wanted to give you this book. the story of snow and the science of winter's wonder on the airplane. what do you think abo it? >> i don't want to read it and think about the coldness because i'm going somewhere warm and i want to think about that. >> i think that's aood reason not to read this book. i agree. i'll give it to somebody else. >> you know who does want to read the book is chuck bell.

>> iknow, i know. chuck, i'm saving this book for iu. i'll bring back. anna doesn't need to. ,ell ann enjoy her trip. >> than molette. >> we turn to meteorologist chuck bell. we hope you read the book already. >> all the books i had to read in college were filled with differential equations. i have a fling thatook is far more enjoyable to get through. right now waiting on the snow here in downtown washington and not far away. it will beere before you know it. still 36 at national airport. don't lett fool you. temperatures will fall to at or low freezing as the precipitation moves in. winter w stormning for all the d.c. metro area. winter weather advisory in southern maryld. our snow map remains in tact. temptation with yours truly and fellow forecasters to maybe try to smooth those numbers up a little bit. we held firm and i'm sure glad

we did because the latest indications are that this will beas in a lot of other forrs had to lower their numbers. most of the d.c. metro aa between three and six inches. prepare for three to six inch amount. probably closer to three in the southern suburbs androbably closer to six in the northern suburbs here. if you're preparing urself for a three to six inch event, you're not going to be all the latest information on our nbc forecast app and molette tweeted a great picture out and i put the forecast, so, lots of fun on social media this morning. come on in and join the conversation with us. there's all the snow moving in now. snow tot might not be all that extreme and look at that pocket of no precipitation in southwestern virginia. it will fill in a little bit as it gets our way. the big push of moisture way back out to our west. that is all rainith temperatures near 40 degrees. th, future weather, again. radar.

snow i'm surprised at the observation at national airport hasn't seen i yet. blue is all snow and it stays mostly, if not entirely snow through noontime. but by 1:00 o 2:00 in the afternoon, wow. look at that quick change over. some of thoseright spots of yellow there could be sleet or a little bit of freezing rain. wesel keep a c eye on that. and then rain moves in overnight. again, tperatures have fallen below freezing where the precipitation has started. expect that trend to continue. ten-day forecast. stuck in the low 30s all day today. but notice holding above freezing overnight tonight. mid-50s tomorrow. so, no mattert w we get today, all gone by sun down tomorrow and sunday after some morning raindrops, a gusty southwest wind will bring us into the 60s. parts of central virginia, melissa mollet, could be 70 on sunday. >> that looks crazy when you're looking at this right now. chopper 4 over the top of the

beltway. this is something rare and we're kind of excited and clapping here in the first alert traffic and weather center here because we don't normally get up in the air and aree to fly when it is snowing. but because of where the clouds arrn this g, chopper 4 is showing you something we really don't typically see. all that snowow coming across the area. some of it not even hitting the top of the beltway at tins this morning, even though it looks like it is on the looks like it is hitting, perhaps not all the way to the road quite yet. that will be very diffelant r on today. widening out, you can see our entire area. all the main roads look like theyti will get that precipi very quickly. winterd wonderland leesburg, we have it coming down there, as well. sterling eastbound 7 after city center boulevard. two right banes block the crash. aaron? >> thank you. a heads up for drivers in virginia. the cost of your annual car

inspection is expected to go up. preliminary app bval to al that would raise the price from 16 to $20. advocates say the increase will help make sure mechanics are fairly compensated. opponents too much.increase is good morning, i'm frank holland at cnbc headquarte. google says a microphone in its nest products was never meant to be a secret. digital assistant would work with nes but users didn't know the mike was used to begin with. google spokesperson telling business insider the company made a mistake. the company says that mike has never been on and only activated when you enable that option. with your cnbc morning business report, i'm frank holland. >> thank you. still ahead, cbd oil is advertised all over social media. a hemp product promising medical benefits without highs. >> but doesn't work. we're putting ites to the tt a

storm team 4 weather alert. >> here we go, again, folks. d.c. region latest blast of wintry weather h started movering through our area. this storm bringing a bit of everything. ice, sleet, slush, a live look

at the roads at fredericksburg, virginia, where the storm is starting to make its presence well known. >> here is another viewn virginia. this is in warrington. the snow is falling hard there and the roads are beginning to turn white. if you are heading out this morning, make sure you use scaution. >> ts the way it will be for the next several hours. >> 6:00 a.m. right now. many of you will not head out today. federal government closed today. emergency employees and teleworl ees should continue to work. >> every major school district in our arealso closedhis morning. let's take you through them in gtryland. allegheny, wash, frederick, montgomery, an prince george's county public schools are all manassas, fredericksburg and alexandria e all closed. as are loudoun counties,ic fred