>> right now at 10:00 a mrizard watch is posted for our area and gets underway in 48 hours and some of you are seeing snow tonight. i'll have the latest on all of it. >> we have team coverage from the tonight's clipper that caught the region off guard and created a mess on the roads to the potential blizzard that supposed to arrive friday. >> what preps are underway to ensure the snow is cleared as quickly as possible and what you should do right now to make

sure your family is ready. this is "fox5 local news at 10". man it is a busy, rough night on the roads tonight and in the newsroom and weather department. i'm tony perkins. >> and i shawn yancy. >> and of course by now you heard the d.c. region is under a blizzard watch. tonight we're dealing with another storm and a clipper with plenty of traffic and as you can see through the tree there's a long line of cars that sort of are stuck in the snow trying to make it through. because the roads in many places tonight were not pretreated. they have not been cleared and we are hearing reports of accidents all across the regio region. >> this is similar to what we saw at one point before a couple years ago with ca carmageddon and the crews could not get out to treat the roads because of the rush hour. >> school delays are starting to roll in for tomorrow. they include so far, stafford

county, fairfax county, spotsylvania county and fredericksburg city schools all on a two hour delay. we'll ep weep you updated. >> we begin with sue palka. sue, if this is what an inch of snow did tonight, we really should be worried about friday. >> you know, i actually was in the afternoon meeting today talking about this clipper toppling through, tony, and i said i predict we may have more problems with the snow tonight than we'll have on saturday and the differentiation have preparation and if you don't want to be stuck in it, don't get stuck in it. a lot of people were not paying attention to this. i heard from one of our long term photographs craig little top ten worst drive since i've been a photographer and teary bodash wrote to me it took me 2 1/2 hours to goat 7 corners from annandale #what a mess. it's like a carmageddon and

we'll talk about what to expect friday and saturday and what is going on tonight. caitlin roth and wisconsin avenue caityln is it snow covered out there. i think i know the answer to that. what are you seeing out there right now. >> only an inch or so. as we know as all it takes. it's shiny so it's a skating rink out there. with lesser cars and slow enough it's when you have so many on the roads at once and rush hour it's at perfect storm of one inchch of snow the wrong time, wrong amount of people and roads were not pretreated and it's bun unbelievably cold the last few days it stikd quickly. this is the know we have on the ground. barely an inch in northwest d.c.. many snow totals were less than that. in fact, in arlington over an inch. reagan it was half an inch of snow. temperatures were so cold.

that's what it stuck quick limit we'll keep up updated with all of the snow headed our way in the coming days it's a preview unfortunately a dangerous preview at that. >> that's the latest from out here. let's go back to shawn and tony inside. >> caityln. thank you very much. of course one of the things we've been talking about people were tweeting us about it on facebook and twitter is the gridlock and road conditions we're seeing across the region. >> joining us on the phone now to tell us about the conditions out there and why we have the rough evening we've had is the mayor of district of columbia mayor muirial bowser madame mayor, are you there. >> i am you can hear me okay. >> yeah it's a little soft we'll try to bring you up. thank you for calling in we appreciate it. we know it's a busy night. let me ask you this as of right now, what is your understanding as to what the road conditions akos the district are? >> well, we've as tony said, everybody who doesn't need to be on the road, stay inside and let our crews get to work. and i think that's the message

actually across the region where we have very slick conditions. we are -- we have deployment of our vehicles out salting and clearing. and the vehicles need space to work. >> mayor bowser we had a picture a short time ago a live image of the rock creek par parkway. we saw cars sitting and tweets of one of those presidential motorcade having a rough time getting through the city. were crews caught off guard did the clipper come in too fast and we were not simply prepare prepared. >> we put out, shawn, a -- our crews out at 4 and we had some crews out since then salting. i do think that the snow came in and laid more snow than was forecast. but we've had our crews out since 4 salting roadways and

we'll be doing that all through the night. >> mayor bowser let me ask you this, and it's kind of a rephrase of shawn's question, listen, i've been around a long time, i know these snow storms are very tough on mayor's of washington d.c.. but a lot of people are upset this evening. we're seeing the tweets and seeing it on social media because of the long commutes, through the city tonight, were the roads -- >> it's more than through the city, tony, people were traveling all over the region. >> absolutely. absolutely. i'm focusing on the city because we have you on the phone. were any roads pretreated or now didn't have the time. >> no, i just explained our crews have been out since 4 on the roads. >> since 4. >> yes. >> okay. >> mayor bowser let me ask you this. so this is just today, we know that we are anticipated to get mrizard conditions starting friday evening. what sort of preparations are in place to make sure we don't see a repeat this as we head into the weekend.

well, we are looking at all of the forecasts coming in, shawn, we expect to give a full briefing tomorrow at 11:00 because we think that the forecast and when the storm will arrive is going to be very important to our city operations for schools and for government and we know the public transportation systems will rely on that as well. we, of course, will put safety first, and when we have a better idea of what the snow will arrive, to get out and move the snow. now, we are expecting -- if the forecast holds, upwards of 20" of snow and maybe up to 2 feet of snow. and we think that the rush hour that will be impacted is the friday evening rush. so, when we're more clear about when the storm will arrive we'll be able to make decision around that.

so, this snow that came in today, it came in at the rush. and so, we want to be prepared for the first rush of the big snow. >> one of the problems, we'll let you go after this one of the problems with a snow that comes in during rush hour and this is what we saw in ca carmaggedon years ago and what we expect to see on friday a rush hour snow, the federal government plays a large role in that, as you well know, a lot depends on what they release their workers. are you able to have any influence and talk to them and circumstance well, here's what we think will happen anyone d.c., maybe you should do this? >> mayor: absolutely, our folks are engaged in those conversations and there's been some regional calls. and, obviously, all the officials want to make the right decision and we need to do tractor-trailer closer we get to the anticipated snowfall. so, we are already in those

conversations. the last thing we want is for every you know entity to release at the same time. >> all right. d.c. mayor muirial bowser we appreciate you coming and appreciate the crews on the roadways now and we know they're doing their fwoingt get the roads cleared and salted and prepared as we continue on with what is just the beginning of a -- >> and thanks, shawn, already we're seeing as the snow is tapering, the forecast is that it could be in and out a little more quickly. now we're seeing it tapering. i'm on georgia avenue now. write can see plaque top, and now our crews are getting on the side streets. ki not emphasize enough if you don't have to be out, please stay off the roads so we can allow the crews to get to the main and residential streets. >> slirp good advice. thank you so much. we appreciate it and we will be talking to you over the next couple days.

>> thank you, bye. >> the issue is some people don't want to be out but it's taking forever. >> these are live images wisconsin avenue. we can see a little blacktop. plenty of people out walking. be careful if you don't have to be out there, don't be out there. >> sue, let's turn to you. the mayor mentioned the forecast and i do want to point out, sue, and caityln, mentioned this last night, and it was talked about earlier today on "fox5", about this clipper system coming in during rush hour. right around 5 p.m. or so. >> and tony there was a winter weather advisory issued and this is widespread. i have a total commute west baltimore to high atville 3 1/2 hours. that's smh that's shaking my head. think probably was a little vigorous but an inch was expected and discussed and that winter weather advisory. but a lot of times people wait until they see the snow to get on the roads. it's a socio logical thing. any time it comes in it's a bad

time. we want to show you totals. not much, half inch to inch or inch and a half in some places and arlington seemed hard hit with 1.2" and gaithersburg a half inch. my husband said it's a nightmare out there as well. winter weather advisory went into effect 6 frbg almost exactly when the snow started and it will end at midnight. they're not going to be extended it. here's what's left now and it's going to be pushing away. i'll put this in motion darker purples indicate where you had more significant accumulation. back edge almost to the beltwa beltway. it should be gone within the next hour or so. but here's a big part of why every single flake stuck. we hardly got to the freezing mark today when the snow started and it dropped into the 20s quickly and that's why everything covered out there and the road crews will have to get to work. so, problems in the morning with icy spots. let jump ahead to late night storm. jumping ahead what i'm showing

you here all the winter storm watches and yes the brighter green color right here bulls eye on washington. we have a blizzard watch and this is to give you a heads up and concern that 35, 40 mile an hour winds even stronger could cause visibility problems as it gets going and winter storm watch nrs effect and it will begin friday night. when does this begin. tony said earlier it will be high impact beginning because it will likely come the evening rush hour. i'm telling people be ready by into and it will arrive after that 4, 5 or 6:00. either way goes downhill quickly and it's blowing and sdrivting snow and likely pou pouter outages and widespread significant accumulation and

rough 1 to 2 feet we're saying now with major travel impacts all weekend long. this is forecast 3.0 and we have to expand just west of d.c. into parts of north west d.c. with 18 to 24" amount forecast there. maybe 12 to 18 on east side of z.c. and over across the bay we're looking at 6 to 12 and maybe 3 to 6 at beach as huge winds coast ali rotion a problem throughout as well. that's what we're looking at. and one last look at the storm as it approached friday night with model guidance on top that goes downhill quite quickly and may even be break into our top ten if not our top five snow storms of all time the way things are looking now. we'll be getting new information in throughout the broadcast and pass along trend we're seeing. there's still time for a track change that could change those amounts and we'll let you know everything we're seeing all cards are out and on the table for you too see.

we're maybe 40 hours out from when this all starts. >> a viewer just tweelted out a picture. she sent me a picture 395 at 10:00 it's still a parking lot. >> tough night along night for many of us. stay with us we'll keep you updated on the road conditions and traffic conditions. >> that's right our coverage of the storm, of course the storm evolving and we will continue for the next hour and a half. keep it here on "fox5". >> meanwhile coming up in a critical time we're approaching the final hours where you can prepare your family and pets before the storm. what you should know before the potential blizzard on friday arrives. >> and we're also taking you to camp springs, maryland, police canvassed a neighborhood tonight. they're trying to figure out who killed a man in his apartment. who killed a man in his apartment. we'll be right back. 

>> welcome back we're looking over shoulders of sue palka and caityln roth in the weather september erin they're keeping their eyes on everything happening tonight.

you can see they're hard at work following tonight's clipper which had a dramatic effect on traffic in our region tonight. and they're monitoring that. >> they're looking forward to the blazard friday. we'll check back to get the latest. >> meantime tonight snow caused plenty of headaches as we mentioned for drivers across the region. you can see images right now i believe what is this connecticut avenue? >> yes. >> what a mess out there. knox 5 tish alewis is live in the northwest. we've seen pictures and fwreets all over the region. what is it like where you are. >> well, shawn, tony, what ki till the mayor mentioned if you don't have to be out don't go out. a lot of folks you see here behind me is still out and they left work earlier tonight trying to get home. this is the the scene behind me here and woodly park and many

drivers are at a stand still amid the snowfall and just to give you an idea it took up more than 2 hours to get from southeast here toe connecticut avenue near calvert. each you can see is backed up miles upon miles and going nowhere fast. this is familiar scene cross the dmv tonight. traffic is backed up for miles. we're talking about slow moving traffic. and we saw a couple spin-outs. all this started tonight and after 10:00 this evening and at some point there was no movement for drivers on kentucky we have seen plow trucks on the roadway and some folks are venting on social

media about how the roads were apparently not pretreat add head of tonight's snowfall. much attention relied on at the weekend's event. >> we nruvrpinged it as drivers and motoring public. state and local officials we were all caught off guard by this. >> back out here live despite the snow business as usual in woodly park and the restaurant, bars and even some of the ice cream shots are packed tonight. we seen noticed some drivers taking a reprieve from the traffic fulling over to check out what is going on around here and enjoy in the midst of gridlock overnight. "fox5 local news". >> thank you tish a. >> still ahead we all think we know how to prepare for serious winter storm. but you could be mistaken.

september that right, marina. >> so right tony we have five tips you probably doesn't know. that could come in handy for the big storm this weekend. we'll be back after the great the big storm this weekend. we'll be back after the great break

>> there's aulz cars all backed on rock way parkway to connecticut avenue in northwest is now closed. certainly this is because the road conditions we've been seeing picture from all all over the region tonight about how bad this commute is. 10:24 still. >> and this is partly in an effort to treat this road and clear it because of the hazardous conditions we've seen. >> they closed the roadway is

it in both directions? we're figuring that part out. if you travel in that area avoid that it's shut down. >> we appreciate the picture you were sending us on social media ahead around town. if you have a chance to a take a picture of the traffic nightmare do so safely and tweet @fox5dc we appreciate that. earlier tonight, trader joe's, northwest. they're trying to stock up ahead of the big storm. "fox5" mar each amorocco joins us with the top five tips on what you can do to be prepared this weekend. >> shawn if we're learning anything tonight it's be prepared ahead of the big stor storm. we spoke to five expert tonight all sharing a wealth of knowledge. here are five tips you my not know that could make a world of difference come this weekend.

>> dulles has a heated run way that will on things up quicker at sdules. but at the same time you don't know where the equipment is m coming in from it could be on hold or grounded because of the patterns of the storm. it's very important to look to see where your flight is coming in from. which you can see on the web side and find out if that area is affected and whether there will be a problem you will be able to get into washington. >> even dogs used to their surroundings once it's snow covered they may not be able to get bearings. more dogs get lost during storms like this than regular times of year by huge orders of magnitude. people need to remember have id on your dog regardless of whether you are always in the same area or not. you know what will happen and have id and leash don't let the dog run off the leash if that's what you normally do. >> if you don't have that or wind you can use a sheet and

wedge it around the window or door around the fireplace. i know at my house the fireplace for some reason you can feel the draft coming in and so i used window film ther there. if you don't have that and can't get it a sheet works perfectly. >> typically carbon monoxide is around us every day. a treatment for exposure is fresh air. so again, any kind of you know attached garage don't warm your car in the garage. there's a potential for carbon monoxide. any fuel burping appliance or fireplace or wood stove. >> if you're stuck and strappeded on neighborhood street it's best to stay inside the car. because if you're hit, given the speed of those other vehicles you won't be injured. but if you're on a major highway then try extricate you yourself or park or move your car to the shoulder and stand away from the beltway where cars are going 45 or 50 miles

an hour. >> throughout the weekend and the big snowstorm we'll be hairing more trips are from travel to pets to home preparedness and make sure everybody stays safe as the snow falls this weekend with the big snow and big storm that we're expecting tonight. obviously a big test. if you can heed warning stay home. >> that's the advice. you have netflix at home watch movies bundle up. >> but the problem friday -- it will depend on what the jurisdictions do and federal government does. >> do they close schools. >> yeah it's likely not going to start snowing until the afternoon. do they wait until that happens and then close. then you have problems. unless they decide we'll close early in the day. we're not eachp going to on. we know it's not going to snow until later we'll avoid this. >> after today, maybe they willing decide to close early. >> lesson learned i think. >> it will be tough. >> i want to mention this just in we mentioned school delays for tomorrow including fairfax

country schools. two hours late. mannasas, city schools, now just came in they're going to on two hours late tomorrow as bell. that's now mannasas city schools added to the list of delays for tomorrow. >> that's right keep an eye on the bottom of the screen and we'll keep you updated with latest closing and delays as they come in. >> the storm we're still bracing for friday and saturday could bring some of the highest snow totals our region havrz seen. >> sue, let's talk a bit about that now. it definitely could break into the top 10. could it break into the top 5. shawn and tony we'll show you top five snow storms when "fox5 local news at 10" comes back and we're keeping an eye" radar for snow tonight crimppleing 1" snow that shut down or city streets tonight. we'll be right back. streets tonight. we'll be right back. ma

>> welcome back, everyone, this is file footage of winter of 2010 you remember that? which storm was this? >> that would be snowmageddon in february of 2010 a two part storm than was 10 incher i believe that followed one we had had previously and it ended up being the windy one and the one that created blizzard and shawn can i tell you i didn't want to go to hotel and i drove home in suv and i was trying to come back to the station that day 10:00 in the morning i cannot see anything. hi to find streetlights in order to make sure i was on the highway. >> wow. >> i said i will never did that again. >> my mistake in that storm was i left i was working mornings i left in the afternoon go home for a little while see my family and come back in. it took me five hours to get to the station -- to get to the hotel because i was on the next morning and when i got up at 3

a.m. or whatever to come to work, i turned on the tv and saw that people were still on their commutes home! i thought it was bad for me but not ten or twelve hours. >> that was the one we saw people abandoning their vehicles in middle of the roadways. >> that i think is january 25, 2011 carmageddon. >> they all start bleg together. >> all the geddons. >> we have seen car as ban donned too tonight. >> it's not the amount but how cold it was and how icy it's become. that's the deal. this storm we're expecting this weekend, will thb a history maker. well, we've gotten off to a cold start this weekend and i wanted to mention to you there's ice on the potomac from the last three night we had bitter cold air. and so that was a little heads up that the cold air we had around today is not only ice on the potomac chain link

pennsylvania but roads mighty cold and tonight's problem is from every flake sticking. it's almost out of here. we'll look at that in a moment. top 5 biggest d.c. snow storms. let me show you the list and see how many you remember. the biggest snow in d.c. 28" knickerbocker and 1989, 20". many remember this one. great photos from the february 1979 leming dairy storm. a lot of meteorologist giingts in this area became meteorologists because this storm. 18.7". 1910, 17.8 and blizzard of '96, 17.3 in district app a lot of snow in the area. are we going to crack the top five with this one. it's possible. we'll show you the snow totels in a few minute. i personally think maybe we

come in at number 6. i think we could challenge the blizzard of 96. the blizzard watch was posted for our area. that's rare to put it out 48 hours in advance and don't have to put up with in 2010 on the roads. i learned my lesson tony learned his you're learning it tonight on 1" of snow in the region. here's that 1". we're seeing to move away now. this say weak, clipper system, and it's produced snow up to baltimore and may sop dixon line it's just about out of here and the good news is it won't be snowing during the day tomorrow. but the bad news is the damage is done. and we have a lot of slick spots out there and so we will and still taking shape you never know that this will become 95 blizzard we're expecting friday night. and it feeds on very rich

moisture. we'll have another update coming up in a few minutes the full forecast in the 7 day and right now we want to academic with will. more school delays i hear. >> indeed, sue, we want to remind several school district that are operating on a two hour delay. these are coming in constantly tonight. right to the update. students in stafford, fairfax, spotsylvania and fredericksburg counties you're on two hour delay and mannasas city and falls church city schools also prince william county schools you will all have a two hour delay tomorrow. they're bracing for another kind of storm over in fairfax country. parents and students there have gained a well-earned rep taking as a tough crowd when it comes to how fairfax county schools closed or not closed in past storms this is video from the snowstorm back in february of last year when this all really escalated. students and parents took to facebook and twit to sound off when this snowstorm hit the region and several school

districts closed. fairfax country did not. and boy did parents and students alike have a lot to say about it. >> do you feel like your kids were put in danger today. >> yeah i kind of do. >> they blew it should have been delayed for sure. >> here's my chance to add to the conversation i'm damn well going to. >> yes those are interviews from last year. people were not just talking about it last yeeringt they were tweeting as well and in fact the #closescps trended on twitter worldwide. this time fairfax county officials are prepared with 13 snow days built into the calendar. they used none this puts them good position out of the gate this time. this is not just friday. it's expected to be multi-day disruption meaning closures could reach into next week if the snow couldn't be cleared quickly. >> how do you factor that in when you are either egg getting praise or slammed one way or the other based on what you have to decide. somebody has to make a decisio

decision. >> we're a big family and that's what families do they praise you and they give you proper criticism when you need. it so, yeah, we get a lot of feedback from the communities there's a high expectation in the communities and we believe that's what makes it rich top live in this region. >> and school officials expect to get a lot of feedback and maybe criticism like they did last time during the snow. and come friday, fairfax country school officials will have a conference call before real early with the decision announced 4:30. as soon as that decision is made we'll let you know right here on "fox" 35 and also, just into the newsroom prince william country schools will be closed tomorrow. again, prince william county schools closed for thursday. "fox5 local news at 10" is coming right back. k8. >> you need a strong stomach to watch the market today the dow tumbling more than 560 points at worst point and ugly day of trading and cut that loss in half bit close and once again marking over china and oil.

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>> welcome back everyone we're covering light know and light clip are that came in this evening. can we pull the banner down you can see traffic slow a live look at traffic on connecticut avenue. it's 10:44 and many people are still trying to get home from the evening commute. >> i want to mention quickly just into the newsroom from district department of public works they're increasing number of plows from the 50 they had out there to 150 tonight to try to get to these roads as best they can. still a lot of cars out there. all right, police in prince george county canvassing a camp springs neighborhood tonight. >> they're trying to find out who shot a man last night inside his apartment. lauren demarco has the latest. >> according to police sources the suspects a group of men dressed in all black wearing masks on their faces and this camp spring apartment complex

is secure building key cardiac cec for residents and somehow the men got in own out of main entrance. [ knocking ]. >> more than half a dozen detectives went door to door looking for witnesses let's than 24 hours after the shooting, 29-year-old franklin young was gunned down inside his third floor unit at the carmel midtown square apartment happened around 9:15 tuesday night and according to police sources a group of three to four men, 25 to 30, dressed in black, wearing hoodies and hospital masks, shot young inside his apartment and stormed out. detectives believe he took off in a vehicle. they're currently reviewing surveillance and looking to hear from anyone who may have witnessed the attack. neighbors are shocked and frightened telling us the victim typically kept to hi himself. we talked with a man after they talked to police. >> i just missed it i came in 9:22 or something. i was ft. living room. and i just heard -- hi was not

even thinking shocked you know what i'm saying. but i heard it. it was crazy. >> gun shots. >> about four or five. it was not a lot of just four our five and a sound you never heard before. i didn't put two and two together at the time. this is secure area you don't think that. i think somebody dropped something in the holloway the whole time. >> it preliminary sdand pier to be a random ask and we're asking for the community help in this one and anybody that may have been in the area around about 9 to 10:00 last night we're asking any detail, anyone that may have been in the area. no detail too small to please come forward. >> detectives out here tonight despite the elements out in the snow taking this seriously. in fact, there's a up to 25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the case. in camp springs, maryland, "fox5 local news". >> let's tell folks what's

coming up at 11, 15 minutes away. we're going back to snow coverage rights now as you saw the roads are a mess drivers creep ago long making for miserable night. live back to northwest d.c. and this is connecticut avenue. look at this inching aalong and you would think five in the evening. 10:47 now. our crews are seeing people stranded and packed up and sli slipping and spiping out. you name it. at 11 live team coverage continues and why it may not be a good sign of things to come friday evening and this weeken weekend. >> storm tradition we can do this one. take place in due hospital circle. it's the snowball fight. it looks like plans are in way for another one this weekend. if you think you might have a little gab infever and want to see this up close and maybe participate, tony what do you think. >> i like brody being out. >> brody for sure we have the details on what to expect >> brody for sure we have the details on what to expect tonight at 11

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>> all right. welcome back everybody, 10:50 and live look behind us there. wisconsin avenue. can you see the traffic. >> that's going north the bac backup is going north. >> look at down there at the bottom of the screen looks like buses, it's a mess, those cars have been sitting there all evening. >> if any -- >> if any of you out there know how the american legion bridge is doing tweet me so i know. >> i'm afraid to go home. how about you guys? i don't know what we'll find out there. looks like pavement showing up it's cheyney that i worry there's quite a lot of ice out there temperatures in the 20s and i don't think this is going anywhere in a big hurry by by the morning and i know crews will scramble to get back with this and get you straight in the morning and we're starting early tomorrow on "fox5". i don't know if we are. >> not tomorrow. >> not tomorrow but we'll be on 4:25. before you begin the commute see what's going on the sportsfever television network the roads. i wanted to touch on the fact that this has been a half inch

to inch, maybe a half inch of snow tonight and look what it's donna cross the region. the difference being the crews were not able to get out ahead of this and perhaps it was vigorous but a winter weather advisory was posted by the national weather service even before the noon hour today. this was expected to come through 6 to midnight and we're under that advisory until midnight. snow is pulling out and should get lighter. we're seeing mostly east of 95 now and the back edge you might have a few more flurries here and you're accumulating snow shoulding up of there by now. advisory will be dropped at midnight and no plan to extend clip ser moving on in wake mid 20s. new push of cold hair rolled into town behind the front driving that clipper. low to mid 20s tonight. 28 leonardtown and cold enough a lot of snow and icy spots will be a problem in t morning. which is why we have so many two hour delays and now prince william is canceling for the day tomorrow. we should have a pretty easy

day to get through though, 35 degrees. and on the cold side for sure. friday the snow comes in temperature 33. watch for this to begin in afternoon. and the timing could change a little bit. george still two days out. changes could happen in the forecast and totals could change. the fact it has a big impact will not khaevrping and that's what we wants you to be ready for. here is the mrizard watch that begins friday night and runs through the day on saturday. the difference between a watch and warning is a watch means this could develop and warning means it is developing. we'll be seeing those changes likely as we get later into the day on friday. checking on the future cast. you can see the last of clipper snow is going to be pulling on out of town and future cast may be a little behind on it since it hooks like it's near the 95 corridor and then we begin to focus on what will develop tomorrow night and friday and this is the beginning of blizzard we're track improving through central plain states and dies down to southern

states and eventually moves to the coast and that's when that track up the mid-atlantic starts to pull in a lot of moisture and cold air in place. this is where the rain/snow line is. well south sean east. heavy rain we also have other things we'll have to watch with this including is there going to be thunder and lightning with a thunderstorm and heavy bants of snow setting up and will there be a dry slot developing where drier air pulls in and shuts off the snow for a few hours and changes totals. prepare for a foot, maybe two feet in some areas and these are our latest snow totals if we think we need adjustments to that we certainly will. we're watching new information coming in tonight. we're still on point with the forecast and we drop to 2 4 tonight and of course the snow around ending tonight is a look at tomorrow and you can see we expect a very settled day at 35 and good day to finish up preparation to maybe be house bound for most of the weekend. you're "fox5" accuweather 7-day

forecast perhaps we start seeing things get better as we get to sunday. they think maybe a morninging flurry and clearing out for a day to cleanup and restore. next week we look to be at or above 40. i will tell you that in the tuesday, wednesday time frame we have to watch for potential for scattered rain or snow showers and we'll deal with that once we get through this. that's your 7 day forecast. jim, back to you. >> let's go from snow ice. we'll talk about the capitol. some of the team got together tonight for a good cause. courage cap skate is a commitment. it provides care and services to anyone who lost a loved one while serving our country. the kellies were part that that event tonight. their father paul senior was army national guard colonel healeded for the army national guard and died nine years ago today and through the years he took his boys to nats game and another time came and paul jordan plans to joan the marine corps to keep his dream alive.

>> he was a great person what i nraerd people he was a great leader and helped a lot of people, especially in military. and i'm trying to draw strength from that and try to be like follow in his footsteps and hopefully ki be like him when i'm older. >> by the way caps will sell courage hats startsing this weekend and you can all get more information online. snow could affect two events this weekend. wizards playing jazz saturday and mayor pouz ser not sure what will happen there. that could be a factor certainly could be a factor. >> all right. .> >> stick around news at 11 .> >> stick around news at 11 coming up next.

>> right now at 11:00. bracing for a blizzard. we're feel the impact of

tonight's snow before the mo mopster storm hits friday. it's already caused major gridlock opt roads. >> we've got live team coverage from the weather department tracking the big storm to our reporters getting us ready for the blizzard to come. "fox 5 news" at 11 starts right now. >> and i say good evening to you but it has been a rough evening across the d.c. area. i'm tony perkins, thank you for joininging us. >> i'm shawn yancy. that's rite, right now at 11 tonight's clipper that came in earlier is starting to wind down a bit and there's still a few flurries flying down out. there the snow should stop midnight. there's an inch or snow covers the ground in various areas and it's making a mess for everybody out there on the roads. >> it really has. some folks have not made it home from work. new video at 11 a reporter lauren demarco shot this video on route 5 branch avenue just inside the beltway and the snowfall was causing a mess on the roads. people are creep