>> you might be the hero of the night. why out and about? >> i'm a loyal wife, and i'm getting beer for my husband, i

thought we had everything, but iremembered we don't have beer. so looking for -- >> what a heck of a guy to send you out in the snow to get beer. >> oh, no, that's my job. i am set. i love the hotel dew point, because it is if my power goes down, i'll check into this beautiful hotel. so this is my neighborhood. >> on serious note, are you pretty concerned about the power going out? >> not for me. i worry about the elderly and sick, and i help everyone in their neighborhood, look for people who need help. >> nancy, what kind of beer? >> oh, anything except for ipa. anything will do. >> good, good luck to you, hey, chris? chris is the manager here, the hotel dew point, or the dew point hotel, i should say. >> i, i just noticed, out doing things, can we walk over here? i want you to show the folks what you've got going on over here. you set up snow bar? >> absolutely, we do snow bar every year. here the dew point circle hotel, and it is great. we try to facilitate and plan

around the snowball fight that's going to be happening, now on sunday, but, if it is nice weather tomorrow, we will be serving drinks, hot drinks all out here, so by 5:00. it is just a glass. >> idea, make sure folks are not risking any danger by coming out? >> about if you're coal we're here to take care of you. >> have you noticed folks checking in? >> when people who actually liver in the neighborhood. >> know us, we take care of them here at the luxury hotel, they are checking in, letting us take care of them rather than be stuck in the house. >> snowball fight sunday at noon? >> saying sunday at 10:00. >> we'll be open as long as there is not a white out. cocktails all day long. >> the very latest jim, laura. >> the snow beautiful here. you might have noticed plow

going by there. >> folks, really, happy to be out, the worse of it, i'm sure, hasn't come, but it is just a beautiful snow that's coming down now once again, bus service, not seeing any bus service any more, chief of staff for mayor bowser tweeted out because picture of a street car, going down eighth street. and he says those cars are going back to the barn, bus service is stopping. they're really encouraging folks to stay off the road. it is beautiful now. but i'm sure the heavier snow is coming a little later tonight. back to you guys in the studio. >> right, matt ackland, thank you. when we've seen those maps, and the signs of who was getting the most snow, who was slate today get the most snowfall, a lot of folks out to the west, western part of virginia, west to the district, are certainly expected to see a little more snow along the way. that's where tesha lewis out in manassas, tesha lewis out there. people were buying cigarettes, and ice scream before tesha. but, certainly, it is coming down where you are.

>> big impact out here at manassas shopping plaza in manassas. as everyone's been mentioning, it is beautiful. you can see it around me, snow coming down, gorgeous, also potentially dangerous. did i just get off the phone moments ago with the virginia department of transportation. and as they mentioned, police are responding to several accidents. they also told me that so far plow trucks have covered at least a thousand miles of roadway. and they also say that some of the challenge, when it comes to kind of staying ahead of the curve when dealing with this type of snowstorm is that they go through then have to pass through it again, because the accumulation is happening so quickly, in fact, here's a plow truck here, in this parking lot, and this is what we're seeing a lot. seeing these plow trucks come through, and come back through, because the snow is coming down so quickly, now, to my surprise, there are still a lot of people on the roadways, despite what we've

all been advised, which is to stay home if you don't have to be out. what i will tell you is that just driving here, from the station, it took us almost two hours, and we were going pretty slowly. >> see the ground here in the parking lot, completely covered in snow. it was not like that when we first arrived here. now, what i will tell you, this is little good news, because, i know some of have you been trying to get the last minute items, because you waited until the last minute, the 7-eleven here, on mathis avenue, completely stocked with bread, and water, and some of the necessities, aside from ice cream, some other items. tesha lewis, fox5 local news, actually, going to now to

mayor bowser with an update. >> expect dangerous winds. and we expect that unless everybody does and access they should, it could be a dangerous situation. we expect 2 feet at least of snow in washington, and the snow is coming down wet and heavy which means that we could see trees, power lines down, and a loss of power. we are using every measure of precaution this morning, as i reported to you earlier, we stood up our emergency operations center here, at our homeland security in emergency management center. and we fully deployed the district's snow team. i declared a state of emergency to allow us to secure whatever resources we need to keep our city and residents safe. i've also called on the national guard to support our efforts by transporting

essential and emergency personnel in the district. men and women of the dc guard have reported to duty and will be dispatched, as needed. this morning, our snow emergency went into effect at 9:30 a.m. it is in effect in the district of columbia until notice otherwise. it means you cannot park in a snow emergency route. if you are parked in a snow emergency route, you will be ticketed and towed. it is critical that we keep our main routes open. and as i said, and i will repeat again, we want our residents to stay in place during the duration of the storm. we don't want anybody driving during a blizzard. it is dangerous to do so. and it also can prevent our first responders and our road crews for making the roads safe when this storm passes. i want to turn to director

gelheart now who will talk more specifically about operations, and he will also direct your questions. >> thank you, madam player. my name is chris gem err, director of director of emergency agent sit. as everybody knows the mayor just covered the snow has started in the district. we are looking at what the storm has done, and continues to do on its track to here, to keep to up date, and ensure that we have the appropriate resources moving in the right direction. we have been over the last several days reaching out to jurisdictions, and state, ask for assistance with all sorts of manner of things to include snow removal equipment, as well as support for our human service areas. right now we're watching the storm like you are, to see what we're going to get, where we ends up with this. we want to reiterate to folks once again as the mayor just has, this is a dangerous

storm. there are way too many people out on the roads now, we need to make sure folks are getting where they need to be. we ask folks to be off the road, and where they're going to be for the storm at 3:00. we're passed that. if you're not where you need to be, please get there. it is just going to get worse. and it will get worse fast. the snow is going to come in. you can see the initial bands that we had. we already have a lot of accumulating snow, and we're starting to get accumulating snow on the roads. so, again, this is a dangerous storm we're asking folks to make sure you are where you need to be, now. and that's all i have with the questions. >> how would you rate the golf's response and the public -- sound like the mayor little frustrate that weep are still out on the roads right now, how would you rate? you guys keeping up with it and how the public is adhering to your warnings? >> i think as far as the

government's perspective, we had preparations ongoing, up until now it, looks as where we stand today the preparations will be put in place they're holding, what we need to do. we're going to continue to watch the storm and continue to ensure that we're tracking all things we need to. we're going to be plowing continue slis throughout the event to make sure we get our emergency crews where they need to get to and make sure we're getting roads the snow off the roads as we can. >> urging, again, everybody to get off the roads. and to be where they need to be. as i said, on the outset, this is a dangerous storm, and it is coming fast. and if folks haven't realize philadelphia now, you all, i'm sure, realize that coming here this is deteriorating quickly. we need folks to get where they need to be. >> did you guys learn anything from wednesday night, problem during rush hour, affecting how you're handling, again,

reinforcing off the road? >> sure. i think the mayor addressed it earlier today, talking two totally different events. talking about what was supposed to be a half inch of snow, that became almost 2 inches of snow, and the pre-treat that we needed to do for that, and the time frames we needed to do it, were not in place, how we needed to. this is a different event. we treated 100% of our roads before this storm came in. we've done that. we're now at the point of where that pre-treating is not going to be able to sustain with the amount of snow on the time lent that the snow is coming in. we new that. which is why we're going to plowing now. really talking two different types of storms, so i don't think you can compare the response that we had earlier in the week to what we are doing at this point. yes, sir? >> you were complaining about about -- (question from the audience). >> i believe that the recommendations that we gave to folks, the right for life

march happened. and they were able to hold their event well. we have many concellations and event, that folks had scheduled for tonight and tomorrow. so i think that folks are really understanding that this is a severe storm, and very dangerous, and i think that we've gotten where we need to. >> i'm hearing something about -- (question from the audience). >> is that correct, mayor ... are they continuing their practicing runs? >> well, i think the director of d-dot, why don't we have them give us public transportation update including street car. >> the simulated service for street car has been suspended. so the street cars were operating today, but as the hazardous conditions moved into the area, they suspended service just like the bus service did at 5:00. so when you simulate service, you actually, you know,

simulate operational plan that you would have had place if you had passengers. so dad -- >> they stopped at 5:00. >> they stopped at 5:00. >> might and question: at what point does it become a problem for other emergency responders? up to what point is this something you guys can hanible ... (question from the audience). >> obviously the challenges are different for law enforcement and fire. but, through the last snow mag get on, which was 2-foot of snow, we found that we were able to, through most of the storm, get to every call for service in our suv's, and the vehicles that we have, we did move to some hum v's, in some of the tougher areas, near the end of the storm, in some cases officers had to get out and walk, the last block or so, to get some calls. we made it to every single call for service. >> chief, i get -- >> it typically does, yes. it get a little bit more

difficult to get around. >> firetrucks little heavier, and moving around, and getting through the neighborhoods, but, again, d p. w did a great job for us, allows us to get around for the more narrow streets, we have some atv's, also have access to their humvees, to be able to move around. >> could you give us an update onward eight, what they're doing? >> sure. i should note that we have been joined by a member of the council of the district of columbia who rep events wards eight, one of the district's eight wards, and this center located in ward eight. so council member may? >> thank you, madam mayor. so i've been out. there are still people out on the street, which we are encouraging them to get back inside. i'm coming here, riding around the ward. so you can definitely tell that the streets have been treated and the travel is a

little bit safer, but again, not safe enough for people to be out, so my team, team of volunteers are actually calling around, to our seniors, and our disable resident, checking in on them, to make sure that they have any need, that we're able to respond. >> i should mention, and counsel member may's ward, there is a grocery store, that had, i think, the most supplies of any grocery store in the district of columbia, and a very helpful staff. are there any other questions? yes? mark? chris? do you want to step up please? >> we talk earlier, director, about possibly that you might have to actually dump snow at rfk. can we talk about the efforts to make sure that problems with the pollute and the that runoff, whatnot, doesn't get into the -- minor problem, snow mag getend? >> sure. working through our department of environment, with our d

opinion dot, dpw crews, making sure that we, whatever we're going to do for our snow removal, and we do dump it, that we're doing so in accordance with all the regulations from epa, and that we're not violating anything as we do, that so we've done extensive things. matter of fact i just got off the phone with the department of environment director before we came down here for one last measure that we needed to do lot seven, and we will be good to go. sure, we put jersey barriers down between the lot and the river. and we're going to put a fence along that, to be sure there isn't any runoff. >> those are new ... >> yes, sir. >> thank you. >> yes, sir? >> also, talking about the -- i noticed that the homeless around -- they're still there on the great. is there anything to do or not to do? >> sure, we have had an

extreme cold weather emergency in effect as we know we've had cold weather in entire week. that's been in effect. and what we did, even though it warmed up beyond what our criteria is for that, yesterday, and going into today, we maintained that cold weather emergency, which does put us out there on the street and give the opportunity for folks to come in and more shelter space for folks to come in. we do a constant engagement with the folks out on the street. we have several measures that we can take, the first and for most, one that we go with, we try to encourage them to come in and make a place that's close to where they're used to being so they can come in, feel comfortable in doing. that will we're continuing to do that, and another call that i feel right before we came out here to ensure that we can continue to get the crews out there, to have that engagement with the folks, to get them in, throughout the storm. >> if they want to stay there -- >> there are still things we can do with that, but we cannot, you know, it is very

difficult, a situation that we handle very delicately with them, and whether we need to get forceful, or more enforcement within that, we do it. but we try not. that's our last effort in there. >> let me just say that we plan to have regular briefing throughout the event at ten a.m. and at 5:00 p.m. we will evaluate what the weather, what the conditions are, in the morning, to see whether we will be able to do that in person or by a press conference call. and if it is in person, we will also evaluate the conditions to see what the location will be. our first choice will be to meet here at 10:00 a.m. and if not, we will get the word out of the location as early as possible. thank you, everybody. >> mayor, if we can assume -- another event tonight --

>> that's correct.

so you know it is coming downw fast and heavy as duncan said at big difference in time of just trying to get home.om taking a lot more extended time than normal, of course, and we know all about that.ll and the safety.thaf there's been a few buses goingug by and i want to tell you withot the buses i've seen going byng b here, they're totally empty. there's nobody on them whatsoever.ev got a wave from the bus driversi but they're all alone just doing that ride up and down wisconsin avenue haven't seen too muchto

else happening here the trafficc has been very very slow.lo cars far and few between and the same thing with pedestrians. you know, as i said duncan just got through working over acrosss the street at the gym and wem aw notice add few people actuallyel coming in and out of the gym gym tonight. so i guess they're just alsous a going to just enjoy their time m and take the quietness but hopefully once again getting gti home safely in this weather.ther and that's all from here right now.now. we'll keep you posted.ke back to you. >> by the way somebody over ther gym was watchin watching and i t that gym he said since you can'n come over i need you to do 20o push ups on the air.e. (laughter). >> not going to happen there. tp sorry about that. >> keep in shape here.e. with all this work.ork. get it going on. >> right.>> >> that will keep you warm outpo there, gwen.. >> definitely. for sure. >> thank you gwen. >> okay.. >> get down and give me 10. me >> maybe later.>> maybe later maybe later. in the meantime, well get out to lauren demarco she's in i gaithersburg she had a couple ol people talking about the roadoad conditions out there. t and how is it looking right now,

lauren? >> reporter: looking a bit a b more desserted than he we werenr earlier which is a good thing ig suppose with most people stayina off of the roads. roa you can see we definitely haveey nice build up of snow here at a least in the road into the park parking lot at the giant and tht kent and gaithersburg. hello sir want to come chat with us? he's g i see a lot of l people actually a pretty large e neighborhood here, reasonablee, neighbor. i see a lot of people walking tg the giant which i guess is thes good plan you don't want to be b out here driving on the roads rs but folks walking from their the homes giant says they're goingye to be open until midnight and then reopening again at 6:00 inn the morning tomorrow which isomr pretty wild.il everything else around hered h appears to be shut down. st all the other stores. so again can thing keeping kpi people off the road i do hand in to the workers here there's a a guys out stacking carts.ts they have been doing their job inside of the giant. g they seem to be pretty well w stocked as far as food and not too many people in there at this point we just went in a short

timing a using the restroom ineo there we parked our self at a pretty good spot hopefully ifefl they do actually stay open as they say.they say i wanted to -- jack if you canan come back to me here. me h i've got my metro smart triprt t card going to be useless, rightg because metro shutting down at least the rails afterlsft 11:00 tonight and then tomorrowm and sunday.. but one thing it's good for isor measuring snow.as if you hold it this way its wayt should be just over 2-inches ans i wanted to see very unscientifically how much snow we here and it goes all the wayt n so i'm thinking we've got jusj over 2-inches of snow here inn gaithersburg.ithe of course it continues to come e down. this is just the beginning.inng we did see some kids out sledding in the neighborhoods.bo so people out enjoying it at this point and i guess the wholo thing is to get home, stay home, stay off the the roads so thedso crews can do their jobs. j of course the state of marylandl just like all of our area underu a state of emergency as well. w. but that's the latest intn gaithersburg.gaithersburg. back to you guys.back t >> hey, lauren, thank you so thk

much. >> all right. >> all right.>> we've been talking quite a bit i about the roads we showed i was lot of the traffic cameras butam how about this? how about if wi take you behind the wheel and i know ronica cleary is in thein t car. we need to point this out.s you are not driving. drivi you are not driving.are not dr you were just reporting in thepo front seat, correct? >> reporter: was that weird? rd ronica, can you hear us, babe? b >> may be on delay. that's the problem when you havv some of these units here. her cell phone technology andhnoly sometimes there's a bit of aeref delay.de ronica cleary -- cary >> can you hear me.>> can >> we can hear you ron any casms can you hears?can you hears? >> i can hear you guys. yes. i'm confirming that i am not driving this car. c so you don't have to worry about that. we are in an all wheel driveheei car. keep that in mind. and you can see you see a littlt bit of asphalt but it is it definitely sticking on the road and there are not a lot of cars out here. so this is certainly nottaly n something we recommend for themr

people watching.g. now, i did speak with the public information officer in princen george's county.geor that's where we are right now. . we are on the beltway and i got a little information for ourorur viewers about these roads. now, they are doing two, 12-hou- shifts every 24 hours. now they started at 10:30 thishi morning on these roads, and they have, let's see, it's 250 staffs working at each of these 12-houo shifts. so 10:30 tonight they will theyl switch over with another set of 250 people. people. they've got 350 vehicles out ono the roads trying to keep you safe and certainly stay ahead oo this storm.th you know we've been saying it by time and time again this is going to be non-stop for quite e quiet few hours and this isn'tsi something we can just wait untit it's over to treat these roads t and take care of it. so they have over 1900 miles off county road in prince george'srs county alone to address. and one of the things also keepk

in mind if you are in a a situation that is not in an an emergency, i was looking at the prince george's county theeorgen website for, you know, citizensz if it's not an emergency concern about conditions, they're askina to you wait 12 to 24 hours to call 311. obviously if it's an emergencyne they want to you call right aw away. away but they are managing a pretty n monumental task out here. now, i think i just lost you guys so i might not be able to hear you.hear i think i got you back. but that's a pretty consistentst update for you on what we havete here. you can see the roads.. we're doing just fine in all ina wheel drive but we certainly do not recommend it, you know, weu, want to you stay home and stayed safe and let us be out here to h tell you what's going on.n >> ron any cash i have any cashe question for you.question have you seen a lot of vehicless disabled over on the side and sa have you seen a lot of plows out there? >> i have not seen a lot of

disabled vehicles.ic in fact i can't say i've seen i any. i've actually been in prince i george's county since the starta of the storm. srm i've been here from aboutmbo 1:00 o'clock today.lo t i drove over early to try to beat that storm and keep safetyy as my main concern before i got into this better vehicle to beob in my own personal car.ar i have not seen disablen dab vehicles. i have definitely noticed thatlc there are fewer and fewer cars c on the road as the night goes gs on. i will tell when you we weree most recently out on the side oi the road i did bring, i broughtt a yardstick since we'rein w expecting so much snow in thiss storm, right now it's just about 2-inches of snow in prince in in george's county that i was able to see. s but certainly it's still comingm down pretty quickly and it willl accumulate more as the nighthe n goes on. >> all right.>> aight ronica cleary, thanks very muchc from prince george's county.ncoe >> once again not driving. dvi we like to emphasize. sometimes people are concerned d about the reporters out there in the car.

no, certainly somebody is in th drivers seat and ronica isica telling you what's going on.t'so >> also after we're saying don't be on the roads, don't be on thb roads we have a reporter on the roads. our intention here is to give io you an idea of what we're seeine out there, and you know, we'rew' working with public safetyy officials and gettin getting thd out to you all at home to show o was the conditions are like toot we're providing public serviceer in doing that. so just to explain what -- whyh- we're out there.. >> jenny davis has been out o throughout the course of the dae we were checking in with her ini right now she's in fair oaks, ok virginia, much darker night hass fallen out there and so is theoe snow.snow hey, jenny.he >> reporter: there. rep a little more miserable out herh right now than it was just an hour or two ago. a we have moved we're now in fair oaks along route 50 and you do d want to give people the benefitb of the doubt because i are havee to tell there are a lot of folkl out here traveling.ng look at the cars coming down thn road here.ro we did just see a fleet of sixf plows heading the other direct.r

you can see plows working onorno some parking lots up there butpb there are still quite a fewuite people out on the roads. again, maybe they're coming orgr going from work. maybe it is an emergency.cy. but unles it's one of those two situations, crews say please sae please stay at home and don't do this. you can see we can't see the cae pavement here as much -- as manm plows as we've seen and we havee seen quite a future you can sees it's completely covered here,erh and if you don't have four wheew drive it's going to be a littlea bit tricky.riy. now, i have talk with some plow drivers we saw them over at a salt dome in fairfax earlier and we ran into a bunch them at acht gas station people are cutting c in and out of their formations,n they're jutting in front ofing f them, you need to keep youro kep distance from these plows.ese p not just for a safety perspective for you and to themm also so they can do their work.w the one woman i talk to said iti was very difficult because soaus many people didn't want to taket their time behind them and theym were trying to cut through andhd around them.. so her quest please don't doas n that. they need to get out ahead thisi stop. what vdot is telling us theyel

have the mack mum amount ofamouf crews out there right not.. that's 4,000 of them. to put that in perspective there were 500 out on wednesday butney they have the maximum out rightg now in 12 hour shift.hi the goal is to get out in frontr of this before we hit the the whiteout condition. so every two to 3-inches theyy hope to bring plows through to p clear it out that's the ways wy they'll have to manage this inm order to stay ahead.ahead so they have crews operating atn the same time right now on major thoroughfares and also in i residential neighborhoods.gh the smaller plows tend to bed b there and vdot says if they t dough don't remove the snowheno every couple of inches it willes be really difficult. difficu they just can't wait until wai u there's 2 feet on the ground. so plows out working all night long. this is the super bowl for theme one i talk to, though, said --ai what's it look out on the roadss he said it went from good to worse.worse. we skipped all those interim int stages end said it's reallyeally treacherous out there.e. again, we're seeing a lot ofeeao people out right now. now. but if you don't have to go out then definitely don't. also i could felled you maybeu m

able to felt winds are startinga to kick up. making it feel a lot colder outl here now as well.s well. back to you guys. >> conditions deteriorating detr quickly. all on schedule as the weatherth team at fox5 had expected and predicted.pred >> we have you covered from all angles of the storm. sto reporters throughout the area. we'll keep going throughout ther night. in the meantime we'll take awe'l break. tony and sean will be joining bi you on the this other side ofe f this break on fox5.n x5 stay safe, everyone. everyone.

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happening right now continueson here on fox5 news.5ew good evening i'm shawn yancy s along with tony perkins.erki. >> yes. as expected, conditions haveons been deteriorating throughoutrag the afternoon and we're seeing more significant deteriorationrn in road conditions during thisii last several minutes as a mattea of fact. as you know there's a snowere'sw emergency in effect and they district of columbia.lumbia. and we expect much more snow tonight.ni >> that's right.>> let's get over to caitlyn rothat for the very latest on thehe forecast and what we are seeinge outside right now. caitlyn.ca >> shawn and tony just gettingtg started snow began about four of five hours ago, has beenee spreading north war since.g nor we have now moved past sunset st it is dark out and has been colc the whole time and snow has been accumulating very quickly inck fact already several inches herc in the district as we've been wb telling everyone.. to please get home and stay homh all weekend.eekend we'll start off with snow totalt for you because it has not takek long for that snow to start to pile up.pile u out at the national zoo here inn northwest d.c. an inch and anch half there.here germantown 2.5-inches up inp in maryland.maryland.

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high as that visibility will gew all weekend half mile at reagana national.nation three quarter mile out at dull dulles. this is why we are so concernedc about anyone being out on the te roads.ads. tonight and this weekend. wnd it has been very cold.y col the snow has stuck very quicklyi to the ground. gro it's made it very uncomfortableb for anyone to be outside becausc it's only 23 here had in washington.shon 19 in gaithersburg.hersbur all right. al the winds are going to become aa major factor as we go into thiss evening.enin projected wind gusts by 11:00 o'clock already along the coast 41 miles an hour in oceanr city. city and look at this guy tomorroww morning.rn 71 miles per hour wind gustserr that's in ocean city, maryland.l that's close to hurricane force winds. wi and close to or above 40 miles an hour wind gusts here at thehe city.city. that's why we have a blizzarde a warning in effect for everyonere including the beaches in the i e eastern shore you might not sees as much snow.now. but you will feely very fiercefe winds.wind that continues all day saturdaya we've got winds gusting over 50 miles an hour at times. even saturday night. nht and even by sunday you know theo

snow wraps up early sunday sundy morning but the wind does not and that's when you start toyosr have these ground blizzard conditions so it's not snowing but all the snow that has pileds up will be blowing and drifting. wind chills very cold outside. e only in the single digits to tho double digits. digit it feels like 11 in washington right now.. and those actual wind speeds about 15 miles an hour but like i said we do expect them to bee increasing pretty quickly. qckly hey, want to show you futureouue cast this is what to expect theo rest to have night into saturd saturday. snow and lots of it.nd you see those different purple p shadings all over the map that't moderate snow to heavy snow.no we think the heaviest of theof snow will be falling overnight g tonight into early tomorrowom morning by the way that's yourtu best chance to be seeingg thunderstorms within the snow ie is possible. possi some thunder and even lightning. notice towards our south and and east some mixing happening aspeg some rain starts to move on o shore.shore. that's why if you're down by salsbury, bethany beach, deweyew beach accumulatio accumulationsc

they'll have some rain.ain. saturday morning still snowing.s this goes all day saturday and y it's not until early sunday thaa we start to see things wind don down. the snow started earlier todayrt than it look like and it will wl end it seems earlier by the timt you wake up sunday morning you i might even see the snow out buto you'll be -- the sun out o definitely see a lot of sun but you'll also might even see -- s- going see a lot of snow.of sno you might see some sun, too.e, t that's what i was trying to say all right. we want to show you those snow s totals though before we let youy go. we've been obviously refining rn them all week although not muchm different from what wewe originally thought. tho snow forecast 6.0 we're callingg it. it highest amounts basically justus west of 95.f 9 through the heart of thorn of northern virginia and maryland m including western parts of the distract.dist 20 to 30-inches.. and just west and east of theree maybe 12 to 20-inches.0-ch so little bit less but stillutti blizzard conditions for everyo everyone. six to 12-inches north and south of that and you can see much

much less down along the eastern shore. maybe on the lower end of that t where we measure that 20 to 30t at reagan national but certainla on the higher end of that wherew we are out in dulles.. real quick let's show you theset blizzard warnings that are in effect this is this evening through sunday morning.. washington up through baltimorel that's a blizzard warning. war that includes northern delaware, philadelphia, new york city. so travel is not going to happep anywhere across the northeast ot the roads, on the rails, at thee airports, we've had flights fli canceled through the duration or the weekend. winter storm warning out towards our west where you see the counties shaded in blue. b that is how the stands throughnh bout sunday morning.day mog. so we'll continue obviously ally night long here in the weatherth center to keep up it dad it witw the forecast.orecas the thing is the forecast is ses right now. it's happened.ap it will continue to happen.. it's unfolding as as we anticipated and shawnee and tone we'll watch the snow pile up anp hope everyone is safe throughthg the rest of the weekend.re o >> indeed we are. ieed we are thank you very much caitlyn.ver.

>> update from our emily miller. she's just outside the stationha in northwest washington withas update on the conditions outsut there. hey, emily. >> reporter: tony, actually this is an update on something t we've had an outpouring sympatha for which is the fox5 gnome as e you saw we have a fox5 gnome wee brought it our here. her it's our producer's jeff'seff' gnome. we were going to watch it get cover in snow and i committeded gnome genocide.enid prefer to call it gnome manslaughter. it was an accident gnome kill. we've got over here, this is the remnants of the fox5 gnome. gno so sad. sad we'll try to save him.. but the sports department comes to the rescue. and brody has a new fox5 gnome!! >> wahoo! >> so i know you wereo i investigating --ve >> i have no idesta who this iss >> ink investigating gnome sides we know who did it we witnessedd

it. it. i'm sorry. but, yes, nicky backstrom ledtrl the n-h-l in insists he'll giveg you an assist. ass does what's hess name.he >> you're talking to girl.ing r >> who is this? >> nicholas backs strum from ths capitals. >> all right. all rht >> he'll come out he's your newe gnome. we don't have a shortage of of gnomes in the sports department apparently this one is aboutut 10-inches tall so we'll see if i you can stack up enough to cover nicky.ck if you break this one, it's i going to be like gnome pock pock lips, 2016. be careful.. >> serial gnome killing.ome we'll put this down. when this gnome whoever this guy is sports person. >> nicky backs strum is coveredv we hit 10-inches.0-inches that is time we're not going toi kilt. all right. back to you guys in the studio.. >> famous last words. wds this time we're not going to gng kilt.lt (laughter). >> all right.>> all r good thing the gnome or the newh gnome is in place.ce. let's head to dupont circlee where fox5's matt ackland iscknd standing by. wow, matt the snow is starting t to come down now.

>> reporter: when is the lasthee time you saw dupont circle likel this a lot of people are liste listening and staying off thed roadways. i don't see anybody in eitherdye direction.dictio there's some folks especially fa those people who are driving ini two wheel cars not so smart.o they're really having someaving trouble with the traction tct although there has been some treatment of the roads. r i haven't seen many trucks.y tru i think probably the city isity waiting for the most of the snoo to come down and then they can n really start shoveling. the place to be though toohoh tonight is right here at the bab dupont if you look in, it'st's packed here. a lot of people enjoying the evening having some drinks,e having some dinner and you got a great beautiful view of dupontt circle. in fact, they're going to be aea snowball fight they're alreadyyr talking about it and dupontont circle hotel here is planning to open up a snow bar so people can come get warm drinks, click c drinks and enjoy the snowball fight. once again, things look really l good.good the snow it seems to be comingom

down pretty steady now.y nothing who heavy there's nothee much wind much it is cold. but i can only imagine the worst of its coming we've got about an inch, thank you, someone yelline come non from the hotel. everybody seems nobody a good mood but the latest. les shawn and tony a lot of people are staying off the roads. roads foot traffic people are tryingrn to get a little extra exercisee before they have to be cooped ue for the next 24, 36 hours.rs so there are a lot of peoplepl walking around before things ges bad. back to you. >> matt, let me ask you youet m mentioned the restaurant or barb area is open. on. it's a hotel.it's hot what about other things inut oti dupont circle? are otherth businesses still open or is everything closed down? >> reporter: shawn, i've'v covered several snowstorms fromo this locate.isocat you know what doesn't typicallyl close down the starbucks overrbs here.re >> oh, no, it's dark.h, no, is >> say it isn't so. starbucks is closed.se what's a guy to do? >> what? >> reporter: i asked the manager, i went in and got a cua just about 10 minutes beforeinut they closed and the manager saii to me that, the problem was he

was worried about folks gettingg home. ho remember bus service stopped ana then tonight the rail service sr was going to stop.top. he didn't think they could open up tomorrow, too, and the basics reason was they couldn't get g employees to come here and workr tomorrow and he wanted them toht be safe.af so i'm hearing there's gymsre'sm staying open tomorrow. vita gym here three locationse that are going to be open.. but other places, shawn, seem to be closed uptight until thehe worse of the snow goes by. >> all right. that makes sense.th we will have to geatt our starbucks maybe sunday. >> that is when starbucks is closed that's something is goin on here. >> something is going on forhi sure. thank you matt.. >> as matt showed you there, yoo know, it's different in different places.differ some businesses have attempted m to stay open as late as they ath can. ca or could.ou i know that one of the big b restaurants up in our area where our station is cheesecake factory staying open untilnnt 4:00 o'clock and they saidyaid

that's it we got to get peopleeo home.home >> i tried to order from chinese restaurant. how long will you be open? thet said we don't know. k do you want it right now? yeah. >> i asked how late you stayings open. op not sure.t su maybe nine. nine. >> obviously people trying toly take advantage of that as they can. certainly as the night goes on.s we're going to see more and morm places shut down and virtually l every place will be shut down.iw let's go to virginia now.a n jenny davis stayinged out theree she's in fair oaks and she cannc tell us how things are goingsreg there. jenny? >> reporter: hi there, guys.uys just by 30 seconds you just just missed a convoy of plows theylo just went through.ough so the roads are actually are aa little bit better.le bit we can see some peeks ofe pes pavement down there.paveme it was a convoy of about six.. they went down here so they can cover the expanse of route 50. e we have seen a lot of plows wew saw sick go the other way i'maym not sure if that's the same sixe that just came back.e b we've also seen plows working on parking lots here. h we also have seen a lot of carsr on the road. roa surprising amount. maybe people heading in for thea night trying to get home fromgeo work. work you were talking about what isha

and isn't open.an we're standing here in front of the briar oaks gas station youti can see the employee here the hard-working employee gettingloi ready to sprinkle salt he doeshs have customers coming throughthg here and he is vowing to stayy open 24 hours here to help h anyone who is on the road thereh is a lot of activity at gas stations particularly fromlay emergency workers and plows.lo we're seeing a lot of those of t folks having to stop. there's a theater right hype usp they're staying open untilayg op 8:00 o'clock but that's a largel shopping center and everythingen else in there has already shut down. down so there's a good reason fordeao that.th we can tell that things arel th getting a little bitat worse.se it's colder. the winds are picking up.s ar and the snow is still falling fg heavily.ily vdot tells us they have the t maximum amount of crews out onwt the road.oad. 4,000 crews working 12-hour2- shifts and they're not justhey's hitting major highways they aree also in neighborhoods becauseboe they say if they don't start int there and try and keep up with t the snow they're never going tor be able to get out in front off it.it they also are worried that as we head into these blackoutse blact

conditions when things really w start to fall at two theo 3-ince an hour, they'll have to pull pl their crews off to the side ofh the road for safety sake if thee can't see, they can drive. dve so they want to get as much worw done as they can before that.hat so we're just beginning outegng here. the good news is a lot of people have headed home but still quitq a few out here trying to get get wherever they're trying to getgg tonight.ni back to you guys. >> forgive me if you said this,t the gas station that you're atoa right now, they are open orpe o they're not open and do theyo t still, disturb they are. a >> have gas.e gas. >> they still have gas.y it's a smallst little station he with just two pumps and then yo can go in on either side. s they say they'll be open 24 hours. they say that they have plentyte of gas and i have to tell you we have seen quite a few gasew ga stations open.pe we stopped at a sunoco on the on way over here at well doing doi brisk business.es so he's going to tough it out o owes says any case anyone outnye there needs help.there ne >> we were getting reports ass early as yesterday afternoon some stations were running out.t >> jenny davis in fair okay.n fa

thank you jenny. check in with you later. ler >> let's move from virginia over to prince george's county. ronica cleary is on the roads ts right now on route 50 headed0 ha east right now.st rigow ronica, what are the roads t roa conditions out there right now? >> reporter: thanks so much,h, guys. gu we just want to make it very clear to our viewers that i am driving while we're doing this. we are in all wheel driveri vehicle and we certainly do notn want to recommend that you gethu out on the roads. r. we're out here so you don't havh to be so that we can tell you,l you know, what these conditionsn are. i will say that in the last 10 to 15 minutes it seems that the roads have gotten worse. wor i can feel -- we have certainlyn slowed down.owed down. we recently just passed by twowo cars that had broken down on thn side of the road.de othe roa one we were on the beltway just previously a person was actualll stuck sideways in the middle of the beltway. he was driving a mercedes though.thou. another car that was stuck ontu the side of the road a bmw stucs

on the side of the roadoa certainly, you know, we don'te d want anyone out here in thesee i conditions. but those are cars that rear tt wheel drive that would not be we recommended right now. so as i said in the last 15heas minutes it does feel like we'vee gotten much, much slower onowero these roads.ese i did just speak with public information officer in prince george's county.ge she's actually about to get on a conference call.l get more updated information for us but i'll just quickly recapec what i did previously mention. they've got two, 12 hour shiftsh running 24 hours a day until the recommend of this snow event. et state ared this morning at 10: 10:30. they've got -- they've got to cover about 1900 miles of countu road in prince george's county.. so certainly they have been onh top of this from long before the storm started.ta i've been here from aboutut 1:00 o'clock at the start of sto that storm. storm and the last time that we weretw sort of pulled over and checkinn it out it was about 2-inches ofs

snow accumulation.ulio but i'd say that was probably 45 minutes ago at this point.nt so there may be a little bita te more by now. >> back to you guys. >> all right, that's ronica cleary roaring to us from routee 50 eastbound in prince george'se county. county again, she's not driving. drivi there is a driver in that car. >> absolutely. so we know a lot of you guys are sending us your information via social media, on facebook andnd twitter. jim lokay staning biophor with w look how things are going on social median all you guys are s zenning us stuff. stu. >> jim. >> a lot of cats.>> people spending a the snow out w there with their pets.s. we told to you tweet us along at hash ta#thewinterawakens.awak lea and the baby i'm ready for r the blizzard.zar there you go. winter awakens hash tag cat live. live. 13 hour in the storm shoveled my first batch hash tag dry snowh a which i'm curious where it ishes because we've been talking abouo wet snow that's been out therett quite a bit.quit as we continue on, we're stickei

seeing this tweet that says i sy like this one here, there's suee the winter awakens snow wars iw think some people were -- wereer coming up with some other namesm too.o. melissa says, hash tag the wintn awakens walking before it getstt too deep to walk.ok. so a lot of people sending --dig when you go out there you wantrw to make sure that you're seeingg conditions fave rabble enough kids out there helping i presump their mom shoveling out there in the snow as well jenny davis dav said earlier if you have youre kids out in the snow this is ths time to do it not tomorrow withr the winds this one here you see the dog dogs love snow i'm surer this owner let his today dog oug for minute and he started sta bureauing into the snow.heno this is of course a reminder to keep your pets inside, and hereh we go. metro greeter a little snowman.n i don't know what station this t is. but nonetheless we know thatha this scene will play out for f much belong will gary the metrom closes at 11:00 o'clock tonight. keep the tweets coming the #thewinterawakens and make sures you send them fox5 d.c. d shawn and tony back to you.oou

>> thank you very much, jim.oumu jim made a good point there.re. just a reminder metro closingro down at 11:00 and also the bus system, the bus service waservie suspended today at 5:00 p.m.5:0m so if you needed to get around a on bus you're out of luck atf l this point. >> all right. we'll take a quick break backreb with fox news at 6:00 and getd you updated on the snowfall s across the region.ss ther stay with us.stay with us.

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