unfortunately. the winter storm warnings for the district and prince george's county and the fairfax county pointing north up towards 7 a.m. we'll come back and talk more about this storm and talk about the morning commutes on wednesday as derek eluded to. we'll talk about a bigger storm for the weeks end. >> a lot of white stuff on the doppler 9,000. thank you, topper. one local hardware store tells us that they usually sell about 150 bags of the salt melting out there. as of this morning, they sold 850 bags. not surprising since we have seen 24 inches of snow this winter. that's for the years put together. surae chinn live for us in alexandria where the crews are getting ready to go at it one more time, surae? >> reporter: i'm true plenty more. they are getting ready for that salt mix busy. they will be getting ready to start being on the road. it started snowing at 5:00 in alexandria. we'll step out of the way here.

it's been snowing, but not sticking much. we're told that there are some 50 to 60 trucks waiting to be loaded up here. tons of it throughout the evening. really, their main concern will be tomorrow evening and tonight as well. they had continue to push. they have been pretreating the roads since yesterday with the brine. now, they are loaded up with the real stuff. crews are now staged across the region. they are at $27 million snow removal budget is wiped out and has been since last saturday's storm. they are $6 million over budget. spending about $1 million a day for an average storm like this one. if you're talking about the potential for a big storm on saturday, they will be spending a lot more. but crews say that does not change the fact that they will be treating and clearing the roads just the same. looking at 495 right now, it's look pretty good. so that is the very latest

here. we'll keep monitoring the situation and the conditions here in al san doe kwra, back to you. >> all right, surae chinn, looking pretty good for right now. thank you for that. stkpwhr-frpblg you can see the whole list of the closings and the cancellations that we have tonight at the bottom of your screen there. bringing you for tonight and tomorrow. and don't be sure to tune in tomorrow morning at 4 a.m. for a special edition of 9news now. we'll have all the closings and the delay information that you need as well as your traffic reports before you head out the door. now, to see how the roads are going right as we speak. the 9news now traffic center. they did not look bad in alexandria. what about everywhere else? >> the roads are stick in most places, that's for sure. the conditions will get worse throughout the night. but the good news is, not too many accidents we're seeing out there as we take a live shot here at 270. this stretch has been rough, despite not having any activity to speak of. they have been very slow from the beltway out here. again, montgomery village avenue

up to german town. checking out another live camera, let's go out to 66 westbound. no clashes here either. all accidents have cleared. but still very slow from 495 to route 123. steady delays when tracking right now on that stretch as well. finally, we'll head up to the beltway as you can see, still very heavy on the inner loop, starting all the way out there. we're seeing the snow coming down here, all this white stuff, causing some slick conditions for folks. as you said earlier in the show, tomorrow morning, just to tune in, a lot of people will need that extra time to get to work tomorrow morning. we'll send it back to you. >> thank you for that. now to a developing story out of capitol hill where a senior intelligence official said today, we can expect to see al qaeda attempt an attack outside this country in the next three to six months. that revelation came during the annual assessment of the terrorist attack. more on the story tonight on 9news now at 11. and also tonight in your only local news at 7. double jeopardy, a minor accident that becomes a deadly

collision after a car plows into two men ho are stopped by the side of the road and the murder investigation. police looking for the person who killed a mother and her son in northern virginia. i'm peggy fox the at the scene of the terrible crime. a double homicide. this is the home where the bodies of the mother and her 8-year-old son were found. >> that is very terrible. >> she was killed. the son was killed. >> oh, oh my goodness. >> reporter: 8-year-old paul wilson, was a second grader at porter traditional school in dale city. his mother, 41-year-old nova from bulgaria, a friend says, had several rental properties. >> how were they killed? >> we cannot release that information at this time. >> who found them? >> it was the victim's husband. >> reporter: this man, a bulgarian friend of the victim says he picked up her husband from a metro station last

night. >> reporter: he told you that she had opened the door to a stranger? and he thinks that the stranger might have killed her and the son? >> i'm scott broom in northeast washington where a driving incident has shattered two families with unexpected ties. >> we all love him and we're going to miss him a lot. >> reporter: a stunned family gathers in hyattsville to remember the 30-year-old rosari, o. in northeast washington, a grieving wife holds a picture of her kids and her dead husband. 34-year-old, roy. >> he loved his children, he was all about family. >> reporter: this is where the two men died last night. they had been in a minor fender bender and they were pulled to the roadside exchanging insurance information when the cadillac suv creamed into them. the driver was a 30-year-old woman, allegedly drunk according to police. >> apparently it looked like they knew each other. >> reporter: it turns out the two men who died, the ones with

the fender bender actually knew each other. coincidence, faith, and then sudden death. >> reporter: well, opening statements today in another high-profile crash in our area. they heard some of the 911 calls from the morning of the deadly speed racing crash for nearly two years ago. prosecutors say that taylor and them were racing when they plowed through a crowd of spectators along the indian head highway. taylor faces vehicular manslaughter charges it in his trial. the secretary, hood, says toyota was a little slow, responding to those pedal problems that let to many recalled vehicles. sending out fixes this week for 2.3 million vehicles out of fear that the gas pedals can stick when they step on the gas. federal officials needed to wake toyota up to the seriousness of the problem. tonight, we're learning federal regulators also complains about the power steering system in the chevy

cobalt. the highway safety traffic administration says they have received 1132 complaints about the difficult seus, controlling that car. and that included 11 accidents and one injury. the review covers almost a million cobalt for the model years 2005 to 2009. and drivers are one step closer to going just a little faster in the state of virginia tonight. and today, both the house and the senate passed the bills that would raise the limit to 70 miles an hour in some parts of the state. supporters say it is just a common sense reform that will make sure that traffic keeps on moving in the commonwealth. they argued that they have no business increasing the speed limit in the face of the crisis. and they are expected to sign this measure. are you ready to pick it up? at the higher speed limit that made sense? or is it just going to be an excuse for people that are already going too fast to go even faster? share your thoughts in an

e-mail. the address is mailbag@wusa9.com. still ahead, a major medical journey, retracting the area that has them dropping back to the nation. but first, maryland's governor, addressing jobs in the state of the state address.

back on 9news now with a push to ban the sale of the distribution or the children's

toy or the child care products like baby bottles made with bpa. they listened to public testimony on that issue today. if the law passes, maryland would join connecticut and minnesota which have already banned bpa in certain children's products. well, mixed reactions to the governor's state of the state address. pat warren from our sister station, wjz has the story. it >> reporter: this is the state of the state message for those that have fallen on hard times. people laid off on jobs sitting in homes with for sale signs in their yard. >> with just one kwrapbder has to look -- marylander has to tell them that they need to move. it affects all of us. i need your help. >> reporter: governor o'malley is asking the general assembly to pass the law forcing arbitration for people in foreclosure. and a we can do for the senate president. >> i mean, this is not to save somebody who willingly is not

paying their bills. some deadbeat. we're not taking care of just them. but for the harpest hard work of the homeowners who pay by the rules. and they put that on hard times. >> never saved attitude. >> this recession will end our journey that is not over. our best days are still in front of us if we make it so. >> the bus critics argue saying that it does not make it so, especially in an election year. >> i would say campaign wise, we just saw the beginning of the 2010 governor's race today. a lot of rhetoric, no substance. >> if worried. i'm glad he's worried. >> the people in maryland need to have a lock out for them and not for their own local future. well still to come, for toys on christmas is always good. ground hog day, that's just confusing. we'll be back to explain that in a minute. plus, our own favorite forecast with topper shutt will be back with a look at a less than favorite forecast. >> lots more snow to come.

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well tonight, a health alert that could, perhaps have you rethinking your child vaccination. remember about ten years ago when that report came out linking the vaccines for measles, mumps, and others to autism? well, the study fueled a huge controversy when it appeared in the medical journal. they retracted the study saying it was flawed. >> my opinion is that this case is closed now. it's no longer a story. >> the allegations against me and my colleagues are unfounded and unjust. >> it turns out more than a dozen study since then have refeuded his findings. defense secretary, robert gates says it's not a question

whether don't ask don't tell gets repeated but how and when it will happen. he was one of the several pentagon officials testifying in front of the senate committee today. senator obama a-- president obama appeals to plan during the state of the union address. >> no matter how i look at this issue, i cannot escape the trouble that we have, a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend the country. >> numerous leaders tell me that the don't ask don't tell is working and that we should not change it now. >> we're not kicking out people that are, you know, horrible at their job. we're kicking out people just because of their sexual orientation which is just plain wrong. critics say openly gay service members could disrupt the ranks. but they say that they have spoken to some of the nato allies that allow the gay members to serve, they see no impact on the military effectiveness. the first vietnam veteran to serve in congress is in

intensive care tonight. a spokesperson says that the congressman is suffering from complications following the gallbladder surgery last week. the 77-year-old republican is from pennsylvania. and he is serving his 19th year in cobb. i believe he's a democrat. remember when ground hog day is just one little fellow being pulled out of pennsylvania? well today, we counted at least nine case of animals being counted on the forecast of the weather. let's get to the original. the good old feel. thousands of people are gathering and gobblers, don't you love that name? the gobblers knob this morning to find out the famous rodent that would saddle the verdict. well, he did. that means they are predicting another six weeks of winter. but then the controversy begins. this is staten island, chuck and his forecast, not quite in the agreement with them. you see when they came out of the winter home, they did not see the shadow.

they grabbed that winter box. things were not so smoothly in georgia with that leaked. he's probably the second most famous furry progress most -- prognosis. climbing to trees and then they hid from his handlers. they are petty sure he missed the shadow in all of that. they are counting on the predictions of six more weeks of winter and let's face it, it doesn't seem like he's out on the limb with that as well. >> whether the way that things are going that is pretty safe. >> i think about 93% of the time for them. >> to go with that, you know what, spring is right around the corner. >> right. we have a winter warning in affect t-r for them. not a huge storm. getting below freezing for them in the north and the west, beginning to accumlate. here is your forecast first. the next three days. we're looking at temperatures in the low 40s for them tomorrow.

really a nice pretty day for them in the morning. low 40s on partly thursday for them. then as we have been eluding to for a while, perhaps another storm. a bigger storm for them as we get into friday evening and friday afternoon for them that they have been carrying on into friday and temperatures in the 30s. tonight, the warnings, two to five inches. a mix south and east that will keep them down to an inch or two in charles county, st. maries county. even into extreme maryland. you'll see two inches. turning northeasterly. temperatures below freezing out it there anyway. 26 to 32. let me show you the live doppler radar. access this on the web any time you would like. the solid areas crossing essentially where they is have been posted out there. and it's going to be a mix in some of the rain and the snow, not an ice storm. just a mix to cut down your accumulations a lot. you may end up with anything. let's go back to the computer. >> we'll talk about the general two to five inches across the

metro area. one or two down to the south. and you go south of that. keep going down there. maybe an inch or less. because of the mix there. and essentially, everything sort of shuts off the accumulating snow that shuts off in the morning. here is the microcast. doing a pretty good job with this. they look pretty good. more snow by midnight. that looks pretty good for them and they start moving out here pretty quickly. and they could have a little batch of the flurries during the morning rush. but i think the real accumulating snow would be out of here before the rush. that would give them at least a couple of hours with no cars on the road to get ahead of the road. after that, we cleared out on thursday. they were in pretty good shape in terms of the temperatures too. and right now, down to 34. and down to 34 at vienna. more and more is going to begin to stick to the roadways. returning partly cloudy, 20s and 30s. and by the afternoon, partly cloudy. a little breezy. but seasonable. temperatures are in the low 40s. the spot on average for them at

10 to 15. you mite need sunglasses tomorrow. and you'll need to keep your windshield fluids full for the next couple of weeks anyway. clean your headlights, the taillights. it is going to refreeze again tomorrow night. that means it'll be slippery at least in parts on thursday morning. satellite picture radar combined. there's the storm. they are down south to wilmington. once this batch rolls through, this will not give us any additional moisture. that'll be about it. next seven days, low 40s tomorrow. low 40s on thursday. here comes the next storm. potentially big coastal on friday night into saturday. cold on sunday and monday. and derek, low and behold on tuesday, we have more snow for them possibly temperatures in the low 40s. and really, it's very rare for us to have snow on top of snow. to have snow on top of snow on top of snow is even more unusual. and to have snow on top of the snow, i have never seen that. >> well, you know, we'll talk about that in a minute, wheal i'm sick of the snow, you love it. we'll see you in a minute. ó?xxeccúú

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in the mail bag tonight, the big toyota recall says they own a 2007 avalon and one unhappy caverner -- camper. the company should know which numbers need a replacement. and there should be a place where i put in my vin and figure out everything that i need to know about my car. secondly, because of the sereness -- seriousness of the cars, they should be paying for rental cars for the owners. as when in the heck is it going to stop? last night, i asked if anyone was sick of the white stuff and

apparently no one is. 7-year-old pretty straightforward, i'm not tired of the snow. okay. wendy from virginia, in fact writes, bring it on. i love the snow, the more the better. and karen from alexandria says, stop being a weather wimp. we in the dc area have it relatively easy. many of us included where it snows in feet from october to may. and stop whining, learn to drive in and plow the white stuff. as they still predicted six more weeks. a good deal. all right, everybody seems to like the snow. and they did send a list of things that he does not like about it. the suv drivers who feel like they are seeing it and they cleaned the snow off the vehicle. nonfour wheel drivers on the road spinning all over the place, where are they doing

there? drivers that do not turn on their headlights. okay, by the way, i have a question for you. has anyone ever died in the snowstorm because of the bread or toilet paper? just curious. probably not, ron, but if the cable ever goes out, that's 100% fatal. or else, you could just jump on your computer and send us an e-mail. the address mailbag@wusa9.com. am i the only one for them? i'll be right back here tonight at 11 to 7:00. we'll see you there. topper keeping an eye on the storm. bye.

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