andy is on maternity leave. amy is in for howard, and howard is calling in watching. she is doing a good job. but first, we want to run dune the list of school closings and delays. schools in howard, montgomery and prince georges county in maryland are all on a two hour delay and lowdon county schools in virginia. in maryland allegheny county schools, queen ann, st. mary's and charles county schools are closed. warren county and frederick county schools in virginia are now closed. public charter school in dc one hour late. virginia culpepper county schools closed friday. caroline county schools in virginia closed friday. fairfax county schools open two hours late. and fred ricksburg city schools are on code grown. king george county schools are

closed. orange county schools are closed. page county schools are also closed. prince william county on code red for employees. stafford is closed, employees in stafford county are on code two. in west virginia berkeley county schools opening two hours late, grant county schools, hardy and jefferson county schools opening two hours late. no a.m. pre kindergarten. mineral county schools two hours late. morgan county, west virginia two hours late. hamshire county in west virginia closed. government courts federal government open on time. quantico marine base, virginia code yellow. charles county maryland circuit court open two hours late, charles county government, maryland open two hours late. college and trade schools now, college of southern maryland, all campuses closed.

dod schools quantico two hours late. howard community college closing at 6:00 p.m. exams rescheduled. washington school of ballet. no p.m. classes, among private schools, alexandria country day opening one hour late, calvert-on school one hour late. christ chapel academy in virginia, it is closed. this is a very long list of schools closing, private public charter colleges governments and whatever. go to our website. wusa 9.com and click on school closings right there on the top of our page and they are always rolling on the bottom of your screen. annie is in for howard bernstein. we are out of breath and you are the reason why. >> reporter: yeah. you know, since the snow fell yesterday, we really haven't had a chance to go above freezeing to melt away some of the sacramento. but the good news is by today, we should be seeing the sunshine

and temperatures going above freezing. that is the good news. we are going to talk about more sunshine and basically, it is going to be around 29 degrees by the 9:00 hour under sunny conditions. by noon, 34. and the good news also the winds will be light for today, also by 5:00, clear skies, 4 degrees so those temperatures above freezing will help mel some of the snow away. currently, it is in the teens in places like martinsburg, 13 degrees reagan national it is in the mid-20s. so again, very cold start. so moms and dads, if you are getting your kids ready for school, make sure you get them bundled up and we'll talk about also your forecasts coming up a little bit later. but first we've got your traffic. >> reporter: good morning. we still check out the green light condition, use a lot of caution getting out of the neighborhoods. and in fact in maryland, we are still working on the water main

break georgia avenue at dawson, take it easygoing through there. both directions really. losing one lane each way northbound and southbound. overview zooming to 66 we notice a slowing eastbound from route 50 over to 123. back to the overview with the zoom to i-95 in virginia. speeds pick up a bit beyond that point. all lanes moving up on 395 in toward the downtown dc section. travel times also looks like on the major roadways no problems so far. beltway i-95 to 270, looks like an 11 minute drive in montgomery county. southbound 95 also about ten minutes from 216 going southbound down to the beltway ramps. i 295 dc northbound from the beltway heading into the 11th street bridge 7 minutes there. next traffic in a few minutes around 6:12.

coming up on 6:05 now. this was nowhere near last year, an inch or two in some places but boy it caused problems yesterday for people trying to get home from school and work. >> it's been nearly 24 hours since that snow fell. what are conditions like now? we have a look at when's on the ground or not there. good morning. >> reporter: good morning andrea. we got an inch, inch and a half over here in fairfax county. you know, overnight, crews have done an incredible job of getting this snow off the main roadways. check it out, we have a snow plow over here on the springfield parkway and these guys have been out in full force this morning, doing a great job of getting all this snow off to the side of the road. they have done their job, now it is time for you to do your job. last night we caught up with quit a few drivers who were prepping their cars for the morning commute this morning,

dusting their windshields, keeping their wipers vertical so they weren't trapped down and frozen overnight, all things that you should be doing to help prep for your morning commute this morning. yesterday we also caught up with wt opreporter who had been taking phone calls from angry drivers frustrated by what they were seeing on the roadway. take a listen to the chief complaints. >> a company of things we heard many times, people who failed to scrape all the snow off cars and people who didn't have headlights on in the middle of the day when the snow was coming down. i think a lot of drivers are concerned. we just came out of snowstorms not that long ago. here we are with fundamental things people were forgetting. >> reporter: hopefully today drivers will learn from their mistakes yesterday. but check on you this salt truck. we now have a sal truck behind a snow plow here in the kings town neighborhood of alexandria. like i said, i have literally

seen well over a dozen trucks here in this intersection in the past two hours that we have been out here. so for the most part, main roadways looking very good this morning. but of course, as we have been saying, it is those side streets driveway parking lots, that is of course where you are going to see some issues this morning. certainly plan for extra time this morning in your morning commute. although hopefully, it will not be nearly as bad as it looked yesterday. i was in the middle of that and i can tell you it wasn't fun. >> no it was not. thank you very much. she gave some good advice. plan ahead, give yourself extra time whether you are on the roads or the railful you might want to call ahead if you are taking amtrak going north. >> a power line fell on the tracks between baltimore and wilmington, delaware last night has been fixed. but there may still be some cancellations. amtrak says the trains did have heat and electricity, but some of the pieces of trains could be out of position this morning. we just checked with the

faa, and delta airlines cancelled 14 flights that were set to depart between 5:45 and noon from national airport. they also have delayed some flights. passengers were faced with a similar story last night when delta cancelled about 15 flights because the planes could not be properly deiced. dulles had a few delays last night and again the word to the wise. if you are flying out today, call it made. just to make sure your flight isn't callous cancelled or delayed. and you can check airport status anytime at our website. click on the traffic tab. and if you take white's ferry, you can forget about it. the ferry shut down tuesday and has been closed ever since. this comes after a week of service interrupted because the ferry's cable snapped recently. i'm sure you have an alternate route already. time now for your latest money report as we head toward

6:09 this morning. >> jessica doyle is back and looking at the tax cut package just passed in the house in the wee hours of the morning. >> reporter: that's right. late night action. taxes will not be going up for millions of americans. right before midnight the house voted 277-148 to pass the tax compromise. president obama worked out with republicans a week ago. the $850 billion measure is on the way to the president for his expected signature. this is no easy road to passage. last night ended days of bitter debate. some tried to impose a higher estate tax than the one the president agreed to. we should be a country that fights for those who really need the help. we should not be a country that says you know what? if you are a billionaire, we want to give you a little bit more. not perfect, but this is the kind of action that most americans voted for last november. here's what the bill does for you.

it extends the bush era tax cuts, preventing a new year's tax hike for most americans. also renews jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed and enacts a new one year cut in social security taxes that would ben fit nearly every worker who earns a wage. economists expect the measure will give a short-term boost to the economy but add billions to the deficit. with a b. that is what voters were also saying. oh well, forget that. our time right now is 6:10. when the news continues, caught red handed. see how tabliers took a joy ride at someone else's expense and the whole thing was caught on tape.

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good morning. time now 6:12 on your friday morning. look at your highs for today. mid-30s for washington, d.c. the good news, folks, these numbers are above freezing. so with the sun shining later today, it will help melt some of the ice and snow on some of the roadways. richard has your timesaver traffic. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. once again we have a problem southbound connecticut avenue,

we have an accident there, crews are on the scene. could be slow conditions for a few more minutes. complete traffic coming your way in just a few minutes at about 6:18. thank you, richard. lowdon county feeds your help to track down thieves in one neighborhood. >> two men are going around breaking into cars. >> they are hoping new surveillance video released will help solve the case. >> i was shocked. i would never even think to worry about locking my car. obviously, just because you think it is a safe neighborhood. >> reporter: but that way of thinking left emily without a way to get to work. >> i walked outside and my car wasn't there. >> reporter: lowdon county authorities believe the men who took emily's suv are the same people caught on surveillance video nearby. the two crooks are seen walking around, smoking, checking out a pickup truck. they are caught again doing the

same thing to another vehicle. eventually, they made it to emily's suv, but didn't seem interested in the gps or other valuables. >> i think they just wanted to make mischief. >> reporter: that they did when they crashed her vehicle. >> it happened like right under our noses and we were oblivious to it. >> reporter: the thieves ran off. her suv came away with only a few scratches, but still put folks here on high alert. detectives aren't sure exactly how many car break-ins are connected, but it has taught this neighborhood a tough lesson, to always lock up. >> we always make sure now our home is very secure too. >> reporter: obviously, i lock my car now. >> the sheriff's testimony says always lock your car and remove all valuables out of sight. if you see someone suspicious, report it and let a deputy determine if the people belong

there. an historic lighthouse in ohio looks more like an ice sculpture these days. cleveland harbor west lighthouse is completely encased in ice. >> beautiful. the lighthouse was built in 1911 and in 1965 it became automated. it no longer needed a lighthouse keeper. today is actually a solar powered lighthouse. >> i love that name. good morning. good morning, howard bernstein, go back to sleep. it is okay. annie is here and has a cold forecast for your friday. >> reporter: most areas to kickoff your morning, as you are heading out the door, putting on all your layers, don't forget your sunglasses, we will see the sun shining later today. it will help melt the snow we are seeing and ice on some of the roadways. here's a look at the bus stop

forecast. kids, those of you who are going to school this morning, look for partly cloudy to mostly sunny conditions this morning. up to 27 is the range of the forecast for this morning as we start off your friday. let's talk about our snow totals. nothing big our major here. reagan national did pick up an inch and a half of snow. frederick maryland came in at two and a half inches. dulles, virginia .8 of an inch of snow. some of that lingering this morning. here's a look at the satellite radar picture. no green on here, it means we saw basically cloudy conditions with the gray. the blue is basically to the north of us. today more sunshine for our area and things could change for tomorrow. but for now, temperatures in the teens for frederick and dc

metro. andrews air force base, 24. our futurecast, we are concerned about a coastal storm that's developing. we could see this coming through tomorrow. at this point our futurecast is showing us we should be staying dry. increasing clouds for saturday. but this storm here, you can see it is just going to miss us at this point, going off onto the coast. if we see this track closer to us, it could bring along the eastern shores a slight chance for snow. we are watching this. but not too confident it will be in our area. at this point, it should be missing us. if we see -t we could see the light snow saturday night and into early sunday morning. here's your 3 day forecast. today mostly sunny conditions, high near 36. yes, we will be above freezing to help melt out some of the snow. tomorrow for your saturday,

increasing clouds throughout the day, a chance for snow developing late saturday if that system gets to us. otherwise we may not even see it at all. sunday look for cloudy conditions as well. high near 34 degrees here's your 7-day outlook. by monday, mostly sunny skies, 33 degrees and tuesday another system comes on through, bringing at this point cloudy conditions, highs still very cold and unseasonably low. we are checking out the yellow light conditions meaning some issues to contend with. use caution as you are heading out there. first the accident clearing montgomery beltway past georgia avenue affecting the two left lanes. that is going to give us extra congestion at that point. also moving over to connecticut avenue montgomery, looks like the accident clearing there. crews are working on that right now as we speak. hopefully they'll get that cleared fairly shortly.

we zoom into i-270, looks like we are checking out on 270 southbound all lanes should be open there not too bad. beltway also 395 to the dulles toll road inner loop about 14 minutes. going eastbound from hunter mill road next drive coming up at 6:25. thank you, richard. 6:19. time for the morning light. every day we feature your holiday displays. this morning we go to arlington, virginia. check out santa snoopy. there he is. one year he wound up on the neighbor's lawn having a little fun there. he is joined every year by another snoopy. >> there is time for you to submit your morning lights.

e-mail a picture to lights at wusa.com. sports is next when the news continues and the redskins are ready to take on their arch enemy. you know the dallas cowboys. and josh willingham is sent packing. time now 6:20. we'll be right back.

i'm lieutenant colonel tom fay, welcoming you to camp legger neck in afghanistan. hi to all my friends and family, especially my kids, thomas and kelly, back in stafford, virginia. i love you guys. happy holidays. good morning, time now 6:23 on your friday morning. we are talking about more sunshine for today. so we are going to warm up by

midday or so. here's a look at your day planner for your friday. sunny conditions later today. by 9:00 sunny skies, 29 degrees at that hour, and then 36 by 3:00 p.m. we will be above freezing. currently, it is cold out there. in the teens and 20s. make sure you bundle up, folks. all right. we have richard with your timesaver traffic. oh no, we have sports. >> reporter: good morning, everybody. this sunday will be the 100th meeting in the storied rivalry between the redskins and cowboys. the skins are 5-8, the cowboys are 4-9. they probably are having a bitter taste in their mouth because of the last game imagine if the redskins only won six

games this year, but two of them were against dallas. >> this determines the kind of team we have and the players we have on the team. nothing to play for. >> with dallas you throw the records out the window and we are going to fight. we are going to scrap. >> deangelo will be delivering your mail in that hat for the rest of the week. the practice yesterday was moved indoors to a nearby gym. players actually had to drive in their personal cars over to that gym. mike shanahan said he has told dan snyder it is time to build a bubble out there. out went josh willingham yesterday. traded to the a's for reliever henry rodriguez. the nats resigned wong for a million bucks. that is a quick look at sports this morning. i'm brett haver,. next when the news

continues, you might want to give yourself a little extra time this morning. the snow trucks and plows have been working overnight to clear the roads. there are still some slick patches. first a quick check of traffic. >> reporter: over on the beltway a crash just past georgia avenue. two left lanes blocked. as you can see, that is making things congested and a bit slow. we'll have more traffic coming your way. 9news now will be back after these messages. ♪

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it is 6:30. thanks for starting your friday with us. we have a huge list of closings and delays here is a look at union station this morning as the roads are starting to clear up, things are going okay. but some schools and area activities are closed or delays. >> affected by what happened yesterday. >> exactly. we have a lightning list for you, schools in howard, montgomery and prince georges county are all on a two hour delay. also in maryland, allegheny county schools are delays two hours. queen ann, st. mary's and charles county schools are closed. warren county schools in virginia also close this had

morning. public charter school an hour delay, virginia culpepper county and caroline county closed. fairfax county schools a two hour delay. fred ricksburg city schools under a code green, king georges county school closed. orange county schools and page county schools are closed. prince william county schools are also closed. employees are under a code red. stafford county they are all closed and stafford employees are under code two. in west virginia berkeley, grant, hardty, jefferson county schools all opening two hours late. in jefferson, it is no a.m. pre kindergarten. mineral county and morgan county schools two hours late. federal government opening on time. quantico marine base code

yellow. charles county maryland circuit court two hours late. again, you can get the complete list for public private charter governments everywhere at wusa 9.com. annie is in for howard bernstein this morning. she is out on the weather terrace of the doesn't seem nearly as windy as it has been this. >> reporter: warming up a little bit. the snow is dry and fluffy, so at this point, no good snowball making stuff. but later today i think so, the temperatures warming up. as you are heading out the door this friday, 9:00 hour sunny skies, 29 degrees. noon hour above freezing, 36. yes, we should be able to melt some of the snow and warm up a bit. here's a look at the satellite and radar picture. the storm system has moved onto the coast and off the coast areas of cloudy conditions, that is the areas in gray. otherwise we have high pressure in the region and we will see more sunshine. temperatures right now, it is cold.

in the teens in some places, but in dc downtown we are looking in the mid-20s at this hour. here's a look at the highs for today, most of us above the freezing mark. yes the high for dc metro looking at mid-30s. culpepper you may get to 40 degrees today with the sun shining. it is a chance to make the roads a little safer for us. good morning. >> reporter: good morning annie it looks lake we are checking out the yellow light conditions. we have a couple of incidents we are checking out. first of all we have the accident clearing in montgomery county. past georgia avenue. looks like the latest word only the right lane is getting by. that is giving us a delay back to at least connecticut avenue as you might have imagined. also, not to be out done, montgomery county, georgia avenue north of the beltway, we have an accident believe it or not, involving a salt truck

losing its load. we have a lot of salt trucks in the past 24 hours. as we go out to our overview, we will be zooming on to i 66. check out the slow conditions going from route 50 and 123. all the lanes will be open at that. looks like we are looking at about a 17 minute drive. i-95 the 270 outer loop. ten minutes to the beltway. 25 northbound going to the beltway from the 11th street bridge eight minutes of time. thank you, richard. well it wasn't anything like what we experienced this time last year. the little bit of snow we had did cause problems for people trying to get to work and school. it has been just about 24 hours. time to check out if kristan fish soldier in the kings town section of alexandria. and cars are moving pretty quickly. >> >> reporter: we are getting

ready to head into the heart of the morning rush hour. so far so good. no major problems to report. that is exactly what we want to hear, one part of this area got an inch and a half of snow. check it out manchester on this side of the intersection. you can see that traffic is certainly picking up more drivers on the roadway. but for the most part, we haven't seen any problems at this intersection. we have seen a ton of snow plows, a ton of salt trucks, and that is exactly what we want to see. tell everybody i think they have done a really, really nice job overnight. main roads looking good, no problems getting here from northwest dc. as we go to the side road, there is still some snow on the roadway.

certainly your side streets, neighborhoods, driveways, parking lots there is still snow and slick spots. for the morning commute, we might see some icy patches developing. there are still some kids out there who aren't going to have to go about to school today. yesterday this stuff was still so wet you couldn't even form a snowball. i had one to throw at you, but it evaporated in my hand of the back to you guys. >> i didn't do anything. but at least you can have a bit more fun in this snow today than you can yesterday. >> that is terrible. >> she was going to throw a snowball at us. thank you, kristan. this winter you will be able to track the snow plows. montgomery county launched this

tracking tool earlier this week. click on the box at the top of our home page. the district wants to make sure everyone in the city stays safe when the temperatures drop. that includes people who might not have a place to call home. if you see anybody who you believe needs a warm place to stay, call the hotline 800-535-7252. people on the other end of the phone can provide transportation to emergency shelters, blankets, gloves, jackets, anything they need to try to stay warm. if you have a space heater in your home, listen to this. wal-mart is recalling heaters sold exclusively at the wal- mart stores. the heaters can malfunction and

cause a fire. 21 incidents reportedly left property damage. if you have one of these, stop using it immediately and return it to wal-mart for a full refund. time now 6:38. the late night session in the house, will it make an impact on your pocketbook and. >> >> reporter: the good kind. a massive bipartisan tax package has passed in the wee hours of the house. now the measure on its way to the president for his expected signature. the house gave final approval to the measure just before midnight. it extends the bush era tax cuts, preventing a new year's tax hike for most americans. some of the things it also does, renewing jobless benefits for the unemployed and enacts a new, one year cut in social security taxes. it is getting more expensive to buy a home these days. the average rate on a 30 year fixed rate mortgage is up to

4.83%. a month ago the rate was at a 40 year low. about 60% of companies plan to hand out year end bonuses, despite the shaky economy. before you get too excited about that number, it is virtually unchanged from 2009. 16% say bonuses will be smaller than last year. but at least we are good. some people are getting them and some people still don't have jobs. our time right now is 6:39. he is out on bail but wikileaks founder julian assange really can't go anywhere. find out why the conditions of the bail were so strict. try this.

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welcome back to 9 news now. 6:44. we say good morning to annie, in for howard bernstein. a very cold, frigid morning? >> reporter: yes, we are, but we will recover nicely and be above freezing. allowing maybe some of the kids to make better snowballs, when we get the temperatures to get back up there. but right now, sunny skies for the rest of the day today. looking at our bus stop forecast. we are seeing some areas of partly cloudy conditions. the clouds should be clearing out. otherwise, mostly sunny, and still cold. 16 to 27 degrees as you kids are heading out to go to school or maybe you get to stay home and not go to school or go later. still slick and icy on the roads in some spots. we will see melting today and

tomorrow. temperatures recovering above freezing. plenty of sunshine for today. we are watching a storm that could hit us late saturday and into sunday. we don't have any blue or grown here. we are not seeing any snow showers in our area, mainly to the north of us. you see the gray, we have areas of cloudiness this morning. mostly cloudy to partly cloudy conditions. right now 20s at reagan national, 26 degrees. it is colder on you to the north and west of us. we are seeing temperatures in the teens in some locations, but now they were now in the 20s or so, warming up just a little bit here in the last hour or so. here's our futurecast. we are watching a storm that could impact us by the weekend. it is going to basically come up along the coast and from the carolinas. at this point, this futurecast showing the green stays to the north and east and to the south and east of us. so at this point, this model is showing we will be missed by

the storm. we could see some snow developing late saturday and for sunday morning. but the chances right now are pretty slight. we still want to mention it, because if we do go it, it could be decent amounts of snow. mainly east of i-95 for the weekend. here's your next three days. today sunny conditions, high near 36 degrees we will be above the freezing mark. tomorrow increasing cloudiness throughout the day. we have snow because of a concern for coastal system, sunday cloudy as well. by monday, mostly sunny, 33 degrees, tuesday another system that could come on through it. at this point, cloudy conditions, i have taken off the flakes for now and wednesday and thursday, mostly sunny, highs popping out mid to upper 30s. richard has your timesaver traffic a. >> good morning once again. we are still working with our yellow light conditions. we are clearing the accident

now, montgomery county. inner loop just past georgia avenue. it has us backed up all the way to connecticut avenue. also, not to be out done, montgomery county an accident clearing on southbound georgia avenue, involving a salt truck that lost a load. looks like you'll have to slide onto the side to get by as it is in the right lane. the overview, we zoom into the district now, all major roads are clear although the side streets and bridges still a bit icy and snow covered. take it easy because of icy conditions this morning. our mark train is 15 minutes late. keep that in mind. next traffic coming your way at 6:58. we'll see you then richard.

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good morning. we are looking at areas of cloudiness this morning, 29 degrees, we do have light winds. by noon 34. we will be above freezing. here's a look at the satellite and radar picture. we are seeing some of the light gray, and cloudiness this friday morning. right now cold out there. 26 at reagan international, 22 degrees in reston. highs 36 at reagan national. the most areas above freezing, in fact culpepper, look at you.

looking at headlines before you go. prince georges county officials should know what was in a batch of brownies that sickened a half dozen high school students. officials have ruled out food poisoning. taxes will not be going up for millions of americans starting next year. the house approved a bill renewing all the bush era tax cuts. it extends unemployment benefits for millions. the measure was opposed by many liberals. julian assange is out on bail. a british judge released the wikileaks founder here. a judge ordered the 39-year-old

to wear a bracelet and keep a curfew and report in every day. he is staying at a sprawling estate owned by one of his supporters. right now we toss it over to harry smith who tells us what is coming up at the top of the hour. >> reporter: coming up, he ended the hostage situation in panama city tuesday. now the hero security officer that took down the gunman is speaking out and joins us from florida. plus, how to avoid overpriced purchases in the holiday home stretch. and the end of an era. larry kings hangs up his suspenders after a quarter century of hosting a talk show. one more check of traffic and weather when 9news now returns.

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storm comes on through. sunny skies after that. all right. we are still tracking out the accident clearing in montgomery county. only the right lane gets by there. giving us a back-up on the inner loop at connecticut avenue. also prince georges county near the exit 198. next traffic coming your way at 7:25. over to you for wall street? >> near two year highs for the major averages. but we are looking lower as of right now. we'll see how it turns out on this friday morning. "the early show" is next and they'll have more on the tax deal worked out by lawmakers now headed to the president's desk. get your news, weather and traffic at wusa 9.com. we hope you have a great weekend. see you monday morning at 4:25. take care. everybody.