and now traveling around is chuck bell in northwest. good morning, chuck. >> reporter: good morning, tom. current temperature here on nebraska avenue in northwest washington, we are at 13.9 degrees. so it is cold outside this morning. check some of the local road temperatures and roadbed temperatures in the single digits to near 10 degrees this morning. the roads, depends on which road you're on. the road out here in front of us is nebraska avenue here in northwest washington. it is a mile from the tv station as we start our morning out and about. we'll do increasing radii away from the district, but this is just off nebraska avenue. all of a sudden, everything is changing. this is one big sheet of ice out here in this neighborhood. we are on 38th street here off nebraska. there are ruts in the road where people have driven before, so it's a mixed blessing. it has packed the snow down to ice. this all started yesterday morning. if you feel like you are losing your traction, get over to the krup chi parts on the side, but you extra cautio

i'm storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell.inter storm warnings up for the entire area tonight into tomorrow. everything is going to start as rain. could see icy mix around midnight changing to all snow before you wake up tomorrow morning. snow amounts could exceed six inches in many neighborhoods. first this morning, temperatures upper 30s and low 40s. low 50s today, showers by 4:00, rain by >> that is your latest forecast. lester? >> thanks, dylan. >>> a much anticipated trial that starts tomorrow in south africa. oscar pistorius getting attention for a different reason. he shot his girlfriend to death, model reeva steenkamp on valentine's day. he say it was an accident. prosecutors call it murder. amin is in johannesburg with a preview. >> reporter: it's being called the trial of the century, shaping up to be a media circus. more than 2,000 journalists have applied for accreditation as we understand it. also drawing a lot of comparisons to another superstar also accused of killing his wife, that is o.j. simpson. from nationa

chuck bell in particular this morning.kend but this is a calm before that winter storm approaches. >> you better believe it. after a really cold snap yesterday and a plenty cold start today, we get a break tomorrow, in the 50s tomorrow. that's actually average for march. but then the bottom falls out because winter storm watches are already posted for late sunday night into the day on monday. so you have all weekend to get things done without any real weather concerns. but we may be measuring snow in inches around here by monday. the potential snowstorm totals could be four inches or more in the washington metro area and points south and it could be six inches or more for the northern and western suburbs out in western maryland. again, that's monday, not today. right now there's nothing on storm team 4 radar terribly close to us. a little bit of light rain in far south virginia. out the door weather is cold, teens and 20s to get you started. 21 at 7:00 a.m., 25 at 9:00, 36 degrees by 11:00 a.m. and out and about this after

let's go to storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell for the forecast. hey chuck. >> hey richard and angie. good morning to you. as a result the sun came up later and warm up, little warm up, started later as well. more importantly had a cold front come through late last night. did bring sprinkles and clouds as well. clouds are on their way out. cold is on its way in. temperatures continuing to fall the last several hours. back to mid-30s in maryland, mid-40s down. winds gusting in the 20 to 25 miles per hour range. as a result, wind chills -- are you kidding me? 25 the current hagerstown. we'll get the light windbreaker back out. hovering in 40s now, up to 50 this afternoon. compared to 67 yesterday. anymore of those anymore soon? find out in the upcoming news. >>> one of two afghan vice presidents hamid who was part of the alliance in 2011 and served as karzai's first administration. the president's office says he died from illness. the government is calling for a three day mourning period in the country. he was 57 years old. >>> we're staying on top of

. >> chuck bell is here with more on when we can expect some weather changes. meanwhile, looks like we have a nice saturday to start us off this weekend, chuck. >> absolutely right. good morning to both of you. and good saturday morning, everybody. welcome to your weekend. make your plans to get outside and enjoy a fine saturday. because clouds, rain drops and, yes, snowflakes. a real opportunity for those coming back as early as tomorrow night. early this morning, not much going on around town. a few lingering rain drops in far southern maryland and a couple of rain drops with a few snowflakes irn maryland. this is going to be drying up over the next couple of hours. our weather picture will be improving dramatically over the next little while. most of these rain drops and snowflakes will not make it east of i-81. hour by hour, temperatures out the door, weather this morning, upper 40s to near 50s. that's pleasant enough. highs today, generally up in the low, maybe even mid-60s with sunshine coming back, but, yes, indeed. the chance, anyway, of seeing rain and

. >>> storm team 4i] meteorologis chuck bell in for tom.ñr chuck? put an end to the warm stretch. the case all day. you will need the umbrellas before the day is done. areas of rain crass ohio, that will make steadf progress to the east. as a result, rain chances will increase laterxd this afternoon. best chances for rain arrive after 2:00 or 3:00.ok in the meantime, it is going to be a mailed start. temperatures out the door this morningfá generally mid to uppe

again, send us your pictures at tom kierein, chuck bell, vjohnson, we want to see them. >> total amounts by the time it ends south of the metro area, generally around the 4 to 6-inch range, and a few spots in southern maryland, the northern neck of virginia, near fredericksburg, that's the zone that could see a little bit more. big plunge in temperatures overnight tonight. and then, finally, a milder weekend to come. a look at that in a few minutes. back to you. >> all right, thank you, both. don't forget, track the winter storm live on interactive radar with storm team4 weather apps. it's free at the app store and google play. just search nbc washington weather. >>> well, if you put it to the test on four wheels, you know how tricky it is out there right now, and still, as vj and tom mentioned, more snow is headed our way. >> all of the snow is spelling trouble on the roadways. news4's transportation reporter has been patrolling the roads in the 4x4 all morning. right now, he's on route 50 in chantilly, virginia. hey, adam. >> reporter: barbara, still a bad ride out here. how are you do

and meanwhile, we are seeing the snow head out of here just as chuck bell said this morning, the last of it is right down here to the south. you can see the exit of st. charles county and st. mary's, and the northern neck down here. this one area should be out of here in the next two the three the hours completely making its way east and southeast, and then what is next for us is some very cold air. and now n a few minutes, i want to give the snowfall totals. cla clarksburg and montgomery county, you have 8.3, and fairfax had5.8 inches as well as warren county. the temperatures are dropping in a hurry in the overnight period. we will start to see the wind ease up a little bit, so that is going to help us out. and still a little bit of wind left with temperatures that may get close to the record, and 5 degrees inga gaithersburg, and in fredericksburg and 7 in la plata as with well, and folks, we will look at the mostly clear but quite cold with 10 to 19 degree degrees across the area. meanwhile, we foe that the roads will get bad in the overnight period, and right now, meteorologist am

rm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell here to bring you the latest on what looks to be the next round of afternoon and goes into the overnight hours. winter storm warnings for all of the nbc 4 viewing area starting late today and going through tomorrow afternoon. it's all going to start as arraig arrai arraign, change over to a wintery mix and change over to snow by day break tomorrow making travel very dangerous. snow will come to an end early monday afternoon. it's going to be high impact event. most of the area in the 5 to 10 inch accumulation range. some places little bit less or more. expect 5 to 10 inches. the drive is mild. temperatures in the 50s. forecast coming up at 7:30. >>> welcome back. we're talking to the greater washington urban league. we talked about how husing and scholarship programs. i want to get back to housing. you serve montgomery and prince george's counties. issues are a little different there, how? >> a little different in prince george's county. unfortunately they have the unproud distinction of having the highest foreclosure rate in the state of maryland. t

. >> good morning i'm storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. winter weather advisories in hair marry. winter storm warnings points west and south of washington. temperatures this morning are in the upper 30s to around 40. plenty of sunshine now allows for a little recovery. no rain on storm team 4 yet. leading edge of the rain drops, this will start as rain 5:00 to 7:00 this evening changing over to snow after that. >>> that's your latest forecast. lester? >> dylan, thanks. it's a jungle out there for some amazon.com customers. the wildly popular online shopping company is jacking up the price of its prime membership. as ron mott tells us, loyal customers are not happy. >> reporter: consumers can be a fussy lot, balking, at times revolting to changes in be loved products and services. ask coca-cola which dared to tweak flavors in the '80s, for netflix which tried to split its dvd rentals and streaming video to great dismay. >> netflix is getting slaughtered by its own price hike. >> reporter: now it's amazon's turn. the online retailer says it'

coast for the most part, but that's another one that we will be watching, so tomorrow morning, chuck bell will be in, tom coming in earlier this morning, they will be up at 4:00 i believe. know this, the roads will go downhill quickly tonight. >> incredible the drop in temperatures we're seeing, you said almost like a 60-degree -- >> nearly 65 in parts of texas today, amazing. >> no four wheel drives will be any use when the ice slick gets going. >> that's right. we got storm team four by four. it will be out checking on the roads. >> appreciate it. >> thanks, doug. >>> coming up in sports, a late ♪ [ man ] yo buzz! drop that beat! remix! ♪ hey! must be the honey! ♪ ♪ ♪ you got that medley crunch ♪ go! go! buzz! ♪ go! go! go! buzz! ♪ hey! must be the honey! ♪ ♪ clusters, flakes ♪ that medley crunch, crunch! ♪ clusters, flakes ♪ that medley crunch, crunch! go! ♪ ♪ ♪ hey! must be the honey! ♪ ♪ you got that medley crunch ♪ go get that medley crunch! we've always been on the forefront of innovation. when the world called for speed... ♪ ...when the world called for stealth... ♪ ...intelligenc

chuck bell is outside tracking it all.s going to be hard to embrace what a great day we're going to have today with the snowstorm looming in the back of our minds. >> i agree. temperatures in the 50s for a time this afternoon. this is warm air surging north bound after head of the plunge of cold air that's coming our way starting tonight. it will be here through monday and tuesday. this is the way it looks from our tower camera looking southbound past the national a th cathedral. looking westbound toward the airport, patches of blue skies. clouds win out for sure. winter storm warnings posted for the entire area tonight and tomorrow. storm team 4 radar show ns no dp or flakes yet. there's the cold front sliding through in the overnight hours. what starts as rain this afternoon becomes moderate this evening and will change over to heavy snow by tomorrow morning. temperatures ahead of it, 53 fredricksburg, 39 haguers town. cloudy and mild today, rain drops after 3:00 or 4:00. six to ten inch rain here in the heart of the cit

chuck. >>> from sweet to sour, the company behind the wildly popular game candy crush saga rang the opening bellur on the new york stock exchange and now they've made their public debut. mandy drury is here with what's moving your money. okay, it's king digital, that's candy crush, and they want to go for big bucks. >> they really do. at the ipo price it was valued at $7 billion, which some people sounds crazy for what essentially is a one-trick pony. i know king digital has 180 games, but about three-quarters of its revenue does come from candy crush. as we can see, it's down about 10% and i think what people are concerned about here is it does need to convince investors it is a whole lot more than just a one-trick pony. >> is candy crush a fad? some new game will come out and most of their interest is gone. >> the people supporting this do say, well, it's making money, right? estimates it's going to grow its revenue to about $2.5 billion this year, and last year it made a profit of about $567 million, so it is making a profit, but remember the lessons of farmville. have you ever played farmvil

we want to get a check on your first forecast with chuck bell. chuck, is it true, spring does exist and we might see a glimpse of that today? >> yes, indeed, absolutely, good morning to both of you. good saturday morning, everybody. a little bit of a respite from the cold is coming our way. at least for the front half of the weekend. outside, our sky watcher camera, first thing this morning, a nice clear sky overhead and a little bit of early morning daylight. enjoy it early risers. this time tomorrow morning, obviously, it will be dark again because of daylight savings time. and meanwhile, on storm team 4 radar, no drops on the front half of your weekend. there's a couple little impulses well to the north and west, this one bringing wet snow flakes to chicago. may well bring us a few little rain drops late tonight into the predawn hours tomorrow. most of the daylight hours will be fine. chilly, though, temperatures 20s and 30s. temperatures rising into the mid-50s. today, that will feel nice, clouds coming back this evening, we'll talk more about

i'm meteorologist chuck bell. the sun is shining, we're off to a cold start this morning, winter storm watches have already been posted for the sunday night into monday morning time frame. in the old. teens and low 20s for out the door weather this morning, will warm only into the mid 20s by monday morning, mid 30s by lunchtime and afternoon highs today >> and that is your latest forecast. erica? >> all right, dylan. thanks. >>> with former secretary of state hillary clinton possibly pondering a potential run for president, thousands of pages of previously confidential documents from her husband's time in office were released on friday, offering a candid look at role she played back then. so, could that affect her future? kristen welker has the very latest for us this morning. kristen, good morning. >> reporter: erica, good morning to you. the national archives released about 4,000 pages of documents which include memos from the clinton white house on topics including health care, the u.s. economy and also the fir

chuck bell has been monitoring the sometimes dangerous roads in the storm team 4 by 4 all morning. chuck, how are the roads looking now? >> the big roads are fine, capital beltway and most of the numbered state roads are improving very rapidly. as you can see here the view outside the front of the storm team 4 by 4, when you get back in the neighborhoods, in potomac and, indeed, these little shadyside streets have been very hard hit by the ice and not very hard hit by road crews. as a result, these windy neighborhood streets, which obviously have the tightest turns and some of the steepest hills, will be the most treacherous to drive. going over some of the maryland highway information here on our lap top here in the vehicle, and road temperatures are still well below freezing. i can tell you, this strong march sunshine is really, really helping. montrose road early this morning before the sun came up was still quite icy indeed. we just came back down montrosse road. enough solar radiation is getting through to hit that blacktop and do a good job melting the ice. obviously, some of

we want goat your first forecast with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. tell us the clocks are not the only things springing poured. let's talk temps. >> temps will do a huge spring forward over where we were yesterday. that's welcomed news. storm team 4 radar, nary a drop out will for right now. today will be dry. no problems. little disturbance well out to our north and west. may bring us a few sprinkles during the overnight hours tonight. more details on that in a little bit. for now your saturday planner. 42, 45 at 10:00 a.m. 58 for a high today. clouds coming in this evening and, again, chance for overnight raindrops and then cooler tomorrow. we will talk about tomorrow's cooldown and, of course, your 7-day forecast. >> thanks, chuck. >>> new this morning, a metro station is back open after a fight and stabbing. it forced police to shut it down last night. metro transit police say the fight started on the train. this is just after 11:00 last might. that's right off of massachusetts avenue in southeast. police shut down the station to sort out what ha