that's one of the shots in culpepper. close to washington, one to two inches, a few isolated three-inch amounts in virginia. now let's take a look outside. od morning, siberia. >> what? >> it's actually washington. but look at the ice on the potomac river. be glad you're not in siberia. wind chill, 65 below zero. >> no! >> next time you think it's too cold, think siberia. the high will be 40 below zero. >> thank you, tom. >> don't you feel better? >> i do feel better. >> it's balmy, almost tropical 26 degrees compared to siberia. but don't go to the beach. the december record so far there the temperature at reagan national makes this the coldest december since 2,000. right now in the subur, near 20 degrees. montgomery, arlington and fairfax and points west, many locations in the upperteens to near 20. weather watchers reporting this morning. south and east of washington, southern maryland and northern neck of virginia, low to mid-20s there. on the eastern shore away from the waters, many locations there are just near 20 d

closed, culpepper, fauquier, king george county, prince william county, rappahannock, spotsylvania as well. >> the federal government is open today for those of you wondering and don't forget there is a complete list at the top of your screen all morning long. >> let's check in with jim in just a minute but first a busy day for adam. >> yes, yesterday was a bit busy. the snowfall averaged an inch and a half across the region, i would say, on average. some areas 2.5 pushing 3 inches but i measured about 1.6 at my house in arlington. let's talk temperatures outside. it will be slow getting out of the neighborhood. it is doable but some snow cover and slick spots. 25 now at reagan national. 12 in martinsburg. 19 in frederick. we'll be in the mid 30's today. above freezing, which will help melt things down a bit. possibly some icy refreezing spots on the roads tonight. mostly cloudy tomorrow. we'll talk more about the weekend and snow chances coming up. let's go to jim. >> we have some issues out there as you might expect. on the beltway, there is a truck accident. a tractor-trailer slid

it is going to get over to culpepper into washington. that will take really the next three, four hours to happen. so, i think by 10:00 or so, we'll probably be seeing the beginning of the snow in washington. up north, frederick, maryland, it may take you toward the noon hour. snow is definitely on the way. momslikeme bus stop forecast, we do have a quiet morning. the morning commute should be fine and quiet and cold and not windy. just cloudy. mid teens to mid-20s except in the shenandoah valley. sun sets at about 4:47. as we break down the day planner, by 9:00, especially south and west, the light snow will be falling. 26 degrees. noon, 36. temperatures barely budging up to around 29 by 6:00 p.m. good news is the winds will be light. other good news, we know this is coming. so, the road crews will be out there. however, it is cold. anything that's not treated will certainly have sticking snow. some of the lesser traveled roads, side streets, driveways, sidewalks, they'll get slick. winter weather advisory doesn't cover martinsburg but w

culpepper you may get to 40 degrees today with the sun shining.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 minut

culpepper, you may even break it up to 40 degrees at that mark. oakland, 26 degrees. if you are curious about snow totals, we got about an inch and a half yesterday at reagan national. richard with your timesaver traffic. >> good morning again, amy. we still have the icy spots to contend with, especially take it easy on the side streets and along the ramps. no major problems at this early hour, taking a look at i-95, no problems as you go northbound from the prince william parkway. you'll find all the travel lanes open there. shifting overlooking at i 66, it is going to be a good drive from centerville moving all the way to the beltway ramps of the looking at the travel times, on the beltway, from i-95 to 270, about a ten minute drive there. southbound i-95, nine minutes from 216 down to the beltway ramps. from the beltway to the 11th street bridge i 7 minute drive time. next traffic coming your way in a few minutes. >>> thank you, richard. the drive home yesterday was an hours-long affair for many commuters. >> we are hoping all of the plow crews are done and hopeful

culpepper got five inches yesterday. here ocally, two inches or so.roblems. overnight, certainly right back down below freezing. there's the mnuments under this partly cloudy sky. it's cold. december so far is running as the coldest december inen years, since way bac december 2000. as we look at other tempatures, near 20. west of interstate 95, most lotions upper teen toss 20 from i-95 east. low to mid-20s there except away from the waters on the eastern shore, i's only 20. outheastern virginia, upper 20s. western maryland, west virginia, most locations in the teens and low 20s. there is a dturbance thas been coming across ohio the last 12 hours moving into western maryland. light snow in garrett and southwestern pennsylvania. this disturbance passing to our north today. as it does, just a few clouds this morning. it's st moving. probably won't have any snow here. shenandoah valley may get a few flurries. the big sry, we are going to have some melting by early afternoon. much of the day will be below freezing. last week it was bright and sunny when i

culpepper had the most snow. 4 1/2 inches. general eye it was one to two inches, some isolated amounts, three inches in virginia. western maryland, west virginia in the teens and low 20s. right around 20 eastern shore. low 20s to virginia tidewater and southeastern, virginia. a little bit of snow moving to western maryland, pennsylvania. that should stay north of us. we'll get sunshine back. for today, sunshine breaking out after the morning cloudsreak up. mostly sunny afternoon. highs reaching briefly a little bit above freezing. sunrise, 7:21. sunset, 4:48. we're not going to get much melting of the snow. what does melt and is untreated will freeze back again sunset and overnit tonight. we'll bottom out 20 by saturday. sunrise tomorrow is at 7:21. and then ding the day on saturday we'll have increasing clouds from, yes, the coastal storm system we've been talking about all week. some indicatio are we will be fartheout to sea yesterday. close enough to give us a pretty good storm. right now it's in beween. it will be a little

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this is what we looked at early this morning, areas of culpepper, orange county, making its way from fredericksburg and then slowly in towards the district and sliding east. that's the way it looks now. even if you break some of the cloud cover as well, can had is not good new -- which is not good news. live doppler 9,000, all is clear. this is some very good news. as we take a look at the temperatures right now, we'll go back to graphics. the temperatures are going to remain below freezing. not just the air temperature, but the ground temperature. that's critical to the roads that were treated, pretreated were a little better than those who have not been treated -- those that have not been treated. and continuing maintenance on the roads need to be taken care of. it'll be some time before we start to see any of this move away. we'll have more for you in just a few minutes. >> all right, tom, thank you. >>> good idea, bad timing. in maryland, a school bus and snowplow collided after kids were let out of school early at the peak of the snow. in virginia, much of the same as drivers tr

we're talking about areas around culpepper just tthe west of culpepper, the west of charlottesville. places like that for windchill, upwards of minus 10 to minus 5 degrees. and inside our area, we could still see windchills close to zero. even around the city. i'm thinking about five degrees abovezero. that is a very cold night and very cold morning. here are the lake effect streamers that continue to come in. they will stay to the north overnight tonight windy and cold tonight. windy and cold for the day tomorrow as well. the wind will begin to subside by late tomorrow afternoon. it is going to stay cold. right now i think the storm will stay down to our south, which means we will stay on the cold side. the northern side, and that will provide us with some snow i think on thursday. how much snow? a little too early to tell. this is going to be a vy first fast moving system. even if we saw a half inch or inch of snow. that's going to cause a lot of problems on the roadways as the temperatures have been so cold. it's going to stick very very easily. >> mostly clear this evening. windy

as you can see here, culpepper county schools closed. a two-hour delay for fairfax and fauquier. manassas city, two-hour delay. orange county closed. page county closed. prince william county closed. rappahannock county closed. jefferson county two-hour delay and morgan county two-hour delay as well. we will be scrolling closures across the top of your screen all morning long. let's talk to meteorologist adam caskey. we had that snow that you were talking about. now we're dealing with some of the aftermath. >> yeah, there are some slick spots. it is definitely doable today. here is a look at our temperatures. 25 in the district. 17 at dulles, airport. hagerstown at 17. annapolis at 23. we will become sunny today and that will help melt some of the snow, especially with our temperatures climbing into the mid 30's. as for the weekend, looking rather cloudy on saturday and a slight chance of a few more snow showers on sunday. looks like a coastal system, we're going to keep a close eye on that. we could be talking about more snow but right now just a slight chance of a brief little

upper 30s for culpepper. these temperatures, people will feel it's nicer and a little more comfortable out there. you're future cast, there's a storm system from the southeast, mainly impacting the gulf system for now. but right now, we don't have it going anywhere. pretty much by the south and east of us. we'll see cloudy conditions for saturday. but then again, the green, which is the rain, that stays away from us. so at this point, we're looking at this system to really just miss us. but if it tracks a little closer to us, it could bring some snow, mainly to the eastern shore area. and we're looking, if we get it, 1 to 2 inches. and most likely if we get it, late saturday night into early sunday. but for now, models are saying this is probably going to miss the d.c. metro area. your forecast next three days, sunny skies for today, high near 36. tomorrow, increasing clouds. 36 degrees. slight chance for some snow showers. here's your seven-day outlook. saturday and sunday. we're looking at that coastal stor

in virginia culpepper, other counties have announced that they will be closed tomorrow. now, manassas city schools will be opening two hours late and in west virginia, berkeley and jefferson county schools will also open two hours late. we've got all that information on the screen and on the web at wusa9.com. i'm going to be back a little bit later. this may not be the only snow that we'll see before the week is out. your weekend forecast coming up. ladies? >> thanks, howard. >>> lots of school systems decided to let students out early due to the weather. >> that put the buses on the road due to the height of the bad weather. we are in virginia for that part of the story. joining us live from fairfax with lots of salt behind you. >> absolutely, the trucks are very busy. even though that vdot prepared and pretreated last night to try to get ahead of this storm, the snowfall, well, it still caused a lot of trouble for drivers on the road. fairfax county prepared for the snow, even if you didn't. >> all i can expect is the plow trucks laying down layers of salt and sand at

also in virginia, culpepper county schools will have a two-hour delay. now we're going to have the latest closings and delay information running at the bottom of your screen all morning long. >> and i bet you a lot of school systems are powwowing right now to determine whether or not tey should have a delay or close school early. >> that's a very tricky problem the snow is going to start. it's goi to continue throughout the afternoon. at what point do they say it's the best time to get the buses back out there on the road? >> it's only going to start here in about another two or three hours. no problem now, we can get them to school. it's getting them home from school that's going to be the problem. right now d pavement across much of the metro area. but in west virginia and central shenandoah valley near charlottesville the snow is reaching the ground and fartr south and east, too, right near richmond it's beginni to reach the ground. that isdvancing to the east. and moving into the metro area probably around 9:00 this morning. so we're still abo three

snow now, just now coming in to madison and green county, orange counes, just about to come into culpepper county, perhap in the next oh, half hour to hour and a these counties in color under wier weather advisory. northern virginia, much of west virginia, much of maryland, including the district of columbia, as well aselaware. temperatures are cold enough for it to stick. only in the teens in the suburbs and rural areas, near 20 close to washington. and this snow, allue to a weak area of low pressure that's going to passing south of the region. but close enough to us to give us some snow, and we'll have light snow throughout the day today. highs only reaching upper 20s. sunrise 7:21. sunset 4:48. looks like that band there in the middle is where northern virginia, the district, and the nearby suburbs in maryland will get about 1 to 3 inches as well as northern shenandoah valley. farther north not as much. farther south, more, mixing with sleet in the middleof the afternn there. jerry, how's traffic? >> calm at the moment. clear, dry road surfaces. i-270 southbou headed out of frederick to

for >> culpepper staff in virginia, west virginia, we've got berkeley county and jefferson county, they are starting two hours late. and so this is doing some damage. >> yeah. >> the problem is that the roads were closed. anything untreated became a real slippery mess. it wasn't just this. we were lucky, we had a dry powdery snow to the southwest, a real mess in the new river valley, that all schools were canceled. they had about three inches falling. around the mid-morning, sleet and freezing rain started coming down. we have an extra slick layer to add it to the covered roads when you start getting that sleet and freezing rain. and so watch it if you will be out anywhere, really, for the next 18 hours or so tomorrow, at least we'll do that mapping. for tonight, a look at your forecast. the light snow, the flurries, they are ending right now. and next 20 minutes, we'll pretty much be done with almost anything, otherwise mostly cloudy. any breaks we're developing, dropping it into the mid-teens. most of us will be 20 to 25 at 5 miles an hour. and the snow, you can see that it is pulling

29 in frederick where temperatures have been coming up over e last hour or two. 16 in manassas, culpepper coming in at 19 degrees. here's what's happening right now. not a whole lot going on right here, but here's the storm toward the south trying to take shape, trying to strengthen. it will continue to do so. here it comes up the coast. as it mak its way up the coast, it hits the critical point here. right off cape hatteras. last year this storm moved right up the coast and dumped a lot of snow on the i-95 corridor, but this year they just can't make the turn and it will stay out to sea moving away from us, gig vi us minimal impact. we may not see any snow at all. to the east, del mar, maybe the beaches, the best chance of seeing a few flakes. partly cloy cloudy tomorrow mor increasingclouds. light wind, though, so that's the good news. it will be a cold day. 30 degrees on sunday. 30% chance of snow but that will be well tohe east. 39 on monday and maybe a better chance for monday coming up during the day on tuesday, and as we look toward the extended, at lea we get up to 40 by thursday

we'll see snow arriving by 9:00, not so much here but culpepper, 20 to 25 on temperatures. here we go by noon. snow has been moving in. we'll start to accumulate with temperatures in the mid to the upper 20s. snowing through the afternoon. your 3:00 p.m. temp, 28. temperature is 29. total coming up at 5:00. mike and andrea, over to you. >> ocean down has been granted a license to operate slot machines. the grand opening of the facility just outside ocean city is set for january 4th of next year. which is really just a couple of weeks away. plans call for 700 slot machines and a track. ocean downs is also hosting 40 days of live seasonal harness racing as well. >>> the third installment of this -- you start laughing when you start saying the name. third installment of the popular movie series meet the fockers, this one is called little fockers starring ben stiller, robert deniro of course hits theatres friday. >> we have a preview about the on-going and bizarre struggle between gaylord greg focker and his suspicious father-in-law jack burns. >> i'm watching you. >> well, i h

that, maybe a few flurries coming in to madison and green counties into rappahannock as well as culpepper county shortly. and then moving quickly, probably come in the metro area in about another three hours or so. this storm system will continue to spread snow farther to the rth and east, as well. all these counties in dollar are under a winter weather advisory for today, include northern virginia, the district, maryland, and much of maryland and west virgini look at the temperatures, it's cold enough for this snow to stake. it's in the upper teens to near 20 degrees right now. now over the last 12 hours, this storm system has been advancing rapidly, coming in out of the midwest. you can see that snow not only here in to virginia/west virginia stretches farer to the west, as well. this storm system is part of an area of low pressure zrefing in the mid-mississippi valley. there is snow from wisconsin and minnesota all the way down into north carolina. this is advancing to the east. so for today we will have light snow from time to time throughout the entire day with temperatures only reac

still not terribly coldn downtown right now, 43 degrees in washington, 37 culpepper, 37 in winchester 26 in elkins and 19 degrees out in eastern kentucky. windchills are heading down into the single digits out there with light snow showers a flying. cold and breezy, flurries, 25 to 30 for the kids at the bus stop in the morning. wine chills in the teens. that's just the binning more on how much colder it will get coming up. >> while crews are busy preparing the roads for the icy ather, some in our area have already faced major travel headaches thanks to the weather out west. darcy spencer with more on warnings from transportation officials tonight. >> the virginia department of transportation has hundreds of trucks out on theoads here in northern virginia pretreating trouble spots. officials say icy road conditions could be a problem for the early morning commute. at the vdot depot in lexandria, trucks load up with salt, the ammunition to battle icy road conditions expected for monday morning commuters. >> the mn concern for tonight will be wet roads becoming icy roads in the morning.

in culpepper county to adson and greene, high lands of west virginia, snowing in loudo u.n.northern montgomery county, prince george's coun, the heaviest snows will continue to track west to east. the heavy amounts to the soh of washington: it covers all t this, and under this winter weather advisory int the mountains, only in the teens, norfolk, 28 degrees. we have had this system moving east. a broad area of snow. stretching from southeastern virginia, to west virginia, and the ohio valley. the broader view, showing the snow to the upper midwest. a fast-veing storm. it will give us cold weather, it will be dry on friday, it looks like coastal moiste will stay out to sea. the teat of snow on sunday is greatly diminished. not for the rest of this afternoon. will have temperatures remaining in the 20s. 1 to 3 inches in nortrn virginia, the district and maryland, and 3 to 5 further south. it should end tonight, and the cloud cover breaking up by tomorrow, and it looks like sunday should sub snow-free. reini remaining cold. >> we will check on mid day traffic. weather playing a

the warmest windchill on this map, 17 in culpepper. that's not good.igh pressure currently over the area, that an arctic area of high pressure, windy and cold overnight tonight. windy and cold during the day tomorrow. watch what happens thursday. an area of low pressure moves through. i think this will provide parts of the area with snow. best chance from the washington area, really 270 down to the south, north of that,aybe not a whole lot, but we're going to be watchg this one closely, if it does come a little further to the north, then everybody would get in on the action, and we coulsee some accumulating snow. right w i'm thinking 1 to 2 inches, we're going to continue to refine that. it will fall on very cold ground. it will stick immediately on thursday. this evening, mostly clear, windy and cold. 22 to 25 degrees, ndchills between 5 to 15. tomorrow morning mostly clear, windy and very cold. windchills tomorrow between minus 5 and plus 5. temperates 15 to 18 degrees, the winds will still be howling. for the day tomorrow, high temperatures 28 to 32

and culpepper, in towards charlottesville. this is advancing north.his will continue to move up our way. where it is snowing it is at or below freezing. as a result it is sticking to the grassy areas. most of theain roads are just above freezing, so it's melting, dusting to an inch poible. passing snow showers through midday. strong, gusting winds this afternoon, fall out of the 30s to 20s. frigid cold winds. remaining cold thursday. a look at the weekend in ten minutes. jerry, how is traffic? >>> things a little on the tough side. haven't had any incident reported. but it is running slowly to and across the 14th street bridge. pretty typical rushour flow if you will. let's head over to the west, i-66. sorry to say an accident on the left side of the roadway. 66 eastbound near 50 in fair oaks. one more stop over at the american legion bridge. we're doing all right both ways with lanes open. word of a pedestrian accident in downtown silver spring. we'll check on that. metrorail, no delays. 300 and 302 are delayed. marc, brunswick 870, 872 and 892, dela

culpepper at14. nine toward andrews and toward annapolis. not just cold, is frigid out there. the arctic air iseally in place and this is where the number will be overnight. this is futurecast showing windchills around 11:00 tonight. down to about three in windchill. two in hagerstown. six inside the district. six toward la plata as well. tomorrow morning, a windchill of seven for just about all locations. we're looking at windchills in the single digits when you wake up tomorrow morning. if yu thought last week was cold, think again. this will a lot colder especially tomorrow and boo the day. windchills across the area and we'll staythrough. way through the night. the big storm well to the north and east and this is what happened. watch here. this is the snow that fell down toward fredericksburg. it made its way out to sea. so far today, we've just seen me light flurry activity. we could see more of that tomorrow. we have the persistent northwest flow. it will be windy and cold into the day tomorrow. right on through the day on wednesday. and then we'll watch a little system

forest heights, 1.3 in prince georges county frederick, maryland, 1 1/2 and had higher totals to culpepperotsylvania. culpeper ran into the five-inch amount and that is why schools are closed there. >> and damascus, 2 and alexandrea and this is one storm system that seemed to behave and there are others we need to watch and the tax season began, hasn't it? >> and that is right. this might be the only thing we had to deal with this week and it looks like we're talking about the potential for this weekend storm coming back and 27 now, in the city and that is coming up. look at frederick and gaithersburg in the teens and lower 20s. dulles, 23 and that is what we're worried about and where it's been untreated and that is slippery this morning. the wind is not a problem and that is what the current temperature is and they have lightened up so much and that is with a lingering flurry and that shouldn't be a big deal and temperatures in the city to 24, 25 degrees and in the suburbs, this is the clipper moving through and that may have been farther north than what we thought but not much more and

the vandals targeted cars, lining the streets on culpepper, 19th and cameron. >>> the rough economy is being blamed for a spike in shoplifting this holiday season. to help crack down on the crooks, police if fairfax county are doing more aggressive patrols at high end shopping malls. so far, officers have managed to recover several thousand dollars worth of stolen merchandise. one bust alone netted more than $58,000 worth of clothing and perfumes. >> they're very organized. they have -- they know what they want to steal. they usually have multiple players, multiple vehicles. >> there's so much going on. things are so busy. they try to take advantage of that. >> police say shoplifters are becoming more aggressive. some are willing to assault officers and they're carrying guns. retailers passed the cost of unrecovered items on to consumers. >> there could be a few hurdles with the senate vote when it comes to repealing the don't ask, don't tell. >> plus, the man accused of kidnapping a virginia man and suspected of something even worse, ris return to the commonwealth. >> and we'll tell y

brandy station in culpepper picking up 4.5 inches yesterday. there are still many roads that have not been treated. secondary streets and sidewalks, storefront properties. so again anything out there that looks wet will be refreezing tonight. on larger scale, cumberland at 32 then the 20s. we will find the 20s in the metro area but not right now. 27 in pittsburgh. 25 in columbus, cleveland, 26 degrees. still the arctic chill, really gripping a good chunk of the northern part of the country. and it does look like our temperatures will stay unseasonably cool. the pattern will be, after this weekend, a very fast-moving system, moving across the country. and a little bit of snow in the panhandles of texas and oklahoma. still lake effect snows here. but the coastal storms still looks like it will develop. it will still push off the georgia coast, the carolina coast. it will still make its way towards new england that i think could get hit hard sunday into monday. but the big story is how close to the coast will this system hug. this is the latest co

>> culpepper was an 80-year-old member of congress, and a young reporter like nine asked him whether or not he was interested -- like you asked him whether or not he was interested in a lucrative opportunity and he looked the reporter in the eye and said, again lady, -- young lady, at my age i do not buy green bananas. [laughter] >> there has been criticism from the floor tonight, essentially, comparing you to the average american citizen who, if they went through similar circumstances to yourself, they would be punished in the worst way. any response to that? >> what people are you from? >> "washington times." >> this criticism came from the floor? and they said what? but i'm just asking what your response is to the criticism comparing you to the average american citizen. >> i'm not a psychiatrist. i do not deal in average american citizen. i do not know what is average. i will come back to you when you think of a good question. >> after spending almost $2 million, to you not wish you may a deal earlier? >> don't you understand this is the same question? i was not offered a deal ear