more sleet near delmarva. tomorrow we think intense winds as the low explodes off of the atlantic coast. tonight 26. heavy snow. we could see thunder snow. 28 tomorrow. heavy snow. one did. finally it tapers off late tomorrow evening. i think thursday is going to be a very windy day around here. fighting the for the role of the eastern shore weather watchers club. denton my sis what said they started coming down with light sleet 15 minutes ago. down from the radar, comes out of the clouds and dries up before reaching the ground. we saw that earlier this morning. we are saturating air on the eastern shore. nearby is easton at the 3. that's crucial. on the warm side of the storm you'll have a mix of rain. which means flooding.then icing up and snow tomorrow. we have pure snow in ellicott city. i want to show you how the conditions developed there. this is my favorite shot. we were able to watch the parking lot clear out. we think the bulls eye of precipitation will be on harford county. harford county is also on

we could see less toward the southern tier of the delmarva pepeninsula. we beat the record the 1995, '96 that was 6 52.5. we going to continue to he see 6 to 10 inches of snow. 29 degrees, temperatures aren't going to climb at all. breezy conditions are going to pick up later today and through the evening hours and blowing know and blizzard conditions are going to be the main concern. the next 7 days, 29 degrees for today and look at that, we're going to get a stretch of dry weather. 35 degrees on thursday and 37 on friday. 35 on saturday, we're going to stay breezy but temperatures above freezing will allow for melting and flooding and sunday into monday, there's the clipper system that could bring us 1-2 inches. that is going to be nothing compared to what we have been experiencing the past couple of days topping on at 35 on thursday. back to you guys. >>> can't wait to see the sun after today. >> the snow is not all gloom and doom. these guys in fulton took advantage of the high snow drift to build a snow tunnel. >> that's pretty cool. it looks like th

mary's county, six to 12 across the delmarva. fredericksburg two inches. you could be in danger of flipping over to some sleet and rain a little later on tonight. hagerstown only two inches, but romney, man you guys get hammered, 10 inches in romney, west virginia. dangerous super storm. six to 12 between now and midnight. six to eight between midnight and 6:00 a.m., then it starts to pull away from the coast. so in the morning, maybe two to four, in the afternoon, maybe one to two. but near blizzard conditions tonight, and that is a huge deal for us. it doesn't happen too often. the criteria is the 12 to 18- hour period where you need visibility one quarter of a mile or less for three hours or longer, and sustained winds at 35 miles per hour or frequent gusts to 35 miles per hour. so doesn't technically have to be snow. it's just visibility and also wind, and i think we're going to satisfy those criteria as we get into the late hours tonight. the late hours tonight. especially in southern maryland. we may see this actually push further north. we said that

the blizzard warnings for upper portion of the delmarva peninsula into the new jersey coastline. major concerns with the blizzard warnings, powerful wind, whoit ouwhite -- white out conditions, and the heavy snow and the freezing sleet. we will get you updated as this system continues to pound maryland coming up in just a few minutes. >>> breaks news report out of dundalk today. >> a two alarm fire broke out at a fire station in dundalk. it all happened at station 6 in the 2800 block of salar's point, part of the building, collapsed and we do know that several pieces of equipment were damaged. the damage is immense and there's a long list ofy equipment. we will have that for you very soon. >>> we believe that a $500,000 truck was also damaged. the police officer going on to another story is hit by a car after trying to stop two armed robbery suspects in towson. it started a 2:00 at the 500 block of york road. investigators say two suspects robbed a cv store and jumped in a car and got on dulaney value y vood -- valley road. during the pursuit they got in a car and tried to run th

six to 12 in extreme southern maryland to the delmarva because i'm telling you it will mix with sleet and rain before it is said and done. clarksburg three inches. -- going. this is sort of what we call presnow, bonus snow before the main act develops tonight. it is still a dangerous super storm. we are not trying to scare you but to tell you it is a serious snowstorm. conditions are as bad as they will get during wenter in the mid-atlantic. another two inch evers before it is said and done. and then we get going. 6:00 p.m. to midnight, six to 12 inches. probably hear thunder and see lightning and that's common with a storm of this magnitude and a storm that is this intense. and then midnight to 6:00 a.m., an additional six to eight inches. remember, 12 to 20 inches. only average downtown 18 inches for the entire season. it will wind down on saturday, two to four inches in the morning. probably one to two in the afternoon. but again near blizzard conditions tonight. and that is something we are really trying to hammer home. look at the satellite picture radar combined. look at this mo

and as you head down toward the delmarva, cambridge, talbot, queen anne's. lookingar 8 to 16 inches. then we start to see those that keep the amounts down. problem changes from rain to the winds. bob talked about a blizzard warning. well, the winds are going to be substantial. this is going to be a nor'easter. the storm tracks across the state. sets up along the eastern sea board and turns into a whole other type of storm. kicking back the winds, up to about 50 miles per hour at times, along the delmarva. the delaware beaches are going to take a pounding. we will continue to update this and give you a look at your first warning five-day forecast. we'll have another storm system just a few days away. >>> wjz 13 is always on. check in for first warning weather coverage. for updates on the forecast, live doppler radar, and information on closings and delays, log onto wjz.com. >>> a famous self-help guru faces manslaughter charges, linked to the fatal sweat lodge ceremony he organized last year. patty kaufman reports with more on the allegations. >> reporter: bu

extending now through the delmarva peninsula. on maryland's most powerful doppler radar now you can see, if you look closely, baltimore getting into some, at least moderate snow now. i'll have to check the objections at the top of the -- observations at the top of the hour, but looks like more sleet down in the easton area and back to cambridge to the south and east. that is why we think accumulations could be a bit less. nonetheless a winter storm warning up for the entire state. baltimore, ocean city, all the way west past hagerstown, frederick and beyond. it will be a snowy situation. we think we'll now push to the number one winter of all time for snow here since records have been kept in the baltimore area. unbelievable stuff. we only need another half-inch. looks like we're probably going to get well beyond that, we're talking a foot or more likely. >> it's in spots already. it was coming down fast and furious. >> westminster -- >> ralph in westminster called in, says there's two inches of snow coming down so far. he said i

it will be clear of the delmarva. temperatures in annapolis and easton 32. low 30s down south. the wet snow. talking to kim our chat room in prince frederick. it snowed and rained in calvert. they ended up with an inch and a half at newland. culpeper 21. winchester 28. our winds have been fairly light. this morning northwest at seven. 34 national. wind chill of 28. look at how the moisture exploded over south texas in the last six to eight hours. a sign sign of the intensification of the storm and we will be watching that closely the next couple of days. the seven-day forecast, 42 today. 40 tomorrow. no problems. we will get the melting and here's storm number two. friday night and saturday, saturday could be a very snowy day a highs of freezing. dry often sunday and monday and storm number three by tuesday afternoon and evening. highs in the low 30s. >> make it stop. traffic has westbound gude road closed because of an overturned traffic tanker truck. 270 southbound. everything is okay there. going northbound we are running in to problems. at shady grove we are losing three pl

we have rain across the eastern shore through the delmarva area. little bit more rain in southern maryland. that headed our way later this evening. we'll probably be changing over to a wintry mix into overnight hours past sunsets. today a good looking day. topping out 45 degrees. 47 is average. a decent day. one of the better days. 44 was the two-degree forecast. six days in a row now we hit the two-degree guarantee. 42 at bwi marshall. i want to show you this. low 40s about everywhere. even as we get rain and eventually a win mix overnight the road surfaces will take a while to cool off enough for anything to stick out there. because it has been a relatively mild afternoon around here. the winds still very quiet and calm. this storm getting its act together as it pushes into the mid atlantic. right now almost no wind. you may want to head outside and latch down anything that can get brown around. this evening calm, quiet and dry will give you chance to do that. winter storm watch and winter weather advisory for all of central maryland until freder

we expect more snow toward delmarva with this particular storm. 37 degrees bwi marshall.downtown a little warmer than that. when the flakes fly this evening in a lot of cases they won't stick well. the ground is above freezing. take a look today. you can see the clouds thick out there into the afternoon. we got breaks of sunshine. certainly no snow flying today in the inner harbor. again, it just didn't stick. wind gusts. these are the concern going forward tonight into tomorrow. tremendous winds expected. gusts 41 bwi marshall. this wind can delay flights not to mention. large hubs in the northeast have major delays. you can see why we didn't get much of a stick last night because we never got below the freezing mark. 34 was it. 37 this afternoon. again comfortably above the freezing mark. look at this. you talk about a plethora. you chose the word of watches and warnings. winter weather advisory advisory for baltimore, ann arundel county hartford into carroll county. after that you get into the winter storm warning from cecil county through jersey and philly. all the ye

about to clear the delmarva. behind it you see low clouds. the moon is dimly visible but a lot of moisture in the air. visible is becoming a problem. culpeper, quarter mile. a mile at dulles. three in annapolis. we have local license fog. that could be an issue over the next couple of hours until we need to get the sun to help out or the storm gets far enough away the low level moisture can get mixed out. keep that in mind. temperatures in the upper 20s to the west. culpeper to 19. they are dropping quickly with clearing for them. patuxent river, saint indigos in the low to mid-30s. wind chill is 25. northwesterly winds at 8. big storm across texas right now. energy coming from the southwest. we expect that moving in on friday night in toe saturday. a significant snow possible. i may turn that to likely tomorrow. and then as we get in to sunday and monday we are dry. and on tuesday another storm may be bearing down on us. highs in the low 30s. >> feels like ground hog day, oh, wait, that was yesterday. 19 minutes after the fave clock hour, tr

and the delmarva that we expect to see blizzard conditions in place. we are holding fast with areas down toward d.c., potentially seeing up to roughly about 30 inches of snow out of this. the numbers start to taper off as you go down toward the lower eastern shore. they will still see snow. but they'll see more wind and definitely less snow than we'll see across much of central maryland. as far as the winds, well, we're looking at the winds. winds are really driving those blizzard warnings. 30 to 40-mile-per-hour winds across the state. down from cecil county. and salisbury toward ocean city, we could see 50-mile-per- hour plus winds before this storm system is out of here. we'll continue to keep you updated. >> thank you, tim and bob. wjz is following the impact of the system on the roads. mike hellgren has an update on the systems to keep the roads cleared. >>> the governor just wrapped up a briefing here at the state command center in hanover. and he talked about an accident, involving a plow in harford county. he also predicted that tens of thousan

and of course, you see the delmarva, already under those blizzard warnings. but those blizzard warnings around our area go into effect until 10:00 tonight. blizzard warnings go into effect when the visibility is expected to be a quarter of a mile and less, and winds are sustained or gusting. frequently at 35 miles an hour or greater. and we have actually upped these in some cases. 18 to 24 inches, area wide, across most of the state, with higher amounts down from d.c. could see areas up near 30 inches, before this is all said and done. there will be a bit of a mix. as you head down toward the eastern shore. but their problem is going to be the wind. as this nor'easter starts to crank up and move up the eastern sea board. 50-mile-per-hour in fact. up toward the jersey shore. 40 to 50-mile-per-hour, from cecil county down to salisbury. and 30 to 40, across most of the states, from harford county, on out from western maryland. that is going to make very dangerous conditions. stay off the roads if you can. these will deteriorate we move on through the night. bob

>> mid atlantic anywhere from the delmarva to chesapeake bay. off, you can see the storm, bright white clouds. the storm itself is located in two pieces, one be headed through missouri. and the dominant storm now developing in northern florida and southern georgia, as the moisture spreads up the coast. expected snowfall totals, very significant, right from virginia, west virginia, maryland, delaware and southern jersey. why isn't this storm heading up to new york city, hartford, boston, providence? there's this huge ocean storm, a blocking storm. this looks like a hurricane in the north atlantic. it's not going to allow the storm that's coming off the mid atlantic coast to head northward. this storm will push it out to sea. that's why, contessa, areas to the north get spared but not areas in the mid atlantic. it's very rare. >> you're keeping a close eye on that. we'll check back in with you during the day. >>> john edwards' sex scandal a judge has found edwards' former aide andrew young in contempt of court over a sex tape. superior court judge

it's an area of right through the mid-atlantic from pittsburgh to charleston through the delmarva that eye point for this historic storm tonight and tomorrow. more details throughout the day. david? >> thanks, bill. i appreciate the update. of course we have our eyes on a lot of other news this morning. michael jackson's doctors preparing to surrender. will he be charged for the king of pop's death? a 12-year-old girl gets busted for doodling on her desk but you will not believe what happened next. >>> lindsay vaughn is gracing the cover of "sports illustrated." does the cover jinx cross international borders? let's hope not. back now to the breaking news we reported at the top of the hour. we are poring over details of some of the dealings of sarah palin and her husband todd and they're telling quite the tale. investigative reporter bill dedmond joins us now. bill, what are the big points in the e-mails? >> david, people in juneau had wondered who was this shadow governor. todd pay lynn was sitting in meetings. legislators were called to meeting he was called in the governor's office.

less because of some rain and sleet mixing in and 6 to 12 in the northern neck and delmarva.although you folks will have blizzard conditions later tonight. great picture. damascus, maryland. thank you for sending this in. a great picture and keep the pictures coming and the storm reports coming on our website at wusa9.com. okay. alexandria, four inches. we are a little suspect of that. we will say four inches in alexandria. six in winchester, 3.5 in frederick, maryland, 7.5 in forestburg and mineral county, 7 inches, as well. satellite picture, radar combined. here'ses in aive area snow right now. we will watch this rain line creep pretty far north but i think it will get in to southern st. mary's and calvert county. i think it will happen. it will retreat late tonight and go back to all snow. in the meantime, the snow extends to the shenandoah valley to charlottesville. let's talk about more snowfall amounts and doppler radar. devon is out on the terrace. >> we are looking at moderate snow continuing out here. flakes aren't as large as earlier but steady moderate snow region

this is the upper level part, the low of the storm that will eject energy over the delmarva peninsulat will develop the surface low that will crank up. this is the old one that bumping up quite a bit of snow upstate new york and new england. that will wind down tonight and tomorrow. tomorrow we expect to see five to ten inches across d.c. and new york corridor, ten to 20 upstate and inland. wind will be a huge issue with this. we could see hurricane force winds. the amount of snow that d.c. and new york gets the confidence is fairly low because it will start as rain, go over to snow. how long that warm air sticks around is a huge question. the wind and how this thing winds up is certainly going to be impressive. batten down the hatches tomorrow night and into friday. >>> using my powers of deduction, i'm detecting a pattern in our weather. how long is this expected to last >> as far as the winter weather is concerned? >> until spring. >> this storm after storm after storm. >> i don't see a huge ends in sight. it has to do with the el nino. and also what's going on out in the atlantic.

will eventually hit the colder airs in place now across parts of the appalachians, mid-atlantic, delmarva scenario to what we saw in late december. i think we'll see similar snow amounts at least in some cases. winter storm watches and warnings have been posted. 10 to 20 inches of snow potentially near the baltimore and washington, d.c. area. how far north it gets to new york, that's a big question. right now computer models are keeping it south, and new york just kind of gets clipped. houston, rain and clouds if you're traveling through those hubs. minneapolis freezing, fog at least in the morning. tomorrow's forecast, weather map shows a big old mess across the eastern sea board. we are trying to get some of that snow to our snow starved friends in the big apple. right now it looks like just a few inches. most of the action is going to be south of, say, trenton, new jersey. back to you guys. >> my sleds are greased. my kids are all ready to go. >> start driving south as soon as the show is over. >> did you say 10 to 20 inches in baltimore and washington? did i really just hear you say t

there is a number of areas of snow and different types of snow and snow in the richmond and delmarvareas and different from what is in d.c. and baltimore. it depends what is in the atmosphere above you. there is a lot of rain to the southeast, but as the storm heads to the northeast, that is where the storm develops into the mid-atlantic states i will call it, where we talk about near the carolinas, you will get north of that line, and that is where it is all going to turn into snow. it starts tomorrow night. d.c. and baltimore could be well into the one-foot category. the good news, it is friday night and people hopefully will go home and stay home and we are hearing some of the bakeries are working overtime to put it on the bread back on the shelves, because the bread is completely gone. >> so one thing that you do is to track things "off of the radar" and you came up with one kn nexted to storm. >> yes, connected to a lot of storms we have had. i put the numbers together. maryland d.o.t. statewide has spent 46 million and budgeted 29 million. philadelphia hoped for the best and th

that's your source, heading into freezing air from virginia up through the delmarva. the form of snow and sleet. winter storm warnings are posted for a good chunk of this area, and blizzard warning up for extreme southern jersey and the delaware coastline. we're going to see winds in of 35 miles an hour, blowing snow sideways and reducing visibilities. let's talk snow totals, washington, d.c., 16 to 24 inches expect, 12 to 18 inches in philadelphia. notice how it drops off quickly as you go toward new york, 4 to 8 inches. that's the big question mark. could be more, could be less. but what we are very confident on is that we will see snow totals that will rival the last batch that came in december in d.c. and philadelphia. that will be a crippling snowstorm for the next two days. back to you. >> rob, thanks so much. >> we've got our sleds greased. ready to go. >> boy, for the people in delaware and new jersey and pennsylvania, what a mess. >>> cnn is taking an in-depth look this morning all day at the tea party movement. our jim acosta has more on the group's way of o

the storm continues to swirl from new england right down through the delmarva peninsula. heavy coastal flooding along so some spots and a lot of rain as well. 40, 45 miles north of new york city got 23 inches. harriman. >> 52 miles got 23 inches. west milford, new jersey, 18 and in central park as of 1:00 this morning, 9.6 inches of snow. >> and what that meant to me when i was in high school, if you missed school and it is snowing, you have an excellent chance to make a lot of snow shovelling revenue. >> i just got the call. my daughter's school canceled. >> do you wake her up to tell her that? >> she's getting the call at the house, too. somebody there just got woke up. i think so. >> in our school district, they call the night before so we can make arrangements. usually they don't do that but also, we didn't have electricity last night at our house. >> bummer. >> microwave dinners. >> no, got to do it on the stove. >> all right. let's go ahead and do another fox news alert for you because the taliban claiming responsibility this morning for deadly homicide attacks that

cloud canopy extends into almost central canada, up through the maritime provinces down through the delmarvau in maine. 70-mile-an-hour winds there. concord airport, 68-mile-an-hour wind gusts. new york city, 45-mile-an-hour wind gusts. enough to take down some tree limbs across the city as we've seen. snowfall across pennsylvania and jersey, foot and a half. orange county, unofficial reports of two feet of snow. this thing continues to spin more in the way of snow across new york. pleasantville, new york, on the east side of the hudson river, which actually saw -- it took a while for it to change over from rain to snow. doesn't that just look -- it looks like mush. it is so heavy and hard to get through. they're going to have a tough time digging out as will many folks across the tri-state area. more snow rotating in. we're trying to get some dry air into this thing. it's not having great success. so we do anticipate seeing more significant snowfall today, although it will begin to wind down, at least the snow rates. look at all the advisories and warnings up from northern maine all the way

affecting the northeast through new jersey and the delmarva but for us it is pulling away.ers garrett county through pennsylvania. show you live doppler hd. west of 95 things are all done. as we zoom in to the metro, just a very thin line of snow here. looks like now it is probably getting east of the baltimore- washington parkway, east of town. as we go to the east, though, annapolis looks like the snow is just about over for you as it is pulling to the eastern shore now. queenstown, town here. to mcdaniel. this batch of snow is coming through easton and saint michaels, as well. southern maryland, we are dealing with a little snow north beach to saint leonard. in calvert county, lusby you may be clipped by this. mechanicsville just about over for you. and in hollywood a few areas, a little snow shower. temperatures, barely at the freezing mark. this was a much wetter, heavier snow than on saturday. upper 20s in the shenandoah valley, frederick, montgomery county, 27 culpeper. quantico is freezing, annapolis freezen. southern maryland had some rain earlier. that switched ba