travel these days is never easy. >> reporter: derrick ward, news4. >>> up next, earlier this week d.c. officials said it was broken and would not be fix. news4 has video of d.c.'s famous snow melter today. what changed? also talking about more snow. >>> we are following breaking news in anne arundel county this afternoon. one person died following a small plane crash that happened there at 4:30 this afternoon in edgewater. anne arundel county officials say a small single-engine plane crashed into the yard of a house. at this point we are told no one on the ground was hurt. we have a crew on the scene and will let you know more information as it becomes available. >>> the white house has a new social secretary. juliana smoot was the national finance director for obama's campaign. she will take over for desiree rogers. many criticized rogers for not doing more to prevent the virginia couple crashing the obama's first state dinner. the harvard-educated businesswoman plans to pursue opportunities in the corporate world. >>> the ongoing mystery surrounding the whereabouts of d.c.'s snow me

my man derrick ward is out there struggling through this.ollege park with more. >> hey, jim. i'm smiling this time. it was just the snow hitting me in the face that had me frowning like that. i want to give you a look at the road conditions here. as you can see, it's no longer just wet. it is definitely slushy. cars aren't having any trouble passing, but i imagine stopping has got to be a challenge for folks. that's something to be mindful of. that gives you an idea of why they've declared this state of emergency and why people are being urged to stay off of the roads. there are still cars on route 1, but nothing like it usually is this time ofay, is time of week. and it's only going to get worse. so, you know, the best thing you can do is heed the advice that we've been giving all evening and that officials have been giving, to stay off the roads. this is another one of our non-scientific indicators of what the rate of snowfall is like. i'm going to make a foot print here in the snow. it's down to pavement. i'm going to circle it with my fo

derrick ward is in college park with more. we go back to derrick now to see how it's going there.s coming down steadily. it's not the big, fluffy flakes that we had for a period, but it feels harder on my face. it's blowing harder and it's wet. i want to let you take a look at the road surface. this is what some folks are driving on here on route 1. there's not a lot of traffic. since we last talked to you, this road has been treated. there was a truck that came through. it's on the other side of the road making its way down there now. nonetheless, people in prince george's county are being warned, like they are in other jurisdictions, to stay off the road unless they absolutely have to be out. we talked to prichnce courage g county police about the details of this state of emergency. >> from the police department standpoint, we're still maintaining routine patrol. we're utilizing four-wheel-drive vehicles for that. we're asking residents to please stay at home tonight. the snow is going to get worse. we have a difficultime trying to maintain the roadways between public works, get

derrick ward is live in college park with a lot of -- do we have a rush hour on this friday, derrick? here. this is route 1. it's rare to see this little traffic on route 1 at this time of day on a friday. i want to show you video of the beltway. this is the beltway through college park. kind of the beginning of the snow event. traffic was moving. the roads have been treated so they didn't hav any trouble getting around. it wasn't as bad as it usually is. a state of emergency has been declared. a short rush hour, early rush hour, contributed to that to a certain extent. we're hoping that will last throughout the day. joining me now is mark brady with prince george's county fire and ems service. mark, we talked earlier. you said that something about this snow that will probably because adversity later on in this event. >> exactly. this is a wet, heavy snow. the wet, heavier snow is ing to ecumulate on power lines and tree branches that will come in contact with those power lines and then we'll have some power outages. unfortunately that creates a whole other set of problems for citizen

news 4 derrick ward is there live with the latest. good morning, derrick. what do you know?23-year-old female taken from the 600 block of north wakefield. now, she has since been located. with more details joining me is crystal with the arlgton