loudoun, fauquier stafford culpeper a little above freezing. howard county near freezing. at the bus stop this morning, dress accordingly. you'll need a warm winter coat. we'll stay in the load to mid-30s. increasing sunshine. next weather address trafficnd traffic on the 1s your drive time forecast. >>> starting to see volume build. 66 east at sudley road sounds like there is a crash just east of this off to the right side of the roadway. why we're slowing down a little bit there. 66 eastbound another sudley road.% fairfax school lake braddock secondary schools opening two hours late this morning at 9:25. there is a police investigation. we'll keep you posted on the latest. back to you. >>> today we will learn new information about the investigation into an alleged sexual assault at university of virginia. news 4 will be at the press conference in charlottesville. the sexual assault was detailed in a now discredited "rolling stone" magazine article last year. we'll send out a breaking push alert on whether it will lead to criminal charges. >>> a lot of are you still react

prince william near 40 much of fauquier stafford, spotsylvania low to mid-40s this morning. by noontime, we'll be warming into the low 50s, just a few high clouds drifting this. and then for the afternoon into the upper 50s, just a few high clouds coming through. so a delightful springlike day coming up today. now let's check on our road conditions early on. looks like things are rolling well. >> rolling well right here. nice and dry as you mentioned a couple minutes ago. beltway at colesville road inner loop and outer loop everything rolling along. road work in bethesda wisconsin avenue southbound at woodmont have a lane blocked there southbound. 66 and 95 no major issues. same thing prince george's county. do have this crash, only real issue in the area and it is southbound virginia 95 south at 642 headed out of town. right lane blocked, that should be out of the way in just a little bit. i'm back at 4:41. >>> this morning family and friends are remembering 11 service members that were aboard a black hawk helicopter when it went down. community members held a cankan candle

have all these counties in pink northern virginia, including fairfax, loudoun, prince william, fauquier stafford over to culpeper. charles and st. mary's also just you included into the advisories. mountains, at or a little below freezing. because skies have still remained fairly clear around the metro area but as the rain moves in we will likely have a little bit of light icing so watch out for that between now and mid-morning. by 8:00 9:00 most of the region should be above freezing with the light rain. maybe sprinkles by noontime. mid 50s drg the afternoon, small chance of some sprinkles. >>> big chance of road work here this morning with your shawl chance of sprinkles. 66 west at glebe, we have two left lanes blocked. that is expected to wrap up around 5:00 this morning. taking a look at prince george's county everything in and town looks good. 270 at montrose, no issues there. 95 at lorton road rolling along quite nicely. time to get street smart. safety officials are kicking off a safety campaign. molette green live in college park with what they want you to start doing today. >> reporter:

loudoun, fauquier stafford culpeper a little above freezing. howard county near freezing.stop this morning, dress accordingly. you'll need a warm winter coat. we'll stay in the load to mid-30s. increasing sunshine. next weather address trafficnd traffic on the 1s your drive time forecast. >>> starting to see volume build. 66 east at sudley road sounds like there is

down to near 30 in prince william county fauquier stafford and spotslvania. much of southern maryland a little below freezing. so you need the puffy coat this morning after the cold start, we'll have a mild afternoon. then rain likely moving in later tonight and a wet day looking likely on saturday. right now radar not showing any rain here locally, but way down in southwestern virginia, north caroli

should be right around 50 degrees in prince william county and much of loudoun and fauquier and stafford and spotsylvania culpeper to fredericksburg may actually get in to the low 50s and hovering near 50 degrees in southern maryland. and rather cool right near the bay with the bay water temperatures so chilly it will only be in the low to mid-40s right near the bay later this afternoon. melissa, how are the roads? >> yoifroverall looking pretty good. right now looking at 66 95 here overall no major problems. same thing looking at prince george's county rolling along nicely for us this morning. icc at 95 also looking good. right volume. beltway at st. barnabas is rolling right along, as well. as for the construction worth mentioning again, could be there 5:00 hour, road work been around for about a week of that. and warrenton road at 95 also. >>> it's going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to help make america great again. >> new this morning, it is if i recall texas senator ted cruz is the first person to announce he is running for president in 2016. he put out this

. >>> arlington, loudoun, spotsylvania stafford closed in virginia. also closed fauquier culpeper rappahannock and king george. >>> alexandria fredericksburg, falls church manassas city and maeps park schools are all closed as well. and in west virginia we just learned that berkeley jefferson, grant, morgan an mineral county schools are all closed today. we have complete list scrolling on the bottom of your screen and also on on the nbc washington app. >>> right now if you look out the window, you're probably just seeing rain falling. but that will containing to snow later this morning. we have team coverage of this incoming winter storm as much as 8 inches of snow could fall in montgomery county today. megan mcgrath is live in gaithersburg to show us why this is a ricktricky storm to get ready for. >> reporter: and it's because of the rain coming first. we're here at the salt doun dome in gaithersburg and you can see the front end loader is moving the salt around. just a few minutes ago, they actually filled up a truck and that rubbing went out and hits the highway here.

down to near 30 in prince william county fauquier stafford and spotslvania. much of southern maryland a little below freezing. so you need the puffy coat this morning after the cold start, we'll have a mild afternoon. then rain likely moving in later tonight and a wet day looking likely on saturday. right now radar not showing any rain here locally, but way down in southwestern virginia, north carolina, thit bit of light rain there beginning to move in. the rain will affect us overnight into saturday. coming up, your bus stop forecast for this friday morning at 6:11. thousand we have a big backup on 270. >>> 270 southbound at father hur hurley boulevard, jammed because of an earlier crash. take 355 instead. a are branch avenue southeast closed from pennsylvania avenue to alabama. wide look at things, overall looking pretty good. a little slow 295 passing 50. taking a look at 66 a little slow, as well. that's as you're heading in to centralville. good into and out of town. prince george's county overall no major issues. chopper 4 just got over this 270 south a

maryland and then soth and west from southern fairfax county to prince wril prince william, stafford, southern fauquier. winchester is at 43 around the bay hovering around 40. hour by hour we'll stay in the upper 30s to near 40. occasional showers throughout the day. staying in the 40s for ever of the day. by midafternoon should make it into the upper 40s briefly. so we'll get a nice break from the cold weather throughout the day today, but then winter storm watch this whole area in blue including northern virginia metro area forring a accumulating snow tomorrow. got winter storm warnings being issued to or east and up into pennsylvania and farther to our west winter storm warnings out for the months. likely the blue area will be transferred over to a warning here later today as we'll getting a accumulating snow developing around this time tomorrow morning and through the day on thursday. next weather and traffic on the 1s a look at your drive time weather for this day. now let's look at traffic and wet roads around. >>> wet roads may not look like this come tomorrow morning of course as you said just

warmest neighborhoods will be prince william county into fauquier county stafford, spotsylvania, over to charlottesville. mid-70s today. southern maryland, away from the waters we'll be in the low 70s. but it will be cool right near the waters and on the eastern shore with a few showers coming through. temperatures will be in the mid-60s. so quite a welcome warming on the way. a few showers passing east of us now, another cluster of thundershowers and rain now coming into southern virginia, that will pass south and east of us later this morning and into this afternoon. a look at your bus stop and drive time forecasts coming up next weather and traffic on the 1s at 6:41. >>> still have a crash we understand blocking the right lane route 1 northbound at dale boulevard. so going to be a little slow through that area. we are seeing slowdown also northbound 95. so probably both will be about the same as far as travel times to work for you if you're headed 95 north. 70 east at 27 still have that crash in mt. airy. single car crash with injury. beltway at river road outer loop here everybody

fauquier. as well as stafford and culpeper. southern maryland, too. this is under this freezing rain advisory until noon today. but most of the temperatures should be g

fauquier. as well as stafford and culpeper. southern maryland, too. this is under this freezing rain advisory until noon today. but most of the temperatures should be getting above freezing by mid morning. right now we're just in the mid-20s to upper 20s nearby suburbs. by the time the rain arrives in e above freezing by mid-morning. next a look at your drive time forecast through the day ahead. >>> still have a crash 95 north at garrisonville. doesn't seem to be slowing things too much. but we're starting to get a yellow spot here headed out of stafford. 66 through manassas a little slow as well. kind of a normal slowdown. 270 at old hundred road through hyatts town southbound a little slow around the bend and then it opens back up. wider look rolling quite nicely. chopper 4 over the outer loop at 95 headlights are the outer loop everything rolling along well. >>> new developments out of france morning. crews are back out searching debris following a deadly plane crash. they're to figure out what caused that plane to go down. richard jordan following

over to king george stafford southern fauquier light rain.t will be ending in another hour or so round move this is by mid to late morning. it's a chilly morning. we're in the mid to upper 40s in the metro area, nearby suburbs. near 40 by the bay where still ice on the bay. bus stop this morning, light rain have an umbrella with you. we'll be in the mid-40s between now and 8:00. then between 8:00 and 9:00, upper 40s to near 50 with more light rain beginning to move in and that will be in for the rest of the morning into early afternoon. post your pictures like lloyd ferguson did yesterday when the light rain was falling. melting snow in middleburg in beautiful horse country. you can post your pics on twitter and facebook. low clouds over the metro area. we'll have these with us until noon. and then cloud cover will break up sunshine breaks out and temperatures will quickly jump into the low to mid-60s mid to late afternoon. 30s tomorrow morning. highs 50s on thursday. next chance of rain friday night and into saturday. saturday looks wet with

arlington, loudoun spotsylvania stafford and fredericksburg city are closed as well p. >>> also fauquier culpeper rappahannock and king george all closed. in maryland charles, st. mary's howard anne arundel and we've learned calvert county schools are now closed. >> alexandria falls church manassas manassas park schools are closed as well. the complete list on nbc washington nbcwashingto and at the of your screen. we're covering all angles of the storm. and temperatures will be dropping with the snow. tom is timing out when it would be the coldest. >> and you can't talk about the snow without talking about a snowball fight. where you can join in on the fun today. >> and while you're just seeing rain now you will see snow later on this morning. a live look at radar here for you. you can see the pink and white starting to mix down into our area. the full for >>> the 4 x 4 is driving around 270 northbound. here is a live look. chuck bell is in there. you can tell it's just raining right now but we know the snow will be coming and the roads covered later today. tom will tell us when the temp

fauquier county schools closed. prince william is also closed. prince george's county, loudoun county, spots vein gentleman, stafford two hour delay. falls church closed schools in d.c. alexandria, fredericksburg and manassas park all starting two hours late. >> and manassas city schools on a two hour delay. washington howard anne arundel county schools, charles, st. mary's calvert, king george all on a two hour delay today, as well. >> west virginia now berkeley jefferson, morgan county schools starting two hours late. all this information on the nbc washington app. let's go to tom now and see how the

. >> also closed schools if fauquier county and culpeper and the city of falls church. prince george's county, spotsylvania, stafford and frederick county hear land are on a two hour lay. >>> alexandria, d.c. fredericksburg and manassas park also on a come two hour delay. washington alleghany charles, st. mary's and calvert all starting two hours late. >> howard, anne arundel also two hours late as are paparappahannock king george. birkly jefferson, mineral and morgan county starting two hours late. >> frederick county virginia and clarke county schools on a one hour delay. for the complete list check the nbc washington app or watch the scroll at the bottom of the screen. >>> be sure to take your time walking out the door this morning. ice is covering sidewalks and side streets this morning. heavy ice on trees bringing down branches this morning and causing power outages, as well. megan mcgrath is live in northwest washington to show us some of the slippery conditions there. >> reporter: we go have some power outages. just a couple hundred though. you can see the accumulation of ice here on this tree branch. we got

fauquier county schools closed. prince william is also closed. prince george's county, loudoun county, spots vein gentleman, stafford two hour delay. falls church closed schools in d.c. alexandria, fredericksburg and manassas park all starting two hours late. >> and manassas city schools on a two hour delay. washington howard anne arundel county schools, charles, st. mary's calvert, king george all on a two hour delay today, as well. >> west virginia now berkeley jefferson, morgan county schools starting two hours late. all this information on the nbc washington app. let's go to tom now and see how the ice will affect you. >> yeahof the winter. about a quarter of an inch. right now radar not getting anymore icing into on, no more freezing rain or drizzle. this is a picture of a side street. most of the main roads are wet, but side streets are icy. your footing is treacherous. you'll spend some time scraping ice off your windshield, as wet. let the car warm up and deicers take effect and get the ice of off your side windows, mirrors as well as your back window this morning because it will be staying at or a little below freezing bet