later on fox 45 news at 10:00. how people were surviving at bwi. >> i don't know what we will do now. >> next. fire station has a fire in the middle of the winter blast. a look at the losses on the more very satisfied customers than comcast. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800-974-6006 tty/v. >> this storm is making emergency situations even worse. baltimore city firefighters responded to a two alarm blaze on the dell terrace at south afel avenue. they had a tough timing for to the blaze because the road is not clear. no one was hurt. >> crews also had their hands full fighting a blaze at arundel county today. a viewer sent us this photo of the scene at the 7800 block of clark road in hanover. the blaze caused major damage to the home and minor injuries to, at least, one resident there. again, if you see news occurring in your community. upload photos and videos to our website. go to foxbaltimore.com and click on the see it, shoot it, send it icon. you can also send photos from your cell

that is not what the supreme court said in fox. and i think your argument is intriguing, but before we finished through with that, could we go back to the articulation of the standard, because as you said in the beginning, either on the articulation basis or applied basis, you would prevail here? again, tell me how i deal with the language in fox that says deliberate and repetitive use is 8 requisite to a finding of indecency with a complaint focuses solely on public nonfederal -- nonliteral expletives? >> that was taken literally and quoted to the supreme court, and the court quoted it to the background section. i think the courts should look at the context. >> we are not to read it literally? >> the key is, what is an expletive. the supreme court is not talking about what an expletive is. the sec tried to say that is confined only to a literal meaning, but if you look back to the decision it has reference to an " it, the relevant distinction that the fcc was drawing was that it was unplanned, unscripted, and unintentional, not ju

on the fox 45 news ticker. fox 45 morning news now starts at 5 a.m. >> a man convicted of sexual assault may have continued to earn a paycheck from the city, while he was behind bars. it is an issue that is getting the attention of a city council member tonight. karen parks live outside of the department of public works with the story on you saw first on on fox. and now it could bring big changes. karen? >> jennifer, the man that sparked all of this is still employed by the department of public works. and tonight, is still behind bars. but today, councilwoman helen holton submitted a resolution that would make sure there are policies in place, to keep this from happening again. >> we as a city, we need to tighten up what we're doing. >> councilwoman helen holton questions city policies, and demands change. >> this person is on the registry, serving amos in jail. receiving a paycheck. utilizing sick leave out of the sick leave bank, yeah it bothers me. >> holtton is referring to 37-year-old dennis mclaughlin tha

you can send us a tweet at fox baltimore, you is can text us. your response could air tonight on fox 45 news at 10. >>> aig is giving out $100 million in bonus money. the money is going to employees of the financial products unit. they agreed to give the company a 10% discount in exchange for getting their money six weeks early. bonus paid to the same department last year caused major backlash from the public and lawmakers in washington, d.c. republicans say the white house should demand an immediate explanation. the government owns 80% of aig. >>> back here at home five baltimore city workers will be losing their jobs now thought public works museum is closing. it's located at the eastern avenue pumping stations. this is part of the budget cuts to close the structural deficit for the next fiscal year 2011. >>> a new report indicates a key part of the federal health reform legislation isn't needed here in maryland. insurance exchanges would give the uninsured the option of shopping around for coverage. a report from the national association of i

enter fox 45a for yes, b for no.ou are response on the news at 10:00. >> tomorrow 2 democrats and republicans will meet at the white house trying to find common round in health reform. is there are questions about whether real work will be accomplished or if it's about political theater. the president laid out his plan monday 3 days before the scheduled meeting with the gop. >> he's basically crippled the summit that's expected on thursday. by coming in with a rerun of the same failed bill that couldn't pass the house or senate. >> they pushed back greatly on this notion they're a party of no. if they're not the party of no, first it's a perfect venue to be a party of yes. >> one republican law maker is calling for a boycott. >> winter 98 winter blast. >> we hope we don't continue to that number! we're still in the winter season. look at the hd radar. you can see showers working there waddle virginia coming into maryland maryland toward charles county. a little bit of rain. break of precipitation is west over toward

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the host of fox news sunday chris wallace.ing here. let's start with the news of the day. we learned a short time ago white house social secretary desiree rogers is stepping down. what do you make of this? >> well, i think she was a goner after the mess up with the salahis, crash be the first state dinner. she was a member of the obama inner circle. i'm sure they didn't want to cut her loose then but that was a huge mistake for a social secretary on the first state dinner, an embarrassment for the first famy and somebody had to take the fall and she has. >> interesting to see how that played out. let's talk about what you have coming up this week on fox news sunday. we know the. held a bipartisan health care summit this week. did they actually accomplish anything or was it more political theater? >> i think it was mostly political theater so the president could appear to be reaching out, trying to be bipartisan, trying to be transparent, putting it on television. but i think now what you're going to see is democrats in the hou

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enter fox 45 a for great. fox 45 b for good. fox 45 c for poor. fox 45 d for horrible. and your response may air tonight on the "late edition" at 11:00. >> and we will be watching the snowfall for awhile. >> how long will it last and how much will we get this time? chief meteorologist vytas reid joins us with a closer look at the winter blast. vytas? >> round three here we go. heavy snowfall is coming down across pretty much most of the state right now. eastern shore though, southeast of salisbury, ocean city. looking a at a mixing in taking place down this. put it in motion. bright white shows the heavy snow going along the 95 corridor. signing out. we see that we have one area of low pressure south. and that will continue to track up and wrap in the moisture. but then we have the second low that will continue to head our direction. by tomorrow morning, that will intensify out over the atlantic. and that will be actually picking up the winds creating blizzard like conditions. and also bringing more snowfall. so this is not a good situation. winter storm warnings from n

cable with fox news channel reporting its best quarterly profit ever. robert gray. >>> coming up a window washer rescued in baltimore how he got stuck 12 stories above the ground. >>> we are shoveling through baltimore county this morning. i'm megan gilliland. how long it's going to take you to get to your car straight ahead. >> reporter: i'm joel d smith, live in westminister where plow drivers tell us this is the >>> welcome back to fox 45 early edition. 5:29 is the time. you're waking up this morning to more winter

you believe fox news is the most trusted news organization. >> here is what i believe fox news is themost passionate and sells the clearest narrative of any news organization if that's how you are still referring to it in that manner? >> bill: yes, it's a news organization. polls referred to it nobody had any problem. only you. only you have a problem. >> i think fox in and of yourself say you are not a news organization all day. isn't it now your news -- what was it your news from 9 to 11 and then your opinion and then your news again from like 1 to 2 3506r789d 0. >> bill: kind of like a newspaper. >> except jewish holidays and then you are not and alternate parking days you are news and christmas you are not? >> bill: think about the news pages and then you open another page and there is the opinion page. clearly labeled opinion page. >> yeah. >> bill: you have no problem with that, right? >> first of all, newspapers are a passionate piece of paper that you go to and you know where the opinion thing is television doesn't function that way and you know it. >> bill: you don't think th

we'll have complete coverage of the storm here on fox 5. >>> now to a fox 5 investigation. the story of a family who thought they'd taken care of their funeral planning years before it was needed. >> but nothing prepared them for a grave mistake at the cemetery. fox 5's tisha thompson investigates. >> reporter: a final resting place is supposed to be peaceful. but for sue ross, visiting park lawn memorial in rockville has only brought her turmoil. >> my mother was in her 90s. it's still never easy. it's still not long enough. >> reporter: soon after losing her mother, she lost her husband, mo. >> my husband was the love of my life. >> reporter: a close-knit family who wanted to be as together in death as they were in life. >> mother and daddy bought the plots. there were four together. i remember her saying, you and daddy can go and have covery, sit here and have coffee under the pine tree. >> reporter: but a grave mistake changed those plans. >> mo and i are here and then -- mother and daddy are up here. >> reporter: even though sue's father prepaid almost $16,000 for the

correspondent james rosen reports in another fox news exclusive the deed has now been undone. >> foxcy for international development or u.s.a. id has cancelled the no bid contract it awarded to a firm owned by the donor to the obama presidential campaign. instead, the contract, which offered $24.6 million for the training of afghan lawyers and judges will be put out for competitive bids as when the bush administration first awarded it back in 2004. >> in a fox news exclusive- >> -- fox news broke the news of the cecchi a week ago. they say it was unrelated to fox news reporting that it was based on the fact that a rival firm had launched a protest that was improperly overlooked by the contracting officer in kabul. when fox news contacted them a week ago they made no mention of the ard protest or the contract's. instead defended the contract as proper. >> back in 2008. >> i will defend the abuse of no big contracts. the days of big sweet deals of halliburton will be over when i am in the white house. >> candidate obama vowed to break down on no bid contracts. >> in some cases contract

or text your answer to 45203, enter fox 45 a for yes. fox 45 b for no. and hear your response tonight on the "late edition", possibly, at 11:00. >> snow is falling on the ground as we speak. and our own jeff abell is right in the middle of things. jeff, what is it like out there, dare i ask? >> well, it is wet and snowy right now. so far, we don't have any responses as far as freezing but it could get worse we're told. want to show you what's taking place here at the city's salt yard where we are in a lull. but for most of the night, plows are rolling in here. filling up with salt. and rolling back out. in an all out assault on the streets. the city is using every available resource tonight. said it is fully deployed. opened a storm center where city leaders are tracking the storm. but the big question right now, what are they expecting come rush hour? we will have that in 20 minutes. for now, jeff abell, fox 45 news at 10:00. >> as you can see the snow coming down out there. we have gotten two to almost 3 inches across the area. winter storm warning for

and stay with fox 45 for continuing coverage of this remember to.we have special coverage of the winter blast tomorrow morning. tune in beginning at 6:00 a.m. >>> we'll stay on the air until 1 in the afternoon bringing you the very latest on the forecast and conditions on the roadway and all closings and delays. >>> other news. baltimore city police officer shot in in police involved shooting in northwest baltimore is release from shock trauma. it happened just after 7:00 o'clock last night in the 3700 block of oak mont avenue at rice town road. police say they were investigating reports of an armed man roaming the neighborhood. walked up to these people. one man shot an officer in the arm. police fired back letting the shooter and another man. one victim died at the scene. the other is listed in serious condition. >>> [ male announcer ] mark your calendar. the "verizon fios days to save event" is here. a limited time opportunity to save $20 a month, when you sign up for fios tv, internet and phone for the great low price of $89.99 a month for one y

jeff abell, fox 45 news at 10:00. >> if you have plans to fly this weekend. it is not looking g michael buczyner, is live tonight at bwi thurgood marshall airport. with the latest on people trying to get in to, and out of town. not looking good, michael? >> if you are trying to get out, it won't happen. trying to get into town. it won't happen. you can see the snow blowing out here. blowing forcefully. even the live truck we are using you can feel the wind blowing the truck. you can see it, moving around. we came to the parking lot, at 3:30 this afternoon. no snow out here. coming down. but minute. all of a sudden the sky opened up and in a matter of hours, we are sitting on 6 inches at the airport. we walked inside of the airport to see what was going on. took a look. the runways they are working to go them cleared. ghost town inside of the airport. no one in there. if you take a look. pan up at the lights. you can see how the snow is blowing across here. when we were inside of the airport, walking around the airport. everything is simply just at a standstil

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send us a tweet at fox baltimore. text your answer to 45203. enter fox 45 a.for yes. fox 45 b.for no and response may air tonight on fox 45 news at 10:00. >>> triple shooting in west baltimore leaves one person dead. police officer was flagged down in the 1500 block of north fulton avenue just before midnight. a man said he had been shot. he led the officers to 2 other victims and all 3 taken to shock trauma. one of the men was pronounced dead around 12:30 this morning. >> city police are also investigating a shooting and carjacking in northeast baltimore. police were called to the 1300 block of stone wood avenue just after 2:30 this morning. they found a 23-year-old man shot in the chest. taken to johns hopkins in critical condition. >>> how are the roads right now? the gusty winds. lauren has our traffic edge report. hello lauren. >> hello jeff. well, we are dealing with some slippery side streets all the way into cecil county. our main line however looking very clear. we are looking at high 58 miles per hour traveling northbound on the jfx. 52 traveling on the nort

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well, first of all, i think joe got a little bit nicer about fox news once he was on fox news aside from differently than when he isti it. >> bill: he did have the courage to come on, mae catherine. >> right. here is the similarity between a guy like klein and the white house, i think where klein says, hey, there is a poll out that says 77% of people believe the stimulus was wasted. he says they are a nation of dodos because they don't understand that some of this was tax cuts or tax credits for them. well, the fact is that what the american people are looking at is the fake districts, the fake zip codes that all the stimulus money went to. they can hold two ideas in their heads at the same time and say hey, i think the majority of this may have been wasted and spent badly. i don't think it worked for the economy. that's the conclusion they come to. they are not idiots. they are actually deciding based on facts here. and fox provides some of those facts. the white house, i think, has some of the same idea where they say all we have is a perception problem. we just haven't explained this

this is a fox news alert.ith the christian science monitor and has the latest on the death toll. she joins us on the phone. what can you tell us about such a large number of deaths coming in from a single town? >> the estimates that we first heard were 400 people who had disappeared in constitution because there was an end of summer festival going on there and people were camping out on an island just off the coast. with the high tides that will robert dixoned in they just simply swallowed everyone camming there and so now the estimates have been adjusted for the people who have been declared missing by their families and they are now reporting them dead because there is virtually no chance that they survived. as well, we have got people who have disappeared in a similar wave in smaller towns across the country, some of which there is still no communication with and emergency crews have not been able to get in. so we are waiting to hear the death tolls probably increase more,. >> shannon: and how are people do

newsroom tonight on fox top story. catherine, we are learning new details about the suspect's interrogation tonight. >> well, shep, we learned from a senior administration official that the fbi agents went to nigeria on january 1st. there they met with abdulmutallab's family and the family then agreed to come back to the u.s. where they got the new round of questioning underway. we are told it began last week. administration officials will not be more specific about the time frame or what was discussed except to say that it was useful. now, fbi agents call this technique building a secure base where the suspect is comfortable. he gains confidence. and he is surrounded by people he knows. in this case some family members, shep. >> shepard: and from republicans the word that this is pretty sensitive administration and the administration is releasing it? >> well, on the hill today, some lawmakers saying, identifying the parents makes them a target for al qaeda because they are helping u.s. authorities. and the senior repu

the crew in sky fox is joining us. they are above the bw parkway as you travel out of laurel leaving 197. you will find the lanes there are open. no incidents between baltimore and d.c. let me take you ito the district now along new york avenue. trouble with the signal lights. they are not working properly here. there is a police officer on the scene to help direct you through that intersection but delays beginning early and that is just because of volume now trying to get through that intersection new york at bladensburg in northeast. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >>> the winter weather alert has set off a frenzy at the grocery stores and hardware stores. stacy cohan is at a grocery store this morning with more. >> reporter: if you are in for a full contact sport before the super bowl, just come to the grocery store. yesterday was frightening. and so my advice, get out here and get out here quickly to one of the 4-hour stores. we are at the 24-hour giant in bethesda where the lines are now already form

tune in to fox 45 morning news.s ticker will have all the latest closings, delays and traffic conditions. that ticker updates automatically and it even runs during commercials. all morning long we're asking you to tell us what it looks like in your neighborhoods. julie says i'm glad i got new tires on monday and candace is here with the track edge report. candace, i'm guessing she might need those new tires today. >> reporter: that is for sure, patrice. we're taking live look out there for you. we want to show you what it looks like moving on the secondary roadways is even the main lines. let's check in westminister, here it is on route 140 at listeningler road. listening -- at angler road. it doesn't look like much on the road it looks just slick. parts of the main lines on 95 moving through howard county. we can check in for you and show you the northbound and southbound lanes. well, again no snow, and hey, it looks like not a big deal, right? well, that is not the case. you don't want to get overconfident out the

fox reports on another stumbling block in the nuclear showdown. have we seen this before? a radar loop shows another blast of winter going across dixie, bringing more snow to an area which has already had more than its share. we will take you there. oh, poor texas. i'm at the doctor getting my shoulder looked at. as we're finishing up, i mention i'm going to the bathroom more often. he checks it out. good thing. turns out... my urinary symptoms -- such as going frequently, trouble going, flow starts and stops... and going often at night -- are due to bph, also called enlarged prostate. he says over time, avodart has been shown to shrink the prostate, improve urinary symptoms, and reduce the risk of prostate surgery. only your health care provider can tell if your symptoms... are from bph and not a more serious condition... like prostate cancer. do not donate blood until 6 months after stopping avodart. tell your doctor if you have liver disease. rarely sexual side effects, swelling or tenderness... of the breasts can occur. avodart is for men only

, fox 45 morning news, starts at five a.m. >> this was fun all day today. as serious as this story is to cover. we have had lots of help covering the story today. with your help. >> and really the whole last, you know, several days that we have had coverage with the weather has been helped by our viewers that have been seeing it, shooting it and sending it. this picture sent in by shaun in baltimore. and it is a shot of his neighborhood. from around noon today. definitely shows you how beautiful the storm can be. albeit treacherous, at the same time. >> but not everybody in the baltimore area is having a tough time. this picture sent by erica from belair. she said her dog lola, is licking her lips because she loves to eat snow so much. lets hope she has a big appetite. we have plenty more where that came from. >> plain old snow or the snow cream that candace was whipping up this morning. that looked like g. i have to try it. >> see more of your snow snapshots. we know there are plenty of them. go to foxbaltimore.com and click on the see it, shoot it, send i

>>> fox 5 is on snow patrol tonight. hundreds of plows hitting the snow covered streefts and this one is packing a punch. that will make a mess of your morning commute. i'm shawn yancy. >> i'm brian bolter. school closings scrolling at the top of your screen. you can see them. fox 5 covering the latest storm from every angle. our team coverage takes you from maryland to virginia. we'll start with sue palka kicking off the winter weather alert. >> reporter: the flake are falling fast and furious. it's almost hypothetical know advertising to be watching the flakes fall. in the grass which was out here at 6:00 we did not have any snow on the grass. i've got about 2 inches on the grass. here on the sidewalk we don't even have an inch in northwest because the pavement has been so warm today. the streets on wisconsin avenue are still bare despite the fact that it's been snowing for four hours and snowing hard. the reason, the temperature today, 41 degrees, also helped out quite a lot by the ct that these road have been pretrea

in washington, fox news. >>> former secretary of state alexander hague has died. he died this morning at johns hopkins hospital of complications from an infection. his long and decorated military service launched his career in washington. the four-star general served as top advisor to nixon, ford and reagan. he ran for president in 1988. he was surrounded by his family and in his final hours. he was 85 years old. >>> in honor of black history month, fox 45 held a 23rd annual champions of courage banquet. the awards are held to recognize maryland students and the people in their lives, who inspired them through the teachings of dr. martin luther king. >> all essay winners were rewarded. >> (unintelligible). not somebody else. it's based on the choices you make and how much energy you're willing to put behind you. >> 28 maryland students were chosen as essay winners. we received more than 4,000 entries. >>> when it comes to news in your neighborhood, see it, shoot it, send it. upload photos and videos to our website. go to foxbaltimore.com and click on the i con. yo

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welcome to fox 5 morning news on sunday. let's get to the latest on the massive quake in chile. the magnitude 8.8 quake hit around 3:30 yesterday morning. not far from the city of concepcion. the toll death toll is believed to be around 300. half million homes are severely damaged. a pacific wide tsunami alert is called off without damage in california. waves are being reported as far away as russia and japan. >> reporter: the surveillance video keeps coming in, take a look at this shot as the earth begins to shake. notice the building in the background, it falls aspeople run. >> reports said nearly 1 million homes have been destroyed. the powerful quake caused numerous fires, one at a hospital medica patients out of the building to save their lives. the president of chie made a national televised address urging citizens to stay strong. meanwhile, experts are saying the hawaii dodged a bullet. tsunami sirens sounded throughout the day warning residents that coastal areas could be endanger. many people headed for higher ground and kept an eye on the water levels. >> we got a maxi

. >> first on fox. questions tonight about a city worker, that may have been paid while serving time in jail. the person calling for the investigation now. >> and recognizing gay marriage. the new developments in maryland. >> live in high definition, from wbff tv in baltimore, this is fox 45 news "late edition". >> the snow overnight meant people had to dig out cars before they headed to work this morning. >> this was what was left from the snow last night. snow covering side streets. but the main roads cleared quickly. hello again. i am jeff barnd. >> and i am jennifer gilbert. the storm last night might be tiny compared to the one coming our way. >> this is another storm targeting the state after maryland. winter storm watch is in effect. as we speak. chief meteorologist vytas reid joins us with a look at the sky watch winter blast on the way. vytas? >> looks like another one is coming. and we have to brace ourselves for another winter blast. building up out of the south. right now on hd radar. nothin

>>> next on fox 45 early edition. a significant winter storm is just hours away, when the first snow flakes will start to fall. >>> don't wait another minute, if you need to stock up, what you won't find at the grocery store this morning. >>> placing a bet on internet gambling, why some say it should be legal. >>> good morning. it's friday, february 5th, i'm patrice harris. it's friday and this weekend that actually means a lot of things, but the first thing it means that it's your turn to talk to us on 4boo facebook pagn anything you want, what is going on your neighborhood, what do you think about the snow whatever you want to talk about. let us know and your response could air in our facebook segment. the first fans to post our code word will win a great prize. we will reveal that code word, just be sure t to stay tuned to win. just go to faceboo facebook baltimore.com. to become a fan. >>> many area schools are taking action. allegheny, charles county schools have decided to close for the day. meanwhile anne arund

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time for fenty on fox. we're joined as we are every thursday by mayy fenty. >> thanks for having me back. >> dodged a bullet this time. no snow. but there is snow out there and there is an everybody's mind. but from the district review, how is the big equipment that you brought in, all of that, how is it going thus far? >> well i think it went as well as you can -- it can go with that much snow in a short period of time. after getting a large accumation and then freezing up had to turn to really big equipment. we kept that equipment, which is quite expensive, for a long period of time to get up as much snow as possible. the plows only push it but this equipment can carry it and take it places. so as i go around the city and as i have for the past couple of weeks, i see streets that were cleared, and without any question there are still mountains of snow in d.c. and in maryland and virginia an those are somewhat of an inconvenience to people, but we'll figure out different ways to move snow around both for t

if you're not already a fan of fox 45, go to facebook.com fox baltimore, and let us know what is happening in your community. >> we have a lot of fun talking to you as well as we are reporting this. good morning, are you sick of the snow yet, we blame punxsutawney phil, and we are looking for ways to punish him. it's the top one. if you have any ideas, please keep it clean, of course. >> of course. >> it may air on fox 45 morning news. we have team coverage of our meteorologist. let's gee to steve fertig and also we will go to jessica starr, steve, what is happening now. >>> earlier this morning, there was a little bit of a lull, and people said, is this it. that was nothing. it's starting to fill up with snow. we have sleet on the eastern shore. we had some earlier in the central keabts as well. -- couns well. we had snow up toward carroll county where as far as 7 to 8 inches fell. that was the far the leader in snow totals. 4-6 inches in carroll county. and down to the south and east, just plain rain in some areas and sleet in others and also, again, we continue to see the snow fall. we'

we'll have more on fox 5 morning news. >>> each and every to sue palka.t look at the forecast. >> reporter: a look at radar on truview. we see the back edge of the snow approaching the front royal area. it is going to end about 3:00, 4

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leave now, keith fox 45 news at 5:30. >>> bge bracing for new power outage in the latest storm. they announced today it restored electricity to most of the customers affected be the monday storm. more than 95,000 customers lost power. bge says the biggest challenge is getting the power turned back on and getting to the problem. >> sometimes we are there before the streets can plow and we have had to park at the side and actually have two man team walk in to actually try to find the case e-they warn you can stay away from any downed power lines and you should call them at 877-77 8 2 2 2 2 to report any down lines you happen to see. call right away. maryland roads are coated with tons of salt and crew still fight the weekend storms. kearny parks live in elegant city where concern is growing over salt shortages. karen? >>reporter: well, jennifer as you can see here in elegant city this snow is relevant starting to come down. but this will create a bigger problem for the state. where to move mounds of snow like this and how to keep the streets clean. what is happening now is that af

by the way, fox 5 also on pothole patrol. take pictures of some of the worst craters out there and scwup load them on myfoxdc.com -- upload them on myfoxdc.com. >>> i know a lot of you wondering about the next potential storm heading our way. i have a lot of questions about that. it's probably too soon to really foe. >> there's another one out there for next week. the good news here, the silver lining to this i know it's like no more. we don't want anymore of it but the good news is after next week, we should break pattern and try to go into a little summer like pattern. summer, that seems like years away. let me show you. it's blowing out there. as i've been saying the strongest of the winds have yet to come. it's really going to be overnight and during the early, early morning hours that the strongest of the winds really settle n. the washington monument by the way has been closed due the high winds. some gusts expected over 50 miles per hour tonight. wind warning in effect for just about everybody. stafford county, spotsyl

fox 5 morning news continues right now. >>> of a seen the picture from all over the area. can you see a lot of big roads, this is wisconsin avenue, are wet this morning. the side roads still snow covered so you have a mixed bag out there. as you get to the more rural areas, the more snow you will find on the roads. be careful out there. thank you for waking up wth us this morning. i'm steve chenevey. >> i'm gurvir dhindsa. most of the youngsterses in the washington area have the day off today. all of the delays are going to be running across the top of your screen. >> these schools are closed in virginia. clark county, virginia, culpeper county, frederick county, madison county and manassas city schools. also closed in virginia, orange, page, prince william, rappahannock and shenandoah county schools. >> the quantico dod schools, loudoun county, spotsylvania county, fairfax county nd sfaf toward county schools are also closed. the administrative offices in fairfax will be open with liberal leave. also closed in virginia, arlington county, falls church city and manassas par

bill: 19 minutes, "fox news alert" and this is interesting, we're learning, fox news confirmed that indianae's a moderate democrat and the past several has been pushing democrats to put more focus on jobs and the economy, clearly what he was hearing from his constituents in the hoosier state and a political editor of the washington examiner joins us, good morning, breaking news now, evan byah will not seek re-election and what does that tell you. >> this is big, big news. this is -- we're talking about now potentially sort of a shift in the u.s. congress, we have not really seen a political environment as bad for the majority party since 1974, when republicans were really run out of office over watergate. and the fact that evan byah, who likely would have been able to pull out a win would have probably been difficult this year, because of the strong sentiment against president obama, and the obama agenda, in indiana, a state that the president managed to carry the first time i believe for a democrat is probably 30 years -- >> let me stop you, you are a right. and it is a very red state in f

you can use fox 45 powerful doppler to track incoming storms. go to foxbaltimore.com and click on iradar. candace dold is back with another look at the traffic edge. how are he we looking now, candace. >> reporter: well, steve when you look at and look out your window you you're going to find a slushy mess. we want to show you what it looks like in rogers forge. here you can see people getting out and trying to warm up their cars and getting the covet parking spot there. it's going to cost you a little bit of extra time in newer neighborhood -- in your neighborhood. let's check out westminister, we are looking at clear conditions. this is route 40 moving at angler road, it's just a bit slick but no snow, it's actually on the main line. again, just getting into your car going to be the extra annoying factor for you this morning. as for what it looks like on the main lines, well, let's check in on the west side of the beltway, moving right at liberty road. here it is, you can see the cars are zipping along. the favorable conditions, and the crews

fox a's john henrehan talked to governor martin o'malley about why it is good to abdisaster area. >> reporter: although there is still plenty of snow on the ground from the two punch of winter storms earlier this month, at least the residential streets are now clean and passible. the gigantic effort to clean up the snow has exhausted virtually all city, county and state budgets set aside and if we get more snow this winter, local resints want those plows back out. >> they need to be plowed right away. >> reporter: get the plows out quickly? >> yes, sir. they need to. >> reporter: you don't want to be snowed in? >> i don't want to be bogged in. need to go to work. >> reporter: maryland democrat martin o'malley siz he's gotten -- says he's gotten some good news about a federal disaster declaration. >> just yesterday president obama approved the declaration we requested for the first december snowfall which was of a lesser agree than the double whammy mother nature gave us over the last ten days. i'm pretty optimistic we're going to receive some federal help and federal support for the