it is really time for the frederick k douglass family initiatives in the family of frederick douglasso return back to the city that he loved so much. we of been able to develop some great relationships in the community during the bicentennial year. we worked on a project where we erected 13 statues of frederick douglass all around the city. sites that were significant in his life. amy: was one of the statues of frederick douglass recently vandalized? >> it was vandalized. it is interesting the site where that statue was vandalized by two students at st. john's fisher college was the site and hisederick and oldest daughter was enrolled, but she was forced to be segregated from the rest of her classmates and eventually frederick would take her out of the school. it was interesting that this racist act of tearing down the statue was at the site where rosetta had suffered racism and severed nation. amy: what do you want to leave we come out of the, well, february 14 is the day you have chosen to celebrate your great great grandfathers birthday, but especially young people today? >> that i

i know a l p ofple who moving to frederick, who live in frederick, who deal with 270 all the time. what's happening here is just as important as what's happening up there. >> absolutely. that's what wre finding. we're becoming an integral part of this whole the challenge is to think that way. we are definitely part of thon rend i think part of this effect is that a we have of these professionals from across all of these regionshat are ry diverse and we're all talking about the same thing.ll weant to move people more safely and efficiently. >> kanti, i'm not sure everyone around here understands that this transportation meeting of the mines hpens aroundere. everybody knows it's such a big issue. >> absolutely. one of the things the transportation planning board was created for a federal law going back to the 1960s, but the transportation planning board in this region, apart from simply being compliant with the federa, departmeas evolved. all the elected officials, state legislators, stateon transportagencies will monitor all the different agencies that are providing the transportati

right here in frederick, old farm road. looking ahead here, the roads are mainly r.cl there's been some slush spots left over by cars or plows in the roadway. they spread and melt and cause an icy patch. watch out for that. we have seen sidewalks 50/50 here.ed many cle and many have not been. that's a hazard, too, given that school may beur starting two late today based upon conditions that turn out here. you can see somef the slush. some not clear. we know that frederick county public schools are opening two hours late today. they're weighing whether or not to go forward with school. we're seeing a glimpse of the entire ghunty. as of now, here we are. we're seeing mostly clear roads. 270 and ki l good. we know that not every area is going to be that clear. watch for the overpasses and ramps. they freeze sooner. justin finch, thank you. >>> there's some slick spots throughout the region. molette green is tracking conditions in prince george's county. she continues our team coverage in laurel. good morning. >> reporter: good

cory smith is live in frederick. this is thea around where frederick is, a lot of power outages, downed trees and power lines. >> reporter: yeah, that is certainly weighingn the min of homeowners here in frederick. the salt is out heret' been out here since about 1:00 this afternoon. a clear sign that people out here in frederick are preparing for the worst. >> we got a big o blast coming in. >> reporter: in frederick, this is a sign of what'so come. these salted sidewalks are a pre-emptive strike against mother nature who's expected t bench a half a ft of snow. how are you getting prepared for it? t i'm going to look out window, see what's going on and then i'll decide what my attire will be for the day. she's taking things more seriously, especially with the little one in tow. >> i guessust stay home. >> reporter: with any weather ent our minds go to travel nd ions, how icy my roads are going to be. if you're a homeowner, another danger. look up. >> you can see it's been tripped up. >> reporte when bob sma s ught t

ts 5 inrom frederick, maybe a little bit more. once move the snow it's kind of hard to get going again. but just got to take it >> private plows are busy with crews shoveling the sidelks. >> it's little sloppy right now, but once you cut the top yer off, solid and you're good. >> drivers are concerned about road conditions t'tonight. >> going to freeze over. that's what i'm afraid of. >> are you ready for that? >> yes. i have scrapers, i have shovels, i have salt, i have sand. so i'm ready. >> so ice is c thecern here in maryland. let's go now to drew l inden county. >> the story right now a lotha different earlier in the day. right now its been j very annoying light drizzle. and it's slick out on the roads, but we're hanging out just a couple of degrees above freezing so hopefully it won't get too slick into the night. but it's been slick all along. in fact, there are so many wrecks the louden county sheriff's department decided it actually couldn'tespond to every single one of tm. ok at the snow churching off of the beltway as o

looking right now, in frederick, 15 atve 40,thing is clear. we showed you this picture around 11:00 a.m., during news 4 midday, and it was covered. a very different story in a lot of spots. 270 northbound and southbound, nice and clear. nothing in your way right no a liv look, 66 at 28, through manassas, nos problastbound or westbound. 66 overall, looking quite good. same situation, n95 virginia. and the beltway rollingng a quite nicely. >>> if you were on the roads at all yesterday, this may be a familiar sight. rain falling, slush hitting your windshield. a lot of local roads and highways were slick. until the sun comes out and melts it away, that may be then situator your commute. >> we begin with news 4's justin finch, le in frederick, maryland, this morning. good morning to you. how are things looking? >> reporter: good mornin we're seeing a good start to the morning so far. seeing yesterday, 70, 270, looking good, no slick spots in fedarc frederick. light rain is falling, too. this is maryland 95. we're looking for a report of a crash. t

our areas under a high wind warning including frederick county, maryland. for the rest of us it's a wind advisory. it begins tomorrow afternoon. what you can expect is winds gusting and roaring upwards of miles per hour in frederick county, maryland, and 50 to5 areas farther south. now, it ends at 10:00 a.m. on mond g so it isng to be not only a windy sunday afternoon but also a windy monday morning. right now, though, we're just dealing with the rain. showers kind ofcattered about up towards fred rerickfrederick towardsun county, but we are expecting another round of showers to develop overnight. tll let you know how long the rain is going last, how warm we're going to get tomorrow and we'll take a deeper look at those winds. >>> meanwhile hundreds of people rally in richmone in respo to the blackface controversy surrounding gernor ralph northam. darcy spencer joins us in the studio with the message from the protesters. darcy. >> erika, two different groups ca together todayo a common cause. they both want virginia governor ralph northam to resign. this mo

i think frederick is too high. especially in e suburbsthere, watch out for ice. amelia, this is an area you're very familiar with. you know we've got a lot of ds back here. it's going to bea problem tomorrow morning. >> absolutely, doug. thereare some roads in county that aren't even paved, so when you'reg try get the snow and ice off of them, that can be a little difficult. talking about ice impact especially north and wes of washington, now still some areas of freezing drizzle here inside the metro area. especially for the elevated surfaces. for the areas here enred you could see icy spots developing as well. especially if they've noteen treated. that ice you were dealing with last week, potentially similar situation tonigac. louden, around the i-81 corridor, frederick and shington county, you can see a glaze up to a quarter of an inch of ice, and this includes potentially on power lines and trees. so some power outages for the areas in red are not out of the question. we'll be tracking the potential for some lightin fre rain in spots and as doug was saying, en

ing like more rain here as we get closer to frederick. i can tell you that 70 southbound has been pretty clear m our way down. haven't seen tooy problems, though. we can tell you that the overpasses and the ramps here can be a bit more frozen and tend to freeze first, the longer roadway stretches here. keep that in mig. go over an overpass and seeing slush build up on the sides of the road there, too.ee we've state highway administration trucks going around, doing their paroles, keepi ining eye on the roads. 1,700 pieces of equipmentor the state to take care of the roads. and schools with o-hour delays in this area as a result of these conditions. you want to be careful and stay slow as you drive, a you make your way out your door this morning. course,e streets, of have been a bit worse for wear than your main streets. keep that in mind as you factor in your commute today. we're live here watching the roads on 70 i'm justin finch, news 4, back to you. >> justin, thank you. >>> we continue our team i coveranorthern virginia now. >> nicole

we havead aot of reports of ice in the frederick area. green belt, inner loop, before kenilworth avenue. a crash onut the right side not impacting things too much there. leesburg, this is hanging around. a downed tree. it's shut down for the next couple of hours. and prince william parkway at balls for road. 95 at hi road. northbound and southbound looking okay right now. thank you. >>> this morning could turn into another messy commute because of l of the rain and ice and slush we saw overnight. >> working for you with road conditions before you head out the door. megan mcgrath has been driving around for us. she's in frederick county, maryland, now. what have you seen? >> reporter: we're seeing rain at this point. we are coveringround this freezing mark. there's reports of dlipry conditions out there. headed south on 270. there was reports of accidents onhe area. keep in mind because of where we are with the temperatures right now, there's always the possibility you could counter slick spots. we've seen some of theci p is freezing to th

justin finch is live for us in frederick county, maryland, with more. t>> we are j north and east of frederick in the mt. pleasant area, looking at liberty road here. and the roads seem to shape up in this area. s 're seeing the slush on the sides and sometime the middle. wet spots here and ther noor m freezing events this morning. some are clear, some are semiclear. some of them have ice on them, as well. driveways and parking lots could use some work, as well. we know that frederick county public schools are getting ready for a two-hour delaytoday. we saw crews working to get ose schoolseady for the morning. as it appears, if you're getting up eakly andg your way out, giving yourself time, you could be on track for a safe commute. but be sure you are careful on the roads today. live in frederick, justin finch, news 4. >>> if you don't like the snow and the yuck, we would rub it in your face a little bit. remember this? this was a year ago today. february 21st, 2018, it was 82 degrees. that set a record for the warmest day of the year. >> we know how i

frederick county, maryland. we do havh a h wind warning going into effect for you all tomorrow that means their winds could reach 60 miles per hour. for the rest of us, pbably reach 50 miles per hour in the d.c. metro area. or t could have some m impacts. we're going to talk about the impacts later for now, quick look at the radar soou can see what we're in for. notice the lull, the showers stting toick up back west, they're going to continue to push in and we're going to see rain overnight. later on in the show i'm going to t talk to you abo timing of the rain when it's moving out, again, the major impacts this win sherifwill have on you sunday afternoon. erica? >> somara, thank a fran sick scene in silver spring. neighbors heard a come'ser dee cry for help as flames surrounded her. darcy spencer spoke to one of the firefeshters whoed the woman in an interview you will only see on news 4. darcy? >> reporter: well, erica, we are here at station 1in silver spring. some of the firefighters who were involved in tha

washington, montgomery, frederick, and charles county schools two hours late.llllegany county schools are on a three-hour delay. and d.c. public schools are on a two-hour delay. hardy, virginia, grant, min tral county schools open two hours late. morgan, burgeon, and jefferson county schools are closed today. all of those

annapolis.er towards 1 to 2 towards frederick. hagerstown, closer to the 2. if y're a skier, 3 to 6 inches towards the s resorts, especially the higher elevations. nice little snowstorm. now, temperature wise, 48 on saturday. look at sundayda super bowl s 53. see what i'm talking about? and we're moving in the right direction. degrees on your monday. look at this, we've been on the co side a pattern flip-flop. watch this. warmer air making its way in for next week. i just had to show you the flip-flop, that is a weather term. tuesday. very warm on tuesday. 46 with some shower activity on wednesky. it does like we're going to week.me rain into nex next week it turns cold again. now, it has been so cold across tryingion, people are some different things. how about this one. >> what? that. got to love she walks outh her hair completely vewet, went and put it up top. look at that. >> oh, no. >> that is i don't know how long it stayed like that. trust me, she did not go to school like this was in iowa, by the way, not in our. ed a haircut, i guess. >>in and of col

frederick, let's be coming down to practicals, okay? you say earlier that the merck scientists were saying, when they received this letter, the fda doesn't like our language. what do you suggest merck could have done without changing its label until the fda would have approved it? and why do you believe that you can convince a jury that if they had done it your way, the fda would have accepted the new label? >> well, as a regulatory matter, let's start with the law first, the cbeu regulation gives the manufacturer the right to change its label, subject to rescission by the fda. that never happened here, because merck never proposed an adequate warning. >> we know that the fda, assuming the theory that the fda doesn't believe the label is adequate, what could they have done? absent the study. meaning because the study obviously changed the fda's mind. you're saying you, merck could have done it. >> yes, there was plenty of information by that point, justice sotomayor, and dr. lane goes through the chronology, the amicus brief, goes throu

which will you soon know him as frederick douglass. his wife to be is that the window buying tickets. is leaving slavery behind in baltimore and bound for new york on a train. he is too nervous to go to the window himself so she buys the tickets as he goes up and down. someone else brings his luggage, he hops on and he is borrowed freedom papers and he is out. arrives in new york and she joined them, they marry, and they end up in new bedford. he is very soon recruited to the abolitionist movement from a small church where he is practicing his oratory. frederick douglass, very soon becomes the most famous negro in the world and one of the most heard voices of abolitionists. very soon, it happens that turned them into this person. it happened very quickly. within five years, within seven years he's famous. when in fact the slave act happened, frederick douglass begins to break war with the path that is him of abolitionism and begins to say things like what you really need here to solve the slavery problem is if you'd dead slave catchers

washingt frederick. 32 in leesburg. here's tomorrow morning, upper montgomery county, loudon and frederick are my biggest concerns. here's future weather, 5:00 p.m. notice it's giving a break to the area but still seeing snow around the mason dix. li as we move to the early morning hours 5:00 a.m. we're seeing the chance for freezing rain for areas in pink, mon washington down through southern maryland and fredericksburg, this is mainly allain for you overnight tonight and throughout the day tomorrow. i think it'ut between a 9:00 a.m. and noon tomorrow where any freezing raines cha to just plain rain and we track rain throughout the day even into your tuesd evening when some heavy rain is possible. this rain pulls out of the area early wednesday morning at 5:00 a.m. as that happens we see windy condions develop across the area. here's the impact map made for slick roads. a lot in frederick county loudon, northern fau this inclu tomorrow morning. this is where delays and cancellations are most likely. isolated slick spot

back to our western zones, frederick, loudon, culpepper, through orange.alking about rain, snow, and ice until 10:00 a.m. in our westernzone, especially frederick county in maryland we could see up to 2 inches of snowfall overnight and on top of that we see freez,g ra ffe hundredths of an inch of ice, and that's why we're concerned about slick spots in the western zone. widespread concerns for slick roads in the mountain zone as we track ice out there tomorrow morning into the midday hours. we don't see the change over from a wintery mix until about 1:00 p.m. in the afternoon. mountain zones, ice is the biggest concern with slick spots likely. then we heaown to southern maryland, stafford, king geo te an fredericksburg area. it's all rain here, around an inch, that could lead to isolated flooding issues. at least we dry out on wednesday and thursday, doug, but more rain and maybe a wintery mix as we look td.the week >> you mentioned the rain tomorrow,t's an all day rain event tomorrow, so take the umbrellas with you. by wednesday it's out of here. we'reust

north of that line, winchester, leesburg, frederick county, maybe one to three inches. three inches closer to the mason-dixon line once again, a tough storm to forecast because it's such a small storm. we'd rather, as i toss back to amelia and doreen, have a bigger storm to forecast. they're easier to forecast over a period of time. that's why this is an issue. >> iteems harder than the one last week. >> for sure. it is more difficult to forecast small storms versusarger storms. two ways to relate this to people. think of a kit's hard to keep an eye on them, they're tiny. you see a big guy in the room, you see them anywhere. then we talk abt the resolution. with our computer models. think back to cell phones when they were that low resolution, emember when they were black and whit >> do i ever. >> you could see the dots making the numbers. now you have these amazing . pictur with our computer models it's all about the resolution. so we don't have great resolution on a lot of computer models so you're gting the pixilated kind of screen image if you think about it. if we

. >>> our team coverage of this approaching winter storm coinues at 6:30, cory smith is in frederick,yland to talk about the combination of snow and ice tomorrow. butoe want start with storm team 4 and the forecast and a lot of moving parts. >> a lot of moving parts for sure. starts with snow early, go to sleet, freezing rain in many area and then just plain rath. is a classic cold air damming situation. now what does that mean? let me show you. first off, temperature wise out there right now we're in the 30h to the n 35, philadelphia, 40 in d.c. look at this, 20s up a little farther to the north in state colleg i high pressur dominant right now and that area of high iressure is going to continue to sink cold in across our region, by 6:00 a.m., mostly everyone will be in the upper 20s to 30 degrees. it keeps their cold in as the warmer air comes in. that's why we deal with the a slee freezing rain, and eventually the warm air wins out and this goes all over to rain. this is a typical type of event we get in our area with the snow, ice and rain. i'm going to show you the latest snowfal

we are here along frederick road and it's been snowi last couple of hours. it's continuing to come down. it's actually hitting you in your face because there's af little bit o wind out here as well. have not heard about any major problems here in montgomery county but come tomorrow morning it could be a very different story. >> the snow started falling late in the ening. some people were caught off guard. it was light at first and then heavy. orm team 4 predicts a wintry mix that couldrn make the moing commute treacherous. the problem ius not j the snow flakes, it's ice. the wet roadways couldreeze overnight and make driving conditions even more dangerous for commuters and school buses. he says he's not worried. he has his four by four. >> you got it all under control. >> hopefully. that's what i paid for that truck for. even though 4 by 4 and ice doesn't mix, i'll g there safely with this truck here. >> in fairfax county we caught up with transportation crews loading up and heading out. they're expecting to treat the roads with salt and sand crews came in a

i relented in august his former minister frederick de clercq age fifty three took over as president of the country his priority to end the deadlock crippling south africa. on december thirteenth one thousand nine hundred eighty nine mandela left the victor vast the prison for a few hours he was secretly taken to the center of cape town to detain heis the president's office for the first time the black leader and white president found themselves face to face. i did not have high expectations of a first meeting with mr mandela and when i did have my first meeting i did not try to achieve much for both the him and me that first meeting was to get an understanding of each other to get a feel for the person sitting across the table to start with mandela was much taller than he expected. and he was also very impressed by president of mr mandela's aristocratic bearing because we must remember that the ben della was actually raised to be the prime minister of the paramount chief of the ten booze so you have natural a natural sense of authority very dignified a very charming after that first me

we'll run down the list for you maryland, allegheny, frederick, st. mary's, prince george's county closed. >> in virginia manass, falls church, and alexandria city schools a are loudoun, waen, clarke, culpeper, stafford, fedric and king george county schools. west vigrant, mineral, hardy, morgan, >> closings are all found on the bottom of your screen and the nb washingtonapp. >> nobody is going to school. we do have team coverage of the storm and its potential impacts and the steps already taken to get the roads ready. melissa mollet standing by. lauryn rkets and chuck bell with the latest. >> the coating of the ground already in fredericksburg. a quick burst of one to three o inch snow here with this first leading edge of the moisture. i'mlad we didn't move those numbers out. look at the big dry slot athere. ould mean a bit of an end to the precip before it changes ba over to rain later on in the afternoon. so, everybody, i think, has a chance of getting a one to three inches of snow here between now and noontime. additional amounts of snow, maybe mo

especially in frederick county, and that's where we find news 4's chriswhordon. are conditions like up thert e. >> reporter: well, we have a light rain and today we got up to 6 inches of snow, and enough to cause mayhem. even professional drivers got in trble today. this tow truck pulls the cab of a tractor-trailer from the scene of one of many accidents in frederick clanty. ma state police taking this picture of a truckck ifed in the southbound lane of route 15. the driver apparently losing control on the slippery surface. clearing main qroadwaysckly covered with more snow and slush. we passed a lot of cars stranded on the side of 270 as we drove north through montgomery county to fredt'ick. >> i real slick underneath so i've seen a lot of cars sliding around. >> reporter: for this father and son it's an 18-year tradition clearing snow fromeveryone's sidewalk in the entire block of carol parkway.us >> we're shoveling the snow, clearing the street from end to end, just trying to get ready for tomorrow so we can get back to work and get back to school. >> are you

current temperature right now 36 in frederick, 32 in manassas. it's a chilly night tonight. going to be anoer chilly morning tomorrow. you don't need the umbrellas and the snow shovels tomorrow night until we get to friday morning. talk about that i a second. first off, though, you can see what's happening here. one storm toth our n one storm to our south. nothing in between. we will stay dry tonight. our next storm itoactually down he south. you can actually see it starting to make its way our way. not too organized now, but by the time it gets here, be a little bit more organized. tomorrow night, 8:00, no problems with theh evening r or dinner tomorrow night if you've got any plans tomorrow eving, no worries. watch what happens by 11:00. by this time tomorrow night, snow moving in towards parts of our area, especially west of i-95 around winchesternd leesburg. by 1:00 a.m., snow just about everywhere coming on down here. by 5:00 a.m., maybe even heavier bursts of snow. i think this is where we pick up

of national unity assisted by two vice presidents kabul and becky one of his right hand men and frederick declared. so you have my it big enough of your father's and i live in. madison ordered south america. growing up by side. if a for the better public are full of it. so. i knew it was a sunday apartheid was overcome the last white president attending the swearing in of south africa's first black president. my overwhelming sense was a feeling of accomplishment yes i had questions and i still have it in my mind. whether we will be able to stay on the right path there are threats and there are always dangers that even if you reach a good agreement that in the implementation of the agreement things can go wrong but my general sense was one of this is a good day for south. over parties with more than twenty deputies were represented in the government of national unity intended to last five years a coalition unique in the world took office a cabinet when a former president officiated under the orders of his successor both at the head of opposing parties. facing them and allan never chaired t

we're at 48 in frederick. 54 in washington. vacate in fredericksburg. a little cooler up around the maryland-pennsylvania corrouor, whereot a little bit more snow yesterday. >> that snow pack keeping those temperatures a lit bit cooler. we continue to track temperatures generally warming into the upper 40s and 50s into urthe afternoon by the evening hours, 6:00 p.m., still not that d, 51 degrees in washington and not a huge concern for a refreeze overninit t. you will see temperatures across the area for the most part. do stay above freezing. there is the chance for rain out there tomorrow. twill have more on timing with future weather and also checking out the weeken erica, it's thursday, i know we are all looking forward to it. >> well, some of us work for it, my friend,et me remind you of that. >> moving things along. >>> drivers throughout the s region arell encountering road hazards, whether it's the snow flyin off the rooves of other people's cars or icy patches on the road. >> news 4 has a look at road conditions justin, how is it looking right n

i relented in august his former minister frederick de clercq age fifty three took over as president of the country his priority to end the deadlock crippling south africa. on december thirteenth one thousand nine hundred eighty nine mandela left the victor vasta prison for a few hours he was secretly taken to the center of keep time to detain heis the president's office for the first time the black leader and white president found themselves face to face. i did not have high expectations of a first meeting with mr mandela and when i did have my first meeting i did not try to achieve much for both the him and me that first meeting was to get an understanding of each other to get a feel for the person sitting across the table to start with mandela was much taller than he expected and he was also very impressed by the president of this to mandela's aristocratic bearing because we must remember that that mandela was actually raised to be the prime minister of the paramount chief of the temple who's so he had natural and natural sense of authority very dignified a very charming after that f

new problem in frederick. reports of an accident and icy conditions. southbound 15.p here on to westbound 70. sending a crew to see what's going on there. mt. airy, westbou 70 before 27, the left side blocked b a crash there. >> melissa, thank you. >>> slushy,ic rainy, all words that can describe this morning's commute, depending on where you live. >> megan mcgrath is on the roads in frederick county, maryland this morning, with conditions. megan, what are you seeing? >> reporter: guys, we continued w north. we're downtown thurmont. we are seeing slippery conditions out owre. n the sidewalks and in the grassy areas. and in the roads themselves, w are seeing some slickco itions. we've seen people walking around. there was a guy with a snow travel. you can get a better look as we make this turn right here. you can see the snowy conditions that we're seeing in the area and s how we're starting this accumulation on the roadways. we're right around freezing here in this area. it looks likit's coming down as rain. we're definitely seeing things -- the precipitation freezin

some of you to the north, hagerstown, maybe frederick, a little snow l sunday. buk at next week, it's a cold, frigid week as we head into the first week of march coming in like a lion. really, coming in like january. >> that's what it looks like. >> spring is coming sooner or later. thank you. >>> let' t talk aboutngs warming up here in this case. it seems like taylor swift and katie perry's bad blood may be over. >>> pluson wenue to follow the breaking news if you're just joining us, bryce harper is officially leaving washington. he signed a record-breaking deal he signed a record-breaking deal with i've talked on this phone through the happiest times of my life, and through the .ddest times of my li but i never dreamed in a thousand years that it would save my life. boom! i fell 22 feet, completely shattered my pelvis, in the middle of the woods. i called my wife, she thought i was jokin'. i said, "man, i'm not... i'm not." i was so lucky that day... saved my life. (vo) there for you en it matters most. unlimited on the best network now comes with apple music

parts of frederick county maryland and virginia and parts of west virginia. we saw numerous trees dow across the region, and we havem of this tonight. look terrain right now, coming through the area we saw a respite earlier but now the rain is back. the heavieride right where pat collins is, damascus. d.c. down towards southern rain.nd, rain, rain, more this is no longer falling as freezing rain. however we have a lot of ice on trees and it's going to take a long time to melt that. look terrain there, just to the north of gaithersburg, clarksburg, around damascus as we mentioned. back to the west watching the system move through the region. once it does we'll see heavier rainnd wind tomorrow. look at the temperatures everybody above freezing, winchester the exce sitting at 32. martinsburg close at 33. it's going to take time to melt that ice. because of that, we have a winter sto warning. this has been extended through 11:00 tonight. it ds not include montgomery county or howard county anymore. we're noteeg any more freezing rain but the ice out there is goin

in the next century, frederick douglass harriet tubman, and countless others risked everything to end the evil of slavery and secure the sacred blessings of freedom. and here we are, altogether, in the white house. this is a great thing, right? a great thing. this is a very, very special place. a century later, rosa parks and the immortal doctor martin luther king jr. challenged our nation to fulfill its founding promise, that we are all created equal by god. in every moment of our history, african-americans have called our nation to greatness. this year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of jackie robinson. how good was jackie robinson? how good was jackie? as a baseball fan, jackie was special. he had to be special. because that was not an easy journey for jackie. he was a special man. his courage on the field and off the field, stands as an everlasting monument to the triumph of the human spirit. african-american scientists, artists, musicians, educators, faith leaders, and callous others have lifted our nation to absolutely incredible heights. today, we thank god for all of

back to you. >> nicol jacobs in frederick, maryland, for us. thank you. >>> the crisis in the commonwealth continues this morning. virginia's top tee elected leaders show no signs of stepping down in theic with a of their individual scandals. lieutenant governor justin fairfax, accused of sexual assault seems most in danger of being forced out of office. but an evident to begin itch peachment proceedings against him today have been stalled. ote, additional conversations need to take place before anything is filed. two women used fairfax of sexual assault. he insists the encounters were both nsensual. a spokesperson for the lieutenant governor says he is e aggressivelyloring options for a thorough investigation into all of the allegations. >>> we arenginally hea from virginia governor ral northam. he sat down for his first televised interview since a racist photowas discovered in his medical yearbook. northam called the days since the scandal broke difficult. but despi calls from lawmakers in his own party to resign the governor says he'soi not

as the front moves through, you can see where the showers are to the west winchester, frederick countyoing out tonight, on't be surprised to see a couple showers along the front. but right now all eyes on this storm. this is an impressive storm, at least it looks big out here, watching this during the day yesterday, looow far north the snow is, but now starting to go to the south. this storm was going to make its way right into ouron re that was two days ago. now however that storm is moving a little bit farther to the south by about 100 miles and thatil 100 takes the snow away from our area. showing you the future weather,w tomorrow, own towards parts of southern maryland where it looked like the swath was going to be through d.c. saturday, still snow in the fredericksburg aa but nothing to the north. let's show you my latest snowfall map rarely do i put out a map like this, when there's nothing towe talk about. ave winchester, leesburg, i don't think you'll see a flake. ao coating an inch to the south, an inch is generous. parts of southern maryland over towards the eastern shore you

frederick county schools in marynd will open two hours late today. >> warren and frederick county aschools in virgire also on a two-hour delay. and reminder to find all the latest closing and delays in the nbc washington app. >> melissa mollet and chuck well. >> good morning. it's a very blustery day to b outside. so don't be fooled. you'll go outside this morning and think, hey, this isn't all that windy. it will be plenty watdy on today. overnight, temperatures courtesy breeze cover and light have held in the mid 30s. most important of all, everyone around the d.c. area now in montgomery county above zi fr. so that little glaze of ice that caused so many power outages and tree limbs to come down that should all be melted away at this point in time. and whatever is left out there won't last long at all. into theres will get mid 40s for afternoon highs today, but again it will be windth winds out o west running about 25 to 35 miles per hour. so, what to wear for the kids? a hat with the tie down under the chin today. warm windbreaker, scarf and sunglasses as well.n but the whole compared t

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one of the fires was in frederick county, maryland. this is in howard county. look at that picture. this is firefighters putting out a garage fire. crews had to rush in toremove the items from the garage to put out the fire. thankfully the fire did not extend to the rest of the home. fire crews were called to this one at the 13 block. the flames are shooting out of the roof. it took an hour t get that fire under control. five people, three adults, two ds, are now without a home. no one was injured. there's no woron what may have caused either of those fires. >> thank you, cory. >>> here's a look at our top stories this morning. a football i coach prince george's county has been uspended, accused of inappropriate interaction with a female student. the coach terrell carlos lockwood has been placed on leave. authorities say it involved text messages between lockwood and girl. >>> police are looking for a man called the noma flasher. police say he's exposing himself to people around 4th and "l" streets. some of the incidents happened near a church and. school >>> an arlington man pleade

frederick county, fauquier county, iluding the winchester area. if you're in red expect cancellations tomorw and delays likely into thursday as well. how much ice could we see? anywhere from a glass to a quarter ofn inch. that could produce power outages, dned trees. with freezing rain possible until the evening hours. we see that changeover to sleet and freezing rain around the midday hours. talking about road conditions out there. tomorrow morning it's about snow, but tomorrow eveninceit's the c for ice in spots, especially north and west of the beltway. by thursday it's all slush out there. we talk about the impact with kids, if you want to go sledding, get it done before noon. for most kids probably don't want to set the alarm. >> amelia, you don't have kids. kids don't set the alarm, the parents do i am not setting my alarm for tomorrow, i'm very excited about that. i will be sleeping in for sure. i will be watching the snow for you. snowrow as we make our way into the rest of the week. up to 56 degrees. pat i'ms going to t it back to you. lo

douglass,d, frederick susan b anthony, elizabeth caddy stanton, they had been stumping all around the country for abolition. many of the first suffragists cut their teeth working in the abolition movement. anti-slaveryd of -- world anti-slavery conference in the u.k. where women were told they were not allowed to participate as speakers in the platform that galvanized this issue. women don't have rights, what are we doing here? that was part of the initial surge. sectional politics in the u.s., and conflicts, the civil war, divided people within this progressive civil rights movement. get to because when you reconstruction, there are these debates about whether or not you will include women in the 15th amendment. various people got word that some of the southern senators were trying to split the provisions because they knew it was going to sink the bills completely. it's a much talked about conflict between anthony and stanton and frederick douglass when he said "i'm going to push for these amendments to just include black men, because white women are not being strung up lynched, when

wide-ranging number of impacts around here. 34 washington. 33, lorton. 31 gaithersburg. 32 up in frederick, maryland. and 30 in martinsburg, west virginia. in will be a dicey forecast, not just for today but for and into tomorrow, as well. temperatures this afternoon should be high enough to g all of this changed over to just rain. then, overnight tonight, likely another chance of a rain/snow mix coming in. this morning, the snowyness and slushyness is north of the area. for tonight, could have acc accumulating snow northern the pennsylvania border. and tomorrow, after a tricky commute in the morning, all this becomes rai once again. we have everything but the kitchen sink being thrown at us. >> don't like this long list. in laurel, southbound 95 before scaggsville road. we had the left side blocked. that'sed reop we're slow headed southbound. but it is on the shoulder. that's the good news. all of this coloration, this look here this morning, showing what's falling from the sky in rious areas. a crash with the left side blocked. ght now, the beltway looks good. nice and clear. no problems

at, these little balls here are alls repof downed trees or high gusts and you're seeing a lot in frederick county, maryland and further back we s wind gusts reaching 66 miles per hour folks but at the end ofhe day we're all fair game for power outages. here's what you need to know. we'll still be under an advisory and warning throughout the ,egion tomorrow. guess wh even though the winds are calming a bit now they'll be picking back up tomorrow morning. that commute. we could be talking serious wind chills for kids at the b. st i have so much more. stick around for that. >>> virginia lieutenant governor justin fairfax stunned lawmakers in rnhmond today w he compared himself to lynching victims. the comments came after a top republican praised fairfax fho he handled sexssault allegations. >> thank you very much. >> applause for justin fairfax in virginia's general assembly today. a cloud of uncertainty looms over the lieutenant governor. this after accusations of sexual assault dating back to 2000 surfaced. he maintains the encounters are consensual. >> god is good and the truthons y side.

there's snowshowers out in fredericks county, virginia this morning. it's the washington metro area and points north and to the west. southernd marylo frederick. not a big snow producer but a solid inch or soround the city. the real issue is the timing. snow on a commute, never a good news. w >>>re great even on a friday. we'll see how things go. start things o as you ride in potomac. river road, westf falls road, we have a structure fire. river road is closed nearl cha road. with the hoses across the roadway and as the fire department used thewater, the water iced over. we have to wait for sand and sult trucks to get through. evergreen mills road is clo in loudon county. it's been closed since yesterday, with a pole and wires down. and wecl have ouure in the district northwest. 17th will be closed between "c" street and new york avenue, due to roadway that was compromised las week. plan for this. >> thank you, jack. j >>> jackt mentioned it. the breaking news i montgomery county, dozens of firefighters have been athis home for hours enow. the firas be

frederick, marylandnd prince george's schools will open two hours late. >> in virginia, arlington, manass manassas, manassas park city. fredericksburg, falls church, king george, loudon and fairfax county schools. grant county, west virginia, schools will open three hours late. >> to the closings, in virginia, warren, clark, rappahannock, and shenandoah and fauquier and pe county schools. hardy, hampshire and jeffers county schools are closed today. all of the updates are running on the bottom ofsc your en. you can find the list in the washington app. >>> we have team coverage to get your thursda started. we'll check in with drew wilder on the latest into the terror plot arrest. >> let's begin with chubell. are we getting a warm-up, >> yes, yes, we will. yesterday, we were in the 30s with the snow falling. today, we will recover in the low and mid-50s with some nshine around here later in the day. first thing this morning, it's foggy and oudy outside this morning. there's pockets of light rain in southern maryland and thunderstorms, heade out toward norfolk and virginia beac reduced visib

>> all right, that was trent frederick, 20-year-old. that is his mom and dad. now, they are, from the looks of it just absolutely pumped up that their son -- look at it, that is a hockey family, right there. i think a lot of mums might be horrified. >> i think that that has to be a hockey family. areas to it. >> he has been in the nhl for eight minutes when that fight broke out. mom and dad are boom, way to go kid! >> started it with a pal >> pizza and fruit drinks after the game. >> thank you for joining us, tonight. >> that's the point about hockey, you have to be tough. daddy. i can't sleep. wait. you eat while i'm in bed? is there a meal i don't know about? a couple. but you need to hit the hay, buddy. i need you sawin' logs until 0700. gloria and i are going through a romantic dry spell. luckily, she's out tonight with her friend, rebecca, who is married to a jackass. gloria always comes home ready to show her appreciation. suddenly, me going to bed with socks on is not such a deal-breaker. aw, geez. (door opens) gloria: i'm home! hey, jay. jay: how's rebe

if you live or travel in thurmo thurmond, hagerstown, chester, frederick, be carefulhis morning.nowfall amounts have been impressive along the maryland/pennsylvania border. the mason/dixon line. down here around the washington area, it's been all in the form of rain. just barely rain, too. if it will be this cold and this wet, i wan to get the next three degrees down and change this over to sn g. that's nng to happen. the overall trend this morning will scour all of the freezing temperatures out of the viewing area. where you see the pink along i-81, into parts of northern maryland, that's a mix of rain, ezing rainsnow and f pockets this morning. this will all be gradually coming to an the pink shading areas disappearing with time. green overking that. just plain old rain around here. it will be a very rainy afternoon. a burst of moderate rain just in time of the evening commute, a weather front goes by. it will rain steadily untilni about mt and taper off quickly thereafter. and we'll be here for sunshine for tomorrow. temperatures hoverin just at or above the freezing mark forr

he north cooler, in the 40s. 48 frederick. 45 hagerstown.hese numbers we go up more tomorrow. we have the cloud cover coming in across ouron re we're watching a storm system right now that's way back to the . this is one monster storm. i was just checking to see, i'vh beenring all kinds of stuff about the weather. listen to this. towas reno, nevada, thunderstorm warnings. lake tahoe, they'reng get 2 to 5 feet of snow, and 150 mile an hour winds at the ridge tops. isn't that great? we'll see a piece of that storm make its way across the region on saturday. not friday. your fridayoosng great, mostly cloudy skies but headed out, no probm. mperatures start to cool overnight and by 7:00 a.m. saturd we're waking up to snow pretty much area wide. but you notice to the north of frederick, this computer model at least not bringing much up there. this is the trend d.c. south. this storm has shifted by about 50 miles to the south. you can see through 1:00 still sning around much of the area. not much, what am i expeing? coating to an inch, winchester l

frederick county maryland seeing flakes farther west down int washington d.c., not quite just yet but that will be that's the thing. it may start out as snow flakes but ange to a winterly mix. accumulation chances not our friend here. we're not on ourc. side in a little farther north. that's where we'll see things a accumulati notice how it's rain farther south you go. again, thats beg after 8:00, 9:00 revving up towards the d.c. metro and we'll start to see it really changing over to more rain pbably around 6:00, 7:00 a.m. you're like it's just going to be rain tomorrow morning, well, we could seein areas spo icing, as well as the fact this a just a model. there will beot of rain throughout the region. at 6:30 in baltimore but doesn't mean i agreeh it. we could see colder air sticking around so theom morningte could be definitely impacted. i want to take us into tomorrow night. by tomorrow evening, a second bach of this is going to be moving in and we're looking at another chance very t similar tonight into tomorrow where we are seeing rain farther south and t

youee the snow south of frederick, leesburg, d.c., around the 7:00 hour. by 1:00 it's already starting to move out. the heaviest snow down to the south of washington. to the north, frederick, hagerstown, baltimore may n seeny snow. coating to an inch around the d.c. metro area. downtown d.c. not expecting much at all. 1 to 3 ihes fredericksburg, around waldorf. could this change? sure. this has to come up about 20 to 30 miles and now all of a sudden we're in the 1o inch mark. again it could change here, but this is whatwe'reinking. either way it's not going to change big time and go 3 to 6 or 6 to 12 inches. that would just be a wish for a lot of us. we're going to stay othe low erside of things for sure. for the kids at the bus stop tomorrow, this is what you can expect, 44 in the city. 53 by recess. 61 by the time we're picking up the kids. a nice day, mostly cloudyki ski, of like we saw today. 41 on saturday. 40 on sunday. watching another storm system sunday into monday. that should mostly stay to our south. we could see some shower activity. the big d

dark orange, frederick county, maryland, for our friends who can see us in carol county. all are under a high wind warning. that means winds could gust up to 60 miles per hour for you. for the rest of us, it is a wind advisory. so here's what you need to know. the strongest gusts are actually going to take place between now and about 8:00, 9:00ey tonight. l actually drop a little bit. thanks will calm down or i'll say they'll jt be breez before picking back up again monday morning. okay? so here'sur look at thent gusts. 48-mile-an-hour gusts right nowe beeny steady, seeing gusts near 50-mile-an-hour towards fredinick. just sta to see things rev up inside the beltway now in manassas and camp springs. as we head through tim pushing through 3:00 a.m., notice more widespread, gusts in the 40s and 30s. as we head into monday, notice how we're still pretty gusty through the after i mean, 41-mile-an-hour gusts after a night of winco itions could still cause some damage there. and as we move into tuesday morning, that's when we'll finally see things begin to calm down. so he's a