look at fredericksburg. it says that we've got some snow down around fredericksburg but if you take a look at the reflectivity here, you notice higher returns and that is possible sleet down there. we are getting reports of sleet. this has been falling as all snow in and around the waldorf area, in and around d.c. we'll continue to watch this moving to the north. very heavy snow fall rates along 301, waldorf around clinton, d.c. that way as well. so we'll watch this as it moves toward the north. the wider view showing the storm, the upper level storm back to the west, once the upper level storm gets just over us, any sleet down to the south i think changes back over as we get colder air aloft trying to filter in. but we have warmer air towards the -- coming off the ocean and that's changing things over down at places like salisbury and places like that. veronica is outside with more on what we're seeing outside our studios here in northwest. >> reporter: doug, i'm sure you're talking about the conditions out

as we made our way toward fredericksburg, traffic fairly light in nature. we've had to tap the brakes a little bit but certainly not as heavy as normal, not as many people on the road but as we continue southbound, you see a lot of salt trucks treating the roads. you can see by 7:00 p.m.

in shenandoah valley and coming north of fredericksburg. however, it is evaporate big the time it hits the ground. don't worry. that snow is going to start falling and i do expect it to be in the d.c. area a little after the noon hour. take a look at our timeline there. by 4:00 or 5:00, everybody seeing snow. it will intensify. you're going to see more here, southern maryland, the eastern shore, a little bit of snow, a little bit of sleet. by the time you wake up tomorrow morning, a foot of shnow on the ground. we keep this going. the winds are going to be a huge factor in here. of course, download the nbc 4 app. you're definitely going to need it. but that snow will continue. here's your hour by hour forecast. blizzard-type conditions. again, we're expecting 20 to 30 inches of snow. guys? >> lauryn, thank you. hardware stores are doing good business. snow blowers selling pretty fachlt in fact, snow blowers in some stores are selling out. >>> right now we're on route 3 around the fredericksburg area. we're getting out of the heavy volume ri

the heaviest rain is southern maryland around fredericksburg. upwards of a half inch to an inch of rain and it's out of here by 1:00 in the morning. take the umbrella. saturday no problem. a nice day. we are talking the small umbrellas or the purse? it's the big umbrellas. the rain will be fairly steady. highs tomorrow cooler than today, but milder. 46 in martins during. 53 down towards fredericksburg. early to the west and moving in to the rest of the area. temperatures are 52 tomorrow and 50 on saturday. not bad. a look at sunday and a high of 42 and falling temperatures during the day. it gets windy and you can see flurry activity. a high of 30 on monday, but the wind chill will be a factor. we are talking about martin luther king day. five to ten degrees between dinnertime and 0 to 10 degrees with the wind chill. extremely cold on tuesday and a high of 29. wednesday a high of 32. much colder numbers making their way in here. next week is going to be a frigid week. we have seen a day here and there with the cold air and it looks like all of n

currently, a degrees in d.c., 56 in fredericksburg, near 60 earlier down towards fredericksburg, 51 in martinsburg. so we have a ton of melting. that will cause standing water. a lot of ponding on the roads and slush that will continue. to top it off, veronica, we have a couple of other things to slow down the evening drive or whatever else you're doing outdoors tonight. >> we're talking about the temperatures dropping. but a combination of the snow pack on the ground, with the temperatures going to be, moisture, yeah, there's going to be a lot of it in the form of fog. and it will develop rather quickly. you can see the visibilities around 7:00 this evening, the fog widespread, and could get rather dense. for a short period of time. for several hours, from 7:00 p.m. to about midnight. as quickly as it develops, it should be moving out of here. so road impacts for tonight, tomorrow, we'll take it through the evening, you get a cautionary light, because it's mainly slush we'll see on the sides of roads as we're anywhere, didn't get a chance to get plowed by tomorrow morning, a few icy s

we are seeing snow over a good portion of the area, down towards fredericksburg. if you're within earshot, you are still seeing snow coming down. >> in parts of our region, it's really heavy. let's take a live look outside. this is the white house. pretty much blanketed in snow as well. a lot of beautiful pictures out there. we're also talking about dangerous conditions with the high winds and treacherous roads for today. >> so much so that most of the -- all of the highway folks have been advising us not to go out on to the roads until late on sunday. we have charlie gischlar. you've been riding this out for the last several hours. what are you dealing with now? >> i have breaking news within your area. down in ocean city, there's some flooding that -- because of the coastal flooding of the nature of this storm, anything south of the u.s. 50 draw bridge between 2nd street and division street on coastal highway is closed because of flooding. closer to home, we're dealing with jackknifed tractor-trailers on southbound 270 near montross. some of the lawns are blocke

cold as 5 in hagerstown. 12 in fredericksburg.go through the afternoon, this time tomorrow night, wind chills are still in the single digits, and north and west of town, an even 12 in manassas and only 15 in fredericksburg. but tomorrow, it is going to be another very, very brutally cold day. tonight, clear, breezy very cold and wind chills 10 below to zero. and lows themselves, in the teens. and the winds are doing us a favor. and they are driving the wind chill below zero, and if we didn't have the winds, we would be around zero. tomorrow morning, teens and 20s. mostly sunny and bitterly cold and the temperatures again, with the wind, 10 below. to about 5 above. and some kids are going back to school tomorrow. day planner, teens to start. these are downtown temperatures. 21 at 11:00. and 24 with sunshine. by 1:00 p.m. wednesday, clouds come in late, and maybe a snow shower at night. and then very nice on thursday, the calm before the storm. upper 30s to near 40. okay, friday, snow and/or rain. saturday, mainly snow. and 30s, low

if you're a snow lover, you're looking at this going, here comes the snow, maybe fredericksburg, d.c.ere comes the snow, where did it go? that's it, all we get, a round of flurries. if you're not a snow lover and don't like the cold either, that's what the storm system brings in. 51, d.c., 52 at fredericksburg. 38 on sunday with the flurry chance. 25 on martin luther king day. 25. monday, just plain cold. winds gust to 30 miles an hour. wind chill, 5 and 10. that's cold. calling monday and tuesday weather alert day. 27 degrees tuesday. look at tuesday. sending the kids out to school. temperatures, 17 early in the morning. the wind chill between 5 below and 5 above. very cold air moving in. between 3:00 and 4:00 in the afternoon only mid-20s and stays cold most of next week. it will be the coldest air we've seen and it will stick with us. tom will be in, in the morning with the latest. >> i'm forecasting busy grocery stores tomorrow. >> true. >> to get provisions for the cold. >> we know caps have been good all year, but wizards coming on now. john wall looking to lead to a fourth stra

bulls eye becomes fredericksburg. because this model is a little further south, we are looking at the snowfall amounts higher to the south. so, this is good news if you are in southern maryland. saint mary's county. you want snow, you want the european model. in hagerstown, up to a foot. instead of two feet. this is still going hog wild. i mean hog wild in terms of snowfall for the immediate metro area. so, that will certainly make it historic. although, we know they have a hard time measuring snow downtown at the airport. because, remember, 2010, 31.5 and then 17.8 at national. hm. head scratcher. a live look outside. it is 26 degrees. winds gusting to 29 so windchills right around 0. winds will let up a little bit tonight. so, very cold tonight. but not as windy. still breezy, yes. bus stop temperatures 10 to 24. those are not windchills. actual temperatures. winter storm friday into saturday. accumulating snow by noon on friday. if you can get all your errands done, that would be wise. 10:00 tonight, you can walk t

mary's and fredri s fredericksbu fredericksburg. the next 24 hours look this way, above freezing now. by 7:00 tonight, back below freezing. and a hard freeze. solid ice expected for tomorrow. so tomorrow morning may actually be trickier than this one. talk about the seven-day forecast coming up in a few minutes. >>> chuck, thank you. if you work for the federal government, you are back on the job today. >> federal agencies are opening back up today. we have all of the closures in our area, running at the bottom of your screen. >> now, some 200 schools, governments and churches are closed today including all but four major districts. if your child goes to school in charles, culvert or st. mary's, they are on a two hour delay. d.c. public schools opening on time. erika gonzalez live in northwest with more on parents' concerns. >> reporter: hi, eun, aaron, yeah, definitely concerns because of the sidewalks. a lot of kids got to walk to school, they got to get off the bus, they got to cross safely. when your sidewalk is limited because

nineteen in fredericksburg windchill. hagerstown, feels like 11 degrees. lows tonight, will be in the teens. just about everywhere. the coldest night so far. we will come back and talk about when the wind will die down. when we lose a windchill. and looking ahead to another storm be for the weekend storm late in the week. >>> police are classifying a homicide. a store you saw first on wusa9 and twitter. we broke the news that the dc medical examiner's office found 74-year-old james mcbride died of severe neck injuries. he was involved in some kind of struggle with hospital police in late september when he tried to leave without being discharged. the officers involved no longer work for medstar. washington dc police and the u.s. attorneys office say they are still investigating and have not filed charges. >>> let's go to the update in prince george's county. this video of precious, the pedal, protecting her owner after a house fire, drew a lot of attention on a website and facebook page. right now, that woman, april newell, is in jail charged with arson. fi

only 15 in fredericksburg.l advance it ahead back in to the single digits, feeling like six in gaithersburg and only four in martinsburg. so again single digits and teens is what you want to dress for tomorrow. clear to partly cloudy, windy, flurries are possible. lows are 18-24, becoming northwest at 15 to 25 and gusty. look at the temps starting out at 24 and ending at 26 by 1:00. they barely moved at all. the next three days, still bitterly cold on wednesday a little bit to 33. okay. now, the next seven days. on thursday, seasonable and the lower 40s. then we are tracking this storm on friday. i think you'll see some kind of winter precipitation out of it. will it be all snow? i can't tell you. leading in to saturday and the low 40s on sunday. >> hats and gloves are not optional. >> absolutely not. when you say you are dusting off the bread-o-meter. >> we will check in with you. >>> still ahead tonight, i know you'll love this story why a picture of the target cashier has gone viral. >>> keeping you can't pr

vre fredericksburg, 300 and 302, those two trains are 20 minutes behind. red line delays in both directions because of a signal problem there at silver spring. inner loop at pennsylvania avenue. we have a new crash there being reported. does not seem to be slowing. olney mill road at islander street again has that water main break there. molette green out there on the scene with us for more. do we have molette? >> reporter: we're here in olney at the intersection of olney mill road and islander street. now just spoke to the officer here on the scene. he told me that the water main break problem started where that house is with the cars in the driveway and the mailbox. started there and the water has started to come all the way down the street since 3:30 this morning when the first report came in and it's going all the way down the road. you can see it is ponding here, but starting to ice over here in this community. we're in a residential community, single family homes. the big question here is how soon can wssc get here to shut the water off and, number t

fredericksburg, kull pepper and 5:00, everybody's seen it and now is the time that we're looking to see this start to increase as far as the intensity goes and right on through saturday it gets very heavy. how much snow? 18 to 24 inches and we could see some mixing and most areas and everybody is asking how much for me? 18 to 24. everybody, could we see more than that? i do think we'll see a couple of areas and maybe even an isolated 30. before tomorrow evening, get gas in the car and get the dinner if your heat goes out in the car, food, water, medicine. make sure you have all of those and expect to get snowed in and remember, you're running out of time here and make sure you get these things done before tomorrow afternoon and you do not want to be running around tomorrow and be caught in the snow. heavy snow into saturday and all day saturday and it's done by sunday and the impacts will be very long lasting with the storm system once again and we'll continue to keep you posted. we're on the nbc washington app and i'm on facebook and twitter and if you lose power in your house and you

and gusts to 25 in fredericksburg. and driving the wind chills down. into the 20s. and in many areas, so areas south, we have the wind chills in the 30s. and it is going to get colder this afternoon. and officially, 41 at national. and feeling like 31 with those winds sustained, 25 out of the northwest. a big front is coming through here. and bringing in some cold air. but that will be leaving tomorrow. and then you know what? it looks pretty nice around here. until the middle of next week. and steady to slowly falling temperatures this afternoon. can't rule out a flurry or snow shower. quiet tonight. lighter winds. mid-20s. and tomorrow, 48. and the winds turn to the south and pick up out of the south and southwest with warmer air on sunday. 55 to 60 in the southern suburbs. and as we head to next week, nice and mild on monday. and still mild, maybe just a tad cooler for the ground hog, on tuesday. and wednesday, it could be warm, windy and wet, before some colder air moves in, thursday and it looks like it is kind of cold around here, as we head toward next weeken

fredericksburg may come close to 55, same culpeper. a look at monday, you may see a lake briefly, but no accumulation expected, but really cold. monday, high-temperature's in the 30's, but will not feel anything like it. when you combine the wind, it will feel more like at the top end, 20's and teens. it will be frigid. atthe heat is not working the house, get on the horn tomorrow. get somebody out sunday because you will not find anybody monday or tuesday. same with your car. right, sunny day sunday, 33 degrees. bright blue skies all day long. 3:00, the addition of the arctic cold front. monday, tuesday, monday will feel colder. that is because of the windchill. tuesday morning is the coldest, 19 at reagan national. be in the single digits in some spots out of town. eventually warming into the 40's. next chance of rain, probably friday looks likelier. don't forget, which is what we started out with, tomorrow will be a fine january day. kimberly: and then the bottom drops out. still to come, how far away from d.c. kimberly: drones were

president, welcome to fredericksburg. there's a nice rip ple of 57 plau applause.and i said mother -- the place went wild. i said, mother, it's clear the people still love you here and so do i but you're still telling me what to do. and guy -- true story. a guy in a cowboy hat strolled right in the middle of fredericksburg, texas, cuffs his hand and screams, you better listen to her, too, boy. >> this is giant. this is an enormous thing. this is not like the beginning of a campaign. this is more like the final couple of months of a presidential election where you have a republican and democratic nominee. we had 200 reporters in iowa. 150 reporters with camera crews here in new hampshire. this is incredible. >> why is it happening? >> well, i think there's a lot of pent up interest in the governor because he didn't leave texas until the legislative session was over in june 1st and the other thing is obviously he's the fron$8$÷k runner. what you see here on these stops is not only these people talking to him but also republican candidates, his opponents and democrats

we will get another, especially northern virginia, fredericksburg. moderate showers from warrenton, fredericksburg with moderate rain. nanjemoy is getting steady rain, waldorf and la plata getting moderate rain. the second round is coming through, but just about to midday, 4:00 a.m., that is when all the projections show it to much be a rain event tonight. the warm front eventually moving through. the warmer temperatures coming back. the next few days, the round is through, mild tomorrow. the front through the afternoon with the trailing cold front. a lot going on in the forecast. rain tonight. tomorrow, we go through the temperatures. with the high definition forecast, in the heart of the early morning hours. midnight, 4:00 a.m., rain in washington. could be some thunderstorms as well. a.m., wrapping up the rain. the last couple raindrop starting to fall at sunrise. the temperatures actually climb tomorrow morning. morning lows in the 50's, really mild this time of year. by 4:00, breaking out in sunshine. add that to the brisk southwest breeze and w

don't let these numbers deceive you. 40 in fredericksburg. that is earlier in the day. the weekend will be better, much better. partly sunny, 43. not as windy on saturday. we have a lot of sunshine and then more melting on sunday as we get closer to 50 degrees. slushy conditions with those big puddles out there. if you're going running you will have to jump over the big puddles out there. as far as what to do this weekend, skiing as doug said. it's not going to be too cold for that. you have the green light and the green light to moderate light for washing the car. you have that road spray coming up. the next big change for us is monday when the temperatures get up to 60 degrees and that is monday, tuesday, wednesday higher temperatures. chance of rain, over an inch. we could see some flooding on wednesday. we'll talk more about that in depth on news4 at 5:00. >>> i'm mark segraves in the district where the snow emergency has been lifted, but thousands of drivers continue to feel the pain. during the blizzard the district issued more than $1.3 million in parking fines t

everybody is below freezing.reez fredericksburg sitting att 22 degrees this morning.orning and culpeper at 13. at 1 let me see if i can -- youan --o there go, move that up agomove little bit so everybody can see. quantico 25, washington 25, leonardtown 25. so you get the idea, right? a, g very, very cold out there thishi morning.mo wind is pretty still.. so, don't really need to worrydo about a wind chill value beingei a problem out this morning.ng okay, here's the deal for d for today. to right around middle 20's to 20'o upper 20's or so by 8:00 a.m..m so it's still going to be coldol even with the sunshine coming cm up. i think we'll have a few highveh clouds around for the first thet part of the day.rtthe then increasing clouds byg clou probably after 2:00 or so s we'll start see more cloudst se coming in. high temperatures making it up into the lower 40's or so. s that's a look at your you forecast. remember, seven day changes,sey you're going to want to seewante that coming up in about 10 10 minutes or so much hang outr so for that but you're going to goo like wh

it is a good number in fredericksburg.t west of leesburg, 10, 11 degrees to start. 9:00, back in the 20s . by lunchtime, we are back in the upper 30s . so, pretty close to average tomorrow. again, not much wind so upper 30s to near 40s . tomorrow night, temps will not fall precipitously. clouds will work their way northward but it will stay dry. looks like this on the day planner. sunshine, pure sunshine. 33 by 11:00 and 38 by 1:00. downtown, temps start around 20. the next three days some showers possible thursday. this may by a little too overboard. more clouds. then, 43 afternoon rain and showers friday. could affect the evening commute. >>> next seven days. saturday some clouds in the morning then a pretty good day. 54. right now, showers are going to end late. they may actually end before the game begins at 4:40. certainly will end by halftime. your tailgating could be a little bit of a mess, monday, tuesday of next week, sunshine returns. high ins the 30s . >> now, wusa9 game on sports brought to you by xfinity. >>>

. >> fredericksburg schools are closed tomorrow. loudon county are closed for the rest of the week. >> all the biggest concern tonight will be fog. >> that melting continues. that melting adds another aspect to the morning. a lot of slush out there and a lot of it on those roadways. a little bit of flooding on those roads, give yourself a lot of extra time. i really think tomorrow's rush is going to be a problem. take a look outside. not much in the way of rain. we have had a few showers as we move through the evening hours. look at the snow towards the mountains of west virginia. it would be just showers if they move in here at all. what i am expecting is that colder air to move in tomorrow. currently, 45 degrees in d.c. very warm. the melting continues. but here's the cold air that will filter in during the night tonight and into the day tomorrow. so a stuff ride in the morning. >> we've got some breaking news in oregon where federal agents move in to end a standoff with an armed militia and the shooting started. five are in custo

outside the belfort furniture weather center, 31 hagerstown, 36 manassas, 32 fredericksburg and culpeper. tomorrow, a cold front will sweep through earlier in the day , and behind it, wind gusts towards the end of the day. the forecast tomorrow, highs eventually make it to just about 40 degrees. more on the weekend and a big warm up in a few minutes. outon: as we keep digging from the blizzard, several of the biggest school district are staying closed. that includes fairfax, about an county, prince george's county, montgomery county, to name a few. d.c. schools will open on time, as will the federal government. be the first to know when your child upon school closes by signing up for text alerts that wjla.com/text. leon: prince george's county police are searching for a hit and run driver, releasing this picture of a car. they are tried to find out who was behind the wheel of this vehicle. the victim is in critical condition at the hospital, struck while walking in the middle of the road, the side of the road because of the snow piles on the sidewalks. tom roussey is there now. tom, show

low 20's in la plata. 22 in the morning and 25 in leonardtown. 23 in fredericksburg. 21 in stafford. cold start. we have another storm system. there was a tornado in broward county but all of that will miss us. mother nature is giving us a break here as the future cast indicates the clear sky tonight. moisture from florida will miss us southeast by a bit. that is good. it will turn cooler and breezier on friday. so the cold air will hold off until the storminess is out of the picture. over the weekend the temperatures will rise more with plenty of sunshine heading through the day on saturday and sunday as well. so the forecast for the day tomorrow after a cold and a freezing morning it will turn partly cloudy and the highs of 44 in the afternoon. winds turn south at 5 miles per hour. looking to the next seven days it looks as though we get through tomorrow night and the temperatures could be below freezing. not as cold. get to the weekend and warm it up. 46 by saturday. 53 on sunday and monday. 30% chance of the monday showers. by next week we will have mild temperatures on wednesday

maybe 52 in fredericksburg. a little breezy tomorrow. keep that in mind. day planner looks like this. increasing sun. 48 by 11:00. 50 by 1:00 p.m. so sunday we will get the chance of a flurry in. 42. much, much colder. bitterly cold monday. only 27 for a high. the next seven days only 30 tuesday. 34 wednesday. low 30s on thursday. maybe snow showers wednesday night. not a huge deal. highs again only about 31, 32. >>> okay. strassburg is staying for a while. >> some good news. some good news today. he began the season just so so right? then it got worse. he went on the dl. got hurt again. came back. finished on a three-game winning streak. that makes it hard to truly gauge his value which also explains why they avoided arbitration. the two sides saying let's agree on a $10 million deal. now, it gets really interesting because he becomes a free agent after this season. he has been solid but he has also been injury prone too. baltimore looking to make some moves as well. the os putting yoenis cespedes with a deal. he had a lot of lumber to the already potent

it is 50 in cumberland, 49 in fredericksburg. the core of the cold air is here to the northeast but slowly through the day the cold air will move out, and temperatures make a nice recovery into the upper 40's with lots of sunshine. the further south, southwest you are, the warmer it will be. , someite shows the tail lake-effect snow on the shore of lake erie and ontario. the natch -- the next batch of cloudiness gathers in the gulf of mexico. is going to move from southwest to northeast, so that trajectory will bring us rain tomorrow night, but the heaviest rain i think we'll stay to the south and east of the metro. steady rain, heavier rain. as we go overnight, the heaviest rain will shift off the eastern lingering showers saturday morning, and that to sunshine and mild temperatures for saturday afternoon. it will get colder starting sunday, and monday and tuesday we will be lucky to get up to 32 degrees. remember we showed you tropical storm alex. it has become a hurricane. in january. it is the first time since 1938 that a hur

look at our temperatures. 40 in d.c., 39 in manassas, 39 in fredericksburg. still on the mild side this time of night. mar vinceville, 22, and in lorraine. we have cloud and fog and what we will continue to deal with tonight. heads-up, could be areas of dense fog and already seeing some around the manassas area and culpeper as well. not as cold as far as weather, a big weekend storm we will talk about it and the roller coaster temperatures coming up. >>> thank you. tonight in fairfax county, teachers, parents and students are showing support for a bold budget presentation, one that requests more money for fairfax county public schools. for the past nine years that school district has had to scale back on spending. tonight, the district superintendent said she's done cutting the budget. she wants smaller class sizes and better pay for teachers. for her, it's non-negotiable. >> we're losing great teachers to other jurisdictions. we opened the school year with 200 vacancies, unheard of in fairfax county. >> she says it will be tragic if it is not fully funded. y

fredericksburg, 31 degrees. it feels like 20 in manassas.the windchill is 18 in the nation's capital. we will struggle through the upper 20's. the temperatures will drop off tonight and we will see a little bit of cloudiness move in tomorrow. the next weather event is going to be friday. we will take you with those possibilities are in a few minutes. jummy: the cold start today for times for schools -- be the first to know about all of the closings at your school. logon to wjla.com and click on text alerts and you can get updates sent straight to your phone. is causingeeze problems, especially after yesterday's rain and flurries. josh knight is in northeast d.c. where wet roadways are causing slick conditions. josh: good afternoon. after the first snowflakes, the big, cold air is settling in. digits.l in the single most places, there was not enough precipitation to cause any problems, but in one spot, crews needed to do some salting. what happened here in this area -- we are right on eastern avenue under the railroad tracks -- under here, th

chill not even going to be a message here. 16 degrees in gaithersburg, 14 at culpeper, 18 in fredericksburg and 18 in huntington. we will drop a little tonight. not a whole lot more. temperatures a little bit warmer than tomorrow. it won't feel warmer. we're still in the teens early tomorrow morning. showing clear skies across our region. no rain and no snow. that's the way it was almost the entire east coast from richmond and d.c. and philadelphia and boston. look what happened toward the hampton roads area, norfolk down towards the cape. look at these streamers of snow. this was chesapeake bay lake effect snow bands coming right off the chose peek bay, ocean affects bands, too. the first one was out of the hampton roads area and did produce a dusting of snow in their area earlier this morning. towards the cape and outer banks, they, too, this is what they woke up to. it was cold enough it stuck on the roads and did cause some travel problems. don't see a lot of snow down there and don't see it very often like this. you have to have just that right amount of northerly component to the wind

gaithersburg i showed you 10 minutes ago, down 19, now up to 21, 23, manassas, 24 in fredericksburg. temperatures won't go down all that much more tonight. we have a little bit more in the way of cloud cover and changing wind direction. look at this. radar shows snow to the south. that's not actually falling, our storm system back to our west. it's trying to bring snow our way but too dry in our atmosphere. what it will do is pass by to the north of us as a warm front. behind it we will see a return flow from the south and means warmer temperatures tomorrow. we may get down to the upper teens and 25 in the city. a cold start to the day. with that return flow out of the south, we get back to the 40s. 43, gaithersburg and fredericksburg, 48. i think we see plenty of sunshine in the afternoon. a pretty nice arch. you will need the coats early but not with the sun. ski forecast. haven't shown this much at all this season. a little slushy and icy by saturday, breezy afternoon. just flurries really. sunday the best day to go skiing. here's where the cold comes back. monday, mlk day, windy

and then up to 62 in fredericksburg.'ll talk tomorrow in ten minutes. >>> developing right now, d.c. police are searching for this missing 14-year-old. she disappeared last night in columbia heights. if you've seen her, call police. >>> more than a week after the blizzard and we're still seeing the impacts. loudoun county couschools will start two hours late tomorrow. administrative offices will open on time. many prouds roads in loudoun coe down just to one lane because of the snow and sis. >>> police say a man was shot to death saturday app near addison road metro station. a citizen flagged down a nearby officer and took them to the victim. most of the investigation happened in a wooded area behind the boarded up home. still no suspects or motive in the case this morning. >>> new this morning, former salvadoran president francisco flores has died. the 56-year-old slipped into a coma last week after undergoing emergency surgery. flores was president from 1999 to 2004 and at the time of his death, he was facing embezzlem

closer to 50 in fredericksburg.going out for tonight, early evening plans around dinner time, 38 between 8:00 and 10:00. chilly and dry. no weather problems. for tomorrow we'll start out with sunshine. clouds coming right back in. dry at 7:306789 but look at the moderate to heavy rain and a real gully wash sbeer the predawn hours of saturday morning. tomorrow increasing clouds. rain likely on your friday night. how is your weekend looking? clearing and breer breezy. sunday's high much colder. full forecast comes up in a full minute. >>> we're looking live at the beltway that. means we're on the-month-old side of thing. you sue the outer loom. no problems there. wood burn in an an dale, room for a crash. they feesht put in a new polyand new weiers. m.a.r.c. rail, brunswick and others, you're on time. >>> the israeli president who was a key player in the palestine/israel peace talks. they won the peace prize after signing the accord in 1993. the others have since died. >>> new this morning, investigators say an suh we

middle 40's to fredericksburg. a few showers at this time. let's head to the fredericksburg area. there is not much of a problem. we are calling for a high of 40 degrees. morning clouds giving way to the afternoon sun. weekend, looking forward to the upcoming weekend. the middle 40's on saturday. around 55 to 57 degrees on sundays. we are going to melt a lot of snow around here. i will take you out with a look at the seven day. once we get past the weekend, mild on monday. the melting process continues. jamie, what is going on with traffic? jamie: we have a look at high people get in accidents and crashes. this is the merge lane to get on. there is so much snow here. not so much in this picture but snow banks are so high so when you try to merge on, you can't see. we are having people stop and then guess. the next bet is to be cautious. be sure to travel at a high speed from nothing. let's move to the map. we have a few crashes out there. this is just a disabled truck on the inner loop of the meltway. they cleared it away. a water main break in silver spring. we have a few crashes

remember the breezes make it feel cooler. 46 in fredericksburg.nd still 39 in hagerstown. 9:30, back in the mid-30s. not crazy cold, but i will advance to sunday. see the blue? 11:30, 12:00, a couple of snow showers are possible. temperatures in the 30s, above freezing, and not a huge deal. day planner 48 by 11:00, and 50 by 1:00 p.m. sunday, there's your snow shower. best time now, late morning, early afternoon, and bitterly cold on monday. only 27. 30 on tuesday, mid-30s on wednesday. maybe a snow shower on wednesday night, and bitterly cold on thursday and friday. highs will struggle to get into the freezing mark. >>> thank you,top. washington wizards getting healthy and back on track thanks to the wall stars. john wall doing it up tonight, john wall doing it up tonight, and what are these fans john wall doing it up tonight, and what are these fans we live in a pick choose, choose, choose. but at bedtime? ...why settle for this? enter sleep number, and the lowest prices of the season. sleepiq technology tells you how well you slept and what adj

downtown, 30 silver springs, 30 in fairfax and down to the south a little above freezing, 33 in fredericksburg. black ice is simply water that is frozen, looks black and wet but it is frozen. be careful also walking to your car, a big hazard as well after these kinds of storms people fall geting to their car . my wife has done it, believe me, possible. 9:00 tonight, 20s and 30s, a few clouds come in between the clouds and the southwest winds we keep temperatures up a bit but it won't keep them up high enough to prevent black ice. sort of keep that in mind. by 10:00, still 30 downtown, 30 in gaithersburg, 29 in frederick, and little above freezing downtown. downtown, temperatures go up a bit. 35 at 5:30-6:00 in the morning but 31 fredericks, 31 gaithersburg and 33 in dunpprey. 2 reasons for a yellow alert tomorrow. >>> whether or not the federal government is open, metro is welcoming back riders, service returning to normal but some operations are limited. >> wusa 9's stephany galehard has information for commuters trying to get around town. stephany? >> reporter: bruce, things are starting to

fredericksburg 17, single digits manassas, 18 winchester. the reason why it is so cold so quickly, the clear skies and a fresh pack of snow allows nighttime lows to drop into the single digits in the north and west, 15 to 18 inside the beltway. mainly clear skies will help. through the day tomorrow, after a very cold start, we eventually warm to near 30 degrees by noontime. the middle to upper 30's for the afternoon highs later in the day. heading out the door later tonight, any treated sidewalks that may have melted water on it have probably frozen over, even treated areas with rock salt does not work quite as well overnight in terms of the melting. things will refreeze, so be on the lookout for slick sidewalks and roadways early in the morning. more from the belfort furniture weather center in a few minutes. jonathan: in addition to the federal government, the d.c., maryland, and virginia governments also closed monday. this was sony and museum, national zoo, at all area national parks will also be close -- along with the smithsonian museu

fredericksburg at 49-degrees. this is quite a significant change from 24 hours ago. we're almost 18-degrees warmer at fredericksburg. 20-degrees warmer at culpeper and 9-degrees warmer here in d.c. with martinsburg coming in 23 grows warmer. why is it so much warmer tonight? we have a frontal boundary out to our west ahead of it, south winds are pumping in that milder air that helped do a lot of melting and reduce the snow mount from the weekend. that front, though, will be slowly moving through overnight. it could come through with a few showers. maybe even a little bit of wet snow south and east of d.c. early tomorrow morning, but not a lot. what you will be noticing tomorrow we're not going getting back into the 50s. with the front coming it's a cold shot. not too terribly cold at 9. but as the day goes on we don't really get up to 40-degrees. by tomorrow night we're watching temperatures drop back into the 20s, eventually heading to the teens. bottom line a dry day, a l coulder day, a breezy day, but i'm not expecting a lot of black ice in the morning. > back to

fredericksburg you guys will be upper 40s around 50 or so.m air is coming in from the south and south west on southwesterly winds. 5 to 10 miles an hour. generally speaking we're cloudy and maybe a few showers late this afternoon and into the evening hours and overnight tonight, we'll have a couple as well. not a lot of rain. here's erin cuomo. it's tuesday morning. take a look at traffic. >> it's tuesday. feels like somehow we have got tone friday. >> who knows what day it is. have to think about it. >>tis morning if you're trying to make your way out to work or school or wherever you're headed this morning my best advice use a lot of caution and make your your car or truck is completely shoveled don't leave that foot of snow on top of. it definitely clean off your car as best you can. right now traffic wait waking up. this is the most amount of traffic we've seen since before the snow fell now. you can seat secondarys in the district quiet now. we're not seeing too much activity and the snow builds u up. i will say the roads and interstates

a look at these numbers outside and there is warm air trying to nudge in. 45, downtown. 51 in fredericksburg. we could see temperatures near 50 despite gray skies three at have that warm southwesterly wind. from cardinal ridge elementary this morning, that is the parking lot. some clouds make an effort to come into the driveway. they do a pass and leave. i do not see fairfax county school tomorrow. just looking at that. freezing rain early to the north . minor through the afternoon a couple of spotty rain showers. we stay above freezing through the afternoon. temperatures, mid 40's. mid to upper 40's as we continue to see the mild air push and. cooler for later in the week. .e will talk about the weekend a nice weekend on the way and we all deserve it after the blizzard of 2016. jummy: road crews are still out clearing the roadways today. crews closing some roads to try to get that worked on. let's go to jamie sullivan with a check on traffic. jamie: we are seeing areas where it is clearing out. let's start off with the big picture look at the capital beltway. a lot of green, some areas of r

fredericksburg. you might see a shower. a snow shower, maybe a flurry. most of it gets out of here pretty quickly. we return to partly cloudy skies late tonight with temps back into the 30s so for tonight, lows 10 to 20. windchills still in the single digits. okay, day planner. well, back to 26 by 11:00. and 31 and cloudy by 1:00. there is your great day to make some hay. 38. a beautiful day on thursday. snow on friday. heavy by evening. high of about 32. yellow weather alert. back to near 40 on saturday. in the 40s on monday and tuesday of next week. >> all right. >> where is kirk cousins? on some island he is about to buy? >> i think the guys are taking a week off. in about a few weeks that is when the free agency starts. it will get crazy here again. kirk cousins may have been the brightest star in the redskins gal galaxy, but how does captain kirk feel about captain kirk? >> and this cat is trending because everyone thinks he looks like adam driver. he was adopted from a new jersey shelter. the cat has his own instagram page already. we are back afte

so this is from andrews, down to la platta to culpepper and fredericksburg. we are not looking for it to move across the district but it gets out of here pretty fast and lingers through the northern neck, through about midday on wednesday. then the clouds return. we will have northwesterly winds. and stay in the 30s on wednesday. and now we stay in the 30s again, on thursday, and the patterns this week are know very exciting but not very agreeable. so we just have kind of these nuisance pesky little chances for showers, and flurries. and two times, this week. i will show you the second time on the seven-day forecast. 35 today. and 44 for tomorrow. and it is mild, with the lake showers, turning into some flurries. first thing in the morning on wednesday. wednesday, the showers will linger. and flurries, for areas south and east. by thursday, 38 degrees. and that's when we could see the second chance for some of those flurries on thursday night. overnight through first thing friday. and now, we are looking at saturday, 50 degrees. we'll be right back. having lo

hartwood, fredericksburg over in areas of virginia next and we'll just continue to make its way on up and through with the pockets of moderate rain and just to the area of a storm system tracking to the east of our area and we'll get quite a bit in some locations. everywhere in the blue about a half inch and that's most of the area and the lighter amounts north and west at this time and western maryland and for the areas of eastern west virginia. here it is by 7:00, the pockets of moderate rain start to show up especially to the south and areas around waldorf right on over toward cambridge and even by midnight it will be sloppy and nasty. check out 6:00 a.m. saturday and the clouds starting to clear and the wind will wait until the afternoon to start picking up. we get the green light and the roads are damp early and with the wind it will wick that away and start drying and the best day out of the next seven to get out and for out and about, thumbs up, folks, i hope you make the most of tomorrow. breezy during the afternoon. sunshine, yes. make sure that for anyone who will be out lat

winds gusting up to 25 miles per hour in fredericksburg and near 30 towards pawtuxent river. some areas already in the teens. and look at these windchills. down to 10 in d.c. 7 down towards camp springs. 6 in martinsburg. the current temperature at hagerstown at 2 degrees. we could be colder tomorrow morning. i'll update you on that in a second. tonight's headlines, the coldest air yet, it's coming in overnight. not cold for long, though. we'll talk about things as they start to warm towards the end of the week that also includes some rain chances. i'll show you when that moves in as well in my full forecast. >> all right, doug, thank you. >>> k street near the georgetown waterfront is just getting reopened after a barricade situation lasted for more than seven hours. the man who was holed up inside an office building just surrendered peacefully. shomari stone is live on k street with more on what started all. this shomari? >> reporter: the good thing, you mentioned it ended peacefully. this had a big effect on drivers who were trying to get home during the evening rush hour.

if you're south towards fredericksburg, may make a run towards the 60-degree mark. we will be mild for the first half of the coming week, i'll have details in a few minutes. >>> looking forward to it. howard. we are two days away fwr the iowa caucus, a new poll is out, showing donald trump in the lead on the gop side. and democrat hillary clinton and bernie sanders neck-and-neck. des moines registrar poll is called the gold standard, it's been the most accurate. craig boswell on the campaign trail today and he has the latest tonight. >>reporter: republican p presidential candidate donald trump is on top. in the des moines registers final poll before monday's iowa caucuses, he has a five point lead over ted cruz and a 13 point lead over marco rubio. >> it don't matter if you don't caucus on monday. >>reporter: cruz led this poll in early january, but he has been under constant attack from dump and rubio. >> ted cruz has been my friend and he's decided to run a deceitful campaign at the end, people see through that. >>reporter: democrat hillary clinton is hanging on t

still 39 in fredericksburg. by 10:00, in the mid 40s .ice some breaks in the clouds now toward romney and cumberland. so a little sun west of i-81 is possible. no green blobs yet. 51 downtown. looking at 53 in fredericksburg. 52 in dale city. i will advance it again. 6:00 p.m. this time tomorrow night, not bad. upper 40s , low 50s . and look what happens by 1:00 in the morning. look at all the orange and the yellow. this is some pretty heavy downpours with temps in the 40s . temps will rise overnight tonight. you can be home by 10:00. you will miss all this. if you are not, get ready for heavy downpours. this is now 5:00 a.m. sunday. look at the red here, heavy activity activity. saturday, 40s across the board. maybe 50 by 1:00 with a lot of clouds. now, next three days, here is your morning storm. there's your temperature of 60. dressed for the 30s and the 40s if you are going to the game because lows will be 32 by monday morning. and monday, only get to 36. that's it. next seven days, tuesday into wednesday, pretty good chance of flurri

t we're in the 40's today.he 51 for fredericksburg. here's a lucky ones.50 degrees and culpeper you're going to go from the teens this morning into the lower 50's. still a little cool and we're not going have a ton of sunshine today but again temperatures in the mid 40's which is above normal and a t 5a couple of more days we'll havese in the low 50's before it gets t cold again next week.t w erin como is in on this thursday morning with a looknina at your traffic.our traffic >> i am. 4:57 right now.. traffic is looking really nice c for this friday eve, gary, commute.commute. taking a look at our interstates 66 eastbound moving well from 234 to centreville. pretty much wide opened outh there. not up against anywi volumeol areas slowing us down. d we'll switch it over for ait look at our mapsch. lingering construction workstruw 395 south roads work afterfter seminary northbound sidery looking really good from thefroe beltway all the way to theay toe 14th street bridge.th s all of our bridges the 11th t 1 street and key bridge alsodge as cruising along at s

fredericksburg. by 8:00 o'clock, in the 20ss, 10:00 o'clock, above freezing, 34 in bowie and 34 also in silver spring and looking at 36 downtown. we'll come back, and talk about where we end up topping off tomorrow. and tracking two storms over the weekend. we'll have that and your 3-degree guarantee. >>> an explosive discovery causing a bit of excitement in northwest washington, late today. police confirming that some kind of mild tear ordnance was -- military ordnance was found in a home on nicholson street. 8 surrounding homes were evacuated as a precaution. the police won't say what type of device it was, but everyone is safe and sound. >>> now, to fairfax county, where the superintendent of schools says there are no plans to close schools on march 1st. that's primary day in virginia. a lot of schools serve as polling places and there's been talk that some voters might get agitated because they'll have to affirm their republican status before they can vote. the superintendent says student safety

we got confirmation now with snow coming down in places like fredericksburg, stretching to charlottesville. this is part of our massive storm system. the big bomb of a storm that is going to be bringing epic amounts of snowfall the region, so you, if you are not in place just right now, you need to get there as quickly as you can because even the snow beginning now is relatively light. that is going to chng over to more be in tense snow fairly quickly. the snowfall reports we are get to the south are impressive. you can see the darker blue bands into central va are a, icy conditions in the peed mpt and the carolinas. there has been severe weather into parts of florida. and i want to show you. this is a time lapse from roanoke, virginia. i put it into motion for you. take a look at the poor visibility. the snowfall rate rates from 1 to 2 inches per hour at times. it is still am doing down as we speak. snowfall reports around roanoke, between 4 and 6.5 inches, so it going to accumulate quickly. here is our future cast showing you hour by hour. by 2:00, it will be all across the metro area. i

most areas upper 30s to 40 degrees and 41, and 42 fredericksburg and 37 around annapolis and 39 toward frederick so yes it was a cold day after starting off with a lot of frost around the region earlier this morning and we did see some sunshine and this evening, the sun will go down after 5:00 and things will cool quickly and down to 37 by 6:00 and down to 33 by 10:00 and another cold night tonight and not as cold as other nights, but a cold night to our day tomorrow and a milder weekend and a much milder weekend and temperatures in the 50s and even near 60. rain is on the way, that coming on sunday could affect the redskins game and we'll talk about that and then we've got even colder air and that's right. another bout of colder air next week. we have it all for you and lots to talk about and we'll continue to keep you posted. >> doug, thank you. >>> this afternoon d.c.'s fire chief finds himself answering questions about failed ambulance response times. >> in this case the ambulance arrived within a matter of minutes, but as mark segraves discovered it went to the wrong address. mark