to understand all that you have to understand how the ice sheet, what controls an ice sheet. we need to understand this glacier to provide a better prediction for the ice sheet. that matters to us because of sea level. if the glaciers can respond die namingly, we should all be concerned. because the that can create dynamic changes in sea level and flood infrastructure. we need new know that planning >> reporter: we camped out next to the scientists. with 24 hours of light. we slept in the tents under the midnight sun. in the morning, we were shuttled out to meet the swedish ice breaker making its way around peterman glacier. it supports the scientists on land and acts as a floating laboratory. named after a norse god who sought wisdom. it is home to 50 climate scientists from around the world with similar convictions. their work is funded mostly by the swedish government. and the u.s. national science foundation. larry mayor, is one of geologists on the ship. and using sonar to map the ocean creating the first detailed maps that show how peterman glacier slid into the sea. se

there will still be ice out there and the ice wept melt in ten minutes. it wail take a while for that to melt. rain by noontime. 49, heavy in spots. dry in the afternoon. temperature of 50 and look at this, look at this, could we have 60 degrees on saturday? we will some places. 59 here in town. 57 surprised. i just juneed, jumped right over saturday and surprised. here's erin cuomo to look at morning traffic. >> i'm telling you gary. seeing saturday and sunday forecast makes take bareable. because it will be a rough ride. >> i know we'll be 52 today some places close to 60 today. >> i like the sound of that for later, for right now 4:35 as you wake this up is a crash tracking two separate accidents in the same area. 95 southbound right near dale city. watch for that. the left lanes are blocked. deep to the right. we're seeing a shine from the ice. snow blocking the shoulder and could be obstructing some left lane which could have led to this accident scene. so again, please slow down this morning that is my best advice to you. deep to the right lane if y

this car is encrusted in ice. so allow yourself extra time to get your car out of the ice and get it on the road. we're live in prince george's county, derrick ward, news 4. >> good advice, do a little shuffle. 16 after 4:00. and hundreds of people attended a viewing for one of the two deputies killed in the line of duty last week in harford cou y county. the 52-year-old father of two patrick dailey dedicaed his boss called him a warm hearted genuine guy. >> it's been a hard few days for the men and women in the sheriff's office, and the turnout at the viewing service in the weather that we're seeing, we're expecting it will pick up the rest of the evening and tomorrow. >> visitation as the sheriff indicated continues today for dailey. his funeral will be tomorrow. visitation will be held thursday and friday for deputy mark logsdon. his funeral is set for saturday this bellaire, maryland. >>> in an effort to cut down on delayed responses to 911 calls, the district is bringing in a private ambulance company. in les

that is ice. that's what we're going to see this morning between about 8:00 and 11:00 starting from the south and working its way north as we start to see some of that warmer air funneling in. this afternoon we are going to get a huge break in the activity. a lot of areas will see nothing at all. during this break we're going to have some areas of freezing rain throughout the region. pretty widely scattered. that will start as ice and change over into rain. the local view hour by hour at 5:40. we'll let you know how much snow we are expecting on top of what we already have and how much ice we are expecting starting later this morning. jenna and patrick. >> thanks vdot rue crews are out on the roads working to stop snow from piling up. >> vdot spokesperson joining us live. talk to us about the conditions that folks are seeing out and about this morning. >> everything at this point is pretty much snow covered. we've seen several inches of heavy snowfall throughout region. our snowplows are making re

. >> we'll go from ices ice baby to here comeses rain again over the next two hours. winter storm warnings remain in place for all the bright shaded counties here. heavy rain is due to come in, it will quickly take all the ice out of here. freezing rain with an icy glaze out there first thing on your way out the door. heavy rain, rapid melting could lead to some flooding concerns by later this afternoon. so stay away from high or fast moving water. what to expect? sheets of ice early this morning. heavy rain moving in to the metro after 8:00 a.m. should be dry and breezy no later than 2:00 or 3:00 this afternoon. right now washington national has jumped eight degrees in the last hour alone. we were 32 last hour, we're now 40. 39 gaithersburg, 32 leesburg, 32 in warrington here comes the rain, this is all changing quy planning out your day today, hovering in the 30s this morning, heavy rain at noon with temperatures in the upper 40s to near 50. we'll talk about how long the -- how much rain you may expect coming up. >>> it's been a slippery morning here. 270 at west mo

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the ice went there. we can see it. oh, stopped here. world's oceans have been mapped with detail. >> 6%, 7%. >> reporter: you can make the trip to peterman glacier a f f weeks eachchummer when the ice melts enough to allow passage. >> see the blocks of ice drifting by. >> reporter: allen mix i running the ship's coring operation. trying to grab sediment from the sea floor. >> actually the coring site is under the block of ice. we just can't get there. we are trying to drift with the ice and sort of snook up on it. gently. >> reporter: it is hard to sneak up on anything in an ice breaker. he doesn't so much as sail, as it does smash the ice like a 13,000 ton hammer. once in position they throw a piston core, like a dart, at the bottom of the ocean. >> that doesn't sound good. >> after multiple attempts. hit it with a gravity core. >> a core sample look this is collected. inside the ship's lab, the multiyear process of investigating those cores, begins. what is your best guess. how old is this? >> so the b

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jennifer: despite the ice concerns, organizers of the great meredith rotary ice fishing derby say there are safe places to hold the event. but they are warning anyone on the ice right now to be careful. mike cronin live in meredith tonight with more on that. busier locations because the ice is thicker here. there are about a dozen bob houses and the people who are using them know that they are to take extra precautions this weekend. for die-hard fishermen, this winter hasn't been the same. >> it's tough, this year is very tough to find some ice. reporter: mark gear drilled the holes for this weekend's ice fishing derby. several others have found safe spots on the lake, but down the road in meredith bay it's a different story. this was the scene last year with dozens of bob houses on the ice. today, it's completely different. >> people need to be safe. use your head. reporter: rain and warmer temperatures have weakened the ice. this week the meredith rotary club met with fish and game and considered the weather forecast, ultimately choosing to hold the annual event. >> we made the decisi

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all this pink here, that's ice mixing in. along 64, lexington area, south into simmonsville, holding on to the snow showers but the ice will come in as well in a bit. between now and 3:00 a lot of areas will catch that break. this is the time to get outside and enjoy the snow, because heading into the evening hours the moisture will fill back in and it won't be in the form of snow, it will be ice and liquid rain. after midnight, that's when we that will switch everything over into plain liquid rain. we could get up to about a tenth of an inch of ice across the area here, especially in lynchburg. this will cause very slick conditions. jonathan? >> well the roads look good with the plows coming through. we're watching the slick roads and the snow for the most part we're done with the accumulate part. some good accumulations out there, as you mentioned, about five to 9 inches out there. we want to mention the impacts as well. we're talking about the ice and doing a great job keeping the roads keep. power outages is something we'

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counties and purple, hope, rutherford, cleveland under an ice when he of the ice that is accumulated there. dangerous driving conditions be read also 1140 and mcdowell all of this will gradually come to an end of this morning. we will see temperatures climb into the upper 40's and 50's this afternoon. we had a good half to three quarters of an inch of rain overnight and some of that formed as ice. temperatures right now above freezing in most of the reporting stations with the exception of spartanburg and rutherfordton where it is right at freezing. greenville at 34, asheville at 35. a breeze to make it colder. dress warmly and watch out for slippery spots. give yourself extra time to file the car. better weather is coming. geoff: north carolina also felt the affects of the winter storm. roads there were covered in ice and snow. north carolina had a lot of wrecks. many others decided to just pull off the road for safety. allyson: north carolina state highway patrol says more than 300-wrecks happened in the area of raleigh, durham and chapel hill. they say the wrecks started happening

don't they'll help much now with the ice. >> i forget my ice pick shoes. that's the problem now. but i want to show you what is going on here and much around the city. this is a layer of ice here. and here's the snow. it literally came over and coated all of this. as you can see this sign just absolutely frozen through. the rain has just been coming here in the district, it's stopped now. but take a look at these roads right here. we're standing on thomas the main road is down to blacktop right now. a lot of cars still driving, dot asking people to stay off the roads they are salting ahead of the you commute. they're telling people make sure you take your time. you really want to stay out of their way tonight. 200 trucks out right now salting metro rail. let's talk transportation. they have the deicers ready. they'll be closing at midnight tonight like usual. metro bus suspended all of their service tonight at 10:00 because of the weather. dc circulator suspended their service at 6:00. we spoke to some people earlier today as that rain was turning to ice on the ground, very quick

of ice.nd we are just creeping along here as the ice covered surfaces even though air temperatures are above freezing are still frozen solid. and you have to wrach your footing and just be extremely careful. especially will this any untreated surface. most of the sidewalks and side treats and side roads that we have seen here in northern virginia are still completely ice covered on this i'm calling it #treacherous tuesday morning. the main roads are wet, the ones that have been salted are wret, and passable. but it's the side streets, sidewalks, side roads, watch out this morning. back to you. >>> coming up on 6 after the hour. and a woman is dead after crashing in to a backhoe in loudoun county. we're working to see if ice was a factor in the crash. it h route 7 near the intersection with route 9. we're told 7 was plowed and cleared of snow at the time of the crash, but there were icy spots. >>> we're working for on you this weather alert day. the ice causing trouble for folks in prince geor

ice. each year it loses more ice then it gains in snowfall. believed to contribute to the rise in sea levels and maybe worse. sharon alfonsi traveled to the arctic circle to see what the researchers have discovered. >> great to see you. >> yeah. >> reporter: who did you upstreet to get putupit to be put out here. >> the god. the god. >> keith nichols is an expert drilling in remote places. in terms of remote this would be really hard to beat. feels like you are on another planet. >> can't take a walk around here. expecting scott yo to beam you up. it is extraordinary. >> reporter: nichols and scientists are drawn to this sliver of greenland in part by the satellite images. in 2010, a chunk of ice, four times the size of manhattan, then, two years later, another large chunk came down. the glacier has receded by 20 miles in five years. nichols and his team are trying to drill beneath it. >> this is a lot of work. difficult conditions. what do you hop to learn? >> what we are frying to learntrying to learn how the ocean is interacting with ice, m

we are looking at a trace-0.50" of ice accretion. the highest amounts 0.25- 0.50" will likely be along and just east of the parkway from late this afternoon through just after midnight. power outages will need to be monitored for sure. the ice should changeover to plain rain late tonight before ending around lunch-time on tuesday. the flooding potential will be elevated quite a bit late tonight into tuesday morning as there will some pockets of heavy rain. the rain really has no place to go because of the drainage systems being blocked by snow, especially in urban areas. over an inch of rain is possible. temperatures will go up tonight, reaching the mid-to-upper 30s by daybreak tuesday. and highs on tuesday will top out in the afternoon. we could actually see a little late-day sun on tuesday. another weak storm will impact us tuesday night into early wednesday, bringing about another wintry mix of light rain and/or snow showers. we could see a last night around 7 o'clock. that shifted to sleet around noon today, making a new challeng

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this isn't any ice scraper but thinks official fox 29 ice scraper. maybe someone will start a twitter account. we are trying to help this by out here overnight. nobody wants this kind of a mess when you see this: let me get on the other side to make sure i don't slip. this is what many people are finding as they wake up, especially the side streets here too in montgomery county they are finding ice build up and almost like glass if we are trying to get through. this will take a little bit more effort and elbow grease here. this get a picture as the icings flying in your screen there you have to give yourself time to dig out good real quick, give us a favor, ice the ice scraper in the microphone right next to each other and get into it. i love that crunch. >> yeah. >> for real this morning. >> dave kinchen thanks for playing along. >> reporter: back to you guys. >>> moving to trenton and a live look we're going to take the weather authority. oh, it is parkway not trenton. weather authority app you can take it with you, get live radar alerts, search fo

lots of slush and ice on the roads and the turn lanes.t off the phone with police in bucks county and they told me the hardest part on the highways was getting from their door to the car, dave, so that's one of the big problems out there with the slush. >> yeah, we've had temperatures really rising overnight, karen, but they startd that rise a little late in the game and so we've had a lot of icy sidewalks, side streets driveways that really haven't had a chance to recover yet and that is true even in and around philadelphia despite the the fact that as you'll see in second temperatures are very far above freezing at this point. wanted to show you storm tracker because we have some precipitation out to the west of us falling as freezing rain west of harrisburg and around gettysburg right now. as it moves towards the east it will encounter mild air and change over to all rain around here but that is the beginnings of what's going to be a wet period later today. winter weather advisories have been expired across the immediate region. we hav

melting alle in, the snow and ice. the delays may be great for federal workers and students, it is a punch to the stomach for a lot of the businesses in downtown. this truck i started was started not more than three months ago. i have been dead. i am thinking about going out of business. if the weather does not change soon for me, i do not know how to pay for my bills. sam: it is a struggle for these people who depend on federal workers downtown every day. is, the news snow, ice, moving out of here. that is the latest live from d.c.. i want to send it out to john gonzalez. it is amazing what 20 degrees -- what a difference it makes. we are live in gaithersburg, maryland. we started off with icy conditions. folks slipping and sliding. sidewalks were treacherous this morning. the a's has -- the ice has melted away. we have the snow, it is quickly melting. it is slushy. it no longer has the shell of ice. the problem is the right off. we have been getting pounded all morning long with rain. we are getting a bit of a break

to understand all of that, you have to understand how the ice sheet... what controls an ice sheet. we need to understand this glacier, so that we can provide a better prediction for the larger ice sheet. that matatrs to us because of sea level. if these glaciers can respond dynamically, then we should all be concerned, because that can create dynamic changes in sea level and flood infrastructure. and we need to know that for planning for the future. >> alfonsi: we camped out next to the scientists. with 24 hours s light, we slept in these tents under the midnight sunun in the morning, we were shuttled out to meet the "oden," a swedish ice breaker making its the "oden" supports the scientists on land and acts as a floating laboratory. named after a norse god who relentlessly soughwisdom, it's home to more than 50 climate scientists from around the world with similar convictions. their work is funded mostly by the swedish government and the u.s.'s national science foundation. larry mayeyeis one of the ologists on the "oden". he's using sonar ti map the ocean floor, creating the first

trees are becoming iced over and power lines are as well, once enough ice coats a tree line or power line they will start to snap and that is where you see power outages. the department is ready to respond. >> we have to contract crews available and tree trimming crews available to be able to react to anything that happens. >> and if the city does experience a large number of outages they say crews will begin to work in the areas of >>> you are looking at a picture from our sky cam, around 7 to 10 inches of snow, the highest totals fell just north of you into child county are we had anywhere between 10 and 11 inches of snow. a winter storm warning in effect until noon for everybody, and the snow has ended we turn our attention to freezing rain and eventually heavy rain later tonight into the first part of the day tomorrow. we have been showing up, and into roanoke county, and further to the east we have a lot of pink showing up around henry, pittsylvania and halifax county. this is a sign of freezing rain so you will want to exercise a lot of caution on area roadways, temperatures be

larry mayer: "oh yeah - the ice went here and the ice went there." and we can see it. "oh and it stopped here." >> alfonsi: how much of the world's oceans have been mapped with this kind of detail? larry mayer: oh, probably-- on the order of 6% to 7%. >> alfonsi: six-- larry mayer: very, very little. yeah. you can only make the trip to petermann glacier a few weeks each summer when the ice melts enough to allow passage. >> alan mix: you can see those expedition leader alan mix is running the ships coring operation, trying to grab sediment from the seafloor. >> alan mix: so actually, the coring site right now is under that block of ice and we just can't get there. so we're trying to drift with the ice and just sort of sneak up on it gently. it's hard to sneak up on anything in an ice breaker. the oden doesn't so much as sail as it does smash the ice like a 13,000 ton hammer. once in position they throw something called a piston corer, like a dart, at the bottom of the ocean. >> oh, that doesn't sound good. go to the next one but we'll hit it with the gravity core. >> al

you are going to get threat for icing and ice is just not retreating as quickly as we had hoped it wouldories in effect for much of the area overnight noon the early morning hours. let's take a look what's happening right now on storm scan3. you can see the pink, the pink is exactly what we don't want to see. what that is, an indication of rain falling from warmer air a loft. you get the warm air to come into the upper level of the atmosphere. that changes the precipitation into liquid it is just rain the ground doesn't get that message it's been cold for so many days that the road surfaces are still well below freezing when the rain falls, it freezes on contact. anything below freezing you'll get a glaze of ice and we just can't get the warm temperatures to end quickly enough to mitigate the threat of icing. what we're dealing with right now road temperatures, surface temperatures below freezing and the rain trying to make it inform you can see that battleground right now right along i-95 where temperatures are just at freezing or slightly above. you can still be in the middle 30s and t

say sheet of ice. tling you it's a sheet of ice. dear if you look behind you watch his feet it is literally a sheet of ice and this is i street at 6th and you really, really, really, got could to be careful. but that's a sheet of ice. and it's too bad. it's been walked on here. and we've been showing you this morning that these cars that had not been cleared yesterday from the snow not too bad. clearing them off. to get going and see then the wind chill is not caked in ice. but a car that was cleared is covered in a sheet of ice. which is now starting to melt. my phone says 34 degrees here. this is going to start -- this is first we could do that this morningch the other only other way to get the ice off the wind kheeld is have de roster on in the car heating up. and look at the streets. streets are treated and driven on and this again sixt street at 6th northwest it not so bad it's a slushy surface and driving is not so bad. as you saw that man i'm tling you it's a sheet of ice guys on the sidewalks a

it is ice building through the night. we have got a thin layer of ice on the sidewalk. used to be snow across the ground. it is arguably worse over here in the parking lot of this bank. and that's because of those warmer temperatures. it's allowing the rain to come down and basically freezing on contact with the ground. it began as a typical snowfall in delaware county but steve cane and his son knew this storm was rapidly turning to ice. >> turning over now. >> reporter: so they got their salt truck ready, geared up and hit the parking lots of gas stations making a quick buck. >> you can tell it's slick but with this one i think we can keep on salting. >> reporter: by nightfall, many untreated parking lots looked more like this. a steady freezing raincoating the pavement, a slip and slide of ice and slush just as drivers were heading home from work. >> i am very much looking forward to springtime. >> reporter: the roads manageable but tricky. lots of crashes and breakdowns. at the aaa garage in wayne, a steady stream of repairs. while jack's towing in norristown kept b

let me set this ice melt down on the driveway so you can see just how much ice we already have. i hope i can get it off wisconsin avenue. people are driving way too fast out here and icing has taken just moments to occur. we expect it to be bad between now and midnight. when we come back on the other side of this break, i'll have more information to help get you through phase 2 of this storm. fox 5 local news at 5:00 will be right back. pet moments are beautiful, unless you have allergies. then your eyes may see it differently. only flonase is approved to relieve both itchy, watery eyes and congestion. no other nasal allergy spray can say that. es react by over producing six key inflammatory substances that cause our symptoms. most allergy pills only control one substance. flonase controls six. and six is greater than one. complete allergy relief or incomplete. let your eyes decide. flonase. 6>1 changes everything. you just saw that demonstration with the ice melt that sue did. wow. sue, that really tells the story of how slick it is out there. >> it's actually kind of shocking,

out on the ice. no one seems aware of any danger. >> i kind of kept thinking, if they get enough speed, they're going to keep going, and they're going to end up in the water. >> which is exactly what happens. >> this one guy went up pretty high and came down. he was coming across the frozen lake extremely fast. and my wife turned the camera back on and that's when you see him going off the ice into the water. >> there's surprised laughter and cheering. then he starts flailing his arms. >> that's seriously not even funny. >> no, it's not the. >> it appears the man can't swim. >> he was going under. his head went under three times. and it was just really scary. you guys, they're standing and laughing. somebody get a branch. >> a man rushes over to help. >> oh. >> there's two. >> he crashes through the ice. more people approach. another person falls into the lake. >> i think everybody had the hope that the first guys that came out on the ice were going to reach in and save them. >> okay, you guys. >> th

the potential is there for significant icing. we are looking at a trace-0.50" of ice accretion. the highest amounts 0.25- 0.50" will likely be along and just east of the parkway from late this afternoon through just after midnight. power outages will need to be monitored for sure. the ice should changeover to plain rain late tonight before ending around lunch-time on tuesday. the flooding potential will be elevated quite a bit late tonight into tuesday morning as there will some pockets of heavy rain. the rain really has no place to go because of the drainage systems being blocked by snow, especially in urban areas. over an inch of rain is possible. temperatures will go up tonight, daybreak tuesday. and highs on tuesday will top out in the mid- to-upper 40s in the afternoon. we could actually see a little late-day sun on tuesday. another weak storm will impact us tuesday night into early wednesday, bringing about another wintry mix of light rain and/or snow showers. we could see a light accumulation in spots morning, especially in the mountains. by wednesday afternoon we will fi

ice sheet. that matters to us because of sea level. if these glaciers can respondhould all be concerned, because that can create dynamic changes in sea level and flood infrastructure. and we need to know that for planning for the future. camped out next to the scientists. with 24 hours of light, we slept in these tents under the midnight sun., we were shuttled out to meet the "oden," a swedish ice breaker making its way around petermann glacier.the scientists on land and acts as a floating laboratory. named after a norse god whosdom, it's scientists from around the world their work is funded mostly by the swedish government and the u.s.'s national science foundation.ne of the geologists on the "oden". he's using sonar to map the ocean floor, creating the firsthow how petermann glacier slid into the sea. you can see it, like skid marks of a car at an accident scene.oh yeah - the ice went here and the ice went there." and we can see it. "oh and it stopped here." >> alfonsi: how much of the world's

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an ice jam is like a dam made out of ice. it happens when ice builds up on the river, keeping water and ice back. then, monday night, it broke free, crashing tons of ice and water downstream. harp thought he would have to say goodbye to his summer house. >> this year, i really thought as you see the big chunk of ice there, i thought it was going to be gone, but it made it again. vanessa: the ice jam moved south. >> four hours ago, you could walk down to the river. vanessa: mike collins is keeping a close eye on the water. side of the river from loomis park for about 24 years. he says he's has to deal with ice jam floods 5 or 6 times. >> it is a mess out here. you have to wait for a month or two to go out and clean it up. vanessa: the ice jam stretches from collins' place to hydro electric park, where it's stuck again, this time at a dam. >> you get a lot of force from the water. that will push those ice chunks and can do a lot of damage besides just flooding. vanessa: this is really something else, something you never expect