so are fredericksburg and manassas city. manassas park city on a two hour delay.chools in alexandria are starting two hours late, too. >> you can follow the crawl through the "today" show or download the nbc washington app for any closing updates. >> you'll need your warmest winter coat. right now just in the up he single digits to near 10. by noon ought to be jumping in to the upper 20s. briefly getting 23450er thenear the freezing mark. and then the snow showers coming through, may give us a quick coating up. >>> big lisadowns downslowdowns on the beltway. inner loop at american legion bridge look at the volume headed on the ener loop into town. outer loop the at river road also a lot of volume there because of an earlier crash. and new crash colesville at university causing issues too. >> and that is theu thank you forric wag up with us. the "today" show is next. we'll be back in 25 minutes. this... is the best part of the day. when we sit down together and talk. more and more, we're having conversations about the food itself: how good it is for us. how good it

fredericksburg and manassas city closed. manassas park city two hours delayed. alexandria and hardy count tipy also on a two hour twladelay. federal government workers have an option for telework or scheduled leave. we have a full list of delays on the nbc washington app. >>> today president obama holds a summit aimed at stopping violent extremism. they will discuss programs to stem rad calicalization and recruitment in the u.s.. it includes researchers at the university of maryland. some are criticizing the white house for not focusing the summit on islamic extremism. the white house is he can take many forms. >>> more than 11 million people are signed up for affordable care act. the white house says those numbers are estimates as many applications are still being processed. if you don't finish your application, you still have time. you have until february 22 to complete the application. last year 8 million people signed up. >>> if you are a maryland resident you also have a little extra time to complete your signup. marylanders now have until february 28 to co

. >> fauquier county manassas city manassas park city, king george county schools. >> here are the delays now. arlington county alexandria city falls church city culpeper county page county clark county warren county and frederick county virginia schools, although schools are on are tw.county, warren county and fredgi. >> montgomery county charles calvert county schools all opening to hours late. >> washington county allegheny county, st. mary's anne l and howard county also delayed today. >> in west virginia, berkeley jefferson, grant, hardy, hampshire, mineral and morgan county schools are all closed today. you can find the entire list at the bottom of your screen and in the nbc washington app. >> if you do have to go outside today, delay it as long as you can and make sure you really are ready. we say bundle up, but we really mean it. >> so tom kierein is in the storm team 4 west center. >> yeah, if you don't have to go out, just stay inside. if you have to be out for a length of time layer up and take frequent breaks. we have a new record low. breaks the old record

prince william and stafford counties as well as manassas city schools will all be closed tomorrow. we'll let you know as soon as we hear about anymore coming up. our chief meteorologist doug hill standing by right now in the storm watch weather 7 with more on the winter weather alert. >> for the kids i bet that list of school closings will get bigger and bigger and bigger. right now, light snow outside of the belfort furniture weather center. temperature all of 15 degrees. showing more snow across the area. mostly light. few pockets of more moderate snowfall. as we look to the south and west near bristol, tennessee, that's the core of this storm and that's the one that will head in our direction across the roanoke valley towards the washington area later tonight. snow is heavy at times and the temperature is so cold, it will be tough driving. tough getting about anywhere later tonight and because of the cold air and the expansion of the snow national weather service has expanded the winter storm warning to the pennsylvania border. it's a big area under warning criteria right now. 1

manass park and manassas city schos are closed today. that is a change. d.c.ublic schools still openg on a two hour delayed start. that's the late foes d.c. public school w the wea today, of course is a weather alert day for you. right now we're seeing the snow real coming down in northern virgin. megan mcgrath is live in woodbr covered now to show us what e neighborhood streets are looking like there. >> rep yeah we pulled up stak and moved a little bit down the road here into a neighb to givu an idea of what these neighborhood street lik and you can see are snow covered. look at this along my boots here. very very slippery. as you go down to the pavement itself it kind of sticks. so very treacherous conditions these neighborhoo. and as you see it's continuing to snow, so still seeing more accumu. earliee route 1 and it w starting within the last hour hour and a half to start stick in the center of the road lanes, we were staro see an accumulation of snow there. eve roads were treate we are seeing an impact even with major roads. so people need to keep their

in anticipation of bad roads tomorrow, public schools in prince william county manassas city stafford counties and king george county in virginia will . we'll bring you new school closings as they are announced. virginia's department of transportation is calling th winter storm an all hands on deck event. that means thousands of workers and 3800 salt trucks and plows on the roads. northern virginia bureau chief jeff goldberg is in the projected bull's eye of the snowfall and he's live in fredricksburg with what he's seeing there. jeff? >> well maureen, we're seeing consistent snow not too light. not super heavy. definitely steady for the last several hours now. this is fall hill avenue in fredricksburg. you can see the snow is definitely starting to get more noticeable certainly in the last hour here on this road. and drivers certainly going slowly cautiously which is good news. recently in touch in the past 10 to 15 minutes with someone from vdot telling me now that they have some measurable snow, finally something on the roads, they are shifting from treating the roads to now plowin

fairfax, allow ton, prince william, staff ford, spotsylvania all closed. >>> fauquier manassas city manassask, king gormg closed as well. >>> delays arlington, alexandria city falls church city culpeper, page clarke, warren and frederick county virginia all two hours delayed. >>> delays in maryla montgomery prince george's county calvert all delayed. >>> st. mary's, washington, anne arundel coun howard also delayed. alleghany county schools are closed. p. >>> in west virginia berkeley jefferson, grant, hardy, hampshire all closed. mineral and morgan schools closed too. you can fd the whole list at the bott of your screen. >> we will have frigid windchills the rest of the day. 5 to 15 below zero t . >>> good morning. america on ice. the siberian express refusing to let up. brutal winds with millions waking up to temperatures below zero. falls and fountains turning to ice as americans ask when will it finally get warmer. >> in custody, a 19-year-old arrested for the road rage killing of a las vegas mother a short walk from the victim's home. >> there is the animal a block away. >> the stunning

. >> also fauquier county manassas city manassas park. king george. rlington, alexandria city falls church city culpeper county page county clarke county warren and fred drink county all delayed. >> maryland montgomery prince george's county frederick county charles and calvert all twlaed. >> washington county, mayers anne arundel, howard county are two hours late as well. we're learning that allegheny county schools are now closed. >>> in west virginia, berkeley jefferson, graptsnt hardy, hampshire, mineral and morgan county all closed. the entire list at the bottom of your screen and of course always available in the nbc washington app. >>> it is not just the schools that are affected by the weather today about that prince george's courthouse closed again. frigid cold temperatures there caused a pipe to burst in the building on wednesday. p that damaged the electrical system. it's left the building in upper marlboro without any heat. no word as to when that building will reopen. you can check the nbc washington app again as you are on the move this m

d jefferson county two hours delaye >>> falls church two hours winche manassas city and mana park city all openg two hours late today. of coue alls inf avaie to you on the nbc app at anytime and at the botto your screen. a live look at the roads now in virgin this morning. u can see definitely looking wet from this vdot camera here. storm 4 meteorologi amel out in the 4 x 4 in freder. we're traveling thh the town of fred right now, old fredericksbu if you will. modera r here are horrible. is more of a secondary less travel road but you can see a live look outside. s completely covered in snow. you t even see where the lines road are right now. now, the advise is okay, but snow is falling steadily and it is sticking to the roads here. latest in e 4 x 4 now coming at 29 degrees. and of cour schools in fred are closed this morning. l list of school clos and delays you can find those on nbc washington d all of th twitter and facebook pages. e plan is as to leave fred and start to head toward where . what's the latest there, megan? >> rep take a look at the accu we're seeing here. this is o

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manassas city schools are going to be closed tomorrow. doug hard to imagine that tomorrow is going to be even colder than today. >> yeah. we're talking about a record. when we talk about a record month of february this is actually the first record low we could set since 1970. does not happen very often, especially since they moved the official reporting station to the airport, which is a little bit on the warmer side. montgomery county school, by the way, also now a two-hour delay tomorrow. so yeah we'll get to sleep in a little bit. right now, current temperatures sitting at 16 degrees. the windchill at minus 2, 2 below zero with a few clouds. yes, eve an few snow flurries going through parts of the area. those continue through the early evening. don't worry about the snow. it won't aamount to anything. what will is r the temperature, 12 in martinsburg. we're just going to go down from here. here are the snow showers coming in. lake-effect snowshower winds coming right off the great lakes right now, and that's why we're seeing those, als

including the 66 corridor and the city of fredericksburg, culpeper, manassas, and orange. two to four inches in leesburg, gaithersburg, frederick and in the city of hagerstown, the two to four inches for the panhandle of maryland and west virginia as well. overnight tonight, it will be very cold, zero to ten, mostly clear to partly cloudy with the winds out of the northwest at 10 to 20 miles per hour and gusting higher than that. the temperatures will still be in the single digits and teens on monday morning. then in the afternoon we might see a quick snow shower before sunset, but for the most part that snow is going to off until after sunset. tomorrow's high temperature only 25 degrees with that snow arriving late. and then a morning snow shower is still lingering on tuesday. most of this accumulation, it is during the overnight hours as i mentioned, bruce, several inches of snow in our forecast. >> four to eight on tuesday? >> four to eight on monday night. in to tuesday morning. >> got it. we are back here at 11:00 with a full updat narrator: gas prices are down helping

manassas. and then it opens up. dale city getting typically slow. and prince george's county overall looking quite good. we'll have much more on this crash outer alone coming up. >>> new developments from frederick this morning. a high school is closed today after a shooting outside of the school gym. chopper 4 was over the scene as this scary situation unfolded last night. this morning police are also continuing the search for suspects after that shooting. news 4's megan mcgrath is live in presented rickfrederick with what we've learned. >> reporter: just moments ago, we heard from police and they say that west frederick middle school is also going to be closed today to aid with the search for suspects in the shooting. so west frederick middle school also closed today in addition to frederick high school where the shooting took place. so students waking up this morning who go to frederick or those two schools, you should not report to class today. staff however should report to the school as normal. two students the ones shot last night, we're told

part of this centuries-old building collapsed in old town manassas on battle street saturday. the building was vacant. the citys will take down the entire structure. >>> the university of the district of columbia may be closing its community college on north capitol street for budget reasons. mark segraves broke the story earlier today on twitter. classes would be moved to the van ness campus. the relocation would affect 2,500 students and is expected to cost about $11 million. but there could be other tax dollars involved in the closure. the university would still be responsible for the $5 million annual lease on that downtown property for the next 17 years. the university hopes to sublease it. the school's board of trustees would have to approve that closure. >> years of friendship tough practices, sweat and tears. those are the hallmarks of high school sports teams. but for the playoff-bound gonzaga high school hockey team there have been too many tears. carol maloney is here with the eagles' emotional journey this season. >>> it's been 3 1/2 months since a car accident took the life of dominic petty, a bel

many suburban areas north and west of the city may wind up with a single digit numbers like frederick in hagerstown at 9 degrees. 8 at manassas and 9 at dulles. it's going to be a very very cold morning as we head through the day. so tomorrow though we'll make a nice recovery. back to about 41 degrees with partly sunny skies and warmer temperatures into the weekend. as we get to sunday night, maybe a system will bring us some rain. we'll talk about some snow chances with that in a few minutes as well. maureen? >> thank you. flags flew at half staff in jordan today as the country mourned the fighter pilot brutally killed by isil. and tonight it appears jordan is stepping up its fight against the terrorist group with a new round of air strikes. senior political reporter scott thuman is in our newsroom with the latest developments. scott? >> maureen, jordan vowed revenge and it appears it's getting that. taking to the skies with multiple missile strikes against isil today and i talked with one senator a few hours ago urging more support. he signed on to this letter saying if the white house and pentagon doesn't cut through the r

manassas. i suspect even here you're getting a little bit of a mixture of sleet. right through the south and the west of dale city, look at that. 3 inches per hour is the snowfall rate with that. now current temperatures we'll watch these like a hawk all night. 30 downtown already, but still in the 20s in the suburbs. we will come back, erica will join me. we'll talk about when the transition will be over and if temperatures will finally get above freezing in time for tomorrow morning. >>> snow emergencies have been declared for several maryland counties including montgomery, prince georges, howard, frederick and carroll county. stephanie ramirez is seeing some of the biggest problems in montgomery county. stephanie. >> reporter: with that snow emergency, it f you are parked on a snow route here you can get towed. this is rocksville pike eight hours after snow fell this morning. it's still covered in snow and there were issues all across the county today. >> on 270 just past gaithersburg plow trucks mowed through the highway, but even after a few passes it did little to clear the lanes. this is what drivers faced

mary's city and la plata, bull's eye. 4 to 8 inches through manassas, fairfax, silver spring and toward frederick, hagerstown and cumberland 3 to 6 inches. so sterling, virginia, about 6 inches. fredericksburg 11, maybe 12, 10 many waldorf, 4 in fred -- in waldorf, 4 in frederick and oxon hill 6 inches. let's start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, an actual airport, reduced visibility, 17 degrees, dry snow for us, winds dead calm. here is the storm. the snow is overspreading the entire metro area now. you see the little blips of blue? that is the heavy snow band. it's going to be essentially i- 66 and route 50 south where we think the heaviest bands of snow will be just south of d.c. for a close-in look at the radar here's meteorologist erica grow. >> right now doppler 9000 isn't looking too impressive in our immediate area. the grays and a little lighter gray shading indicating light snowfall, we don't have any precipitation rates that are heavier than about .1, maybe 1/4-inch of snow per hour, but that will pick up heading into the overnight hours. we'll

city, newington, springfield. lanes open toward the beltway. heaviest volume has been manassas centreville and getting out of fair lakes into fair oaks and toward vienna metro. >>> no surprise here. dominion power and some of its customers have different views about rates and where they should go in the future. >> i have a feeling i know what the the ratepayers think. virginia is also enjoying its largest oyster harves nearly 30 years. >> nick giovanni has those stories and more in this look at your money. good morning. >> reporter: mike, andrea, good morning you to. questions are being raised this morning about how a bill that's been sailing through virginia's general assembly is going to affect utility customers. the state's largest utility, dominion power says the measure will keep rates consistent the next few years and protect customers from higher bills. critics on the other hand as you guessed it, mike, say the company is misusing its influence with lawmakers to avoid being forced to lower rates. >>> on the food front, virginia harvested half a million bushels of oysters

city. wider lo at things, overallr issues. looking pretty typical. 66 into town, pretty slow all the way from manassas. but only about 40 miles per hour here this morning. in damascus, 124 shut down at 27 instead. >>> right now the head of homelay getting ready to make a big pitch to congress today to make sure his agency doesn't run out of money by friday. tracie p live on capitol this g following all the developmes for us. so what do we expect from secrety johnson today? >> repor we're waiting to see, senate republicans have put it out there that they're willine the votes on immigratd the money for homela securi. been the hang-up. t now the democa sure ranss thassurances that republ the house will go along with that. jeh johnn is trying a new roach. after he has a news conferen bringing back two predec t republicans who headed homeland secu to try to convince congress to someth the money runs out on friday. >> so if squnt movet move the ball down the court and home la what changes will we see? >> repor proba not a lot. if you fly the tsa will still be there. still screening you. they just won't be pa

manassas, prince will parkway, at sudley. same thing 95 southbound here in virginia northbound we're a little slow through dale city, again typical for this time of day. beltway at central avenue rolling along. same thing beltway at colesville road. no major problems there. >>> today there is a talk to increase the price you pay for cigarettes. if you live in maryland there is a push to increases tax by a dollar on every cigarette pack. a democrat who represents montgomery county proposed a bill to establish the charge. the state senate will hold a hearing on that bill today. >>> bedbugs are a big problem in in this country. and they're getting tougher apparently. that's according to an entomologist. bedbugs are becoming more resist tent ant to pesticides. >> people are moving around more they're coming in contact with bedbugs in different places. >> that entomologist says if you are returning from traveling, put all of your clothes in the dryer before you put them away. the heat will kill the bugs. >>> apparently millions of women worldwide enturdure unwanted pregnancies because of fears of contraception. the report says 40% of

city into the upper 30's. beautiful day indeed. as far as numbers right now in the weather bug network, take you first up to bowie. 35 degrees right now reported. 33 in manassas. and the winds are very light. that was a nice change of pace for today. while the almanac shows the numbers, 38 at reagan national. 25 the morning low as well and 45 and 29 are the averages here so we're a little below average technically but with a lighter winds, much more comfortable outdoor day. we're at 34 right now at reagan national. 30 at frederick and gaithersburg. quantico at 35 degrees and tonight, temperatures will fall. here's the deal. with southwesterly and sotherly winds coming in and a couple of clouds, we're only going to fall to these ranges. no teens locally in the morning. 25 degrees in gaithersburg. 22 in leesburg and manassas. 26 by wake-up time tomorrow morning. we expect it in bowie. high pressure giving us a beautiful day today as that settles down kind of south out of the picture. allow the winds more to turn to the southwest and west. might bring in a few clouds but mostly be for us to bring in warmer temperatures. that's how we'll get close to 50 tomorrow

express lane entrance, jamming out of dale city, getting toward the woodbridge interchanges and then again getting into newington. 66 your slowest east of manassas past sudley road to the visitors center. all lanes are open. >>> d.c. mayor muriel bowser has ordered firefighters to stop encrypting their emergency radios. >> this comes in the wake of last month's deadly metro smoke incident aboard a yellow line train. delia goncalves is live outside the wilson building right now in northwest. >> delia, do we know exactly when this encryption will stop? >> reporter: you know, we just ound midnight from the mayor's office. a spokesperson from mayor bowser's office. she confirmed to us that this encryption has already been lifted. we don't know exactly when that happened but i can tell you that the mayor is expected to make an official announcement this week. but we have been hearing from the president of the fire union who says the system has always been flawed and always needed to be reevaluated. he says this private system led to those communication failures during the smoke incident at l'enfant plaza last month. firefighters in the metro system c

manassas 17 in frederick, 16 down towards pax patuxent river. windchills between 10 and 15. by 11:00, between zero and 5 in the city. some will see a windchill below zero. the cold air returns for sure with those windchills and the big news is the pattern stays cold. we will stay below average over the next seven-day period with one exception. i've got that for you and a small chance for snow in my forecast. >>> cell phone video by news4 shows watter flowing into the courthouse in upper marlboro prince george's county today. that courthouse was already closed. tracee wilkins was already there when td pe burst. she joins us with the problem this is causing for law enforcement. >> reporter: actually, two pipes burst this afternoon. cause major league jor issues inside the courthouse. what they're saying is they believe this was all weather related. it's been freezing cold and these pipe take it. if you look closely, you see what looks like rain inside the prince george's co courthouse. an employee shot this video just as water pipes burst again. >> just within the hour two successive pipes hav some flood ong the first

city right now. they had a gust of 30 miles per hour and gust in the upper 30's like children's hospital in manassas and laurel as well. 36 degrees right now. so we're above freezing and the sun coming out and the winds, i'm thinking all the wet roads this morning will all dry off fine. we shouldn't have any travel problems tonight or tomorrow morning related to the weather. just a chilly start at the bus stop. all the moisture that came through is consolidated along an area of low pressure developing off shore. that should pretty much kick out to sea and give boston a break. there's a potent cold front and arctic cold front that will be coming to town on thursday. this is the futurecast and we'll see decent weather tomorrow and a little sunshine thursday morning. that's when we see the actual front will pass through with the falling temperatures. 40's tomorrow. 40's again thursday. and then the colder air comes in several hours behind the frontal passage. with that, there could be some snow showers or flurries. as this system goes off to the east, that's when boston could wind up with more snow and

manassas. this is a story that's got an lot of you fired up online. we invite you to keep the conversation going on our nbc washington facebook page. >>> the city of alexandria is apologizing after a mother was told to stop breast-feeding her child at a wreck center. a woman says she was nursing her 6-month-old in the play room at the rec center yesterday when an employee told her she had to stop. she posted her account last night. today in a statement to news 4, a spokesman says there's no policy that bans breast-feeding in any city facility. they are making sure all staffers understand that. >>> d.c. leaders are stressing that vaccinations are the strongest line of defense against measles. now that there's a confirmed case in the ci first measles diagnosis in the district since 2012 and it's believed to be the result of international travel. health officials have informed people who came in immediate contact with the patient ae t a larger threat. if you think you have been exposed to the virus, you're asked to call your provider rather than show up without notice. >> because it's highly contagious, we want you to be proactive and ca ahea opposed to being i

manassas 35, leesburg 34, 36 downtown, 35 rockville and gaithersburg, 38 annapolis. a small craft advisory for the bay and tidal potomac until 10 a.m. tomorrow. the day planner, city temps, 23 at 7:00, 26 at 9:00, 30, still below freezing by lunchtime and 33 by 1:00. next three days wednesday milder, boom, fast as the arctic air comes in it leaves, upper 40s. some folks hit 50 wednesday. showers possible wednesday night. as arctic air returns thursday, some of the showers could turn to snow showers in the morning thursday and temps will fall into the 20s. next seven days it's cold on friday, but the arctic air leaves again, upper 40s saturday, mid-40s sunday. another little system tries to get in here sunday into monday. colder air returns. we could see rain showers turning to snow showers by monday morning. >>> a manassas man is facing charges that include domestic assault, assault on a law enforcement officer and reach cysting arrest. 34-year-old car -- resisting arrest. the 34-year-old lives on rogueby drive. he assaulted an acquaintance early saturday morning. after the officers arrived he wrapped his arms around one of them and he grabbed one of his hosters.