probably why they decided to close schools in prince william county and mannasas city. they didn't want to take chances. kids have to walk to school as well as wait at these bus stops. we're seeing a lot of sidewalks in this type of condition. much of it covered with solid snow and black ice wet it is ice and so you want to definitely watch that speed and also break lightly. because of hydroplaning and spinning out. back to you in the studio. >> sounds good. good advice. appreciate. it we want to know where it's like where you are. are you on a side street not being plowed or sidewalks covered in snow and ice. #winter's revenge. you can share picture and videos too. >> what does this bitter cold weather mean for the cherry bloss omz. weather roller coaster makes bad news for the blooms. >> melanie alnwick on the tidal basin joins us with the latest there, hey, mel. >> hey, good morning, guys, the thing we're concerned about are chino cherry trees the pink ones that tend to bloom first. you can see where you actually have the petales coming out that's the area most at ri

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fredericksburg 60. 59 mannasas and dulles 56. everybody temperatures already above normal daytime highs for fist of march. and lawsuit of koud cloud cover out there early. storms range raging off to norman west this morning. red box you see is tornado watch box and looking in western pen with tennessee now a tornado warning. these storms have a history of produceing a lot of damage and we're concerned as they roll through here early afternoon they could have a round of severe weather in immediate washington area as well. so, just keep that in mripd here. by early afternoon thunderstorms moving on in. what's causing it. well cold front moving through later tonight and up ahead of that a subject of warm tropical air. daytime highs today up side of the forecast will be well into the 70s. unfortunately as cooler an drier air arres it's likely to set off a around of potentially severe weather here. future cast watch square actually. those of you out of north and west early afternoon you'll have to be concerned with thunderstorms and t

. >> great thank you sarah it was kiting and hoy plying day for mannasas teenager battling devastating disease. >> how is that good? perfect. let me see. >> that's jamie martinez the osborne got a big lift courtsey of mannasas city fire department she was taken high newspaper a ladder truck as frienden classmates and his mother cheered on. martinez is battling progressive your logical disease and scheduled to have surgery in the coming days. >> we love to do this this give us an opportunity to reach out to the community and does things that can mack a person smile. this we see folk at their worse. this puts it in perspective to us there he got to fulfill another wish nrid medevac helicopter. >> that's cool. >> great day for jamie. >> sure was. >> wonderful i bet he had a good time. >> sky look pretty not a cloud around and great visibility breezy is breezy again tomorrow and it won't be as strong as it was earlier today. when we had gusts 45 to 50 that's important to cherry blossoms because if you have not heard there was revision to peak bloom prediction. national park service says th

gainersburg 25 dulles 31. 23 mannasas.conditions and you mix in the temperatures and wind and it feels like look at that one degree in gaithersburg and obviously when you go to school on time and two hour delays and/or walking to work an taking the dog out make sure you're ready for the coldest morning this wipt are 4 in dull'sen 5 frederick and good snow pack north and west at winter weather advisory. up to 7:0 or so and moves off north and west. we have clouds out here. and on the horizon as we get strong winds later today we likely fire up a few flurries later this afternoon and as we get a little lake effect snow and all the way down here. area of low pressure big snow up in new england and that's what we call strong pressure gradient. that's why we deal with wind conditions. wind add voosry around here. winds gust to 40. it's going to be cold. afternoon air temperature only degrees. it feels like teens out there the next couple days. i've been talking about the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow we'll get there tog

temperature is 73 degrees right w mannasas and 78 in fred fredericksburg and what a beautiful sunset we should have with maybe, just maybe isolated shower around. those day to are getting lo longer. surprise today was at 7 and sets at 7:27 to give us 12 hours and 27 minutes of daylight and get out there and enjoy it. it you stick around for a little we'll have a 7 day forecasting to tell you about. >> tony. >> sue. >> if you have an idea call the "fox5" tip line 202-895-3000 and also email your ideas to "fox5" tips at fox5tips@wttg.com. we'll be right back. >> it was a scene of a deadly car crash more than a bethesda. community members long complained that the corner of river road and prayburn parkway as dangerous and demanded action. earlier today we saw workersen staleing a light at that intersection. deadly accident killed three members of mickey masado's familiar laint driver that caused the crash was sentenced to twelve years in prison last december. prosecutors say he was driving 115 miles an hour at the time of the crash. >> florida governor issued a new warping about the zika

these are air temperatures, 17 culpeper and mannasas and 18 frederick and 19 west min stevrment winds are fairly light now. there's enough to deliver a wind chill that makes it feel like it's in the teens. the first step outside to walk the dog or go for morning run or walk jackets needed and increasingly windy through the afternoon hours. sunshine is with us all day long. but it's cold, rise into the mid 40s and high temperature 44. cold again tonight and chilly surprised. we have a warm-up ahead in the 7 day forecast and i'll have that ahead. annie. >> thanks so much, caitlin. time 7:01 a school tuesday driver in montgomery county is under arrest for having up appropriate contact with two students. salvador rodriguez is accused of having sexual contact with one student on three occasions and sexual contact with another student. he's currently on administrative leave and facing several charges including sex abuse of a minor. >> it's hard to trust the adults you know when your children are in their possession you know, when things like this are happening. >> certainly alarming. and yo

and let's see what it's like now. 27 at winchester and 30 at dulles this hour and chilly 25 from mannasasd.c. and 30 baltimore and 31 at annapolis. winds are calm and so we're happy about that seeing a little radiational cooling out there and sky conditions fairly clear. just a few clouds. that's going to change tomorrow. and that's going be because we have a frontal system headed our way and ahead of t tomorrow will start fairly sunny just a few high clouds and as the day progressing those clouds will increase and about you the time we get to the late hours we'll see mostly cloudy skies. that same system will bring us rain showers once we get to tuesday. might start overnight on monday into tuesday but we really do need rainfall as i mentioned. overnight lows tonight into owe 20s and 0s across the board and another cold night ahead. and for tomorrow, as i mentioned, we'll end up with mostly cloudy skies and we'll see that warm front come in as ridge of high pressure pulls out the good news is that's going to on the door for a nice southerly flow. that southerly flow will be what is respo

a little slow down lingering and it should get back to normal soon as you head to gainsville and mannasas and traffic at speed and a past earlier construction zone. things looking good sutly road. problem free there. 95 by prince william parkway and also still in the clear and not seeing slow downs 270 southbound frederick to spur. we move over to maps now and show you what else you're up against this morning the beltway is nice and quiet through college park and metro on time except for safe track surge 13 any questions erin fox d.c. twitter holly and maureen. >> coming up on "fox news morning" products we used for years proving to being harmful for our sex lives. >> and fire moves across the states in south, southwest growing with wildfires. >> a live look across the d.c. region. it's 5:08 now. 48 degrees. more fox news morning after the break >> m coulds a day after north korea tested four ballistic missiles into the ocean at swap an. plans to deploy the high altitude defense system by the end of this year angered not only north korea but china with the powerfulry air are dar as securi

. >> it's so nice out now, though, look at this mannasas is up to 79. 79 culpeper and 70 win chests erin it took until early this afternoon but when we popped through you really know, now, that march has a lot of strength in that sun. 77 degrees in leonardtown and cooler near water for annapolis and even for d.c. close to the river. a little bit cooler at 73 degrees and it is a beautiful evening and get out and enjoy. it after sunday, with -- it was a setback because of east wind that developed now and some 25 degrees warmer than we were at 5:00 on sunday. and so up and down today is update and tomorrow is also going to be update. plenty of warmth on the weather maps to show you towards raleigh, 78, richmond, 78, hatteras, 74, lexington but we do is a change we have to make and that involves this weatherhead line. we'll keep the spring warmth going and introduce a few more showers and maybe just maybe a little more fog late tonight. but we could even see a shower later this evening. it's very spotty as you can see. and not much. but i think you might have a little shower approaching fauq

this is what it look likes low temperatures overnight. 24 washington and 27 mannasas and 23 winchester these are 15 to 20 below normal for low temperatures. and as far as thursday forecast, yes, it's a very harsh start with temperatures but we i have a little improvement. temperatures getting to the 40s with a lot of sunshine tomorrow that will help, still a chilly breeze and i have warmer weather in the 7 day forecast looking forward to it. we'll have the 7 day forecast in a bit. tony. >> developing in prince george county, police are looking for the gunman behind a deadly shooting in largo. and it happened around 7:15 this evening in apartment complex on campus way south. we're to hearing several gun shots. police arrived to find a man shot to death in a hallway. so far no arrests in that case. >>> now, to a story "fox5" continues to follow. teenagers disappearing from the district. just last week we told you about ten black teenage girls who were reported missing offer a ten-day span. "fox5" marina marraco is live in norm west an update to the developing story. marina. >> "fox5" is

and temperatures right now into the 60s and couple of and 70 call pep erin 70 mannasas and 69 fredericksburg this hour and 65 d.c. and little cooler at baltimore at 56 and 5 degrees at annapolis and for tonight we're talking 50. mostly cloudy skies. and i can't rule ot a little patch didn't fog tonight or the early morning hours and a passing sprinkle is 30s i possible. much cooler sunday ahead for you though. we have 70s back on the 7 day forecast. i'll show you that in a little bit. matt. >> gwen, thank you. >>> breaking news to tell you about now from prince george county police are on the scene of a murder. it happened around 9:30 this evening on columbia place when officer arrived they found the victim already dead. investigators say someone shot him. tonight police are serving the neighborhood and trying to find any witnesses that may have seen what happened. we'll keep you updated on that one. meanwhile developing from nevada tonight the las vegas strip is back on tonight after a very tense and barracaded situation dime end and gunman that shot people on double derrek bus surrendered

and same at gaithersburg. 25 only at fed rick and baltimore 27 and annapolis 31 and 24 degrees at mannasas. good news it's not adds windy tonight as it has been. the last couple days we had blustery northwesterly wind and significant wind chills. different now is that we're getting southerly flow. that's going to continue into tomorrow. as ridge of high pressure pulls out and that's what will help us get warmer conditions in here. ski is not bat built we'll see increasing clouds associated with a frontsal system west headed or way. for tomorrow, we'll start out pretty bright in the morning hours and then throughout the day you'll see clouds continuing to build in. and that is just going to be mostly cloudy skies by late afternoon as tomorrow night. tonight overnight lows into the 20s and 30s and as i said the winds will continue to be light. tomorrow will be a dry day. once again the clouds will be in full force. then once we get to tuesday we see a change. we end up getting wet weather coming in with the second frontal system with cold front. bups again the withdrawan is desperately neede

34 this time yesterday yesterday. 45 in gainersburg and 41 up towards fred rick. 44 dulles and 44 mannasas and down in fredericksburg 5 4 we'll get a warming trend later on and again showers out there for the time being to the west along the 81 corridor towards winchester and harrisonburg all windy this morning and moving east as we head through the next few hours. morning showers and drizzle possible. i think we get a break in the early afternoon maybe a little sun breaks through and warming up. we will be breezy. winds gust up and over he 25 to 35 miles an hour later this afternoon and then yet another round of showers moving through ahead of a cold front this evening highs today, 66, 67, if we get enough sun we'll touch 70 i think we have lack of sunshine today. >> let's check the forecast erin como is back with traffic. >> hi. >> good morning. >> 4:35 mike mentioned grab umbrella use caution on the roads on from the rain. quiet conditions on gw parkway moving along long fine outside the beltway on 66 and 95 and sfav ford coming in through anne arrundel this morning. little caution ther

and double sixs quantico and 64 fredericksburg this hour and 60 dulles and 63 mannasas and we have 56 baltimore and 51 annapolis and 52 at frederick. and so the winds are light but they are moving in for the south and that's helping to boost the temperature even more and that's going tonight same story once we get into tomorrow. the clouds and wet weather well definitely both are in the forecast. and cloudy skies as we move in tonight as well as for tomorrow more clouds than sun on saturday and keeping eye on precipitation line here out to the west get in suvrnltd now, saturday, i cannot rule out maybe a little pacing shower light in nature to norm, northwest near mason dixon especially and we're looking at the rain sunday. warmer conditions moving in on day. ridge of high pressure stays over the coast and seeing approach of frontal system and ahead of it that warm-up takes us to the mid 70s and then by the time we get into sunday we'll see some of those showers heading in and it will be a little cooler with temperatures into the 60s. and but overall not bad. and when we get to beginn

believe it or not they'r locations than they with this time yesterday. 47 in washington as well as mannasas and culpeper and 49 quantico and 47 annapolis and up north and west cooler air temperatures in the 40s instead of lower 30s like yesterday morning and now here are the showers we were tracking that came across the beltway. very, very early this morning and most of those are now fading off to the east and they will continue to do so for the next few hours and cannot rule out a popup shower and isolated drizzle through the morning hours. it won't be as widespread as what came through in the overnight hours. look at your planner for the day. 54 by 11 a.m. and keep the clouds around for majority of morning hours and should dry it out as we continue to progress through the morning hours and headed to the afternoon breaking up clouds getting into the 60s by 2:00 and then by 5:00 this afternoon nice mild sunshine back out 63. 64 degrees for a daytime high later on this afternoon. get out and enjoy if you can do so because the colder weather comes our way tomorrow. detas coming up in a few mi

patrick's in mannasas. the flyers have a picture of comestock on it and word missing. >> i think we're just seeing a lot of energy around people who expect accountability and expect congress woman to hold a town hall and listen to concerns and people are not feeling she's doing that. so a lot of people shown up today for more than we ever expected. >> while comstock has not held a town hall meeting in person since her new congrsi term began she held one over the phone last month with constituents. >>> switching over 20 weather now here is a live look outside. >> cold one, september it? >> nice clear night but chilly out there. it sounds like we're not going to get a warm-up any time soon. >> we'll not get a warm-up any time soon. >> gwen, you've been busy tonight haven't you? >> it's been really busy. good news we've been able to get great information out to the viewers about what is happening. let's begin with a look at maps and show what you is going on. because we have pretty clear skies over the area. a

mannasas 34. d.c. 40.ut again pretty much everything is heading down into the 20s tonight and if not 20s near 30s hopefully you didn't get too enthusiastic and do planting. tonight should be coldest of the next 7 and clear skies means we're going to be chilly. expect cold morning again tomorrow with temperatures in the 20s. we rebound into the 40s and then we start bringing in the warmer air and that process begins friday. 61. showed you the weekend. we know that looks good. what about next week? we have a few showers around monday and tuesday with temperatures in the low 70s and wednesday 65 degrees. it's been a while since we've been able to put together a stretch of warmer days. you're almost there. hang in there for the weekend. don't go anywhere we have more to tell you about. we'll be right back. >> house huntsers are hitting the pause button for now existing home sales falling 3.7%. keep in mind sales hit a 10 year high in january and apparently higher prices are keeping buyers on the sidelines and

. >> and prince george county and virginia loud con county and mannasas park city and orange count a and page countery prince william, happen ahan ak. stafford anwaren and winchester city school clothesed. >> west virginia brant county school on two hour delay and hardy and brkly and hampshire and jefferson and morgan county schools are closed. >> they're also on "fox5"news d.c.. we have heard from prince george county government opening 11 a.m. country government and prince george county opening 11 a.m. and montgomery country government is closed. >> michael thomas. what's >> i'm hearing prince george county county schools are closed in my ear and calvert county double check with me but two hour lay it for calvert county they're telling me. there with he go. prince george county county schools closed and 3 out in d.c. right now. it's looking looking winter wonder loond in the background more messy. we have sleet, snow mixing in here and there and winds gusting north 20 to 18 and here in washington temperatures matter often north and west gaithersburg 7 and frederick 8 and west min t

. >> dillon turner met with one of the teens at hotel in mannasas last summer and inappropriate relationship with here and during the investigation police say they learned turner was involved with another now to districts where a judge declared a mistrial in the case against derrek and caused of second degree murder in the deaths of malik mercer two years ago. he shot the 15-year-old during a robbery and defense lawyerscy he had a gun and was shot in self-defense. tat will be back in court next month. >> 11 months in prison the sentence for a tennessee man that pled guilty for drawing a gun inside a capitol certainty. this happened one year ago after he was trying to go through the metal detector and was questioned by a security officer. dawson was also ordered to complete three years of supervised release and mental health treatment in prison. >> in a vacuum, our job is to determine whether judge gorsuch is a reasonable main strewn conservative or is he not? >> start peppering gorsuch with questions tomorrow. if pep que confirmed, gorsuch wd succeed antonin scalia who w died last year. >>>

hagerstown and 28 martinsburg and winchester 27 that's the same for culpeper and 30 dulles and 30 mannasasl here's th m you. just to give you a pretty good idea of where all the cold air is right here filtering down the mid atlantic and this does not retreat until we get to beginning of week and then we'll see a little break in the temperatures. we've got a flow northwest creating significant wind chills and will do so as well as the overnight hours and for tomorrow. us is stained winds anywhere from 7 up to 17 miles an hour here in martinsburg and those wind gusts fairly strong. take a look. 24 mile an hour wind gust now in d.c. and they were 3 earlier. so little bit of a break relatively speaking. 24 quantico and 29 mar tipsburg. expect to see winds gusty for your saturday and as well into saturday night. we'll get a break by sunday. so colder air coming in behind this frontal system here's clipper and it moves its way out and that's what we had little bit of snow from and tonight we're talking temperatures into the 20s and it's a p winds continue and then for tomorrow ridge of high pres

and right now, temperatures into the upper 60s and pretty much everywhere we have 7 0 mannasas and same culpeper and 67 in city and 65 at baltimore. and as we take a look up and down the sea board take a look. that warm air really that place. and still a very cold area with really colder air up in the northeastern up to areas of you? england and we're at least benefiting from a southerly flow and we'll cool down a little tomorrow. clouds continue to roll inen crisising clouds tonight and can't rule out a passing sprinkle or two and a frontal system that brings us wet weather as you get into sunday. be prepared for that and definitely have to keep the umbrella handy and we're still talking temperatures that will be not pood. overnight lows into the 50s and tomorrow we are talking 60s and so a lot cooler that we were today. but once again, you know t. is that time of year we're dealing with a couple frontal systems here. and so tomorrow, we're talking about showers. and not a washout at all. and in fact it looks like most of them will move in to the evening hours. let's look at future cas

traffic is moving slow and heavy layer of slush on portion of drive from mannasas to beltway.eep in mind traffic light right now. look your way out loudoun county this morning a lot of slow moving traffic. plows out there heavy snow. this is loudoun county parkway by wax pool road. heavier snow on that portion of drive. heavy snow ashburn as well and in addition to that maryland and portions of frederick ma mar this morning. looking at map aside from cameras in virginia other problems now upper marboro and westbound pennsylvania avenue reports of several fallen trees in area of ricky martin road and traffic getting by slowly. aside from bw parkway tree down 32 and heavy traffic 95 corridor between baltimore and beltway in capital area. keep it to "fox news morning". we'll get you around all of the snow and tucker has the latest own the forecast >>:23 now investors laser folk ised on start fed meeting rates. joining us now lauren simonetti on this snow day today. no rest for wall street. quick, two things today. one fed meeting and two repeal and replace of affordable care act.

mannasas 70. fredericksburg 7. here's the deal for today.possible this morning and rain showers moving through. could be a thunderstorm at noontime and widely scattered to isolated thunderstorms late this afternoon. again with a little smith inever sunshine and temperatures will jump right up to lower 70s. we'll go high today 73. eventually right? and cooler and breezy tomorrow with sunshine 66. and sunny and cool thursday upper 50s and upper 50s on friday as well and saturday and sunday temperatures look to be in the of sunshine. right now we're keeping it dry. >> a crash you need to be aware of outer loop georgia avenue you see it blocking left shoulder. a few cars involved. so as you approach georgia avenue all traffic is slow egg an you can see a tow truck blocking center lane as well. it's a mess out there. keep it right lanes. that's best bet to move. traffic building right now at a stand still from basically new hampshire avenue to georgia avenue allow for at least 15 extra minutes to the commute and move it over to a look at 66 right

you can see 66 in mannasas quiet. no congestion headed to centerville just yet. enjoy conditions. we want to head out to avoid getting stuck in later morning rush. 95 northbound dale city to beltway cruising at speed and keep in mind metro is on time except for safe track. that is impacting blue and yellow line. single tracking for safe track work. aside from that rails on time and metro bus on time and southern maryland traffic looking good problem free on 210 as well as 301 at the five plate and any questions @erinfoxdc on twitter and grab a light jacket or umbrella drizzle moving through. if you walk around in the district or anywhere else you coulden count a of water this morning. that's my fashion advice as well. >> 5:18 is the time now. let's look at stories you'reen gaming with most on social needia with news tracker. >> what's hot opt web. ivanka trump surprise moving to west wing of the white house and will have her own office. the move is to increase her profile as influential although unofficial advisor to her father. ivanka will not be paid nor will be officially bound

route 1 nobody quiet at this time. 66 eastbound light volume building through mannasas to gainsville through nation and centerville past 28 wide on through chantilly 8 looking nice right now. we're not seeing issues through falls church or arlington once you get noodz the beltway any questions @erinfoxdc twitter we'll metro and twitter next. >> and two young women charged in fascination which happened at busy airport terminal in qualimpor. >> headed to break on this wednesday morning with a live look across the d.c. region. 5:09 is the time and it's 57 degrees. more "fox5 news morning" after the break. >> back now 5:10 checking world headlines the two women accused of killing estranged half brother. north korea leader charged with murder. kim young-um was killed at an airport. in court one of suspect claim she is innocent and the other had no response when hearing charges. timer entered official plea because the court they appeared did not have jurisdiction of murder case. many speculate the attack was orchestrated by north korea and the country denies any role. >> today opening stat

these are air temperatures, 16 frederick and 16 gaithersburg and 23 washington and 2 mannasas and 2 culpeper. we need all the winter gear. absolutely. all those heat save on in february. well, unfortunately we're making up for it this weekend. winds now out of the north. 5 to 10, close to 15 miles an hour at reagan national and wind chills to contend with in the single digits to low teens. so can't retire that wind chill map yet as it has been a cold weekend. satellite and radar shows high pressure overhead nice, sunny day and wind subsides. we have a breeze today but a lot less gusty and that helps this afternoon despite the fact we're chilly with below normal temperatures. slow warm-up under the bright blue sky as we go from mid 30s to low 40s. high of 43 a warm-up begins monday and lasts through the workweek. i'll have that ahead in the 7 day forecast, tom. >> thank you. we'll begin with a developing story this morning the search is on in virginia this morning for 35-year-old jamal carlos kingsbury. police say he killed a security guard at a mall in woodbridge. >> it happened yesterday av