>> reporter: this is melissa richards, the victim of that attack. survival is amazing. >> you arrive at the park. and what's the first thing you see? >> a blue minivan. >> anything out of the ordinary? >> no. >> reporter: melissa richards and her dog, remy, went for a walk in richfield park. and when they returned -- >> the guy was still parked in the car. and what i noticed was him looking out of the driver's side window. >> did it seem weird? >> i just thought he wanted his privacy. and then about here, i hear somebody running behind me. so i look back and go, oh, you scared me. then i noticed he had a knife in his hand, and he was still coming towards me. >> reporter: before melissa could run, she was knocked to the ground, and her attacker pinned her down on her stomach. but melissa fought back and did something almost unthinkable. she grabbed the knife by the blade. >> you grabbed the knife with your bare hands? >> right. >> what -- what possessed you to do that? >> well, it was either i try to save myself, or let this guy do whatever he wants

richard, back to you. >>> let's get traffic now with melissa. >> a crash 270 south at falls road. we have two right lanes blocked. e a main lanes. if you're local, you can see we have volume there perhaps people looking at this crash right now. but it is slow southbound there as you're headed down to the spur. wide look at things, you can see we're starting to go slow stop of the beltway and bound 395 as you're crossing over you're slow. prince george's coun starting to see slowdowns again typical for this time of morning. beltway at kenilworth look going there. 95 in and out of town, same hinge. parkw looking good about that 95 in virginia, a little sl mort bound through dale city. >>> 6:35. a lot of you you spent time at e getti ready for today. so we sent news 4 crews to rockville and alexandria. some stores are runningf supplies and others plenty. it was surprisingly warm last knight and they thought that's why they didn't see as many people stocking up. >>> and our 4 x 4 is tracking the conditions you'll see on the roads. here is a live look amelia segal will join us live wit

melissa. >>> 95 in virginia of course we know we have snow falling in the woodbridge area where we have our reporter for you this morning. richard jordan is out there. taking a look 95 north through stafford a little slow the entire way. and this just sorted started. pretty good amount of volume. but as far as the roads, looks just a little bit wet. be careful, though could be a little icy here and there. beltway at indian head highway, that is flowing just fine. 295 headed past 50, a little bit slow. up in maryland 95 and bw parkway rolling along nicely. >>> 5:33. the snow is falling in prince george's county. darcy spencer is out there. how are things looking? >> reporter: i have to tell you this ago, a salt truck came by on pennsylvania avenue. there was an suv tailgating the salt truck. it wasn't even one car length distance in between the salt truck and that suv. and that's exactly what the highway administration and others are saying don't do to make sure you give them enough space to be able to spread the salt out there. it's really to help everybody. so allow them some distance. don't tailgate the salt trucks. we're live

melissa is watching this. she'll let you know what it going on in five minutes. >>> we're driving all around the area to show you what the roads look like in your neighborhoods this morning. news 4 richard jordan is driving through northern virginia. how are things looking to you? >> hey, we stoe in wood bridge to give you a look how the snow is starting to come down very light at this point. it's not amounting to much but if you are just heading out and you head to your car, you are going to find it's snow covered. there was plenty of snow last night overnight and now we're just getting these light little flurries here into the early morning. they were hard at work all night long. they have 1500 plows and salt trucks out on the roads. and the main roads are looking really good at this point. a little wet but pretty clear. even a l streets are doing good as well. trying to get ahead of things. they're hitting streets in prince william, arlington, fairfax, and loudoun counties. so they have made a lot of headway this morning. where you're going it have to watch out for are the parking lots a few of the side streets, the sidewalks, those areas that typically don't get that immediate ate s

in mark richards says to get moving on impeachment proceedings s&s practicable and replace the speaker of the house -- as soon as practicable and replace the speaker of the house. melissa is up next: on -- calling in from kansas on the line for republicans. good morning to you. caller: yes, good morning. hello, america. i just want to say, kansas says no to republicans saying that we are scary, we are hateful, we are terrorist. it is time to fight back. i'm so sick and tired of these liberal republicans kowtowing down to the liberals, and they are no longer democrats. they are now liberals. they are the worst of the worst socialist. they will kill us. host: who are some of the republicans that you are talking about here? caller: do you want me to tell you? ok, look at all the guys. we've got the arizona do that got reelected. i had to hold my nose with pat roberts. i hate pat roberts. he is a liar. he is the one vote that we needed not to pass the crumbs of us -- the cromnibus and he passed it. i want that repealed. and the senator, the weirdo in cases -- i cannot even remember his name. until you come to the liberals are going to win. we've got to stop the coming civi