many are in anne arundel county and smeco in southern maryland has four outages. >>> and we are tracking the progress of some of those power crews. 9 news reporter alex trevino is in mclean, virginia with more. good morning, alex. >> reporter: goodgood morning, andrea. the big story is broken trees on people's yards. it is hard not to miss in mclean. a lot of limbs on people's yards and one can only suspect it is due to heavy winds. we know 320 families in this neighborhood are currently without power. strong winds took down a tree and landed on some wires at langley high school in the middle of the night which is just behind the neighborhood we are at. the crews from dominion virginia power company replaced the wires only to have another tree topple over the same section of repaired wires. yep, new wires go up and then they come down again. so crews waited for this morning to replace the broken wooded cross arm and restring the wire at that section of the high school for safety reasons. the school is operating on a generator until the power is restored. so they have some lights, just no

smeco reports just over 500 customers are without power and metro is only offering underground rail service and we are waiting to hear from governor o'malley. he will talk about the state's plan to weather the storm. we are certainly weathered by this series of storms. >> it has been an unbelievable week and a half. >> we just need to make it to friday. >> you pass tomorrow, you are right we will be better. windy conditions tomorrow and today we have the snow and the wind. winds will be a problem, blizzard conditions, blizzard warnings until 7:00 but the snow is getting lighter. in fact, let's get to the forecast first. we will tell you about it. this afternoon, snow is tapering off southwest to east. one to as much as four inches additional accumulations and we are thinking that four inches is in places like howard county, across the bay and maybe annapolis more snow. the farther the east you are the higher the likelihood of more snows. northwest winds unbelievable. 20 to 40 with gusts higher than that. could be early snow east and then mostly cloudy, windy and cold. keep the temperatures

smeco, 251. to go up with this heavy snow and these high winds. >> and we have kelley on the phone with us to talk about what's going on at the 34d ph.d. state highway administration. how are the roads looking in maryland? >> probably in the half hour or, so we have had quite a spike in some instances we have been responding to. a little bit of visibility and the high winds are not making for a good -- if you haveÑi pla that you don't do that afternoon and allow our crews to continue our plowing operations. in maryland, the entire state is under a blizzard warning until 7:00 tonight. how are you dealing with supplies and people and equipment? >> we do have our full deployment out of staff and equipment. we have had -- but also with the continuing snow accumulation that's happening we're going to continue to plow. we're able to replenish our salt over the last couple of days, so we have plenty of salt available to combat the ice. but our major fete right now is the low victim. our crews are contin