my colleague, steven carroll, is in dublin. earlier i asked him about the health of the banking sector three years on. >> the banks really brought ireland into this mess in the first place after that decision by the government back in 2008 to guarantee all of the debts in irish banks. they pumped some 50 billion euros of taxpayers' money into the banks. the situation is at least stabilizing. bank of ireland, which is one of the banks that was rescued but not nationalized entirely is now returning back to profit. they've managed to sell some of the government's shares and pay the state back, actually making the state some money on it. the fully nationalized lenderses, a.i.b. and irish life and permanent that were merged, have a 9.8% stake owned by the -- 9.8 stake owned by the government. the lenders see no sign of getting out of the situation. although the financial situation has stabilized, the big problem is really mortgage debt. the property crash in ireland left so many mortgage holders in negative equity. mortgage arrears

county, southern frederick and up into carroll county, those are the zones that got the heaviest icing. the pan hahandle of west virgin northern shenandoah valley. steven city up to winchester, they, too, got about a quarter of an inch of ice on the tree limbs and power lines. as a result we have power outages and we still have a winter storm watch in effect all these counties in color northern virginia, the district, prince geor george's, montgomery, fairfax, arlington, falls church in effect until 10:00 this morning. temperatures right now are below freezing. south and east it is generally just a couple of degrees above freezi freezing. there's national airport now where it's at 34 with icing in the suburbs. we'll have that with us through 8:00. by noontime the mid-30s and just some light rain in the upper 30s and cloudy. the rain ending by early afternoon should be in the upper 30s by mid to late afternoon. >>> and now, maynard edwards, how are the roadways? >>> an outer loop crash, 495 at chain bridge road k. only the left lane getting by. another outer loop crash at vandorn. it's closing the right shoulder lane at this point. a live look at the cr