warrenton as well. out in old town in western maryland, shirley says it's snowing, 26. the ground is white. yeah, the mountains are seeing it first. it's coming across. a fast moving piece of energy in the upper levels of the atmosphere, enough to squeeze out a little bit of the white stuff and give us a winter advisory and maybe enough to slow you down on the morning commute. we've got some of the clouds out there. looked like i saw a stray flurry or two but for the most part just cloudy. i think between now and 6:00 a.m., a lot of us are going to be seeing the snow flying. by 9:00, western sections will already be finishing up. we'll still have some areas dealing with a little bit of that light snow. 11:00 30 and partly sunny. temperatures not moving much today. 32. potentially getting up to 34. a windy day but not like yesterday but winds could still gust 25, maybe 30 miles an hour in the west, northwest. windchills today only in the low 20s. look at this piece of energy. you can follow it coming across west virginia in toward maryland, southwestern virginia, up thro

and in chuck brown and warrenton. a puddle in four inches being reported in culpeper county. -- upt to 4 inches being reported in culpeper county. winter weather watch until 10:00 this morning, when it will then become just rain. there's a nor'easter that will have a huge impact to travel in the northeast today. many, many flights have been canceled, thousands in fact, in advance of the storm. there's a live picture from boston. they could rival the record snowfall of 27.5 inches. blizzard warnings in effect for them and the york city and providence and portland, it will be a major storm for them. kind of a big deal this morning for us for our commute. this afternoon, just rain and wind, 40-45 degrees. the weekend forecast in a few moments. first, traffic. >> there is road spray that i'm seeing in many traffic cameras. 270, just volume in urbana and hyattstown. nothing to report. marc trains, metro rail, vre reported on time and on schedule. 66 will have some mixed conditions out west, in the plains warrenton, fauquie

i got a report from a viewer in warrenton, light flakes have begun there.owing at bit in the mountains. this piece of energy from the mountains, you see it coming into southwestern virginia, roanoke south. the last couple of hours things have expanded on the radar. but this looks a lot worse than it actually is because the air is very dry at the surface. most of this is actually not reaching the ground right now with a few flakes, as i said, in warrenton, here and there. let me know if it's snowing in your place. 29 in martinsburg. only 14 in oakland. up in pennsylvania, western maryland, west virginia, everybody is gearing up for a good ski weekend. 3 it at andrews and -- 32 at andrews and cambridge. we'll look for afternoon temperatures in the upper 20s to middle 30s. monika samtani, quiet so far, knock on wood. >>> knock on wood. we had a lot of problems in laurel yesterday with the flooding and the patuxent river. the american legion lot is closed up at the laurel marc station. you want to keep that in mind if you do normally park there. it will be clos

wind chills in the '20s not just now but even in the afternoon. 29 in germantown, 33 degrees in warrenton in la plata, 30 and sterling right now. here is the forecast. it will be cold with high temperatures in the upper 30's for most of us, mid to upper 30's. that will make it feel like the 20's with gusts from time to time. not much of an improvement tomorrow. jacqui will have more on that in a few minutes. now to the commute with jamee. >> we are moving great on this wednesday morning. virginia 395, coming off the beltway, the entire trip to and across the 14th street bridge. looks good at georgetown, key bridge, and anacostia bridge, no trouble. in manassas, northbound side of 234 try to get into manassas and the downside is shut down before you get to dumphries road. there's a crash. you are able to get by southbound. 619 is an option, but that is a big work around. all lanes are open on 66 and 95. back to you. >> thank you. >> it's 33 degrees. cracks coming up, the countdown is over. robin roberts returns to mdma later today. we will take a look at >> you are watching abc 7's "good m

we have a little line from south of alexandria, stretching towards manassas and towards warrenton and into culpeper. the second area we are watching is just pushing into leesburg and headed towards purcellville and bluemont getting some snow coming down. this will be just a dusting at best. everyone should stay well under an inch. we will be lucky to get a half- inch in the metro. timing of this is during the commute, so that's a concern. and it's a cold morning at 31 degrees at dulles, 20 in gaithersburg, 30 in winchester right alpa. 36 degrees in d.c.. -- 30 degrees in winchester right now. 33 degrees and snow flurries by 9:00. this is all over with before the noon hour, 35 and partly cloudy. 31 degrees for your drive home. the drive home will be a lot better. let's see how that drive is going with steve hershorn. >> not bad so far. springfield, moving smoothly. the springfield interchange looks good and continuing onto 395. hov in the center of the screen. lockdown is also open. no problems. good to go on 95 and 395. accidents in montgomery county, you see the flashing lights. they

parts of southern maryland through fredericksburg to culpeper and warrenton.e increasing clouds tomorrow. temperatures low 40s. may be a i wintry mix early friday morning pre-dawn. then aum rain ending by friday night. sun back for the weekend. breezy and cold on saturday. warmer sunday. maybe rain on monday. i'm back in ten minutes. danella with a look at traffic now. >> good morning. in the first 4 traffic office, tracking problems on the fredericks line. the vre train. the problems at the brooks station. one track is dealing with a broken rail, the other track a disabled freight train. train number 300, an hour and 5 minute. 55-minute delay on train number 302. and also 304, 35-minute delay. no trains are getting by that station. let's head to the roadways. this time we'll talk about silver spring. southbound, colesville road. the crash blocking the lane. at one point left lane was getting by. now two left lanes getting by. it's under a mile. aaron and eun, over to you. >>> we're not sure how you change the radio. the viral video of an inventor trying to be

warrenton at 46 degrees. we have a cool breeze, so it feels 5 degrees colder than that. we have an upper level pressure system to our north. we have a frontal system which has passed to our south and east. low pressure developing along the system. we are in between two other influences today. overall, we will never more sunshine than anything. things will get interesting by tomorrow afternoon. a really good handle on a scooter to our south. it should start out with nice conditions throughout the day. high temperatures in the low 50's. clouds will move in late tonight and early tomorrow morning. 7:00 with temperatures in the 30's. then we expect the moisture to come in from the south by mid afternoon. it will start as rain across the metro area. higher elevations will see some snowfall. all of that all changed to some snow and minor accumulations can be expected. it will be done with by thursday morning after a few snow flurries. then we will have sunshine and 50 degrees on friday. maybe a few snow flurries on saturday early. otherwise agrees the weekend and getting much

temperatures, even i think hagerstown 50. 52 in winchester, 57 in culpeper, and low to mid-50s for warrenton, manassas, leesburg, round hill, and fairfax. downtown, 54. upper 50s to mid-50s in southern maryland. winds are just below small craft advisory criteria. that said, it is going to be pretty choppy on the water. there could be an afternoon or evening thundershower. yeah, thundershower. going up 270, 54 gaithersburg, 53 frederick. we'll break it down for you. 30s to start, then 52 to 57 by afternoon, and some showers possible by evening 48 to an 3wu9 53. for now we're going keep it so it's green. we're looking at friday spring to winter with showers, and maybe some snow showers overnight. then some light snow possible saturday. only 39. then sunday a snow shower possible. less of a chance for snow on sunday, with temperatures even colder, about 32. next seven days, president's day very nice. sunshine and temperatures go back into the mid-40s. rain on tuesday. i think we will be in the upper 40s. next wednesday and thursday, seasonal, temperatures mid to upper 40s with sunshine. >> not

right around 50 in leesburg, warrenton, manassas, 51 or 52 in fairfax. low 50s downtown and southern maryland. not enough wind for a small craft advisory on the bay or tidal potomac on thursday. that's night. around 50 in gaithersburg and frederick. nice recovery tomorrow. terrific thursday, 51. clouds on friday, that's the bad news. maybe a shower late. but the good news it is going to be 5 4. notice the low friday night. 38. the high saturday only 39. so snow showers possible on saturday with essential steady temperatures. next seven day, even colder on sunday, back into the low 30s. snow showers are still possible, but it does appear that that storm that we're watching to develop will develop out to sea. we like to call those fish storms, derek. then as quickly as the cold air moves in, it moves out. 50 again on monday. rain on tuesday, chilly on wednesday. >> i'm sure the fish appreciate the storm. >>> every soften we come across something that just seems to catch on, then everybody wants to be a part of it. last year it was gangnam style before. tha

and then it gets light again and another burst and that will be the case you get west of warrenton now. starting to see this stuff shut down a bit. also west of winchester. but areas north and west, not just with today but with the threat for a little bit of some freezing rain tonight. now we have winter weather advisories until 10:00 tomorrow morning. which i've extended into loudoun and frederick and car roll counties as well as northern fauquier. earlier the areas weren't in it. it was everybody west. so we'll watch. it's going to be very light precipitation. any slick spots doesn't take a lot but you just got to watch out for that. be aware late tonight and early tomorrow. that's one reason if anything falls you know it's going to be frozen. it's 32 in gaithersburg but d.c. and points south are generally in the mid 30s right now. 34, 35 degrees with the cloudy skies. had some light snow on the hour but that has shut down at national. 34 right now. feels like 29 and the humidity only 60%. so the air is kind of dry and what we're having falling into it has been evaporating for the mo

of the divide, 28 oakland, 36 cumberland, 38 hagerstown tuesday, 41 winchester, 46 in culpeper, warrenton, manassas, maybe a flake in the morning about it, 44 downtown and annapolis and no winds, no small craft advisory needed for the bay or tidal potomac. next three days 9 weather alerts green, morning snow showers, 44 tuesday. very nice wednesday, sunshine and 48 and sunshine on thursday with temperatures also in the upper 40s and near 50. those clouds are coming in late thursday could lead to showers early on friday, but our temperatures are pretty good, looking at temps near 50 friday, dip a little saturday and sunday we're in the low 50s and monday in the low 50s with rain. we actually need some rain. i'd rather have it fall in snow, but we need something. >>> from our weird news file, another reason why taking your money out of of the bank and putting it in a bag, very bad idea to. shanghai where a migrant worker -- idea. shanghai is where a migrant worker did just that. the thing is he drops the bag going across the street. you might want to think his fellow citizens would reach do

one was 13, the other 15, stephanie straight of warrenton, virginia convicted today.he was involved with a 15 year old last march. she even gave him marijuana. while she was awaiting trial in august, investigators found out she had inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old . she faces more than 15 years behind bars for all of that. >>> tonight, police are looking for your help to find the driver who hit and killed a man in prince william county. around 10:30 this morning a 59 year old man was found unresponsive along woodland drive in triangle. the victim was rushed to the hospital but he died there and police believe he was out in the road when he was struck by a vehicle whether then took off. police say if you know anything about this please give them a call. >>> three days out from the super bowl and the crowds are starting to arrive as teams wrap up their final preparations. >> we are live outside of the mercedes benz super dole. hi, kristin. >> reporter: yeah, guys, here the command control for media is the convention center. it's not just home of the nfl exp

ought to hit the upper 40s, fredericksburg, culpeper, warrenton, charlottesville.r 40 in loudoun county. highs in the 30s today, ought to hit the mid-40s in the metro area. cooler tomorrow, increasing clouds. 20 a ez in the morning. afternoon highs low 40s. friday morning, might have a wintry mix, maybe sleet. perhaps a little bit of freezing rain and wet snow. doesn't look like anything sticks. quickly changing to rain. the rest of friday in the 40s. cold as we clear out friday into saturday. only around 40. a blustery wind. sunny sunday, up near 50. could get more rain on monday. highs into the low 50s. may hit mid-50s on tuesday. i'm back in ten minutes. first 4 traffic this morning with danella. good morning. >> good morning. let's take a closer look at the beltway. nice and clear. prince george's county, between i-95 past 50, a live look. very light volume in both directions. earlier this morning, we saw construction around 295. bw parkway. that's clear. continuing towards the wilson bridge. travel lanes are open. no issues at all. no accidents there. over to

you guys were in the 60s today. 50 at winchester and culpeper. 50 in warrenton. 51 in manassas and fairfaxw 50s downtown. into southern maryland, sunshine, low 50s. with the breezes there is a small craft advisory for the bay until 6:00 p.m. tomorrow. next three days, green tomorrow, no worries. terrific tuesday. yellow alert for wednesday. light rain maybe to snow by evening. better chance for snow at night. we'll not get below freezing downtown. only 33 wednesday night. thursday sunshine. temperatures in the upper 40s to near 50. next seven days, looks like sunshine on friday. a little bit cooler, back in the mid-40s. then arctic air plunges southward. we're still trying to figure out where the storm will develop. snow is possible saturday night into sunday morning. it gets very cold and stays cold into next week. and we'll keep a sharp eye on that. we'll watch wednesday night. could be a conversational snow wednesday night. >> at least you have something to talk about. >> something. >>> mighty wizards. >> mighty wizards. >> didn't think i would use those two words together any time soon

warrenton, manassas, leesburg, fairfax, 43, 44. downtown about the same, 44, 45.-40s as you head up north. you get past clarksburg maybe only about 43 in frederick. then mid to upper 40s into southern maryland. not much wind, no small craft advisory for the bay. 45 for high in annapolis. weather alerts are green, green. yellow on friday. 45 tomorrow. bright but brisk. thursday, lower it to 40. colder, mostly cloudy. stays dry on thursday and rainy and raw on friday. temperatures around 40. by the time the cold air comes in, our precipitation gets out of here and heads to new england. that leaves us with a brisk day on saturday. need a little breezy. temperatures in the mid-40s. then a little bit after pattern change. low 50s sunday with sunshine. low 50s monday. need your umbrella again but we're talking a mild day. next tuesday sunshine and temperatures back into >> the baltimore ravens have been called the team of destiny after suffering major injuries to their team throughout the season. the ravens got healthy in time for a wild ride to the big easy. today they

tonight, 37 degrees with clouds and just a few passing flurries, 32 down toward the culpeper area and warrenton 7 pittsburgh, 25 bingham -- 27 pittsburgh, 25 binghamton, raleigh 32 degrees. overnight not bitterly cold, a few mid- to upper 20s to 32 degrees in the district. our wednesday won't start out too terribly cold, a couple flurries floating around later tonight and mostly clouds, tomorrow 45 degrees, early clouds, a bit of a breeze during the day but overall i think it will be a pretty nice day and it will be nice to have the sunshine back, won't it? temperatures low to mid-40s, maybe upper 30s farther north and west including hagerstown 35, frederick 37, baltimore 39 degrees and out toward annapolis 40 degrees. at the surface it will be high pressure that keeps us cool tomorrow, but it also keeps us sunny. your fox 5 accuweather seven- day forecast, 42 thursday, most of thursday is dry, any moisture thursday night into friday and we'll say an early mix is possible before it changes to rain for most areas. saturday about 43 and then quite a different story for sunday. we jump all the way

down towards manassas and back towards fauquier county, through warrenton. very heavy rain continuing and we are not done just yet. we have a couple more hours of the moderate, steady to heavy rain. that rain will continue right on through about 10:00, 11:00 tonight. you can see where it is coming from down from the south. still have, i think, what could be the heaviest rain to come and this band back towards the west. that's the band. it will be the last band that moves through. that band will move lou here. we are seeing fairly high winds and cold temperatures. it is a nasty, nasty night out there. let's head outside right now. we are going to head right here along nebraska avenue to our head quarters in northwest washington. veronica johnson outside now. we sent out the nastiest night so far. >> that's right. i'm still smiling because the rain really hasn't picked up hard again out here, doug. but indeed we have big puddles as i walked out front of news4. i moved across big puddles. as we pan down, weather deck, look at that. area getting slick out here,

not seen any snow flurries yet in rosslyn. 270 towards caper, a heavy band, stretching towards 66, warrentono wind down, coming down pretty good in stafford stretching towards dunkirk and into annapolis. you can seem it stretches from our area down through the carolinas, just kind of misses atlanta. it will still be windy if you are traveling today. a live picture of atlanta, 39 degrees. they will likely see snow showers if the moisture moves south. there's a been a delay in atlanta, new york city boston, and philadelphia. -- a wind delay in atlanta and new york city and boston and philadelphia. >> if we have an accidenwhere we had an accident on 355 near lake forest at the parkway, the accident has been towed away and the lanes are open. police have left the scene. look at the snow on the ground. give yourself extra time. springfield looks ok with the usual amount of volume from dale city to springfield, pretty good. we have a closure of the freeway headed on to pennsylvania avenue. back to you. >> thank you. 4434 degrees. global winemakers are targeting the u.s. market. >> and nasa plans t

warrenton, just one degree above freezing at 33. a look at your forecast.oving in for this afternoon. it will mix with a little snow this evening and into the nighttime. don't expect much if anything in terms of accumulation around the metro area. exception will be higher elevations out west along with frederick, hagerstown, martinsburg, winchester. you can see two inches from this. even more on the western facing slopes of the potomac highlands and allegheny front. not a big deal around town. mostly cold rain later this afternoon into the evening. benzol for the forecast. jamee? -- that's all for the commute. >> marc rail, vre, on schedule. on new york avenue d.c. police tell me one lane is getting by with an incident involving a struck pedestrian. that's inbound new york avenue after the intersection of montana. coming offutt road island avenue through brentwood from ninth street or north capitol street, you are beyond the activity if you have to go inbound order for the third street tunnel. virginia 95, 395, no early problems. just volume. back to you. >

it is cold. 23 in northwest. 25 in warrenton. 20's this morning.e mid to upper 30's this with that dusting or light coating of snow coming later this evening and into tonight. i think the rush hour should be be a close call. most of the snow will be just after rush hour. speaking ofated hour, let's take a look at roads. i like that morning. thank you. on our monday morning. workd way to start off the .eek the metrorail had a broken down train outside the college park .sian they said they have taken care of that. and the greens but they are trying to get back to speed. good morning, d.c. baltimore-washington parkway avenue, not too much tell you about. beltway lanes are open. here is new hampshire avenue as you crest the american regional -- american legion bridge. you see the volume as you had through. just around the corner, you can , buthe volume increase thel some space between cars. >> thank you so much. 5:43 now. , a critical 26 degrees. , the latest on a bizarre shooting in texas. , the latest on a bizarre shooting in texas. and [ male announ

we are above freezing for the most part to start the day. 35 in germantown, 34 in la plata, 37 in warrenton 38 and 08. chesapeake beach along the bay 40. the snow could mix with rain to the northwest of washington. not expecting accumulation during near hagerstown and martinsburg. even frederick and western loudoun county could see wet snowflakes briefly over the next couple hours. otherwise we're looking at the rainfall late morning into the midday. not much moisture expected just a sprinkle and a few light showers on this tuesday. highs in the mid to upper 40's, near 50 degrees in spots. let's get a look at the commute with jamee. >> nice and quiet around the entire metropolitan area. in virginia on 66, inside the beltway in falls church and arlington, inbound teddy roosevelt bridge into the nation's capital, nice and quiet. constitution avenue, no problems. southeast southwest freeway d.c. 295 looking good. u.s. park police say that the parkway is incident free. the beltway near route 4 pennsylvania avenue looking good, as does 270. back to you. >> thank you. it's 5:11, 37 degrees on thi

there you can see culpeper and warrenton and we have been seeing it in waldorf charles county. doing ok at this time. not much more than flurries. alexandria reporting little coax -- coating. hagerstown has seen some light snow. and a little snow flurries in leesburg within 30 minutes. the national weather service has put us under winter weather advisory for the potential of up to an inch of snow. it first straddles the 95 corridor. in the higher elevations they exceed 5 inches. garrett county has announced school delays and heavy accumulation expected. 36 degrees at reagan national. most of the rest of us are around the freezing mark. and it's 31 at dulles, 34 in manassas, 36 in culpeper. it does not matter that we are above freezing in a few spots. the snow is going to stick because the ground is cold enough. that's why it will stimulate. to have a bit of a wind chill factor. this afternoon the wind will increase. so you will feel it this afternoon. not as bad as yesterday and no advisories, but we could get gusts up to 30 miles an hour. looking across the region, you can see

at 52 in gaithersburg, 53 over in buoys, mid to upper 50s just to the south and west, down toward warrenton your city planner forecast, 50 degrees by 5:00 p.m., 48 by 7:00, cool conditions will drop to 46, a starry sky for us tonight, and then mild conditions tomorrow, but again breezy, so 49 to 5 may feel more like we're in the mid 40s tomorrow. we'll look at that extended forecast that does include the potential of a bit of snowfall midweek. >>> we have u.s. reaction with the latest on the pope's sudden announcement that he's stepping down. steve handelsman has our story. >> reporter: pope benedict's decision to step down came as a surprise. >> wow, that's big. i can't give a reaction. it hasn't sunk in yet. >> reporter: the first pope to abdicate in over 600 years. chicagoans were stunned. >> to me it's like losing a father. >> reporter: he cited failing health, with the statement that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of my ministry. vice president biden is a practicing catholic. >> this is a man of great integrity and looking out for wha

there's a few areas around 66, around warrenton, around areas of front royal. >> where it could be icythe elevated surfaces tomorrow morning. there's a possibility there could be some sleet and a bit of snow to make for slick conditions. again, a winter weather advisory 4:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow, all these counties shaded in purple. you can see it does go right up to the northeast, frederick, westminster, to which parts of 70 and 270. so two accident areas of low pressure. for us it's this area of low pressure that will hit us first. so we'll get the rain out of it. the second area of low pressure, by the time it merges with this first off the coast, will help to give us that snowfall. friday late, early saturday morning. where we could see some gusts late in the day, up to 30 miles an hour, and then 40-mile-per-hour wipd gusts on saturday. college park at 40 degrees, 42 fort belvoir. and around sterling, that's our city planner forecast, too, for college park maryland, dipping down to the upper 30s with rain starting after 11:00 a.m., and after midnight. the low temperatures

warrenton, 35. we will warm into low 40's today. this will be a typical early february day with high temperatures in the mid 40's and partly cloudy skies this afternoon. we're watching the potential for a coastal system friday. we will show you the track of that coming up in a few minutes. from the belfort furniture weather center, traffic has been pretty good so far, jamee. >> absolutely. the problems on the beltway at 190 river road or the american legion bridge. the entire belt with checking out fine. no problems. crossing the woodrow wilson bridge in each direction, good. 210 out of oxon hill, trouble lanes are open. in the nation's capital, the 14th street bridge, heading on to the southeast southwest freeway, no problems. on route 7 at sterling boulevard their alternating lane closures. so watch for that construction crew. back to you. >> thank you. it's 36 degrees on this wednesday morning. >> highlights from the hometown celebrations for the super bowl xlvii champions the baltimore ravens. >> ♪ i feel like busting loose ♪ >>

a little bit of sunshine breaking out to the west and to the south where warrenton now is at 48 degrees. closer to washington, it's just low clouds and sun breaking out now in culpepper now. they are at 50. winchester has sun breaking out at 52 degrees. milder to the west. in the upper 50s west of there in west virginia. some of the mild air will be moving in after the rain this morning. the area in green was light rain. now getting breaks in the clouds here south and west of washington. a little sunshine breaking out. we will have that as we get into the afternoon. the temperatures soaring. as soon as the sun breaks out we have to really jump quickly, climbing into the upper 50s by mid afternoon. 3:00, 4:00 or so. then after sunset it won't get too cold. we'll be into the mid 40s by midnight. going forward through the rest of the afternoon into the evening the cloud cover breaking up. into tuesday, beautiful day. lots of sunshine tomorrow. a brisk northerly wind. highs in the 40s to 50s. then as we get into wednesday big changes will e begin to move in. all this area in lavender is a z

we showed you video earlier from warrenton and from leesburg and this is a little more snow further south west. and brenda sent this in. nice job, brenda, they had 3 1/2 inches. that's a pretty sight, i must say. it's all we have to show you from our storm. here's a live look outside. it is our live michael and son weather camera. temperatures are not bitterly cold just yet. 42 downtown. winds are picking up out of the northwest at 12 and they will gust over 30 miles per hour before all is said and done. after midnight and early on saturday. 38 in germantown. 38 in rockville. 38 arlington. 40 in oldtown. 39 in bowie. 40 in annapolis, and 40 also down toward waldorf. here's the storm. it is hammering southern new england now. some places north of new york city up toward ridgefield. 5 inches on the ground already. the bronx has 5 inches on the ground. wind is 36 miles per hour at laguardia. the storm is still off our coast. so, they have a ways to go. tonight is going to be a big- time -- conditions are going to deteriorate all night in new england. we have a couple showers pushing through.

warrenton, temperature of 40 degrees. 36 in camp springs.hat we are seeing, not a lot going on in our area now. there are a couple of storm systems. one that came through a little earlier with snow showers that moved up towards filly and came through fred rick and towards baltimore and earlier. another storm system to the west. this one trying to move in. once again, the mountains will wring all the moisture before it gets here. maybe a sprinkle or flurry overnight tonight. that's it. request tonight, mostly cloudy. 36 degrees around 11:00. waking up tomorrow morning between 5:00 and 7:00 a.m., chilly. temperatures around the freezing mark and above average at sunrise tomorrow at 7:09 in the morning. now, take a look at this. this is friday. a lot of rain and potential for a lot of snow. back towards the west. we will be watching the system friday. very, very closely. friday at 8:00 a.m. you can see what we will be dealing with. right around rush hour. could be very problematic and will be watching the storm system closely. it could be a big

viewer reported to me that their roommate warrenton and it was snowing and at the prince george's county it was raining. we've got the rain in d.c.. a cold rain even up in gaithersburg. the snow west this morning. tapering to showers afternoon. highs 40 to 45. monika? >>> even with just the wet road conditions, we've got a couple of accidents. first of all, on the ramp from northbound route 5 branch avenue to the outer loop of the beltway. watch out for the accident. the other one's down in upper marlboro. route 301 northbound blocking the left lane after croom station road. in landover traffic is moving well. back with more details in a few minutes. back to you mike. >>> at 5:11 here's a look at what's new this morning. a massive man hunt is understood way for a former los angeles -- underway for a former los angeles police officer already accused of killing three people and wounding two other officers. officials found christopher dorner's burned out truck near a ski resort. he posted an online manifesto warning he was going to target officers he considered racist and abusive. >>> presi

there is snow reaching the ground and accumulating from culpeper to warrenton to leesburg to frederick. winchester to front royal, la ray, those areas getting -- but it's all rain farther east. we're going to have this rain even where it's snowing. change over to perhaps at 8:00, 9:00 this morning. temperatures around the beltway and the metro area are above freezing. we're getting that cold rain. where the areas you see in purple, that's where we could get an inch of snow including all of these areas west and north of washington. as we get into the afternoon hours, we'll have highs reaching the low to mid-40s with rain and the rain ending by sunset. then tonight, windy and turning colder. we could get some flurries tonight into saturday morning. a look at the weekend the rest of the weekend, next week in ten minutes. danella has a look at traffic now. >> still light volume in the area. we'll head down i-95 and take a look past stafford. a live look at 234. dumfries road. a closer look. you're nice and clear as far as volume. the roadway is wet. commuting on to 395 northbound getting b

today's question comes from nicole b in warrenton, virginia.frozen foods thaw out faster in cold water rather than hot water. >> i didn't know that. >> well, she is asking this question because we are always told if you are going to thaw out your food in water, you put it in cold water as opposed to hot water. it is not because it thaws out faster in cold water. we are told that for safety reasons. so it is not that it is faster. it is not faster. in fact, it takes longer but it is for safety reasons. thawing is a very -- we do it all the time. there are various ways to thaw things correctly. it is really a -- it is kind of a dicey thing that we do because it is all about safety and protecting the food from having bacteria begin for form on t you have to thaw at the proper rate and in the proper way. if you have not allowed your food to thaw over a long period of time, the best thing to do is to plan ahead. unfortunately, people always forget. they don't plan ahead. take it out of the freeze arer, put it in the refrigerator and let it thaw. now

warrenton 2.5 and o pal 1 inch of snow this morning. >> the big story this morning of course is the nor'easter. it's the northeast and new england bracing for that major winter storm. thousands of flights into and out of the region have already been canceled. delia goncalves is at the airport and she's going to have more on what's happening there coming up in a few minutes. >>> but howard, you are seeing a lot of cancellations especially coming in and out of the -- the area. >> i was reading new york had 2300 plus flight cancellations. >> blizzard warnings up there now. >> when you factor in boston and hartford and providence and albany. it is going to be a ton of problems in. and they're expecting -- there. and they're expecting 2, maybe 3 feet of snow. blizzard warnings throughout. for us we have a little president of snow west. it's the same system but the cold isn't here and the storm not quite mature yet. but sit on its way. -- it is on its way. we're going to have rain this morning a cold rain. but after the noon hour, just some showers and maybe even a peek or two of sunshine as winds t

maybe 1/2-inch, 41 in winchester, 46 in culpeper, no snow for you tomorrow and low to mid-40s for warrentonx, 44, 45, downtown the same and light winds, no small craft advisory for the bay or tidal potomac. 9 weather alerts remain green, morning snow showers possible, 44 tuesday, 48 wednesday, beautiful, pleasant, pleasant thursday. we'll be near 50 by the time we get to thursday. the next seven days we'll get to 50 before it's all said and done. temps dip a little bit saturday. we get a northeast flow, upper 40s, but 52 sunday, milder and right now rain and showers roll in monday, looks like it's going to be a more organized storm and we need the precipitation rain or snow, looks like a pretty good rain monday. >>> now here's dave owens at the wusa9 cadillac sports desk. >> it was quite a party in new orleans last night. the crescent city sprinkled with a little charm from charm city. the ravens run just to get to the super bowl was stunning. then the game itself was pretty spectacular. kristen berset with a super bowl sized wrapup. >> reporter: super bowl xlvii is one we'll remember for y

but this is snow in warrenton, virginia. we appreciate the picture.nt in by rebecca landis. >> we're dodging the worse of it. >> we're on the western end of this storm. the heart of the storm will get going later this afternoon. will be too far north and east of us to do a lot of heavy snow. >> already feel for our neighbors. you have to say, okay, whew, not this time. >> i have mixed emotions. from the weather side of things, exciting. but obviously picking up four days afterwards, not fun. out to our west, a lot of our viewers getting 1, 2, some cases 3 inches of snow. parts of our area have a fresh blanket of snow. and the sleet and freezing rain out there. most of the action now is east of washington. and in the last hour or so we've seen that wintry mix start to peter out here, as our system continues to wrap up and take shape. i'm going to show you another picture in a second off to the east, to the east of ocean city. rain showers along 95. the wintry mix we had off to the north and west in the past couple of hours has started to dissipate. muc

this is in virginia to the west of warrenton and you can see he has a pri yet good coating there on theaddition, crystal hawkins, good morning, crystal in writersville, virginia says she has 2 inches on the ground and more coming down. in wrightsville, virginia. >> kind of a sad picture when you look at the snow on the equipment for your summer barbecue and you are thinking can't wait to fire that up again. >> six more months. >> let's get to the maps and we want to start with the actual temperatures. these are touch and go here. we got to watch these carefully. parts of the area are 32 or lower society we will be dealing with the potential for icy spots out there on the roads. i think that is why we are getting the school delays early this morning. -- 32 or lower so we will be coaling with the potential for icy spots out there on the roads. these temperatures will push up into the 30s and 40s later this afternoon. much of the area getting plain old rain. i just peeked my head out the window here in northwest washington. it is just raining here right now. but just off to the west and to