Southern we are on the end of the system that extends up the coast through pennsylvania, new york, and areas like massachusetts and maine, all seeing this big area of low pressure kind of rotating and developing. For us, road temperatures are way up there. Conditions right now are just a little slushy in some areas, even north and west where we are seeing snowflakes coming down. By lunchtime, we are in the green. Road conditions are still just fine. As we get into the Late Afternoon and evening, dealing with some snow showers, snow squalls, that could be intense for a brief period of time. Damascus and Sandy Springs seeing snowflakes right now. I95, stafford, spotsylvania, fredericksburg. The air temperature, actually. It feels like 29. Whelan iss 7, eileen looking at conditions in frederick, maryland. Good morning, eileen. Eileen good morning, veronica. Andow a lot of teachers students are waking up unhappy in the dmv. We went to show you what conditions look like from our hd cameras. You will notice the precipitation is fallen, a few wet snowflakes, but the rate is decreasing. Just a few flurries here now. You can see the roads are mainly just wet, but all morning long i am keeping an eye on my stormwatch 7 weather app. The only thing that we really need to watch out for closely are these temperatures. One of the reasons that the school area has decided to do the twohour delay is because we see th close to freezing. Something that we will be monitoring for you as we continue on, route 7 head eastward to carroll county. We send it over to julie wright. Julie we will take a closer to home, eileen. If you are traveling in virginia, you will find your lanes open on i95 in spite of the wet pavement. For those coming out of stafford, it appears to be just rain. Route22minute ride from 3 two 610 aquia. Landmark to the 14th street bridge, a 12minute drive overall. No accidents to report at the wilson bridge. Southbound 270 out of germantown, the gangs all here. 22 minutes overall from clarksburg to the split. Incident free. Allow for some extra time, some patient. In the next 10 minutes, we will update the ride headed into northeast. Autria all the snow in the northeast is making problems for airports. Jummy olabanji is at the live desk, where we are hearing there are 200 cancellations at reagan alone . Jummy thats right. 90 flights leaving and 90 alreadyarriving canceled. Several flights in and out of bwi are also canceled. The airports impacted the most are to the north boston, newark, laguardia, and jfk. A lot of those airlines preemptively canceled flights so that passengers would not be stranded. Rebook without any penalties, but if you are headed up and down the east coast, you might want to jump on amtrak to ge tomorrow. Larry it is a great day to have the stormwatch 7 weather app. It is free on androids and iphones. Breaking news in fairfax county. Three people are on the run after a latenight robbery at tysons corner. The gonzalez, we understand situation turned dangerous pretty fast. John it was a robbery that turned into a police chase very quickly. The thieves were looking for these at the mall at tysons. Now police are looking for them. Fairfax county police have been 9, as their helicopter, k they are looking for these men, all in their 30s. The three men, all wearing hoodies and sweatshirts, went into the store and started stealing purses off the shelves. They then took off in a car. Where the dark colored mazda ended up, off the road near the intersection of besley and old courthouse. There was a police pursuit. The alleged thieves crashing into a tree in that wooded area three miles from the mall. Fortunately, no injuries, no other cars involved. Fairfax county police not only searching for these men but also going through Surveillance Video at the mall. They are also hoping to talk to shoppers that might have been inside at around 9 00 last night when all of this started. Reporting live in tysons, john gonzalez, good morning washington. Tensions over deportation fears are running high in arizona. Seven protesters were arrested. Nd dozens blocked protests started after a mother from mexico was taken into custody during a routine check in at an ice facility. Scheduled to be deported under an executive order issued by president trump. Larry Jeff Sessions will be sworn in this morning as the countrys 84th attorney general. He was nearly confirmed wednesday after a contentious confirmation battle. Only one democrat, joe manchin, crossed county crossed party lines to support him. Veronica johnson is timing out breathtaking. And i love your use of negative space. What were you thinking . Oh, definitely art school but between painting and sculpture, you can always change majors. chuckling you need to right chuckling it aint finished until you sign it. [narrator] tame the tuition monster. Lovely. [narrator] with virginia529 programs that help no matter where Higher Education dreams take them. This will be your lost masterpiece. Were wired differently. Which means we can deliver equal uploads and downloads. Lcome to 8 and a half maple reet. Ithalf a house. And even though it only has half a kitchen, half the closet space and a half bath, its a full house to the wilsons. Because they have fios, their half house has full internet, with uploads as fast as downloads. Dont pay for uploads that arent up to speed. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone for only 79. 99 per month online for one year. Only from fios. Autria we do veronica we do not have any reports of slick patches, but a handful of delays. Carroll county, frederick county, Washington County in maryland. The pocket of maryland Still Holding with advisories. Snow continues to fall across areas of Northern Maryland right now. Heavy, wet snow through pennsylvania. Way through to the northeast boston, hartford, new york. I should say especially new york because where the wind comes with it, a blizzard warning for long island. The darker blue is where the big wet snowflakes are coming down. In pennsylvania a really is coming down with low visibility. We are seeing some of the clearing with the system racing east and northward. Hagerstown is drying out. Ending,e snow is winchester fairly quiet, too. This area from damascus to gaithersburg, wheaton to columbia, maryland, right now. By 8 00, 9 00 a. M. , it is all eastbound. Eileen is tracking the Road Conditions for any trouble spots. With traffic,on julie wright . Julie you might be giving me a little too much credit here. Right now around the pavement this morning. Anytime you are waking up to rain, you want to allow yourself extra time on the road. Out of stafford, a 23minute onmute as volume increases northbound 95. 23 minutes to travel 13 miles. Are seeing the backup at landmark. At duke street, a 13minute commute headed to the 14th street bridge. Out of germantown, all lanes are open on 270. That is our traffic watch. Back in the next 10 minutes, updating the ride headed into northeast. Autria new overnight, our first look at the 2018 olympics. The big reveal while you were sleeping, next. Larry a national superstar heating up the ice. An opportunity for this the bakery flavors you love. [ ding ]. Now available in your dunkin coffee. Sip in the happy with a medium vanilla cupcake, or new fudge brownie macchiato or latte for 1. 99 from 2 00 to 6 00 p. M. America runs on dunkin. Always wins. Especially in my business. With slow internet from the phone company, you cant keep up. 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No president says there is warning sign that he was unfit for the position with background checks. Brothersman shot two an there is a growing legal battle name release of the officer who shot and killed the suspect. Hearings get underway at 1 00 in alexandria. 6 17 now. We are getting our first look at the 2018 olympic torch. It has been designed so that the flames will continue to burn and change in weather conditions. Two bernie in chain to burn in changing weather conditions. Who says girls cannot hit the ice and play hockey just like the guys . Thefemale hockey player all way from the job he got the chance to put your skills to the test. She is 26 years old. She spent time on the ice with the capitals yesterday. Passed the puck to ovechkin. For her, it was a dream come players for a few minutes, and it is a great story. She is only six years practicing, on the ice. It is amazing. Autria she says her mission here in the u. S. Is to influence her passion on children. She says she will be here for one week. She will watch the warm up from the capitals bench tonight. Larry we are checking the weather right now. Lets go out to Eileen Whelan in Northern Maryland for the latest from her Vantage Point in stormtrak 7. Eileen we are seeing some snow in frederick county, maryland, where schools are on a twohour delay. The snow is coming down pretty heavily, and the roads are really wet. However, i am starting to see the snow accumulate a little bit on some of the grass. As you can see behind us, there is a lot of road spread. You will have the windshield wipers working. The road temperatures are still above freezing. The air temperature right here is 32 degrees. It is also really windy. My photographer, mike, and i, are in a toyota four runner here. In a highprofile vehicle, we can really feel the gusts in the car. A lot of the snow is coming down, reducing visibility, and there is the wet pavement. Slow it down out there early this morning again. Frederick county is on a delay. We will continue used on 270 toward the new market area. Back inside to you. Veronica veronica is here to break it down for you. Weonica southern edge of this storm. Huge for areas of pennsylvania, huge for york and boston. That is for later today. This is the biggest storm of the season so far. It will only last for a couple of hours even up there. It is all about the snowfall rate, how quickly the snow is coming down. For us, it is just a nuisance system with a handful of delays. As you heard eileen mention across the area. Lucky for us, we are on the Southern Side of the system with temperatures that have managed to stay above freezing, crossing about 95 of the area. Roads for thewet afternoon hours, 3 00, 4 00, and 5 00. Some lower be readings in areas north and west of the sea again. For any snow showers, we may start to west of d. C. Again. For any snow showers come in we may start to spring,burg, sandy damascus, columbia, maryland, all seeing wet snowflakes. Look at this the wind gusting over 30 Miles Per Hour in d. C. That will make it very cold today. Wind chill temperatures currently under freezing. We are already in the mid 20s across the area, which is why ,ileen whelan and sam sweeney too, are all bundled up this morning. It will feel progressively colder through the day. From 37 to 40 degrees, wind chills are getting in the 20s already. The wind chill temperatures will stay around 28 today. The average, 46 degrees. I am back to tell you about more cold and more very high temperatures coming our way for the weekend. Julie . Julie on the highways now, you will find wet pavement around the capital beltway, close to 495. But a stalled car on the northbound side of kenilworth avenue. Heads up, the inner loop of the beltway, 210 out of oxon hill, lanes are open, but only a 6minute ride from st. Barnabas road headed to alexandria. Better than expected on the wet pavement, but do not over drive those conditions. For those traveling on eastbound 66, leaving manassas to the beltway, almost a 30minute commute. It is incident free back toward 495. That is our traffic watch. In the next 10 minutes, we will update the ride on 395. Larry five people are recovering after a terrible accident. Famousnt wrong after a daredevil stunt show z29kuz zstz y29kuy ysty announcer you are watching good morning washington, on your side. Autria vowing that the show will go on after circus performers plunged 20 feet. This is the gma first look. Circus disaster. Five highway or performers in sarasota, florida, losing her balance during practice, plummeting 25 feet to the ground. Daredevil belinda one of the performers on that wire. Of he did not fall and says he is not injured. But his injured but his sister was hurt. Two performers are in critical condition, one suffering a traumatic brain injury. The group was rehearsing a complex, never before performed eightperson pyramid that would have set a world record. Similar to this one, with seven performers. Wires Officials Say the rigging was fine. They simply lost the balance. We will have the latest the bakery flavors you love. [ ding ]. Now available in your dunkin coffee. Sip in the happy with a medium vanilla cupcake, or new fudge brownie macchiato or latte for 1. 99 from 2 00 to 6 00 p. M. America runs on dunkin. Washington, on your side. Larry the dmv is dodging a winter storm bullet. The snow having a minor impact on our area right now. Just having an impact north of us in philly, new york, and boston. Im larry smith. Autria m autria godfrey. Lets get right to Eileen Whelan. Sorry, were starting with veronica. Veronica in another hour, hour and a half, this will be ending across the area. You can see the white. That is the snow just to the north. County, carroll county. Carroll county has a twohour delay. The cold wind will be taking over the area. That is the bulk of the forecast. What you need to remember for today, we could see some refreeze later on. 36 is your temperature for the morning our for the temperatures will come down, and we could see some refreezing. At 32 degrees. We are 33 at hagerstown. Areas of baltimore county, you can see the temperatures hovering around freezing. Colder pockets silver spring, 32. 31 degrees in areas around baltimore, just north of there. The back edge of the snow coming through western montgomery county, leaving western frederick county. It is over before long. The green, that is the rain. We have some showers lingering. Waldorf, prince frederick, dunkirk. We could see a little bit of sunshine. Youll need the code, gloves, scarf that he will need the coat , you will need the coat, the gloves, the scarf. Temperatures are tumbling. It feels like we are in the 20s across the area. Look at the weekend. Close to 60 degrees on saturday, close to 70 on sunday. Valentines day, currently drive. Back in a couple of minutes to take a look at the windchill factor. Julie valentines day is dry. We will teach you how you can spice it up. Keep that in mind, veronica. Right now, wet pavement around town. This is northbound 95 leaving woodbridge. It is raining, so we have typical delays because of the wet pavement. A 22 minute commute from dale city headed back to the beltway. ,opside outer loop in maryland 23 minutes from college park headed to 270. Randolph road is working as a work around. On 50,se in doubt leaving the capital beltway out of New Carrollton, for those inbound on 50, leaving the capital beltway out of New Carrollton again, we are accident free. I do not want to jinx far, so good in spite of the wet pavement. We will update the ride on 270. Here is julie on a bungee here here is jummy olabanji. Jummy police have arrested members of the of Islamic State who were planning on carrying out an attack. This is in turkey. They were arrested on the border with syria. We do not know their nationality, but we do know all of this comes as cia director mike pompeo is scheduled to meet with leaders in ankara today. Two major topics they will discuss the ongoing crisis in syria and taking down isis. We will update you as we learn more about the decision. Larry stormwatch 7 coverage continues this morning. Autria we dodged a bullet this morning. Areas to the north are in the bullseye. Molly has a look at what is going on north. At new york city. Public schools in new york, boston, and philadelphia are all closed here it some areas could see as much as a foot of snow. On long island, there is a blizzard warning in effect. Take a look at this video out of allentown, pennsylvania. A few inches on the ground, and the storm is just getting started. Road crews are trying to stay ahead of things. Thousands of fligs are already canceled. Q mccray is live at reagan, where nearly 200 flights are already canceled. We will check in with him in about 15 minutes. Back to you guys. Ofry as we deal with a dose which weather in the northeast, the cleanup continues down south as a tornado swept through louisiana. Dozens of homes were destroyed. Only some in the path of the tornado are still standing. One of the most powerful tornadoes to ever hit that city. An ef3 tornado look at that. Two people are still in the hospital. It is time to give you 100 in free money. We are trying to make your day just a bit better, so we have 100 bucks in keepit cash. B number seven right now. Callseven near of 7035287334. 100 oncaller gets good morning washington right now. You will have another chance tomorrow. That someoneound special, you popped the question, and now the weather now the wedding registry. Dominos is launching a wedding registry. That are good for a special meal. I am canceling my williamssonoma, bed bath beyond. This is where it is at. Larry nothing says i love you for life like dominos pizza. You know what everyone likes . Autria pizza larry done. Not much snow this morning, but were still feeling the return of winter. Autria temperatures dropping and wind roaring a its league night . saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico goin up the country. Bowl without me. Frank. im going to get nachos. Snack bars closed. Gah ah, ah ah. Im goin up the country, baby dont you wanna go . Geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides. Veronica how ironic around here. We are seeing some snowflakes weekend it is going to be very mild. We are back to the springlike temperatures are the weekend, including areas through west virginia, western portions of virginia, where a lot of the ski resorts are. This morning, because of the higher temperatures, slushy to the north of us. We are seeing snowflakes coming down but having a little impact having little impact on area roads. By this afternoon, there could be some more wraparound snow showers. We could see some refreeze later tonight. As we check on the temperatures, a big range from 34 in delphi, 42 in virginia. Look at the back edge of this. Leaving frederick, the snow ending in gaithersburg, laurel. Some rain showers through area of calvert and st. Marys county. Today, 38. But with the wind, it will feel in the 20s. Every cold one indeed. The forecast wind chills by 8 00 p. M. Today. Tomorrow, in the singledigit spirit we will talk more about the weekend in detail with an hourly look at that coming up at 10 30. Coming up at 7 30. Julie for those coming out of woodbridge, dale city, getting across the occoquan, you are not alone. A 24minute ride. Leaving dale city to the capital beltway. Allow some extra time. It will take you a while to get where you want to be. 270 out of germantown, gaithersburg, definitely on the brakes right now. You will find a 23minute ride southbound from clarksburg to the split. That is out traffic watch. The ride headed into northeast. Side, 7 is on your alerting, investigating, and protecting. Autria the danger in your home that since thousands of kids to the hospital every year. Went inree thieves looking for purses at the bloomingdales in tysons. Police got involved in things escalated quickly. We will tell you about it on good morning washington. Q if you have plans of taking off today, chances are your flight is grounded. I will have know you can save today for whats important tomorrow. Announcer you are watching good morning washington, on your side. Autria you are waking up to a little bit of rain and in some cases a snowflake or two. The snowe big story is up north, with a foot expected in some places. Autria snow city, philly, and boston. It,f you can believe yesterday in new york we were setting record temperatures, record high temperatures 65 degrees out of jfk airport. Take a look time me now. That is not the case. Youre seeing these snow plows going by dozens of times as we have been out here the last couple of hours. This snow in new york started a couple hours ago. It had been raining throughout the night. It was still very warm. It had been cooling off throughout the night since the record highs yesterday. Today we could see a foot, maybe more than a foot in new york. School systems are already closed for the day in new york city. School systems in boston and philadelphia are also closed as well. Boston could see about 15 inches there. This is of course wreaking havoc on the airports in the northeast. Canceled for today. These guys are doing their jobs, doing the best they can. People in new york are going to be out and about getting to work. People are going to be trying to use the subway system, the trains, the buses. Those are still running at this point. The brunt of this storm is expected to be this morning. Thankfully only for a few hours. So between 7 00 a. M. And 10 00 a. M. , that is where we will see the worst of it. Blowing snow. Drifting snow. And some pretty poor Road Conditions. This is the first major storm we have seen in new york. Most people are pretty thankful we have not seen this over and over so far. Larry chris, thanks so much. The storm is still forcing airlines to cancel thousands of flights already. Autria hundreds of those care sold q mccray has more. Q people here are seeing a lot of red, cancellations, and here is the proof. Everything on this display screen is either canceled or delayed. The 7 04 is now leaving at 10 30. To give you some perspective, this is the arrival display boards. There are six of them. There are 11 flights on every single board. That is 66 flights. Only six of them are leaving on time. There are a bunch more delays and cancellations on this one as well. These are the departures. We checked. More than 180 flights are delayed or canceled out of dca. More than 70 out of baltimore. There are more than 40 out at dulles. Check your flight before heading to the airport today. Im q mccray. Back to you. Autria thanks so much. Now we want to get to Eileen Whelan, who is in frederick county. Larry she is inside stormtrak 7. What does it look like out there . Eileen it is still snowing, but it is cold and blustery. Storm found 7 stormtrak 7 is in the mount airy area. I want to show you, there is some accumulation here. ,t is measuring about an inch probably just a little more than that. It is just sticking now on the grass. I will show you the road behind me. For the most part, it is wet, but in that a few hours we will have to watch for a few icy spots. Airy, back tount you guys. Larry 7 is always on your side when the Winter Weather hits. Grab our it is free. Breaking news. In fairfax county. Autria three people are on the run and police are scouring the area in mclean after a latenight robbery in tysons corner. John gonzalez has more information on a situation that turned dangerous fast. John good morning. It was a robbery that quickly turned into a police chase. Police are looking for them. Fairfax county Police Looking for them with a helicopter, k9 unit. Take a look. All of this started at the bloomingdales at the mall in tysons. We understand all three men, wearing hoodies and sweatshirts, went into the store and started stealing purses off the shelves. They took off in a car. We want to show you video of where that dark colored mazda ended up. It ended up off the road new the intersection of besley and old courthouse. There was a police pursuit. Into a tree in the wood area three miles from the mall. Fortunately, no injuries. No other cars involved. Fairfax county police not only searching for these men this morning, but they are also going through some of the Surveillance Video here at tysons mall. And they are hoping to talk to some shoppers that might have been here at the bloomingdales around 9 00 last night. Reporting live in tysons, john gonzalez, good morning washington. Video . Remember this it is very hard to forget. This toddler in utah barely escaping with his life after a jester topples over on him and his mother. Not every family is so lucky. Every year, more than 17,000 kids land in the emergency room after being injured by falling furniture. Lisa fletcher shows you some of the deadliest traps for kids and the simple fix that takes five dollars and five minutes that could save your childs life. That i could do. So my whole life it really was, just like that. Fight tone mothers prevent a devastating and terrible loss. Do not miss fatal falls, tonight at 11 00. J. Is back. Things are changing in some areas where it is turning to rain. The big flakes are starting to cover the ground in places like frederick, vermont, brunswick, Howard County around eldersburg. You can see the big flakes covering the ground. But the roads for the most part are fine. Isolated patches this morning that are slick. We are so much better this morning than we would be yesterday than today. Just over the line in pennsylvania, they are seeing snowfall rates at an inch to two inches per hour. , allton, new york, boston getting the big snow out of this system. We are on the southern edge with the cold air lagging behind the moisture. The darker blue to the north with a big snowfall rates. You can see leaving the area, the last of the snow. Gaithersburg, maybe another 30 minutes for you. Fairfax and West Springfield as well. Even the rain showers through southern maryland, maybe for another hour or so. Temperatures are staying in the 30s. A cold day, maybe some sunshine, but a whole lot of wind. 30sday we are back to the to 60 degrees. We will pingpong all over the place, as we have done all winter long. A very mild weekend for us. Saturday, the warm air mass. Sunday, the chance for a sprinkle or a cold front coming through. Look at the temperature. 67, 3 00 on sunday with maybe a little bit of rain coming down. Mild weekend tuesday, valentines day, close to 50 degrees. We are back to average in the mid part of next week. Julie we will take it. On the roads, looking through some of the raindrops without traffic cameras, we are finding we are below speed, thankfully, incident free. No incidents, but a 31 minute a 31minute drive from clarksburg to the lane divide. Leaving the beltway headed to southeast, a 13minute commute northbound to the 11th street bridge. Our traffic land c capitol street, delays headed to the tunnel. You will find 395 coming across 26 minuteset bridge, from the beltway across the potomac. 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Fairfax county police are still searching for the suspects. 2k a whole lot of q a whole lot of red, a whole lot of cancellations. Eileen look at all this snow. Much did you have . At least five inches. Public schools in new york, boston, and philadelphia are all closed this could be the biggest storm for the winter for the northeast. Good morning, america. Winter whiteout. The biggest snowstorm of the season hitting the northeast right now. 50 million americans bracing for up to a foot of snow. And blizzard conditions already sparking dangerous commutes. Watch out, watch out. Thousands of flights canceled. Schools closed in major cities. The snow coming down up to four inches an hour. Demoralizing and disheartening. Unprecedented comments from president Trumps Supreme Court nominee criticizing the president s harsh words about judges. Courts seem to be so political. As trump lashing out at nordstrom for dropping ivankas fashion line. Will this start a Chain Reaction . And basketbrawl. 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