Adding up to maybe one to three or four inches of sleet and snow combined. Current temperatures are just hanging around the freezing mark in the metro area. Down south Southern Maryland is above freezing. Outside today temperatures near 30 with a wintry mix of nearly anything Mother Nature can throw at us this morning. A snowball fight starts around 10 00 this morning. It will be windy. Snow flurries off and on through much of the day. Windchills will stay in the 20s all day today. But by tomorrow morning, windchills down into the single numbers and teens, and windchills will stay in the teens all day tomorrow. So windy and cold weather is here for the duration. A check on the storm team 4 radar with where the rain snow line is lets go over to sheena. That line has been fluctuating so weve been seeing areas of icy mix, areas of a rain snow type mix but what we are looking at now is some very heavy precipitation looking into Calvert County approaching Charles County and we are long of almost 3 inches an hour. There you see the icy mix near annapolis and that continues a little bit farther to the north. Thats been fluctuating around the district. We still have mostly snow with an icy mix here and there, but weve been seeing a lot of sleet, freezing rain, mostly snow back off to our west and near 81 but the sleet and freezing rain, thats whats giving us dangerous travel on the roads. Take a look at that heavy precipitation moving in. Almost three inches but as we go into the next 30 minutes to an hour that will be moving into the district and it could be falling in the storm of still an icy mix. But lets check those treacherous roads out there with Melissa Mollet. Good morning. Just a mess here this morning. So another problem, brand new here. The rest of the beltway you can see green here on the east side of the beltway. On the west side we are quite slow. That might be because all of this white right here, that is snow falling right now here across the area. Happening in your neighborhood. 95 expressway, that looks better than it did as youre headed inbound and northbound at 301. Tree on the right side of the roadway there. Remember, metro here running on that saturday schedule today. Metro bus on a severe snow plan and vre on s. Thank you. Weve seen a whole lot in Northern Virginia in terms of the weather. We saw sleet and then snow again and those heavy winds in leesburg. That is where we find justin finch live there this morning. What are you seeing now . Reporter still got the sleet falling down out here. Not much of a letup. Its cranked up a bit in the past couple minutes here. I want to show you a few things. We do have this sleet coming down. We had plows roll through here earlier. This is not what i would call a snowball. It is heavy, dense, it is like a lot of shaved i one big ball and this is all over the streets and roads here in Loudoun County and thats what crews are working with out here this morning trying to clear out these roads of that very heavy ice that has collected out here. Also too on the hood of our live truck here, the ice has also been building here as well. As you can see, ill push that a little bit there. Ill have to give it some elbow grease to clear that off. You will see that across vehicles in our area. Of course this is the same stuff thats coating plants out here as well as streets and roadways. I do want to show you if i can move here without falling over how this looks untouched. It is pristine. It looks soft. People may say i can go out here and manage driving in this kind of stuff but the not advised for you to come out here if you dont have to. A plow truck now going by here. The manager out here tells us that these trucks really need room to work especially on days like today when their main enemy out here is going to be these quickly building icy conditis. So they are advising everyone to stay at home. Watch it from your window. Do not come out. They advise you, they say if you want to come outside it might be better to do it in a few days. Not even tomorrow. Were live here inlessburg. Back in to you. Adam has been traveling along the beltway to see how conditions are changing on no road. How is it out there now. Reporter take a live look out the storm team 4 camera here on our windshield and weve got a mixture of sleet and freezing rain falling right off braddock road. Were on the inner loop in fairfax county. The eastern side of the beltway over in prince georges county, all rain over there. Really not a big deal, but you get over here and you start to see a little bit more slush. You can see here from the passenger side camera that weve got hooked up here, and just really the sloppy, wet with out here this morning. Not a fun ride by any stretch of the imagination. Take a look over to the left there. You can see the express lanes, those are cleared out pretty well, but theres also that pocket of patchy slush that youre dealing with and in a lot of ways this storm is a little bit harder than just the traditional snowfall because you can try to push this stuff out of the way, but then it just kind of puddles up and pools back into the road. So a trickty storm for sure and its definitely a changeable situation as you go around the entire beltway, guys. All right. Thank you. Now we want to shift locations to maryland. This is where derrick ward is live with a look at conditions there. You might have gotten the worst of it. Reporter well, take a look at germantown road. You can see pavement now. Thats something we havent seen since this all started, but dont be fooled. Youve still got to take it easy because there is some freezing rain falling and the wind is blowing and thats making it feel a lot it felt a little bit warmer than it has earlier and i dont know if those are the beginning stages of hypothermia or if the temperatures are going up a bit but it is a bit warmer but still, youve got to take it easy. People are starting to dig out now. You see a snow blower going in the background there and some plows at this gas station where we are parked. So it is starting to become something approaching a normal day. That is, by the clock and maybe if you look out, but once you get out here youll see its anything but normal. We got about three inches now. I think that is the total coming from germantown here and we dont see it here because its been blowing around a lot, but there is some significant snow here and its kind of hard because of that ice thats falling. So like weve been saying all day, its a combination of things. Nothing pleasant to be out in unless you absolutely have to. Back to you. Im a little worried about you. I think you need to go in the ck something serious. Reporter i was just kidding about the hypothermia. Okay. Good. Hes fine. Hes been standing outside in the wind and the cold. Since 2 00 a. M. Its delirium is what it is. If you need to get around you can still take metro today. Metro is open with service above and below ground. However trains will be running on a saturday schedule arriving every 12 minutes. Safe track single tracking on the yellow and blue lines will continue. There will be no shuttle buses between Franconia Springfield and pentagon. Also Metro Bus Service will operate only on selected routes. Metro Access Service is cancelled for the day. Now, throughout the morning well keep you updated on those winter storm watches and warnings, advisories and all that stuff on our nbc washington app. This weather will have an impact on the Cherry Blossoms. Well get an update on theyre supposed to be in peak bloom soon. Deteriorating conditions in new york city. How this noreaster is already impacting travel up and down the east coast. We continue to see a mix of rain, sleet and snow across the area. Its been all rain down across Southern Maryland. Amounts in and around the city of washington, one to maybe 3 inches of mostly sleet but as you go north and west amounts of 5 inches or more are quite likely. A check of the forecast for the rest of the week cong up. Mi okay, we have one more. Cant wait to see what it is. giggling now dont worry, hes totally gonna grow into it. And soon its gonna be college and books and fees and housing oh, the miracle of life [narrator] tame the tuition monster with the gift of virginia529, perfect for any occasion. Visit virginia529. Com. From maryland to northwest d. C. News4 is working for you on this storm team 4 wetather aler day. Our crews shot all of these images from our region. You can see how wet the roads are. Places are slick and slushy. Sheena, youve been telling us how messy it is out there. What can we expect in the next few hours . I dont see much changing. Now, what were seeing right now on the radar is a lot of very heavy rain through parts of Southern Maryland. Were going to watch this very closely. This precipitation is moving a little to the north because of the entire weather system is now trying to push off to the east a little bit quicker. So we are watching that very closely. We have just a wintry mix from the district down through fredericksburg and down through 95. Farther off to our west, thats all snow still, but we do have that icy mix right near annapolis and closer to the district and surrounding areas, thats where you see that pink and that is where we have the wintry mix. The motion of that very well be back in just a minute. Lets see whats going on out there on the roads. 66 east at 50. Fairfax this morning had a crash blocking the left side of the roadway. That has just cleared out of the way, so no more worries there. Germantown to the spur, going to take you a little extra time there. Top of the beltway looking okay here right now. 66 inbound is slow, so is 95 northbound. Again, a lot of slick spots across the area. Well get a look at the map of the beltway and show you where its going to be the most painful coming up. Thank you, lets go to the live desk. Tracking some problems at the airport. Thats right. If you have a flight to catch youre likely not going anywhere any time soon. Just looking over the latest cancellations from our big three airports. Flight aware. Com reporting nearly 500 cancelled out of bwi marshall. Over at Reagan National 379 cancelled flights and at Dulles Airport were seeing 288 cancelled. These numbers are roughly about half and half of the incoming and outbound flights. That misery map is showing about three quarters of flights either cancelled or delayed and always before you head out to the airport you want to call your airline to get the latest information on your flight. Back to you, eun. Thank you. Its 6 15. Our Team Coverage continues from other parts of the country being hammered by this snowstorm. Pamela os bourn joining us live now. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Were actually joining you right now from the center of reading, pennsylvania. Weve seen crews out all morning long trying to get these streets clear this morning. Just a few people braving it on the roadway this morning but i want to show you one thing. This is about how much snow weve gotten s five or 6 inches so far and the biggest changeover is that the snow thats falling is actually more pellet like. It feels like its icy coming down. I want to show you some more ice that weve seen. Weve been pointing out the ice on this fixture this morning but you can see two icicles so in addition to the snow thats on the ground, people are also dealing with ice this morning. There are a few Power Outages. We know that city hall is going to be closed. Only essential employees showing up to the city this morning. Theyre asking everyone to stay off the roads so they can get them clear. Reporting live, im pamela os bourn, back to you. Thank you. Also, running or rather blooming behind schedule are the Cherry Blossom trees. The peak blooms should start on sunday and last through next wednesday. Its a pretty short window. The initial bloom prediction was actually for today through friday, but all this weather changed everything, and put the trees in a tfragile state. Theyve emerged from their buds so theyre not as protected as they would be. We get a heavy wet snow that sits on them or again, three days of temperatures, you know, in the teens even, we could be looking at a year where perhaps the majority of the trees dont reach the peak bloom stage. Anything below 27 degrees could harm the blooms. The trees are going to be okay but the buds, i worry about them. Not going to be one of those postcard years i dont think. But what can you do . We were hoping for this storm to be a postcard storm with snow and pretty pictures, but its ice and yuck. Just warm enough to make it sleet around the city and that is really the kind of stuff that nobody likes. The only thing worse than sleet would be freezing rain so at least were not dealing with thought, i did anyway, i thought it would be more in the way of snowfall than just a sleetfall here in the city. A lot of snow though. Our friends and neighbors up north and west of the city, this picture sent to me by dave love in cumberland, maryland. You can always send me your pictures and dont forget tell me how much snow youve measured out there as well. He did not tell me how much snow but that looks like a solid 3 to 4 inches. Tim farris, he measured 7 inches. Locks like quite a bit on the table out there on the deck, so quite a bit of snow out north and west of town. But here in the city its mostly just been sleet unfortunately. Storm is really starting to intensify now. Its coming up the coast. Almost to ocean city, maryland right now, and as it goes up the coast its going to drag cold air back on the backside of it. So all snow north and west of town now. Been between about 4 and 6 inches now across the area. The transition here has been almost all sleet. Right through the heart of the i95 corridor, most of the immediate suburbs, youre within about a 25mile radius of washington, mostly sleet and thats the way its going to be continue here for the next little bit. Look at that little sliver of sleet and rain right up the i95 corridor. It stays all snow back out to the north and west. As the storm pulls away the cold air drains in behind it and as a result we may continue with light snow flurries and snow showers here for the remainder of the day. Totals, it really des depends on where you live. The big winters from a snow perspective will be up into maryland where you could get up to 10 inches or maybe a little more. Cold sticks around tomorrow. The blossoms are really in of way cold temperatures around here. By the weekend it will be milder, but those blossoms, they are going to be frozen and if not frozen, blown off entirely. Lets go to melissa now. Good morning, chuck. So taking a look right now again, storm team 4 x 4 driving around showing us whats going on in various areas. So this right now on little river turnpike and you can see looks like these streets will be plowed but they are quite slick this morning so remember that warning. Inner loop at eisenhower connector. Crash along the right side. You can see all that white sort of in the middle of the beltway. Again, that is snow. The pink here over the roadways, youre seeing an icy mix falling. So take a look here. You know whats happening outside your door here this morning. 66 and 95, no big issues on either of those roadways at this point this morning. 270 at montrose road, take it slow. I came down through Montgomery County this morning. It loo it is very deceiving. Thank you. We now are getting our first word on Power Outages hitting our area. We are going to check in with all of our local Power Companies and that update is just minutes away. Stay with us. Are you stuck at home because of the snow . Kra si. Rig right . You can stuff right here at home to burn the calories you need. Starting this wednesday were giving you excuse proof exercise programs to take your workouts you can download right to your tv to free workouts you can do alone or with groups to help you get motivated or if going to a gym is your thing but you like variety, well show you how you can literally gym hop to satisfy your hunger for fitness. Join us tomorrow morning on news 4 today. The time is 6 24 and this just in, grant county schools in West Virginia are now closed. So that is an update. I thought she said something about okay. All right. Well, well bring you more Team Coverage now from adam tuss. Conditions changing a lot where you are. Right . . Reporter absolutely. Ive done the entire beltway and were sneaking into some neighborhood streets. The area around fairfax. If i can get it to work for me here. Youre seeing some conditions out here, not a pretty picture when you get off the beltway as the conditions change quite a bit and weve got a little sleet mix coming down right here right now. A lot of slop in the middle of the roads. So it hasnt been a great drive getting off the beltway. I can tell you that the beltway on the eastern side is pretty much just all rain, but when you get into this part of the beltway, the western side and more neighborhood streets the conditions start to change a little bit more and you have to be careful out here. So the road crews doing what they can do but its a wet, sloppy, kind of slushy mix. You can see this camera angle that we have from the storm team 4 x 4. Weve got cameras all over this thing and were going to continue driving all around the area. Northern virginia, Montgomery County, let me know what youre seeing. Well come find you and well see if the conditions are changing all over the place. Back to you guys. You may be seeing snow, rain, a little sleet too. More live Team Coverage across the region is ahead. Plus, were monitoring the roads for you. Downed trees and slippery conditions. First 4 traffic has been tweeting up to the minute changes and more from Melissa Mollet next. And coming up, chuck and i are back with an updated look at whats happening where you live and also what you can expect for the rest of the day today and some more concerns as we go into tomorrow morning. Stay tuned. Fast moving and falling all over Loudoun County. A live look at the sleet and snow here. Im adam in the storm team 4 x 4 tracking the Road Conditions out here this morning. A sloppy nasty mix. Well let you know what it looks like in your neighborhood coming up. Reporter a cold, windy and wet morning. What you need to know if you are indeed one of thoed people who has to get out today. Coming up on news4. Our disposal to track this storm for you. And the impact of the storm is so widespread that most schools are closed except d. C. Public school theyre a twohour delay. All the closures and the delays on the nbc washington app and scrolling at the bottom of your screen. Federal employees, you are expected in on a threehour delay. Now the office of Personnel Management says federal agencies will be open today but employees do have the option for unscheduled leave or unscheduled telework. For the latest on our forecast. Chuck bell and Sheena Parveen have you covered. What are you seeing out there . Lots of problems on the roadways because of whats falling. Its an icy mix. About as bad as Mother Nature can make it. The only thing worse would be solid freezing rain and thats the one thing were not getting. Its either rain, sleet or snow and oh, what a mess it is. The roads are slippery and slidy for sure. Youre trying to go and how youre trying to get there. A slow go today. Its been all snow up here for our friends in Frederick County maryland, out to Frederick County virginia. Snowfall amounts and we continue to get them. You can send them to me on my twitter handle and look up chuck bell 4 on facebook as well. Its been all sleet here in and around the city and all rain down across parts of Southern Maryland. This is going to continue the next couple of hours. Should transition to mostly light snow later this afternoon. Sheena is back talking temperatures and totals. Right now lets take a look at traffic and chuck is stepping out of the way there. Adam test driving around for us this morning. This is route 50. You can see sort of that slush, icy mess on the roads here this morning. Theyve been treated, theyve been plowed. However, it is quite slick. Outer loop after 450, a car spun out in the left lane this morning. Inner loop at eisenhower, a crash along the right were showing you this pink here. You see white in some areas of the map over top of the roadways here. The pink is iciness falling from the sky this morning. An issue on the Woodrow Wilson bridge and travel times coming up. Now we want to head to northwest of the district to leesburg, virginia. Justin finch has been there through the night. What are you seeing now . Reporter we still have that sleet moving through here. But its a slow wakeup and opening up for businesses here off of Market Street here. I want to show you these guys out here. They have been theyre offering me coffee right here. Theyre plowing and also digging out the snow and ice on the sidewalk here. I see you have a nice hot coffee in your hand. How hard has the work been out here in these conditions . Its a lot of work. Reporter been a lot of work . Yeah. Reporter how long have you been out reporter all night youre saying. It takes a long time to get these sidewalks this clear. The plow trucks, take a look, theyre out here working too. They have been working off and on for several hours out here. These guys come through, they clear, they come right back to clean up and this snow comes right back down where they have just cleared off. Its been so steady for the past several hours. Its been a bit of a bug aboo to continue to keep these areas clear. Same story for Market Street over here. A very busy time as the snow continues to fall here in Loudoun County. Im justin finch, back in to you. Thank you. We want to continue our Team Coverage with derrick ward in germantown. Derrick, are you still seeing the freezing rain and strong winds . Reporter oh, yeah, indeed. As you can see probably its almost horizontal now. There have been some pretty good gusts out here, but the good thing is were seeing pavement here at crystal rock and germantown road. Were also seeing traffic going faster than is prudent, but you know, you have to get out, just be cautious. Thats the key. And if you dont let these plows get out here and do their job so the folks that have to come out later can indeed do it. Our photographer has been after me to do a snow angel and here you go. I done a snow angel. Thats the way you want to do it right now. You certainly dont want to get wet. But again, if youre going to go out and have some fun, this isnt the snow to do it. You cant make a snowball with this. Its pretty icy. So you know, look at it. Its nice to look at. Not as nice to be in, at least not right now. Who knows what will happen once the sun comes up. Things may change a bit. Maybe this ice will turn to rain. Thats up to chuck and sheena to tell you all about but i can tell you its cold in germantown. A lot of wind blowing. Streets are looking not a lot of traffic out. We havent seen a lot of pedestrians either. Buses are starting to run so folks are starting to move around, but its all about caution and again, if you dont have to be out, dont come out right now. Let the plows get out, let people clear the sidewalks and then you can come out and take a look. Were live in germantown, news4 back to you. It is 6 35. More Power Outages in the last hour. Lets check in with the live desk for the latest numbers. Were starting to see those numbers pick up since about 30 minutes ago when we brought you the latest. Most of them that were seeing in Southern Maryland. Reporting nearly 6,000 without power. About half of them in Charles County. Dominion virginia power has just over 2,500 and most of the issues we told you about that they had are fixed in alexandria. King George County has major outages we should tell you. Pepco reporting nearly 2,000 outages mos Montgomery County. Well bring you the latest numbers. Back to you. Dangerous driving conditions out there. We are already seeing how this storm is impacting people up and down the east coast. And good morning, everybody. Yes, weve had reports from some of our weather watchers now. 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And if you need extra motivation the grad fund at Strayer University because up to your last year of classes could be on us. Thats right. On us. Today is the day. Strayer university. Lets get it, america. Good morning, we are talking a lot of everything. Sleet, freezing rain, snow and a lot of heavy rain down to the south and east of the district near annapolis. That is an icy mix closer to the district. Kind of an icy wintry mix and then we look down to the south, that is a lot of heavy mix, but the rest of the area we see the snow and some messy roadways there. Lets take a look at those roadways. It is slick all over the place here this morning. One problem, inner loop after the Woodrow Wilson bridge. A vehicle involved in a crash there on the right side of the roadway. 95 north at dale city. Remember, the pink is icy mix falling right now and the white is snow. So you can really see how and why these roads are impacted. Coming up well take a big look at the beltway and also a look at these travel times to see how long its going to take you to get in if you do have to hit the roads today. Its 6 40 and we want to get another check on the roads. Joining us by phone now is shante felix with the highway administration. Caller good morning. Kind of fill us in on what youre seeing and doing. Caller right. Weve been basically out plowing and salting. What we mostly have are freezing rain conditions but if you look in the area of i270 north of gaithersburg youll see snow so well be plowing there and then in the areas well be doing our salting. We have about 2,600 pieces of equipment out right now. Were asking people, you know, to stay home and if they cant stay home, possibly delay travel to 10 00 a. M. , even noon in a perfect world. If you do have to go out, slow down. Dont look outside and get overconfident because you dont see a lot of snow on the ground. The speed limits are set for dry conditions. These are not dry conditions so we want people to go below the speed limit and exercise caution. All right. Always good advice. Thanks for joining us with that update. Thank you. And we arent the only ones dealing with the winter storm. New york is bracing for blizzard conditions. A live report from there next. Plus, check out this tweet from norton, sledding is allowed on capitol hill. Dunkins fullbodied, cold brew coffee. Takes 12 hours to steep. And almost no time to sip. Keep on with ultra smooth taste, now available with a sweet and salted kick. America runs on dunkin. Right now, winters last major storm. Freezing rain, sleet and snow. Icicles gathering on the grill. Theyre tough to knock out. Its also on the hood too. Lots of ice there. It is creating a wintry mix, but with treacherous traveling conditions. We have you covered with the storm team 4 x 4 and storm ranger 4 and its not over yet. This is a fast moving high impact event. Snow is adding up throughout the d. C. Area right now. We have crews scattered across our region. Justin finch captured this footage in leesburg, virginia. It shows the snowplows busy throughout the night and into the Early Morning hours. Icy conditions in germantown as well. Take a look at the grill of our live truck covered in ice there. We also saw a lot of freezing rain mixing in with the snow this morning. The National Weather service of snow. And we have been all over the changing Road Conditions out there this morning. Heres the slushy mess that we found along the beltway near tysons with traffic moving very slowly in that area this morning. We have a team out on the roads and we are watching the changing conditions overnight and through the morning. From virginia, maryland and d. C. We are working for you. We want to go back to chuck bell and Sheena Parveen for a look at the latest forecast. Not a pretty day to be outside today and unfortunately its not the nice compactible snow to make snowmen and snowballs out of. Its an icy mess. Hopefully you dont have to be driving around this morning especially. If you are aware were seeing icy roads which is almost the entire area. We have temperatures right around freezing or colder through most spots. Over to annapolis, were seeing an icy mix. Even around the district now, the pink coloring around the mix and as we look farther to the south that is some heavy rain up towards annapolis and that could be transitioning over to a heavy icy mix there. Farther off to our west, all seeing snow right now. We will continue to watch this as we go through the morning, but the main concern will be hazardous travel because of what we have falling. Now, speaking of travel lets take a look outside right now. Melissa mollet, lets take a look no, were going to talk more about the weather happening now. Chuck and i will be back in just a bit. Thank you, sheena. I guess we should say welcome back winter. We have our Team Checking out all the conditions with you this morning. Justin finch is live for us in leesburg, virginia. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Thats right. We are right off of Market Street. Just freshly plowed by the way. Take a look at all the snow and ice that got kicked off the road and now, very heavy, dense, icy snow mix falling all around this area and its still falling at this time. A bit of a lull right now. It was much steadier earlier, but it falls, it lulls and picks right back up. We have seen plows moving all over this area on streets and parking lots trying to get ahead of this system as it moves through. Were also seeing businesses wake up, people wake up, open up. The streets are starting to build. Vdot is advising anyone who does not have to be out to stay at home. And we are live here in leesburg. Im justin finch, news 4. Reporter the wind is the issue here in germantown. Were at the intersection of germantown road and crystal rock. Take a look. Cars are moving easily. That pavement that we saw earlier, its got a bit of a coating on it now of slush and people are moving through but youve got to do it with caution. The thing is the wind has picked up. Weve felt some strong gusts and there you have the come down on power lines. Utilities all around the area have done a good job from cutting back from power lines but they cant get to them all and if its going to happen, this is the day. So be prepared for that. Although we havent seen it yet, it is a likelihood later on with what were having falling from the sky and the temperatures that weve got right now. Were live in germantown, derrick ward, news4. Reporter and im adam tuss tracking the Road Conditions. Take a look. Definitely more of a nasty wintry mix on route 28 as we head toward dulles. It is just sloppy out here right now and not a lot of fun. Take a look at this awesome shot we have from our passenger side camera of the 4 x 4. You can see the tracks in the road. The crews have been trying to do a good job but it is slick. You can see that sheen on the road and it is not a fun ride. Precipitation continues to come down and ping off the car. Well continue to update the six inches in ash burn and a lot of people are tweeting me. Tweet me what youre seeing in your neighborhood. Ill come find you and report on whats out there. Thank you. Heavy snow and slick roads are being blamed for a multicar crash in the chicago area. Take a look at the wreckage here. Dozens of vehicles were involved. It backed up traffic on a busy expressway last night. Seven people were hurt. The good news is, police say there were only minor injuries. Folks in and around new york city are bracing for more than a foot of snow. Lets take another live look at the condition in times square this morning. There it is. Not many people out. People are heeding the warnings. Jay gray is braving the snow for us to tell us what it looks like and how it feels out there. Good morning. Reporter good morning, eun. Good morning, aaron, the snow continues to fall here. The storm moved in overnight and its only going to intensify over the next several hours here. Through the evening forecasters say here in central park. Very slow, not a lot of traffic. Normally youd see a lot of joggers and people moving through. There have been a few but nothing like it normally is. On the roadways its cleared out as well. Were under a state of emergency. Theres also a blizzard warning in effect. Schools are closed and a lot of businesses have told employees, hey, just stay home today if you can. Stay out of this mess. We do see a lot of snowplows out and operating. 1,600 are at the ready here in the city and trying to stay ahead of this storm. That unfortunately is going to be a losing battle. The snow is going to continue to build throughout the day and continue to move up the east coast. Back to you. All right. Thank you. If youre just waking up we want to catch you up and take a quick break from our Winter Weather coverage. The Justice Department has asked lawmakers for more time to provide evidence backing up presi wiretapped his phones at trump tower. It now has until march 20th to comply. Thats the same day the House Intelligence Committee will hold an open hearing into russias interference into the election. The Congressional Budget Office has released its highly anticipated estimate on the republican plan to replace the Affordable Care act. It estimate tts gop plan will reduce the deficit by more than 320 billion over a decade but it says 14 Million People will Lose Health Coverage next year. And the man accused of jumping the white house fence friday night is facing up to ten years in prison. Tran faced the judge yesterday and asked for a government appointed lawyer. Hes now set to be released from custody until his next hearing. All right. 6 52. On the roads this morning, they have been and will continue to be a mess. Especially with the snow that was packed down and now some icy conditions out there. Melissa mollet, what should we expect . We should expect this storm team 4 x 4r, the one on te ground. Adam is on 28 approaching dulles and you can see that slick slush on the roadways. That is almost everywhere this morning. Inner loop after the Woodrow Wilson bridge, we had a car spun out. Looks like overall the bridge is looking okay this morning but remember the bridges and overpasses definitely freeze first. A car spun out in the left lane. 95 north at dale city. Have a crash there. The white is snow here, radar showing snow. The pink is the ice here this morning. 29 south a tractor Trailer Crash in the left lane. The beltway not terrible this morning. As far as metro, green line delays to greenbelt and then travel times as you might expect this morning maryland and virginia pretty slow overall. Remember to listen to wtop when you hop in your car today. Its going to be asy yeah, probably best to stay safe and stay inside for most of the day. Just let the road crews do their magic and get things back up and running. If you have a flight in and out of town today, make sure you are intouch with your carrier to make sure that your flight will go. 32 in washington, but the wind is starting to increase. A north wind now averaging 25 miles per hour. These winds will continue to increase during the late morning and early afternoon hours. Temperatures hovering right around the freezing mark around here, so a lot of frozen precipitation coming down. Mostly in the form of sleet and snow. There are pockets though of freezing rain that have been reported. So just know that it is not going to be a pretty start to the day at all. Rain, sleet and snow here through the next couple of hours. Tapering back to mainly snow and rain by lunch time and really by afternoon time today, couldnt rule out a passing snow shower or two, but the real issue is the wind later on this day today, but by this evening, windchills back into the teens, by the time you wake up tomorrow morning windchills down to the single numbers and staying in the teens all day tomorrow. For a check of storm team radar, lets see where the heaviest of the snow is. Weve been watching this all morning long. The snow mainly west of the district. This morning and around the district, thats where we find just an icy mess. So if you live anywhere around the d. C. Area and points down to the south near fredericksburg, youve been seeing that mix going on. And were still seeing that right near annapolis, near the district and thats heavy rain moving into Calvert Beach and some of that could make its way into annapolis soon. The pink shows us more of that wintry mix. Its all surrounding the drib , district and were seeing that mix in with some snow. Ow mix going on. There is the snow back off to the west and as we go through today were will be seeing those School Closings but tomorrow morning i think it delays because well have refreezing. Lets take a look at that with the tenday. A couple of mornings with teens down in the teens and 20s. Low to mid20s around the city. That could do some damage to the Cherry Blossoms down at the basin. A lot of win around today and tomorrow and breezy on wednesday so those blossoms are going to have a hard time. All right. Thank you. Here are four things to know this morning. Metro is running today on the rails and the roads. Train Service Operating on a saturday schedule with trains running every 12 minutes. Only selected bus routes are running. Head to the nbc washington app for the updated information. Nearly half of all the flights that were supposed to take off from our area airports today have already been cancelled. Check with the airline before heading to the airport. Nearly 20 Million People have n sweeping the east coast today. Some places will see up to two feet of snow. And heres a look at the pictures and video you and our staff have been sending in all morning long. Keep them coming. Beautiful pictures in some cases. And take a look at this. Right now adam tuss in the storm team 4 x 4, 28 southbound near the dulles toll road, another crash. Well see these all over the place today. All right. Thank you. At this its league night . saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico goin up the country. Bowl without me. Frank. snack bars closed. Gah ah, ah ah. Im goin up the country, baby dont you wanna go . Im goin up the country, baby dont you wanna go . Geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides. Welcome to our special coverage of the ice rain and snow that all of us are dealing with this morning. Just when you thought winter is over a master noreaster is barrelling up the east coast. Most students are enjoying a snow day and if you do have to work this is why you should slow down. Take a look. The roads are slick. Its not easy to get around this morning. You can see the closings at the bottom of the tv screen. The federal government is on a three hour delay. The office of Personnel Management made that call early this morning. D. C. Public schools opening on a 2hour delay today