Light flurry activity comeflurrt through already. This air is very dry so a lot ds of it trying to evaporate. Ra its not going to be longon before our next wave begins wavi moving in. Ng you can kind of see thatf see tt crossing interstate 81. Os lets get a little bitsing closo still very light but i know some folks are seeing those light snows and flurriest sn showing up out there. Showhe and you can see the bulk oful our next wave is again moving very quickly. Quily it does not look like its going to turn into anythingth much bigger than an inch orinch 2inches that is for sure. Maybe the mountains get three or four. Its very cold. Were 36 in the district. E dict. Well drop when the snowp whenno starts in earnest in the next tt couple of hours. Westminster 28. Westr everything will stick onl stickn untreated surfaces so for tonight well say at 7 oclockck just some flurries if you still have some running aroune n to do. To by 9 oclock watch for theat light snow to move in west tovet east. East. By 11 oclock probably snowingbg lightly again with ali temperature of aboutghtemp d degrees. So, its all about the roadsll t and im gladhe to say that were getting this evening commute com in okay. In it looked for awhile thereehe that maybe things w started early but gary i bety youre not seeing too much outi there right now. Therrigh no, not at all. O, not a all. We were out at 5 00 nothing0 non was falling. Nothing is falling now. You nailed it right there. Iled its all about the evening commute. So this stays away from the evening commutell. As stay up and downg commu wisconsin thg are great. Its pretreated, too much i think that will help thingsthatw out once it gets going so weo dont need to worry too muchorrc about that. Ab at least initially and if yound get inside tonight by 9, 10 10 oclock you should be okay andka then this gets out of here byre tomorrow morning. Ow mor. Look, let me show you whatme syh were talking about. Obviously its cold now. D now. Its been pretty cold all dayoly were you the clouds. Wehe temperatures are staying rightes around freezing for us n aow ann of course north and west west temperatures are much, muchuch,h colder and i suspect that overht the next couple of hours just about everybody is going to be o at freezing or below, okay. So, that basically means withith that in case anything thatthing fall center city going to stick and we could have some issues. Steadier light snow comes in after 8 oclock. Olo about 8 00 to 9 00 to about 3 a. M. Or so we could have hav some accumulating snow andno look, were not talki for the district probably a dtr dusting, maybe 1 inch in some neighborhoods and then farthernr north we get, we could haveldav some places that potentiallyottl could get up to 2inches or so. So. Heres what were thinking. W we like tohat colorize everything. Northern maryland thats were there Winter Weather advisory is in place. Well go up to marylnter w 2inches. 2nche some of could you have an o inch. Some of you could have a goodf solived dus ating g. Ood dti farther north and westes especially higher elevationsleti 2inches or so. R in the city to the south aheouth dusting over toward thed t eastern shore. Another part of this story, we, havent talked about it much is the arctic cold. Ol so by sunday this may be thee t preferred hat because it becausi covers everything. Co so, i think really you haveuav this chance of snow, chance ofho snow saturday and then reallynea cold arctic air comes in by the latter part of the weekendee so sue well be talking aboutalo that more too coming up laterpat on this evening. S evg. Yes, we l we already have h some winter storm watcheser going up for saturday southso and east of d. C. Of d more on that in a moment. Check of the roads with Lauren Demarco and while we had flurries earlier i think mostarr of that has gone awa iy t but ii looks like a lot of people hit e the road darn early. E where are you at right now. Rigw reporter thats right. Ter im ons southbound 210 indian0i head highway leaving the lng the beltway. Weve been looking for snow, guys. En lw, flguurries earlierar as you said before the the 5 oclock hour. K hou but its cleared out for now. The good thing is that crews have been really working totly i treat these roads. Treat thes you can take a look at what a w were looking at here southbound 210. 2 its heavy and slow but thats a i think just because of the the rush hour. Hou what weve been dealing withith really has just been those t typical delays. Elay but we are learning from vdotdo that theyve got 1100 piecesiece of equipment staged around Northern Virginia and as weipmen were v tnia raveling earlier ard the beltway the exit the entrance ramp i believe it was from eisenhower avenue we saw ws a whole line of those plowshoseo and salt trucks so they are are ready and waiting. Aiti same story in maryland and inand virginia. Inia. Maryland or so in maryland, maryland state highway telling that you sayll they are prepared. They are pre they have pretreatedpa the roada and they also tell us that the t good news is because this event is expected to start to st with snow and not rain theynot were able to pretreat with the e brine, that salt mix. In d. C. They used a hot mix. Its brine mixed with beetith be juice which is supposed tois s help and thats a good thingupsi going forward. Gog fo were having a littlere hle trouble with laurens audiosudio there but you get the the impression that she saw thataw a snow earlier and roads arend roa ready to go and thatsand tha important because we recalle rel right before the big january j blizzard last year a very last a small amount of snow made for mf a huge mess and thats why w everybodys watching. S wat the snow tomorrow isw brushable. It will be very powdery. Y wde youre not going to have to have scrape it off. Its not going to be icy so thats one rounds of snow that u were watching. A second round onnd o saturday and i want you to see whats behind me. Weve got winter storm watchests including Saint Marys County. T. Whats the difference betweeneee watch an advisory. Vi a watch means theres a potential for more snow. Re s ocean city down through the t lower delmarva the northernhe nr neck of virginia into int southeastern virginia under u winter storm watches. Er s potential for 5inches or more r of snow in those areas. Thats not brushable. Thats shovellable. Llle. Thats a big storm and oneto a worth watching because it has is tried to trend closer to ourloso ea. A. Well talk about whether orhe not theres any snow in the cards for d. C. Out oferes r d. O saturdays storm coming up in cp just a few minutes. Ut. Tony, shawn, back to you. K to y all right, sue, thank youe, a very much. Strong words today from the director of National Intelligence on claims russiaus interfered with the recentfereth president ial election. Entialctio during a Senate Hearing onearino capitol hill, James Clapper clap testified there is no doubt the country did play a key key role in the election but hee added despite the recent findings theres no way torewa know exactly how their tir activ influence american voters. First, we cannot say ay they did not change any voteny v tallies or anything of that sort. We have no we have no way of gauging the impact thatac t certainly Intelligence Community cant gauge the g impact it had on choices thehoee electorate made. Electo mad president elect trump willdet be briefed by tope intelligencc officials tomorrow about theout hacking report. And the president elect has nominated former indiana senator dan coats to be ther da director of nationaln intelligence. Coats served two terms in the senate and wasrved t ambassadoro germany during george w. W bushs presidency. Bushnc he also served eight years in ya the house of representativesrese and has served on the senateate intelligence and armedrmed services committees. Ommitt coats nomination comes as thehe president elect haas has beentl criticizing americanecerican intelligence agencies. Fox5 is your station fors yn tweet us your thoughts rightsig now about all thingss political. Politi use the 5at6 30. 5a then look for your tweet on twet our political show coming upom next at 6 30. 6 3 u. S. Park police are stillari trying to figure out who left a stash of guns at a woodedoode area near fletchers boathouse b in northwest a hiker found two o of the weapons yesterday yterday inside a violin case. Fox5s paul wagner is live live in northwest tonight with the wh very latest. Es paul. Paul reporter hey, shawn. R heysw yeah, im at fletchers ftchers boathouse and were just eastrt of the area where that hikerha found that violin thathat contained at least one weaponste and what were told is that t weapon appeared to be an assault weapon either an ak47 or possibly an sks. Now, i want to show you on you n this map exactly where she found this violin and then the t rest of the weapons. Its right here, its a very v small strip of wooded arearea that runs just on the other theo side of the canal and rig next to canal road and theres no hiking trails there. Ls the its all just wooded area. Are and so she was walking along alo and found that violin case and e then the police came in and and they found the the cache of weapons. Lets play you now what anna a rose of the u. S. Park policek pi told reporters yesterday. Rd we found i think it was atita least two weapons inside the violin case and the woman thatha found it she happened to just t be hiking in the area, saw saw this pile of debris kind ofnd along canal road near the stone wall. One wall. And she brought the violine oug case down to fletchersletc boathouse to tell us that,l tha hey, i found this stuff. So, we responded. Es we found we recovered theered violin case with the weaponshe w inside and then we responded res to the area where she found the weapons. Weapo reporter now, take a, t look at the violin case. C it doesnt appear to be weathered. Theres even some duct tape on it. It looks like it hasnt beenen n out in the elements very long. Sn now, this is what we learned lea today from sources who werees wr here at the u. S. Park police found was what appeared to be some homemade silencers. Ilencers now these people that told uss this didnt actually examiney them but thats what they said s they looked like. In addition they said there was ammunition insidethition a 5gallon bucket as well as a bus couple of handguns. Handgun there was also a very large and very heavy cache of c ammunition that appeared to be wrapped in that duct tape. D in there were other weapons upeapop there as well. The question now is why werewhy they there . Were told thatoldt they were about 5 feet fromom the canal wall. The question is, why were theyee there . We talked to u. S. Park. S police today. Lice t. We talked to the alcoholohol tobacco and firearms which is i also assisting u. S. Park. Ar police and theres noo explanation as to why those why weapons were there. Wes we we talked with a number of Police Officers today who were r concerned that perhaps thisat pt was a drop for an attack of some sort, perhaps an ambushmb on Police Officers or ancers orn attack on a nightclub or something related to the inauguration. Ti but when we talked to the u. S. Park police today and the atf they said they would provide no further information at allt about their investigation. Es so, its a mystery here as tos why those weapons were therens e and were going to stay on itta and see what else we can learnea down the road. Live at fletchers boathouse, bou paul wagner, fox5 local news. Thank you paul. Amoroso and president elect trump areeltr teaming up again this time intin the white house. Hou did you see it . A big y seei mistake made by a local magazine. Theres the cover right there. Eh well tell you about it. Start the car start the car inter sale. Wooooooo get up to 50 off select items. Now through january 10th. 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Association it is time to talk what weve been talking about all n it wveeek. Bee its those snow samplers. Spl little hors deouvre. Ittl i mentioned there could be a few delays in the morning. Do you still think ttihaont. Edl. I still think its possible but i would describe tomorrow morning as a game timeuld de ca. Okay. Because there may be a fewsee areares washington county, frederick county, loudoun ldo county that might get an inchch or two. T might need extra time to getet those side roads straight. Ai for many areas its not going g to be enough. To bg that means dont count ont o that snow day. Ay definitely dont counter one a snow day. Maybe just a twohour delay but its still possible. There could be enough. Ere weve seen that happen withpen h less snow, right. R so i think theyll driveyllve around tomorrow morning andomor the other thing thats workingkg in the favor of schools as fav well as road crews is this is t will be done by about 3 00 in 0 the morning maybe as early as 2 00 in the morning. N the does that gi time to get caught up . I hopeop so. In the meantime we watch andatca wait for the next rounds of rnd flurries. Did you guys see a few flurries on your way in. D yo iri on did. Yes. In some cases they were microscopic. Very small and dry. Ver yes, very dry. Thats why you didnt see much m more than that because the airua is really dry and it takest t that initial batch that showedt up beautifully on radar evenarve yesterday on our maps and then it dries it up but now the air e is more saturated and our next x band coming in will be able toeo produce a little bit more of aea covering and thats why were w expecting that by about afterbot 8 oclock or so. Ocl its getting closer. Lose well show you radar in a moment. Winter weather advisory have ileath 5 oclock 5c tomorrow morning mainlyning mail western areas, north and west. W this is where you have thes wh chance of seeing some of those two hour delays and again notsei sure there are going to be ae lot of them but westerneste montgomery, western howard upd u toward frederick certainly inin the high spolyts. High spots some of these areas garrett gart county for example could get g three to 5inches out of it. Of. Thats nothing for garrett gar county of course and the skihe s lovers will love it. Lors but as we look at radar you y see it once again filling in. Fi some of this may still be to the ground but this is but ts pretty much what we expecteduc and that willh continue to groo and become more steady acrossory the area. A. So, if you dont like to deal to with the snow i would say tryayt to be wrapped up by about 7 oclock because this will be filling in and it certainly c looks on radar that it iss building quite a bit in theit i last little while. Last little this is our main action, thehe bigger part of the wave. W this is not a big storm and we a dont expect anything to beytngt able to go haywire but you can see we have a few hours ofrs o snow in which we can wcan accumulate and thats why wehy w think a widespread coating tooat an inch is likely do affect do f temperatures will certainlyre support that cold stuff because its already dowppnort w below freezing in many areasng s north and west to 36 in the36 ie district, probably not big n b problems on main roads in ands i around the district. Hetric thats for sure but the snowno cast will show you the amount a again. Were saying up to 2inches, 2, that means it could be at coul a coating to 1 inch, maybe a a fluffy two. This is the high spots where w you could find a little bitli more and here around theernd the district a dusting to an inch, i very little south of d. C. C and i think sometimes this is s easier for up to understand undt and interpret. Not an epic storm for us but a a half inch to an inch in somenom areas maybe 1. 2 for hagerstown, 1. 4 forrstown, 1. 4 r martinsburg and you can seesb very littleur dg own to the sou. So, just enough to cause some sm slick spots if road crews c havent been on it but boy are a they hustling trying to get there. Hour by hour on futurecast fills in a little f bit more by 8 oclock. Olock. Main action between aboutbo nine, 10, 11 oclock and 2, 3, 2 4 oclock in the morning. Mor by 4 00 a. M. Really clearing out. Sun is out by 8 00 a. M. Ut by a according to our futurecast. Ut so, even the sun on a cold day y will do a number to get rid ofed any of that extra snow. So, lets move on to round rnd two. Friday at 10 oclock, werecloce still clear but look whatsclea going on down to ourr south. Su this is a different storm its o at the coast and this couldou drop some significant snow forw ocean city, down through saintu marys county, southeasternst virginia, Virginia Beach under winter storm watches. Rm w it could drop seveatral inche some winter storm watches win going up for fridayte eveningvei and saturday evening as closelo by as Saint Marys County and including the northern neckk salisbury and the beaches. Eache. Send us your pictures if youif get some good snow out ofw t this. All of us in the fox5 weatherea center worry that this ishat th awfully close by. Winter storm watches as close wt by as saint marys. Could itby a include charles orr maybe even an advisory. Ais all thereof needs to bel watchethd. Er im glad its a saturday. Satda heres the area of lowrea of low pressure will produce that snow. It has a lot more to work withrw anthdat cot mertainly the cold a here because it will be in the b 20s and 30s as we led intoe li the weekend. Very cold. Speaking of cold, the patternten ahead for next week also a cold one. Ld one. So be ready for that. Forha well be dealing with 20s anda 30s even into next week. T your fox5 accuweather 7dayday forecast, so we got our little, hors deouvre snow asrsd we call it just enough to makeht you full possibly or sick of of it. And then well watch to see to e what happens with saturday. Witd again, were going say snow isni possible here. Po it would we would be on the b any light snow saturday buturda there has been a trend withhas e some models to move tndha wtt closer to us. So, we kind of like spend aikepa lot of time on one storm and then whoa whats this. Were watching that closely as well. We but im glad its on saturday. Da but thats a cold sevenday forecast. Yes, us indeed. Except next wednesday when we get up winter is here. 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The east and the west are mine. The north and the south are mine. All seems beautiful to me. Hi everybody. Body the accusation of Russian Election hacking took center t stage on capitol hill today. Api as you can see from the runne down on the side of the screen e this is one of the hottest o stories at 6 3ne o0. At 3 we invite you to join the t conversation. Tweet us let us know what youcot think. Use 5at6 30. 5at6 3 lets take some live images ige from capitol hill where the t senate armed servicesnatermed ss Committee Held a hearing on the russian hacking of theking e u. S. Elections. Ctns tomorrow the cia and fbi directors will brief therief president elect on the investigation. National Security Officials briefed president obama on the hacking today. Idenhacking tod you may recall he oayrder the. A report on the hacking a