Welcome to fox 5 morning news. The federal government is open today but workers have the option of taking unscheduled leave or telework. To the schools, Montgomery County schools are on a two hour delay. Fairfax county schools are on a two High Pressure our delay a nd are on a twohour delay. Charles county schools will be closed. Be sure to check the bottom of your screen for constant updates. We have the latest closings and delays on myfoxdc. Com. Also is, the federal government is taking action due to the snow that has fallen overnight. It is open today. Did we just say that . Uhhuh. I thought so. Enough. Keep in mind that the workers have unscheduled leave and telework. They know the drill. We havent had a chance to do this so far this year. But of a said it so many times this morning, i feel like im repeating this. I apologize if i just said it. This is still coming down. Rates arent terribly heavy. It is covering the ground. Anywhere between about a half inch and an inch for most us with the exception. Our friends in Southern Maryland. That is where theyve gotten the heaviest amounts. We had a little band set up during the overnight hours and we are getting reports of about 2 to 3 inches in Southern Maryland. That is where the heaviest snow has been. Every flake that has had a chance to fall from the sky has had a chance to stick. So well be in for a bit of a challenging commute here. Most of today will be sunny and bright. It will remain cold today. Well never get out of the 20s. What we see is what we get here for the next couple of days. Temperature here at reagan national, 20 degrees. This will an factor in the forecast. 19 at dulles. Let me show you the advisory again. We are under a wasnter weather advisory until 9 00 a. M. All the counties in purple including washington and baltimore. We are under a Winter Weather advisory until 9 00 a. M. We are looking at snow totals a little more than an inch. I think by 7 00, 8 00 this morning, we should be reduced to mostly flurries. High temperatures, upper 20s. That will be about it. Cold conditions with afternoon sunshine developing. And once again, it will snow for a few more hours here. It is a little slick out there in some spots. Oh, yeah. Most of it when i was driving to work, the roads were covered. St. Marys county schools are closed. Again, myfoxdc. Com at the bottom of your screen, well have all the updated information throughout the morning. Time now to check in with julie wright so she can talk about the roads and how this is affecting the commute. Weve had a number of accident out here on the highways and disinl had some slick spots this morning. The roads were snow covered, were they not, tucker . This happens to be the commute coming in off 66 and the tr bridge. I have a number of cars coming inbound. And definitely had some slick spots this morning. Just about three blocks away from here, this is better than what we showed you a few minutes ago. We couldnt see the crossing walk here a few moments ago. Crews are working to get some of the snow out of the roadway for you. But you will notice this right lane still empeeded with snow. Once you make it on to the roadways where you would normally have three lanes or two, it may be narrowed down to one as the crews continue to most snow out of your way. We are taking a peek at southbound 270. This looks pretty good. It has been cleared shoulder to shoulder coming southbound out of clarksburg towards the lane divide. We are receiving word now of a crash southbound 270 near the exit for route 08 in urbana. The bridges, ramps and overpasses still very slick. We not ised that ramp at 370 traveling to and from the rio has not been treated yet. 66, again, cleared shoulder to shoulder as the snow continues for fall. No problems to report here. Northbound 95 has been troubled with three separate incidents as you work your way northbound out of dale city. We had an accident after 234 tying up the right leap that. Should be on the shoulder. Another crash before you reach dumfries that was tying im lane and our third incident occurred after of the exit for dale city. Northbound i95 already peppered with delays as you travel between dale see and woodbridge. 395 incidentfree continuing out to the 14th street bridge. Fill up with a tank of gas if you havent already just to be on the safe side and wiper fluid a necessity for this mornings drive. Thats a check of your fox 5 ontime traffic. Traffic. This Winter Weather could cause a slow and messy commute for some so you may want to give yourself some extra time on the roadways this morning. Melanie alnwick is live in northwest tease. The conditions, they dont really seem to be improving out there just by the look it was anyway. Actually, i think its gotten a little bit lighter. The wind isnt blowing as much. The flake seem like they are getting bigger as well. The roads seem to be steadily improving. But this is an example of what julie was talking about where you can see the side street here on livingston. Really only one lane is clear. That is down to wet, black pavement in about the hour since weve been here. It was completely snow covered when we got here. The salt truck came and took two passes. I think where peopleville have most the difficulty is if they will be Walking Around. They dont come and treat the sidewalks here. Most are still snow covered. Be very, very careful. A lot of the areas of the city have these granite curbs. This granite right here with this really fine snow is very, very slippery. Really, pedestrians who are out here Walking Around are going to really need to watch their footing a little bit. D. C. Had plenty of crews out here. They said they had about 190 off you are their snow team apparatus out. Not soo a lot of need no plowing, mostly just salting. Maryland and virginia say they did a lot of pretreating as well on the bridges and overpasses. The message we want people to really keep with them is you got to watch utah for where you might have to single track on some of the side roads. To watch out for where you might have to single track on some of the side roads. Can you share your photos with the fox 5 weather app. Download it on your droid, ipad or iphone. Still ahead, find out where some new speed cameras could be going up in our area. More of. First, emotionally charged testimony from secretary of state Hillary Clinton as she shares what she knew about the events surrounding the deadly attack on the u. S. Consulate in benghazi. a groundbreaking announcement from the pentagon allowing militarywomen to fight on the front lines. The official announcement from defense secretary leon panetta is expected today. The move overturns a nearly two decade rule banning women from being assigned to combat. Military services have until january of 2016 to adjust to the ruling our submit why certain positioned should not be offered to women. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton dade her role in the aftermath of the attacks on the u. S. Cops last in libya. Today, a lot more friendly questions in the same Senate Foreign relations committee. Confirmation hearings begin for president obamas choice to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. Senator john kerry will sit at the witness table to answer questions from his colleagues. Back to the weather issues today, lots of School Delays and some closures because of the Winter Weather. We are running the full list at the bottom of your screen and it is also on myfoxdc. Com. Still snowing out there. With us for a couple more hours. Well see some afternoon sunshine. Ill have the details on your weather forecast. Julie wright has a look at those roadways which are getting to be snow covered coming up right after the break. A live look outside at the roads as they begin to deal with the snow that came down in the earlymorning hours. It doesnt look too bad out there right now but never know. If you are out there driving around, be extra careful. You may want it leave a little bit early. You got to get that stuff off the windshield and deal with the slick roads, snow plows. I saw a couple of trucks out there too. Make sure you have the windshield wiper fluid. Mine is not working. I promise you the other day it was working and it was fine. I thought i cleared it off. But im looking through the streak trying to come in today. Im going to have to get it fixed. Can you fix it for me . Are you handy like that . Oh, yeah. And we want to remind you check the bottom of the screen for school closings. I think there will be excite kids. About a half inch to an inch of snow. That is what weve been looking at. It continues to snow across the region, not heavy. Most of the area here still picking up some light snow. I just stepped outside here and in indeed, it is still snowing out there. Very beautiful as this continues to fall. Most of the area here getting at least some light snow and you can see it pushing to the south and east. I think by 7 00, 8 00, we should be done with it. Man a few leftover flurries. Still going to be bitterly cold around here as our High Temperature are only expected to be in the upper 20s for daytime highs. How much snow we picked up . I got numbers from virginia. Lets push on to the next map. So far, and it is still snowing out there, alexandria, a little more than a half inch. It looks like the oner in the sweep stalks right is Southern Maryland where we are getting reports of twonews inches down into parts of Charles County and st. Marys county. Here are your cold temperatures. This is a factor because everything kind of freezes, melts with the chemicals, gets a chance to refreeze. The temperatures remaining well below freezing. 20 in washington. 21 in leonardtown. 17 this morning in baltimore. 16 in culpeper. 16 up there in hagerstown so again, very cold temperatures, upper 20s for daytime highs. We remain below freezing for yet another day. A weakling clipper system. Very dry air. The snow if you go out there and try pack it good luck trying to pack it into a snowball because it is so light and fluffy. Well see some sunshine eventually along with very breezy conditions behind our little area of low pressure which will be sliding off the cost here later today. Looking downstream a little bit, tomorrow, we have yet another clipper system and that will team up with southern moisture and bring us another round of light snow tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow evening. Tomorrow evenings commute could be a bit of a challenge as well as we could pick up another inch or two tomorrow afternoon. Partly sunny, cold, breezy, 29 your daytime high. 22 tonight, becoming cloudy. More light snow tomorrow afternoon. Saturday and sunday look bright and sunny. Still chilly and then we warm it up into the 50s. Yes, into the 50s by next week. Well be turning the corn are back into a more mild pattern as we get into next week. That is weather. Lets do some traffic and find out who is going where and how shely they are going. I was this close to showing up to work with my jammies with the feet in them. Oh, boy. No comments from our midwest girl who loves this stuff. We pulled up the camera here. Wet pavement on the south side of the beltway. This is oxon hill traveling to and from 210 and the roadway has been treated shoulder to shoulder. Lets go ahead with our next camera. This this is the commute coming in from the east. Still a lot of snowcovered areas out here. I know it is dark but again, you will notice that, in some of the places, the plows have come through but the road may be a little more narrow than with you are used to. Allow extra time out here on the roads. Lets continue with the cameras. Well show you what you are waking up to. This happens to be 66 inbound coming from fair oaks to 123. Right now, we are incidentfree but as you can see from this camera angle, the snow continues to fall. Make sure you have plenty of wiper fluid. Northbound i9 5, we had three separate incidents between quantico and dale city. One is still there tying up the right lane before you commit northbound. We had reports of an accident on westbound 66 at 7. Still a lot of the roadway covered with snow. This is the commute coming inbound off 66 here at constitution avenue at 23rd street. Now able to see pavement, able to seat crossing walk but sidewalks have not been treated. Be careful making your way out to the metro stop. This is improved, constitution avenue at 20th street just three blocks away. Now, we can actually see lane markings. Sidewalks will be tricky for you guys making your way out to the metro so allow extra time for that as well. Get ready for more speed cameras in our area not that you should be getting caught by these today. City officials in hyattsville are looking into having them installed. Coming up next, with all this chilly weather, you might want to stay warm by catching a new movie this weekend. You remembers hansel and great el . Kevin mccarthy talk with the stars of this new twist on a fairy tale. You can get the full list of closings on the bottom of your screen or on myfoxdc. Com. Myfoxdc. Com, they are coming in and we are putting them up immediately so go there and check it out if you need to. Were back after this. back right now as we take a look at the sky. A Winter Wonderland for those of you waiting for the snow. Prince georges county schools are on a twohour delay. Weve got the full list of delays and closings on myfoxdc. Com. Also, at the bottom of your screen, they will be scrolling throughout the morning. If you have Winter Weather pictures to share with us, you can email them to us at my weather photo at g mail. Com. A new movie imagined what happened after the end of a classic fairy tale. It is called hansel and great el and we meet the now grown siblings as they purchase is sue their career as witch hunt irs. Kevin mccarthy talked to the actors who played the title rolls in the movie which opens tomorrow. I have to say i love seeing a classic fairy tale go from this grated aspect for a hard r rated violent element so i was thinking to myself, over the career of movies and the history of movies, if you could take an r righthand rated movie and give it the reverse treatment, who what would that be and why . What springs to mind is alien. Can you imagine, the klute little aliens like little green men like the ones in toy story. It would sort of like come down and be like hello. You say this is kind of creepy. And he has picture. You guys. In the careers youve had so far, what is the creepiest fan moment youve come across in real life . I havent had too many. I mean i did have one when i was doing a play. I got september every single day, i was getting sent these big packages of all this strange stuff, stuff that didnt make sense. It was kind of odd. But i dont have any ive not been around too long so i dont have those kind of experiences. The tattoos of your characters and there has been some of that stuff. I cant really Pay Attention to that stuff. If you could replace those characters with nip you played in your career, which of those would it be. I played this character named alice creed and she was pretty feral. Any of your character. No, i want to play godzilla. You are godzilla. I am in the morning before i get my coffee, im godzilla. This is shot in 3d. Do you find yourself criticizing elements of your acting or can you lose yourself in a movie and just enjoy it. I personally am not very good at watching myself in movies. I hate myself. It is hard. Why do you hate yourself. You are a great actor. I dont do movies to watch myself. You watch yourself and go aah and for like 10 minutes after that scene, you are dice secretarying it and you cant concentrate on the rest of the movie. It is terrible. Kevin joins us tomorrow with his review. I can feel her pain. I dont like to go back and watch myself. You disse ct the whole thing. You may want to add a little extra time to your commute this morning if you can. Well take a look at how the roads are this morning and find out if we are expecting more snow coming up. good morning to you. This is a live look outside at our snowcovered region. Weve got some snow overnight and in the earlymorning hours. Snow on the ground, top of houses. A lot going on out there. Be careful if you are traveling this morning on the roads. It looks so pretty but not pretty if you are trying to drive in it. Lets get you caught up on the closings and die lays. The the federal government is open today but workers have the option of taking unscheduled leave or telework. Lets talk about the schools. Schools. Now to virginia ia be sure to watch the bottom of the screen for the latest delays. Prince William County schools also closed. The up to date list is on myfoxdc. Com. They just keep coming in. We keep referring people there because we are constantly updating it. This was important. I grew up in the area. I used to wake up early. You would cheer and your mom would be like exactly. I couldnt understand why my mom wasnt as excited as me. The teachers at school, when you started talking about school yesterday morning, they were all excited. So when i saw them yesterday, they said you tell that cute Tucker Barnes we hope he is right. Im sure the teachers are fired up about it. They want a little break. I want to thank health earth hartman who just wrote into our facebook page. She says she has 3 1 2 inches. That is the jackpot. Southern maryland, getting reports out of st. Marys county and Charles County of a couple of inches. For the rest of us, it has been about a halinch to an inch of snow. It is sticking out there everywhere. We just saw in the live shot that even here in northwest washington, we have probably close to an inch now. It continues to fall. Lets go right to the radar. Well show out the snow falling down there. I dont think it will be with us much longer. Maybe, 6 00, 7 00, 8 00 this morning, we should be done with it. Reagan national right now, 19 degrees. 19 so just be wary that anything out there that looks wet could also be frozen with these very, very cold temperatures. 19 at dulles. Bwi marshall, 17 degrees. We are under a Winter Weather advisory until 9 00 this morning. I would expect that, as soon as the snow exits right here, well see this advisory expire but again, there could be there will like i be travel difficulties for parts of the area as the snow winds down. Should be some afternoon sunshine. Wind will pick up. It will remain cold. Highs in the upper 20s later today. If you want the sun to do the cleanup for you, you may have to wait. Without a lot of moisture content in the snow, it will take just a little bit of sun to melt it off your car and that kind of thing. Okay. Thank you, tucker. Time now to check in with julie wright. She will tell us how this is affecting the morning commute. We know it is an interesting one because any time we get any kind of weather, there is drama on the roads. I know. The people want all the snow and they get it and they tweet me, whats going on the roads . Well, you asked for it. Can to show you l up as many what you are welcome backing up to. This is southbound 270 coming in out of hyattstown. According to police, theyve already cleared it over to the shoulder n this area, you can clearly see you are just kind of following the track from the person in front of you. You are able to map train both lanes headed southbound out towards clarkburg. The ramps are questionable as well. You are able to maintain both lanes head southbound out towards clarkburg. The clicker has decided for the to work right now. We had accident activity reported inner loop of the beltway near 202 on the left side of the highway. Inbound new york avenue, that is pretty much a clear wet pavement as you travel between bladensburg road and the entrance to the third street tunnel. Constitution avenue is better for you right now as you travel in off the tr bridge. You will find 395 cleared from the beltway across the inbound 14th street bridge. Three separate incidents occurred northbound on i59 traveling between quantico and dale city, all of this have cleared. We are told they were late opening the hov lanes for you guys at dumfries. Winter weather is here now. It could mean a messy commute for some but crews in the district say they are ready to go. Theyve been ready for this. They waited for this and now here we are. Melanie alnwick is live outside and how are the roads looking now . Good morning t look like it is slow is down just a little bit. We have a light actually here on the snow so you can see it lit up but if you werent looking with a flashlight or perhaps understreetlights as you are driving around, you wouldnt even think there was anything coming down right now but it is still coming down, still piling up a little bit. Mostly on the grassy areas and on the sidewalks. We are on livingston road right here at Western Avenue. When we got here, the citywide streets hadnt been treated yet. Then the salt trucks came by and made a couple of passes. As you can see, the salt and brine mixture kind taking care of it. 190 pieces of apparatus out in the district both last newt and today putting down the brine for the pretreating as well on the bridges and overpasses. It looks like they are getting at it pretty well. The buses are moving normally. The traffic as you see right there on Western Avenue, people on Western Avenue dont seem to be bothered by this at all. The side streets are where you want to take the most care and if you are Walking Around, please be very careful on the snowcovered sidewalks. As they are. Look at it. You can track the weather where you live. You can share your snow photos and dew allot more things with the fox 5 weather app. Download it to your droid, ipad or iphone. Search for d. C. Weather in the app store. Well be right back with more. making headlines this morning, north creigh as threatening the United States with new Nuclear Tests and rocket launches. It is unclear how the threats could impact the u. S. You new threats come after the United Nations slapped new sanctions on the communist regime for a rocket launch last movement. Ernesto efforts are under way to honor four young girls killed in one of the most Violent Attacks in the civil sites movement. The girl were 14 years old and kill when the 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed in september 1963. Two members of the congregation from alabama are working to have the girls honor wade congressional gold medal, the highest honor that be bestowed by congress. We continue to follow this mornings Winter Weather for you. Get the latest on any School Delays or closing on the bottom of your screen and we have them on myfoxdc. Com. You can see it coming down out there. Well be right back. welcome back. A live look outside right now at a snowy scene in Fairfax County this morning. This is falls church near gallows road. You see how the roads are. If you are getting ready to get out an about this morning, wherever you are going, just remember, there is still something on the roads so be careful. Take some extra precautions. You will have to dust them off. It is easy to get off. It is a very light snow. For most of us, around an inch, a little less and you can almost take a broom to it. It doesnt take much to clean it. Not a lot of moisture content to it. It is still snowing out there. It will continue for another hour or two and then we should gradually see some sunshine today. Cold temperatures, they remain. Well only be in the upper 20s for daytime highs and the winds will pick up again. It will be blowing all that snow around. There is a live look at your radar. We are still getting snow here in northwest washington. Just took another look outdoors. Very beautiful out there as snow continues to come down. It is very light. The snow is coming down at a very light rate as this is a very weak little clipper system. We have aseen some pretty good snow totals and generally in a band from fredericksburg through king george down into Southern Maryland including Charles County, st. Marys county, calvert county, that is where the jackpot has been. We have some facebook fans writing in. I have reports of two to three inches. So with the exception of Southern Maryland and the rest of virginia, the rest of us have picked up about an inch of snow. Well add to the totals as the storm winds down. Lets do some snow totals. The jackpot is to our south. Lusby, 3 inches reported. Pasadena, about an inch. Officially, dulles has a half in. As of the 4 00 a. M. Hour. It is cold. Very cold temperatures so the whatever has fallen will be very slow to melt off. 19 at reagan national. 19 at appear appear list 19 at annapolis. Winds will be blowing out of the north appear west at around 30 miles per hour. You mix in temperatures, only in the upper 20s and some pretty brisk winds. You no he what that combination is, another cold january afternoon expected across the region. There you go. Satelliteradar, you can see the snow echos falling apart here as the storm exits off to the south and east and well see things wiped down. Should see more and more Sunshine Building in later this afternoon as we dont have a whole lot going on later today. Tonight and tomorrow, well cloud up again. By tomorrow afternoon, just in time for tomorrow afternoons rush hour, we could do it all over again with another system. That one looks a little more juiced than this one with the potential for a couple of inches of snow. We could do a couple of inches of snow tomorrow afternoon. It could give us another blanket of snow tomorrow afternoon. 29 today. Partly sunny by afternoon. Still cold and breezy. Check out your winds. 22 tonight being becoming cloudy as that next system approaches. I think tomorrow mornings commute should be fine. But by tomorrow afternoon, light snow moves back in with a High Temperature about 30. We warm it up into the mid30s with sunshine and then we skyrocket near 50 around here by tuesday and wednesday with some showers back in the forecast next week. That is weather. Lets do some traffic and julie wright has been busy slipping and sliding. This is where we had the crash moved over to the shoulder. The accident has been pulled over to the shuler with the flashing lights but the inner loop is starting to slow on this wet pavement as you travel south of 50 through landover headed out towards Andrews Air Force base. What were waking up to this morning is a mess, quite frankly. You will find snowcovered routes and some wet pavement. This happens to be the drive south on 270 approaching 109 headed out to the scales. A lot of snowcovered roads to deal with. We had a crash south of 80 but before 109. That has been moved out the roadways. A lot of the ramps have been treated but we havent seen a lot of people using the rap. S so the chemicals havent had a chance to mix in with the snow to get it to melt for you. Westbound 7 approaching 66 is where we had the crash tying up the two left lanes. This is another commute northbound on i95 where early this morning there are three separate accidents between quantico and dale city, all of which have cleared. We are told the main line is in better condition than the hov lanes. They were late to open the hov lanes this morning. No problems to report inbound along new york avenue. The roadway has been treated and all three lanes are maintained headed out to the third street tunnel. It is important to know that, as you travel over towards beach drive, the roads that lead you to beach drive between the zoo tunnel and the Maryland Line have not been treated and remain closed. Rock creek parkway is open this morning. Thats a check of your fox 5 ontime traffic. E traffic. Thank you. Coming up next in this mornings sports breakfast. Manti teo and turns out the redskins were targeted in a similar scheme. Well be right back to tell you all about that. we are taking a break from our snow coverage to talk about manti teo and the redskins involved in a scheme. Catfishing. I never heard it was before. The movie came out a couple of years ago and i didnt know anything about it then and now i know more about it now than i ever wanted to know. Manti teo, this is the thing. He came out and spoke for the first time his situation and basically, he said in a nutshell, that the woman he was tricked with in the catfishing hoax, he believed that she actually died of cancer. He found out about it in december. He had done all those interviews back in october and everything. He believed then that she was still alive. He found out about the hoax in december, continued to kind of perpetuate the lie if you will after the fact. He talked about this with Abcs Katie Couric in an interview saying he didnt know what else to do. My whole world told me she died on september 12th. Everybody knew that. This girl who i committed myself to died on september 12th. Now, i get a phone call on december 6th saying that just lies and i want to be put on national tv two days later and they ask me about the same questions. What would you do . So that is the question. This is the woman again. This is a picture taken off of a facebook page. I want to know who that woman really is. Led to believe that that was the woman. So he seems like a very confused young man. I know it is hard for a lot of people to believe but closer to home here, this was going on with some of the members of the washington redskins. There was a catfishing scheme going on right here with the skins with about four members of the redskins. We found out that Philip Daniels who kind of oversees the players and looks out for their wellbeing, he posted in the locker room in december a picture of this woman that these guys were talking to on twitter i basically saying, if it is cindy ackerman, dont talk to her. It is not who she says she is. It was a bict used after an adult entertainer and it was not this woman that she purported to be. She was direct messaging four members. Redskins. They never got together. There was talks of discussions of getting together online. They never did. She didnt solicit any money or anything like that from the players and these guys didnt really get involved emotionally like manti teo did. But yet, they were discussing things with this woman online and basically Philip Daniels said be aware of this woman. She is not who she says she is and we believe that is the end of it for the redskins. They learned about this back in december. It goes to show that this is more common than maybe what we thought. Know it seems unbelievable but it is happening. And it happened to manti teo. And it happened to four members of the redskins. It is something these guys have to be more aware of on twitter and facebook in the social media age we live in. We have a good time with it. This kind of crosses the line and i guess you have to avoid against being gullible like manti teo was and it looks like four members of redskins were. Thank goodness Philip Daniel was out there and caught this so they didnt get catfished. It is so strange how you heard manti teo say he was committed to her. Didnt know what else to do and kind of perpetuated the lie after finding out that she was not exactly who he thought she was. Wisdom is mum on the subject because it is crazy. Very crazy. More on the caps and wizards later on. An update on the snowy morning commute and the forecast plus we have lots of School Delays and closures this morning. We have the full list running at the bottom of your screen. Some of you might need to pull out the snow blowers this morning. Just head to myfoxdc. Com for the latest on the closures and delays. Before we go, it is time to say hello and good morning to our fan of the day. Kim banks. She says she and her son ethan ethan turns five years old today. They love watching fox 5. Thank you for watching. R watching. Well be right back.