Even though he backed up today he is not out of this thing. Those at four under even behind that. They will have a chance tomorrow at riviera. Retief goosen goes into the final round with a twoshot advantage. Jim theres lineup tonight on cbs. [captioning made possible by cbs sports division] weve got hundreds of accidents across the washington region as snow continues to fall and temperatures drop tonight. Hello everybody im bruce johnson, if you dont need to be out please stay indoors. Thats the word across the area as heavy snow moves through the entire region. Weve got Live Team Coverage from maryland, virginia and the districts. Weve begin with chief meteorologist topper. This is going to be nasty. This is going to get heavy. Go and clean your snow off your walkway and driveway now. Otherwise its going to feel like wet concrete in about three hours or so. We think this is eventually going to go from sleet to freezing rain. Not a good scenario. Lets talk about snowfall totals. Were pretty much done with the snowfall totals. Everything is pretty much maybe another little bit but generally 4 to 8 inches to the 95 corridor and points west. Then you get to the south and east of town, it goes off pretty quickly, into southern maryland, not much snow at all. Okay. Lets talk about the transitioning to a mix. Snow changes to or mixes with sleet until about 8 p. M. Sleet or freezing rain, 8 p. M. To midnight. The exceptions will be places north and west of town. Temps above freezing inside the beltway we take about 10 or 11 00. Its been so cold, icing is still possible with temperatures above 32. Snowfall totals, centerville virginia 5 inches. Glenwood, 8, 7 inches in columbia, 6. 4 in reston and 6 inches in frederick. Look at the radar. This is a mixture of sleet and freezing rain. Snowfall rates 1, 2, 3 inches per hour, heavy snow in fairfax and manassas. I suspect even here youre getting a little bit of a mixture of sleet. Right through the south and the west of dale city, look at that. 3 inches per hour is the snowfall rate with that. Now current temperatures well watch these like a hawk all night. 30 downtown already, but still in the 20s in the suburbs. We will come back, erica will join me. Well talk about when the transition will be over and if temperatures will finally get above freezing in time for tomorrow morning. Snow emergencies have been declared for several maryland counties including montgomery, prince georges, howard, frederick and carroll county. Stephanie ramirez is seeing some of the biggest problems in Montgomery County. Stephanie. Reporter with that snow emergency, it f you are parked on a snow route here you can get towed. This is rocksville pike eight hours after snow fell this morning. Its still covered in snow and there were issues all across the county today. On 270 just past gaithersburg plow trucks mowed through the highway, but even after a few passes it did little to clear the lanes. This is what drivers faced in Montgomery County saturday. The other side of this car was all banged up, one of the many accidents reported on 270. You have three at the same time. It came quick, i believe, and everybodys out doing stuff on saturday. From rockville and south as well as the beltway in that area were a parking lot. On stretches that were moving, several drivers, including our channel 9 photographer, had to get out and do this. Clearing windshield wipers of the ice building on the windshield. 9 00 or so was very light snow but every flake that fell was sticking on the road. Ems spokesperson is warning on those emergency calls today. Its taking us a little longer to get places. Once were there it takes us a little bit longer to deal with the situation. He spoke with us encouraging people to stay inside unless its an emergency. Raymond did come out for a doctors appointment. Hes from kenya and tells us. Ive never been this covered up before my whole life. He took a cab here to this shopping center, others didnt. Even they were telling folks to stay inside if you can. The roads are slippery. Pe opleare moving pretty slow. They dont know how to drive in d. C. In the snow. Reporter and bruce were starting to see that sleet ice mix now here in rockville. We tried to get to Prince Georges County but got stuck in traffic on the beltway. Stephanie, thanks for that. On the virginia side, the same bad conditions. There have been countless accidents and abandoned vehicles on all the roads. Reporter bruce, weve got snow falling right now. The visibility is really really bad. Its been changing from sleet back to snow, and so thats whats falling right now, and now we have nightfall, what is very clear is that there was too many cars on the road at a time when plow trucks were trying to do their work. 1, 2, 3. I tried to get up from the holiday inn because were stuck over here in leesburg. Good samaritans help a driver from west virginia. Thank goodness. Oh, amazing guys. Thank you. We rolled up on a bunch of spinouts. What happened . Just now my wheels keep on turning right on the snow but i live like a mile away. Is that jeep going to help you . I literally live right up the street. These four cars couldnt make it up the hill. Drivers just abandoned them on the side of the road. What happened . Got stuck. Stuck . Yeah. Here is a spinout on 66 when there was room, plow trucks did their work. After driving us all over fairfax county. You guys been helping any cars on the road . Yes, actually for a saturday, very surprised. How are conditions . Treacherous out here. People should be home enjoying the day rather than out here on the roads. Sound advice from Victor Clemens our photographer behind the camera. Yes, there were so many car accidents, so more abandoned cars. Talked with Virginia State police, they couldnt keep up. Lathen county had to call Virginia State police for help throughout the day. Weve seen cars slow down and also fewer cars on the roads. Thats a good thing as more bad conditions continue here in leesburg. Back to you bruce. Thanks a lot. And victor looked a little upset. No snow emergency declared from the district. Reporter still coming down. From snow to sleet in georgetown which is what were seeing which is contributing to the poor conditions, the messy conditions on the sidewalk and perhaps more dangerously the messy conditions on the roads. Pick a road, any road and its likely to be dicey in the district. Back roads and side streets are slick and sloppy. Many main roads like connecticut avenue, massachusetts avenue, wisconsin avenue also problematic. We spent some time on rock creek parkway which compared to other roads looks pretty good but most of the ramps were closed because of their condition. We have seen some plows and salt trucks out, but at this point it is still accumulating and just snowing on top of what has already been plowed, and in some cases officials tell me theyre waiting for the accumulation to slow down before they can really clear these roads off. D. C. Deployed more than 200 snow trucks at 9 a. M. Weve seen accidents. Weve seen spinouts and weve seen people stuck all over the district tonight. Thanks a lot for that report. Weve still got work to do, thats what the director of the d. C. Department of public works told me in the middle of the afternoon today. Weve got him on the phone right now. We want to bring you the latest. Whats going on . Whats the condition of the roads right now . Good evening. Were about ready to go into a shift change at 7 and well continue to go throughout the night. Over 200 pieces of equipment on the roads. Weve been trying to maintain the main roads at least in a slush condition and making them passable and so that now that were in a shift in the mix, we should be able to clear most roads within a couple of hours. Why no snow emergency declared . Is it because its saturday, a weekend . No, its really just the what the conditions are. We didnt have that much of accumulation. If we did evaluate it over the night, if we need it put one on in the morning, well put one on in the morning. Right now i dont think well need one. Earlier today you told me you wanted people to stay off the roads. I would imagine you want to double down on that tonight. Yeah, definitely, you know, stay off the roads if you can and if you do have to drive, drive carefully. Just drive safely and make sure you clear all the snow off your car. But if you dont have to drive, stay home. Director of the d. C. Department of public works. Thanks a lot for that. I know youre really busy right now. Stay with us. Just ahead okay, i need a better pizza. One made with only real cheese. A pizza my family will love. announcer freschetta naturally rising crust pizza. Freschetta. Made better to taste better. A virtual whiteout in Howard County along eastbound i 70 east of Maryland Route 29. Traffic there moving, but very, very slowly. Our neighbors to the west facing the same treacherous driving conditions today. The roads are covered along route 522 south of winchester. And you can send us your snow day photos by using the hashtag snow day 9 and they just might be featured in our snow day gallery. Heres one from wusa9 facebook fan, shes from atomic falls virginia. Were waiting for your pictures. What can we how can i avoid maintenance fees . Why would you want to avoid them . Because i dont want to. You know what . Im gonna bring my maintenance guy in here to tell you all about it. Roddy so, uh, without your fee your checking chamber cant run smoothly. Every time you put money in it causes, uh. 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The snow is still falling in parts of the metro. Im going to send it over to our chief meteorologist topper shutt. Hes going to look at the radar and give us snowfall totals. Were starting to transition from snow to sleet. You can see the blue is primarily snow. This is primarily the sleet or the mix. I think its further north than whats being depicted. The darker blue is the heavy areas of snowfall, and they are pretty heavy out towards german town and manassas and towards fairfax. Well zoom in more. This is pretty good snowfall. Silver spring or up u. S. 1 and also back across 355 and the beltway towards george avenue. Snowfall totals pretty impressive. Myersville 7inch, ghaith usville 7. 2. Wheaton 4 inches. And great falls about 6 inches. Its going to transition from snow to sleet to freezing rain. If youve not cleared your snow, do it quickly. Its going to start to feel like wet cement as we go to sleet to freezing rain. 30 downtown, 27 in frederick, 27 in leesburg. The rest of the forecast here is ms. Grow. Thank you topper and you can see here on the michael son weather cam, not a pretty picture. Its 30 degrees with this wintery mess happening right now, and winds are out of the south at 10 miles an hour trying to inject in that milder air. On satellite and radar you can see that milder air punching in here from the south. That is why were starting to get that really messy changeover. On 9 futurecast, rain falling at 9 30 according to this model data, but notice the temperatures. Still below freezing. Thats why were expecting that sheet of ice to form on top of the snow thats already fallen. If you want to send the kids outside to do snow angels theyre just going to be gliding on top of the ice once that layer of freezing rain forms, its going to be Strong Enough to do that. As we head into the overnight hours, well start to clear out the rain. By noon on sunday its possible that were completely done with the rain. We might even see the sunset tomorrow night. But overnight tonight not the case. The snow will transition to freezing rain completely throughout the metro area, and then plain rain east of i95. 30 to 36 for your overnight lows. Some of us will see our temperature rise above freezing during the overnight hours. Then on sunday morning the rain continues tapering off the showers by noon were pretty much done with the rain. Temperatures will be in the 30s. As we head into the afternoon actually getting a little bit milder. Highs between 39 and 45 degrees, a leftover shower is possible. Its going to be hard to get warmer tomorrow because of all that snow on the ground, and well probably see some fog developing before the breezes pick up. Monday is a windy day and its going to be cold again. This pattern is just sticking with us. A High Temperature of only 28 on monday, 32 on tuesday, really not a bad day by comparison standards, and then the first alert sevenday forecast a weak frontal boundary on wednesday will bring us just a flurry, but it will turn windy again behind that, and now wusa9 game on sports with dave owens, brought to you by xfinity. The caps have gone from nice little hot streak to okay. Theyre a threat now. If the eastern conference is a mountain, washington is climbing it with snow shoes on with nails in the bottom. Up they go. A few weeks ago they were in the eighth spot, now tied for fourth. Wow. Islanders in the house. Washington 7 and 2 in the third period, this aint fair. Then again, yeah it is, eric fehr. A nice handoff, breaks the 11 tie. Now 48 seconds to go and the islanders tie it in the last 44 seconds. So were heading to overtime in a shootout. Its hard to say, thats a sweet move. Beats tad johnson. Caps win 32. It feels nice. I mean thats what we need to be doing. If we want to gain any ground on these teams in front of us, we have to win four, five, six in a row. Thats a big climb for us. I looked at that game as, you know, you look at, you know, hopefully a playoff series at some point. All right, Washington Nationals making news today picking up the option on Matt Williams contract. The manager led washington to 96 wince and a division title. Went to the playoffs of course. The option covers the 2016 season. Basketball real quick. Gw at richmond, gw struggling down on the stretch. Postgame second half, t. J. Klein, its twine time for klein, 4639. He had four 3pointers. Gw savage says im not ready to go yet. Cut the lead to 2. A couple of minutes later, josh joneses, oh my josh, gw loses again 5648. Tough loss for them. West virginia at Oklahoma State number 22 versus number 24. This is Oklahoma States brian nash with a little flotation in the lane. Tied at 25. Good ball game as you would expect between 22 and 24. West virginias jawan staten blocked but right out to gary brown. He had 18 points. A 3016. West virginia wins an important game 7363 in stillwater. Howd you do on that mustang getting to work today . Because of my great driving skills, i made it. I made it. In one piece. Congratulations. In one piece, i criminal. Were on top of this storm. Going to be back here. Sleets going to get slippery now, freezing rain, not good. Stay off the roads if at all possible. Thanks for watching. Bye. The bed reacts to your body. It hugs you. Its really cool to the touch. This zips off so i can wash ityes, please. vo visit your local retailer and feel the tempurpedic difference for yourself. Axelrod tonight, the winter of our discontent. Snow and ice make a widespread mess in the south midwest, and northeast as angry commuters vent on twitter, shes the one whos got to answer them. I dont think that they realize that theres actually somebody back there reading all of this stuff. 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