Bomb cyclone. Well talk more about that coming up. Lets get right to the radar. Snow continues across the area. Not terribly heavy up and down the i95 corridor but it is coming down, it is sticking and it will be with us for a few more hours. I will give you all the details on how much snow weve seen and how much more we can expect and what we can look forward to later today. Ill give you a hint. Lots of wind and lots of cold coming up in just a couple minutes but you can see that live radar, our storm our snow continues across the area. It will be with us for a few more hours. Erin im going to toss to you. I take it most everybody is kind of waiting it out or allison and steve . We are trying. The situation with the schools have been changing throughout the morning a lot of schools going from delayed earlier this morning or overnight to closed now. They are all scrolling at the bottom of your screen throughout the morning show. Lets get you caught up on the major systems closed or delayed today. Pretty much everything is closed but well go ahead and make it official. Well start in maryland. In the last half hour Frederick County of the lone holdouts gave in. Theyre closed now. Frederick county maryland you are now closed in addition to Anne Arrundel county, Montgomery County, Saint Marys County, Charles County, Prince Georges County and Calvert County schools all closed this morning. All right, lets take you to virginia now. Lots of changes in virginia as to whats now closed. Arlington county schools youre closed. Alexandria city schools closed. Fairfax county schools, youre closed. Loudoun county schools closed. Prince William County and Spotsylvania County schools you are also closed. Stafford county schools closed. Manassas city and Manassas Park schools are closed. Lets stay in virginia. Were going to let you know that Fauquier CountyCulpeper CountyWarren County and page county schools, you are on a twohour delay. All right. In d. C. , Public Schools which had been on a twohour delay now closed so no school in the district of columbia. And the federal government is opened today but youre operating on a twohour delay. Federal workers you do have the option for unscheduled the d. C. Government is opened on time. Lets get to our Team Coverage across the region. Some of the most impressive images though coming out of ocean city maryland. Yes, the palm trees look pretty in the summertime. The boardwalk looks amazing. Everything covered with snow. All right. Cori coffin is there. I was hoping that you were reporting from that car that we were looking at but lets get you right now. Cori, man, this is crazy. This image really looks like a hurricane but its snow and wind. Reporter it is. Its actually a little bit different tan what this area is used to getting. They tell me theyre used to having this come up from the inland from the northwest so its kind of interesting that they are starting to get hit with it and theyve tried to be prepared here but the wind is really kicking things up and drifting the snow. Im going to venture out here into this part of the road here that has not been plowed yet but you can see how deep were getting. This is definitely more than 6inches, maybe eight to 10inches but of course this is because a lot of wind has helped way. As i walk over this way, ill show you some of the other conditions. Were right up against the boardwalk so you guys got to see part of the ocean there from that camera. So, ill show you the other side here and this is kind of part of the issue that First Responders are dealing with. Look at this road here. This is an entire sheet of ice. Okay. This is just a block of ice, a sheet of ice that has frozen over because the temperatures just got so low and we had rain before this snow. And these berms, of course, coming up here with all of this whipping wind making things difficult for our First Responders conditions out here. Well send it back to you guys in the studio. For now were live in ocean city this morning. Winds definitely kicking up out there as you can see. Cori thank you very much. In the meantime lets go from the Eastern Shore to Southern Maryland. Southern maryland also expected to get hit hard today. Annie yu is in Saint Marys County. Annie continues our live Team Coverage. Annie, oh, my goodness, good, youre in the car. Reporter yeah, and we just arrived. Everybody. We are here. It took us a couple of hours to make our way down southeast of d. C. But this is leonardtown and for those of you wake up, we checked some of those neighborhoods as we were making our way up here, youre waking up to a beautiful blanket of snow. Once leave your neighborhoods youll see a mix of things. Some streets have been plowed. Theyre plowing this shopping center. This mckays will probably be opened soon. Then you have roads that havent been touched and were talking about those secondaries. The main roads like route five, route 301 look pretty good. 301 is a little dicey i have to be honest. Thats when we started to take it easy with our four wheel drive. Buds creek road is treacherous. Its bad. Its not a good idea if you live in this area to get on that road so definitely dodge that, if you can. Were going to head back out to route five and hopefully find a location that we can jump out and this beautiful stuff. I would say accumulationwise tucker if youre listening weve got a solid 2inches. Annie thank you very much. Im listening. To the south and the east we get a little bit more. For annie if shes listening calaway maryland south of leonardtown we reported four and a half inches so starting to add up down there. Really is kind of following that path then across the bottom of the chesapeake over to the Eastern Shore. The best way we can tell how much snow we got is from you guys. Let me know what you got. Tucker fox5. We got to start showing some of these pictures. We have a rule. If you send me a picture of snow flying outside your house and you dont tell me where you are or how much snow you got then i cant do anything with that. True. That is fair. Just need a little info. All right. Still snowing out there although its starting to wind down west to east. The real story this afternoon will be the wind and the cold. Anything that had a chance to stick at your house overnight will be going nowhere soon as well be in the deep freeze 24 at Reagan National, 22 dulles, baltimore 22 as well. Want to show you the wind chills. Feels like nine in washington and five out at dulles. Unfortunately well have wind chill advisories, well be feeling like minus five, minus 10, maybe minus 15 later this evening and early tomorrow. A very sharp cutoff to the west and were going to watch the snow line kind of march west to east here as the storm starts to push off to the north and i would expect that most of the snow across our region will shut off in the next couple hours. The exception, those of you to the east. So as you get east across the bay, lower Eastern Shore youll see the snow linger through late morning. For the rest of us it should be wrapping up in the next couple hours. Theres the big storm. The bomb cyclone well talk more about that. Blizzard conditions expected for parts of long island the cape, parts of massachusetts, maine will get very hard hit. Well talk about some of the effects up there. Very quickly want to show you expected snow totals. Trace to 2inches locally. Higher south and east. Blizzard conditions in ocean city. So far for forming beautifully from a meteorological standpoint. How is the volume out there this morning, erin. Volume is really light. I want to start you off with metro and amtrak alert. Metro rail operating on or near schedule. Customers reminded to use caution traveling through the metro platforms and escalators. Watch for slick conditions. Use caution walking on sidewalks as well. Amtrak no service on the northeast regional line between washington, d. C. And newport news. Canceled today. Modified schedule northeast regional between new york and boston. Delays there. Check the schedule before you head out. Aside from the metro rail and amtrak alerts we have limited Wind Restrictions at the bay bridge as well key bridge. Tractortrailers pulled over with their blinkers on. Light volume but slick conditions to and from the sandy point plaza. This is a look at the key bridge from rosslyn into georgetown. Light volume. Moving slowly. Bridges on and off ramps tend to ice first as well as secondaries in Montgomery County this morning. Give me a tweet at erin fox5 d. C. On twitter and let me know how things are looking. Are, looking. Stay off the roads if you dont have to go anywhere. Exactly. Team coverage. Bob barnard live on kent island. Whats it looking like there along the chesapeake. Good morning. Reporter good morning, allison and steve. Yeah, the wind is blowing the snow. Its more like pellets than flakes sideways. The wind is the big issue. About two to 3inches on the ground. There are snow drifts that are about a foot deep. This is route 50. Headlights coming at you are westbound h the Road Conditions are okay except if you go to turn or to brake. You can lock up and you can slide so you got to be really careful t Governor Hogan declaring a state of emergency here on the Eastern Shore and the Southern Maryland counties as these cars head toward the bay bridge, now, erin mentioned the restrictions. There is a 40 miles an hour speed limit across the bridge where its normally a 50 miles an hour limit and 18 wheelers with empty trailers are real stricted right now. Thats it. If the winds get up to about 55 miles an hour, they could potentially close the bay bridge. Mdot talked about that yesterday. Hasnt done it yet. The sustained winds are about the 25 to 30 miles an hour range at least right now. There are some cancellations at bwi to especially northeastern cities but delays and cancellations as you see cars here on route 50 and, yeah, it is still snow covered despite the fact that there have been plows and salt trucks out here. They just cant keep up, guys, so road treacherous. Thank goodness a lot of people have the day off from school, so stay warm and cozy back at home, guys. Bob, everybody will do their best. Thanks very much for being out there in the middle of it letting us know whats happening across the region we appreciate it. The bomb cyclone threatening new england. Boston is expecting whiteout conditions today. Several inches per hour are expected to fall. Bostons mayor ordered schools to be closed today. Theyve asked people to stay off the roads today as best they can. Hundreds of flights have been canceled. Several of them were on the way to airports of course here in our region. So, make sure to check your flight status if you plan to fly out today as well. Steve. The powerful winter storm already pummeling several cities from ice causing problems all the way down in texas. The storm also hit two iconic southern cities, savannah, georgia, charleston south carolina. Heaviest snowfall in 30 years. Wow. Even parts of florida, tallahassee Port Canaveral also got a powerful yesterday. Residents though taking it in stride. Make snow angels. What do you think. Not used to it. Thats for sure. Ive never seen the ice this thick here. When you know youre not going to get it often, then its a little easier to enjoy but the ice is a huge miss. Cold has been blamed for recent deaths in including two Homeless People in houston texas. Messy that far down south. Still ahead our live Team Coverage of the bomb cyclone continues. Our mike thomas is live in Northern Virginia with a look at conditions there. Hes still smiling, though. I thought that you were making a snowball. Its not that deep yet. Good morning. Reporter no, not that deep. Good morning, allison. Yeah, we got about i think tucker tells me. 4 of an inch of snow here in Old Town Alexandria. It was enough to coat the roads. Snow is slowing up a bit but were going to tell you why problems may persist into the evening with what these roads are going to do. More on that coming up after the break. Well be right back. K. There are two types of people in the world. Those who fear the future. And those who embrace it. The future is for the unafraid. All because of you oxon hill is where were taking a look right now. This is the White Christmas that we wanted. Enjoy it. Embrace it. Oh, boy. Nobodys driving on that street anyway so you might as well oh, well, now prove me wrong. Fine, sorry in your giant four wheel drive or maam. Be careful driving this morning. If you have to go out. Its just a covering but its very, very icy so, yeah be careful. Even when youre walking be careful. If you could stay in and just watch us, why not. I think thats a great plan. Lets get snow totals. Tim Lexington Park just checked in tucker fox5. Let me know how much snow youre getting. How much. 4inches. Wow. Yeah, Lexington Park in Southern Maryland. That seems to be the this Reagan National that update was a few hours ago. Well get a new update. That was about a third of an inch in dulles a tenth of an inch, alexandria close to a half inch. Let us know what you guys are getting. Ive seen anywhere from. 10 to four and a half inches locally in the past hour or so. 24 in washington. 24 in new york. Boston is 26. It is really, really our storm is going wrap up here and batter coastal areas of new jersey, new york, long island up through the cape and then maine with delivered blizzd conditions. The snow were gettin on this hour wont last so it will be with us for another hour or two and then things will wind down pretty quickly from west to east and we should be in for what will turn into a very windy and very cold day. Theres a bigger look at our storm and, yes, undergoing a process called bombogenesis. Transformation into a very powerful mid latitude storm and it will again create blizzard conditions from ocean city no, steve i wont answer your questions to ocean city. I was trying to clarify something for the viewers. Well let it go. Its for the viewers, tuck. This is my time, steve. [laughter] i was really trying to make him look smart, al. Its for the viewers, tuck. Okay, steve, all right. Bombogenesis is a defined weather term, right. Yes. So, this is where were getting this bomb storm name that were talking about . Theyre taking that from the weather term, right. Yes, sort of a twitter play on it, yes. Im just saying. So that this term that were using for this story is actually coming from actual weather terminology. Did you make me look smarter there. Made me look smarter because i thought i said that, too, thats where it comes from. Yes, yes. Its derived from a term that we use when we learn about meteorology. Makes for a super snappy headline. Thats what it does. We didnt all study bomb blizzard, sounds to me like bomb cyclone sounds like it has like brownie chunks and oreo cookies in it. Mike thomas knows all about the bombogenesis. Hey, mike. Want to drop any more wetterweather lingo on us mike. Reporter explosive psycho jones so explosive bomb, thats where they get it from. Okay. Im still here in Old Town Alexandria. Tucker you have to tell me if im doing this right. Were trying to get a snow measurement here. Im next to the measurer here in Old Town Alexandria and according to this i believe thats 5 feet of snow that were dealing with right here in old town. Could be wrong on that but, hey, im standing next to it. Also im 10 and half feet tall so if any nba teams want to give me a contract were dealing with that. Guys, roads are looking a little better than they were earlier here in old town. They have been by salting the roads. Im looking both ways here. You would th think the problems are a lot of liquid on the road. Temperatures are going to be dropping and what is here is going to freeze. Even if its treated with temperatures falling low teens Single Digits possibly tonight overnight whats there is going to freeze solid. With that i want to recommend if youre out and about after the snow stops kids have the day off school, put them to work. Send them outside get them on the sidewalk. Very light and easy to kind of brush away but once you hit the evening hours tonight, whatevers on the ground is going to freeze and its going to be frozen all the way through the weekend so youll want to get rid of the snow thats on the ground today before it freezes over tonight. All right, guys, live from Old Town Alexandria. Ill send it back inside to you. Not bad on the height, hm . Not bad. Keep using that yard stick. I think it looks pretty good on you. Probably be out there for flood stage if we get enough snow unfortunately. Erin good morning. You saw where mike was standing, very light traffic, no traffic where he was. The little bit of volume that is out t going to hit some slick conditions. Southern maryland you can see all the snow on the ground. Its really dicey conditions out there. 30 Miles Per Hour average yellow all over the map in Southern Maryland through brandywine, waldorf. Were not seeing great conditions so please use caution especially on those secs all over the d majors most salted and most plowed. Bridges overpasses on and off ramps freeze first. Inbound traffic a steady flow. Youll hit delays if youre out and about simply because of the conditions on the roads. This is a look at a nasty commute on 270. 36 minutes from 70 to 121. Again not because of volume but because of treacherous conditions. 70 seeing slow conditions. Bw parkway slow. Fourteenth street bridge again slow moving even though volume is very light. Same story out on your secondaries in old town. As bob has been mentioning with our Team CoverageWind Restrictions at the bay bridge. Use caution. Metro is mainly on time. Amtrak northeast regional dealing w cancellations. Back to you. Team coverage meantime continues. Lets head out to Montgomery County. Thats where we find our Melanie Alnwick this morning. Shes checking out Road Conditions on that side of the dmv. Good morning. Reporter hey, good morning. We were in Prince Georges County before in the laurel area so we got on the icc to head towards Montgomery County. I got the tell you the icc is perfect. There is literally nothing frozen on that road, at least what we waffl traveled from shor to shoulder. Roads seem pretty good. 97, Georgia Avenue looked good. 108 looked as well. We even hit muncaster mill road and muncaster road which are some of those roads in Montgomery County that we know have had some accidents and incidents and buses stuck in the past and that was passable as well. We came here to Mill Creek Elementary School because we wanted to see how the schools are looking because i know Montgomery County is one of those areas thats kind of a tweener as far as a call whether to close school today or not. The kids are celebrating but i think theres a lot of parents that are wondering whether were going to wish later in the year that this is one of those days we had back but right now looks like kids are going to get that snow day at all but its not enough snow to sled. Back to you guys. Its 7 22 right now. Well be right back i like these awardwinning cheddar puffs. And i like these awardwinning cheddar puffs. First place. Both events . Booyah were an awards family. Youll like them both but love our price. Simply smarter shopping. There are two types of people in the world. Those who fear the future. And those who embrace it. The future is for the unafraid. All because of you continuing with Team Coverage on 7 23 on this winter storm. Tucker is standing by but first lets head outside to caitlin roth in northwest d. C. Reporter outside here in northwest d. C. Where the snow has tapered off to just a few flurries but whatever snow has fallen it has blown around. You can see it kind of collect in some spots. Its like feathery type of snow. So, its hard to get an accurate measurement. Everything has coated the ground. Weve seen amounts between that coating to a half inch but it is blowing. Its not enough snow that its causing too many disruptions on wisconsin avenue. Heres someone who has to go to work this morning. Keep in mind a lot of people do still have to go to work. For the most part around northwest d. C. Its been okay. They treated the roads. I saw crews out here on our own property throwing salt on the sidewalks. You got prepare for whats going to happen throughout the day which is the freezing of any of thi accumulated out here. So, the roads are all right. The snow has tapered. The wind and cold is intense. I will say when you hear that wind howl and when you feel it, ouch, by the way, over 20 miles an hour at times, it feels pretty brutal out here and we have a wind chill advisory which goes into effect a little bit later today which ill toss inside to tucker to talk about. For now tucker i think the blowing snow and the winds probably the biggest problem out here in northwest d. C. Sure enough. We can hear the wind and im sure you can feel the wind out there with the feelslike temperature. That you go the wind chill at 9 degrees. 24 now. We still getting light snow across the area. 2. 5inches in wheatonville in King George County in owens in Calvert County 3inches. The highest snow totals have generally been east of washington and thats what we expected. Thats where we had our snow totals about two to 4 inches ad the highest amounts are going to be lower Eastern Shore. Snow is winding down here pretty quick. Well have light snows and flurries for another hr should kind of lift off to the north and east here and we will be left with very windy conditions. We might even get some afternoon sunshine but it will not be a warm day. Trust me it will not be warm. Wind chills will be hanging out in the Single Digits for much of the afternoon. Theres our storm. Ross thank you for sending information in about the first bomb cyclone was named in a academic paper in 1980. Yup. So, thanks for sending that in russ. And our bomb cyclone is lifting off to the north and east. Heavy snows not just locally but as you get up into long island and the cape. Well talk more about that but they are really going to be hard hit in parts of new england. Very windy this afternoon. 28 and then we are just in the bitter cold here friday and saturday. And every flake that fell overnight is going to stick around right through the weekend as temperatures dont warm up until early next week. Erin, how are roads. [inaudible] thats a problem. Can you hear me now . Oh, wow guess it got stuck in the middle. Damascus secondaries are especially slippery so use caution there. Right now we have a crash 50 eastbound at eastwest highway blocking the exit ramp to 410. Looks like a vehicle spun around. Watch for slick conditions. Seeing a lot of problems on the roads as you make your way out. 95 northbound at the truck scales still dealing with a crash blocking the shoulder. Slick conditions from virginia. Fredericksburg on through, 14th street bridge, lighter volume, reduced speeds everywhere. Please use caution. Metro buses are still dealing with slick conditions. Metro rail is on time. Look at that snowy view from frederick into Montgomery County, 40 minutes, 70 to 121. Slick conditions on 70. Slick conditions on 50 through bowie across the bay bridge guys. Any questions at erin fox5 d. C. On twitter. Back to you. Straight ahead at 7 30, our continuing coverage of this massive winter storm continues. Dont forget we want to see your picture so please post fox5 snow day. And from friend to foe a closer look at the war of words taking over the white house between President Trump and this former adviser steve bannon. Well break it down next. Palm tree in ocean city, maryland, actually this is not the worst conditions weve seen so far this morning. Winds kicking up to 60 miles an hour in some cases around ocean city. Our corey coffin is out there enduring it and it is basically looks like a blizzard. Right. Almost like what youd have a summer wind storm out there pushing hurricane strength in some areas. Within 20 miles an hour. Heavy stuff coming down out in ocean city. Crazy weather. Not what we have here. I Donald John Trump do solemnly swear. Willard mitt romney. Wahoo its been back and forth they seemed to be closest friends President Trump throwing shade on his top adviser steve bannon and the back and forth continu bombshell book has come out and statements made by bannon in the book target the president and his son donald trump injury. Late last night the president s lawyers sent a cease and desist letter to bannon ordering him to stop making quote disparaging statements. Lets get the late fest from axios report sheena. What is the latest when it comes to feud now yesterday seemed to boil over between steve bannon and President Trump. Bombshell. As my colleague mike allen has reported from axios am were hearing two thing, one, as early as today, trump and his lawyers may be suing michael wolf who has written his book fire and fury and, two, its reported from according to our sources that michael wolf has actually dozen of hours of recordings which may ease some concerns that some of his quotes may not be as true as they appear in the book. Shannon, so much going on here when we focus on the book itself and weve seen some of the excerpts that have been published already and i know axios had access it to a couple of one, you mentioned in there are record to go back up the statements obviously would be a big difference when it comes to these threats of lawsuits. But was michael wolf not given access to the white house . Was the white house not cooperating with his and now is it just a case of they dont like what other people said so now its a bigger deal than what it should have been originally . Its been reported that he has been given been given ax says to the white house e we should also note that as soon as bannon was out he basically loft that access. So a lot of what well hear from this book in the coming days and especially next week when the book comes out will be before bannon left the white house. Lets talk about what happened leading up to this. There are reports steve bannon never liked the president first family inside the white house. That there was always tension there. But did you see it boiling up to this point . I quite frankly was surprised by all of this yesterday. The president saying that bannon quite frankly has now lost his mind. You see time and time again, um, bannon and several of Trump Associates making statements that might paint them in negative light to your consumer of news ton the american public, and, um, this is probably one of the first time that is trump hasnt necessarily come out and defended steve bannon. Meantime bannon still defined donald trump, though, the president. We havent heard from steve bannon necessarily since yesterday since this report has come out. And as my colleague mike allen was reporting this morning when we asked him for comment he didnt necessarily reply or wouldnt go on the record. What is the end game here, because youve had with stories in the last couple of days that have come out saying maybe President Trump never wanted to be president in the first place. You have steve bannon who obviously wanted to be very close to the president and close to power here in washington. Two men who obviously love the idea of having power. I dont think thats any secret to anyone. Does steve bannon want to be president . Whats he going for here . Does he want to be the successor now to donald trump. Whats the end game for both of these people. Were hearing at ox sews he for president if donald trump doesnt run. But, of course, trump has been campaigning since day one. Right. So whether that comes into play is still to be seen but it definitely pits trump and bannon against each other whether or not bannon would run at the same time or after pulling out of the race. What happened to donald trump, jr. , in this whole scenario he came out bannon and said basically this was treason us in what he did meeting in that room that day. So what happens now as far as the first family goes Jared Kushner as well . Whats next . Right. Steve bannon has come out against some of trumps relatives even blood relatives like donald trump, j and hit his third rail. Kind of like the last straw it seem like and thats maybe why trump has been reaction the way he has been sort of saying hes lost his mind as soon as he lost his job, and as far as the Mueller Investigation goes, bannon seems to think that the white house has sort of run out of options in terms of defending itself. He says thats on a path to trump. He points tohe that donald trump, jr. , caught in this financial laundering scheme. That remains to be seen in terms of how the Mueller Investigation plays out. How nasty is this right now . Lets be real. This was the president s right hand guy, his chief strategist. Now theres a very public war of words here at least bannon is not necessarily coming out and i understand what you said as far as no one hearing from him but the support is there for at least the president right now from what i have seen. Where are we right now . Being the former white house chief strategist for traumaly come out against him with statements like this is probably shocking for a lot of people to see. And for trauma top then come back and hit back and say hes unimportant to me is similar how trump has treated other people who have spun out in negative light in the media at least. So it remains to be seen whether or not trump is really ejecting bannon from his inner circle at this point the white house said the last time they spoke was early december but trump has gone o former colleagues that hes dismissed or fired or left the white house and taken them back into his circle as well. Definitely a power play. If it was two men battling over control of corporation we might say one thing but battling over control of the country seems to be a different situation with al the threats of lawsuits it will be interesting to see where we go in the last 24 hours weve seen the president threaten to sue the author of the book and steve bannon and back and forth. We shall see what develops throughout the day. Shannon thank you. Thank you very much. Appreciate i lets check with Tucker Barnes and see how the forecast is shaping up so far. 7 37. On schedule here. Snowing for another hour or so. Lets get right to the maps want to show you the radar and current conditions. 24 in washington. Every flake sticking out there. Its not the totals are that impressive but very icy and slippery. So be on the look out. As soon as you step out your door this morning. Snow winding down here pretty quick. Highest of the snow totals which i will show momentarily in just a couple of minutes off to the east. And we should see the last of the snowflakes tapering off in another hour or two exception of course the first east and south you get. Theres our big storm, big bomb and it is really intensifying. Blizzard conditions expected long island up through new england, maine will be hard hit. Eastern massachusetts and well talk more about that as well but you can see very impressive there. All right. Our expected snow totals gen generally covering to 2inches locally higher amounts to the south and east well come back and revisit how much snow weve seen in just a minute. Am i tossing to erin or tossing to break . Okay. Or we can justs to into the air. Hi. Toss into the air. Im here. Hi. Unfortunately look at this breaking news. Bob barnard stumbled upon us in the kent island side of things on 50 web. We have jackknifed tractor trailer. Theyre getting ready to tow out of the way. This is right near the bay bridge in graysonville use caution there. Cold workers out there snow coming down very slick conditions. Please use caution on 52 and from the bay bridge on the kent island side of thing. From this live look lets switch it over to look at our cameras and our maps. 95 northbound at is blocking the right lane right shoulder out there. Were just seeing a lot of slowmoving traffic especially on the Southern Maryland side of things and in Montgomery County 267 dealing with slowmoving traffic as well. Volume light across the 14th street bridge. Bridges, overpasses on and offramp ups secondaries tend to ice first than say the slowest condition out there. Please again slow it down use caution. About 40 minute trip from 70 to 121. Thats us a make your way out on the southbound side of 270. A lot of volume so if you do have to head to work, please give yourself extra time. 395 slow on the hov and main lanes and any questions erin fox5 d. C. On twitter. Keep it to fox5. More on the snowy forecast this thursday morning as we continue. Everybody from conrad to raphael thanks for sending them in. How are you spend your day today and more important toll help out tucker and mike and caitlin and everybody in the weather department. What are you seeing in your area . How much snow are you getting . Are you out in ocean city on the Eastern Shore are youre getting a lot of blizzard conditions or to the west of d. C. Maybe in culpeper where youre possibly not getting quiet as much . Let us know. Use the its easy for to us find those pictures and we can share them with everybody else we all know whats going on. Nobody won the powerball last night. Luck of the draw could make one american very very rich. Mega millions and powerball jock pots have swelled to 1 billion total. No Winning Ticket sold last night. The jackpot for the powerball 550 million. The next drawing will be saturday night. Fridays Mega Millions jackpot 418 million. Add them up right now, youre looking at 968 million combined and that number could still go up before the drawings. Still a head this morning we obviously are keeping an eye on the Winter Weather. It is slamming the east coast and not just in maryland. All up and down the east coast. Tucker has got another check on the forecast coming up next. Also landing your dream job and then making sure you keep it. Its one thing to get a job. Another thing to stay on that job and continue to improve. So were going to share seven secrets to make you more desirable in the workplace. Its 7 42. Thats corey. Shes cold. Yes. And we just saw the palm tree which did not look if palm trees could express emotion. Right. I would read that palm trees emotion as not happy. We can tell from coreys body language shes not happy standing out there. Lets not take her. Shes not ready. Shes getting prepared. Thats ocean city, maryland, and blizzard looking conditions there with all this crazy snow that were getting on this january 4th. We want to see your pictures of where you are. Please help us tell the entire story send us your pictures on our social media. The hash tag is fox5 snow you can always track the cold and the snow on foxdc. Com and the fox5 mobile app there you will also find the latest listings of School Closings and delays. 7 45 right now. Tuck has got your forecast coming up in just ten seconds. Hey, lets get right it to. We got snow totals Reagan National now checking in at 810ths of an inch. Lesser amounts to the west dulles onetenth of an it inch at bwi marshall approaching 1 inch and thank to you our viewers sending in some snow totals. Waldorf, 2. 8inches. Annapolis 2. 2. Herndon, virginia, about half inch. So again kind of west to east the highest amounts as expected to the east and to the south where were a little closer to the storms sent. Cold, 24 in washington. Wind chills right now in the Single Digits. Everybody remains well below freezing today. Our snow will be wrapping up here pretty quick. And then the real story will be the wind single different and negative later this afternoon. Minus five, minus ten. Youre going to go out and play in the snow because youve got a snow day dress pope it 88ly. Snow is winding down pretty quick here. Were starting to get breaks in it. It will start to push to the east. I think the last of the flakes will be flying locally another hour or two. The exception you guys along the lower Eastern Shore and then Southern Maryland it will last longer. Hey, steve . Yes. Nobody realizes this but we were actually able to get inside the center of our bomb cyclone and singing if you listen to it very carefully. Thats exactly how it sounds. Calm like a bomb. Oh, my gosh. I picked up on that. Only time i ever had a chance to life in my ridge against the machine while i talk about weather. Perfect opportunity. Perhaps Weather School we could have used it there. Lets get back to the wea weather. Yes. Thats your wind chill advisory for later today. Again, unfortunately, here the winds are really going to be blowing. 30, 40 miles an hour, and well be looking at wind overnight which are going to be minus five, minus tin, minus 15. Tomorrow morning will be bitter cold. High temperatures on friday saturday only in the teens. I think im tossing to caitlin for the latest whats going on outside. Caitlin, you outside. Now were toss to go mike outside for the latest. Whats going on tucker . Hey guys were still here in Old Town Alexandria where schools are closed today. Happy snow day, everybody. That was able to pull one out because its not a ton of snow on the ground, but kind of like we mentioned before, what calls of falls will stick. Already got some at least four legged friends just across the park here out enjoying the snow and out enjoying the cold weather. Long haired dogs especially love this kind of stuff. Now as for the kiddos today, once they get up out of bed theyre probably wanted to get out and enjoy the snow. Its beautiful down here at the park but its just a coating. As far as, you know, maybe half an inch. As far as snowball making goes its like six out of ten you really got to compact it to get the youre not going to be to guild whole lot of snowmen. Not quite enough snow for that. You can see the streets behind us covered. We mentioned of kind of flake that fell overnight was going to stick because how cold weve been in recent weeks here. Thats exactly kind of what happened. It didnt take a whole lot to cause lost chaos and get the schools closed. Remember, right now, the snow is fine. Its winding up out here. You shall get outside and clean your sidewalk and your driveway as soon as you can because temperatures dropping to night what falls will freeze. Beautiful view of the potomac. Frozen along the edges here. You get out into the middle not so frozen. Looks like planes weve seen more and more planes going by looks like things at the airport are starting to pick up and run smooth aft this mornings snow here in Old Town Alexandria. Guys, thats the latest from here. Well have more coming up later. Ill zen it over to erin como for traffic and im hoping its moving pretty smoothly. How does it look, erin. We have slick spots and problem areas overall lighter than what we normal seal because of the federal government being on delay. So many School Cancellations and delays. Light volume we have crashes because of these slick conditions. 95 northbound at dale city right lane blocked you can see light volume but speeds are going much slower because of these slick conditions. Pennsylvania avenue southbound atwater street we do have a crash as well and you can see through Upper Marlboro were seeing really slow conditions on 301 in both directions. 270 light have the yum again red zone. 41 minutes just to get from 70 to 121 because of those slick spots really slowing things d down. Secondaries in Montgomery County throughout potomac all over Southern Maryland as well. You see sleek spots. Slow the down bridges, overpasses on and offramps. 50 out by 202 outbound traffic light but slow. Same story on the inbound side. Now, bob barnard do we have live look where he is . Theres a jackknifed semi out in kent island on 50 westbound writ by the bay bridge. If not just use caution out there. We do have wind advisories in effect as well. You can see snow on the Center Median and the shoulders in Southern Maryland and even though were seeing a lot of yellow on red on five as well as 301 volume again super light this morning. The beltway itself is looking okay but again watch for those slick spots including the 14th street bridge and the key bridge from rosland into georgetown. Outbound as well. Heres a look 50 out by 424. You can see again traffic is super light in terms of volume. Metro right now rail lines on time. But delays on metro buses because icy spots and amtrak as well because of the inclement weather on the northeast try that again northeast regional. Im freezing and im in studio. Back to you. Erin, thank you so much. Appreciate it. In the meantime ahead 8 00 oclock, the bomb cyclone barring link its way up the east coast. Live Team Coverage from all over the region that will connell. Right now we neck with melanie. Youve been in Prince Georges County, Montgomery County, its hard to keep track of you this morning. Reporter well, were trying to make our way around as much as possible. Were here in gaithersburg high school. We wanted to kind of stop and get outside and feel what the conditions. Maintenance personnel, they didnt get a snow day today. They are here clearing off those sidewalks really important to do before anybody steps on this stuff. Because right now, theres not a lot of it and its so dry literally you could just blow it or brush it away but as you know if youre a homeowner or you got an apartment condo anyone once they start to step on it it gets icy and compacted down. So they get this cleared, they should have no problems here for the rest of the day. The parking lot perfectly clear and i want to you take a look out at 355. That is also really just wet. Little bit of slush on there. All of the roads that weve been on in Montgomery County right now look pretty good considering what were seeing in other ar areas. The icc was perfecting wet from shoulder to shoulder. We are on Georgia Avenue. We remember on 108. We were on muncaster road and muncaster mill road. Those very very good. I should say so we havent been around the entire county, but at least passible. I know that Montgomery County closed schools today and all the kids are excited about it but it goes without saying, parents are always questioning, oh, my gosh, really did we needed to this today here. Isnt it passible . Is this one of those days we wish we got back . Montgomery county says they take the worst condition the most severe condition in the county and thats how they make their decision. They really want to base it on safety, and so theres probably some other areas in the county sidewalks or School Parking l lots, driveways that look much worse than this. If the whole county look like this id say absolutely those kids could have been in school today. So thats the latest from here in gaithersburg. Well hit the roads again and see you next half hour or so. Back to you guys. Mel, thanks very much. We look forward it to. Listen we dont rely on our reporters we rely on you to let us know whats happening in your area and youve been sending in some pictures. Lets take a look at some more. Waldorf, maryland, check out the tree and the snow on the ground and on the cars this morning. No school for the heres this one. Bowser was not a fan of the wind and the cold this morning. Back inside, al. Look at bowser. Bowser good looking dog. Clinton maryland look bowing the same. Maybe an inch or so on the ground and some on the cars as well. All right, this is eggs maryland Calvert County. Thank you for that look there. See, we cant tell the whole story everywhere so thank you. Snow day. Just chill and thats chili dog. Yeah. Keep the pictures coming use the fox5snowday. How cute. Well try to share throughout the morning. Stay warm, everybody. Stay safe. Hello to our facebook fan of the day, too. Good morning. Cheryl lynn windsor. Cheryl lynn says that it is so cold outside, um, and we agree with you, trust, shes a schoolbus driver in Fairfax County, and she is always up early and watches fox5 for her weather updates. She even prays for School Closings sometimes. You got date. Today she and all Fairfax County have the day laughs and said we all make her day. Hopefully you enjoy your day, a snow day. Awesome. All right. One thing were not talking about, tuck, temperature with the wind blowing so much and temps in the low 20s, youll feel a little bite out there this morning. Not just the snow. Yeah. It will turn down right dangerous later today wind chills are zero and minus five and ten. Lets enjoy the snow while we can. Ridge maryland 5. 5inches. In columbia 1. 5inches. Vienna 1 inches onism of snow. 2. 2 in annapolis. Thank you everybody gets lots and lots of reports how much snow youre getting at your house. Old load them up and give you credit here as far as snow totals. Generally speaking, those of you east of washington and particularly in Southern Maryland seem like those are height yesterday snow totals. Lesser amounts to the west. 24 now in washington. It feels like the wind chill feels like ten. So if youre going get out and play in the snow got a snow day make sure youre ready for cold one today as it is goi t very blustery afternoon again wind chills later today zero, perhaps minus five, minus ten with very gusty conditions. Snow is winding down pretty quick. Cutting off here to the west it will all be out of here shortly and then our attention will turn to the big bomb of a storm that will continue to blizzard conditions to coastal areas from ocean city up through new england. Well have more on that coming up. You can see that is one impressive sight early this morning. Another look at traffic which i guess people that ventured out there have learn the hard way its slippery, right. Really slippery out there. Live look at the beltway out by New Hampshire avenue. I can tell you volume is really light but traffic that is out there moving much slower. Friendly reminder to use caution especially bridges, overpasses on and offramps secondaries that havent been traveled on just yet youll see slick conditions. Crews are doing a great job at salting and plowing the majors. Still slow it down. 301 southbound at dyson road jackknifed tractor trailer. Please use caution its a you head out there. Southern maryland arc crash in Upper Marlboro, pennsylvania avenue southbound atwater street. Again use caution as you head out in northbound at dale city crash blocking the right lane. We do have handful of issues. 66 at speed you can see lighter volume out there. But in terms of snow, it seems more like a little bit of, i dont know, what to indicate slushy mess out there. Well keep you upd updated again heavier conditions in Southern Maryland and Montgomery County. Back to you. All right. Thanks he so much, erin. In the meantime the storm continue to go roll up the aft coast. Our live Team Coverage continues from all across the region as ot as ocean city. Shes in the top of all stars all stars. She joins us live in the studio with the best diet trends and healthy food trends for the new year. This is fox5 news morning. Folks, were glad youre with us this morning on this thursday morning, and few of you might have the opportunity to tune in this morning who might not normally because a lot of schools are closed a lot of people working from home today because of what is being called bomb cyclone 2018. A monster storm slamming the Atlantic Coast. Now some parts of the d. C. Area i get it, not hit that hard. But across the eastern seaboard a lot of snow all the way from florida to new england. Here in the dmv were dealing with lots of School Closings and major messes out there on the roads. Weve got live Team Coverage for you straight ahead. The situation with the morning. Many going from delayed to closed right now pretty much everything is closed. All right. Theyre all scrolling right along the bottom of your screen all morning but lets get you caught up on the major ones. In maryland, Frederick County schools are closed as are anne arundel county, Montgomery County and Saint Marys County schools. Lets add to that list more closures. Charles county schools Prince Georges County schools, and Calvert County schools. Lets take to you virginia now lots of changes in virginia to whats closed. Article ton county schools, youre closed. Alexandria city schools are closed. Fairfax county schools closed. Loudoun county schools closed. Prince William County, Spotsylvania County schools closed. Stafford county schools also closed. Manassas city and Manassas Park schools are closed. Staying in virginia, Fauquier County, Culpeper CountyWarren County and page county schools you are on a twohour delay. D. C. Public schools are also closed this morning. The federal government is open but operating on a twohour delay. Federal workers do you the option for unschedul unscheduled telework. Dc government, though, the city government, is open on time this morning. Lets get right to tucker who kicks out of all right live Team Coverage this morning. Back when i was a kid growing up in maryland it would snow six, 10inches wed get an hour delay. Right, allison. Preaching to the choir, my friend. Im just kidding. We always got cancellations. D. C. Didnt. D. C. Never did. I feel sorry for the dc students. Lets do it. Yeah, we got snow across the area. Its winding down pitt key quickly as far as accumulating snow generally got to be south and east down into Southern Maryland there and lower Eastern Shore for whats left of the accumaccumulating snow. But you know, leaving anywhere between a coating to four or 5inches for parts of the area particularly Southern Maryland and then of course we had the blizzard conditions which continue down along the even shore. Ocean city. Wait until you see the scenes in ocean city just mazing. What can we expect . Snow will get out of here. Winds will pick up and see partial clearing this afternoon so as far as accumulating snow i think were generally done with it. Not done storm, bombing out as its deepening very rapidly and bringing very windy and dangerous conditions to coastal area. Theyll be looking at blizzard conditions from ocean city right through the new jersey beaches up towards long island, and then new england later today and if youre traveling up towards new york and boston particularly if youre flying i would definitely call ahead and make sure that flight is on time. For us this afternoon wind chills near zero. Dangerous cold later today. We should done with accumulating snow in the next our huer so. More weather in just a minute, guys, back to you. Our team could have ratch across the region. Out of ocean city, maryland. Thats where we find corey coffin holding down the fort now. She joins us live where im so happy to see you. At least for this hit in the car. Good morning. Although we still see the palm tree out the window. Inside right now. Yeah, good morning, you guys. I do want to give you a look at what exactly were seeing just right through the windshield here. We had remain inside the car for this particular live shot out. It is frozen out at this point. It is just very, very cold conditions outside, and some of the these whipping winds cre creating these mini kind of whirlwinds out here and of course causing those snow berms. You know the sun is up but, you can see a lot more but really it is just meetly wintry white blizzard whiteout conditions. And we know that with these strong winds comes the risk for downed power lines and debris and i know that First Responders say that they are worried about that, thats something that theyre kind of looking out for on the roadways. Of course drivers be out there be careful of as well. Some of the drivers weve seen coming through here pretty quickly. So we want to warn people to slow down. Weve seen scene a random person or two walk through these or even biking through these and its been kind of amazing to see people able to get through these conditions. It really is just biting. Theres a man actually walking right now. I dont know i shot we can show, there we go. He just went to get coffee. I chatted with him moment ago. He amazingly he doesnt have any business out here just out here in his condo bracing out the storm and he was amazing able to get little bit of coffee this morning. Happy to say im warm right now well send it back to you guys in the studio which is equally hopefully warm. Get warm. You deserve it. Well seal you later. Frame prime example the winds out there. Yeah those scenes in ocean city remind mowing of my sea foam days. I know. Actually beautiful. Blizzard conditions down there. Blizzard conditions not caused by the amount of snow but by the sustained winds. Right. In a snowstorm. Winds gusting to about 50 colonel out in ocean city. Hurricane strength starts at what . Strange weather. 74. That can be expected up in eastern massachusetts. Theyre loo looking at 60, 70 ms an hour gusts up there. Very dangerous particularly with the snow theyre getting up there. All right. Lets do snow totals. Thank you for sending them in. Keep them coming im loving all stepping me. Tweet me at tucker fox5 ill continue to post these. Waldorf 2. 8inches. Annapolis 2. 2. Out in herndon, half inch of snow approaching 1 inch at Reagan National. The highest amounts ive seen generally east and south. So Southern Maryland, Calvert County, Saint Marys County were seeing lots of three, four, 5inch snow totals to our south and to our east. Parts of Prince Georges County little bit over an inch so far. Okay. Cold and windy that will be the theme this afternoon 24 now Reagan National. 22 dulles and bwi marshall. Snow winding down very quickly here locally. It will continue for a few more hours further east you get out towards the bay annapolis and deal and parole and then down towards Saint Marys County leonardtown and Saint Marys City you guys will see the snow last a little longer. Last of the snow will be lower Eastern Shore ocean city where we have a winter storm warning. It will be out this afternoon. Well be contending with very cold windy conditions. You can see up and as i mentioned, next up new york, long island, the cape there, eastern massachusetts and maine. Blizzard conditions and theyre going to get the snow jackpot up there. Theyre looking at a foot plus for much of new england and well talk more about some of the conditions up there coming up. Okay . Really bombo genesis. You dont get it every day. Thankfully. Good morning, erin. It sounds like a made up word. It does. I give you credit but it does sound made up. Sounds comical. Sadly, et cetera not. Its very serious. Well get serious with it. Unfortunately traffic wise volume light but we do have problems. Outer loop is at speed but again thats because volume so light. Use caution. Looks like they were able to plow and salt the bell way and most of our ray majors around the dmv nicely. Secondaries, bridges, over passes, on and offramps im concerned about. 301 southbound at dyson road jackknifed tractor trailer only the left lane getting by. So much slow conditions op secondaries. Upper marlboro pennsylvania avenue southbound atwater street theres a crash. And then were also dealing with a crash eastwest highway eastbound baltimore avenue again slick conditions. Please plan on taking it slow out by the sandy point toll plaza volume light but Wind Restrictions at the bay bridge as well as other bridges. Caution while traveling metro rail lines on time. Metro buses delayed because of icy slick conditions and north eatery john amtrak line dealing with cancellations and delays. Back to you. Speaking of 50 at sandy pope lets cross the bridge and continue our team could have ratch with bob barnard out on kent island. All right. Conditions pretty dangerous where you are right, for commuters, bob, good morning. Reporter yeah, good morning, guys. Whats that expression its not the heat its the humidity. Here its not really the snow as much as the wind. Its kind of a sideways blowing wind and you see this is the eastbound lanes of route 50 right here heading further out off kent island away from the bay, and yeah theres about 2inches of snow, and it is dangerous because if you are going too fast and you go to turn or brake,you can end up in trouble and we can show you video tape of an 18 wheeler that we passed. This was on the westbound lanes in graysonville just a few miles west of east where we are n now. Westbound lanes. This 18 wheeler went off the road, jackknifed into a ditch. They did get this guy out of there. It only took a little bit but its an indication of how things can out here if youre going too fast. Erin mentioned speed restrictions. Its a 40 miles an hour speed restriction across the bay bridge. Right now 18 wheelers with empty trailers are not allowed to go across the bridge much thats the only restriction there. There are flight delays and cancellations at bwi. Governor larry hogan delaying a state of emergency in the Eastern Shore in the Southern Maryland counties. The snow is falling coming downside ways. Even though people are at speed these roads are dangerous, guys. No doubt about it, bob. We can see just damage a little bit can do out there with all that blowing around. In the meantime while bob is on kent island on annie yu is in Southern Maryland this morning. She continues our live Team Coverage from Saint Marys County. Annie, what are conditions like there . Reporter out of the car. Hello everybody. Hello. Reporter i know. That was a long ride up here. Im telling you leak almost three hours long because we had to go well below posted speed. The roads are bad. I mean theyre bad. If you dont have to be out, dont be out and the good news we didnt see a lot of people out. On route five we did see a good number of people heading out but when we started making our way farther south, we just saw less people. So that is good. Now, out here were in downtown old town old town leona leonardtown, and this is sort of the old parts. The historic part of leonardtown which i really love, and if you look right here, you know, i mean theyve got this is like fresh snow. I would say this is a good, what, three to 4inches here. The plow trucks have been continually plowing around this area, and they tell me that these businesses are expected to open closer any minute now really they said 8 00 oclock any minute they should be opening up and we also spoke to the Sheriffs Office and they tell us just minor accidents here and there, but nothing really crazy. So thats good. All is well in leonardtown. Everyone just kind of enjoying a snow day here. Back to yall in the studio. All right, annie, thank you very much. Good to know. Keep smiling. All right. The slick conditions may have contributed though to another amtrak train derailment. This is the serious and sad side of this weather. Officials say the train was traveling from miami to new york last night and was backing up slowly into the savannah station when three cars derailed. Fortunately there are no reports of any injuries. There is no word yet on what caused this derailment. Hedge past the hour. Still to come, more Team Coverage of the weather. That continues next. Well get an update from Tucker Barnes. Political power in finally be decided today. Remember that just one vote . Yeah. Well fill you in. Details ahead. Welcome back everybody. Look. So we didnt have the memes today because we were just little bit too crazed, right . But we must have cuteness. Cute. We got to do fox5 first five. I hope we got snow cuteness, right. Lets see. Our favorite time of day. Time f of date. Warm amazing indoor cuteness. That is acute little face. Umhmm. Somebody just woke up. Shes so cute. Yeah. Avieela. It does. I help year saying that right. 11 months old. Mom says that she was busy in this photo. What was she doing . I mean extremely busy paying her new years resolution. Cease so smart. But shes got it made. Be adorable. Be super smart. Yup. 11 months this is her first go around resolutions. Oh, yeah right. Shows got a clean slate. Yes, she does. You know what i love about this picture besides her amazing expression, look at her little belly. Aww. That sweet milk belly. She is the cutest. Oh, boy. When you get as older the bell system mott as cute. I know. Thats why i honor her. So cute. We love it. All right. Great picture. We love your picture. Out enjoy the Winter Weather for just a minute. You dont want to be too much. Cold on that cute little face. Thats right. To send us your picture go to fox5 d. C. Shes excited for Winter Weather and she should be. Go to our Facebook Page fox5 d. C. Thank you. For the picture. More snow totals rolling in. Remember we thought the lesser amounts would be to the west and sure enough dulles at onetenth of an inch. Closing in on an inch of snow at Reagan National and then crofton 2. 1 i have seen lots of reports out of arundel county and parts of Prince Georges County of upwards to an inch or two. So thats pretty much right on track of what we were expecting, and as annie mentioned few minutes higher amounts. Southern maryland four to 5inches of snow. Reagan national 24. Cold, windy, wind chills, wind chill advisories. Thats the next part of this story. Snow winding down pretty quick and it will be out of here shortly, and then well focus on our big bomb storm off to the north and east where it will batter coastal areas carolinas and long island and then new england and they are going to be very very hard hit. Winds could possibly gust 70 miles an hour up along the cape in massachusetts later today, and i would expect theyll have a lot of Power Outages and that kind of thing. Okay. Our forecast gets cold. All right. Snow is winding down then cold cold cold. Please take the cold seriously. Wind chills below zero later this afternoon ton night. Thank you very much, tucker. Umhmm. Tuck, thanks for the forecast update. Lets get storm coverage going with focus on savage its no the been particularly bad in northern have a have but along the coast it is a different story. Dominion roaring about 40,000 outages right now in southeastern virginia. For more we turn to Virginia GovernorTerry Mcauliffe kind enough to join us on the phone this morning. Governor, we wouldnt let you get out of Office Without one more snowstorm. How is it looking in virginia does i got eight days to go. One more storm at us. Were on top of it. Yesterday i declared a state of emergency. We were able to move a lot of our equipment Hampton Roads getting significant amount of the good news and i ask everybody who is watching and listening please stay off the roads. We got about 1400 pieces of equipment out now getting the roads ready for people. Weve delayed the opening of the State Government for two hours. Its supposed to stop in about another half an hour and the sun is actually coming out this afternoon. So i would beg everybody, please stay off the roads. There are too many people here in richmond on the roads. Please get off the roads if you can. If we can get the plowed to their job and the sun will be out this afternoon, were in very very good shape. But we have 42,600 virginians mostly in the Hampton RoadsVirginia Beach area without power now. Dominion working to get the power back as soon as possible. The good news is, we had war warning, we pre treated all the roads. Weve got all the equipment out there, um, everybody is working, and its working fine, but just help us and please keep off the road at least till 10 00 oclock and let us do our job and then well be past always good to preach caution governor. This storm crazy when you think not just about virginia but everybody from texas atlanta down in florida its been slowing. I know. One those things doesnt happen. Good to know were prepared. How is it there in richmond this morning . Weve probably got could be upwards of 3inches of snow here in richmond much the good news s you know, its light snow so the plows will be able to move it off. Thats why we want to get it off the roads before they sun comes out you dont want that wet slushy snow which is much harder. So literally hitting it hard, but i started getting my first reports about 4 00 this morning, and they were on top of it. They were on top of all the roads and they were moving it. So, you know, we have had three fatalities related to hypothermia in the last week here in virginia. It is very cold. People stay home if you dont have to go out. But the one thing i would implore everybody let us do our job. Weve got the equipment, the personnel is out there, were on top of it, we pre treated let the plows get the snow off the road and as i say the sun will be out you can go out and shop and do whatever you want to do, visit a Craft Brewery whatever you need to do. [ laughter ] let us do our job this morning. Support the virginia economy. Hate to hear about the fata fatalities, governor, but it is part of unfortunately what happens when we get weather like this. Real quick before we let you go have to throw in one political question southern virginia we thought we would be talking about the 94th district seat today not the snow. Youre getting ready to leave office what is your take right now not just on the 94th seat but the future of virginia politics . Well, im hoping now listen the democrats had dramatic wins the most sin the 1880s. We need to get Medicaid Expansion done. Ill leaving office as you know when i took office i inherited horrible 2. 4 billion deficit. We now have very large surplus. The state is in great shape today. We can take our foot off the gas. Ralph will keep it going. Welcoming, bring people in here, its a great state. Our economy were down lowest in the country. We just got to keep it going and i think with these new delegates coming in, i had to veto 120 very socially divisive bills. Those days are over. The governor will never be over written. I mean i had 34 democrats out of 100 if i lost one vote id be over written i never was over written the good news its all in the rear view mirror. We are heading forward stopping, ralph and his team are going to do great job. Lets just, upping, number one state in america we got to keep it going. Governor, as far as moving forward today and this morning particular stay safe out there just like everybody else. Thank you. Stay off the roads. Thanks, governor. Governor Terry Mcauliffe joining us from richmond this morning. Erin como, over to you. 8 20 right now. Well take look at the roads and show what youre up against this morning. Metro rail operating on or near schedule but customers reminded that traveling through the system platforms and escalators can be slippery. Use caution walking as well. Amtrak no service on the northeast Regional Rail between washington and norfolk, vir virginia. Modified schedule between new york a regional delays because of the snow. Now, as we take look right now at our roads you can see 270 by clam per road just seeing slick conditions much roads seem well plowed but 43 minutes red zone 70 to 121 despite the fact volume is very light. Northbound side quiet as well. But again its going to take you longer do you have to head out and about today because of all the snowy conditions. 36 minute trip op 50 from the 301 split to 97 westbound, eastbound side very slow role as well. Speeds very much reduced this morning. Outer loop is at speed in maryland through college park this morning passing New Hampshire avenue. You can see light volume so if you are out and about, 95 at speed as well from dale is he to the beltway. Traffic gets speed on 395 caution especially bridges, overpasses on and offramp 395 at speed again give yourself extra time to get around much please use caution especially on the secondaries throughout the dmv. Keep it to fox5. We will be right back. Oh, man. That gives me anxiety. Looking at traveling. I have an suv but im almost still im that person driving in front of you way too slowly. Especially when theres big rigs out there. The roads seem so much smaller. You can see the lanes. Take your time out there. Across the bay bridge and get an idea what traffic is like out there. Lets go from the bay bridge to Northern Virginia. Well kind of switch gears a little bit. Mike thomas has been around northern have a with the latest on our Team Coverage. What are conditions like look, mike, i really need to get you out of the middle of the street. I know there are no cars. But look, right. I know. Well, i feel all powerful in the middle of the street like this. Okay. Im actually holding up traffic up the road there. Were on a dead end street. So we kind of we kind of made it into a back road. No nobody really comes down here to park gone to the park. I did want to important out as you said allison im in the middle of the street. Im not in the middle of a field. Heres what you got on the street. A half inch of snow on the ground. So, again, ive seen some plows go by the street behind me here up the road. Theyre not plowing so to speak doing that thing where they move the snow. But they are dropping a lot chemicals so i think because its such a light kind of coating they didnt want to scrape the roads up. Theyre trying to get the chemicals to do a lot of work which is fine and dandy and all today, but unfortunately what thats going to do thats going to help melt thing. Things will turn a little liquid dee and then tonight as temperatures rea going to have things freezing up again. So well have to watch out for refreeze tonight and well have to watch out for the wind much thats one thing you cant sorter of see out here every now and then we get big gust of wind and its freezing when it happens. Were expecting widespread wind chills below zero a prince georges and anne arundel up in maryland have already issued two hour delays because of the extreme cold coming our way for your day on friday. Here to tell you more what to expect as we head into friday is Tucker Barnes. Tucker, its beaut out here know is kind of slowing down a couple of flakes flying around. Mikey you look great in your fox5 hat. You look fantastic. Im all branded today. I got fox5 everywhere, man. Its all about fox5. What concerns me you dont take the off when you get home unwear it around on the weekends as well. I sleep in it, too. Were getting a little detailed there. All right. 24 now in washington. He mentioned the windy conditions. Feels like nine. Thats wait feels like. It will feel like zero later today as winds are going out of the north and 40. I mentioned blizzard conditions in ocean city. 49mile per hour wind gusts about an hour ago in ocean city. Snow is quickly tapering off here in northwest d. C. And you can see most of montgomery, Loudoun County done with it and its pushing off to the east here. Pretty quickly we still have this little batch of snow just off into southern Prince Georges County, Charles County out towards will he plate at a and Saint Marys County and Calvert County. Were not quite done with the snow yet. Hang in there. Another hour or two things should wind up talk more about our bombo genesis coming up in a couple innings minutes. Back to you. 8 27 right now. Our team could have rav. Bomb cyclone continues next. And if youre planning to lose weight this is the year this year well tell you bout the best diets out there with a very special guest from the hit tv show Hells Kitchen all stars. Welcome back everybody. This bomb cyclone weve been talking about its all a result of the bombo genesis happening this really strong system moving up here from the south. Its going to head up into new england. You see our crews there driving around on i believe thats ocean city shot our corey coffin has been there this morning and man it is whipping around out there. Take your time. Most schools in the some schools on twohour delay. If you dont have to be outside, dont go outside. So welcome back to fox5 nice news morning. Stay with us all morning long online and on air for the latest on this storm were in right now. Meantime it is 8 31 and a lot of folks promise to get in shape for the new year, right, what is the best way to actually proceed if you want to find and follow a diet plan . Our next guest knows all about fitness and all about food. Elyse the diva chef fan favorite on Hells Kitchen all stars both for her skills with the skillet and for her take no prisoners attitude in the competition and boo to that and she joins to check out the top diet plans for this year as selected by u. News and world report. Its so nice to meet you. Its nice to meet you. Thank you coming in on this day. Boop. There you go. We appreciate it. So, um, basically i even hate to say the word diet because im sure youre going to say, its a about your choices forever. Right. Its about lifestyle change. Right. Okay. Consistent follow 30 days will make a world of a difference when it comes to your food and fitness goals. You wont want to eat junk. I learned like if that habit fits in you dont feel good eating the processed food. Diet scares people. When you say diet, youre thinking that youre going to really be without foods and not enjoy what you eat but thats not the case and thats what well learn today with the top three diet. You were saying off camera these are also diets recommended for people with specific Health Concerns too, right. Not and are these the top overall diets for 2018 by Us World Health and news, but its also the top three diets for diabetes reversal. Wow that is a thing. That is a true thing. You can now help yours self. Lets get into it. Number one is what they said was the dash diet. What is that . So i like to talk about the dash diet as little like a dash of this, a dash of that. Basically the moderation diet. Its the things that we emphasize every day. So the things that you lots of fruits and vegetables because thats what these three diets have in common. Okay. Lots of fruits and vegetables at least five to six serves a day. If that sounds like a lot to you try step by step maybe with breakfast eat a little fruit maybe with lunch you eat a few vegetables. And you go on and add from th there. But the dash diet focuses on lean proteins so youll see we have grilled chicken here and turkey, white fish, cod, tilapia fish of that nature and then it also encompasses the low fat dairy with it and then whole grains. Okay. We have quinoa here, some fa farrow. Let me ask you something with this like when i see this how do i actually inn corp. This into my meals . The whole grain because whole grain has gotten a bad wrap sometimes its not whole grain marketers put that on cereal to whatever else. You play it smart. You have to i mean oats for first meal. Who doesnt like oatmeal, right. Oats for first meal. Theres whole grain for you right there. Quinoa is a great one. Brown rice if you want to it basic. Yeah. You can also do farrow. Whole food. Lets talk i think the dash diet out of all three are the easiest for beginner. What about mediterranean d diet. They say the people who live on the coast of the mediterranean are the move healthiest. Yup. More healthy than americans. Beautiful skin. Yes. Because of their diet which encompass as lot of good fats. So youll notice we have a lot of nuts, we have salmon, we have shrimp another thing about the mediterranean diet they dont really mess with the dairy. They dont do eggs. They dont do, um, yogurt, milk any of that cheese they focus on seafood and they save pole tree and red meat for special occasions. What do you think about dairy . I dont do dairy personally for me. I noticed in my studies that dairy has potential to make women a little bloated around the mid section so if you pull the dairy ill bet you notice a flatter tummy. Note to self. Also the flex arian diet. I dont know what this is. Okay. So the next tariean diet a word of now with ive had clients who do that. Theyll basically this diet you have to eat most of your protein the fifty four vegetarian way. Okay. So youll see here we have soy tempe. Hmm. You said it. We have tofu. Now the nice thing is that this is kind of like a fad going on right now so you can go in your Grocery Store down the aisle and they have a whole aisle dedicate to do vegan proteins this is crazy because this has like 18 grams of pro ten per serving this tofu. It comes in all different types of flavors. Thats good. If you dont know to work with tofu, this is a lifesaver. Elyse diva chef what is that right there . Okay. Is that what is that . Yes. Vegetarian an tray. With the next tarean diet your flexible to eat a steak or burger when you crave it. When you crave it not all the time. Every day, no. But, you know, maybe once a week youll have and theres multiple ways to getting your protein because thats very important. Everybody has different goal. Some people might have weight loss goals. So i would say that the flex tarean diet is good for weight loss but you have to think about if your goal so build muscle get in your protein thats hard on the flex tarean diet. Best tight for muscle building would be the dash diet. Being that it has all the lean proteins like chicken, turkey, fish, grains, everything you need to, you know, pump. I love it packet confidential news we can wright use in 218. The show starts on friday. On friday. The top eight compete. Ive beat out more of the competition. Boop its been a pleasure talking to you. Its nice to be here. Tucker, over to you. Check out Hells Kitchen. Allison. Yes. Steve says dairy makes him bloated as well it happens to men, too. Right. Did you just see elyse put her guns up. Pow, pow. Pop, pop, like a cartoon. Any way, back to thats enough self deprecating for me. Snowfall totals. Keep sending them tucker fox5. Getting lots and lots now. Big help for me. Takoma park half inch. California, maryland, Southern Maryland has been certainly getting the jackpot here, 4inches out in alexandria about an inch and generally inside the bell way we are closing in on an inch for most of the area. Reagan national 24 degrees. 22 dulles. 22bwi marshall. Cold will be the big story once we get the snow out of here. You can see Northwest Side of d. C. Pretty much done with it. It is snowing Southeast Side down towards National Harbor and Prince Georges County, Charles County still getting snow and pretty good batch of it east of waldorf. All of that will be very gradually kind of pushing off to the east here and things will wind down. What will not wind down our storm intensifying as we speak and its really deepening very gusty winds dangerous winds along the coast. Blizzard conditions up new england theyll get a foot plus in eastern parts of maine and this will be big story for the next couple of days. Continue to monitor it. Our snow generally over i want to mention qck chill advisory well talk more about the wind chills later but theyre going to be to say the least very unpleasant. Below zero for most of the day. Erin . Tucker i will tell you right now, were seeing really light volume but im concerned because even though a lot of schools are off there is a twohour delay in lot of areas im worried when more people hit the road well see more fender benders right now were just seeing icy conditions especially bridges, overpasses on and offramp and secondaries. 301 southbound down in Southern Maryland cheltenham a dice son road a jackknifed semi only the left lane gets by and yellow five and thirty four zero one through Brandywine Waldorf areas because of slick conditions and heavier snow. Slowing us down. You can see right now again no traffic in this camera really. 32 Miles Per Hour average just allow for extra time. Now, outside the top side of the beltway in maryland 95 at 212 looking good in both directions north and southbound. If you happen to have an Early Morning night to catch take it easy take it slow on the way to bwi, Reagan National and dulles and call your carrier ahead check and make sure everything is on time because you may today. 95 dale city to the beltway you can see theyre zooming in adjusting the camera very height volume watch for slick spots out there as you head out 66 same story there. And then as you make your way out just keep in mine Amtrak Service adjustments and metro urging to you use caution walking on the sidewalks and taking escalators metro rail lines on time, guys. Back to you. Erin thanks very much. Fop adviser to top enemy the word of words between the president and former adviser steve bannon next. It is 8 39 and well be right back. Ck. 8 42 on this thursday morning many more life pictures from across the bay bridge. We take look at some of the conditions across the area. As we move farther to the east were seeing little bit more of not just the amount of snow that fell, but the wind thats been picking up as well. Bob barnard as been out there. Corey coffin has been out there. Shes already out in ocean city. Getting to be pretty windy out there. All righty. Thank you for all the great video. Live pictures there. 8 42. In other news back here now locally with other news. Police are trying to determine if two unsolved murders are connected. Lewis was found shot and set on fire in the trunk of a car last thursday in southeast. Now thats the same night that armani kohls was found shot to death along i295 in the at the maryland d. C. Line. Police say the victims knew each other. They had grown up in the same part of d. C. Former Maryland School aid and tra sexually ass assaulting underagd students is due in court. Carlos Deangelo Bell accused of assaulting middle and High School Students and recording it on video. If convicted he can face over 2,000 years in prison. Another developing story this morning. A fire and fury inside the trump white house. Thats the title avenue new book by journalist michael wolf. He says its based on hundreds of interviews and conversations with senior white house staffs and President Trump himself. Several excerpts have already been released caused quite the fire storm between these two men played out yesterday steve bannon of course and President Trump. Lawsuits out this morning. In the meantime we have a jam packed good day coming your way just about 16 minutes away. We are live with two hollywood heavy Jessica Chastain and aaron sorkin they have a new movie out. Its his directorial debut. Monthlys game. One of the most anticipated shows of the new year. Foxs have two of the contestants that will have to sing for their l life. If you want to laugh social media star and comedian ryan davis is live in the loft with millions of views online. It is 8 44 and we will be right back. Thanks for sending i was your great snow pictures in. Angel, thank you. Angel says snowy morning to all. Keep safe and warm. Thats from prince frederick, maryland. I dont think they n how about wind top waiting for puppy school. We need to see within top. We need to lose the banner for second. If we can. Lets run it again. Where is within thorpe . Let me see. Win thorpe. Let me see. Theres us. I recognize us, steve. Were all the rage. We were for a second. Very cool. Oh well. Thanks lisa. Appreciate it. Keep the pictures coming h hashing to fox5 snow day. Donald thats pitt as well. Cant get to get home and tweet mine. Where we see the accum accumulation. From the couch. Exactly. With the pups. Where is the accumulation starting to build, tuck . To the east. In fact, south and east. Southern maryland winning the jackpot locally. If you really want to get technical lower Eastern Shore will see the most down where corey down in ocean city where were looking at blizzard conditions, but impressive amounts here in Southern Maryland. Waldorf 2. 8. Annapolis 2. 2. Bowie just to the east of dc here 1. 3inches and then as you get west of town, lesser amounts. More like half inch out in vienna and of inch reported so far at dulles. Cold. I want to talk bout cold and wind here for just a second. 24 now in washington. 23 leonardtown. 22 dulles. Remember yesterday dulles was one . Little warmer today with cloud cover and snow we had overnight, but it will not feel like 22 degrees. Its going to feel much colder than that throughout the day because look at these winds 30 to 40 miles an hour. 32 the recent gust here at the city. 39 dulles. 35 in annapolis whipped chills right now Single Digits for most everybody. Feeling like nine here at the city and five out at dulles. These numbers only go down later today. Unfortunately its going to feel like zero maybe minus five, minus ten for much of your afternoon. Snow gradually winding down pretty much done with it in the city might get another little burst in the next hour or so the theme will be to pull the snow off to the east here pretty quickly you can see still snowing for you guys in Southern Maryland pick up light accumulation general physical youre west of 95 youre done witness accumulating snow and things will start to gradually improve. What will not improve the temperatures and again the wind advisory in effect later tonight and tomorrow. All right. Theres or big storm. Bombing out here. Deepening area of low pressure very very impressive satellite signature, and tapping into a lot of moisture out in the atlantic and its throwing a lot of snow back along the coast and a lot of wind as well. Very very windy conditions into new jersey and then up into the cape. And theyll get blizzard conditions up in maine a little later today. All right. Theres your seven day forecast. Really want to emphasize how cold its going to be tonight and tomorrow and into our weekend were not going to get it above freezing until sometime on monday so what snow we got overnight is here to stay make sure youre real careful when you get out there. It will be slippery. You got to see these scenes out of ocean city. Well toss it down to corey where they have blizzard conditions. Good morning, corey looking g good. Reporter thank you. Weve now ventured further inland from where the boardwalk area was to kind of the conditions out here and they are a bit worse. Were right on 50 and if you take look here you can actually over here. So theyve got a plow truck that had tried to help earlier now a tow truck coming through right now to try to get folks unstuck. Really thats kind of the news of the day so far is this low visible these high winds. And then these gigantic snow berms kind of like the one you see in front of him causing drivers to just get stuck. They cant move. We even saw one, or heard, rather, one gentleman who was treague to pick up some chemo medicine hes got paramedic theyve called out an army vehicle to try to get him help him out and get him out of a rural road. But for now well send it back to you guys in the studio. Corey, thank you very much. 8 49. Stay warm out there. So new this morning a lot of us would like to think were integral part of our workplace at the office might fall apart without us. But are we really that important and are we irreplaceable . If not how can you make yourself a little more indispensable in the new year. Gwen moran says there are seven ways to ensure core player to get the recognition you deserve and even increase your job security. Shes with us via skype this morning with gwen, break it d down. What do we have to do to make ourselves indispensable once we lapped that job and want to keep it. Good morning, steve and allison. This requires thinking about things on three levels. So first you want to think about yourself, um, as on the company level. Act like you own the place. So look around. How can you make improvements to the things that matter to the company . Know about your company. Read your organizations news releases. Google the company. Find out whats being written about the company in the trade media and find out where it fits in the eco system of your industry. Then understanding doing alignment check. You can take there are a lot of ways to be busy in your workplace. Ho things that dont matter to the company, its easy to spend a lot of time working but not increasing your value to the company. So being sure youre clear about those big picture goals. Then the next level you want to think on is your boss level. How can you make your boss look great . Theres no easier way to become indispensable to be your boss go to person or the person that really makes them hook super. Just by virtue of doing good work, understanding the bigger picture, understanding their goals. You might remember the iconic tv series mash where radar always knew what his boss wanted even before his boss did. So strive to be radar. And then, speaking up. Communicating with your supervisor and with your team. Making sure that they know that you want stretch goals that you want to be important to the team. You want to ask for the experts that i spoke to said that so many people are afraid to ask when they dont know something. Theyre afraid thats going to be taken as a sign of weakness. But being afraid to ask questions or to ask for help when you need it really impedes your own growth and your own opportunity to be indispensable to your company. Finally make your final point. I want to ask you ask about doing your own gut check to make sure that you are putting out exactly what you think youre putting out before you get called into the office and they say, youre not doing what we need you to do. You got to do a gut check, ri right . Thats exactly right. You need to check in every periodically and say, how am i doing . Make sure that you are spending your time on those right assignments and also performing to expectations. Because sometimes we do need that really had check. Gwen, one question i would say, g go ahead and finish. I would say think on the one of the experts with whom i spoke said channel elite athletes who want to many improve performance who seek out coaches and mentors when they want to get better. Obviously you want to be on the same page as your boss and make the boss look good. The boss can carry you on to Great Success which is an mazing thing. What if you are in a work situation, though, where youre not getting any of that positive feedback . Maybe youre not youre feeling like youre to the doing enough or thats the word that youre getting from the boss. How do you take what may be look at negativity and find a way to turn into to positive . So, um, the experts with whom i spoke recommend finding mentors. If your boss isnt the person whose going to give you the support and the feedback that you need, look for other people in the company who have been around for awhile. Who can give you and site who can give you direction so that youre sure and youre get gettg another per to guide you in the right direction. All right. Gwen, heres to long fifty three 80 in your workplace, moving forward from 2018 on. We appreciate your time. Thanks, steve and allison. All righty. 8 54. Speaking of time well take a short break. Back with another check of the forecast before we get to good day. Hey, trending this morning, the snow isnt stopping anyone this winter or even the puppies from hitting the slopes. This is in australia the owner of this baby i like to say the parent says they finally got enough snow to really sled and have a little fun. The secret couldnt be secret is the name of the pup couldnt are more thrilled. She says secret probably went down the hill at least 50 times. Wow is she taking her own thing up. Wait a minute. We need to analyze this. Shes taking her own sleigh up and doing it again. Thats you some. I buried the lead right here. Shes doing everything. Got to watch the whole video. Thats amazing. And going up and she says 50 times. [ laughter ] amazing. Thats the cutest thing. I wanting to shredding. I often think about those dogs on surf boards do they really want to be there. They look petrified. Not secret. That answers your question. Secret is cool. All right. Lets say good fan of the day. Good morning to cheryl lynn. We can see your whole pretty face. Well we did. Its so cold outside and we agree with you. Shes a schoolbus driver theres her whole pretty face out in Fairfax County. She is always up early and watches f fox5 for weather updas we appreciate what you do and keeping the kids safe on the way to school. She prays for School Closings sometimes just like today where she has the today off just like everybody in Fairfax County. Keep up the laughs and we all make her day. Awesome. You make your our day today as well. Thanks for being fan of the day. We shall start with you erin because tucker is taking some time today. Tucker has been really busy today. I can tell you right now all the majors look clear. Just watch for slick conditions secondaries, bridges, on and offramps, overpasses. And just use caution there. I know were getting a later start today. Im worried traffic problems will start picking up little bit later. Right. Thank you. Thats my advice. Yes star of the hour. Lets get to the radar. Anywhere from, you know, a covering to about 5inches of snow. Southern maryland winning the jackpot. Ill show you snow totals coming up when he will system will be out of here as far as snow in the next couple of hours. Probably by the noon hour. But well not be out of here the winds associated with our storminess as it pushes off to the north and east. Wind chills later today zero minus five, minus ten if youll go out and play in the snow go sledding. Like secret the amazing australian dog. Lots of layers. More weather coming up. Lots of lawyers. Got it. Thank you kindly. Well see you good day next. Slow it down use caution on the roads, guys, if you have to be out. Straight ahead, Mother Nature dropping a bomb. The wind is really kicking things up. Noreaster churning its way up the Atlantic Coast dumping snow from florida to new eng england. While the nations capitol dodged direct hit, a few dozen miles makes a world of difference. And when the snow moves out, the winds will pick up and that that tomorrow. We have live Team Coverage. Plus, President Trump se sending message to one of his former chief advisers. Back off. This after those bombshell comments by steve bannon in a new book that claims the commander in chief never want to do within the election. Now the white house is taking action. Still, no winner. Last