Now broadcasting from his dashboard camera in his mobile newsroom with a look at the conditions along u. S. 301. Hey, scotty. Reporter hey, it really was one of those just in case kind of days. As topper just reported, its nasty out here, 39 degrees, a little rain spitting, but as you can see behind me here, u. S. 301, the Homecoming Traffic is getting by just fine, but just in case the highway crews have already spread salt on this road because of the possibility of a little frozen stuff coming down later tonight. This is certainly not what School Officials thought they would see this afternoon for the rush hour when they made the call to send kids home early. Thomas Stone High School in waldorf released its 1,500 students at 12 15 this afternoon, not a snowflake in sight but at the time a winter storm warning was still in effect forcing School Officials to play it safe should the afternoon rush turn ugly. Students were divided on the call. I think they did a good thing because we nee
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South too. Most of us were just looking at clouds yesterday. First of all, it is friday. Happy friday, everybody. Well see some sunshine for the first time this week. All in all, a goodlooking forecast. Most of your storm activity off the coast. You may see a few flurries into northern montgomery county, western Howard County pushing down towards d. C. And baltimore. Well see if that makes it or not. Not enough to cause any issues. You might see a few flurries as our system continues to wrap up. I saw stars for the first time in about a week when i went out to the car. Back to you. A former d. C. Police officer found guilty of murder. A jury convicted Richmond Phillips on all charges. He shot and killed his girlfriend and left his daughter in the car to die. D. C. Public schools released a list of schools that will be closed. 13 of the school will close at the end of the year and the other two will close at the end of next year. Well have the full list in just a few minutes. President
The reason for that is we have very dry air over d. C. And that set up an atmospheric roadblock, did not allow the precipitation to get much closer than about the fredericksburg area during the evening hours. When the cold air started, thats where the snow was. Well start off with radar tonight. The heaviest snow by far has been south of interstate 64 and west of 95. It is still snowing down in that area, although some of it has been melting. Iolite you where we have an issue is ill tell you where we have an issue is in the richmond area. A couple inches has come down pretty past. I saw some thunder and lightning down there and it was enough to cover the roads, so some slip and sliding there. That particular snow is headed over to the Hampton Roads area. Next stop is going to be ft. Blackmore in southwestern, west virginia. Snow totals topped out at 11 inches, around blacksburg 6 1 2, roanoke with 7 inches. Check out the storm on sentinel radar. Its a very impressive system. It just di
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