Overnight hours and into the day tomorrow. Timing is critical on this. A lot depends on when we see the changeover from rain to sleet to snow. If it happens sooner that means that were going to see more snow around the metro area. If it happens later, that means less amounts of snow and more sleet. Anyway you look at it its going to get cold around here. Still expect a lot of delays come tomorrow. The timeline for you coming up in a few minutes. Leon . Ok, steve. Crews are gearing up to try to keep the roads clear once that snow starts to fall. The Virginia Department of transportation plans to have about 3800 trucks treating the roads in northern virginia. The Maryland Department of transportation state Highway Administration will have more than 2400 pieces of equipment working statewide. And the district will have more than 200 snow trucks on the roads by 2 00 a. M. The city is putting a new snow emergency into effect at 7 00 a. M. We are now opening the last box. At d. C. The pile o
North, just about all the state of maryland also includes the district where current temperatures are just freezing. Still some icing there. Tomorrowitis a winter storm watch. Why . Snow and there could be a lot of it. Ill talk about how much youll see, when it starts and what to expect because its not starting a as snow. From gurgling water this morning to a giant sinkhole this afternoon. One neighborhood is now dealing with the aftermath of a broken water main. News4s Zachary Kiesch is live in northeast washington where people are hoping for progress tonight. Hi zach. Reporter hey, doreen. You know we showed you the sinkhole in northeast. You can see residents are coming home and they dont have any water in the house. Of course theyre seeing this and this backhoe is being used to dig out some of that muck, but im being told that this is going to be an allnight project. We know what caused this now. This was a water main break that caused this sinkhole. Crews are out here right now tr
Anything else to do. Meanwhile, salt supplies at vdot have also taken a big hit the past few weeks. Highways and main roads are in good shape today throughout northern virginia. But the salt pile has just 10 less. We think we have enough to finish up this last storm. Antonio anthony says the best way to deal with slick roads right now is not at all. Not a bad idea indeed. Now, vdot, arlington and so many other agencies throughout the region are going to continue treating and plowing the roads tonight and they are warning drivers to watch out for that refreezing. Theyre expecting to happen later tonight. Live in arlington Jeff Goldberg abc 7 news. A slick spot on the beltway proved a problem for eight drivers this morning. Their vehicles were involved in an accident at braddock road around 7 30. We have no word on any injuries. On the other side of the beltway, a truck got stuck under an overpass. The vehicle was loaded with salt when its bed somehow raised too high. It became wedged be
Vaporize the snow. 34 degrees right now in gaithersburg maryland. If youre going to be going out this evening, were still going to hang onto the cloud cover. But late tonight after around 11 00 midnight there could be a few split second spots. Well talk about what you can expect tomorrow morning and the everimportant weekend forecast as the Cherry Blossom festival kicks off. Just in the past hour uva students marched out of a meeting with Law Enforcement chanting black lives matter. They claimed police wont answer their questions following that bloody arrest of a student this week. News4s david culvert was in that meeting and is on campus in charlottesville. Reporter this was promoted as an event of dialogue an opportunity to create conversation between students and Law Enforcement. It ended, though weather representatives from black student groups marching out in protest. They were frustrated by what they call a lack of transparency. Students processing now out of a university theater
Killing one driver 61yearold charles viveret of clinton. We wish to express our condolences to the family who lost the individual killed by the reckless behavior. Reporter henson ran but was caught. He was already on probation for an armed carjacking in prince georges. Every Critical Incident this set of circumstances will be reviewed by our executive review panel. They there will be recommendations made. Reporter this is the second time that a Police Pursuit in Prince Georges County has ended in someones death. Just a few weeks ago it was a Police Officer who died come. On news 4 at 6 00, the Department Responds to that. One person is dead after another crash. This one shut down part of the b. W. Parkway for nine hours. Police say this was not an accident. It happened early this morning near route 202 on the northbound side in cheverly. A lincoln intentionally forced a ford mustang off the road. It rolled over and caught fire. The driver in that mustang was trapped and was killed. Wer