the maryland spca is there, waiting for the verdict. sos that there is some lawlessness in the city. and baltimore city should not stand for anything like this. the fact that these things are happening means that there are people asleep at the watch. so be it law enforcement. be it family members. reporter: the torture left phoenix so disfigured and with internal injuries. she died a few days later. her death is making animal advocates calling for tougher laws. children like these boys, that you can get to them early. and prevent this kind of violence and that would help them through their whole lives. reporter: and there was one additional note within the past half hour in which jurors said, may we stay until 7:00? but it didn t indicate whether they hope to come up with a verdict by then or if they want to go home for the weekend and come back. back to you on tv hill from the courthouse. of course, wjz will bring you the verdict as soon as it happens. dishonorab
we pull out and you can see what is headed our way and you will see some snow flurries this morning and that is going to be it today and some temperatures, cold. 23 in the district and dulles, 20 in baltimore and 18 degrees right now in fredericksburg and that is a cold start to the day. a couple of snow flurries early and that is that and cold today. not breezy and that will be improvement and we ll see sunshine. 36 in leonardtown and 33 in frederick and 37 in fredericksburg and that is a look at the weather and let s get more from the the morning traffic. reporter: this morning, tucker was saying we had a few flurries and a couple of callers were saying. that we re receiving word that we have reports that ice could have played a part in this morning s deadly crash that occurred along canal road and, as a result, canal road is shut down and will be until the accident investigation has been completed and this is that portion, one closure spot here, where we have a live came
in fact, this momentarily. this moment. lots of clouds outside for today. one or two little breaks of sunshine. that s not goingo be the rule. that s the exception for your friday. plenty of clouds around. temperatures are on the cold side again this morning. 24 degrees in buoy, maryland. 21 in la plata. 19 in manassas. 20 degrees at dulles airport. there s a lot of very good spots out there. west of the blue ridge, mountains of west virginia, western maryland, not expecting any real snow threat. plenty of clouds around. mainly just plenty of clouds. most of the light snow keeping to t west. our bus sop forecast, another cold one for the kids. bundle them up. winter coats, jackets, mittens, scves all required for today. not quite as windy but plenty of clouds. highs this afternoon in the upper 30s to low 40s. tomorrow will be the better day of the weekend. all the details in just a couple minutes. for now over to jim with a look at traffic. a new report on the inner loo
and there is some wind as well making it feel even colder. the only good news, i guess, is that the winds are dying down. it feels a little bit better than yesterday. it, does but only a little bit. it doesn t help much at all. winds gusting at 20 miles per hour. yesterday they were gusting well over 30 to 35. it has diminished, but the temperatures have dropped. down to near 20 degrees in some of the rural areas this morning. closer to washington, low 20s, prince george s, arlington, fairfax. mid-20s in washington near the bay, southern maryland and tidewater region. a bit colder in the mountains. these are the curnt windchills. this is what it feels likeue to winds gusting to 20 miles per hour or so. windchill, dulles, 13. it only feels like 21 at rgan national with the windchill. windchill in prince george s, arlington, just the mid-teens. also fairfax county. the winds will be a bit more diminished because we have high pressure from the midwest. it is bringing in cold
the victim himself and is they were transported to the hospital. reporter: al-bashere is from moratania. his attorney said her client was stunned by the charges against him. mr. bashere is a young man who was extraordinarily troubled by the allegations against him and maintains his innocence and he felt he was being wrongly accused and that had an affect, i think, on his he wasn t able to handle that well. and al bashere maintains innocent and the most seriously burned marshal, a woman suffered head and wounds to the head and hand and the other injured marshal was burned on the hand when is he tried to put out the flames. and both deputy nationals were admitd to the burn unit and the exact conditions are unclear and the judge in the case wanted him locked up after violating the conditions of his release after getting arrested for dwi, laura. any idea what his wife is saying about this? i know his wife is spoken with his attorney. i don t know any really more t