Thicker in some areas where visibility is down to zero. This morning we have a mix of clouds and son. A few scattered gun and storms are possible as chance between midday and into the afternoon. We will have some dry hours today coolingoff smile with a morning shower. 75 degrees on wednesday. Heres a look at the monday morning commute. So far so good just a few spots of over the construction especially in bound kennedy from chicago avenue to ohio. The two left lanes are a until 5 00 a. M. Otherwise the roads look good. No major issues or problems. Israel is holding its fire for a seven hour humanitarian truce this morning. But hamas has not agreed to honor the cease fire. The onesided truce comes after israel was widely condemned for a bombing that killed 10 palestinians at a school that was sheltering refugees. More than 100 rockets were fired from gaza into isreal yesterday. Medical Officials Say more than 18hundred palestinians have been killed since israel invaded gaza on july 8th.
At least one hostage these men apparently have held up in a factory there. This is not far from the gas station where there was a reporting sighting of them yesterday. Again, helicopters in the air right now. A perimeter has been set up. French Authorities Say is they are confident theyve got these guys. Theyve got these guys cornered in this area. This operation is unfolding right now. We will stay on top of it all morning. Aaron and eun. Thank you, richard jordan, from the live desk. 5 01. Welcome to news 4 today. Well start off this go round with information about metro. It is open at this point. We know youre hoping for a smoother and easier commute today. That wasnt the case yesterday. The freezing cold temperatures caused a number of problems and a whole lot of delays. Metro says all the issues are now fixed. Metro says extra crews are tracking the system to stay ahead of any potential problems today storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein joins us with more on the cold and the im
Of the mountains. Those may quickly zip on through this morning. Small chance of that for the morning. Good news for the afternoon. Well have some melting of the snow. And roller coaster temperatures likely moving in later tonight and into saturday and sunday. Right now mid20s montgomery prince georges. Windchills in the teens this so layer up before you head out the door. Dry pavement for the morning commute. Temperatures in the mid20s. Clouds around. Coming up a look at the hour by hour temperatures for the day ahead. 6 02. The cold weather is having a major impact on the morning drive in montgomery county. A water main break is turning wilson lane and river road into a sheet of ice. We want to go to Megan Mcgrath live with with a look at how crews are work to go fix this break. Its causing a lot of problems, megan reporter eun, we have pretty sloppy conditions at the intersection of wilson lane and river road. You can see behind me a steady trickle. Its only 28 degrees out here. Cre
Clog traffic on this road. Delia goncalves joins us live from the scene with more on the break and the sheet of ice that is there too. Delia . Reporter right, we just learned moments ago that the crews who are here have located the water main break. They are locating the pipe via the valve rather and just trying to get to the valve so they can shut off the water. Of course they have to dig through all the snow and ice that is covering the valve. But in the meantime, yeah, sheet of ice here on river road. And you can see the trickle of water that is now coming down flowing down wilson lane and pooling on to river road. So your outbound lane of river road covered in ice and slush and periodically, were seeing a salt truck which is on standby periodically that salt truck will come out into the lane and treat the roads. So expect delays if you are on outbound river road at wilson lane. Now heres another problem because of the cold, crews say its going to take a little longer than typical b
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