Holiday week. Your news starts now. And we begin with a Winter Weather alert. Temperatures as you know if you stepped outside plummeted below freezing as we head into the new year holiday weekend. And theres also a possibility some areas see snow tonight. Road crews are getting ready and the Virginia Department of transportation says crews will be out this evening to treat the roads. Since roads are cold and any snow will likely stick and drivers license should Pay Attention to ice that may development on wet pavement that will create slick conditions. Vdot is urging drivers to stay off the roads altogether ft. Weather takes a turn. Are we talking significant snow . The districts snow team is going into action. 200 trucks will hit the road and pretreating major highways and primary and secondary and neighborhood routes. Maryland sends out trucks and pretreats corrodes. Person to answer your question is gwen. Gwen, how serious is this. Were not getting a major snowstorm this is a klirp
This home is suspected of supporting isis and federal investigators now say that he was researching how to conduct an attack. Fox5s Lindsay Watts has been going through the Court Documents and has new details. Hey, lindsay. Lauren and brody, we have this federal Court Affidavit and according to this, the suspect is named shawn andrew duncan. Hes a us citizen who moved from pittsburgh to virginia over the summer. He is now in custody. The documents say the fbi was tipped off to duncan by a relative who say kun can had converted to islam, may have been radicalized and voiced a of westerners being headed in the middle east. That same month duncan and his wife went to wife with plans to travel to bangladesh. Then this last june duncans infant died. The autopsy was inconclusive. He gave Police Permission to review his phone and they found he was searchin attacks, weapons, body armor, surveillance, the fbi sayses the searches on his phone or comput er is indicative of an individual planning
Breaks out there and checking the full roads and full check ahead. Maureen, wisdom. Caitlin and mike, thank you. 4 30 and breaking early this morning out of the district were checking out reports that a middle school flood overnight in southeast. The concern is over Kramer Middle School q street. Fox5 Melanie Alnwick is live on the scene with the latest in this story. Mel, what can you tell us . Reporter good morning, guys, still a lot of equipment on the scene here. We have d. C. Hazmat crews standing by and what youre seeing here is Washington Gas crews getting ready to go in with a digger into the school here. As you mentioned two hours going we got reports that was some kind of water main break and water in the the basement. Several feet were told and were also seeing emergency lights inside the school going off as well. One thing we noticed is strong smell of natural gas. What im told is that some of the water got into the boiler room and compromised some of the natural gas lines
Maryland. Alleghany county Public Schools cancelled all morning pre k classes and orange country virginia schools on a twohour delay today. Stay tuned. Lets talk about. It mike is in the Weather Center and caitlin in for traffic today. So, mike, what other word is there other than brutal right. Welcome back holly welcome to the cold. Yeah. Were dealing with a lot of it out there. Graphic told it all. So cold theres school delays. Believe it or not well get colder later this week. Hey, mike, so cold contending with a water main break there. That makes it difficult as the water can easily freeze. Well let you know where the work around spots are as you get ready for a very busy morning. Holly, maureen. Speaking of cold weather related problems breaking early this morning out of the district a flooded middle school in southeast. Concern is over kramer q street it could be part of a mains in the area. Melanie alnwick is live on the scene with the latest. Mel, what can you tell us. Good mor
Ill have all the details on owe all right. Guys, back to you. As we talk about extreme cold its impacting schools in greater d. C. Region. Couple closures. Arch bish ol carol in d. C. Closed today because of plumbing problems caused by cold and barnaby manner Elementary School oxon hill close because of water main break. Delays in virginia clark county schools delay one hour. Page county schools and Frederick County virginia schools on a two hour delay. In West Virginia, berkley, grant, hardy and Jefferson Country schools youre on hour delay and western maryland, alleghany and Garrett County schools both delayed two hours. For the kids going to school on time there were several chmerkovskiys several chmerkovskiys inclouding good morning, allison, steve, when its cold liking this and theres certain schools in montgomery country without heat and here in Montgomery County buses are affected by the cold. What happened, over the last two weeks kids were on lengthy winter break and none of t