Several states. Gusty winds tore through an open market yesterday. 11 people were hurt. 20 inches of snow have fallen in parts of california and almost a foot in oregon all making for a messy journey home for many after the holiday celebration. Heavy rain and snow will head east bringing potential flooding from the great lakes all the way to texas. Here in our area, actually pretty pleasant. We cannot just dont believe that we are near 70 degrees. Definitely not ski weather as you saw down there. Chuck . Thanksgivings gone by, we have had the opportunity of having snow made at local resorts. Thats not even a possibility now as temperatures are way above freezing. Well be flirting with 70 degrees later today. All eyes focused on the shopping forecast. Headed out to the big box stores, temperatures in the mid to upper 40s. Lunch time temperatures near 60. Afternoon highs near 70. So, the four things you need to know about the weather, a fabulous friday today. Mild weather sticks into tom
Office is trying to figure out what started a house fire behind me. Fortunately no one was inside at the time. The house is being renovated right now. The owner had hoped to get back into the house with his family for thanksgiving. Chopper 4 was overhead this morning. It got these pictures of flames shooting through the roof of the house on horseshoe lane. When officials got here, the fire was really going and had taken over the home. It has not been lived in for months. At daylight the owner could see the extensive damage. He was hoping to have the renovations done and get back into the house next month. There was a partial collapse at one point this morning. Firefighters were just fine. The damage to the home is significant. One of our news choppers was flying overhead, as i mentioned, and had to make an Emergency Landing. Coming up on new 4 at 11 30, well talk to a photojournalist who was on board about what happened. Back to you. The Washington Nationals have named a new manager. I
This morning. Are they causing delays . They have. Chopper 4 right now over top of the beltway. This is the outer loop between colesville and georgia there. Now, we were hearing about a crash perhaps some carpet rolls in the roadway that had fallen off of a truck causing a crash. We are not seeing that at this point this morning. Were going to get more information, of course, and pass it along. Beltway at braddock road moving nicely. Wider look, we look pretty good really. A little slow b. W. Parkway inside the beltway, but thats pretty typical for this time of morning. 95 in virginia, coming through Stafford County, all my friends down there headed north a little bit slow from an earlier crash. 66 typically slow running about 45 miles per hour. Im back in ten minutes at 6 11. Thank you. 6 01. Now to a developing story. President obama asking congressional leaders for authorization to train Syrian Opposition forces in the fight against isis. The white house now acting quickly to ramp u
Its a k6 30 kickoff. Cloudy skies, fortunately no rain for the cav leaves on the road. The noon kickoff, game time temperatures out in louisiana will be in the 40s and blustery there. More about our weekend and tomorrow coming up in a few memberships. Chuck, thanks. Breaking news in carol county right now to tell you about. 11 homes in the 200 block of sullivan avenue and westminster were involved in this explosion weve been following. Were told all of those homes, nearly a dozen, have various degrees of damage. The state fire marshal says the initial explosion happened in a Storage Building behind one of the houses. This happened around 5 50 this morning. One man was air listed to the hospital. As of right now, no word on how many other people were hurt. Wrn pg e crews along the scene right now. New this morning, weve learned at least one person has died in a twocar crash. It happened just after 1 00 this morning. Two other people were hurt in that crash. The cause of this collision,
A lot of other nearby neighborhoods are down to freezing this morning. Out the door for you first thing this morning, bundle up, indeed. This area of disturbed weather will stay to our north, but it will not bring anything in the way of a rain chance. Well be dry this morning. Temperatures in 30 in leaseberg, 30 in winchester, 25 in culpepper. So theres some cold air out there this morning. Well have a nice recovery. Plenty of sunshine this morning. Clouds increasing later today. Temperatures will top out generally in the mid 50s. College football, uva is on the road in Florida State tonight. Its a 6 30 kickoff, mild in the 60s with cloudy weather in florida. If you want to see your game on our 9 00 show, send me a note. Well we back with your sevenday forecast in a couple minutes. Thanks, chuck. A Montgomery County principal is apologizing for how she handled the report of a substitute teacher inappropriately touching a student. The incident happened at Roberto Clemente middle school.