Im aaron gilchrist. Im eun yang. Thanks for joining us on this weather alert day. A few School Closures we are learning about in maryland. Frederick, howard and anne arundel schools will close three hours early. Montgomery schools will close two and a half hours early. Charles and Prince Georges County schools will close two hours early. Afternoon and evening activities including the board of education meeting are canceled. In virginia, Prince William county schools are closing three hours early. Arlington and alexandria city will close two hours early. Falls church city schools are on an Early Release schedule and day care will close at 4 00 p. M. There. A lot of other districts canceled classes because of the extreme cold. The early dismissals and cancellations are closing in the bottom of the screen and theyre in the nbc washington app. Lets head causing these delays and Early Releases. Along the periphery we have the wintry weather and this is going to be causing a real headache fo
Freezing, now 34, 35 degrees, that has helped us. Parts of northern virginia, we are getting reports of icy conditions out there. Looking at the roads in northern virginia, right around freezing in many spots. And temperatures may go down over the next couple of hours. Thats what were fairly concerned about from d. C. South ward. Not a big issue, most of this falling as plain r rain. If it is falling and bouncing, it is sleet. Rain is moving in as freezing rain. Yes, we are seeing some icy spots to the north and west. Heres the system itself. You can see it has snow, sleet, freezing rain and just plain rain with it. In a little bit of a lull in parts of the area, well get back as we move through the region. Look at the numbers and you can tell what im talking about. North and west, we are below freezing now. South and east we are right at or above freezing. So, this is good news in our south and east zones. North and west, however, this is where we have issues. Everybody still under a
See some ice on area roads and sidewalks especially. So, were going to have much more on this. Were going to take you hour by hour. Something we havent seen in close to three weeks, guys. Were going to like this one. Boy, all right. Might be flipflop weather. Lots of schools in our area decided to let the kids out early so they could get home safely. Big changes today and perhaps tomorrow morning. News4s amee cho continues our Team Coverage now in aspen hill. She talked to parents and administrators about the days tough call. Hey, amee. Reporter hi, jim and wendy. It was tough because they had to make that call early in the morning when they still werent sure what was going to happen. Its looking okay out here. It was sleeting a little bit on and off earlier. Roads are looking good. We did see a lot of early school closures. As you can imagine that made for some very happy kids and their parents took the news in stride, too. As buses loaded up and kids headed home, one student had a ve
A hole host that the russian go. Was planning to blackmail the president elect. Its phony to stuff. It didnt happen. And it was gotten by opponents of ours, as you know because you reported it and so did many of the other people. It was a group of opponents that got together, six people and put that crap together. Reporter so who was this that did it . According to trump, it was his political opponents who he says have a vendetta against him and are trying to take the luster off his election victory in november. Listen to what he says. I told many people be careful you dont want to see yourself on television, cameras all over the place. Again, not just russia, all over. Does anyone really believe that story . Im also very much of a germ fobe, by the way. Reporter the most telling example of how heated this got today, one of them buzzfeed. Com actually published online that 35 page document, trump calling them a piece of garbage and cnn, at one point, a cnn reporter sitting right in the
Both parties now bringing out their star power campaigners to inre up supporters. Im kind of a big deal, too. This aint hollywood. This is georgia Severe Weather remains through the midwest. Tornado watches, tornado warnings going on. A line of storms that stretches 850 miles. The alleged gunman in the pittsburgh synagogue shooting pled not guilty this morning. Days after the massacre, police in california are working iz identify the suspect who vandalized a synagogue south of l. A. Thousands of google Workers Worldwide walked off the job. Theyre protesting the companys response to Sexual Misconduct allegations. I think its 2018 now, and its high time that this stops. An American Airlines baggage handler fell asleep in a planes cargo hold and wound up in chicago. Officials say the guy was drunk on the job. Less booze and more coffee. Right. Glor good evening. Im jeff glor. This is our western edition. And we are going to begin with the president s attempt to make a major change to asyl