The year. Good morning washington. Im adrianna hopkins. In for autria godfrey. And im larry smith. Toss to eileen cold remains the big weather story light snow tonight saturday morning less than 1; slick travel possible feeling like the Single Digits to ring in the new year coldest new years in decades today decreasing clouds. Cold. Highs 3237 winds variable 5 mph tonight cloudy and cold. Light snow possible. Lows 2027 winds nw 5 mph saturday cloudy and cold. Morning snow. Less than 1. Icy roads possible. Highs 3239 winds se to w 5 mph its 5 xx and we are news right now in new york. At least 12 people are dead in the bronx, where a fire ripped through an Apartment Building late last night. Firefighters says the flames spread through all five floors in minutes. The chaotic scene playing out on the sidewalk with temperatures well below freezing. Police tell us that a toddler is among the dead, and 4 other residents are in critical condition. About 170 firefighters worked in bonechilling
Very cold and the tweet is interesting, but, how cold is it . As it wast as cold this time yesterday. Temperatures are well below freezing, starting off at 16 in gaithersburg. 17, manassas. 21 degrees downtown. That is what it feels like with light wind. Clouds across the region, few snow flurries. Flurry or snow shower not out of the question this morning. Clouds give way to sunshine. By 11 00, up to 27. That is higher than our High Temperature yesterday. Above freezing around 2 00. 30 degrees by 5 00. Overnight, we track a clipper system that will dive out of will bring us light snow. Tomorrow morning, we will talk about accumulation and impact. We have an accident in damascus at oak drive. Watch for police direction. All lanes will be closed. On the outer loop of the beltway, a tractortrailer is off to the shoulder. It looks like everything is moving fine. Thet see problems here at wilson bridge. I want to point out we have traffic moving across the wilson bridge. Interstateee what
Go out to every family that lost a loved one here and everyone thats fighting for their lives. The commissioner added its too early to determine what sparked the fire. The investigation is ongoing. Here in maryland fire crews responded to the scene of a two alarm fire in aspen hill that started in the lower floor of an Apartment Building. Were told dozens of people have been evacuated from that building along georgia avenue. About six to eight units in all were affected. Right now no word on any injuries. In fredericksburg, virginia, this morning, charges are pending against a man accused of shooting and killing his wife. He then led authorities on a high speed chase even shooting at police as they attempted to pull him over. Now, police say his bullets narrowly missed two officers. The chase ended on i95 when the suspects vehicle crashed into a guardrail and flipped. Authorities are still investigating a motive behind the violent day but say they are thankful that things didnt turn ou
Volumes this morning. Nothing in the way on the beltway. The springfield interchange. Been keeping a close eye on the afternoon as people hit the roads. On route 27 in damascus, a crash near the northern oak drive intersection under Police Direction at the scene. Light traffic getting to it and a brief delay getting past it. Thats the latest. Aaron and susan, back to you. Dave, thank you. 6 01. A terrifying scene after an Apartment Fire kills at least a dozen people. Tracie strahan from our new york sister station is live on the scene with the latest for us. Reporter good morning from belmont section of the bronx where 12 people were killed from that fastmoving fire. This morning, weve learned that four are children. Thick smoke shot out of a top floor apartment before 7 00 last night on prospect avenue. According to fire officials, it started in a ground floor apartment and shot all the way up like a chimney. There was a scramble from safety. 15 of them were rescued by fire officials.
Charlottesville. 28 downtown. We are watching for some of the coldest air of the season here over the next several days, but as we continue to go over the next 24, 48 hours or so, i think we will be ok as far as temperatures today in the mid 30s. Tomorrow when the mid30s, and then the weekend, and sunday and the new year, monday and tuesday, we stay in the 20s and mid20s at that. A couple of clouds. We will clear out through the afternoon. More clouds usher in, filter in ahead of the system. The timing looks like it will start overnight. If you are headed out tonight, you will be fine. Were not expect in wintry weather until late, 3 00, 4 00 in the morning. That will continue until the earlymorning hours on saturday. If you have saturday morning plans, there might be a few 10 00, 11 00 a. M. For the snow to end. By the time it does come to an end, we will only have about an inch or so on the ground. As we head out to lunch through the afternoon hours, temperatures gradually get into th