so instead of helping us get out of this spiraling debt and the problems that we have economically in this country, we re just adding to them. reporter: roby chavez, fox 5 news. president obama has the power to keep essential government operations safe from the shutdown. those include the military, coast guard, foreign relations staff, border patrol and national security officials. the mail will also be delivered. we ll continue to follow today s top story for you. fox 5 is on snow patrol for you this morning. we have everything you need to know before you head out this morning coming up next. we just got word that fairfax county schools, if you go to school in fairfax county, your school is delayed today by two hours. we ll be right back. we ve got everything you need to know as you head out the door this morning. good morning. i m steve chenevey. i m gurvir dhindsa. glad you could be here. we ll get to the forecast in just a second. the closing and d
i m gurvir dhindsa. i m he steve chenevey. before we get to weather and traffic, here are some of the school closings and delays we have out there. the full list at the top of your screen. d.c. schools are delayed by two hours today. the d.c. government is open on time. in maryland, allegheny, anne arundel, carroll, frederick, howard, prince george s and washington county schools are all closed. in virginia, clark, culpeper, fauquier, frederick and loudoun county schools are closed. manassas city, manassas park city also closed. the federal government is open today although employees can take unscheduled leave or telework. again, keep checking the top of your screen for constant updates. do you remember way back on friday when it was 06 degrees warmer than it is now. isn t that crazy? only in this area can we have a string i think we had three 70 degrees degree days last week and we are dealing with snow and ice. not going to get there today. let s take a lo
we pull out and you can see what is headed our way and you will see some snow flurries this morning and that is going to be it today and some temperatures, cold. 23 in the district and dulles, 20 in baltimore and 18 degrees right now in fredericksburg and that is a cold start to the day. a couple of snow flurries early and that is that and cold today. not breezy and that will be improvement and we ll see sunshine. 36 in leonardtown and 33 in frederick and 37 in fredericksburg and that is a look at the weather and let s get more from the the morning traffic. reporter: this morning, tucker was saying we had a few flurries and a couple of callers were saying. that we re receiving word that we have reports that ice could have played a part in this morning s deadly crash that occurred along canal road and, as a result, canal road is shut down and will be until the accident investigation has been completed and this is that portion, one closure spot here, where we have a live came
up the atmosphere. 33 the daytime high in washington. 34 in leonardtown and 31 in frederick and winds out of the north and west gusting to about 25 miles per hour. so it will feel even colder than the daytime high temperatures. more details on the forecast. i mentioned a warming trend and a look at the weekend in a couple of minutes. allison? tucker, thank you. breaking news out of frederick, maryland, this morning. several people shot at a home on licinger court. and a chase on ballinger creek pike. sarah simmons is following this story. sarah, what is the latest? reporter: well, tony and allison, those two incidents are related. police are telling us it appears two people have been shot. three people total have been taken to the hospital this morning. this happened in a residential area just near adams town. this is just south of frederick, maryland. police are telling us this happened just before 5:00 this morning. police received a 911 call from the home on licean
forecast coming up in just a little bit. allison, back to you. we re following breaking news in frederick this morning. police are asking people to steer clear of the area around ballinger creek pike and mountville road. it s been shut down between mountville and dobbs road. there is an investigation going on there and we ll share more details as we get them into the news room. let s get the latest on the other areas from julie wright. good morning. good morning to you, allison. we re starting off busy s. we had some accident activity to discuss and water main break tieing up your commute travel ago long macarthur at golds beau. the intersection is blocked off with only one lane squeezing by to the right. and that s due to the water main break. lanes are open if you are traveling along irving street. we have more lanes open. this is where we had the crash involving the over turned vehicle. still the rollback on the scene but traffic is able to get by in each direction.