Time now is 5 00 and well start with breaking news Spotsylvania County Virginia Police searching for a person that shot another state police interstate 95 this happened 11 30 last night. Officers were pursuing a vehicle northbound lanes when shots rang out. Northbound lanes were shut down while police investigated and you can see there is extensive damage to that building. Matter of fact were told that part of the wall inside started to collapse because of that fire. But lets now of how massive those flames were. Thats what firefighters had to deal with last night. At one point like i mentioned you can hear the wall from the building started to collapse and firefighters tell us though they faced even bigger problem when they were trying to extinguish the flames. The only problem we had tonight was there was issue with hydrant not working properly that interrupted our water supply for this type of water correction fire involvement that required amount of water we needed and that slowed
Meanwhile the brutally cold and dangerously low temperatures continue to persist. Tonight theres a number of School Closings and delays for tomorrow. Right now, heres what we k know. Anne arrundel, calvert, charles, howard, Prince George are all on a twohour delay. All of those School Systems on a twohour delay. St. Mary county is closed. Meanwhile in virginia cul culpeper, fairfax and fauquier counties on two hour delay tomorrow. You can find updated list of closingss and delays on the bottom of your screen. From the cold and snow and storm preparations and your safety, sue palka. Most of us will see snow covering the brown ground with the most intense period of snow just before dawn and boy, we have a lot of advisories to cover. Let me get straight to that. You may have seen picture of the a record 5. 3 in South Carolina today. Thats historic. Its only done that three times i believe. Third grade of snow. As we look in our area we have a number of advisories to get you caught up on.
The deep freeze finally beginning to thaw as temperatures slowly creep back up. But not before a little more snow. The Winter Weather alert for your ride home from work. Good morning washington. Toss to eileen Winter Weather advisory from 3pm to 9pm light freezing rain possible, most likely a glaze around the metro and points nw milder temperatures finally with highs in the 50s to near 60 thursday friday today mostly cloudy, afternoon rain and freezing rain possible glaze to 0. 05 highs 3137 wind s 510 mph tonight rain ends, mostly cloudy lows 2633 wind w 5 mph tuesday partly cloudy to mostly sunny highs upper 40s happening now. A water main break prince georges county. This morning multiple basements are filled with feet of sewage and water. Suzanne kennedy is live in Fort Washington with a look at the damage. Winter break is extending for Howard University undergrads. Are damaged following our bitter cold temperatures. Classes for them were supposed to begin today. But the start date
Through 9 00 p. M. We are dry across the area. You can see a crayola effect of colors. The blue indicating the snow. Green indicating the rain. Ice. Ink indicating the temperatures are definitely cold. It is 1020 Degrees Higher than it was at this time yesterday. 17, manassas. Kids that are already going to be going to school this morning, if they are not already dry at thewill be bus stop. We will have some rain and it will be freezing rain falling and creating some icy road conditions, but we have a bigtime warmup coming our way later this week. When i join you in 10 minutes, i will take you through our futurecast coming out the precipitation in your neighborhood. Common this time of year. Crayolaou said it was a box of colors, was that a 64box . Or the 16 box . Eileen the 16 box. How about that . [laughter] main we have water breaks. We have crews out there working your red top road because of the water main breaks. Only the left lane is able to get by at this time. We also have the
Made by President Trump that have set a you have a huge firestorm. The president reportedly used an expletive to lash out at immigrants coming to the u. S. From certain countries. Melanie alnwick this morning live outside of the white house with the latest on the growing controversy. Mel, good morning. Reporter good morning,. Reaction coming from lawmakers and also from across the globe. The president apparently dropped the s bomb in the oval office. Lawmakers were having a meeting trying to hash out an agreement on protections for immigrant children. We talked about this earlier in the week, the daca protections, right. Well, thats when the president reportedly said why are we having all these people from shole countries come here. Sources inside the meeting say trump was referring to countries in Africa Central America and the caribbean. He also spoke specifically about haiti. Now, according to in that same source the president said the u. S. Should bring in immigrants from nations l