The district. Plus, a look at some of the biggest scandels of the year. Your news at 10 00 starts now. Happy new years eve, festivities have already started and were just two hours away from midnight right hire. As we prepare to ring in 2018, all eyes are on the weather. This is one of the coldest new years weve seen in decades, temperatures are going dangerously low, so if you are going to be outside make sure youre dressed appropriately. Right now live look outside, Old Town Alexandria caitlin roth more on how low those temperatures will go, caitlin . Probably are bridge most comfortable on your couch, because it is so cold, and those windchills pretty brutal during the overnight hours. So lets see where we stands right now, weve been talking about it since literally christmas day, 2018 off incredibly cold start. Frigid temperatures paired with these really not great like lower Single Digits. Winds increase it, will feel sub zero in so many of our suburban spots, straight through the
Breaks out there and checking the full roads and full check ahead. Maureen, wisdom. Caitlin and mike, thank you. 4 30 and breaking early this morning out of the district were checking out reports that a middle school flood overnight in southeast. The concern is over Kramer Middle School q street. Fox5 Melanie Alnwick is live on the scene with the latest in this story. Mel, what can you tell us . Reporter good morning, guys, still a lot of equipment on the scene here. We have d. C. Hazmat crews standing by and what youre seeing here is Washington Gas crews getting ready to go in with a digger into the school here. As you mentioned two hours going we got reports that was some kind of water main break and water in the the basement. Several feet were told and were also seeing emergency lights inside the school going off as well. One thing we noticed is strong smell of natural gas. What im told is that some of the water got into the boiler room and compromised some of the natural gas lines
Fredericksburg 6. Culpeper 2. Gaithersburg 8. And unfortunately we have lots and lots of cold in the 7 day forecast and well fwet used to it. Lets get to news. School skimzal begany and garrett out of maryland and hampshire and Orange County virginia sklz on two hour delay today. Cold weather might be to blame for blooded middle school with gas leak in south east d. C. No electricity, heat, crime are middle school. Melanie alnwick is there though live with the latest. Mel, its hard welcome back to class for these kids. Good morning. Thats right, it is. We should say they get one extra day here because d. C. Public schools g lot of damage here to clean up because of the problems with water and gas. And you can see here right in front the Washington Gas crews theyve been digging down to get to the gas line there. There was a strong smell of natural gas in the air and d. C. Fire hazmat crews tell me they understand that the water that was in the basement somehow compromised boiler room an
Maryland. Alleghany county Public Schools cancelled all morning pre k classes and orange country virginia schools on a twohour delay today. Stay tuned. Lets talk about. It mike is in the Weather Center and caitlin in for traffic today. So, mike, what other word is there other than brutal right. Welcome back holly welcome to the cold. Yeah. Were dealing with a lot of it out there. Graphic told it all. So cold theres school delays. Believe it or not well get colder later this week. Hey, mike, so cold contending with a water main break there. That makes it difficult as the water can easily freeze. Well let you know where the work around spots are as you get ready for a very busy morning. Holly, maureen. Speaking of cold weather related problems breaking early this morning out of the district a flooded middle school in southeast. Concern is over kramer q street it could be part of a mains in the area. Melanie alnwick is live on the scene with the latest. Mel, what can you tell us. Good mor
And thats what weve been seeing across the d. C. Region. Weve been reporting on water main breaks across the reej yop. Wfsc respomd todd over 60 the last self days and its affecting schools in our area over in montgomery out county as well as fairfax county. And what happened was, over the twoweek winter break, these buses like the the ones behind me here, they have been sitting outside in the frigid temperatures for you know the last two weeks or so. And when students return to school yesterday some of these buses wouldnt even start. Some stalled and were told out of 8700 biss routes in county, 200 bus routes were affected and it left hundreds of students waiting outside in the cold for up to an hour. Remember it was in the low teens just like today. This morning except winds this morning and yesterday as well. Today theyll have extra hands on deck ready to help out. They say parents and s can check on bus routes delays. Its and checked it this morning up to date and no delays. Its da