That fire. Roads in the area are blocked. Theres no word right now on any injuries. We will continue to monitor the situation and keep you posted. Now to the weather. Winter officially arrived today with very little fanfare in the d. C. Region at about the same time that thousands of people hit the red for the Holiday Weekend. It is a clear nievment but it is cold tonight. Sue palka has the all important Holiday Travel forecast. Hey, sue. Hi, tony and shawn. We dont mind cold when youre travelling. Its the rain and snow that we have to watch out for. Good news for travelers as we look across the country there is not a lot going on. Theres a little stripe of snow. The leading edge of warmer air, but most of the country is pretty quiet includ ing right in h our area where we can expect to see clouds thickening up a little bit. Temperatures should level off and maybe even rice a little bit because were expecting a much warmer day tomorrow. D. C. Has dropped down to 37 greece and there are
Holly agrees i think. I agree that today is a day to be festive i will say that. Thanks erin. Thanks mike. Appreciate you both. All right. So, the weather actually should cooperate today for all the planes trains and automobiles that are rushing out of town in time for christmas so expect more volume. However, youre trying to get away. And if your travels include an airplane theres plenty you should know before you get to the airport. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick live at Reagan National with all the details. Mel. Reporter hey, good morning, guys. Just checking around the maps and the travel board arent it and itlooks like the only delaye a few out of los angeles but for the most part everything is on time and going well. The airport here really not very crowded at this point its still a little bit early so we expect maybe later those t. S. A. Checkpoints will stack up just a little bit. If you think that youve seen a lot more crowds on airplanes and in the airports lately, youre absolutely ri
Definitely grown, people trying to get through security here and theres some of that additional security that we talked about. T. S. A. Saying that with the additional load of passengers, they are bringing in additional officers, 1400 extra t. S. A. Officers and additional k9 teams. But the dogs here doing that snisniffing that helps people gt through security faster. These people have been somewhat cleared. You know when they used to have to do the swipe test. Theyre not having to do that any. So, it looks like most people here are in a pretty good holiday mood. Number of people are most people we should say, most of them are going to see family and friends. We talked to a couple of people here at the airport and asked them where they were going and what theyre doing. Im going to go to bogota colombia south america. West palm beach florida. We go away every christmas with my brotherinlaw and his wife went relax on the beach. Nashville 1010ism whats in nashville. Its a beautiful countr
The gunman. And good day. Good morning, everyone. Im saturday, december 23rd. Scott, two shopping days, today and tomorrow. Thats it. Im so far behind. I know you dont have my gift yet. Its all right. I have your gift. I just didnt bring it in yet. I didnt want to do that before christmas. Im a tradition lift. Im bill anderson. Lauren johnson has the weekend off of course scott williams. Nice. We kind of coordinating a little bit. You look better in it. Nah. I got to up my suit game. A lot of things going on. Obviously weve got some shopping thats going to take place. Weve got weird weather. Rain, snow, all kinds of stuff going on. The whole gamut, bill. Roller coaster ride. But thankfully as we take a look at the airport delays as cross the country looking pretty good. The Green Airplane is indicating that we dont have any weather related airport delays right n now. Philadelphia international as we move into parts of the southea southeast, all right. However ultimate doppler is lit up
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