With more. Thank you, doug. And folks in erie, pennsylvania, are hoping to finally catch a break. The snow has stopped falling after it dumped about 5 feet. The National Guard is on hand trying to help dig out this nursing home. Chicago is dealing with dangerously low temperatures and getting ready for a fresh round of snow. Just ahead well have a closer look at how that city is coping with the cold. And you can get the latest weather updates any time and anywhere on the nbc washington app. Be sure to turn on those notifications for any weather warnings in your neighborhood. And now lets go back to that breaking news that occurred in virginia. A wild ride for drivers on i95 as police go after a murder suspect in Stafford County. It unfolded over the course of several hours. Police say the suspect shot at their cruisers before crashing his own car just south of garris garrisonville road. This started with a murder earlier this morning in stafford. News4s david culver covered a lot of gr
Tragedy of historic proportions. Also tonight a fire closer to home for some firefighters dealing with the cold. Keeping themselves warm with evacuations tonight. And a highway shooting, this time on the maryland d. C. Line. The possibility that he was dumped along the side of the road. Flames tore through that apartment building, killing 12 people, including a baby. Good evening, everyone. Im leon harris. Several others are injured, four critically right now. This fire raged through a fivestory walkup this evening. About 700 firefighters raged through the bronx zoo. Helping people stranded outside on a frigid night is the red cross. The fire had already escalated from one apartment to two, two almost to all i see is a bunch of kids in the fire escape cold, with no jacket, no pajamas, no nothing. Search of the building continues, so we know that even though its horrible to report that 12 are dead already, we may lose others as well. And with that being the case, obviously a lot still t
Behind him. We have showers in the area delaware is getting spots of heavier downpours, southern New Castle County and streaming into cumberland and salem counties. Theres this area through northeastern maryland thats making progress for northern New Castle County and into chester county. The next half hour well see the heavier rainfall move to the northeast. Temperatures were in the warm zone this morning 74 degrees right now in philadelphia. And storms on the way. No lightning in the area just yet. But we will see clouds and some scattered showers at 6 00. 73 degrees with light southeast wind at 4 miles an hour. During the morning hours, showers and thunderstorms will be around but we should get breaks in those clouds. By noontime see sunshine and then well start to climb into the 80s by lunch time today, 83 degrees with that southerly wind at 7 miles an hour. Back with the hourbyhour future weather to show you when to expect the storms to move into your area. Right now, lets check i
In the clear right now but look at the heavy thunderstorm activity moving through northeastern maryland and cecil county now edging into Chester County and New Castle County along i95 just to the south of newark and heavy rainfall entering newark and scattered showers in the wilmington area. Were getting a showery, stormy start this morning and the threat of showers and thunderstorms will stay with us during the day today. But its not going to be an allday rainfall. Scattered showers and thunderstorms at 6 00 73 degrees. Well see mostly cloudy skies and a chance of scattered showers at 9 00 77 and there will be some breaks of sunshine but also more storms heading into the noontime hour. Well warm into the low 80s but climb into the upper 80s this afternoon. Your hourbyhour future weather when i come back in ten minutes. Right now, lets check out how the roads are going and see if the rain is affecting the traffic just yet. Jessica boyington standing by. We definitely see rain in differ
Jessica boyington has your first alert traffic. Were checking on the delaware cameras. Not a lot of volume, though. Its just something to watch out for so far if you have to head out the door. Give yourself extra time in certain places. We do also want to give yourself extra time through the work zone in new jersey on 295 around the black horse pike lane restrictions north or southbound. Thats due to the road work. Theres problems on the off ramps where we have crews working on the scenes. Still, only about a 12minute drive time. The volume is from 38 up towards the black horse pike. 68 Miles Per Hour is the average speed. Cherry hill new jersey route 70 westbound still dealing with the ongoing construction where we have one lane up towards mcclelland avenue. This is supposed to be out there until 5 00 this morning in philadelphia. That construction closing mlk drive between sweet briar drive and ben franklin parkway. Take the schuylkill expressway to get by. Thats your best bet. There