February 13th, 2017. If you are just waking upuarp heres a live look outside. Ut whipping winds knocked outg power acrosswi the d. Cnd. Regio. Wicked winds sparking widespread outages mostly inostn virginia. Inia. Dominion has the bulk of them nearly 12,000 customersustomers without power. Er. Outages enough to delay school l in Fairfax County wherenty where schools open two hours late late today. Pepco reporting about 1,000b1 people in the dark thisrk ts morning. Rning. Bg e customers also withoutithot power with the companyr wi reporting more than 2200 outages. Lets get to tucker rightker now get a check on the wickedhe winds. Wi tuck, good morning. Tuck, go steve, getting a bitod of m a break from the wicked winds. Ck theyll be back later today. Toda high wind warning in effect until 6 oclock tonight. Ght. Look at your current winds. Ind winds gusting last evening cannn you believe 66 Miles Per Hour at Reagan National, over 70s down at joint base andrews. Ndres very gusty winds here
Most in northern virginia. Rgini. Dominion reporting about ab 15,000 customers without without power. Pepco reporting about 1100ou0 people in the dark, bg ebg e customers also without powero with the company reportingep more than 2200 outages. Ut lets get to tucker withcker more on the winds. N the wi. The big question will they w inue tod today. Yes, theyll pick up againeyi a little bit as we getck the sue up here we start to mix up theth atmosphere again but hard had hitting last night. Reminiscent of the derechoed. Ere were fecw years ago. 26 the currents wind gust in washington, 29 in29 in gaithersburg. 44 in annapolis. Apoli were still really blowing outw there. Once we get the sun up gp in an hour the winds are goingrg to pick up again and gust atustt times to up to about 50 milesut per hour later today. Oda quick look at your high wind wd warning just a reminder a highah wind warning locally until until 6 oclock tonight. Oclock well have plenty ofto sunshinee today. It will be o
February 13th, 2017. If you are just waking upuarp heres a live look outside. Ut whipping winds knocked outg power acrosswi the d. Cnd. Regio. Wicked winds sparking widespread outages mostly inostn virginia. Inia. Dominion has the bulk of them nearly 12,000 customersustomers without power. Er. Outages enough to delay school l in Fairfax County wherenty where schools open two hours late late today. Pepco reporting about 1,000b1 people in the dark thisrk ts morning. Rning. Bg e customers also withoutithot power with the companyr wi reporting more than 2200 outages. Lets get to tucker rightker now get a check on the wickedhe winds. Wi tuck, good morning. Tuck, go steve, getting a bitod of m a break from the wicked winds. Ck theyll be back later today. Toda high wind warning in effect until 6 oclock tonight. Ght. Look at your current winds. Ind winds gusting last evening cannn you believe 66 Miles Per Hour at Reagan National, over 70s down at joint base andrews. Ndres very gusty winds here
The National Transportation safety board has taken control of this investigation. They have a team on their way from washington here to upper darby as we speak. This accident happened here along the loop in the backside of the 69th street train station. This is where trains turn around at the end of the line and head the other direction. For some reason one train slammed into the back of the other, the Ripple Effect causing commuter headaches. It was a slowspeed collision, less than 10 miles per hour. It looks like a pretty bad wreck, if you ask me. Reporter but still it caused quite a mess. How it tipped over . Reporter in total seven cars tumbled off the tracks, three trains were involved. A Chain Reaction leaving some without a ride to work. I heard a big bang, then all of a sudden i heard the fire engines and all. I knew Something Big happened. Reporter septa says this all began when the number 57 train came around the loop and rearended the 67 train that was stopped. After that co
Telework. Larry we have a complete list of School Closures at the bottom of your screen and on our website, wjla. Com. Autria 6 00 straight up, lets can chew over to our two meteorologists who have been working hard for you since, like, midnight, you guys . Is that when you book up . Veronica pretty much, making our way down the icy streets. Just so much refreeze. To of the things and want take a look at today is how many hours each day our temperatures will be above freezing. That really is going to be so critical, that and the higher sun angle and how much melting we will see out of this as we approach friday, which by the way autria is the luck of the irish on our side or not . Eileen lets get people started with where this storm is. We have a coastal southeastern virginia. Moving going to be further towards the north. Some of you waking up, looking out your window in saying that you guys said that there would be more snow. As we alluded to yesterday the rain snow line pushed farthe