12th was way out of scale. Metro officials remain vague. Were working on a daily basis to make it even safer. We heard from an array of elected officials all expressing concerns about the findings including maryland senator Barbara Mikulski who described this as shocking and said its an example about how equipment there to protect passengers failed with deadly consequences. Reporting live stephen tschida, abc 7 news. And Stephen Metro had to deal with another smoke incident just this afternoon when an insulator caught fire near the courthouse metro station in arlington. It took about 40 minutes to find and extinguish that fire. The courthouse station briefly closed as trains single track through the area. No one was hurt. D. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is making it easier for First Responders to talk with one another in a crisis situation. She eased the districts encrypting rules. First responders can now switch back to encrypted channels in a case if a case involves sensitive information.
Night. Windchills by friday morning will be 10 below to 25 degrees below. And then a wintry mix, were tracking that on saturday and saturday night. Right now it looks like its going to start as snow and then go to sleet and freezing rain. Eventually we think it will go to rain on sunday. Look at these windchills. 9 00 a. M. Tomorrow, feels like its below 0 everywhere. 2 below downtown, 7 below in laplata. By 6 00 p. M. , feels like its 11 below 0. This is route 50 near the beltway. Tracking the snow in maryland all night. Im reporting from the dash board camera in my mobile news room. Lets take a look at this guys car right here. I hope he doesnt mind. Im going to write a 9 on his windshield. Thats about all she wrote. Maybe a quarter inch of snow in that blast of snow we got. Let me show you a video tape. I was on 270 north. Right at 6 00, here comes the snow. Its not lasting more than 10 or 15 minutes and it just wasnt quite enough to overwhelm the residual assault on the road. It wa
Loudoun county west of route 50 and theyve just been added for wind chills as much as 10 degrees below 0. Well come back, talk about the prospects of snow saturday and perhaps more snow next week. A shootout in chantilly put an Armed Robbery suspect in the hospital and another one in custody. It started as a chase from loudoun into Fairfax County. Peggy fox was at both scenes and has more from where this began in the Eastern Market plaza in chantilly. Reporter the suspects who tried to rob an Armored Vehicle in front of this capital one building probably didnt count on the guard inside the Armored Vehicle firing back. They also probably didnt count on a witness following them. Shell casings tell the story of a brazen shootout in front of a Capital One Bank in chantilly. Its crazy. You get nervous and you dont know whats going on and chantilly, you never hear of stuff like this. Reporter two suspects tried to rob this dunbar armed car as it was making a money delivery. Apparently one of
Todays closings and delays. We are watching for black ice and other slick spots on the roads. But we begin our Team Coverage with storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein and your what to wear forecast. We had the sun cook the pavement melted some of that snow. And then overnight, it refroze and created patchy ice like this. I took will this photo of the parking lot right here at nbc 4. We have patchy ice there. Many parking lots are frozen over, so watch out for the icy untreated roads and your sidewalk and front steps, as well. Our temperatures are hovering just near 10 degrees Prince Georges County montgomery and fair fak counties. Reagan national at 17. Near the bay, its near the mid teens right now. Here is your what to wear draft. Warmest winter gear, heavy coats, scarf, gloves, hat and warm boots as well stay cold through the rest of the morning. Not get above freezing until later this afternoon. Headlines this morning, patchy ice and then for the afternoon, passing snow squalls s
Packed with 50 kids made a sudden stop to avoid a crash. That stop was so sudden some kids complained of injuries. As you can see here, multiple ambulances were called to the scene on georgia avenue. Our jim osman is live at the scene. We will go to him momentarily with more on the story. But first lets talk about those icy cold temps and the howling winds moving in the area. They were tossing peggy around. First alert chief meteorologist topper shutt joins us. How cold are we going to get tonight . Wind chills below 0. At 5 00 winds are beginning to gust at 35 Miles Per Hour in manassas, 33 in martinsburg and hagerstown. This is just the beginning really. Were looking at winds generally 35 to 40 Miles Per Hour right through tonight. We 8 00 wind are still gusting to 37 in gaithersburg on the wind gust tracker and these numbers are all gusts Miles Per Hour. Downtown at 10 00 winds gusting to 32 Miles Per Hour. By morning theyll subside during the day but still breezy, wind chills tomor