Late tonight through the day thursday. Weve got revised snow totals. Well show you who will get the most out of this event, when it will start for you at home in a couple of minutes. Metro will work bus systems on a moderate plan. Buses will stay off of the hills and the narrow streets. Metroaccess is suspended for the entire day. Our Live Team Coverage continues now with our transportation reporter adam tuss where its all hands on deck on those roads. Reporter certainly all hands on deck, wendy. We have a few light raindrops come coming down right now at tysons corner. But the steady rain moving into the area is the problem for road crews later on tonight. You cant pretreat the roads if it all will just wash away. Lets look at the beltway at tysons corner. Loaded up for sure. A lot of people heading home for good for the next couple of days. Lets show you whats happening with road crews. At this point, the activity has to do with making sure trucks are maintained and repaired. As you
P. M. And 8 00 p. M. This evening. Let me show you whats going on first with storm team 4 radar. This is live. The moisture still moving through. Moisture training in fact extending to the south. Bright white, charlottesville, fredericksburg waldorf, leonardtown. It took a while for the snow to get to you, but once it did, its been snowing and snowing hard right down i95 Quantico Fredericksburg getting the snowfall rates there at about an inch an hour so, the visibility there very very low and its going to stay that way for at least another hour to two hours. The back edge here just around that area west and southwest of luray. So another three hours or so thats when the back edge should start coming through your area. Areas like d. C. , too, you can see the snowfall amounts up here 5 inches nbc 4, 9 inches in hagerstown 7 around leesburg. I know a lot of snow but thats just half the story. Whats next for us folks, you have to get ready, lets go to storm team 4 meteorologist Doug Kamme
Storm team 4 radar, all the quite, thats the snow down to the south, Southern Maryland down towards fredericksburg took a while to change over but once it did its been snowing heavily down toward this area. You see it back to the west Winchester Hagerstown just about done with the snow. Still snow showers in through Loudoun County and out towards Montgomery County but along and east of i95 thats where the bulk of the snow remains. Thats where we could still pick up another 1 to 2 inches as far as thats concerned. As the snow continues to lessen in parts of the region look at our rockville camera. Heres 355. Ive been watching this camera all day. This is the best that 355 Rockville Pike has looked all afternoon. Some very good news there. The main roads will get a little better. As we go through the night tonight, everything will continue to freeze as temperatures drop. And Veronica Johnson is outside right now. Were talking act record cold temperatures and windchills. Thats right. Out
For you now. The last gasp of snow trying to make its way through the d. C. Metro area. A little bit of enhancement right downtown and through portions of northwest. Still snowing heavily towards the south, southern portions of maryland fredericksburg still seeing snow and another band coming in from the northwest. This is actually the cold front coming through and boy, behind it it will be really cold. Look at this band of snow right here fairfax through d. C. Up there towards the Baltimore Area and more snow down toward the south. What are we going to see . The snow ending for the most part 5 00 back to the west 7 00 down toward the south and east with a few more snow showers, the roads extremely slick and cancellation we should change this now, probable not just possible. Weve already gotten them across our region. Next the cold moves in and well set some records again. Winters hanging on. Thanks doug. Right now, were awaiting word on the status of Commuter Rail service. There are n
To their destination. Well have updates on their condition and whats next for the passengers as soon as we get them. Pat, back to you. A longtime d. C. Fire official has admitted cheating taxpayers out of 11,000 worth of gasoline. Kimberly pinkney pleaded guilty today to fraud. Her story was first revealed in the news4 iteam investigation. Today she told a judge she was guilty of using a taxpayerfunded government fleet card to buy gas for her personal car. Shell be ordered to pay that money back. Though she could face prison time when sentenced in may. Attorneys discussed the possibility of probation only in her case. Pinkney has since quit her job. More now on a story we first reported on news 4 middaya house fire in calvert county. One person was injured and the house is a total loss. This is along lake shore drive not far from solomons islands road. Chopper 4 was over the scene shortly after firefighters arrived around 10 30 today. According to zillow the home is worth about 400,000