Hundreds onboard forced to turn around. We have a medical issue with one of the pilots. After a laser beam hit one of the pilots in the eye. And look out below. See those dots in the water, thats not seaweed, those are sharks. Why thousands are swarming this holiday weekend, just a stones throw from the shore. And good morning, america. Happy president s day to valent weekend for hundreds. This river frozen over as a firefighters battled a sixalarm blaze in philadelphia. The cold and storms are making this trip back home tough if many. The latest on that battle for the Supreme Court. Youre looking live right now at the Supreme Court building in washington, d. C. The flag there at halfstaff to honor Justice Antonin Scalia. Scalia, the longest serving member of the court. His fight over his replacement already so fierce. Team coverage this morning. We begin with new details about Justice Scalias final hours at that texas ranch. Jim avila has the latest. Good morning, jim. Reporter good m
Line train was stopped at the Anacostia Metro station. Two suspects fled the scene on foot. They were caught a short time later, walking across the south capital street bridge. The suspects have since been positively identified. By witnesses. So they are now under arrest. We do not yet know what prompted this incident. Now we can tell you police tell us so far they are still looking for the weapon no weapon has been recovered, as of yet. As for the two suspects, theyre both males, one 19 years old. The other, 15 years old. Theyre expected both do make their first appearance before a judge tomorrow morning. Coming up at 6 00, well tell you exactly how police were able to catch these two suspects so quickly. Chris, back to you guys. All right, thanks, mark has been tweeting information on the story all afternoon. For now lets turn back to storm team 4 and the wet weather affecting all of us. Weve been getting rain all day. Its just the forerunner to what were going g a weather alert day.
Reporter Justice Antonin Scalia died behind the drawn curtains of this room. Peacefully and in his sleep. I was a firsthand witness. Reporter on this ranch in west texas, scheduled to hunt quail saturday. His body discovered when he skipped both breakfast and lunch. He was totally peaceful, hes a man that went to sleep and just didnt wake up. Reporter the highend Hunting Lodge and ranch was host to an exclusive group of mostly texan couples. Justice scalia was the only famous guest. He arrived friday about noon, toured the property, did not join in the hunt, but attended dinner. At 9 00 p. M. , he said, its been a long day, had a long week. Id like to be excused. Reporter others told investigators they heard the illness. The county judge that pronounced him dead over the phone said his doctor in washington told her hed been ill. The scalia family, his wife, she says objected to an autopsy. And after talking with investigators and u. S. Martials on the scene, says she agreed one was not
Hagerstown to winchester and martinsburg. In the d. C. Metro area its just areas of freezing rain. Not a lot. Most of it is on the light side and that will continue. A lot of drizzle across the too, and thats going to be the case through the night tonight. Anything that does fall though will fall as rain and then freeze on contact. Thats what freezing rain is, and thats why we still have that winter storm warning in effect for everybody here in the pink. Winter weather advisory including montgomery county, howard county, and arn arundel county. Were going to be talking about delays. We already have school cancellations. The next part of this storm, guys, we get another batch of kind of Severe Weather early tomorrow morning. Well break that down for you as well in just a minute. All right. Thanks, doug. There was enough snow in Southern Maryland today to do anything from snowboarding to snow blowing. Now some of the counties that have already blown through their snow budgets are hoping
Rain to the south. Very splotchy in nature. The real precipitation, the real area of rain way back to the west. But by the time that gets here it will be warm enough for all rain. We still have to contend with the areas of freezing rain. Take a look at the numbers. 29, the temperature right now in d. C. Only 23 in martinsburg. That tells us that it will be prolonged periods of freezing rain as we move through the night tonight. Some locations picking up a tenth to potentially a quarter inch of freezing rain. And thats why we still have the winter storm warnings in effect for everybody in the pink. Montgomery county, anne arundel, and howard county, but everybody else under that winter storm warning. The next thing, we did have areas of snow this morning and that caused a lot of problems out there. Lauren is here with some of the snow totals we saw. Some of the snow totals and the reason we had the high snow totals, it was so darn cold. For every one inch of water you get 20 inches ofow