I thought the car was going to go deep down. Reporter the sinkhole caused by the water main break is right off the familys front door and steps from the neighbors, some nervous. Im not going to touch my car today. Im not going to move it because i dont want to move it and same thing happen to him happen to me. Reporter wssc says it wont get bigger. Its not a sinkhole where we see cars or houses swallowed into the earth. We know why this happened. Its localized, contained. Theres no danger of it spreading. Reporter the family that escaped their car, lost their vehicle, and their home is flooded. They trudged through the wet street carrying what they could of their belongings. A little boy with quite the story. My dad didnt know the hole was right there, and and then he he said to get out of the car. Reporter wssc is putting up mainer and his family in a hotel tonight. Looich in bladensburg, Kristin Wright news4. Thanks kristin. The winter storm that brushed our area is still causing som
Americans now moving on leaving up to three feet of snow behind. It was new england that was hit particularly hard. Residents now digging out from waist high snow ago laying a travel ban in massachusetts. That one has now been lifted. On the coast in scituate massachusetts, seawater and debris. It surged into the streets and flooded homes. The sheer volume of the snow. Can best be shown here this timelapse video from the back deck of a home in massachusetts. Nearly three feet perhaps even more piled up over the course of several hours and now the process, you see there, the residents trying to dig out. A scene thats unfolding today over a wide swath of the northeast. Abcs susan saulny leads off our coverage. Reporter millions in new england are waking up this morning under a paralyzing blanket of snow. Up to three feet where the blizzard did its worst damage and in some areas the snow is still 235u8ing. In many parts of massachusetts i think you could call it in fact an historic event.
There was any more danger. Live in bladensburg, Kristin Wright. Weve already seen hundreds of water main breaks in the area. Well break down the numbers and try to explain how they compare to last year. A leaking pipe called this mess in the middle of k street in downtown d. C. Today. Water came bubbling up a manhole in the middle of to a crosswalk. No businesses or offices in that area lost water or water pressure. D. C. Water says it started with a leak in a 30inch pipe. Crews are digging up the ground near that pipe to try to find the source of that leak. Some people in springfield had to do some shoveling this morning but it is the cold that is impacting the water mains right now. Chief meteorologist Doug Kammerer is here to talk about the cold weather and what we can expect. Things will get a lot colder. Would not be surprised to see a few more water main breaks across our region as temperatures drop well below the teens. On the radar, not a whole lot happening. Wasnt too far for
Rights. Taco bell is chiming in about using lesds salt. They are calling it the right and moral thing to do according to the ceo. Taco bells menu has 15 less salt than six years ago. It is part of the companys aim to land 15 of the menu items at or below suggested salt and sugar mims. Sounds like a good goal but critics say it isnt ambitious enough. They say taking the salt off slightly and claiming it doesnt qualify as reducing in salt. It doesnt . Taco bell for instance the steak burrito has 1,000 grams of sodium an entire week of salt. But if you back it off 15 it is something. But they are saying it isnt enough. What they are doing in the end is not enough. It is taco bell. You expect them to be healthy. We didnt ask for a can of salt with it. You dont have to go. It is taco bell. It is 3 00 in the morning. Give me a burrito and i will go home. You know how many places are open not many. Give me a bury tee with my salt. I didnt know you were a taco bell guy. I used to be in college
His renewal. A final vote is not expected until march. We were talking about how much we immediate to bundle up this morning. You can tell how much colder it was this morning when we stepped outside. Screen says 24 degrees. Feels colder though. Tom kierein is in the weather center. Right now it is down to just around 20 degrees nearby suburbs, that includes oakton. Temperatures by 8 00 just right away 20. The bluster we wind will mail. By noon 30 degrees and bright sunshine. In the afternoon, should hit load to mid30s. In buoy there only down to just 2 degrees. Clear sky bright and sunny by noontime, should be up into thenin upper 20s low 30s. Hitting mid30s by midafternoon. An woodbridge theyre at 25, feels like the teens. By 8 00 a. M. Colder down to the low 20s with sunshine. Then during the afternoon should be hitting near 30 degrees by noontime and by midafternoon mid to upper 30s there. Right in the immediate metro area we hey get into the upper 30s this afternoon. But that feels