Right here. That is going to affect people as they make their way to work. I street is closed. Theres no access to the 66 west ramp. At least not from this i street ramp here. Virginia avenue westbound is closed. You cant get on to the rock creek parkway from that vantage point. Northbound rock creek is closed. Theyre going to detour you on to virginia avenue. If you come off the whitehurst freeway to get on to rock creek, you wont be able to do that either. Its a weird little area where a lot of Access Points come together and all of it right now is iced up. Back to you. I had to take a different route today because of that. Megan, thank you. Well check in later. These nightmares continue for folks trying to get to the northeast. The winter storm has left airports closed and hundreds of flights canceled. You take a look at the map from flight aware. Com. Anywhere th are flights that are either delayed or canceled. Youll start to see a lot more red in the coming hours. Several flights
There. Some places feels like negative degrees. Unbelievable. That girl said it best, right, chuck bell . Cant have enough layers on. Keep on layering. Thats the only advise for today. The wind will not be as much of an issue tomorrow, but the northwest wind, which has been driving the ever colder air into the region, that is still with us here this morning. It will be with us for the remainder of the Daylight Hours this afternoon. Current temperatures, these are the air temperatures, not the wind chills, were all generally above zero, with the lone exception being warrington, virginia. Minus one. Hats off to you, below zero this morning. Most of the suburbs at 10 degrees downtown. Not much of a warmup today. Single numbers between now and 8 00 in the morning. Then a slow rise to the upper teens to maybe as much as 20 degrees. Were in weather alert mode because of the wind chill advisory. Wind chills will be running below zero for most of the morning and only recovering a little later
The back deck and to the deck of neighboring homes. Five townhouses were touched by the flames. It was so cold outside that all the equipment froze. Montgomery county fire says it was 9 degrees with a wind chill of negative 5. This fire cost about 1 million in damage and left 20 people without a place to call home this morning. Were continuing to follow breaking news this morning out of prince georges county. You see right there, this car nosedived into a sink hole which formed early this morning by a water main break. This all happened on 52nd avenue and emerson street in edmonston. The car was toe etowed away and thankfully, the driver is doing fine. Derreck ward is live with another water main break in hyattsville. What are you learning out there . Reporter you can look at this scene here. Route 214 near the intersection of hill road. Theyre dealing with a 12inch water main break. Fortunately, its only affected one customer. Not fortunately for that customer but it could be worse. Y
Drawing. Collision. Terrifying moments on a tarmac in canada when two planes smash into each other. Passengers watching in terror when a fire erupts after the planes hit each other. Amazingly, just one firefighter hurt. How could this happen . All that plus Health Officials warn an already dangerous and deadly flu season will get worse. David letterman announces the first big get of his new talk show. Skating to south korea. We now know the three female figure skaters who are headed to the 2018 olympics to represent team usa. We will reveal them exclusively a little later today, saturday, january 6th, 2018. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with sheinelle jones, craig melvin and dylan dreye dreyer, live from studio 1a in rock feefeller plaza. Welcome to today. Thanks for joining us. Im craig melvin. Im sheinelle jones. Dylan dreyer is here, as well. Big night out in california. Did you see any of the skating . You know what, i have to admit, i was in the air and i didnt get in unt
Again to dangerous levels. Lets take you outside right now. You can see the Washington Monument a good shot of washington d. C. And Prince George county behind. It you can definitely feel cold in the air today. But, could there finally be a warmup on the way. Gwen, we were saying im excited for the 30s and 40s and give us good news. We should really be about maybe low 40s for daytime h highs and havent seen that in ages. Im happy to say my 7day forecast has a warm up on it and we will exceed the 40s before the week is over and we do deserve it in the meantime dealing with dangerous weather and we have to deal with it before we get the the treat of warmer rise. Right now, 70 in d. C. And feels like four. Another night where wind chills will be dangerous out there. Temperatures elsewhere, 12 winchester and 14 frederick and 11 hagerstown and westminster at this hour. And todays eyes, 1 reagan, 19 dulles, 18 bwi. Not much different than yesterday. And that cold arctic air remane iing in pl