Glad youre starting your day with us. Get to meteorologist newsi jeras with some good department. Er only if you like warm weather. You arsenal lover, we might before the week is out. Bit of a little everything this morning. Starting very mild. Glover, we a snow see a little before the week is out. Its 45 degrees this morning in martinsburg and frederick. Changes ahead. By this time tomorrow, temperatures dropping with a front approaching. That will bring storms this evening. A few of those could be strong. We will see more clouds than anything else. Today. Aks of sunshine High Temperatures today will be yesterday, 69. Theirs has been a crash. We will go back to the newsroom. There has been a crash. The breaking news. Is a mess. The east side of the beltway, huge problems. Brianne carter is on the scene, on the outer loop of the beltway. What is the situation . This is a very active scene along the inner loop and outer loop of the beltway. Look behind me. You can see the accident inves
Shed. On a shed. But there are reports of people trapped in the debris and at least one death. These trucks and cars flying over the truck. It was unbelievable. Tornado sirens sounded warning residents to find cover fast. I was worried about everybody else, my family. The same system hit this factory. The deadly funnel cloud was part of a massive storm system pounding the southeast. Power is out for tens of thousands after a confirmed a tornado touched down. From the air you can see the damage, homes and businesses ripped apart in memphis. She was not letting go of our grandson. Her grandson. Storm cleanup is underway in alabama. Elsewhere in the state, strong winds tore down this church steeple. The good thing is no one was injured. It is no in nebraska and iowa. Omaha is digging out from up to 5 inches. In pennsylvania, there are wind gusts Strong Enough to blow over a state police helicopter. Parts of new york, dense fog. Just incredible stuff there. Closer to home, the Severe Weath
System unfolds, as we go through the afternoon rush, there will probably be around an inch of snow on the ground, could be accumulating on area roads, light, powdery, possibly slippery. Well have around 2 inch, maybe slightly more in certain areas. Look at the rare dare. Storm team 4 radar, theres nothing going on. The next system still getting its act together way, way out. The temperatures in between the cold air, the icy conditions, as the winds turn light as they temperatures will start dropping off. You folks up to the north, your temperature heading on down to from 21 degrees down into the low teens by later tonight, were at 23 degrees in manassas, so it really gets cold, 12 by morning there, 15 in fredericksburg. Cold and icy for the morning. More details, what your neighborhood could get, coming up. Thanks veronica. As we wait for the next round, many people in the virginia suburbs are wondering where are the snowplows . Vdot says unless side streets get 2 or more irges, none o
Barbara harrison. Right now there is light snow in chicago. This is Michigan Avenue a few hours ago. The snow is coming from the same storm system that could bring us snow later this afternoon. The windy city already has a layer of snow on the ground and has been dealing with extremely cold temperatures this week, just like us. And this is what the snow did to neighborhoods in one Fairfax County naked overnight. The snow turned to ice. This is a side street off annandale road. Vdot doesnt plow the roads unless they get over two inches. Some of the schools already decided to close early. Fairfax county closing 2 hours early. Montgomery county 2 1 2 hours early. Fauquier closing at noon. Charles county closing 2 hours ear early. Loudoun county closing 1 hour early. Calvert county and frederick county, maryland, closeding 2 hours early. Continue to watch the bottom of your screen for more updates and tune into nbcwashington. Com. Storm Team Meteorologist tom kieran. Folks are getting read
Up. Thank you, doug. We have Live Team Coverage across the area. Julie careys in Northern Virginia, adam tuss in Montgomery County. Tracee wilkins in Montgomery County. Hi, julie. Reporter well, here in western Fairfax County, seems the snowfall has tapered off. Even seen much for the last 30 minutes. In fact, look up behind me in the sky. The moon is glowing through the clouds and just a while ago, as the sun was going down, we saw the sun coming through, even the snow falling, Strange Weather sights out here today. Take a look down on the sidewalk here. You get a pretty good idea of the little bit of powdery snow out here in Fairfax County. But, vdot still took this seriously. And they wanted to stay ahead of this snow that came down this afternoon. Take a look at these trucks. They were cruising primarily up and down the interstates and the primary roads like this one here on lee highway. Putting down a mixture of salt and sand. But again, there has been so little accumulation out h