Were here at the d. C. Department of public works storm team 4 command center. The employees will be looking at these monitors. There are nine of them. If you notice, theyll sometimes go to black and what they are doing, this is realtime live video from major intersections throughout the district. For example, we have florida avenue, bening road, pennsylvania avenue, first street and potomac avenue southeast. Around 8 00, that is when the snow table will send out the trucks to pretreat the roads with salt brine and then 200 trucks will be deployed. If youre out and about, stay away. Give these guys and women working out there time and room so that they can get t make the roads safer for all of us. Youre now going to hear from the d. C. Department of public works director. Lets hear what he has to say. We have had very dangerously low temperatures. Any amount of precipitation can create ice and black ice, whether its half an inch tomorrow or, like i said, it can affect traffic. Reporter
Thousands of canceled flights. Well show you some of the damage already done. And chopper 4 over breaking news tonight. What we are learning about the body police found in a local pond. Announcer news 4 begins now with storm team 4. Some of you are already seeing some snow out there. For many more get ready. It is on the way. Good evening, everybody. Im jim handly. Im doreen gentzler. Weve got a lot to cover. Lets start with some school announcements. Prince georges, fairfax, howard and Anne Arundel County schools are all on a twohour delay tomorrow. Prince William County schools and st. Marys county schools are already planning to be closed. Howard university will be closed tomorrow and friday because of heating and water problems. And joint base andrews will operate on a twohour delay tomorrow. Well have more delays and closings at the bottom of your screen and in our nbc washington app. But now lets kick off our Team Coverage tonight with storm team 4ef kammerer and the latest timin
Are closed. Also in maryland, the schools following here are on a twohour delay. Anne arrundel county schools, Calvert County schools, Charles County schools and Prince Georges County schools all delayed two hours. In virginia, Prince William county and Spotsylvania County schools are closed. Also in virginia Fairfax County fauquier county, and paige county schools on a twohour delay. D. C. Public schools also on a twohour delay. There are many more delays and more closures. We are running the full list of closures and delays at the bottom of your screen. We have also heard from the federal government which is opened today but operating on a twohour delay. Federal workers do have the option for unscheduled leave or unscheduled telework. Lets get to caitlin roth and also to erin como to talk about our roads and the weather today. Caitlin lets start with you. Maureen and wisdom i think the delays are a good call. So much of this snow will wrap up before the lunch hour even hits and local
Of them shut down fort day. Federal workers started workday late or worked from home. And along with windy conditions temps expectsed to drop. So we start to meteorologist chuck bell to inform us where we go from here if this is coming to an end where do we go from here. Once it comes to an end, bombs and temperatures fall into the single numbers for the next couple of mornings, all monitor ocean storm here looks a lot like a hurricane because thats how its behaving. Winds off the coast are near 70mileperhour. Ocean city have both had winds gusting over 60mileperhour at times. And we are on the far western edge of any accumulated snow chance. Most of the d. C. Metro area has only had an inch or two. Generally speaking around the i95 corridor. A better higher accumulation for prince georgia, charles, san stast. Marys county. Gusting to 40mileperhour and wind chills down in the numbers. A lot of things but not going to be warm any time soon. I am going to show you extended forecast comin
Are still spotting light flurries outside right now and going to have really, really cold temperatures moving in. First alert live doppler is telling the story. This is a monster of a storm intensifying so rapidly within the last few hours. It intensified the type of storm we see takes 24 hours to happen. This storm did it in seven hours and now battering new york and boston with heavier snow bands and really, really strong winds. We saw strong winds around here as well. Ocean city maryland had wind gusts of 50 Miles Per Hour. Now we are getting flurries around the d. C. Area. Light snow around buoy and flurries in the College Park Area with cloudy skies. D. C. Right now mostly flurries but around florida avenue northeast a break for you also around howard university. They are getting a break from the snow and still light snow around the only area along 97. Rockville gets a break for now. This the shift over to the east. Flurries are about what we are expecting until 3 00 or so and by