Winds nw 48 mph a terrifying accident overnight. A metro employee rescued after falling 30 feet down a shaft near the North Bethesda metro station. It happened around 130 this morning on wisconsin avenue near elm street. The maintenance injured his leg. Rescue crews were able to get him out safely after about 45 minutes and transported him to the hospital. Right now the workers condition is unknown. Also breaking right now repars complete afer a water main break put a a dc hospital under a minidisaster alert overnight in takoma park. The break was first reported around nine last night, and teams worked all night trying to finish up repairs. Those repairs completed within the past 10 minutes. The hospital was not accepting any new patients to the emergency room until the break was fixed, but they did continue treating patients. Bottled water was used for drinking and care. A live report is coming up at 5 45. This morning a suspect is in custody after leading police on a nearly 30mile ch
Upper 20s in the surrounding areas. Frederick at 27. For the afternoon, the evening rush, maybe not so great on area roads. Eileen has that coming up in a few minutes. Look at the temperature 35 degrees at 1 00. We are forecasting a high of 36. You can see some of the snow showers here coming right across d. C. , prince william, far cure county. That a better chance after about 10 00 this evening. That is the batch that runs through us, mainly north of the sea that is what mainly north of d. C. With more on what it is going to be like on area roads tonight and tomorrow morning, lets go to eileen whelan. Eileen taking a live look at the capital, it is dry, it is cold, your morning commute is going to be aok. Be a little bit slick. As veronica was showing you, maybe a few flurries around 3 00, but after 7 00 through 11 00 there will be some slick spots as the snow starts to fall and stick. Overnight we will have some snow showers. Totomorrow morning, 5 00 9 00 a. M. , the snow is out of
Commissioners, it is called the liquor board. The sign on the window says they are closed until afternoon. What we are seeing that you cannot see now is fbi agents occasionally going back and forth, carrying boxes of files that they are going through. What we have been told by sources is that two people have in fact been arrested in connection with this operation. One of them actually a member of the liquor board. One of the commissioners. Another is a staff member here, and we are told that there are also search warrants being served at other locations in the county. As a matter fact, two Liquor Stores. This has to do with the activities of the Liquor Commission and related to their work. It is not, a source has told us, related in any way to the recent dwi arrest of the former commissioner of the liquor board. It is one of the few times that this operation has been in the news, and it is not related to that. To recap, this raid is going on right now, the fbi is still inside. Yo the d
Just a few School Changes to tell you about. In virginia Shenandoah County schools are closed. Loudoun county is delayed 2 hours. Westmoreland county schools are on a one hour delay in maryland Carroll County is delayed two hours in West Virginia Jefferson County west schools are closed today. Hampshire and grant counties are on a two hour delay. Watch the bottom of your screen. School closing updates will show up at the bottom of your screen. Winter storm watch tonight through saturday morning for st. Marys county accumulations are nw frederick, md, Hillsboro Purcellville in loudoun county, Carroll County snow is ending another wave possible tomorrow morning southern md cold weekend chills in the Single Digits and teens today partly to mostly cloudy. Cold. Highs 3237 winds nw 510 mph tonight mostly cloudy and cold. Winds n 510 mph saturday am clouds, pm sun. Cold breezy. Snow possible over southern md. Few flurries possible in the dmv. Highs 2732 winds nw 515 g 20 mph julie toss to jo