. another winter storm has arrived. this time we re being spared the worst of the snow but conditions could still be dangerous especially when the whipping winds arrive. good morning, welcome to news4 today. i m eun yang. i m joe krebs on this thursday, february 25, 2010. live look outside this morning. cloudy skies and some snow falling around the region. 36 degrees. we re above freezing. let s check in with meteorologist tom kierein for what the day will bring. thankfully the road temperatures are above freezing as well and we ve had some dusting to as much as an inch of snow overnight. areas west and north of washington and right now looking at the regional radar, it is snowing pretty heavy right now on the eastern shore. but here we ve seen it taper off. the local radar showing a little bit of mix of snow and rain in prince george s, anne arundel, charles and st. mary s county. montgomery county getting light snow, about an inch of snow as well as frederick and ca
we ll come back and give you a snowfall accumulation map. lesli, back to you. schools in maryland will be able to write off five of their snow days from this winter. the state board of education approved a plan allowing schools to go well below the number of days required by law. most districts used 10 days this winter. they must request a waiver before making changes. and any significant snow could cost one area school district its spring break vacation. more on that coming up at 5:15. we have breaking news out of sea world in orlando, florida. late this afternoon, a killer whale killed a trainer in front of a live audience. derek mcginty is live with the breaking details. derek. we are still pulling together the details of this awful accident. officials say that female trainer at seaworld orlando slipped and fell into the tank when she was attacked by that killer whale. a witness said the beast seemed to go crazy, grabbing the trainer around her waist and thrashing her
built so that the bank on the discounts of the you can make money by using the local currency. host: do all of the locals use it? caller: most of them do. it is for those who do not want to see the money going to the walmart headquarters. we want to keep our money locally instead of going out of town. host: thank you for your calls this morning. that will do it for this morning s washington journal. we will see you tomorrow. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] . . q by the time lawmakers retun in january, leadership hopes to have many of the major points of disagreement on health care worked out. the house returns january 12 and the senate will be back on january 20. live now on c-span 2, american university as toasting their annual two-week seminar for people working in local, state, and federal campaigns. this event looks ahead to 2010 s key races and examined voter outreach initiatives as well