Try to develop another intense line of showers and storms across gaithersburg. The watch goes until 8 00. The threat of Severe Weather could linger until 9 00 or 10 00. Well come back and talk about why we issued another yellow alert for tomorrow. This video just into our newsroom. This is gaithersburg youre looking at where traffic is moving smoothly, but it is slow going and plenty of rain in that area. Rain and wind, as top mentioned, your big enemies tonight. Now would be a great time to down load the weather app. You can stay on top of all the changing weather conditions. It is free and its available in the apple and Google Play Stores or you can text radar right now to 25543 to get that app. Well, the d. C. City Council Voted to override the budget veto. Theres going to be a tax on Wellness Center and no property tax exception for seniors. Bruce johnson has more on d. C. s councils actions before recessing before summer break. The districts new streetcar system will be completed
Bit and talk about another yellow alert for tomorrow. And topper, we want to take a look outside. Those pictures out of leesburg look rough. Take a look at our own weather terrace. Its raining. Not so rough. We can hear it outside. We can certainly feel and sounds like quite a storm. But there it goes. All right, a man being investigated for a possible link to three shocking murders in our neighborhood was indicted on gun charges today. His name is charles severance. You know this face. He is linked to the deaths of three prominent local Community Members in alexandria. Ruth anne legado, and nancy dunning, the wife of then, alexandria sheriff, jeff dunning. There were some dramatic reactions announced stowed in announced ctoday along a notorious dangerous section of route 1 in college park. All were pedestrians run down by drivers late at night. Scott broom is there to report on major safety announcements that are going in before the university of maryland goes back into session. In sh
Whats next after the snow and rain . Also remembering the newtown victims one year after the shooting and the push for tougher gun laws here in d. C. Plus, Nelson Mandela and its final resting place. The crowd gathering on the eve of the funeral. Hello, everybody, im bruce johnson. Right now the storm is on its way out after leaving rain in some parts, snow in other parts of the washington area. What about the rest of the weekend . Lets go straight to erica groh. You can see the storm system departing here on doppler 9,000. This is a sixhour loop. We have the rain and snow moving through the metro at dinner time and now pushing up into new england. Not a factor for us during the overnight hours. But this is what it looked like in frederic county this afternoon, early evening. This picture sent to us by my colleague. As he was out on the roadways, you can see it did get covered with snow here in frederic county. So even some of the interstates and major roadways were cold enough to supp
In fact, stopped traffic because of these icy conditions. Im going to first tell you about what is going on around town with live pictures. There was a crash on the inner loop after georgia avenue. It was involving an suv and a truck. All lanes have been blocked for some time and then the snowplows were coming in on 270 as well. Thats the cause for all those delays right now. Although the lanes have been reopened. Lets take another live picture. First of all, this is 95 southbound side at route 1 in wood bridge. All those lanes are blocked off and i just literally got off the phone about 60 seconds ago with vdot and i said what is going on . We have several accidents between wood bridge and dale city and even in springfield right now blocking several lanes. A rush of accidents, they said. The lack of volume is actually working against them. They are not able to mix in the treatment into the ice and snow and thats why its slippery. And thats a good indication of why you should stay home
In fact, i used my little ruler. You can see where i stuck it in and look at that, actually, pretty close to 3 1 2 inches already out here in northwest d. C. Lets look at more numbers if r you. 7 inches, just to the northwest of frederic, maryland, and 5 inches in smithburg. Potomac, 4 inches on the ground. And in clear brook to the north of winchester, we have about a half foot of snow. Topper, back inside to you. All right. Were looking at again, snowfall accumulations, 4 to 7 inches through the immediate metro area. More to the north. 6 to 9. Remember we expanded this last night at 11 00 and it will hold. In fact, around frederic and we already have 6 inches on the ground. Temperatures, that will become the new big story. When the snow shuts off around midnight. 19 in gaithersburg, 23 in leesburg. But if you factor in the winds, it feels like a 7 in gaithersburg. 12 in manassas and 12 in leesburg. Well come back and talk about a windchill advisory. All right, and tonight, we have cr