Yes, it is. Hey, good morning to you. Were so glad youre with us. It is thursday, january 4th. Todays weather is already leading to delays and closures. Amtrak operating on a modified schedule much of amtraks northeast corridor will be impacted by todays storm locally. Service from d. C. To newport news and norfolk is canceled. The Area School Systems are also impacted. Heres a look at the closures and delays in maryland. This just in. Montgomery county schools closed today. Again, were going to repeat that cause that just came in. Montgomery county schools are closed. Saint marys county schools are also closed. In maryland as well, the following schools on a twohour delay. Anne arrundel county schools, Calvert County schools, Charles County schools and Prince Georges County schools. Again, all delayed two hours. Over in Virginia Prince William County and Spotsylvania County schools are closed. Also in virginia, Fauquier County, Culpeper County, Warren County and page county schools ar
Recently as to what is cold. Arlington county schools decided to close, same deal with alexandria city schools, Fairfax County schools Largest School district there in Northern Virginia is closed and Loudoun County schools also closed. Prince William County and Spotsylvania County schools Stafford County manassas city and Manassas Park schools, all closed this morning. In virginia, fauquier county, Culpeper County, Warren County, page county schools, you are on a twohour delay. Ignore the alexandria city schools at the top of that. We just said that they were closed so that has changed recently. D. C. Public schools here on a twohour delay this morning and for federal workers or those who follow opm, the federal government is opened today but operating on a twohour delay. Federal workers do have the option for unscheduled leave or unscheduled telework. Those are your closings. Well keep them on the bottom of your screen throughout the morning. Tucker barnes how is it right on time. Got
Bomb cyclone. Well talk more about that coming up. Lets get right to the radar. Snow continues across the area. Not terribly heavy up and down the i95 corridor but it is coming down, it is sticking and it will be with us for a few more hours. I will give you all the details on how much snow weve seen and how much more we can expect and what we can look forward to later today. Ill give you a hint. Lots of wind and lots of cold coming up in just a couple minutes but you can see that live radar, our storm our snow continues across the area. It will be with us for a few more hours. Erin im going to toss to you. I take it most everybody is kind of waiting it out or allison and steve . We are trying. The situation with the schools have been changing throughout the morning a lot of schools going from delayed earlier this morning or overnight to closed now. They are all scrolling at the bottom of your screen throughout the morning show. Lets get you caught up on the major systems closed or del
Break is because there is so much water and ice now all over the road. Just a skating rink here now. D. C. Water says its an 8inch main and they did get the water turned off it appears. We dont know when theyre going to be able to come and start actually working to repair this main. They also say that there may be some customers in the area affected without water, too, so definitely causing a number of problems here. Not only for residents but also for commuters. And its its just the kind of thing that they know they have to deal with. They have wssc and d. C. Water have extra crews on hand. D. C. Water says theyve been dealing with some 200 water emergencies a day since this cold snap began and we know that theres going to be more of these to come. They really are just kind of bringing in those extra crews, having everyone else on standby and were going to be here this morning. Hopefully this is not the the beginning of many, many that were going to be covering today but to stay here
It is friday, january 5th. Lets tell you about the School Closings first. Then well get to erin and also to mike about our weather and traffic which are of course the big stories today. Area School Systems are not taking any chances with the extreme and dangerous cold. Most are delayed or closed. Lets go over to big ones and well start in maryland where the latest delay is for Frederick County schools. They are delayed two hours now. Anne arrundel and Montgomery County schools are also on a twohour delay. Saint marys county schools are closed. Charles county schools closed. Prince georges county schools closed. Calvert county schools closed. Lets go to virginia. Arlington county schools twohour delay. Alexandria city and Falls Church City schools twohour delay. Fairfax county schools closed. Loudoun county schools closed. Prince William County and Spotsylvania County schools are also closed. Stafford county schools are closed. Manassas city and Manassas Park schools are closed. Also in