In Prince George and montgomery counties, officials declared a snow emergency. In d. C. The department of Human Services arkt vaeted the hypothermia hotline to make sure no one is stranded in the cold frmths youve got to really layer it on, pretty much cover it all up if you plan on heading ouchlt news 4s derrick ward is live along route 7 in sterling, virginia, showing us how dangerous these conditions can be. I see youre pretty covered up. In deed, these conditions can be bad. Its time to bring out old furry for this one. Were in a parking lot. As you can see, thats ice. We have one car stuck in a parking spot. They tried to get out and spun out. If you look over to the secondary road that hasnt been treated quite as much as route 7, route 17 the White Surface thats where its actually been treated. You have to be careful because there can be patches of ice that go through those areas. You are better off obviously on the main roads. Secondary roads you have to take extreme caution and
Temperatures plummeted from 45 degrees at 6 00 last night to 18 degrees before midnight. So an enormous drop in temperatures. These are the current wind gusts. Winds are still gusting between 30 and 40 Miles Per Hour right now. So damaging winds are a real issue here trees and branches are down all over the area and there are scattered Power Outages first thing this morning. Actual air temperatures are in the Single Digits to around 12 degrees. Factor in that crazy wind and windchills are running 10 to 20 below zero. If youre outside, dont expect any improvement today. Temperatures will struggle to get near 20 degrees for a High Temperature this afternoon. These winds are going know where between fou and sundown tonight. When i see you next, well tell you how long the cold sticks around. Its not just the air thats cold and icy out there. Roads, walkways, roofs and power lines are in dangerous shape. Pepco working to restore power to 12,000 customers. Dominion virginia and bge dealing w
Ill have the latest impacts coming up in about 10 minutes, pat, but again, this evening were not looking at the worst conditions. Again, talking act windchill temperatures on into the evening, 2 00 a. M. Temperature around 12 degrees. But saturday night, sunday morning windchills in spots could be as bad as 20 to 30 degrees below zero. So thats going to be dangerous windchills. Now, windchills that low are only going to be for someus. Ill let you know if thats for you coming up in about ten minutes. Thanks amelia. Not everyone gets to stay indoors during this frigid friday. We found people who are braving the arctic blast to help make your drive a little easier. David culvert picks up our Team Coverage in arlington. Reporter this is one of those days folks are hiding their faces, trying to wear as many layers as they can to fight off this brutal cold. Work crews facing some tough Office Conditions houtout here for hours today, dragging heavy equipment, layered up but still taking break
Below in some areas. Heres a live look what it looks like outside our tv station in northwest washington right now. You can see the flag flapping in that cold breeze. This is a big chill under way out there. The arctic air is causing schools to delay start times. Well get to that in a minute but first, the feellike temperatures are in the Single Digits right now. And thats why were starting here in the news 4 weather center. Dougs here to tell us what its going to be like as we go through the night and when we get up in the morning. You mentioned that big drop. We were at around 41 42 degrees this afternoon. Now were around 1 or 2 degrees with that wind chill. A bigtime temperature drop. We have the wind chill advisory. You notice Howard County Montgomery County parts of Loudoun County and everybody off to the west including our friends down to the Northern Neck with wind chills potentially near that negative 10 number early tomorrow morning. Now, right now were still seeing those wind
Now let us get to the latest on the investigation. Garrett hake joins us live in studio with that. French Officials Say it could be days or weeks before the remains of all 150 victims of tuesdays plane crash are recovered in the alps. Investigators are trying to figure out what brought that jetliner down with no warning. Investigators have started analyzing one of the voice recorders from one of the planes black boxes. They caution the findings are preliminary. We hope to have a first rough idea in a matter of days. Reporter Authorities Say they dont have the slightest explanation why the Germanwings Airbus lost altitude and slammed into the french alps shredding into pieces. French president Francois Hollande said the casings of the second black box has been found but not the flight data recorder itself. Hollande, german chancellor Angela Merkel and spains Prime Minister expressed their condolences to the families of the 150 victims. The crash site is only accessible from the air, so