Schools across the area were closed today, but with more snow and dangerously cold temperatures expected the rest of the week Stephanie Ramirez asked area School Officials if more cancellations could be on the horizon. Shes live at lemon Road Elementary School in falls church where kids are still enjoying their day off. Reporter its a closed but packed Elementary School and this is why. Lemon Road Elementary School has one of the best sledding hills in the area. A lot of parents and kids here wondering if kneel get a chance to do this theyll get a chance to do this again later this week. 11yearold Nathaniel Hughes didnt waste any time outside with schools closed today and even though the sun later came out he and his mother still say schools needed to be closed. Absolutely. Yes. They should have because half the roads are still have snow on them. Reporter nathaniel wasnt driving tuesday, but he would if he could. I wish. Id be cruising if i could. Reporter hear that, mom . Lovely. Repo
Later, rain arrives tomorrow. Breaking news. Dozens shot and killed. 65 wounded, and more than 500 still unaccounted for in kenya. Right now it is unclear how many hostages are in the hands of masked gunmen who stormed a College Campus near the somalia border. Witnesses say christians were singled out and shot on the spot. Those who could, ran for their lives. Kenyas president just ordered 10,000 new Police Recruits to fasttrack training. The Al Shabaab Terror Group claimed responsibility. The wife of a man found murdered in a d. C. Hotel room is thanking police for making an arrest in the case. Officers took 21yearold Jamyra Gallmon into custody in this case yesterday. They say the cameras in the Donovan Hotel showed her coming and going from the hotel the night that David Messerschmitt was found stabbed to death back in february. Sources tell news 4 gallmon was there for a sexual encounter. Just a little while ago we received this statement from messerschmitt wife saying i have faith
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Sped off the tracks in philadelphia. Heres a live picture above the mangled remains of the train. Recovery crews are working to find any other victims right now. About a dozen people are still missing. We know at least seven people died and we just learned the names of one of the victims overnight. Eight people are in critical condition. The attorney for the amtrak engineer at the controls says his client doesnt remember what happened. Now we know the train was going too fast heading into a curve. That information was recorded on the trains event data recorder but investigators are looking at everything that happened in the moments before the train flew off the tracks. One person they are turning to is the engineer. Right now our transportation reporter adam tuss joins us live from philadelphia with that part of the story. Adam . Reporter thats right, aaron. You know were learning more about the train engineer, Brandon Bostian from queens. [ no audio ] way too fast at the time of this
Valentines. Happy friday. Im mike hydeck. Thanks for joining us. Monika is here with traffic. Good to see you. Welcome back. Howard will talk about the massive storm. We have closings to tell but first. It will be a happy valentines for a number of kids. Theyre staying home today and they have monday off for the federal highway. Lets start in maryland, prince georges, montgomery, calvert, frederick and Anne Arundel County schools are closed. In virginia a long list here. Alexandria, arlington, fairfax, fauquier, culpeper, frederick as in virginia, frederick city schools also in virginia, loudoun, manassas city schools, Prince William county, stafford and spotsylvania closed. D. C. Schools are closed but the Administrative Offices are on a twohour delay. The federal government is also delayed two hours. This is a partial list. You can go to our website wusa9. Com and we have some of the closings listed at the bottom of our screen. Some students are going to have monday, though, as a mak