Things are starting to pick up out there. Look at that. Any of this going to stick . Absolutely, jim. Some of this is going to stick. Temperatures have been at or below the freezing mark all afternoon long. And thats the view from our city camera view. Snowflakes flying through the street lights out there Near National airport. I just checked out the window here at nbc 4 and the snowflakes are spotted here in northwest washington as well. 29 degrees is our current temperature. So this is going to be able to stick. Heres the way it looks. Light snow now all around the capital beltway. A little break already out towards interstate 81. So this little patch will die out. We may get a few more flurries. But temperatures all below freezing around the metro area and points north and west. So your saturday evening planner, light snow and snow flurries here for the next couple of hours. Temperatures generally holding in the middle and upper 20s to near 30 degrees. Most of this coming to an end
Grieving death of two children tonight. Two days after that deadly fire that killed them. Investigators are still trying to figure out a cause. And he may not have led the skins to the super bowl, but rg3 is coming out on top this weekend. Thank you for joining us, im maurine. And im laura evans. Well get to those stories in a moment, but first, the Winter Weather returned to our area. The snowfalling for much of this evening. A beautiful blanket of white. Well turn things over to fox 5s gwen talbert in the weather center. Well have to deal with it over the course of the next couple of days, but off and on. Its not going to be heavy steady snowfall because we have a series of clipper systems that are moving through fairly quickly. The snow showers are going to continue. Heres a look at our radar. You can see not a whole lot showing up here, but if we go to our weather map, ill show activity as it moves its way through on our satellite radar composite. If we can go over to our system, w
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during the afternoon tomorrow and both of those could give us a little bit in the way of some accumulating snowfall. we ll continue to watch that for you as it moves on in. overnight tonight expect light rain around 9:00 in most locations but also some snow to the north and west. a mixture of rain and snow right on through tomorrow morning. temperatures falling down into the 30s. they re not going to go up that high tomorrow but then the cold air really sets in. it s not just the cold we re talking about. i ll show you what else moves in, too, in a few minutes. thank you, doug. now to the birth control controversy that has recently taken center stage in the presidential race. today president obama backed down and modified the rules on contraception coverage. instead of religiously affiliated organizations having to provide free birth control to employees, their separate insurance companies will be required to. steve handelsman is on capitol hill with the latest developmen
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