few clouds. make sure the kids are bundled up this morning. just a bit as they head to the bus stop. 57 degrees is the current reading. reagan national with a light wind out of the north. that wind, a dry wind too. 50 degrees right now in leesburg. 47 in martinsburg. 45 degrees in winchester. 46 degrees in waldorf. and down around la plata and st. mary s, even areas like patch river, upper 40s to 51 is degrees. few clouds out there. those have been making their way just off to the north. for your forecast today, 46 to 55. by the noon hour, we ll top out at 70. for the evening, 65 to 68. i ll be back with the four-day forecast in a few. right now first 4 traffic. thanks, veronica. i m watching the roads if you re traveling in virginia. an accident involving an overturned vehicle. this is along vint hill road. please be aware if you re making your commute. traveling on i-270 eastbound. we have report of an accident in that area. still seeing delays. i-270, slow from 85 all
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functioning. good morning to you. i m eun yang. good morning to you. i m joe krebs. welcome back to news 4 today on this friday, the 16th of december. take a live look outside. welcome to hawaii. that s what it feels like out there. it is balmy right now. it is going to flat out change. it seems like we skipped over winter went right on to spring, and winter s over. that s it. some people wouldn t mind a 60 degree winter. that s what it is right now. we re around 60 degrees predawn on this friday morning, the 16th day of december. this is certainly unusually warm this time of year, this time of day. as we look outside at the view from the skywatcher camera and the city camera, we re seeing breaks in the clouds. there s the jefferson memorial on the banks of the potomac river. still a little dampness on the pavement from what did not evaporate yesterday with condensation overnight and the warm temperatures. down to 59 at reagan national. i say down because it was in
i say down because it was over 60 degrees just a couple of hours ago. and elsewhere, it s down into the low to mid-40s farther to our west. hagerstown down to a cold 41 right now. it s about 20 degrees warmer in culpeper. it s 63 there. that cold air is going to come in on a gusty northwest wind. breaks in the clouds now. sunshine in and out this morning. sunrise at 7:20. we ll be right around 50 degrees for the rest of the morning in the metro area to around noontime and colder west and north, and then down into the 40s during the afternoon hours. colder tonight, maybe even a little precipitation. we ll talk about that in ten minutes. danella, how s traffic? good morning. on i-95 headed to laurel, your right lane is blocked. this is at 216. i ll give you a look right now. police on the scene of this accident. again, it s blocking the right side of the roadway. just stick to the left to get by. traffic is moving fine on the left. you will see some volume as you make your
looking across to the accident scene. the tractor-trailer still here getting inspected. making sure all the mechanics are working, the brakes, to the. we don t know how long the tractor-trailer will be here for inspection but it s off to the side not really affecting traffic at this point because all lanes are open. what happened was the tractor- trailer slowed down because of a construction work zone and the driver behind it full force we re talking about speeds possibly 60 and higher, definitely a factor in this accident slammed into the back of this semi. we re also being told that again, speed was a factor. the person in that driving the car was fatally injured. we don t have any identity orage or anything like that or age or anything like that. but again this happened around 1:30 this morning. hopefully they ll get that cleared out shortly but this tractor-trailer but some of the video you saw of the car definitely smashed. almost nearly in half. definitely a very ba