Chilling temperatures. Lauren lauren was live at the scene with us, lauren. Sarah, tony, bone chilling is accurate. You can see its frozen in front of the homes they played all the water this say row of taken to homes. Five of them. We just learned the cause of the fire and there was a man inside one of them at a fireplace trying to use li lightser nrid inside the fire and he left the door open as he plead and it spread to the outdoor decks in back of home. Sky fox was over the scene as you saw all those flames and a million in damage to five town homes here and ground video from the pack of back of the homes. There was a partial collapse there and fire spreading to five homes. About a million in dozen people displaced at this scene here and firefighters dealing with frigid temperatures. Heres what montgomery country fire spokesman Pete Barringer had to say. During the course of operation there was a building collapse, Structure Collapse middle of the road townhouse appears to be the t
Here is a beautiful live look outside on this saturday morning and not so pretty, maybe about 10 degrees sitting on that screen right there. It is bone chilling cold yet again, gary. This morning purposefully i have not looked at the temperatures across the region. I wanted to be as surprised as everybody else. And what was your expression. I havent looked yet. Oh, you havent looked. How can the weatherman not look. I looked at the temperature here and i was like lets just wait. Let me say this, as cold as it is this morning arent the wi andthe wind chill factorse brutal its going to be colder tomorrow morning. I think tomorrow morning we could have maybe a few zeros out there if the winds die down tonight, tomorrow morning. Lets look at whats going on this weekend. Obviously its going to stay frigid, no doubt about it. It will warm a little bit tomorrow but its not going to get to freezing. Well stay below freezing. Drum roll, please. 8 degrees dulles. Oh, my gosh, manassas is one. An
Over to mayor where point ridge and marlton elementary are both closed today because of heating problems. All other Prince Georges County schools are opened today on time. Dorchester county schools are closed. Queen annes county schools are on a 90 minute delay. Talbot county schools are now closed for the day. And in West Virginia grant hardy hampshire jefferson and Mineral County schools are all closed. You can see the closings and delays running o bottom of the screen and the fox5 news and weather apps. Our Team Coverage continuing this morning. Tuck joins us now with the first check on the forecast talk about the threat of freezing rain which is really what were worried about this afternoon, right, tuck. Hard to believe with temperatures as cold as they are this morning were talking about freezing rain. Upstairs several thousand feet temperatures are going to warm first then work their way down to the surface but in the meantime were looking at this period later this afternoon earl
Here. Look for a wintry mix early this afternoon and then perhaps changing to rain but again the rain, the wintry mix everything will get a chance to stick on roads and sidewalks as ground temperatures right now are in the teens. We are under a Winter Weather advisory. Ill show you that coming up but again the timing on this ill say between about 1 00 and 7, 8 oclock tonight look for a wintry mix across the area and icing will be an issue. Guys ill have more on this in a minute. Back to you. Tuck thanks. School closings and delays. A lot might come as a surprise as we thaw out from the weekend deep freeze. Its the threat of a wintry mix this afternoon thats leading many systems to close early. Fairfax, loud couldnt loudon and what are havent. Fauquier king george page county schools. In virginia john adams elementary in alexandria is closed because theres no heat. All other alexandria city schools though will open on time. Stafford county schools and fredericksburg okay. Lets head over
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