In the mid sixties with partly sunny skies may want to get out enjoy lunch outside right now see how that ride into work is looking is very very early but never too early to detect dejected midtown tunnel is actually good morning. A good morning craig for those of you may remember the midtown tunnel is actually close over the weekend and that was to remove the pedestrian bridge that crosses the span of the midtown tunnel so i do want to give you an update there. Lets head to our camera a couple of things to note here and as you can see nothing any traffic at this point. Actually i might just change my tune your little but this traffic is headed east down to portsmouth so maybe trap and just started moving there on the eastbound side of the double bed earlier in the mansion that traffic would be alternating lane closures i guess that alter our ultimate doubt lane closure thing just kind of kicked off with a minute ago when see the traffic flow to the midtown tunnels with this point are
The four sixty four anti trafficking South Norfolk and weve got breaking news involving the zinc of virus weve just got word that a student at the college of william mary contract the disease the virus while traveling in Central America during winter break now according to University Officials that student is expected to recover and is not experiencing symptoms no school also went on to say that after consulting with its own health and Wellness Team as well as the centers for Disease Control and prevention. It believes that there is no health risk to anyone on campus. Vega is a mosquito borne virus that has been linked to severe birth defects common symptoms are fever rash joint pain and can jump to bite us again following the story and will update you as we learn more Sandra Parker thirteen years now. While arif and a thank you for that. Well todays the day political junkies the media and the candidates have all been talking about for months the Iowa Caucuses right after months of cam
I catch a weekend in just a bit. His ashes will be made to walk rate not nearly as eventful here on the Traffic Network but we like to see at five oclock in the morning that things are rolling stay smooth into the rush hour right now well take a life jacket wrapped around the midtown tunnel we are far from the rush hour at this point south traffic or the lanes i should say here eastbound and westbound around the midtown tunnel that was working this point in the morning so if youre about to head out the door to an early bird commuter youll be in fine shape on the Traffic Network mass will take a look at one more spot for you in williamsburg. If youre headed eastbound or westbound taking away other toward newport news the direction of richmond youll also like to write out their very calm and quiet in the right westbound headed toward richmond was like passing kroger six mount zion in old stage or at seventy five miles an hour so flowing very nicely out there and i would assume is probabl
The keyboard here on five sixty four but check the cameras. It might just be traffic moving a tad bit slow but nothing major right now so as we take a look at traffic and in chesapeake on sixty four years trapping passing greenbrier parkway on making its way westbound and eastbound traffic theyre headed for battlefield certainly the volume is picking up out there but things are flowing very nicely on both sides as we head to our second camera the same story for traffic around the base actually looks a little bit better than the traffic and seventy five sixty four west just past eight three a headed to hampton blvd Years Exchange on the left hand side nothing major to report for you right into the base if youre taking five sixty four west and other Traffic Network map to get the rest of the area doing pretty well coming up at six ten will head back to fifty eight. Im getting word that rather around the midtown tunnel ill give you a live look in just eight minutes. All right ashleigh tha
The precipitation moves to talk about the rain transitioning to a mix on the tail end of it as it comes through were starting to see that and again the ground is very warm so not looking for major impacts around the metro right now forty degrees obviously warm enough for rain right here north winds at twenty temperatures cool off to the northeast the west point and thirty four and again be the Northern Neck a little farther north of that we get into the lower thirties right now you can see that transition again the mixing taking place on the backside of the system we will be watching this throughout the morning as we zoom in a little closer here lets take a closer look at our viewing area you can see that transition. Nothing real heavy but snow showers in with the rain and as the morning wears on will see more of that transition around heres why let me clear this off and what i will tell you hour by hour you to see the chances for the precipitation this morning up to about ten oclock m