Areas. Low visibility briefly with roads mainly wet. Temperatures will start to drop at the time of the snowfall. Those treated roads should be mostly fine. Temperatures right now, though, we have a lot of 20s on the map as you step outside. You want the warm coat. The Winter Weather advisories up for the district and also maryland. Take a look at future weather going through time. Lunchtime, not too much happening. 3 00 p. M. , look at that. Snowfall around d. C. All the way up to new york. Well take a closer look at what to expect where you live straight ahead. As far as your friday morning commute, how is it looking melissa . Looking pretty good. Bw parkway at the beltway, headlights are out of the loop. Everything rolling along fine this morning. Inbound 66. The ramp to the outer loop again. Right side blocked by a disabled vehicle. Right now, 66 looking pretty good here. All things considered. Northbound 301 at cedarville, the left side blocked by a crash and waldorf, 301 inbound
Yes, standing here in the middle of 17th street. You can see it is empty normally. This is a bustling street, during midday here, rittenhouse square, all because of this. Take a look at this sinkhole, started around last night, pretty late when the Water Department determined it was happening. Then, you can see, theyve excavated more, working to repair it, you might notice no crews in the area working i just spoke with spokesperson, from the Water Department they tell me there is a live wire there, and theyre now waiting for peco to get here before they can continue their work. If you have had some trouble getting around center city, you can blame this socalled small depression. Last night we were called out to pump water in the street. We responded. Found small depression in the street, as well. John with the berth Department Says 3inch break on Water Service line which leads to this building is to blame. Tuesday morning, city crews removed large portion of 17th street, just south of
Morning. The bureau chief now joins us live from outside the Wilson Building, where attribute to bury is artie taking place. Indeed. I am outside the john Wilson Building and was just looking about it erie it for the last 40 years he has been in here as either mayor or council member. With a couple of breaks, but i mean this is the place where he has spent so much of his life. Still no date set for the funeral, buthave prepared the foyer at the Wilson Building Wilson Building for his body to lay in state. Across the Anacostia River in his district, young people from the job score are busy preparing Union Temple Church for his annual turkey giveaway. This year whole foods is ofating thousands of pounds greens, from collards to turnips, to go with the 3000 turkeys that arrive tomorrow. This was barrys annual event for the poor people of his ward, he was clearly looking forward to it when he died. Residents were angry when the onsite tmz site described him as a crackhead mayor. The mayor
Going nowhere. Holiday travel on hold as a wet and nasty winter storm slams the northeast and strands thousands of airline passengers. And tornado terror, this christmas twisters fury captured on camera as it tosses a pickup truck like a toy. And just five days until the fiscal cliff. President obama catching a flight back to washington where theres doubt that a deal can get done in time. Good morning, everybody, for a thursday morning. Very early, 5 00 a. M. On the east coast. Welcome to early start. Im alina cho. Im drew griffin. John and zoraida are off today. Its 5 00 a. M. In the east. A deadly winter storm system slamming the northeast after hammering the nations heartland. Look at this radar, system serious snowmaker. Its packing destructive winds, six states under winter storm warnings right now. Pennsylvania, new york, massachusetts, New Hampshire, vermont and maine. All could see a foot of snow or more. More than 200,000 customers spanning several states already without power
First 1 million cases. And theres no sign that the spread of this virus is slowing down. At this point, coronavirus has killed nearly 285,000 americans. This week marking the deadliest in the pandemic so far with an average of more than 2200 americans losing their lives each day. That is 2200 fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, brothers and sisters every single day. Its hard to wrap your head around. But youve got to. But also this morning, there is a small sign of hope on the horizon. The entire world watching as the uk delivered its first shots of the Pfizer Vaccine becoming the first country to start mass vaccinations of a clinically tested, authorized vaccine. Margaret keenan, the 90yearold grandmother who received the first shot, perhaps the new picture of hope in the global fight to finally contain this deadly virus. And thats exactly where well begin this morning. Keir simmons joined us from cardiff, wales. What do we know about the first people getting the vaccine, and whats the