Mayhem caused by ice played out february 5th in frederick county, maryland. Some went without electricity for four days. Potomac edison power reported today the company has been holding weather watching Conference Calls since wednesday. Crews have been alerted and decisions on how to deploy them may come as early as tomorrow. Pepco is also watching the weather forecasts saying the utility is now prepared for the worst of the predictions with 150 company linemen and 450 contractors currently available if needed. Good news from dominion power saying the utility there is anticipating minimal Operational Impact in northern virginia. The utility remains on standby and watching carefully. Meanwhile marylands Emergency Management agency tweeted today a warning for late weekend weather and reminders to be prepared for possible power problems by stocking up on batteries, canned food and bottled water. One thing that is distinguishing this incoming storm is how much the forecasts have been chang
Imus in the morning good morning, everyone, friday, january the 18th. Have you checked your 401 k today . Maybe you should. Without much fanfare, stocks have climbed to near alltime highs. All right. The financial headlines have told a very different story. The fiscal cliff, debt, unemployment high. Were just like europe. The top stories about your money have been negative and not likely to improve that much. Here comes another pathetic debt over the debt ceiling and another downgrade, true. May have we have been distracted by that, put the bad news aside and see the Dow Jones Industrial average within 6 points, 14,164 in 2007. And in a few minutes, the dow starts well above 135. And here is more good news, your house keeps going up in value, not by much for most people, but up is up. So, cheer up, everyone, you might not like the election results, but your money is doing well. And Varney Company is about to begin. New funds in the tech world, its not apple. Youre used to long lines ou
Captioned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicap. Org get ready. More know is headed our way. Believe it or not, schools are already canceling classes. Good evening. A handful of School Districts are already telling kids, stay home tomorrow. Others are starting late. Were looking at bad timing for this store. Thats the main headline. Not a big storm but the timing is horrible during the rush hour. Lets start with satellite radar combined. Clear skies overhead. Some high clouds moving in overnight. Clouds here by dawn. We stay dry tonight and dry for the morning commute. So the morning commute not in jeopardy. Its the evening commute that were worried about. I have often made fun of folks going to the store and buying bread, so were going to make this the impact meter. Remember carmageddon . Thats a 10. A 5, two to four hours. A 3, one to two hours. I think this storm is going end up being a 1, because, quite frankly, its a very small storm. The only reason its on this scale a
Im sarah simmons. Im wisdom mart up. Welcome to fox 5 morning news. Im wisdom martin. We have some fog developing in a for you spots. Temperatures have fallen back into the 50s and low 60s. I want you to focus on that line that you see just to the north and east of d. C. Well call day back door cold front. That will be sliding through later today. The winds will shift out of the east. It will be a bit cooler than it was yesterday. Yesterday, we died a record at reagan national. The High Temperature 84 degrees. Partly sunny conditions expected again across the region. Lets switch and get to sandy real quick and ill give you a few more facts on it now. Maximum winds, 110 miles per hour. It is racing off to the northeast. You can see the eye structure on the north side of cuba at the moment. More coming up in just a minute. Back to you at the desk. Thank you. Virginia congressman jim morans son has resigned as his Campaign Field director. Conservative Group Project veritas released a vide
Wearing my purple. Having made that disclosure were live at petes pizza. This is an extremely busy place. We can feel the heat coming off the ovens. They expect to to sell some 600 pizzas just tonight. People needing to stock up on booze for super bowl parties could for the First Time Buy liquor on sunday in the district thanks to a new law. Some got their licenses to sell spirits just in time for game day. I guess i was one of the first. Thats what im being told, but, you know, i got my license in as soon as we could because i wanted to try to be open by super bowl sunday. Reporter and whats a Super Bowl Party without pizza . Here at petes pizza in northwest washington, theyre expecting a surge in takeout orders as people gear up to watch the ravens take on the 49ers. In honor of this championship game, they have made a special pizza called the raven. Complete with ingredients used to make a crab cake. Its all local sourced from baltimore and some from virginia as well. And the sauce