accumulating. mostly on the elevated surfaces. so decks and stairs and places like that, not much of a report yet of any snow accumulating on the ground. especially not too much on the roads. welcomed news. temperatures are a couple of degrees above the freezing mark. of course, it can snow when the temperatures at surface are above freezing because it is below freezing higher up into the atmosphere. our forecast amounts of snow around the area today could get a couple of inches of snow on the ground here in the washington area. you can see the visibility now reduced visibility, especially to the west of washington. this is all going to be impressing our way as we go through the day. i would say on average, about two to maybe four inches of snow right around town. could see as much as three to six inches out in the western suburbs and out towards the shenandoah valley. i will have the timeline and talk more about our wintry forecast coming up. we will check with you in just
we had no radio. no television. we had no distractions. reporter: he then used his camera to reveal the nature of a world melting away under a human-induced global warming. they re going to lose the sea ice in the summertime in the arctic, in the next 7 to 15 years. reporter: nicklen wants the city people to see deeply into the world their greenhouse emissions are changing. i want to see all of the species as friends. as brethren, as friends. reporter: he prefers to photo to video. the picture is sitting there in front of you. it just takes one image to get someone s attention. reporter: polar bear tracks in vanishing snows. it took him 15 years to figure out how to get this close to narwhals, whose single tusk are the source of the unicorn myths. i will spend hours sitting on an ice pan with a group of walrus. i ll get to know the walrus to the point, they get so relaxed with me. reporter: the cover of his book of photos, a bear, reflected on the undersid
more. the secretary general said they have commitments, while not all have been made public of some 7,000 nato forces to go into afghanistan to join the 30,000 american troops that will be deploying to afghanistan in the next six months. the secretary of state and i sat down a while ago to talk about that and other things. here s what she said on the troop front. well, as of right now, we have more than 5,000 committed. these include decisions by governments to keep troops that they were about to remove that they had sent only for the elections, plus new additional commitments. for example, today, we heard from the italians and the poles and the slovakians and i m probably forgetting others, but we had positive, new commitments. reporter: you wanted to get to 7,000 troops. might you get beyond that? we have said between 5,000 and 7,000. that s what we assessed. but we are obviously looking for more commitments. we think more will be coming in the weeks ahead. reporter
an elf that has been arrested. this man was dressed as an elf and he sat on santa s lap. i want to know which santa allowed that man sit on your lap. why would you let him on your lap. and something happened that put him on the naughty list and we ll tell you about that in a littlbit. first we ll head back over to studio b. and this morning we re showing you our dance teams competing in the rockets danceoff and this is the lawn crofton dance company from gaithersburg, competing against other teams trying to win dance lessons from the rockets and this morning we ll announce the winner. very cool. tive been practicing all morning long. it is really busy around here today. it is. and speaking of busy. it is busy in the weather department as well. gwen tolbert is in for tucker barnes keeping her eye on the skies for today and tomorrow. definitely, tony. we could see our first snowflakes of the season tomorrow. so we have to keep a close eye on it. let s take a loo
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