Accumulating snow coming in on thursday. How are the roads . We have some construction right now. Roadwork right now in northeast washington. A water main break that broke overnight overnight. This is f street northeast between second and third. 66 Virginia Visitor Center everything is running along nicely there. Take a look at 95 as you head northbound. Were nice and clear. Same thing out of town there in virginia. And 95 and maryland cherry hill road everything rolling along nicely. Were watching the closings because of the weather. If you work for the federal court you can take for unscheduled leave or telework. Agencies are opening on time. You can check the nbc washington facebook age or the app for a list of all of todays they ares. Schools are starting late or closed today, however, were already hearing from Fairfax County schools they may send your kids home early today. As of right now close fcps is not trending today. It went worldwide at one point this winter as parents crit
View from our tower cam this morning. Patchy ice on sidewalks. Watch out for that on the sleet and icing. A little bit of snow in the afternoon. A greater chance for accumulating snow coming in on thursday. Look at the drive time forecast coming up at 6 11. Speaking of driving this morning. We have a breaking backup. Big backup now southbound bw parkway as you approach the beltway. Chopper 4 over the scene now. Take a look at this. All the headlights headed southbound. We have a four mile back up from a crash that cleared out of the way. The delays remain. We pushed it out on the nbc washington app and tweeting as well. A mess. Take 95 as alternate. Brunswick signal problems on almost all the lines this morning. Running up to 10 minutes behind. A warning there. New crash that popped up 295 northbound at bedding road and one down south at four seasons drive. Just got a report of that accident. Wide look at things overall. No major problems into town and out of town. You can see the bw p
You are alive. Okay. Now what . Brad of the 238 aboard amtrak train 188 the 710 out of d. C. Seven are killed. 200 suffer some form of injury, several critical. Philadelphias mayor says it is amazing to him that the sevencar derailment wasnt much worse. He describes seeing mangled cars scattered off the rails people screaming a desperate search for survivors. To see it in the daytime is almost indescribable. I it is papeful. It is amazing and incredible that so many people walked away from the scene last night. Brad the train just pulled out of philadelphia 30th street station on the way to new york. The cub where it crashed as a 50 Miles Per Hour speed limit but the train was reportedly going more than 100 according to information gathered from the black box data recorder. The engineer already questioned by police. It seemed to go around the curve fast. Too fast for the car to stay on the track and it went flying. You could feel being in midair for a few seconds. Brad of course the nt
Committed to being out and causing some kind of trouble. Were with a small group of other journists who banded together journalists who banded together to report on this safely. Baltimore police have brought occupyu out some large Armored Vehicles. A a mine resistant vehicle that is used in iraq and afghanistan to make sure they are safely able to control the crowds tonight. We will continue to report for you as best we can to see how this goes. For now, reporting live from baltimore, garrett haake, wusa 9. I see a number of reports where writers rioters were acting aggressively towards reporters. Did you experience any of that . Or witness any of that tonight . Reporter not especially. Most of the anger seemed to be directed at the police. In fact, most of the day we were welcomed in by people in baltimore, including members of various gangs that had banded together to try to make sure the to stay at a safe environment. A few minutes before the curfew started a lost organizers, folks
Miller with timesaver traffic. Were ready for you, allyson. We are just excited about today weather wise. Its going to be absolutely wonderful. Were talking about temperatures into the mid70s which is warmer than yesterday and warmer than average. Lets take a look at our michael son camera. A beautiful start to the day. Well see a few fair weather clouds like yesterday but theyre just fair weather clouds. Were going to enjoy that sunshine for a good while through the early afternoon even and temperatures will soar. 55 degrees right here in the district but once you get into the suburbs t is a little cooler. Into the lower 40s. You might want to grab the light jacket. You wont need it later on today. We dont have that wind so it doesnt feel as cool as maybe it did yesterday. 52 for arlington. Fairfax at 47. Waldorf at 46 and Upper Marlboro youre at a degrees. Sunshine today. Look at this. 70 degrees by lunch time. 74 by 4 00. Well top out at 75 and just a few clouds for a nice sunset. G