The budget still needs to be approved by the county. If you have a student at the university of maryland a 5 hike in tuition may become a reality next year. Hoe gap says the hikes are needed to make ends meet. A hiring freeze will continue there and it seems layoffs may be likely. Key initiatives could also be scaled back. Its 20 degrees right now out side and thats not even the coldest spot in our region. Its bitterly cold out there. And then the windchill kicks in 00. Lets get a look at your weather headlines. The good news is that the wind has died down. Just a gentle breeze at most. Martinsburg is only 10 degrees. Winchester at 14 front royal at 12. Closer to washington dulles down to 11. Much of Montgomery County just in the upper teens and low to mid teens in southern part of the county as well as the Prince Georges County and right eastern fairfax, alexandria but northern montgomery down to just near 10 as is much of loudoun, fauquier down to warrington and culpepper. Its only a
Hit and run. Shes reacting to the dispatcher telling her fiances daughter to stop whining. We begin with the cold though. Doug told us last night its going to be cold. What he did not say is this is the kind that would slap you upside your head. Im jim vance. Im doreen gentzler. Dont expect it to change either before you wake up tomorrow. Chief meteorologist Doug Kammerer starts us off. Slap you upside the head . I heard that so much when i was a kid. My cad used the exact same line. I dont think he ever did it though. You walk outside, your body will feel it your head your body your feet everywhere. Lets show you those numbers right now. Notice 11 the current wind chill in d. C. Were at 5 in gaithersburg 2 in hagerstown, 7 in manassas. Now were talking about the cold air. Our next storm system coming in sunday night to monday part of the weekend. Ill let you know what that storm system brings and how cold things will be tomorrow. Shomari stone will let us know how cold things are outs
Police are still looking to find suspects and a motive. Good morning. Reporter well barbara, police still have not made any arrests. Theyre trying to identify whos involved and who fired shots. Investigators also say they dont think this is a random shooting. They believe the people involved all knew each other. They also believe there are still some witnesses out there who have not talked to police and they want those people to come forward. All of this new information coming out as students of Frederick High School after a day off returned to class this morning. Students returned to class for the First Time Since the shooting. Many of them wearing frederick highs School Colors gold and black. To support the school. It had nothing to do with frederick high i dont thing, but it happened on our territory. So just have to support. Reporter in the wake of the violence students have taken to social media urging unity and strength and calling for a large turnout at tonights varsity basketba
Weekend. Melissa, what is going on with traffic . A good update for us. 395 north that ramp to glebe road is now open. Still seeing some volume because a lot of folks trying to get off on glebe for the morning and couldnt do it until now. 270 at falls road, everybody behaving themselves. 66 nice and clear. Lots of green. Do have this in woodbridge. Mini veil roadnieville road at dale boulevard, should be out of the way shortly. Just a little slow. Prince georges county overall looking good. Right now students are returning to Frederick High School after a shooting earlier this week. Two teens were injured in that shooting. Late last night, we learned that one of those students is in critical condition. Police are also investigating whether the shooting was gang related. 23red Rick High School has two more basketball games tonight and right now those games will still go on as scheduled. Students at West Frederick Middle School also go back to today. Defense lawyers for Jesse Matthew wil
Reston town to 13. So dress accordingly. A warm coat. Hat, glove, sunglasses. Wear something red were rocking the red today for Heart Health Day this frigid friday. And temperatures all around the region going to stay below freezing here for another couple of hours. There is the sky over washington now. Its all clear. Well have a frigid morning your headlines for this frigid bring. Well have a chilly afternoon. It will get above freezing later this afternoon. Yes, we can look forward to a warming trend a warmer weekend is coming up. But right now, layer up as we have these very cold temperatures. Now lets check on our traffic early on this friday. Overall looking pretty good. We have the one crash in alexandria that well talk about. But 95 headed in and out of town here in virginia youre looking good. Nice and green. 66 also east and west moving along quite nicely. Taking a look here 270 at father hurley boulevard, just got a meet your street request on twitter about father hurley boul