Breaks out there and checking the full roads and full check ahead. Maureen, wisdom. Caitlin and mike, thank you. 4 30 and breaking early this morning out of the district were checking out reports that a middle school flood overnight in southeast. The concern is over Kramer Middle School q street. Fox5 Melanie Alnwick is live on the scene with the latest in this story. Mel, what can you tell us . Reporter good morning, guys, still a lot of equipment on the scene here. We have d. C. Hazmat crews standing by and what youre seeing here is Washington Gas crews getting ready to go in with a digger into the school here. As you mentioned two hours going we got reports that was some kind of water main break and water in the the basement. Several feet were told and were also seeing emergency lights inside the school going off as well. One thing we noticed is strong smell of natural gas. What im told is that some of the water got into the boiler room and compromised some of the natural gas lines
Pepco quickly worked to restore the power. Well send out weather alerts during these frigid temperatures. Make sure you have the nbc washington app for updates. Were following news out of Montgomery County. Chris lawrence is at the live desk with the latest. Eun, aaron, were seeing shocking video of a car stuck in the ice in ten mile creek. Three people had to be safely rescued overnight. I retweeted the Montgomery County fire and rescue. They were on the scene in the air i cant at shiloh kirk road. The car stalled out in several feet of icy water. I mean, just look at that. You can imagine how cold it was. The feelslike temperature at that time, 0. 0 degrees. Aaron, back to you. Chris lawrence at the live desk. Thank you. Firefighters in our area have been responding to fires like the one you see here. But annandale is different. A 94yearold world war ii veteran died in this one. His wife woke up coughing and couldnt find him. I could not save my husband. I dont know where he is. Lenn
In this deep freeze for nearly a week and i think we are starting to suffer from cold stress. Temperatures are well below zero. We have 6 a. M. , 10 00 a. M. Temperatures going from 14 to may be degrees by late morning. Then at least it is drive for the day. For the day. Even in the afternoon, like this morning, make sure the kids are really warm if they will be waiting at the bus stop by themselves and not able to wait inside your car. As far as Road Conditions go, we are in the green. What, late you wednesday, thursday, we will see this postal storm in some areas of the northeast with blizzard conditions. More on that, coming up. Main breaks, as larry mentioned. Three of them south of the beltway. John lewis out there at the scene. This is a water main break that occurr traffic now able to get by in each direction. Traffic north and southbound to and from takoma park squeezing by to the right. You will find that we have a water main break on wheeler road with water getting with traff
Up . Its only one day. They should be okay right now. Tips to have a successful start. Ask me in april. Right . April . Thats why you dont make any. You dont fail. I worked at a gym in college and people would come like clockwork. They pile up january 1st, gone by the middle of february. In a month and a half, thats it. If youre just waking up with us, in Hampshire County, West Virginia, a twohour delay for schools in that area. We think its because of the cold. Well update you if we learn more. We want to take a look at the forecast too. We are really in for Something Else here, sheena. Its once again a painful morning. This is why we have a weather alert out. We have potentially dangerous windchills. If you are exposed for 30 minutes, you potentially you have to dress in layers. The kids at the bus stop have to dress in layers. Look at dulles. These are the updated windchills. 7 below zero is what it feels like in dulles right now. 5 below winchester. 3 below in gaithersburg. Feels l
Maryland. Alleghany county Public Schools cancelled all morning pre k classes and orange country virginia schools on a twohour delay today. Stay tuned. Lets talk about. It mike is in the Weather Center and caitlin in for traffic today. So, mike, what other word is there other than brutal right. Welcome back holly welcome to the cold. Yeah. Were dealing with a lot of it out there. Graphic told it all. So cold theres school delays. Believe it or not well get colder later this week. Hey, mike, so cold contending with a water main break there. That makes it difficult as the water can easily freeze. Well let you know where the work around spots are as you get ready for a very busy morning. Holly, maureen. Speaking of cold weather related problems breaking early this morning out of the district a flooded middle school in southeast. Concern is over kramer q street it could be part of a mains in the area. Melanie alnwick is live on the scene with the latest. Mel, what can you tell us. Good mor