Fresh air. Did not do that this morning. Did not do it. When i pulled out of the garage this morning, it was 16 degrees in northwest washington. That is roof closed kind of weather even for me who prefers cold to warm. Outside right now, four things you need to know about the weather. Number one, shiver me fingers. Thats cold outside. Yes, indeed. Windchills down close to 0 this morning. Cold air in place. Moisture coming. A bit of a snow chance coming up on saturday. Well be watching that. It doesnt look like more than a inch at the moment, but well keep it closely watched. Remember this term from last winter. The polar vortex. Yes, indeed. The polar vortex returns which could make next weekend colder than this one. Right now, we got to get through this one. Thursday morning starting off, windchill minus 1 in gaithersburg and minus 3 in martinsburg. It will be a breezy d morning. Temperatures teens now, low to mid20s by noontime. Highs today only in the mid20s. More about that weekend
Inside a burning car in d. C. Someone reported the fire around 7 00 on ridge road. Police found the body inside. A neighbor tells news 4 homicide detectives are now investigating. Back to you. All right, chris, thank you. Two shootings along two busy highways. May have affected your commute last night. Let start with the most recent one that happened in bladensburg. A man found shot along 295. We have video to show you from the scene. Prince georges county police say a man was found near the Eastern Avenue exit. This happened around 6 30 last night. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition. Hackers took control of d. C. Police surveillance cameras days before President Trumps inauguration. Two of those hackers are in custody in romania. Th computers that controlled 123 cameras. Thats about twothirds of what d. C. Police have at their disposal. It happened january 12th and a federal complaint unsealed thursday says the cameras were unable to record video for several days. It w
And from metro to the mark train. Everything is back to normal after a small fire forced passengers off of a mark train. Chopper 4 over the scene last night. This was on the brunswick line in silver springs. Vectors tell us the brakes overheated. There may be hope that the government wont run out of money to pay the large number of federal employees that live in our area. That is now a oneweek extension on the table. It would delay the deadline until next friday night at midnight giving lawmakers a chance to work out a longerterm deal. That oneweek extension still needs to be voted on. Meanwhile, President Trump revealed his tax reform plan but attention has quickly shifted back to health care reform. Coming up, Edward Lawrence will talk about how repealing the Affordable Care act is showing new life today. Hundreds of Airport Service workers plan to walk off the job. The strike is to protest their employer, huntly corporation. The organization is accus this walkoff comes on the heels
Started to form a little touch of fog outside this morning. No advisories here. There is a dense fog advisory lower parts of the eastern shore, but just know that there could be pockets of lower visibility. Frederick, maryland, now only half mile visibility. 6 miles of visibility there at dulles. If youre planning to be outside, nice and cool, dry, little fog around. Nothing to worry about. All your Daylight Hours will be dry. Could have a stray shower after 8 00 or 9 00 after we get back to the summer weather. We like the summer like weather especially since we have not seen that sun in quite a few days. Nice changes today. Currently were seeing a few clouds around. Like chuck mentioned, pretty good visibility. 59 degrees in the district right now. You might get a little sun glare this morning for your commute. That will be a change as weve seen so much cloud cover and rain over the last several days. 7 00 a. M. , 60 degrees. Finally dry. By noon were looking at t 73, 5 00 p. M. , mid
Princess leia from star wars died yesterday. She had a heart attack last week and is 60 years old. Now fans around the world are paying tribute. Heres a look at the video where fans created a star for her on the hollywood walk of fame. Here in our region, many remembered her at the Smithsonian Museum where they are showing the star wars movie. She made a surprise appearance at the end. Well share what the fans have to say coming up next hour. I was thinking about shes got another movie coming out next year, shes in the next star wars movie, and shes got a documentary and Something Else going. So well see more of her work. And when she fell ill, she was flying back from london where she was part of the amazon series catastrophe, which she was a part of as well. A lot more to come of carrie fisher, but very talented in so i always forget that shes Debbie Reynolds daughter. Shes still alive in the middle of a great acting daughter. Carrie fishers daughter is also an actress with a differe