We want to see some of your pictures. Tweet us at nbc washington. We have a new Holiday Gift Guide on nbcwashington. Com. Check out the photos of the coolest toys for kids. All you have to do is search holiday. Today on the busiest shopping day of the year, workers at walmart plan to walk off the job. They will strike to ask for better pay and full time work. It begins at 8 45 this morning. More than 1,600 protests are planned today around the country. You want to pick up something you can actually use today, a coat would be a good idea. And amelia also mentioned a hat. I would say so. Its going to be breezy throughout the day. When you factor in the winds throughout the day, about 10 to 20 miles per hour, it will feel like temperatures are only around 30 at best. Right now 35 degrees. Well drop from 7 00 a. M. Down to 32. Its breezy through the midafternoon hours until about 2 00, 3 00 p. M. After that, the winds will die down. Plenty of sunshine throughout the entire day. Skycast 4 a
The biggest impact of the storm could be the domino effect on our airports our train, and our buses. Thousands of flight delays and cancellations in the northeast are already being felt here and things will only get worse. Flightaware. Com is showing 6,000 canceled flights for today and tomorrow. Transportation rep live at Reagan National with the latest on things out there. Hows it looking . Reporter cold out here right now, wendy. Its got an lot colder in just the past hour. We have some try small flakes out here right now. Guys imagine trying to fly right into the heart of this storm. We f here who are doing just that. Sounds like were in for the big one. Were going to go home and sit in the house until its over. Reporter thats what you do . Mostly. Reporter brian downs headed back to boston today. He remembers back to the blizzard of 78 over two feet of snow and he knows he could be in for something similar. School was canceled for three weeks straight, no one went anywhere, you co
Roads slippery. You can see throughout the area 2 inches d. C. 3. 5 college park. Steven city 3. 5. And warrenton, 2. 8. Well explain more as to why we had a little more snowfall coming up in a couple minutes. Look at this. This is whats next for us. The refreeze. Icy conditions on area roads tonight. I do think we could see morning delays. Of course you can always get more information by downloading our storm team 4 weather app on itunes or google play. Well have more on the plummeting temperatures and the winds picking up for tomorrow, too, in a few minutes. Thanks vj. A tough day for drivers, as you know. Hundreds of people were involved in crashes all over our region. Many main roads are now clear, but folks, we are not out of the woods just yet. News4 transportation reporter adam tuss s live in Fairfax County that saw some of the worst today. Adam . Reporter thats right, jim. And you know the concern now is absolutely about the refreeze thats coming later tonight. Lets take a look
Right near silver hill road police are dealing with. 95 corridor lanes have been open now coming up out of dale city into woodbridge, springfield. Little volume near the express lane entrance north of 610 and getting into dale city but lanes are open up toward the beltway. Waldorf, mattawoman beantown road still shut down near poplar hill between the park and ride and route 5 and shut down with that utility pole and wires down. Also in clinton a stretch of piscataway road is closed close to steed road. Breaking news from overnight, search crews found a large chunk of airasia flight 8501. Sonar shows much of the jet lying up side down at the bottom of the java sea. More bodies have also been recovered including a find attendant in their uniform. Heavy rain is hampering some of todays recovery efforts. While the sonar image has been spotted rkt investigate a on spotted rveght investigators are still trying to locate the blax box recorders spotted, investigators are still trying to locate
Big deal right now but keep in mind, weve had a stretch. Very cold weather. Yesterday temperatures got slightly above freezing for most of us, but the grounds is cold especially untreated surfaces bridges overpasses, tree branches are cold. So when the rain starts to fall even though jen lip light it will freeze on contact than can cause icing and hazardous traveling conditions. This first batch moving through now creating icing. Notice a break in the action, starting to fill in, could see break or lull through the Early Morning hours in some spots. That will would be good news allowing temperatures to perhaps get back above freezing before a second round of steadier rain comes in through the afternoon, but his is large scale system impacting much of the region, Winter Weather advisories posted for much of the area, in philadelphia, that goes until around 10 00 a. M. , up through the northern part of montgomery and chester and bucks counties it, goes until 1 00 p. M. , also for the Leh