Chuck bell is here with more on when we can expect some weather changes. Meanwhile, looks like we have a nice saturday to start us off this weekend, chuck. Absolutely right. Good morning to both of you. And good saturday morning, everybody. Welcome to your weekend. Make your plans to get outside and enjoy a fine saturday. Because clouds, rain drops and, yes, snowflakes. A real opportunity for those coming back as early as tomorrow night. Early this morning, not much going on around town. A few lingering rain drops in far Southern Maryland and a couple of rain drops with a few snowflakes irn maryland. This is going to be drying up over the next couple of hours. Our weather picture will be improving dramatically over the next little while. Most of these rain drops and snowflakes will not make it east of i81. Hour by hour, temperatures out the door, weather this morning, upper 40s to near 50s. Thats pleasant enough. Highs today, generally up in the low, maybe even mid60s with sunshine com
And chris gordon has new information on how this happened an reaction from the concerned parents. Reporter the 39yearold mother was hit right in front of her young child and happened right here in the parking lane right across from nottingham elementary. I have gotten the email sent to parents and guardians saying that unfortunately a nottingham parent was seriously injured after being struck by another vehicle. She was inside of her vehicle parked on the side of Nottingham Elementary School, and reaching for her young child. By 11 30, the victim was placing the child into the vehicle or taking the child out of the vehicle, and the van is on the side of the road there. When she was struck by a dump truck. Reporter a neighbor living along little falls road tells me he heard a crash. I looked over to the window and saw that it was more than hitting a vehicle and the lady had been injured. I walked out to see if it had been helped and somebody had ca called 911, and two other ladies were
Back. That breaking news tonight is out of arlington county, take a look at this picture a witness took of a twoalarm fire. The house caught fire around 3 30 this afternoon. Darcy spencer is live on the scene where we just learned two people did not make it out alive. Darcy . Thats right, chris, let me tell you where we are. This fire happened on the other side of this church. Because there are so many fire trucks and hoses, this is as close as we could get right now. But as you said a deputy fire marshall told me just minutes ago, that there are two confirmed fatalities, a little bit earlier, they were telling us that two people were unaccounted for, two people described as being older who did not make it out. In addition to that, a firefighter suffered burns here. Heavy smoke and flameses tore through this twostory home on south Langley Street in arlington. Im told some of the people in the house got out. But firefighters are still searching for two older residents who were unaccount
Think twice before taking your eyes on off the road to look down at that little screen. You dont have to be out on the roads long to see it. Drivers texting. Some even cruising down the interstate at high speeds. We saw this driver rolling along at 60 Miles Per Hour today. He just kept rolling and rolling and 20 seconds later put down the phone. Here in Fairfax County police are using a law fillure to pay full attention who texting or distracted behind the wheel. Not a day goes by without noticing another driver texting while driving. The officers are doing what they can to enforce it. These kinds of violations have skyrocketed. In 2009, about 7,000 offenses. In 2010, over 9,000. Last year and this year, close to 12,000 offenses. Here in virginia, a number of bills are being drawn up that would make the penalties for texting and driving tougher. The problem is that in the commonwealth, texting and driving is a secondary offense. Meaning you cant be pulled over just for texting alone. C
Welcome to news4 this week. Hi, everyone, im veronica johnson. Gearing show you some of the more interesting local stories making news this week. Among them, a new Metro Campaign gets off track. We talk to riders after the internet explodes with accusations of sexism over this ad. Helping babies and parents breathe easier. The new development that could help keep infants out of the hospital. Plus, why one little girl might have had a bit of a rough day at the white house during the unveiling of this years christmas decoration. First though, a virginia woman tells the news4 iteam her dog almost died on a crosscountry flight and she has proof on her cell phone camera. The airline wouldnt pay the vet bills unless she agreed to keep quiet. Instead, she spoke out to the iteams scott mcfarland. I still want to be reimbursed but im not going to be quiet. Reporter when Janet Sinclair decided to move to the east coast from san diego, she sined up for united pet safe program. We had never been o