It was great to hear from the journalists about their relationship with jim. One of the advantages to having this many press secretaries together is that they agreed to hold a background briefing to go over some of the planning reports in detail. There has been allusions to a glass of water to. I hope the document proves us to be conservative estimates. Everyone has made reference here today about jim and sarahs work when it comes to gun safety and gun violence. Our next two speakers are people who have lived in the trenches on this issue over the last two decades and have made a difference in a terribly difficult and divisive issue. Dan gross is the president of the Brady Campaign to prevent gun violence. Before that, he started the center to prevent Youth Violence and has devoted much of his life to the cause. Gail hoffman, who many of you know, was central to putting this event together, has been at this since the late 1980s with handgun control, was the point person for all of us i
And following in his fathers footstep,sps marion c. Barry files for his fathers former seat. Up first, we are on storm watch. Frigid temperatures in the 20s at this hour, and overnight we have some snow moving in. What will the morning commute look like . Steve rudin is in the Weather Center with this Winter Weather alert. The forecast remains consistent. We will have snowfall to develop during the late or Early Morning hours, 3 00, 4 00 in the morning, quickly moving out. It is located over chicago moving into indiana and ohio. Our clouds have increased. The National Weather service has posted a Winter Weather advisory for the areas in purple, including the district, arlington, prince georges county, and points to the north and west, but it does not include Southern Maryland because we are expecting lesser amounts of snow. Maybe an inch of snow around the capital beltway. Towards rockville and gaithersburg, possibly one to two inches of snow. Near the masondixon line, two to three inc
Situation and conditions they are in at this hour. Northern Virginia Bureau chief Jeff Goldberg is live in leesburg. Jeff . Well maureen talking about the temperatures, it certainly feels a lot colder now than it did maybe an hour or two ago and this was the rush hour. A lot of people are concerned about, but its not prooufb to be any problems. This is route 7 in leesburg. Very busy road. Its been clear for most of the day. This cold and the snow really the pavement not cold enough for it to stick. Its been warm on the roads so things not sticking. Not creating a lot of slipping and sliding. Certainly good news. All over leesburg though and all over the place, we saw trucks out there getting a good workout. Certainly happy about getting that work after somewhat slow winter time. Very picturesque scene out here in leesburg. Looks like a snow globe. All over the place, we were on the roads in ashburn, chantilly and herndon as well. Really did seem like drivers were taking it easy and dri
Brine to try to keep the roads dry tomorrow. D. C. Is pretreating the roads. They plan to have about 200 plows on the streets by 5 00 a. M. And this is to clear anything that falls of course. The Virginia Department of transportation is pledging about 500 trucks in loudoun, fairfax, Prince William and arlington counties by 4 00 a. M. Picking up our Team Coverage on the approaching Winter Weather live from greensburg hi rich. Hi alison. You know this is kind of the chill before the storm. Its cold out here. No snow yet. But take a look over here. This is route 7 here off the dulles toll road. See those white stripes there . That is pretreating. So crews are out there getting ready to deal with this storm. Now, we have video from all the jurisdictions. What youll see here is salt in gaithersburg and theyve been very busy here. They have 650 trucks and loaders that are out there working. Theyre planning to be out very early in the morning. Some roadways like i270 have already been treated
Germantown where some folks struggled to get around today. Hi kristin. Reporter hi doreen. Whats important to know is that major roads like 118 here are clear. They look really good. Everybody is getting home pretty well. Buits the side streets and the neighborhoods that are problems. What we need to remember is that as it gets colder things are going to get icy. As it gets even colder in montgomery and frederick counties the wet snow and slush turns to ice. Just a little precaution to take this afternoon, especially as the temperature drops and things get cooler this evening. Reporter no afterschool activities at Urbana High School the Frederick County School System canceled them across the district. Montgomery county schools also called off afterschool programs as the temperature dropped and roads became slick. This afternoon parents like Shayna Callahan are mostly concerned about getting their Children Home safe. I do worry because some places arent cleared, and the kids have gone t