This morning. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell has your weather headlines. Chuck . Good morning, aaron. It is indeed a very cold start. We still have freeze warnings in Northern Maryland and Shenandoah Valley and frost advisories down to culpepper and warrenton. Skies are mostly clear, it is really cold. The wind has stayed up overnight. If the wind lays down between now and 7 00 at all, that will still mean a freeze is possible. But temperatures are comfortably above the freezing mark. But the other side of the coin since the winds are up windchills 29 in gaithersburg and hagerstown. 33 degrees in washington. Upper 30s and low 40s and mid 40s by lunch time this afternoon. Another chilly night is coming up tonight. If youre going out to dinner and a movie, you need a little wrap to go out the door. Little pashmina as we were talking about earlier this week. Thats right. All right, now 66 eastbound here as youre driving in after 50, not having any issues right now. Everything looki
This hour either. But it is busy. Amtrak added extra trains to accommodate all the holiday traveler travelers. For a hasslefree trip amtrak is urging passengers to get to the station early and be aware the extra thanksgiving day trains may not stop at all stations. And right now the story is snow. You can see the sides of the roads dusted with flakes right here. People planning to drive today and tomorrow are the ones who can expect the most company. More than 90 of the 43 Million People traveling this week are getting behind the wheel. Were getting ready. We have team converage on what o expect into the holiday with transportation reporter adam tuss plus Doug Kammerer and chuck belle. Chuck, lets begin with you. We are already seeing the flakes out there. You bet we are. Now with the cold air spilling in, indeed rain drops are changing over to snowflakes in many spots. Winter weather advisories remain posted for southern parts of the Shenandoah Valley. No advisories in the immediate a
Stun guns, pepper spray and crazy krouse. Well show you some of the wild scenes that unfolded on black friday. President obama opens up about life after the white house. Why his daughter sasha could have the biggest say on what the family does next. Good evening, everyone. Im doreen gentzler. Tomorrow Morning Police already canvassing a maryland neighborhood for new clues in the murder of a postal worker. They plan to retrait his route. Show mari stone has reaction from neighbors who are still on edge. Reporter thats right, doreen, this neighborhood is stunned. Theyre saying if this could happen to a postal worker, this could happen to me. Its causing a sense of anxiety in this area. Police say 26yearold tyson Jerome Barnett was delivering mail in the 1600 block of reed street out here. Suddenly someone shot and killed him around 7 20 last saturday night. Police canvassed the neighborhood, but theyll do it again. Tomorrow detectives will retrace the route to try to find clues. They hav
Upper level disturbance bringing the midatlantic cloud cover. Clouds more numerous than yesterday. Partly to mostly cloudy. Were going to stay on the cool side for the remainder of the week. Currently washington, the temperature is 43. 30s out at dulles and bwi marshal. Forecast High Temperature about 10 degrees below average. Mid 40s north and west to about 50 here. A little cool for this time of year. Thats a look at weather. More details on a brighter looking weekend forecast coming up. Lets do traffic and get the latest from julie. On the roads right now got our hands full. Coming in from the west eastbound 66 down to 31 miles an hour. The pace doesnt improve much. A pattern going as were well below speed. Southbound 270 lanes are open but an hour commute coming southbound from 85 heading into german town. Traffic slows again. Youll find if you are traveling metros red line, this is where we have problems. They are single tracking because of an earlier issue. Now weve got delays ou
Excess of 40 to 45 miles per hour, reaching up to 51, actually, at dulles. There are some areas that maybe we didnt get reporting stations from yet. Well have some update on that, but those winds are definitely strong. These are official numbers that came in just prior to the 5 00 hour. Here is a look at current wind gusts now, still vety strong, from 17 to 32 miles per hour. Theyre going to start to diminish and thats good news. Well have light wind as we move into the overnight hours. Temperatures, 40 degrees at reagan. 37 at dulles. I want to say that those winds today gave a significant wind chill and only felt like it was in the low 20s in many of our neighborhoods. Skies not too bad. We had a few clouds. We are looking mostly clear through the course of the night. Mostly clear, will be cold. The winds will improve, 32 degrees for the low and light winds is the good news for sunday and the sunshine will definitely be around but we had somechances as we get closer towards christmas