And they all live here at the t Russian Embassy. Embsy the state Department Says theyty were given 72 hours to leaveoea the country. Oury its been pretty quiet. Et. We did see a family of four ofo leaving the gates early thisatee morning but its unclear ifleari they are among those expelled. Now, as of this morning thehe embassy has not released a statement. President obama says allsays all americans should be alarmed by russias action. Aio he specifically targetedte russian spy agencies andgencies diplomats that the u. S. Sayshats were trying meddle in the recent president ial election federal officials are set shutting down two compounds in maryland and new york. President obama has given them from noon until todaylandama ta those compounds. The move freezes assets andetan blocks americans from doingrom g business with russia. Ne with rua russia denies the hackingking allegations and this morning thg the country is hinting retaliation. Liat is proposing to expel 35 u. S. 3. Diplomats
One big question this morning, is the federal government open . Youre looking at a life picture of the capitol this morning. We are learning that workers are on a threehour delay and have the option of unscheduled leave. And a lot of people are wondering which schools are closed and which are open. Take a look at this map. Everything in red on the map is not open today. Yellow is where there is a twohour delay and here are the places that have not made a decision yet. D. C. Public schools, arlington, alexandria. West mooreland, fredericksburg schools in virginia. Prince georges, charles, st. Marys and Calvert County schools in maryland and Mineral County schools in West Virginia all have yet to make the call. If you did not hear your School District name just now, it is very likely closed today. All the closings are on the nbc washington app and at the bottom of your we also check the forecast right now, because when i was coming in it was a little sleet, a little freezing rain. You ca
In between, but well let you know what happens there. Sounds like we have two lanes blocked here this morning. Again, outer loop before connecticut avenue. Inner loop at route 1, college park, dump truck crash blocking a lane there. Eastbound 66 near 123, still have that left lane, the only thing getting by the crash there and 95 north after center port parkway, left side blocked by the crash. Snow in the white and ice in the pink here this morning. Stay home if you possibly can. All right. Thank you. Now we want to head northwest of the district into leesburg, virginia. Justin finch has been there through the night. Whats it looking like right now . Reporter good morning. Were seeing really a steady and consistent sleet conditions out here. The wind whipping this stuff everywhere. As you can see, its sticking to the ground and of course the roads out here too. We have seen plows circling out here for many hours here. I want to take you to video of that. Theyre making to stay ahead of
Adding up to maybe one to three or four inches of sleet and snow combined. Current temperatures are just hanging around the freezing mark in the metro area. Down south Southern Maryland is above freezing. Outside today temperatures near 30 with a wintry mix of nearly anything Mother Nature can throw at us this morning. A snowball fight starts around 10 00 this morning. It will be windy. Snow flurries off and on through much of the day. Windchills will stay in the 20s all day today. But by tomorrow morning, windchills down into the single numbers and teens, and windchills will stay in the teens all day tomorrow. So windy and cold weather is here for the duration. A check on the storm team 4 radar with where the rain snow line is lets go over to sheena. That line has been fluctuating so weve been seeing areas of icy mix, areas of a rain snow type mix but what we are looking at now is some very heavy precipitation looking into Calvert County approaching Charles County and we are long of a
Screen. D. C. Schools on with two hour delay and same Calvert County schools on two hour delay. St. Mary county schools on on time today. Getting a lot of rain down south of d. C. Not so much snow. All other stumz in region closed. Complete list of closings and delays scroll on bottom of screen and you can find a whole list online fox5dc. Com. Lets give folks a look outside. If you dont have to convenient youre out thats a live look. If you have a snow day we want to see what youre looking at. Share your pictures on social media. Use fox5snowday. Wisconsin avenue norm west d. C. Friendship heights right now and looks like a ghost town this part of washington d. C. With delays of government for three hours we can expect to see that. Let get to Tucker Barnes and check whoon we can find as folks send more pictures to tucker. Again little bit ago. Yeah lots of great pictures in tucker fox5. Send them on in. And i promise well show scenes across the area here. Deal is this. Messy mix starte